Chapter 21 Chapter 21

Guo Jiarong returned to Qingnan Village from the construction site.

The more he thought about the woman he had been dreaming about, casually lying on another man's back, the angrier he became.

He originally disdained to use some tricks, but now thinking about it, it is better to use them earlier to avoid her flirting with other men. If she really becomes someone else's, it will be difficult for him to deal with it.

He stayed at home, thinking all day long. After much thought, he decided to start with Su Chang'e. Su Chang'e was Su Rui's step-sister, and she also disliked Su Rui. If the two of them worked together, they should be able to deal with Su Rui.

Guo Jiarong did what he said and asked someone to find Su Chang'e to come over. The two of them whispered to each other for two hours, and finally they came up with the idea of ​​forcing Su Rui once.

Before she left, Su Chang'e said, "If she is not doing well, I can help her. But if she is doing better than me, then I can't help her."

Guo Jiarong said: "You are just jealous and want to show your unprecedented superiority. When she marries me, you will definitely be even more jealous."

Su Chang'e heard some of the rumors about the Guo family. She changed her usual fawning attitude and said with a smile, "Haha, then I'll just wait for jealousy."

Guo Jiarong got Chisha's contact information and quickly wrote an anonymous letter.

If Su Chang'e hadn't told him that Su Rui's target was a labor reform prisoner, he would still be hesitant about whether to offend him. Without any worries, he asked someone to send an anonymous letter to Chisha's home.

He is the only one who can help Su Rui deal with Chisha. When the time comes, he will bring people over, and Su Rui will have no choice but to choose him between him and Chisha.

Guo Jiarong had thousands of thoughts in his mind about what to do with Su Rui once she was in his hands. The thought of her beautiful face full of tears was a thrilling excitement that made Guo Jiarong want her even more.

He stayed at home doing nothing for several days, daydreaming all day long, waiting for news of the Idiot Family's departure.

I never expected that while I was scheming against others, I was also being controlled by them.

Guo Qingwang heard some rumors and wanted to go to the county to look for someone. This morning, he was about to leave with his milk powder and biscuits when he suddenly heard a young woman swearing outside the yard.

Guo Jiarong jumped up from the bed, rushed to the window and saw the woman coming. This person was none other than the one his parents had arranged for him to marry when he was young. Logically, he should call her sister.

The girl had no blood relationship with him, but was adopted by his in-laws. She had been unruly and willful since she was a child, and had the bad temper that came from being raised like that.

Not only did she come alone, she also brought her parents and brothers. She stood at the gate of the yard and scolded Guo Jiarong for being an ungrateful man. He never came to see her again after kissing her last time, leaving her alone in the empty room.

Guo Jiarong was so angry that he ran out of the house and asked, "Who kissed you?"

Lina said, "It's you. You drank too much and don't remember, but I do! You even slept next to me that night! I'm not nauseous yet, I'll come back to you when I'm nauseous. I'm shameless and you shouldn't be either."

Guo Jiarong noticed that many people had gathered around to watch the fun. There were many bachelors in Qingnan Village, and it was rare to see a young woman come over, and they all stared at her.

Lina made a scene in front of his house, and although her parents felt embarrassed, they could do nothing about it. If their daughter got pregnant, wouldn't her life be ruined?

Later, when Guo Qingwang came out, the two families met and either Guo Jiarong married her, or she called the police to arrest him!

Guo Jiarong wanted to refuse again, but Guo Qingwang slapped him first, dragged him into the house and asked, "Have you ever slept with her?"

Guo Jiarong hesitated.

Guo Qingwang was furious and slapped him again: "Tell the truth!"

Guo Jiarong stammered for a long while, "Then, I drank too much that day, who knew it was her?"

Guo Qingwang was already extremely worried, and regardless of Guo Jiarong's refusal, he simply settled the marriage and forced Guo Jiarong to get a marriage certificate.

Lina proudly leaned against the door frame, looking at the dumbfounded Guo Jiarong, and said with a snort: "If it weren't for my uncle, would your father have been the captain for so long? I advise you to be content. After you marry me, my uncle will arrange a good job for you, and you will be set for life."

Guo Jiarong couldn't stand her condescending attitude and said with a gloomy face: "There are so many people outside, and you just said you slept with me. Do you still have any shame?"

Lina said shamelessly: "I didn't lie. It doesn't matter if I can get you shameless. If you don't marry me this time, I will come to make trouble for you later. Even if you have a wife and children, I will not let you live in peace!"

Guo Jiarong couldn't stand her harassment, and Guo Qingwang really needed the help of Lina's uncle, so after getting the marriage certificate, the two families set a wedding date, and prepared the banquet and gifts in just a few days.

***

Xiaoba Village.

"I told you that you are not destined to enjoy a good life!"

Su Yuqin knew that Guo Jiarong was going to hold a wedding banquet soon, and said angrily: "I told you to catch him, but you didn't. You will be poor for the rest of your life."

Su Rui was sitting cross-legged on the kang, twisting wire to make a rolling curtain. Newspaper strips were wrapped around the wire, hooked one at a time, and hung there like a beaded curtain.

In the summer, she was busy and had no time to do anything, so mosquitoes always came into the house. In order to catch up with the leisure time, she simply rolled up the newspaper door curtain in advance and hung it up directly when it got warmer.

Seeing that she was indifferent, Su Yuqin got angry. She stood at the door and cursed a few more times, then left chattering.

Although Guo Jiarong did not invite her to his wedding, she also thought about going over to curry favor with him. After all, he was the captain's son, and she didn't want to offend him because of Su Rui.

It would be fine if he only hated Su Rui, but if he hated their entire family, then he would be doomed.

After Su Rui left, her face suddenly turned gossipy.

"Why does he want to get married suddenly?"

Su Hong was wearing a pair of top-stitched cotton insoles, poking the thick soles vigorously and saying, "I heard that he had an affair with that girl, and the girl came to his house and made a scene. His father wanted to save face and had to ask for help, so he just moved up the marriage."

"Wow, he is such a piece of shit." He is pursuing me while he is hanging out with other girls.

She remembered that there was also a story about Guo Jiarong in the book, and she knew that Miss Lina was also a playboy, and later Guo Jiarong cheated on her many times. Now thinking about it, he deserved it.

One week later.

On the day of Guo Jiarong's wedding, Su Yuqin brought Su Chang'e to the banquet.

Su Rui works diligently as a village official and visits lonely elderly people in the village.

With the cold winter approaching, we have to repair the roofs, provide heating, and prepare enough food. We cannot let any elderly people in Xiaoba Village starve to death or freeze to death.

Su Rui took the notebook and wrote on it with a new pen. Fang Chiye was very capable. He said he would give her two bottles of ink when he returned that day, but the little warrior not only gave her ink, but also two notebooks.

The white cover had the words "Advanced" and "Struggle" written on it, which made Su Rui like it very much.

Knowing that Guo Jiarong was holding a wedding in the next village, many people from Qingnan Village who were working on the road construction took leave to attend. Sister Zhao also wanted to go because of work.

Su Rui was about to report her inspection work to Sister Zhao, thinking that she would definitely come back after lunch, but when it was around eleven o'clock, Sister Zhao and a few others had serious expressions.

"Comrade Su Rui, you are so lucky." Huang Bei was a cadre of educated youth who had settled down in the countryside. She had a fat face and a mole on her nose. She was always on good terms with this and that, all of whom were gossipy women.

"What do you mean?" Su Rui stood up and greeted Sister Zhao. She was surprised that Su Yuqin had just scolded her for having a bad luck, but Huang Bei said she had a good luck.

Huang Bei's face was full of excitement. Seeing Su Rui's interest, she immediately pulled her to sit at the other end of the desk and said, "Guo Qingwang has been arrested! Guo Jiarong's wedding fireworks were still being set off when police officers showed up and handcuffed him in front of all of us."

Su Rui was shocked: "Why did you catch me?" She looked at Sister Zhao, who nodded and smiled.

Su Rui understood that it must be that what Sister Zhao reported had come true. It was such a coincidence!

Huang Bei was talking about the scene at that time with great interest, and also said that something happened in the family of Guo Jiarong's new daughter-in-law. She said that the uncle in the family was corrupt and had been controlled long ago. He was a collective pest just like Guo Qingwang.

Su Rui asked: "What about Guo Jiarong?"

Huang Bei said sadly: "What can we do? If it was his fault, he would have been arrested with his father. His father probably took bribes and didn't tell him, so he was kept in the dark. But you are lucky. What if you were with him——"

Su Rui lowered her voice and said, "Don't always talk about me and him together. I have nothing to do with him. You are also a responsible person and a steady elder sister. Why do you always bring up my head?"

Huang Bei was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I was just joking, don't take it to heart. I'm happy to see that you're doing well. There's absolutely no other reason."

Suri said, "There is no best."

Sister Zhao said on the other side: "I have good news."

Su Rui likes talking to Sister Zhao and dislikes Huang Bei. She stands up and walks to Sister Zhao and asks, "What good news?"

Huang Bei wanted to speak up, but swallowed it after thinking about it. She knew what the news was, and seeing that Su Rui didn't gossip with her, she stood up and said she had something to do and left.

Su Rui turned around and watched her leave, and whispered to Sister Zhao, "Can such a talkative person be a good person?"

Sister Zhao was also quite helpless: "She has a junior high school education and is an advanced role model of the Youth League Office representative who has taken root in the countryside. The organization directly arranges work for her to encourage other Youth League members to take root there."

When Huang Bei first came here two years ago, he simply treated the village as his base, gossiping with the old lady all day long, talking about all sorts of things.

Later, Sister Zhao repeatedly warned her against spreading her work and damaging the image of grassroots cadres, so she was now in charge of the spiritual civilization propaganda work, writing big-character posters, reading radio programs, etc. She was not allowed to do other household work, so as to avoid telling people's privacy.

Su Rui thought about keeping her away from her in the future, to avoid telling her something and then having it spread out.

Something happened to the Guo family, and this incident alone would allow Huang Bei to publicize it for several days.

Sister Zhao asked Su Rui to sit down and handed her a document with a smile.

Su Rui couldn't help but feel nervous when she saw the official document. After opening it, she read it carefully and said in surprise, "This is to rebuild the grassroots organization of Xiaoba Village. In the future, Xiaoba Village, Qingnan Village, and Yiwang Village will no longer be managed by the brigade headquarters?"

Sister Zhao said: "In the future, our Xiaoba Village will have its own village committee, and comrades from our own village will serve as village committee secretaries, directly connecting with the township, and no longer under the management of people from other villages."

This news really made Su Rui happy. The merger of three villages is prone to bias, and everyone cares about their own village.

Guo Qingwang always says "If a man does not work for himself, heaven and earth will punish him". Now, Guo Qingwang can forget about making decisions for Xiaoba Village.

"Who is the candidate for the village secretary?" Su Rui looked at Sister Zhao with a smile: "Secretary Zhao?"

Sister Zhao nodded: "The appointment by the township head himself needs to be publicized for 30 days. She said that I have done a good job in recent years and I don't put my personal emotions into work. She has seen it all."

Su Rui was really happy for Sister Zhao. If it weren't for the fact that there were more people from Qingnan Village and it accounted for the majority of votes when the three villages merged, who knows whether Guo Qingwang or Sister Zhao would have been the team leader.

Compared to the bad things happening in the Guo family, Su Rui prefers to hear such good things.

After leaving the office, Su Rui heard a lot of gossip on her way home. They were all talking about Guo Qingwang.

This really made her realize that good news never travels far, but bad news travels far and wide. Everyone in the village knew about it so quickly, and each one of them seemed to have seen it with their own eyes.

The reorganization of the village committee was a big deal, but Su Rui kept it to herself.

When I got home, I saw a lot of gifts in the yard and my eyelids couldn't help but twitch again.

When Su Rui heard the voice of the fool shouting in the yard, she felt like the sky was falling. Was he going to fight with her?

The first person that came to her mind was not someone else, but the phone number Fang Chiye gave her.

"Su Rui! Su Rui!" Chi Sha saw Su Rui coming back, rushed to the door from the yard, jumped up and shouted: "Come back, come back!"

Only a fool would go back.

Su Rui was going back to the office to call the army. It would be even better if Sister Zhao was there, as she could help her hold out for a while.

"Su Rui! Su Rui!" The fool was still jumping and shouting behind, attracting the neighbors to come out and look.

Su Rui was about to run away when suddenly a clear voice said, "Little Cadre Su."

Su Rui's computer shut down immediately. She stood there and turned around. A tall figure appeared in the yard - Fang Chiye.

Why is he here?

Chisha Hunyuan was tall, but standing next to Fang Chiye, he looked like a chick seeing an eagle. He bent his waist and shrank his neck, not daring to look him in the eye.

Following Fang Chiye out were the foolish parents, the matchmaker, Su Li and others. Only Su Chang'e was not there. It was not known whether she was afraid that the fool who proposed marriage again would fall in love with her.

Su Rui looked at him quietly.

Fang Chiye nodded slightly.

Su Rui's heart calmed down immediately.

Without Chisha's urging, she walked into the yard by herself. Before Chisha could approach her, his parents, brothers, and the matchmaker came forward to stop her.

Su Rui saw fruits, vegetables, sausages, and dried goods placed on the ground, and asked knowingly, "What are these for?"

The foolish parents looked at each other, and one of the older brothers stammered, "We, we were visiting relatives and happened to come to your house, and my brother wanted to see you so he stopped by. He wants to take it away."

Su Rui looked at Fang Chiye again, and Fang Chiye smiled.

Su Rui knew that Fang Chiye must have beaten them when she was away. Otherwise, with those vicious brothers, she and her father would not be able to deal with them today.

Chisha's family was also wronged. Chisha had been making a fuss every day since he came home in the past two months. Not only did he not eat, he even jumped into the river and insisted on marrying Su Rui. In order to stop him, he even chopped and injured two people.

The other day, they heard that Su Rui's target was not a military officer but a labor camp prisoner, and their family had the idea again. If she hadn't been a small cadre now, it would have been difficult to take action, and they could only bring gifts to her house to put some pressure on her.

They never expected that as soon as they entered the Su family's door, the military chief would come to visit. They didn't dare to say a word and could only curse the person who gave the false information in their hearts, wishing them all to be Japanese soldiers in their next life.

"Now that you're back, there's no need to pass it on to anyone else." Fang Chiye took out two envelopes and handed them to Su Rui in front of everyone: "Comrade Ye asked me to pass this on."

"Do you know Ye Chifang?" Su Rui froze in place and stretched out her hand stiffly to take the envelope.

Fang Chiye saw that she looked unhappy, so he considerately tried to smooth it over: "Not familiar either."

Su Rui said carefully, "Is he fine in there?"

Fang Chiye thought she was talking about the troops and nodded, saying, "Excellent performance."

The corners of Su Rui's lips twitched. Well, maybe this time he would be released early.

Su Rui opened the letter. There wasn't much in it, just some thoughts and experiences from her recent reading of "How the Steel Was Tempered".

The other envelope contained more things, including two soybean oil coupons, five one-jin commodity grain coupons, half a jin sesame oil coupons, and two national general cotton cloth coupons.

When the foolish man's family saw that Su Rui and her boyfriend were in a good relationship, they were sure that the man was a military officer. They hurriedly said that they had to visit relatives and pushed the foolish man away.

Things on the ground in the yard were taken away again, Su Yuqin was heartbroken. Turning around and seeing the coupons in Su Rui's hand, her eyes could not wait. The most abundant thing in the countryside is fruits and vegetables, but the coupons are precious, and it is rare to get two.

"People treat you like this, are you going to kick them at any time?" Fang Chiye lowered his voice and spoke in a voice that only Su Rui could hear.

Su Rui said with shaking hands: "Where did he get these?"

Fang Chiye said: "It was sent."

Su Rui was surprised: "The benefits are so good?"

Fang Chiye said: "Of course, the conditions are first-class in the country."

Su Rui closed her eyes and said, damn.

Fang Chiye asked carefully: "Why are you unhappy?"

Su Rui forced a smile and said, "He..."

Fang Chiye said: "He is very good."

Su Rui didn't know why, but when she heard Fang Chiye talking about Ye Chifang, she felt sad and upset. There was nothing between her and Fang Chiye, and he was just helping her.

"Thank you." Su Rui thought about it and didn't know what to say.

Fang Chiye noticed her expression and felt a little confused.

Su Yuqin came over with a smile on her face. Before she could say anything, Su Rui quickly stuffed the merchandise ticket into her pocket and tilted her head to look at her.

Su Yuqin: “…” This one eats alone.

Fang Chiye suppressed his smile, turned to Su Yuqin and said, "What I just said--"

Su Yuqin said hypocritically: "Arranged marriage is a feudal remnant. Seeing that she and Comrade Ye have such a good relationship, I feel relieved. I will definitely support free love. If anyone comes to propose marriage again, I will beat them all away."

Fang Chiye looked at Su Li again, his eyes passing over the sickle on his lower back: "Uncle, you have to believe that the Party and the army will not tolerate any coercive behavior. Excessive harm will result in criminal consequences, and then the people you protect will feel sad because of you."

Su Li said honestly: "Thank you, Commander Fang. I will seek support from the Party and the army when I know what to do next."

"She has my phone number and can call me anytime."

Fang Chiye ignored the shock of the Su family, raised his hand to check the time, he had other things to do when he came here temporarily.

Su Rui saw him out, and before leaving, she saw him nod to Su Hongpei.

Su Rui walked with him along the stone path, and when they were far away from home, she asked him, "Do you know my eldest sister?"

Fang Chiye did not keep the secret and said, "When Comrade Su Hongpei saw the Chisha family enter the village, she first found Sister Zhao and asked for the security office's phone number and called her."

Su Rui didn't know that her photo had become famous in the army. When the soldier on duty learned that something happened in her family, he immediately passed the news to Fang Chiye.

Su Hongpei unexpectedly found the right person.

As soon as they left, Su Chang'e appeared out of nowhere. She found out that Captain Fang had not gone far and chased after him.

Su Rui stood beside Fang Chiye, and when she saw Su Chang'e walking towards her with red lips painted on, she wanted to strangle her to death.

Su Chang'e didn't notice that Su Yuqin looked unhappy. She chased after Fang Chiye and greeted him first, then asked him: "Captain Fang, I want to ask you about someone."

Fang Chiye glanced at her indifferently: "You say."

Su Chang'e was naturally asking her partner, Zhan Huan.

"Zhan Huan?" Fang Chiye hesitated and asked her, "Are you sure you are a military officer?" This surname is rare in the north. On the contrary, there is a prisoner with the surname Zhan who was to be escorted here recently.

Su Chang'e said: "Yes, the deputy company commander."

Seeing her so sure, Fang Chiye replied, "No, there is no comrade named Zhan in my army."

Su Chang'e was anxious, stamping her feet and saying, "It must be in your army, think about it carefully!"

Fang Chiye felt unhappy, because he knew exactly which officers were under his command, and how could he have forgotten their positions on the battlefield?

Su Rui held Su Chang'e and said, "If it's not, then it's not. Ask your target again. Some troops are labeled with numbers. Maybe I remembered it wrong."

Fang Chiye said in a deep voice: "If you can't even remember your unit number, you'd better not be a soldier."

Su Rui winked at him and told him to leave quickly to avoid being entangled by Su Chang'e again.

Seeing her lively expression, Fang Chiye couldn't help but pretend to be deaf and dumb. He let Su Rui squeeze her until her face was cramped before he left leisurely.

I took just two steps when I heard Su Rui shout, "Hey, I'll give you a thank you gift later."

Fang Chiye smiled and said, "Let's wait and see."

Su Rui muttered, "We'll have to wait and see if I can give away flowers."

Su Chang'e stared at Su Rui coldly and said, "When did you become so familiar with Captain Fang? Could Guo Jiarong be telling the truth?"

Su Rui said with a fake smile: "You and him are birds of a feather. Be careful of what happens to him."

The two of them walked back home. Su Hongpei looked at Su Chang'e nervously and whispered, "Did you find out?"

Su Chang'e didn't give her a good look: "It's none of your business."

Su Rui pushed Su Hongpei into the house and said, "Don't pay attention to her. She found a fool as her partner. She can't even remember her own unit number. She let Captain Fang squeeze her out for nothing."

Su Chang'e said: "Don't be too proud, I will write a letter to ask him right now."

Su Chang'e walked into the house angrily and ran into Su Yuqin who was hesitant to speak: "What's wrong?"

Su Yuqin felt that there was something wrong with Su Rui's target. Today, he didn't seem like a prisoner in labor reform. How could a prisoner in labor reform ask the superiors for help?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, but when she saw Su Chang'e's expression, she swallowed her words again.

Su Chang'e was lying on the dining table writing a letter. After thinking for a while, she thought that the other party thought that she was not in a good condition and had concealed some personal information. She put the new photo in the envelope and sent it to him. In her words, she urged Zhan Huanduo to come over to meet her as soon as possible.

After Guo Jiarong and Chi Sha's problems were solved, Su Rui was radiant. She made herself a half-jar of brown sugar water and held it in her arms, sitting by the stove and choosing floral fabrics.

When it comes to giving Fang Chiye a gift, he doesn't even consider spending money to buy it, and instead discusses with Su Hongpei about making a handmade gift.

Su Hongpei received a pair of knitted gloves from Chen Haiyan the day before yesterday. Su Rui thought they were good and wanted to make them for Ye Chifang, but she was afraid that it would be inconvenient for him to do labor reform. She thought about making them for Fang Chiye, as the army would give them to him. After thinking about it, she slapped her thigh and said, "Okay, baby, make them for yourself."

Su Hongpei saw her thinking about it and suggested, "If you are worried about delaying your work, why not give her a cotton hat? The north wind in winter makes your head hurt, but with a cotton hat you won't have that problem."

Su Rui thought it was reliable, as they had given her so many coupons. She had to give them a gift in return, no matter if she would kick them in the future or not.

However, if you don't want to be friends with them anymore, you have to return the coupons to them intact, and they can't be used. So you don't need to give them big gifts, just give them small and appropriate gifts.

As for Fang Chitye, she saw it clearly in the cabin that day. He was wearing clothes issued by the army, even his socks were dark green.

...She didn’t dare look above the socks or below the abdominal muscles.

Su Rui doesn't know if the army will give out pants, but they should. Otherwise, it would be wonderful to have a pair of colorful pants among the green clothes after washing, haha.

After much deliberation, Su Rui decided to sew a pair of insoles for Fang Chiye. Fearing that the gift might be too light, she painstakingly embroidered two bright red peonies on it.

If you hide it in your shoes like this, you don't have to worry about people talking about you, you can just wear it secretly.

These days, when Su Hongpei returned home after a busy day, she would always see Su Rui busy embroidering insoles.

"Add a few drops of floral water to it, and I guarantee that the fragrance will make him dizzy when he puts on his shoes."

Su Hongpei was speechless. If Fang Chiye is the April in the world, her beloved sister is the Northeast China's three fresh delicacies.