Chapter 539: Chapter 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?"