Chapter 70 The dumb speaks, the nun goes down the mountain
A hoarse voice suddenly shouted: "The stick is mine!!!"
When this voice came out, everyone was frightened.
Who is talking like this? No one has ever heard this before. No one in their production team talks like this.
Wang Fugui's wife, standing next to her, was stunned for a long moment before she realized, "This, this, this... this seems to be the sound Liu Guizhi made just now? She must have heard it right, this is the sound Liu Guizhi made here?"
Chen Youliang, who had just been watching the fun, was also frightened now. His eyes widened: "Gu Laosi's wife, Gu Laosi's wife can talk now? Did I hear correctly? Was it her who said that?"
Shen Hongying was even more dumbfounded, staring at Liu Guizhi for a long time without moving.
She knew Liu Guizhi very well; after all, they had been eating from the same pot for ten years.
She had used the same method to bully Liu Guizhi several times. Previously, when they drew lots to adopt Fubao, she used this method to give Fubao to Liu Guizhi.
It works every time.
That’s right, she bullied the mute because he couldn’t speak, and I was bullied by her in vain.
But now, Liu Guizhi suddenly spoke? Was what she said just now correct?
She looked at Liu Guizhi in shock, her mouth wide open for a long time.
After a long time, she looked up at the sky. Although it was evening, the sun was still shining in broad daylight. What the hell???
Fubao looked at the shocked faces of the people around him and hummed softly, "Although my mother couldn't speak before, she's slowly learning to speak now. What's so great about speaking? My mother will say, 'Aunt, don't always take advantage of your ability to speak and my mother's inability to speak to bully her.'"
As she spoke, she pointed at the clean stick and said, "It's obvious that my mother peeled it. You took advantage of my mother's absence to pull her stick over to you."
Her voice was soft and sticky, the kind of baby voice that only children have, but it was full of anger and seriousness. Her milky white face flushed pink, and her little fists were clenched tightly. It was obvious that she hated Shen Hongying's behavior of being angry with her mother.
Who could not believe what a little kid like this said?
What’s more, Liu Guizhi opened her mouth and spoke?
A man who had been mute for ten years finally spoke. Is there anything more surprising than this?
Now, all the onlookers turned their attention to Liu Guizhi. They looked at her in shock and said to her, "Say one more word, say one more word!"
Wang Fugui's wife saw people looking at her curiously and shouted, "Gu Laosi's wife has spoken!"
What? Isn't Gu Laosi's wife mute? How could she actually speak? Some passersby also ran over.
Everyone looked at it in surprise.
So Liu Guizhi was dumbfounded as she was surrounded by the crowd and stared at by so many eyes.
She, what did she say just now?
She herself doesn't remember it.
The onlookers were disappointed to see her like this. She didn't look like she could speak. Did she just hear it wrong? Was she kidding?
Shen Hongying looked at her bewildered expression, and finally a glimmer of hope emerged in her heart. She tentatively said, "What you said just now, what you said just now wasn't you, right? How could you possibly speak?"
Liu Guizhi, with a confused look on her face, suddenly heard Shen Hongying's words. When she saw Shen Hongying's ill-intentioned look, she remembered that Shen Hongying had bullied her.
She was so angry that her face turned red, and she stared at Shen Hongying: "You stole my sticks, I picked those sticks!"
ah? ? ?
All the onlookers heard it clearly this time.
It sounded like a voice that had become hoarse due to a fever, but there was no doubt about it, absolutely no doubt about it, it was the words spoken by the mute daughter-in-law Liu Guizhi.
Liu Guizhi, can actually speak now?
When Fubao heard her mother speak a complete sentence, her anger turned into joy. She was overjoyed and said, "Did you hear that? My mother can speak. My mother can speak. My mother said it was my aunt who stole her stick!"
Then she quickly said to Wang Baiou, "Sister Wang, those sticks belong to my mother."
Wang Baiou was watching this scene, also dumbfounded. She looked at Fubao's earnest defense and nodded repeatedly: "I believe it, I believe it, it's your mother's. I will give your mother a full work point, and your aunt's mother 7 cents!"
He actually stole someone else's stick and passed it off as his own. This was extremely bad behavior. Wang Baiou quickly wrote it down in his little notebook, deducting 7 cents from the work points for Chen Hongying and giving her an additional ideological education class.
Here Wang Baiou was recording the work points, while over there everyone surrounded Liu Guizhi and asked questions at once.
"Liu Guizhi, why are you talking now?"
"When will you be able to speak? What can you say?"
"Tell us another sentence, another sentence."
For a moment, Liu Guizhi became the monkey being watched in the middle, with everyone watching curiously.
Liu Guizhi was a little at a loss. She didn't know how she could suddenly come up with such a long sentence. Although she could speak normally, she could only utter single words.
Liu Guizhi thought for a moment, opened her mouth tentatively, and said with difficulty: "I don't know what to say..."
As soon as she said this, everyone cheered: "She really knows how to speak! The dumb person has finally spoken!"
"Guizhi, Guizhi, say one more word to us!"
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Shen Hongying, who was standing next to her, had gone from being in disbelief to being dumbfounded, and then from being dumbfounded to not knowing what to do. Finally, she looked at Liu Guizhi, who was surrounded by the members cheering and encouraging her, and was about to crawl out in shame.
No one believed her, they all believed a mute. Wang Baiou even gave her 7 cents in work points. It was really terrible.
Who knew that she had just taken two steps when she heard those people talking about her, and the loudest voice was from Wang Fugui's wife.
Wang Fugui's wife yelled at the top of her voice, "This is your sister-in-law's doing. She stole your stick and made the dumb man speak!"
Stealing sticks? When Shen Hongying heard this, she was almost furious and wanted to give Wang Fugui's wife a slap in the face.
Is that called stealing? That’s called swapping!!!
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The mute daughter-in-law can speak now.
This incident spread throughout the entire Pingxi Production Brigade in an instant, and even people from the neighboring production brigade came to inquire about it.
"I heard that a man who had been mute for years in your production brigade has finally started talking. Is that true?"
"Yes, yes, it's true. It was the sister-in-law of that family who stole the stick. The mute wife was so angry that she opened her mouth and spoke!"
"Ah, there are still people like this, bullying a mute!"
"Yeah, we also said that it's not right for a sister-in-law to steal the stick of a mute sister-in-law. But you see, not only did she not steal the stick, she also forced her to speak."
This conversation quickly became widely known, and the story of Shen Hongying bullying her mute sister-in-law and stealing their sticks became widely known along with the bizarre story of the mute man speaking.
Miao Xiujiu was in a sullen mood for three days because of this matter.
Although they have separated now, she is Gu Weiguo's mother and Miao Xiujiu's mother-in-law.
She called Gu Weiguo over and gave him a lecture, asking him to control his wife and not let her do such embarrassing things in the future.
"Before, I wouldn't have mentioned her little private actions, and I turned a blind eye to everything. But now you have to see, this matter has spread out, and more than a dozen production brigades in the commune may know about it. This is the first rare thing in our commune this year. Don't you think it's embarrassing?"
Gu Weiguo felt ashamed.
How can it not be embarrassing?
He is too embarrassed to greet people at work now! !
Who would want to bear the reputation of "It's him, it's his wife, who stole the dumb man's stick"?
After making such a fool of himself and being scolded by his mother, Gu Weiguo naturally scolded Shen Hongying again when he returned home.
Chen Hongying was feeling miserable. After the news of her stealing Liu Guizhi's stick spread, it somehow reached the ears of the secretary of the commune. According to Chen Youfu, the secretary of the commune, Li Mingshuan, even asked about the matter personally.
Once it is asked, it is no longer a small matter, it becomes a big matter, and you can catch an example and report it to the higher authorities.
When Chen Youfu explained this to Shen Hongying, she turned pale. She said incomprehensibly, "No, it's just a change of sticks. She's my sister-in-law. I even exchanged lots with her when I drew lots for Fubao's adoption, so it was okay, wasn't it?"
When she said this, Chen Youfu's eyes widened: "What? What do you mean?"
Shen Hongying quickly shook her head: "No, nothing..."
You must never tell this, otherwise it will be another sin!
However, Chen Youfu is no fool. Over the years as the team leader, he has developed a skill that allows him to see through the truth from the true and false words of these members.
Chen Youfu stared at Shen Hongying and said, "So it was you who caught Fubao in the first place, and you secretly gave him to Liu Guizhi?"
Shen Hongying panicked: "No, no, how is it possible!"
However, the more she acted like this, the more guilty she seemed. Chen Youfu understood and immediately became stern, sneering, "What you've done, to put it more seriously, is fraud. This is undermining socialism and trying to get into the socialist communal dining system. I can't hide this for you. I have to report you to the higher authorities and see what Secretary Li says. If they really need to make an example of you, I'll report you!"
When Shen Hongying heard this, she became furious. She couldn't understand it. "They are just sisters-in-law. It's just a small matter. What's the big deal? I bully her many times, but nothing happens to her!"
Chen Youfu said seriously, "The usual household matters of pots and pans are minor, but you are now cheating while working for the collective and maliciously taking the labor of the members for your own use. This is a serious problem. You are deceiving the collective, deceiving society, and deceiving the country!"
Shen Hongying was dumbfounded, her head buzzing: “……………………”
Unfortunately, in the following days, Shen Hongying really became a typical example.
Shen Hongying became a typical example. Not only could she not go to work and earn work points, but she also had to write self-criticisms every day. If she didn't know how to write, she would just copy others. She had to draw it out anyway.
She also had to study with the ideological education group sent by the commune, and stand there in front of everyone during the meeting and loudly express what she had done wrong and confess in various ways.
This is not even a little bit embarrassing.
Miao Xiuju looked at her and shook her head repeatedly: "Hey... I don't even want to say that she is my daughter-in-law, how can it be so embarrassing!"
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As September arrived, the weather gradually became cooler, and Liu Guizhi has been very busy recently.
Although Gu Weidong can get off the bed and walk, he still cannot do heavy work. He is anxious and says that he wants to prepare to go to the fields and collect cotton wool, and start this business as soon as possible, but Liu Guizhi feels sorry for him and does not let him do it.
According to her, work is something you do for a lifetime. Now that you are injured, you cannot be greedy for temporary work points. You must always take good care of your body. Your body is the capital of revolution, and you must take good care of it. You cannot suffer from lifelong illnesses.
Gu Weidong was getting anxious at this point. He now had the gold ring sold by his mother-in-law and the old silver dollars sold by her mother, so he had some capital. He was anxious to exchange the capital for cotton wool and then take it to the city to sell.
People in the city don’t buy cotton wool only when it’s very cold. They start buying it in autumn. If they miss this autumn, they can only wait until next autumn, which means another year. Where can they find such a good deal?
Gu Weidong was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. He practiced walking back and forth in the room desperately, but his legs were always painful and he couldn't move his legs.
Fubao was also anxious when she saw her father like this, but there was nothing she could do, so she had to support her father from the side.
Gu Weidong felt even more distressed when he saw Fubao's weak little arms trying so hard to support himself and almost falling down because of his own strength.
This is a good daughter, lovable, considerate and sensible. It is a blessing in my life to have such a good daughter.
But how can I let this good girl eat meat and white steamed buns, how can I let her enjoy life?
He knew that once his life became difficult, others might blame Fubao and say that he was a jinx.
For Fubao's sake, he has to live a good life and take good care of his legs!
Gu Weidong raised his hand with difficulty and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Fubao, sit on the kang and rest for a while, Dad will walk around by himself."
Fubao felt so heartbroken seeing her father like this.
I'm usually a very strong man, but now that my leg is injured, I have no strength at all. The key point is that this leg injury is caused by myself.
Fubao bit her lip guiltily, frowned and thought carefully. After thinking for a while, she suddenly said, "Dad, it suddenly occurred to me."
Gu Weidong took a deep breath and was about to stand up and walk again when he heard Fu Bao's words. He didn't pay much attention to it: "What did you think of?"
Fubao looked up at her father and said, "Maybe soon Dad will meet a good doctor who can help Dad heal his leg."
Gu Weidong: "What?"
Fubao said seriously: "The doctor will help Dad get well."
Gu Weidong was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "Hey, what nonsense are you talking about."
It is not easy to see a doctor these days.
The medical expenses of the members of the production team are fully reimbursed, but now all kinds of supplies are in short supply. If a member has a headache or fever, the visiting doctor will usually help to take a look first. After confirming that there is a problem, he will approve an indicator for you to go to the district hospital for formal treatment.
It is not easy to get the medical certificate from a traveling doctor. You have to have a serious illness to get it.
Gu Weidong's leg injury wasn't serious, it wasn't a big deal; he could just take care of it. It was just that Gu Weidong was anxious. This kind of condition, which required careful treatment, wouldn't qualify for a district hospital's medical quota, and there wouldn't be any effective treatment. Foot doctors would just apply herbal compresses, bandage it, and let you take care of it.
But Fubao said stubbornly, "There will be a doctor to treat Dad."
She felt sorry for her father and she felt that there was a doctor who could treat him.
And she felt that this feeling was real and would happen soon.
Because Fubao's tone was so firm, Gu Weidong subconsciously glanced at Fubao. Her black and white eyes were clear and transparent, as if what she had just said was what she had really seen.
Gu Weidong was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "There aren't any good doctors here, Fubao, don't talk nonsense."
Seeing that Gu Weidong didn't believe him, Fubao didn't argue anymore.
Many times she would have some feelings, for example, when her mother wanted to clear the snow, she knew she couldn't go. For example, on a rainy day, she insisted on going up the mountain because her feeling told her she had to go up the mountain. As a result, she picked up the letter when the nunnery on the mountain collapsed.
In short, it is often right.
She firmly believed that this time it should be right. It didn't matter if her father didn't believe it. When a good doctor who could treat the disease came, he would believe it.
So the next day, Fubao was distracted. He almost cut his finger while chopping vegetables and almost burned his mouth while eating. Gu Shengtian saw it, frowned and said, "Fubao, what are you doing? What are you thinking about?"
Fubao blinked and said seriously, "I'm wondering what's going on with our father's doctor."
Gu Shengtian was stunned for a moment, then stared at her for a while, then reached out and touched her forehead: "You don't have a fever, what nonsense are you talking about?"
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Fubao shook his head helplessly: "I'm not sick, it's Dad who is sick..."
Gu Shengtian still didn't believe it: "Fubao, what's wrong with you? Dad has had a leg problem for a long time!"
Who knew that at this moment, they heard someone outside shouting: "Old Fourth's family, a relative is here to look for you!"
Liu Guizhi was busy and was puzzled when she heard someone coming to look for her. She hurried over to see what was happening. She saw two people standing at the gate, a man and a woman, who looked to be a couple, both about 27 or 28 years old. The man had a plain look and was holding a nylon bag with some snacks in it. The woman was pretty and both looked unfamiliar.
Liu Guizhi had just learned to speak, so her words were still a little awkward, but she still asked in confusion, "Dear Seven?"
Could it be that I got the wrong person? I don’t remember having this relative.
The woman had a sleek, shiny bun on her head, held up by a black nylon net bag. She looked bright and cheerful. When she saw Liu Guizhi, she smiled and asked, "Is this the Gu family? Gu Weidong's?"
When Liu Guizhi heard Gu Weidong was looking for her man, she nodded quickly.
The woman immediately laughed: "We are looking for Gu Weidong's family. Gu Weidong's family adopted a child named Fubao. Is he here?"
Fubao?
Everyone was puzzled. Fubao had no relatives, so where did someone come from to find her?
Liu Guizhi and Gu Shengtian both looked at Fubao in surprise.
Fubao was looking at the woman at this time. After a while, she suddenly rushed over and said, "Sister Huiru!"
Huiru and Huixin came to see her when she was three years old.
Huiru was surprised when she first heard the crisp baby voice. But when she saw the little girl with two pigtails, delicate features and fair complexion running towards her, she recognized her as Fubao at first glance!
She is a little thinner than when she was a child, but she is fairer and prettier. She has lost her baby fat and looks more delicate like a little girl.
Huiru almost shed tears. This was the little baby she once took care of!
Huiru hugged Fubao and said, "Fubao, you've grown so big! You've grown so big!"
Fubao threw himself into Huiru's arms and hugged her: "Sister Huiru, I haven't seen you for several years. I miss you so much!"
Huiru was so moved that she held Fubao's face in her hands and said, "Let me see you, you are so handsome, and you are getting more and more handsome. Fubao is so smart, he even remembers me..."
The last time Huiru came to Pingxi Production Brigade was three and a half years ago. At that time, Fubao was only three years old and was a little dumpling. Now, after such a long time, we meet again. Fubao, who was so young back then,
Huiru was deeply touched that Bao still remembered her.
For a moment, the two people hugged each other excitedly and cried. Huiru choked up as she talked about what had happened in the past few years.
It turns out that the situation is not very good now. The man she married is named Chen. He was originally a doctor, but he was implicated in some things and suffered a lot. It was only recently that he gradually got better.
She wiped her tears and said, "I wanted to come see you before, but I didn't dare, for fear of getting you into trouble. Because of this, Huixin and I didn't dare contact each other. Now that it's finally over, someone from our production team happened to come and said that you've been replaced. I was puzzled and hurried to come see me."
Fubao's tears started to fall again when he heard this: "Sister Huiru..."
The two people here cried for a while and finally calmed down. Liu Guizhi called them into the house, brought them some boiled water, and talked to each other about their recent situation.
Huiru first angrily cursed the Nie family: "When I first saw you, you were dressed well, so I thought she treated you well and didn't think much of it. Now that I know, I hate them so much! The damn Nie family took our things but didn't treat you well. If the Buddha is alive, he must teach them a lesson!"
This is a side effect of being a nun, everything can be related to Buddha.
As she spoke, Huiru looked carefully at the Gu family's house, and then looked at Liu Guizhi and Gu Weidong.
She was afraid that the Gu family would be just like the Nie family and not treat Fubao well.
When Fubao saw them, he quickly said, "This is my father, this is my mother, and my brother. They are all so kind to me! I am living a comfortable life now."
Seeing Fubao's happy smile, Huiru finally breathed a sigh of relief. She explained to Liu Guizhi awkwardly, "I was also very angry. Fubao is such a good child. At that time, our nunnery specifically talked to the government and asked them to give him some benefits so that they would treat Fubao well. Who knew that he would encounter such a thing..."
Gu Weidong said hurriedly: "We understand what you mean. It's nothing, it's nothing. Fubao is doing well here with us."
Huiru smiled quickly and said, "That's good, that's good."
As he said this, Huiru's man looked at Gu Weidong and asked, "What's wrong with your leg?"
Gu Weidong smiled bitterly: "I fell down and am slowly recovering."
When Huiru saw him, she said hurriedly, "Oh, my husband is a doctor. Ask him to take a look at you. His ancestors specialized in treating injuries and bones."
When she said this, Fubao's eyes lit up and he understood that it had come true.
Liu Guizhi was overjoyed: "Really?"
Gu Weidong was stunned.
He was stunned and remembered what Fubao said two days ago.
This... is so effective?
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