Chapter 53
When Song Zhaodi heard what her mother said, her heart sank and she shouted uncontrollably: "Mom, am I not your child? What's wrong with me eating a bite of meat? Since I was a child, you have always asked me to give in to my younger siblings. If there is anything delicious or drinkable, you have to give it to my younger brother first. I can only eat some leftover soup and rice, and I don't even know what meat tastes like. Today, I just want to eat meat!"
As she spoke, she reached out to grab the piece of mutton in Song's mother's hand and stuffed it into her mouth without hesitation.
The mutton from the frontier is not fishy or smelly, and has a light aroma of grass. When you take a bite, the aroma of the meat is overflowing, and the solid and full taste explodes in your mouth. Song Zhaodi's eyes are glowing green, and she eats it voraciously, feeling so happy that she is about to cry.
"You little whore, you are so rebellious! How dare you steal your brother's meat? I will beat you to death!" When Song's mother saw that Song Zhaodi dared to steal meat, she was furious. She put down the bowl, turned around and slapped Song Zhaodi, and pulled the remaining meat out of her mouth, cursing: "You are a loser, you are destined to be a slave to my son, I have already done you a favor by giving you the leftover soup and rice, and you dare to steal the meat, I will beat you to death, you little bitch."
When Song Dabao saw his meat was stolen, he jumped up from the bed, jumped in front of Song Zhaodi, punched and kicked her, and cursed her, "You loser, who do you think you are? You dare to steal my meat, I will beat you to death!"
Old Man Song and the other sisters of the Song family looked on coldly as Song Dabao and his mother assaulted Song Zhaodi, as if she had stolen meat and violated the law of heaven.
Song Zhaodi was beaten so hard that her head was dizzy. She couldn't understand why she was treated like this by her mother and brother for nothing more than eating a piece of meat, even though she was clearly a member of this family.
All of a sudden, she remembered Yang Qiujin's words, and she exploded with despair.
She stood up from the ground, picked up the kitchen knife, and chopped at Song Dabao who was still kicking her, crying as she chopped: "I am in this situation today because of you and my parents. I was beaten half to death by Hei Laonian, and you ignored me and treated me as if I didn't exist. When I felt better, you asked me for money, and you chased me away when I didn't give it to you. I just ate a piece of meat, and you treated me like this. Since you want me to die, let's die together!"
The blade fell, the skin was cut and blood appeared. Song's mother screamed in a shrill voice: "Oh my God, someone was killed, my Dabao! You are a bastard who deserves to be killed a thousand times, are you crazy?"
Song's mother rushed forward to hit Song Zhaodi, but was chopped by Song Zhaodi. Seeing this, Old Man Song and several sisters of the Song family also rushed forward to stop her, but were also chopped by her.
She was like a madman, hacking at the Song family members while muttering, "You all don't want me to have a good life, you all abuse me, you all bully me, then all of you should die, all of you should die!"
The screams of the Song family quickly attracted the attention of nearby residents, and everyone walked out of the house to check what was going on.
When they saw Song Zhaodi holding a kitchen knife and slashing at the old couple of the Song family and their precious son, while the couple was protecting their son and dodging everywhere like crazy, they couldn't help but be shocked, "Is Song Zhaodi crazy? She actually dared to fight with her parents and even slash her brother?"
"Well done, the old couple from the Song family are just eccentrics. Although families like us all value sons over daughters, no family is like them, who don't treat their daughters as human beings, don't give them food or clothes, and leave all the good things to the loser from the Song family."
"Yes, I heard that the old man of the Song family forced Song Zhaodi, a virgin, to marry that murderer for a little bit of dowry. After she died, they forced her to marry that dirty, black old man. A young girl was tortured by them until she was no longer human. If I were Song Zhaodi, I would have hacked to death those black-hearted parents long ago."
"Yes, Zhaodi is a very filial child. When she worked in the fields, she would give all the money she earned every month to her parents. If someone said something unpleasant about her parents, she would quarrel with them. Who would have thought that her parents could drive her crazy?"
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More and more people gathered to watch the excitement, but no one stepped forward to stop Song Zhaodi.
One is that although Song Zhaodi looks like a madman chopping people, she actually doesn't have much strength. Many times, she only hurts the skin and can't cause any real harm to people.
Another thing is that the old man and his wife Song are really unpleasant in their daily lives. It's okay that they favor boys over girls, but the most important thing is that they allow Song Dabao to cheat on them, watch other wives and daughters take a bath, and sometimes even sneakily bully little girls. People around them hate them.
Song Zhaodi went crazy and hacked people without any care. All the members of the Song family were hacked to death and fled.
Song's mother shouted from a distance: "Song Zhaodi, you little bitch, you are so bold to attack me. I did something bad in my last life, so I gave birth to a beast like you! Get out of here! Get out of here as far as you can. I will pretend that I have never given birth to you. If you dare to come back again, I will break your legs!"
Song Zhaodi's face was covered in blood. Hearing this, she held up the bloody kitchen knife and laughed wildly, "You'd better remember what you said today. From today on, I, Song Zhaodi, will cut ties with you, the Song family. From now on, we will go our separate ways and no one will recognize each other!"
She turned and ran away with the kitchen knife in her hand. People around her were afraid that she would go crazy and chop them, so they all avoided her.
As a result, not long after, she was seen beating Hei Laonian, who had always beaten her and left her half dead, until he ran out covered in blood.
The usually aggressive black man was now covering his bloody lower body and running away in fear, shouting, "Help! This woman is crazy and is going to kill me!"
Hei Laonian is dark, thin and ugly. He is already over 50 years old. He doesn't like to take a bath and is always dirty and smelly. He originally thought that he could spend thirty yuan to buy the beautiful Song Zhaodi to be his wife, and his life would be very happy.
Who knew that Song Zhaodi was actually a slut and wanted to cheat on him with her bastard child? The old couple of the Song family refused to return the money, so he was so angry that he beat Song Zhaodi to cause an abortion. He didn't care that she was still in the period of confinement after childbirth, and forced her to sleep with him. He also forced her to do this and that, and beat her up whenever he had nothing to do.
Originally, life was still bearable. After all, no matter how much of a slut Song Zhaodi was, she was still young and healthy at the age of twenty. He slept soundly, and she did all the work around the house, while he could just lie in bed and enjoy his retirement.
Who knew that the sky would suddenly fall down, Song Zhaodi went crazy, and raised a knife to chop at his head. If he had not reacted quickly, his head would have been chopped off.
Not only was he injured, his lower body was also hurt, and other parts of his body were stabbed several times. He struggled to push the mad Song Zhaodi away, and then ran out to shout for help.
Unfortunately, Hei Laonian was not a very good person either. Song Zhaodi had disheveled hair, bloodshot eyes, and the knife in her hand was covered in blood. She looked like a hungry ghost running out of the underworld. Who would dare to stop her or provoke her?
For a moment, all one could see was Song Zhaodi chasing Hei Laonian, running around among the dens.
Not long after, the militia team arrived after hearing the noise and captured Song Zhaodi. Hei Laonian and the Song family ran over together and complained to the militia company that Song Zhaodi was not a human being and demanded that she be severely punished.
Song Zhaodi, who had already made up her mind, no longer remained silent. She cried and told the militiamen and the people who came to watch the excitement about the grievances and sufferings she had endured over the years.
When everyone heard Song Zhaodi say that she had been eating thin porridge with not even a grain of rice in it since she was a child, and had to rely on finding wild vegetables, tree roots and tree bark to fill her stomach, and sometimes she was very hungry and stole food from home, and was beaten half to death by Song's mother and her husband. After she grew up, she handed over all the money she earned without keeping a penny, and at the instigation of Song's mother, she hooked up with that bastard Cao Jun, and dreamed of soaring to the sky, but the result was not satisfactory, and she was sold to Hei Laonian, and lived a life worse than pigs and dogs, the onlookers were shocked and came forward to speak for Song Zhaodi, saying that this was a family conflict and hoped that the militia would not interfere too much.
The militiamen also lived nearby, so they had naturally heard about what was happening in the Song family. Now, seeing that a girl like Song Zhaodi had been driven crazy to this point, they felt sorry for her. They just gave Song Zhaodi a verbal education and released her, asking the Song family and Hei Laonian not to cause trouble and to focus on production tasks.
At this point, Song Zhaodi became famous in one battle, and neither the Song family nor Hei Laonian dared to cause trouble for her again, for fear that if they pushed her too far, she would go crazy and hack people to death.
Yang Qiujin was unaware of these things. She rode back to the army and happened to run into Shi Fangfang and her two sons.
Unlike a few months ago, when Shi Fangfang was dressed simply, now Shi Fangfang is dressed brightly and beautifully. She wears a brand new goose yellow blouse, a Shanghai Feiduo watch worth more than 100 yuan on her wrist, and rides a 28-bar bicycle worth more than 100 yuan, carrying her two children in front and back. The two children are carrying meat and vegetables, various fruit candies, White Rabbit milk candies, and small cream cakes worth five yuan each.
Yang Qiujin rode past her on horseback. Shi Fangfang deliberately sneered, pressed the bell on her bicycle so that it jingled, and then she put her feet on the bicycle and rode ahead of her, giving her a very proud look.
Yang Qiujin was speechless and didn't know what Shi Fangfang was so proud of in front of her. She ignored her and went straight home.
"Mom, you're back."
Chen Tianyou saw her coming back, ran out of the house, took her hand and walked into the living room, "Mom, come in quickly, Dad has prepared a surprise for you."
"Oh? What surprise?" Yang Qiujin asked curiously.
"You'll know once you get in."
"What's so mysterious?"
Yang Qiujin followed him into the living room and saw a large square machine box on the table. Chen Shengqing was plugging in an electric cord beside it. When he saw her come in, he smiled at her and reached out to press a switch on the iron box.
After a burst of crackling sound, a female singing voice full of frontier flavor came from the box: "Why are the flowers so red, why are they so red~"
Yang Qiujin was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "This is the song from the movie The Visitor on the Iceberg?"
"You know?" Chen Shengqing was a little surprised.
"Of course." Yang Qiujin put the chicken and rabbit in her hands on the table. "The Visitor on the Iceberg was very popular a few years ago. It was shown all over the country. Our Pioneer Brigade also showed it twice. I can sing all the songs in it."
As she spoke, she began to sing along with the male voice on the radio: "It's as red as a burning fire. It symbolizes pure friendship and love~"
Her singing voice is gentle and beautiful, with a hint of sadness, as if telling the tortuous and bizarre love and spy story between Gulandam and Amir.
Chen Shengqing had never heard her sing before, but he actually thought her voice was better than what he heard on the radio.
Unfortunately, Yang Qiujin stopped singing after two lines, and said sadly: "We were childhood sweethearts, but you and I were together by accident, while Gulandam and Amir were almost separated by fate. It's really hard to say what happens in this world."
Chen Shengqing lowered his eyes, reached out and held her wrist, and said from the bottom of his heart: "No matter how things change in the world, as long as you are by my side, I promise to give you everything I have and be good to you and the child."
"So you secretly assembled a radio for me." Yang Qiujin smiled sweetly, deeply moved.
All along, she had not dared to believe that Chen Shengqing really liked and loved her, and that their relationship was at most due to his strong sense of responsibility.
However, during the days they spent together, everything he did told her that he liked her and loved her.
Radios these days are out of reach for most people, not only because they are expensive, but also because they are large items that require special radio tickets to purchase.
Special tickets were very rare and rarely issued, and one had to go to big cities like Shanghai to buy them. Chen Shengqing assembled the radio for her by himself. It was unknown how many parts he had to ask others to find for him and how much time and effort it took to assemble it.
How could she not be touched when he doted on her so much?
"Do you like it?" Chen Shengqing asked.
"I like it. I like it very much."
Yang Qiujin ignored her son at home, tiptoed over, and gently kissed Chen Shengqing on the cheek: "You are indeed my man, you can do anything."
"As long as you like it." Although he knew she was flattering him, her action touched Chen Shengqing's heart, and the corners of his mouth turned up uncontrollably.
He toiled for several months in the black market, looking for parts to assemble a radio, all for the sake of pleasing his wife and adding some color to their monotonous days.
His wife liked the radio he assembled and gave him high recognition and praise, which made him very satisfied.
"Ah, Mom and Dad, shame on you." Chen Tianyou saw what they were doing and quickly covered his eyes. "Can't you just go to your room and kiss each other? Why do you have to do it in front of me..."
Yang Qiujin raised her eyebrows. Wow, this kid is amazing. He actually knows some things between men and women. It seems that her son is really growing up.
The radio was playing songs continuously. Yang Qiujin was in a good mood. She turned up the volume of the radio to the maximum, humming a song as she walked into the kitchen to cook.
Yang Qiujin cleaned the grouse processed by the farm, put the whole chicken into a clay pot, added some soaked bamboo shoots brought from her hometown, various dried mushrooms, a small piece of ginger, and a dozen peppercorns, and simmered it over low heat. When it was almost time for dinner, the chicken was cooked. As soon as the clay pot was opened, the aroma of various mushrooms and bamboo shoots mixed with chicken wafted over the surface. The surface of the chicken soup was golden and the color was tempting. A little salt was added and a sip of the chicken soup was so delicious that it was about to fall off the tongue.
While the chicken soup was cooking, Yang Qiujin cut a skinned rabbit into cubes, fried it in vegetable oil and set aside. Then she cut the green and red peppers she grew into small pieces, cut the young ginger into shreds, cut some garlic slices, heated oil in a wok, first added the garlic slices and a little bean paste and stir-fried them until fragrant, then added the rabbit meat and stir-fried for a while, then added the chopped green and red peppers and young ginger shreds and stir-fried them together, added various seasonings and a little cooking wine and pepper powder. The dish was tempting with the ginger aroma, spicy and refreshing, and the rabbit meat was still tender with one bite, and the diced rabbit with hot peppers, ginger shreds and green peppers was ready.
While we were eating, Wang Songyang from next door smelled the aroma and ran over with a steamed egg. He saw the radio in the living room and looked around in surprise. "Uncle Chen, you are so amazing. You can even assemble this iron box by yourself. My mother has always wanted a radio, but there is no place to buy one."
Chen Tianyou and You Rongyan said: "That's right, don't you see who my father is? My father used to be a spy in the Soviet Union. He has a way to get radio parts. Moreover, he was a military engineer and is very knowledgeable about these circuits."
"Chen Tianyou, eat your meal." Chen Shengqing put a chicken leg into Chen Tianyou's bowl, and put another chicken leg into Yang Qiujin's bowl, and said seriously: "Dad has told you many times that you only need to know about Dad's past background and his visit to the Soviet Union, but you can't tell others about it. You have to keep it secret. Have you forgotten everything?"
The fact that he had been to the Soviet Union was no secret in the army, but people outside did not know it. Once the news became known, their border defense department would be too close to the Soviet Union. If his former enemies came to seek revenge, Chen Tianyou and Yang Qiujin would be in great danger.
"I'm sorry, Dad. I forgot." Chen Tianyou stuck out his tongue. "Wang Songyang is not an outsider. He won't tell anyone else."
Wang Songyang ate the chicken wings that Yang Qiujin had torn for him, nodded and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Chen, I will keep it a secret, not even telling my father."
Yang Qiujin smiled and said, "I guess your father must know about this. It doesn't matter whether you tell him or not."
After dinner, the family went out and walked around the yard to digest the food.
When they passed by Deputy Commander Li's house, Chen Tianyou and Li Dadan and a few other kids went out to play. Deputy Commander Li pulled Chen Shengqing into the house to talk about troop training, while Zhao Erfeng was chatting with Yang Qiujin outside the yard.
The two talked for a while, and Yang Qiujin mentioned that she met Shi Fangfang when she returned home in the afternoon. "She has been living a more comfortable life recently. In our family compound, besides her, the political commissar's family is the only one who has a bicycle. It's quite cool to ride it."
"She bought a bicycle?" Zhao Erfeng was a little surprised. "I heard from Dazhuang's mother that Ji Junyi has been living in the military hospital for several months and has never returned home at night. I heard that their relationship has been broken for a long time and he rarely gives her the allowance. Shi Fangfang doesn't have a job and doesn't want to make paper boxes like me to earn pocket money. How did she get so much money to buy new clothes and a bicycle?"
"Maybe she bought it with the money she saved before." Yang Qiujin said uncertainly.
"Come on, you and she are from the same place. Didn't you tell me before that her family is extremely poor and her husband's family doesn't like her. They didn't even give her a penny of the betrothal money and still asked her to contribute to the family expenses every month. How could she get the money to buy a bicycle?"
After Zhao Erfeng said this, Yang Qiujin also felt something was wrong.
Zhao Erfeng added, "Let me tell you, since you exposed Shi Fangfang's true identity, basically no military wives in the family compound have been associating with her. But I recently discovered that she is very close to Teacher Li, and her dressing style is almost exactly like Teacher Li's. I once kindly gave Teacher Li some advice, and Teacher Li smiled and said it's up to her, and she can dress however she wants. I don't know how these two got together."
"They are actually close friends?" Yang Qiujin was shocked: "I can't tell."
Li Man is Chen Tianyou's Chinese teacher. She usually looks gentle, quiet and beautiful. Apart from some connections with the family regarding the child's affairs, Yang Qiujin couldn't figure out how these two people who had nothing in common with each other got together.
At night, after taking a bath and lying on the bed, Yang Qiujin told Chen Shengqing about Shi Fangfang and Li Man's friendship: "How do you think these two people got together?"
"I don't care about their affairs, as long as they don't bully you." After several days of abstinence, Chen Shengqing hugged the fragrant Yang Qiujin and kissed her cheek, "It's getting late, let's rest early."
"Mmm..." Yang Qiujin was kissed so hard that she went limp. She put Shi Fangfang's matter behind her, hugged the man and whispered in his ear, "Be gentle. Don't let the children hear it."
"Don't worry, Tianyou sleeps well." Chen Shengqing held her tightly under him, "Qiu Jin, are you ready?"
"Well......"
It was another sleepless night. The man hadn't moved for a few days, and he couldn't stop once he moved.
Yang Qiujin couldn't bear it anymore and kept hitting his back, leaving streaks of blood on his back. He didn't...
When the storm subsided, Yang Qiujin was so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes. However, the man whispered in her ear, "Why are you hugging me? Don't you like this?"
Yang Qiujin was angry and ashamed. She wanted to scold him, but her voice was hoarse and she couldn't speak. She wanted to hug him, but her whole body was limp and she had no strength left.
She could only turn over in anger and shame, wrapping herself in a thin blanket and ignoring him.
Chen Shengqing liked her delicate look, so he reached out and pulled the angry woman into his arms.
The woman was so frightened that she pushed him away in panic: "You have tortured me for most of the night, and I have used up all the birth control condoms. Can't you just stop and understand that I have to go to work tomorrow? I have been working for more than half a year without a day off, and you still torture me all the time."
"I want to hold you to sleep." Chen Shengqing put his head on her shoulder, smelled her breath and said: "When you take a vacation, I will take you and Tianyou to play around our border. We will go to Uru to eat baked naan and fresh green grapes, go to Yili to see the sea of flowers all over the mountains, go to the Altay grassland to see the Eagle Snow Mountain, and go to the Devil City to see the Yadan landform..."
Yang Qiujin was very excited. She had been in the borderland for so long, and she really wanted to go out for a walk. "When the farm is completely stable, I will give myself a vacation and have a good time with my family. I want to see what those places you mentioned are like."
"The time is up to you. Once you decide when to leave, I'll arrange shifts with the others."
"OK."
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