Chapter 101 Chapter 101 Beaten into a Red-crowned Crane
The two classic themes of period literature, military marriage and stepmother, almost occupy half of this field. "A Small Farmer's Wife Marries a Soldier in the 1970s and Their Life Is Sweet" is the former, telling the story of a rural wife, Liu Xiaojuan, marrying a soldier, Zhao Weijun.
Although it is a story about military marriage, the author of this book seems to want to add some innovation.
Therefore, in the common configuration of male protagonists in period literature where a person starts out as a battalion commander and becomes a division commander of a lower rank, Zhao Weijun was deliberately set as a platoon leader of a relatively low rank. The heroine Liu Xiaojuan is not the common descendant of a capitalist or an intellectual in distress, but just an ordinary young wife from a peasant family. The story mainly tells the story of two ordinary people struggling together and supporting each other in this difficult era.
Because Zhao Weijun's position was relatively low - generally only battalion-level cadres could allow their families to accompany them, and he was two levels short.
Liu Xiaojuan was able to accompany the army because Zhao Weijun was seriously injured and came to take care of him. In addition, Zhao Weijun's eldest brother also died at this time, leaving only two children, Tiedan and Yaya. Grandma Sun was afraid that her son would die without a single child, so she cried, made a fuss, and even hanged herself. Finally, people were simple and honest at that time, and some comrades-in-arms voluntarily gave up their assigned family quarters. The leaders took comprehensive considerations (mainly the author's arrangement) and decided to relax the policy appropriately according to the conditions for accompanying the army in the frontier.
Liu Xiaojuan was specially allowed to stay.
However, it was not justified after all. There was a contempt chain among military wives, and they looked down on those from rural areas. In addition, Zhao Weijun's position was the lowest in the staff compound, so Liu Xiaojuan became the lowest among those who were looked down upon.
But because Liu Xiaojuan was enthusiastic, efficient, helpful, and consciously learned cultural knowledge, she eventually won everyone's recognition. Zhao Weijun also got promoted through his own efforts in the process, and finally transferred back to his hometown and became a cadre in the commune. He returned home in glory, and the overall outcome was satisfactory.
Song Ruan read the book again and again, and finally found his own existence in the clues - the good uncle Zhao Sanzhu who recommended the male protagonist to join the army encountered some troubles and borrowed a large sum of money from the male protagonist, and the male protagonist made a prompt decision to send the money back. But the male protagonist had originally promised to use this money to buy a watch for the female protagonist. Now, let alone a watch, he couldn't even afford a gear. Moreover, the female protagonist had already blew the money and lost face in front of the other military wives. As a result, the male and female protagonists had a big conflict.
This plot mainly reflects the hero's gratitude and promotes the relationship between the hero and heroine after the problem is solved. However, based on the time before and after, Song Ruan deduced that the money was the hush money that Zhao Sanzhu gave to Tian Huini.
emmm……
Okay, the influence of this supporting female character spans two books, which is pretty impressive.
However, because the original owner was replaced by her, Zhao Sanzhu did not succeed, nor was he asked for hush money by Tian Huini. Without this plot, it is unknown whether it will affect the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. Song Ruan consciously looks for his own existence in books, and Wang Xue does the same.
She has slightly more scenes.
In the original book, Zhao Weijun and Liu Xiaojuan did not return until the Chinese New Year, so there was no such thing as saving anyone. But she did not drown immediately after falling into the water, but managed to get to the shore by struggling hard.
Because she was the captain's niece, and the weather was cold and her thick clothes covered her figure, she was not gossiped about like Yuan Songruan. However, she became famous in the Dongfeng Brigade and attracted the attention of Zhao Sanzhu.
After some investigation, Zhao Sanzhu discovered that she was the daughter of a demoted element. He used this as an excuse to report the captain's family for having improper thoughts and taking in such a person with a bad background. He also hinted that the captain took in such a person whose parents accepted gifts because he also wanted to receive gifts. In short, he kept blaming her one thing after another.
Although the team leader and his family tried hard to negotiate and were barely avoided being labeled as "counter-revolutionaries" and "bad elements", they still lost their position as team leader and became an ordinary villager in the Dongfeng Brigade.
As for Wang Xue and her brother, they were sent to another farm, where they did hard labor every day, ate boiled cabbage sprinkled with salt, slept on wooden frames in a straw shed, and were sometimes taken advantage of by the team leader on the same farm.
Later, when I was clearing land, I encountered a poisonous snake and was bitten. There was no time to rescue him, and he died instantly!
Just died like that! Just died like that!
When Wang Xue saw this, her eyes almost popped out, and she started looking for her enemy with gritted teeth.
She knew that Zhao Sanzhu, the former village party secretary, had now gone to the farm and she couldn't deal with him. So she looked at who he asked for information from - he asked Zhao Weijun for investigation!
What made me even more angry was that the news of her death reached the ears of Zhao Weijun and Liu Xiaojuan. Not only did they not feel any guilt at all, but they also said something arrogant, "Although her parents were parasites and she also enjoyed the blood and sweat of the people, death is like the extinguishing of a light, so let it be."
You're just calculating. Her parents are accepting gifts, not extorting. What good things can the gifts they are willing to give them be? Aren't they just trying to take shortcuts? They are taking crooked paths and are already standing in opposition to the people!
What her parents are doing is punishing evil and promoting good, but Zhao Weijun, a man with a mental disability, doesn't understand shit!
Besides, it was her parents who received the gifts, not her. The organization didn’t send them to the farm in the beginning. Why would you do that?
What qualifications do they have to say "forget it"? She is the unlucky one!
Wang Xue was so angry that she jumped up from her dream. Before she could come to her senses, she saw Zhao Weijun lying on the bed next to her.
Because the medicine contained a sedative, and this ordeal had exhausted Zhao Weijun's physical strength, he was now fast asleep with his eyes tightly closed, looking peaceful and quiet.
Wang Xue immediately recalled the miserable life she had in her dream, where she had to eat coarse food and couldn't sleep well every day. Then she saw that the culprit was so comfortable.
He suddenly became furious and stood up from the bed. He snatched the bottle of medicine hanging on the medicine shelf and smashed it on Zhao Weijun's head with a clang.
I want you to talk too much! You're the only one with a mouth, right? You are the only one who is capable, right?
At that time, the IV bottles were made of either plastic or glass. Glass ones were less common, but as luck would have it, the one she was holding was a glass bottle, and it was filled with medicine.
There was a crisp sound, and blood gushed out from Zhao Weijun's head, mixed with large pieces of debris and sporadic broken glass. Before Zhao Weijun could open his eyes, he fainted again.
Several people in the ward were stunned.
Han Zhenzhen's soul had not yet come back to her senses. She instinctively held Song Ruan's hand and silently moved one or two steps to the side. After a pause, she quickly moved several steps forward.
This, this, this... You hit someone as soon as you opened your eyes!
Wang Xue pounded hard, and the anger in front of her eyes dissipated a little. Then she noticed that she was using her own IV bottle. At this time, the needle in her hand had been crooked and a big bump had appeared.
She was also a ruthless person. She went all out and pulled the needle out with a bang. She didn't even care about the blood spurting out of her hand. She stabbed Ziwei with even more ruthlessness than when Madam Rong stabbed her.
Zhao Weijun screamed "Ah" and woke up from his coma in pain.
Everything in front of his eyes was blurry and before he could see clearly, Wang Xue straddled him and slapped him in the face.
"I told you to hurt me! I told you to hurt me!"
Although Zhao Weijun was still weak, he was still a soldier after all, and he still had a solid foundation from his daily training. He subconsciously turned over and sat up, reaching out to capture the man.
But he still had anti-inflammatory medicine on his hand, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the IV stand next to him was pulled towards him.
Wang Xue leaned back to avoid it, and the medicine bracket hit Zhao Weijun's stomach heavily.
"Well!"
Zhao Weijun groaned.
They live in a small commune with scarce resources, and they made the IV racks themselves out of solid wood, which is not light. Zhao Weijun was already injured, and the pressure on him almost made his eyeballs pop out of their sockets.
The nurse who came to the door to change the dressing screamed in fright, and the tray in her hand fell to the ground with a thud.
"What are you doing! What are you doing! Security department, security department! Someone come quickly, there is a disturbance here!"
Liu Xiaojuan, who had just gone out to get medicine for her husband, heard the noise from afar. For some reason, she felt something was wrong and rushed over in two steps. She saw Zhao Weijun being pressed on the bed and fanned hard, and Wang Xue dancing with her hands like an electric fan. Her eyes immediately turned red.
She pushed aside the screaming nurse at the door, rushed forward, and grabbed Wang Xue's hair from behind: "What are you doing!"
Wang Xue was pulled backwards like a carrot, with a fierce look in her eyes. She picked up the glass medicine bottle on the medicine rack that had hit Zhao Weijun's stomach, and smashed it backwards with a clang, hitting Liu Xiaojuan's forehead.
With a crash, Liu Xiaojuan followed closely behind Red-crowned Crane No. 2, shivering in the wind.
The needle in Zhao Weijun's hand was pulled out due to such a big movement, and a long cut was made on the back of his hand.
How can it not be considered a kind of flying together?
Wang Xue took this opportunity to flip over and stretched out her claws to grab Liu Xiaojuan's face.
The captain finally recovered from his shock and shouted, "Wang Xue, why did you hit me? Why don't you let me go!"
The people around suddenly woke up as if from a dream, and hurriedly rushed over to grab the man.
The chaotic scene finally calmed down, and the three people were separated into two waves. Zhao Weijun and Liu Xiaojuan sat on the hospital bed like a pair of red-crowned crane couples, and Wang Xue sat on another bed in triumph. They were separated by a wall of people, and both were breathing heavily.
Looking at the chaotic scene in front of him, the captain felt his eyes go dark and his hair turned white with worry. But the troublemaker was his niece after all. If he laughed it off, people might think he was deliberately covering up for her. As God is my God, he really didn't want to affect the reputation he had accumulated for so long because of such a niece.
So he turned around with a serious face and asked Wang Xue: "What did you do? You hit someone right after you opened your eyes? Do you know that it was the Weijun couple who saved you?"
Before Wang Xue could say anything, there was another shrill scream at the door. Grandma Sun, who had finally arrived by walking all the way instead of riding in the ox cart, rushed in: "My son!!"
The captain closed his eyes suddenly. Well, the previous incident had not been clarified yet, and another unreasonable warrior came up.
Mrs. Sun's eyes turned red when she saw her son and daughter-in-law being beaten into pieces - this was the source of her pension money! This is the root of her good days!
Thinking back to what the captain said before he came in, he turned his head and looked at Wang Xue fiercely: "It was you, a little whore, who beat him up?"
Wang Xue was not at all weak, she put her hands on her waist and yelled louder than her: "I beat him! How is that!"
Mrs. Sun has been domineering in the Dongfeng Brigade for many years. This is the first time they have met someone more domineering than her. They were stunned for a moment.
When he came to his senses, his face turned purple with anger, and he waved his claws to pounce on her and scratch her: "Little whore, you still think you are right!"
Wang Xue dodged flexibly by bending her waist and was about to fight back with her leg raised when the nurse finally arrived with the security personnel.
“Stop it!!”
Wang Xue quickly took a final kick and jumped to the side nimbly.
Granny Sun was so angry that she was about to fight back, but the nurse who finally arrived shouted at her, "You're already in front of me and you're still going to fight me!"
Mrs. Sun felt that she had suffered a great loss by being kicked extra, and was about to kick back with one last kick regardless of the consequences.
A few burly young men from the security department stepped forward and glanced around, just like the iron group, and immediately quieted down the two men who were as fierce as fighting cocks.
The nurse finally took a breath, but before she could even catch her breath, she saw broken glass medicines all over the floor, tilted medicine racks, and tubes and needles that were obviously unusable after being stepped on several times in the fight and were deflated and broken. She almost fainted from the heartache.
Supplies were not abundant these days, so everything had to be planned, not to mention these precious and delicate medical supplies, which were even more scarce. In this case, these medical supplies were not disposable and thrown away like in later generations. Even the needles were collected and disinfected after injection before being reused.
Including rubber hoses, they will be put into small medicine pots and boiled again and again until they become like dry and wrinkled old bark covered with cobwebs, and then they will no longer be used.
Even the water rack was broken!
Their health center is really in bad luck! What kind of patients are these?
The nurse angrily shouted, "What do you think this place is? This is a hospital! There are other patients who need to rest! If you make a noise or scare others and cause any problems, can you afford the responsibility?!"
A circle of patients gathered at the door to watch the excitement, some even holding IV bottles and arms in slings. Seeing this, they quickly said, "It's okay, it's okay. We are happy to watch."
The young nurse was so angry that she almost fainted on the spot. She turned around and vented her anger even louder at the culprits: "I tell you, you must pay for the things that were damaged today!"
Mrs. Sun was unhappy on the spot - asking her, Sun Xiaohua, who grinds ten soybeans but steals three and doesn't even take a shit outside, to pay compensation was more unacceptable than asking her to pay with her life.
He said to the nurse on the spot: "Doctor, this has nothing to do with us. It's all caused by this little whore! Make her pay!"
More and more people gathered at the door to watch the fun, and their eyes lit up when they heard this - hey, that's right! Just the fight itself is fun to watch, but it's not fun to be in a fog. We still have to make everything clear, so that the fun will be more enjoyable to watch!
So they all asked, "What's going on?"
"Yes, Auntie, tell us and we will help you judge the case!"
Mother-in-law Sun has always been a person who would make trouble even if it was unreasonable. This was the first time she felt so confident that she was in the right. She howled with great enthusiasm:
"This little whore fell into the water by herself, and my son kindly fished her out. My son was already injured and was admitted to the hospital because of her! But this little whore beat my son up right after he came in. What sin has our family committed?"
"That really shouldn't be the case..."
"Little girl, this is your fault. How can you repay kindness with hatred?"
"What did your family teach you?"
"You need to apologize!"
The captain couldn't even raise his head, his old face flushed red.
Only then did Wang Xue realize that Zhao Weijun had not yet forced her into the farm, and had even just pulled her out of the lake. It seemed unreasonable for her to hit him.
But she could find a reason for herself as soon as she opened her mouth, and her back was straight:
"Bah! I had already pulled myself to the shore and was about to get out, but this man jumped down and pulled me out, and that woman turned around and slapped me into the river, causing me to almost drown. I even said that the couple was setting up a trap to kill me!"
“Ah, this…”
This is really a case of each person having his own reasons, and the onlookers are not sure either.
"Mother..." Zhao Weijun uttered a weak voice. Grandma Sun turned around and saw her own dying red-crowned crane. She slapped her thigh and said, "Save my son first. My son was stabbed in the head by this woman!"
Wang Xue refused to be outdone and shouted, "I want to see it too! Let me see it first!"
"You better be quiet!" The captain grabbed Wang Xue and said, "Look, you can still fight three people at once. Let them see first!"
Wang Xue was not convinced: "Is it necessary to ask them to see me first when I am seriously injured?! They are the ones who hurt me! They deserve it! They should ask me, a good person, to see them first! If you ask them to see me first, I will pull out the needle from him!"
Listen, listen, how confident! I don't feel guilty at all when I say this!
The nurse inhaled and exhaled, and instructed the young man from the security department: "Change her ward."
He breathed in and out, but still couldn't help himself and roared again: "Hurry up!!!"
"Weijun, why did you come back so early? Didn't you say you would be back during the Chinese New Year?"
After the doctor treated the wound again and left, Mrs. Sun scolded Wang Xue first, and then remembered an important question.
When this was mentioned, Zhao Weijun and Liu Xiaojuan both fell silent.
For some reason, Granny Sun suddenly felt something was wrong: "What, what happened? What happened? Weijun, tell mother!"
Zhao Weijun forced a smile: "It's okay, mom, don't worry."
The more he said this, the more anxious Mrs. Sun became. She kept asking, "How can I not worry if you don't say anything?"
Zhao Weijun sighed deeply: "Mom, do you remember who recommended me to join the army?"
Mrs. Sun said without hesitation: "Of course I remember, it was that old man Zhao Sanzhu. He has been demoted to a farm now..."
Her voice suddenly paused, and she felt as if struck by lightning.
Seeing that she understood, Zhao Weijun stopped talking.
Grandma Sun shouted in disbelief, "Did that bastard Zhao Sanzhu get you into trouble? Why?"
"What are you doing?" The nurse who was keeping a close eye on this ward at the door poked her head out and shouted, "Be quiet, other patients need to rest too!"
Granny Sun was not convinced, but she also knew that this topic was a bit sensitive, so she held her breath and lowered her voice, and asked again: "Why?"
Once Zhao Sanzhu's incident happened, it had an impact on him - being a hooligan to a man and having any other conduct issues were not so outrageous, and later he was found to have embezzled such a huge amount. It just so happened that Zhao Sanzhu was not only his recommender, but also his uncle...it was easy to imagine how he was affected.
But his uncle was his benefactor after all, and he couldn't draw a line between himself and his uncle as soon as he got into trouble - this would also make his leaders and comrades look down on him. The most important thing in the army is friendship - who would dare to trust his back to a person who would turn against his benefactor faster than turning the pages of a book as soon as he got into trouble? At least Zhao Sanzhu has never done anything wrong to him!
Originally he was going to be promoted this time, but there were so many outstanding people, and Zhao Weijun was not the best to be indispensable. In addition, other rivals were eyeing him covetously, so it was obvious that his plan fell through.
Not only that, this opportunity for promotion is almost like a chain reaction - even if he is lucky enough to get promoted again in the future, won't the next batch of opponents attack him at this point? Isn't that an exaggeration?
He has no support in the army. It would be better to transfer back directly while the superiors still feel guilty, and you can be assigned a good position.
Although he was unwilling, he still tried to comfort his mother - or to comfort himself: "It's okay, mother. I am still a commune cadre after demobilization, and I can take better care of you."
In another ward, Wang Xue finally remembered that the hidden danger had not been eliminated - in the memory of that ball of light, it was Zhao Weijun who dug out her identity, and it was Zhao Sanzhu who used her identity. Now Zhao Sanzhu didn't know why he was not still the village party secretary of the Dongfeng Brigade like in the book, but was demoted to a farm. But Zhao Weijun was still there!
Not to mention that she had just beaten Zhao Weijun and her wife so fiercely. What if they wanted to retaliate? !
Thinking of the miserable life she had experienced in her dream when she was sent to a farm, she shuddered deeply - no, she absolutely could not fall to that level.
But Zhao Weijun was a skilled soldier, and she couldn't kill him at all.
Even if he was killed, the police would definitely investigate it thoroughly considering his status as a soldier.
Wang Xue had to abandon this idea, but she couldn't think of anything else for the moment.
She frowned and looked away, and just happened to see Wang Hao standing aside.
"Haohao, come here." She said with a rare friendly expression to Wang Hao, who was standing beside her timidly like a little chicken.
Wang Hao moved over somewhat flattered: "What's wrong, sister?"
Wang Xue stared at him and asked, "Haohao, how do you feel that a woman who is not related to you by blood is a grasshopper on the same string as you, and even if she does something bad, you can't expose it, and you have to help her cover it up?"
Wang Hao was stunned by her question and scratched his hair hard: "A grasshopper on a string... my wife?"
Wang Xue's eyes lit up, and then she remembered that Zhao Weijun already had Liu Xiaojuan as his wife - besides, she didn't like Zhao Weijun, he was just average looking and was just a platoon leader. It was not even right for him to follow the army. Liu Xiaojuan had to please other military wives in the family compound, which was so frustrating!
She is not even as good as her father. After all, her father was assigned to the family compound according to his rank, and he went to a big city after demobilization. Unlike Zhao Weijun, he was assigned back home. Although he said he had returned to his hometown in glory, he could only pretend to be a country bumpkin in this small piece of land.
So she shook her head: "No, think again."
"Ah???" Wang Hao was stunned. Seeing his sister's serious expression, he finally became confused: "Sister, why are you asking this?"
Wang Xue glared at him and said, "Just answer when I tell you to. Why are you asking so many questions?"
Where did all those years of tyranny come from? Wang Hao shuddered, scratching his hair and thinking hard: "Then...then, maybe she has something on me?"
Wang Xue's eyes lit up.
She tried hard to recall the book, but after all, the book was centered on Zhao Weijun, so of course it was all bright and positive. Even if there were some vague dark sides, Wang Xue couldn't see them with her brain.
But it doesn’t matter! Her mother said, if there is no handle, create one!
But this kind of thing cannot be known by Wang Hao, a brainless guy who is more likely to cause trouble than to do anything else. Her mother also said that secrets are the key to success!
Wang Xue glanced at Wang Hao and waved her hand like she was chasing a puppy away: "Go, go, go to the state-owned restaurant and buy me some food. I'm starving!"
Wang Hao hesitated - although they still had some money, they didn't know how long they would have to live here - and, moreover, he also wanted to...
He thought of Song Ruan's beautiful face and her sparkling eyes when she was watching the fun, and his face turned red.
Wang Xue saw that he was red like a teapot on fire and was grumbling about something. She felt annoyed: "Go quickly! Can't you see I'm injured? I need to get some more treatment!"
Wang Hao was so angry that he walked out of the ward reluctantly.
The smoke gradually dissipated.
What a thrilling fighting performance.
The collapse of those who had to clean up the battlefield and pick up the pieces - such as the captain - was indeed a wonderful performance for the audience.
The two warring parties were separated, and the young men from the security department were still standing there with a fierce look on their faces. Seeing that the performance was about to end, the members of the Dongfeng Brigade patted their buttocks and prepared to leave with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
Comment as you walk.
"I really didn't expect that the captain's niece is so fierce. Look at the way she smashed the bottle. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk ..."
"As for the acupuncture needles, she just pulled them out of her hand and injected them! This is real! Tsk!"
"She is worthy of being the captain's niece. She can even match up with Grandma Sun..."
"Not lost yet!"
"But the captain's niece is too noisy, throwing clothes and fighting..."
The person who spoke shook his head slightly, which attracted many people to agree with him.
Chirp, chirp, coo, coo.
But one word kept coming up:
"Captain's niece..."
"Captain's niece..."
The captain wanted to escape.
He wanted to cover his ears. Why did he have to call her "the captain's niece"? She is famous! Her name is Wang Xue! Why do you have to mention him? !
He didn't give birth to the child, nor did he raise him, so why should he take the blame! !
The captain looked disheartened - how did his brother and his step-sister-in-law teach their child? Did they deliberately teach Wang Xue to be like this, thinking that they would marry Wang Xue to the family of someone they had a grudge against in the future?
Others marrying an unvirtuous wife will bring disaster to three generations, but Wang Xue may bring disaster to three generations, and even after her death her influence may bring disaster to ten generations!
But now I haven’t brought harm to my enemy yet, I’m bringing harm to him first!
The captain was in tears in his heart.
He is no longer the man of steel he used to be!
"Captain."
A villager called out to him.
"What?" The captain jumped up like a frightened bird, and his thoughts came out in a rush: "Wang Xue just came to our house. She is raised by my brother and sister-in-law. She has nothing to do with me! All four of my children are good!"
The team member was shocked by his reaction, but after listening to the captain's words, he felt deep sympathy and said, "It's okay, captain. We all know that your own child is a good one. This is not the kind of character you would raise."
Although it was a comfort, the genuine sympathy in his eyes hurt the captain's fragile heart.
He, the head of the Dongfeng Brigade, has always been looked at with admiration and respect. Now everyone has begun to look at him with pity. Doesn't this explain something?
The captain felt more and more sad the more he thought about it, and he wanted to find a place where no one was around and cry.
Old Wang came over silently and patted the captain on the shoulder: "Why don't you take my car back?"
He looked around and whispered, "I won't charge you any money."
The captain almost burst into tears - everyone felt sorry for him! Everybody pity him!
But he wiped his eyes firmly and said again: "I also drove a bullock cart here. I can't go back. I have to buy food for the Zhao family and then see."
Although Wang Xue claimed that Zhao Weijun and his wife were setting her up, everyone could see what really happened.
It was indeed wrong for Weijun's wife to push Wang Xue into the water in anger, but after all, Zhao Weijun did jump into the river to save people despite his injuries. No matter how carefully you calculate it, it's at most a draw.
But as soon as Wang Xue opened his eyes, he saw that he had been beaten like that - the captain felt a headache when he thought of the two red-crowned cranes on the bed next to him.
How can it be so awesome!
"You should buy it, you should buy it." Old Wang nodded unconsciously. Seeing the captain's bitter face, he racked his brains to comfort him, "Look at the bright side. You have a hospitalization certificate, so you don't need food coupons to buy meals in the hospital cafeteria, haha."
Captain: “…” “Ha…ha…” Old Wang closed his mouth awkwardly under the captain’s death gaze.
The captain walked away in anger.
It's lunchtime now, and the food windows in the cafeteria are still open.
The captain shamelessly borrowed two lunch boxes and a large enamel pot from the canteen staff - he even mortgaged his precious pipe for this - then he made up his mind and made three cups of thick white rice porridge, a meat dish stir-fried with shredded pork, a large meat dish made of pure meat, and two vegetables. Thinking of Zhao Weijun's status as an officer, he also bought three boiled eggs.
——In their family, it is difficult to have good meals even during the Chinese New Year. After all, there are many people in their family, and except for him, everyone else works in the fields. They have little income, and even eggs have to be counted.
But in the Dongfeng Brigade, more families can’t even eat boiled eggs all year round!
Eggs are such precious things. They are like matches, rice, needles and thread, soy sauce, vinegar, oil and salt - they all depend on the eggs that they save up to exchange!
It’s not called Chicken Butt Bank for nothing.
The man at the window calculated the price of the dishes in his hand and quoted: "91 cents."
Because it is the cafeteria inside the hospital, this price is actually cheap.
But the captain's breathing paused for a moment - if he bought a pound of brown sugar or a pound of pork, he could save a dime or two!
The person at the window asked again, "Do you have proof? Or do you want to use food coupons to pay for it?"
The captain shuddered and quickly handed over the certificate, repeatedly saying, "There is a certificate, there is a certificate."
The person at the window took a look at it, put a small stamp on it, and then returned it.
The captain quickly took it, put it in his arms, and then began to search his other pockets.
He fumbled around in his pockets and pulled out a stack of broken notes. After paying the medical and hospital bills, the rest were small change. He counted out most of them and kept the few that were left. With blood dripping from his heart, he tried to smile and said, "Thank you for your hard work, comrade."
The man at the window looked a little better. He took the money, counted it, and nodded.
The captain carried the lunch box and walked towards the inpatient building again.
In the ward, Mrs. Sun was sitting on the bed with two red-crowned cranes with their heads wrapped tightly. Liu Xiaojuan was lying on the bed where Wang Xue had been originally lying, with her eyes half-open. Mrs. Sun was also unusually wilted. The atmosphere in the whole ward was like a ball of solidified rice porridge.
The captain smiled apologetically and walked in: "Mrs. Sun, for the army and the army's wife, I'm here to bring you food."
Liu Xiaojuan lay on the bed, not moving at all.
As if she had finally found an outlet to vent her anger, Grandma Sun suddenly jumped up and said, "Wang Decai! Look at your good niece! Look at what she has done to my son and daughter-in-law! Look, look!!!"
She pointed at the gauze on her son and daughter-in-law's heads and roared, "Look at my son! He was beaten like a bald rabbit by your niece! My son just came back today! First day!!!"
It was the first time that the captain was scolded by someone, but he was so angry that he nodded and apologized: "My niece... She just came here not long ago, and I didn't know she was like this. She must have been spoiled by my brother and sister-in-law. I will take good care of her in the future! When she gets better, I will bring her over to apologize to you!"
Grandma Sun jumped three feet high, spitting excitedly: "She's fine?! I saw she was alive and well, but you see how badly we were beaten by these two bottles. Even King Kong can't jump like her. How else can she get better? Should she just send us to see the King of Hell?"
The nurse who was pacing back and forth at the door poked her head in again, glaring and shouting in a mighty manner: "I told you to be quiet! I can hear your voices downstairs, and other patients need to rest. If you continue like this, you will be discharged! Don't stay! I think you are in good health!!"
Mrs. Sun stopped talking all of a sudden, just like a chicken with its neck pinched.
She was not frightened by the nurse's aura. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Sun, was not such a coward - but when she was told that she could not be hospitalized - she stopped talking awkwardly.
She now relies on her second son. He used to be prestigious in the army. Although his retirement may not be as glorious as before in the army, he is closer to her and can help her in her old age!
Thinking of this, Mrs. Sun felt a little secretly happy.
In the past, she had made great progress in the army, but if something really happened to her, no one could be relied upon by her because she was so far away. She only had the third brother by her side, and the third brother was not very reliable, so she actually felt a little insecure.
But now, their promising second son has moved to their place and can be considered a local boss. Grandma Sun doesn't dare to think that she will be too comfortable in the future!
So Mrs. Sun is now very concerned about the health of her future supporter - I hope this mountain collapses before she has been relying on it for long! How do you pronounce that sentence? The body is the capital of revolution.
The captain took this opportunity to open the lunch boxes in his hands one by one and placed them on the small table beside the bed.
The aroma of meat and rice rose and spread in the ward, and Grandma Sun's scolding, which she had originally intended to say in a low voice, stopped in her throat.
Even Zhao Weijun, who had been lying in bed without saying a word, moved his eyes unconsciously - big pieces of meat, some non-vegetarian dishes, and pure fine grains, it was a very sincere apology meal - you know, even women who are in confinement now may not be able to eat half a pound of brown sugar during the entire confinement period.
After cleaning up after Mrs. Sun, the captain washed the borrowed lunch box and returned it, then went to Wang Xue's ward.
Wang Xue was lying on the bed with her legs crossed, waiting for her brother to come buy food. When she saw the captain come in, she put down her legs and sat up a little: "Uncle."
Don't call me uncle, you are my uncle!
But in the end, the captain just had a stern face and spoke seriously to Wang Xue who was lying on the bed: "Xiaoxue, your temper is not good. You have to change."
Wang Xue opened her eyes wide in dissatisfaction and opened her mouth to say something, but the captain interrupted her directly: "There is no such thing as you, kid. No matter what, the Weijun couple - the two people you hit today - were originally here to save you. Even if something went wrong later, it's just a draw at most."
"You asked me to reason with them, you scolded them, even hit them a few times - but who would pick up a glass bottle and directly hit someone's head? That's the head! What if you use too much force, or someone really dies? Do you know that Weijun is an officer! If something happens to him, won't the army take care of it! What will you do then? What should I do?"
Wang Xue grumbled, "It just affects your ability to be the captain. Also, my dad is not a soldier or an official now, so I can only be bullied."
The captain almost choked to death.
He calmed down again and again, but finally couldn't help but shouted angrily: "How were you bullied?!"
Seeing that Wang Xue showed no sign of admitting her fault, and even wanted to argue with confidence and eyes wide open, the captain's head twitched and he stopped her with a headache.
"Forget it, forget it. Your parents spoiled you when you were in the city, so they made you into this spoiled little girl. It's not entirely your fault."
"But you are here with us now, so you absolutely cannot do this! We are just a poor peasant family, and we cannot afford to support a spoiled young lady with a bad temper! Even if we don't support her, no one can say anything!"
Wang Xue was startled, and a rare look of panic appeared on her face.
Seeing that she seemed to be a little scared at last, the captain was moved. He slowed down his tone, but still said without a doubt:
"The day after tomorrow we will drive the New Year pigs to the commune's purchasing station. You have a day off tomorrow, so come with me. You must reform yourself through labor!"
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