Chapter 6 Chapter 6 What a sickly person
Liang Tiezhu’s anger paused.
Naturally, he couldn't answer any of them.
He sat back and continued to puff on his pipe.
"...After raising you to this age, would I ever harm you?"
"Didn't you just finish the murder?"
"......How can that be called harm! It's your own stupid thing!" Liang Tiezhu reminded, "Things change all the time. Don't think that just because the director of the commune spoke in your favor today, you have done nothing wrong. That chicken......"
"Chicken, this is not the first day you've known about this." Liang Xin put on her cotton shoes and poured out the water for washing her feet. "The boiled water you drink every morning to mix with eggs contains eggs laid by hens. Why didn't you say anything when you ate it?"
"What? I don't know!"
Liang Xin said nothing, turned her head and looked at her father in silence.
Liang Tiezhu felt guilty, and after staring at each other for a few seconds, he looked away. "We have strayed from the topic. Xiaoyan, come with me to the brigade headquarters now and call Uncle Huzi to find out the situation."
"I asked, but he wouldn't tell me."
"Can the questions you asked before be the same as the ones you ask now? The marriage report has been submitted. The situation is different now. Don't pick the vegetables. Ask Yingzi to cook some taro rice. The production team will provide the vegetables today. Let's go!"
The second sister-in-law took off the apron she had just put on, glanced at Liang Xin, and hurriedly followed her out.
Around noon, the two people came back, one after the other, with unhappy expressions.
Sitting at the table, not saying a word.
Liang Xin was holding the freshly served sweet potato rice. On the square table, there was already a small bowl of cabbage, radish, and chicken stewed with vermicelli cooked in a large iron pot by the production team.
My sister-in-law didn't really not cook anything. The production team only distributed a few dishes, and there were so many people in the family that everyone only took a little bit of food with their chopsticks.
Liang Xin has been craving for meat recently, so she dug out a few potatoes, cut them into pieces, and stewed a pot of potatoes and meat. If she couldn’t finish them at noon, she could still eat them in the evening.
Thinking that Liang Xin had been wronged today, she stewed another bowl of eggs while cooking, and then poured a few drops of sesame oil on the egg custard after it came out of the pot.
"Wow, the food is so good today!"
"Mom, I want chicken!"
When the two nephews came home from school, they saw the food on the table and started drooling with greed.
The eldest sister-in-law silently pulled the two children into the yard to wash their hands.
Liang Xin moved a wooden chair and sat down. She picked up a piece of pork with chopsticks, cut half of the lean meat with chopsticks, put the fat meat into her sister-in-law's bowl, put the lean meat on the sweet potato rice, picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. The aroma of the meat mixed with the rice was soft, glutinous, and chewy. It was simply the most delicious thing on earth.
I couldn't help but pick up another piece of meat and cut it into two parts with chopsticks, leaving the lean meat and putting the fat into my second sister-in-law's bowl.
After the eldest and second sisters-in-law had finished taking care of the children, they saw the extra fat on the rice in their bowls, secretly glanced at their father-in-law's dark face, looked at each other, and sat down to eat with a smile on their face.
Neither of them ate the fat in the bowl, but picked up the fat and put it into their children's mouths at the same time.
"Smells good! The fat smells so good!"
"Aunt, please eat more lean meat and give me the fat."
Liang Xin continued to pick up the meat, leaving the lean parts and taking away the fat parts, not caring who would eat the fat, and put it all into the bowls of her two sisters-in-law.
Sister-in-law: "That's enough, Liang Xin, you should eat some fatty meat instead of lean meat. Fatty meat is oily and you have lost weight recently."
"You haven't lost weight. I think your face looks fuller." The second sister-in-law observed her sister-in-law's face. She bit the fat in her mouth and felt the fat. Her mood instantly improved. "Liang Xin, why did you only eat meat and no rice today? Aren't you tired of it?"
Liang Xin kept picking at her chopsticks, "Are you mocking me for eating too much meat?"
"Nonsense!" The second sister-in-law quickly reached for her chopsticks and put a piece of fatty meat into Liangxin's bowl before her father-in-law could. "I'll ask your second brother to get the meat coupons from the supply and marketing cooperative to buy meat to make wontons for you to eat in the evening!"
The wontons in Linhuai are made with freshly rolled dough, cut into oblique squares, and stuffed with three parts fat and seven parts lean pork filling. The filling must be pure meat, and it cannot be chopped meat and then mixed with more than half vegetables like dumplings.
Even the family of the director of the No. 1 Steel Plant, which had the highest efficiency in the city, could not afford to eat one meal a month, let alone the brigades under the commune, where no family could afford to eat like that.
Liang Xin hasn't eaten such wontons for at least three to five years.
Therefore, my second sister-in-law said this with full sincerity.
The three lesbians and two children were eating with their mouths drooling.
The three men at the table didn't get a single piece.
Liang Tiezhu's face was darker than the bottom of a pot.
In the past, if he didn’t start eating, no one in the family dared to start eating first. If he came home late, the whole family had to wait for him to get home before they could start eating.
Today, as Liang Xin took the lead, not only did he not get to eat a piece of meat, he couldn't even get a spoonful of egg custard!
But he did not dare to flip the table in anger, because when he went to the brigade headquarters to make a phone call just now, Hu Zi's uncle still refused to say anything at first. After repeated questioning, he said that once Liang Xin's political review passed, he would go to Huaihua Village in person to explain in person.
At the end of the call, it was revealed that military marriage is a quick decision, implying that they can get married immediately after passing the political review.
Liang Tiezhu didn't know how to tell Liang Xin about this.
He was planning to let his second daughter-in-law talk to her, but after Liang Xin's ridicule, he changed his mind.
Drag it.
Wait until the political review is passed and then see what happens when Hu Zi's uncle comes.
Liang Tiezhu thought it over, stretched out his chopsticks, and found that there was not even a residue of the meat and eggs left, only a few pieces of cabbage and radish.
Liang Tiezhu: “….”
He endured it!
The political review was passed much faster than Liang Tiezhu had imagined.
A week later, Huzi's uncle went directly to Liang's house with his hands full of things.
When Liang Xin opened her eyes in the morning, her second sister-in-law was standing by the bed, holding up her cotton jacket with a flattering smile on her face.
"Little sister, it's time to get up, my most beautiful sister. My sister-in-law is already helping you make pancakes. She beats two eggs for each pancake!"
Liang Xin yawned, heard laughter coming from the main room, threw off the quilt and got out of bed.
Not only did the second sister-in-law hurriedly put the cotton jacket on her, she also took the initiative to help her button it up.
"Little sister, the one outside is my elder brother from my mother's family. He brought a lot of things with him, including your favorite iron bucket biscuits, sorghum candy, and White Rabbit milk candy!"
The second sister-in-law quickly picked up the comb on the bedside table, walked around behind Liang Xin, and helped her comb her hair and braid it. "I haven't eaten good things like White Rabbit Milk Candy in several years. My eldest brother brought at least a pound of it!"
Liang Xin was braiding her right braid and asked nonchalantly, "Wedding candy?"
“........”
The second sister-in-law was silent for a moment, then smiled awkwardly, "I said, your two brothers are not as smart as you, our Liang Xin is the smartest!"
Liang Xin glanced at her, tied up her hair with a rubber band, picked up the enamel basin, towel and toothbrush on the basin rack at the door, and walked out of the bedroom.
"Brother Ma."
"Hey, Liang Xin."
The eldest brother of the Ma family, who was wearing a green military uniform, pointed at the gifts piled on the square table with a smile on his face, "Liang Xin, the chief's family pays special attention to you. In addition to these candies, snacks, and pork, there is also an all-steel shockproof women's watch. In addition, they asked me to bring 500 yuan as a betrothal gift, which I have already given to Uncle Liang."
"Why don't you go wash up quickly?" Liang Tiezhu interrupted, "All the relatives are here, what a mess."
Liang Xin glanced at her father, said nothing, and went to the well with the basin.
Liang Tiezhu was satisfied that his daughter was sensible. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Liang Xin's voice coming from the yard:
"Brother Ma, what disease does the other party have?"
The joyous atmosphere in the main room suddenly froze.
The sounds of spatulas in the kitchen suddenly stopped.
"I came here today to explain this to you clearly."
The eldest brother of the Ma family stood up and walked to the door of the main hall. "Liang Xin, please don't misunderstand. I didn't tell you before because it involved the privacy of soldiers. Now that you are getting married, there are some things that I can't hide from you and let you get married without knowing the truth."
The second sister-in-law let out a long sigh of relief, "Brother, you finally agreed, tell me now!"
"Lu Chongfeng was born when the Korean War broke out. He went directly to the Zhenbao Island battlefield after graduating from the military academy. Since joining the army, he has received more than two handfuls of medals of honor. It is amazing!"
The eldest brother of the Ma family talked about this with a tone full of admiration and envy. "Last year, the Military Command College resumed teaching, and he was the only cadre in the entire division who was recommended to attend the military academy. If we follow the previous rules, he should have been promoted after graduating from the Military Command College. Unfortunately...he fell ill this year."
Liang Tiezhu immediately looked regretful. "Such a good seedling, with such a background, the future is immeasurable. What disease did he suddenly get?"
"The cause of the disease has not been found yet." The eldest brother of the Ma family also had the same regret on his face. "The initial inference is that it is a psychological and mental problem. The time of the attack is not fixed. I saw him once when he had an attack. His face was pale, his muscles were twitching, and his heart was in unbearable pain. It was very similar to the state of a heart patient during an attack. At present, because the cause of the disease cannot be found, there is no way to completely cure it. As for his appearance and personality... his appearance is nothing to say. Even when he was sick, he was more pleasing to the eye than many male comrades. His personality..."
Liang Xin scrubbed the face towel clean with soap and hung it on the drying line. She looked at the paused eldest brother of the Ma family and said, "If he is ill, his personality will not be very good."
The Liang family looked at Liang Xin in surprise.
"Yes, yes, yes." Liang Tiezhu said happily, "In fact, military cadres are people under the control of the Party. No matter how bad their personalities are, they can't be that bad. If they are perfect, there will be no problems. We don't even have the opportunity to talk to them, let alone get married."
"It's hard to hear the truth, but it's true."
Seeing Liang Xin's attitude, the eldest brother of the Ma family was relieved and took the opportunity to explain the mission: "Liang Xin, actually, when I came here today, the chief's family wanted you to come with me directly."
Except for Liang Xin, everyone in the Liang family was stunned.
"Just go?" The eldest sister-in-law stood at the door with an egg pancake in her hand, "What does this mean?"
"Military marriages are always quick, and this is not an exception. The commander's family has prepared everything and specifically told me not to prepare anything. It was precisely because it would be so abrupt and rude that they asked me to bring such a complete set of gifts."
The eldest brother of the Ma family looked at Liang Tiezhu and said, "Uncle, I've given you all the betrothal gifts."
"I......"
Liang Tiezhu looked at the thick stack of ten-yuan bills in front of him, hesitated for a while, and then made a decision: "I understand, Liang Xin. Just now, your brother Ma said that the other party's family situation is special. The leader is in the army, and there is a patient at home who cannot be separated. That's why the leader's family couldn't come in person. Although they didn't come, the gifts were very thoughtful. Not only did they give us 500 yuan as a betrothal gift, they also gave you a watch. I heard that the family even bought a black and white TV. Under the line of class struggle, this is already dangerously grand, which shows that they really want to marry you."
"He's really a sickly person."
Liang Xin answered without any persuasion, took the egg pancake from her sister-in-law's hand and took a bite, "He said he was looking for a wife, but in fact he was just looking for a free babysitter to serve him. I won't do it."
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