Chapter 15
Zhang Cuilan knew something was going to happen when she saw the expression on her son’s face. She immediately smiled and said with great joy, “You little bastard, you still want to hide this from your mother. Tell me when you became interested in Yaoyao.”
Gu Shian was a little speechless. How could he say such a thing?
He was a tall man, standing there in silence. Comrade Zhang Cuilan raised her hand and slapped him. She said with a smile, “You little bastard, you are the same as your father, you are always talking nonsense. If you don’t want to tell me, I won’t ask. Today is a good day. There is a movie playing in the theater on the street. Don’t stand at home. Buy two movie tickets and take Yaoyao to see a movie.”
Gu Shian’s black eyes lit up, and he glanced around the yard, but didn’t see Lin Yao.
How could Zhang Cuilan not understand the look in her son's eyes? She wondered why she had given birth to such a stupid son. She pointed to the room and said, "Yaoyao is sleeping in the room!"
Then she slapped her son again and pushed him to go and call for help.
Gu Shi'an was slapped by his old mother. He looked up at the room with small floral curtains. Thinking of the peach blossom fragrance that lingered around him last night, his handsome face became slightly hot.
He was just thinking about how to knock on the door when there was a clanging sound from the next door. The next second, Gu Shidong rushed out with a head of dog-chewed hair, howling.
There were still a few marks of the cold mattress on the boy's face. He was probably taking a nap in the room and just got up from the bed when he heard the words in the yard.
"Brother, brother! You are back. How is the police station? Have you been issued a gun? Let me touch it!"
Zhang Cuilan glared at him. "Touch the ass shit, your dog son's butt is itchy again. Are the guns issued by the police station for you, a little brat? Have you finished your homework? Bring it to me later to check. If you haven't finished it, I will deal with you when your father comes back tonight!" Gu Shidong
was not afraid of his mother. He finished his homework in the morning and was still having fun in the yard.
"Mom, why do you always call me a dog son? This is not civilized. I am the son of the Gu family. I am a dog son, so what is my father?"
Gu Shidong was very smart and did not mention his elder brother.
His father is honest and easy to bully, but his elder brother is not easy to mess with. He has been cold and stern since he was a child. He has been punished since he was a child. Gu Shian only glanced at him lightly, and Gu Shidong immediately stopped talking nonsense.
Gu Chunmei folded her hands and cheered on the side, "Why don't you show off, little dog?"
Gu Shidong glanced at his sister, "Women don't understand. A real man should be able to bend and stretch."
Gu Chunmei spit at him, bullshit, the little dog's hair hasn't grown out yet, and
he is still a real man. Gu Shidong jumped up and down in anger, so what if his hair hasn't grown out yet, he will have a full body of hair in a few years.
The brother and sister went back and forth, quarreling, just like raising dozens of ducks, noisy and endless.
This noise woke up Lin Yao who was sleeping soundly in the room.
The room was cool in the summer evening, and the heat of the day dissipated with the wind. Lin Yao slept soundly, stretched her waist comfortably, and walked out of the room in slippers.
"Why is it so noisy outside?"
She just woke up and spoke in a delicate voice. She was still wearing the white floral nightgown, her long black hair hung on her shoulders, her waist was graceful, her fair face was rosy, and her moist cherry lips were like the charming crabapple flowers after the summer rain.
As soon as Lin Yao went out, she met the cold-faced Gu Shian in the yard. She quickly put down her yawning hand and said, "Oh my god, why is this person so oppressive?"
When Zhang Cuilan saw Lin Yao wake up, her ferocious face immediately became kind and gentle.
"Yao, you've woken up after a nap. Are you thirsty? We have iced barley tea at home. No, you're not thirsty, but are you hungry? There's nothing good in the canteen of the commune temple today, so I'll make you a bowl of shredded pork noodles. We still have the big iron pot. Hey, the oil in the shredded pork noodles will be saved for your uncle Mancangshu as a midnight snack. I, Yaoyao, am sensible!"
Comrade Zhang Cuilan's tone was so soft that Gu Shidong beside her got goosebumps all over his body.
Hey, why are you so sticky?
Lin Yao was a little embarrassed. She slept for the whole afternoon and did nothing. Her face turned red because of her aunt's praise.
Zhang Cuilan struck while the iron was hot, saying that the movie "The Battle of Shangganling" that was recently broadcast in the county was very popular. It happened that she had nothing to do today, so she invited Shi An and his wife to go to the movies.
Watch a movie?
Lin Yao immediately became interested. She had been traveling here for so long, but she had never been to the movies on the street.
I heard that the movies of this era are different from those in the future. Now they are all black and white movies, and there is only one ticket office in the theater. Every time a new movie is released, the entrance of the theater is packed.
A movie ticket costs two cents. Families with limited funds cannot afford to buy movie tickets for the whole family. They either find a red pencil and draw two movie tickets to make up the number, or let their children squeeze behind others and pretend to be someone else's children to sneak in to watch free movies.
There is no need to be afraid of being caught by the ticket inspector. Children are thick-skinned and can just get away with it.
Qian Yan, the daughter of Zheng Dacheng in the front yard, and his son Zheng Hao have done many such immoral things.
Come to think of it, the Zheng family is not poor. Zheng Dacheng alone earns at least fifty or sixty yuan a month, and Zheng Dacheng's wife also has a job that earns twenty-seven or twenty-eight yuan. This is still on the surface. The chef in the canteen may have taken some money. Especially since the steel rolling mill is profitable, the Zheng family lives a more comfortable life than anyone else.
Apart from other things, Zheng Dacheng has five or six pairs of leather shoes. He changes a pair every day and polishes them to a shine. He looks more impressive than the leaders.
Life is so good, but his children still do such shameless things.
Zhang Cuilan looked down on the Zheng family. Earlier, Gu Shidong wanted to imitate Zheng Hao and begged for a free ticket to watch a movie.
She was so angry that she caught her old son and beat him up. The chicken feather duster in her hand was throbbing.
This was Gu Shidong's dark history. When he heard about watching a movie, the bad boy instinctively covered his butt and ran away.
Lin Yao didn't care about these. She ran back to the house excitedly to change her clothes and dress up. She looked up at Gu Shian and said seriously, "Wait for me, don't run away by yourself."
Gu Shian smiled and responded.
Zhang Cuilan laughed and shook her head at such childish words, "You are such a grown-up girl, but you are still like a child."
Gu Chunmei said while chewing a piece of watermelon, "Mom, Yaoyao is not that old, she is just a girl in her early twenties, eight or nine years younger than her brother."
Gu Chunmei didn't say the rest of the sentence.
Gu Chunmei also saw that Gu Shian was in love. Tsk, it's not easy, for a man who is almost thirty, finally has the day to bloom.
Lin Yao changed into a sky-blue dress, tied her waterfall-like black hair into a braid, applied some vanishing cream, and ran out happily with a small shoulder bag on her back. She smiled at Gu Shian who was waiting at the door, "Let's go."
After that, Lin Yao jumped into the back seat of the car very familiarly. For safety reasons, she held Gu Shian's waist with one of her delicate hands.
Gu Shian was still wearing the clean white shirt in the hot summer. He choked, kicked his long legs, and rode the bicycle steadily on the road.
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Osmanthus Alley, shaded by green trees.
Xu Xiangqian returned home sweating and exhausted. He had been patrolling the streets and investigating cases all day. He only ate two steamed buns at noon and was extremely hungry.
As soon as he entered the house, he went straight to the kitchen to find something to eat.
Xu's mother was stringing beads in the yard. Seeing her son's anxious look, she felt distressed. "Why are you so hungry? What if you didn't have lunch? You only ate two steamed buns. That's not good. There are freshly cooked pork, braised eggplant, and bean sprout soup in the pot. I'll save them for you. Mom will get you a bowl."
The food in the commune cafeteria in Guihua Hutong was first-class. Xu Xiangqian was also very hungry. He almost choked himself by wolfing down the food.
Xu's mother hurriedly patted her son's back to calm him down, "Why are you eating so fast, kid? Chewing slowly is good for your stomach. Eat slowly, no one will compete with you for the food."
Xu Xiangqian gulped down a jar of boiled water before he caught his breath, "Eat quickly, we'll go to the big courtyard later."
"Go to the big courtyard? Go to see Chunmei again, you big guy, you stick to your wife all day long, aren't you afraid that she will annoy you?"
Xu's mother teased her son.
Xu Xiangqian was so embarrassed that his face turned red and his neck was thick, "Mom, what are you talking about? I went to see Anzi."
Gu Shi'an and Xu Xiangqian were good brothers who grew up together. Xu's mother sighed, "Shi'an is back. How come I didn't know when you came back? You will stay at home for a few days this time. We have some newly bought grapes and peaches. Take them to Gu's house later and tell your aunt Cuilan that we can find time to get together."
Xu's mother liked Gu Shi'an since he was a child. She treated him better than her own son. Xu Xiangqian was used to it.
Xu Xiangqian chewed the steamed buns and said, "I came back last night. This time I transferred to my hometown."
Xu's mother looked nervous and asked, "Is Anzi injured when he transferred to his hometown?"
"Not really. I don't know the details. Anyway, Anzi is the deputy director of our Public Security Bureau."
Xu's mother was very happy. "That's great. Shi'an has been away from home for more than ten years. He has married a wife. It's time for him to live a good life with his wife and children." A warm bed with a wife and children
?
Xu Xiangqian shook his head and thought that considering Shi'an's cold temper, it might not be possible in this life.
Besides, the young wife who married into the Lin family used to be like a little rabbit who was afraid of people, but now she is coquettish and looks like a quirky girl.
Alas, his future brother-in-law will have a hard time in the future.
After Xu Xiangqian had a full stomach, he took some fruit to his old friend's house. He had to go to the county cinema in the evening. There was a new movie released recently, so he went to see it. He would take Chunmei with him tomorrow.
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Yunshui County Cinema is a two-story red building. A row of acacia trees were planted in front of the street, casting a cool shade.
In the old society, the cinema was formerly an opera house, where the city's dignitaries came to have fun and spend a lot of money.
After liberation, the opera house was transformed into the cinema today. There are only a few movies these days, such as "Land Mine Warfare", "White Haired Girl", and "Heroic Young Wang Erxiao". These movies are played over and over again, and the people in the city still enjoy watching them.
At the entrance of the cinema, there were vendors selling snacks and a bicycle watcher. Lin Yao jumped out of the car, and Gu Shian went to park the car and gave the bicycle watcher some money.
Lin Yao waited for him in line at the entrance. There were many people coming to watch the movie today. It was bustling and noisy. The people in the line behind her bumped into each other from time to time, which made her frown. What is this? Watching a movie is like squeezing sardines in a can.
Gu Shian saw this and came over to protect Lin Yao without saying a word.
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