Chapter 266

Defending the Country

The year is now 1993.

Chen Lina had just come out of the car factory in the middle of summer. She put on her sunglasses and opened her sun umbrella when a group of people surrounded her.

"Old leader."

"Secretary Chen!"

"Director Chen."

Chen Lina got in the car and told the driver, "Just drive and ignore those people."

The driver honked at the crowd, repeatedly shouting, "Move aside! Our leader has to go to a meeting. Move aside!"

"Leader, please give us a way to survive. We have all resigned. If we don't look for you, who else can we look for, leader?" said a female comrade in her fifties.

There was also a man who was walking around the car and said, "Leader, my son just got admitted to university. If I get fired, I won't be able to find another job. My son won't be able to continue his studies, leader."

The driver looked in the rearview mirror and saw Director Chen. Oh no, now she is the chairman, the chairman of Chiu’s Real Estate.

She was wearing sunglasses, and the driver didn't know what she was thinking. In short, many people who had left woolen textile factories and clothing factories, some failed to start their own businesses, and some worked in other factories.

But in the end, he was dismissed due to poor performance. He also knew that Chen Lina, the leader, was the most soft-hearted because she was a woman, so everyone came to her for help.

Chen Lina sat in the back seat for a long time and made a phone call.

Recently, there are new mobile phones that are no longer like the ones from a few years ago, because the radiation is too strong and people will get teeth sore after talking on the phone for half an hour.

This one from Chen Lina is the latest big brother.

"To the south. How is the construction of our small commodity city going now?" she said.

Over there, Su Xiangnan said, "It will be completed soon. What's the matter, leader? Do you have any ideas to tell me about attracting investment?"

"The small commodity city is ours, and it has nothing to do with the interests of the group's shareholders. I have an idea. If the workers who used to work in the woolen textile and clothing factories, or the new employees who have recently been employed in the mining area, want to rent a shop and start a business, can I give them a one-year rent-free discount? Is that okay?"

"Why do we have to do this?" Su Xiangnan said, "We don't have to worry about renting out our shop. We can make money by renting it out. There are a large number of unemployed workers now, but we are an enterprise and we have to make money."

Chen Lina bit her lip, sighed and said, "I am a woman. I have seen many former employees working so hard and unable to find a job. I have no choice but to be soft-hearted. Okay, let's do this."

"By the way, I heard that you were going out again. Where are you going this time?" Anna was also in the office. She took the phone from Su Xiangnan and asked.

Chen Lina was very proud. "There will be a concert to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the leader's birth. Our Weiguo has been living in Beijing for three years and he said he can also participate. Our whole family is going to watch it."

Anna smiled and said, "Do you want me to go with you? After the two kids finish their college entrance exams, we can go together. I also want to go to Beijing to see Leng Qi."

Leng Qi is currently studying at the Party School. After he comes back, he will work at the Disaster Relief Office in the autonomous region. Anna hasn't seen him for half a year.

Chen Lina said, "Okay, if you want to go, let's go together. Anyway, it's time for us old guys to step down and let the young people take care of the work."

After answering the phone, I was home in a blink of an eye.

When a place develops quickly, there will be some disadvantages. For example, recently a few family buildings are going to be built next to the base. Although they are also located on the oil field, the families of the base are very unhappy.

Because once the new building is built, it blocks their view and their sunlight.

"Sister Wang, what's going on?" In response to this, all the family members in the base were making a fuss, and Chen Lina fully supported them.

Sister Wang, whose hair has turned white in recent years, waved a small flag and said, "The oil field has already made concessions and said that the design plan must be readjusted so that our light and vision cannot be blocked."

You can build a building, but it can’t block our view, right?

You know, after so many years, the residential area of ​​Base No. 1 is now shaded by green trees, the streets have been constantly repaired, and every house has been beautifully built. It is right on the edge of the city, with spacious yards, and is comfortable to live in. One can farm and build a hoe. In the past two years, the overall water supply and drainage system was renovated, and now there are flush toilets. Although it is not as comfortable as a building, it is very cool to live in in the summer.

Most of the young people have moved upstairs, but the elderly are still holding on.

Look, Chen Lina took the key, opened the door, and went home.

Mrs. Song, a wage earner's wife, not only takes care of her grandson at home, but also helps Chen Lina clean the house.

The house was very clean. Of course, before she came back, Mrs. Song had cleaned the house for her.

The year before last, Wei Xing entered Oilfield Middle School and basically lived on campus ever since.

Last year, Wei Jiang and Deng Chun finally moved to Shanghai for better career development.

However, due to Wei Jiang's habit, he had to go back to see her once a month at the beginning.

Chen Lina, she always felt that airplanes were unsafe and she cursed at them several times. Wei Jiang hasn't been back for at least three months.

Well, the yard can finally be kept clean all day long.

There aren't any clothes scattered around the house.

However, when the children are not around, it is so quiet that Chen Lina sometimes feels sad.

Just then, the phone rang.

"Mom, when are you and my dad going to get up?" It was Erdan asking on the phone.

Chen Lina said helplessly, "Nie Weiguo, Weixing is going to take the college entrance examination soon. Well, she will take the college entrance examination in three days. Of course, we have to wait until she finishes the exam before we can leave."

"Wei Xing is going to take the college entrance examination. Do you want me to come back to accompany her?" Er Dan said.

Chen Lina rolled her eyes on the phone. "Just dedicate yourself to music. She should have been a senior last year. Why didn't she repeat a year and take the college entrance examination with Leng Feng?"

"How about this, after the college entrance exam, you can take the plane. The concert I'm attending is on June 10th, so I'll definitely be able to make it, okay, Mom?"

This child has been away from home for three years and has never come back. He only reports good news but not worries.

If it weren't for this trip, Chen Lina and Nie Gong would have no idea how he was doing outside.

In short, Erdan is the type who always shows his best side to his family and bears all the hardships and fatigue by himself.

Now that he was finally willing to meet his parents, Chen Lina thought that he should have made some progress in his career.

Beijing.

Gao Xiaobing had just returned from get off work when she was blocked by her mother at the door.

"Your man is so straightforward that I can't say anything bad about him." She said, rolling her eyes.

Gao Xiaobing was puzzled. "Mom, what's wrong?"

He Lanshan didn't say until he entered his own yard, "He was rehearsing music with Nie Weiguo again today, and I caught him in the act."

"Ah, you're not going to call and scold my mother-in-law again, are you?"

After Nie Weiguo joined the army, Li Mingcheng ran back to Beijing and found a job in the post office.

Gao Xiaobing studied finance and worked in a bank.

Although Li Mingcheng's salary was far less than half of Gao Xiaobing's, the two were still happy and got married. Five years ago, they had a little girl, nicknamed Hanhan, who was smart and cute.

As a result, Li Mingcheng, who had been working hard, stopped working properly after he hooked up with Nie Weiguo, a retired soldier three years ago. The two of them went out to sing and make money quietly every day.

Well, as soon as he went out to make music, He Lanshan would call and have a quarrel with Hu Suliang.

That's it. Family relationships are tense now.

However, thanks to Gao Xiaobing's willfulness when she was a child, she didn't know how she changed after she grew up, but her personality was very similar to her father's. In such a messy family, she was patient and wise.

As they walked, she was advising He Lanshan, "No matter what Mingcheng is like, you can't scold my mother-in-law anymore. After we got married, Mingcheng almost never came home. She has no children, only Mingcheng as her son, whom she only sees a few times a year. The news she heard about him is that you criticized Mingcheng. How can my mother-in-law be happy?"

"Xiao Bing, Mom retired specifically to take care of your child. Are you blaming me?"

"It's your credit that you take care of the kids. I didn't say anything. Our unit is organizing a trip to Beidaihe next month. I will only take you and Hanhan with me, not Li Mingcheng and my dad. That should be it."

"Your dad is busy, so he won't go even if you specifically invite him. But, Xiaobing, your dad is a man of status now, right? Mingcheng as a son-in-law is embarrassing enough for us, and now he wants to continue his rock 'n' roll..."

"I will persuade him, I will scold him severely, and then persuade him to mend his ways. Really, Mom, you should just watch your auntie cook." After going up the stairs, Gao Xiaobing pushed her mother down.

But once she got upstairs, she jumped towards the bedroom like a little squirrel. "How about it, Mingcheng, are you two eligible for the concert to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the leader's birth?"

Li Mingcheng and his little girl, Hanhan, whose face was as round as Gao Xiaobing's, were lying on the floor, and Li Mingcheng was teaching his girl how to do her kindergarten homework.

"Tell me quickly, are you two included?" Gao Xiaobing said.

Li Mingcheng rolled his eyes and said, "I heard your mother scolding me again. I'm too lazy to say anything."

"Come on, tell me, I never scolded you, right? How many times did you go out to sing at night, and I covered for you, huh? I'm still your little fan girl, I applaud you two everywhere."

Gao Xiaobing, a little rock fan, may not think that she has to be dignified and a bit rigid because she works in a bank, but she has a loyal love for rock.

"We missed the opportunity when we started. If we had started in 1986, we would have definitely become famous by now. But now you see, Cui Jian, Black Panther, and the Zero Point Band from Hohhot are all better than the other. It is really difficult for Wei Guo and I to make a name for ourselves."

"I know, but I support you. I just want to ask you, are you two going to the birthday concert?"

Gao Xiaobing asked again.

Li Mingcheng said, "We didn't have one originally, but a sponsor gave the TV station 200,000 yuan to sponsor this program. Well, after going through so many difficulties and obstacles, the TV station leaders listened to our proposal one by one, and finally approved it, so we can go on the show."

"Two hundred thousand? Which company is so rich?"

"It is said that it is an individual, not a company. Anyway, we don't know. Anyway, we will have ten minutes to sing at the birthday music party. I have also discussed with Weiguo. If we become popular, all the income from the first year will be given to me. I will give it to your mother, and then we can pursue music openly. If we fail to become popular, I will go back to the post office to count packages, and he will go back to the mining area to drive a bus. That's it."

"You will definitely become famous." said Gao Xiaobing.

Hanhan also said, "Dad will definitely be famous."

Li Mingcheng rubbed Gao Xiaobing's head, then rubbed Hanhan's head, turned her head away, and kissed Gao Xiaobing. "Both of you are equally silly girls."

Nie Weiguo does not have a high-ranking father-in-law, nor does he have a daughter-in-law who works in a bank and earns a high salary. What's worse, he dares not go home for fear that the people in Dazhalan will laugh at Chen Lina. Now he is a real migrant worker in Beijing.

However, the conditions for working in Beijing now are much better than in the future.

There were still three days before the performance. He hung up the pay phone and suddenly slapped himself.

How could he forget that his most well-behaved and lovely sister was about to take the college entrance examination?

As the second oldest brother, he even forgot the date of the satellite college entrance examination.

"Come on, Father, let's have some kebabs. What? You don't have any money?" said the owner of the kebab stall next door.

Erdan waved his hands and said, "I don't eat spicy food. I only eat the lamb skewers that my mother grills. I won't eat this."

"Why do you do rock? Ah, let me ask you. In my opinion, rock is for endless beer, endless women and endless money, right?" The guy selling grilled kebabs was twisting his hips, and the song "Nothing" was playing from the speakers, and it sounded really exciting.

Erdan is not greedy.

When he was in England, he was too hungry. He was not hungry, but he was always in a state of hunger.

However, in order to protect your voice, the most basic thing is not to drink alcohol, eat spicy food, or smoke.

"I love music purely and I sing for my ideal. Moreover, alcohol, sex and drugs are not music enhancers, but weapons that kill musicians. My voice is not naturally good, so I must take good care of it," Erdan said honestly.

But in the eyes of the kebab boss, anyone who can’t even rub the kebab is a fool.

"Then you should continue to pursue your ideals. I hope that when you are fifty, you can still afford to eat that bowl of noodles on the street, okay?" The kebab owner passed his fragrant kebabs to a "rock singer" with long hair and a guitar on his back, smoking a cigarette and holding a bottle of broth in his pocket. The two exchanged glances and defined Nie Weiguo as an "idiot" at the same time.

Erdan took out three yuan and ordered a bowl of noodles from the Henan noodle shop next door. He ate it very carefully and then started taking money out of his pocket when he came out.

Little Satellite and his parents are coming, so he has to save some money for his sister.

Let’s buy a skirt for the little satellite. I don’t know how beautiful her sister has grown now. Erdan took out three hundred yuan and said, “Okay, keep this for buying the skirt.”

Then I counted again and there were still two thousand and two left.

He didn't know if the costume was on sale. The last time he went to see it, it was 3,600 yuan. But two months had passed and he had been looking at it but no one wanted to buy it. Now, Erdan was ready to bargain with the boss and buy the costume.

The concert will be held on June 18th, and all TV stations across the country will broadcast it live at 8pm. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Erdan knows that this opportunity is not easy to come by, so he strives to prepare the best from instruments to performance costumes.

He has been drifting for three years and finally got a chance. Of course he will grab it and never allow himself to fail.

"Boss, that dress, the red and yellow dress with buttons, was still hanging here when I came to see it yesterday. How come it's gone?"

"A customer just bought something. He bought it right away. Three thousand yuan, not a cent less. You are so stingy. It's been two months, but you still won't spend a cent?" The boss of a performance costume shop said, "Pick another one. That dress is made of pure silver, that's why it's so expensive. Pick another one. This chicken feather dress and this tights are only a few dozen yuan. I tell you, they are the same when you wear them, really."

Nie Weiguo only asked, "How long has it been? Has that person gone far away?"

At the very least, he can wear it after someone else has worn it, or he can just rent it for a day. He has to wear that dress when he goes on stage, really.

"Then go find one yourself. I'm telling you, Father, I've seen a lot of rock singers, but there's only one as stupid as you in the whole city of Beijing. If you can become famous, I'll kneel down and call you Grandpa, seriously."

Nie Weiguo turned around and saw the street full of people carrying large plastic bags, trying to find out who had bought the clothes he liked.

Suddenly, I saw a woman of medium height wearing high heels, holding the dress in her hand and a mobile phone, making a phone call on the street.

"Hello, Mingcheng, I've got Weiguo's clothes, the one you said he always wanted. I'm going on a business trip soon, so I'll send the clothes downstairs at your house. You can't tell Nie Weiguo that I bought the clothes, understand?"

It turned out to be Chen Tiantian.

Erdan took two steps back and saw her use the key to open the door of a car on the street, turn around and leave.

Less than two hours later, the two met again in Wei Guo's rental house.

As soon as we met, we got straight to the point. After all, we were just adult men and women, so there wasn't much to talk about.

She ran up to him and took off his clothes, and he pushed her against the wall and kissed her.

Most of the power of Erdan's bowl of noodles, except for that used for singing, was used on Tiantian.

It was a row of smelly rental houses, and every room was filled with cigarette butts, paper balls, and garbage. Nie Weiguo's was the cleanest, at least the paper would go into the fistula, and since he didn't smoke, there were no cigarette butts.

But the musical instruments, books, and musical scores are still a mess.

After finishing, Chen Tiantian had to get up to help him tidy up the scattered music books and various musical instruments, while Erdan was lying on the bed.

"It's thanks to you that you don't smoke or drink. Look at those people next door, they are so smelly and dirty, it's so annoying." Chen Tiantian said.

Erdan saw her kneeling on the bed, grabbed Chen Tiantian's hand, pulled her to lie down beside him, and rubbed her soft arms with his bearded face.

In fact, Wei Guo slept with Chen Tiantian when he arrived in Beijing three years ago.

After all, you are already twenty-four or twenty-five, and you don't have the energy to be so pretentious and talk about forever or about love or not.

Of course, she didn't say she wanted to date him. She just took off her clothes without saying anything after he sang several songs for her.

After running around for many years, Chen Tiantian has finally become a real girl.

In her words, maybe this sleep would end Nie Weiguo's music career, because he would find out that his goddess is nothing. Or maybe he would reach a higher level, his dream would be shattered, and he would find a new goddess for himself.

But Erdan didn't have that. He had the foundation of five years of study in England and maintained the strict schedule of four years of military service. Except for being a little lazy and pretentious, he was really like a musician.

"I'm the agent of another Hong Kong brand. I have to go to the mall to negotiate tomorrow. Aunt Chen introduced it to me. I have to make money from it. I'm leaving now." Chen Tiantian said after packing and washing.

Nie Weiguo exclaimed, excited. To be honest, he had been singing underground for three years, and this was the first time he was going to be on the 8 o'clock evening show of the Central News Channel. He was particularly excited. However, Chen Tiantian was too busy and had no time to say a few more words to him.

"Can't you just sleep with me for one night?" he said.

His sweet sister is two years older than him and is almost thirty years old. Her body is so soft and fluffy that you can't find any bones when you pinch her. It is so comfortable to sleep with her in his arms.

After three years of drifting in Beijing, Nie Weiguo, who had been a glorious young man, had no money, no place to live, and no way out. All his comfort came from Chen Tiantian's selfless dedication of her body.

But she was too busy. In the more than three years they had been together, she had never slept with him for a single night.

"Silly boy, there are so many rock girls out there, you won't find anyone to sleep with you for the night, I'm leaving now."

Chen Tiantian said this, put on her shoes, and hurried out.