Chapter 38: Heaven! Xiuxiu, you’ve struck it rich!

Wu Xiuxiu didn’t leave the hospital until after seven in the evening. She hadn’t stayed this late the past two days. Today, she stayed late because Jiang Yunhan wouldn’t let her leave. He insisted on having dinner with her, and only let her go after they finished eating.

After leaving the hospital, Wu Xiuxiu found a secluded and deserted place to enter her space and prepare to take some things home.

She first took five pounds of fresh meat, then five pounds of pork ribs, and five pounds of cured meat and sausages.

Wu Xiuxiu went to the place where the sugar was stored and took five pounds of brown sugar, five pounds of white sugar, and then twenty eggs.

She wanted to take some other things home, but she thought she already had a lot. She would take these things for now and find another opportunity to take more later.

Wu Xiuxiu put five large “Unity” banknotes in her pocket and carried a large pile of things out of the space, walking home.

Originally, someone was supposed to drive her home, but she found an excuse to refuse. If they sent her home, she wouldn’t be able to go into her space to take things and money back home.

The person said that they would send someone to her house every day at noon to pick her up for the hospital starting tomorrow.

Previously, the person wanted to send a car to pick her up, but she refused. This time, she refused again.

Having soldiers pick her up at her house every day felt too conspicuous. There were so many people living in the courtyard, and there was a bunch of gossipy women. She didn’t know what they would say about her, so it was better to keep a low profile and not have soldiers pick her up every day.

After telling the person her thoughts, they understood and gave up the idea of sending someone to pick her up every day. However, they were worried that she would be tired walking to and from the hospital every day and felt sorry for her.

She told them that her house was very close to the hospital, and it only took a few minutes to walk there.

“Heaven! Xiuxiu, you’ve struck it rich! You’re carrying so many good things!” Wu Xiuxiu suddenly heard a surprised, slightly exaggerated shout.

Wu Xiuxiu came to her senses and looked in the direction of the voice. She saw Aunt Xue, a neighbor from the courtyard.

“Xiuxiu, where did you get so many good things?” Aunt Xue quickly walked over to Wu Xiuxiu, her face full of curiosity.

“Of course I bought them with money.” Wu Xiuxiu replied indifferently. She had never liked this Aunt Xue.

“Bought them with money? Where did you get so much money? All these things together must cost a lot of money, and there must be a lot of tickets too! Just talking about tickets, you wouldn’t have that many tickets!”

Aunt Xue looked at Wu Xiuxiu with a suspicious expression, her slightly cloudy old eyes squinting at her. Wu Xiuxiu didn’t like her looking at her like that.

“It’s none of your business. We’re not close enough for me to tell you everything.”

Wu Xiuxiu’s voice and expression became even colder. After saying that, she quickened her pace and walked forward, leaving Aunt Xue behind. She entered the courtyard first.

At this time, all the households in the courtyard were eating dinner with their doors closed. So Wu Xiuxiu didn’t encounter anyone in the courtyard, which made her relieved.

If she had encountered anyone, they would have seen her carrying so many things and definitely asked a bunch of questions, just like Aunt Xue outside. It would be annoying.

Wu Xiuxiu arrived at her front door and saw that it was closed. She called out, “I’m back, open the door.”

The door immediately opened. Dong Xiaoye opened it.

“Xiuxiu, you’re back… how come you’re carrying so many things?” Dong Xiaoye hadn’t finished speaking when she noticed the pile of things in her sister-in-law’s hands and exclaimed.

“Let’s talk inside.” Wu Xiuxiu said as she entered the door, and used her eyes to signal her sister-in-law to close the door quickly. She couldn’t close the door with both hands full of things.

Dong Xiaoye quickly closed the door. Ding Hongjuan and Wu Zhipeng, who were sitting in the living room, both stared at the things in Wu Xiuxiu’s hands, their faces full of surprise and confusion.

“Xiuxiu, where did you get so many things? So much meat!” Wu Zhipeng asked.

Ding Hongjuan stared intently at her daughter, wanting to ask the same question.

“I was incredibly lucky today. On my way back, I actually found a small bag. When I opened it, there was a hundred yuan inside, plus several meat tickets, sugar tickets, and egg tickets. I thought about using those tickets and buying things with the hundred yuan at the supply and marketing cooperative,” Wu Xiuxiu said, delivering the explanation she had prepared beforehand.

“You found a hundred yuan and several tickets?!” Dong Xiaoye and her son and daughter-in-law exclaimed in unison, their faces filled with surprise.

Seeing her family’s expressions of surprise, without any suspicion, Wu Xiuxiu was a little surprised but very happy.

“Yeah.” Wu Xiuxiu nodded vigorously, “So I was incredibly lucky today. It’s like the God of Wealth is shining on me.”

“Xiuxiu’s luck has been incredible lately! It’s truly been good fortune after good fortune!” Dong Xiaoye laughed.

“Yeah, yeah.” Ding Hongjuan and Wu Zhipeng both nodded vigorously, smiling as they looked at the things in Wu Xiuxiu’s hands.

“How much do all these things weigh? How much of each do you have?” The mother and son asked together.

The Wu family didn’t doubt Wu Xiuxiu’s words because they always trusted her.

“Each of these things weighs five jin, except for the chickens, which are twenty,” Wu Xiuxiu replied, relieved.

It was great that her family didn’t suspect anything! She had been worrying for nothing…

“So much meat, and sausages too!” Ding Hongjuan picked up the meat in her daughter’s hand and examined it carefully, her face full of delight.

“With all this meat and sausage, I can continue to make meat dishes for Captain Jiang every day, and keep him well-nourished…

I was worried about running out of the five jin of meat and ribs I bought, and where I would get more meat and ribs to make for Captain Jiang.”

“And there’s brown sugar too. Now that we have brown sugar and eggs, I’m thinking tomorrow I can boil four or five sugar-water eggs for Xiuxiu to take to the hospital for Captain Jiang. Sugar-water eggs are also very nourishing,” Dong Xiaoye said.

“Good, good, that’s a great idea!” Ding Hongjuan nodded repeatedly, smiling, “Sugar-water eggs replenish blood and Qi. Captain Jiang needed a blood transfusion because he lost too much blood. He needs to replenish his blood properly.

I actually wanted to boil sugar-water eggs for him before, but we didn’t have any sugar or eggs.

I asked people to get sugar tickets and egg tickets, but I couldn’t get any. I was planning to buy brown sugar and eggs as soon as we got our sugar and egg tickets next month,

and Zhipeng got his salary. I was going to hurry and make sugar-water eggs for Captain Jiang.”

“Mom, thank you. Thank you for being so kind to Brother Yunhan!” Wu Xiuxiu said with a grateful expression, feeling a little touched.

She was so happy to see her mother being so kind to her future husband.

“Sister-in-law, Big Brother, thank you too!” Wu Xiuxiu looked at Wu Zhipeng and his wife, her face full of gratitude.

She knew that in other families, if they saw their mother being so kind to their future son-in-law, their son and daughter-in-law would definitely be restless and start scolding, doing everything they could to stop it. They would never allow it, let alone the daughter-in-law suggesting making something for the future son-in-law to eat or nourish him.

Wu Zhipeng and his wife knew why their sister was thanking them, and they both smiled and said in unison, “What’s there to thank us for? Captain Jiang is going to marry you, he’s family. It’s only right to be kind to him.”