Gu Ye is back, and Bao Ni can finally relax!
After a few days of getting to know each other, Liu Jiu and her father had reconciled and she would never ask, "Who are you?" again.
Liu Jiu is wearing a bright red sweater, knitted for her by her aunt. It's a rare sight to see such a vibrant red. Aunt Gu is quite skilled; she can even knit a hooded sweater, somewhat like a sweatshirt from later times, a pullover with a hood.
Aunt Gu knitted it a little too big, knowing that Bao Ni wasn't good at these kinds of delicate tasks, so she knitted it a bit larger so that Liu Jiu could wear it for a couple more years. Liu Jiu especially liked her bright red sweater. After putting it on, she went to Zhao Yuan's house and said, "Auntie, do you think my sweater is pretty? My aunt knitted it for me, and it even has a red hood."
After saying that, he circled around Zhao Yuan and Bai Yang.
"Mom, I want one too."
Bai Yang also took a liking to it. After Liu Jiu finished showing it off, no matter how much Bai Yang cried and begged her mother for a sweater like Liu Jiu's, she went to show it off to someone else.
Within a day, everyone in the family compound knew that Liu Jiu's aunt had knitted her a big red sweater with a hat. It looked so good that it made a bunch of girls cry.
Bonnie also received several complaints from her sisters-in-law, who said that Liu Jiu was too infuriating, as he would deliberately go to people's homes with young girls to show off.
Bao Ni was both angry and amused. Who did this child take after? So flamboyant! She, Lin Bao Ni, was never like that. He must be like Gu Ye.
Bonnie wrote about it as a joke to Sister-in-law Gu, so that she could experience the power of this red sweater.
When Gu Da Sao in Beijing saw the letter, she burst out laughing. She couldn't help but chuckle as she sat there.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you laughing like that? Whose letter is this?"
Gu Ze rarely came home early, and when he saw his wife holding a letter, he couldn't stop smiling.
“Baoni said that Liu Jiu was showing off in the family compound wearing the bright red sweater I knitted for her, and she went to the homes of families with little girls. She made a bunch of little girls cry and they all complained to Baoni. Baoni said that she didn’t know who Liu Jiu got her show-off tendencies from.”
Gu Ze chuckled, finding the image of Liu Jiu swaggering around the family compound rather amusing.
"He's like Gu Ye in this respect. He was like that when he was a child. If he had something good, he had to show it off to everyone, which made a lot of kids cry. Later, when his mother got sick, he became silent. Especially after his mother passed away under those circumstances, his personality changed drastically."
“Thanks to Bonnie, if it weren’t for her, Gu Ye would never have gotten out of that situation and would have trapped himself in that bureau for the rest of his life. For those few years, I was terrified of receiving phone calls, afraid that I would be informed that Gu Ye had become a martyr.”
Even now, Gu Ze still feels lingering fear when he thinks about it!
"Well, now it's great. I have a wife and children, and I'm living a fulfilling life."
"Yes, thank you, honey."
Gu Ze rarely felt this emotional. They had known each other since childhood, not as childhood sweethearts, but simply as compatible. But at this moment, Shen Jiaqi felt loved!
"We are family!"
The two glanced at each other, both feeling a little embarrassed. They were an old married couple with two children, yet they felt like they were dating.
"By the way, there might be people coming to pull strings lately. You don't need to worry about anything. Just tell them you don't understand work-related matters."
Gu Ze changed the subject, breaking the previous atmosphere, which made me feel a little uncomfortable.
"What's wrong?"
"There may be a large-scale movement of people going to the countryside. This time, the number of people involved is large and the scope is wide. Those who graduated from junior high school in 1966, those who dropped out of university, and those who are still here today are all included."
As a close associate of the high-ranking leader, Gu Ze was often among the first to know about many things. For the past three graduating classes since 1966, they'd all been loitering around the city. If they were allowed to continue like this, it could potentially cause a lot of trouble.
It's already November, and the documents will be issued soon. At the latest, everyone will have to leave by next spring.
"Oh, so Gu Nan and Gu Mei are both within this area!"
Gu Ze thought about it and realized it was true.
Gu Nan spent a year in college, while Gu Mei has been doing nothing since graduating from junior high school and can't escape now.
Gu Nan is currently only a temporary worker. He doesn't like doing the job and only works sporadically, so he hasn't been promoted yet. He's still thinking about continuing his university studies.
My third uncle's family has three children: one in the army, one in a cultural troupe, and one of them has to go to the countryside.
Gu Ze didn't care about that. His third uncle's family was well-off, and even if Gu Nan went to the countryside, she wouldn't suffer. As for Gu Mei, she had even less to do with him.
“It seems like my aunt’s family also has someone who fits the criteria. She’s been coming to see you. Sometimes I really wish I could be like Bonnie and shut her up. It’s so satisfying.”
Gu Ze looked at his indignant wife, and found her quite adorable.
“You don’t have Bonnie’s fighting skills. Gu Ye said that Bonnie is not only strong, but also good at punches and kicks, on par with Gu Ye. She just doesn’t have Gu Ye’s experience and is not good in actual combat.”
"Really? I thought she was just strong! Wow, Lin Baoni, I never expected our Liu Jiu to surpass her mother so much!"
Thinking of the scene of Liu Jiu running rampant in the compound, Sister-in-law Gu was overjoyed.
"Gu Ze, do you think if we have another child, we can have a daughter like Liu Jiu?"
"Not necessarily. Neither of us is born with superhuman strength. What if, and I mean what if, it's another son? Can you put him back in?"
Sister-in-law Gu couldn't imagine having three little devils in her house, so she decided to wait and not rush into having any more. Although she longed for a daughter, she was also afraid of having a boy.
Gu Ze didn't tell Gu Ye about the large-scale rural deployment, as it wasn't really his concern.
Bonnie knew, but she didn't care. They were already in the countryside, so there was no issue of going to the countryside.
Gu Ye has been back for a while now. Thanks to the various delicious ingredients provided by Bao Ni, Gu Ye's cooking skills have improved even more, and he has almost regained all the weight he lost.
His energy and spirits were much better, most noticeably in the increased intimacy between him and his wife every night, making Bao Ni regret giving him all that extra nourishment. All that energy was being used on her, leaving her sleep-deprived, constantly yawning, and with dark circles under her eyes, which earned her a lot of teasing from the women in the family compound.
There's not much to do this season. All the vegetables have been harvested, so Bonnie has nothing to do. She has a good harvest of seaweed. Bonnie has made a record. She has harvested several hundred kilograms of wet seaweed from three seaweed seedlings, each of which has grown to more than a meter long.
The Lin family helped Bao Ni scoop up the seaweed, dried it, and distributed some to each family. They also gave some to the sisters-in-law they knew in the family compound, sent some to Beijing, and sent the rest to the military canteen.
At this time, the salt is still coarse-grained, and many places still have goiter, which is caused by iodine deficiency. Eating more kelp can play a preventive role.
As another busy year draws to a close, Bonnie reflects on it.
Nothing major happened that year, except for one thing: seaweed cultivation, which failed.
Bonnie hasn't made any plans for next year yet; she can only take it one step at a time. Plans can't keep up with changes, and unexpected situations always arise!
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