"Okay, then tell me An An." Gu Hongjun said.
An An was like a spinning top, explaining things to them in a vivid and colorful way.
When Chen Dongju and Gu Hongjun heard that at today's social gathering, the college student technicians in the factory had a crush on Gu Baozhu and invited her to see a movie in the afternoon, they couldn't stop smiling.
Isn’t it a joy?
This guy is a college student! He is also a technician in the factory!
His conditions are much better than those of Tan Ming, an educated youth!
Moreover, Tan Ming is not tall, and his family never liked him in the first place. If it weren't for the fact that Tan Ming saved their Baozhu, they would not have agreed to them being together.
I didn't expect that they all admitted it with a pinch of their noses. Tan Ming even got together with Wang Fangfang behind Baozhu's back. It really gave him face!
Especially when they knew that it was Technician Lin who helped to rescue Tan Ming when he came to harass Gu Baozhu today, the couple were even more satisfied with this Technician Lin whom they had never met.
"Baozhu, what time did you agree on? It's about time now, right?" Li Xia asked.
Gu Baozhu looked at her watch. It was already one o'clock in the afternoon. They had agreed to go to the movies at two o'clock in the afternoon. After packing up, they would go to the county. It was almost time.
"Okay, I'll pack up and go." Gu Baozhu said.
Chen Dongju said, "Yes, yes, yes. Ask your cousin's wife to dress you up nicely so that you can go to the movies with the technicians."
Unexpectedly, Gu Baozhu shook her head. Not only did she not dress up, she also used hairpins to clip up the bangs that Li Xia had cut for her, revealing the birthmark on her face.
Seeing her like this, Chen Dongju became anxious: "Baozhu, what...what are you going to do?"
Gu Baozhu glanced at Li Xia beside her, and said to Chen Dongju with a smile: "Mom, don't worry, in fact, I was worried like you at the beginning, but what my cousin's wife said made me think clearly.
This is the real me. I can't marry him and worry about whether my bangs cover my birthmark all the time. Even when I sleep, I have to worry about whether my birthmark will be exposed. Mom, this is too tiring. This is not the life I want. If he thinks I look ugly like this, it means we are not suitable. "
Chen Dongju fell silent after hearing this.
Gu Hongjun on the side nodded appreciatively and said, "Baozhu is right. Dad supports you in doing this."
"Yes, Baozhu, brother supports you too." Gu Yongnian also said.
Having said that, after Gu Baozhu left, Li Xia discovered that Gu Hongjun and Chen Dongju both became a little nervous, and were a little absent-minded when choosing vegetables.
Li Xia understood their feelings. Parents are like this. They support their children’s decisions, but at the same time they are worried inside.
Fortunately, when Gu Baozhu came back, she brought good news.
Just as Li Xia guessed, Lin Jiajun had already fallen in love with Gu Baozhu, but he did not express his feelings to Gu Baozhu because he saw that Gu Baozhu was more involved with Tan Ming at the time and found out that they were dating.
As for the birthmark on Gu Baozhu's face, he never minded it from the beginning. He even felt that Gu Baozhu with the birthmark was more special.
After Chen Dongju and Gu Hongjun learned the result, they put their worries aside.
After dinner, Li Xia and Gu Weicheng returned to the room.
Gu Weicheng hugged Li Xia and said with emotion: "Wife, do you know that since you joined the army, I feel more and more that God has been very kind to me. He gave me such a good wife and a smart and well-behaved son. I, Gu Weicheng, am really blessed."
In the past, he blamed God for why he lost his mother at such a young age and why his father treated him like that.
But now, he is content.
Li Xia also opened her arms, hugged Gu Weicheng tightly, and said gently: "Because you are also a good person, because you deserve it."
At this moment, the door was suddenly opened from the outside. Gu Yongnian saw two people hugging each other and was so scared that he quickly closed the door again.
Li Xia looked at Gu Weicheng awkwardly and said, "It seems to be my cousin."
From this angle she could see the door, but Gu Weicheng had his back to the door and couldn't see who was coming.
"It's okay. I'll go ask him what's the matter." Gu Weicheng stood up, walked to the door and opened it. He saw him with two awkward hands, not knowing where to put them. He kept scratching his face and head like a person with ADHD.
"Cousin, what do you want to talk to me about?" Gu Weicheng asked.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Gu Yongnian almost wanted to slap himself. Why didn't he remember to knock on the door and just opened it directly?
He was taking it for granted. He and Ding Hehua had been married for nearly ten years, and as an old couple they rarely had any intimate actions during the day, so he didn't think about it that way. He had no idea that Gu Weicheng and Li Xia still had such a good relationship and would even hug each other in broad daylight.
Gu Weicheng: “Nothing?” Then why are you here to disturb us?
Gu Yongnian quickly said, "No, actually I have something to ask, but I'm not here to talk to you, I'm here to talk to my sister-in-law."
"What do you want to talk to me about? Cousin, just ask directly. Don't be shy." Li Xia also walked out of the room. Seeing that Gu Yongnian was even more embarrassed than her and Gu Weicheng, and didn't know what to do with his hands and feet, she suddenly didn't feel embarrassed anymore.
As expected, as long as she is not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.
Gu Yongnian scratched his head and asked awkwardly, "Um...sister-in-law, I have another question for you. How did you deal with the mayor's son's false accusation of cheating against Zhaodi? They won't do anything to Zhaodi, will they?"
In fact, Gu Yongnian had wanted to ask Li Xia about the subsequent plot questions for a long time, but in the past two days, Dr. Lu was treating his great-grandfather and his mother, and there was also the matter of Baozhu. There were too many things to do, so he didn't have time to ask.
At this moment, the conversation just happened to start, and I couldn't help it.
"..." Li Xia couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth. She thought it was something else, but she didn't expect that he came to ask about the plot of the novel.
I used to think that Gu Yongnian didn’t read my novel and wasn’t afraid of being urged to update, but I didn’t expect that he actually read it and then came to me to ask about the plot.
But even when Gu Weicheng asked her, she refused to confess. Facing Gu Yongnian, she could only feel embarrassed.
Before Li Xia could think of what to say, she saw Gu Weicheng pulling Gu Yongnian outside, saying as they walked, "Cousin, my wife is a professional writer. You can't get any plots from her that haven't been serialized yet. Just give up on that idea and wait with me."
Of course, he is still different from his cousin.
Because he can see the latest and hottest manuscripts, he can read them immediately after his wife finishes writing them, and he knows the plot second only to his wife, the author.
As for Gu Yongnian...
It’s better to just wait and see the latest series in the newspaper!
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Today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Chen Dongju kneaded a large bowl of dough early in the morning. She said it was the 28th, so she wanted to let the dough rise. She kneaded the dough today so that she could make buns and dumplings on New Year's Eve!
There were very few holidays in the 1970s. Not only did they have one day off a day, but factories also only had three days off for the New Year, from New Year's Eve to the second day, and people had to go back to work on the third day.
Li Xia had finished writing the manuscript and planned to send it to the newspaper office first. If she sent it later, the postman would be on holiday.
The newspaper still has one issue of manuscripts to deliver, but we are worried that something might go wrong along the way and the letter might not arrive in time.
Gu Weicheng took Li Xia to the post office in the county town to mail the manuscripts. When they came back, the couple went to the sugar factory again.
Because Gu Baozhu revealed a piece of news to them, saying that this year their sugar factory would take out some sugar to sell in the factory, and the quantity was limited, so first come first served.
The sugar made by the sugar factory is sufficient in quantity and has many varieties, and is cheaper than the one sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives. They simply buy more, one reason being that everyone can eat it together during the New Year, and they also plan to keep some to bring back to the army to share with everyone.
When I arrived at the sugar factory, I heard people talking about Bi Jianjun and Zhang Guifen.
"Have you heard? Bi Jianjun and Zhang Guifen have been sentenced. Bi Jianjun was sentenced to ten years, and Zhang Guifen was sentenced to five years!"
Sentenced? Li Xia seemed to have heard that having affairs was a moral issue at that time, and that people would only be paraded through the streets with placards on their heads, but not sentenced? The real crackdown began in 1983. If it had happened in 1983, Bi Jianjun and Zhang Guifen might have been sentenced, but not now.
Is there something else they don't know?