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The afternoon bells of the textile factory rang throughout the surrounding area.
The families left home one after another, and the school-age children went to school, so the family compound was empty and very quiet.
The man in a grey polyester-khaki suit had just turned into the first row of tube buildings when the smell of soap was splashed all over his face by the overalls on the clothesline.
He wiped the water stains on his toad mirror and was angry. Thinking of the purpose of this trip, he had to hold back and asked, "Comrade, what do you want to know?"
Aunt Zhu raised her head in confusion. The man who spoke was about 15 years old, with slicked-back hair.
The pair of leather shoes on his feet stepped into the wet and muddy well, blending in with the surroundings.
While 녊 was looking around, Toad Mirror handed over a small bag of brown sugar.
Aunt Zhu's eyes sparkled. She took it without any politeness. Then her round face raised a brilliant smile, and she said enthusiastically with her chest puffed out: "Comrade, you asked the right question. There is nothing in this family compound that I don't know."
This typical behavior of a peasant made the man look down on her and raised his chin even higher. "Jiang Ningning lives here, right?"
Aunt Zhu was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Who are you to him?"
Don’t any of Lao Jiang’s relatives have such a person?
After the Jiang couple died, the Jiang family gang took the benefits and walked away, and it was these neighbors who helped to organize the funeral.
The man in the toad mirror turned his eyes and said, "I'm going to interview Comrade Jiang Ningning as an advanced model."
Aunt Zhu was overjoyed. She wiped the water stains on her apron with her hands and asked in a surprised voice, "What did Ningning do?"
This shout attracted all the women, young and old, from the family quarters. The seven mouths and tongues were like flies, buzzing around my ears.
The man in the toad mirror showed impatience. He took out brown sugar from his briefcase and distributed it to the guys while asking, "Jiang Ningning is now a propaganda officer in the military region. Everyone is here. What do you think of her? I heard that her father was a martyr?"
Aunt Zhu frowned, feeling inexplicably strange at this moment.
But I didn't think much about it.
After getting a bag of brown sugar for free, the women, young and old, smiled as if they were flowers and rushed to answer.
"That saved the entire factory!"
"Jiang Ming and Li Mingxia are both martyrs. Ten years ago, a severe flood occurred in Qu County, and the couple sacrificed their lives for the factory. This incident was even reported in the local newspaper."
"Ningning is kindhearted and often bullied by her in-laws. The twin boy and girl have been picking up toothpaste tubes and exchanging them for food since they were young. I heard that it is because her mother-in-law is crazy that she bullies her daughter-in-law and grandchildren."
"Ningning is very polite and never bothers us neighbors."
"Ningning had good grades since she was young, but she was depressed for a while after her parents got into trouble. But the teacher at school thought she had an easy time and still gave her a high school diploma."
The frog mirror captured the key point sharply, and a gleam of light appeared under the mirror: "You said that her high school diploma was obtained illegally? Jiang Ningning's academic qualifications are fake!!"
The tone was so excited that Aunt Zhu immediately felt that it was very right and interrupted, "Comrade, you are taking it out of context. What do you mean by 'this is obtained through rules'? Is it a holiday if it is given by the school?"
The more I thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed. "You wanted to interview Ningning, so why did you go to the military area to find her? Why did you come to the family area to inquire about these things?"
"You might be some kind of spy, right?"
Spy?
The others gasped and shut their mouths, their eyes immediately diverging when they saw him.
Even Liu Xiaoniang, who was always greedy for small gains, felt that the brown sugar in her hand was particularly hot and threw it back at him.
Yes, he kept saying he wanted to interview Jiang Ningning, but he actually came all the way to the textile factory’s family quarters to ask all sorts of questions.
Aunt Zhu put her hands on her hips, her anger was suppressed, and her spit flew straight to the face of the frog mirror: "No wonder you bribed us with a bag of brown sugar, it turns out you were holding back. Tell me! Who are you?"
When Toad Mirror saw this situation, his cheeks turned blue and red, and he hung his head and hunched his shoulders, trying to get out of the group and escape in panic.
But how can it be so easy?
"You bastard, you actually dared to run to the textile factory and make trouble!" Aunt Zhu grabbed his collar and dragged him to the police station.
Toad Mirror was so frightened that cold sweat broke out. Suddenly he pointed forward and said, "Jiang Ningning, you're back?"
All of them turned their heads to look.
Seeing this, Toad Mirror took off his coat in a hurry and ran away.
"The spy ran away!"
"Staff from other units need to register. Go check with Lao Wang."
The security booth was empty, with a sign saying "Go to the toilet" hanging on it.
Sure enough, the registration form was empty.
Something bad has happened!
Aunt Zhu stamped her feet anxiously, knowing that her son Zhu Changguang did not leave the military district's phone number, she had to call Ningning as soon as possible.
No matter how anxious she was, she could only wait slowly for the factory to close.
The other side.
Toad Mirror left the textile factory's residential area and immediately ran to the only school in the county.
"The movement was too serious a few years ago. Teachers either resigned or were demoted. They have long been replaced."
Toad Mirror gave up and took out two bags of candy from his briefcase. "Then do you know Jiang Ningning? Where is her teacher now?"
The guard immediately grinned, "Jiang Ningning, that girl is so pretty, and she's top in her studies, but she's just unlucky, both her parents are gone."
"I heard that when her parents died, she deliberately shirked her duties and didn't come to class?"
This was something that I really liked to hear, so I retorted, "How can you talk like that, comrade? Your parents are dead, and you're still in the mood to do anything else?"
As he said this, he glared at him with disgust.
Toad Mirror took two deep breaths.
It was the school that let him in, so there was no need for him to play along with this greedy old man.
"I also heard from others that Jiang Ningning is a good comrade recognized by the organization."
He was silent, his eyes fixed on the briefcase.
Toad Mirror had no choice but to take out the last bag of candy and show him the empty briefcase.
The old man's face instantly lit up with joy, and he said in a friendly tone again: "I know some things too. Go ask Teacher Meng. It is said that he was demoted to..."
After thinking hard for a while, before the patience of the frog mirror ran out, he finally remembered: "It seems that I was assigned to the Yueyagou team. I walked east along the Qujiang River to the village. I can get there by bicycle in two days."
“…”
Toad Mirror almost burst into curses, suspecting that the old man was playing a trick on him.
But then he heard the old man sigh, "Jiang Ningning is not easy. In order to occupy the property and cooperate with her, her relatives in her hometown even made up a lie that Jiang Ningning was adopted."
Toad Mirror became interested, his eyes widened: "What do you mean?"
"Back then, the Jiang family couple was sent abroad to study, and Jiang Ningning was born in another place. Li Mingxia used to be the most beautiful girl in the textile factory. Jiang Ningning is as pretty as her, with fair skin. She must be their biological daughter!"
The old man sighed: "What a lie! They can make up anything for their own selfish reasons. Fortunately, the retired old director of the textile factory was very understanding. He helped Jiang Ming and his wife after the accident and even gave Jiang Ningning fifty yuan out of his own pocket."
Fifty dollars!
In 1965, it was a huge sum of money! !
"The textile factory was the worst hit and suffered the most. Sandbags were useless..."
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