Chapter 132
Now that the provincial capital is in the golden stage of development, large tracts of uninhabited wasteland in the suburbs have suddenly become a treasure trove in the eyes of foreign manufacturers.
In order to seize the market and opportunities, Gao Wenbin not only expanded the scale of his factory, but also bought a large piece of land for development and construction.
In the first half of the year, he went to Hong Kong to look for business opportunities and found high-rise buildings everywhere, the prosperous Victoria Harbor, and the foreigners coming and going. He keenly realized that in the next few decades, after China's economy took off, the real estate and tourism industries would flourish.
As soon as Gao Wenbin returned to the provincial capital, he began to buy land and build the first large-scale amusement park in the provincial capital.
He was very busy, but he still took time out of his busy schedule to meet Gu Shian's family of four.
As for Lin Hongna, she came to the provincial capital to seek refuge.
Lin Hongna had finally been admitted to the technical secondary school in the provincial capital, but she failed to go because of her grandson's mother's interference.
Sun Jialiang beat her every other day. If it weren't for her grandson's father and two sons at home, Lin Hongna would have been injured every day!
Lin Hongna could only continue to be her street director.
Street director is considered a good job. Although it deals with trivial matters, at least the benefits are good and the salary is more than 60 yuan a month.
More than 60 yuan in the late 1970s was still very spendable.
Lin Hongna weighed the pros and cons and turned her attention to her two sons.
She has two sons. The eldest son, Sun Tianbao, is Sun Jialiang's biological son. The second son, Zhuangzhuang, is a son that Lin Hongna, the mother, can't figure out. It's most likely the cook.
However, the Sun family members don't know this. They love both grandsons equally.
Sun Tianbao has been in poor health since he was a child. He looks like Sun Jialiang, weak and delicate. He is not very close to Lin Hongna, but very close to his mother.
Sun's mother retired and stayed at home. Sun Tianbao became her little follower.
Sun's mother cooked in the kitchen and did housework. Sun Tianbao was in poor health and couldn't run and play like the kids next door. He just sat quietly on a small stool with a book in his hand.
Occasionally, the sound of children running and playing could be heard on the street. Sun Tianbao would just tilt his ear to listen and then quietly read. In recent years, the Sun family has not been as prosperous as before. His mother has a bad temper and is mean. She only smiles when she talks about her eldest grandson.
In front of outsiders, his mother would always praise Sun Tianbao.
"…My Tianbao has been smart since he was young. His grandfather didn't teach him much. When he was two or three years old, he would stagger to get books from the bookshelf. When his grandfather wrote calligraphy at home, Tianbao would watch beside him. No one told him how to read the characters. After a few days, Tianbao learned it by himself…"
At first, the neighbors of Sun's family didn't say anything when they heard this, but they were disdainful in their hearts. They
just thought that Sun's mother was selling melons and bragging about herself.
When Sun Tianbao went to elementary school and studied all the way to high school, they found that this child was really smart. He won awards every year in school and was either first or second in every exam.
The grandson's mother was very proud. The grandson's father was very pleased. He couldn't help but sigh when he said that his grandson was as smart as Sun Jialiang when he was a child.
Sun Jialiang was also smart and studious when he was a child. Everyone in the street praised him. Who could have thought that his son would become a drinker and loser, and his life would be worse than that of a homeless man.
As for the second grandson Zhuangzhuang, although he was not as smart as his brother, he was also a sensible child.
The grandson's mother saw the hope of family revival in her grandsons. When she saw the two brothers Sun Tianbao, her face was full of wrinkles like chrysanthemums.
Sun Jialiang would also show his tenderness as a father
to his two sons. Only Lin Hongna was resentful that her two sons had not been close to her for so many years.
As the old saying goes, lambs kneel to suckle, crows feed their parents, even animals know how to be filial to their parents, what kind of creatures are these two she gave birth to!
You can't rely on anyone, no matter who you are!
You still have to rely on yourself!
Now that the reform and opening up have taken place, the house prices outside have not risen much. Lin Hongna is preparing for a rainy day. Under the slogan of saving the family property for her two sons, she wants to take out the retirement money from her grandfather and buy a few houses in a good location, all in her name, so that when she is old, she can rent them out and live comfortably.
Don't think she doesn't know, her grandfather definitely has a huge amount of money!
Sun's mother didn't like Lin Hongna, holding the money and refusing to take it out. Sun's father was hesitant, and Lin Hongna was talking dryly. Seeing that Sun's father was about to nod his head in agreement, Sun Jiayu jumped out again.
Sun Jiayu grew older, but her mind didn't become smarter. Her selfish character was undoubtedly revealed.
She divorced, and her ex-husband soon married a beautiful woman. Sun Jiayu felt helpless and decided to find a good family to slap her ex-husband in the face.
With Sun Jiayu's brain, she didn't find a good family, but she had a lot of scumbags.
At the age of nearly 40, she finally met a country man who was barely reliable. Sun Jiayu may have let it go, and she did not tell her family, and quietly got the
marriage certificate with the country man. Getting the certificate was fine, but the key was that she still had the face to come back and ask her parents for a dowry.
Sun's mother was so angry that she almost died. The country man had nothing to show for his character. He had no proper job and only a broken yard in the countryside. Although the old yard had three rooms and a small yard with half an acre of land, it looked good, but the three rooms were all adobe walls and thatched houses. The one on the west side didn't even have a roof. It was so shabby to live in. When she couldn't sleep at night, she would just look at the moon and count the stars?
Sun Jiayu didn't want to go out, nor did she want to go back to her parents' home to be bullied. She had a crazy idea to ask her parents' home to give her a house as a dowry.
Sun's father refused to give
her a house, so she made a scene at home, got slapped and ran away. Three days later, Sun Jiayu got married. On the surface, Sun's father bought makeup for his daughter, and Sun's mother gave him 30 yuan. In fact, the night before the wedding, Sun's father smoked for most of the day, and sighed deeply in the smoke. That night, he went to Sun Jiayu's dormitory and stuffed 200 yuan under Sun's pillow, which was considered as a father's bottom-line money for his daughter.
Because of the brainless Sun Jiayu, Sun's father never mentioned buying a house again.
Lin Hongna was furious and just wanted to find a chance to teach Sun Jiayu a lesson.
Then there was news that the boiler worker Cui Da had returned from the farm!
Cui Da was Lin Hongna's former lover, and he was willing to go to labor reform for Lin Hongna. Cui
Da was also a man with a hard life. His father was a profiteer before liberation, and he made a living from this. After liberation, Cui Da's father was arranged by the government to work in a coal mine. He could earn more than 40 yuan a month digging coal. Compared with running around in the wind and rain and not being home for three days and two days, this job was a little dirty and tiring, but it was stable.
Unexpected events happen. On a rainy night in the 1960s, Cui Dad and his co-workers went down to the mine to dig coal. They encountered a coal mine collapse. Cui Dad did not escape and was crushed underneath. When they rescued him, Cui Dad was lying on a stretcher, gasping for breath. Seeing that he was in a bad condition, the mine leader called and rushed him to Xian Hospital, but he died on the way.
Since then, Cui Da took over his father's job as a boiler operator, but there were six people in his family, his younger brothers and sisters were hungry, and his mother was not in good health. Cui Da's salary was not enough to spend, so Cui Da had to go back to his father's business. When he was not working, he would hang out in the black market, and people who came to the black market to do business would introduce him to the way. He was quick-witted, smart, and capable, and he earned a lot of intermediary fees.
If he had not met Lin Hongna, Cui Da would not have gone to labor reform.
After more than ten years of labor reform, Cui Da was as old as an old man in his forties or fifties, with rough and black hands and feet, and he walked with a limp.
In the dark night, Cui Da walked through the old alley and groped his way into the house. Cui's old mother was sitting on the kang. She looked for a long time before she recognized that this was her son.
"Son, you are finally back!"
Cui Da knelt down with a plop and kowtowed several times. The mother and son hugged their heads and cried bitterly, crying and gasping for breath.
Cui Da had been gone for so many years, and the pillar of the Cui family was gone. Several brothers and sisters were sent away, some made their own way, and the youngest brother went to the train track to catch a train and never came back.
Lin Hongna's promise to take care of her brothers and sisters at home was all lies.
"Mom, I am an unfilial son! For a sly woman, I ruined my whole family!"
Cui Da saw Lin Hongna's face clearly and knew that this woman was purely using him. He gnashed his teeth in hatred.
He would seek justice from Lin Hongna no matter what!!
Cui Da appeared quietly near Sun's house for several days. If the neighbors hadn't recognized him, Lin Hongna might have really met with an accident.
When she thought that Cui Da might come to seek revenge on her at any time, she felt a chill down her spine.
The wall of Sun's house was only more than two meters high, and Cui Da could climb in in the middle of the night.
In order to save her life, Lin Hongna used the excuse of feeling unwell, carried a few hundred yuan with her, and ran to the provincial capital. She hid in a cheap guesthouse every day in fear.
Lin Yao rested well in the guesthouse. Gao Wenbin came to visit and accidentally saw Lin Hongna hiding and going out for dinner not far away.
Gu Shian also noticed Lin Hongna. Lin Hongna wore a big straw hat, rough clothes and trousers, her eyes were evasive, she looked back and forth, and walked close to the corner of the wall. She was like a frightened bird at the slightest movement. It was obvious that she was hiding from someone.
Lin Yao nudged Gu Shian, and the couple exchanged glances. Gu Shian silently noted the route Lin Hongna had taken.
Lin Hongna tiptoed along the wall and soon disappeared in the crowd.
Gao Wenbin arrived at the guesthouse and said that he had booked a restaurant in the evening and invited the Gu family of four to have a dinner together.
In recent years, Gao Wenbin has been close to the Gu family. Gu Shian nodded and agreed. Gao Wenbin wanted to see the construction site in the suburbs, so he hurriedly got on the car.
The provincial capital is close to the sea, and the four members of the Gu family set off and boarded the passenger ship to the island.
There are many tourists in the provincial capital during the summer vacation, and young girls also learn to dress up. In the 1960s and 1970s, clothes were mostly black, white, gray and blue. If girls wanted to wear a bright bra skirt occasionally, they had to save up several months of cloth coupons. Although it is still an era of supply by coupons, after the opening up, girls can be more fashionable.
There are navy troops stationed on the island in the provincial capital, and the children in the military families on the island don't have to worry about food and clothing. Life on the island is similar to those in the small county towns outside. Fine grains and coarse grains are distributed per person. There are orange candies and sorghum candies sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives, Changbai cakes, peach cakes, honey three-knife, glutinous rice sticks, sesame cakes, and various snacks. Although they can't eat most of the time, the children's mouths are full during the New Year and other festivals, and their pockets are full. They feel very happy.
What's more, living on the island, the wives of the soldiers can often take the children to the sea to catch some seafood and bring it back. They steam it or make soup at home, and it is all very delicious.
The sun was shining brightly on the cruise ship. The four members
of the Gu family went to the island. The fishermen and military wives on the island went to the beach in groups of three or five to catch the sea. The four members of the Gu family went to the famous sandy beach on the island.
This is a large beach on the island with soft sand and stretching for hundreds of meters. Whenever the sea water recedes, large reefs are exposed above the water, which is a good opportunity for the people on the island to catch the sea.
Apart from other things, there are always all kinds of delicacies hidden on the reef walls and soft sandy beaches of the island, such as oysters, crabs, kelp, and conchs, which are not small in size. Some conchs are as thick as two or three fingers and look plump. The people on the island are busy fishing, working, and doing things. They are busy all day long and rarely have free time to catch the sea and relax on the beach.
Many families on the island make a living by fishing. After returning from fishing, they sell the big fish for money and keep the remaining small fish, shrimps and crabs for themselves. They don't have to go out to catch fish and have a variety of fish, shrimps and seafood for three meals a day.
Lin Yao took the bamboo basket she bought, and Yuanyuan and Doudou followed behind. The mother and daughter imitated the wives of soldiers on the island and caught crabs and shrimps on the beach.
Perhaps because no one was catching them or there were few natural enemies, the conchs and crabs on the island moved so slowly that it was adorable. When people came with baskets and wooden barrels to catch them, they would still crawl forward slowly in the shallow water or on the beach, not in a hurry at all. Some even crawled into the baskets by themselves. Yuanyuan naturally accepted the delicious food that was delivered to her door without any thanks. After a while, the small bamboo basket was filled to the brim.
The Gu family of four really made the trip worthwhile. They picked up a lot of snails, and Yuanyuan swept most of the basket of kelp. Gu Shian was still very lucky in the family of four. He picked up sea cucumbers, which made Yuanyuan and Lin Yao very happy. They couldn't close their mouths all afternoon.
In the evening, the sun sets, and the afterglow of the setting sun casts a rosy golden light. The tide on the beach gradually fades with the clouds in the sky. The fishing boats returning on the wind and waves slowly sway to the shore, which is quite comfortable and leisurely, just like the fishermen singing in the evening.
The evening breeze on the island is blowing, and the fishermen who returned early hang lanterns on the boats. When the sunset dyes the sky red, the four members of the Gu family board the passenger ship back to the provincial capital.
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