Chapter 121

Stretched Noodles

"My father had seven children, but I have no children." Edward spoke first, looking extremely sad.

"My three older brothers all died in World War II. My two younger brothers died in motorcycle accidents."

"During Detroit's heavy metal era, it's not surprising that young people died more and more in motorcycle accidents," said Chen Lina.

Detroit in the 1950s was like the Republic in the 1980s. Motorcycles, gangs, and heavy metal rock were all the rage. Of course, most of the kids who grew up in the car city smoked marijuana, played rock, and loved racing, so they dedicated their precious lives and the flesh and blood given by their parents to racing.

"My sister is now in Detroit, and she has a big estate. She is a nun, and like me, she has no children." Edward spread his hands and pointed at Sandan and said, "I will give him the best education and let him go to the best school in the world. He can also inherit my legacy, and you will always be his parents."

That is to say, he is just Sandan's adoptive father.

Upon hearing this, Nie Weimin and Erdan stopped drinking their soup, looked up and looked at each other.

"Brother, this uncle wants to take our little Dandan away." Erdan spoke first.

Nie Weimin said, "He also thinks that Dandan will be happy if he follows her."

"Not just happy, but very happy, very joyful." Edward took out a small Rubik's Cube. "A whole room is filled with educational toys like this, just waiting for Wei-chan to explore."

"Mr. Edward, you are joking. I won't give my child away to anyone else," said Nie Bozhao.

"But you can't give him the best education. With your salary of $100 a month, you can never send him to the best school in his lifetime."

To be honest, as long as there is no reform, don't even think about getting into a good school.

"Society is the best school, and workers are the best teachers. Mr. Edward, if you really regret that we didn't provide a better educational environment for Weijiang, why not wait until five years later, when you want to come to our border again, bring a child you think is the best, and we can compete again. What do you think?" Chen Lina asked back.

Edward spread his hands and said, "If you are willing to give me this child, I can write an in-depth report to explain the necessity of China's economic reform so that you can get rich in advance. And I am willing to give you a lot of money."

Chen Lina smiled and said, "How much?"

"One hundred thousand dollars, is that enough?"

The worker didn't say anything, just smiled, turned around and walked out to work overtime.

Chen Lina also laughed. Not to mention that Nie Gong had such a big yard in Hongyan with so many big yellow croakers buried in the yard, he had never touched the rest.

This is nothing. His adoptive mother was the daughter of a wealthy landlord in Beijing and a revolutionary hero before liberation. In a few years, two courtyards in Beijing that belonged to his adoptive mother would be returned to him by the organization.

Negotiating money with a thief who has a rich family but has no concept of money is like selling a sword in front of Guan Gong.

Chen Lina felt sorry and thought that she had sold her yellow croaker at a low price, but she was not greedy for ill-gotten gains, so she said, "Okay, I won't sell my child for a million dollars. But I want to ask, when you were young, you should have been a bachelor. In the best golden years of your life, you had no family ties, you could go wherever you wanted, you had unlimited freedom, and you traveled around the world. At that time, did you think about the loneliness in your old age?"

"No, at that time, I was proud of not having children. I even felt annoyed by the sight of children. I never imagined that one day I would be deeply attracted to several children."

Following Nie Weimin and Erdan to catch the kidnappers, seeing Nie Weimin's wild imagination and wanting to drive the go-kart to the police station was thrilling and exciting, but Edward couldn't stop. Even at this moment, he felt an indescribable joy.

That is completely different from the happiness you get from meeting a girl when you are young and having a one-night stand or a short-term love affair.

"God is fair to everyone. If you indulge yourself and don't raise your children when you are young, it's like not planting trees for yourself when you are young. Of course, you will have nowhere to take shelter when you are old. But if we take the trouble to raise them, when we are old, we will have many children running around us and creating a lot of happiness for us. This is the cherry tree I planted when I was young, and each one is growing vigorously. Cherries are delicious but the trees are difficult to grow, Mr. Edward, do you still remember the song you sang?"

This means that even if it was one hundred thousand US dollars, even if he had a large inheritance for Nie Weijiang to inherit in the future, Nie Bozhao and his wife would not be willing to give the child to him.

Edward was very happy when he came, but very sad when he left.

Chen Lina and her three children accompanied him to the mining area. When they arrived at the mining area, people from the autonomous region were waiting to take him to Uru and board the plane.

He could exchange foreign currency, but large quantities of banknotes had to be exchanged in Beijing, so Chen Lina could only wait for him to send the more than 6,000 yuan in cash she promised her from Beijing.

"You have to believe that even robbers will keep their word."

"Of course I believe you. If you really dare to take my gold and leave without paying me, I will sue you and the person who let you pass through the border. Let them open your Zeiss lens and see your little secret." Chen Lina said with a smile.

After thinking for a while, she added, "If you really want to report it, remember to be fair and just. We Chinese can face our own mistakes, and of course we will reflect on them and correct them.

If you still want to do gold business with me, remember to praise the leaders of our mining area. Just a few words are especially important to them. "

Human relations are about convenience for others and for yourself.

Edward shook hands with Nietzsche and said, "I will work hard and come back to see you in a few years. Nietzsche, never stop working hard, otherwise your republic will never be able to compete with the United States."

Nie Weimin gritted his teeth and said, "I will definitely do it."

Edward later wrote his memoirs and mentioned Nie Weimin. At that time, he was already the youngest engineer in Dongfeng City. Of course, Dongfeng City at that time also brought the Republic's aerospace industry to a height that was almost comparable to NASA.

He said that when our teenagers were still reading comics that didn't require any brains, they were already able to catch a criminal gang on their own. So, maybe the happiness we give our children is actually wrong.

Taking her three children, Chen Lina first went to District Chief Gao's house.

It was finally a weekend, but District Chief Gao, who was very busy, was not at home as he had gone to a meeting in the autonomous region. But He Lanshan was at home.

"You're here to spy on the textile factory again, Lina. Why, do you really want to be the director of a textile factory?"

He Lanshan looked like he was going to kill someone, so he said, "Come on, come on, I'm really fed up with the food in the company cafeteria. You can't leave if you don't give me some noodles at noon today."

"Just stretch it. The flour we have is not refined enough. It's spring wheat. The stretched noodles don't taste good. Look at the noodles you have made from winter wheat. They are yellow and refined. Sister He, how can you be so good at doing good for yourself?"

The two girls went into the kitchen, some were peeling onions and some were kneading noodles, and then they started to prepare lunch.

Opening the kitchen cabinet on the ground, she saw several large barrels of cooking oil standing vertically inside. Chen Lina poked He Lanshan with her finger and said, "You are a corrupt capitalist."

"Oh, my mom gave it to me. I'll give you a bucket, is that okay? I've never seen anyone so stingy as you."

"There's nothing I can do. Who told my child to eat so much and so fast? Your oil has gone bad and no one wants to eat it." Xiao Chen took the lead and picked up a bucket.

"Two days ago, Lao Gao went to the autonomous region for a meeting and said that there was a lot of mobilization in the Hongyan Military Region and that a large number of officers might be transferred to our area. There was a girl in the art troupe named Bao Manli, a pillar of the troupe, who also wanted to be the director of a textile factory," said He Lanshan.

"So, you don't want to give my position as factory director to someone else, right, Sister He? It's not fair of you to do that."

"I would like to ask for help from the connections that Mr. Bao has made for himself in the autonomous region. Can I get it?"

"Then you should remind District Chief Gao from time to time to keep the factory director for me, okay?"

"I had an argument with Gao Feng. I said that no one else could be the factory director except you. Isn't that enough, Chen Lina?"

The two strong women looked at each other. The mining area was actually under control. This feeling was really good.

He Lanshan saw that there was only half a bowl of noodles in Chen Lina's bowl, so he quickly scooped another bowl of noodles in and said, "Stretch it more. After you leave, Xiaobing and I can have another meal in the evening."

"Sister Bao, if you want to be a strong woman, you have to cook. You let Xiao Bing eat in the cafeteria all day. Look at her. She is one year older than my Weimin, so thin, and seriously stunted."

"Aunt Chen, I'll stay at your house for a while during the summer vacation." Gao Xiaobing leaned against the kitchen door and said with a smile.

"Sure, but you have to do the work at my house. You have to wash the pots and dishes and sweep the yard. You can't miss anything."

"Nie Weimin, you sweep the yard and wash the dishes, and I will live in your house." Gao Xiaobing pointed at Nie Weimin and said.

He Lanshan stopped what he was doing and said, "Yes, Weimin, if you really want to wash the dishes, I will send Xiaobing to your house during the summer vacation. Is that okay with you?"

Nie Weimin is now an adult and doesn't like adults making such ambiguous jokes about him. He frowns and says, "It's boring."

"He's grown up now and knows how to be shy," said He Lanshan.

Chen Lina frowned and thought to herself, He Lanshan and Gao Feng, these are serious and openly training a son-in-law and successor for themselves.

Classmate Wei Min, do you want to be the son-in-law of a high-ranking official?

While eating, the two of them started talking about Lu Baili and Section Chief Feng.

"That Section Chief Feng, Feng Yu, didn't he just snatch the gun and run away? The Public Security Bureau interrogated Lu Baili overnight yesterday and found that he had a serious problem. It was certain that he was in collusion with the bandits.

He has also planned many violent terrorist incidents in other farms, but because our mining area is his home, he did not dare to create terrorist incidents in the mining area."

Therefore, the arrest of Section Chief Feng is now a done deal.

As for where he went and where his evil forces' lair was, the new chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, Yu Donghai, took over the matter and officially launched the investigation.

"What about Sun Ainan? Are you two still in contact?" Chen Lina asked.

He Lanshan said, "After Wang Fusheng was arrested, we had less contact. What happened to her?"

"Selling out your own sister is a sinner. Moreover, recently there is a group of people from the mining area who keep coming to our farm to cut off the tail of capitalism. Do you know that they know all the backgrounds of the old farmers in our farm, and they know every one of them. They can dig up whoever they want and arrest whoever they want. I am a little surprised, after all, wasn't Sun Ainan's former husband Wang Fusheng in charge of personnel affairs?"

"You mean, Sun Ainan is the one who encouraged everyone to go to the farm to cut their tails?"

"I think so."

"I believe you when you say He Min encouraged people to go to the farm to cut off their tails, but I don't believe you when you say Sun Ainan did such a thing. She is such a timid person that she doesn't even dare to bargain loudly with people when buying vegetables."

"If I say it's her, then it's her. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. Sooner or later, I will cut off the fox tail she hides in her pants."

He Lanshan cannot tolerate internal unrest in the mining area.

"Although there are different policies now, everyone knows that the food of workers and members is the most important. I heard that the south has tried capital economy. If we don't make the members rich, they will have to move back to the mainland. If Sun Ainan is really the one who pushed for cutting off the tail, I will not forgive her."

He Lanshan ate the noodles, gave a thumbs up and said, "It's delicious. Your noodles are delicious."

After leaving He Lanshan's house, apart from Nie Weimin who had a fine appetite and didn't eat much, Erdan and Sandan were so full from eating pulled noodles with mutton sauce soup that they could hardly walk.

Erdan likes to be active. He won't walk on flat roads, but likes to step on the trees on the roadside or jump over a step, and he is very lively.

Sandan smiled and walked slowly. One could tell from his expression what he was thinking about.

"Mom, carry me on your back," he said.

Mommy can’t hold him anymore. When Dandan acts like a spoiled brat, she can only carry him on her back.

Chen Lina also prepared to digest her food, so she parked her car in He Lanshan's yard and prepared to go to the Public Security Bureau.

"You are such a big kid, you can walk by yourself. I won't carry you."

"But I'm worth one hundred thousand dollars, and a child worth one hundred thousand dollars doesn't need to walk." Sandan smiled and covered his stomach, feeling so handsome.

Nie Weimin ran ahead. After hearing what Sandan said, he couldn't stop laughing. "Erdan, Dandan said he is worth 100,000 yuan, so he won't walk anymore. What do you think we should do?"

"What should I do? Should I carry it or should you carry it?"

"How about I carry my hair behind my back and you carry my legs?" Nie Weimin said as he squatted down and hugged Sandan's legs first.

As soon as Erdan touched his head, the two brothers threw Sandan up.

"It's enough to have one person to carry me on your back. Brother, I'm dizzy, I'm dizzy." Sandan shouted in disbelief.

In the end, the two brothers refused to listen to him. They wandered around until they reached the yard of the Public Security Bureau, where they threw him onto the sand and started to tickle him.

"Wei Min, don't bully your brother. Er Dan, don't tickle him, he will laugh himself to death." Chen Lina wanted to shout, but no one was willing to listen to her.

Sandan almost laughed himself into pieces and lay on the ground, refusing to get up.

"Okay, Sandan's clothes are dirty. Whoever wants to make trouble for him will be the one to wash his clothes tonight. Go ahead." Chen Lina said.

Well, in order to avoid having to wash clothes, the two elder brothers finally let go and stopped making trouble. They pulled their younger brother up from the ground and carefully patted the dirt off his clothes.

public security bureau.

The local security organization that has been established in the mining area since the founding of the Republic, the top leader of the security team is in collusion with the bandits. This is really a sensational case. Even though it is the weekend today, all the people in the Public Security Bureau are working overtime, concentrating on the investigation, and interrogating all the security team members one by one.

Chen Lina came to look for Yu Donghai, but unexpectedly he was not there.

"Comrade Chen, what exactly are we going to do?" Nie Weimin asked when he saw Chen Lina standing at the door of the security team with a sad look on her face.

Chen Lina said, "Your Uncle Yu is a responsible and capable policeman, a real people's policeman. Mom really admires him and loves him very much. Mom has something very important to remind him today, but he is not here, which is troublesome."

"You can only love my father because you are my mother." Sandan reminded Chen Lina.

"This kind of love is the love of the people for their public servants. It is different from the love for your father. Dandan, you have to understand this."

We need to set up an idol for these three bad boys from a young age. If that idol is great, upright, and perfect, then they will work hard towards him.

"Okay, Mom, I love Yu Gongan too, but why are we looking for him?"

Chen Lina couldn't tell her sons because she had something very important to remind Yu Donghai, and this matter was related to Yu Donghai's lifelong unmarried life, and it was not suitable for children to hear.

"Anyway, Mom has to find him today. What can I do? Who knows where he lives?"

"I know where he lives." Erdan raised his hand immediately.

"Where?"

"The big courtyard of Mr. Bai's house is the dormitory for the officers and soldiers of the armed forces. After Captain Yu left, Yu Donghai lived there. He once met me and invited me to his house to play."

Chen Lina thought about it and realized that, yes, housing is so tight in the mining area now, and most of these newly assigned young men live in dormitories.

If Yu Donghai wants to live alone, he has to live in Yu Lianhai's house.

Well, she took her three sons with her and went straight to the armed forces.