Chapter 76

Big Competition

Base 1 Office Building.

Nie Bozhao had just returned from the oil well in a Jiefang truck. As soon as he got off the car, he met Chief Engineer Wang.

"The working group from Hongyan is actually a couple. The man, Nie Guozhu, is 25 years old this year and is the head of a regiment in a mechanized infantry division. The woman, Gong Hongxing, is 28 years old and unemployed, but according to the introduction letter, she is a very outstanding female revolutionary fighter. She will now be stationed directly in the mining area to supervise our work. Nie Gong, Nie Guozhu reported in advance and went to your home. Gong Hongxing is still in the mining area. Nie Guozhu asked to inspect your laboratory. What do you think? He is waiting in my office now."

It took the worker three minutes to digest the news.

Well, more than two months have passed since the Chinese New Year, and the working group sent by Hongyan finally arrived, but what he didn't expect was that the people would be Chen Lina's cousin Nie Guozhu and his wife.

An unemployed young woman, holding the Imperial Sword, is here to raid the mining area.

"Chief Engineer Wang, have him call the red phone to ask for instructions from the higher-ups, ask the leader. If the leader lets him in, I'll let him in."

Actually, Nie Guozhu was in the army at a young age and knew nothing, so it would be of no use even if he entered the laboratory.

However, Nie Bozhao was still very angry.

In the great tide, if you cannot benefit the world, you can also choose to keep yourself out of trouble. You are a good young man, but why are you making a fuss or starting a revolution? It is okay if you don't have knowledge and don't respect knowledge. Is that enough to despise you?

"Niegong, oh no, brother-in-law, I think you'd better let me into the laboratory, because if my lover comes, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult for you to explain."

Nie Guozhu was standing in front of the iron gate on the sixth floor. When he saw Nie Bozhao coming upstairs, he walked in with a military salute.

Well, he has a muscular body and is quite handsome and masculine. He is Comrade Xiao Chen’s ex-fiancé.

The moment Engineer Nie arrived, the H value of his gastric juice instantly dropped from 7 to 2. At this time, Chief Engineer Wang said, "Considering that he is a relative of yours, I will let him and his wife live in your house while they are working at the base. How about that?"

No, Nie Gong's gastric juice value dropped rapidly.

"Then you call the red phone now. Comrades from the Armed Forces, no one can be let in unless the red phone gives special approval." Nie Gong said as he opened the iron gate with a snap. When Nie Guozhu wanted to go in again, the iron gate closed with a clang.

In the evening, when Nie Gong came out of the laboratory, Nie Guozhu was standing next to the comrades from the Armed Forces Department in a proper military posture, still standing guard for him.

There was no choice but to go downstairs together.

Let’s talk about school.

The bell for the end of class hadn't rung yet, and Nie Wei Militia threw a paper ball in front of them and hit Liu Xiaohong.

"Xiaohong, Xiaohong." Liu Xiaohong and Chen Tiantian were sitting at the same table, listening attentively and ignoring him. But Chen Tiantian turned around and said, "Dadan, after school, let's go pick some vegetables to feed our little sister, okay?"

"Chen Tiantian, if you don't listen carefully, you will have to stand against the wall with Nie Weiguo," said the teacher.

Tiantian's grades are only slightly better than Erdan's. What's worse is that Erdan makes progress, at least his scores get better each time, but she doesn't. What's more, she doesn't care at all about studying.

Chen Tiantian stuck out her tongue. Nie Weimin was behind her. He kicked her chair and pulled her hair. Tiantian then put her chubby little hands behind her back and poked him with a pencil.

When the top student did this little trick, the teacher's eyes were covered with eye boogers, but she didn't notice it and continued teaching.

After class, Nie Weimin turned around and sat on the table of Tiantian and Liu Xiaohong. He twisted his butt and said, "Cousin, I invite you to my house today." The young boy smiled handsomely, mischievously and nonchalantly.

"No, my mother is pregnant with my little brother, and I have to go home and cook for her."

"Come on, I invite you to stay at my house today, I won't chase you away again."

"Goodbye, Weimin. I really won't be leaving. Also, thank you for teaching me English. Goodbye."

Liu Xiaohong, wearing a flowered skirt and with her braids swinging, said this as she ran out of the campus with her schoolbag on her back, jumped onto her father Wang Hongbing's bicycle, and rode away.

"Brother, why did you let Sister Xiaohong come to our house?" Erdan looked confused.

"I don't want that Nie Guozhu." Nie Weimin wanted to say, it turns out that he is my mother's fiancé, forget it, a brain like Erdan can't understand such things.

But mom came back especially early today and was waiting for them at the school gate.

As soon as the two naughty kids saw their mother, they rushed over.

"Let's go pick up your dad from get off work." Chen Lina said, and took the two children to the office building.

She was holding a fish in her hand, which must have been freshly caught from the Baiyang River, a big, fat and thick black carp. Nie Guozhu followed closely behind Nie Bozhao, and when he saw the fish, he jumped up and grabbed it, "Come on, Lina, I'll help you carry the fish."

"Dad!" Erdan and Sandan said at the same time, simply expressing their regret for not fighting for him.

Nie Bozhao is also helpless, well, he has to rub his hands and keep working hard.

When they got home and opened the door with the key, the three children who used to make a fuss as soon as they entered the house became very well behaved. Nie Weimin picked up the axe, Erdan held the firewood, and Sandan jumped up and down, "Dad, chop the firewood quickly for Mom to cook."

Well, Nie Gong picked up the axe and was about to chop the wood when Nie Guozhu took two steps forward, put a fork next to the tree stump, and with one chopped down on the fork, which was as thick as his wrist, he broke it into two pieces.

"This is good, it's easy to split and burn. Cousin, remember to split more." Chen Lina also said.

There is a guest at home, and he is my cousin whom I haven't seen for three years, so of course I have to eat something good.

When there is a shortage of food, a pot of sorghum flour cakes, hand-rolled flour, potatoes, onions and a pot of stewed herring is the best dish.

"Dad, you have to work hard." Nie Weimin said, "Hurry up and light a fire."

Well, Nie Gong was eager to try it, turned around to wash his hands, and prepared to go into the kitchen to light the fire.

"Lina, you're a girl, how can you kill a fish? Let it go, I'll do it." Nie Guozhu said as he grabbed the big bluefish and threw it directly to the ground. As the four Nie family members stared in amazement, he began to scrape the scales of the slippery fish, whose tail was still wagging.

"Dad, I don't think we can beat him." Erdan said, drooling.

When it was time to start a fire, Chen Lina used to have to dip the fork in gasoline before it could be lit, but Nie Guozhu just squatted under the stove and struck the wall with a match, and with a crackling sound, the fire started.

"Dad, how did he strike a match without the chemical reaction of sulfur and phosphorus?"

Nie Weimin's eyes almost popped out of his head because he saw with his own eyes a person who broke the rules of the discipline and the barriers of knowledge.

"First, there is a faint smell of phosphorus on the stove top. Second, he is fast enough. Okay, let him light the fire." The worker was completely defeated.

When it was time to eat, Erdan wanted to compete with Nie Guozhu to see who could eat the most. Needless to say, Nie Guozhu had been trained in the army for a long time and ate quickly and cleanly. Every fish bone he spat out was as clean as if it had been licked by a cat.

Even a cat would clap its paws on its forehead and feel inferior if it saw this.

Erdan then licked and licked until the bone was clean.

"By the way, Guozhu, let's talk about your lover. Is she the daughter of Chief Gong?" Nie Bozhao asked.

Nie Guozhu answered yes, kicked the stool and stood up, picked up the bowl and put away the chopsticks, it turned out that he was getting ready to wash the dishes.

The worker was defeated again.

His little princess sat there, looking very proud, as if she was a princess and was born to be courted by knights.

Fortunately, he still has three sons.

Nie Weimin said, "Uncle, please go sit down and I will wash the dishes."

Erdan also said, "Usually it's Dad who washes the dishes, but today, Dad's hand is injured, so we will do it." He is very good at helping his father restore his dignity.

Nie Guozhu then marched back to the living room.

"Lina, these three children are still very well behaved."

"Yes, although they are boys, they are the ones who usually peel onions and garlic, carry coal and chop wood. They are not as delicate as girls. Of course, they are more patient than girls." The only bad thing about them is that they have to climb high and low all the time, and they like to set off the loudest firecrackers.

Nie Weimin has now learned to make his own cannons. One day, he even made a mine to kill rats, but his father found out and gave him a good beating.

"That's good. You are a stepmother, not their biological mother. It's already very good that you have raised them to what they are now. After all, Aunt Huang in the village always said..." She always said that these three children were all stupid and had no future.

Well, he felt that the three children were quite well behaved and were very considerate of their cousin.

In this way, the sadness I felt when I saw my cousin carrying dry food and holding her child and running to catch the bus early in the morning would be a little less.

"Guozhu, let's talk about your lover. Is she the daughter of the brigade commander?" Nie Bozhao took the coffee from Chen Lina and handed it to Nie Guozhu first. "Come, have a cup."

"Yes."

Chen Lina and Nie Bozhao exchanged glances, and she said, "Our mining area is not under the jurisdiction of your military region. Who ordered her to work here?"

"Anyway, it's an order from our superiors. As for who it is, you, Secretary Ah, know that." Well, no need to guess. Nie Guozhu is nothing. It's Gong Hongxing who is the real difficult one.

Chen Lina had heard of Gong Hongxing in her previous life. Of course, that was something Nie Guozhu deliberately embellished after he failed to marry her, saying that she was very capable and beautiful. She was three years older than him and had a lot of money in her arms. He wanted to know what would have happened if he had followed her.

However, when the reform and opening up began in 1984, Chen Lina made special inquiries and found out that no one in the entire Hongyan City had ever heard of this person.

Well, what you can't get is the best. All her life, Chen Lina has been curious about what kind of person Gong Hongxing is.

Look, she actually came to find her.

"Cousin, I am very grateful that you came to the base ahead of time to give me the vaccination and tell me about your wife's condition. Can you tell me how she plans to carry out her work?" Chen Lina asked.

Nie Guozhu said, "She should be in the mining area now, and she wants to mobilize a group of people from the mining area to liquidate the intellectuals in the farm."

Chen Lina and Nie Bozhao smiled at each other and shook their heads.

To be honest, the people in the mining area now have feelings for Mulan Farm and its old professors. You, a team leader from Hongyan, even if you are carrying the Shangfang Sword, cannot interfere in the job transfers in the mining area. No matter what the salary is, who will listen to you?

Therefore, there is nothing to be afraid of Gong Hongxing.

"Okay, when she comes to our base that day, we will make good preparations and entertain her." Then Chen Lina said again.

"It will probably take a while, because she still has work to do in the mines, Lina. She's your cousin's wife, and she has a much more aggressive temper than you do. I'm not worried about her, I'm just worried that you can't stand her anger. She doesn't have any bad intentions, so you just have to be patient."

"Don't worry, she has a bad temper, I will take care of it." Chen Lina said.

Well, it's time to go to bed.

Nie Guozhu meant that he and Nie Bozhao would sleep on the big kang, and Chen Lina would sleep on the small kang with the children. In the past, Sandan and Erdan would be so happy to sleep with their mother.

But not today.

Sandan said, "No, my dad and mom sleep together every night. Uncle Nie, you smell so good. I'll hold you in my arms tonight."

Erdan also said, "Yeah, I think you smell good too, let's sleep together." But in fact, it smelled so bad that it made me want to vomit.

As it turned out, they were going to suffer. Even Erdan, whose feet were big, didn't stink because Chen Lina required him to wash them with soap every day. Nie Guozhu, who had big feet, wore rubber shoes all year round, so they still stunk even after washing.

Nie Weimin was the one who could not tolerate this the most.

Nie Guozhu also had a very bad habit. His snoring was so loud that Nie Weimin almost went crazy. In the end, he rolled two paper balls into his ears, then quietly took Nie Guozhu's clothes and wrapped his two stinky feet together. Only then was he able to close his eyes.

"Reporters from Beijing are coming tomorrow. What do you think of me wearing this liberation suit?" In the master bedroom, Chen Lina was preparing her clothes.

"Change to that khaki one. It makes your skin look whiter."

Under the gaze of Mr. Nie's deep eyes, even an old sow would think she is a great beauty, not to mention that Miss Chen is still a twenty-one-year-old flower.

"Okay, then I'll go with this khaki one. But now that the reporters are here, what should I talk about and where should I take pictures? To be honest, although I was a small boss in my previous life, I was in the clothing industry and had never been on the New Youth Daily.

Moreover, I always feel that I should convey something to the outside world, such as my experience in agricultural production.

For example, the popularization of soil film and greenhouses, but I don’t know how to coordinate it. Come on, you think of a way and give me an outline, then I will have a rough idea in my mind and know what to talk about, how about it?”

There's no way. She has a natural bad habit. Once she sees the camera, she likes to pose and completely forgets what she should say.

The reporters were busy interviewing her and didn't give her any extra time to think about what she should say.

"Comrade Xiao Chen, remember the song about the liberated peasants? Here's another one. Tomorrow I'll give you an outline to ensure that you can convey all the ideas you want to convey through the New Youth Daily without violating the rules or attracting attention from all parties."

The laborer lay on the kang, acting just like the landlord.

"You only get 100 yuan a month as salary, and you can only support the family for 20 days, and I will support you for the remaining 10 days. You are so capable, yet you dare to negotiate with me."

"To be honest, I was just wondering, did you and Nie Guozhu do the same thing in your previous life?"

The love rival is right next door, and the worker is burning with jealousy and his blood is boiling, but when he thinks about it, it seems like they have just had sex a few days ago.

He was torn between himself and himself. On the one hand, he felt that he shouldn't have sex so early, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but think about it.

This annoying little goblin, little princess, she was actually married to Nie Guozhu.

That's simply like a cow chewing a peony.

The usually mature and prudent worker couldn't help but feel jealous the more he thought about her seductive appearance on the kang.

Poor Nie Guozhu was snoring loudly in the small bedroom opposite, completely unaware that Nie Gong here was so eager to get up in the middle of the night to sharpen his knife and chop him into pieces.

"Can you be a little gentler?" After an unknown amount of time, my lover got angry and almost kicked Lao Nie down.

However, the worker who was preparing to avenge his former shame suddenly tightened his belt, tied up his lover's hands, and then jumped down.

Isn't it just tenderness, caressing, and kissing? Yes, he likes it very much, and of course, she must like it too.

Nie Gong was so angry that he forgot about Marx, Lenin, and the Marxism-Leninism that had armed his brain for a long time. He just did whatever he wanted and gave his lover the whole thing.

Well, she really liked it, as enthusiastic as the shepherdess in the song.

At 5:30 in the morning, Nie Gong and his wife were still sleeping in each other's arms, but Nie Guozhu had already gotten up.

Erdan was not willing to be left behind, so he accompanied Nie Guozhu to run a long circle. He was so tired that he was sweating and panting. However, Nie Guozhu did not change his expression or breath. He walked in, carried the wooden stick and started exercising.

Erdan couldn't afford to fall behind, so he picked up the thickest wooden stick and followed Nie Guozhu to start exercising.

Nie Guozhu looked at Erdan and then at himself, and felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

Why do the children in this family always look at themselves as if they were facing a powerful enemy?