Age: My Small World

In the end, the matter of giving gifts fell through.

"Mom, since we're not sending anything anyway, why don't we make ourselves a cup and have a taste?"

Yang Yumei was quite eager to try the taste of malted milk powder. She had seen some of her colleagues drink it and they all said it was extremely delicious.

Even though her salary was almost thirty yuan, Yang Yumei had never tasted it. After all, she would take her salary back and hand it over to Li Xiaohua as soon as she received it, and Li Xiaohua would have to pay for her food again. Let alone buy such a precious thing, it was simply impossible.

Li Xiaohua glanced at the three of them, and seeing their expectant eyes, she couldn't help but chuckle: "Look at you guys, you're as greedy as children."

However, she still opened the lid of the malted milk powder.

The three are indeed children, all of them are her children. If she doesn't care, who will?

So Li Xiaohua opened the extremely precious malted milk powder and let the child taste it.

Yang Yumei brewed a cup for everyone and then took a sip herself.

"Tsk tsk..."

She smacked her lips twice, then nodded: "Sweet."

After taking a sip, Yang Jun felt that this stuff wasn't actually that good.

Of course, for those trying it for the first time, it will definitely be a novel taste.

Given everyone's craving for sweets, how could this stuff not taste good?

Just like someone trying milk tea for the first time, they definitely crave to drink it every day.

That's why malted milk powder sells so well and is so expensive, yet people still buy it – it's because of a shortage of beverages.

"Second sister, I'll make you something delicious to try sometime. You'll definitely think it tastes better than this malted milk powder."

Yang Yumei's eyes lit up: "Really? Xiaoshan, you're not kidding me."

"of course it's true."

Yang Jun nodded; he planned to make his own milk tea for his family to try.

Yang Jun had learned how to make milk tea online, but hadn't tried it yet, though he thought it wouldn't be a big problem.

Milk is readily available, and so is tea; the only thing missing is tapioca chips, but you can just buy some of those.

The cassava grown in the mountains is mostly wild cassava.

Cassava wasn't available in large quantities back then; we had to wait for it to be introduced.

By combining these ingredients, you can easily make a cup of bubble tea that Yang Yumei and the others will definitely want to drink again and again.

In the evening, Yang Jun and Cheng Xiaoyu massaged each other's shoulders on their own kang (heated brick bed).

"Brother Xiaoshan, I think Mom might want to take care of her grandson?"

Yang Jun looked at her in surprise: "Why do you say that?"

Cheng Xiaoyu shook her head: "I saw her often looking at children's clothes. Every time she went out to buy groceries, she would spend a long time picking out children's clothes, but in the end she would not buy them."

She felt that Li Xiaohua was hinting to her that since they were already married, it was time to have children.

Yang Jun broke out in a cold sweat.

The old lady really wanted to take care of her grandson, and she couldn't help but want to prepare clothes for the baby in Gu Nanke's belly. However, she also picked out clothes when Xiaoyuer was with her, which explains why she felt that way.

Yang Jun held her small hand: "No need to rush, let's just let things take their course, we'll talk about it after we finish our studies."

Cheng Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, I'll listen to Brother Xiaoshan."

The next day.

Because his mother had promised to buy mutton for Yang Jun, they went home again and finally had the mutton hot pot they had been craving. Unfortunately, the taste was still a bit different from what they ate at restaurants; only by using some spiritual water could it be made a little better.

For the next few days, Yang Jun did not go home again. After all, it would take a long time to go home, and his school and Cheng Xiaoyu's school were too far apart.

That day, he received a letter from Jiang Xueying, a fellow student, at the school's security office.

The reason it only arrived now is because Jiang Xueying sent the letter, but the postman, quite speechless, put it back in its original place after receiving it, since the letter was sent from the mailing address to the original address.

The postman experienced firsthand the pain he had felt as a security guard at a middle school.

Yang Jun, of course, knew nothing of this, and began reading the letter after receiving it.

In fact, he and Jiang Xueying have been communicating much less in the last two years.

Besides the fact that he was busy with university coursework, their relationship had also changed. They were no longer just pen pals, so Jiang Xueying wrote to him less often, preferring to express her feelings directly.

Fortunately, the pen pal relationship remained the same. She continued to share her joys and sorrows in her letters, and even her observations and experiences were presented from Yang Jun's unique perspective.

It also allowed him to see many of Jiang Xueying's own contradictions and pain.

For example, her father's problems and her longing for Yang Jun were clearly conveyed to him through her writing.

This is a feeling different from verbal description, allowing people to understand her thoughts more clearly.

When he saw Jiang Xueying's description of their relationship, he was taken aback.

"It's as if there's snow on the Tianshan Mountains, and you are that blooming Tianshan snow lotus, incomparably beautiful in the sunset, yet with a dazzling white light."

Good heavens, so he's become a snow lotus from the Tianshan Mountains.

However, it is also clear that Jiang Xueying is pure and emotional when it comes to matters of the heart. In her view, love is a noble sentiment, a summit of heaven for two people.

She is snow, and he is a snow lotus.

"Oh, this silly girl."

Yang Jun sighed deeply, then pondered how to reply to her.

He wanted to elicit a response to every word he spoke, and he didn't want to disappoint Jiang Xueying in any way.

"We're still missing a private space. Looks like we'll have to ask Lao Zhu for a unit-provided apartment."

The distance to Wangfujing was practically the same as going home, so unless he had a private appointment with Cheng Xiaoyu or was just bored, he would go back. Otherwise, the apartment would remain vacant.

Besides, a cunning rabbit has three burrows; it's normal for him to have several safe houses.

As for having the branch office prepare it, it's naturally because it doesn't cost any money.

He's done so many things for Lao Zhu, so it's not unreasonable for him to ask for another unit-owned apartment, is it?

After finishing writing the letter in the small world, Yang Jun went out and asked the security guard to help him deliver it before leaving the school gate.

This time, his destination was Populus euphratica village.

Yang Jun kept thinking about Gu Nanke, and with her big belly requiring frequent care, he visited her even more often.

When she returned, unsurprisingly, Aunt Liu from next door was still at home chatting with Gu Nanke and giving her a lot of advice.

These words were repeated over and over again, but the intention was to make her remember them.

Fortunately, Gu Nanke had already experienced pregnancy once, so she didn't have the fear of becoming a mother for the first time and was much less panicked.

If you're a new mother, you're probably worried about this and that right now.

After Aunt Liu took her leave, Gu Nanke immediately told Yang Jun about something. (End of this chapter)