Chapter 130

Sense of crisis

On such a lively night, almost all the people in the base came out and gathered at the door of Nie Gong's house to watch the excitement.

"Hey, here's another one. Look at his arm, it was hit by the gunpowder. I guess it's useless."

"Here's another one, this one has scratched half of my chest."

Qian Goudan's eyeballs were about to pop out. The guys were grown up now, so they and Wang Fan took the initiative to help the uncles from the Public Security Bureau to treat the injured.

Erdan and Nie Weimin were also guarding a gangster. They didn't care that the man's chest was shot to pieces. They took off their clothes and bandaged the bleeding spots for him, for fear that he would die before being sent to the hospital.

But even with all the excitement, some people still don't join in.

In the yard of car mechanic Xiao Chen, Anna was talking to a woman who was probably in her fifties.

"Let me ask you, do you want to go back and get a divorce certificate?" This woman is Anna's second mother, Wang Yun.

She came this time to ask Anna to return to Shanghai to divorce Xiao Chen.

"Second mother, Xiao Chen wants to marry An Lin. I have no objection. After all, it's a marriage between big families. That's how it works. But why should I go back to Shanghai to get a divorce from him? When I married him, it was just a piece of paper and a few candies. Now that we're getting divorced, do I have to go find him myself? Let him go to the mining area to get it done himself. After all, the marriage certificate was issued in the mining area. I'm not going back to Shanghai."

"An Lin is your sister, right? Xiao Chen is busy with work now and can't leave. And you are on summer vacation. You can go back and get a divorce certificate, and then attend your sister and Xiao Chen's wedding. Isn't that great?"

"Okay? Seeing my ex-husband become my brother-in-law, you still want me to attend your wedding. Second mother, I'm sorry I can't do it."

"There is no love between you two. Xiao Chen has been taking care of you only out of responsibility. He gave up such a bright future and stayed in such a barren place for seven or eight years. If it weren't for his care, you wouldn't be alive today. Anna, don't be shameless." Wang Yun said.

Anna looked at the flames outside the window and listened to the noises outside. It felt like the entire base was on fire.

Of course, her life was a mess.

She has a cousin who is one year younger than her. She is from her second uncle's family and was a classmate of her and Xiao Chen when they were young. Although she and Xiao Chen have always been in love, she would always bring An Lin with her whenever they went on a date or went out, so when they were young, they would go out as a group of three almost every time.

She and Xiao Chen only got married. Although they lived together, they had no children and, of course, no parental approval. After Xiao Chen was transferred back to Shanghai, the two of them somehow got together.

Now Xiao Chen wants to divorce her and marry her sister after the divorce.

The man and I, who had lived together for four or five years, had often fantasized about having a bunch of children at the base, like the couple of the laborers. It would be best if we had three sons, and maybe even a few more daughters. How happy we would be then.

Is Anna angry? Of course she is, but how can you tell others about your anger?

One day your husband writes to you and says that he has fulfilled his responsibilities and obligations and now wants to live the life he wants. What can you do?

She thought it was love, but to Xiao Chen, it was just a favor.

But by swapping two words, Xiao Chen stood in a higher position than her, which was equivalent to giving her alms, an opportunity for divorce.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door. "Anna, are you asleep? Come out quickly. There is a grumpy injured person here who refuses to see a doctor and wants to wait for someone to treat him. I have no nursing experience. Bring all your nursing equipment with you."

It's Chen Lina.

"Director Chen, I'll be right here. Please wait a moment." Anna originally studied nursing and now works part-time as a nurse in the base's medical office. She has gauze, tape, anti-inflammatory medicine, and alcohol at home. She said to Wang Yun, "Second mother, if Xiao Chen comes to the mining area, I will divorce him immediately without saying a word. But that's all. Don't push me too far, okay?"

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"You did it on purpose, right, Leng? You bastard, you treat the lives of our entire family as toys." In the large bedroom of Nie Gong's house, Nie Gong was so angry that his nose was smoking, and he pointed at Leng Qi and said.

Leng Qi's fantasy of a laborer trembling while holding his child did not come true.

In my imagination, I kicked the door open and also got soaked in the hot spring.

His injury was on his ear, which was pierced by a sand bullet. It needed urgent treatment, otherwise it would become infected and fester, and his ear would be useless.

"I'm here, haven't I? I arrived at the battlefield first and helped you. We are still good brothers, and we cooperated very well. We fought a victorious battle of annihilation. You have to admit it." Leng Qi admitted it quickly, and did not forget to quietly take some credit for himself.

"You are here, but your sense of responsibility and your reverence for your duties are gone. If it weren't for the stupidity of those bandits who changed the gunpowder and caused all the guns to go off, the base would probably be destroyed by now. You are still smoking outside. I will let you smoke. I will let you smoke enough at once."

Nie Gong stuffed more than a dozen Chinese cigarettes into Leng Qi's mouth at the same time. "Smoke, smoke enough at once."

"Old Nie, are you done with your anger?" Chen Lina came in with Anna and said, "Hurry up and let Anna treat Minister Leng, otherwise his wound will fester."

"I was thinking of shooting him. Why bother dealing with him? Just leave him like this." Nie Gong said, kicking Leng Qi. "Get out of here and don't dirty our bedroom."

Leng Qi was not angry. He walked out of the bedroom while smoking a cigarette.

The laborer was still standing there. Chen Lina stamped out the cigarette butt and saw that he was really angry. She whispered, "You weren't so angry just now. What's wrong with you now?"

"I'm scared." The man stood in front of the window with his hands on his hips and said, "Chen Lina, you know, we will be changing shifts on Friday, the armed forces will withdraw to the mining area, and Feng Yu has buried detonators and explosives around the office building.

If we hadn't released my cousin from Harbin Institute of Technology first, and if Feng Yu hadn't lost his temper and kidnapped Leng Qi, and directly ignited the explosives, my laboratory would have been destroyed, and all of this was due to Leng Qi's arrogance and conceit."

"So what you mean is, if you report these things truthfully to your superiors, will Leng Qi's future be over?" Chen Lina asked back.

Nie Gong shook his head, but said, "For now, don't do it. This guy's problem is probably very serious. You know, one of my papers that has never been published has been changed recently and published in the magazine "Offshore Petroleum Engineer". The author is an American, and the magazine is also published in the United States. Xiao Chen, not many people have read my paper. I now suspect that we have commercial spies here who specialize in transmitting intelligence to the Americans. It depends on whether Leng Qi is right."

"What if it's him?" Chen Lina asked.

Nie Gong said, "His mother died early, and his father raised him alone. At that time, his father wanted to be a military lord, and for his future, he shot himself. The possibility that he would sell out the country is particularly high, so I want to find out about this matter."

Selling business secrets and selling Nie Gong's thesis to the United States, if this kind of reselling of national resources can be proven, he will be shot on the spot.

"I have to say that this has nothing to do with his intentional or unintentional courtesy to you, Miss Chen. In comparison, I am more concerned about the fact that you have been looking for Yu Gongan too often recently. He just came to our house and gave each of your three sons a roller ring as soon as he entered the door, saying that you asked him for it. Chen Lina, why didn't you ask me for it?"

Miss Chen took a step back, crossed her arms and looked at the worker. "What's wrong? Are you jealous? My son wants to make iron rings, so I asked you to weld some at the locomotive factory. You didn't want to weld them yourself, so someone from the police volunteered to weld them for me. Of course I asked him for it. Who told you not to help me?"

"I noticed you were very proud of other men's attentions to you. But I have to remind you that you are a married woman, and Yu Gongan has written you a lot of love letters. If you continue to have contact with him, I will be jealous. Don't tell me that you have changed your mind and are no longer in love with Xingshu Chazi, but in love with Yu Donghai."

A laborer's nightmare.

After all, he thought about it and found that he was not as young as Yu Donghai, nor as energetic as him. When Nie Gong saw Yu Donghai, a young fighter in the public security system, he couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder and praised him as an excellent young man.

Chen Lina hummed, "Yeah, I fell in love with Yu Gongan. You're miserable. Who told you to be so unromantic recently? You don't even rush to wash dishes and mop the floor when you get home. You spend all day in the lab. Oh, even your gun has become your first wife."

"Dad, we all love Uncle Yu very much." Sandan was still awake in the middle of the night. He rolled into the bedroom, turned around, and went out again.

Well, my son has also switched sides.

"Where is my sister?" Sandan was very confused. Where had his older sister gone?

The iron cage was empty, there was nothing in it, it was so messy, his old sister was missing.

"Dandan, your little sister is too old. When I came back last night, I found that she was dead. I asked your uncle to bury her in our backyard. When it gets dark, mom will find you a little rabbit, okay?" Chen Lina said to the child, "Go to bed quickly."

Suddenly, the rabbit that he had raised for a long time died. Before Dandan could figure out what it meant, he put away the iron ring and went into the house and got on the kang obediently.

After a while, Xiao Nie came back and said as soon as he entered the door, "Comrade Xiao Chen, where is your razor? Please give me a haircut tomorrow."

"Hey, didn't you always say that cutting hair is like cutting hair, and you don't allow us to push your hair? Why do you want to cut your hair tonight?" The worker was very surprised and asked his son.

Xiao Nie touched his half-long hair and said, "Dad, have you seen that? Those bandits all have long hair, but my Uncle Yu has a buzz cut, which looks really handsome. Can you give me a hairstyle exactly like Uncle Yu's?" Then he saluted and said, "When I grow up, I want to be a policeman and serve the people."

Yu Donghai led the police and tracked down two vagrant bandits. The moment they took them into the base, everyone was excited.

Nie Gong suffered another heavy blow. All his sons went to worship Yu Donghai. The sense of crisis was really strong.

In the living room.

Leng Qi's ears hurt a lot. He saw a woman coming in. She was wearing a really cool white shirt and a black long skirt. Her clothes should be made from the same set as Chen Lina's. The only difference was her hair was different from Chen Lina's. It was cut half short and curled up at the back. Her face was really pretty, and her eyes were particularly big and deep.

This outfit looks just like Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday".

So Leng Qi took a closer look.

As a result, she directly passed a cotton swab with iodine on it through the hole of the sand bullet.

Leng Qi was already furious because he was not treated as a hero, and because the woman's method was too heavy, he was so angry that he started to curse, "Fuck you, have you ever studied nursing? Why don't you just stab me?"

"Comrade, your ear is severely festering. If I don't completely eliminate the inflammation, you may suffer from a minor blood infection and die of septicemia. A comrade in our mining area died in this way."

"I've been shot in the battlefield of Vietnam." Leng Qi said, tearing off his clothes to show Anna his wounds. "I'm not afraid of pain, I just want to say that you don't know how to take care of yourself, get out of here."

Anna is about to get divorced, and now that she is getting divorced, it is very likely that the house at the base will no longer belong to her, and she will have to move to the school dormitory.

But these are all small matters.

She just couldn't understand how her husband ended up with her sister.

When they were dating in Shanghai and were seriously in love, did they ever think that there was another person between them, Xiao Chen's wife and An Lin's sister?

Leng Qi's wound was not big, but the inflammation had to be eliminated thoroughly. Anna had a calm personality, but hearing that her husband was going to marry his sister was too much of a blow to her, so she accidentally wiped the wound with alcohol instead of iodine.

Leng Qi, who said he was not in pain, was actually in pain. He originally wanted to wave his hand to push Anna away, but he unexpectedly used too much force and pushed Anna to the ground.

Now there was a big bang, and Anna fell on the desk with a bang, smashing a bunch of things along with the tweezers and alcohol.

"Uncle Leng, why did you hit my Aunt Anna? If you do this, I will fight back." Erdan rubbed his eyes and walked out of the small bedroom.

"I'm fine, Erdan, go to bed." Anna was amused by Erdan's righteous look, his underwear half-undone and his fists clenched tightly. She was originally very depressed.

Leng Qi pushed her and realized that the woman was very thin.

Moreover, when she smiles, she really looks like Hepburn.

Men never hit women. He said, "Hey, are you okay?"

Anna's palm hit the scissors, tearing a big piece of it, and blood was oozing out of her palm. She wrapped her hands around them, shook her head and said, "I'm fine. Come, let me help you with the wound."

"What's your name?"

"install."

"Comrade Xiao An, I'm sorry."

"There's nothing to be sorry about, but your mother died too early and didn't teach you manners. You know, your mother can be fucked, but you can't fuck other people's mothers casually."

Leng Qi's mother was the daughter of an old landlord in Hongyan. When she was young, she was a foreign student, pretty, gentle and generous. Of course, in Leng Qi's mind, that was the real holy Awarguli. How could she be scolded like that by a comrade?

Anna was threading a needle here, and he picked up a stool and said, "Who the hell are you scolding?"

The cotton thread pierced through the wound on his ear. Anna raised her head and gritted her teeth as she spoke each word, "Whoever calls him a fucking bastard is the one I'm scolding."

With a clang, she threw the needle away and turned away.

Half a month later, Xiao Chen took a direct flight from Shanghai to Uruguay, accompanied by An Lin.

They hadn't seen each other for two years. He was wearing a neat, stylish suit, and was arm in arm with the beautiful, young, gentle, and slightly timid Anlin, as they met Anna at the gate of the Uru Civil Affairs Bureau.

The smiling handsome Xiaohuo has now grown into a mature and steady man in his early thirties. I heard that he is now the sales manager of Shanghai Automotive Field, which is an imported position. In short, he is in charge of sales.

Cars are a rare thing. After 20 years of infrastructure construction, there are many roads across the country. The only thing we are worried about now is the lack of cars.

Among the 32 provinces and cities of the Republic, every place has a supply ticket stationed in Shanghai, trying to get a Shanghai-brand car through the sales manager, so Xiao Chen is very rich now.

Even when they were signing the divorce certificate, he and Anlin's hands never separated.

Originally, when the Civil Affairs Bureau saw a couple getting divorced, they would always go through a procedure, give the couple some advice, and ask them to go back and think it over to see if the marriage could continue.

But when the comrades from the Civil Affairs Bureau saw there were only three of them, they immediately issued a certificate for Anna without even going through the formalities.

When getting the certificate, the female comrade from the Civil Affairs Bureau comforted Anna, "That bitch must be your sister, Comrade Xiao An, I'm telling you, this kind of man is not worth having. It's better to live alone than to have a man who eats grass around the nest. It's really disgusting to look at him."

"Okay." Anna smiled, went out to find a small stall, and ordered a few skewers of lamb with half a bottle of Erguotou. She used the 300 yuan that Xiao Chen gave her as a subsidy to buy two nice clothes at the Uru State-owned Store, and then returned to the base.

Year after year, the days passed so quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was already the end of 1975. On the frontier, although there were sandstorms and wolf howls.

But in the summer there are big date trees to provide shade, and in the winter there is a big oven to roast whole lamb legs. Every day is so enjoyable.

"You deposit money in a credit union and then lend it to farmers. Are you now the largest shareholder of the rural credit union?" The worker braved the heavy snow and walked in with a registered letter.

The registered letter sent by the post office contained Miss Chen's interest list for this month.

Miss Chen is roasting a fat whole lamb.

There are many people in the forest farm now, and there are many sheep. It is really hard to bear to eat the lambs that are released from the pen at 45 days old.

But for a whole one, stuff the bay leaves and various spices into its stomach, and then boil a large pot of sugar color.

Miss Chen is busy making clothes for the children. She is busy for a while, then goes over to apply some sugar color, and then works for a while, then applies some more.

Moreover, the fire wall was burning only the best wood, and soon the whole house was filled with a strong fragrance.

"Yes, I loaned out all my money, and the credit union collected the interest for me. The interest alone is sixty yuan every month. Worker, I finally have a higher income than you." Miss Chen said.

There were creaking footsteps in the yard, and the door was pushed open. It was Sandaner who came in. "Mom, it smells so good. Is the roasted whole lamb cooked? I want to eat it now."

Growing-boned children feel hungry at everything they see.

"I just tried it, the roasted suckling lamb is not tasty. How about we roast the three eggs? They look plump and tender, and they will probably be delicious." Chen Lina joked.

Sandan cried out, and was stunned for a long time before he realized that his mother was joking with him.

"You're going to roast Little Egg. Who will help you carry your bag when the wool textile factory opens? Mom, Uncle He will carry Miss Bao's bag. Besides, doesn't Miss Bao want to be the secretary of the textile factory? You are the factory director. Without me, you can't compare to her."

One or two people will start to flatter.

Chen Lina turned around and glanced at the worker.

Nie Gong smiled and shook his head. "Ms. Chen, I have to go to Beijing tomorrow to report my work to my boss, and I have to prepare materials tonight. Don't even think about me accompanying you to any dinner party. That's impossible."

The woolen textile factory was finally built, but according to rumors, Comrade Bao Manli, who had retired from the Hongyan Military Region Song and Dance Troupe, would be the secretary, while Chen Lina would only be the factory director.

Look, the leaders of the mining area want to meet with the leadership team of the woolen textile factory tonight.

As soon as Engineer Nie saw Miss Chen's eyes, he smelled a hint of danger.