Chapter 539 - 540: Giving You a Bone to Gnaw On
Just after finishing dinner, someone from the commune came over. An old woman, as soon as she entered the yard, craned her neck and shouted, "Xiulian? Xiulian, are you there?"
"Ah, yes, I’m here."
Ma Xiulian emerged from the stove room at the sound of her voice. Seeing the old woman, she politely asked, "Aunt Seven, what brings you here?"
Though the two women were about the same age, Aunt Seven belonged to a generation two degrees higher than Ma Xiulian.
Aunt Seven smiled and explained her goal, "I just saw Dabai coming back from town with Guibao and the others, and thought I’d like to borrow Dabai and the sled to make a trip to town myself."
She was one of the villagers who had been planting crops at the village entrance in the morning, and had seen, with her own eyes, Dabai pulling Jiang Manyun and the two children back from town.
Ma Xiulian was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Aunt Seven, why do you want to borrow Dabai? Doesn’t the commune have a cart?"
Around the New Year, to facilitate the villagers’ trips to town to buy their New Year goods, the commune organizes cart trips to help transport things twice a week.
Aunt Seven countered, "But Dabai is faster than the cart! It only took an hour or so to make a round trip without showing any signs of tiredness. Isn’t that more convenient?!"