Chapter 4 Mr. Fu
The supply and marketing cooperative in the afternoon is not as crowded as in the morning. Most of the sales clerks are busy and are sitting or standing chatting and laughing.
After locking the car, Suning came to the candy and pastry counter with a canvas bag in his hand.
"One pound of White Rabbit candy and two pounds of egg cake."
After paying the bill, I thought about it carefully and bought a bottle of Moutai and a can of malted milk.
After buying a few things, the net bag was so heavy that her fingertips and palms were numb. She glanced at the not-so-fresh fruits and gave up the idea of buying more.
I put the bag in the basket on the front of the car. There was still more than an hour before the end of get off work, so the timing was just right.
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The weather in June changes suddenly.
The heavy rain fell, splashing on the ground and causing flowers to bloom one after another.
Using his arm to wipe off the water droplets on his face, which he could not tell whether were sweat or rain, Suning tightened the faucet, jumped out of the car, and took three steps at a time to the guard room of the textile factory.
“Grandpa Fu!”
"Hey, is it Ning girl?"
Hearing the voice, Mr. Fu leaned his head out of the window. Seeing the person coming, he was surprised and happy and quickly stood up and grabbed the umbrella. While opening the iron gate, he asked, "It's raining so hard, why did you come here?"
"Hurry, the car is parked on the side, come in! Why did you choose such a rainy day? You are soaked all over, right?"
"Thank you, Grandpa Fu. It was not a coincidence. I didn't know it would rain so heavily. How can you blame me~"
"Hahaha, okay, okay, I don't blame you, you clever little devil!"
Old Master Fu brought the girl into the house, rummaged through the drawers and finally found a clean towel. He turned around and was about to hand it to her when he noticed what the girl was holding in her hands.
There are sugar, cakes, wine, and nutritional supplements.
The smile on his face disappeared, and his expression became serious, "What are you doing? Is your Grandpa Fu expecting you to come here with good food and drink?"
"Look at what you're saying. What? Shouldn't I bring some gifts to show my filial piety to my most amiable Grandpa Fu?"
"You, little girl, are just imitating your father's sweet talk!"
Just one sentence made Mr. Fu lose his composure, and his wrinkled face wrinkled into several layers, "Put the things down, wipe them quickly, don't catch a cold!"
He raised his hand and pointed with his finger, then Fu Chenggong handed her the towel with a smile.
The figure sitting with a lame leg is still straight. Some things are deeply engraved in the bones and blood with the soul, and cannot be changed no matter how time passes.
"Girl? What are you looking at?"
"I'm wondering if Grandpa Fu's legs still hurt on rainy days?"
"I'm much stronger than before. This little pain is nothing."
Hearing this, Fu Chenggong seemed to remember something, and a trace of nostalgia and sadness appeared in his eyes, "I have to thank your grandpa, that old thing..."
Seeing that the girl's mood was obviously depressed and she was secretly annoyed that she couldn't speak, Fu Chenggong gently patted the back of her hand to comfort her.
There are age spots on his skinny palms, and a thick layer of calluses at the base of his hands. They don't look big, but they seem to carry an unusually reassuring power.
The moment when the hands of the old and the young touch each other——
[“Dad, can you just listen to my advice this time? Consider it as a plea from me!”
Fu Chenggong's eyes were red, and his face was filled with unprecedented anger. "Why are you leaving? Where are you going? Why are you leaving?!"
"I've never lost a battle without a fight! I've never been a runaway bastard!"
The roar, which was almost from the bottom of his heart, was louder and louder, and it seemed to shake the whole house, and the calendar of great men hanging on the wall made a rustling sound.
"We shed blood and tears, crawled over piles of dead bodies and risked our lives for what?! That's it..."
"dad!"
Fu Xinguo suddenly roared at the top of his lungs, instantly drowning out his voice and interrupting the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
He wiped his face tiredly and looked at his old father, whose arms were shaking with anger, whose temples were covered with white hair, and who was trying to stand straight with only one leg to bear the weight.
In an instant, tears poured down my face like a baby, almost on the verge of collapse.
"Dad, Dad... Just think of it as for me, for Yingzi and Tingzi and their brother and sister, Dad, let's not go, can we not get involved in this mess?"
"My son, if a person loses his conscience in this life, what is the difference between him and a dog!"
On October 21, 1967, Fu Chenggong ignored his son's pleas and resolutely went to work for his former leader and former comrade-in-arms, appealing for injustice and overturning the verdict, and he was deeply involved in it.
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"Dad, I have secretly found someone to send to Nanxiang Ancient County. The county official there is my comrade-in-arms. He will take good care of you on my behalf..."
"Dad, don't worry about us. Meihua and I will take good care of the children when we get there..."
"Dad... Actually, I've always wanted to tell you that I'm proud to have a father like you. What you said still haunts me and makes me feel ashamed..."
Fu Guoxin, who was also implicated, was too busy to take care of himself and only uttered these few words hastily.
No one would have thought that after this separation, it would be difficult to meet again for many years. 】
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'I have always believed that after the dawn comes the dawn, and the dark clouds will eventually disperse!'
Every word of the old man's dying cry struck Suning's heart with such force that her heart was overwhelmed and her eyes turned red in an instant.
"Fu...Grandpa..."
"Hey, grandpa is here, what's wrong, Ning girl, don't cry!"
Seeing her tears falling, Fu Chenggong suddenly panicked and tried to comfort her in a panic.
"It's my fault. Oh my goodness! Now that old man Su Ting will definitely take advantage of the opportunity and lift up the bed to find me in the middle of the night!"
“Puff~”
A huge bubble of snot popped up in response, and Su Ning, feeling embarrassed and ashamed, quickly covered his face, "Don't look!"
"Hahahahahaha, fine fine, I won't look at it then. Ahem, who? Who saw it?!"
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The two of them looked at each other at the same time and laughed out loud in tacit understanding.
"Tell me, girl, what happened?"
The old man's wise eyes were filled with kindness, and his tone was gentle and calm, "No matter what happens, your Grandpa Fu is here."
Thinking of his son who had hardly come home in the past few days, he seemed to be evasive when he saw him.
——Could it be that something really happened, or is it something about Ning girl that her father doesn’t know about?
"Grandpa Fu."
Because of the future he saw, Suning had to change his previous ideas.
Since the university would soon suspend classes and she would not be able to continue attending, she did not need to make any plans, fearing that Xu Zixin would threaten to change her application.
"Grandpa Fu, I want to go to Xiangnan."
"Hmm? Go to Shonan? Oh yes, Shonan University is also very good, but why does Ning suddenly want to go to school in Shonan?"
"No, I want to go to Shonan to work and stay in my grandfather's hometown for a few years."
"What job?! You're not going to school?"
(End of this chapter)
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