006 I gave myself away
In Gao Qinghe's impression, whether it was the crisp crowing of chickens and barking of dogs in the morning, the red earthen walls at dusk, or the yellowed picture books pasted on the headboard at night, everything in the house was beautiful.
Whenever I think of it, my heart feels warm.
But it may also be that he has lived a life of luxury for too long and has forgotten the poverty and hardship he experienced in the countryside when he was young.
She stepped over the knee-high stone threshold with great anticipation, but her feet went soft.
Looking down, it was chicken shit.
Looking up again, the red earth wall at dusk was mottled.
The dirt yard that was filled with the laughter of my brothers and sisters during my childhood was narrow and small.
There are two large wooden barrels at the foot of the north wall, filled with this year's freshly made sweet potato flour.
In the little remaining space next to the wooden barrel, a rack for drying vermicelli was set up, and it was hung with messy sweet potato vermicelli.
It made the already small yard seem even more crowded.
Four low houses with earthen structures faced the main gate. To the east was a dim kitchen, and to the west was a small utility room with a useless lock hanging on the door.
After stepping on another pile of chicken shit.
Gao Qinghe's fiery heart died instantly.
All the hunger, cold and poverty that had been buried deep in my memory before I got married came flooding back.
My father, Gao Chongyi, is a village primary school teacher. He has worked hard for twenty years but has not been promoted to a regular employee. He only receives half of the salary of other teachers every month.
It only rose to 40 yuan at the end of last year.
My mother took care of all the work in the fields. Even though she was born with endless energy, apart from the work in the fields, she would only make some vermicelli during the slack season every year to exchange for cash to buy oil and salt.
There are three children in the family, the eldest and the second are unemployed.
The third child is still studying in town. He is not considered a labor force and still has to pay for tuition and miscellaneous expenses.
Fortunately, grandma is in good health and takes care of all the housework at home.
This family of six can still make ends meet.
Although I can't eat big fish and meat every meal, at least I can fill my stomach gradually.
In his previous life, Gao Qinghe never worried about his family's livelihood.
She ate the best food and used the best things until she got married.
Jiang Baohai spends money without blinking an eye and doesn't care how she uses it.
She spent money to build a new house and buy home appliances and furniture for her family. She sent money home every month. Life became much better now and she could hardly remember the hard days of the past.
Who would have thought that everything would go back to the time before liberation overnight, and Gao Qinghe's face turned green.
However, all the emotions disappeared instantly when he saw the energetic old lady walking out of the kitchen.
Only happiness from the bottom of my heart.
"grandmother!"
Gao Qinghe shouted sweetly and crisply, opening his arms and rushing over like a child.
"Ouch~" The old lady of the Gao family, Tian Xiaoqiao, staggered and took two steps back when she was hugged by her eldest granddaughter.
After finally standing steady, he didn't get angry. He pulled his eldest granddaughter away and looked her up and down with concern.
"I'm back. Is Bao'er okay?"
Gao Qinghe shook his head and said, "I'm fine. Thank you for your concern, grandma~"
She slept all the way, and her complexion recovered a lot. When she smiled, she looked like a delicate flower.
The old man felt happy when he saw it, but when he saw the bruise on Gao Qinghe's forehead, he couldn't help feeling heartbroken.
Holding the eldest granddaughter's hand, he walked into the house.
"Knowing you'd be back, I lit the wood stove in the house in advance. The house is cozy and warm now. My dear, please sit down for a while. Grandma will go and cook for you."
The old lady said to Huang Ying, "Please bring down the bacon that was smoked before the New Year. It's a rare occasion for the whole family to get together, so I want to give some to my grandchildren."
Gao Qinghe's smile became even brighter. "Grandma is the best old lady in the world. With grandma, I will never have to worry about eating meat in my life."
"Why does your mouth look like it's covered with honey?" The old lady felt very warm in her heart.
Huang Ying handed the luggage to Gao Chongyi, set up a ladder and went up to the attic to get the meat.
Gao Qingmiao and Gao Qingya looked at each other, full of anticipation.
There's meat to eat tonight!
Gao Chongyi took his luggage into the house and put it away, then rolled up his sleeves and went into the kitchen to help his mother-in-law.
"Mom, let me wash the vegetables."
"Okay, there's some hot water on the stove. Add some hot water to it so your hands don't get cold."
"Okay!"
Gao Chongyi knew his own cooking skills, so he picked up a pot of cabbage and walked out of the kitchen, then went to get some hot water.
He looked up and saw Gao Qinghe and her two siblings sitting around the stove in the main room, chatting and laughing.
A feeling of happiness arises spontaneously in my heart.
Who says men who come to your house have a hard life?
The rough men in the village had no idea how good his life was.
Only he himself knows how lucky he is.
Among all the educated youth in Xiahe Village, Gao Chongyi dared to say that he was the one who had suffered the least.
He has been self-aware since he was young.
After the first month in the countryside, I realized that I couldn’t do the farm work by myself.
Thinking about how many years of farm work he still had to do in the future, he immediately decided to marry himself off.
He had only two requests when he came to visit.
First, never do farm work in your life.
Second, one of the children has his surname.
As a result, God blessed him and he was favored by the strong woman Huang Ying.
At that time, the husband that Tian Lao Niang married later died, and she took her daughter back to the old house left by her first husband and lived separately from her step-sons.
The family needed a man at that time, and the two parties hit it off immediately.
Mrs. Tian was considerate and said that the children would all have his surname and it would be fine as long as they recognized him as their grandmother.
Tian Laonian, who was the women's director of the brigade at the time, also said that as long as he got married, she would help him find a decent job that would not require him to work in the fields.
In a blink of an eye, he has been in the Huang family for twenty-one years.
I have been a village primary school teacher for twenty years.
Although the salary is not high, it is stable.
The mother-in-law is reasonable and kind to him.
His wife took care of all the work in the fields, so he didn't have to worry about anything.
She also enjoyed listening to him lament the passing of time, and they got along very well.
So even if the educated youth was able to return to the city later, his family would send a telegram asking him whether he wanted to go back.
He didn't reply.
Now that the children in the family have grown up, life is really getting better and better.
"What is beautiful about a person?"
Huang Ying came over with the bacon and saw her husband washing vegetables with a silly grin on his face, so she asked curiously.
Gao Chongyi took the bacon and put it in the basin to wash it, then said with a smile: "I don't envy the mandarin ducks or the immortals, my life is as happy as that of an immortal."
Huang Ying didn't understand all this, but seeing her husband happy, she smiled too and continued to listen to what he said about picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains.
I just think that good-looking men sound as sweet as singing when they speak.
The old lady was in charge of the cooking. She poured the chopped green onions and ginger into the hot oil pan and stir-fried them until they were fragrant.
Then pour in a large bowl of bacon slices cut into appropriate thickness, stir-fry quickly with a large spatula, and the tempting aroma will immediately waft out.
In just a short while, piles of fried bacon, fried cabbage with hot and sour sauce, bright yellow scrambled eggs, and tender tofu soup were served on the table one by one.
My younger brother and sister couldn't sit still any longer, so they stood up to set the chopsticks and serve the rice.
As for Gao Qinghe, she just had to sit and wait for food.
The whole family was used to it, so they would be shocked if she suddenly got up to work.
Gao Chongyi specially mixed another bowl of milk powder and handed it to Gao Qinghe.
Although Gao Qingmiao and Gao Qingya were envious, they never competed with their elder sister.
I just feel sorry for my elder sister. She fell and was hospitalized. She needs to take more supplements.
"Sister, eat this."
Gao Qingya stood in front of the table and picked up a few chopsticks of bacon and put them into her elder sister's bowl.
Gao Qingmiao placed the whole plate of scrambled eggs next to her elder sister, fearing that she would get tired of using her chopsticks.
Gao Qinghe ate so much food from his brother and sister-in-law that he was so full that he couldn't sleep at night.
If I had known this earlier, I would have taken it easy.
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