Early July, 1978.
At the beginning of July, an old woman, a young couple and a child came to Qingdao University in the scorching weather.
They ran to the girls' dormitory to ask if there was a student named Su Ruo living there, who was pregnant.
This old woman was none other than Su Ruo's mother-in-law, Wu Guizhi.
The young man and woman and the child were Wu Guizhi's youngest son Han Jialin, daughter-in-law Wu Jiaoyan and grandson Han Laibao.
Han Zecheng did not specifically send news to Hanjia Village about Su Ruo's pregnancy.
Wu Guizhi learned that Su Ruo was pregnant from an educated youth from the neighboring village who was studying at a university in the provincial capital. Then she traveled all the way from Hanjia Village to the provincial capital to find Qingdao University.
Speaking of which, ever since Han Zecheng took Su Ruo and Guoguo away from Hanjia Village last year, Han Zecheng has not had any other contact with Wu Guizhi in the past few months except for the fixed ten yuan every month. Naturally, he no longer sent malted milk fruit candies, cloth coupons, meat coupons and other tickets to Hanjia Village every now and then.
It has to be said that without Su Ruo's subsidy and the things sent back by Han Zecheng, the living standards of the old Han family in Hanjia Village can be said to have dropped sharply.
Even if she had Han Zecheng's ten dollars...but twenty-five plus eleven was a total of thirty-five dollars, which suddenly made her wallet empty. One can imagine the torment Wu Guizhi had endured during this period...and her anger and hatred towards Su Ruo.
Because she felt that if her son had not married Su Ruo, and if Su Ruo had not chosen to go to university, none of this would have happened.
Many times she couldn't help but want to go to the Biyang Military Region to find her son Han Zecheng.
However, she was persuaded by her husband Han Heping, who told her to wait and see.
Later, when Wu Guizhi caught a cold, Han Heping asked his youngest son Han Jialin to send a telegram to Han Zecheng, saying that Wu Guizhi was "seriously ill". As a result, Han Zecheng did not come back, but the army specially sent a soldier to visit Wu Guizhi and gave her some supplements.
Only then did Wu Guizhi realize that her son was not in the Biyang Military Region at all, but had gone to Yunnan to carry out a mission, while her daughter-in-law had taken her grandson to college.
Wu Guizhi couldn't help but cry to the young soldier, saying that her son and daughter-in-law didn't come to see her, how hard she had worked to raise her son, but now they seemed to treat her as if she didn't exist.
The young soldier felt very uncomfortable, and listened to her crying the whole time. Just before he left, he blushed and said seriously, "Auntie Wu, didn't you remarry not long after Deputy Commander Han was born, and didn't take him in until he was almost three years old and his grandmother starved to death?"
"However, Deputy Head Han's father came back when Deputy Head Han was five years old and took him away. When he was in elementary school, he sent him to Linzihu Commune for a few years. But I heard that Deputy Head Han also lived in the school during those years. All the expenses were paid by Secretary Han. In addition, Secretary Han also gave you a large sum of money."
"Deputy Commander Han went to the provincial capital to study when he was in middle school. But he has been sending you money since he was in middle school, and he has never stopped for so many years... Aunt Wu, Deputy Commander Han is an important general in our army. Our army has very detailed records of everything that happened to him since he was a child, so please don't smear our Deputy Commander Han in the future. In fact, there are many mothers in our army who abandon their children and remarry, but there is only one like Deputy Commander Han who has been sending you money every day for so many years."
Wu Guizhi was so embarrassed and annoyed by these words that she almost fainted.
She wanted to argue but was pulled back by Han Heping, who then sent the little soldier away with kind words.
When he was delivering the message, he also specifically asked the young soldier indirectly, asking him where he heard the things he had just said... Even if there were records in the army, it was impossible for everyone to know.
Ask him if it was Deputy Head Han who said that.
The little soldier looked very serious.
He said, "Deputy Regiment Commander Han is currently carrying out an important mission. Of course, he couldn't have told me these things. Our military leader received a telegram from Aunt Wu and was worried that something might happen to Aunt Wu. However, we couldn't let this affect Deputy Regiment Commander Han's work at this time, so he sent me here... The leader also told me these things specifically, asking me to persuade Aunt Wu to understand our Deputy Regiment Commander Han's work and not to disturb him from carrying out his military mission."
Han Heping's face turned pale at that moment.
He didn't know whether what the young soldier said about Han Zecheng not being in the army was true or not. If it was false, then those words were Han Zecheng's warning to them.
If it is true, then it is even more serious. It is obviously a warning to them from the army.
After this incident, Wu Guizhi finally kept quiet for a few months.
But after she learned that Su Ruo was pregnant, she finally felt that this was a good opportunity to find her son again, so she brought her youngest son and his family to the provincial capital.
They didn't know that Su Ruo now lived on Fangyuan Road.
I went straight to Qingdao University campus and asked for directions to the girls' dormitory.
She didn't know which dormitory Su Ruo was in. There were only two girls' dormitories, so she could just ask them one by one.
She went to a room first and ran to ask the dormitory manager if there was a girl named Su Ruo who was pregnant and introduced herself as her mother-in-law.
Unfortunately, this dormitory was not the one where Su Ruo lived, so the dormitory manager did not know Su Ruo.
The dormitory manager was very polite and pointed them to the location of the next dormitory building and asked them to go over there and ask.
Wu Guizhi and her family thanked the enthusiastic dormitory manager and were about to go to the other dormitory building when they were stopped by a clear voice.
"Auntie, are you looking for Su Ruo?"
Wu Guizhi turned around and saw a very beautiful and fashionable female student in a floral dress looking at her and asking with a smile.
Wu Guizhi quickly agreed and stepped forward and said, "Hey, female comrade, we are looking for Su Ruo. Do you know her? I am her mother-in-law."
Li Yu looked Wu Guizhi up and down.
A typical peasant woman.
His face was full of wrinkles and his skin was dark and rough, like roasted bark.
The clothes on his body had no patches, and it was obvious that they were good clothes specially worn for going into the city, but they were also old homespun clothes. In such hot weather now, those who could make a living in the city would change into Dacron clothes, but few people would wear such homespun clothes.
Turning around to look at the young men, women and children next to them, judging from their skin color, hands and clothes, they were obviously country people.
Li Yu asked: "Who are these people?"
Wu Jiaoyan smiled and introduced herself: "Hey, I'm Su Ruo's third sister-in-law, and this is my lover, Su Ruo's lover's younger brother, my real brother."
Li Yu said "Oh", and his heart was already filled with countless waves and strange excitement.
Su Ruo lives in a Western-style building, wears the most expensive clothes, the most fashionable shoes, and dresses like a female star. It is said that Su Ruo drinks chicken soup, eats bird's nest and various snacks every day. Her mother-in-law is actually a country woman who works hard and cannot even afford a set of Dacron.
Ha ha ha ha.
Li Yu smiled more gently and kindly.
She said to Wu Guizhi, "Ah, ma'am, since you are Su Ruo's mother-in-law, don't you know that Su Ruo is pregnant and no longer lives in the dormitory?"
"You don't live in the dormitory?"
Wu Guizhi's expression changed immediately.
She thinks a lot.
Of course she knew Han and Huai were in the provincial capital, she was worried about Su
If she hadn't gone to live with Han Hehuai, it would not be easy for her to find her and stay with her to "take care" of her during childbirth and confinement.
"So comrade, do you know where she lives?"
Wu Guizhi asked with a somewhat ugly look on her face.
Li Yu didn't know what Wu Guizhi was thinking. She just thought that her ugly face was because she was thinking about something else... the same thing as her.
Li Yu smiled and said, "I know, it's not far, it's near the school. Auntie, I happen to be free, why don't I take you there?"
Wu Guizhi breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out that he found a house to live near the school.
Yes, it would definitely be inconvenient to live in school when she is pregnant. Besides, her son is not in the military area now, and maybe her grandson will live here with her.
Thinking of this, she immediately became happy. This was great. Su Ruo had found a house to live in near the school, so they could stay there naturally without having to worry about having no place to live... She had been worried that Su Ruo would live in the school, and it would not be easy for them to stay but have nowhere to live.
The two sides hit it off immediately, and Li Yu led Wu Guizhi and Han Jialin's family of three to Fangyuan Road.
Along the way, Li Yu also asked Wu Guizhi a lot of things.
For example, where do you live, how far is it from here, who are the people in your family, and what do you do for a living.
Did Su Ruo live with them before she went to school? Did Su Ruo need to work in the fields... Oh, so she is a rural teacher, etc.
However, Fangyuan Road is close, so I had already arrived when I found out that Su Ruo was a rural teacher.
Wu Guizhi, Han Jialin, Wu Jiaoyan and others were already a little surprised when they entered the Fangyuan Road Garden. When Li Yu led them to the courtyard of the No. 2 small western-style building, they were even more surprised when they saw the beautiful small western-style building.
They had never seen such a beautiful small Western-style building in their lives. Even the landlords’ houses in the past were just large courtyards.
Su Ruo actually lives here?
Li Yu took in their surprised, even shocked, enviable and greedy expressions.
Her eyes flickered and she smiled, "Su Ruo has been living here since she became pregnant. She almost never lives in school. There are two mothers-in-law here to take care of her. I heard they are relatives from her mother's side. Aunt Wu, you are her mother-in-law, do you know who these two mothers-in-law are? Oh, I heard that one of them has a son who sometimes lives here... It's strange to say, Aunt Wu, where is your son serving in the army? Su Ruo is pregnant, and we sometimes see young men accompanying her, but it seems that we have never seen your son come to school."
Of course I have been here before.
I heard that he came here at the beginning of the school year, but never showed up again after that.
There are all kinds of rumors in the school. Some say that Su Ruo's husband is a high-ranking official in the army... Oh, what a joke, how can a poor soldier from the countryside at such a young age become a high-ranking official?
Covering up something?
And Su Ruo is pregnant, why haven’t we seen her this semester?
The whole thing is weird no matter how you look at it.
When Wu Guizhi heard what Li Yu said, her face suddenly fell.
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