Chapter 211: Prosperity 211: A real man should go to the construction corps...
"Yeah, okay!"
After a while, Gu Qingqing came out with two bottles of wine in her hands.
After eating the wontons, Tuantuan and Niannian went to play on the sofa by themselves, lying on the armrest with their butt sticking up to watch TV. Gu Qingqing glanced at them but ignored them.
Gu Qinglie glanced at the girl with short hair, lowered his head slightly and asked his sister: "Is this girl the... sniper who was chasing Gousheng?"
He doesn't look like someone who would meet his big brother's standards.
Gousheng is his twin brother. He thinks he likes gentle and lovely people, so Gousheng should be... similar, right?
"Didn't you tell me that there was a sniper chasing Gousheng? So you've never seen her at all?" Gu Qingqing said while peeling shrimps, with an obviously speechless look on her face.
"Didn't Chu Zhao tell me that he was going to come over? Why hasn't he come yet?" Gu Qinglie put his hands on the back of the chair and turned his head to look around.
"Brother!" Gu Qingqing leaned over to ask the man next to Gu Qinglie, "Why hasn't Zhao come yet? Didn't you meet him on the road?"
"no."
"Oh oh." Gu Qingqing poked the man beside her, "Didn't he say he would come over for dinner tonight? Go and call him."
Chu Dai retracted his long legs and was about to stand up when he heard the gate of the yard being pushed open with a creak. When he saw the person coming, he sat back down.
Chu Zhao had just finished a shower, his hair was wet. The evening breeze was a little chilly, but he still stood tall and straight.
"Close the door." Chu Dai said.
He turned again and closed the living room door.
Chu Zhan greeted Chu Yuan and Old Qin with a smile, "Uncle Chu, Uncle Qin, are you drinking Maotai too? If my father knew, he would definitely want to come over."
He pulled out a chair and was about to sit down when he heard Old Qin say, "Then go call your father as well."
"Hmm?" Chu Zhao looked at the large table of people and put his hand on Gu Canyang's shoulder: "I'm so sorry, he just told me that he wanted to eat in the cafeteria."
"Is your mother not at home?" Chu Yuan asked.
"I went back to my grandmother's house to celebrate the Lantern Festival." Chu Zhao knew that this was just an excuse. He must have heard something and went back to see the girl.
"Alright, alright, hurry up and ask your father to come over. We're not going to eat in the canteen for the Lantern Festival. Ask him to bring all the good cigarettes and wine from home." Chu Yuan waved his hand.
Chu Zhan grinned: "Okay, I'll listen to you." He turned back and left the yard.
The Chu family courtyard was not far ahead. Walking on the bluestone path, Chu Zhao raised his hand and rubbed the water off his hair.
When I got home, I ran into Chu Zhan at the door. He was smoking a cigarette and holding a lunch box in his hands, and was about to go to the cafeteria to eat.
"father."
"Didn't you go to the Chu family to eat for free? Were you kicked out?" Chu Zhan leaned against the gate, looking like he was watching a joke.
"Uncle Chu and Uncle Qin insisted that I invite you over for a drink, and told you to bring some good cigarettes and good wine."
"Your Uncle Qin?" Chu Zhan twirled the cigarette with his fingertips and blew out white mist: "Old Qin has gone to the island. This old guy is not a good person. He was thinking about my bottles of wine when he first came here."
He was muttering to himself and was pushed in by Chu Zhao.
Chu Zhao snatched the lunch box from his hand and put it on the table, then said, "Go get the wine, I'll wait here."
There was only a faint light left in the sky, which was soon swallowed up by darkness.
The father and son walked side by side towards the Chu family. Chu Zhan had two cigarettes tucked under his arms, and Chu Zhao was holding a bottle of foreign wine.
"Dad, why didn't I know we had this stuff at home? Didn't you say before that foreign liquor was the hardest to drink?"
"Your Uncle Qin hasn't tasted it, let him try it."
Chu Zhao was speechless: "Okay, I want to drink it, you can call me a fake foreigner, Uncle Qin can drink it, wasn't he the Minister of Foreign Affairs before? He has been abroad so many times, how could he not have drunk it."
"Oh, I remembered it wrong." Chu Zhan said slowly, "I got this foreign wine with great difficulty, how can I let you waste it? It's very expensive."
"...Well, I don't deserve it."
When they arrived at the Chu family's courtyard, Chu Zhan started to yell loudly: "Old Chu? Old Qin!"
Chu Dai stood up and welcomed him in, and the people present moved their seats to make room for Chu Zhan.
He casually threw two cigarettes on the tea table, pulled out a chair, and sat down next to Old Qin. "You didn't even inform me when you came to the island. You and Old Chu kept it a secret from me."
"I thought Old Chu would tell you." Old Qin looked at him with a smile, diverting the trouble away.
Chu Zhan looked at Chu Yuan with dissatisfaction, "Forget it, forget it, let's not talk about this. How dare I question the chief?"
Gu Qingqing went to the kitchen and brought back a pair of bowls and chopsticks and a wine glass, "Uncle Chu."
"Hey." Chu Zhan's expression was still a little relieved. "For the sake of this table of delicious food, I won't argue with these two old guys."
Normally, we are superiors and subordinates in the headquarters, but now there is no old leader, only brothers, and we don’t have to be cautious when talking.
He opened the wine, poured himself a glass, and handed the bottle to Chu Yuan: "Lao Qin, how are you going to arrange the accommodation?"
"Adai has made arrangements for them to stay at Old Chu's house." Old Qin also filled his glass. Seeing the two men drinking guzzles, he took a sip with a smile.
The three brothers were chatting, and the others were also talking.
Gu Qingqing had been talking to Gu Qinglie non-stop. The two siblings hadn't seen each other for a year and had a lot of questions to ask. They asked everyone from Captain Guan to Political Commissar Xu, Director Zhang, Yu Fugui, and even Old Zhu from the pig farm.
Finally, she was silent for a moment and asked, "Has Captain Feng's body been sent back to his hometown?"
"Well," Gu Qinglie, who had been talking nonstop, did not speak for a long time. After a pause, he said, "Leaving behind an orphan and a widow, fortunately there is a pension in the army, and the brothers can also help, so life should be able to survive."
He ate a corn shrimp dumpling and had no taste for it: "Political Commissar Xu personally carried the urn back and advised his wife to remarry if she met a good man. It's not easy for a woman to live with a child without support."
Chu Dai closed his eyes and listened to him.
Gu Qingqing had already guessed: "Sister-in-law won't agree."
"Yes, his wife is also a hot-tempered person. She said that she would be Feng Tianya's person in life and his ghost in death. If she didn't have a son to raise, she would have followed him."
Gu Qinglie put down his chopsticks and leaned back in his chair. "My sister-in-law said that when her son grows up, she will send him back to the Construction Corps to serve as a soldier, and then she will follow Old Feng."
He wiped his face and said in a muffled voice: "It's not just Feng Tianya. Less than half of the familiar faces left in the group. There are too many martyr families like this. Too many."
Gu Qingqing remained speechless, and every fresh young face she had seen during those months in the Corps flashed through her mind.
Eyes are wet.
The girl’s clear voice is still ringing in my ears, and they also reminded her to come home often.
As a result, they themselves failed to return.
"Let's eat." Gu Qinglie picked up the bowl again and said, "I have ten days off. I spent one day on the train and one day at home. Today is the third day."
"If you find anything alive in the next few days, hurry up and call your brother, otherwise, maybe in the future..." The three words "No chance" came to his lips, and when they met her dark and wet eyes, his heart felt hot.
"If I find you a sister-in-law in the future, I won't have time to take care of you." He changed his tone.
Gu Qingqing's slender fingers rested on the edge of the bowl, which contained shrimps that the man had peeled.
She tilted her head and met Chu Dai's deep eyes.
"Then you two can wash the dishes after we finish eating."
Gu Qinglie and Chu Dai looked at each other through the woman, with helplessness in their eyes.
It was a bit cold outside, but sitting here with so many people eating would be hot. Chu Zhao unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt, tapped the table twice, and said to Xiao Xiao, "Come back to your senses. You're staring at me so intently. Why don't you tone it down a bit?"
"You should think about how to deal with Aunt Chu. My mother told me that your aunt introduced a good girl to you this time. She works in the supply and marketing cooperative. She is pretty, with pretty eyes and eyebrows." Xiao Xiao retracted his gaze and picked up a piece of braised eggplant.
"What else do you know? Tell me now." Chu Zhao pulled a chair closer to her. "Gu Canyang and I are good brothers. If you want to know something, you can ask me. We are just brothers, the elder brother and the younger brother. There is no room for formality between us brothers."
"Get lost." Xiao Xiao uttered a word, but when he saw Gu Canyang glanced at him indifferently, he swallowed the rest of his words and said, "You said so."
"I said it." Chu Zhao vowed.
"Okay, Aunt Chu came to my house two days ago and asked my mother to go to the sewing shop together. She said she wanted to prepare bedding for your wedding. Even if that girl doesn't work out, there will be another one waiting for you."
"You can't get away, little brother."
Chu Zhao was speechless, "Do you have any female comrades in the field army? Hurry up and introduce one to me. My mother has such bad taste. She only looks at whether a woman's butt is fertile or not."
"You are so anxious that you are confused. How many female comrades can there be in the field army? Isn't the military hospital the best place to go after leaving the sentry post?" Xiao Xiao took another big shrimp and stuffed it into his mouth without peeling it. He removed the shrimp head and tail and said, "You are attracted by the girls in the military hospital."
Chu Zhao was still in the mood to eat. Although his sister-in-law's cooking skills were not as good as those of the Flight Attendant's Kitchen, they were better than those in other canteens. He was not Gu Canyang who could eat the Flight Attendant's Kitchen every day.
"... Let's talk about it later." He said incoherently: "If my mother forces me again, I will go to the war zone. If that doesn't work, I will go to the Construction Corps and the Land Corps. Didn't Old Chu find a wife by running to a barren place?"
"Can you compare with him?" Xiao Xiao sneered, "At least he still has a face, what do you have?"
"You can't say that. We in the army don't judge people by appearance."
Gu Qinglie asked Gu Jianguo and Gu Weidong, "How do you feel about being in the army?"
"Okay, I'll train with the troops every morning and evening, and spend the rest of the time making purchase orders and calculating the cost of ingredients. There's nothing else to do except checking the accounts."
Gu Jianguo said with a smile.
The two brothers were assigned to different canteens and were both clerical staff, helping the quartermaster to manage the accounts. However, these two strong young men could not stop and often helped their comrades in the kitchen squad to move vegetables and potatoes, carrying two sacks on their shoulders with ease.
The quartermaster and the kitchen squad leader both like this down-to-earth guy.
"The quartermaster said it was a pity for us to be clerical workers. When he found out that we got in through the relationship of our brother-in-law, he looked down on us at first."
Chu Dai's mind moved, "So what do you think, do you want to join the combat troops?"
Gu's family is physically strong and was a good worker when he worked in the production team. If he really joins the combat troops and follows the training, he may be able to make great achievements on the battlefield.
Gu Jianguo and Gu Weidong looked at each other and shook their heads: "It's fine for us to take care of logistics. We are doing our job well now. Brother-in-law, don't worry about it. It's really good."
Hearing this, Chu Dai nodded and continued eating.
Shen Sui finished eating first and went to play with his two little nephews. The others left the table one after another and sat on the sofa to watch TV, leaving the battlefield to the three veterans.
Gu Qingqing brought out the snacks on an enamel plate and put some tea on it. She found an empty seat and sat down, with Chu Dai on her left and Gu Canyang on her right.
Gu Qinglie stood next to his brother and said to Chu Zhao, "You want to go to the Luzhong Corps? Why go there? A real man should go to the Construction Corps!"
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