Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Who would dare to be Fu Mingze's partner when he is like that...
Shen Moer's first reaction was to kick someone, but Fu Mingze reacted quickly and immediately stepped back and sat back. Shen Moer looked at the half-plucked chicken lying between them, and suddenly she didn't know whether to advance or retreat.
Fu Mingze looked up at her, then stood up again consciously, looking at her with his dark eyes, as if he would let her be beaten or scolded: "Otherwise, you kick me, and I promise not to move."
Chen Moer blushed and cursed, "Lecher!"
Fu Mingze raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking that Comrade Shen Moer was quite elegant. If it were someone else, he would have called her a hooligan. He couldn't help but smile and said slowly, "How about I let you kiss her back?"
Shen Moer: “…”
I really didn't realize that this guy was actually such a shameless scoundrel.
"Please pluck all the chicken feathers!" She said this and turned to leave. It was not until she entered the kitchen that her violent heartbeat slowly calmed down, but her face was still burning hot. She subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch it, but she quickly realized that her hand was still wet.
Not only were her hands wet, but the wrist that Fu Mingze had grabbed was also wet, warm and damp, as if his body temperature still remained.
“It’s so dirty.”
Shen Moer muttered, blushed, poured water, washed her hands carefully, applied soap, and rubbed the foam for a long time before finally washing her hands clean.
She raised her hand to her nose and sniffed. There was no other smell but the crisp scent of soap.
Fu Mingze plucked the chicken feathers carefully, cut the chicken open and chopped it, and then went to light the fire.
Chen Moer washed and chopped the onions, ginger and garlic, put cold water in the pot, put the chopped chicken in the pot, waited for the water to boil, skimmed off the blood, added water again, put the chopped ginger, garlic, onion, and the small purse wrapped in linen into the water, and after boiling, asked Fu Mingze to pick up two pieces of firewood, leaving only one piece of firewood for slow cooking over low heat.
Soon, the rich aroma of chicken soup wafted in the air.
Fu Mingze stood up: "This chicken soup is really..."
"Wow, are they stewing chicken? The chicken soup is so delicious!" Zheng Jiamin came in noisily, shouting, "Comrade Shen Moer, is there anything I can help with? Do you want to fetch water, chop wood, or wash vegetables?"
Fu Mingze gave him a cold look. Zheng Jiamin looked back in confusion and said, "Mingze, what are you doing here? Go do what you need to do. We are here to eat for free. We can't just sit there and do nothing."
Fu Mingze: “…”
Who is the one who is here to eat for free? I am here to eat at my partner's house, and you are the one who is here to eat for free.
He wordlessly took out an axe from the stove and said, "Go chop some wood." He also went to get a bucket to fetch some water.
The Shen family's yard looks much tidier after the wall was built, but it also became farther to fetch water from the next door. Originally, there were no walls on both sides, so one could just walk in a straight line, but now one has to walk through the gate, which requires a detour.
Shen Moer carried the enamel basin to the well to wash vegetables. Fu Mingze picked up a bucket of water and poured it into the enamel basin. His hands were very steady, and the water did not splash on Shen Moer at all. There was still half a bucket of water left in the bucket. Fu Mingze glanced at the open door of the brigade headquarters, took a half step back, and stood there watching Shen Moer wash vegetables.
Shen Moer glanced at him and said, "Go fetch your water."
Fu Mingze: "You have to wash it at least twice. I took the bucket away. What are you going to use to wash it?"
Shen Moer: "You can carry a bucket first and pour it for me when you come back."
Fu Mingze didn't move and said, "I just want to stay here with you."
Shen Moer muttered, "Who wants you to accompany me?" and quickly washed the vegetables. As soon as she poured out the water, Fu Mingze took the initiative to pick up a bucket to add water for her.
There was a creaking sound behind her, and Zhou Mancang came out of the brigade office and was about to lock the door. Shen Moer looked up and winked at Fu Mingze, wanting him to fetch some water and leave quickly. Fu Mingze looked at her, calmly standing there without moving.
Before Shen Moer could say anything, Zhou Mancang had already locked the door and walked out. He glanced at the two of them, turned around and walked over: "Moer, Fu Zhiqing, what are you doing..."
Shen Moer smiled and said, "Captain, come to my house for dinner. Fu Zhiqing and Zheng Zhiqing will come over to eat with us in the evening."
Zhou Mancang: "I was wondering whose chicken soup is stewing, it smells so good that it can be smelled even at the brigade headquarters. You guys go and eat, my family has cooked and is waiting for me to go back and serve dinner." How could one easily go to someone's house for a meal these days?
He glanced at Fu Mingze: "Fu Zhiqing, you are helping to carry water, right? Let's go together. I heard that the experimental field at your Zhiqing site is growing well. Can you tell me about it?"
Fu Mingze was like being nailed there by nails. He didn't move his feet at all and said, "I have to help carry water here. Captain, this matter cannot be explained in a few words. Why don't you come to the educated youth camp tomorrow and we can go to the vegetable garden to take a look. We can talk about it in detail then."
Zhou Mancang wanted to say that the girl was just washing vegetables, why did he need you to stand by her side and help her fetch water, but he quickly reacted and showed a bit of surprise on his face: "Oh, what are you doing..."
He didn't finish his words, pointed at Fu Mingze, shook his head and laughed, and said, "Okay, I'll go to the educated youth center after lunch tomorrow to take a look."
Shen Moer blushed so much that her ears burned. After Zhou Mancang walked away, she glared at Fu Mingze and said, "What nonsense are you talking about with the captain?"
Fu Mingze: "I'm not talking nonsense. Is it nonsense to ask you to help fetch water?"
Shen Moer snorted and said confidently: “I said nonsense, it’s nonsense.”
Fu Mingze touched his nose and nodded: "Well, whatever the partner says is right."
Shen Moer: “…”
Can she return such a shameless person?
However, as soon as Shen Shaoyuan entered the house, the unruly Fu Zhiqing was like a fox that accidentally showed its tail in front of her, and quietly hid its tail back. He was so honest and upright that he didn't even look at her for a second.
He was also very attentive at the dinner table. He took a pair of clean chopsticks and kept picking up food for Shen Shaoyuan. Occasionally, he would pick up one or two pieces for Shen Moer. When Shen Shaoyuan glanced at him, he would put down his chopsticks obediently.
Zheng Jiamin was dissatisfied: "Mingze, after all, I paid for the chicken, why don't you give me a piece of meat?"
Fu Mingze said coldly: "Is your hand broken? Do you want me to pick up food for you?"
Zheng Jiamin: "Uncle Qi and Comrade Shen Moer are fine too. Although we are here to eat and drink for free, you can't be so blatant in favoring one over the other!"
Shen Shaoyuan took one look at this fool and immediately laughed.
After dinner, Fu Mingze went to wash the dishes on his own initiative, and Zheng Jiamin followed to help. When they were almost done, he brought out a small stool and sat under the eaves to chat with Shen Shaoyuan: "Uncle Shen Qi, when are you going to move into the new house?"
Shen Shaoyuan sat back on a repaired old chair, looked up at the crescent moon in the dark sky, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's wait until the moon is full."
Zheng Jiamin sighed: "Uncle Shen Qi, I didn't know you well before, but now I know you well. I always feel that you are not like the farmers who have been working hard for generations, but more like those literati and scholars in ancient literature who are well-read in poetry and books."
Shen Shaoyuan and Shen Moer, who was sitting on the other side, glanced at Zheng Jiamin almost at the same time.
Just then, Fu Mingze came out of the kitchen and followed Shen Moer's gaze to glance at Zheng Jiamin. Thinking that he was talking nonsense again, he said, "Zheng Jiamin, go back."
Zheng Jiamin: "How can we leave after eating? Let's sit and chat with Uncle Shen Qi. Why go back so early? Do you want to see the sinister face of Shi Wei, the sinister villain?"
He turned around and started chatting with Shen Shaoyuan again: "Uncle Shen Qi, I'm not afraid to tell you about our relationship. Shi Wei in our educated youth camp is not a good guy. I saw him secretly looking through Mingze's things. As soon as I went in, he stood up and said he saw a cockroach crawling in and wanted to hit it. Tsk, who would believe it? I'm wearing glasses and I can see it clearly."
Shen Shaoyuan glanced at him and thought, what is our relationship? Aren’t you afraid to tell me this?
Zheng Jiamin: "But Mingze checked and said nothing was missing. I've been keeping an eye on him these past two days. Whenever he has something to do, he'll wander over to Mingze's bed. I don't know what he wants to do."
"Do you think he has a problem? Mingze is the poorest among all the educated youths. Even if he wanted to steal something, he should have come to me, don't you think?"
The other three: "..."
Shen Shaoyuan thought to himself, this little fool, he can flatter, but he really has no heart, if he were in the Daliang Palace, he would probably not survive for more than three days.
"Could it be that he is not looking for money, but something else?" Shen Moer looked at Fu Mingze.
Fu Mingze was also looking at her, his eyes were comforting: "It's okay."
Shen Shaoyuan couldn't bear to see them like this, so he stood up and said, "Okay, you guys go back."
Shen Moer glanced at her father and immediately smiled: "Go back, my father has to get up early to go to work tomorrow."
"Come on, come on, Uncle Shen Qi and Comrade Shen Moer, you should go to bed early. Next time, when my family sends me the meat coupons, I will go get a chicken. Oh, this chicken soup is so delicious, much better than the one we had when we moved into the new house!" Zheng Jiamin was savoring the wonderful taste of the chicken soup.
"Okay, I'll call you guys for dinner another day."
Shen Moer said this and stood up to see them off, but what she was thinking in her heart was, she hadn't found those medicinal herbs when she built the new house, so could it be the same this time?
“Uncle Shen Qi, I’ll come back another day.” Fu Mingze also stood up.
Shen Shaoyuan glanced at him, not even bothering to say anything, and waved his hand, signaling him to leave quickly.
Shen Moer sent the two of them to the gate of the courtyard. Fu Mingze stood at the gate, looked at her deeply, and said, "See you tomorrow."
Zheng Jiamin didn't understand why Fu Mingze said they would meet tomorrow, but thinking that they were all in the same village, they might be able to meet tomorrow, he echoed, "Yes, yes, see you tomorrow, see you tomorrow."
Fu Mingze finally couldn't help but kicked him and said, "Let's go."
*
The next day, when Shen Moer was in class, a baby who was not even of school age ran to the classroom door and called out in a baby voice: "Shen Laosi——"
Shen Moer casually drew a simple kitten on the blackboard, told the students to follow suit, then walked out and touched the baby's furry little head, asking, "Who are you? I'll take you home?"
In the mornings before school starts, there are always children under school age squatting and playing in the playground. As soon as the class starts, they are taken away by their parents. I don’t know whose family this child belongs to. Although his skin is a little dark, he has big eyes and is quite interesting.
"I'm from Qiu Qingguo's family." The baby said while sucking his saliva.
Shen Moer thought about it and understood that the militia captain Zhou Qingguo was from the country.
I didn't expect that Zhou Qingguo, who looks like a big and strong man, actually has such a cute little girl.
The baby grabbed Shen Moer's trouser leg: "Outside, outside, there are people..."
Shen Moer reacted: “Is there someone looking for me outside?”
She bent down and picked up the baby, took out a candy from her pocket and put it into the small pocket of the baby's smock: "Wow, you already have two candies in your pocket."
The baby smiled with his tiny teeth showing.
When she was almost at the school gate, Shen Moer saw Wang Qiutong standing outside the school gate. She didn't know what urgent matter she had, but she was like an ant on hot pot, walking around there.
As soon as she saw Shen Moer, she quickly walked forward and said rapidly, "Comrade Moer, go to the brigade headquarters! Several people from the commune's revolutionary committee have come to investigate Fu Zhiqing. We are not familiar with them, so Zheng Zhiqing asked me to come over and call you. Zheng Zhiqing said that your family background is good, and Uncle Shen Qi knows a few people in the commune. See if he can help find someone to plead for you."
Shen Moer frowned and asked, "Why did the Commune Revolutionary Committee investigate Fu Zhiqing?"
Wang Qiutong: "It was said that someone wrote a letter of denunciation, reporting his petty-bourgeois style, and that his book contained reactionary remarks. I don't know the details, but as soon as he was called away, I rushed to find you."
Shen Moer nodded, indicating that she understood.
Wang Qiutong was probably afraid that going in directly to find her would cause unnecessary trouble, so she kidnapped a baby to pass on the message for her.
This baby is just too young. Aren’t you afraid that she will go into the wrong classroom and not be able to find anyone?
But the magical thing is that she actually found the person successfully.
"Let's go and take a look first." Shen Moer said.
Thinking of what Zheng Jiamin said last night, Shen Moer suspected that this matter might be related to Shi Wei.
She carried the baby all the way to the entrance of the brigade office. Shen Moer realized belatedly: "Hey, we should send the little guy home first."
"Cong Cong doesn't come home, Cong Cong will go look for me." The baby looked innocent.
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Qingguo came out of the brigade office: "Congcong, why are you here?"
He hurriedly took his daughter away. Shen Moer suspected that if she was a little slower, he might have snatched it away directly.
"Brother Qingguo, what's going on inside?" Shen Moer asked.
Zhou Qingguo was a man in his thirties, with a tanned face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a righteous look. He was a retired soldier, and even when he stood there holding a baby, he stood as straight as a javelin.
"Someone wrote a letter of denunciation, reporting Fu Zhiqing's petty-bourgeois style. He clearly already had half a bar of soap, but he went to buy a whole bar of soap and hid it. When many people didn't even have half a bar of soap, he took more, used more, and occupied more means of production."
Zhou Qingguo obviously also felt that this report was unbelievable, but that was how things were these days. If a female comrade wore a brightly colored hairpin in her hair, or wore a slightly out-of-the-ordinary skirt, she might be criticized for having a petty-bourgeois style.
"A piece of soap is nothing. The most important thing is that they also reported that he had problems with his conduct towards men and women, and that the books he read had reactionary remarks in them."
At this point, Zhou Qingguo glanced at Wang Qiutong and said, "It just so happens that Wang Zhiqing, I was just about to go look for you. Someone from the Revolutionary Committee said they want to talk to you."
Wang Qiutong looked confused: "Why are you talking to me?"
Shen Moer had already reacted, and asked with a subtle expression: "Could it be that the person who reported it was reporting that Fu Zhiqing and Wang Zhiqing had problems with their sexuality?"
Zhou Qingguo: “That’s right.”
He looked at Wang Qiutong carefully and said, "Wang Zhiqing and Fu Zhiqing seem to be a good match. You are both unmarried, so as long as you date normally and don't do anything inappropriate before marriage, the Revolutionary Committee will not do anything to you."
His words were clearly meant to comfort Wang Qiutong, but Wang Qiutong immediately screamed, no longer nervous or scared, and started cursing: "Ahhh, who is crazy, is he blind, he said that Fu Mingze and I have issues with gender?! He doesn't even look at Fu Mingze's appearance, which girl dares to be his date, is he dissatisfied with the winter not being cold enough, so he goes to Fu Mingze to get a cold shoulder? Or is he dissatisfied with the fact that life is too comfortable, without anyone saying cold words to him every day? You are crazy, crazy!"
In fact, there was one more thing Wang Qiutong didn’t dare to say: Do you think the water in the stream is not deep enough? I’ll find someone to kick you in at any time?
Zhou Qingguo, who had not expected Wang Qiutong to react so strongly, said: "..."
"Which girl dares to be his partner?" Shen Moer: "..."
Everyone inside the open door of the brigade office: "..."
The people who came from the Revolutionary Committee were led by two cadres, a man and a woman, both in their twenties. The man wore a pair of black-framed glasses and had a serious expression, while the woman had neat short hair and a smile on her lips, but her eyes were exceptionally sharp.
"Is that the educated youth Wang Qiutong mentioned in the report letter?" the female cadre looked at Zhou Mancang and asked.
Zhou Mancang nodded: "Oh, that's her."
He looked at Fu Mingze standing beside him, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Judging from the situation yesterday, Fu Zhiqing should have been talking to the daughter of Shen Laoqi's family, but after being called over by the people from the Revolutionary Committee, he didn't mention Shen Moli at all.
The female cadre laughed and said, "This doesn't sound like a relationship."
After a pause, she asked, "What about the other one?"
Fu Mingze suddenly said, "Deputy Director Wu, Deputy Director Sun, Comrade Wang Qiutong and I are just ordinary revolutionary comrades-in-arms. We don't have any contact beyond that of comrades-in-arms. This is without any evidence. It's obvious that someone is slandering Comrade Wang Qiutong and me."
"As for the reactionary remarks in the high school textbooks, I have just proved that such bad handwriting could not have come from my hand. I bought these books from the purchasing station a while ago, and it is obvious that these words were written by someone. Now I suspect that the person who wrote these reactionary remarks is in the educated youth point. Since we have to investigate, let's all investigate. Otherwise, if we allow these bad elements who spread rumors and slander and reactionary remarks to hide in the educated youth team, in the long run, they will definitely undermine the stability and unity of our revolutionary team."
The female cadre, Deputy Director Wu, remained silent. Deputy Director Sun raised his black-framed glasses and said, "Investigate. If there is a problem, of course we must investigate! The leader has high hopes for the educated youth. We must resolutely catch the pests hidden in the educated youth team!"
Zhou Qingguo, holding his little daughter, was called in again. Deputy Director Sun ordered him to take the militia to search the dormitories of the educated youth.
The educated youth were originally working in the threshing ground. After the people from the Revolutionary Committee called Fu Mingze away, they asked them to return to the educated youth point and be on standby, ready to be interviewed at any time.
When Deputy Director Sun brought the people from the Revolutionary Committee and the militiamen in, the educated youth were all sitting in the main room and the atmosphere was a little solemn.
Fu Mingze usually doesn't have much contact with the villagers, and the villagers don't know much about the situation at the educated youth site. It goes without saying that the person who wrote the letter of complaint must be an educated youth.
The educated youth suddenly felt a little insecure.
When they saw the people from the Revolutionary Committee coming in, many people stood up immediately, and watched them walk into the dormitory with grim expressions and in silence. From time to time, some people were called in to cooperate with the inspection.
Deputy Director Sun stood directly inside the male educated youth’s dormitory and watched.
Fu Mingze lived in this room. If someone really spread reactionary remarks and wrote them in his book, it was more likely that this person was a male educated youth.
Not long after, a junior staff member of the Revolutionary Committee found a tattered notebook in the corner of a bed. He opened it and took a look. His face suddenly changed. He quickly walked up to Deputy Director Sun and handed him the notebook.
Deputy Director Sun glanced over, his face darkened, and pointed at the bed and asked, "Whose is this?"
Zhang Zhiqiang was called in, looked at the bed that Deputy Director Sun pointed at, and said, "This is Shi Wei's bed."
Deputy Director Sun waved his hand and said, "Control Shi Wei."
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