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Wang Xuemei's life with the army has not changed much compared to before. The military wives do not make trouble for nothing. She does not have to deal with all kinds of family matters, and does not have to serve the elderly like she did in Beijing. Apart from the inconvenience of going out to buy groceries, her life is even more comfortable than in Beijing.
A peaceful life, a considerate husband, and a well-behaved daughter—this is probably the life every woman wants.
Wang Xuemei is very content. Satisfied with the status quo, she will be extra nice to the people around her. The couple accommodated each other and respected each other through the legendary adjustment period.
Guaiguai is young now, and Xiaoli is worried about leaving the little guy in the preschool class in the family area, so he volunteered to help take care of the baby. He turned into a super dad and kept the baby by his side every day.
From then on, the ten-month-old boy became Xiaoli's personal charm, and he took him wherever he went.
Guaiguai inherited his parents' good looks. He always smiles at everyone he sees. With his sweet smile and soft baby voice, he quickly won the hearts of all the men in the army.
When he saw Guaiguai, he loved her more than his own daughter. He often carried Xiaoli on his back to feed Guaiguai and play various games with her.
Time passed, and soon it was April, the day for the baby to hatch.
That day, Xiaoli and Dong Shiyi went to S Province to report on their work. Wang Xuemei left Guaiguai in the medical department and went to work. She patted Guaiguai's head and handed him a small picture book: "Mommy has to go and work, Guaiguai, can you stay here and look at the pictures?"
The little man in pink and white finally nodded: "Okay!"
In the army, Guaiguai’s popularity was even higher than Wang Xuemei’s. Wang Xuemei was not afraid that Guaiguai would get lost, so she went to work with peace of mind.
After she left, he stood up obediently from the small stool, his eyes rolling around, and soon left the medical department alone, stumbling slowly towards the training ground.
Guaiguai grew up in the army and is very familiar with the place. When she sees uncles and aunts on the road, she will stop to rest and say hello. Of course, if someone can hold her for a while, she will also give them a sweet kiss.
His mischievous appearance made everyone laugh.
Since he started learning to speak, Guaiguai has been following Xiaoli in the army. He has come into contact with more people, so although Guaiguai, who is only one year old, cannot speak fluently yet, he has a large vocabulary and often speaks in the local dialect without knowing who he is talking to.
Every time Guiguai spoke in dialect, Xiao Li got a headache and couldn't eat. It was so funny to think about a nice girl speaking in dialect of S Province on one hand and dialect of N City on the other.
There was no other way Xiao Li could do but to ask the officers and soldiers in the army to speak Mandarin as much as possible.
Growing up in such an environment, Guaiguai ultimately failed to become the dignified little lady that Xiaoli had imagined, but instead became a complete little devil when her parents were not around.
After going through untold hardships, Guaiguai finally arrived at the training ground. She was enjoying the coolness under a big tree in the training ground, chatting with the battalion commander uncles in her childish words while watching other uncles doing various training. She ate a candy given by an unknown uncle in her little mouth, raised a finger and said to the people around her: "Mom said, today is Guaiguai's first birthday. After today, Guaiguai will be a big baby!"
Seeing Guaiguai frowning and looking very distressed, the first battalion commander Liu Tutu asked, "Hey, it's our Guaiguai's birthday today, why are you still unhappy? Who made Guaiguai unhappy? Tell uncle and I will teach him a lesson for you."
"Guaiguai is about to become an adult, so naturally he'll have some worries." Guaiguai shrugged and sighed like a little adult, "Dad always says that he hopes Guaiguai will never grow up, but Mom said that Guaiguai is a big boy today. When Dad comes home and sees that Guaiguai has become a big boy, will he dislike him anymore?"
Xiao Li and Wang Xuemei are naturally like most parents in educating their children, one plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop. Xiao Li is the good cop, so naturally he carries more weight in Guaiguai's heart than others.
When she thought about her father coming home and finding that she had grown up and no longer liked her, Guaiguai finally couldn't help crying.
"Woo~~ I want to find my daddy, woo~~ Be good and don't grow up..."
The tears came inexplicably, and Liu Tutu hurriedly picked her up, and imitated Xiao Li's usual way of gently patting Guaiguai's back, making a sound of "Aoaoao~" from his mouth.
Guaiguai hiccuped and said, "Uncle Liu, this is not right. Guaiguai doesn't want to sleep at all!"
"Then what should I do?" Liu Tutu is a single guy who doesn't even have a partner, let alone children. If Guaiguai tells him that he is wrong, he will immediately ask back and try to correct it.
This generation of adults is a bit difficult to lead, and a bit stupid. They can't even coax a child. The obedient little hand wiped the tears, "Uncle Liu, you should say, don't cry, uncle will take you to buy candy."
The second battalion commander next to him laughed so hard that his mouth couldn't stop: "Guai, you want to eat candy, right? What are you thinking, kid? Why are you so cunning? Even more cunning than my eldest brother."
You have to know that his eldest son is already eleven years old, and he is still stupid. He fights with his younger brother every day for a piece of candy. They quarrel at home every day, and he feels uncomfortable if he doesn't get beaten for a day.
If he were as smart as Guaiguai, his mother would have to buy him candy every day to coax him.
The candy in her mouth was gone, and Guaiguai felt empty. She wanted to eat candy but was too embarrassed to say it directly, so she told Liu Tutu that she wanted to buy candy. When she was exposed, she embarrassedly hugged Liu Tutu's neck and hid in his arms, her little face flushed with shame.
This look amused several people around him, but there were also some with low emotional intelligence. Liu Tutu always remembered that Xiao Li did not allow Guai Guai to eat too much candy. He shook his head firmly to express his refusal: "Guai Guai, you are going to have a birthday. Big children can't eat candy."
Obediently looked up at him and asked in confusion, "Why?"
"Do you think your parents eat candy regularly? Only little kids eat candy, older kids don't." Liu Tutu said nonsense seriously.
Candy is a huge attraction for children. When they heard that they could no longer eat candy, the good little kid completely collapsed: "Uncle Liu is bad, Uncle Liu is bad!"
"Wow~ Be good and eat candy, don't be a big kid." The tears that had just stopped flowed down without mercy, causing other people in the training ground to look in their direction, and the eyes they looked at Liu Tutu became less friendly.
There's nothing they can do about it. It's his fault for bullying their cute little darling!
The commander of the second battalion shook his head and sighed to Liu Tutu: "You, you..." The little girl stopped crying. It would have been easier for you to divert her attention, but you had to bring the topic back. Now she is completely sad.
"Guai Guai!" A female soldier with two pigtails and a medical soldier's armband on the left arm of her uniform ran over breathlessly. Without asking any questions, she snatched the crying and heartbroken Gui Guai from Liu Tutu's hands and said, "What's wrong with you? How can you even bully a child?"
He looks ferocious and doesn't seem like a good person. I don't know how such a person can become a soldier.
Liu Tutu pointed at his nose, confused: "Me?"
What's wrong with me? Is it wrong to not allow me to eat candy? Why do you always act like I'm wrong?
The female soldier ignored the commander of the Second and Third Battalions beside her and launched into a barrage of criticism at Liu Tutu, looking as if she was going to teach him a lesson. "Yes, that's you. Bullying a child is nothing compared to your skill. Everyone else is training while you're bullying them. Just wait and see! I'll tell Doctor Wang and Xiao Tuan, and you'll be in trouble."
The female soldier was a newly transferred medical worker and didn't know Liu Tutu. Seeing Guaiguai crying so sadly, she thought that Guaiguai was frightened by Liu Tutu's face. After scolding him, she lowered her head and said to Guaiguai in her arms, "Don't cry, Guaiguai. I've scolded that uncle for you."
"You secretly ran away from the medical department and haven't returned. Your mother asked your sister to call you back for dinner. Will you please go back with your sister?"
"But I want to play with Uncle Liu and eat in the cafeteria with the uncles."
"Who is Uncle Liu?"
Guaiguai pointed at Liu Tutu while the female soldier was embarrassed and stretched out his hands to him: "Uncle, hug me~"
Children's intuition is very accurate. They will be close to whoever is good to them. Even though Liu Tutu is disfigured and looks very scary, Guaiguai still likes this uncle who often takes her riding a horse.
The female soldier blushed as she handed the Guaiguai to Liu Tutu and stammered, "Um, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."
After the female soldier left, she nestled in Liu Tutu's arms and said like an adult, "Mom and Dad said that this sister doesn't have a boyfriend yet. She's still a student at some school. We can introduce her to the battalion commander as his wife."
The third battalion commander came over, looked at Liu Tutu with a gossipy look on his face, and asked, "What else did my good mother say?"
Guaiguai tugged at his fingers idly, thought for a while and said, "Guaiguai forgot!"
It was the time when she was just learning to speak. Guaiguai only knew that her mother said she wanted to introduce her beautiful sister to the battalion commander of the first battalion. As for who the battalion commander was and what his relationship was, she had no idea at all.
"Tutu, what do you think?" Ever since the Xiaofang incident, no matter who introduced Liu Tutu to a partner, he acted like Tang Monk and refused to agree.
Liu Tutu is not young anymore, and he is a young and promising battalion commander. When an officer reaches a certain age, the army has to help him arrange his marriage, but Liu Tutu encounters obstacles everywhere. They are all afraid that he will be unable to think straight and get stuck in a dead end.
"That's fine, but don't say anything nonsense and ruin the girl's reputation." Liu Tutu was really scared. Two girls in a row, one married someone else, and the other was a spy. Sometimes he even wondered if he was destined to be a monk and was not suitable for getting married and having children.
He rejected all the candidates introduced by his sisters-in-law, fearing that something bad might happen. To put it bluntly, he now has invisible wounds in his heart, which makes him no longer trust women.
Liu Tutu shook the little one in his arms and said, "Come on, uncle will take you to buy some candy."
Liu Tutu left obediently with a happy look on his face, leaving the second and third battalion commanders looking at each other in bewilderment. The second battalion commander took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. "Hey, every time I say this, he slips away. I really don't know what to do with him."
The Third Battalion Commander looked at the two people leaving and said, "Take your time. Didn't Captain Xiao say that time can heal all wounds? One day he will come to his senses."
There is a supply and marketing cooperative in the township, which is the only place where people can buy things in the surrounding villages. When Liu Tutu and Guaiguai arrived at the township, they happened to meet a few young people.
The men were wearing Mao suits, and the women were in gray military uniforms. They didn't look like locals at all. One boy saw Liu Tutu and walked over to him, saying, "Hello, PLA comrade. We are geology students from Huazhong University. Could you tell me how to get to the township government?"
The boy took out his student ID. Liu Tutu took a look at it and pointed to a place not far ahead and said, "Turn left at the next intersection and you'll be there."
The two parties broke up, and Liu Tutu took Guaiguai to buy candy.
A few days later, Liu Tutu heard that several college students had established an agricultural production cooperative in the Longgang Village area.
Half an article in the provincial newspaper of Province S was devoted to reporting this incident. For several days, the newspaper introduced these students from Hua University and the benefits that the agricultural production cooperatives brought to the people as mentioned by the leaders. It encouraged everyone to quickly establish agricultural cooperatives and carried out a series of promotions for agricultural cooperatives.
Agricultural production cooperatives are a form of socialist transformation of China's agriculture. They are collective economic organizations formed by farmers voluntarily for common development.
Longgang Village is now semi-socialist and is a primary agricultural cooperative. Several college students brought the land of the farmers who joined the cooperative into the cooperative, and everyone cultivated the crops together. A portion of the crops were used to pay taxes, and the rest was shared among everyone. The farm tools, cows, and donkeys in the households were all brought into the cooperative. From then on, these were the cooperative's draft animals and farm tools, and everyone could use them by just asking.
In privatization and collectivization, the cooperative will pay farmers a certain amount of compensation based on the amount of goods they produce, or you can sell directly to the agricultural cooperative, and they will pay the money in installments based on the situation.
Since ancient times, land has been the foundation of farmers. When agricultural cooperatives were established, most people were unwilling to do so. After all, only when the land was in their own hands could people feel at ease. However, the superiors had a lot to say, saying that it was the requirements of the big leaders and that only in this way could everyone get rid of poverty and become rich and increase production and income.
The great leader led the Red Army to drive away the invaders and establish the new China. In the hearts of the Chinese people, he was like a god. Any decision he made was right, so the farmers expressed their willingness to join the agricultural cooperative.
There are requirements for joining the cooperative. Several college students conducted on-site investigations, identified poor households, and included other families that were still doing well into the cooperative.
After joining the agricultural cooperative, each member will be issued a red rural production cooperative member handbook and badge.
Xiao Li had never seen these things before. As he passed by, he happened to see a fellow villager putting a brand new member handbook into his pocket. Curiously, he said to him, "Fellow villager, is this the member handbook? Can you show it to me?"
The fellow villager looked to be about sixty years old, with gray hair and a face full of wrinkles. He took a few puffs of a pipe in his hand, then took out the member handbook he had just put in his pocket and handed it to Xiao Li: "What's so good about this broken thing?"
The old man was old and had old-fashioned ideas. He was not the kind of person who wanted to join a cooperative, but he could not resist his son's active signing up. Their family did not split up, so he became a member of the agricultural cooperative.
He took a long drag on his cigarette and choked himself because he smoked too hard. After coughing a few times, he said, "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."
The red membership handbook has "Rural Production Cooperative Membership Handbook" written on the top and wheat ears printed at the bottom. The wheat ears surround two farmers, one woman and one child. The year 1956 is written at the bottom. When it is opened, the name, address and name of the agricultural cooperative of the fellow villagers are written inside, which is similar to Xiao Li's party membership card.
After reading it, Xiao Li returned it to his fellow villager: "There are pros and cons. You have to believe that everything will be fine."
The old man put away the membership handbook and walked forward hunched over: "I hope everything is fine..."
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