Chapter 68 Chapter 68 The way you speak is better than before! …
"It's not a good idea to be surrounded like this."
Political Commissar Zheng stepped forward and said, "Just do what you need to do. The transport company just went to the meat processing plant to bring a truckload of pork to the service center. If you don't have enough pork for the New Year, go buy some."
Minister Zou of the Logistics Department also said to the director of the guesthouse, "First, arrange rooms for the family members. They must have not eaten or slept well after taking the train for so many days. Comrades, go and rest and fill your stomachs. It will take Minister Yu an hour or two to get here from the base. When he arrives, he will definitely be able to solve this problem."
Shi Lanzhi looked at Liang Xin.
Liang Xin said: "It is indeed important to rest first. Wait until Minister Yu arrives, then you can come over."
Yu Honghong: “….”
Yu Honghong wanted to run, but Lu Chongfeng suddenly blocked her way.
Li Mao's voice came from behind: "Hey! You can't leave. You've caused us so much trouble. If your dad doesn't solve the problem for our bakery today, don't even think about running away!"
Yu Honghong glanced at the tall and straight Lu Chongfeng, then turned back and said angrily, "What does it have to do with me? Which of my words is not true?"
Liang Xin said, "Whether it is your business or not, you will know when Minister Yu comes."
Yu Honghong's expression changed again.
Li Mao stepped forward, grabbed her arm, and dragged her into the bakery, "Stay here!"
Yu Honghong had been holding back her anger for a long time, and she shouted at Li Mao: "Don't touch me with your dirty hands!"
"Who wants to touch you!"
Li Mao immediately poured water to wash his hands, "I was also dissatisfied with you for dirtying my hands!"
As he spoke, Li Mao picked up the soap and rubbed his hands, washing them once and then a second time.
Yu Honghong was so angry that her face turned red and she slapped her sleeves hard.
“Where are you shooting?”
Zhong Xuelian picked up the palm-leaf fan in front of the honeycomb coal stove and fanned it. "This is the long table for making snacks for all the teachers. You throw all the ashes on your body here. If you get a stomachache, who will be held responsible?"
Yu Honghong dared to be rude to Li Mao, but she did not dare to be so casual with the family of Political Commissar Ji, a promising political cadre in the division. She did not answer and just watched in silence.
Li Mao looked at Zhong Xuelian in surprise, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he immediately held it back the next second.
Lu Chongfeng walked into the bakery and said, "You sit here. I'll take the shopping book and go buy some meat. I'll come back to see you after I bring it home."
Liang Xin nodded.
As Lu Chongfeng stepped out, he saw the blackboard at the door calling for names, "Want a name?"
Liang Xin asked: "What suggestions do you have?"
Lu Chongfeng tilted his head and looked towards the guesthouse. "Let's talk about it after the matter is resolved."
Liang Xin: “?”
"I'll go first, buy the pork, and then buy the shrimp."
Just as Lu Chongfeng was about to leave, he stopped again and said, "You like spicy and salty food, do you want to buy some more peppercorns?"
"No need, my mom pickled it and asked me to bring it over." Liang Xin advised: "Don't buy too much pork, there are only two of us, and it's enough to eat fresh meat during the New Year."
"Listen to the leader."
Lu Chongfeng walked out this time. ”
"Look at this young couple, how well they live."
Li Mao tied on an apron and said, "So, people need to have a good conscience. If they don't, their lives will get worse and worse!"
Yu Honghong hated Li Mao to death.
But everyone at the door had been evacuated by the division leaders.
Here, all the people are from the bakery.
She didn't dare to take it out on Li Mao anymore, for fear that in the end, she would even offend Commander Yang's family.
Xia Xia suddenly stopped Li Mao who was pouring flour into the yellow basin and asked, "Are you not going to do it this morning?"
Li Mao was stunned, "Why?"
Xia Xia glanced at Yu Honghong.
Yu Honghong was stunned at first, but then she understood what it meant and her face turned pale.
"Oh, yes, yes!"
Li Mao moved the flour bag downstairs again. "The secret recipe cannot be seen by people with bad consciences."
Yu Honghong couldn't help but say: "Who cares!"
"I love it, we all love it!" Li Mao pulled out a chair and sat down, taking out a handful of melon seeds and cracking them, "So the technology must not be leaked!"
Yu Honghong glanced at the door of the bakery and gritted her teeth in anger.
Liang Xin made a cup of tea, blew away the floating tea leaves, took a sip of hot tea to warm herself up, closed the lid of the enamel jar, took out a pen and paper and began to write on it.
Unable to make snacks in the morning, the four people from the bakery began to bring in the New Year’s goods to clean and marinate.
Liang Xin watched Xia Xia pick up a chicken and stuff seasonings into it from under its buttocks. "Sister-in-law, Yang Tao is not coming back for the New Year this year?"
Xia Xia nodded with a smile on her face. "I was assigned to an internship at a film studio before the New Year. They said they were going to shoot a movie in Beijing. The schedule is tight, so I won't take the train back and forth."
"Movie?" Zhong Xuelian asked in surprise, "Is it a movie made by a movie theater? Yang Tao is so talented, can he make a movie himself?"
"They all passed the college entrance examination in one try, not the junior college students who failed after three or four attempts. They are very smart."
Li Mao had just finished speaking when she saw Yu Honghong glaring at her. "I'm not saying anything about you. You've taken the college entrance examination more than three or four times since it was resumed in 1977, right?"
Yu Honghong really wanted to tear Li Mao’s mouth apart!
"What are you so proud of? Didn't you fail the exam?"
Li Mao said: "I haven't taken the exam yet, you are really interesting compared to me!"
Yu Honghong: “….”
"Besides, I'm no worse than you now." Li Mao said, "I was admitted to the technical secondary school of the Logistics School, which is at the same level as high school!"
Yu Honghong's chest kept rising and falling, and she subconsciously looked at Wang Daya, who was weaker in her memory.
But I remembered what I said just now, Wang Daya is also about to graduate from secondary technical school.
Thinking of this, looking at this group of women who were originally far inferior to her, in just a few years, they are almost catching up with her!
All this is because of Liang Xin!
When she thought about the difficult time she was in, she bowed her head to Liang Xin, but Liang Xin didn't help her.
Yu Honghong snorted coldly.
"What's so great about it? It's just climbing up the ladder..."
Yu Honghong didn’t say the rest.
Liang Xin raised her eyes and glanced at her.
The door of the bakery was suddenly pushed open, and Minister Yu, who was supposed to arrive for at least half an hour, suddenly appeared.
Yu Honghong stood up suddenly, tripping over the stool, and nervously looked at her father, whose face showed no emotion, "...Dad, Dad."
Minister Yu didn't look at her, as if he couldn't see her existence at all, nor could he hear her speak. When he looked at Liang Xin, he pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "Comrade Liang Xin, I'm sorry to trouble you again."
Liang Xin stood up and said, "Minister Yu."
Lu Chongfeng, carrying a basket of shrimps, pushed open the door of the bakery, stood at attention and saluted Minister Yu.
The leaders of the division headquarters all rushed over.
"I have already investigated the matter thoroughly."
Minister Yu said, "Comrade Liang Xin, Minister Zou of the Division Logistics Department also told me about the development of the bakery. You are the treasure of the 11th Division and the pearl of the Jiangkou Base. You have a broad mind and have not only considered the families of the 11th Division, but also the families of martyrs in the 11th Division and the Jiangkou Base. The base logistics department should have fully supported the expansion plan of the bakery. The funds needed by the bakery will be directly allocated from the account to the bakery after the base logistics department holds a meeting and discusses. I believe you will be able to properly settle the martyrs' families."
Minister Zou breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Liang Xin and smiled, "See, I said that once Minister Yu came, this matter would be resolved. Comrade Liang Xin, how much money does the bakery need? Write a report and submit it to the base as soon as possible. You must never think of going out to work alone again in the future."
Before Liang Xin could say anything, Minister Yu said, "This is not Comrade Liang Xin's fault. It's my fault for not educating my daughter well."
Yu Honghong shrank her shoulders. She would rather see her father getting angry than speaking calmly.
Normally, the leaders of the division would praise their leader and say a few good words about Yu Honghong, but at this time no one said anything.
Minister Zou hesitated and said, "With Honghong's personality and mentality, she is not suitable to stay under your wing any longer."
Minister Yu nodded, "I was wrong."
"dad!"
Yu Honghong panicked and said, "This is none of my business. I am telling the truth. I am not talking nonsense. It was Liang Xin who suddenly brought this up with you..."
Lu Chongfeng asked, "How did the martyrs' relatives know about the situation of the 11th Division Bakery?"
Yu Honghong choked, "How should I know..."
"Minister Yu has already investigated everything."
Lu Chongfeng just reminded her and did not talk to Yu Honghong. "Minister Yu, Liang Xin discussed the cooperation with the aviation food factory in Jiangjing today. If there was no such cooperation, with so many martyrs' relatives coming suddenly, the bakery would definitely not be able to hire so many people. There are so many reporters from other units squatting in front of the Military Daily and the Liberation Daily. In addition to the glory of Jiangkou Base as a model city for the support of the army and the people in recent years, it is also related to whether it can continue to win the honorary title of model city for the support of the army and the people this year. If affected by this, the four years of hard work of Jiangkou Base may be wasted."
Minister Yu suppressed his anger, his breathing became heavy, and he looked at Yu Honghong.
Yu Honghong never expected that there were so many things involved and was completely stunned.
"As for how much the model city for supporting both the army and the people will affect the base's military expenditure and personal promotion, let's not talk about it for now."
Lu Chongfeng said: "Although the 11th Division has made meritorious contributions in previous wars and was awarded the honorary title of the station by the □□ in 1979, compared with other divisions, its military history, military combat capabilities, and military production and management are very weak. Under the difficult military expenditure situation of the country, it is imperative to streamline the organization according to the needs of the situation..."
Lu Chongfeng had just finished speaking when the faces of the leaders of the 11th Division all changed.
Everyone looked at Yu Honghong with extremely sharp eyes.
"I have always felt guilty about Comrade Liang Xin."
Lu Chongfeng looked at Liang Xin. "She followed me to the 11th Division. She didn't have a good life. She was busy solving practical difficulties for the 11th Division. Since she started college, she never thought about being assigned to other units as a state cadre after graduation. Before she graduated, she was busy expanding the production and operation of the bakery. Even though the 11th Division focused on the pharmaceutical factory instead of the bakery, she never complained. Instead, she quickly promoted the production plan of joint production and sales, bringing considerable prospects for the production and operation of the 11th Division."
Looking at Lu Chongfeng who suddenly said these words in public, Liang Xin felt a little hot in her ears, but she also felt that he was shining all over.
Lu Chongfeng looked at Yu Honghong with cold eyes: "The leaders of the Military Commission attach great importance to the production and operation of the army. While Comrade Liang Xin has worked hard to ease the contradiction between supply and demand of military funds for the 11th Division, deployed various forces, and carefully formulated production development plans, there are people in the 11th Division who have been trying to create obstacles and difficulties for her, wanting to laugh at her..."
"Minister Yu."
Division Commander Yang stepped forward and said, "Comrade Xie Kangmei is no longer a cadre of the 11th Division. According to military regulations, Comrade Yu Honghong is no longer a dependent of the 11th Division."
Minister Yu nodded and said, "I will let her go home today and will not let her appear in the 11th Division again."
"I'm not going back!"
Yu Honghong said anxiously: "Xie Kangmei is still in prison, and his party and military membership has not been expelled. I will wait here for him to come back!"
Minister Yu looked at Political Commissar Zheng, "The division headquarters should handle it as soon as possible."
Political Commissar Zheng paused, looked at Minister Yu's face, and saluted, "Yes, Chief."
"dad!"
Yu Honghong looked at Minister Yu in disbelief, "You..."
Minister Yu's sharp eyes swept towards Yu Honghong. After pinching her throat, he slowly turned around and looked at Liang Xin with admiration in his eyes. He shook his head and said:
"My family is in misfortune. My two sons died on the battlefield, leaving only this one daughter."
Liang Xin didn't say anything.
Minister Yu looked at Lu Chongfeng with the same admiration in his eyes. "The base will support the bakery as a key production and operation, and no one will create trouble for Comrade Liang Xin. But I also tell you the truth. The country is short of military funds, so we focus on supporting the production and operation of the army. The 11th Division has put all its money into the pharmaceutical factory. Even if the base can help the bakery with part of the money, it is very limited. The bakery still cannot do without Comrade Liang Xin and his family to continue to work hard."
"As long as no one holds us back," Li Mao suddenly said boldly, "We are not afraid of hardship, and we are even less afraid of struggle!"
Minister Yu smiled and nodded, but when he turned to look at his daughter, his smile disappeared. He grabbed his daughter's arm and walked out with Yu Honghong in his arms.
Yu Honghong instantly felt that her acupoints were pinched, and her facial features were distorted due to numbness. She couldn't utter a single word she wanted to say. She was dragged out by her father with fearful steps, and she couldn't help but trembled as she said:
"Dad, Dad, I was wrong. I know I was wrong. I will never dare to do it again. I was wrong!"
Minister Yu, however, ignored Yu Honghong again as if he had just stepped into the door, and forcibly stuffed her into the military vehicle.
After the military vehicle drove away, Li Mao laughed out loud, "I lost more than I gained!"
Because Li Mao's proud voice was so loud, Yu Honghong, who was sitting in the military vehicle, could hear it clearly.
Looking back at the bakery from the rearview mirror of the car in front, I saw Liang Xin surrounded by a group of people.
She put so much effort into it, but not only did she fail to bring any harm to Liang Xin, she also ended up sending her money and people!
The most important thing is that he was kicked out of the 11th Division in the end!
The blood in Yu Honghong's throat surged. She held back her breath and looked at her father carefully, "Dad, the reason I did this is because I couldn't stand Liang Xin being so fake."
Minister Yu closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing.
"Really? I never lie." Yu Honghong continued, "Everyone says she's a hero and she's kind-hearted. You don't know that Liang Xin is a person who despises the poor and loves the rich!"
Minister Yu opened his eyes.
Yu Honghong's fear faded slightly, and she said happily: "The one who was transferred to the canteen of the cadres of the 11th Division is Wei Yuanyang, whom I mentioned to you. I just found out that he was not a relative of Captain Lu. In fact, he was Captain Lu's rival in love. He used to be Liang Xin's boyfriend. After Liang Xin met Captain Lu, she didn't want him anymore and turned around to climb up the Lu family. How could such a person have any conscience? She is just a better actor than Xie Kangmei!"
"parking."
After the military vehicle stopped, Minister Yu said to Yu Honghong: "Follow me."
Yu Honghong followed Minister Yu towards the river in front of the farmland with a puzzled look on her face.
I walked to the shore, looked at the sparkling river, and then looked at my father. Before I could see his face, I was suddenly kicked into the river!
"Chief!"
The driver rushed forward and looked at Yu Honghong who was submerged in the river and quickly floated up again. After seeing that she could obviously swim, heaved a sigh of relief and took off his shoes.
Minister Yu raised his hand and said, "Let her climb up by herself."
Yu Honghong's face turned pale and she swam to the shore in panic. Her eyes were filled with fear as she looked at her father, not even daring to ask him a single question.
Minister Yu's eyes were filled with disappointment. "I had hoped that you could be as righteous as your two brothers and serve the country and the people. Unfortunately, I knew from a young age that you were not as good as your two brothers. Later, I saw that you were quite talented in dealing with people, so I hoped that you could live a comfortable life. But I never expected that you would become a person with low moral character, who is cold and indifferent to the weak, and has no respect for the strong who help the weak, but is sarcastic and mean!"
Yu Honghong's cotton-padded jacket was completely wet. Her arms were so weak from the sudden overexertion due to the life-threatening situation that they felt like cramps. She couldn't move at all. She could only listen to her father talking while trembling all over.
"Liang Xin came to Jiangkou Base with the army a few years ago, and it was she who rescued people in this river."
Minister Yu looked at his daughter and said, "You dare to deny such a hero. You also dare to use the families of martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country just to attack heroes. In the future, will you deny and use martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country for your own selfish desires?"
Yu Honghong's lips were trembling from the cold.
Having personally experienced what it feels like to go down to the river in winter, and thinking about how Liang Xin would not give up on saving Yang Tao again and again in such a cold day and with such icy water, for the first time I truly felt a trace of admiration for Liang Xin.
"You dare to talk about Wang Daya..."
Minister Yu stopped talking, worried that his daughter might leak out the commander's family affairs. "If I find out that you have bad intentions towards Liang Xin again, from now on, don't even think about stepping into the Jiangkou base compound!"
Yu Honghong was startled, and she burst into tears the moment she looked up, "Dad! I won't dare to do that again. I won't dare to have bad intentions towards Liang Xin again!"
Liang Xin went to the guesthouse to tell the martyrs' families the good news, asking them to have a good rest and wait for the amount of funding from the base to come in. After making plans, she went home carrying a basket of celery.
Lu Chongfeng was sitting in front of a large aluminum basin in the backyard, cutting up pork. When he heard Liang Xin coming back, his right ear moved.
Liang Xin walked up to him with the vegetables and poked his face with her finger.
Lu Chongfeng took out a piece of pork that was 30% fat and 70% lean and put it in an enamel basin.
Liang Xin poked his face again, "You were quite talkative just now, why are you silent now?"
"Cutting the meat."
Lu Chongfeng continued to cut meat.
Liang Xin bent down and kissed his face.
Looking at the pair of lively eyes full of teasing smiles as she leaned forward, Lu Chongfeng raised the corner of his mouth, "Didn't they say that we are not allowed to do intimate actions in broad daylight?"
"award."
Liang Xin was about to leave with her basket of vegetables when she heard the sound of a knife falling into a large aluminum basin. Her wrist was grabbed at the same time and she was sitting on Lu Chongfeng's lap the next second. "You just touched the pork!"
Lu Chongfeng kissed Liang Xin's disgusted face and said, "I used the hand that was holding the handle of the knife to pull you."
Liang Xin pointed at his raised hand and said, "Keep your hand away from me. Don't let it get on my new clothes."
"It's far away."
Lu Chongfeng hugged Liang Xin with one hand and said, "No need for reward. These are all my true feelings. I really feel guilty towards you."
Liang Xin tilted her head, "Because I graduated from university and returned to the 11th Division?"
Lu Chongfeng nodded.
Liang Xin wanted to hug his neck and look at his handsome face. "If you don't become a government official, aren't you still contributing to the people?"
Lu Chongfeng said: "That's different."
"I think the same. The bakery belongs to the production and operation front, which is the logistics front of the entire army. The profits earned will be immediately used to strengthen troop construction, military product production, and subsidize soldiers' food training. The military expenses needed to repair and upgrade the aircraft, artillery, ships and vehicles of the entire division are likely to be paid by the profits of our bakery to ensure the combat capability of the entire division."
Liang Xin pointed at Lu Chongfeng's straight nose and said, "Don't underestimate us."
Lu Chongfeng knew that Liang Xin was trying to comfort him, so he lowered his head and kissed the corner of Liang Xin's lips. "No matter what you do, even if you sleep at home, I will only look up to you and will not look down on you."
Liang Xin smiled and said, "I have learned more about love, and my words sound better than before!"
Lu Chongfeng held Liang Xin's back and pressed her close to himself.
After kissing for a while, Liang Xin remembered that the door was not locked, so she pushed him away and jumped off his legs. "Hurry up and prepare the meat. We'll wait till the evening to make the shrimp dumplings after this morning delay. I'll cut a piece of lean meat into shredded meat, stir-fry celery and shredded pork, and make a yellow chrysanthemum, cauliflower, vermicelli and egg soup. Let's go to the cafeteria and buy some white steamed buns. We'll have a simple meal."
Lu Chongfeng had no objection.
When Liang Xin was washing meat in the sink, Li Mao suddenly appeared on the wall. Liang Xin was startled and said, "I think we need to put some broken wine bottles on this wall."
"It just occurred to me. Sorry, sorry. I'll definitely let you know next time."
Li Mao pointed to the roof opposite and said, "Xie Kangmei is in jail, Yu Honghong is gone, will there be a new neighbor on your right?"
Liang Xin was startled and looked towards the wall of the vegetable garden.
Li Mao continued, "Captain Lu has been promoted to a full colonel. Do you still plan to continue living here?"
"I'm used to it." Liang Xin said, "Deputy regimental commanders are allocated three-bedroom apartments of 80 square meters, while regular regimental commanders only have 10 square meters more. I still like living here."
"If you like living here so much, why not just push down this wall?"
Li Mao pointed at the wall of the vegetable garden and said, "Even the families of the battalion-level officers were unwilling to live in this teahouse. Didn't Xie Kangmei want to threaten you to give up your house and build a garden for Yu Honghong? I see you put flowers in the vase every now and then, why not make the yard next door into a garden for you to grow flowers."
Liang Xin turned off the faucet and looked at Lu Chongfeng.
"You're graduating soon. If you want a child, your current house will definitely not be big enough to live in." Li Mao said, "You have to prepare in advance. Don't wait until the child is born to prepare. The paint smell is so strong that it's not good for the health of adults and children!"
Lu Chongfeng shook his head, "I think he is unlucky!"
He didn't want to be like Liang Xin, like them, quarreling every day and becoming estranged from each other.
"Superstition is unacceptable."
Liang Xin said, "Go ask the barracks department if they can tear down this wall. If they can, you should be able to get one according to your rank."
Lu Chongfeng cut his flesh, "No, just wait, I will let you live in the teacher's building soon. The teacher's building not only has two floors, but also a yard that is bigger than these two rooms combined. Then you can plant eggplants, beans, peppers, tomatoes, peach blossoms, cherry blossoms, orchids, chrysanthemums, whatever you want to plant, you can plant it freely!"
Hearing his confident tone, Liang Xin smiled, looked at Li Mao on the wall, and when she found Li Mao had a dazed look on his face, she laughed out loud.
Years ago, the base logistics department allocated 200,000 yuan to the bakery.
Liang Xin invited all the martyrs' families in the guesthouse to the bakery.
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