743: Something happened at home, come back quickly
Yu Xiaoye asked:
"Why?"
"Don't you have to go back with Xiao Zhou to spend the New Year with your parents-in-law? Once you're done with your New Year's Day work, pack up and go back."
"Mom, I'm a daughter who has been married off, like spilled water?"
Xu Ying criticized:
"Silly child, you and Xiao Zhou have been staying with me all year. It's finally Chinese New Year, and you have a chance to take a vacation. Why don't you go back with Xiao Zhou to see your parents-in-law? They won't miss you, but don't they miss their own son? What if you two spend Chinese New Year with me and your parents-in-law in Beijing complain about me stealing their son?"
Yu Xiaoye thought about it and it seemed to be true.
"Besides, you two spent the New Year at my place last year, so it's time for them to have their turn."
Yu Xiaoye nodded, it was indeed time to go to Beijing to celebrate the New Year.
But she couldn't let go of this side, and asked with a smile:
"Mom, if I go to Beijing and don't spend the New Year with you, will you miss me so much that I won't be able to eat the dumplings I want?"
"Forget it, I'll have peace and quiet only when everyone leaves."
"Mom, I can't take you like this!"
"Okay, okay, when you're not home, Mom will miss you so much that she won't be able to eat or sleep, okay?"
“Hehehe——”
The family walked out of the train station. On the way, they went to a grocery store to buy some other things. They walked and shopped along the way, and when they returned home, their mood improved.
With three people missing from the house, it suddenly felt much emptier. Xu Ying and Cuihua were a little uncomfortable with it. They always felt that Chen Ci and the child were still in the house, and their legs kept wanting to go there.
Then I thought that once Chen Ci and the child left, Yu Zhengxian might never come again.
Now thinking about how Yu Zhengxian was forced to divorce and his newborn son passed away, I feel a little sorry for him.
But as the saying goes, there must be something hateful about a pitiful person, and he did it himself.
Think about the changes he has undergone during this period of time. He has changed from an unemployed vagrant to a forestry worker. He can work in the forestry farm down to earth and no longer engage in those crooked ways. This is also a great improvement.
People change little by little.
A few days after Chen Ci left, Yu Erye and Yu Xiaoye went to the forest farm together, specifically to visit their eldest brother.
Yu Xiaoye knew that her elder brother loved Chen Ci and his son. The departure of the mother and son must have caused great psychological trauma to her elder brother. She was worried that her elder brother would become unable to get over it, or would give up and become the fearless outlaw he used to be.
However, when they met their elder brother in the forest farm canteen, they saw that he was working normally. Although his face was obviously a little weathered, he was not depressed by the departure of his wife and children. Yu Xiaoye felt a little relieved.
"Brother, why don't you go home for the New Year this year?" Yu Xiaoye advised.
Yu Zhengxian shook his head:
"No."
Yu Erye said:
"Why not go? It's so nice to go home for the New Year. You're lonely here alone. You should come back with me. Think about how lively it was when we all celebrated the New Year at home last year. This year, Xiao Ye and the director are going to Beijing. Then there will only be my parents, Cuihua, Pang Ya and me at home. It will be so boring with so few people. You should go back too. Let's celebrate the New Year together. Let's buy some firecrackers and set them off together."
Yu Zhengxian remained unmoved and said the same thing:
"I'm not going."
No matter how Yu Erye and Yu Xiaoye tried to persuade him, Yu Zhengxian never agreed to go home, saying that he wanted to stay in the forest farm. The canteen was full of pigs and other livestock, and no one was needed.
Although the brother and sister felt very sorry, they had no choice but to accept the decision as their eldest brother had made up his mind to stay in the forest farm.
A few days after Yu Erye and Yu Xiaoye arrived at the forest farm, an unexpected notice came from above, officially promoting Yu Zhengxian to the position of chief steward of the forest farm canteen, and his salary was raised by one level.
From then on, Yu Zhengxian became a cadre and took up a leadership position.
Good news came one after another. The forest farm canteen was rated as an advanced collective this year and will go on stage to receive praise at the New Year's Day meeting.
This was the first time the logging company had received an honor since its establishment two or three years ago. The entire forest farm, especially all the lumberjacks in the original logging company, were particularly excited.
Yu Zhengxian was very calm about the good news. He pretended to be happy on the surface, but in fact he was calm inside.
No amount of good news can fill the hole deep inside my heart.
Ever since Chen Ci took his son away, his heart felt like it was empty, with nothing there. It had become an invisible and intangible, yet real black hole.
Especially when you are alone in the dead of night, that black hole can swallow up the whole world.
The cabin he lived in remained unchanged after Shen Ci left and remained the same as when Shen Ci left.
All the things that Chen Ci used were placed in the open, and her clothes were also placed in their original places, as if that person was still living here and had not left.
New Year's Day is approaching.
The programs of the farm publicity department have also been prepared.
This year, Yu Xiaoye, as the chief of the publicity team, did not participate in the performance due to his busy schedule. He was only responsible for the preparation and arrangement of the program.
When all the preparations were almost done and we were just waiting to hold the New Year's Day meeting, another accident happened.
Zhou Ziheng suddenly received a telegram from his family in Beijing. The telegram was sent in the name of his father Zhou Jingru and contained only six words:
Something happened at home, come back quickly.
These six short words made Zhou Ziheng feel uneasy, wondering what had happened at home.
Could it be that my parents suddenly became seriously ill?
Or did something else happen?
As the New Year's Day meeting was about to be held, all the complicated work at hand had been prepared, but unexpectedly something went wrong at this juncture.
Although he couldn't let go of his work here, he couldn't let go of his parents at home even more.
After much consideration, he decided to go back immediately.
It's a pity that Yu Xiaoye can't go back to Beijing with him. Yu Xiaoye's work in the Propaganda Department is also very important. The two can't leave at the same time. One of them must stay. So
Yu Xiaoye can only be allowed to stay.
While he was explaining the work to Secretary Jiang, he asked Xiao Gu in the office to call Yu Xiaoye.
Yu Xiaoye was called to the office and saw a pile of messy documents on Zhou Ziheng's desk. Zhou Ziheng's face was a little solemn. She sensitively noticed something unusual and hurried over to ask:
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Zhou Ziheng looked up at Yu Xiaoye and said:
"I want to go home."
"Go home?" Yu Xiaoye almost didn't react to which home to go back to, his parents' home on the main street of the county town, or their little nest in the staff building at the back?
"Yes, go home, back to the capital."
"Back to the capital?" Yu Xiaoye was quite surprised. "What happened at home?"
If it wasn't something serious, Zhou Ziheng wouldn't have left his work and rushed home at this critical moment.
Zhou Ziheng was afraid that Yu Xiaoye would be too worried, so he said in a relaxed tone:
"They didn't say anything specific, just sent an urgent telegram asking me to go back."
The first thing that came to Yu Xiaoye's mind was the same as Zhou Ziheng's, that is, whether the elderly in the family were sick. After all, his parents-in-law were so old, in their sixties, and they might have a sudden illness or fall and get injured. Otherwise, how could they suddenly call their son home for no reason?
"Should I go back with you then?"
"No, don't go back yet. You still have to help me keep an eye on things here. After I leave, a lot of work will have to be handed over to you."
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