Chapter 61
He frowned and swallowed a bowl of rough multi-grain porridge as if swallowing medicine. He felt so angry that he hated Gu Yan who had ruined his plan. I'm just talking, why don't you play by the rules? The food they provided was so crude, there was not even a sip of hot water, and I had to pay for the wine myself.
"Team leader, now that we've finished our meal, it's time to organize people to work."
"Yes. Organize all the militiamen in the brigade and conduct a house-to-house inspection."
"Okay."
The man was very excited; he loved this job. It feels really good to be above everyone else and to punish others at will. But generally speaking, there is not much to find in the homes of old farmers. The houses are divided among the rich, so it can be said that they have no permanent property. Those who can sustain their food rations until next month are considered good households. He would just pick on the chickens and pigs.
The militia was quickly organized, and a group of young and inexperienced people led them to search everywhere. See if this bunch of old farmers are secretly doing...ism.
After working all morning, I got nothing. Pig farming is concentrated in the brigade and is considered collective assets. Each family only had one or two chickens left, which they kept to lay eggs and exchange for salt. It's a necessity that we all eat, and there's no profit in it.
Bai Qing's face continued to be gloomy during lunch. In the afternoon, this group of guys pulled out the landlord who had been overthrown before, posted posters on the street, and criticized him severely.
At dusk, someone came to call Gu Yan again and said that there was work to discuss. Gu Yan sighed, washed up, put on his working clothes and went to the team.
"What do you want from me?"
"Gu Yan, with your level of awareness, how did you become the director?"
"I organized and took the lead in planting soybeans and radishes in the fields, and worked hard to ensure that everyone had food to survive the winter. What's wrong with my consciousness? I'm dedicated to serving the people and working hard to ensure that everyone doesn't go hungry. Why can't I be the director of the brigade? If it weren't for the hard work of people like us, what would the grain station in the city supply?"
"You...don't be so sharp-tongued." The man pointed at her and went straight to the point without beating around the bush.
"Your man's comrade-in-arms has been demoted to our commune and is now under investigation. Once the truth is revealed, your man will not be able to escape."
The man snorted coldly, and his dark face turned into a smug one: "Don't think that everything will be fine if you hide back home early. No one can escape this time. Li Zhongxia has serious ideological problems and must receive strict re-education."
"So? What does this have to do with me? You specifically informed me."
"You...are you really not afraid that your man will be knocked down?"
"Husband and wife are birds of a feather, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately. I just need to live my own life well."
"You are so cruel. Gu Yan, I have never seen a woman more ruthless than you."
"Then what else can I do? You think we are in trouble together, so you can take advantage of this opportunity to suppress me?"
"Humph. If you know what's best for you, I can help you."
"How can I help you? Do you think you are the emperor and can do whatever you want?"
"In my territory, I am the emperor."
"Oh, so you want to be the emperor?"
"What's wrong with being an emperor? I am the emperor now. I have the final say and I can kill you if I want you to."
The man was extremely arrogant, but he saw Gu Yan take out a small black box. Much smaller than a tape recorder. But it actually had the function of a recorder, repeating exactly what they had just said. Now he was completely dumbfounded and raised his hand to grab it.
With Gu Yan's skills, he dodged to the side and kicked him to the ground, stepping on his head with his foot. She looked like a female bandit. "If I release this, what kind of criticism will you get? Haha... Be good to me and leave Kono Brigade as soon as possible.
Oh, right. I'd like to ask you to take care of my man's comrade-in-arms. If anything happens to him, I will get so excited that I won't be able to control myself and will spread the good things you said everywhere. As an emperor, you know what the consequences will be if you say this. ”
"I... I don't dare anymore. Auntie, please spare me." All capitalists must be overthrown. As soon as he said this... No, he couldn't even think about it. He will die without a burial place.
Gu Yan stepped on him hard before raising his foot, looking at him as if he were looking at dog shit. "Get out of here quickly, and remember to take care of my man's comrades."
"Um."
The man was completely scared and left the Kono Battalion with his men overnight in shame. He thought he could threaten Gu Yan by holding Li Zhongxia's handle. He wanted to suppress this woman who was superior to him and made him lose face. As a result, he fell into her trap and gave her a fatal handle.
This is not just a case of losing the rice while trying to gain a chicken, this is a huge loss. From then on, he completely became a little brother in front of this woman, and had to obey whatever she asked him to do.
After Gu Yan dealt with this troublemaker, he naturally understood who was behind the gangsters in the team. What is this guy relying on to threaten her? As for the reason, it must be because he was resentful of her for embarrassing him.
Bah, the villain is successful. I will let you go for now, and I will settle the score with you later. When you pull out a radish, you bring out the dirt. I don’t know what kind of person Li Zhongxia is. I hope he is not the kind of person who would make random accusations. With your added insurance, the risk factor shouldn't be too high, right?
I was worried about this and prepared to go home and talk to Li Zhongxia about it. He should be able to guess who was sent here, and can basically judge the level of danger based on the other party's behavior.
"Xiaohua, where is your dad? Where did he go?" He was not in either of the two houses, nor in the neighbor's house in the yard. Where did this guy go?
"Oh! Dad said he had something to do outside and might not be back at night. He said he would tell you the details when he comes back."
Did he get the news too? Are you going to look for that comrade? Gu Yan was worried and didn't sleep well the whole night. This guy wouldn't be stupid enough to care about brotherhood in an emergency, right?
She had no objection to standing up for her brothers, but now... forget it, in the final analysis, she was still selfish. If it was her brother who was in trouble, she couldn't just sit there and do nothing.
After tossing and turning all night, Li Zhongxia came back at dawn. She sat up suddenly and looked at him questioningly.
The man closed the door, sat on the edge of the kang and spoke softly: "Lao Xu was demoted. He has a cough, a high fever, and injuries. He needs to be treated immediately..."
"Are you and him in the same film?"
Li Zhongxia nodded. "Lao Xu is a tough guy and won't get involved. We are best brothers, and now that he is so close to me, I have to find a way to help him."
Gu Yan nodded, showing his understanding for him. Brothers who share life and death, how can they change because of the situation? If he ignored his brothers in life and death, she would look down on him.
"You're in the Jiaoyuan Brigade four miles away, right? No one saw you last night, right?"
"Yes. No one saw me go to see him." Li Zhongxia paused for a moment and spoke very embarrassedly. "Wife, can you still get that kind of medicine now? The kind of anti-inflammatory medicine that only needs to be taken orally can achieve the effect of infusion."
"How do you know that?"
"Mom let it slip."
"I know it. If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself."
Gu Yan's words were purely expressing a cause and effect, without any hint of blame. The old lady would tell her son something because they are a family and she knows he would never betray his wife.
"I'll try and do my best."
"I'll go with you, or you tell me the way and I'll do it." Let me do this dangerous thing. I'll take the responsibility if anything goes wrong.
"It's not that dangerous, don't worry. I'll try, maybe I can get it today."
Li Zhongxia didn't ask any more questions, but just kept reminding her to be careful. "Medicine is secondary, your own safety is the most important. If I can't ensure your safety... I'll go, wife."
"Hehe... It's not as dangerous as you think. I'll take care of it, don't worry."
After disappearing for an afternoon, Gu Yan handed him two white bottles containing medicine in the evening. "Take one white pill at a time, three times a day, and three red capsules at a time, also three times. This is a week's worth of medicine, and you'll see the effects after you finish taking it."
"Did anything happen to you when you took the medicine?"
"No. Be careful when you go there at night, don't let the mad dog see you."
"rest assured."
The couple was doing something dangerous in secret, but fortunately they were not exposed until the other party recovered a week later. Gu Yan secretly went to see Old Xu. The man looked like a tough guy. He was very grateful to Li Zhongxia for his risky rescue. Their already deep brotherhood was deepened.
In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Xiaohua received an admission notice from the commune junior high school. The family had expected this result and did not seem too happy.
"No. 1 in the whole commune. My daughter is amazing." Gu Yan praised her and asked, "Do you have any requests? Anything you want to eat, play, or wear, you can get it."
"No, I don't need anything."
The child's face is full of satisfaction, and he is really satisfied with this situation. When studying in a commune, you have to live on campus, which costs money for accommodation, food, tuition, books, and bedding. Some people don't even have enough for bedding. If your brothers and sisters at home all have a quilt and you want to take it away, what should you do with the remaining one? There were seven students in her class who passed the exam, but only two went to study. She and Xu Wa, the second son of Aunt Xu.
"Then make yourself some new clothes and a new schoolbag. You've been carrying this schoolbag for five years and it's been repaired several times. Now that you're in junior high school, you need to carry a beautiful schoolbag."
"Let me make it for you." The old lady looked at her granddaughter with a loving face. "Find all the scraps of cloth at home and I'll pick out brightly colored ones. Sew a circle of lotus leaf lace and embroider a few hollyhock flowers on it. It will definitely look good."
"Forget about embroidering. It would be nice if I could just make the lotus leaf lace pretty." If I embroidered flowers and then was criticized for being feudal, capitalist, and revisionist, that would not be worth it.
"Okay, go find it now and I'll do it for you."
Gu Yan opened the box and took out a large bag. After giving it to my mother-in-law and opening it, she said, "Make one for Xu Wa as well. His mother is only taking care of the little kid, so she probably won't have time to make these for him."
"OK."
"Xu Wa said he is so pitiful now. His mother gave birth to another brother and took out all her dissatisfaction on his grandfathers. She said it was because he had seen too many bald heads that he gave birth to another bald head."
"Haha..." Everyone burst into laughter and lit candles for the Xu father and son.
"Grandma, Mom, I'm going to the commune to study. What about my brothers and sisters?"
The twins will not be able to start school until next year at the earliest. Niuniu is even younger, so this is really a problem. Gu Yan was just about to say that she would bring her son with her to work when Sister Xu came in holding her youngest son.
"I'll watch. It doesn't matter if you drive one sheep or a flock of sheep. Anyway, I can't leave now that I have this little one, so I'll just watch."
The old lady asked her to sit on the kang and gave the rattle that the other children had played with to the little one in her arms. "Where's his grandmother? Can't she see?"
"No, it's hard to get off the bed lately."
"Alas, I am old and useless."
"I see that you are in good health. You can thread a needle with your eyesight and your hands don't shake anymore. You are getting younger and younger as you get older."
"Haha... I'm recovering quite well. This medicine is good this time. After taking it for a while, my hands stopped shaking. It's also because the children took good care of me. Thank you Gu Yan and Zhong Xia for your hard work."
“This is what they deserve.”
"That's right, mom, you are fine, which is our blessing."
Sister Xu chatted here for a while, and when it was almost noon, she took her son home to cook. Just after lunch, Xu Wa came running over in a hurry.
"Aunt Gu, are you really going to make me a new schoolbag?"
"Yes, one for you and one for Xiaohua. Grandma is making them for you."
"Yeah, that's great." The child jumped up excitedly. "My schoolbag is all patched up. My mom said I was too wasteful and made me use that one. I don't have to use it this time. I have a new schoolbag."
"You're the one who wasted it. The schoolbag was in great condition when my cousin was using it, but it keeps getting torn after I gave it to you."
San San followed behind and spoke in a sensible and concerned tone. It was as if he was the older brother, looking at his disappointing brother with a worried look on his face.
"My cousin has used it before, so it will break easily if I give it to me."
Gu Yan smiled as they bickered, then stood up and gave them a nest each.
"No, Auntie, we've already eaten."
"Little boy, it's time to eat. Take it quickly. It's not too late to have another one when you're full. I added millet flour to this wo wo today, it's delicious."
After dinner, the children did not take a nap but went out to play together. Gu Yan reminded them to be careful but did not force them. Children are full of energy. Nowadays, if there is no entertainment at night, they go to bed early and there is no need to sleep again at noon.
The summer vacation was spent playing day after day. The little girl was very active and often got her arms and knees bruised. Gu Yan has also been trained now, so she is not worried at all as long as it is not a vital part. Apply some iodine to the little girl to disinfect her, and then let the kids go crazy.
A few days later, Li Zhongxia got an accordion from somewhere. Xiaohua was so happy that she didn't care about having fun anymore. She spent most of her time practicing the accordion and playing chess with Xu Wa. The task of looking after the little guy fell on San San's head.
"Gu Yanzhu, Gu Yanlei, how about we open a school? Let the brothers and sisters be the teachers and we will be the students, okay?"
"good."
The little ones fell into their brother's trap unknowingly, and sat obediently and played class games with their older brothers and sisters. All the high stools, low stools and small stools in the house were moved out. Niu Niu sat on the porch steps with a small cotton pad under her butt. Holding a slate pencil, he scribbled on the board in a very professional manner.
"Sister, can I be a student too?"
The neighboring children also came over and treated Xiaohua respectfully as if they were really treating a teacher. The older children really enjoyed being teachers and had a lot of fun playing games.
"Teacher, can we play sandbag throwing after class?"
"Teacher, shall we play hide and seek?"
"Let's play the knock-knee game." The suggestion made by the child Xiao Ya was unanimously applauded by the boys.
San San reached out and held his sister's hand: "Okay, I'll take you guys to play knock-knock later. But I have to make a deal, don't cry if you get hurt."
"I won't cry. I'm a very bad bumper. Leilei can't beat me."
Little Gu Yanlei ran up to his sister and said, "My second sister and I are playing skipping rope. We don't need you."
Xiaoya waved her hand: "Go ahead, go ahead, sister won't bump into you, there's no point at all."
"Humph, you little bastard."
"Hmph, stinky Leilei."
The twins started fighting again. Xiaohua smiled helplessly and she and Sansan separated them one by one.
They played like crazy in between picking up sheep dung. The creek, the edge of the sky, the intersection, the yard, there were happy children everywhere.
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