Chapter 52
For the next half month, Lin Yao had a bumpy ride on the way to work, and she could only hold someone's waist tightly and not let go.
Deputy Director Gu's evil plan succeeded, and he was in a good mood and solved the case as if he had divine help.
In mid-November, there was a cold wind outside in the late autumn morning, and it started to rain soon, hitting the flowers, plants and trees in the yard, and the withered yellow leaves fell to the ground, and the big yard was full of autumn.
Outside the alley, there was a row of tall ginkgo trees on both sides of the road. The ginkgo trees swayed down with the wind and laid a thin layer on the ground.
Lin Yao picked up a few beautiful leaves and clipped them into Gu Shian's military book as bookmarks.
It rained in the morning. Lin Yao was lying on the bed, listening to the sound of rain and sleeping soundly with a small quilt. She was more and more reluctant to get up. The food in the commune canteen these days was simply unpalatable.
The old Gu family had four people working and one going to school. If they didn't eat enough, they would have no energy to work.
Zhang Cuilan thought about it and decided to cook at home in the morning, eat in the factory canteen at noon, and eat the food brought back from the canteen at night. Three meals a day.
There was someone in this family who was not happy.
Last night, the commune canteen steamed a pot of bean dregs and sweet potato noodles with vegetable nests. It was called vegetable nests, but it was actually chopped radish and sweet potato noodles with bean dregs kneaded into nests. It was hard and bitter.
Dongzi, the brat, would not eat it after taking a bite.
Comrade Cuilan glared and waved her hands. The boy poked at the nest of vegetables and swallowed it in one gulp.
In fact, Dongzi didn't like it. The bean dregs and vegetable nests were really hard to swallow.
Everyone had to eat them. There was no other way. Now it was good to have something to eat.
In the several provinces in the north that were hit hard by the disaster, the people there didn't even eat vegetable nests. I heard that they even cooked sweet potato leaves and ate everything. Director Ge emphasized at a meeting that if the situation was not good, the disaster victims from other provinces might flee to other places. The number of disaster victims would be at least a few thousand, and at most tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Once the door to fleeing was opened, it was hard to say what would happen in the future.
If there were really disaster victims who came to Yunshui County to escape famine, the county's public security bureau and armed forces would probably be busy as hell.
The members sighed and were shocked. It had only been a few years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the people were going hungry again. The educated sour literati cited the Soviet Union as an example, and muttered with their hands behind their backs, "We can't follow the old path of the Soviet Union."
Someone asked if you had any good ideas?
Those sour literati were full of nonsense, and the listeners were confused and simply stopped listening. Life was still going on as it had to be. Why think so much?
After all, it hadn't come to that point yet.
The cellar in Gu's hometown was full of food. As the old saying goes, if you have enough food, you won't be worried.
Zhang Cuilan cooked a pot of millet porridge in the morning, cracked two eggs into a bowl, and fried a plate of chives and eggs. The chives were grown at home, so they were always available, and they kept coming out.
The old Gu family really had no shortage of eggs now. It was true that eggs were hard to buy outside, but they had Lin Yao.
Every month, she "asked" Zhou Xiaoxue to buy a basket of eggs from the Chengnan Supply and Marketing Cooperative. There were only fifteen or sixteen eggs in a basket. There were many people in the family, so one a day was too few, and one per person was not realistic.
The family fried a plate of eggs every few mornings, closed the doors and windows of the house tightly, and the family ate quickly to ensure nutrition.
Lin Yao was dug out from under the quilt by Gu Shian. She yawned and lay in the man's broad arms, refusing to move. Gu Shian got up and carried her around the room. Lin Yao
was still sleepy, but suddenly she was picked up by this guy. The man's arms were strong and powerful. He carried her around the room. The cold and humid air outside the window hit her face and she woke up.
"Why are you turning around so early in the morning?"
What if my mother pushed the door open?
Lin Yao reacted and kicked her two little white legs to get down.
Gu Shian smiled and bent down to kiss the little girl.
"Yaoyao, you're not sleepy anymore."
You're sleepy, you big head ghost.
Lin Yao quickly climbed back to bed and wrapped herself up in a small quilt, fearing that Gu Shian would have another seizure and run wildly in the yard with her on his back. If that happened, she would never have to go out again.
She hurried Gu Shian out and quickly changed into work clothes in the house. She went out to wash her face and brush her teeth, put on some vanishing cream and went out to eat.
After the family finished breakfast, it rained slowly for most of the day. When they were about to go out, it started to rain heavily.
Lin Yao was holding an umbrella, wearing rain boots, and carrying a small bag, waiting for Gu Shian to push his bicycle to take her to work.
There were pools of rain at the gate of the large compound. Lin Yao was not happy to go there, as Deputy Director Gu was coming to pick her up.
Liu Ercui went out to empty the spittoon. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but spit on the ground. What a vixen, what a little girl. She flirts all
day long for everyone. She only knows how to seduce men. God is blind. Why didn't the bag of croton powder go into the Gu family's water tank? Otherwise, the vixen would have diarrhea for a week. Let's see how she can still be so coquettish!
Since Liu Ercui lost her job, Zheng Dacheng has been away from home for three days. Even if he comes back, he will beat and scold him at home if he is not satisfied. The two children would rather go to school than stay at home.
Liu Ercui wanted to hide. She wanted to stay at her eldest sister's house for a few days, but her eldest sister said that she had something to do at home and it was inconvenient. She wanted to stay at her youngest sister's house. The youngest sister waved her hands and asked her for accommodation fees.
Liu Ercui was so angry that she scolded Liu Xiaomei for being ungrateful, but Liu Xiaomei still argued.
"Big sister, I don't like what you said. I am not married to a man as good as you, and my husband is not as capable as my brother-in-law. It is so glorious to be a master of a steel mill. When your family was enjoying a good life, you never thought about me, your sister. My house is only about 10 square meters, and there is no place to sleep. We built a bunk bed in the house. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law sleep on the lower bed, and my husband and I sleep on the upper bed. The place is so small that it is difficult to turn around. You come to my house to sleep, so you have to build two pieces of wood as a bed? You don't spend money on food and drink, but I don't have a penny. If you don't give me money, you will starve to death?"
Liu Ercui was speechless because of her sister's blockage.
She wanted to do the same as before, just take out a dollar from her pocket, even though it was all in Chinese currency, it was still money.
But now her pocket was cleaner than her face. Zheng Dacheng hid the money at home, and Liu Ercui had already spent all her private money.
Liu Ercui could only go home, wash Zheng Dacheng's stinky socks and pants, get up early and go to bed late, and empty the urine pot every day. Oh my god, when will this life end?
In December 1958, a major event that shocked the whole country happened in the country. The Soviet Union suddenly fell out with the motherland, not only withdrawing the scientists who came to China to help, but also taking away the confidential documents.
China and the Soviet Union have deployed troops on their borders, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers on high alert. If they are not careful, an unprecedented war will break out again.
In order to cope with the current complex international situation and fight against the US imperialism and the Soviet Union, the Party Central Committee put forward the slogan of "everyone is a soldier", and all parts of the country vigorously developed armed forces.
Major factories across the country also responded to the call and formed their own militia companies . Not only did the militia companies have a gun for each person, but the county committee compound, some large factory hospitals, some important units, and warehouses even had anti-aircraft guns and mortars.
Even the county primary school has set up a children's group. Dongzi carries a red cherry wood □□ every day and goes out in the wind and rain. He looks no different from a little soldier in the war.
Lin Yao was really shocked when he first learned about this.
According to the historical development of the previous generation, the country officially broke up with the Soviet Union in 1960. In May 1964, in order to implement the strategic policy of "preparing for war, preparing for famine, and serving the people", the Party Central Committee put forward the call for the whole party to focus on military affairs and implement the policy of universal military service.
Now everything is five or six years earlier than in the previous generation. At least there are things in the past to pave the way.
After Lin Yao was shocked, she quickly thought it through.
If she can wear books, what else can't happen?
After school in the afternoon, Gu Shidong ran home, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find a small box, and shouted that he wanted to sew a cover himself to put his precious wooden snatch.
Gu Chunmei happened to come to her mother's house for nothing. When she heard what her brother said, she laughed and said mercilessly, "Come on, you are the only one who can do needlework with your hands. I will sew for you."
Gu Shidong's eyes widened, and he came over and laughed, "Sister, how come you have become so virtuous."
Gu Chunmei took out the needlework and thread scraps from the basket, put them on the table, and sat on the chair next to her, "Dixie, there is no red cloth in the basket, go ask our mother for a piece."
"Yes, yes, okay."
Comrade Cuilan's scraps of cloth were all treasures, how could she take them out to tease her old son.
In the end, it was Lin Yao who took out a piece of red cloth from the bundle, and Dongzi, the little boy, smiled happily.
Gu Chunmei was sewing by the window, while Lin Yao brought a chair to watch.
The two sisters chatted together. Gu Chunmei hadn't been home for several days.
Today, she had nothing to do at the supply and marketing cooperative, so she took the time to go back to her parents' home.
Lin Yao bought some sugar-coated glutinous rice cakes on the way home from work. The sugar-coated glutinous rice cakes in Yunshui County are different from those in other places. They are as big as a fist, round and plump, and covered with icing sugar. Osmanthus honey, rock sugar peanuts and white sesame seeds are added inside. They are rolled in the oil pan and are fragrant and sweet when you bite them.
Gu Chunmei ate several pieces in a row, and they were so sweet that she smacked her lips.
"Yaoyao, you are willing to spend money. A pound of sugar cubes costs 80 cents. I can't bear to spend money to buy them."
Lin Yao took a bite of the sugar cubes. "You earn money at work to spend it. Why save it? You earn so little a month, and Big Head Brother at home earns a lot. You live so frugally. Are you saving it for raising children in the future?"
Gu Chunmei's ears turned red.
Lin Yao really guessed right. Gu Chunmei and Big Head Brother were trying to have a baby. The wooden bed in that room rocked until midnight every day. Apart from other things, the couple were not considered young in this era. Tiger Head Mom next door gave birth to Tiger Head at the age of 20. Now she is only in her early 30s and is already the mother of three children.
Gu Chunmei got married, and her female colleagues in the supply and marketing cooperative asked her every day when her family would have a baby.
Xu's father and mother were also looking forward to having grandchildren, so Gu Chunmei inevitably felt pressured.
Lin Yao comforted her, "Why should you feel pressured? Having a baby depends on fate. You've only been married for a month, so don't be anxious."
Gu Chunmei nudged her with her elbow, looking gossipy, "Hey, are you and my brother really not anxious?"
Lin Yao's little face was full of innocence, "No."
Gu Chunmei seemed to be thinking about something, "That's right, my brother is old, and there's no point in being anxious."
Deputy Director Gu, who happened to walk in, said: "..."
Lin Yao was not in a hurry to have a baby, but Lin Hongna was going crazy to have a baby.
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