The next day, Xuemei went to work at the supply and marketing cooperative and heard from her colleagues the whole story of the incident involving He Daming and He Ping, father and son.
He Daming and his wife Zheng Meiju were arguing at home about He Daming having a mistress outside. Someone overheard the argument, and then the person who had ulterior motives, based on what he overheard, matched the person and reported He Daming and his son to the Revolutionary Committee.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, He Daming and his family were having dinner at home when people from the Revolutionary Committee came. They tied up He Daming and his son without even letting them finish their meal. The two men were not convinced and threatened the people from the Revolutionary Committee on the spot. Unexpectedly, the people from the Revolutionary Committee slammed the letter of accusation on the table and beat He Daming and his son up.
Zheng Meiju originally wanted to save her son, but as soon as she said that, the people from the Revolutionary Committee pulled the widow out from behind. The widow's hands were tied, and her mother-in-law was beating and scolding her.
After all, Zheng Meiju was someone who had experienced big things. She knew that He Daming and his son were in trouble this time. She immediately covered the crying Wu Lian and said that they were also deceived by He Daming and his son. They told them that they felt sorry for each other and went to help. Others misunderstood. They, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, should understand them. They didn't expect that they were having affairs outside and were not serious.
Zheng Meiju cried as she spoke, and immediately severed ties with He Daming and his son. Wu Lianna also took the initiative to break off ties with He Ping.
In order to make the people of the Revolutionary Committee believe that the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and grandson had really severed their relationship with He Daming, Zheng Meiju specifically asked to take the people of the Revolutionary Committee to Liujia Village to find Li Fen.
It took Zheng Meiju two days to figure out who that vixen was and where she lived. Before she could even deal with her, He Daming and his son were reported.
During lunch, Zhang Aiping whispered to Xuemei, "He Ping's mother is so cruel! She broke up with him without a second thought. Today, she even took He Ping's wife and children to the county town to issue a statement severing ties with him!"
"Otherwise, because of the mistakes of the father and son, the whole family has to be reformed! The family suffers because of them, and their grandson's future is ruined." Xuemei retorted in a low voice.
Zhang Aiping was shocked by Xuemei's questioning. She was silent for a moment, perhaps thinking it through, before continuing, "You're right. We can't let a single bad apple spoil the whole bunch. No matter how dirty the adults' affairs are, the children are innocent."
In the end, He Daming was demoted to the Northwest for abusing his power to buy a job for He Ping and for having an affair, while He Ping and the widow were demoted to Heilongjiang Province for having an affair.
Zheng Meiju's work was not affected, but the small bungalow that they had divided equally was taken back. Zheng Meiju moved into the housing of her unit with Wu Lian and her son, a large room of about 25 square meters in a tube-shaped building.
Zheng Meiju even changed her grandson's name to Zheng Liang, following her own surname. Wu Lian hadn't been released since He Daming and his son were arrested. When she was released again at the end of the year, she was five or six months pregnant, but her complexion wasn't as good as it had been with her first pregnancy. Wu Lian was holding her two-year-old son in one hand and a large basket in the other. It was the end of the year, and she was out scrambling for supplies.
The day after He Daming and his son left Danru Commune, one of the two team leaders of the commune's supply and marketing cooperative was promoted to deputy director, and the son of the other team leader became a temporary worker in the tobacco and alcohol group, replacing He Ping's previous position.
Now everyone at the supply and marketing cooperative knew who had reported He Daming and his son. No one dared to chat during work hours anymore, and everyone had to think carefully before speaking, for fear of accidentally offending those two people. From then on, the working atmosphere at the supply and marketing cooperative became increasingly serious.
After the incident with He Daming and his son, there were fewer romantic stories in Danru Commune. Young men and women on the street became more careful about their behavior when dating, and there were fewer wild couples in each village.
In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the tenth lunar month. Today, several hundred kilograms of apples arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative at around two o'clock in the afternoon. As soon as Xuemei saw them, she asked Zhang Aiping to pick out ten kilograms for her. The apples were shipped from the north. Except for a few places in Nanhu Province, apples cannot be grown in most places. Apples cannot be grown in Danru Commune either.
Therefore, apples were still quite expensive, at 35 cents per jin (apple), or 3.5 yuan for 10 jin (apple). Most people only bought a jin or two to try. These apples were average-sized, with about three apples per jin (apple). At 6 p.m., when Xuemei got off work, Yang Aiping's apples had already been sold out.
When Xuemei returned home, no one was home yet. It was the autumn harvest season and every family in the village was very busy. It was almost seven o'clock at the earliest before people came back home one after another.
Brothers Ruirui and Feifei were on their autumn harvest holiday and returned home to help with the harvest. Feng Ru was also assigned to Liujia Village. Fearing Feng Ru wouldn't be able to handle the work, Liu's mother asked her to bring the children to help in the threshing grounds while she went to the fields to help with the harvest. She explained the situation to the village officials, and they were certain they would agree. Liu's mother was sure to be a much better worker than Feng Ru.
Feng Ru agreed. She was tired of working the threshing ground for four or five work points a day, let alone helping with the harvest. She also planned to give the autumn harvest subsidy the school gave her to Liu's mother. Since the village didn't give work points for her work, she would only receive the four or five work points Feng Ru was giving her each day. However, Liu's mother refused to take all of it, intending to take only half, as Feng Ru needed to be home to cook lunch and take care of the children.
Every day, Feng Ru would put straw hats on An An and Le Le, and put them in a small wooden cart, which she would push to the threshing ground. The two brothers Lin Jin and Lin Ren would follow behind. Feng Ru would dry things and rub corn in the threshing ground every day.
An An Le Le was in the threshing ground, playing with other children of similar age from the village. The Lin Jin brothers watched An An Le Le and her sister while chasing sparrows with the other seven or eight-year-old children in the village. Around 11:30 p.m., Feng Ru wheeled the two sisters and took Lin Ren home to make lunch.
After Feng Ru prepared lunch, Xuemei came back from the supply and marketing cooperative. Then Feng Ru took Lin Jin to the threshing ground to deliver the meal. The mother and son ate there. Xuemei and Lin Ren had lunch at home. After lunch, An Anlele's lunch was almost cold, so Xuemei fed the two sisters.
When An'an and Lele were about eight months old, they were weaned. At that time, the two sisters had started to grow teeth, and they would bite Xuemei every time they drank milk. Han Chen saw that Xuemei was in pain from being bitten by the two sisters, so he asked Xuemei to wean the two sisters.
Now, both sisters have two tooth cusps in the middle of their lower gums, and each tooth is almost halfway out, while the upper gums are still showing no signs of growth. Since the two sisters started teething, they have become frequent droolers, and each of them has to change their drool masks several times a day.
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