The annual leave has been cancelled, how should we celebrate the Spring Festival?
Apart from Zhou Jiao and her three children, these people have little contact with Zhou Xiaozheng and his fellow soldiers. In fact, he always celebrates the New Year with his comrades.
However, after the third day of the first lunar month, the old couple Cheng took their little grandson Wen Yu and the three Ping An brothers to the Southwest Military Region first.
The reason for this was that the wedding of the eldest grandson of the Cheng family was quite complicated, including choosing a date and a place. According to Zhou Jiao, the wedding was changed at least three times, if not five times.
This time it was finally decided to be held at the end of the new year in a local area in the southwest.
If they hadn't changed the wedding date to after August 1st, their family could have gone to the wedding. This time, they appointed the three Ping An brothers to represent the Zhou family.
During the Spring Festival this year, the temple fair was cancelled and the whole family was busy going to and from get off work, devoting themselves to their work, which actually met the New Year's theme of "seizing life and promoting production".
Unlike them, the Zhang family in Northeast China, except for Zhang Guofu who works in the Grain Bureau, the rest of Zhang Laoer's brothers and sisters do not go home on New Year's Eve and work non-stop on the first day of the new year.
When Zhang's father and mother returned to the village to celebrate the New Year as usual, they found out that under the slogan of "Learn from Dazhai in Agriculture", there was no rest in the production team either.
After finally celebrating the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang's father, accompanied by his wife, fled back to the county town. He felt he had wronged his deceased parents that year, unable to even buy paper money, let alone perform ancestral worship on New Year's Eve.
——In the Zhang family’s ancestral hall, the rows and rows of spirit tablets had long been moved to a secret place by the old patriarch and clan elders.
It was also from this year that a new dance replaced the yangge, and model operas began to appear in major theaters and in various villages and fields.
It's really a different experience.
Time passed slowly like this.
Zhang Guoqing received another letter from home. Except for Zhang Mingzuo who joined the county propaganda office in winter, Zhang Mingyou and Zhang Ziwu had already gloriously become new recruits.
According to a letter from Zhang's father, if he wasn't worried about implicating his brothers in Dashan, he would have even wanted to pack up and send Zhang Mingzuo to the military camp. Being a soldier is the best way to defend your country.
Zhou Jiao smiled. Regardless of whether her father-in-law had good intentions or not, as long as their younger generation was truly promising, she didn't mind helping them.
How is it possible to become the second Zhang Guoqing?
"Dad is really willing to do that. I thought he would let them go to work."
Zhang Guoqing touched his nose. "Last year, when they were celebrating the New Year at our house, didn't I write a letter to Dad? Do you remember?"
Zhou Jiao thought about it and realized it was indeed true. She had even read the content, and it seemed that the guy had actually written that if they wanted their children to be successful, regardless of whether they would have military service in the future, it was necessary for them to spend a few years in the army to hone their skills.
So, her father-in-law had read the letter's hidden meaning? So, he was replicating the path the three Ping'an brothers might take in the future for his other grandchildren?
Zhang Guoqing looked at her expression, smiled and shook his head. There were really not many things she could keep in mind.
Zhou Jiao glanced at him noncommittally. She was too lazy to disguise her personality in front of him. She didn't even think about hiding who she was in front of someone she trusted.
She pulled him back to her room as soon as she got off work, not because she was bored, but because she had important business to attend to.
Zhou Jiao then took out a stack of papers from the space and placed them on the desk, tapping on them with her finger. "This is the conclusion I've reached based on all the gossip."
Zhang Guoqing didn't care about anything else at this moment, he immediately picked it up and started reading. The more he read, the tighter his brows frowned. After finishing reading, he walked back and forth in the room, rubbing his chin.
Zhou Jiao saw this and said with a smile: "Why, you don't dare?"
"Don't use provocation."
"Do you think my deduction makes sense?"
Zhang Guoqing glanced at the information on the desk. It was a report on the results of searches throughout the city and the total she had calculated.
There is indeed a lot less stuff.
He believed in his little girl's abilities, but how could things be so simple? Since someone dared to take action, they had a backup plan. Safety was paramount right now.
Besides, it is definitely not just his family that is eyeing these things. From what he has observed over the past period of time, he has found that many people around him are either openly or secretly coveting these stolen goods.
Black eating black?
What his wife can think of, wouldn’t those old foxes think of?
“It’s not worth it.”
Zhou Jiao nodded in agreement, "So I changed my goal."
Zhang Guoqing's mouth twitched when he heard this. Was he going to praise his wife for her humor? She had made him worry for no reason. He hoped she wouldn't have to take time off to venture out on her own again.
"You see, it's still like this under the emperor's feet, what about outside?"
Otherwise, how can it be said that the person who knows Zhou Jiao best is himself! Zhang Guoqing quickly shook his head, "Wherever you go, accidents happen. Who is stupid!"
Zhou Jiao glared at him angrily.
Zhang Guoqing quickly hugged her and stroked her hair. "Are you bored here? Honey, if you want to have fun and have adventures, you don't have to go out of town. How about I give you some advice?"
"Are you sure you don't want to play?" Zhou Jiao tilted her head and looked at him with squinted eyes.
Zhang Guoqing wouldn't do such a foolish thing as competing with his wife for victory. He nodded and smiled repeatedly, saying, "Yes, my wife is smart. Does this mean we are in perfect harmony?"
Zhou Jiao laughed so hard that she punched him a few times, "What a character!"
"With Liang Shengnan gone, is the Liang family ancestral home really going to be abandoned?"
Zhou Jiao scoffed, "I'm not like them, a rat, sneaking around in the middle of the night to dig up other people's backyards for fun."
Well, quite aloof! Zhang Guoqing smiled speechlessly.
"Besides, their family has already dealt with it before. I guess everything that can be transferred has been moved. There is not much point in moving their old yard now."
What Zhou Jiao didn't say was that outside the secret room that she had intentionally pointed out, the Liang family was beaten to a pulp by those young generals, and she really looked down on those tea leaves.
Zhang Guoqing didn't think twice and immediately changed his target. "How about I take you to find the trouble?"
Zhou Jiao snapped her fingers and said with a broad smile, "That's fine. First, tell me which guy you've had the misfortune to take a fancy to? I'm telling you, Master wants to knock someone unconscious."
"Wife, you've been led astray by the old naughty boy. Does our father know?"
Zhou Jiao glanced at him sideways, "Do you think Dad doesn't want to do it? I've seen him itching to do it for a long time. If he hadn't been so busy with people around him, I'm sure he would have put everyone in the compound in a sack."
Zhang Guoqing pinched her nose with a smile, but she angrily slapped him, and he laughed happily. How could this little thing be so funny? She was worthy of being his wife.
"I really want to sleep on the kang for a night. I haven't been to the city for a long time. Let's stay there for a night on the weekend and take some time to visit my aunt."
Zhou Jiao smiled knowingly.
Rather than going to the garbage dump to look for treasure and wasting a dollar, she prefers to pick a fight. She can speak out against injustice and make some secret money at the same time. It's really satisfying.
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