An hour later, Ouyang Zhenyu appeared in Huang Guotao's ward.
Ouyang Zhenyu even gently listened to Huang Guotao's pulse and performed a simple examination with a stethoscope while smiling.
When Ouyang Zhenyu received the answer, a genuine smile appeared on his face.
Even Huang Guotao felt that Ouyang Zhenyu had been tamed by his son, otherwise, his attitude towards him a few days ago would not have been like this.
That's just how people are; they always need someone to have something on them to behave properly, especially proud people like that.
Ouyang Zhenyu turned and walked out, immediately making several phone calls.
Xu Min dragged her tired body back from the field, still carrying a hoe on her shoulder. Today's task was completed; it had been too hard.
The rice seedlings have already sprouted in the field.
The work in the fields is not as strenuous as it was in the previous two months.
But it's not much better.
After finishing her work in the fields, she also had to be responsible for gathering pig feed for the team's pig farm.
There was no other way; their work was much more demanding than that of ordinary employees.
This was because they were assigned extra work by the demoted personnel; others would earn work points for doing it, but for them...
Aside from the work points earned from officially working in the fields, nothing else counts.
But I couldn't refuse.
When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. If you refuse to cut pig feed, there will be a big meeting tonight.
Having seen too many large-scale events and plaque-hanging ceremonies, she didn't want her husband to experience something like that.
I'd rather do more work than be humiliated.
Put the hoes back in the tool shed; these hoes are managed by a designated person.
You collect it when you go to work each day, and you must return it when you come back.
Back in the little house she shared with her husband, they lived in a large courtyard within a cave dwelling. Outside the cave dwelling was a particularly large courtyard, and the gate to the courtyard was locked at night.
Basically, they can't get out.
There were relatively few people sent down to the countryside in this brigade, only seventeen or eighteen in total including the couple. However, even these seventeen or eighteen people did not receive much better treatment in the brigade.
When they first arrived, it was incredibly tough. They had no food, and the team wouldn't give them any.
Thanks to their prior preparations, they carried enough money and food coupons and secretly exchanged some grain with the villagers.
That's how I almost got caught and reported.
They escaped by sheer luck, and the villagers were kind enough to cover for them.
That was the end of the matter. The others who were caught were in meetings for a whole week, and they were bent over with embarrassment.
The meager amount of food they received in exchange was barely enough to last them for more than half a year.
Later, it was the eldest brother who learned that they were struggling financially, so he took out some of his own food rations and specially delivered some to them.
My older brother was lucky enough to get into that production team.
A week later, he saved the production team leader's grandson.
The production team leader was much more lenient with the eldest brother's family of five than with others, and would give them preferential treatment.
With the help of the production team leader, they basically didn't go hungry.
We no longer need to sneak around to send them surplus grain and help them.
After all, they only have grain during the autumn harvest here.
With their older brother and the others secretly approaching their side, they were able to get through the days.
Even if they don't have enough to eat, at least they can last until the autumn harvest.
She and her husband, carrying sickles and baskets as tall as a person, headed straight up the mountain. The villagers didn't say anything when they saw them; they all knew they were going to gather pig feed.
The two of them walked into the mountains, their steps uneven, and there were only three or five places where pig feed grew relatively lushly.
They didn't dare go to far places either, because they heard there were wild animals in these deep mountains, and the desert was just beyond the mountains, where it was easy to get lost if you weren't careful.
Other production teams usually raise cattle, horses, or sheep.
There aren't many pig farmers like them; their pigs are mainly for supplying the soldiers of nearby military units.
Calculation is a very important task for pigs.
Chen Zhiguo and his wife walked silently into the mountains.
The daily burdens of life have broken their backs. If they were both refined writers before, now they are no different from each other.
Chen Zhiguo just felt a little sorry for his wife. He was a grown man, and he could accept that he had ended up in this situation. If his wife had divorced him and cut ties with him back then, none of this would have happened.
The two had a deep affection for each other, but they realized that their love couldn't withstand the harsh environment here.
Seeing her husband remain silent, Chen's mother forced a smile, even though life was too hard.
But if there isn't even a smile, what hope is there for life?
"Honey, I imagine the eldest, second eldest, and Ruixue are doing well. Although I haven't heard from them, I know they've gone to the Red Flag Brigade."
“Ruixue used to work in the Red Flag Brigade, so the captain shouldn’t make things difficult for her this time.”
"I haven't received a single letter in so long, I don't know what's going on with them, but I imagine they're not having an easy time either."
It was just a coincidence that my brother and his team got together. Why would the captain of the Red Flag Brigade treat Ruixue differently?
Even if Ruixue is treated differently, there are still others!
You know how bad Dad's health is; he suffers a lot every winter.
There are no doctors or anything else here, and I'm worried that his health won't hold up.
However, some people can feel a little more at ease because they have an older or younger sibling.
Ruixue is too naive and pretty; I'm afraid she'll attract unwanted attention in the village.
Chen Zhiyuan had his own things on his mind. His children were scattered in different places, and the only one who was not implicated was probably the fourth child.
Who would have thought that the fourth son, who went his own way back then, would be the only one still alive in the family?
But no matter what, he dared not contact the fourth brother casually.
To avoid implicating the child as well.
"Sigh, even though we know where they are, we can't even send a letter out."
News travels are restricted here, and the roads out are too difficult to travel. The postman only comes once every three months.
These personnel were not authorized to send letters out; all letters had to be submitted to the brigade and then to the county for review before being allowed to be sent out.
The thought that others would see their letters made it seem pointless to write them at all.
The couple were both preoccupied with their own thoughts and bitterness, wondering when this would ever end.
The two men bent over and buried themselves in cutting pig feed. The pig feed in this area was growing well, almost half a person tall, and they could not see each other at all while squatting in the grass.
Suddenly, Chen's mother heard a sound coming from inside.
"Hurry up and take her to the little house on the mountain. She won't be able to run away then."
"Slow down, this road is so difficult to walk on. You're carrying this person as if it's so easy, and you don't want to hurt this woman."
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