Gu Qingqing woke up as he moved, and seeing the disbelief and helplessness on his face, she smiled and moved closer to him, kissing him on the chin.
"Brother, are you awake?"
Chu Dai sighed, "Wife, can you give me an explanation?"
"You were drunk last night. I asked you to get up and take a shower but you didn't move. The smell of alcohol on you kept me awake, so I went to get a basin of water and wiped you off."
"So, take off your clothes too." His eyes were meaningful.
Gu Qingqing asked: "How can I wipe it off if it's not taken off?"
Chu Dai was shocked by her for a moment, and pinched her face: "Let go."
"Where are you going?"
Chu Dai: "...toilet."
He couldn't help but retort: "Can't you feel it?"
Gu Qingqing quickly withdrew her hand and huddled to the corner of the bed, hugging the quilt.
Chu Dai was so angry that he laughed this time. He said, "You did it on purpose, didn't you?" When they first met, he thought the girl was timid, but the result was beyond his imagination.
To avoid suspicion, Gu Qingqing hid her head back under the quilt and said in a low voice, "I won't look."
Chu Dai raised his eyebrows slightly, stood up with the help of the bed, and went to the closet to get clothes.
Gu Qingqing suddenly revealed a pair of eyes from under the quilt.
Chu Dai seemed to sense something, turned around, and grabbed something.
He held a white Dacron shirt in his right hand and faced her slightly embarrassed gaze with an open mind.
The man suddenly smiled.
"Don't worry, there are still a few days."
We are going to Datunzi Village today and will arrive there in the afternoon by train. Once her elders set the wedding date and get the marriage certificate, he will no longer be polite.
Gu Qingqing understood what he meant, and there was a hint of expectation in her shy eyes. This made Chu Dai unable to handle it.
The two washed up and went downstairs. Chu Yuan changed into a military green tweed suit and sat at the table reading documents.
Seeing them coming down, he handed the documents to the guard and said, "I will be away for a few days. The deputy commander will be in charge."
"yes."
The guard went out with the documents, and Gu Qingqing sat down with Chu Dai.
The morning meal was a big pot of porridge made from yesterday's leftover seafood, with everything in it. Gu Qinglie grinned and served a bowl to Chu Yuan first, then filled a big bowl for himself. There was also a whole shrimp in the lunch box next to it.
Chu Dai first filled a bowl of porridge for Gu Qingqing, and then heard Chu Yuan snort coldly: "Qing Lie, I wish you were my son."
Chu Dai pretended not to hear.
Gu Qinglie was peeling shrimps. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment. "Qingqing and Lao Chu are married. His father is my father. From now on, you will be the common father of the three of us brothers and sisters."
Chu Yuan couldn't help but relax his tense face. He drank his porridge slowly and said, "Okay. From now on, you will be my sons."
Gu Qinglie started talking again. Gu Canyang still didn't know that Goudan had recognized him as a father.
It was seven o'clock when they finished breakfast. The guard drove them to the station, where Chu Zhan was already waiting.
The green trains now carry a mixture of people and goods. The betrothal gifts for the Gu family have been loaded into the train container. Although the color TV set was not bought, there is a nine-inch Panda TV, a Minx refrigerator and a single-drum washing machine, as well as the six-tube single-band radio of the Bee Sewing Machine that Chu Yuan mentioned, and a Red Flag bicycle.
Chu Zhan stuffed a Dongfeng watch into Chu Yuan's pocket and said, "When my son gets married, you must arrange it according to this standard."
He knew Chu Yuan too well. The verbal IOU was bullshit. Anyone with more experience knew what a rogue he was.
"Got it." Chu Yuan was a little impatient. "It's just a few electrical appliances. If you really can't do it, you can go to my house and take away whatever you like."
Chu Zhan: "...That was allocated to you by the headquarters." It doesn't belong to you.
He just got it and he's already acting like a rogue. What kind of person is he?
"Don't worry, as a military commander, I won't cheat you of such a small thing." Chu Yuan was very satisfied when he saw that all the things he had bought were complete: "I will come back on the fifth day of the New Year, and then I will treat you to a drink."
Chu Zhan patted him on the shoulder and said, "My group's army has a drill and I can't get away. Otherwise, I would go with you."
Gu Qingqing entered the carriage and sat next to Chu Dai. Gu Qinglie sat opposite them. Chu Zhao insisted on going with her, and happened to sit with Gu Qinglie.
The guard's duty is to protect the leader, so he goes wherever Chu Yuan goes, and let Commander Chu's men drive the car back.
The train started moving slowly, and Gu Qingqing came back to her senses.
It’s true, I’m going home.
Leaning on the man's shoulder, she felt at ease, but Chu Dai was a little nervous.
The train runs slowly, stops at many stations, and there is a constant flow of people coming and going.
The south still doesn’t have the desolate and cold feeling of the border town.
We arrived in Yancheng at around 1:00 p.m.
The train attendants helped to carry their belongings down, and the various large items attracted the attention of passers-by.
Gu Qinglie scratched his head and asked: "How do we move these things back?"
Chu Yuan was not in a hurry at all. "There is a food bureau nearby. It should be the end of the year for food delivery. Qinglie, go and see if there are any acquaintances from your production team. There are a few ox carts that can pull the food back."
Gu Qinglie said, "Well, you guys wait here."
Gu Qingqing nodded.
She was not homesick, but was delighted from the bottom of her heart, and she pulled Chu Dai around with her.
The guard stood beside Chu Yuan, looking around vigilantly.
Chu Yuan was wearing a military uniform, and the guards were wearing military uniforms with guns on their waists, so people passing by deliberately avoided them.
The food bureau was right next to the train station, and Gu Qinglie actually found the person, and it was none other than his grandfather, Gu Tiezhu.
Gu Qinglie waved his hand and stood in front of the ox cart: "Grandpa! It's me, Qinglie!"
Gu Tiechu glanced over and saw that it was his son Qinglie. He quickly stopped the cart and got off: "Kid, why are you back?"
"I'm on leave from the army, so I'm back to visit my family. Qingqing is getting married, so she brought my brother-in-law back to hold the wedding. My father-in-law is here too, and he's at the train station with the betrothal gifts. Please help get them."
"Then hurry up!" The team had just finished the year-end settlement yesterday. Today, Gu Tiezhu came with a dozen ox carts to deliver the third crop of grain. He was intercepted by Gu Qinglie just after he had delivered the grain. If he was a little late, he would not be able to catch up.
Gu Qinglie got on the ox cart and followed him to the train station. Seeing that the people who came to deliver food were all fifteen or sixteen years old, he wondered: "Where are the young men in our team? Why didn't my brother Xiong and the others come?"
"They have been working on the river for the past two months. The Chinese New Year is coming up in a few days. They just came back yesterday. They have been very tired in the past few months. Your father asked them to rest at home."
Gu Jin has not been idle during the months that Gu Qingqing has been away from home. He has vigorously developed medicinal herb planting and reclaimed all the wasteland. He also specially found the barefoot doctor Hao Yichen from the team and Zhang Qing from the educated youth point to keep an eye on the work.
The production team just sold a batch of medicinal herbs a while ago, and according to the financial statements yesterday, the daily wage points of the young and strong workers in their Invincible Production Team increased from 20 cents to 70 cents, which is not much different from that of the workers in the steel mills in the city.
The team has a lot of cash crops and is fully capable of paying members with notes.
At the beginning, no one was optimistic about the silly eldest brother of the Gu family. Now, if Gu Jin says that he doesn't want to be the captain anymore, the people in the team will be angry with him.
Gu Tiezhu briefly told his cousin about what had happened in the past few months, including the oil mill, cotton spinning mill and rice mill. Gu Qinglie was stunned.
"Is this my father?" He couldn't believe it.
Gu Tiechui: "Your father is very capable. He has defeated the Red Flag production team. The thousand-year-old leader has now become the second in command."
Gu Qinglie: "…Oh my god."
When they arrived at the train station, the young men in the team helped to load all the large items onto the ox cart. Gu Qinglie, Chu Dai and the guards all came forward to help. Uncle Chu Yuan started chatting with Gu Tiezhu.
Gu Tiezhu only knew that the beloved daughter of the Gu family married a soldier, but he didn't know that her father was also a soldier. After hearing what the guard said about Chu Yuan's identity, he was speechless for a long time.
The highest-ranking officials he had ever seen in his life, apart from old man Xu, were his own family's Gu Jin, both of whom were captains of production teams. As for soldiers, they were Qin Wu and Xue Jianshan, but Xue Jianshan was only a militia battalion commander.
Now a military district commander appeared in front of him with a bang, and Gu Tiezui was speechless for a long time.
Chu Yuan glanced at the guard coldly, blaming him for speaking too quickly. The guard lowered his head and said nothing.
"Grandpa!" Gu Qingqing's clear and smiling voice rang in his ears, and he couldn't wait to say, "Let's go home."
Gu Tiechu subconsciously took out a handful of roasted melon seeds from his pocket and gave them to his beloved baby, "Okay, let's go home."
Gu Qinglie had already ridden the Red Flag bicycle back to report the news. Gu Qingqing and Chu Dai were sitting on the ox cart driven by Gu Tiezhu, and Chu Yuan and Gu Tiezhu were chatting.
Gu Qingqing turned around and saw someone behind her. She was stunned for a moment. She tugged at her grandfather's clothes and said softly, "Grandpa, Uncle Bufan is here to deliver food as well?"
You know, he is a well-known lazy guy in the team. He is unwilling to do anything and just likes to steal things, and he only steals things that belong to the Zhang family.
Gu Tiechui chuckled, "My dear, you don't know that your father has thought of a trick. Doesn't this kid from the Zhang family love to steal? He can be caught anywhere. Your father just let him herd cattle."
"Isn't the mountain behind our Datunzi Village and Dagouzi Village connected to the Red Flag Production Team? The cows went in there and couldn't be found for several days. I guess your uncle Bufan has a good nose. He must have learned it by stealing. He can tell which direction the cows ran to by just sniffing it."
Chu Yuan was amused after hearing this. It seemed that his relative was quite good at employing people.
Gu Qingqing sat next to Chu Dai, eating melon seeds. Seeing that he hadn't said anything, she covered his hand on his leg with her soft palm, "Brother, are you nervous?"
Chu Dai took her hand in his palm, his dark eyes showing a hint of uneasiness, and said frankly, "A little bit."
"My father is very easy to talk to!" Gu Qingqing comforted him: "Don't be nervous, everyone in my family is very nice and won't make things difficult for you."
"Yeah, I know." Chu Dai's tense body relaxed a little.
While Chu Yuan and Gu Tiechu were chatting animatedly, Gu Qinglie rode his bicycle to the front door of his house in one breath, pedaled the bicycle, and pushed open the gate.
"Grandpa and grandma, I'm back."
The New Year was approaching, and Gu Yin had been free for the past two days. He carried out the wood reserved for Gu Qingqing and threw it in the yard, holding a wood planer in his hand.
Hearing the shout, he turned his head and met his nephew's delighted eyes.
"Second Uncle! I'm Qing Lie!"
Gu Yin slightly turned aside to avoid his nephew's bear hug and said in a muffled voice: "...Second Uncle is not blind."
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