Chapter 11 Chapter 11

Su Rui returned home late at night and couldn't sleep. She leaned on her arm, looked out the window, and thought about Guo Qingwang.

This guy is a cancer.

When will there be any news from Sister Zhao?

We can't let the people of Qingnan Village finish the job complacently and then deal with it later, otherwise the benefits will be lost.

When they were selling peaches, their eyes were red with jealousy. Su Rui looked in the mirror late at night and felt that she was going to become a monster.

As the night was still, Su Rui couldn't help but think of her brother's true identity - a labor camp prisoner.

These few days, she was able to please her elder brother, and she could even sit beside him and admire his big mouth while eating. Although no other feelings developed, she stopped here and broke off the relationship.

Su Rui thought about it and simply took out the letter paper.

She was unhappy, so naturally she had to make others unhappy too.

She blamed him for not telling her who he was at the beginning and for saying a lot of flattering things. Su Rui couldn't sleep any more and wanted to slap herself in the face.

Su Rui took out a half-burnt candle from the iron box. Su Chang'e often teased her for having the personality of a capitalist lady. Every household had a kerosene lamp, but she didn't like the smell of kerosene, which was pungent.

After lighting the candles, Su Rui thought for a moment and decided to write a neat and beautiful opening sentence according to the usual format.

But today, she couldn't make her elder brother 'feel happy when he saw her letter'. Not to mention him, she couldn't feel happy when she thought of her elder brother's beautiful face.

If a person looks ugly, how can he do ugly things?

Cheating, murder and arson are all things that people should not do.

Su Rui didn't dare to offend him, for she was really afraid that someone would come to her house. She simply thought of making the best use of it.

So he wrote: "The autumn moon brings back news, and my thoughts are mixed with regret."

According to Su Rui's inner voice, it is "I think about it and think about it, and I plan to spit black mud with you under the autumn moonlight."

Once she started to talk nonsense, she couldn't stop. Anyway, she didn't plan to be with the big brother. With the purpose of not mentioning the breakup and letting the other party break up, she wrote three pages of nonsense...both front and back.

Although the relationship is currently delicate and we haven't yet talked about actually dating each other, it can't be said that we have broken up in the true sense.

However, the purpose of exchanging letters is to get to know the other person, so it is better to let the other person give up first.

She first complained about the bad attitude of the salesperson at the People's Building, and then complained about the men in Qingnan Village trying to steal peaches from Xiaoba Village. In between, she interspersed a few sentences praising the beautiful peaches, and then introduced the fact that Guo Qingwang, the old donkey, was jealous of not getting any benefits, so he refused to let the idle women in Xiaoba Village do the work.

At the end, she also vaguely mentioned that there were troops doing construction here, and it was even on the news. She knew a lot of soldiers. It was not easy for anyone to attack Xiaoba Village.

Then, he used the skills he had gained from preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination to write down how hateful Guo Qingwang was.

Qiuyue climbed to the top of the jujube tree. She finally finished writing the curse words, flicked the paper and felt refreshed.

The next morning, Su Rui almost didn't get up to get the eggs.

Fortunately, everyone was used to her cleaning the chicken nest every day, so they didn't do it again. After successfully putting a fresh egg in her pocket, Su Rui didn't even have breakfast, and hurried to the supply and marketing cooperative to put the stamp on the letter and mail it out.

Su Chang'e saw her leaving through the crack in the door, and pulled Su Hongpei aside and said, "Am I seeing this correctly? She is still in contact with the prisoners? Is she willing to do so?"

Su Hongpei hadn't slept well recently. She tossed and turned at night and said haggardly, "Please think of a solution for her. I see she didn't sleep all night."

Su Chang'e was so happy that she couldn't wait to have a look of success in her eyes. She said insincerely, "How would I know? If I knew he was a labor reform prisoner, I would rather go on a blind date for Su Rui."

"Really? You have to know that bad people will get retribution." Su Hongpei turned her head and looked at Su Chang'e.

Su Chang'e felt that her eyes were frightening: "Big sister, I sincerely want her to get better."

Su Hongpei said calmly: "Why are you jealous of her?"

"Jealous of her? She doesn't even have a lot of flesh on her chest, why should you be jealous of her?" Su Chang'e said angrily, "Without our family taking them in, they would have starved to death. Big sister, we are sisters connected by bones, don't let her sell you out and then count money for her."

Su Hongpei sighed and said, "Over the years, our family has long since repaid all the kindness we have shown them. You'd better take care of yourself." After saying that, she went out.

Su Chang'e stared at Su Hongpei's back as she left, and spat on the ground. She went into the house, sat down, and combed her hair in front of the mirror, absent-mindedly, and finally threw the comb aside.

***

Three days later.

There was a meeting in the morning, and Sister Zhao stayed behind to talk to Su Rui.

She felt that although Su Rui was young, she had positive ideas and wanted to talk to her about Guo Qingwang.

The two of them spent half a day together, and the only solution was to wait.

Su Rui participated in the stick exercise with the militia team leaders, holding old sugar canes in her hands. Because she was holding her breath, Su Rui danced with great vigor and power, and everyone who saw her had to applaud.

After practicing stick exercises, Su Rui saw Wan Zi for the first time. Wan Zi's parents went to visit relatives and let her go out to run wild.

Su Rui didn't want to go back for lunch, so she went to the supply and marketing cooperative with her to buy a piece of brine-cured vegetable tofu and stewed it together in the cabin.

A large piece of tofu can be eaten as a meal or a vegetable. In the past, people couldn’t eat anything with a slight smell of meat, so they ate tofu as a vegetable.

Maru was skipping outside holding Tofu and was almost knocked down by a man.

Su Rui quickly pulled the meatball over. The little girl looked down at the tofu in her arms. Fortunately, it was not broken.

Su Rui saw that the people coming over were from Qingnan Village. They walked to the counter in groups of three or five, some buying cigarettes and some buying wine.

Yan'er saw it clearly and came out from the counter to whisper in Su Rui's ear: "These people made some money to buy steamed buns, and come here every day to buy fried peanuts to eat with their wine."

Su Rui asked, "Do you work in the army?"

Yan'er said: "It's not working in the army, it's just helping to build roads outside the army. If you don't know, you would think I'm a leader."

"Hey, isn't this Comrade Su Rui who was clamoring for equal pay for equal work?" One of the bald men said, "Equal pay for equal work? Dream on. You won't even have a job to do."

Another drunken man said with a frown, "What kind of work are you talking about? Widows can do business just by looking after the peach trees, hahaha."

Su Rui's face suddenly darkened, and she sneered, "If you laugh at someone being a widow today, your own wife will become a widow tomorrow."

The bald man immediately got angry and said, holding the bottle, "Who are you cursing? Don't think I'll let you go just because you're a lesbian. I've disliked you for a long time!"

Su Rui held the old sugar cane in front of her and said, "It's an insult to me if you like me."

The bald man was furious and took a step forward. The people around him tried to stop him but failed. They watched him fall and slide two meters away, his crotch torn and he stopped in the splits.

Under everyone's gaze, the wine bottle rolled away while the wine flowed...

"Oh my wine, oh my, it hurts so much! You little bastard plotted against me!"

Su Rui pulled Wan Zi to hide behind her: "She is still a child!"

Yan'er also said: "Yes, she is still a child!"

Maru sat on the ground and cried loudly: "You, you even bully children, you are so shameless! Waaaaa——"

"Pay me for my pants!"

There were many people buying things at noon. The bald man was helped up with his legs tucked together. He wanted to pick a fight with Wan Zi, but was blocked by Grandma A Xi who appeared tremblingly.

Grandma Ah Xi shivered as she walked away, pointing at the bald man's nose and saying, "Whatever I do with my granddaughter is my business. To make amends, let's go to your house to find my cousin, and I'll kneel down in front of her and apologize to you. Ahem... "

A Xi's grandmother's cousin is the bald man's grandmother.

Bald man: "......" He is a living ancestor, I can't afford to offend him. During the holidays, his grandmother has to pay New Year's greetings to others.

He was supported by someone and walked away cursing.

Granny Ah Xi looked at their backs and snorted. She was an old woman with no other abilities except three words - she was the most powerful one in the world.

Su Rui smiled, and Yan'er went to get a piece of tofu and stuffed it into Wanzi's arms: "Little ancestor, don't cry anymore. If you cry again, I will complain to your mother."

Wanzi weighed the tofu and wiped her tears. Her tears came and went quickly. When they left, her tears disappeared too: "Thank you, Sister Yan'er."

Su Rui patted her head and turned to ask Grandma Xi: "Why don't you go to eat?"

The lonely elderly people over the age of 60 in the village had a big pot of rice to eat, and together with the educated youth comrades, they also had an egg every day.

Grandma Axi curled her lips, took out a dollar from her pocket, tremblingly handed it to Yan'er and said, "Grandson, give me two taels of silver."

Su Rui snatched the money and stuffed it into Grandma Xi's purse. She and Wan Zi carried her on both sides and walked out: "Let's go, let's go home and eat tofu."

Ah Xi's grandmother smacked her lips: "My food has no taste lately and it's stuck in my throat."

Su Rui said expressionlessly: "I don't believe it."

Grandma Xi followed them and walked on her feet, saying, "Slow down, slow down."

At Grandma Xi's house, Su Rui rolled up her sleeves and made dipping sauce. Grandma Xi and Wanzi sat side by side on the doorstep, counting the sparrow nests on the eaves.

The vegetable tofu in the supply and marketing cooperative is made by an uncle whose mother's family lives in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. He is very good at making tofu with sour syrup. The tofu is white, tender and slightly sweet. It doesn't taste astringent or bitter when eaten with dipping sauce or tofu porridge.

Not long after, Silly Si'er smelled the smell and ran over, crying, "You didn't call me."

Su Rui pointed at the tofu and said, "It's not as good as the food in your house."

Silly Sier was well taken care of at home and grew up plump and strong. She took the initiative to carry out the table board and set it up, wiping the saliva from the corner of her mouth: "I want to eat."

Su Rui said with a smile: "You are indispensable."

Su Rui browned the edges of the tofu in a pan, sprinkled salt and pepper powder on it, and ate it with the vegetable tofu. Everyone enjoyed it, it was spicy and refreshing.

After dinner, Su Rui asked them to look after Grandma A Xi and not let her go to buy wine, and she went to the place where the army was building the road.

Even if she couldn't get any work, she had to hate them.

The road construction was quite a commotion, with light trucks used by the troops going back and forth on the road. I heard that they would first use gravel as a foundation for drainage, then lay a few layers and pour cement on top.

Cement road.

Su Rui knew that after the road was built, the army would not stop the people from using it, and in the end Xiaoba Village would be the one that benefited more.

She saw a temporary guardhouse next to the construction site, where an acquaintance was talking to a soldier with a smile on his face.

Guo Qingwang put himself in the position of a supervisor. He knew very well that his subordinates were sneaky and cunning, so he watched them here from morning to night every day.

Su Rui's appearance made his eyelids twitch.

Here it comes again. Here it comes again.

It was she who caused the last equal pay for equal work issue.

Seeing that Guo Qingwang was on guard, Su Rui didn't even put her hands behind her back. She hooked her thumbs on the faux leather belt and pulled it up.

Are you ready, dear?

Su Rui leaned forward and asked in surprise, "Master Guo, why are your face so purple? Did you not sleep well at night?" He has done too many bad things.

"Call the captain!" Guo Qingwang was ready to fight, and said with a fake smile: "Thank you for your good words. I slept well. What are you doing here? There is nothing to do with Xiaoba Village here. Go back quickly."

The other side launched a counterattack.

Su Rui smiled and said, "It's not my business to take care of Xiaoba Village. I just came to see the soldier."

Su Rui took a step back to advance.

Guo Qingwang rolled his eyes, looked at her frail body, and asked with narrowed eyes, "Soldier brother? Who is the soldier from your village?"

The other party began to test.

Su Rui nodded and said, "We are both soldiers, so maybe we know each other and can introduce some work to me. You also know that there is no work for four and a half months, so we can't just sit there and eat all the food."

Su Rui made a false move.

Upon hearing this, Guo Qingwang sneered and said, "Your calculations are wrong. How can I give you the work that others have assigned to Qingnan Village?"

Here it comes!

"Who has such great ability--" Su Rui was about to ask who was behind him. At worst, she could bring her left and right arms to find him, but she was interrupted!

The bald man who slipped and fell in the supply and marketing cooperative came over with a few friends carrying cement bags: "Hey, why are you here again?!"

"Are you ready?" Su Rui touched his pants/crotch, and the bald man subconsciously crossed his legs...

Su Rui sneered, so unconfident.

The bald man inexplicably felt that he was being mocked by her, so he covered his crotch and moved to the side.

Last time, the man next to her wanted to "help" Xiaoba Village pick peaches, but was stopped by Sister Zhao. He watched with red eyes as Su Rui delivered goods and counted money one after another.

He was feeling proud now, and boasted with his belly sticking out, "You in Xiaoba Village have the Peach Mountain, but our Captain Guo has the Gold Mountain. Are you jealous? Are you envious? There's no place for you."

Su Rui saw that he obviously had one less cement bag than the others and said with a smile, "Are you pregnant with your second child? If you are not so good at work, you might as well go home and take care of the pregnancy."

Man: "...Who are you kidding?"

Guo Qingwang waved his hands casually and asked them to continue working.

When he met a group of warriors passing by, he immediately nodded and bowed to greet them.

Su Rui frowned and pondered their words.

Guo Qingwang knew that she was not happy, so he spoke in an official tone, "Comrade Su Rui, the troops have given me a part of the road construction post, and I must give them an explanation. I can't just let anyone come and do it, right? Don't make it difficult for me, and hurry up to your Taoshan."

Su Rui was amused by his shamelessness. Even though she knew that he would suffer the consequences in the future, she still hated his smug face.

She asked, "Then you should inform the three villages of the army's job requirements and let the right people sign up themselves, right? Do you think it's right to keep the work secret?"

"I have told your Director Zhao the reason many times!" Guo Qingwang said, "I will tell you one last time. I am the captain of the team. I know better than anyone which family in the three villages has the right labor force to do the work. Even if I face the army chief to question me about this matter, I can still make sense. If you have the ability, go find the army, don't bother me."

He knew clearly that Su Rui had no military connections, yet he used such words to choke Su Rui. He wished that Su Rui would cry and scream at him right then and there.

Come on, little girl, cry!

Su Rui: “Hahahaha.”

"......" Guo Qingwang: "What are you laughing at?"

Su Rui: “Hahahaha.”

Guo Qingwang was furious: "What on earth are you laughing at?"

Su Rui put her hands on her hips and looked up to the sky: “Hahahahahaha!”

I know some people get dizzy from being angry, but I don’t know some people become crazy from being angry!

Guo Qingwang said angrily: "Can a small arm be stronger than a big leg? We can't let you, Xiaoba Village, take all the advantage."

"I am fighting for my legal rights!" Su Rui laughed and continued, "You are the captain of the third village, not just the head of Qingnan Village!"

Guo Qingwang was silent for a while, then he smiled and said: "If a man does not work for himself, the heaven and earth will punish him. Even if I die, I will be buried here and you women from Xiaoba Village will not be allowed to touch me!" In this world, how can a man be suppressed by a woman?

Just as Su Rui was about to refute him, a soldier came over from the other side of the stone road.

There was an entourage with him, and Su Rui felt that it should be a high-ranking military officer.

"Captain Guo Qingwang? Please come with me to the Military Affairs Office."

Guo Qingwang's face froze: "What's the matter?"

"Don't be nervous, answer the phone." The other party said politely, "It's from the township government office."

Township government office?

Guo Qingwang followed them all the way, looking back all the way.

Thinking of the smile just now.

Could it be that this girl really has some ideas?