Chapter 57

A Year of Harvest

"Brother, will they let mom go?" Sandaner sat in Chen Lili's arms, crying.

The security team bought egg cakes for the worker's three sons. The egg cakes were steamed into a golden color and contained a lot of saccharin, so they smelled sweet. Such a big egg cake cost two yuan a pack.

The three kids had one from Gao Xiaobing when they followed their mother to visit District Chief Gao’s home. It was so delicious that Erdan couldn’t sleep well for several days.

But today's egg cake is also bitter and tastes tasteless.

Nie Weimin was a man who made a big deal out of a small matter. He clenched his fist and said, "If the security team really detained my mother, I will go to the People's Court to sue them."

"The People's Court now only tries bad elements. If you really take the case to court, I'm afraid your mother's file won't stand up to scrutiny." Chen Lili said gloomily.

Liu Xiaohong also knew that all this was because of her, so she stood in the corner with her head down, not saying a word.

Chen Lili had just adopted a little girl and didn't know how to get close to her, so she asked, "Xiaohong, your aunt is going to be detained, what are you going to do?"

Looking up, Liu Xiaohong bit her lip and smiled bitterly, "Mom, I want to study and go to college. When I graduate, I want to be a judge and judge all the bad guys."

To be honest, at the beginning, Chen Lili just felt sorry for the little girl and wanted to raise a child. Her sister had one, and she also had one. It was just a little bit of comparison and vanity.

But after hearing her ideal, regardless of whether it was true or not, I felt relieved instantly. "Don't worry, as long as your father and I are not starving to death, we will definitely support you to go to college."

This time, Sandan cried even harder.

However, soon, the case was put to public mediation in the office of Chief Feng of the Public Security Bureau. This mediation was requested by Chen Lina herself. She also specifically asked Chief Feng to bring his children, as she wanted the children to participate in the whole process.

"Okay, don't cry when you go in later." Nie Weimin instructed the younger ones.

Needless to say, the tragedy of Song's wife is that at the beginning, she still had a little resistance consciousness, but now she seems to have been brainwashed by Song Jian and came directly.

"Director Chen's fists were extremely powerful. She put a knife to my throat and punched me again and again until I couldn't breathe. And Wang Hongbing held down my husband and kept beating him. Comrades, at that time I just felt pain, my whole body was in pain, and I was almost dying of pain," said Song's wife.

Nie Weimin clenched his fists tightly and said, "We all know she was lying. The injuries on her body were pre-existing, and my mother only opened her clothes to save her."

Mrs. Song glanced at the child, stopped talking, and hid in the corner.

Song Jin looked very proud. "Little comrade, don't develop a bad habit of lying. You should know that my love for my wife is well-known in our entire No. 3 base. We walk hand in hand every day, and I send her flowers on every holiday."

Nie Weimin clenched his fists in anger.

"Everyone at Oil Well No. 3 knows about the love between Engineer Song and Cashier Xue." The brother of a member of the security team worked at Oil Well No. 3, so he added.

Well, Song Jian was complacent, glanced at Chen Lina coldly, and uttered a curse word silently. Of course, only Chen Lina could understand that kind of lip shape.

Life is not easy, why bother getting angry with a scumbag.

Chen Lina silently recited three hundred times the book "Don't Get Angry" that the aunts in the park recommended to her in her previous life.

"Excuse me, please, please, comrades, please let me pass." Well, Lao Nie took action, and the director of the health center came and was shaking the shoulders of the onlookers from a distance.

Moreover, he brought two female doctors with him.

"Comrade Xue Xiaoyue, you keep saying that someone beat someone up. You can't say that. Although most of the departments in our public security organs have been sent down to work, the doctors in our mining area health hospital can also do an injury assessment. It's not enough to just say that you were beaten up. Comrade Xue Xiaoyue, we need to do a systematic analysis of the injuries on your body, from soft tissue injuries to the degree of blood stasis and swelling." Nie Bozhao said as he stood in front of Song's wife.

"No, I don't want it. You can't treat me like this anymore." Xue Xiaoyue suddenly panicked.

Nie Weimin almost jumped up. At this moment, he felt that his father was extremely great.

During the half-hour identification, Song Jin was extremely uneasy and irritable while waiting, and he kept saying, "Even if there is an argument in life, it is normal for me to bump into or knock my family members. The security team will not deal with me because of this."

Chen Lina just sneered and didn't answer him.

"The wound on her body, the one closest to her now, was also inflicted last night. Moreover, Comrade Song Jian, Xue Xiaoyue just told the doctor that it was you who beat her."

Song's wife is just like a lump of rotten mud. She is the kind of person who will listen to whoever is stronger.

"Comrade Song Jian, please don't beat your family members in the future. It's not fair to beat them and then blame it on others. Okay, Director Chen is right, we will let them go." Section Chief Feng said.

A group of comrades from the volunteer team also chimed in, "Mr. Song, don't resort to violence again in the future. Your family is in trouble too. If this matter were handled by us, it would be over. If we report it to the police, you will be detained for three days."

Song Jian was angrily saying, "Okay, now I know what it means to cover the sky with one hand. He is a high-ranking official with great power and is appreciated by the leaders. We are nothing. Today, I admit defeat." He was ready to sign the mediation agreement and run away.

"Is that it?" Nie Weimin was angry. "He falsely accused my mother. You have to arrest him."

After the handcuffs were removed, Chen Lina came back to life.

"Engineer Song, wait a moment. Let me ask you, you are in charge of the eighth underground operations team of our Base No. 3, right?" Chen Lina said, blocking Song Jian's way.

"Director Chen, you poured a bowl of noodles on my head at noon, and tore my wife's clothes in the afternoon. Just for adopting a child, you let your brother-in-law beat me up. Now I admit my mistakes. I admit defeat. I believe that you are not only the bully of the farm, but also the bully of the mining area. What else do you want?"

"I just want justice and the truth of the facts." As she said this, Chen Lina slapped a piece of paper on Feng Ke's desk.

This is the letter of introduction and self-introduction that Song Jian submitted to the welfare home in order to adopt Liu Xiaohong.

"At the end of last year, there was a flooding during underground operations. Seven of your men died and five were rescued. You were also commended by the mining district for your meritorious service in saving lives. Am I right?" Chen Lina asked.

This person specifically wrote about his award-winning experience in his profile.

Song Jin straightened his back and said, "Really?"

"But, after this incident, those five people all left the oil field, right? Moreover, one month you transferred a sum of money to each of these people, totaling about 300 yuan per person. This can be checked at the post office. Can you tell me why?"

"Director Chen, you are a little too involved. These matters should be handled by the leaders of the mining area."

"The people in your team are all from your hometown. After the flood accident, you were the one who collected the compensation. The five people who left shared the compensation with you. Of course, you concealed the fact. There were already signs of flooding at that time, and you forced the workers to work in the well so that you could share the money. Am I right?"

"Your fellow villagers were all young men from the oil well team. In order to improve your performance, you forced them to work in the well and then killed them. In the end, you got the compensation.

Because the current compensation system is imperfect, and their families cannot travel so far to the border.

So you discussed with the five team members and divided the money, which is why they left the oil field. You should have been punished for forcing illegal and risky operations, but instead you were rewarded and took their compensation. I ask you, as a scum like you, do you ever feel guilty when you wake up in the middle of the night? "

Song Jian's face became paler and paler. He took a few steps back, and tables and chairs were thrown around. He picked up a table and threw it at Section Chief Feng who was standing at the door, causing a panic in the room.

Engineering student Nie Bozhao lived up to expectations. He suddenly jumped up and punched him.

People who are good at domestic violence are not necessarily good at fighting. It's a pity that Nie Weimin didn't see how his father beat people because Chen Lina covered his eyes in time.

The security team handcuffed him and said, "I'm sorry, Engineer Song. Regardless of whether what Director Chen said is true or not, we know about the flooding incident at Base No. 3. Now, we have to hand you over to the public security agency for investigation. Do you have any objections?"

With a clang, the handcuffs were put on.

"Mr. Nie, don't be impulsive. We have already handcuffed him. Don't be impulsive." Section Chief Feng hit him with a stool and had to run to calm down Nie Bozhao who suddenly became angry and couldn't control himself.

"I'm in big trouble today. Chen Lina, just wait for me, I will get out one day..." Before Song Gong could finish his talk, Nie Bozhao punched him again in front of everyone in the security team.

"Do you know Talimu Prison?" Nie Bozhao twisted Song Gong's neck, took a deep breath and whispered in his ear, "Boy, the warden is my college classmate. When you threaten my lover, it means that even if you are not shot immediately, you will never get out of there!"

After leaving the police station, the three Nie Weimin brothers walked with such light and powerful steps that it was as if they were walking on cotton.

"How do you know that there is a problem with the underground working team's flooding?" Nie Bozhao asked Chen Lina. "Can you tell me, Comrade Chen, what is it that you don't understand?"

"This is a secret that cannot be revealed."

A tabloid, a report with ups and downs. In the report about Liu Xiaohong in the last life, there were actually only a few sentences about Song Jin. In an era when information was not well developed and supervision was imperfect, this person had embezzled compensation for people who died in underground operations many times and was later imprisoned.

Well, Chen Lina can now guarantee that he will never sexually assault any innocent little girl again in his life.

"You have to listen to my aunt when you get there, okay?" Nie Weimin was a little worried and told Liu Xiaohong.

"I will."

It is true that she is much less of a worry than Chen Tiantian.

She can pick up coal briquettes, light fire and cook, and also clean. However, the chubby princess Chen Tiantian still needs her mother to wash her face in the morning, and her mother still helps her put on her shoes and socks when she stretches her calves.

"You should be going to primary school this year, right? Then Tiantian, you and I will go to primary school together."

"Okay." Liu Xiaohong said.

Just outside the farm's cave, Liu Xiaohong was holding an egg cake in her hand, which Nie Weimin had just given her. The car turned around on the side of the road and then drove out of the farm and went away.

Liu Xiaohong ran after the car, not knowing how long she had been running until the car turned around a poplar forest and she stopped.

During the hot summer, the small woods behind the yard were flooded by several heavy rains. Erdan caught little frogs in the woods every day, and the house was filled with little frogs jumping everywhere.

The shelves were full of grapes. At first, the kids smacked their lips because they thought they were sour. Only Erdan and Chen Tiantian, who ate everything with relish, could eat them. No matter how strict the supervision was, there would always be one bunch less of grapes when they came back at night.

"Manager Chen, look at our potatoes. They are bigger than a large bowl."

"Director Chen, have you ever seen an eggplant this thick? It's thicker than my wrist."

"Director Chen, the wheat ears are all bending, and the wind is blowing them. They are nodding to us and expressing their joy of a good harvest."

In the endless fields, there were indeed heavy ears of wheat, a golden wave of wheat. Chen Lina, wearing a straw hat, stood in the field, feeling the wind, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Ah, our beloved Director Chen, we want to sing a song to praise you." The educated youth held hands and gathered around her. The wind blew their blue homespun clothes, and their braids fluttered in the wind. The sky was so blue.

Praise it, praise it, Chen Lina thought to herself, what I love most is praise, the good harvest of both winter wheat and spring wheat.

"Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen, why did you lose sleep today?" Nie Bozhao was still holding Sandan'er's pants while twisting a toothbrush in his mouth. He shook Chen Lina and saw that her face was pale. He quickly spit out the toothpaste and said, "What's wrong with you?"

The beautiful dream was broken, and Chen Lina had a severe headache. "Your little princess is sick."

The man almost swallowed the toothbrush because of the bite.

He would go crazy whenever she called herself a little princess.

"It's okay, it's okay. I have to hurry up. There's a lot of rain in autumn and we need to prepare for floods. I have to take Sandan to the farm and urge everyone to harvest the autumn crops."

"Wei Min and Er Dan have already gone to school. Why doesn't Sandan follow me? I can see that you look unhappy." Nie Bozhao asked.

Chen Lina struggled to sit up, feeling dizzy and light-headed. "Oh no, I had my period the day before yesterday, and I got caught in the rain in the middle of the night while changing the canal. I must have caught a cold."

Chen Lina, who has always been healthy and full of energy, has been at the border for nearly a year. Not only has she not had a fever, she has not even had a cough.

"Then I'll cook today." said Nie Bozhao.

"Kiss me, I'll feel better." Chen Lina said.

"The child is here, Xiao Chen, please be careful about the impact." Nie Bozhao looked stern, serious and solemn.

But when Sandaner turned around, he still leaned over and gave her a deep kiss, then said in a hoarse voice, "Okay, go to sleep. I'll make you a bowl of soup."

This year, after the new wheat is harvested, fine white flour can be guaranteed for at least three bases. However, the farms in the mining area will also have to pay agricultural taxes, so the output of autumn wheat must be guaranteed.

Chen Lina had been hearing rumors from people in the mining area that a new manager would be transferred to the farm to serve as her assistant.

She has no shortage of management staff. Besides, after all, she has to keep one account for internal and external affairs. She is also afraid that a deputy director who is not responsible might reveal the treatment of the intellectuals on the farm.

However, being anxious at this moment is not the right thing to do. Her experience during the most difficult times in her previous life taught her that health is more important than anything else.

Nie Bozhao called the doctor from the clinic, who prescribed her some antipyretic pills. After taking them, Chen Lina drank a bowl of soup he had made that made her feel dizzy, and then she fell into another deep sleep.

In the evening, Nie Weimin and Erdan came back from school. One finished his homework quickly and well, while the other was howling like a ghost and couldn't write a single word for a long time.

Nie Bozhao believed that he skipped three grades in his first year of elementary school, and two grades again in his second year. He was studying junior high school physics when he was in elementary school. He believed that he had a relatively high IQ. But he didn't know how he gave birth to a child like Erdan, who got dizzy at the sight of words.

"If you don't write it, you won't have any food tonight."

"My dad's cooking isn't good anyway. I want my mom to cook for me."

Chen Lina, who was lying on the kang, had a headache to begin with, and when she heard the children crying, her head felt as big as two times bigger. She wished she could kick all four members of the Nie family away one by one.

What's the point of talking about bullshit love at this time? Men are not romantic, gentle, or able to say "I love you" anyway. It's better to just kick them into the Baiyang River and let the water wash them all away.

When she was sick in her previous life, she lived in the cadre ward and enjoyed the best medical services.

However, the nurses' care was always just a touch cold, without such warm hands and eyes that hoped her illness would get better.

"Mom, I'm hungry." said Erdan.

Nie Weimin stood at the back, hugged the two children, and said generously, "Sleep well, I will take good care of them."

"Okay, Mommy, eat them. Mommy can get up tomorrow, okay?" Chen Lina ate the grapes one by one. They were indeed sweet.

After she fell asleep, Nie Bozhao gave a soft sigh, sent all the children out, sat next to Chen Lina, frowned, and put a tube of lipstick into her sewing machine.

This lipstick came from the other side of the ocean along with the Time magazine that Nie Bozhao must read every month. It was Chanel, and he didn't know how much it cost.

Nie Bozhao only saw its advertisement in Time magazine, so he applied for it step by step and went through layers of approval. The reason for obtaining it was to conduct extensive research on the stability of cadmium in widespread industrial use.