Tong Jiaming was awakened by the urge to pee.
He sat up and looked at the white sheets on his body with a hint of confusion in his eyes. It
was not until he saw Tong Xulu curled up in a chair and fell asleep that he remembered that he was in the hospital.
It was his sister who brought him to the hospital in the cold wind, and it was she who had always taken care of him.
Now, in order to save money, she actually curled up in a cold chair to sleep!
Thinking of this, Tong Jiaming's eyes were filled with pain.
Tong Xulu opened her eyes when she heard the movement, and happened to meet Tong Jiaming's eyes that were as red as a rabbit. She was startled: "Are you feeling uncomfortable again? I'll call the doctor."
Tong Jiaming quickly said: "I'm fine, I just want to go to the toilet."
Can holding urine make your eyes red?
Tong Xuelu was a little confused: "Then you hurry up, do you want me to help you over?"
"No, I can go by myself." Tong Jiaming looked at her with red eyes, "Sister, thank you!"
He must repay his sister when he grows up.
In fact, before today, he didn't completely accept Tong Xuelu as a sister in his heart. It was not until today that he knew that she had given so much to this family.
Tong Xuelu waved her hands and said, "You're welcome, hurry up."
Tong Jiaming nodded and went out.
Tong Xuelu stood up and stretched her waist, twisting her muscles.
Although sleeping on a chair is uncomfortable, the sheets in the hospital don't look very clean. She has a mysophobia, so she would rather curl up on the chair to sleep.
Forget it, she should go to the restroom as well, or else her eyes will be as suffocated as Tong Jiaming's, which will be ugly.
After dawn, Tong Jiaming's fever completely subsided.
However, he had many chickenpox on his body and face, and folliculitis on his head. In short, such a handsome boy was "disfigured".
Tong Xuelu saw the dense chickenpox on his face, and she was almost claustrophobic: "The doctor said you can be discharged from the hospital, but chickenpox is too contagious. After you go back, you have to isolate yourself in the room, especially not to contact Jiaxin and Mianmian."
If Tong Jiaxin and Tong Mianmian were also infected, she couldn't take care of them alone.
Besides, Tong Jiaxin and Tong Mianmian are not as sensible as Tong Jiaming. When they get chickenpox, they will definitely not be able to resist popping the pox.
If that happens, they will both have pockmarked faces.
Tong Jiaming: "I'll listen to you."
Tong Xuelu: "Also, you can't scratch the pox on your face before the pox is healed. If you scratch it, it will definitely leave scars, and then your face will be full of pits and bumps."
Tong Jiaming was actually itchy and uncomfortable at this time, but he still nodded obediently: "Okay, I know."
Tong Xuelu went to pay the fee, got some chickenpox medicine from the doctor, and then drove Tong Jiaming back.
When they got home, they saw Shen Wanrong washing clothes and sheets in the yard.
Shen Wanrong saw them coming back and smiled: "You're back? Jiaming, go into the house quickly, you can't be exposed to the wind now!"
Tong Jiaming replied okay and went into the house.
Tong Xuelu: "Thank you, Grandma Shen. I'd also like to trouble you to wash the sheets for us."
Shen Wanrong smiled and said, "It's okay. I'm free anyway. Zhuzhu's grandfather made breakfast in the morning. There's some in the kitchen. Have you eaten?"
Tong Xuelu put the food aside, washed her hands and came to wash clothes together: "I have eaten. Jiaxin didn't go to school today, did he?"
Shen Wanrong shook her head: "No, I think the two brothers and sisters are in good spirits. They should not be infected. But they should go to school in a few days."
Tong Xuelu also thought so. If both of them were infected, it would be bad if they went back to school and infected other classmates.
After washing the clothes, Tong Xuelu and Shen Wanrong scrubbed the house with hot water.
Tong Mianmian saw that her sister had not hugged her since she came back, and her big eyes were filled with tears: "Sister, Mianmian will be very good and will not cause trouble to you. Don't leave."
She still remembered that her parents never came back after they went out, and she was afraid that her sister and brother would be like this.
Tong Jiaxin's eyes were also red, and he was actually very worried from last night to now.
He was worried that his brother would get sick and die, and that his sister would leave them and go away. In short, he had all kinds of thoughts.
Tong Xuelu rubbed their heads: "Don't worry, sister won't leave, your second brother is fine, but he is sick now, you can't get close to him during this period, otherwise you will get sick and have pockmarks on your face."
Tong Mianmian's mouth grew into an "0" shape, and tears hung on her eyelashes: "Mianmian, don't get pockmarks, you will become as ugly as your third brother if you get pockmarks."
"..."
Tong Jiaxin was feeling sad, and suddenly he was caught off guard and stabbed by his sister.
He was confused.
Tong Xuelu couldn't help laughing: "If you don't want to have pockmarks on your face, then you can't go to your second brother's room, do you understand?"
Tong Jiaxin and Tong Mianmian nodded in unison.
Tong Xuelu made some snacks and buns, and then went out to work.
**
Beihe Province, Hongqi Commune's Eighth Production Team.
Xie Jinhua sat on the kang with a gloomy face: "Didn't Da Huzi say he called back to the army? Why hasn't Commander Xiao come yet?"
Tong Erzhu dug his ears with his hands: "Mom, he is the commander, and Da Huzi is just a small platoon leader. How can he arrange things for the commander?"
The third daughter-in-law Feng Zhaodi said: "Mom, are you sure that Commander Xiao is your aunt's old lover? Could you be mistaken?"
Xie Jinhua's triangular eyes flashed: "I can't be mistaken! He looks like a young man. How could they be mistaken? If they were mistaken, he wouldn't have said he was coming over!"
Feng Zhaodi nodded: "That's right, I'm just worried that he won't believe Guangtian is his son."
Tong Erzhu said dissatisfiedly: "Mom, I said I should recognize Commander Xiao as my father, why did you give it to your nephew?"
Xie Jinhua glared at him: "If you looked even a little like your dead aunt, would I let Guangtian pretend to be his son?"
The story of how they found Commander Xiao this time started half a month ago.
Da Huzi from the production team became a platoon leader in the army. When he returned home, he brought back a photo of the army, and the Tong family also went to join in the fun.
When she saw Commander Xiao in the photo, she was stunned.
Wasn't that man Tong Manzhi's old lover? He didn't die that year, and he even went to the army?
She immediately asked Da Huzi about it, and she was shocked when she found out! She
didn't expect that this guy named Xiao would become a commander, and he had never married!
After returning home, she thought about it and felt that this was a good opportunity for their Tong family to turn things around.
Tong Manzhi and Xiao Zhenting met in 1937, during the Anti-Japanese War. Xiao Zhenting was not a commander at the time, but a small platoon leader. He was seriously injured in the war and could not keep up with the troops and stayed in the village to recuperate.
At that time, he stayed in the Tong family to recuperate. Tong Manzhi helped take care of him. The two of them developed feelings for each other. Tong Manzhi, the shameless caregiver, took care of him until he went to bed!
Later, after Xiao Zhenting recovered from his injuries, he left the village and returned to the army. Soon Tong Manzhi found out that she was pregnant. She had been pregnant for less than half a month at that time. More than nine months later, they both gave birth on the same day.
Tong Manzhi gave birth to a son, and she gave birth to a stillbirth.
Tong Manzhi had a difficult labor and heavy bleeding. She was afraid that people would know that she was pregnant before marriage, so she didn't dare to ask a doctor, let alone send her to the hospital. Her husband Tong Genlai took the child to raise for the sake of Tong Manzhi's sister, saying that it was their son.
Now Tong Manzhi is dead, Tong Genlai is dead, and Tong Dajun is dead. No one except her knows what happened that year.
In other words, as long as she points to someone and says that he is Xiao Zhenting's son, he will believe it even if he doesn't believe it.
At first, she wanted her son to impersonate him, but Tong Erzhu was three years younger than Tong Dajun, and he looked completely different from Tong Manzhi.
So she had to go back to her parents' home and give such a good opportunity to her nephew Xie Guangtian.
Although Xie Guangtian didn't look like Tong Manzhi, his features resembled Xiao Zhenting when he was young.
She felt that this was God helping her. Once Commander Xiao recognized her as her nephew, she would kill Tong Xuelu and her gang of bastards!
Xie Jinhua felt happier and happier as she thought about it. She was looking forward to Commander Xiao coming over soon.
However, after arriving in Beihe Province, Commander Xiao did not come to the production team immediately.
He asked his nephew and grandnephew to help inquire about what happened in the past and about the Tong family.
At this moment, he was listening to his nephew talking about the news he had found out.
Xiao Yanghua said, "Uncle, the Tong family has three sons, Tong Dajun, Tong Erzhu and Tong Sanzhuang. Among them, Tong Dajun's age is the most suitable. He was born on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1938."
1938!
Commander Xiao was shocked. He left the village in May 1937. If Manzhi was pregnant at that time, the age would be correct.
Commander Xiao's hands were shaking: "Where is he now? Is he in the production team?"
Xiao Yanghua shook his head: "No, he and his wife were hit by a car in Beijing half a year ago."
Commander Xiao's breath was choked, and his face turned pale: "How could this happen? Do they have children?"
Xiao Yanghua nodded: "Yes, Tong Dajun has two sons and two daughters. The strange thing is that his children have never returned to their hometown. The Tong family often said in the production team that they were unfilial and a group of troubles."
Commander Xiao's eyes flashed with a sharp light: "So, Xie Jinhua is not good to her eldest son, and she doesn't care about the children born to her eldest son, right?"
Xiao Yanghua nodded: "I heard from the people in the production team that Xie Jinhua has disliked her eldest son Tong Dajun since she was a child. He did all the heavy work at home. Later, Tong Dajun was sent to Beijing to work as a worker because he saved someone. Most of his wages were sent back to his hometown, but Xie Jinhua was still not satisfied. She often said that the couple were unfilial to her."
It is common to see partial parents, but it is very strange to be so partial.
Commander Xiao thought for a while and said: "Prepare a car, we will go to the production team to meet them today."
Xiao Yanghua nodded, hurried out to borrow a car, and an hour later, they drove to the production team.
The group of people in the hometown had been waiting for several days without any news, and they were getting impatient.
Just when they were about to give up, a car stopped at the door of Tong's house.
The whole production team was shocked and came to watch.
Tong Erzhu ran into the house from outside with shaking hands: "Mom, Mom! Commander Xiao is here!"
Xie Jinhua was eating an egg. When she heard this, the egg slid into her throat with a "gulp" sound, which made her eyes roll back and she almost died on the spot.
Tong Erzhu ran over and patted his mother's back with his palm.
After slapping more than ten times, Xie Jinhua finally swallowed the egg in her throat. She felt a sharp pain in her back and throat: "Are you trying to slap me to death?"
Tong Erzhu said: "Mom, Commander Xiao's car is outside!"
Xie Jinhua's heart was pounding: "Hurry up, why don't you invite someone in?"
As soon as the voice fell, two tall men walked into the house.
The man walking in front looked to be in his fifties, with an upright posture and strong features. His eyes were as sharp as a hawk under his sword-like eyebrows. When he looked at people, he looked like a sharp sword, which made people shudder. When
Xie Jinhua saw his face, she immediately thought of Tong Dajun.
Fortunately, Tong Dajun was dead, otherwise the two father and son looked so alike, and nothing she said would be of any use.
Commander Xiao looked at Xie Jinhua with eagle eyes: "Sister-in-law Tong, long time no see!"
Xie Jinhua shuddered subconsciously: "Hello, Commander Xiao, it's been many years. I never thought that you would become the commander. It's a pity that Manzhi is not so lucky..."
Commander Xiao's eyes flashed with grief and he interrupted her and said: "I came back to the village once two months after I left. Why didn't you tell me that Manzhi was pregnant, but told me that she was going to get married?"
It was because he heard that news that he left the village sadly and never came back since then.
Xie Jinhua's heart trembled: "That's what Manzhi told me to say. She said you have no sense of responsibility, and that you are a soldier in the war who doesn't know when you will die. She wants to find a man who can give her a stable life."
"The betrothal gift had already been given at that time. If she hadn't been found to be pregnant later, she would have married someone else. I didn't lie to you!"
Commander Xiao looked at her and said nothing.
This was the same as what he had heard. Tong Manzhi had indeed proposed marriage to someone, and the man's family had also given a betrothal gift.
But he didn't expect that Manzhi didn't get married later, let alone that she was pregnant with his child.
Seeing that he believed her words, Xie Jinhua breathed a sigh of relief.
Tong Manzhi didn't want to get married at the time, but she forced her to get married. Later, because she was pregnant and threatened to commit suicide, the marriage was called off.
Their Tong family compensated the man with a bag of rice at the time, which made her very angry.
In order to avenge Tong Manzhi, she didn't tell Xiao Zhenting that he had come back to find her until the day she died. Tong Manzhi died of dystocia because she was depressed during pregnancy.
But she would never tell these things to anyone, not even her son and daughter-in-law.
Commander Xiao said, "Where is Manzhi's grave? Ask someone to take me there."
Xie Jinhua was startled: "Go to the grave now? Don't you want to see your son first?"
Commander Xiao: "Go to the grave."
Xie Jinhua met his sharp eyes and couldn't say a word to refute.
She had to ask Tong Erzhu to call her nephew Xie Guangtian over, and then she took him to the cemetery.
Because of the "Four Olds" campaign, it was not allowed to build a grave in those days. The so-called grave was actually a handful of soil piled up with a stone in front as a grave.
When Commander Xiao saw such a simple grave, his eyes instantly turned red.
When they parted that year, they met again, but they were separated by life and death.
If he could come back again and ask her in person why she wanted to marry someone else, maybe the result would be different.
The north wind blew, and a crow landed on a branch not far away, cawing, making the surrounding atmosphere seem even more shabby. Just
as Xie Jinhua was about to speak, she saw her nephew Xie Guangtian running over panting.
Xie Jinhua's eyes suddenly lit up, and she pulled her nephew and said, "Guangtian, this is Commander Xiao, your biological father, call him dad!"
Xie Guangtian was even more impatient than Xie Jinhua, and knelt down with a "bang": "Dad, I finally see you!"
Xie Jinhua was stunned, and then she felt that her nephew was too wise.
Commander Xiao slowly turned around, looking at the middle-aged man in front of him with sharp eyes: "Raise your head!"
Xie Guangtian raised his head, his eyes red with excitement: "Dad, I am the son born to you and mom, my name is Guangtian!"
Xiao Yanghua's heart skipped a beat when he saw Xie Guangtian's look. Could this man be his uncle's biological son?
Commander Xiao had no expression on his face, turned his head and asked Xie Jinhua: "Is this the son of Manzhi and me?"
Xie Jinhua nodded like a garlic: "Yes, he is the son of you, Commander, and my sister-in-law Manzhi. When my sister-in-law came to visit us for the New Year, she suddenly had a stomachache and was about to give birth. Later, she gave birth to a stillborn baby. That day, Manzhi also gave birth."
"You also know that Manzhi got pregnant before getting married. This matter cannot be known to others, otherwise our Tong family and the child will be scolded. So we thought about it and decided to send the child to my sister-in-law to raise. It happened that she had no children, so she has always treated Guangtian as her own son!"
Commander Xiao looked at Xie Jinhua, then at Xie Guangtian, and sneered, "You are such a good sister-in-law. You treat your sister-in-law's son better than your own son. I heard that when your eldest son was still alive, you treated him like an enemy?"
Xie Jinhua's heart skipped a beat, and her hands couldn't help shaking "My eldest son has a bad temper and is not filial, so I don't like him."
Commander Xiao: "You think I'm a fool, and you think everyone is a fool like you? If your eldest son is not filial, why would he send most of his salary back to support you?"
Xie Jinhua was drunk and her legs went soft, and she almost fell to the ground: "How I treat my son is my business. Anyway, Guangtian is your son. If you don't acknowledge him, you will be sorry for Manzhi who died for you!"
Hearing Manzhi's name, Commander Xiao felt as if he was stabbed by a knife in his heart, and it hurt a lot.
Xie Guangtian took out a very old silver ring from his body: "Dad, I am really your son. I have been wearing this thing around my neck since I was a child!"
Commander Xiao saw the silver ring in his hand and his pupils dilated.
He walked over and snatched the silver ring. His hand holding the silver ring couldn't help shaking.
He gave it to Manzhi that year and promised to come back to marry her. He didn't expect to see this ring again.
Xiao Yanghua was a little confused. Before coming, he thought Tong Dajun was his uncle's son, but now seeing Xie Guangtian, he was a little unsure.
Xie Guangtian looked a bit like his uncle, and he had a token on him. Could he really be his uncle's son?
Commander Xiao looked at the silver ring without saying a word, and the atmosphere around him seemed to freeze.
Xie Jinhua and Xie Guangtian's hearts were pounding.
After a long while, Commander Xiao said, "Get up. I have something to do and need to go back to the army. When I come back, I will take you back to visit your ancestors."
Hearing this, Xie Jinhua and Xie Guangtian were overjoyed.
Xie Jinhua and Xie Guangtian tried their best to keep Commander Xiao at home for dinner, but Commander Xiao refused and quickly left the production team in a car.
Although Commander Xiao did not leave anything behind, his words were like an imperial decree!
From now on, the Tong and Xie families would rise to heaven!
The Tong family was so happy that they told everyone in the production team about it and even slaughtered the two chickens in the family that night.
They would be the commander's relatives in the future, so who would care about two chickens?
On the way back, Xiao Yanghua was silent for a long time before asking: "Uncle, do you really believe that Xie Guangtian is your son?"
Commander Xiao: "I'm going to Beijing. I'm going to meet Tong Dajun's children and make a decision later. I'd like to ask you to continue to help me investigate."
Xiao Yanghua nodded: "Okay."
Before they came, they didn't know that Xie Jinhua would push out her nephew. But this nephew looked a bit like Commander Xiao, and he had a token on him.
They had to go back and investigate again before they could draw a conclusion.
When the Tong and Xie families thought they were going to be promoted, Commander Xiao took the train to Beijing that day.
**
base.
The three lovers gathered in the cafeteria to eat together, and showed off their partners.
Zhou Yan pointed at Wen Rugui and Huang Qimin and cursed: "You two heartless bastards, if my partner hadn't come to the base to celebrate my birthday, I would have celebrated my birthday alone that day!"
Wen Rugui thought to himself: Fortunately, he went back, otherwise he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Thinking of the kiss that day, the tip of his ears turned red little by little.
Seeing that both of them were silent, Zhou Yan said proudly: "Huang Goudan, Rugui and my partner have been to the base, and now only your partner has not come. Tsk tsk tsk, your partner probably doesn't have you in his heart, right?"
Huang Qimin was not convinced: "My partner is so nice to me. She makes braised pork for me when I go back. What do you have to be proud of? You and your partner have been talking for so long, did you hold hands?"
Zhou Yan was stunned when he heard this: "Holding hands is hooliganism. How can you hold hands with your partner?"
Huang Qimin grinned. He smiled: "You look like you didn't hold hands. Comrade Chairman said that it's hooliganism if you don't aim to get married. My partner and I are going to get married, so what's wrong with holding hands?"
Zhou Yan was caught off guard and turned to Wen Rugui for support: "Rugui, tell him that holding hands is hooliganism!"
Wen Rugui
said calmly: "Holding hands is not hooliganism." Huang Qimin raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Rugui, you and your partner have held hands, right?"
Wen Rugui nodded, and the tip of his ears became redder.
He not only held hands, but he was also kissed!
Huang Qimin laughed: "Hahaha, Zhou Laxi, you are the only one among the three of us who has never held hands. Rugui, who started dating later than you, has already held hands with his girlfriend. Are you still a man?"
"..."
Zhou Yan looked at Wen Rugui with disbelief.
Wen Rugui actually held hands with his girlfriend. How could he be so fast?
He is the only one among the three who has never held hands. It's so embarrassing!
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