Chapter 14 Going to Lu's House
Su Mo didn't know that she was labeled as a scheming woman. But even if she knew, she wouldn't care. She didn't want to have too much to do with the people in the educated youth camp. It was enough for them to just nod to each other.
If the relationship was too good, they would often come to see her after she moved out, and it would be inconvenient for her to do anything.
Su Mo pushed aside the wheat straw, took out the eggs and counted them. There were 23 of them. It was estimated that she had changed several families before she got them.
Su Mo felt a little warm in her heart.
She put the eggs away, covered the wheat straw again, and put the straw basket next to the small suitcase.
This thing could not be put away because everyone saw it.
After that, Su Mo followed the educated youth who went to work to the brigade headquarters and asked the brigade leader for leave. Along the way, the atmosphere was a bit strange. The other educated youths looked at Su Mo with some scrutiny.
Su Mo didn't care and just kept walking forward with Ma Xiaojuan.
When they arrived at the brigade headquarters, Su Mo went directly to the brigade office to find the brigade commander.
The brigade commander Lu Baoguo was assigning tasks. When he heard the knock on the door, he looked up and saw Su Mo. He couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"Su, educated youth, are you feeling better? What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Thank you for your concern, brigade commander. I'm feeling better. I came here to ask for another day off. I have something to do in the city."
Lu Baoguo is the elder brother of Li Cuihua's husband Lu Baojia. Last night, he had heard about Lu Changzheng and Su Mo from his nagging sister-in-law.
Although the commune leader said that forcing marriage after saving someone’s skin was a bad habit and should be prohibited, if both parties were willing, then he would not interfere.
"Are you going with Chang Zheng?" Lu Baoguo asked.
Su Mo was stunned, but still nodded.
"Okay, go ahead." Lu Baoguo waved his hand and approved it.
Although leave is not allowed during the autumn harvest, the autumn harvest is almost over, and Su, an educated youth, can't do much work. What's more, people are expected to get married soon, so can't they go to the city to buy some things? The brigade should also be humane, right?
Su Mo had prepared a lot of speeches, but she didn't expect to be invited so easily. She was a little dazed for a while. She didn't even know how to walk out of the brigade office, and it was only when Ma Xiaojuan called her that she came back to her senses.
"How is it? Did you get it?" Ma Xiaojuan asked in a low voice. Asking for leave during the autumn harvest is hated, and the villagers must not hear it.
Su Mo nodded.
"Didn't the team leader criticize you?"
Su Mo shook
her head. Ma Xiaojuan pouted unhappily, "Then why was I scolded when I asked for leave? And the legitimate reason of going to the health center to take care of you was not approved. I think the team leader has something against me. It's really unlucky. I don't know where I offended him."
Ma Xiaojuan began to think about whether to send something to the team leader after the autumn harvest.
Her family said that she had to stay in the countryside for at least two or three years before they could take her back. If the team leader kept targeting her, then her life would be difficult.
Su Mo didn't know what to say. Neither the original owner nor she knew much about this brigade.
"Then when you go to the county, remember to buy me some egg cakes. I'm really greedy, and I seem to be hungry every day. If you can carry the enamel basin, buy it, if not, forget it. If you have candy, buy me a pound of it."
Although she didn't like candy very much, the old educated youth named Lin Xia often ate candy secretly. She was caught by her several times and she was also greedy. She also had to buy a pound of candy and keep it when she wanted to eat.
If she had known earlier, she should not have been greedy and brought more things from home. Now her life is miserable.
"Okay, go quickly, quietly, don't let anyone find out. Remember, buy food first, I can buy the enamel basin later." Ma Xiaojuan said worriedly.
Su Mo was amused by Ma Xiaojuan's greedy look, and she also said softly: "Okay, I must remember to buy you food first."
Not long after Su Mo left, Lu Qing'an also arrived at the brigade headquarters.
Lu Baoguo saw Lu Qing'an and smiled: "Hey, Secretary, are you preparing for a wedding?"
Lu Qing'an muttered in his heart, where did this old man Lu Baoguo get the news? They haven't mentioned the marriage yet, but you know everything?
He didn't show it, "It depends on what the young people want. We, as parents, just cooperate."
Lu Baoguo laughed in his heart, this old fox, still pretending with him, the future daughter-in-law is going to the city, probably to prepare dowry.
But she said, "Yes, yes, the country advocates freedom of love and marriage, and we, as elders, should listen to the young people."
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After returning to the educated youth point, Su Mo took out the tickets brought by the original owner from the space, all of which were valid nationwide, and counted out two hundred dollars, and put them all into the crossbody bag brought by the original owner.
The original owner's crossbody bag was beige, a bit like the retro style of later generations. In the era when green crossbody bags with the words "serve the people" were everywhere, the original owner's crossbody bag was really special.
Su Mo recalled that the original owner's family was dressed very exquisitely, which was indeed inconsistent with the hard and simple style of this era.
Although they all spent their own clean money, others were suffering, but you were the only one with exquisite clothes, how could others not be jealous? Moreover, in the eyes of some people with ulterior motives, the Su family, a red capitalist family, is a big piece of fat meat. Once there is a chance, they will do their best to get you.
The whole family lost because they were too high-profile and misjudged people's hearts.
Not long after, Lu Changzheng arrived. Su Mo heard him calling her outside the door, so she quickly locked the door and went out.
When Lu Changzheng saw Su Mo, he saluted solemnly, "Comrade Su, I have a request, I hope you can approve it."
Su Mo was startled by Lu Changzheng's serious expression and said, "What happened?"
"My grandfather heard that I have a date and wants to meet you. I wonder if you agree."
Su Mo has always had an intuition that Lu Changzheng will not give up the plan to get married as soon as possible so easily. It happened that she had figured it out and was waiting for him to make a move.
Seeing him say that, she nodded in agreement.
Lu Changzheng saluted Su Mo solemnly again, and rode his bicycle to take Su Mo home.
The educated youth point was quite far from Lu's home. The educated youth point was at the head of the village, and Lu's home was at the end of the village.
Su Mo sat on the bicycle and looked at the village seriously for the first time. If nothing unexpected happened, she would live here for several years in the future.
There are more than 150 households in Lujia Village, and the area is quite large. At Lu Changzheng's speed, it has been several minutes since he left the educated youth point, but he has not yet reached Lu's home. After a few more minutes, Lu Changzheng finally drove the car into a yard and stopped.
"We're here, Comrade Su." Lu Changzheng said.
Su Mo got off the car and looked at the house in front of her. Although she had heard that the conditions of the branch secretary's family were very good, she was still a little surprised when she saw it.
In front of her were three rows of very imposing blue brick tile houses, with five rooms in the middle row and three rooms in each of the left and right rows, which was a bit like the format of a quadrangle. The yard was cleaned very cleanly, and the vegetable garden at the door was also planted with vegetables. The owner looked very hardworking.
While Lu Changzheng was leading Su Mo to the main hall, he introduced: "The three rooms on the left are where my eldest brother's family lives, the three rooms on the right are where my second brother's family lives, and the one in the middle is where my parents and my grandfather live."
"My...our room is not here. It's about five minutes' walk from here. I'll take you to see it later."
At this time, two little boys ran out of the main hall while playing. When they saw Lu Changzheng, they were startled. They immediately stopped and shouted in unison: "Third Uncle."
Lu Changzheng nodded and asked: "Where is your grandfather?"
The taller one said: "He went back to his room and is lying down." As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Su Mo out of curiosity.
Seeing the two boys peeking at Su Mo, Lu Changzheng said, "This is your future auntie."
The two kids understood and shouted in unison, "Hello, auntie."
Su Mo glared at Lu Changzheng, but didn't deny it. She reached out and took out six maltose from her bag, gave three to each of them, and said, "Hello, I'll treat you to some candy."
She found the maltose when she was tidying up the space yesterday. There were still a dozen or so left. They were all wrapped in transparent paper with no words printed on them, so they wouldn't be damaged when she took them out.
On the way here just now, she thought that Lu Changzheng's brothers were all married and would definitely have children, so she secretly took them out of the space and put them in her bag.
"Thank you, auntie." The two kids shouted even louder.
Looking at the candies they had never seen before, the shorter one asked, "Aunt, is this milk candy?"
He had only eaten the milk candy sent back by his uncle once, and he still couldn't forget the taste.
"This is not milk candy, it's maltose."
"What is maltose?"
"This... is candy made from malt." Su Mo didn't know how to explain it to the two children.
The two children wanted to ask more, but were dismissed by Lu Changzheng: "Go and play."
The two children were obviously very afraid of Lu Changzheng. When they saw Lu Changzheng speak, they took the candy and ran away.