Chapter 55 "What's the Name?"
"Tsk tsk!" Sun Yeli had a mischievous smile on his face.
After all, I was young and fell in love with it all of a sudden!
Gu Chenghuai glanced at the list on the brown paper package.
It was mailed on the same day as the letter I received before, but parcel delivery is slower than letters, so it arrived just now.
He opened the brown paper and saw a can of meat sauce and a can of meat inside.
Supplies were in short supply across the country, and the food in the army was not that good. People ate meat more frequently than in the village, but it was impossible for people to eat as much as they wanted.
Sun Yeli caught a glimpse of what Gu Chenghuai was holding, jumped up from the bed, and came over, "What is this?"
"Canned meat!"
"Your sister-in-law actually sent you canned meat!" Tears of envy flowed from the corners of his mouth.
Sun Yeli was so jealous that his face turned red. "My mother was reluctant to send me any. What did she usually send me? Dried sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes, and dried sweet potatoes."
"What did she say? She said she wanted to temper my will. Hey, the intensity of our daily training is not enough to temper my will? She is just petty, biased, and doesn't care about me as her son."
Gu Chenghuai felt that what he said was biased, "Didn't I send you a thick sweater last winter? Wool is hard to buy, and I don't know how many people I exchanged tickets with before I could save enough wool to knit you a sweater."
"People need to be content."
For example, no matter what Zhaozhao sent him, even if it was two sweet potatoes, he would happily accept it.
"Hehe." Sun Yeli felt happy again after hearing what his comrade said, "That's true! Sweaters are warm."
Gu Chenghuai heard the latter sentence all winter last year.
He opened the drawer, took out the industrial coupons and cloth coupons he had exchanged with others, and asked Sun Yeli, "Take a look, are these coupons enough to exchange for 5 kilograms of wool?"
Sun Yeli took it and flipped through it, looking at his comrades, "That's a lot! It's enough. Did you exchange it with someone?"
This is outrageous.
You have to know that under the current circumstances, each urban resident is only eligible to purchase 2 taels of wool per year.
My comrade has a stack here, and I don’t know how long it has been since he changed it.
Buying 5 kilograms of wool is definitely enough.
"Um."
Gu Chenghuai responded calmly without further explanation.
He had long planned to ask someone to knit a sweater for his wife.
Zhaozhao loves beauty, and she never likes cotton clothes that make her look fat. If there was a sweater, she would definitely be happy.
Sun Yeli felt that Gu Chenghuai was a stranger, not like the decisive and ruthless young officer in his impression.
He winked and said, "Saving for my sister-in-law?"
Gu Chenghuai doesn't like to talk about his wife with others, not because he dislikes her or looks down on her, but because he cherishes her to the extreme.
Ignoring the curious looks of his comrades, he began to pack his luggage.
"..." Sun Yeli felt a sour feeling in his teeth.
Everyone in the camp should come and see how eager he is to return home.
"You're almost going back, is this can of meat..." He leaned over with a smile.
Give him half.
hey-hey.
Gu Chenghuai glanced at him with no expression on his face, but Sun Yeli could read the emotion of "what are you thinking about".
"..."
Sun Yeli found out how to deal with meat sauce and canned meat during dinner.
A certain introverted man brought her to the cafeteria, ordered today's sweet potato steamed bread, radish strips and kelp soup, and sat in the corner.
With his hands that looked foul, he slowly opened cans of meat paste and meat.
In an instant.
A domineering meaty aroma wafted in the air.
"It smells so good! Who's cooking? I want to eat meat!" The soldier who had just come in was drooling with greed.
"Who doesn't want it? When can we have a snack? My mouth is tasteless." The young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes took off his military cap and sniffed hard, as if the cap affected his ability to smell the fragrance.
Several officers who were familiar with Gu Chenghuai saw him from afar and came over with food.
The things on the table were something they were familiar with: canned meat, which was available at the supply and marketing cooperative. As for the other one, they don’t know.
Sun Yeli sat down and looked at Gu Chenghuai as if he was a heartless man.
"Why didn't you call me for dinner?"
Gu Chenghuai ignored his gaze and said, "You are even called to eat, why don't you go to heaven?"
"..." Sun Yeli choked.
She unceremoniously took the meat from the can and ate it with the steamed bread, squinting her eyes in delight.
"It still has to be meat," he said with emotion.
The second battalion commander looked at Gu Chenghuai, "Is this sent by your family?"
Gu Chenghuai curled his lips modestly, his voice low and pleasant, "My wife sent it."
In a word, goal achieved.
The person asking the question sighed, "Your wife really cares about you."
He and his wife have been married for five years, and he has never received a single thread.
The man took a sip of the kelp soup, his brows knitted, and he could taste the taste of someone trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
The officers present had their mouths twitching.
Generally speaking, when someone brings food to the army canteen, it is assumed that everyone will share it.
So, everyone at this table ate the meat sauce and canned meat sent by Lin Zhao.
After tasting it, I was amazed!
"This meat sauce tastes really good, is it made by your sister-in-law?"
"Cheng Huai, if your sister-in-law makes this, I'd buy it! It goes really well with rice. I can eat three more steamed buns with the meat sauce."
"Your sister-in-law really loves you. You have married a good wife!"
Sun Yeli put the meat sauce into the dough, took a big bite, and said, "I want to buy it too."
…
At a time when speculation and profiteering were being severely cracked down, how could Gu Chenghuai cause trouble for his wife? He refused without a second thought.
"I'll talk about this when I get back."
It cannot be traded, but it can be exchanged.
His comrades come from all over the world, and maybe they have what Zhao Zhao wants in their hometown.
Gu Chenghuai planned to discuss it with his wife before replying.
"Yes, I have to ask my brother and sister-in-law for their opinions as well."
The second battalion commander grabbed his arm and said earnestly, "Cheng Huai, you must talk to your sister-in-law. Whether it's money or exchange, it's not a problem."
This man's parents are both working, his wife also has a job in the city, and there is only one child in the family, so he is not short of money.
After having enough of eating in the cafeteria, he wanted to change his taste, and this meat sauce was particularly to his liking.
Gu Chenghuai pulled his arm back and replied, "I understand."
Soon, everyone who should know knew it - the commander of the first battalion, Gu Chenghuai, had a wife who was very good at making meat sauce.
The previous bad rumors were completely dispelled.
After returning to the dormitory, Sun Yeli stroked his chin and looked at Gu Chenghuai, thinking about something.
"Did you do this on purpose?" he asked.
Gu Chenghuai was packing his luggage, not looking at his talkative comrade, and asked calmly, "For example?"
"I deliberately took meat sauce and canned meat to the cafeteria to clear my sister-in-law's name," said Sun Yeli.
After Gu Chenghuai talked to the director of women's affairs, Qian Guiying held a meeting in the family compound and taught a lesson to several people who gossiped about Lin Zhao, but Lin Zhao's reputation did not improve much. Quite a few people were suspicious and thought that there must be something wrong with her, otherwise why would everyone be spreading rumors about her?
After Captain Gu’s publicity just now, the family compound’s impression of Lin Zhao... must have been completely reversed.
"My wife is good to begin with, there's no need to correct her reputation." Gu Chenghuai sneered.
The clothes he was wearing made it difficult for him to speak directly.
but.
He thought that some people were really idle.
Sun Yeli saw his comrade's displeasure, and also felt that his sister-in-law had really suffered an unprovoked disaster, so he wiped away the joking expression on his face.
Patted Gu Chenghuai on the shoulder.
"Bring my sister-in-law here as soon as possible."
He can also go and get some free meals.
Sun Yeli was thinking of good things.
Gu Chenghuai was silent.
Whether Zhaozhao comes to join the army depends entirely on her wishes.
It's a good thing that he is not seen here. When he comes back from visiting his relatives, he will probably go to the battlefield.
Zhaozhao has family members to help her in her hometown. If she comes to join the army, he will often not be at home. She has to take care of four children alone. It is too hard for her to do so, and he can't bear to let her go.
I remember when I went to the family compound before, there was a sister-in-law who was only taking care of two children, but she was exhausted. He has four children in his family, so he must be even more tired.
As for joining the army, it would be better to wait until the third and fourth cubs are older so Zhao Zhao can feel more relaxed.
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The third branch of the Gu family.
The twins, a boy and a girl, sat in the corner playing with cloth balls. The older and younger cubs came over in sandals, carrying a wooden box that they had dug out from under the camphor tree.
Like offering a treasure.
"Mom, this is the wooden box we dug out, and we can't open it." Erzai said in frustration.
Thinking of his mother's great strength, he looked at Lin Zhao with clear eyes and said, "I'm sure I can open it."
"Let me see." Lin Zhao took the wooden box.
It's a bit heavy.
I don’t know how they carried the two cubs back.
The eldest and second cubs love cleanliness. After returning home, they swept off the dirt on the surface of the wooden box and washed it again with water. Although it cannot be said to be completely clean, it is completely different from when it was just dug out.
There was a delicate and small lock hanging on the wooden box. No wonder the two boys couldn't open it.
Lin Zhao didn't even look for tools, she just pulled the lock off with her hands.
The two little kids standing beside their mother were stunned, with admiration written all over their faces.
"Mom, you are so strong." Erzai exclaimed in admiration.
Lin Zhao smiled.
These days, you can’t get by without some strength.
"It's OK," she said modestly.
The eldest boy held his chin and looked at the wooden box with curiosity.
Even the talkative Erzai stopped talking and looked over eagerly, excited and thrilled.
Lin Zhao opened the box and revealed its contents.
Just as she thought, they were all old things.
On the top was a palm-sized golden abacus, a pure gold-handled scalpel, a set of dragon and tiger mortars, a rosewood medicine scale, and nine coffin needles. At the bottom is a book, it is very old and its title is "Qing Nang Shu".
Except for the golden abacus, the others are all related to traditional Chinese medicine.
At present, it is considered as the "Four Olds" and you will be in great trouble if you take it out.
Erzai picked up the golden abacus and played with it by himself, "Mom, I like this, can you give it to me?"
"..." Lin Zhao looked at him silently.
Whose five-year-old kid would make such an unreasonable request?
Take the golden abacus as a toy and do what you can.
"Let's talk about it when you grow up." Lin Zhao didn't want to get into trouble.
She planned to put the whole set into the storage ring and take it out when she could.
The second child was very disappointed, but he didn't make a fuss. He said, "Okay."
He looked at the golden abacus with reluctance.
"..." Quite a good judge of taste.
After all, these were treasures picked up by the two little brothers, and it would not be good to confiscate them completely. Lin Zhao stood up, washed his hands, walked to the cupboard, took out a fried dough twist and two boxes of milk, and gave them to the two boys.
Seeing something he had never seen before in his mother's hand, Erzai threw away the golden abacus, pointed at the twisted dough and asked, "Mom, what is this?"
"Go wash your hands. As for the fried dough twists, you and your brother each have half," said Lin Zhao.
The two kids washed their hands without saying a word, and then ate the fried dough twists.
The aroma of oil and wheat flows between your lips and teeth, and when you take a bite, the crispy crumbs fall down, so delicious!
Mahua with milk, this is the way of life that even gods would not change.
Lin Zhao pulled a stool and sat in front of her two sons, her expression slightly serious. "Big son, second son, mother has something to tell you."
"What did you say?" Erzai asked while chewing on fried dough twist.
The eldest boy stopped eating the fried dough twist and looked at his mother with clear eyes.
"Don't tell anyone about what you two found today." Lin Zhao said seriously, "Especially what's in the box. Keep this as our little secret. Can you two do it?"
When they heard that it was a little secret with their mother, the two little kids' eyes suddenly lit up and they nodded rapidly.
"able!"
"I can!"
After the eldest cub finished answering, he remembered that Lu Baozhen knew that he and his brother had found something, and frowned, "But Lu Baozhen saw it."
He was a kid who was prone to internal conflicts, and he felt a little annoyed at the moment.
She lowered her head and said self-reproachfully, "It's all my fault for not being careful. If I had been more careful, I would have found Lu Baozhen earlier..."
"You're overthinking it again." Lin Zhao interrupted him, hugged the eldest child tenderly, and said softly, "No one can plan everything for the worst."
"You've done a good job, why blame yourself?"
She looked down at her eldest son, kissed his little face, and smiled. "My eldest son is the best and most obedient baby in the whole team. I think you are good in every way, but you always blame yourself. I hope you won't be like this in the future, because you will be unhappy, and if you are unhappy, I will not be happy either."
The eldest cub was kissed like a fool. He nestled in Lin Zhao's arms, his face flushed and his ears flushed.
His voice was shy, "...Okay."
The second child was not happy, and he also squeezed into his mother's arms, his eyes curved into crescents, "It's not my fault in the first place, it's all Lu Baozhen's fault, we are just playing our own games, what does she have to do with it?"
"She wants to tell the team, let her do it!"
His eyes turned smartly and he smiled slyly, "Children can cheat, but if we don't admit it, adults can't do anything to us."
Lin Zhao gave a thumbs up and said, "This is a good idea."
If you really have no other choice, just hand over the box. No one stipulates that there must be something inside.
Even if someone has doubts in their hearts, it doesn't matter, they have no evidence.
The second child was very happy to be praised, and said to his brother: "Brother, let's play dumb!"
"Yeah." The eldest boy looked serious.
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The county town has sunk into dusk.
Fu Fei, a cotton textile factory worker who had just finished working overtime, dragged his tired body into the alley he had walked through countless times in the past two years.
Two years ago, that incident was like a branding iron, burning a hole in Fu Fei's spine.
He accidentally lost the factory's property, was convicted of malfeasance, and received administrative punishment from the factory - a demotion from an office accountant to a boiler operator.
Fu Fei knew that this was a lenient punishment given by the factory. At least he was not sent to prison. He should be content.
But.
How could I be willing?
He held the money all the way and didn't let go even when his arms were sore.
How did the money get lost?
He couldn't figure it out.
I’m afraid I’ll never figure it out in this lifetime.
He is not greedy, really not greedy! !
That was the factory's money. How could he make a mistake in principle? ! He is a worker with a good family background, how could he ruin his life by corruption?
After this incident, his family members complained and his colleagues at the factory looked at him strangely.
He really wanted to jump into the river and die.
But... I'm not willing to accept this.
The man, who was only in his early thirties, looked visibly old. His hair had turned white, his face was filled with an unconcealable worry, there were two deep wrinkles on his forehead, and his expression was numb and weathered.
The street lights lengthened Fu Fei's hunched shadow, casting it on the mottled streets.
Sudden--
He saw a familiar cloth bag appear in front of him.
(End of this chapter)
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