"Brother, what did the doctor say?" Fang Meiyun asked in a lowered voice.
Wanting to know how Grandma was doing?
"Just some minor ailments, but she needs to take more things to nourish her body."
Fang Meiyun knew that some good things required ration coupons.
"Brother, can you send a telegraph to Third Brother to see if he can find anything? We’ll also look in the county town? We’ll pay too."
Originally Fang Chaoyang had thought that this trip to the county town for Grandma’s medical treatment would use up all of his money, and he might even go into debt, but now that Grandma only had minor ailments, he still planned to let her stay in the hospital for a few more days.
But nourishing items like malted milk and powdered milk were really hard to come by.
It was indeed necessary to prepare on two fronts.
"You take care of Grandma, I am going to the post office to send a telegraph to Third Brother."
Fang Chaoyang also knew Zhao Tianlei’s address.
By now, many days had passed, and Xiao He and Da Li should have arrived in Capital City.
After sending the telegraph, he started looking in the marketplace, but despite purchasing a lot of various things, he couldn’t find malted milk or powdered milk for sale anywhere.
He truly hadn’t seen those two items.
In the end, it was only after the doctor wrote a prescription that Fang Chaoyang managed to buy a bag of malted milk from the Cooperative.
"How is it, do you feel comfortable yet?" Yun Xiaoxiao brought two small dishes to the shop side when there were no customers around.
"Sister-in-law, you’ve come. The business today should be even better than yesterday, it’s just that there’s not much stock left?"
Yun Xiaoxiao glanced around and indeed, there wasn’t much left.
"We’ll restock the day after tomorrow; I have no classes in the morning then."
Yun Xiaoxiao took today’s money, gathered everyone, locked up the shop, and headed home.
"Sister-in-law, quite a few young female comrades came today; I heard them saying they were university students." Zhao Xinxin brought up the topic and felt inferior.
She had only attended elementary school.
The sister-in-law and Third Brother were university students.
"There are fewer female students at Tsing University, but there are more at Capital City University across from us."
Zhang Lanhua was even more curious.
"Sister-in-law, are these universities close to each other?"
Yun Xiaoxiao nodded, "There are quite a few universities around here, you could say that the universities in Capital City are the most numerous in the country."
And the students in their district are going to become the nation’s most elite students in the future.
"So my shop, being located here, still benefits from foot traffic, meaning there are customers."
Foot traffic refers to customers.
There are so many things I don’t understand.
"Eh, haven’t they come back yet?" Seeing the keys on the door indicated that the male comrades hadn’t returned yet, which surprised her.
Not only did Yun Xiaoxiao find it strange, but Zhang Lanhua and Zhao Xinxin did too.
It didn’t make sense, did it?
"You two go do your homework; I’ll cook dinner."
The two kids had homework every day.
Even Xiao Bao had a little homework to do.
Zhang Lanhua and Zhao Xinxin also came to the kitchen to help.
Selling goods in the shop these days was much easier than earning work points in the fields.
To wash rice and cook it.
Hot and sour shredded potatoes, sauerkraut stew with glass noodles, and winter melon and radish meatball soup, in generous portions.
For Yun Xiaoxiao’s family of four, plus Cao Dali’s family of two, and siblings Zhao Xinxin and Zhao Tianhe, that’s eight people in total for dinner.
It really wasn’t easy cooking for so many people.
"I’ll make some dough to wrap some cabbage and vermicelli buns."
Cabbage and vermicelli buns?
Zhang Lanhua and Zhao Xinxin didn’t know, but they helped out nonetheless.
By the time Zhao Tianlei and the three men returned, the fragrance of the food had begun to spread.