Chapter 87

Squirrel Fish

"Is there pork elbow for lunch today?"

"It's definitely not possible at noon, let's eat..." Originally, Chen Lina thought that she was very tired at noon, so she just gave them some snacks. Unexpectedly, when she was cleaning the kitchen cabinet, she saw so many good things.

"Wei Min, where did this dried noodles come from? Mom didn't even see it yesterday."

Nie Weimin came home at noon. He was busy helping Chen Lina chop firewood and light a fire. He still had to read a book. "Nie Guozhu rolled and dried the noodles. He said you were too busy and didn't have time to roll the noodles, so he rolled them for you and told you to come back at noon. You just need to boil water to cook them."

Oh my, Nie Guozhu, who had been a rich man all his life, actually rolled noodles for her and left so much noodles.

Does it mean that when you are nice to a man, you can't rush into it, or you have to be cold to him?

Xiao Chen felt that she was a little too enthusiastic towards Ye Gong. Why not be a little cool with him? Maybe he would realize how unique she was?

"Nieh Weimin, Nieh Weimin, I have something to tell you in secret." In the whole family, the person Sandaner trusts the most is his eldest brother.

"Dandan, what are you taking so seriously?"

"That Aunt Gong is trying to incite me to rebel." Sandaner said.

"Well, Dandan, you actually know how to incite rebellion. What did she tell you?" Finally, something happened that could pull Nie Weimin out of the ocean of knowledge.

So, Sandaner told him how Gong Hongxing coaxed him and how his mother would be shot if he didn't cooperate.

If he cooperated, not only would his mother not be shot, but everyone would have soda to drink. He repeated all these words to Nie Weimin.

If there is anyone in the mining area who can really save his mother, Sandaner thinks it must be his brother.

"Dandan, you did a great job. Besides, I believe she will make the next move soon. Doesn't she want you to take Erdan with you? Don't worry, I'll cover for you. Just go and see her. Eat what she gives you. Drink what she gives you. Remember to take back what she gives you. That's all."

"Then, can brother protect mom?" asked Sandaner.

Nie Weimin licked his lips and said, "Of course."

She wanted to use the child as a breakthrough point to frame him. Nie Weimin thought that this woman should suffer a little.

"What are you two chattering about? Why haven't you gone to eat yet?" Erdan came in.

Nie Weimin pointed a stick at him and said, "Nie Weiguo, will you be a traitor? Will you be captured by the enemy's sugar-coated eggs? Are you a firm international communist?"

"Brother, who do you think I am? If I need to blow up a bunker, I will be Dong Cunrui. If the enemy's fire comes over me, I will be Qiu Shaoyun. I will not move even if I die. I am no worse than you."

"That's right. Now, there is a very serious task. On behalf of the organization, I want you and Nie Weijiang to do it together. If you fail, you will no longer be my brother."

Erdan was completely confused. "Brother, tell me, what is the mission? Even mom can't hear it."

"It's just to protect mom, you silly boy." Nie Weimin pulled his protruding ears.

Among the three brothers, his and Sandan's ears are not that susceptible to wind. As for why Erdan's ears are susceptible to wind, it was because the teacher pulled them.

So Nie Weimin repeated the task to Erdan again.

When Erdan heard this, his mouth started watering. "So, all I have to do is follow Sandan and drink soda and eat butter cookies, and my mission will be accomplished?"

"No, you can only eat, you can't talk." If he spoke, the food would leak out.

"I can't talk while I'm eating," said Erdan.

"Why don't you come out for dinner?" The door was pushed open by his mother, and Nie Weimin jumped up immediately. "Comrade Xiao Chen, I am teaching Erdan and Sandan to study and recite poems."

Well, they all seem to be very serious. But Chen Lina thinks they are definitely up to no good.

"Okay, come out and eat. Mom made tomato and egg noodles. One bowl for each person. Erdan, finish the noodle soup for us. Don't leave any leftovers. Eat quickly."

So, the two brothers carried the bowls, Erdan swept the pot, and the three brothers started eating.

"Minister Gao, you are here with the officers and soldiers again. Thank you so much for not being able to rest even on the weekend." Chen Lina was even happier when she saw Minister Gao.

"Didn't the New Youth Daily come to interview us? Last week we were at Lanshan, so this week it's our turn to shine. Tell me, what other tasks do you need our people's soldiers to help you with? This weekend, our armed forces will be under your command."

As he spoke, Minister Gao took off his military uniform, rolled up his sleeves, and displayed his bronze muscles to the male educated youth around him.

Wow, I immediately received a lot of admiring looks.

"Those who can drive will drive the tiller, and those who can't drive will take charge of the hoe. They will dig in the corners that the tiller cannot reach, and then sow the seeds after digging thoroughly. Some people have to carry the grinding fan, and some people have to step on the grinding fan, and finally grind all the seeds flat on the ground." Chen Lina made the arrangements.

"That's it. It's very simple. Staff Officer Yu, take your men and go find the captains of the various production teams to take on their tasks."

"I guarantee to complete the mission." Staff Officer Yu said, saluted, turned around and ran away.

"These jobs are not the biggest part, Minister Gao. Our biggest task right now is actually to reclaim wasteland. I want to talk to you about having the troops come to our farm every weekend to help us reclaim wasteland."

"There is not enough land to grow crops now, so why do we need to reclaim land?"

"Because as long as there are large harvesters and tillers, our members can do three to five times the work we do now, and they don't have to sweat so much. However, tilling the land is a very hard and tiring job, and my members are really not willing to do it."

"Director Chen, your farm is already big enough, and the leaders all appreciate you. Isn't that good?"

"But I haven't really made it possible for the entire mining area to eat fine white flour all year round and have fresh fruits and vegetables at any time. This is the military warrant I gave to Secretary A and District Chief Gao."

"Okay, today, I will lead a small group of people to reclaim wasteland. Will reporters come to take pictures of me?"

"Yes, I will notify the reporters now to take pictures of you."

Another advantage of having reporters on the farm permanently is that she doesn't have to go to great lengths to mobilize all the people from the mining area, from leaders to employees, to rush to the farm to help with production. For this reason, Chen Lina also feels that it is worthwhile to keep the two reporters.

As the saying goes, a quiet child is probably up to something.

Today, for the first time ever, Sandan did not go to the farm with his mother, saying that he wanted to stay at home and learn to read.

He is already five years old. Of course, he is not as good as Nie Weimin in terms of study, but who among ordinary children can compare with Nie Weimin? However, he is much smarter than Erdan. His handwriting is better than Erdan's, almost like printed characters.

First, she went to the state-owned hotel to pack pork elbow, squirrel fish and roast duck. Five large enamel pots were filled with them. Then she drove back to the base. Chen Lina thought the three children would be waiting for her at the door, but they were nowhere to be seen at the iron gate.

It was the first time that she didn’t have a child waiting for her, so her first reaction was of course anxiety.

"Mr. Nie, where are your sons? Why are you alone at home?" After returning home and not seeing her children, Chen Lina felt more and more that something was wrong.

"Wei Min said he went to Wang Fan's house to listen to the radio and ran away with the two kids. What's the matter? Didn't you say there would be something delicious to eat today? What is it?" Nie Gong buried his head in front of the desk, and no one knew what he was busy with.

Chen Lina turned around and took all the roast duck, pork elbow and squirrel fish out of the car.

Originally, the food was not supposed to be served with eggs, but she went to the kitchen and asked for the eggs that were supposed to be served with the roast duck. The eggs were already brined and had plenty of sauce, and they smelled delicious.

"Impossible. I told you there would be pork elbow for dinner tonight, but your son didn't even wait for me. Don't you think it's weird?" Chen Lina asked back.

"It's weird, but I heard that Wang Fan's family has a new tape today, so it's not wrong for the kids to want to listen to it."

"Old Nie, Old Nie, you still don't understand your sons." Chen Lina said, picked up her apron, and went to the kitchen.

"The food is already cooked, why are you still starting the fire?" The worker hadn't eaten pork elbow for a long time and was already impatiently preparing to call the children back.

"How can you eat like this, Lao Nie, Lao Nie? I heard yesterday that in order to catch up with the progress, you didn't even heat up your rice and ate it cold at noon. Aren't you afraid that you will upset your stomach?"

"You can just make up for my meal at night, and the lunch will be just a little dessert during the battle." said the worker.

"But do you know that if you continue like this, one day your stomach will stop working completely?"

"Okay, stop it. Don't tell me what disease you died of in the future. I don't need to know this. So, how are you going to cook the dishes that were prepared in the restaurant?"

To cook good dishes, of course, you need more oil. Chen Lina ruthlessly poured all the half bucket of oil distributed by the mining area back into the pot, first into the pork elbow, then into the roast duck. After that, she hung the roast duck in front of the stove to continue smoking, and then fried the squirrel fish.

If you want the dish to taste good, you have to heat it up three times. When you heat up another dish, this lively squirrel mandarin fish is so crispy and crunchy.

"Okay, I'll heat up the spring cakes for the roast duck, and you hurry up and go find your sons."

"Mom, we're back." The first person to come in was Nie Weimin. The little guy was wearing a small jacket made from his father's corduroy jacket. Wow, it was so handsome and neat.

The next person to come in was Erdan. He was wearing the same corduroy jacket, but his was two fingers wider than Nie Weimin's, which meant he used at least one foot more of cloth. But look at it, it was so bulging and round.

"Ah, mom, big pork elbow." Erdan said, and then he threw himself on the dining table, drooling.

Then he took a nap.

"Sandan, hold the bowls and chopsticks for us. But, Dandan, why are you always crying?"

"Mom, I didn't burp." Although he said it seriously, he still burped.

Hmm, Chen Lina leaned over and smelled it. It smelled like soda and also had the aroma of cream biscuits.

"Eat it, Erdan, this is your favorite pork elbow, eat it quickly." Nie Weimin took a spring cake and rolled two pieces of roast duck in it. He took a bite and found it fat and crispy. The child had never eaten such delicious food before. He hummed, "Mom, why is there such a thing in the world?"

"What's wrong?"

"It smells so good." Nie Weimin said sincerely.

"Brother, please leave a bite for me." Erdan said, and put his nose close to it. But the child let out a cry, and it was obvious that he had eaten too much and was about to vomit.

Chen Lina stared at Nie Weimin without saying a word. After waiting for a long time, the young man still didn't speak to her. She stood up and swaggered into the study.

The laborer was still working hard in the study, and he said, "Dad, Dad, come out for dinner."

"Ni Weiguo, tell me, where have you been? Why did you eat so much?"

Erdan's stomach was heaving and he couldn't even sit up straight, as if his stomach was a burden that he couldn't push away. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, no matter what the problem is, we've already dealt with it. Mom, I really can't eat today. Let's save this rice for tomorrow."

"Dad, Dad, hmm..." In the study, Nie Weimin solemnly handed over to Nie Gong the things that Gong Hongxing had just solemnly handed to the two children after they had coaxed a big meal.

The cowhide key bag. Nie Gong said nothing. He looked up at his son, then took off the key bag hanging on his pants and compared it. They were almost identical.

Nie Weimin said nothing, but looked at his father triumphantly, as if he had returned victoriously and had accomplished everything.

Of course, the two kids ate and drank for free. In this era when people could only drink soda during the Chinese New Year or at company social gatherings, the two kids were addicted to soda. He also got information about Gong Hongxing. Such an awesome guy is hard to find in the world.

"What on earth is this? Your three sons are so secretive. You are also so secretive. Nie Bozhao, I specially got the dishes from the state-owned hotel today. Why don't you all want to eat it?"

In the study, Nie Gong put a tape into the cassette player and started singing the songs one by one, from "Returning from Target Practice" to "The Grapes in Turpan Are Ripe".

He closed the door and came out. Seeing his two sons looking at the table full of delicious food with a bit of hesitation and sadness after eating, he said, "They must have been taken away by Gong Hongxing and fed with sugar-coated bullets, and brought a bug into our house. But what I didn't expect was that Gong Hongxing could get a key bag that is exactly the same as mine. Didn't you buy this key bag? Even the condition of it is almost the same."

"That aunt Gong said that all I have to do is change the key bag."

"Do you understand? If my two sons are really stupid and change the key bag secretly as Gong Hongxing said, then I will bring a wiretap into the laboratory, so that she can monitor our conversation in the laboratory from all angles."

"Will she hear us if we say this?"

"No, I'm playing some music for her so she can cleanse her mind first," said Nie Gong.

Nie Weimin felt that he had to say, "Dad, you have to thank Xiaodandan for telling me about this. He was not tempted by the enemy's sugar-coated bullets and took the initiative to tell me the story."

Sandan and Erdan were so exhausted that they didn't know their last names. Erdan, in particular, said, "Mom, no, I have to go to bed. I'm really tired of sitting."

"Okay, okay, go to bed quickly."

"What kind of spy is Gong Hongxing? Comrade Lao Nie, I have never worked in intelligence, but I feel that she is really unfathomable."

"I think you will understand what I am saying. She has the internal number of "Cixi". What does this prove?"

"It proves that it was Cixi who wanted to eavesdrop on your laboratory."

Nie Gong doesn't have many relatives around him. Although he has brothers and parents in the old Nie family, Chen Lina has been in the border for three years.

Because of Nie Gong's own suppression, even though Nie Laoer's family repeatedly wanted to come, he directly exerted pressure from Hongyan Province and refused to allow the township to issue them a letter of introduction, so they could not come.

As for his adoptive parents, he has almost no relatives since both of them have passed away.

You don't have to say it, maybe the revolutionary Gong Hongxing was taken seriously because Nie Guozhu was Chen Lina's cousin and she was married to Nie Guozhu.

It took such a big turn, and it turned out that it was just a laborious task.

"This proves that the struggle at the top is getting more intense. And just this afternoon, I intercepted a Morse code. This Morse code contains the coordinates of my laboratory and refinery, as well as our Baiyang River Bridge. The sending location is at our base, and the Morse code used is still a secret.

I checked the location after get off work, and it was where Gong Hongxing took a lunch break, so the radio was sent by her. She sent it to the upper management, but the upper management probably wanted to use foreign forces to destroy my laboratory. "

"Ah, Old Nie, what this means is that when others want to frame you, you turn around and catch them. Wow, tsk tsk tsk, so smart." Chen Lina jumped up, hugged Old Nie and kissed him twice.

Nie Gong looked at the calendar and felt very excited and complicated.

By the way, today is the monthly couple’s day.

I hope no one disturbs him.