Chapter 97
"Second aunt, there's no one at the Gu family now, should we take action?"
"Now is not a good time. It's most satisfying to cut people's hearts with a knife. Keep an eye on the other members of the family and the old, weak and disabled people in the Gu family, because you will have the chance to kill people in the future."
"Listen to second aunt."
When it came to killing people, the man in charge of surveillance had an indescribable excitement in his eyes, and then he disappeared quietly in the evening.
In the big compound, Lin Yao took Gu Doudou to the post office. In addition to sending a large package and some chubby photos of Gu Doudou to Lin Yi, she also wrote a long letter. In the letter, she repeatedly told her brother not to send remittance slips back. In the past few months, Lin Yi sent a remittance slip every month, and the total amount was more than 2,000 yuan.
This guy was afraid that his sister would not accept it, so he said that it was for Gu Doudou's nutrition.
Lin Yao was simply in tears.
Who is so generous as to give his nephew so much money as nutrition?
To be frank, the two or more yuan would be more than enough for the fat boy to grow up and get married.
After all, in the early 1960s, the average wage for ordinary people was only about 20 yuan a month. Lin Yi probably sent all his military allowances.
When Deputy Director Gu was not away, the couple looked at the monthly remittance slips and stared at their fat son for a long time.
Gu Shian smiled helplessly, put on his clothes and went to the county People's Bank, opened an account, and deposited the money sent by his brother-in-law. The couple waited for the day when Lin Yi got married and returned the money intact.
Today, the sun was bright. Lin Yao took out an unused quilt from the closet, altered it to the size of the crib, washed it, and replaced it with a sky-blue quilt. She left it in the yard for an afternoon in the sun. While Gu Doudou was eating apple puree, she spread the quilt on the crib. When Gu Doudou was full and sleeping soundly on the big bed, Lin Yao moved the kid to the crib and slept soundly.
That night, in the pitch-dark mountains, the calls of birds and beasts during the day disappeared, leaving only the silent valley, as if a monster with its mouth wide open wanted to swallow everything in the world.
Gu Shian was hiding behind a hidden bush. His camouflage uniform, which was fresh when he set out in the morning, was now covered with grass and mud. Xu Xiangqian was also covered in a mess, and he was crawling in the bush with a few other guys.
One of the guys had a wound on his left arm, and he had just applied medicine. He was leaning against a tree, enduring the pain without making a sound.
Gu Shian's black eyes observed the situation around him like a hawk. Xu Xiangqian took out a few vegetable dumplings from his bag and gave one to each of them. He lowered his voice and whispered, "Old Gu, you haven't had a drop of water for most of the day. Even if you are made of iron, you have to eat , right?"
"The vegetable dumplings made by Chunmei are edible, but not as delicious as those made by Yaoyao."
"Old Gu, didn't you tell the truth to your family this time?"
Gu Shian bit the cloth strip to bandage the scratch on his hand and said lightly, "You said it?"
"Of course not. Except for me and my father, everyone else in the family is very tight-lipped. People outside just think we are going to the countryside for training. My mother is in poor health and Tang Yuan is only one year old. If I tell the truth, it will make Chunmei and my mother worry for nothing! Besides, we will be gone for more than ten days this time. If the news spreads out in the county, the drug dealers will be well-informed. Why should I say this?"
Gu Shi'an said "um", and the meaning was very clear. How can I say it if you haven't said it?
Xu Xiangqian nodded. That's right, Old Gu is not stupid. Can he tell the truth to his family?
He prayed to God again.
"Oh, God bless me, if Chunmei knows the truth when I return from this mission, please don't punish me."
Gu Shi'an's lips curled up.
"Old Gu, what are you laughing at? Your position in your wife's house is not that good either. We are brothers of the same level!"
Big Head Brother kept on talking, and Deputy Director Gu stuffed a vegetable dumpling into his mouth.
"..."
Xu Xiangqian took a bite of the hard vegetable dumpling, and now he missed the meat pie he had at noon. The taste was so delicious, and Yaoyao's cooking skills were really amazing.
As for his own Chunmei, Big Head Brother had to admit that the food his wife cooked was good enough.
"No, old Gu, when we go back home this time, I have to go to your house for a good meal and let Yaoyao cook something for us, braised pork!"
When Big Head Brother mentioned Lin Yao, Gu Shian's stern expression softened. He first went to see the injured young man, "How is the wound? Does it still hurt?"
The injured young man grinned.
"It's okay. Thanks to the medicine given by Deputy Gu, the bleeding stopped."
Another young man turned around and said, "You are lucky. The drug dealer's gun almost hit your chest."
"What's the big deal? When our drug-hunting team was dispatched, the drug dealer was beaten to pieces."
Gu Shian patted the two young men on the shoulders. "The drug dealers have not been completely eliminated. You must not take it lightly. No matter what time, you must put your own life and the safety of your teammates first."
If you lose your life, you will really lose everything.
The two young men nodded solemnly.
*
It was not summer at the end of April, but the weather in Yunshui County was hot.
The Dragon Boat Festival was approaching. On her way home from work, Lin Yao met an old farmer selling fruits and vegetables grown at home. She went back to take a look and found that the farmer had small watermelons for sale at his stall. After asking, she learned that spring had come early this year and the farmer had opened up a field early, planted watermelon seeds, and had just harvested a bunch of small watermelons. He wanted to bring them to the city to sell.
Lin Yao's surprised expression made the farmer very happy.
It was natural to be happy that someone appreciated the watermelons grown at home.
The eldest brother picked a small watermelon with a green rind and cut a piece with a knife. "Come, girl, try it. If it's not sweet, you don't have to pay."
Lin Yao took a bite. It was sweet and juicy, and the bright red color was no worse than the watermelons in summer. When she asked the price, it was 2.5 cents per pound. Two more old ladies came over and wanted to buy watermelons.
The three of them negotiated the price together and it came down to 2.3 cents per pound. Lin Yao bought five watermelons, and the other two old ladies each took two. It's enough to just taste the watermelon. They also advised Lin Yao, "Save the money. Life is not over in one day."
"As a daughter-in-law, you can't be so wasteful."
Lin Yao smiled and said that there are many people in the family, so if she bought a few more, the whole family could taste them.
The two old ladies expressed their understanding. They had many people at home, so they only bought two to take home.
Lin Yao went home with a net bag of small watermelons. Zhang Cuilan was chatting at the rich aunt's house next door.
The rich aunt's eldest daughter brought her two children home to visit relatives. Her husband was also a soldier. The two children were educated to be very polite. When they saw their elders, they called them uncles and aunts.
The eldest grandson of the rich aunt saw the fair-skinned Lin Yao and smiled at her foolishly, "Hello, beautiful sister!"
Lin Yao was overjoyed by the call. As a woman, she would be happy to hear others call her beautiful sister. She immediately took out a few milk candies to reward the little guy.
"Silly boy, that's not my sister, that's my brother Doudou's mother."
"Ah, is there such a young and beautiful mother?"
"Of course not, my father said that my mother is the most beautiful and young person in the world."
"When did my father say that? How come I didn't know?"
"Hehe, I overheard my parents' whispers at night."
The two little guys talked back and forth, telling all the love stories of the rich aunt, daughter and son-in-law.
Everyone was very happy when they heard it, with a gossipy expression of "Oh, the couple has a good relationship."
The rich aunt and daughter's face was as red as a cooked shrimp, they dropped the food in their hands, gritted their teeth and carried the two little guys back to the house for "love education".
The rich lady slapped her thigh and said, "My dear girl, if you have anything to say, let's talk it out and don't hit the children."
It was impossible not to hit the children.
The two naughty children were spanked by their own mother and cried loudly.
The big courtyard was in chaos, and Gu Doudou, who was sleeping in the house, was woken up. The little fat boy was now flexible and lay down on the small bed with his fat butt sticking up.
"Mom, mom, cry, cry outside!"
The little boy hugged Lin Yao's legs and pulled her to rush out.
Seeing that the little boy went there without any excitement, Lin Yao couldn't help but hold his forehead.
When the fat boy was just born, he frowned all day long, like a little old man. Lin Yao was worried that the child would take after his father at such a young age, with a stern face and no smile.
Now that she thinks about it, she was really worrying for nothing. Looking at the little fat boy's chattering face, he doesn't have the maturity and stability of Deputy Director Gu at all.
Alas, it would be better to give birth to a little Gu Shi'an, at least he is really quiet.
Lin Yao was worried, and Gu Doudou blinked his big eyes and tilted his head to look at her in confusion.
"Mom?"
"Hmm?"
"Cry, go ahead and cry."
Lin Yao: "..."
Little Gu Doudou didn't see the yard after all, and the unscrupulous old mother made up a story, saying that there was a big rat in the yard that would bite his chubby face if he went out.
You know, Gu Doudou is fearless, just like Lin Yao, afraid of black rats with green eyes and slippery rat snakes.
When he heard that there was a big rat in the yard, the little fat boy stopped making trouble immediately. Wherever Lin Yao went, the little guy followed, and even didn't eat the freshly cut watermelon.
Lin Yao also felt that she had gone too far, and regretted that she had said too much, and looked at how scared her fat son was.
The old mother, who had a guilty conscience, waited until Gu Doudou fell asleep. She did not carry the little boy to the crib, but slept peacefully on the big bed with her chubby son in her arms.
*
The days slowly drifted into May. The temperature had risen during the day, and mosquitoes began to appear in the courtyard at night.
The mosquitoes in Yunshui County are particularly fierce, especially the big mosquitoes with flower wings, which are particularly itchy when they bite people.
Deputy Director Gu was not at home, so Lin Yao also neatly installed a mosquito net on the big bed, cut a piece of green gauze to cover the windows on both sides, and replaced the curtains in the house. There was a new movie showing in the county recently, and Gu Shidong was clamoring to go and watch it.
Gu Doudou didn't know what a movie was, but when his uncle called him, he shouted too.
Lin Yao simply bought tickets for the whole family, and the whole family went to the cinema to watch a movie.
When the movie was over, the moon was already high in the sky, and the family hurried home. As soon as they entered the house, Lin Yao was quick to notice that something was wrong.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
