Chapter 301: Lifting the Ban on Disaster Relief
Uncle Pei was already looking at the stone and nodded: "This is it."

This stone is very common. You can go to the riverside or stream to look for it and pick up a bunch of it in a short time. They all have experience in finding it.

Lingxi leaned over and saw his grandfather coming out of the bedroom with a bunch of brown and red ropes in his hands, the kind used to string pendants and bracelets.

Lingxi: “…”

!!!

Eh?
This scene seems familiar!
She immediately understood what her father and uncle meant.

Minghui is more familiar with it than Lingxi. He earned his first big unity card in his life by using this!

Minghui instantly perked up, squatting beside the stone and curiously asking Uncle Pei: "Grandpa, are we going to sell the beads? Is there anyone like my aunt who likes the beads?"

Uncle Pei poked him on the forehead.

"As much as you know."

Little Minghui laughed and made a zipper gesture to his mouth, indicating that he would shut up.

Lingxi watched them grinding beads with some curiosity: "Comrade Lin, could it be that he came here for this thing?"

Her words were vague, but her father and the others understood.

“Be prepared.”

Pei Yanning was not sure either, but in their hometown, Pei Fuzhu had so much of this thing that they could be played with like marbles. It wouldn't be a big deal if it became widespread here as well.

They carefully dug up Lingxi's life in her previous life from Pei Fuzhu. As a father, he always wanted her to have a smooth life. Pei Fuzhu didn't know much, but this bead accounted for a large proportion of it.

Aren't they just 'ancestral' beads?
Their family can pass down more of their traditions.

Lingxi was amused by her father's words, but Lingxi, who originally did not take Lin Feiyin seriously, now felt a little alert in her heart. But when she was sure that her grandfather had asked someone to keep an eye on her, she put the matter behind her.

Anyway, it’s just their guess now. Let’s see when someone finds her!
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This year it seemed as if all the snow that didn't fall last year wanted to fall all at once. It snowed heavily or lightly, and there was no time to wait for the snow to melt. One snowfall followed another, and before it got dark when Lingxi and the others returned home, the wind and snow had gotten even stronger.

Too much of anything is not a good thing.

Too much snow will naturally become a disaster.

Traffic and production were interrupted, roads, electric wires, poles, vehicles, etc. were damaged, houses collapsed, and animals were frostbitten and frozen to death on a large scale. It was already a year of famine, and the snowstorm made things worse. One can imagine what the situation was like when people were starving and cold.

Fortunately, the people in this area are relatively well-off, but even so, several houses and sheds were collapsed by the snow.

The Pei family doesn't need to worry about those things.

The small courtyard house was made of solid materials and was newly renovated. In addition, there was plenty of coal and firewood so there was no impact.

Uncle Pei, Pei Yaning and Gu Si started sweeping the snow every morning during their morning exercises, day after day. With the help of that group of young men, the family had no shortage of food and firewood, and their life was relatively stable.

The only difficulty is that it is inconvenient to go out, or you have to queue up to buy things, or the supplies are in short supply and you may not be able to buy them.

But the Pei family has always been careful to stock up at home, so they have no shortage of food and firewood. Moreover, they have plenty of time, so they simply prepare food in various ways.

Rice candy, crispy candy, nougat, rice cake, rice cake, milk cake, meatballs, fish balls, vegetable balls, tofu balls, fried crispy meat, fried spareribs, fried potato chips, and rice cake, sticky bean curd, meat, cabbage, steamed buns...

Now the wind is strong and the snow is heavy, so even if the fragrance spreads, it can't spread far. The Pei family has good cooking skills, and the dozen or so guys working in shifts at the door really have a good time.

Later on, they even started to bring food here, and even if they just sat around the brazier roasting sweet potatoes and chestnuts and playing cards, it was still lively and bustling.

However, this leisurely life did not last long.

Pei Yanning was released early.

The young man from the security department guarding here was temporarily transferred to the surrounding disaster relief work. This place was originally more of a formality, and now there are more urgent things to do, so they can't take care of them here.

Either put them under centralized custody or release them directly.

Everyone knows that Pei Yanning is fine.

Not to mention his great contributions to the expedition team, even the feedback from the investigation of the machinery factory in the northern province...

He and Gu Si now provided prescriptions for eliminating pests, and later improved blast furnace technology, dug wells to solve drought problems, and then copied and improved the machine tools that caused the last spy operation, and other achievements that cannot be made public for the time being.

Which of these does not prove that Comrade Pei Yanning is a good comrade who serves the people and the country?
Therefore, after considering everything, they held a meeting and voted, and Pei Yanning was lifted the ban.

Pei Yanning was silent for a moment when he saw Lao Hei, who was so excited and came to bring him the good news.

However, although……

He didn't want to be released now at all.

He always knew that he would not be imprisoned for long. When the guards at the door were withdrawn to deal with disaster relief, he had such a premonition in his heart. But when the day really came, he still couldn't help but sigh.

Traffic is now blocked and trains have stopped running. The snow on the road is half a person high.

According to the current situation, it is impossible to return to the Northern Province in the short term. Pei Yanning, who has always been serving the people and dedicating himself to the country and has always done a good job, is stranded here. How can he stay at home safely when there are starving people everywhere and frozen corpses on the streets?
But he was asked to run to the snowdrifts several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers away every day to help the workers rescue the factory property and help the peasant brothers rescue the property of their production team...

He wanted to scratch his head too.

He is not a person who likes to suffer at all.

Pei Yanning thought about it and borrowed people from the expedition team from Lao Hei.

Although Pei Yaning has left the expedition team for almost two years, everyone still treats Pei Yaning as one of their own. He has an exclusive status there, and now as long as he opens his mouth, everyone still responds.

After all, except for those who have joined in the past one or two years, everyone has had their lives saved by Pei Yanning.

So, he and a group of people in the expedition team spontaneously organized themselves together and built a small shelter.

The site was chosen in a small park nearby, which Ming Yang said was a mass grave before and was later converted. There was a long corridor in the park with a roof but it was drafty on all sides.

Pei Yanning found a few straw mats and used them to surround the pavilion at the edge of the corridor. He then placed a pot inside and cooked fish soup.

The fish were caught by the expedition team in the artificial lake in the small park and the nearby river.

If you break open the frozen river surface, the oxygen-starved fish will come over to breathe.

It was a disaster year, so the fish wouldn't swarm out like in previous years, but we could still catch some with a single cast of the net. We made the fish into soup, added some of Gu Sipei's cold-dispelling herbal medicine bags, some bran, rice bran, and dried vegetables from the logistics department of the compound, and stewed the thumb-thick sweet potato roots and small sweet potatoes...