Chapter 193

Brothers turn against each other

"Secretary Chen, take a look at the photos. How are they?" The gray-haired Master Jin took out a large stack of photos and handed them to Chen Lina. "These children you picked for me have a great sense of the camera, especially Liu Xiaohong. She has a small face and strong camera expressiveness. Why don't you consider sending her to a film school or something? This girl will be filmed on the big screen. Even Yang Likun and Huang Wanqiu don't have a strong sense of the camera like her." Master Jin was in the kitchen, bragging to Chen Lina.

Chen Lina cooked a large table of dishes. The kitchen was still bubbling with food stewing in the big pots and small stoves. She washed her hands and came to look at the photos.

"This is really my Xiaohong. She looks so beautiful in the photos. By the way, Xiaohong, do you want to make a movie?" Chen Lina asked.

Liu Xiaohong shook her head and said, "No, I want to take the entrance exam to Tsinghua University."

“You have great ambitions, but there are always people better than you. It’s not easy to get into Tsinghua University,” said Teacher Jin with a smile.

Guo Bin glanced at the dishes on the table, secretly giving a thumbs up, and also looked at the photos. "Look, the children are studying in the Huyanglin, working on the farm, having a picnic on the beach, and picking dates in the date forest. If these pictures were published in the newspaper, they would make a sensation across the country."

Isn't this exactly the effect Chen Lina wants?

"Yes, our factory is also working overtime to produce clothes. I estimate that our turnover this year will be at least 120,000." Chen Lina said.

In order to welcome Guo Bin and Teacher Jin, Nie Weimin also brought two classmates with him, and she cooked a large table of dishes.

Braised lamb and roasted rooster were the main dishes, and there were two lamb legs roasting in the fire wall.

In the kitchen, several large baskets of green vegetables were washed. Nie Weimin wanted to eat beets. The beet sprouts with roots were green and lush. They could be put into the pan and fried until cooked and then served.

There are also the farm’s best-selling large bell peppers, which are meaty but not spicy. When fried with a few slices of pork belly, they are so fragrant. Erdan can eat three of them with steamed buns.

As for Gao Xiaobing, the poor kid had hardly ever eaten home-cooked meals since he was little. As soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Auntie Chen, do you have noodles today? I really want to eat the noodles you make."

"Yes, I'll make you ramen when the dishes are served," said Chen Lina.

As soon as the dishes were cooked, Liu Xiaohong and Gao Xiaobing helped to put them on the table. Chen Lina did not make the noodles herself, so she asked Liu Xiaohong to make the noodles into wide white noodles for her to mix with the vegetables, and then she came out with a fire stick.

When there are people around, don't educate your children.

There were guests at home, and it was not appropriate to beat my son in front of them. But today, Erdan and Sandan made mistakes that had never happened since Chen Lina came to the mining area.

That's right.

Deng Chun wanted to take his sister out to play, and his sister was stunned by his efforts.

Sandan refused, so Deng Chun beat him up, and he really got a black eye and a swollen face.

Sandan was beaten, so of course he was unhappy.

Moreover, Deng Chun had only been here for a few days, and not only did he coax Erdan into picking up people's cigarettes and blowing smoke, the two of them squatted against the wall and sprayed smoke like adults, and he even got himself beaten. How could this be tolerated?

Besides, Erdan was stupid. After he hooked up with Deng Chun, the two of them ran out to the clothing factories and state-owned stores.

I went to the Pigeon Market and wandered around for the whole afternoon. I spent two dollars and ten cents before I came back.

Although Sandan is not strong enough in fighting and is timid, he has a sharp mind.

Aren’t Li Mingcheng and He Junqiang also helping to move yarn in the garment factory?

After moving the yarn, everyone earned three cents in the evening and prepared to go home. Li Mingcheng discovered that the string of his favorite guitar was broken.

You know, in the entire mining area, Li Mingcheng loves singing the most and he also has a guitar.

Li Mingcheng spent more than three hundred yuan on this guitar, but it was given to him by his stepfather Hu Xuanang.

Li Mingcheng lost his father when he was young. His mother dated many men, but those men all regarded her as a thorn in their eyes, or a thorn that could not be removed. Li Mingcheng was quite calm about this. After all, his mother's remarriage and happiness were more important than anything else.

Even after following his mother to the mining area, he was very careful and tried not to appear in front of Hu Xuanang, living like an invisible man.

Hu Xuanang suddenly gave him a guitar and told him that he sang very well and might become a singer in the future.

Li Mingcheng, who had been deprived of fatherly love since childhood, felt the warmth from his father from this guitar. He has always cherished the guitar and carried it with him wherever he goes. What would happen if someone broke the strings?

So, when he asked Sandan and heard that Erdan and Deng Chun had touched his guitar, he brought He Junqiang, two older naughty kids, to corner Deng Chun and Erdan and beat them up.

After Erdan was beaten by Li Mingcheng, he was so angry that he was about to beat He Junqiang. At this time, Deng Chun spoke up. He said, "Second brother, why are you so stupid? We just beat Nie Weijiang at noon. He must have secretly damaged Li Mingcheng's guitar because he hated us, so he let Li Mingcheng beat us."

Erdan thought about it and it was right. At this time, Deng Chun said, "Beat him."

Although Erdan was reluctant to fight, he did not stop the fight when Deng Chun beat Sandan.

When someone told Chen Lina that her three children were fighting, when Chen Lina rushed over, Erdan had a bruised face and nose, and Deng Chun and Sandan were hugging each other and pulling each other.

The younger sister kept saying, "Drive this bad brother away, drive this bad brother away." She grabbed some clods of earth and threw them at Deng Chun.

Took them home and made the three of them stand together for two hours.

Sandan was fine. His sister fed him honey water and grapes that she picked for him. As for the traitor Nie Weiguo, he looked so pitiful because he looked so flaky. So his sister Oule also fed him a grape.

Only Deng Chun stood there from bright sunshine till dark, feeling thirsty and hungry. He smelled the fragrance in the house and felt hungry, but he didn't even have a sip of cool water to drink.

"Mom, dear mom, it was really Sandan who caused the discord between us and Li Mingcheng. That's why we beat him up." Deng Chun is really good at complaining. His mouth is so sweet, as if it were covered with honey.

After all, this guy was brought up for Deng Dongya, so Chen Lina couldn't handle him first. She picked up the fire stick and hit Erdan's butt twice, pointing at his nose and saying, "What I hate most is people who beat their brothers. If you have the ability, why don't you go catch the oil thief instead of beating your brother?"

Erdan glanced at Sandan, whose face was bruised and swollen. To be honest, this was the first time that his younger brother, who he had carried on his back since he was a child and had never been beaten in school, was beaten.

Think about when Sandan was a child, if he had a candy, he would share half of it with him.

Now, Sandan was staring at him viciously, and Erdan's eyes turned red.

Moreover, when he saw Sandan, Sandan said something that made him very sad: "Nie Weiguo, when you were fighting, you accidentally hit your sister and her nose was swollen. Just now she was feeding you grapes. I want to ask you, do you have the nerve to eat them?"

Chen Lina hit Sandan and two fire sticks again, "You broke Li Mingcheng's guitar, didn't you? Do you know how much a guitar is worth? You can't beat the guy, so you invite outsiders to beat your brother. Nie Weijiang, look at your second brother's head. He got hit. Are you happy? That's your brother. Do you feel proud when he gets beaten?"

When Li Mingcheng and He Junqiang surrounded Erdan and beat him, Sandan was indeed unhappy. How could he be happy when his brother was beaten by others?

But what he hated was Deng Chun. He was happy when Deng Chun was beaten.

"I don't want Deng Chun. Send him away immediately."

"Don't worry about Deng Chun. I will talk to him about his problems later. You two, stand here and reflect on your mistakes."

Deng Chun was a gangster in Shanghai. He was the kind of person who wouldn't shed tears even if his mother lay in her coffin. Now, he is still trying to sow discord. "Mom, Sandan really needs to be educated, otherwise he will go astray in the future."

"Deng Chun, do you want to eat my fire stick?" Chen Lina asked back.

Deng Chun raised his buttocks and said, "As long as it can make my mother not angry, you can hit me as much as you want."

"I won't hit you, but your father and I signed a life and death agreement. I tell you, even if you die in this mining area, your father will not hold me responsible. Now, I will let my two sons stand with you until you realize that I am not your biological mother and stop being so smooth-talking. We can talk about the rest later." With that, Chen Lina picked up her sister and went home.

At home, a happy dinner is being enjoyed.

After finishing their meal, Guo Bin and Nie Gong chatted for a while, talking about the current inexhaustible oil industry in the country, the oil thieves whose methods of stealing oil are becoming more and more sophisticated, and the oil tyrant Su Xiangdong, trying to guess what kind of person he is.

After chatting for a while, the two of them were ready to leave, and Gao Xiaobing was taken back to the mining area and to He Lanshan's home.

When Guo Bin heard that he had a little cousin who was only a few months old, he couldn't stop laughing. He decided to visit Tian Jin tonight with the milk powder, maltose, biscuits, and several royalties from Tian Jin that he brought from Beijing.

After seeing his guest off, Nie Gong was on his way back when he heard someone howling in the small woods behind.

That sad voice, the voice calling for mother, was immediately recognizable as Deng Chun, who was hypocritical and cunning at such a young age.

"You are the son of a great leader after all. How can you let someone punish you by making you stand in the woods?"

"He made a mistake. If I don't punish him now, he will go to jail in the future. So I will punish him, why not?" Chen Lina said, and she took a bowl of noodles, mixed some vegetables, and started eating with her sister, taking turns to take a bite.

Before the blink of an eye, it was dark. Nie Weimin and Liu Xiaohong were washing dishes in the kitchen.

Chen Lina had been busy all day. Now she lay on the big kang in her home, put her sister on top of her, and chatted with the two of them.

Don’t look at the younger sister because she is young, she has her own way of speaking. Compared with the three brothers who have grown up now and are always making people angry, she is very funny.

"Dad Leng's younger brother is like a little rabbit, so fun." said the younger sister.

Chen Lina then asked, "Do you like him?"

"I like it." The younger sister said as she lifted up her mother's clothes and kissed her belly. "Mom, can you give me a brother too?"

"No, but why do you want to go home? You can go and take care of the baby, who is so chubby." Chen Lina asked.

"Because Dad Leng can only take care of one baby, and I am also a baby." My sister said it seriously.

"Mom, you've never been so angry before. It's already 10 o'clock in the evening. Are you really not going to give Deng Chun and the others food?" Nie Weimin came in and asked.

Before Chen Lina could say anything, her sister said, "No, he will starve to death." Her expression was exactly the same as Leng Qi's.

"You took Deng Chun in for the development of the mining area. You wanted to help Uncle Deng educate his mother. You didn't give him food. He wrote a letter to Shanghai. Uncle Deng got angry and had opinions about you. What should we do if the branch of Shanghai Automobile Factory is not located in our mining area?"

"Whether Deng Dongya is happy or not is secondary. Nie Weimin, didn't you notice that as soon as he came, Erdan and Sandan became enemies and even had a fight? This proves that you brothers are not united. Deng Chun's family must be educated, and as for me, I want to unite Erdan and Sandan. What do you think we should do?"

The world of children, especially the world of teenagers like them, fourteen or fifteen years old, is different from that of adults. As an adult, Chen Lina could not think of a better way to unite the Nie brothers.

But she intuitively felt that Nie Weimin should have such a solution.

"It's not difficult. I guarantee that they will be united in two days. Just watch me," said Nie Weimin.

My sister is playing on the kang, and my mother is lying down. Nie Weimin suddenly got up and lay down on the kang too. "Mom."

"Um?"

Last night, while sleeping in the jeep, Nie Weimin had a dream about the time when his mother had just arrived and the quarrels between the three brothers and their father.

"It's okay, I just called you." Wei Min said.

After Liu Xiaohong finished washing the dishes, she heard Chen Lina wanted to keep her, so she agreed without saying anything.

She was mainly there because she saw that all the grapes at her aunt's house were hanging and budding, and were about to go bad, but she was too busy to put them in the drying room. So she planned to work overtime tonight to help Chen Lina hang all the grapes in the drying room to dry them.

As it turned out, she was picking grapes when Nie Weimin called her, "Wang Sitian, come in."

It was the first time for Liu Xiaohong to enter her uncle's study.

The bookcase was already very old, the clean windowsill was filled with instruments, and the desks were piled with things that students like them were eager to get.

But there are no English magazines to buy, as well as newspapers from Silicon Valley, the Middle East, and major oil-producing regions around the world.

Nie Gong was sitting behind the table, Nie Weimin was sitting at his father's table, Chen Lina and her sister were on the spring bed, all of them were in a daze, they were called in by Nie Weimin.

No one knows what's going on in his mind, nor does he know what he wants to do by calling everyone into his father's study.

"Dad, that Su Xiangdong wants to get you." Nie Weimin spread his hands and said so.

Nie Bozhao seemed to have guessed what had happened, and there was some admiration in his eyes.

When he met his son's eyes, his face was three parts smiling and seven parts stern. "Good boy, where did you find this out? Tell me."

Nie Weimin's face immediately turned red again, and of course his heart was probably still pounding.

Afraid that he couldn't explain it clearly, Nie Weimin turned his father's shorthand notebook over, opened the pen and started drawing for his father.

"He controlled Chen Tiantian through Youbu, and through Tiantian, he found out about the relationship between me and Wang Sitian. Then, if I guessed correctly, he wanted to plan an incident through Wang Sitian to force me to drop out of school and turn against you. Then, he wanted to recruit me and pull me into his team. Do you think I am right?"

"That's impossible, Wei Min. Tiantian is now in the clothing factory and is the most capable person in the office. You said she has contact with Youbu, that's impossible. Besides, Tiantian doesn't look like someone who is being controlled by someone." Chen Lina said.

Nie Weimin took out a comic book from Water Margin and said, "Mom, to control a person, it is not enough to tie her hands and feet, but to enslave her mind."

Chen Lina took it and flipped through it. "Don't tell me that Su Xiangdong is just a comic book artist."

"He doesn't draw comic strips, but he uses them to control men and enslave women. For those illiterate idiots, what could be more exciting than the brotherhood in Water Margin? And what could be more miserable than the fate of the women in Water Margin?"

Of the four great classics of Chen Lina's career, the only one she never finished was Water Margin, because she felt that the women in the novel were objectified.

As for people like Pan Jinlian, Yan Poxi, and Pan Qiaoyun, especially Pan Qiaoyun, they were actually disemboweled in the end.

Chen Lina is a modern, independent-minded woman who understands that the social system is the root of sadness.

But Chen Tiantian had never been to school, so she didn't understand. She had read comics, so she would think that a promiscuous and unfaithful man who could not marry a man who followed his husband wherever he went, and a woman who could be carried on a shoulder pole deserved to be killed.

This is brainwashing at the highest level.

Gangsters are not scary, what is scary is gangsters with culture. Su Xiangdong is a gangster with culture.