Chapter 61
"Comrade Yang, actually the scale of your farm is not small. The livestock and poultry raised in your farm are more than enough for our internal consumption. There is no need to expand it. If you want to expand it, I have to give you a warning in advance. That is, you must have a deputy director to work with you. One is responsible for production, and the other is responsible for the daily operation of the farm. Only then can the farm last." Secretary Zhai said while drinking old tea.
In a state-owned enterprise, all positions, regardless of size, are paid according to level and are not privately owned. If one wants to expand the enterprise and increase the number of employees, conflicts will inevitably arise and the enterprise will be divided into different positions, requiring different people to fill the positions.
Yang Qiujin had actually prepared for someone else to intervene in the farm, but she still couldn't help asking, "Secretary Zhai, who are you going to send to be the deputy director of our farm?"
"Well, keep it secret for now." Secretary Zhai smiled mysteriously, "Your husband has just recovered, and you have been working hard for more than a year. You should take a good rest for a few days. When the deputy director of your farm takes office, you can discuss the expansion of production at the farm."
She was even given a mysterious airdrop. Yang Qiujin was very depressed. After leaving the farm, she rode her horse straight to the farm.
After finishing the monthly accounts, Yang Qiuyue saw that she looked very bad and asked her, "Sister, what's wrong with you? Is your brother-in-law not feeling well again?"
"It's not about your brother-in-law. I'm planning to expand the farm. Secretary Zhai asked us to send a deputy director to work in our farm. When the farm grows bigger, we will recruit other cadres. You know my temper. Whether at work or at home, I like to have the final say. If the deputy director sent by Secretary Zhai has different ideas from me, I'm afraid I won't be able to help but beat him up." Yang Qiujin said depressedly.
Yang Qiuyue felt bad when she heard this and comforted her, "Sis, since you want to expand the scale of the farm, you will definitely not be able to handle it alone. It is a good thing that Secretary Zhai has found a deputy director to help you divide the work and cooperate. If you have different ideas, you can slowly work them out. There is no obstacle in the world that cannot be overcome."
Yang Qiujin thought about it and it made sense. If an enemy comes, we have to fight back with our generals; if a flood comes, we have to block it with earth. There is no point in her being anxious now. It would be better for her to make preparations in advance in case of emergency.
In the afternoon, she rode back to the army and found no one at home. She asked the neighbors and they said her mother-in-law had gone to work in the logistics department of the school cafeteria, earning 18 yuan a month.
Yang Qiujin was surprised. People said it was difficult to find a job in a military family compound, but how did her mother-in-law get the job in the school cafeteria's logistics department?
Thinking that Chen Shengqing was not at home, she had nothing to do, so she decided to go to school to pick up the child and check on her mother-in-law's work.
There is no gatekeeper at the military school because there are always patrols passing by outside the school, so there is no need to set up an extra guard post, so anyone can enter the school.
The military school is not big, covering an area of no more than 300 square meters. There are six classrooms built horizontally, that is, six grade classrooms. On the right side are the teacher's office and dormitory, and on the left side are the canteen and toilet.
The school currently implements a five-grade education system. In addition to the kindergarten class, the fourth classroom from the right is the third-grade classroom where Chen Tianyou studies.
There were not too many children from the army attending school, but not too few either. Anyway, a classroom was full of students. The teacher was giving a lecture at the podium, and most of the children were sitting in a crooked posture, listening in a daze.
It was around four o'clock in the afternoon and the sun was still very hot. The scorching sunlight refracted in from the glass windows on both sides of the classroom, reflecting the teacher's blackboard.
Chen Tianyou blocked the light with his left hand, listened to the teacher's lecture, and took notes quickly in his notebook with a pen in his right hand.
Li Sannier, who sat next to him, yawned constantly, played with her pencil and eraser from time to time, and seeing him busy taking notes, she poked him and whispered, "When you finish taking notes, remember to bring them home for me to copy after school."
"Why don't you take notes yourself? Isn't the teacher teaching?" Chen Tianyou impatiently shook off her fingers. "Didn't you say my handwriting is ugly? Can you understand my notes?"
"The teacher speaks too fast in class and I can't understand him, so how can I take notes? No matter how ugly your handwriting is, at least I can understand what you write," said Li Sannier.
Chen Tianyou sighed and said, "Sanni'er, you are only in the third grade. The teacher's explanation is so clear and concise, but you still can't understand it. In the fifth grade, will you still be able to pass the junior high school entrance examination?"
"Stop talking nonsense. When you were in the first grade, you couldn't understand what the teacher said, and your grades were at the bottom, just like me. It doesn't matter if you can't get into junior high school. My mother said that I'm a girl, and it's useless to read more books. I'm going to get married sooner or later. As long as my future husband lives up to his expectations, that's all that matters." Li Sannier said nonchalantly.
Chen Tianyou simply didn't know what to say to her, "How old are you, and you're already thinking about getting married and having a husband? Aren't you ashamed?"
"You know shit." Li Sannier glared at him. "We girls grow up to get married. Why should I be ashamed?"
"Sanni'er, what you said is wrong." Wang Songyue, who was sitting in front of her, heard their conversation and turned around and whispered, "My mother said that girls should be independent, self-reliant, study hard, get a good diploma, find a good job, and be financially independent so that they can choose a good partner to marry. If you can't choose a good partner, you don't have to marry for the rest of your life. Anyway, you can't stop working. You have to be able to support yourself like Aunt Yang."
Li Sanni rolled her eyes. "Then tell me, Aunt Yang works so hard every day and has to take care of the whole family when she gets home. Is her life easy? In my opinion, it would be better for her to stay at home like my mom and let my dad take care of her. She can just do housework and take care of the kids. How much easier it is."
"You think it's easy to take care of children?" Chen Tianyou stared at her in disbelief. "Don't you know what kind of people you and your brothers and sisters are like? You five siblings are so naughty that you can tear down the house. Your clothes are dirtier than each other. You still have to eat, go to the toilet, and wash clothes. Your mother has to clean up the mess for you brothers and sisters. How can that not be tiring?"
Li Sanni choked and retorted unconvincedly: "Anyway, I want to marry a man who has money and can support me in the future."
She then asked Wang Songyue in front of her, "Songyue, what kind of person do you want to marry in the future?"
Wang Songyue glanced at Chen Tianyou and said blushingly, "I don't know."
In three years, Chen Tianyou grew rapidly and became one of the tallest boys in the class, and also the most handsome boy in the class.
He perfectly inherited the good qualities of his parents, with delicate features, picturesque eyebrows and eyes. Not only is he good-looking, but his skin is also very fair. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has red lips, white teeth, and is as beautiful as jade.
Many female classmates in the class, as well as female classmates from other classes, liked to play with Chen Tianyou. In the past, Chen Tianyou was ignorant and liked to share candies with them and play with them heartlessly.
Now I don’t know if it’s because he has grown up, become more sensible, knows the differences between men and women, or if he has simply changed his temper, but Chen Tianyou is now particularly aloof in school. Apart from studying and daily exercise, and talking to a few girls he is familiar with, he ignores all other girls who approach him.
Wang Songyue didn't know what kind of person she would marry in the future, but she felt in her heart that her husband had to be more handsome than Chen Tianyou. She didn't want to marry an ugly guy.
Chen Tianyou felt her gaze, raised his head and looked at her, a faint smile appearing on his handsome face.
Wang Songyue blushed even more and turned her head away, pretending not to see him.
Ding-a-ling, the bell for the end of class rang. Chen Tianyou tidied up his desk, put on his schoolbag and walked out of the playground. He saw Yang Qiujin standing at the door at a glance.
"Mom, come and pick me up." Chen Tianyou ran over happily.
I don't know when it started, but Chen Tianyou stopped calling Yang Qiujin "Mom" and started calling her "Mom" instead. Although she knew that this was a process that children would change their way of addressing her as they grew up, Yang Qiujin still felt a little lost. She always felt that if the child didn't call her "Mom" one less time, their mother-son relationship would no longer be as close as before.
"The field is not busy today, I'll pick you up." Yang Qiujin reached out and rubbed Chen Tianyou's head, "Let's go to the back of the cafeteria to see your grandma."
"good."
There are no more than a hundred teachers and students in the entire grade of the military school. The school cafeteria sells two meals. If students want to eat, they can just take their meal tickets to the cafeteria to get it. If they don’t want to eat, they can go home and eat.
Like many other students, Chen Tianyou only eats in the school cafeteria at noon and goes home to eat in the afternoon.
Even though there are few students eating at night, the school cafeteria will still cook and sell meals.
The mother and son came to the cafeteria hand in hand. Li Xiu'e was washing vegetables at the back of the cafeteria. Seeing them, she wiped the sweat from her forehead and smiled embarrassedly, "Qiu Jin, you won't blame me, right? I thought that you and Shengqing went to work, Tianyou went to school, and I had nothing to do at home, so I found a job in the cafeteria."
"Mom, how could I blame you? It's good that you can find a job and earn some money." Yang Qiujin saw that everyone working in the canteen was busy, and it was not appropriate to talk to Li Xiu'e for fear that the leader would be unhappy. After talking to Li Xiu'e for a few words, she left with Chen Tianyou.
When the two of them passed by the supply and marketing cooperative, Yang Qiujin pulled Chen Tianyou inside and said, "Mom hasn't bought you candy for a long time. I'll buy you more today. You can share it with Wang Songyue, Li Goudan and the others."
Chen Tianyou lay in front of the supply and marketing cooperative, looking at the snacks covered by a glass cover in front of the counter and said, "Mom, can you buy me some glutinous rice noodles and almond cakes? There are only a few kinds of candies in the supply and marketing cooperative, and I'm tired of them."
"Okay, let's buy a pound of both glutinous rice noodles and almond cakes." Yang Qiujin quickly gave the money and food coupons and asked the salesperson to pack the two snacks into half-pound packages. In this way, they could keep half for themselves and give the other half to Chen Tianyou so that he could share it with his friends.
After returning home, Chen Tianyou couldn't wait to unwrap the oil paper packages of the snacks and divided the glutinous rice sticks and walnut cakes into several small piles.
Yang Qiujin noticed that there was a small pile that was a few pieces larger than the others, so she teased him and asked, "Tianyou, is this pile for you to eat?"
Chen Tianyou shook his head shyly, "It's for Wang Songyue."
"Oh? Give it to Wang Songyue again. Why do you always give her more than others?"
Chen Tianyou blushed and said, "Because she looks better when she eats than others."
Yang Qiujin chuckled and said, "Go and have fun. I'll call you when dinner is ready."
"Don't worry, I'll finish my homework first and then go out to play." Chen Tianyou walked into the living room carrying his schoolbag, picked up a pen and started doing his homework.
Seeing how self-conscious he was, Yang Qiujin couldn't help but sigh. It was good that this child was obedient and sensible. She didn't need to worry about him at all and lived an easy and comfortable life every day.
Thinking back to the time when she had to raise her child alone, when the child was disobedient and always causing trouble, and when she had to clean up his mess, it was like a nightmare.
It was almost time for dinner when Li Xiu'e got off work and went home. Yang Qiujin asked and learned that since Li Xiu'e came to the army, she had sneaked in to chat four times when she had nothing to do. In addition, Chen Shengqing was seriously injured and had been in the hospital for a year and a half. The leaders of the army wanted to take care of their family. It happened that an older sister who worked in logistics in the school cafeteria went back to her hometown to take care of her grandson. The chef of the cafeteria saw that Li Xiu'e was eloquent and hardworking, so he asked her to work in logistics.
Chen Shengqing did not return home until midnight. He went out early and came back late for the next half month. He was elusive and did not return home for several days. When asked, he said he was out on a mission. Yang Qiujin was worried that his body could not take it and she could not sleep well every day.
Chen Shengqing got up early that morning. Yang Qiujin heard what he was doing and couldn't help asking him, "What have you been busy with for the past half month?"
"Catch the spy." Chen Shengqing said briefly.
"Where do you catch it?"
"I was checking your farm a few days ago. Today..." Chen Shengqing put his military cap on his head, looked at her and smiled, saying, "I think we can catch a big fish."
They had been searching for spies on their farm for several days, but she didn't receive any news at all. The border defense department did a good job of keeping secrets.
"So when will you be back?"
"Not sure. If I don't come back tonight, don't wait for me."
Yang Qiujin buttoned his shirt for him and warned him, "You must be careful when you move, and don't try to show off. Your health is not as good as it used to be."
"I have the amulet you gave me. It will protect me and nothing serious will happen." Chen Shengqing put the amulet that Yang Qiujin had sewed for him a long time ago into his left chest pocket.
It was because of this amulet with the coin sewn on it that it blocked Xenev's fatal blow. His knife did not directly pierce Chen Shengqing's heart, and Chen Shengqing was able to live well.
At night, when all the workers in Tianshan Farm were fast asleep, a small team of fully armed border guards quietly found a cave under the dark and windy sky, tied up a sleeping man and woman, and then took them back to the interrogation room of the border defense department without making any noise.
In the interrogation room, a skinny man was sitting on a chair and cursing: "I am also a military man, and I was a regular soldier back then. I just responded to the call of the country and reclaimed land in this barren frontier. Otherwise, I would be at least a regimental-level officer now, and you can arrest me!"
In the interrogation room, several soldiers stood straight in front of him, listening to him with expressionless faces.
The man continued to curse: "I have fought for my country and shed my blood. What evidence do you have to prove that I am a spy, a counter-revolutionary, or a revolutionary? Why do you come to arrest me without any reason?"
A soldier with a dark face said, "Don't get excited. Just tell me where the extra money your family has deposited in the Postal Bank came from."
The man fell silent for a while and then said, "Is it okay for me to borrow money from someone? Are you jealous? If you want money, you can borrow it from someone else."
The soldier snorted coldly: "Your wife has already confessed, why are you still stubborn?"
The man sneered: "Your rhetoric is useless to me. Don't forget, I was a soldier before. Your fake tricks are useless to me."
The black-faced soldier was also a hot-tempered man. Seeing that the other party was not willing to give in, he clenched his fists, walked out of the interrogation room.
Chen Shengqing was sitting in the corridor outside the interrogation room smoking. When the dark-faced soldier came out, he said with a depressed look on his face, "Deputy Commander Chen, that Wei guy is extremely uncooperative with our work. Do you think we should implement the policy of force?"
"He is a military man. The use of force is useless to him." Chen Shengqing put out the cigarette with two fingers. "Let me interrogate him."
He walked into the interrogation room. Wei Yijin saw him and grinned: "I know you, Chen Shengqing, an officer of the Tianshan Border Defense Department. You killed Liu Xiaoshan's brother."
"Oh? I guess you know who I am." Chen Shengqing sat in front of him without any surprise, looking at a document on the table and said, "Wei Yijin, from central Henan, once participated in the Korean War and won a third-class merit. Before he retired, he was a company commander. You and I have no connection at all, and I have no grudges against you. Why did you sell my personal information to Soviet spies? How did you know that I had been a spy in the Soviet Union and changed my appearance?"
He went to the Soviet Union as a spy, and only those in the army knew about it. It was impossible for outsiders to know what he had done.
At that time, he used an alias in the Soviet Union. In order to hide his true identity, he tanned his skin, kept his beard unshaved, spoke fluent Soviet language, and looked like a rough man.
After returning to China, he returned to his old self. Except for Yang Qiujin and her son, he never mentioned his experiences in the Soviet Union to anyone else. However, his identity was leaked, and the Soviet special forces led by Xie Nev were able to accurately guess his border patrol support route. This made people wonder whether there were still spies hidden in their border defense department.
"Deputy Captain Chen, I don't understand what you are talking about. I am just an honest farmer now. Do you have the power to arrest an ordinary person at will? If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, when I get out, I will definitely report the case to the local authorities and make your border defense department bear the consequences." Wei Yijin said arrogantly.
Chen Shengqing smiled and said, "Others are ordinary people, but you are not. You used to be a soldier, so you should know that if you sell our military's confidential information to enemy spies, you will be charged with treason and arrested. If the information you leaked brings huge losses and threats to the country, even if our border defense department shoots you directly, no one will say anything to us."
He leaned back lazily as he spoke, "You sent your four children back to your hometown half a month ago, right?"
Wei Yijin snorted coldly: "So what?"
"You received a large sum of money from the spy, and you were afraid that the border defense department would find out about you, so you sent the child back to the countryside. But you forgot what kind of person I am." Chen Shengqing slowly walked in front of him, looked down at him, his eyes full of hostility, "I have always been a person who takes revenge when I have a grudge, and I take grudges when I have a grudge. You sold my personal information to the spy, and you wanted to kill me, causing me to lie in bed for a year and a half, and I almost couldn't get up. I will always take revenge for this grudge."
He raised a cruel smile and said, "You should know why I was sent to the Soviet Union as a spy. If I can kill one person, I can kill the second one. But if I kill someone again, I won't do it in broad daylight. You don't want your children to die inexplicably in the fields on the way to school, or drown in the river without anyone noticing."
Wei Yijin's face darkened: "Chen Shengqing, is it something a man and a soldier should do to attack a child?"
"You used to be a soldier, but now you've become a traitor to your country. Is this what you should do as a soldier?" Chen Shengqing said sarcastically. "When you sold my information to the Soviet spies, did you ever think that I also have a wife and children? Would the Soviet elements attack my children? You are unkind, and I am unjust! I'll give you a chance. Tell me who in the border defense department told you about me and the border support information, and who did you pass it on to? When I catch the spy hiding in our army, maybe I can spare your life. After a few years in prison, you can be reunited with your children."
Wei Yijin remained silent.
The man in front of me had red lips, white teeth, a thin body, and looked like a weak scholar, but his eyes and movements when he spoke were full of hostility.
Wei Yijin knew in his heart that this man could do what he said.
Although he might be threatening in a false way, Wei Yijin couldn't take risks with his child.
After a moment's hesitation, Wei Yijin finally admitted defeat and said, "I said."
"It all started when my lover, Hou Pingqing, was fired from the farm by your lover..."
When Wei Yijin finished his confession, it was already daybreak. Chen Shengqing took his confession and sent people to arrest the logistics director of the border defense department's primary school cafeteria, the deputy director of the quartermaster department, a company commander, and their families as quickly as possible for interrogation.
After interrogation, it was learned that these two couples had conflicts with Yang Qiujin and her son. For example, Director Liu of the school's logistics canteen, her son was Deng Gangzi, who had always been at odds with Chen Tianyou and always got nothing good out of it. He was always scolded by teachers in the school. In order to vent her anger for her child, the mother got word out of her husband and told the news to Mrs. Jin, who had a good relationship with Shi Fangfang before.
This sister-in-law Jin has always been a greedy person. She was turned before Riemann was arrested. She collected useful information from all over the border defense force and sold it to Hou Pingqing and his wife who were also turned on the farm. The two then contacted another Soviet spy, which is why Chen Shengqing was seriously injured by the people brought by Xie Nev.
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