Chapter 11 The Current Situation of the Gu Family
"My name is Sun Siyuan, you take it, or you won't be able to sleep well at night if you're hungry."
"You're welcome. We are all educated youth from the same village, and we are supposed to help each other."
As Sun Siyuan spoke, his face flushed slightly, and he actually felt a little embarrassed. He silently opened the oil paper package, revealing some broken biscuits on the edges.
He had kept these cookies for almost a month and he couldn't bear to eat them.
Seeing this, Song Zhaodi and the other three people quickly ate a few mouthfuls of corn paste, stuffed the bread into their mouths, and left in a hurry.
Seeing this, Sun Siyuan became even more shy.
The originally thin face was reflected with two blushes.
However, the reason why Zhao Sulan refused to accept Sun Siyuan’s things was not because she was shy or embarrassed.
Rather, the oil paper bag looked a bit dirty, and the biscuits were somewhat broken into pieces after opening it.
Because Sun Siyuan's hand holding the biscuit was quite close to Zhao Sulan, it smelled like grease.
It doesn’t look fresh at first glance, as if it has been stored for a long time.
Such things made Zhao Sulan, who always loved to take advantage, lose her appetite, so she didn't want it either.
But although she wouldn't eat such cookies, as a human being...she would!
"Sun Zhiqing, thank you for your kindness, but we just met today, so I can't take your cookies."
"You should save these biscuits for when you are hungry. I have some dry food here." Zhao Sulan said, stood up, nodded to Sun Siyuan, then turned around and went back to her room.
When Sun Siyuan saw Zhao Sulan like this, he couldn't help but feel a little moved.
"Hey, you're already caring about your man even before you even get married. You even saved the cookies for me..."
"We must capture this Zhao Zhiqing. There will definitely be no harm in marrying her!"
Sun Siyuan really does not have any mirror on him.
On the other side, after Gu Nan sent the tractor back to the brigade, he went home.
As soon as I stepped into the yard, I heard a violent cough coming from the main house.
Hearing the voice, Gu Nan walked quickly into the house.
I saw Gu's mother leaning against the earth wall, leaning on the kang, covering her mouth and coughing.
Seeing this, Gu Nan couldn't help but clench his fists, and then loosened them weakly.
"You came back so late. Have you eaten yet? There are two steamed buns warming in the pot. Go and eat them."
While speaking, Gu's mother suppressed her cough.
Mother Gu is only forty-four years old this year, but her hair is already half white. The family had just settled in Beijing for a few years when they were classified as the "five black categories" due to policy reasons and sent back to the village. The husband was sent alone to an unknown place.
After being demoted back to the village, the eldest son Gu Zhendong broke his legs while going up the mountain. It has been a year since his wife took the child back to her parents' home.
Two years ago, when the second son Gu Nan learned that his family was demoted, he took the initiative to apply for discharge from the army and return home, thus ruining his once bright future.
The youngest daughter, Gu Ningning, was born when her mother was 35 years old. She was born with congenital deficiencies and was therefore weak and sickly.
Gu Nan is usually taciturn and doesn't like to talk, but when he returns from the army, he wants to take good care of the family.
Seeing that his mother didn't want him to worry, Gu Nan looked at Gu Ningning who was sleeping beside her and nodded slightly before leaving the main house.
Gu Nan sat on the stone steps outside the kitchen, mechanically eating the cornmeal and multi-grain steamed bun in his hand, which tasted like chewing wax.
The moonlight poured down, making Gu Nan's jawline more distinct.
He turned his head to look at his mother's main house, then looked up at the moonlit sky with sparse stars.
He quickly ate the steamed bun and drank a large bucket of water, then went back to the house and changed into coarse cloth clothes.
The reason why I am dressed like this today is because the village chief asked me to leave a good impression on the new educated youth, so I am dressed a little more upright.
Gu Nan put a rusty sickle and a flashlight into a backpack. Walk quickly up the mountain.
Gu Ningning heard the sound, rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked up at her mother.
"Your second brother must have gone to the back mountain to hunt again. It's okay, just continue sleeping." Mother Gu patted Gu Ningning and told her to go to bed as soon as possible.
Gu Ningning nodded and continued to sleep.
On the other side, at the Youth League Institute, the newly arrived youth were packing their luggage.
There were two older educated youth living in the house with the new male educated youth, so they were chatting and cleaning up at the same time. They were all talkative, except for the dark-skinned man with a crew cut.
His name is You Wenguang, he is nineteen years old. He is not very talkative. He just packed his things and lay down on the kang.
He didn't talk much and no one knew what he was thinking, but judging from his expression, he didn't seem like the kind of person who was easy to approach.
There is a big kang near the window in Su Niannian's dormitory, which can accommodate five or six people. This kang takes up half of the space in the room.
Opposite the earthen kang, there are two cabinets, three tables and several benches.
They are all very shabby.
There were even a few holes in the cabinet, and it looked like the wooden boards had been rotten beyond recognition due to the passage of time.
The same is true for tables, chairs and benches.
"It seems that I have to ask a carpenter to help me make a cabinet or something when I'm free these two days." Su Niannian said as she looked at the dilapidated cabinet and table in front of her that looked like a burnt match.
"It should cost a lot to hire a carpenter to do it, right?" Song Zhaodi was a little worried.
Her family was in a bad situation, so she saved all the money for her younger brother.
This time when she went to the countryside, her parents only gave her fifteen yuan.
This is just for her to keep for the time being. If her work points are exchanged for food or money at the end of the year, she will have to send it back home.
"You can ask tomorrow." Su Niannian is rich now, but she will not take the initiative to pay for others to build a cabinet.
"Okay." Song Zhaodi thought, she didn't know how long she would stay in the countryside this time. If she used that broken cabinet, it would not be safe to keep things in it. If the price was right, she also wanted to build a cabinet.
However, when Zhao Sulan heard their conversation, she couldn't help but look down on them even more in her heart.
Building a cabinet requires a lot of consideration, it's really...
The earthen kang is now covered with straw, and it seems that other educated youth helped to lay it.
Su Niannian spread the mattress she brought on the straw, and then took out a pillow and a quilt.
These were all bought before, they are all new.
Song Zhaodi also brought a mattress and a quilt, but they were obviously old. However, she took them apart and washed them before coming.
After the two of them made their beds, they simply packed up their things and prepared to go to bed to rest.
Zhao Sulan, on the other hand, only brought a very thin quilt. She didn't know that there was not even a mattress or pillow here.
At that time, her mother asked her to carry it, but she thought it was too heavy and refused.
But it was already dark, and there was obviously no place to buy it, so looking at her thin quilt with floral fabric, she gritted her teeth and spread it on the straw.
I thought that I should go to the supply and marketing cooperative in the county as soon as possible to buy a mattress, or I could buy it from a fellow villager.
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