Chapter 82
With ice cubes to incubate her forehead, and Li Xiu'e boiled a pot of herbal water for Yang Qiujin to take a bath in. After the bath, Yang Qiujin wiped her back and armpits with alcohol to cool down her hot body a little, and then she lay on the kang bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Half asleep and half awake, she suddenly heard a light knock on the door.
She thought she had heard it wrongly and paid no attention to it, but the knocking on the door continued.
Yang Qiujin suddenly woke up and listened. When she heard the gentle knock on the door, her heartbeat quickened. She struggled to get up from the kang bed, walked behind the door, and asked softly, "Who is it?"
"It's me, Qiu Jin, I'm back." Chen Shengqing's unique low and pleasant voice came from outside the door.
Yang Qiujin was excited and opened the door quickly, and saw the man she had been thinking about day and night standing outside.
I haven't seen him for two months. He looks thinner and darker than before. His chin is covered with stubble and his eyes are bloodshot, which is due to lack of rest for a long time.
He was wearing a spring military uniform that tightly wrapped his tall body, and it was unknown whether he was injured or not.
He stood at the door of the room, the light shining on his face, revealing his handsome and cold features. His narrow eyes stared at her intently, with an unconcealable tenderness in his eyes.
While she was looking at Chen Shengqing, Chen Shengqing was also looking at her. After not seeing each other for two months, Yang Qiujin's belly was bigger than before. The round belly looked like a watermelon on her slender body, making her look more pregnant.
She was wearing a long blue spring dress with white flowers to sleep. Her face was flushed from sleep. One side of the skirt was hung at her waist, revealing her slender legs like white jade. She had a gentle and charming aura all over her body, but she seemed to be unaware of it and stood at the door.
"Shengqing, you're finally back." Seeing the man return safely, Yang Qiujin couldn't control her emotions. With tears in her eyes, she threw herself into his arms, hugging his narrow waist tightly.
This action of hers happened to hurt Chen Shengqing. In order not to worry her, Chen Shengqing gritted his teeth and endured the pain. He stretched out his big hand and hugged Yang Qiujin's waist in the same way, and whispered in her ear: "I made you worry."
His breath filled Yang Qiujin's ears, making her realize that she was not dreaming. Her man was really back. She felt full and secure for no reason. She hugged the man for a while, let him go, and asked, "Are you injured this time? Why did you come back in the middle of the night again?"
"Because I missed you and the children, I rushed back without stopping after the mission." When Chen Shengqing was in danger of death in the desert, her was all he could think of, and she was the person he wanted to see the most. He used all the military skills he had learned in his life to keep himself alive, just to prevent her from having to bear it all alone.
Now she was right in front of him. Chen Shengqing held her waist tightly, raised his other hand and clasped it on the back of her head. He lowered his head and said, "I really miss you and want to kiss you."
After he said this, he lowered his head and kissed her red lips.
Different from the previous gentleness, this time his kiss was a little stronger, with the eagerness of a long-dry land waiting for a storm, absorbing every inch of it passionately.
He had shaved his chin two days before returning, but the newly grown green beard still hurt Yang Qiujin's smooth and delicate skin.
However, Yang Qiujin completely ignored this slight pain under the man's masculine touch. She unconsciously grabbed the man's collar with both hands and responded to the man with disordered breathing.
The two kissed each other deeply, with the joy and excitement of meeting again after a long separation, until Yang Qiujin had difficulty breathing, and Chen Shengqing stopped kissing her.
He still held her tightly, buried his face in her shoulder and collarbone, greedily sniffing her sweet breath, without moving for a long time.
Yang Qiujin put her arms around his back, her body pressed against his chest, feeling his strong heart beating again and again. She also leaned her head on his shoulder, enjoying this moment of peace.
Halfway through the night, Chen Shengqing whispered in Yang Qiujin's ear: "Qiujin, do you know? I actually really like you."
The sudden confession made Yang Qiujin's heart skip a beat, and then the corners of her mouth lifted unconsciously, and she said in an extremely proud voice: "I already knew it, you don't need to tell me. In fact, I like you too."
Maybe he had no feelings for her when they first got married, but now they have been together for more than ten years and have been through all kinds of ups and downs. It would be strange if he didn't like her.
Chen Shengqing laughed softly, and his laughter kept echoing in the dark night, making anyone who heard it feel that he was in a good mood.
Yang Qiujin let him go, stared at him with her sparkling eyes and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"I'm finally waiting for you to say this. Now what can that old guy Ji Mingchen use to compete with me?" Chen Shengqing said with a smile.
"Why are you still competing with Ji Mingchen?" Yang Qiujin was half speechless and half angry, "We have been married for more than ten years, can't you let go of Ji Mingchen's matter?"
"No, I can't let you go when I think about how you would have almost married Ji Mingchen if it weren't for a coincidence." As he spoke, he pulled Yang Qiujin into his arms again and bent down to kiss her fiercely for the second time.
Yang Qiujin wanted to fight, but suddenly there was a noise coming from the small room next door. Yang Qiujin's body stiffened. She heard Chen Tianyou seemed to be turning over and talking in his sleep. After a while, there was no movement.
At this time, Chen Shengqing took advantage of her distracted listening to the noise, picked her up, put her on the kang bed, pressed her down, and continued what he had just done.
Yang Qiujin's eyes were dazed by his kiss, her hair was disheveled, her hands hung limply on her side, and her whole body exuded a seductive aura.
Chen Shengqing's throat tightened when he saw this. Just as he was about to do something between husband and wife, Yang Qiujin lowered her slender white fingers to his chest and said, "Don't kiss me anymore. I have a cold and a fever. Be careful not to infect you too."
No wonder Chen Shengqing felt that her body temperature was much higher than before. He thought she was excited to see him, but it turned out that she had a cold and a fever.
Chen Shengqing quickly reached out his hand to touch her forehead, and indeed felt that it was warmer than usual. He hurriedly found a coat for her to put on, "Why don't you go to the hospital to see a doctor and get medicine if you have a fever? You just endure it like this, it will damage your brain. When I'm not at home, you don't take care of yourself at all?"
The more he spoke, the more his heart ached.
Yang Qiujin always appeared to be sharp and forthright in front of him, and had never been sick. He had never imagined that when he was away from home and out of his sight, the woman whom he thought was so strong would not be able to take care of herself.
"It's not as serious as you say. My fever has subsided a lot now." Yang Qiujin held his hand that was looking for clothes and comforted him softly, "Don't worry, I'm pregnant now. Even if I go to the hospital, the doctor won't give me medicine because it will affect the baby in my belly. The doctor will only let me wipe alcohol and rub my back to get rid of the heat and lower the temperature by myself. It's useless for us to go. Besides, my mother made me a pot of folk cooling medicine from my hometown and asked me to take a bath. The second girl of the Xu family also went to Tianshan Mountain and brought back a lot of ice cubes for me to apply on my forehead to cool down..."
She rambled on and on, telling Chen Shengqing what had happened in the past two months, and finally sighed, "The second daughter of the Xu family is a good girl, but it's a pity that she got caught up with the black-hearted couple Xu Tai. She is so young that she is beaten and scolded by them every day, and she doesn't even have enough to eat. Director Fan, the director of the women's department who manages our military wives, went to their home several times and asked them to treat the child well. They promised well, but their true colors were revealed within two days. Every time I saw the child's body was beaten with bruises, I felt bad. How can parents be like this? No matter how disobedient the child is, you can't beat the child to death, not to mention that the Xu Tao sisters are so obedient and sensible..."
Chen Shengqing listened silently, his eyes looking at a washbasin placed under the bedside. There was half a basin of water in it, and a small piece of ice that had not melted.
He was silent for a while and then said, "Tomorrow I will go to Director Fan and ask her to find someone from the Discipline Team to go to the Xu family and give Xu Tai and his wife a warning. With the Discipline Team's intervention, the two children should be treated preferentially."
Yang Qiujin nodded and talked about another matter. "Someone betrayed our farm and reported it to the capital. A revolutionary group will come to the capital in the next two days to kill Secretary Zhai and Professor Zheng. You know how much they have paid for Tianshan Farm. I don't want the revolutionary group to ruin their achievements. I decided to destroy their vehicles and confiscate their work permits and certificates. I wonder if this is feasible?"
"Under a desperate situation, you can also use this risky move." Chen Shengqing said: "If you think it is inconvenient for your farm to take action, I can also let Ling Gaosheng's people take action."
Yang Qiujin was surprised: "You have contact with Ling Gaosheng? Oh, no, if Ling Gaosheng's gang took action, the consequences would be more serious than if our farm took action, right?"
"Not necessarily." Chen Shengqing smiled mysteriously, "Sometimes using bad people appropriately can lead to unexpected results."
He reached out and touched Yang Qiujin's forehead, and felt that her body temperature was indeed much lower than when he came back. As Yang Qiujin kept emphasizing that she could handle it and that there was no big problem, he let her sleep.
After Yang Qiujin fell asleep, he slowly took off his clothes, revealing his chest and back covered with gunshot and knife wounds, and picked up the ointment and slowly applied it.
When Yang Qiujin woke up the next day, the fever had subsided and the man was not by her bedside, as if seeing him last night was just an illusion.
Yang Qiujin sat on the bed for a while, and when she felt that her forehead was no longer permed, she slowly got up, changed into a military green cadre Lenin uniform, trousers of the same color, and flat black cloth shoes made for her by Li Xiu'e. She sat in front of the mirror, applied various whitening sunscreen skin care products on her face, wet her shoulder-length and slightly curled hair with a comb dipped in water, straightened her hair, and looked at herself carefully in the mirror. She felt that she looked energetic and beautiful now, and there was no trace of the decadent look from last night's illness. Then she walked out of the room.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Chen Shengqing walking in wearing a neat military uniform, carrying a few lunch boxes and a large thermos cup. "Are you awake? Do you still feel uncomfortable?"
The man, with the morning vigor, reached out to touch her forehead and felt that her body temperature had returned to normal. He put the lunch box in his hand on the table in the living room and said, "I went to Ji Mingchen to prescribe you a mild Chinese medicine that will not harm the baby in your belly. The medicine has been boiled in the hospital and put in a thermos. Drink a bowl first."
As he spoke, he strode to the kitchen, brought back a small bowl, opened the thermos, and filled the bowl with the medicine juice.
When Yang Qiujin saw the dark liquid medicine, which gave off an unpleasant smell of Chinese medicine, she asked with a bitter face, "Can I not drink it? Chinese medicine is too bitter."
"This medicine isn't bitter, I put sugar in it." Chen Shengqing coaxed her in a low voice, blew the medicine to cool it down a little, and held it in front of her, "Try it."
Yang Qiujin knew that the man was a man of his word. He was kind enough to give her the medicine, and if she didn't drink it, he would definitely be angry. So she took the bowl with a bitter face and took a sip. It was indeed not as bitter as she had imagined.
She gulped down the medicine. Liu Xiu'e, who heard the couple's conversation in the small room, was happy that her son returned home safely, but she muttered to herself, "How can you put sugar in Chinese medicine? Wouldn't it make the medicine ineffective?"
Yang Qiujin did not feel any resentment when she heard this. She knew very well that no matter how open-minded her mother-in-law was compared to other middle-aged and elderly women of the old era, she was, after all, a person who had suffered in the old times and had little education. The ideological education her mother-in-law received since childhood was different from that of their generation. Many times, what she said was a conditioned reflex and had no other meaning.
"Mom, Qiu Jin is in a very bad condition now, so she can't just take any medicine. She can get better by just fighting off a cold and a fever, but I can't bear to see her suffer. This medicine was prescribed by a military doctor. Chinese medicine is very bitter. If you don't put the medicine in, Qiu Jin won't be able to drink it, and sugar won't have any detrimental effect on the medicine."
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Chen Shengqing was afraid that Yang Qiujin would feel uncomfortable after hearing what his mother said, so he explained to his mother and stood on Yang Qiujin's side. At the same time, he opened the lunch box he brought back and said, "Mom, you don't have to cook this morning. I got breakfast in the cafeteria."
He opened the lunch boxes one by one. There were two boxes of wontons with three fresh delicacies, a box of some Beijing-style meat buns that were bigger than his face, a large box of boiled eggs, boiled corn which was rare in this season, and a box of scallion steamed buns.
The food is very light and has many varieties, which is much better than Li Xiu'e who always likes to make a single breakfast.
Yang Qiujin was not a picky eater, but after seeing so many kinds of breakfast, she opened her eyes wide and finally felt hungry.
"Mom, are you still running a fever?" The first thing Chen Tianyou did when he woke up was not to welcome his father back, but to reach out and touch Yang Qiujin's forehead.
"I don't have a fever anymore. It went away last night. Your father even gave me some Chinese medicine early in the morning and asked me to drink it. I'm fine now." Yang Qiujin said while eating a bowl of three-fresh wontons.
"That's good." Chen Tianyou breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Chen Shengqing and said, "Dad, you're back."
Chen Shengqing:......
He had been busy in the living room for a long time, but in this boy's eyes, he was just a transparent person.
After the family had breakfast, Yang Qiujin was going to work. Chen Shengqing knew that he could not persuade her to rest at home, so he drove a jeep to take her to the farm.
As soon as the two arrived at the farm, they saw that it was in chaos.
The farm workers should have been feeding the chickens, cleaning up their excrement, collecting eggs, and herding the ducks and geese into the pond at this time, but now they were all gathered at the factory gate, talking excitedly.
"What's going on?" Yang Qiujin asked as she got out of the jeep.
"Oh, Director Yang, you're finally here." Song Zhaodi, who was wearing a floral dress, saw her coming and immediately stepped out of the crowd and said, "This early in the morning, a revolutionary group wearing red armbands came from nowhere and arrogantly asked us to stop production and accept their revolutionary investigation. We refused to accept it and asked them to go away, but they took sticks and prepared to fight us and destroy our farm's production equipment."
When Yang Qiujin heard this, her eyebrows raised, "The equipment in our factory was imported from the Soviet Union at a high price. If they were to destroy it, that would be disastrous!"
She walked towards the factory gate. When the workers inside saw her coming, they seemed to have found their backbone and made way for her.
Yang Qiujin quickly walked to the factory gate, and sure enough, there stood ten red-armbanded soldiers ranging in age from 15 to 40 years old.
When Yang Qiujin saw a few familiar faces among them, she sneered, "I haven't seen Liu Dabao for a long time. How come the thief who used to steal chickens and dogs has now contacted your father's uncle and is planning to take this opportunity to take revenge?"
Among the ten red-sleeved soldiers, four were young men no older than 16 or 17 years old. One of them was a tall and thin young man with a pointed face and monkey cheeks. He was none other than Liu Dabao, who had been causing trouble and stealing crops from the farm and had disappeared for two years.
Liu Dabao didn't expect that Yang Qiujin could guess his background and purpose with just one sentence. He said gloomily, "Yang Qiujin, don't talk about those things. You are a Soviet revisionist. Someone reported that your factory violated the regulations by using Soviet machinery. Why don't you open the factory door and accept the investigation of the organization?!"
"Organization, investigation? Who do you think you are? Whose organization do you represent? What qualifications do you have to investigate the farm?" Yang Qiujin said with contempt. "My background, Yang Qiujin, has been reviewed by the organization. My husband is an officer in the border defense department. As his wife, a military wife, I am both red and professional. How come you say I am a Soviet revisionist? The equipment in my farm was approved by the farm and then purchased after approval from the Ava Corps. When I used Soviet machinery to produce labor, you said it was a Soviet revisionist. "Is there a reason to investigate the fighters? According to your logic, most of the firearms currently used by our army were imported from the Soviet Union. You were protected by the army with Soviet-made firearms. Are you also Soviet revisionists? Do you also need to be investigated? In addition, most of the agricultural equipment in our border areas is now imported from the Soviet Union. You eat food grown by Soviet equipment. Are you deep-rooted Soviet revisionists? ! I think the people who should be investigated the most are you radical elements who have nothing to do after eating!"
Her words left Liu Dabao speechless.
However, when enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. Yang Qiujin and her husband killed his father and his great uncle. His mother and the Liu family were also driven out of the farm by Yang Qiujin. Until now, they are still being ostracized in their hometown and struggling to make a living.
Liu Dabao had new hatred and old grudges, and he wanted to eat the woman in front of him alive to vent his anger. He said with fire in his eyes: "Yang Qiujin, don't say any more nonsense. You are a Soviet revisionist. I am here to investigate you on behalf of the organization. Hurry and open the door!"
"Bah, you represent? Who the hell are you? What qualifications do you have to represent the organization?" Yang Qiujin was furious. She spit on Liu Dabao's face without any hesitation: "You are a nobody who used to steal things from our farm. Now you are wearing a green leather jacket and red armbands and are going to overthrow our farm. There are so many fake revolutionaries like you these days. Why don't you take a piss and look in the mirror? You are a person who wears his liberation cap crookedly. You have no respect for our great leader in your heart. How dare you pretend to be a revolutionary group to cause trouble!"
She turned around and shouted, "Fan Sui, Niu Dali, what are you still standing there for? Catch these troublemakers and lock them up in a small dark room. Beat them to death until they tell you who is the one who ordered them to do the damage with ulterior motives!"
Fan Chong and Niu Dali, deputy chief of the security section in the field, were both tall and strong fighters. When they waved their hands, more than a dozen equally strong employees of the security section stood up, each with a ferocious look, snapping their fingers and rushing forward with great momentum.
Liu Dabao panicked and shouted, "Don't mess around. Comrade Nie among us is really a revolutionary group from the capital. If you mess around, you will bear the consequences."
Niu Dali and the others hesitated for a moment, "Is it true? Do you have a work permit?"
"Yes, I have my ID." A young lesbian, no more than 25 years old, hurriedly took out an ID from her bag and handed it to Fan Sui who was standing very close to her.
Fan Sui handed it to Yang Qiujin, "Director Yang, take a look."
Yang Qiujin took it and looked at it. She found that the official seal of the Capital General Revolutionary Committee was indeed stamped on the work permit wrapped in the plastic shell.
Yang Qiujin raised her eyebrows and casually threw the work ID back to the woman named Nie Minghong. "The work ID doesn't even have a photo. Who knows if you picked up someone else's work ID to impersonate someone else, or if you used a fake official seal to settle a personal grudge? If you can't produce other proof to prove the identity of your revolutionary group, don't blame me for being rude."
"We also have a letter of introduction!" Another middle-aged man with greasy hair, wearing a cadre Lenin uniform, and looking to be in his early forties, took out a letter of introduction from his briefcase and handed it to Yang Qiujin in an arrogant manner: "Take a close look at it. Don't take yourself too seriously here. Our revolutionary group from the capital has divided into two groups to conduct a thorough investigation of your farm and farm. If you dare to obstruct our official duties, you will bear the consequences!"
Yang Qiujin took the letter of introduction and was about to check it when she suddenly saw Chen Shengqing standing in the crowd and winking at her.
She suddenly had a sudden inspiration and pretended that she was not sure whether to hold it firmly or not. With a cry, the letter of introduction in her hand fell to the ground.
At this moment, three shadows suddenly rushed over. In the surprised eyes of everyone, Lightning, with the two dogs Black Panther and Black Tiger, tore the letter of introduction into pieces, biting it one by one.
At the same time, Lightning took over a part of the important stamping position, and then the three dogs ran away in a flash and disappeared in the shocked eyes of the crowd.
"Hey? Where did this dog come from! It's our letter of introduction!" The middle-aged man shouted and rushed over to rescue the fragments of the letter of introduction. He wanted to piece the pieces together, but found that the most important part for stamping was missing.
Yang Qiujin suppressed her laughter and said with a look of annoyance, "I'm really sorry, comrade. Those are dogs that we raise at our farm to guard the house and fight against wild wolves and beasts. They usually like to tear things off the ground. It's all my fault for not holding the documents properly."
"I think you did it on purpose!" The middle-aged man glared at Yang Qiujin. "First you doubted our work permits, and now you ordered your dogs to bite our letters of introduction and swallow the most important part. What is your intention? Do you want to rebel?"
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