Chapter 23 Comrade Gu Jianguo, are you willing?
When Gu Jianguo returned home, breakfast was already ready: stir-fried cabbage and corn porridge. After eating and boiling peanuts, Gu Siqing ran to the village committee.
The village chief and the accountant were both there. When they saw Gu Siqing, they smiled and said, "Xiao Si wants to read the newspaper again!"
Gu Siqing had been reading the newspaper every day these days, just to have an excuse to talk to her family about the national situation. But today, she wanted to borrow the newspaper and give Comrade Gu Jianguo a hard time.
"Uncle Zhao, you look different today than usual!" Gu Siqing smiled as she walked into the house and saw the village chief.
Zhao Tielin really liked the Gu family's little fourth child, who looked cheerful and clever. He laughed and said, "Little Fourth, how are we the same?"
"You look younger and more energetic today than usual." Gu Siqing made up a lie. In order to brainwash Comrade Gu Jianguo, she was determined to do it.
Acting cute or something like that is not shameful for me.
No one doesn't like to hear nice words. Zhao Tielin laughed even more happily. "You are just a coaxing girl." Zhao Tielin stopped laughing, but his eyes were still narrowed. "Tell me, what do you want to do?"
Gu Siqing said with a giggle, "I want to take the newspaper home and read it to my dad so that Comrade Gu Jianguo can study the policies more."
This made Zhao Tielin and the accountant laugh again. Zhao Tielin handed her the latest newspaper and said, "Take it and let your father study it."
"Okay!" Gu Siqing took it with a smile, "Thank you, Uncle Zhao."
She left with the newspaper. Zhao Tielin looked at her back and sighed, "If Gu Jianguo could have a son, everything would be perfect."
The accountant opened the account book and said, "No matter how good a daughter is, she will belong to someone else in the future. A man always needs a son to take care of him in his old age. A few years ago, someone offered him an adopted daughter but he refused. He will regret it in the future."
Zhao Tielin didn't say anything, but the expression of approval on his face said it all.
Gu Siqing returned home with the newspaper. Gu Jianguo and the others were picking peanuts around the peanut pile. Seeing her holding the newspaper, Gu Erhui smiled and said, "Xiao Si, you are quite generous. You even let me take the newspaper home."
"No big deal, no big deal." Gu Siqing smiled and moved closer to Gu Jianguo, "Dad, let me read the newspaper to you."
In Gu Jianguo's eyes, reading the newspaper is learning. He said with a smile: "Our Xiaosi is ready for college. Go ahead and study."
Gu Siqing coughed, then stood in front of Gu Jianguo and read in a clear voice, "The achievements of reform and opening up. Since reform and opening up, we have made rapid progress. People's lives are getting better and better."
Having read this, she glanced at Gu Jianguo and, seeing that he was listening attentively, continued, "In the early days of reform and opening up, it was impossible for everyone to participate. We must mobilize those comrades who are brave, proactive, and thoughtful to participate, and then lead the people of the whole country to strive together."
She stopped reading here and looked at Gu Jianguo seriously. Gu Jianguo was a little confused by her look, "That's all?"
"No," Gu Siqing said seriously and earnestly, "Comrade Gu Jianguo, you have been educated by the People's Army. You should muster up the courage to take the lead in reform and opening up."
Gu Jianguo: “…”
Wang Yueju: “…”
Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui: "..." What should I do if I want to laugh?
Gu Sanjing: “…” Xiao Si is so brave that he actually dares to call his father Gu Jianguo comrade.
"Young people should have the drive of youth. Comrade Gu Jianguo, you are only 38 years old, in the prime of your life. Are you willing not to fight hard while you are young? Are you willing?"
"You little bastard, you're teaching me a lesson!" Gu Jianguo jumped to his feet. Gu Siqing was quick to run, saying as she ran, "Comrade Gu Jianguo, you are a soldier of the people. You can't be a dictator. You must listen to the opinions of the people and practice democracy."
Gu Jianguo couldn't help laughing when he saw her running around in the yard like a monkey. "Come back, I won't beat you."
"Really not fighting?" Gu Siqing asked carefully.
Gu Jianguo sat down and said, "I really won't fight. Come over and read the newspaper. Read the whole newspaper."
Gu Siqing: This is retaliation.
But I have to read it. Comrade Gu Jianguo’s dignity as the head of the family cannot be violated.
She took a stool, sat down, and began to read the newspaper seriously. Half an hour later, she felt her lips were almost worn out, and then she heard Comrade Gu Jianguo say, "Let's stop here for today."
Gu Siqing quickly took the bowl of water from Gu Yimin and drank it down with a gulp. Wang Yueju felt distressed when she saw this and glared at Gu Jianguo.
Gu Jianguo glanced at his little girl and saw that her face was rosy, and he no longer felt worried.
Gu Siqing filled a bowl of boiled peanuts, sat next to Gu Jianguo and ate them, stuffing them into Gu Jianguo's mouth in a flattering manner.
Gu Jianguo chewed some peanuts and asked Gu Siqing, "Xiao Si, is Dad really not old?"
"Of course," Gu Siqing said immediately, "If your lifespan is a hundred years, you're only thirty-eight now, less than half that. Dad, you're still a young man!"
This made everyone laugh. Gu Siqing shrugged. In the future, there are many people who get married in their thirties. They are young people.
"You're disrespectful," Gu Jianguo scolded her lightly, but his tone was full of laughter. "Hurry up and send the newspaper back."
Gu Siqing didn't know if her operation today would work, so she took the newspaper to the village committee. On the way back, she thought, if it doesn't work this time, she'll try again next time. Like a frog in warm water, it will work one day.
What she didn't know was that at night, Comrade Gu Jianguo asked his wife to verify whether he was still young. After that, he hugged his wife and asked, "Am I still young?"
Wang Yueju gasped and hit him. Gu Jianguo laughed, then said with a hint of melancholy, "A wife, children, and a warm bed. I've really been living too comfortably these past few years."
The army is about hard work and struggle, about passion. When he was in the army, he was always full of passion. But after retiring, his passion gradually subsided.
"Don't we all live like this?" Wang Yueju said.
At least that's how everyone around them lives.
Gu Jianguo turned over and said, "I always want you to live a better life. Maybe Xiao Si is right."
"What?"
Gu Jianguo smiled and said, "While we are still young, let's give it another try."
Wang Yueju completely trusted and relied on her man. Holding his waist, she said, "I'll listen to you."
Gu Jianguo was filled with joy. With such a wonderful wife and child, he had to give it a try. But he still had to think carefully about what to do.
The Gu family's courtyard fell silent in the dead of night, while a gloomy haze enveloped the Zhang family in another village. Zhang Shuangping sat on the edge of his bed, weeping, while Ge Fenglian and her husband sighed.
Everyone wants to make themselves better and better, but the direction of their efforts is different, and the final results will be very different.
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