Chapter 112
For several days, after finishing his studies and coming home from school, Chen Tianyou would lock himself in his room. When people asked him to come out for dinner, he would say he was not hungry.
Li Xiu'e asked: "What's wrong with him? He doesn't want to eat. Is he sick?"
"He's sulking with his dad." Yang Qiujin was sewing a little skirt for Xiao Tianxing.
The weather was getting hotter day by day, and it was time to wear cool clothes in summer. Yang Qiujin found a piece of Soviet linen fabric from the bottom of the box that she bought on the black market two years ago. According to the figure of little Tianxing, she cut a light pink off-the-shoulder dress with a waistline for her.
Liang Xueqing taught her this style, and it turns out to be both beautiful and stylish.
Li Xiu'e took a look at her and praised, "This skirt is very beautiful. Our little Tianxing will look beautiful in it."
After saying that, he went to the kitchen again. "Tianyou is such a jerk. Why is he so angry with his father? There is no overnight hatred between father and son. How can he not eat? I will go make him some of his favorite food."
The weather was hot, and Chen Shengqing had gone on a mission again, so there were only a few of them at home. Li Xiu'e thought that everyone had no appetite due to the heat, and in order to make it easier for the one-year-old Xiao Tianxing to eat, she cooked soft, glutinous and sweet sweet potato porridge these days, paired with pickled vegetables made by Yang Qiujin. She would also mix some salad or stir-fry two dishes, and the whole family liked it very much, even Xiao Tianxing could eat a small bowl of porridge.
Chen Tianyou hadn't come out to eat for several nights. At first she thought the child didn't want to eat or was not feeling well, so she didn't force him. But now after hearing the reason, she felt so distressed that she immediately went to the kitchen to prepare a meal for her grandson.
It was past dinner time and Yang Qiujin and her friends had finished their meal. At this moment, Wang Songyue and Xiao Tianxing were sitting on the cool mat prepared by Yang Qiujin in the living room, playing marbles.
There was an electric fan plugged in in the living room, and the cool breeze blew on the three of us, making us feel particularly refreshed.
Yang Qiujin finished sewing the last stitch, bit off the thread, and shook the new dress. "Tianxing, come here to mom and try on the new dress I made for you."
Xiao Tianxing was playing marbles with Wang Songyue with her butt sticking out. When she heard what Yang Qiujin said, she said without turning her head, "No, wear it!"
Since she was born, Yang Qiujin, Li Xiu'e, including Chen Shengqing, Yang Qiuyue and his wife, Liang Xueqing and other neighbors have made new clothes for her, bought new clothes for her, and given her clothes. However, she had no shortage of clothes to wear and had no interest in wearing new clothes.
Yang Qiujin slapped her little butt, but of course she didn't really hit her. She pretended to be angry and said, "This is the new dress that Mom made for you. You don't wear it, so Mom is angry."
Xiao Tianxing was very stubborn: "No."
Hey, Yang Qiujin believed her lies, "This skirt is exactly the same as the one your sister Songyue wore when she was a child. If you put it on, you will be as beautiful as your sister Songyue. Don't you really want to wear it?"
I don't know when this girl started to like Wang Songyue, just like her brother. As long as Wang Songyue is at home, no matter what Wang Songyue is doing, she will always follow her happily, calling her "sister" all day long.
Wang Songyue also liked this cute little guy very much. She never annoyed Xiao Tianxing and was always gentle and kind. She played with her in a good temper and would always think of giving Xiao Tianxing any good things she had.
"Really?" Although Chen Tianxing is small, she is very smart. She was afraid that her mother would lie to her, so she looked up and asked Wang Songyue, "Sister, is it true?"
She didn't speak clearly, her words were all mixed up, but Wang Songyue could understand what she meant.
"It's true. I wore a skirt like this when I was a child. It was made by my mother and is still at my sister's house. If you want to see it, I'll show it to you when you return to the army. Now, let me help you put on the skirt, okay?" Wang Songyue coaxed her softly.
"Okay." Xiao Tianxing liked Wang Songyue, who was beautiful and spoke softly, so he cooperated and raised his little hand to Wang Songyue, asking her to help him change his clothes.
Yang Qiujin handed the skirt in her hand to Wang Songyue helplessly and said, "I don't know who this little girl takes after. She doesn't listen to me. She just likes you, just like her brother."
Wang Songyue was putting the little skirt on Xiao Tianxing's head. When she heard this, her face turned red and almost bled. "Aunt Yang, you are talking nonsense again."
Yang Qiujin knew that Wang Songyue was shy, so she immediately changed her tone and said, "Oh, my skill in making clothes is getting better and better. I learned all the skills from your mother. Look, this dress looks so good on our little Tianxing."
Xiao Tianxing has delicate features. She has long slanted willow-shaped eyebrows, a pair of big, bright eyes with double eyelids, and her nose is tall and straight like her father's. Her lips are rouge. Although she is not very old, she has a heroic air. When she puts on a light pink dress, her skin looks even whiter and more tender. She is so beautiful that she looks like a fairy doll that walked out of a movie.
Such a pretty little girl, not only did her mother Yang Qiujin's heart melt at the sight of her, but even Wang Songyue liked her very much.
Wang Songyue praised repeatedly: "Yes, the clothes made by Aunt Yang are getting more and more beautiful. Our little Tianxing looks like a fairy when she wears them. They are so beautiful."
Xiao Tianxing was so flattered by the two of them that she ran into her brother's room like a whirlwind and turned around in front of him, "Brother, look."
Chen Tianyou was still feeling sad in the house, feeling that neither his parents understood him, that his father did not trust him, and that he was the most pitiful child in the world.
Suddenly seeing his little sister coming in dressed in new clothes, he felt even more sad, thinking that after mom and dad had their little sister, they focused all their attention on her and didn't love him anymore. At the same time, he felt that his sister was so adorable and he was so old already, why was he still competing with his sister for parental love? He didn't act like a brother.
Holding back the surging emotions in his heart, he picked up Xiao Tianxing, rocked her in his arms and said, "Brother, see, our Xiao Tianxing looks so beautiful in her new dress."
Xiao Tianxing smiled proudly, put two candies in his hand and said, "Brother, eat, I'm not hungry anymore."
Those were her favorite White Rabbit milk candies. She ate too much candy. In order to control her candy intake and prevent her from damaging her teeth, Yang Qiujin hid all the candies and snacks in the house. She only gave her three White Rabbit candies a day and strictly forbade other people in the family to buy candy for her, otherwise Yang Qiujin would fly into a rage and the whole family would be in unrest.
The little girl cried for a long time at first because her candies were reduced. Later, seeing her mother’s tough attitude, she realized that crying and making a fuss would not change the facts, so she slowly accepted the fact that she only had three candies a day.
In the past few days, the little girl also noticed that her brother was in a bad mood. After getting three candies from her mother in the morning, she ate one candy, resisted the temptation, and kept the remaining candy in her hand, waiting for her brother to come back and give it to him.
The candy was squeezed by her sweaty little hands until the wrapper was melted a little, but Chen Tianyou felt that his heart was sweeter than if he had eaten the candy.
He held her in his arms, and said with red eyes: "Thank you, sister. You are the best sister in the world. I am not hungry. When I become independent and earn money, I will buy you all kinds of colorful candies so that you can eat as much as you want."
"Okay." When Xiao Tianxing heard that his brother was going to buy him all kinds of candies, no matter what would happen in the future, he was still very happy and smiled with crooked eyebrows.
The two siblings started playing in the room. Not long after, Li Xiu'e came in with a big bowl of wontons cooked in red oil. She placed it on the small table and said, "Tianyou, stop playing with Tianxing. You must be hungry. Grandma made you your favorite wontons and fried an egg with lard. It smells delicious. Eat it while it's hot. Your dad isn't at home. Who are you trying to show off to?"
Chen Tianyou was in the period of puberty when he was growing up. He would feel very hungry if he didn't eat a meal. He had been arguing with his father these days and was so hungry that his eyes were black. Now, when he saw the bright red wontons cooked in red oil, which gave off a tempting aroma, his stomach couldn't help but growl.
He didn't care about being angry anymore, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating with big mouthfuls. When he saw that the wonton was filled with his favorite pure pork filling and no vegetable filling he didn't like, he was so moved that tears fell down and he said aggrievedly: "Grandma, you still love me the most. My dad and mom didn't love me anymore after they had Tianxing."
"Silly child, what are you talking about? How could your father and mother not love you?" Li Xiu'e sat on the chair beside him, holding the messy little Tianxing in her arms, looking at him lovingly and said, "This time, grandma knows that you have been wronged. You did a good thing, but your father not only did not praise you, but also scolded you. Your mother did not stand by you either. But Tianyou, you are not a three-year-old child anymore. In grandma's eyes, you have always been a smart child. Think about it from your parents' perspective. If you were your parents and they were you, and they did the same thing as you, how would you feel?"
Chen Tianyou put down his chopsticks and thought carefully. If his child did those dangerous things, he might not be able to remain calm like his parents. He might be like Li Dadan's father, Deputy Captain Li, who pulled out the leather belt and beat the child to death to make him remember the lesson and learn his lesson so that he would not dare to do such things again. He would not be like his parents who just scolded him, explained to him with emotion and reason.
Thinking of this, he fell silent, always feeling that it was too childish of him to skip dinner out of spite.
Li Xiu'e saw that he had figured it out, so she reached out and touched his head and said, "No matter what, your parents love you. Believe it or not, your father will definitely apologize to you when he comes back this time. Your mother is making clothes for you in the living room right now. Their love for you will only increase."
Chen Tianyou didn't believe that his father would apologize to him. He had never seen a father bow his head and apologize to his son.
It was his mother. He stood at the door and secretly looked into the living room. His mother was holding a pair of big scissors, cutting a piece of white cloth. Judging from the size, it seemed to be cut for him.
Are you really going to make clothes for him, and white ones?
He couldn't help but walked out and asked, "Mom, is this the clothes you made for me?"
"Yes." Yang Qiujin cut off the finished fabric with a click of a knife and said, "When you were little, one year you saw Deng Gangzi wearing a sailor shirt and came back clamoring that you wanted one too. But at that time you didn't like to be clean. You rolled around all day, climbed trees and went to the river. Sailor shirts don't last long to get dirty, and mom didn't want to wash them for you, so I coaxed you into making you a set of dirt-resistant military green uniforms. You kept complaining about it for a long time. Now you've grown up a lot and like to be clean again. There's extra cloth at home, so mom thought of making you a sailor shirt to wear."
Chen Tianyou felt a warm current flowing through his heart, and whispered, "When did I start clamoring to wear a sailor shirt? Why can't I remember?"
"You are just like all the other naughty boys. When you were little, you only cared about food and not about beatings. How could you remember that?" Yang Qiujin slowly sewed the cut cloth according to the pattern of the sailor shirt drawn by Liang Xueqing. After the clothes were sewn, she used a triangular piece of blue cloth like a red scarf to sew it on the collar. In this way, a white and blue sailor shirt was ready.
Yang Qiujin handed the finished clothes to Chen Tianyou and said, "Go and try them on to see if they fit you."
Chen Tianyou went into the house and changed his clothes. Yang Qiujin took one look and was surprised. What a handsome young man he is. In recent years, his skin has become more and more like his father's. He is fair and clean. In the Shanghai shirt, he looks so handsome and pleasing to the eyes.
Chen Tianyou asked: "Mom, do I look good in this outfit?"
"I think it's pretty, what do you think, Songyue?" Yang Qiujin deliberately asked Wang Songyue.
Wang Songyue's face was furious. She didn't dare to look into Yang Qiujin's eyes or Chen Tianyou's. She lowered her head and whispered, "It looks good."
"Do you really think I'm pretty?" Chen Tianyou walked up to her, lowered his eyes to look at her red ears and said, "You don't even look at me straight, how can I be pretty?"
Wang Songyue looked up and met his teasing eyes. She realized that he did it on purpose and said angrily, "You are beautiful. You are the most beautiful in the world. You are the most beautiful butterfly, okay?" She turned around, picked up Xiao Tianxing, and went to her room to read.
Yang Qiujin burst out laughing, patted Chen Tianyou on the shoulder and said, "Son, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard."
The young man's thoughts were seen through by his mother. Chen Tianyou blushed and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? I don't understand." He then ran into his room to read.
The weather is getting hotter day by day. The date forest planted in Tianshan Farm is full of thumb-sized dates. When the wind blows, the dates rub against the branches and leaves, making a rustling sound.
Under the azure sky unique to summer, Yang Qiujin wore a light blue knee-length skirt with a waist and a pair of red plastic sandals with heels. Her hair had grown long, and she tied it into a ponytail with a plain floral headband. The slightly longer headband hung on both sides of her hair, fluttering in the wind, making her look youthful, beautiful, and ethereal.
Secretary Zhai saw the beauty in the jujube forest from a distance and said to Chen Shengqing beside him: "Deputy Head Chen, your wife is already in her thirties, but she still looks like a young educated youth. She is so pretty and does not look like a woman who has given birth to two children. It seems that you take care of your wife like you take care of her. Deputy Head Chen has taken good care of Xiao Yang. I remember that when she first came to our farm, she was very dark and thin. She is completely different from now."
Chen Shengqing looked at his lover in the distance, and a trace of guilt appeared on his expressionless face. "Speaking of guilt, I haven't been home for seven years after I joined the army. The family was supported by her alone. When I went home and saw her thin and tired appearance, I felt half guilty and half distressed. I swore that I would be twice as good to her for the rest of my life and repay her for so much. After she came to the border with me, she insisted on working on your farm. No matter how I tried to persuade her, she refused to listen. I had no choice but to give her all my salary so that she could buy more cosmetics to protect her skin. She also pays attention to skin care and uses a lot of skin care products to keep her young face. She is still young, not because of me, but because of her own skin care.
It was almost the end of June, and the criminal arrest operation led by Chen Shengqing was nearing its end. Some gangsters had fled to the territory of Tianshan Farm, and Chen Shengqing led a team to conduct an arrest patrol in Tianshan Farm. Zhai Hongbo knew he was coming, so he specially brought several cadres from the farm to accompany him on the patrol.
The deputy director of the farm, a female comrade in her thirties who was transferred here this year, named Luo Daiyu, after hearing what Chen Shengqing said, she used her hands as a sunshade to cover her eyes, stared at Yang Qiujin in the distance and said, "Deputy Director Chen is really a good man. Director Yang changes into new clothes and shoes every year, which makes us female employees in the farm very jealous."
On the surface, this statement doesn't sound like anything, but Chen Shengqing was surprised to hear the hidden meaning behind it. He looked at her sternly and said, "What is there to envy? My wife wears new clothes and shoes every year because of my full support as a husband. If I have the financial ability, I don't want my woman to live frugally, wear old clothes, live like most women, and become a shrew. If my wife hadn't insisted on coming to the farm to work, to realize her self-worth, and to fight for her own career, with my salary, she could have stayed at home, eating well and drinking well, without having to do anything, and she wouldn't have been questioned here."
The domestic situation has eased slightly in the past two years, but it is still not easy for ordinary people to live. Many families are struggling to make ends meet and can't even have enough food to eat, let alone new clothes and new shoes.
It was considered good for ordinary people to buy a new piece of clothing and a new pair of shoes every three years, but Yang Qiujin bought new clothes and new shoes every year, and used cosmetics to keep her face so beautiful. Many female workers on the farm envied her and secretly said that she had embezzled public funds to buy these things.
Chen Shengqing's words were undoubtedly meant to support Yang Qiujin and at the same time to warn those cadres with ulterior motives that if they really suspected that there was something fishy about the source of Yang Qiujin's money, they could just check Yang Qiujin's public accounts instead of saying these weird things behind her back and in front of him.
Luo Daiyu was choked by his retort and said with a wry smile: "I was just joking, Deputy Head Chen is very generous, don't be angry."
"Jokes should be made in appropriate situations. I don't want to hear similar words again in the future." Chen Shengqing said without mercy.
He was wearing a neat summer military uniform and had a straight back. He was handsome and easy to impress people, but he always had a stern face and a cold expression, which made people feel pressured.
At this moment, he had a gloomy face, sharp and cold eyes, and an oppressive aura. Luo Daiyu was frightened by such a look, and glanced at Zhai Hongbo and asked him for help.
Zhai Hongbo immediately said, "Don't be angry, Deputy Head Chen. Xiao Luo has just come to our farm to serve as the deputy head. He doesn't know much about our farm. Please don't mind if he said something wrong."
Chen Shengqing said coldly, "Secretary Zhai, I really mind that some people have ulterior motives and talk nonsense. This is an insult to my wife's personality. My wife's contribution to the farm and the breeding farm is obvious to all. If anyone has doubts about my wife's work, they can ask the city's supervision bureau and the capital's Youth Group to check the public accounts. If there are any problems with my wife's accounts, we can just follow the public order. Who are you to do something behind her back? Are you worthy of being a state cadre?!"
Chen Shengqing's merciless scolding made Luo Daiyu's face turn pale. He bit his lip and dared not say a word.
In fact, before she came to the border, she was a famous socialite in the capital. Everyone flattered her and revolved around her. She came to the border to take office in order to gild herself.
I thought that when she arrived at Tianshan Farm, based on her appearance and knowledge, everyone would gather around her.
Who knew that everyone was praising Yang Qiujin, the deputy head of the farm, saying that she was beautiful and kind, bold and straightforward, and efficient, and that she was the well-deserved belle of the farm.
This made her more aggressive. From the time she took office to now, in just one month, she had many clashes with Yang Qiujin and had not gotten any good results at her hands.
She heard that Yang Qiujin's husband had come and was very handsome, so she followed him out of curiosity.
As soon as she saw that the man was indeed handsome, and had all the qualities she liked in a man, she couldn't help but say something sarcastic, and was then speechless because of the man's response.
Zhai Hongbo knew the background of Luo Daiyu, and he quickly tried to smooth things over, "Deputy Head Chen, everyone knows Xiao Yang's contribution to our farm. I will order an investigation into those who gossiped and let them give Xiao Yang an explanation. Xiao Luo came from the capital and took over the job of Comrade Fang Yingzhe. Please forgive her this time."
This was a tactful way of telling Chen Shengqing that Luo Daiyu had a backer.
Chen Shengqing snorted, without even looking at Luo Daiyu, and strode into the jujube forest and asked Yang Qiujin, "Qiujin, what are you doing here?"
"Pick delicious white mushrooms." Yang Qiujin pointed to the dozens of acres of jujube trees planted in neat rows behind her and said, "Summer is the season for delicious mushrooms to grow. I brought my little girl here to experience the fun of picking mushrooms. The little girl has never picked mushrooms before."
When they were in their hometown, Yang Qiujin would take Chen Tianyou to the mountains to pick mushrooms and mushrooms every rainy season, and then go home to make delicious fried mushrooms with meat and mushroom soup.
After coming to the border with the army, it was originally thought that mushrooms would not grow in the border areas. However, three years ago, at the suggestion of Professor Zheng, Secretary Zhai listened to Professor Zheng's advice and used the native sour jujube trees in the border areas to graft the latest cultivated Hotan red jujube branches. Finally, the cultivation was successful, and this year, a large area of mushrooms finally bore fruit.
In the open space between the jujube trees, workers gradually discovered white mushrooms growing in the sand. Some of them bravely washed them, sliced them and cooked them. Unexpectedly, they tasted very delicious, even more fragrant than meat, and they felt fine after eating them.
Later, I asked the local herdsmen and found out that they called the mushroom delicious mushroom. It is non-toxic and very delicious, so it was named delicious mushroom.
Recently, many farm employees have nothing to do so they pick mushrooms in the date forest. After hearing about this, Yang Qiujin also wanted to pick mushrooms, so she brought Tianxing and her mother-in-law to the date forest to look for mushrooms early in the morning.
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