Chapter 91: Winning Glory for the Country
"I know." Big Stone said loudly.
He was as if possessed by a little bee. He was very busy, moving a stool for his uncle and pouring water.
He pretended to be calm, but in fact he kept glancing at his third uncle, and the admiration in his eyes could not be hidden.
I wanted to ask what movie we wanted to watch, but I couldn't say it.
Gu Chenghuai had obviously concealed his arrogance and had a smile in his eyes, but he also met Xiao Shitou's request and picked up the dirty child.
The boy prepared himself mentally and asked, "Uncle, what movie are we going to watch?"
Gu Chenghuai noticed all his struggles.
"Female pilot."
Be brief and to the point.
Not even a single sentence was extended.
Dashitou seemed to understand, but not quite, and was looking forward to today's trip to the county town.
His younger brother Xiao Shitou stayed calmly in his uncle's arms, staring at Gu Chenghuai's face.
Little Shitou is younger than the twins. He is usually silent and timid, always looking shy. He dares not say much when he sees strangers. No one expected that he would take the initiative to ask Gu Chenghuai for a hug.
Gu Chenghuai didn't understand either.
In the army, no child dared to get close to him.
When the children who were originally smiling saw him from afar, the smile would disappear from their faces in an instant, and they would run away like a little mouse that had encountered a tabby cat, with the wind at its feet. Those who ran slowly would tilt their necks back and cry loudly.
The cold-faced officer was surprised to be approached by the child for no apparent reason.
Zhao Zhao said that Xiao Shitou was timid and would hide when he saw people, but now he seems to be okay.
Gu Chan dug out the most decent clothes for her two sons.
Black short-sleeved shirt and shorts, the most common style, with a small pocket on the chest, and the pants also have pockets, and there are inconspicuous patches on them, but it is much better than what I'm wearing!
She took the clothes and went out of the room.
Seeing that his youngest son was still in Cheng Huai's arms, he smiled helplessly.
"Little Stone, come down quickly. Go back to the house with your brother and change your clothes. Then go back to your grandma's house with your uncle. Your grandpa and grandma miss you."
Gu Chenghuai put his nephew down and touched his head, "Go."
The two stones went back to the house to change clothes.
"Cheng Huai, sister is cooking. You can stay and eat with me. Eat first and then leave." Gu Chan walked towards the kitchen. It was called a kitchen but it was actually just a temporary shed. The kitchen needed to be repaired before it could be used.
"No." Gu Chenghuai said, "My family is building a house, my elder brother and second brother are all here, so I have to be here."
His attitude was so serious that Gu Chan realized that he was talking about the Lin brothers.
She didn't persuade him much, and said, "Okay, go back and treat them well, don't let people have a bad impression of you."
This is the tacit understanding between siblings. They know what each other means without saying much.
"Yeah." Gu Chenghuai didn't mind his sister being so long-winded. He responded briefly to show that he understood.
After the two stones had changed their clothes, he didn't waste any more time and took his two nephews away.
When the children in the village saw the Stone brothers sitting on the soldier's bicycle, they all gathered around them.
"Wei Chuan, Wei Yan, where are you going to do?" The leading black boy asked with his hands on his hips, stepping on a big rock on the side of the road.
Wei Yan, also known as Little Stone, sat on the front beam of the bicycle, raised the corners of his mouth, and said boldly: "My uncle is going to take us to the county to watch a movie!"
"Watching a movie...?!!" another child exclaimed in shock.
The birds in the tree flew away with a whoosh.
"Weichuan, is it true? You want to go to the county cinema to watch a movie? Is that true? My mother said that a ticket is not cheap, do you really want to go?!" The black boy took a few steps forward, looking at Gu Chenghuai again and again.
I heard that this is Brother Shitou’s uncle. He is so tall and can carry a gun, which is amazing.
Wei Chuan had a narrow and short waist, slender legs and arms, a delicate face, and a tanned face that made his eyes look even brighter, as if there were stars in his black pupils, sparkling brightly.
Standing there, with his back straight, he looks like a young poplar in the desert that refuses to bend, thin but full of tenacity.
"right!"
"My third uncle and aunt are going to take us to see a movie, 'The Aviator'."
After answering his friend's question, he flipped over and jumped onto the back seat of the bicycle.
Before he finished speaking, Gu Chenghuai kicked his long legs, and the wheels of the car rolled over the gravel and rushed out.
The children in the village stood there, unable to look away for a long time.
As the bicycles just left the village, Dahuang jumped out from the haystack next to it and rushed to the front happily, wagging its tail like a whip and barking from time to time, as if to clear the way for them.
Seeing there were children in the village, it did not go into the village, but waited for its male owner at the entrance.
"Dog! Big yellow dog!" Little Shitou grabbed the front of the car with his left hand, pointed at Big yellow with his right hand, turned his head to look at his third uncle, and shouted excitedly.
Dashitou also saw Dahuang. Its fur was shiny, its tail was wagging happily, and its eyes were as gentle as a wheat field warmed by the autumn sun.
"Uncle, is this your dog?" he couldn't help but ask.
There is no boy who grew up in the countryside and doesn’t like rhubarb!
"Yeah." Gu Chenghuai said.
"Is its name Dahuang?" Dashitou leaned over to look at Dahuang and asked again.
"right."
"It looks so good!" The boy waved at Dahuang. The arrogance in his eyes disappeared, leaving only clarity.
Dahuang was a smart boy. He knew that the two guys on the bicycle were his own people, so he slowed down to give them face and walked side by side with Dashitou.
"Uncle San, Da Huang is so smart!" the young man said in a clear voice.
"This is a heroic dog. Didn't your mother say that?" Gu Chenghuai's voice was low and steady, with a kind of control over everything.
"Is this the Da Huang from the Harvest Brigade?" Dashitou raised his voice in shock. He couldn't believe that the Da Huang in front of him and the poor little thing his mother had been talking about were the same.
"Your aunt takes good care of him." In Gu Chenghuai's mind, his wife is perfect and perfect, so it's nothing strange that the dog he raises is so arrogant.
Return to the Harvest Team.
The two stones were treated with great care by Gu's father and mother.
"It's taller." Father Gu patted his eldest grandson's shoulder and said with a smile.
Mother Gu looked at her little grandson with a face full of admiration. She handed him candy and poured him sugar water.
"Have you eaten?" she asked.
Gu Chenghuai said calmly: "No."
"Then let's eat together." Mother Gu said immediately, facing the kitchen, and raised her voice: "Eldest daughter-in-law, make more, and let's eat the two stones together."
"Got it!" Huang Xiulan echoed.
"Thank you, grandma." said Dashitou.
Mother Gu patted her grandson's head and smiled, "You are quite polite. This is your maternal home, and it is also your home. I am your real grandmother, so there is no need to be so formal. Just treat it as your own room."
As they were talking, the twins finished peeing and rushed back in a hurry.
The waistband of his pants was still hanging loosely on his hips, his little hands were raised randomly, and he looked as if he was in a state of panic.
Seeing the two Stone brothers, the two cubs suddenly stopped, just like two calves running into an invisible fence.
"Brother Shitou! Brother Shitou?!" Erzai's eyes widened and his voice was raised high, "Why are you here?!" He jumped up and down with excitement.
The eldest was very calm and quick-witted. He asked, "Do you want to go to the movies too?"
"Yeah." Big Stone nodded.
Erzai held his hand, and his warm little hand stuck to him stickily like a piece of rice cake just out of the pot.
He was jumping up and down with excitement, dragging the big rock around in circles, just like a happy puppy chasing its own tail.
"Great! Brother Shitou and Brother Shitou can go too!" he exclaimed in a loud voice.
The Gu family members looked over and couldn't stop smiling.
This second kid is really like a little sun, I don’t know where all his energy comes from!
"Brother Shitou, I'm going to take you guys to play table tennis!" Erzai pulled his brother Shitou out, saying, "This is a gift my dad brought us. It's super fun."
"Okay, you teach me." Dashitou's attitude towards the twins was extremely nice.
Who doesn’t like a little brother who is generous, cute, enthusiastic and like the sun?
Small stone: (; one_one)
Table tennis belongs to the twins. They have absolute control over it and can decide who can play it.
The children who were gathered around the pool table made way for them to enter.
Only then did the Stone brothers see clearly that there was a rectangular table here. The table was flat and there was a vertical net in the middle.
"Brother Bangbang, brother Tiedan, my brother Shitou and brother Shitou just arrived. Let them try first, okay?" The eldest boy asked for the opinions of Bangbang and Tiedan who were holding ping-pong rackets.
The two boys didn't want to play around and handed the rackets over.
"Okay." Bang Bang said, "Big Stone, Little Stone, if you have any questions, just ask me."
The eldest stood in the middle of the table with a serious face, like a fair little referee.
"Brother Stone, Brother Stone, you two use the rackets to play." Seeing Big Stone pick up the small yellow ball, the eldest boy said, "Yes, that is a ping-pong ball!"
Recalling something, he calmly added, "Don't squeeze the ball too hard, it will deflate."
Tiechui loudly exposed Erzai's embarrassing behavior, "Erzai squeezed too hard and broke one. My mother said that it was a good thing that Third Uncle could make money and spoiled the child, otherwise he would have been beaten!"
Hearing this, the second cub was like Amber whose tail was stepped on. His fur stood up and he looked very fierce.
He jumped up and covered Tiechui's mouth with his hand, "Tiechui!"
Tiechui's black and white eyes were full of innocence.
Hearing the anger and humiliation in his good brother's words, he just stood there, not daring to move.
Dashitou quickly lowered his head to hide the smile in his eyes.
"Do you understand?" The eldest cub didn't know if he had explained it clearly, so he stretched out his paw to scratch his cheek. "If you still don't understand, the second cub and I will show you."
Little Stone was the first to say, "Yes."
If Wei Xiangdong and Gu Chan were there, they would find that their youngest son’s eyes at this moment… were brighter than when he had eaten candy or meat.
"I can do it too." Dashitou looked at his younger brother and said, "Come on, let's play a game. I'll be the referee."
The eldest liked to be the referee and said happily, "Okay, I'll be the referee!"
Dashitou used a little force with his left hand and smashed the ball onto the table. The ping-pong ball bounced up. Feeling its bounce, he raised his head slightly. The sunlight fell on his stubborn profile and his eyes were defiant.
Young people are naturally romantic and full of vigor.
"I'm going to serve!"
"Little Stone, take it."
He deftly threw the ping-pong ball high up with his left hand.
The ball flies into the air and pauses slightly when it reaches the highest point.
The hand holding the racket paused slightly, and then cut towards the falling ping-pong ball at a tricky angle. The moment the rubber and the ball touched, there was a crisp "click" sound.
The ball flew out.
It was Xiao Shitou's first time to play, but he was like a veteran, as if he could predict the trajectory of the ball. With a flick of his wrist, he calmly caught the ball and sent it back.
"Wow!" Erzai shouted crisply, "Little Shitou is amazing! He was able to do so well in his first try. He must be what my mom said, a gifted person in some way."
He is very good at talking, and when he praises people sincerely, he can make people happy.
Little Shitou had never heard such straightforward praise in his life until he was five years old. His tanned face turned red and his ears were steaming.
Even so, he was able to steadily catch the ball thrown by his brother.
"Xiao Shitou is awesome!" Tiedan praised loudly.
The children of the Gu family learn from the twins and praise them when necessary without hesitation.
"Da Shitou, try your best and don't let your brother outdo you." Lai Mei waved her arms.
Feeling that his younger brother was difficult to deal with, Dashitou became more serious.
Even so, after several rounds, he still failed to catch the ball.
"I'll do it!" Tiedan thought Xiao Shitou played well and was a good opponent, so he took the initiative to compete with him.
Little Stone nodded slightly.
"You serve." Tiedan stretched his right arm in front of him and said humbly.
Little Shitou didn't care and served the ball like his brother.
He slapped him, but Tiedan didn't take it.
Tiedan: This is unrealistic! !
The ball fell to the ground and was picked up by Bangbang.
"Can you do it? If not, I'll do it," he said.
Tiedan snatched the ball away with a serious expression, "Why not? It must be because I'm not good enough. I've practiced for two days. How can I be worse than a little kid who just touched a table tennis racket? This is impossible!"
He had no idea that in the eyes of adults, he was also a little kid.
His eyelids lazily lifted, a half smile appeared at the corners of his mouth, and the flickering light in his eyes clearly said, "If you don't give up, then you give it a try."
Tiedan adjusted his mentality and served the ball.
The little stone was caught steadily.
It was brought over again lightly, and Tiedan had a little difficulty in receiving it.
At this point, he felt the other party was difficult to deal with and his expression became serious.
He didn't want to lose to his younger cousin, so he had to give it his all.
Little Stone was very calm. It was clearly the first time he touched a tennis racket, and yet the racket seemed to have grown into his hand and become one with him. The same went for the disobedient ball. No matter how difficult it was to catch, he could always catch it, and do it with ease.
Tiedan felt more and more stressed, sweat started to break out on his back and drip from his forehead.
Soon, he was defeated.
"Is this really your first time?" Tiedan's voice was out of tune, his mentality exploded, and he almost doubted himself.
"Yeah." Little Stone said in a low voice.
Dashi testified to his brother, "It was the first time we knew about such a toy."
"It's not a toy." The eldest boy said seriously.
"My dad said that table tennis is a popular ball sport all over the world, and there is also a World Table Tennis Championship. If you play table tennis well, you can also win glory for your country."
He has a good memory and can remember most of what adults teach him after listening to it once.
"Can you still bring glory to the country?" Dashitou was stunned.
"Yes, my mother also said that there are 360 professions and every profession has its top talent." The eldest son was generous and confident, and his words were well-reasoned. "No matter what you do, try your best to do it to the extreme. The hard work will not be in vain and will be rewarded."
Big Stone pushed Little Stone forward and asked on behalf of his brother, "Little Stone, can you learn?"
Little Stone's eyes were as bright as lamps, and his gaze was fixed on Big Cub.
The eldest boy was stunned, thought for a moment, and said, "It should be possible. I'll ask when mom comes back."
"I don't know if playing table tennis can be considered a stable job. It would be great if it were." Dashitou said hopefully.
Looking at his younger brother who was tugging at his clothes, he sighed inwardly.
Little Shitou is too timid, and it is useless to teach him any more. His father said that a child's character can be seen at the age of three. Now he is five years old, and as an older brother, he is very worried about his younger brother's future.
Just now, he saw the different little stone for the first time. His eyes were shining and he exuded a calmness that was unfamiliar to him.
With just one glance, he knew that his younger brother loved table tennis very much.
I don't know if that pair of rackets is expensive. I rely on catching cicadas, monkeys, scorpions and snakes. When can I buy a pair?
"I don't know if it counts." The eldest son didn't dare to guarantee it, and only said what he knew, "My mother said that there are professional table tennis players, that is, people who treat playing table tennis as a job, which should be considered a stable job."
"If it's considered a stable job, not everyone can get it. There must be various requirements." Dashitou knows how important connections are, but he is not the kind of person who will be easily defeated. He has to try to know if it works.
"Don't be anxious, brother Shitou. Wait until we meet my mom, and I'll ask for you. My mom is a high school student and knows everything." The second child looked proud, and when he smiled, the corners of his eyes drooped. His eyes were pure and clean, and he looked very cute.
"Okay, thank you Erzai then." Big Stone thanked him.
"You're welcome. Mom said that family members should love each other." Niang Baozai always mentions his mother.
"..."
…
Gu Chenghuai came to the new house and the people who were invited to build the house were having dinner.
When I saw his figure, I stretched out my right arm and gave a thumbs up.
"Dad of Dazai, who are you?" The first person to speak was Changsheng's uncle.
Yes, he came to help too.
Another person said, "We are all from the same village, so we can just eat some mixed grain dumplings to fill our stomachs. You even asked them to cook vegetables. If they want us to cook vegetables, then they can cook vegetables. And you also want shredded pork. You are too polite."
"Yes, yes, when I saw the meat in the dish, I rubbed my eyes hard a few times, thinking that I was crazy about craving meat. I have helped so many people build houses, but this is the first time I see shredded pork in a dish." Yuanbao's father said.
He couldn't bear to eat the meat, so he picked out the shredded meat from the dish, thinking of taking it back for his son Yuanbao to eat.
"When we first started building it, it was to encourage everyone, but then there was nothing more." Gu Chenghuai said with a smile.
He changed out of his military uniform and put on patched old clothes. He restrained his arrogance and looked no different from the men in the village. He blended in so naturally.
"No meat, but plenty of green bean and lily soup."
Originally everyone present was a little uncomfortable. After all, Gu Laosan was already an officer and a serious and promising man. He was no longer the country boy who went up mountains and down rivers with them. They were always afraid of saying something inappropriate and making a fool of themselves.
After Gu Chenghuai said this, the people present felt that the alienation and strangeness disappeared a lot, and the awkward atmosphere was broken.
"Do you have any candy? If you do, I'll bring a big bowl." Uncle Changsheng said in a joking tone.
"Yes." Gu Chenghuai's expression did not change, "You can use any size bowl."
Uncle Changsheng laughed, "I took it seriously. If it weren't for me, I would have made a scene."
Gu Chenghuai smiled and said, "I'll arrange it tomorrow."
"Okay, we'll wait!" said another person happily.
The foreman said, "Don't worry, Cheng Huai, we will build this house as soon as possible and according to your requirements, so you can relax."
This person was invited by Gu's father, and everyone else listens to him.
Gu Chenghuai had achieved the purpose of his trip, and nodded with a clear smile, "Thank you for your hard work."
To this.
Yuanbao's father sighed in his heart.
Lu Yizhou is also a capable person from the brigade, but in terms of being a human being, he really can't compare with Gu Chenghuai.
You can tell by just looking at his remarriage banquet.
Sorry for the trouble.
Obviously the family is not short of money, but they serve wilted cabbage and stale carrots to entertain guests. At a wedding, they are reluctant to even offer an egg.
…
Dongfeng Brigade.
Yuan Xiangniang arrived at the Lin family and saw that her daughter was fine and there was no sadness on her face. She breathed a sigh of relief.
After drinking a few sips of water to quench his thirst, he suddenly heard Song Xiwei say that Zhao Zhao had a colleague at the supply and marketing cooperative who asked Zhao Zhao to help her brother find a partner.
Hearing this, Yuan Xiangniang put down the bowl, and the edge of the bowl hit the corner of the table with a duang sound.
She didn't pay any attention to him. She held her breath and stared at Song Xiwei.
"Xiwei?"
"Is that what I think?" The woman's voice was dry and her lips and teeth were trembling.
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