In the staff family compound of the high-speed rail manufacturing plant, Qin Changshuo's car stopped at the door of Shi's house. He got out of the car, carrying three pounds of pork belly and ten pounds of rice in his hands, and strode towards the gate.
This is a two-story Western-style building, newly built. There is an ordinary residential area under construction behind it. The highest building is seven stories high, completely different from the popular tube-shaped buildings nowadays. It faces north and south, has a kitchen and bathroom, and will be delivered at the end of the year.
Zhu Ruiyun heard the doorbell and quickly wiped away her tears. She opened the door and saw Qin Changshuo. A smile finally appeared on her face. "Changshuo, come in. You're here now. Why are you carrying so many things?"
Qin Changshuo put the rice and meat he brought directly into the kitchen. "Auntie, what happened?"
His heart was beating very fast at this moment. He was afraid of hearing bad news, but he didn't dare to disobey it.
Eight years ago, he was ordered by his superiors to go to the United States to carry out a mission. Something went wrong on the way and he was seriously injured. He was rescued by a Chinese couple and hidden in their basement to recuperate.
The police went to search three times, and each time they relied on their little daughter to cover up for them, so they escaped safely.
The couple was Shi Kaiji and Zhu Ruiyun. He always remembered the sweet appearance of their youngest daughter, but he didn't know her name.
At that time, the little girl was only fifteen or sixteen years old, just the age of a flower bud.
He shouldn't have cared about such a young child, but her every frown and smile was hidden in his heart for eight years. He thought that he would never have any intersection with her in this life, until he came back from the army a few days ago and heard Shi Kaiji's name at home, only then did he realize that they had returned to China a long time ago.
At that moment, he was flustered and at a loss like never before.
"Just now, the Tongxian Heping Commune called and said Yanyan jumped into the river in the countryside. Wow, my poor child, she's been implicated by us..."
Qin Changshuo felt his heart stop and his hands and feet were cold. He had never been so panicked when he rescued Qiu Xiulan from the river and was forced to marry her. "Auntie, she... Yanyan she..."
He still remembered that she had fed him, "Big brother, eat quickly, eating will help your wound heal faster!"
Zhu Ruiyun knew that Qin Changshuo had misunderstood when she saw his expression. Thinking that Qin Changshuo had met her daughter before, she could not blame him for being so anxious. "Changshuo, don't worry. Yanyan has been rescued. I just feel sorry for her!"
After the couple returned to China, they lived a peaceful life for only two days before she and Lao Shi were reported and demoted. Their daughter was rescued by someone and sent to the countryside as an educated youth.
But my daughter had never suffered such hardship abroad. She couldn't bear to go to the countryside in the first place, and now she was forced to jump into the river. She didn't know what was going on.
However, she didn't dare to visit the child. In order to protect their daughter, the couple had severed ties with her. She was also worried that one day she would be labeled a monster and her daughter would be implicated.
Qin Changshuo breathed a sigh of relief, "Auntie, I'll go to the countryside to visit Yanyan now."
When Qin Changshuo came to visit Zhu Ruiyun for the first time, he told her his situation frankly. At this moment, Zhu Ruiyun was just a mother who was worried about her daughter. She looked at Qin Changshuo and couldn't help but think of a lot of things.
After a long while, he nodded and said, "Go see her!"
If it weren't for Shi Kaiji's family, Qin Changshuo would not be alive today. Whether out of gratitude or for other reasons, Qin Changshuo had to make the trip.
He got the address of Shi Leyan's rural address and bought a train ticket to Tongxian that day.
Tong County is in Anhui Province. When Qin Changshuo arrived at Heping Commune, it was already the fourth day.
This was the result of his non-stop journey.
There is no direct train from Beijing to the capital city of Anhui Province. This train was only opened in 1978, so you need to transfer all the way to get there.
After borrowing a car from his comrades at the county armed forces department, his comrades drove him to Heping Commune.
Shi Leyan went to the countryside to Zaozhuang Brigade. It was June now, and the double-harvest season had not yet arrived. The farm work in the brigade was field management, weeding, and fertilizing.
The main crops here are rice and wheat. Rice is harvested twice a year. After the autumn harvest, wheat is planted in the fields. The land planted with wheat can only be used to grow rice for one season.
If you plant two crops of rice, you won't have enough time to plant wheat, but planting two crops at the same time will be exhausting.
Double harvest means rushing to harvest summer rice and rushing to plant autumn rice.
People in the south won't freeze to death in the winter, but there are two rice harvests a year, and the farm work is very heavy. Moreover, the land is not fertile and the yield is very low. Even with such hard work, you still can't get enough to eat.
When educated youth went to the countryside, they all preferred to go to the Northeast and not to the South, but the South was much better than the Northwest and Southwest.
It was noon and there was a commotion at the educated youth camp. The main topic was that Shi Leyan had not cooked for five or six days and her food was all gone.
The main reason was that she had been lying in bed for the past few days and the female educated youth Yang Xiaoya, who was in charge of getting food, was not very sure of her hands and took too much food from her.
After she fell into the water, water choked on her lungs and she kept coughing. She was very weak, had no appetite, and had not eaten anything.
She didn't get to eat, the food was gone, and she didn't get up to cook. People despised her and wanted to kick her out.
"You didn't hear her coughing, so who knows if she has tuberculosis?"
"The key is that she has no food now. If we leave her here, will we have to provide food to feed her?"
"If we drive her away, where can we drive her to?"
"Go find the captain. It was a village scoundrel who saved her. He should repay his life-saving grace with his body. Let him marry her. Then she won't have to live here anymore, right?"
The male educated youth Kang Mingcheng said, "I don't agree!"
Seeing everyone looking at him, Kang Mingcheng said, "Shi Zhiqing said she would not marry a second-rate man. She would like to thank others in other ways."
Liu Danzhen glanced at Yang Xiaoya calmly. Yang Xiaoya blushed with anger, "Brother Mingcheng, she's been hugged and touched by that second-rate guy. She's not clean anymore. Who else can she marry if not him?"
Pain appeared in Kang Mingcheng's eyes, and he pursed his lips tightly and refused to let go.
When Liu Danzhen saw this scene, she clenched her fists and restrained the urge to kick Shi Leyan into the river again. Her nails dug deep into her flesh, and the pain made her a little more rational.
Yang Xiaoya continued, "Besides, if she doesn't marry that second-rate guy, everyone in the brigade will say bad things about us. This is clearly ruining the reputation of our educated youth camp. The villagers already have a lot of complaints about us educated youth, and they will be even less tolerant of us in the future."
"Yang Xiaoya, Xie Zhiyi rescued me from the river, which was a good deed. But the meaning of your words is that he was clearly being a hooligan to me. Is that what you meant?"
Everyone looked over in the direction of the sound. Shi Leyan was standing there holding onto the door frame. Her smiling face was pale with an abnormal blush on it, but delicate as pearls and tender as fresh snow. She had an extremely delicate little face, eyebrows like distant ink, bright eyes, and her innate elegance made her look like an elf that had fallen into the world, making people forget the world at first sight.
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