Chapter 108
Chen Shengqing's application was not approved quickly.
Because this debt collection action involves such a large scope and involves the interests of many people, his application is tantamount to touching someone else's cake. How could anyone with ulterior motives allow him to take action? His application has been suppressed.
He was not in a hurry. He made a phone call to a military district in the capital and called Commander Zhou, who was formerly the division commander and has now been promoted to commander.
Good guys, within a day, the border defense department, the military corps, and the public security bureau of the entire Ava region held a tripartite meeting and began to clear out the criminals and lawbreakers, and the entire border was in a state of panic.
He remained elusive for more than a month, and was nowhere to be seen morning or night. Yang Qiujin had gotten used to it.
The town has been in chaos recently. The gangsters and lawless elements have been forced to hide from place to place by the border defense officers and the police. The number of stealing and robbery has doubled compared to before. For the safety of her two children and mother-in-law, Yang Qiujin simply brought Shan Dian back home from the farm to look after the house.
Lightning has been in the farm for nearly six years since he retired. Previously, we felt it was inconvenient to keep him in the military compound, as we were afraid he would bite children from other military compounds, which would be difficult to separate.
Yang Qiujin now lives in the town almost half of the time. Lightning is getting older and his legs are no longer as flexible as before, so it is very appropriate to keep him in the large courtyard in the town.
When Chen Tianyou saw the long-lost Lightning, he happily walked over to hug its neck and rubbed his face against its head. "Lightning, it's been a long time since we last met. Do you still remember me?"
Lightning is now an old dog who is almost fourteen years old. His fur is no longer as shiny as before, his muscles are no longer as strong, and his eyes have become a little cloudy, but his hearing and sense of smell are still very sharp.
Although Chen Tianyou seldom went to the farm in recent years, Shandian still remembered his voice and smell. He stretched out his tongue and gently licked the back of his hand, making a sound to show that he still remembered him.
"Oh, you still remember me, Shandian, you are such a smart and good dog." Shandian recognized him, Chen Tianyou was so happy that he turned around and pulled Xiao Tianxing who was walking towards him and said, "Shandian, this is my sister, and she will be your little master in the future. Smell her scent and protect her with me in the future."
Lightning tilted his head and squinted his cloudy eyes at the little person in front of him. He used his wet nose to smell the scent of Xiao Tianxing and immediately recognized that this was the scent of the little baby that the mistress brought to the farm to work every day, and this was his current little master.
It grinned and wagged its big tail to show its friendliness to the little fellow.
When Xiao Tianxing first saw the black dog squatting in front of her, which was taller than her, she was quite curious. But when she saw it open its mouth, revealing its sharp teeth, she was so scared that she screamed and cried, "Scared, scared."
Shandian was frightened by her and quickly stood up and took two steps back, looking at Yang Qiujin who was standing beside him in confusion.
"Tianxing, don't be afraid. It's Lightning. Since you were a month old, Mom and Grandma carried you on their backs to go to work at the farm. Lightning has always been by your crib. It won't hurt you. It will only help you drive away the bad guys who bully you."
Yang Qiujin held little Tianxing in her arms, soothed her in a low voice, and used her little hand to touch the lightning dog's head, "Look, touch it, it won't bite you."
Lightning is a sheepdog with a high IQ. He knows that he scared his little master by opening his mouth, so when the little master touches him, he cooperates by lowering his head, squatting on the spot and not moving, not daring to make any barking sound for fear of scaring his little master again.
Little Tianxing cried for a while, then felt the furry texture of the dog's head with his little hand. He was very curious and stopped crying. With big eyes full of golden beads, he kept pulling Lightning's big ears. Soon he started laughing and said in a baby voice, "Big dog, big dog, Duo, Duo."
This is saying that Lightning is a big dog with big ears.
The little baby grabbed Lightning's ear without any mercy and it hurt. He couldn't help but grin and let out a threatening growl, but then he remembered that he must not scare his little master, so he quickly closed his mouth and the sound coming out of his mouth was stifled back into his throat.
"Okay, sister, you can't pull Shan Dian's ears, it will hurt." Chen Tianyou saw Shan Dian's expression, and quickly pried Xiao Tianxing's hands apart, hugged her in his arms, and said to Shan Dian: "Come on, Shan Dian, come with me to the store on the street to buy some candy."
Lightning barked, wagging his tail, and followed the brother and sister out of the yard.
"Qiu Jin, aren't you going with them? It's so chaotic outside, with gangsters running around everywhere. Is it okay for the two of them to go out alone?" Li Xiu'e asked worriedly as she was washing Xiao Tianxing's diaper by the pool in the yard.
"Mom, it's okay. Our Tianyou is a good fighter. Ordinary people can't get close to him easily. Although Shandian is old, he is not someone you can easily mess with. With the two of them here, they can protect Tianxing." Yang Qiujin was not worried at all. She walked over and said while washing diapers together.
Tianxing is still young and cannot pee on her own, so she still wears open-crotch pants with diapers stuck in her pants. We will have to wait until she is a little older, before winter this year, when she can shout to go to the toilet on her own, and then she can wear closed-crotch pants.
It is already mid-April, spring has officially arrived in the northern Xinjiang region, and the weather has become warmer. On the roadside of the town, many Kazakh people who love to grow flowers have many border flowers blooming outside their walls.
Now Chen Tianyou, who has grown taller and looks particularly fair and handsome, is holding Chen Tianxing, who is wearing a light pink spring gown, has two black braids on his head, and wears two butterfly hairpins. He looks like a delicate and exquisite girl. He walks by the street and attracts the attention of some gangsters hiding in the alleys.
Since the crackdown began in the entire Ava region, criminals and their leaders who abducted women and children, manufactured and sold drugs, and resold black oil and minerals have been brought down one after another. Their subordinates have been able to run or hide, while the gangsters at the bottom of the chain who work for them have either been arrested by the police and released after being detained for a period of time, or have been hiding from place to place and doing shameful activities.
These little hooligans roam around in various villages, autonomous regions, mining areas, farms, etc. all year round. They know the maps of every place by heart and are very familiar with them. They are good at hiding and fighting guerrilla warfare. The public security and border defense departments that are trying to capture them often don't want to waste their time on them. As long as they don't kill or burn people and cause any big trouble, they are too lazy to bother with them.
These hooligans became more and more daring, and they all thought of taking advantage of their boss's downfall to make a fortune, putting the blame for all the theft and fraud on the boss. They would then make a fortune and retire and live a good life, which led to more and more chaos in the town.
The hooligans hiding in the dark alleys were targeting the little girl. After all, there were more boys than girls in the border areas, so no matter how old the girl was, she could be sold for a good price. Even if she was very young, after being sold and raised for a few years, she could become a child bride and do the laundry, cooking, giving birth and raising children. It was a steady profit.
However, if any gangster wanted to get close to the girl, never mind how the teenager would attack him, the tall, black-backed sheepdog was not someone to be trifled with.
It was only fifteen minutes' journey to the other side of the street, but Lightning had already used his sharp teeth to bite two groups of thugs, making them howl in agony.
"Lightning, well done!" After buying his sister's favorite White Rabbit candy, Chen Tianyou went to the grocery store and spent a penny to buy Lightning a big bone as a reward.
Lightning is quite old, but his teeth are still very strong. He was so happy holding a big bone in his mouth that he kept wagging his tail at Chen Tianyou all the way.
Some people saw this and said in surprise: "What kind of world is this? Dogs eat better than us humans. It's a waste of natural resources."
Chen Tianyou glanced over and saw that the person who said this was Liu Dabao, whom he had not seen for a long time. He had been locked up for more than two months and was released. His hair and beard were longer than before, and he was still wearing winter clothes. It was unknown how long he had not taken a shower. His clothes were black and smelly. He was curled up next to a garbage dump on the street, looking like a beggar.
Chen Tianyou said, "You think it's a waste to feed a dog a bone without any meat on it? If you want to eat it, I can give it to you as a reward."
He was originally trying to ridicule Liu Dabao, but unexpectedly Liu Dabao sat up and said, "Really? Then I won't be polite."
As he spoke, he reached out to grab the large bone in Lightning's mouth, and was bitten by Lightning as expected.
"Wow, your dog is too fierce. Didn't you say you would give me food? Luckily I pulled my hand away quickly, otherwise it would have bitten off a piece of my meat." Liu Dabao patted his chest and said with lingering fear.
"How did you end up like this?" Chen Tianyou frowned.
"Oh, it's a long story." Liu Dabao lay back down next to the garbage dump, not minding the stench at all: "When my father was shot dead by your father, and your mother came to the farm to overthrow our Liujiazhuang, I followed my mother back to their hometown. The next year my mother remarried and said she wanted to start a new life and didn't care about me anymore, so I had to support myself.
None of my relatives were willing to support me, and I was unwilling to do hard labor in the fields, so I stole some money from my uncles and aunts and took a bus back to the border. By chance, I met a gang of bandits and followed them to do illegal activities in various parts of the border. Within a few years, that gang of bandits was wiped out by your father.
I finally managed to escape, but then I ran into a drug trafficking and abduction gang and followed them to make a living. But now they have been busted by the border guards and the police. I was arrested and locked up for two months, where I was almost beaten to death by my boss and his men. Now I have nowhere to go and can only wait to die."
"Have you ever thought about going to work?" Chen Tianyou held down the hand of Xiao Tianxing who had been reaching out to grab the Lightning Bone out of curiosity. "If you go to work, even if it's a temporary job, you can earn more than 20 yuan a month and support yourself. Why do you keep doing this kind of sneaky business?"
"Because I'm lazy and don't want to do hard labor." Liu Dabao said righteously: "Those workers work from morning till night and can barely make ends meet with the little money they earn. Unlike me, as long as I make a big profit, I won't have to worry about food and clothing for several months, and I can also find a beautiful girl to play with."
Chen Tianyou was speechless. "Everywhere is under martial law and tax collection, and you still want to do something big? Aren't you afraid of death?"
"I'm afraid, so I plan to leave this sad place and go to the farther northern Xinjiang to pick up jade from the Gobi Desert and sell it to jade merchants to make a living." Li Dabao said this, and he struggled to stand up and said, "Chen Tianyou, can you lend me some money for travel expenses? I don't want much, just 20 yuan, so that I can buy a train ticket, open a hotel, and take a good hot bath."
"What is your relationship with me? You just ask me to borrow twenty yuan. Who do you think you are?" Chen Tianyou snorted coldly: "My father shot your father, and my mother drove away the people from Liujiazhuang. According to the ancient picture books, you and I are irreconcilable enemies."
"Oh, that was all Chen Zhigu's mess, it's all in the past." Liu Dabao sighed and said, "My father committed the great crime of killing soldiers by colluding with the Soviet Union, so it was understandable that he was shot by your father. My mother and my uncles were bullies on the farm, and they teamed up with those cadres to destroy the innocence of the educated youth. They deserved to be driven out of the farm by your mother. I was young and ignorant before, and I hated your parents to death. I wished I could kill them with my own hands, but as I grew older, I experienced a lot of things in these years, and I also understood a lot of things. I don't hate your parents anymore."
"Do you think I believe your lies?" Chen Tianyou ran away, walked a few steps, then came back, took out his trouser pocket, threw a dollar at him and said, "This is all the money I have. Use it to open a guesthouse, take a hot bath, buy two buns to eat, and then find another job after eating. Don't do bad things again."
Liu Dabao looked at him leaving the background, picked up a piece of money, grinned, and muttered in a low voice, "You are still too young, so easy to be deceived."
After saying that, he looked up at the white clouds floating in the sky and exclaimed, "Today's sky is so blue."
Chen Tianyou brought Xiao Tianxing and Shandian back home. Yang Qiujin and Li Xiu'e were drying clothes and diapers in the yard.
Seeing them coming back, Yang Qiujin shook the water off the small clothes in her hands and said, "What did you buy?"
"White Rabbit milk candy, my sister loves it, and she also bought a bone for Shandian." Chen Tianyou told Yang Qiujin what happened on the road truthfully, "Mom, I gave Liu Dabao a dollar, mainly because he was so pitiful, you won't blame me, will you?"
"How could mom blame you? You are a kind child. You can't bear to see people suffer and are willing to help others. This is a good thing." Yang Qiujin turned around and touched his cheek tenderly and said, "Liu Dabao is only a few years older than you. If his parents hadn't made mistakes, he would have been like you, a child who was held in the palm of his parents' hands and loved. It's a pity that he made one wrong step and then another. If he corrected his mistakes in time, he could have become a good person."
Her fingers were still wet and felt cool on her face. Chen Tianyou was not disgusted and rubbed Yang Qiujin's hand lovingly. He said coquettishly, "Mom, I want to eat meatballs tonight."
"Okay." After Yang Qiujin finished speaking, she scolded him with a stern face: "Mom has told you so many times, Tianxing is still young and still growing teeth, she can't eat too much sweets, and White Rabbit is sticky to teeth, you always give it to her, she feels uncomfortable after eating it."
After she finished speaking, she went to take the candy from Xiao Tianxing's hand.
"No." After hearing her words, the boy grabbed the candy, stepped on his legs, and staggered away desperately.
Yang Qiujin missed the candy and followed her with a mixture of anger and amusement, "Give it to mom quickly. Children can't eat so much candy. Your teeth will break."
"No." Xiao Tianxing ran for his life and accidentally fell to the ground, crying loudly in pain.
Lightning heard her cry, and ran to her in one step. He stretched his head and nudged her little body, asking her to help him stand up.
After she stood up, he protected her in front of her and barked at Yang Qiujin. The dog's eyes squinted as if to say, "If the child wants to eat, just give her food. Look, she has fallen down, don't you feel sorry for her?"
Chen Tianyou immediately went over to hug his sister and said, "Mom, I'll buy it for her this time only. I won't buy it next time. Can you let her eat it?"
Xiao Tianxing can speak, and after tasting sweet candies, she especially likes eating sweet things. Chen Tianyou spends most of his pocket money on her, buying her candies and snacks, and he also protects her very well.
Yang Qiujin looked at the man and the dog protecting Xiao Tianxing so much that she laughed out loud, "Okay, you guys are all so used to her. You're going to use her to the point where she becomes a devil. I wonder what you'll do in the future."
In the evening, Yang Qiujin made tomato meatball soup. She used pork that was 70% lean and 30% fat, chopped it into a paste with a knife, added some ginger, scallion and garlic water, stirred it and set it aside.
The tomatoes in the pot are cut into small pieces and are already ripe. They are the last crop of greenhouse tomatoes in winter. They are boiled into a thick tomato soup and simmered on low heat.
Then use your left hand to squeeze the meat paste, and use a spoon in your right hand to shape the squeezed meat into round meatballs. Put them one by one into the soup pot and cook them slowly.
When the meatballs are cooked and float in the soup pot, add a little salt and chopped green onions, and a pot of delicious and appetizing sour soup meatballs is ready.
Chen Tianyou and Xiao Tianxing are carnivores, and when it comes to eating meatballs, each one is more greedy than the other.
Seeing that Xiao Tianxing's mouth was full of oil, Yang Qiujin wiped her mouth and said, "Eat slowly, don't follow your brother's example and snatch food from him."
Xiao Tianxing had only four little teeth. There were four meatballs in the bowl, and it took her a long time to eat them all. This made her very anxious. She kept whimpering, wanting Yang Qiujin to crush the meatballs and feed them to her.
Seeing this, Li Xiu'e habitually held her in her arms and fed her.
Yang Qiujin quickly stopped her, "Mom, she can eat with a spoon now, so let her eat by herself. We need to train her manual ability so that we don't chase her to feed her and tire ourselves out. Have you forgotten that Tianyou was fed by you all the time before, and he couldn't use chopsticks until he was almost three years old, and you had to chase him to feed him before he would eat. Do you want to do it again? You are not tired, but I am tired for you."
Li Xiu'e paused and murmured, "I'm just afraid that she will be hungry."
"Doctor Bao from our military hospital said that if you want your child to be healthy, you should keep him/her from being hungry or cold. She doesn't want to eat by herself, so let her be hungry. When she's hungry, she'll naturally want to eat anything. Besides, there are so many meatballs in the bowl, and we can't finish them. Even if she does, she still has milk powder to drink, so there's no need to worry."
A month ago, after Yang Qiujin cruelly weaned Xiao Tianxing, she cried for three whole days and didn't eat anything. Later, she was so hungry that she couldn't bear it anymore, so she mixed the staple food with the complementary food and drank a large bottle of milk powder during the day and night. She became a lot fatter in this month.
When Xiao Tianxing saw that no one was feeding him, he called Chen Tianyou aggrievedly, "Brother, brother."
Chen Tianyou's heart melted when he heard the gurgling sound of the baby's milk, and he immediately raised his hand to feed her.
Yang Qiujin shouted, "How dare you! I will beat you to death."
Chen Tianyou had no choice but to coax Xiao Tianxing and said, "Sister, eat it yourself with a spoon, hold the spoon and eat like this, yes, just like that, ah - open your mouth, eat - so good, so amazing, my sister is really smart..."
Amidst his flattery, Xiao Tianxing was coaxed into laughing, and it took him twice as long as usual to finally finish his meal.
As soon as the weather warmed up in April, the funds the farm had applied for for the textile factory finally came in, and construction of the textile factory began.
The factory building is located in the Gobi Desert near the farm, covering hundreds of acres. Groups of workers are building it every day, and the clanging sounds can be heard from far away.
Yang Qiuyue, who was doing the accounting in the office, heard this and frowned, saying, "Why did Secretary Zhai choose to build the textile factory near our farm? The noise from the factory repair shop is too loud. It even kept Xiao Guangming awake."
She gave birth to a son two months ago and named him Fan Guangming. Fan Sui's parents and Wu Shulian all came to take care of her during her confinement.
Now that the confinement period is over, both sets of parents have gone back. Fan Chong has to take care of the safety and transportation in the farm and has no time to take care of the child, so she brought Xiao Guangming to work and set up a small bed next to her workstation. Xiao Guangming is now lying on the bed, humming in his sleep.
"This is a good place that has already been reclaimed and planted with crops. It's impossible to use it specifically to build a factory and waste good land. Secretary Zhai built the textile factory near our factory because he wanted me to be here so that I can come to work and supervise the work in the future." Yang Qiujin said, glancing at the little light on the small bed.
The little guy looked like a typical boy, with dark skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was not ugly, nor delicate, but just a decent guy. At this moment, he had his eyes closed and was sleeping soundly. He just heard the noisy noise outside and hummed from time to time.
Long Yanli, who had just finished a phone call, said, "Accountant Yang, in your situation, you can ask your parents-in-law or your mother to help you take care of your child. Why do you take her to work by yourself?"
Yang Qiuyue counted on her abacus and said, "My parents-in-law are employees of the Beidahuang Farm. It's not easy for them to come thousands of miles away to take leave to take care of me for a month. How can I let them come to help me take care of the child all the time? As for my mother, I said I would give her 20 yuan a month to help me take care of the child. She promised well, saying that she would go back to sell the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs at home, and pack up everything, and then come to take care of my child. It's been more than a week since she left, and there is no sign of her coming back."
Yang Qiujin had heard about this from Yang Qiuyue a long time ago, but she was still surprised to hear her talk about it again, "With our mother's personality, would she really be willing to leave our father and come to take care of your child?"
Yang Qiuyue said, "Before she left, I cried in front of her, saying that my life was not easy. I listened to her and married Ke Jian, but was bullied by his family and forced to live in the border areas. Now I finally got married again, but there is no one to help take care of the child. Why is my life so hard... At that time, I saw that she was upset, so she promised me that she would come back to take care of the child. If she didn't move, I would send a telegram to our village to urge her."
Yang Qiu smiled and said, "It would be best if she could come, but you have to be prepared for Dad to come along. After all, you know, Dad is a vampire who has sucked Mom's blood all her life. Mom is going to the border, and we don't know if she will come back in the future. He won't let Mom go so easily."
"He can come if he wants. I won't care whether he lives or dies." Yang Qiuyue snorted coldly, "He has bullied our mother for most of her life, and has treated us sisters harshly for so many years. I don't care if he really thinks he can use his father's status to oppress us."
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