Chapter 37

Grandma Qian, after hanging up the phone, took Chaoyang’s address and went directly to the Liang family.

“Liang Bo, this is Chaoyang’s current mailing address, give it to Xu Di after you go to work tomorrow. Chaoyang said he will write to Xu Di.”

“Grandma Qian, you got in touch with Chaoyang, you’re really fast.”

“I’m just anxious, Xu Di is such a good girl, I don’t want Chaoyang to miss out. It was also a coincidence, Chaoyang just got back to the unit last night.”

Grandma Qian had a feeling that the two children were destined, there was a high chance of success.

“Okay, I’ll give it to Xu Di first thing tomorrow morning, I hope they can hit it off.”

“They definitely will.”

Grandma Qian delivered the things and didn’t stay long, she had to go home for dinner.

Xu Di, on the other hand, didn’t have time to think about this, she went back to her room after dinner. She closed the door and entered her space. She had to prepare for the delivery to Jin Weidong tomorrow.

The eggs were easy, three hundred eggs, she could count them quickly in a big basket.

The fifteen roosters were a bit more difficult, she had to tie their wings and claws, and also tie their beaks, otherwise, more than ten roosters crowing together would attract any number of red armbands.

Before, Xu Di didn’t know what to use to tie the roosters. She went to play with Yang Dani and got two big bags of cloth strips from their garment factory.

Xu Di worked up a sweat before she finished preparing the goods for tomorrow’s delivery.

She came out of her space, took a breath, opened the door, went to the bathroom to wash her face, and prepared to sleep.

The next day, Xu Di went to work as usual.

The team leader had just finished talking when Liang Bo came over.

“Xu Di, come out for a moment.”

“Brother Liang, what’s wrong?”

“This is from my mom for you, she said you know what it’s about.”

Liang Bo handed a piece of paper to Xu Di, he had something to do, so he left without saying much.

“Xu Di, do you know Manager Liang?”

Wang Wei knew Liang Bo, the department manager on the upper floor.

“Yeah, a distant relative from my family.”

This was the excuse Aunt Wang had asked Xu Di to use when she got the job.

Xu Di still had to check the register, she didn’t say much, she quickly got to work, she had something to do at noon.

“Sister Tang, I’m not going to eat at the canteen today, I have something to do, I’m going out for a bit.”

“Okay, go quickly, they say they have meat today, you’re out of luck.”

“Really, what a pity.”

Xu Di expressed her regret, she quickly put on her shoulder bag and left. She had already notified Jin Weidong in the morning, he would pick up the goods at the lake in the park at noon.

There was a secluded corner by the lake, it was a blind spot, you couldn’t see what was there unless you got close.

After Xu Di arrived, she looked around, except for a few people passing by, the whole park was quiet.

Xu Di found the hidden corner and took out the bamboo basket and bag from her space.

Three hundred eggs and fifteen roosters were placed in the corner, you wouldn’t see anything unless you looked closely.

After about ten minutes, Jin Weidong came over.

This time, he wasn’t wearing work clothes, he was pushing a garbage cart.

“Sister Xu, have you been waiting long?”

“The things are all here, load them up, they’re all there.”

“Okay, I trust you, Sister Xu.”

Jin Weidong loaded the basket of eggs and the two bags into the garbage cart.

It was a garbage cart that you could see everywhere, a two-wheeled cart that could be pushed, the box was quite deep and had no lid.

“Three hundred eggs plus fifteen roosters, a total of fifty-seven yuan.”

Xu Di quoted the price, Jin Weidong was already prepared, he handed it over directly.

Xu Di took it, she didn’t count it, it wasn’t suitable to count money in public.

“Okay, let’s go, be careful.”

Xu Di turned around and left the park, she found the bus stop and took the bus back to the department store, she had to work in the afternoon.

Fortunately, she had bought buns in the morning, she had hastily eaten two while waiting for Jin Weidong, she choked a bit.

Xu Di thought, it was quite troublesome to go through all this. She had originally planned to deliver the goods twice a week, but it didn’t seem to work.

It was getting colder, she would be more noticeable if she came out more often at noon.

It seemed that she would have to deliver the goods on weekends.

Xu Di was busy adjusting the delivery time and quantity, but she didn’t forget to write a letter.

The paper Liang Bo gave her had two lines of writing, the man’s name Zhang Chaoyang and his mailing address.

Xu Di wrote the letter that night, it wasn’t long, it was just a simple greeting.

She briefly introduced herself, talked about her interests, and shared some daily life events.

Xu Di didn’t know if her letter to the army would be inspected, so she wrote very carefully. In this era, inappropriate wording could be troublesome.

After sending the letter, Xu Di didn’t care about it anymore, in this era, travel was slow, she didn’t know how long it would take this letter to reach the recipient.

A week passed, Xu Di had only delivered the goods once.

On the weekend, Xu Di packed up, said goodbye to her mother and went out.

Yesterday, she called Jin Weidong and made an appointment to deliver the goods this morning.

It was the same small park, but not by the lake this time. When Xu Di left last time, she discovered a very hidden place, it looked like an air-raid shelter, hidden behind the bushes.

She was curious at the time, she vaguely felt like it was an opening, but it didn’t look like it from the outside.

Xu Di found a time to come and take a look, she pushed aside the bushes, and there was a hidden world inside.

A ten-square-meter cave was hidden behind the dense branches, you couldn’t see it unless you pushed them aside.

Xu Di thought this place was good, ordinary people wouldn’t come here, and the entrance was extremely well-hidden, it wouldn’t be easy to discover.

This was a small hill in the park, she didn’t know what it was called, the hill wasn’t high, but it covered a large area, the park was built around the hill.

This time, Xu Di brought five hundred eggs and twenty roosters.

She would ask Jin Weidong in a while if this amount was okay.

Jin Weidong came, still pushing the garbage cart, he was familiar with this area, he also knew about the cave, but he didn’t expect Sister Xu to find it.

“Sister Xu, you have good eyesight, ordinary people wouldn’t notice there’s a cave here.”

“It was just a coincidence, how about this, have you sold everything?”

“I’ve sold everything, I can sell all of these too.”

Jin Weidong worked the night shift at the boiler factory, he worked the first half of the night and could sleep the second half.

So, he didn’t have to sleep much during the day, he had time to go out and deal with things.

“This time I brought five hundred eggs and twenty chickens. From now on, every weekend, I’ll leave the things here, I can’t tell you the exact time. You come to pick them up in the evening, they should be here.”

Xu Di was also afraid that she wouldn’t be able to deliver the goods on time, she said it in advance, asking him to come in the evening.

“Okay, I know, I won’t come too early. Sister Xu, do you have any other things?”

Jin Weidong felt that Sister Mother Xust have her own source of goods, eggs and roosters were such hot commodities.

“Not for now, I don’t know if I’ll have any in the future.”

Xu Di still had a lot of fruit in her space, she hadn’t decided whether to use Jin Weidong to sell them.

She would observe for a while, if he was a good person, she didn’t want to take risks herself, going from street to street to sell.

One hand paid, the other hand delivered, after they were done, they went their separate ways.