Chapter 87 Chapter 87 My wife is really extraordinary! …
"The old man's words hit the nail on the head. He is worthy of being a cadre."
After Liang Xin said this, the expressions of the old man and the group of people he brought with him all relaxed.
The faces of the martyrs' relatives behind them suddenly changed. Sun Meihua, who had been holding back tears for a long time, suddenly fell. She was about to say that she would not marry or leave the bakery, when she heard Liang Xin say, "Move a chair over here."
Li Mao quickly went to the back and moved the chair to the door.
Gong Yonggui glanced at his third daughter-in-law behind him and kept saying that their Director Liang would make the decision. But when Director Liang came, didn't he still side with him?
Gong Yonggui walked towards the chair with a proud look on his face. Just as he was about to turn around and sit down, the chair moved backwards. Liang Xin held onto the back of the chair and slowly sat down.
Gong Yonggui: "......"
His face froze, and his proud feet stopped moving forward.
After Liang Xin sat firmly, she stroked her belly and said, "Master, my due date is approaching. I can't stand."
Gong Yonggui pulled his feet back, thinking about how Liang Xin had just spoken to him, and forced a smile, "Director Liang, you've worked hard, and you should be sitting down. What Director Liang meant just now was..."
"What the old man said just now is something I have been keeping in mind, but I haven't found a chance to tell you yet."
Liang Xin took over the conversation, "The arrival of the master today has given this matter a formal opportunity to express my opinion."
Gong Yonggui smiled and said, "It seems we are of the same mind. Director Liang is indeed a hero. Her ideological awareness is different from that of ordinary women!"
The women in the bakery looked at each other and then at Sun Meihua who was crying silently.
"We are a new China now. We don't have chastity arches in the new China."
Liang Xin looked at Gong Yonggui, whose smile suddenly froze. "The martyrs' families in the bakery have the same right to freely choose their marriage as the employees of other units. Whether they are dating or remarrying, the bakery has no right to interfere, and will not fire any employee for this."
Sun Meihua looked up suddenly, looking at Liang Xin's back as she sat on the chair in disbelief.
The other martyrs' relatives also looked at Liang Xin with either surprise or joy.
The bakery was silent for a moment.
"Director Liang, what do you mean by that?!"
Gong Yonggui glared again, and his relatives surrounded him instantly, looking at Liang Xin fiercely.
Liang Xin sat at the door of the bakery. The sun shone on her face, making her skin look almost transparent. She squinted her eyes because of the sunlight. "I think what I just said is very clear. There is no need to repeat it again."
Li Mao rushed over immediately and said, "We don't fire people from our bakery, even if the martyr's family remarries, we won't fire people. If you understand, leave now!"
"Director Liang, I'll give you another chance."
Gong Yonggui pointed at Liang Xin and asked, "Are you really going to be so unreasonable?"
"Uncle, the bakery is a reasonable place."
Liang Xin said slowly: "You can go back and think about whether your request is reasonable or not."
"My third son died on the battlefield. Sun Meihua was able to get the job at the bakery because of her status as a martyr's relative. Now that she has remarried, she is no longer my third son's wife, and she is no longer a member of our Gong family. She has no right to benefit from our Gong family's fame!"
Gong Yonggui suddenly waved his hand behind him, pointed at a man who was walking up with a red notebook in his hand and said, "Director Liang, if you plan to protect Sun Meihua today and don't kick her out of the bakery, I will let you appear in the newspaper again. Will you be praised as a hero like before, or will you be scolded by all the soldiers? Once the newspaper publishes it, I will not let you regret it!"
Sun Meihua was so anxious that she threw herself on the back of the chair, "Director Liang..."
Liang Xin raised her hand to stop her from talking, and looked at the reporter in a thick cotton jacket, "Director Zhong, call Director Chen from the Propaganda Department of the Division, and ask her to come over with a camera and manuscript paper."
Zhong Xuelian turned around and went back to the bakery to make a phone call.
The man holding the red notebook looked at Gong Yonggui, who stared at Liang Xin, whose expression remained unchanged, and asked, "Director Liang, what does this mean?"
"Don't you want to be in the newspaper?" Liang Xin said, "I'll ask Director Chen to come over and help you get published in two more newspapers."
Gong Yonggui's brows suddenly wrinkled, "Director Liang, my son died on the battlefield protecting the country and the people, but you helped his wife and children marry someone else. If this is reported in the newspaper, which man would dare to fight on the battlefield? Don't regret it!"
The women from the bakery gathered around. Li Mao took two steps forward and pointed at Gong Yonggui and cursed: "Meihua has been your daughter-in-law for so many years and has given birth to children for your Gong family. How can you be so heartless and ungrateful like an ungrateful person!"
"If I were really heartless and ungrateful, she wouldn't have such a stable job in the bakery. The thirty yuan salary plus the martyr's family allowance every month goes to the three of them."
Gong Yonggui stared and said, "I asked her to work in the bakery so that she could raise the two children left by the third brother, not so that she could forget about the third brother in a blink of an eye and find a new man here!"
These words were harsh to the ear. Li Mao was so angry that he wanted to poke his fingers into the old man's eyes. The other relatives of the martyrs were also so angry that they were speechless.
As more and more family members of cadres gathered around, Sun Meihua felt so embarrassed that she couldn't even raise her head.
Liang Xin said: "Master, this is not a feudal society anymore. Everyone is equal now. You have no right to ask Sun Meihua to be a widow in your house."
Gong Yonggui turned his angry eyes towards Liang Xin again.
Director Chen from the Publicity Department brought two people and squeezed to the door of the bakery with a camera and a notebook.
Liang Xin saw someone coming, sat up straight and said, "Uncle, listen carefully. I will only say this once. Sun Meihua got the opportunity to train and assess in the bakery by virtue of her status as a relative of a martyr. As for the job in the bakery, it was entirely due to her personal efforts and skills. Everyone in the bakery earns their salary with their own hands. Not only are they not supported by the army, but they make money to supply the army. You find the military district leaders, but they have no right to freely deploy the bakery employees. Even if you are confident that you can let the military leaders take care of this matter and let Sun Meihua really leave the bakery, then the bakery of the 11th Division will also close on the day Sun Meihua leaves."
Sun Meihua stared at Liang Xin with tearful eyes.
All the cadres' families inside and outside the bakery were shocked by these words.
Liang Xin continued, "On the day when the 11th Division bakery closes, the Conscience Bakery will reopen in the local area, and Sun Meihua and other martyrs' families will still not lose their jobs in the bakery. Today in the army, no one will do anything to you. Wait until you get to the local area and make trouble again. The last old man like you is still in jail at the police station."
Gong Yonggui's expression changed.
"Oh, right."
Liang Xin said, "You said you want us to be scolded in the newspapers. I don't understand the logic. You also said that the martyrs sacrificed their lives for the country and the people, so it is the country and the people who remember the martyrs. Therefore, the country will give pensions to martyrs after their death and give monthly subsidies to martyrs' families. Martyrs' families have always enjoyed various preferential treatments among the people, such as medical care for school enrollment and priority consideration for admission to military and police academies after the college entrance examination. The people's comrades all actively cooperated with this without complaint. The country and the people will always remember the martyrs, but the country and the people did not ask the wives of martyrs to remember the martyrs forever by remaining widows. I think every soldier would not ask his wife to do this."
The families of the cadres in the bakery nodded unconsciously.
Seeing that more and more people were gathering around, there were more than the people he brought with him, and they were all led in by Liang Xin.
Reporters who arrived held cameras and notebooks to record their conversation!
Gong Yonggui, who knew that these famous cadres were afraid of negative news, found an accountant from the brigade to pretend to be a reporter and frightened the bakery. He said angrily, "I won't listen to your quibbling. You are just making up stories. Director Liang, if you are determined to protect Sun Meihua, I will make you famous throughout the country. Let everyone in the country know that my son died fighting on the battlefield, but you are busy letting others sleep with my son's wife and bully my son's children. Once the newspapers publish it, no parents will send their sons to the army, and no soldiers will fight on the battlefield again. I will see if you can take on this responsibility!"
When Li Mao and Zhong Xuelian heard this, their heartbeats slowed down. They looked at Liang Xin nervously and swallowed.
Sun Meihua hurriedly grabbed Liang Xin's hand and said, "Director Liang, I just met you not long ago. I won't get married. I have a job in the bakery and can support my two children to grow up. I will never get married again in my life!"
Gong Yonggui raised his eyebrows to a proud height and glanced at the nervous faces of the people in the bakery with satisfaction.
"I don't think your father-in-law can see what will happen to me."
Liang Xin held Sun Meihua's shaking hand and looked at Gong Yonggui. "Because his request for you as a daughter-in-law was published in the newspaper and seen by the whole country, I think no parents would dare to marry their daughter to a soldier again."
Gong Yonggui's proud eyebrows froze.
"When all the soldiers can't get married, he will be the first one to be drowned in spit, not me."
Gong Yonggui's facial muscles began to twitch and tremble.
Liang Xin smiled and continued, "After all, it is impossible for the people of the whole country to be like him, making trouble without reason and putting the memorial archway to commemorate the martyrs on your head alone."
Sun Meihua stared at Liang Xin in a daze, not yet realizing why the situation and public opinion suddenly turned to Liang Xin's side in just two or three seconds.
The officials from the Parents' Committee who came over said:
"Yes! It's not easy to be a military wife. Most of them have to live apart from each other. Not only do they have to take care of the whole family, but they also have to be a widow for the rest of their lives. Who would dare to marry a soldier?"
"It's an honor to be a soldier, but with the reform and opening up, soldiers can go to college, set up stalls and make money. The status of soldiers in the dating market has slowly begun to decline. If you still make such demands, it will be strange if soldiers can get married!"
"The Chairman personally arranged for his daughter-in-law to remarry, and you are still putting feudalism on your daughter-in-law. You should be sent to receive ideological education again!"
Gong Yonggui shuddered and subconsciously took a step back, away from the bakery door.
Liang Xin leaned back in the chair, looking at Gong Yonggui and the people behind him, whose faces were stiff and lips were twitching. "Director Chen, please take a photo of me and these people. When it's in the newspaper, they are all heroes who made the soldiers widows."
The young and middle-aged men behind Gong Yonggui immediately raised their sleeves to cover their faces.
"What are you blocking? Weren't you all so arrogant just now?"
Li Mao rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to pull their hands down. "Come on, Director Chen, take a good shot. From now on, every wrong will be dealt with by its perpetrator. Uncle Gong is the mastermind, and they are all accomplices! I don't think you can withstand a few punches from a bachelor soldier!"
The scene suddenly became a chicken catching scene.
The martyrs' relatives, who had been angry for a long time because of Gong Yonggui's harsh words, all followed Li Mao and grabbed the male comrades who tried to hide.
The women who moved and those who didn’t suddenly felt very happy and relieved!
Director Chen from the Publicity Department said slowly, "It's no use for them to hide. I'll take pictures as soon as I get here."
The young and middle-aged man who had been arrested many times and Gong Yonggui: "......"
Gong Yonggui walked up to Liang Xin in indignation, his eyes rolled up, and he was about to fall backwards.
Suddenly, a scream was heard at the scene, "Liang Xin, you are bleeding!"
Gong Yonggui, who was about to fall, turned pale with shock. It instantly flashed through his mind that Liang Xin was pregnant with the grandson of a senior leader and the child of the most promising officer in the entire army. However, he had lost all leverage over Liang Xin now. He staggered a few times and no longer felt dizzy. He looked at Liang Xin in panic.
Liang Xin looked down at her wet trouser legs and frowned, "It's not blood."
"Amniotic fluid!" Zhong Xuelian hurriedly supported Liang Xin, "It's the amniotic fluid that broke, Liang Xin, you're going to give birth!"
The families of martyrs and cadres all gathered around in panic.
Liang Xin took a deep breath and looked at Gong Yonggui and others in front of him. "To prevent things like today from happening again, Director Chen, when you put it in the newspaper, please help me write down these two points and let everyone know."
"First: As long as the relatives of martyrs are admitted to the temporary factory for dependents of military personnel, no one has the right to deprive them of their positions unless they have violated the law."
"Second: Every family member of the martyrs in the 11th Division's temporary military dependents factory has the absolute right to freedom of marriage. No one has the right to interfere with their freedom of marriage by using their job in the bakery."
The women present all had tears in their eyes.
Looking at Liang Xin's trembling back, the martyr's relatives choked with sobs.
Liang Xin grabbed Zhong Xuelian's hand and stood up, looking at Gong Yonggui, whose body was shaking like a sieve, and said, "I'm going to the hospital to give birth, sir, I won't accompany you anymore, please do as you please."
For the first time, Gong Yonggui deeply felt at close range what the radiance of a hero was. His legs went weak and he fell to the ground. He even forgot the fear of being reported in the newspapers. With trembling lips, he watched Liang Xin being carried out on a stretcher.
Only then did I remember what might happen to Liang Xin.
What will be his fate!
When Liang Xin was pushed into the operating room.
Lu Chongfeng rushed to the hospital, pushed open the door of the operating room that was about to close, caught the transfer vehicle, and lay on top of Liang Xin, with beads of sweat dripping on Liang Xin's face like pearls from a broken string.
Liang Xin didn't show any disdain and held his hand, "How are you?"
Lu Chongfeng's eyes blurred instantly. He held Liang Xin's hand tightly and wanted to speak, but found that no sound came out of his throat.
As the labor pains came, Liang Xin frowned, and the sweat on her eyebrows slid down the corners of her eyes to her neck. The nails of her fingers holding his turned white, "I'm going to give birth first, I feel like it's coming."
Lu Chongfeng held Liang Xin's hand and wanted to follow her in, but was pushed out by the doctors and nurses.
The medical staff couldn't push him at all. Commander Yang, Political Commissar Ji and others who rushed over from the meeting carried Lu Chongfeng out, but they could only move him a little bit.
As the wheels of the transporter wheel moved on the water-milled ground, Liang Xin's voice came from the bed: "Go home and get the delivery bag."
Lu Chongfeng, who was like a dying beast, turned around and left the operating room in an instant, striding towards the stairs in the corridor, where he met Sister Ji who was rushing over with bedding and a delivery bag.
Lu Chongfeng took the delivery bag, walked to the door of the operating room, stood there and looked inside.
There is nothing to see at all.
Lu Chongfeng was still standing at the door, without even a hair moving, like a sculpture.
late at night.
The operating room corridor has never been so crowded.
No one sat on the benches by the corridor.
The leaders of the division headquarters, logistics leaders and families of martyrs all stood in the corridor with red eyes, waiting for movement from the operating room.
Suddenly, Lu Chongfeng, who had been standing at the door of the operating room like a sculpture, leaned against the door, attracting everyone's attention.
Everyone hurriedly moved towards the door.
When the nurse took the child out of the door, she was shocked to see countless anxious faces.
After all these years of working in this field, this is the first time I have seen the entrance of an operating room so crowded.
"Deputy Commander Lu, congratulations, both mother and daughter are safe."
Lu Chongfeng's fingers embedded in his palms slowly relaxed. He first glanced at the baby in the nurse's arms, and then looked straight at the corridor in the operating room.
After waiting for a long time, he heard the sound of wheels again and rushed in.
This time, the doctors and nurses did not stop him.
"I heard that you didn't even hold your daughter after she was brought out."
Liang Xin drank the millet porridge that Lu Chongfeng fed her, "You favor boys over girls?"
Lu Chongfeng was quiet for a rare moment, feeding Liang Xin seriously, with an expression as if if he didn't feed the food into Liang Xin's mouth, she would disappear in the next second.
Liang Xin looked at her daughter wrapped in a blanket in Mudanhua's arms. Her little face was round and rosy, like a ripe apple. Her eyes were closed, her eyelashes were as soft as wool, and her soft little mouth was slightly upturned, as if she was very happy to come into this world.
Liang Xin's heart felt like it had softened into a cloud. She stared at her intently, unwilling to look away. She couldn't help but raise her hand to tuck in the corner of the quilt that didn't need to be tucked in at all, unwilling to touch her little face with her fingers.
A spoon was suddenly stuffed into his mouth.
Liang Xin: “….”
Liang Xin opened her mouth to eat porridge and looked at Lu Chongfeng, "Speak."
Lu Chongfeng's cracked lips moved, "I like it."
Liang Xin raised the corner of her mouth, "I like her too, but I feel like she looks like you, not me."
Porridge was stuffed into his mouth again.
Liang Xin pushed his hand away and said, "I don't want to eat anymore. I'm full. You can eat now."
Lu Chongfeng put the lunch box and spoon on the bedside table, turned his head to look at Liang Xin's pale face, and let out a long breath.
Liang Xin touched his head. Lu Chongfeng put her hand on his face, rubbed it with affection, turned his head and kissed her palm. He kissed her many times in a row, leaned over to kiss Liang Xin's forehead, and constantly felt Liang Xin's body temperature with his lips.
"Feel sorry."
Lu Chongfeng rested his forehead against Liang Xin's, "I'm sorry."
"It's all right."
Liang Xin held his hand and said, "It's okay."
The two of them pressed their foreheads against each other in silence.
From the moment he heard that Liang Xin's water had broken, his final reaction was that his hair stood up, his pores opened, he was sweating all over, and his heart seemed to be strangled and could no longer beat.
Lu Chongfeng continued to kiss Liang Xin's face. He could gradually feel his own heartbeat and hear the sounds around him.
Lu Chongfeng leaned against Liang Xin's face and turned to look at his daughter's sleeping face. The blue veins on the back of his hands and the sides of his neck slowly calmed down. "Beautiful."
"I just said she looks like you and you praised her for being beautiful. Are you praising your daughter or yourself?"
Liang Xin picked up the banana from the bedside table.
Lu Chongfeng took it, peeled the banana, and wanted to feed it to Liang Xin. Liang Xin took it and said, "I can do it myself."
Seeing Liang Xin taking the banana and eating it in small bites with great relish, Lu Chongfeng's tense face also revealed a slight smile, as if the sun had just emerged from the dark sea.
"Do you know that you look very intimidating when you don't speak?"
Liang Xin seemed to be summoning a spirit, teasing Lu Chongfeng to speak, "On our wedding night, I was actually frightened by your face as well."
Lu Chongfeng helped to peel off the banana peel, "That night, you didn't even look at me."
"So, you've been looking at me?"
“.......”
"It's me who gave birth to the child, not you."
Liang Xin threw the banana peel to him, "It's like you're the one who walked back from the gates of hell. I'm tired."
"Then go to sleep."
Lu Chongfeng laid the pillow flat behind Liang Xin, helped her lie down, and brushed away the hair on her face, "I'll stay here with you."
Liang Xin lay down and fell asleep.
Except for Sister Ji and medical staff, Lu Chongfeng refused all visitors.
During the few days I stayed in the hospital, Lu Chongfeng was always by my side and never left.
When they returned home, although they had originally agreed to live on the first floor, Lu Chongfeng took her to the room on the second floor and stayed there for more than a week. He stayed there day and night and never left.
Liang Xin's body had almost recovered. "Did the higher-ups suspend you from your job?"
After Lu Chongfeng changed his daughter's diaper, he wrapped her in a blanket again, tied the rope, and put her in the stroller. He turned around and said, "The reform of the 6th Company of the 22nd Regiment will be temporarily suspended. The headquarters originally planned to transfer me to the army to cooperate with the investigation. Because you gave birth suddenly, they asked me to stay at home and wait for the organization's order after the investigation."
Liang Xin had basically figured it out, so she wasn't surprised to hear this answer. "Any road to reform is full of thorns and it's impossible to be smooth sailing, but as long as the route and direction are correct, the storms are only temporary."
Lu Chongfeng laughed, walked to the bed and sat down, holding Liang Xin's hand, "My wife is really extraordinary!"
Liang Xin glanced at him: "What do you mean?"
"You were the first to suggest dual-purpose talents, and Commander Yang kept reminding me to prevent you from blaming yourself." Lu Chongfeng smiled and said, "I didn't think you would, but you gave birth before the due date, so I couldn't help but worry that you were overthinking it. You were in a good mood after giving birth, so I didn't mention it to you again. Today I realized that you didn't take it to heart at all."
"China is currently trying to make money with talent and use money to support talent."
Liang Xin said: "Dual-use talents are the inevitable path to take. Those who don't understand and try to stop it should blame themselves. Why should I blame myself?"
Lu Chongfeng smiled proudly again, but when he thought of Liang Xin who was in confinement after giving birth, his smile turned into guilt. "It's already the due date, and not only have you been worried, but you also have to deal with the martyr's family affairs..."
"There's no need to say anything sentimental."
Liang Xin held his fingers tightly and said, "The biggest opponent of reform is the conservatives. You should not feel frustrated. You must have firm confidence and never give up."
"Just them?"
Lu Chongfeng snorted, "I was scared by you. How could they have any influence on me?"
Liang Xin: ".......Then why did you stop working and stay at home?"
Lu Chongfeng: “…”
"Comrade Liang Xin, you are prohibited from attacking your own people!"
Liang Xin chuckled and looked at her daughter in the stroller beside the bed. "Mom said Dad is thinking of a full name. Let's pick a nickname first."
Lu Chongfeng looked at his daughter's little face in the crib, "Chubby, so we call her Dudu?"
Liang Xin said: ".......just as casually as Xiaoju and Xiaobai."
"That's not a random name."
Lu Chongfeng explained seriously, "We had our daughter in Beijing. Her names are Beibei and Jingjing, both of which are very ordinary. What is Beijing? It's the capital. Shoushou doesn't sound good. The word Dudu is a polyphone. I don't know whether it should be Dudu or Dudu. You see, our daughter is so chubby. The name Dudu is both cute and represents the capital. It's very meaningful!"
Liang Xin was about to speak when Lu Chongfeng pointed at his daughter and said, "Look, the corners of her mouth are curled up. She's smiling. She's very satisfied!"
"...It's been tilted up from time to time since birth."
Seeing Lu Chongfeng's smug look, Liang Xin did not object, "Dudu, it looks like a pig."
"It's just a little pig that eats and sleeps, then eats."
Lu Chongfeng hooked his finger and carefully touched his daughter's face, "Dudu."
Liang Xin raised the corner of her mouth, "I wonder what name Dad will give Dudu."
"What good names can he come up with? Look at the names he gave us. I told you to choose one, but you refused."
"Mom made Dad so excited. We can't think of any good names for now, so let him pick one."
Lu Chongfeng curled his lips, "Breaking into the enemy's formation, being the first to climb the mountain, seizing the flag, and beheading the general, these are either related to military merit or to the battlefield."
Liang Xin took a sip of water and said, "We are girls, and roses have nothing to do with military merits and battlefields."
Lu Chongfeng said: "Yueji was originally called Zhanjiang."
Liang Xin almost choked on a mouthful of water, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Lu Chongfeng said: "I was still in shock at that time, so you guys just said it."
Liang Xin thought for several days about how to reject the name given by Commander Lu. Before she even received the call, her parents-in-law and her natal family all arrived at the 11th Division.
Chief Lu brought Dudu's name, "Lu An, safe and sound."
Lu Chongfeng: “….”
Liang Xin smiled.
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