Chapter 35
In the midsummer, the sun is already high at 7 or 8 in the morning. The leaves outside are curling up, and the ears are filled with the hysterical cries of cicadas.
Lin Yao was pulled up by Gu Chunmei early. She was so sleepy that her eyelids were fighting. Now she was lying on the table
to take a nap. Zhang Cuilan dressed up and came over with a net bag to urge her, "Yaoyao, it's time to set off. Why is this child so sleepy?"
Gu Shidong also shouted, "Sister-in-law, the jeep is waiting outside the alley? Don't you want to take a big car?"
Lin Yao stood up obediently, wiped away her physiological tears, and her sparkling eyes were filled with tears and pink.
Gu Chunmei came over and poked her, "Do you want to get up? If you can't, I'll help you."
Lin Yao patted her, "Go away. Isn't your big head brother going to the countryside for a mission today?"
Speaking of this, Gu Chunmei rarely became shy, "He's outside at the entrance of the alley!"
This guy is really something. What does his grandmother's birthday have to do with him? He has to go with her on the mission to the countryside.
Lin Yao was so happy that her eyebrows curved, shaking her head and joking, "Oh, you haven't married yet, but Big Head Brother is so clingy. There is a saying that goes, "One day without seeing you feels like three autumns." Big Head Brother is not like three autumns, but like several springs and autumns."
Gu Chunmei chased her around the yard jokingly. In the end, the two sisters bumped into each other and hugged each other with a smile.
Zhang Cuilan laughed and scolded, "You are so old, but you are still making trouble. It's time to leave. Hurry up and lock the door. Otherwise, you will miss your grandma's birthday."
The two sisters obeyed and went back to their houses, put on their backpacks, and locked the house.
At the entrance of the alley of the big courtyard, a military green jeep was parked outside. Cars were rare in the county these days. People from several nearby alleys came to see the novelty, and the children also ran after the car, laughing and shouting.
Aunt Sun squinted her eyes and looked towards the car window, "Xiangqian, is this the four-wheeled jeep that foreigners used to drive?"
"Auntie, this is not a four-wheeled jeep, this is a car."
"What the hell is a car? Is it the same as a four-wheeled jeep?"
Xu Xiangqian: "...Why are you getting more and more confused?"
Big Head Brother argued with Aunt Sun, and the crowd around them were amazed at the four-wheeled jeep.
"Oh, the Gu family is so glorious this time! Mancang and his wife are so lucky, they can ride in the car that the big leaders ride."
"It's better to have a good son. If the son is promising, the parents will also benefit. Let's change to a girl..."
"Forget it, there are many people who gave birth to sons in our alley, and some of them are as impressive as the Gu family. This is fate, destined in the previous life."
Everyone chattered for a while, and soon they all dispersed. It was time to go to work and they all rushed to work.
Xu Xiangqian couldn't say that Aunt Sun was defeated. He had to admit that the jeep was a four-wheeled scooter driven by foreigners.
Aunt Sun walked home on her bound feet.
He quickly opened the door and climbed into the car. He sat in the driver's seat and wiped the sweat off his forehead. Seeing Gu Shian holding a bamboo mat and putting it on the back seat, he couldn't help but wonder, "Old Gu, are you crazy? Why put a bamboo mat on the back seat?"
Gu Shian glanced at him, frowned and looked at him, and answered irrelevantly, "You sit in the front seat later, don't go to the back."
Xu Xiangqian was excited, "Why? I'm carsick. What if I vomit in the front seat?"
Gu Shian threw a nylon bag over and told him to get out of the car and get back in after vomiting.
"Yaoyao didn't sleep well last night, don't let the fumes stink her."
Then Deputy Director Gu took a small flower pillow and put a towel blanket in the back of the car?
Xu Xiangqian looked at the small bamboo mat and then at Gu Shian. His eyes became indescribable for a moment. After a long time, he squeezed out a sentence:
"... Old Gu, you are really amazing."
Old Gu was the first to pamper his wife to this extent.
When the old Gu family got on the car, Big Head Brother really understood what it meant to be speechless.
As soon as Lin Yao got on the car, she fell asleep hugging the towel blanket. Dongzi next to her took a fan and tried hard to fan her. Chunmei didn't even look at him, holding the hawthorn cake as a treasure.
Halfway through the journey, Xu Xiangqian was hungry and wanted to eat some hawthorn cake.
As soon as his paw reached out, he was slapped away by Comrade Gu Chunmei.
"This is for Yaoyao to eat, how can you have a share!"
"......."
Anyway, along the way, Big Head Brother knew very clearly his future family status in the old Gu family.
There had just been a thunderstorm in the countryside ahead. The jeep was driving on the mountain road, splashing a lot of mud and water, and the tires were covered with a thick layer of yellow mud.
After bumping on the road for more than half an hour, the old Gu family finally arrived at Hongqi Commune.
At the end of August, it was the season to harvest corn in the countryside, and the strong laborers of Hongqi Commune went to the fields to work.
In the old Zhang family, only Grandma Zhang was at home. Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang had a good relationship and had not separated for so many years. The whole family lived in the old yard.
It is not a strict term to say that the old yard is actually a yard that was rebuilt on the site of the old home.
The Zhang family had a large family and a large courtyard. There were a row of mud-brick houses, with mud walls inside and whitewashed walls outside. The eaves were covered with green bricks and yellow mud mixed with reeds. Under the eaves of the main room, there were several long strings of garlic hanging. In the courtyard, many dried fish and mushrooms were neatly dried on the winnowing basket.
To the north of the courtyard was a thatched shed with a mud stove inside. The mud walls were blackened by smoke and fire. There was a pile of firewood next to the thatched shed. Further north, there was a well. The iron wheels at the well were rusty, showing that it was old. To the west of the courtyard was a vegetable field opened up by the family, and next to it was a cellar for storing grain.
There was a chicken coop near the cellar, with seven or eight old hens clucking inside.
Lin Yao took a curious look and sighed in his heart that starting next year, each household would only be allowed to raise three chickens. If they had more, it would be considered cutting off the tail of capitalism.
On the wall of the main hall of the old Zhang family hung a portrait of the Chairman, and there was a half-worn red-painted eight-immortal table, with two eight-immortal chairs on both sides. Grandma Zhang had her white hair combed into a small bun, wearing a faded blue cloth smock and a pair of black cloth shoes. The old lady dressed herself neatly, with clean fingernails, and she looked like a straightforward person.
Grandma Zhang hadn't seen her daughter's family for a long time. She held the hands of several children and smiled with her toothless mouth.
"Little Dongzi, come here and let me see you. You've grown taller. How are you doing in school? Don't be so lazy like before. Little boys will have to support the family in the future. If they don't study hard, they will have no future."
"My Chunmei has become more handsome! This is Chunmei's son-in-law, he looks so energetic!"
"Oh, grandma's eldest grandson is here too. My eldest grandson is a policeman. Good, a policeman is good. He will catch bad guys with Chunmei's son-in-law. This beautiful girl is my grandson's wife? Wow, what a lovely child, just like a fairy in the painting."
Grandma Zhang saw her grandson's wife for the first time. She was so happy that she couldn't express it in words. She rummaged in her hand and took out a piece of money to give to Lin Yao.
"Good boy, take what grandma gave you."
Lin Yao took it with a smile, and took out a neatly stacked woolen vest and gloves from her small bag. She originally wanted to knit a sweater and trousers for her grandma, but Gu Shian reminded her that her grandma lived in the countryside, where they had a brick bed in winter and were used to wearing big cotton padded jackets and trousers. It would be better to knit a woolen vest and put it inside the cotton padded jacket.
Lin Yao changed her mind, dismantled the knitted sweater, and knitted it into a woolen vest again. She knitted a pair of gloves for the old lady with the remaining wool. She cleverly added a row of wooden buttons to the woolen vest, so that the woolen vest could be worn directly like a cotton padded jacket.
Grandma Zhang had never worn a comfortable woolen vest in her life. She couldn't bear to put it down. She touched it again and again and felt that the material was soft and comfortable to wear! The
eldest and second aunts who came back after hearing the news also held the woolen vest in their hands and looked at it. They kept praising Lin Yao for her dexterity and being a thoughtful child.
"Mom, why are you so energetic today?
You are as fashionable as the old ladies in the city." "My mother is fashionable."
"My skin is fair and beautiful."
A bunch of kids at home flattered the old lady. Grandma Zhang had a very happy birthday.
Zhang Cuilan was very satisfied and her face was full of light.
Grandma Zhang put on the new clothes made by her daughter and walked to the village on her bound feet to show off to her old sisters.
Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang II were smoking their pipes and smiling happily.
Zhang didn't go to the village canteen for dinner after getting married, so Uncle Zhang II brought a fat rabbit, and Uncle Zhang killed the old hen at home and added vegetables grown at home.
At noon, the family had a lively meal. Uncle Zhang and his mother, Uncle Zhang and his mother, and several cousins were busy picking vegetables for Lin Yao.
Big-headed brother could only pick vegetables for himself.
Lin Yao pulled Gu Shian's clothes with a bitter face and blinked for help.
Gu Shian smiled and took advantage of the lively atmosphere to change the two people's bowls without saying a word.
Lin Yao breathed a sigh of relief.
After lunch, Lin Yao was no longer as bashful as she was at home. She washed the dishes and swept the floor. My aunt watched and nodded.
My aunt had seen Lin Yao twice before. At that time, the child was timid and looked like a little girl who was raised in a coquettish way.
In the countryside, marrying a daughter-in-law requires ability and hard work. A girl who was raised in a coquettish way is really not good enough in the countryside except for a pretty face. Can beauty be used to make a living?
My aunt is also a very capable woman. She gave birth to two sons in her life. When she was pregnant with the eldest son, she was still planting rice seedlings in the fields with a big belly for seven or eight months. She put the child in a bamboo basket and carried him on her back to cut pig grass before she was out of the confinement period. The second child was born directly in the field. She lived like this all her life and was proficient in all kinds of farm work.
When the villagers mentioned my aunt, they said she was capable. Uncle Zhang is a good man and there is no bad wife. In today's society, men and women are equal, and women can hold up half the sky.
The eldest aunt realized something. A married lady does not necessarily have to work in the fields to be capable. As Dongzi said, his sister-in-law is educated, pretty, makes delicious snacks, can sew clothes and knit sweaters. This is called a kind and elegant heart, which is another kind of capability. The
eldest aunt did not understand the erotic words, but she thought that Lin Yao was filial to her elders and not hypocritical, so it was okay for her to be a little coquettish.
I have never seen anyone knit a sweater that is more fashionable than those sold in the city. This is also a skill!
The eldest aunt figured it out and sincerely praised Lin Yao to Zhang Cuilan as a good girl.
Zhang Cuilan raised her eyebrows in surprise. Hey, what's wrong with sister-in-law today? She used to look down on a petite and weak girl like Yaoyao, but now she can say a few good words. That's great.
In the afternoon, Xu Xiangqian drove a jeep to the town to perform his duties, and came to pick up the Gu family in the evening.
Uncle Zhang picked a basket of tender corn from his own private plot and took it home to cook.
The tender corn at this time was fresh, sweet and sticky, and it was juicy and sweet when cooked. Lin Yao ate half a tender corn in a row, and gave the rest to Gu Shian.
People feel sleepy after eating and drinking enough. Lin Yao wanted to find a place to take a nap, but his uncle and his family all slept on a kang.
Lin Yao was not used to sleeping on someone else's kang, so she simply slept in the arms of Deputy Director Gu.
After a good sleep, Lin Yao stretched out her body in a refreshed state. Dongzi saw that his sister-in-law had woken up and yelled that she wanted to go to the back mountain to pick raspberries and wild mulberries.
There was a wild fruit forest on the back mountain of Zhangjiazhuang. At this time, the raspberries, mulberries and other wild fruits in the mountain were almost ripe.
Lin Yao was very tempted. She wanted to go to the mountain to pick some and bring them back to make jam.
Second Uncle Zhang knocked on the white ash in the tobacco pot and smiled, "Go, it's rare to come back, but I don't know if there is any left. The boys in the village have picked a lot."
The group happily took the small basket and went to the back mountain, and a tall figure appeared behind them.
——Deputy Director Gu was worried about his little girl and insisted on going with her.
Let's go together, Lin Yao thought happily, just like having an extra basket carrier.
But no one expected that they would actually encounter danger when they went there.
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