Chapter 39
Lin Yao has an irregular sleep habit and must hold something to sleep.
She used to sleep alone, and would go back to her room at night and bolt the door. She would either take a rabbit doll from the living room or sleep on a small pillow.
Now that she has Gu Shian, Lin Yao immediately throws away the small pillow and sleeps on him every day.
Not only that, she also likes to roll around when she sleeps, sleeping at the head of the bed for a while, and then running to the middle of the bed. She almost kicked Gu Shian off the bed several times.
Late last night, Gu Shian had just fallen asleep when suddenly a boneless little hand reached out to him, hugged him, bit and nibbled, and finally someone bit his thin lips, muttering to herself, "Boss, this pig's trotter is not delicious, too tender, the pig's trotter should be fatter to be more fragrant."
After that, the little girl smacked her lips, kicked Gu Shian, turned over and fell asleep again.
Only Deputy Director Gu, who was burning all over, took a deep breath in the dark night and went to the yard to take a cold shower in the middle of the night.
After so many days, Gu Shian was used to it. He gently moved the white little hand wrapped around his waist, lowered his head and kissed Lin Yao on the face, and got out of bed quietly.
Recently, the county public security bureau cracked a major case of selling young girls. Two of the main suspects fled to the provincial capital. In order to catch these two fugitives, the public security bureau, which had just been clean for a few days, became busy again.
Xu Xiangqian rode his bicycle to the compound to call his brother-in-law to go to work together. He only had time to say hello to Zhang Cuilan, and then rode his bicycle to follow Gu Shian and left in a hurry.
Zhang Cuilan chased to the door and shouted, "Don't forget to eat no matter how busy you are at work. Take care of yourself. Tell your family if you have anything, so that they can rest assured?"
Gu Shian waved his hand and knew what he meant.
Lin Yao woke up from a nap, rolled on the soft bed, and then climbed out of bed with sleepy eyes. The east room was quiet, and the army green quilt on the bed was folded into tofu blocks. It seemed that Deputy Director Gu went to the bureau to work again.
In the big courtyard, Uncle Dafu from next door was resting at home. He was wearing a pair of coarse cloth pants, bare-chested with a towel on his shoulders, and holding a large enamel pot of cool tea in his hand, wandering in the yard.
Aunt Dafu hit him, and Uncle Dafu jumped in pain.
"What are you doing, old woman!"
"What are you doing? What are you doing? You are such an old shameless woman. You are walking around with your bare chest in broad daylight. There are unmarried girls in our yard. Do you want them to go out?"
Uncle Dafu felt a little embarrassed and went back to his house to put on his vest. He was with a group of old men and young men in the workshop all day. They were all rough men and had no worries. When it was hot, they would walk around with their bare chests. But they would forget about it at home.
Uncle Dafu glanced at the old man's house and saw that the doors of several rooms were closed. He breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the recliner with his legs crossed, holding a cup of tea.
Aunt Dafu turned a blind eye and closed the curtains with a "whoosh" sound, and fanned herself in the house.
There has been some rumors recently. Schools are about to start on September 1st, but the schools in Yunshui County are not busy starting the school. Instead, several teachers with bad family backgrounds have been suspended.
The higher-ups want the primary and secondary school students in the county to join the steelmaking movement, saying that steelmaking is the best education.
The people in Yunshui County are so angry that they are cursing at home.
Children are just children. They are not allowed to eat well and go to school. What the hell is steelmaking? Can children have the same physical strength as adults?
They are just too idle!
Everyone was speechless, and some were panicking. They went to the provincial capital to inquire about the news. The disasters in several northern provinces have not eased yet. They secretly went to the black market in the countryside to buy food and brought it back home.
Zhang Cuilan also discussed with Gu Mancang to buy food and store it in their hometown.
The old couple was always prepared for danger in times of peace.
Lin Yao was secretly happy to hear this. She had tried hard to persuade her family to buy food to prepare for famine.
Unexpectedly, she didn't need to say anything, and her parents came to the rescue.
And Gu Shi'an and his sister were very supportive of this.
Although Gu Shian is a stern, serious, and straight man, and his mother often scolds him for being stupid, it does not mean that he is pedantic and unintelligent.
On the contrary, he is meticulous, can draw inferences from one instance, and can often find the enemy's weaknesses without making a sound.
Otherwise, he would not have been promoted to the position of deputy battalion commander after only a few years in the army.
Gu Chunmei is also very smart. The supply and marketing cooperative where she works is opposite the county grain station.
In previous years when grain was abundant, there was an endless stream of grain delivery trucks at the door of the grain station, and the people who lined up to buy rice and noodles could always return with full loads.
Starting from the second half of this year, there were only one or two grain trucks at the gate of the county grain station every day. Once, Gu Chunmei heard people from the grain station complain that the food in the grain station cafeteria was not good and they had to drink porridge every day .
If the grain station cafeteria was like this, one could imagine what the situation outside was like.
The family agreed and started to act.
In the evening, Gu Shi'an got off work, and the old Gu family ate and drank as usual, turned off the lights and went to bed.
When the clock struck twelve at midnight, Gu Shidong, who knew nothing, was sleeping soundly on the bed.
One by one, the old Gu family came out of the house.
Lin Yao pretended to be a kitten and meowed twice in the yard, and the dark night was quiet.
Gu Chunmei was worried, so she clapped her hands and imitated the quacking of ducks in the yard . The courtyard was still so quiet that people were afraid to go out.
It was now the turn of Deputy Director Gu to take action. He tapped the window rhythmically with his fingers.
"Knock-"
"Knock-"
"Knock-"
After a few sounds, the courtyard was still silent.
That's it. The old Gu family was relieved.
Gu Mancang led the way in front. After Gu Shi made arrangements, the father and son quickly disappeared into the night, one after the other.
There was a grain seller in Yunshui County. Before liberation, his family ran a rice shop. His name was Cui Daliang. After liberation, his rice shop was confiscated. The government arranged a job for Cui Daliang. Cui Daliang was used to being idle and didn't want to go to work and be supervised.
The government gave Cui Daliang a sum of money as compensation for the confiscation of the rice shop.
In recent years, Cui Daliang has been doing well in the black market. He has connections and connections. Anyone who wants to buy grain in the county will go to him.
Cui Daliang, a grain merchant, had a reversed work and rest schedule and his ears were sharper than those of a dog. Gu Shi'an and his son bought a lot of grain, so he happily arranged an old donkey cart to load the grain and rushed to the Gu family's old house under the cover of night.
The cellar of the old house of the Gu family had been cleaned up long ago. The old Gu family bought 300 kilograms of coarse grains, 50 kilograms of fine grains, five baskets of sweet potatoes, and three baskets of potatoes. The fine grains and coarse grains were placed in empty rice jars. The rice jars were full and covered with heavy wooden lids.
The sweet potatoes and potatoes were placed in baskets, neatly arranged.
Ventilation holes were dug at the four corners of the cellar of the old house of the Gu family. There was no light in the cellar, so the grain would not go moldy even in winter.
After the father and son settled down, they locked the door of the old house and drove the donkey cart to the county without stopping.
After going back and forth for most of the night, at six in the morning, when the sky was just beginning to turn pale, the father and son returned home exhausted in the morning dew.
The family had been waiting at home. Lin Yao picked up dough of different sizes, rolled out a pot of noodles, scooped out half a bowl of white noodles from the noodle jar, cut cucumber into thin strips, mashed garlic, and beat tomatoes, eggs, and salt. The water in the pot was boiled, and the noodles were put into the pot, and a handful of small green vegetables were also added.
The hot water in the pot boiled three times, and Lin Yao stirred it twice with a spoon. When it was almost cooked, he called Gu Shi'an to come over and rub the noodles.
Gu Shi'an rubbed the noodles with his big hands and soon rubbed two large bowls of noodles.
The father and son each had a large bowl, topped with cucumber shreds, and sprinkled salt on top, which whetted their appetites.
The father and son ate the noodles in a gulp, and each drank two large glasses of water before sitting down to catch their breath.
The September rain came without warning, and the sound of the raindrops hitting the ground seemed to isolate everything outside.
The family members asked about what happened that night, and when they knew that everything was settled, they all smiled.
Zhang Cuilan slapped her thigh, went back to the house to get the grain and oil book and banknotes, and calculated how much more food they could buy.
Originally, the old customer family thought they would buy as much food as they could, but Cui Daliang didn't have that much stock, so both parties agreed to make another trip for food next time.
It was drizzling outside in the afternoon. Lin Yao was afraid that her precious rabbit would be frozen, so she asked Gu Shi'an to reinforce the rabbit nest and cover it with oil felt cloth. The mother rabbit was pregnant with her cubs, and she didn't want them to get sick from the cold.
In school, steel was smelted during the day, and when Gu Shidong came back at night, he would run circles in the yard with his elder brother.
This brat was so tired that his arms and legs didn't belong to him. He lay in bed all day and didn't want to get up. He was really tired, and his body was sore all over. It felt like what he told his second uncle. When he was seven or eight years old, he raised sheep and worked as a laborer for landlords and rich people. He had returned to the evil old society.
Gu Shidong realized his brother's deep love and immediately felt that going to school was much better than staying at home.
How great it would be to go to school, he wanted to go to school!
It was getting colder outside, and Lin Yao occasionally went to the city gate tower with Dongzi to pick up coal.
Gu Shi'an felt sorry for her and didn't let her go.
It was not worth it for a good girl to come back home all day dark just to pick up a few pieces of broken coal.
Lin Yao smiled and shook her head. She was not just for that basket of broken coal. First, she had nothing to do at home and planned to exercise while being lonely. Second, she found that someone followed her when she went out recently!
This is a big deal. A woman's sixth sense is extremely accurate.
Although every time Lin Yao looked back, there was nothing unusual about the pedestrians coming and going behind her.
But the feeling of being stared at secretly and the creepy feeling on her back was unmistakable.
Not only her, but also Gu Shidong felt someone was sneaking behind him when he went out with his sister-in-law, but when he turned around, he could see no one.
The two of them made a plan and decided to keep their troops in place and stroll along the path on the street two or three times every day, just to catch this idiot who was following them secretly!
The idiot was not caught, but they heard the long-awaited good news.
The logistics department of the county textile factory is recruiting!
Nowadays, textile factories are large factories, and their efficiency is second only to steel factories and iron factories. The logistics department is also a leisurely department, without so much money, and the work is really comfortable.
Lin Yao is suitable for such a job. After a trip to the countryside, she also realized that she was a useless person and really couldn't do farm work.
While Lin Yao was outside asking for job information, she did not start knitting Gu Shian's sweater.
Every autumn rain brings a chill, and it was just a rain, but the temperature outside was dropping.
Gu Chunmei also knitted a gray linen sweater for Big Head Brother. Xu Xiangqian wore it every day in the Public Security Bureau and flirted with people.
Especially in front of his future brother-in-law, Big Head Brother showed off his sweater from all angles, and his slutty look was impossible to look at.
Gu Shian had a handsome face with no expression. He grabbed Big Head Brother and beat him up, and then came back to check if the sweater was ready as if nothing had happened.
Lin Yao saw through it but did not say anything, and laughed wildly in her heart.
This guy is just a cold and stuffy guy. If you want a new sweater, can't you just ask?
He has to hold it in and refuse to admit it.
It's a shame to save face!
On the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, the love sweater that Deputy Director Gu had been dreaming of finally came out, and someone put it on in the morning.
Just when Xu Xiangqian was showing off his sweater, Deputy Director Gu smiled slightly and showed off the black sweater under his police uniform in a low-key and connotative way.
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