After Han Chen and the Lin family returned to the Lin family, Aunt Zhang, the old woman invited by the Lin family, had already prepared lunch. After everyone finished lunch in silence, they sat in the living room. Han Chen was dragged by Hu An to Lin Songguo's room to rest. Hu An said distressedly: "Xiao Chen, I can tell from your face that you haven't had enough rest these days. Your grandfather asked me to bring you here to rest for a while. Even if you can't sleep, you should close your eyes and rest for a while! You have to take care of yourself. Everyone else is sad!"
"Uncle Hu, I'm fine. It's grandpa, uncle, aunt and others who need to rest!" Han Chen shook his head and said. Han Chen hadn't spoken for a long time and his voice was a little hoarse.
"Your grandfather will come over to rest soon. He is talking about something with your uncle, aunt, eldest brother and second sister!" Juan replied.
Han Chen nodded and said with all his strength, "That won't work either. I'm too dirty. I have to go to the bathroom to clean up!"
Juan nodded in response and left the room.
Han Chen slept drowsily for a while. After waking up, he put his hand in front of his eyes and looked at the time. It was already seven o'clock in the evening. Han Chen turned over from the kang. Lin Songguo and Hu An were also resting on the kang.
Han Chen quietly put on his clothes and shoes and was about to leave when he found that Lin Songguo had also woken up and waved at him.
Han Chen saw that Hu An was still sleeping, so he didn't say anything. He walked over and helped Lin Songguo up from the kang. After the two of them left the room, Han Chen said, "Grandpa, did I wake you up?"
Lin Songguo shook his head and said, "No, I get less sleep as I get older!"
Han Chen and Lin Songguo sat on the sofa in the living room for a while. Everyone came out and dinner was ready. After dinner, Lin Ziying and Yu Qing went to Zeng Yu's room to help. Lele had just started crying again.
Lin Jianye helped Lin Songguo and Lin Hongwen to the study on the second floor, and called Han Chen up as well, saying that he had something to discuss with him.
In the study on the second floor, Lin Jianye helped Lin Songguo sit down and said to Han Chen, "Xiaochen, find a seat for yourself!"
After everyone was seated, Lin Jianye said, "Xiaochen, the situation in Beijing has been a bit unstable recently, with serious factional fighting. Your eldest brother and I are planning to have your eldest sister-in-law take Xiaojin and Xiaoren to your place to participate in the construction."
What Lin Jianye didn't say was that Lin Hongzhi's sacrifice this time might also be related to factional struggles, otherwise Lin Hongzhi would not have sacrificed this time.
Before Lin Hongzhi participated in the mission at the end of the year, he called back and said: This mission is not dangerous. After participating in this mission, his promotion to platoon leader will be announced. He also said that he will come back to celebrate the New Year at the end of this year. When he is promoted to company commander in the future, he will apply for his family to accompany the army. Then Zeng Yu can take the children to his army.
But before everyone could be happy for a few days, news came that Lin Hongzhi had died. It turned out that when Lin Hongzhi led a team to capture a spy, the news was leaked to the spy in advance. When he led the team to the place to capture the spy, the spy had already buried the bomb in advance and tied a bomb on his body.
After Lin Hongzhi discovered this, he immediately asked other comrades to go first, and he stayed behind to cover their retreat and deal with the spies.
After the other comrades left, they saw Lin Hongzhi falling from the upstairs window holding the spy. The bomb tied to the spy exploded in mid-air, and the two fell into the river together.
After the troops behind dismantled the bomb in the room, they searched the river for several days but could not find Lin Hongzhi's body. They only found the spy's body.
Han Chen understood that Lin Jianye's words were asking him to take better care of Feng Ru and her two children in the future. Han Chen replied seriously, "Uncle, you are the only family I have in Beijing. I will definitely keep my sister-in-law's affairs in mind. What I want to know is, is your sister-in-law going to our village to participate in the construction? Farm work is too hard. I think your sister-in-law's job can be temporarily transferred to our commune primary school. Our village has two military doctors who also came to participate in the construction. They are now working in our village clinic. Every month, the commune pays their salary and the village gives them work points!"
"Your elder brother and I have also thought of this. We will transfer your sister-in-law's job to the commune primary school in your village. This is part of participating in the education construction in remote areas. At that time, I want your sister-in-law to live in your village so that she can take care of Xiaojin and the others!" Lin Jianye said.
"Okay, from now on, sister-in-law and Xiaojin will live in Xuemei and I's house!" Han Chen replied.
Lin Jianye nodded, and Han Chen continued to ask, "Grandpa, uncle, eldest brother and his wife have left Beijing. What about you? And what about Hongzhi's wife and Lele?"
"Xiaochen, my grandfather, parents and I cannot leave Beijing at this stage. If the situation gets better later, I will apply to go to Nanhu Province to participate in the construction and bring my parents and grandfather with me! As for my sister-in-law and Lele, it depends on my sister-in-law's thoughts. But as for Lele, if my sister-in-law decides to remarry in the future, we will definitely keep her at home and take care of her ourselves!" Lin Hongwen explained.
After hearing what Lin Hongwen said, Han Chen knew that the situation they were facing was very bad and they couldn't withdraw just because they wanted to.
Han Chen was silent for a moment, then asked, "Brother, are you planning to let me take my sister-in-law and Xiaojin back to the village? I need to call Xuemei on the specific day. I'm afraid she'll worry. She's about to give birth!"
"Your sister-in-law's transfer should have come through. We applied for it at the end of last year and will go get it tomorrow. If we get it tomorrow, we'll go to the train station to buy tickets in the afternoon. You'll leave the day after tomorrow, right? School is about to start!" Lin Hongwen replied.
Han Chen nodded, then left and closed the door. Lin Songguo and the other two still had things to discuss.
The next morning, after breakfast, Han Chen and Hu An went out to the phone booth in the compound to call Liu's father. When the call was connected, Han Chen made a long and brief statement, telling Liu's father that he would be home around the 16th day of the first lunar month, that his sister-in-law Feng Ru was coming to Danru Commune to participate in construction, and that he would bring his sister-in-law and two nephews back to the village with him.
Elsewhere, Liu's parents hung up the phone and immediately went home to tell Xuemei, fearing she would be worried at home. After learning Feng Ru and her son were coming to Liujia Village, they spent a day laying the remaining flooring in the outer room to the left of the main hall of the newly built blue brick house and cleaned it up. Liu's father also ordered a 1.5-meter-wide double bunk bed from Wang Weimin.
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