Chapter 38

Piglet

He pushed an octave diary covered with brown paper to Chen Lina. It was the diary of his late wife, Sun Zhuanzhuan.

Nie Bozhao took it, opened it, took a look, and said, "Comrade Xiao Chen, if you are really a spy, I find that I really can't beat you. When did you find this thing?"

"Not long ago, just a few days ago."

"I was there when you were able to enter the house, but I didn't see you take out the diary, which was locked."

"You are so absorbed in writing and reading that you might not even notice me emptying this room. Is there anything strange about that?"

While he was writing, he couldn't even hear his children tearing down the house outside.

Nie Bozhao took off his glasses, his eyes were deep and bright under the light. "Nie Guozhu married the daughter of the chief of the 63rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Hongyan Military Region two days ago. It was a military marriage and he was able to pass the political review, proving that there was no problem with his identity. Then I must believe that you really came from the future, but I won't mention this. I only recognize you as my family member. However, Comrade Xiao Chen, even family members have to have privacy. You shouldn't read Sun Gong's diary. This is her privacy. Let's put it all in the firewall and burn it."

The little princess massaged her back more and more frequently.

Beauty has been the most difficult thing to resist since ancient times. Nie Bozhao wanted to get angry, but the force of that little fist was just right, so he really couldn't get angry.

She also said, "Today, my grandson's mother came to make a scene again. I had no choice but to show my grandson's diary to District Chief Gao."

Showing Sun Gong's diary to District Chief Gao was to keep Huang Huacai out of the base and prevent her from coming to the base every day to cause trouble.

However, for this, she exposed some of Sun Zhuan'an's privacy, which was a bit, how should I put it, not very upright.

Well, based on her understanding of men in her previous life, Chen Lina guessed that he would still get angry.

Therefore, be as gentle as possible and use your two small fists to convey your sincere attitude when you admit your mistakes.

In her previous life, whenever she failed to accomplish her goals and drove him mad, she would hit him like this and he would immediately calm down.

"Just watch it. It's not just my scandal. It's the influence of the leaders on Sun Gong that will probably change. She was the only female staff member when the base was still setting up tents. She is a veteran and a hero, but heroes are also ordinary people, that's it." I didn't expect him to be so open-minded.

He pushed the diary aside and threw it into the firewall, then spread out the manuscript paper and said, "The Industry Daily has asked me to write a manuscript, so I have to hurry up and finish it. You go to sleep first."

Oh, the more he acted like this, the more Chen Lina felt sorry for him.

"Now I understand. You slapped Sun Gong because she wanted to give the child away, right?"

“Hmm!”

"Tell me, why did she want to give away such a lovely child like Sandaner?"

Nie Bozhao put down his pen again, thought for a moment, and took out a handful of dried grapes from his pocket. "Mare's milk, these are what we used to fill our stomachs when we went down the well. Eat them while you listen to me."

It turned out that Sun Zhuan'an's second sister, Sun Ainan, the wife of the personnel chief of the mining area, was a barren woman. Even her job opportunities were acquired through surgery. As for having children, there was no way for her to have one.

As for Nie Bozhao, he initially agreed with Sun Zhuan'an that they would only have one child, and then both of them would devote themselves to work and concentrate on their careers.

As a result, after the first child was born, the second child came, and after the second child was born, the third child came.

As soon as the third child was born, Huang Huacai kept hinting to Nie Bozhao that she should give one to Sun Xiangnan because raising three children was too tiring.

With two full-time workers and a combined monthly salary of at least 300 yuan, their living conditions are among the best in the border area. How could they not be able to raise a child?

Nie Bozhao certainly wouldn't do that, and he loved his three sons very much.

Whenever Huang Huacai mentioned giving the child away, there would naturally be a big quarrel, and he would even drive his mother-in-law away.

The night before Sun Zhuan'nan got into the car accident, she got drunk while entertaining guests from Beijing. She took out her diary and wanted to write something down, but she didn't write anything down and she also forgot to lock the drawer.

The next day, I found out from Nie Bozhao's diary that according to what was written in it, Xiao Sandaner had never planned to raise herself since her lifetime.

Therefore, in this era when household registration is so important, she did not even register the child's household registration and allowed the child to become an illegal resident, all for the purpose of smoothly transferring the child's household registration to Sun Ainan.

Moreover, Sun Zhuan'an also said in his diary that it's just a cold war. I'm very good at it. One day, I will force him to agree to send the child away.

This is why Nie Bozhao slapped Sun Zhuannan in the face, and then she ran out in anger and got into a car accident.

As for when a nanny came, Huang Huacai would chase her away. That was of course because Huang Huacai was always thinking about forcing her son-in-law to bow his head and give the child to her second daughter.

Seeing Nie Bozhao looking quite sad under the lights, Chen Lina quickly said, "Sun Gong is a hero of the base. I think, considering the character of District Chief Gao, he will not tell anyone."

"You seem very sympathetic to me."

"Really?"

"It is said that a man can always move a woman's heart by telling her tragic life story. Why didn't I think of it earlier? I can also talk about my childhood experiences. Do you want to listen? Let's talk while lying on the bed." Nie Bozhao was heartbroken. Why didn't he realize earlier that he could still use the trick of pretending to be miserable?

The little fist on his back loosened immediately. "I just feel pity for you. Pity is not love. Please take your time to write the manuscript. I need to go to sleep."

"Then you should at least give me a chance to have sex with her, right?" Oh my god, this princess is so stupid that Nie Bozhao has a toothache.

He took off his black-framed glasses, wiped them, and put them back on. He was wearing a light blue work shirt and work pants. He looked serious and solemn, but the words he said were enough to make you laugh out loud.

Comrade Xiao Chen stroked the desk with one hand, pointed at her fair and soft face, and said, "Come on, this princess is in a good mood today, I can give you a kiss."

"I'm a researcher, I believe in Marxism-Leninism, I don't believe in romance, I just know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, it's an axiom, either you stay and we can sleep together tonight, or I'll just have to endure it for a while."

Chen Lina didn't understand. Could it be that this man, who looked like an old cadre, had become so humorous and affectionate fifteen years later because he had eaten several baskets of Byron Shelley?

He went out wearing his military coat and came back with two small buckets of coal. He lit the fire wall here and added coal to the bedroom. Chen Lina rubbed her frozen red hands and frowned.

I don't know how other people in the base get by. It's only the middle of the winter and the first month of the year, but she has already burned 800 kilograms of coal. The base's quota is 1,000 kilograms of coal per household per winter. It's not enough for what she's burning.

I originally thought that if it didn't work, I would just close the fire wall and save some coal for the night.

But when she looked at the three brothers covered with a big quilt and with red faces, Chen Lina felt a little bit reluctant.

Especially Sandan, his little butt is so round and too small, and there is no cloth to mend his trouser crotch, so his pants are still hanging in the gap.

Little guy, he probably doesn’t know yet that he was born by his mother to be given away.

Chen Lina felt that after the Chinese New Year, she should start her job right away. She should at least provide some coal, chickens, fish, etc. for the family, right?

The New Year was approaching, and Nie Weimin was extremely well-behaved. He seldom went out to play. Even when he went out, he took extra care of his white marine uniform. The two brothers each had a set of marine uniforms, and they went in and out all the time, making the other kids at the base jealous.

But clothes will always get dirty, especially white clothes.

Although the base has running water, the pipes always freeze, so in winter we have to save water.

Look, when I woke up in the morning, the water pipes were frozen again.

Chen Lina also collected a large basin of clothes and was waiting for Harbin Institute of Technology to repair the water pipes.

Little Nie Weimin was waiting for water while dragging a large wash basin. When he saw Erdan digging mud in the corner again, he got angry and said in the tone of Chen Lina, "This dirty kid must be Qian Goudan, right? He's so dirty. Doesn't he know that his mother has to put her hands in the cold water basin and rub them for a long time before she can rub her clothes clean?"

"I'm not Goudan, I'm Erdan."

"No, you are Goudan. Erdan will take good care of his clothes and won't worry mom."

Erdan looked silly and said, "I am Erdan. Qian Goudan was playing in the snow outside and is dirtier than me."

Well, it turns out that Goudan is dirtier than Erdan. He doesn’t even care about his little military uniform and just rolls in the snow pile.

As they were talking, Anna and Xiao Chen came in.

Anna was carrying malted milk and Xiao Chen was carrying milk powder. Oh my god, this is such a great gift.

"Hello, Auntie An, hello, Uncle Xiao." Nie Weimin has been very well behaved recently. He mentioned the things in Xiao Chen and Anna's hands and shouted, "Comrade Xiao Chen, we have guests at home."

It was almost the end of the year and it was time for Anna to go back to the farm. Seeing Chen Lina cooking, she took the initiative to go into the kitchen and help.

"I have to go back to the farm tomorrow, sister. I am especially grateful to you and the worker for taking care of me during this period," said Anna.

Chen Lina smiled and said, "Of course, your father is my life mentor."

"Was it Anna's father who taught you how to drive?" What Xiao Chen was most curious about was Chen Lina's driving skills. He really wanted to learn from her.

But Chen Lina has a special ability: she can be warm and enthusiastic in front of others, but when he meets her in private and wants to chat with her, she will immediately become cold as ice.

It feels like, little kid, I can see through you at a glance.

Only when Anna was around could he chat with her more.

"As the saying goes in our base, 'If you hang a cake on the steering wheel, even a dog can drive.' I drove a tractor for a year in my hometown. If you ask me, there are only four words to describe it: bold and careful," said Chen Lina.

In front of outsiders, she always kept her mouth shut about her origins.

She felt that not only the Sun family, but Xiao Chen had also been trying to find out about her background.

"I heard that Sun Dabao was arrested and Mulan Farm also got a new security captain. I hope that the atmosphere can change from now on. The original farm was too dark." Anna added.

"The factory director, Liu Jiefang, is also a member of the Sun family. He turned the cultural center into a dance hall, saying that it was a cadre who went to the countryside to inspect work, but he ordered us educated youth to dance with a group of dubious people. It was all his fault."

"When I become the director, all these things will be sorted out. I will only tell you, don't tell anyone else." Chen Lina then said.

"Little Miss Chen, stop joking. The director is a top leader, appointed and dismissed by the mining area. You are so young, how is it possible?"

Chen Lina smiled and said nothing.

She is very competitive and has never failed to achieve anything she wants in her life.

"My dad always said at that time that he had a little pen pal who was very smart and had a great talent for languages. He would definitely achieve great success after graduating from college. He always used you as an example to me," Anna then added.

"You have to believe this. Adults always think other people's children are better, but they still love their own children the most," Chen Lina said with a smile.

Of course, in her eyes, Erdan was as dirty as a pig, and she also thought he was quite pleasing to the eye. She would beat him when she was really angry, but she felt sorry after beating him.

Could it be that she gradually fell in love with these children?

"Mom, mom, what delicious food did you make? Why does it smell so good?" The little dirty pig was covered in dirt, but rushed in when he smelled the fragrance.

"Do you like mud-wrapped piglets?" Chen Lina asked back.

"I don't like it. It's so dirty." As he said that, Erdan stood on tiptoe and found that the fat, fried chicken legs were covered with bread crumbs. The oil in the pan was hot, and it seemed that they were going to be fried for the second time.

"This is a chicken leg, not a pig."

"But you are just a dirty little pig." Chen Lina teased, "Quickly pat yourself clean and come in to eat chicken legs, or if you are so dirty, I will drag a dirty little pig from the farm and feed you raw."

The chickens distributed by the base are fat and big, and can be eaten for a long time if stewed in a pot. But the children always like to eat them in different ways. They eat a big plate of chicken every day, and they cry when they see it.

Chen Lina was very creative. She first coated the chicken legs with egg liquid and then fried them slowly. After they were cooked, she coated them with breadcrumbs and fried them again. The two big fat chicken legs were eaten in one meal, and the two children's mouths were full of oil while eating.

Qian Gou'er who lives next door also eats chicken legs, but his mother only knows how to stew them. The stewed chicken legs are of course not coated with egg liquid and breadcrumbs and fried. They are delicious with crispy skin and tender meat.

So, Qian Goudan refused to eat after a few bites. He stared at the two Nie brothers and drooled. After drooling for a while, he cried out and went back to his mother, crying.

Brother Nie Weimin is so proud.

After feeding the children, I also have to wash all their clothes.

She first put on a layer of cotton gloves issued by the base, and then put on a layer of plastic gloves used by Nie Bozhao in the laboratory. Only then did Chen Lina dare to put her hands into the water. But even so, after washing a large basin of clothes, her hands were still frozen.

If this was his biological mother, Nie Weimin probably wouldn't have felt so guilty. But because she was a stepmother, he was worried that she would leave at any time if she became unhappy, so he was very diligent.

Sometimes she would check to see if the fire wall was still burning, and sometimes she would carry a bucket of coal. Even when she was playing outside, she would run back from time to time to see what she was doing.

Following me like a little tail and a lackey, this is love. Occasionally, I catch him outside, take a look at him, and he immediately runs away with a blushing face.

Chen Lina was straightforward and overjoyed. This must be the feeling of being needed and loved.

The freshly washed clothes hung on the wire began to emit white smoke for a while before they all froze solid, with streaks of icicles hanging on them.

Chen Lina entered the room and pressed her red hands on the kang. Ouch, they were frozen and the pain was like a drill.

"Comrade Xiao Nie, Comrade Xiao Nie."

"I'm here, Comrade Xiao Chen, what's the matter?" Sure enough, the young man didn't go far and came back as soon as he was called.

Chen Lina pretended to be worried and said, "I have something difficult to deal with. I need your advice."

"You tell me." The boy was quite worried. This was because he had heard his parents quarrel too much when he was a child. As children, when their parents quarrel, they always think it must be because of them.

Chen Lina said in a serious tone, "It's like this. The New Year is coming soon. We have a lot of meat, eggs and other things distributed by our base. We can't finish them all. Besides, your aunt Anna also has to go back to the farm. I want to go to the farm to see my sister. You don't object to this, right?"

In order to take care of her child's emotions, Chen Lina always wanted to go to the farm, but she refrained from going.

The boy had a big round head, two thin-skinned big eyes, and a rather nonchalant expression on his face. “If you want to go, go ahead. What’s the big deal?”

Chen Lina was so angry that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Good boy, otherwise I would have gone there a long time ago to take care of your feelings, okay?

"Can you take us with you? We also want to visit our relatives." Erdaner poked his head out of the door.

"What if you run into your grandmother?" Chen Lina asked with a smile.

Erdan raised his stick and "beat Old Yao."

"Don't dare say such things. She is your grandmother. The quarrel between her and me is a matter between adults. You are children. You should respect her and not call her Old Lady Yao.

Otherwise, people will say that I, Chen Lina, have no upbringing and have taught my children badly. When people hear that, they won’t say that it was you who said it, but that it was me who taught them. Do you understand? Besides, we are just going to visit relatives and we can just bypass your grandmother’s house. Weimin, please lead the way for us, okay?”

"Okay." Nie Weimin shouted loudly, very excited about visiting his relatives for the first time.