Chapter 47 Chapter 47 You just wanted to talk about your past life, I heard it...
Zheng Jiamin also ran over, his face full of shock: "What, that book is yours? If it's not, why haven't I seen it before?!"
Fu Mingze glanced at him. Zheng Jiamin felt that Fu Mingze looked at him like a fool. He was speechless but also felt a little pity. Then he heard Fu Mingze say, "To be precise, this book is actually yours."
Zheng Jiamin was confused: "How is that possible? I don't have such a shabby notebook."
Fu Mingze explained: "You used the notebook to record your accounts for a few days. Later, you said it was useless so you gave it to me to write a draft. I tore off the cover and left it in the vegetable garden for a few days. It was exposed to the sun and rain, and maybe it was attacked by insects and pecked by birds. It became like this."
Zheng Jiamin: "...So you actually discovered that someone had written on the textbook a long time ago, and you deliberately kept silent, waiting for the other party to make trouble? No, why didn't you tell me? I didn't know anything. When the Revolutionary Committee came over today, I was almost scared to death."
Fu Mingze looked at him silently.
Zheng Jiamin was silent for two seconds, then said, "Yes, that's right. You can't tell me. If you tell me, I will definitely expose myself in front of them."
Shen Moer: “…”
Wang Qiutong: “…”
You are quite self-aware.
"I said Shi Wei secretly went through your things. He had no good intentions. I didn't expect him to be so vicious and write reactionary remarks on your book. This is too scary. If you hadn't discovered it early, you would have been taken away by the Revolutionary Committee today."
Zheng Jiamin clenched his fist and clapped his hands: "He failed to harm others and ended up hurting himself. He deserves it!"
Shen Moer took the bowl, Fu Mingze brought the thermos, and the small table was placed under the eaves. The four of them sat around the small table and drank water.
Wang Qiutong suddenly asked: "Comrade Moer, do you still want to go back to school?"
Shen Moer shook her head: "I don't have a class next period."
Wang Qiutong: “Oh.”
Zheng Jiamin gulped down a bowl of water and gave Shen Moer a thumbs up: "Comrade Shen Moer, you are smart. I didn't even think of the excuse of helping others to bring it, otherwise I would have stood up long ago."
Wang Qiutong straightened her hair and rolled her eyes: "Yeah, you asked Fu Zhiqing to bring you some soap. You two lived in the same dormitory, but he hid it from you. Oh, you must have had a bar of soap yourself, you are the one with the petty bourgeois style."
Zheng Jiamin: “…”
Scratching his head, he said, “That’s true.”
Today's events have had a great impact on everyone. Letters of denunciation, the Revolutionary Committee, reactionary remarks... these things can make people think of some very bad things, especially since these things were instigated by people who live under the same roof every day.
"It's so scary. It would be great if we could move out of the educated youth camp." Wang Qiutong sighed.
"Who said it wasn't?" Zheng Jiamin sighed.
But they all knew that this was impossible. A few old educated youth did move out, but they were all special cases. For example, Cheng Tao and Xue Pingping rented a room from the village after they got married and moved out. There were also three educated youth, one married a girl from the village, and two married young men from the village, and all of them moved into the homes of members.
"Oh, do I have to find a member to marry? But they all look ugly." Wang Qiutong sighed.
"Oh, should I find a member to marry? But they all look ugly." Zheng Jiamin sighed.
Fu Mingze glanced at him sideways and sneered, "Who are you calling ugly?"
Wang Qiutong immediately slammed the table and said, "Yes, who are you calling ugly? Our comrade Moer is so pretty!"
Zheng Jiamin: "... I'm talking about the others! Okay, I was wrong. Except for Comrade Moer, the others are all ugly."
Wang Qiutong rolled her eyes at him and said, "Don't you male educated youth all say that Shen Lingling is pretty and gentle?"
Zheng Jiamin immediately protested: "It was Zhang Zhiqiang who said that, I never said that." Comrade Shen Lingling looked okay, but her heart was not so beautiful. He discovered this during the autumn harvest. She deliberately coaxed Zhang Zhiqiang and others to help her with the work, and she did not do any work at all during the entire harvest.
However, Zhang Zhiqiang and the others had weak wills and poor eyesight, so they deserved it.
After a few jokes, seeing that it was getting late, Shen Moer simply asked the three to stay for lunch.
There was still half a bag of flour I bought last time. I scooped it into a large bowl and added water to make a paste. I cracked four eggs and beat them into egg liquid. I put some low heat on the stove, spread the pancake, rolled it with mushrooms, cucumber and shredded vegetables, and spread a spoonful of Aunt Chen's homemade bean paste. It smelled amazing right away.
When you take a bite, you will find the crust is crispy, the eggs are fragrant, and the vegetables are refreshing.
Fu Mingze and Zheng Jiamin ate three each, while Shen Moer and Wang Qiutong each ate one and a half.
Zheng Jiamin touched his bloated stomach and sighed, "It would be nice if I could eat like this every day."
Wang Qiutong also sighed: "How is that possible? You are just daydreaming."
Chen Moer smiled and said, "I'm going to the provincial capital for a competition next week. Why don't you come to my house for dinner before we go? Let's do it on Sunday night. It happens to be market day that day. I'll go to the market to buy some things. When I come back, I'll go to the mountains to take a look. I haven't been to the mountains for a long time."
When Zheng Jiamin heard that they were going to go into the mountains, he was happier than if he was called to eat. His eyes lit up immediately: "Then you can call us to join you. I learned a few tricks from Brother Zhao last time. Maybe I can catch a pheasant or a wild rabbit by myself."
Wang Qiutong opened her eyes wide: "You can still catch pheasants and rabbits in the mountains. Isn't it said that you can't go deep into the mountains?"
Zheng Jiamin had been constantly criticized by her today, and now he finally felt like he had gotten back at her. He said with a look on his face, "Of course it's not deep in the mountains, but we have to go a little deeper than usual, and then we have to be able to see. Pheasants and rabbits hopping around in the mountains will definitely leave clues. As long as we have the sharp eyes of an old hunter, we can definitely catch them without going into the mountains!"
These were what Zhao Zhengyang taught him at the beginning, and he imitated them and showed them off.
Wang Qiutong was so happy: "Doesn't that mean we can have meat to eat?!"
Her family was well off, but meat coupons were in short supply in the city. Her family sent her grain coupons and non-staple food coupons, but no meat coupons. She had to save them to feed her two little nephews, so Wang Qiutong was very craving for meat.
Shen Moer laughed: "We have to catch pheasants and rabbits to have meat to eat."
Wang Qiutong had an inexplicable trust in Shen Moer: "Comrade Moer, you can definitely do it." Although Zheng Jiamin talked a lot, Wang Qiutong didn't believe that he could catch pheasants and rabbits. If he could, wouldn't he have shouted it out long ago?
Shen Moer didn't think she would be able to do it. Hunting was something that sometimes depended on luck.
When she was in Daliang, she had participated in many hunting trips. Some people who were usually very brave returned empty-handed due to bad luck, while some people with mediocre archery skills returned with a full load because of good luck. This kind of thing was really not uncommon.
However, the supplies in this world are so scarce. Even if you can't catch any prey in the mountains, you can still pick some wild mushrooms and dig some wild vegetables and bamboo shoots to add one or two dishes.
When Shen Shaoyuan came back at night, Shen Moer told him what happened during the day.
Shen Shaoyuan pondered for a while, and was a little unhappy about his daughter's risking her life to help Fu Mingze get away with it. However, he always made decisions on his own except for matters of life and death, and let his daughter decide everything else. Besides, they were young and in love, and with his daughter's personality, she would definitely not sit idly by at this time.
So in the end, Shen Shaoyuan still didn't say anything, but just mentioned another thing: "I know that Deputy Director Wu. Her full name is Wu Qiong. I met her a while ago when I was helping out in the commune compound. At that time, she mentioned that her family liked calligraphy, so she asked me to write a calligraphy for her, something like self-reliance and hard work."
Shen Moer thought for a moment and said, "No wonder she specifically asked me if I was an art teacher before, and she seemed to know a lot about the two children's painting competition. Later, she also spoke up for the educated youth and stopped that Deputy Director Sun from escalating the matter. She probably remembered this favor."
Shen Shaoyuan nodded: "I'll thank her when we meet later."
The father and daughter turned to talking about inviting people to dinner. As the saying goes, no one knows a daughter better than her father. When Shen Shaoyuan heard Shen Moer mention it, he understood what she meant: "We should call the captain and the militia captain. This time, they also protected the pretty boy. Then call the Chen family and make your relationship clear. Let the Chen family's sister-in-law be the matchmaker, so as to avoid more trouble in the future and be caught by someone to report this matter."
Shen Moer responded very obediently: "The main reason is that I am afraid of being reported. The people in the Revolutionary Committee are unreasonable. It will be troublesome if someone accuses me of having bad conduct between men and women."
She glanced at her biological father and wondered how Fu Zhiqing would feel if he knew that her father called him a pretty boy behind his back.
Shen Shaoyuan knew very well that his daughter said this on purpose to coax him, but he still felt much better.
He was also a man who was efficient in doing things. Since his daughter had chosen Fu Mingze, he might as well settle the matter quickly. He would first invite the captain and his family to a meal, so as to mark the beginning of a smooth transition. Anyway, it was not fashionable to hold grand ceremonies these days. Next month, when Moer reached the age limit, they would get the marriage certificate, and then find a date to invite two tables.
However, they didn't know much about Fu Mingze's family situation, so they would ask later if they could make it to the wedding.
Shen Shaoyuan pondered in his heart, but did not tell Shen Moer.
In the next few days, Shen Moer continued to attend classes as normal, while also finding time to give the two elementary school students a final sprint of improvement.
Fu Mingze seemed to be quite busy during this period. He only hurriedly gave Shen Moli a bag of oranges one evening, and then disappeared completely.
Wang Qiutong had come to see Chen Moer several times. After having the experience of fighting against the Revolutionary Committee together and eating the egg rolls made by Chen Moer, Wang Qiutong felt that her friendship with Chen Moer had made a leap forward, so she would come over from time to time during her breaks.
Sometimes I would talk to Chen Moer about things at the educated youth camp, for example, because Shi Wei and Yang Qingqing had not come back, the atmosphere at the educated youth camp was quite heavy, for example, now everyone took special care of their things and kept hygiene very clean, and the space under the bed was tidy so that nothing could be hidden, for example, the team leader of their experimental field had brought a few experienced farmers to take a look, and they seemed quite surprised, saying that the vegetables in those plots were indeed growing better than usual, and now he was discussing with Fu Zhiqing about digging a compost pond for the team... He talked about everything, no matter how big or small.
Sometimes when Shen Moer was teaching primary school students to draw, she would sit aside and watch quietly. After watching once, she would come over the next day with pencils and notebooks. When the primary school students were learning, she would follow them and soon she could draw quite well.
On Saturday, when Wang Qiutong came over, she gave Shen Moer two food coupons, two sugar coupons, and three yuan: "He originally said he would help Fu Zhiqing pay for my and Zheng Jiamin's meal expenses, but Fu Zhiqing said it was not necessary."
She smiled and hugged Shen Moer's arm, shaking it like a spoiled child: "We didn't give food coupons for the egg rolls last time. This time we are having a proper meal. I'm embarrassed to come empty-handed again."
Shen Moer didn't refuse anymore: "Then I'll go to the state-owned restaurant tomorrow and buy some buns or steamed buns."
The next day, Shen Moer got up early, washed up, and cooked some vegetable porridge. She wanted to go into the house and call Shen Shaoyuan to get up for breakfast. Shen Shaoyuan opened his eyes slightly and said in a daze: "It's so hard to sleep in. Eat by yourself and go to the commune. Don't bother your father." After that, he wrapped himself in the quilt, turned around and went back to sleep.
Shen Moer ignored him and ate her breakfast, then pushed her bicycle and went out.
Before, Shen Moer had learned to ride a bicycle during the time in the morning before Shen Shaoyuan went out and in the evening after dinner before it got dark.
She had practiced martial arts, so it was naturally easier for her to learn to ride a bicycle than for others. She learned it in no time. She rode it many times afterwards and is now very skilled.
However, as soon as Shen Moer pushed her bicycle out of the yard, she ran into Tian Fang.
Tian Fang was carrying a bamboo basket with some vegetables from her own plot in it. A layer of eggs was carefully piled on the leaves. She was probably going to take them to the commune purchasing station. I don't know what she was thinking. She didn't go to the brigade's yard to ride the donkey cart. Instead, she stood outside Shen Moer's house and peeked in. When she saw Shen Moer coming out, her eyes were glued to the bicycle.
Shen Moer didn't want to pay attention to her. She pushed her feet and was about to ride away. Unexpectedly, Tian Fang suddenly grabbed the back seat of the bicycle and said, "Moer, you are going to the commune, right? Take your second aunt with you."
Shen Moer stood on one foot on the ground, turned around and looked at her incredulously: "Are we so close that we can ride a bicycle to the commune?"
Tian Fang's expression froze for a moment, then she said softly, "Of course we are, we are the closest relatives. Mo'er, Minbing and the others have been in there for quite some time, and they only came back yesterday. If it weren't for you and Lao Qi, they wouldn't have to suffer so much. As a mother, I can't get enough of wiping tears at home every day. It happens that today is the market day of the commune, I sold eggs and bought him some good food to supplement his diet. You have always been the most reasonable person, you wouldn't be unwilling to help with such a small favor, right?"
Shen Moer had also heard that Shen Minbing and the other two were released, but she was busy and didn't pay much attention to it.
Hearing what Tian Fang said now, Shen Moer was even more puzzled: "Weren't they locked up because they stole things in the middle of the night? Why, they made a mistake and still want to blame the victim? If you want to say that, why don't we go to the captain to judge?"
Tian Fang was so scared that she let go of her hand immediately: "I, that's what I said. If you don't want to take me, then don't take me. What's the point of talking about captain?"
Ever since their reputation plummeted, their family had a hard time in the village. In contrast, Shen Shaoyuan and his daughter's lives were thriving. They worked as workers, teachers, won awards in competitions, and were about to go to the provincial capital.
When the villagers talk about Shen Laoqi now, they no longer use the indifferent tone they used to. Instead, they say that he just didn't figure it out before, but now that he figured it out, he is like a different person, extremely amazing.
Not only the members of the commune, but also the cadres of the brigade were on the side of the father and daughter, especially that old fool Zhou Mancang, who treated the award as a gold and praised the little girl Shen Moer to high heaven in front of everyone and in private.
If Zhou Mancang were really asked to judge the matter, he would only speak for Chen Moer. Tian Fang considered himself to be a smart person and would not suffer such an obvious loss.
Shen Moer was too lazy to say anything more to her, she just pedaled and quickly rode away.
Tian Fang stared at her back for a long time and said, "What are you showing off? It's just a broken bicycle."
Aunt Cai happened to pass by with a basket in her hand. She heard what he said and said sarcastically, "Oh, you don't even like bicycles. What? Do you have four wheels at home?"
Tian Fang's face turned pale and blue, and after a long while she managed to say, "Why would you, an old hag, mind your own business?"
She has given up now and no longer pretends to be gentle and virtuous in public, revealing her true nature directly.
Aunt Cai was not a good-tempered person. She was tall and had a hot temper. She put the basket on the ground, rushed over and slapped Tian Fang several times: "How dare you call me an old hag? I don't think you know that the Horse King has three eyes."
Tian Fang always appeared weak and was not good at fighting. She could not even beat the average women in the village, let alone Aunt Cai who was ranked high in fighting ability. After being beaten, she did not dare to resist and sat on the ground, crying: "You are too bullying!"
Aunt Cai didn't care about her. She was the first one to curse and was the first to be shameless, so she should be beaten. There was nothing wrong with that.
Shen Moer had already ridden a long way away and had no idea that Tian Fang was beaten for swearing. Of course, she didn't care.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and it is already a little cool in the morning. However, compared to the hot summer, the weather at this time is very comfortable, and even the air is a little crisp and dry.
The fields along the way were somewhat empty, with only the rice stubble left after the rice was harvested, and occasionally a few piles of straw.
Gradually, the public grain of several surrounding brigades have been paid. It is said that the public grain of Yangliu Brigade was also paid the day before yesterday. Now the members can take a breath and gradually interplant wheat or grow some vegetables for the winter. After all, it is not as busy as the autumn harvest, which is like a war every day.
After arriving at the commune, Shen Moer first went to the supply and marketing cooperative to use her sugar coupons, weighed a pound of white sugar and a pound of brown sugar, then bought some condiments such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, a bar of soap and some needles and thread. Finally, when she passed by the pastry counter, she couldn't help but weighed half a pound of egg cake.
Egg cakes are not always sold at the supply and marketing cooperative, and one needs a cake ticket to buy one. This thing is not available in Daliang, and the original owner seems to have never bought it to eat, so Shen Moer has actually wanted to buy it for a long time.
It just so happened that her father gave her half a pound of cake tickets this month, and the supply and marketing cooperative happened to have the goods, so shouldn't she buy them quickly?
Shen Moer put the things she bought into the bamboo basket one by one and happily pushed her bicycle towards the direction of Sparrow City.
Because she was riding a bicycle, she didn't take a shortcut, but took the main road outside. This road is bigger, but also farther, so there are not many people on the road.
When I was riding at a fork in the road, a person suddenly jumped out from the side, holding something tightly in his arms, and ran forward desperately, shouting for help: "Help, someone is robbing me!" Almost at the same time, another person jumped out from the side road, rushed towards the person in front, caught up with her quickly, grabbed her ponytail, and slapped her: "Bitch, give me the things quickly!"
As he said that, he tried to grab the things in the woman's hand. The woman struggled to avoid him, and the man slapped her twice again: "Damn it, don't refuse a toast. If I'm in a good mood, I'll give you two dollars to buy these cloths. If I'm not in a good mood, I won't give you a word."
"Are you buying this? This is robbery!"
The woman tightly guarded the thing in her arms. When the man reached out, she bit his chin. The man was enraged and reached out to hit the woman again. At this moment, someone suddenly came over and kicked the man in the knee, causing him to kneel on the ground.
The woman immediately kicked the man in the "vital part", and the man howled in pain as if he had no children: "You bitch, I'm going to kill you!"
He tried to get up. Shen Moer glanced at the dishevelled woman whose face could not be seen clearly and who was still trying to "pursue victory". She stretched out her hand to stop her and said to the man lying on the ground, "Someone just went to the police station to report a case. The police should be here soon."
The man immediately covered his "vital parts" and climbed up: "Just wait!"
After saying those harsh words, he bent over in a very obscene posture and quickly fled to the side road.
"This bastard deliberately said he wanted to buy my cloth, but he actually wanted to rob me. How could we just let him go like that? We should catch him and kick him so hard that he won't dare to do evil again." The woman said as she frantically tried to pull away the hair that was stuck to her face.
Shen Moer: “…”
She didn't even know whether to be surprised that this person was Liu Yinshuang, or to be surprised by her bold remarks that obviously had a hidden meaning.
But she still explained: "I let him go because you were selling cloth, otherwise he might report you for speculation."
“Chen Moer, it’s actually you?!”
Liu Yinshuang was even more surprised than Shen Moer. After she fixed her hair and saw the person who saved her, she widened her eyes and stared at Shen Moer as if she had seen a monster: "You, you, you just kicked him over? No, how can you have such a high combat power, this is not scientific, this, this, this is definitely not scientific, in the previous life, uh, I mean you were not like this before."
Chen Moer: You were about to talk about your previous life just now, I have already heard it.
She blinked innocently. "Isn't it that the man is too weak? Besides, I just kicked him in the knee when he wasn't paying attention and knocked him down by chance. As for strength, uh, strength? You should be more powerful. After you knocked him down, he lay on the ground for a long time without getting up."
"Yeah?"
Liu Yinshuang thought about it and found that what Shen Moli said seemed to be correct. It seemed that she had indeed caused greater harm to that person.
“Yes.” Shen Moer said, “Since you are okay, I will leave first.”
"Wait a moment."
Liu Yinshuang immediately stretched out Erkang's hand. Although she did cause great harm to that person, it was Chen Moer who knocked that person down quickly, ruthlessly and accurately at the beginning. Having been robbed once, Liu Yinshuang was now a frightened bird and always felt that it was safer to follow Chen Moer.
She asked, "Are you going to Sparrow Market? I'll go with you. Do you want cloth? No cloth coupons are needed. I can sell you a few feet at a discounted price."
Shen Moer shook her head: "I don't need it."
If she hadn't found the cloth in the treasury, she would have definitely seized the opportunity to buy cloth without a ticket. But now she is not so short of cloth, and Liu Yinshuang is a strange person. She doesn't know where these cloths came from, so Shen Moer naturally won't buy them.
After saying this, Shen Moer walked to the side, kicked off the bicycle's kickstand, put on the bamboo basket, pushed the bicycle and prepared to leave.
But Liu Yinshuang grabbed the back seat of the bicycle and said, "It's okay if you don't need it. I can give it to you. I will repay a drop of kindness with a spring of water. I will give you a few feet of cloth and give it to you when we get to Maque City."
Shen Moer: “…”
It can be seen that Liu Yinshuang really wants to go with her.
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