Chapter 69
Unfortunately, Lin Yao could only feast her eyes on him now. She hung on Gu Shian all night.
She hung on him while he drank water, read books and processed documents brought from the bureau. She would occasionally reach out and pinch Deputy Director Gu's abdominal muscles. The touch was so good, I wanted to touch it again!
Gu Shian could only hold the restless mother-to-be with one hand and flip through the files with the other.
When Lin Yao had satisfied her desire to touch him, she let him go and climbed onto the bed. She fell asleep contentedly hugging the pillow.
When she woke up, she spread her arms and legs, and the earthen bed took up most of her space. Lin Yao slept comfortably, but Gu Shian suffered.
Just now, someone got into his arms and rubbed his ears for a long time, taking advantage of him and making him feel uneasy. After a long silence, he could only go to the yard to do exercises, and then took a cold shower with a bucket. Gu Shidong
was thirsty in the middle of the night. He got out of bed in a daze and drank water from a teacup. After drinking the water, he was about to climb onto the kang. The bright moonlight outside shone through the window, casting a galaxy. The bad boy squinted and vaguely saw a figure in the yard...
Oh my god, there's a thief in the house!
Gu Shidong woke up in a second, jumped to the ground, and didn't even bother to put on shoes. He picked up the wooden gun on the kang and went to catch the thief barefoot.
The brat ran to the door and saw clearly that there was no thief in the yard. It was his brother who was doing exercises in the yard.
It was the middle of the night. His elder brother was having a seizure. Why was he doing exercises instead of sleeping? What if he woke up his sister-in-law?
The brat tiptoed through the crack of the door to see what happened to his brother.
As a result, as soon as his head reached the crack of the door, he met a pair of dark and cold eyes.
It was the middle of the night and the room was pitch black. His brother looked over suddenly, and the brat was so scared that he jumped onto the kang as if nothing had happened, wiped his feet, covered his head and pretended to sleep.
He fell into a daze again, and when he woke up again, the sun was already high outside.
Gu Shian knew it was late without a watch, so he leaned over the window and looked out. His father had swept the yard and fetched water, cleaned the rabbit nest inside and out, and moved the radishes and cabbages from the cellar to dry.
Zhang Cuilan was busy, busy even when the city was not working, wandering around every day to eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep. Sometimes Lin Yao sighed, no matter what era it was, it was not easy to survive
. Otherwise, it was said that the evil capitalism never tired of tempting people.
Look at the life of the Americans in the same period, and then look at the life of the three continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
There is no harm without comparison.
However, the vast majority of the revolutionary masses have a spirit of forging ahead courageously, not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and are devoted to building the motherland. In another ten years, the sleeping Oriental dragon will gradually awaken, and it will surely make the whole world tremble!
Lin Yao held his stomach with blood boiling and thought about the future. In the spring, the wild peach blossoms on the mountain bloomed bright buds. Before going to work, Gu Shian picked some and put them in a vase. Zhang Cuilan cooked corn porridge in the kitchen, picked and washed the shepherd's purse she dug yesterday, beat eggs, and made a pot of wild vegetable buns. White steam rose from the big pot.
Zhang Cuilan shouted, "Old man, stop busying yourself. Wash your hands and come over to help! Yaoyao, it's windy outside, come back to the house to eat. Dongzi, you bastard, you don't come out of your doghouse when the sun is shining on your butt. Do you want me to beat you with a broom?"
Comrade Cuilan shouted, revealing the family status of the old Gu family.
Gu Mancang washed his hands and helped Comrade Cuilan obediently. Dongzi was afraid that his mother would come over with a broom to beat him, so he immediately put on his clothes and went out.
The family sat down to wash and eat breakfast. In the years of famine, people in the mountains only had two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. They drank water at noon when they were hungry, and they could get through the day.
Although the old Gu family has food in reserve, they can't eat and drink lavishly.
For a month, he almost ate black wheat flour, and kept the fine grains at home for Lin Yao to replenish his health.
Recently, for some reason, the grain bags at home are not deflated. Zhang Cuilan was mumbling at the dinner table. Gu Mancang and his son looked confused. They didn't know. It was probably because the family had saved food, so there was no lack of food.
Lin Yao smiled as she held the bun and put it in her mouth. The dough was made of Erhe noodles, and the shepherd's purse stuffing was filled with eggs. The twist was crispy, and it had the fresh fragrance of shepherd's purse and chopped green onion. It was so delicious after one bite!
Well, you should pay attention next time you secretly put food in your bag.
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The first half of 1959 was still a lean period.
People had hoped that the weather would be good in the new year, and that the sorghum, wheat, rice, and corn in the fields would be harvested soon so that they could have a good meal.
But a new round of steel smelting came, and the fields in Yunshui County, which should have been busy, were quiet. All the old and young people in the village were called to smelt steel.
The weather in May was already hot. The production teams of each commune had built tall earthen stoves with blazing fires underneath. The men in the village were bare-chested, shouting slogans, carrying baskets of scrap copper and iron that they had collected and dumping them into the earthen stoves. One man, wearing a red scarf, was tirelessly stirring the molten iron with a wooden pole...
The baskets of copper and iron turned into molten iron, and it was unknown when steel would be smelted.
The major factories in Yunshui County were originally scheduled to start work in May, but now the workers have all gone to smelt steel, and the start date has been pushed back.
Only a young girl who sorted documents was left in the county public security bureau, and the others went to the suburbs with the militia company and the armed forces to smelt steel.
In the middle of the day, the air was filled with the smell of dry wood burning pots, molten iron and gasoline. A group of heroic public security guys in the past, wearing white vests and rolled up their trousers, were like the villagers in the countryside, swinging their arms to carry buckets of water from the river, digging holes and planting trees.
- Large-scale steel smelting requires a lot of wood.
The higher-ups issued a red-headed document, requiring that while cutting down trees, the necessary saplings should also be loaded.
Xu Xiangqian complained to Gu Shian, isn't this just taking off pants to fart?
Gu Shian patted him on the shoulder. The county public security bureau divided the police into two groups. Gu Shian led one group to plant saplings in the back mountain, and the other group followed the old director to smelt steel. As soon as the afternoon came, they smelted a small pile of reddish-brown "steel".
The old director wore a straw hat and frowned, saying, "What can this broken thing do?"
Xu's father lifted a towel to wipe his face, "It can only be sold as broken."
The old director was very angry, "What is the higher-ups doing? This is nonsense!"
Xu's father was calmer than the old director. He was also angry in his heart, but he could suppress his anger. "Old man, don't be angry. The situation is pressing. It's useless to say anything now. Let's calm down and wait. The country will not always be like this."
The old director did not understand the principle of keeping a low profile. Several of his old colleagues were fired for telling the truth, and their families were sent to work in the countryside...
The old director sighed, "No more talk, no more talk. It's getting late. Let's stop working and have dinner."
On the back of the mountain, the young men had planted a hillside full of trees. They were lucky and didn't have to forge steel like the other brothers.
That was just a waste of time.
Planting trees requires tamping the tree pit, watering it once, filling it with soil and then pouring another bucket of water. Gu Shian carefully checked it and nodded to the young men who were wilting in the sun, saying, "Get off work."
"Okay!"
"It's time to eat!"
"What are you having for lunch?"
"Nothing, just rice porridge."
"I don't believe it, show me."
A group of young men sat under the shade of the tree and played together, which was quite lively.
Gu Shian was used to sitting alone on a dry straw pile. He had just taken out his lunch box when Xu Xiangqian came over with a grin on his face.
"Hey, Lao Gu, you are here. Why don't you wait for me? Hey, Yaoyao cooked something delicious for you today. Give me a bite too."
There is no food in the city now, and the Public Security Bureau canteen is closed.
When everyone goes to work in the countryside, they can only bring food from home, usually two cereals, pickles, and a few eggs if the family has good skills.
The Xu family has food, and Xu's mother is focused on her daughter-in-law every day, but she doesn't pay much attention to Brother Big and his son. She steams a pot of steamed buns, cuts a few slices of spicy cabbage, and puts it in the lunch box for a meal.
The key is that Xu's father was very satisfied with his meal, and his old friend also ate this.
Big Head Brother was in a bad situation. The old Gu family lived in the countryside. When spring came, the pheasants in the mountains would come out stupidly to look for food. Ordinary people couldn't catch them, but this guy would fly away as soon as he passed by.
Dongzi looked at the pheasants all over the mountain and felt itchy. He went to his second uncle Zhang's house, led his second uncle's hunting dog, and went to the back mountain in a heroic manner.
Good guy, the pheasant's nest was taken away by the bad boy.
A row of seven or eight pheasants, plus a nest of eggs, were all slaughtered by Gu Mancang. Lin Yao personally went into battle, stewing a pot of spicy chicken today and a pot of braised chicken tomorrow. The whole family was eating with oil dripping from their mouths.
Deputy Director Gu also benefited from this. Last night, Gu Shidong suddenly felt like eating chicken stewed with mushrooms.
What's the big deal? Zhang Cuilan waved her hand, and Gu Mancang picked up the last pheasant, soaked wild mushrooms and black fungus, and stewed a pot of fragrant chicken with water.
The old Gu family closed the kitchen door tightly and the windows, and the family had a happy meal.
Zhang Cuilan left a small pot for Gu Chunmei and her husband. The big-headed ducks were chirping there, just like 800 ducks quacking.
Gu Shian's eyebrows jumped. Now there were so many people and noisy, and he couldn't take out the small pot, so he threw a boiled egg over.
Xu Xiangqian was also content. The two good brothers sat down and ate quietly.
The steelmaking industry was in full swing in the countryside and the city. Lin Hongna was almost seven months pregnant. Sun's mother had found an old doctor in the town and asked him to feel her daughter-in-law's pulse to see if she was pregnant with a boy or a girl.
The old doctor said it was a boy.
Sun's mother was very happy. She was a street cadre, but she was also a mother-in-law. Which mother-in-law didn't want to have a big grandson these days?
Besides, their grandson's family had only one son for three generations, and Jialiang was the only son. Sun's mother ordered Lin Hongna not to stop having children until she had three or five children.
Sun's family was a family with a noble character. How could they survive without two or three male children to support the family?
Lin Hongna agreed on the surface, but as soon as her grandmother left, she showed an impatient look.
Give birth to three or five babies?
The old woman treated her like a sow, giving birth to piglets one after another!
Lin Hongna's status in the grandson's family soared with the baby in her belly and her previous achievements in taking care of her grandfather. She was pregnant, and her grandmother had to do all the housework, even if she didn't want to.
Day by day, her grandmother's arms and waist were either sore, and her delicate hands were rough.
For the sake of her future eldest grandson, her grandmother actually condescended to take the initiative to ask Li Aifeng to come home to visit her daughter.
- In fact, she wanted to call Li Aifeng to be a nanny.
This was simply good news from heaven.
Li Aifeng never dreamed that she would have a day to visit the home of a great leader in town!
After her grandfather recovered, he returned to the light bulb factory to take charge of the work. The former director had retired, and a new leadership team was being formed in the factory. Now her grandfather was the acting director!
In the eyes of Li Aifeng, a country woman, her own in-laws were already the directors of the light bulb factory!
Lin Hongna hadn't seen her family for half a year, and she would be lying if she said she didn't miss them.
Li Aifeng was a perfect woman, but she was her own mother after all, and the mother and daughter had warm and loving memories.
Now, the village was busy smelting steel, and Lin Hongna raised her head and chest to find the team leader to get a certificate for visiting relatives.
Don't ask. If you ask, my daughter has a promising future and married into the family of a high-ranking official. My in-laws invited me to dinner!
Li Aifeng got a certificate, packed up a small bag, got on the old ox cart in the village and never came back to the town.
The living conditions in Sun's family are excellent. There are clean wooden floors, a complete set of well-matched furniture, comfortable black leather sofas, and my five-drawer wardrobe covered with floral cloth. Even the cups for drinking water at home are patterned teacups!
Li Aifeng wore her most decent clothes. Just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, as soon as she stepped into Sun's house, she was so restrained that she didn't know where to put her hands and feet.
Oh my god, my in-laws asked her to sit on the sofa.
Li Aifeng drank the brown sugar water made by Sun's mother, sat half of her butt on the sofa, and talked to her with a licking face.
"Mother-in-law, you must be tired on the way."
"No, we country people walk a lot, it's just a few steps."
Li Aifeng was much more sensible when it came to her grandson's mother, a cadre
in-law. Grandson's mother smiled kindly and mentioned tactfully that she was busy with street work recently. She was the street director and couldn't take care of the family, so she wanted Li Aifeng to help take care of her daughter-in-law at home.
Li Aifeng was eager to stay at grandson's house for a few more days, and quickly patted her chest to promise.
"Look at what you said, dear relative. Hongna is also my daughter-in-law. Don't worry. I will take care of all the housework for now!"
Grandmother Sun smiled with satisfaction and said that Li Aifeng should not work for nothing. She gave her a piece of fragrant soap and two yuan a month as a thank you gift.
Li Aifeng was reluctant to let go of the fragrant soap, and the good words in her mouth popped out like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.
"Hey, dear relative, you are so polite. This soap is really fragrant. It's not cheap, right? We are all family, why should we say thank you or not? There is no work in our family. I am free anyway, so let's start cleaning now!"
Grandmother Sun said that the dishes in the house had not been washed for lunch.
Li Aifeng rolled up her sleeves and went to wash the dishes. After washing the dishes, she started mopping the floor, watering the flowers and sweeping the yard.
Grandmother's heart was filled with laughter. This stupid woman from the country was really short-sighted. She was so happy with just two yuan a month that she lost her mind.
Grandson's monthly salary of 75 yuan, plus various welfare subsidies from the light bulb factory, and gifts from subordinates in the factory during festivals, all went to grandmother.
Grandmother was smart. She saved all her salary subsidies and let grandfather pay for all the food and drink expenses at home.
The grandparents were also wealthy. Their parents-in-law passed down a pair of ruby dragon and phoenix bracelets and a mutton-fat jade pendant. Their grandparents hid them carefully, and none of their three children let out a word.
As for Lin Hongna, she was an outsider in the eyes of their grandparents. No one could touch her unless she closed her eyes!
There was a hint of pride in the grandparents' eyes, but Lin Hongna was furious.
This old woman treated her mother as her own mother!
After Li Aifeng finished her work, she went to the maid's room to talk to her.
Lin Hongna couldn't hold back her anger and pointed out the reason, but Li Aifeng didn't care at all, "A nanny is just a nanny. She looks down on me, but I look down on her too. Girl, just wait, mom will give that old bitch a bowl of croton powder tonight, so that she will fart every time she walks, and the old bitch will be suffocated to death!"
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