When we got home, Zhong Jun and Cheng Shuying were frying crispy pork, and the house was full of aroma.

Ji Linhai was collecting pheasants and rabbits under the eaves.

While talking to Zhong Weiqian, Mr. Ji was eating dumplings.

A harmonious scene.

The whole family worked together to prepare a sumptuous dinner.

This is their real New Year's Eve dinner.

After dinner, before leaving, Zhong Jun gave the two children some red wine, each worth ten yuan.

This year, everyone made money, and the previous losses saved several thousand yuan. All in all, Zhong has now saved more than 3,000 yuan, and he feels more confident.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Dabao went to Lin Xiaomeng's house to pay New Year's greetings and brought back a piece of news.

I heard Xu Meiling jumped into the river yesterday!

Of course there is no water in the river, it is all ice, so you won’t die if you jump in, at most you will get injured.

In fact, she didn't really want to jump. She stood by the river and pretended to jump, hoping to scare Chen Jianghe and make him surrender.

As a result, she was too heavy and directly crushed the piece of soil. She fell down and landed on the ice. Because she was too heavy, a hole was cracked in the ice.

Chen Jianghe couldn't move him, and it was the help of others who brought her back to the shore.

He said he had broken ribs and has been sent to the county hospital.

Gu Qinghuan couldn't help but start to feel sorry for Chen Jianghe. He wasn't an unforgivable person, so why would he bother with such a daughter-in-law and make trouble for her?

It was enough to just listen to other people's affairs. Xu Huaian had no intention of interfering, so she was happy and relaxed.

Liu Guifang came over to trouble her, but Xu Huaian just said a few words to her and left.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, Gu Qinghuan took Xu Huaian to attend Jiang Xue's wedding.

She held the wedding separately: one at her husband's home, and another at the Commune Hotel, where she hosted two tables of guests, all of whom were Xu Jiatun's friends.

Lin Xiaomeng also came with Xu Huaizhi.

There is also Qiu Shuxia and her husband Tugen.

Zhu Chunlin and Lin Shengnan were also there, and brought their son with them, and everyone was there to tease this little guy.

She even invited Chen Jianghe, but Xu Meiling didn't come and she was still lying in bed.

The fact that she could be so generous as to ask Chen Jianghe for help shows that she has let it go now and all the things in the past are now a thing of the past.

It seems like a hurdle that I can't get over in my lifetime, a person I can't forget, and the feeling remains the same as time passes and circumstances change.

Especially Chen Jianghe, now without his former glory, he is just like everyone else.

In order to take care of his wife and daughter, he had no time to clean himself up and looked sloppy. The Chen Jianghe in Jiang Xue's memory was no longer the same person.

This meal was also a big gathering of these educated youth, where everyone chatted about life and talked about everything.

In just two years, everyone seemed to have changed, yet nothing seemed to have changed.

Jiang Xue brought Hao Zhigao to toast everyone. She was wearing a new cotton jacket bought by the Hao family and looked very happy.

Hao Zhigao was also very kind to her, and would pick up food for her considerately, fearing that she would not be able to pick up enough.

Although he doesn't talk much, he is a caring person who understands others' feelings.

After many twists and turns, Jiang Xue finally met her own lover.

Chen Jianghe saw that everyone was very happy, except for himself, who started from a higher point than many others, but had the worst life.

There were people at home waiting to be taken care of, and a daughter crying for food. The more he thought about it, the more miserable he felt, so he started drinking.

In the end, he was drunk and it was Zhu Chunlin who carried him back.

The family spent the New Year relaxingly.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Xu Huaian had to leave for school, and the couple were reluctant to part.

Before leaving, he prepared plenty of firewood for Gu Qinghuan as usual and killed two pigs as a backup.

As usual, Gu Qinghuan prepared various delicious foods for him to take away.

There are beef jerky, pork jerky, cold rabbit, shredded chicken, etc., all of which are his favorites.

"Huanhuan, I will wait for you in Beijing in October next year, then we can be reunited as a family." Xu Huaian hugged her deeply in his arms, his eyes full of reluctance.

"Good!" Thousands of words turned into one word "good".

Gu Qinghuan saw Xu Huaian off with tears in her eyes.

Life returned to peace.

At the end of the month, a letter from afar broke the peace of life.

Mingcheng and Nansheng wrote to say that they had mentioned the Zhong family's unjust, false and wrongful case to their superiors many times, hoping that the authorities would pay attention to it.

At the beginning of the year, the review process had already officially begun. Once confirmed, the Zhong family will be rehabilitated. I hope they take care of their health and wait patiently.

As soon as Gu Qinghuan received the letter, he rushed home and showed it to Zhong Dongjun and his grandparents.

The two old men burst into tears, and Zhong 떖-kun's eyes also turned red.

Not one day, not one month, but eight years.

They walked and endured in the darkness, and finally waited for the dawn.

How many years can there be in a lifetime?

Not only the Zhong family was making moves, in early March, Ji Linhai also received good news. The organization issued a "Notice on Rehabilitating the Will of Ji Ping and Ji Linhai", pointing out that all the false accusations made by the Group of Four against Ji Ping, Ji Linhai, etc. should be overturned and thoroughly rehabilitated.

At the same time, all the volunteers implicated in Ji Ping's unjust case were thoroughly vindicated and their influence eliminated.

On the day he received the rehabilitation notice, Ji Linhai remained very calm the entire day, and calmly completed his job.

Until the evening, he went to see Mr. Zhong.

The moment he saw Zhongjun, he finally couldn't hold back anymore.

The man who was usually as tough as steel cried like a baby.

His father, Mr. Ji (Ji Ping), was the deputy commander of the Air Force in the early days of China. Influenced by his father, he loved the sky and was determined to contribute to the development of the motherland's air force.

In the 1950s, China's ability to independently produce fighter jets was very weak. A lot of technology came from other countries, and even many parts had to be imported.

At that time, Ji Linhai was still a young man. He went to the Soviet Union with a delegation to visit the Gorky Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, which produced the MiG-21 aircraft at the time. From then on, he planted a dream in his heart to independently develop fighter jets for China.

Later he succeeded through his own efforts.

In the early 1960s, China developed a single-seat, single-engine supersonic jet fighter, the 殲-7녊, which went into production.

Although it was a copy of the MiG-21F-13, it also indicated that China had the ability to independently produce world-leading next-generation aircraft at that time.

Although Ji Linhai was young, he served as the chief designer and made great contributions. He even completed the test flight of the Shu-7 himself.

At that time, everyone said that he was a promising general with a bright future.

His achievements did not stop there. In addition to researching fighter planes, he was later responsible for the air force's tactical and technical training and test flights, and was responsible for combat readiness and attacking high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft all year round.

The design of the Shu-8 fighter jet he led began in the early 1960s, and the first batch of prototypes was completed in 1968.

Later, due to a catastrophe, many people were implicated, and the design of the Shu-8 fighter, which should have been finalized as soon as possible, has not yet been put into production and formal service.

In the years since he was labeled a rightist, he and his parents were thrown into the cowshed to fend for themselves.

At first, his father was desperate and unwilling to accept the reality. He wanted to die several times, but with his persistence, the two finally survived.

Over the years, he seemed to have forgotten his past self and everything in the past. He had no dignity and lived like an ox or a horse.

Now, his injustice has finally been redressed.

The pain is hard to describe.

Zhong Dongjun was also a victim of the Anti-Rightist Movement and suffered endless torture. She understood his pain too well, but could only feel it, not express it in words.

Those sitting here seem to be the same people as before, but in fact only they themselves know that everything has changed, from the inside out.

Ji Linhai and Ji Ping were quickly picked up. The situation had changed dramatically and many things needed to be done. They had to go back to take charge of many things.

Ji Linhai left all the money he had saved to Zhong 떚jun, asking her to take care of herself.

He promised Zhong Dongjun that after returning, he would find a way to redress their family's wrongdoing as soon as possible, and when the time comes, he would come to pick her up in person.

Gu Qinghuan was also very happy for them. He gathered them together before they left and prepared a lot of things for them to take away.

Before leaving, Ji Ping, the dry ancestor, emptied his wallet and gave all the change he had to Dabao and Beibei.

At least we became godparents.

Dabao and Beibei were also reluctant to part with Ji Ping and Ji Linhai.

In the village, a group of people armed with live ammunition came to pick up the two people in the cowshed, and they were whispering to each other.

"What about that? That big, stupid guy in our bullpen is actually a big shot?"

"And that old man, I heard he's also a big leader!"

"Oh, what a pity! Why didn't I curry favor with him? Maybe I could have risen to prominence with him."

"What are you thinking? Are you the only one who can have such a long-term vision?"

Lin Xiaomeng did feel a little regretful. She knew that many of the people in the bullpen were important figures and many of them could be rehabilitated.

But I didn't expect that these two people had such a great influence that the country would send such people to pick them up.

I should have made friends with him earlier.

In fact, because many things have changed in this life, her life trajectory has also changed.

Zhong Jun hid in the crowd, watching Ji Linhai who was about to leave.

Ji Linhai was wearing a neat military uniform and had shaved off his beard, revealing his handsome appearance. It turned out that he kept the beard to cover up his too handsome face.

After shaving his beard, the skin on his face has two distinct colors, which makes people laugh.

Without a beard, Ji Linhai is obviously more than ten years younger and doesn't look like a man in his thirties.

Zhong Jun almost didn't recognize him and felt a little uneasy. When Ji Linhai used to be sloppy, she thought they were a good match. But the new Ji Linhai made her feel strange.

For the first time, he felt inferior. She was a few years older than him, had two children of that age, and he was unmarried. If he was reinstated and got a higher position, the gap between them would become larger and larger.

Ji Linhai looked at the crowd and saw Zhong Jun at a glance, even though she had her face covered.

He waved to her gently, then got in the car and drove away.

Gu Qinghuan saw Zhong Yujun's dejection and sadness.

"Mom, are you worried that Uncle Ji will leave you alone after he leaves?"

"No, I just think he's a little strange..." I used to think they were the same, but now they seem to be from two different worlds, with a world of difference.

Gu Qinghuan understood that she was suddenly unable to accept this gap.

"Don't worry, our day of glory is not far away. In the future, you two will still be evenly matched and a perfect match."

Mr. Zhong was no longer entangled.

"That's true, I believe in you, Uncle Ji." He is not that kind of person.

All she could think about was Ji Linhai's last smile. After knowing him for so long, this was the first time she saw him like this.

This person is like a rainbow, you know he exists when you meet him.