Chapter 33

Protecting my sister

Just outside the base's large iron gate, Sun Dabao was confronting the base's security guards.

He broke his neck when he crashed his car into Coal Hill. He still has a dog collar around his neck to straighten the bones. He can't turn it around. If he wants to turn around, he has to turn his whole body with his neck.

Of course, it is not something that employees of subordinate farms like them can enter whenever they want.

After a while, the chief engineer said he could go into the base to look for people.

Sun Dabao came in with the security guards in a domineering manner.

"Are we searching for him now, or should you just hand over Xiao Chen?" Sun Dabao looked very imposing, with his neck tilted and eyes wide open. As soon as he entered the base, he asked Qin Sheng, the captain of the public security management team.

Qin Sheng said, "Xiao Chen said that he was the only one at home, and there was no one else. We also went in to check, and indeed, the person you were looking for was not there."

"Can you believe what Xiao Chen says? He is just a big talker. He was recruited as a talent to repair your cars, but his personnel file is still in our farm. I think he has a problem because he has dealings with Anna, a Soviet revisionist."

Qin Sheng said, "He knows how to repair cars. Our base really needs this talent, otherwise the chief engineer wouldn't have specially transferred him. Besides, he said there's no one, you can't ask him to suddenly appear."

Sun Dabao waved his hand and said, "Then search. Let's go around and look for him. After all, an educated youth ran away. We have the responsibility."

"The family area of ​​our base, in theory, your farm people are not allowed to enter. If anyone can enter, it can only be you. Your people have to stay outside."

Those who followed Sun Dabao were all young men with the surname Sun from Zhangxian County. They called him "big brother" just like gangsters.

At this time, Liu Han's son Liu Xiaogang came running over and said, "Captain Sun, Auntie Xiao Chen wants you to go to her house. She has something to talk to you about."

Chen Lina?

Isn’t that Nie Bozhao’s new spouse?

Because of Sun Zhuan'an's death, the Sun family and Nie Bozhao became enemies. What's the matter with his new lover looking for him?

Sun Dabao said, "No, why would I want to see someone like that?"

I subconsciously wanted to swear, but it was difficult to say it in front of outsiders.

"She said Anna was with her," Liu Xiaogang said.

In fact, Anna was not the only one at Nie's house. President Wang was also invited to Nie's house and is now also at Nie's house.

When Sun Dabao heard that Anna was at Nie's house, he immediately became angry.

Bringing the security team with him, he entered the family area and headed straight for the Nie family.

Qin Sheng said, "Hey, Captain Sun, you are the captain of Mulan Farm. We let you in because of our feelings for Sun Gong, but you can't bring your people from Mulan Farm into our family area."

Sun Dabao had been the head of the security team for many years, so he was not careless about this. He said, "You wait outside. I'll go in."

To put it bluntly, as long as he compliments Anna, Anna will have no chance of escaping.

As for Chen Lina, he also sent a telegram to Qisi Township to investigate, but the telegram has not arrived yet.

However, Sun Dabao felt that as long as the telegram arrived and he got the files, he could write something about it.

Having been immersed in the frontier for so many years, although he is young, he is quite good at this aspect because of the instruction of several older sisters.

As soon as you enter the yard, the first thing you see is a big fat white rabbit.

However, the three children were not seen.

Sun Dabao subconsciously said something pretentious.

People like him, when the weekend comes, they drive their trucks and shoot randomly on the Gobi Desert, killing everything they see. Some of the animals are brought back, while others are too lazy to even bring them back.

To him, things like rabbits are destined to be shot.

For example, when Nie Weimin was a child, he was taken to Mulan Farm by his mother, and he would shoot rabbits in front of the child.

He first gave a white, cute little rabbit to Nie Weimin to play with. When the child was having fun and loving it very much, he suddenly shot the rabbit to death. The child was frightened and started crying. Sun Dabao was scared to the core, but felt helpless. This made him feel very happy.

So, he didn't bring a hunting rifle at this time, he just picked up his hand and shot it with a loud bang.

Well, rabbit you are dead.

"Hey, Chief Engineer Wang is here too, and Anna is here too. Why are you all together today?"

Seeing that there were many people standing in the living room of Nie Bozhao's house, Sun Dabao said something without hesitation.

Then, a very young woman with an oval face, big eyes and a high nose came in from the kitchen holding a cup of tea.

There was no sofa in the house, only a few dry chairs, which Dayacai disliked when the trouble happened and did not take away.

Sun Dabao still remembers what the chairs looked like at that time. They were so dirty, covered with a layer of grease.

Hey, it looks very clean now. There is a chair cover made of floral cloth on it. It feels as soft as a sofa when you sit on it.

After the woman handed him the tea and asked him to sit down, she said openly, "Hello, Comrade Sun Dabao. I am the stepmother of Brother Nie Weimin and the lover of Nie Bozhao. I am older than you. You can call me sister."

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to shake hands with him.

Sun Dabao remembered the first time the old lady came to ask for support, she somehow couldn't find the handle and it was 11 o'clock at night when she returned to the farm.

Even though he was a security officer, he was scolded by the district chief at the time, and the old lady was dismissed from her tractor driver position. The old lady was devastated and fell seriously ill. Even now, she still gasps with anger when she talks about Chen Lina.

At that time, Sun Dabao felt that this woman was a ruthless person.

So he held it and shook it twice.

"Your farm is not currently engaged in production, so why are you letting the educated youth dig drainage ditches? We have to distinguish between scientific and unscientific things. It's winter and the land is frozen hard. Asking them to dig drainage ditches is inefficient and exhausting. Isn't this just looking for trouble?" Chief Engineer Wang said.

Sun Dabao is only in his early twenties this year. He is suffering from acne. He is very tall and wears a combat padded jacket. With his hands behind his back, he said, "This is a task from our superiors. We are from the same level of units. Chief Engineer Wang, I'm afraid you can't do anything about it, right?"

"Captain Sun, correct your attitude. What a scoundrel you are. Besides, your Mulan Farm is a farm in the mining area. We have the right to interfere in these matters." Chief Engineer Wang was very angry.

Sun Dabao said, "Chief Engineer Wang, our superior unit is the Wumayi Mining Area, not your base. We are equal units. Besides, you are a retired soldier, but I am not. You can't treat everyone as your soldiers and manage them."

Chief Engineer Wang was so angry that he said, "Listen to what this guy is saying."

"What's the matter, Comrade Anna? You have had incorrect thoughts to begin with, and you violated the regulations by running away from the camp to the oil base without permission, and you also had promiscuous relationships with men and women. Now you still want me to ask you to leave?" As soon as Sun Dabao arrived, he started to put three accusations on Anna, one after another.

Anna shook her head but said nothing.

To be honest, just like he had been playing with Nie Weimin since he was a child, he always managed to make these weaklings speechless.

"Anna is my friend. She has sores on her hands and feet. I invited her to my home. There's nothing wrong with that, right?" Chen Lina said. "Besides, even the educated youth can rest on weekends. She came after get off work last night. Today is the weekend, so why can't she go out? Every educated youth can rest freely on weekends. She came to see me, which is a normal interpersonal interaction."

Sun Dabao thought, hey, today is really the weekend.

Moreover, after all, the educated youths stuck together. When Sun Dabao went to interrogate the people last night, the educated youths gritted their teeth and said that they only admitted that Anna was not there last night, but they did not admit that she had been away all the time.

Sun Dabao then said, "That's fine. We won't talk about yesterday. She has to go back to the camp with me today. She has to go to work tomorrow anyway."

Chen Lina shook her head and said, "No."

"You woman..."

"I have a surname, Chen, and a given name, Lina. Moreover, I am the wife of your brother-in-law. Sun Dabao, you also hold a position. In front of Chief Engineer Wang and me, we are not divided by positions. We are your elders. Don't you even have the most basic courtesy as a human being?" Chen Lina went straight to her.

Sun Dabao got used to it, but that was at home, on the one and a half acres of land in Mulan Farm. Outside of Mulan Farm, except for people like Chief Engineer Wang who would praise him a little for the sacrifice of Sun Dabao, who knew who he was.

"I'm going to take her away now. I only know that she is under the management of our Mulan Farm. I'm the security officer. It's my responsibility and obligation to protect the safety of the educated youth."

"Yes, I cannot deny that. However, you are a security guard, responsible for her safety, but not her health. Anna, take off your shoes and show him how swollen your feet are."

Anna took off her shoes immediately.

To be honest, her hands were in a bad state already, and she had to work in the fields with her feet frozen like this. Chen Lina couldn't bear to see it.

"The educated youth came here to build the frontier. Their health is what their superiors are most concerned about. If the doctor diagnoses that she cannot walk with her feet, can I give her sick leave?" said Chen Lina.

Sun Dabao was confused. What was going on?

sick leave?

Of course he can handle it.

"Not everyone can take sick leave. You need to get a diagnosis certificate from a hospital in Umayyad." Sun Dabao has seen many people who want to take sick leave, but, well, you are sick, so you have to go to a hospital thirty miles away to get a certificate first.

So, then, the problem arises.

If you can walk to a hospital thirty miles away to get a certificate, it means that there is no problem with your movement. May I ask, what kind of sick leave did you apply for?

As a result, the doctor came in immediately.

You know, ever since Sandan had a fever in the middle of the night, Nie Bozhao drove out in his small jeep, and now there are people working overtime in the base's infirmary even on weekends.

"Who is sick? Let me see." The doctor came in wearing a mask, a white coat, and a stethoscope.

Chen Lina gave Anna a wink, and Anna immediately stretched out her hands and feet.

The doctor had a good relationship with Nie Bozhao, who had just called him, so the doctor said, "This swelling and frostbite, if you don't take care of it, you may have to amputate."

There was a precedent of someone having his limbs amputated after escaping from Mulan Farm in the middle of the night and getting frostbitten in the wild.

When Anna heard this, she covered her mouth and began to cry silently.

Chen Lina couldn't say the doctor was bluffing her, so she just asked Sun Dabao, "The doctor said if she gets any more frozen, she'll have to have her limbs amputated. At this point, I want to ask if you can take sick leave?"

"Yes, but only for one day."

"Comrade, if her leg can't be cured in one day, it will take at least half a month. I will give her a half-month leave note. This is the most basic. As for her leg, it needs systematic treatment."

Sun Dabao wanted to explode, but he couldn't. He stood for a long time, took the note, looked at it, and said, "Okay, then our farm will come to pick you up in half a month." Before leaving, he said something cruel, "Comrade Anna, you can hide for half a month, but you can't hide your own fate. What kind of place is this, and who are you? I advise you that they can support you for half a month, but not for a lifetime. If Xiao Chen was really capable, he wouldn't stay in the oil base by himself and let you suffer in the farm. You should think about my words carefully. I'll wait for you to go back."

Chen Lina immediately responded, "She is physically ill, not a person. Besides, if she wants to recover, she needs to be treated by a doctor. Once she is cured, she will naturally return. Comrade Sun Dabao, Comrade Anna must be re-educated, but you cannot speak to her in such a threatening tone. She is ill and needs care from the organization, not intimidation."

Sun Dabao was speechless and could not show off his power to Chen Lina. He stared at Anna coldly for a long time before leaving in a huff.

After the doctor prescribed the medicine for Anna, they discussed it together. Chen Lina felt that it would be better for Anna to live in her own home, but Nie Bozhao thought that she should be sent to Xiao Chen's home.

After all, he has three children. Anna's leg needs medicine, and there is only one kang, and the three children are running around, which will cause trouble if they touch it.

For her own convenience, and also because she didn't want to cause any more trouble for Chen Lina, Anna took the initiative to live in Xiao Chen's house.

In the afternoon, there were crackling sounds outside the window and sporadic cannon fire.

Needless to say, the children had already set off the firecrackers as soon as the family members brought them back.

"Protect the people, protect the people." Nie Bozhao heard it and shouted from the window.

After calling for a long time but no one came, he turned around and asked Chen Lina, "Have you seen the children? How come there is no sound from the two children after such a long time?"

"Don't worry, your son won't go far. At most he will just walk around the yard. I have never seen him go far." Chen Lina said.

"I don't know what's wrong with him. I've never seen him running far with Erdan, but today, they are definitely not in the yard."

"No, my sister is missing too."

"What sister?"

"Their rabbit, that rabbit is called Little Sister."

The two brothers Nie Weimin are really the easiest children to take care of and they basically never run away.

And even if he went out to play, he would come back to take a look after a while. Today, he was gone for most of the day, which did seem a bit strange.

Nie Bozhao went out to look for her but couldn't find her, so he came back and asked Chen Lina what to do.

Chen Lina was cooking in the kitchen. She just called out "Erdan, Erdan, the yogurt is ready."

After a while, two children rushed out from Chen Tiantian's house next door, driving a small train one after the other, and came in with a loud noise. Erdan was holding a rabbit cage in his arms.

"You've been playing for so long, why don't you go home?"

"Report to the chief, we must protect our sister and prevent the enemy from capturing her." Nie Weimin said righteously.

"No, I don't want my uncle to catch it." Erdan said.

Chen Lina said, "Okay, go eat some yogurt. After that, we have to go to Umay before dark to get our benefits back."

She hasn’t picked up the New Year gifts distributed by her company yet.

Moreover, the road to Umay is really difficult to drive. Only with her skills can she drive an old Hongqi to Umay. Drivers of large vehicles at the base would either be overturned by crosswinds or have their vehicles broken down on the road.

Nie Weimin and Erdan's favorite is the yogurt made by Chen Lina. She always adds different things to it, such as grapes, nuts, fruits, and cooked oats.

Each person had a bowl and scooped up the food with a spoon. Nie Weimin would exclaim, "Oatmeal, oatmeal again." The oatmeal fried into golden brown tasted especially good when put in yogurt.

After hurriedly feeding Sandan half a bowl of food, and seeing that he didn't want to eat anymore, Chen Lina took a break from her busy schedule to adjust her sewing machine.

"Come with me to Umay and get back the benefits allocated to us," she said.

Nie Bozhao said decisively, "I can't go. I have to finish my manuscript and earn some royalties."

"Why do you write articles every day? Can't you write a few less?"

"I can't postpone the agreed manuscript. Besides, I'm charged 20 yuan per article. I have to earn the money. Otherwise, what will you spend it on?" Nie Bozhao said without even raising his head.

"How great would it be if you could earn tickets instead of money?"

She has money, a car, free gas, and a sewing machine, and yet she still needs a ticket?

You know, this is something Nie Bozhao can never do, because he can earn extra money, but the tickets are distributed uniformly by the state, and no one is an exception.

"You can buy anything at a high price. We are not short of money. Why are you always thinking about tickets? If it is really not enough, I will accept commissions from two more newspapers." Nie Bozhao said domineeringly.

"That's a pretty decent attitude. It's your responsibility to make money to support your family. However, no matter how much you earn, those profiteers can still raise the price. I'm worried about your health, Comrade Lao Nie."

Hearing that she was concerned about her health, Nie Bozhao was happy. "Didn't Xiao Chen say that he wanted to invite you to work? You could be a cashier or a teacher, so that you can supplement the family income. At least you can get more food coupons and cloth coupons. Why don't you go?"

Chen Lina kept it a secret. "How can a cashier or a teacher be worthy of the base's unique license plate number 0002 and my identity as Chen Lina? I have a better job waiting to be appointed. You don't have to worry about this."

"It's always the job that selects people. Our Comrade Xiao Chen is amazing. He can actually choose his job. But, can you let me know what job you've chosen? That's it..."

Ambitious and eager to do something big.

"I, Chen Lina, am the most beautiful family member in this base, and I am married to the most valuable man in this base. Of course, I must also be the family member who can create the most value for the base. There is a job waiting for me. If you don't believe me, just wait and see."

They supported each other, and she made Nie Bozhao so happy that he took the initiative to take care of the two children, so Chen Lina only took Nie Weimin to collect the benefits.

Chen Lina thought to herself, Old Nie, oh Old Nie, sooner or later, I will make you look at me with indifference.

After adjusting the sewing machine and resisting the urge to cut a skirt for herself right away, she got up and went to Umay to get some fruits and vegetables.