Chapter 257: Going Out to Discuss Wedding Date
"Mom, Ziyi and I are planning to leave the mountains in two days. What do you want to bring for Dad? Prepare it in the next two days so we can take it with us when we leave." Yike said to Zhang Yuling during dinner in the evening.
"What are you going out for? Didn't I tell you not to go out before National Day?" Zhang Yuling asked puzzledly.
"I'm going to take an exam. The school will have an exam at the end of this month, and I must take it. Mom, don't worry, I'll be in the village. Let Ziyi take me there on the day of the exam. I won't run around. Besides, all those people have been arrested, so there's nothing to be afraid of." Yike reassured Zhang Yuling.
"Who knows if there are any fish that slipped through the net? Anyway, it's better to be careful." Zhang Yuling was still worried and reminded.
"I know, Mom. I want to take some dried meat out to give to others, and to my aunt's house." Yike acted coquettishly.
"Okay, I'll make more and make sure you have something to eat and something to give away. Little greedy cat!" Zhang Yuling scratched Yi Ke's little nose.
"Hehe, mom still understands me the best. Mom, you don't know, we don't dare to cook meat outside, so it's good to have dried meat to satisfy our cravings." Yi Ke laughed.
The mother and daughter were talking about food here, while Du Qingcang discussed with Ziyi that he also wanted to take Du Jiankang out of the mountain.
"Ziyi, I think you are not very busy now, so I will go out with you and take Jiankang with me. Let's go to Da Niu's house to propose, set the wedding date, and discuss the amount of the bride price so that we can prepare." Du Qingcang said.
When Du Jiankang heard that he could leave retirement, he suddenly became excited. It’s not because he wants to get married, but mainly because he went out of the mountain once when he was very young. He was very sick at that time and had no energy to see what the outside world was like. This time he really wants to take a good look.
"Sure, you can come back with my father then." Ziyi was also very happy that Du Jiankang was finally going to get married.
When Wang Cuihua heard that he was going to go out of the mountains to propose marriage and discuss marriage, she was a little tempted.
"Godmother, do you want to go out too?" Yike asked.
"Well, men are more careless when it comes to negotiating a wedding. It would definitely be better if I could go and negotiate in person, but I can't leave. There's no one who can take over the job over there, and the big girls aren't very familiar with the couple yet." Wang Cuihua said with difficulty.
"You go ahead, I'll do your work, don't worry." Zhang Yuling said.
"You already have a lot of work to do, and with mine on top of that, can you handle it all?" Wang Cuihua hesitated.
"If I can't handle it, I can ask Li Xiaoshan and his brother for help. Just go with peace of mind, Jiankang's marriage is important." Zhang Yuling strongly supports her good sister Wang Cuihua.
"Godmother, just listen to me. Don't you want to get married earlier and have grandchildren sooner?" Yi Ke also advised.
"Look at what you are saying. I dream of having a grandson in my arms." Wang Cuihua sneered.
Wang Cuihua said to Zhang Yuling gratefully: "Thank you for your hard work!"
"We are family and should keep our differences, but you should come back early. Don't be dazzled by the outside world and become reluctant to come back." Zhang Yuling joked.
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The plan to go out of the mountains has been discussed, and Yike has been preparing dry food with his mother Zhang Yuling in the past few days.
Before leaving, Yike asked her sister Han Guihua if she wanted to go out together.
"I don't want to go out for the time being. If so many of you go out, the housework will need more manpower. I won't go out this time. Let's go out with the big girl and the other sisters during the New Year."
"Okay, so what do you have to say to your brother-in-law?"
"Just take this letter and this suit to him."
On the way out of the mountain, Du Jiankang was very excited all the way.
"Wow, sister Yike, the way out of the mountain is so long! It's also so dangerous. How did you get in? You were still very young then, right?"
"Not only was it small, but mainly because I was in poor health and had no strength at that time." So along the way, Yi Ke told Du Jiankang about his adventurous experiences when he went into the mountains.
"Wow, sister Yike, you are so lucky. You are the first person to escape from the tiger's mouth."
"Yes, fortunately we arrived at the paradise safely."
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Along the way, Yike joked with Du Jiankang, and sometimes talked and laughed with his godmother Wang Cuihua. No one felt tired at all, and they all walked out of the mountains safely.
Ziyi first took everyone to the underground cave in the forest, put the things everyone carried out into the underground cave, and then led everyone to their home in Beishan Village.
Li Haoran was surprised to see so many people coming out at once, thinking that Du Jiankang was sick again.
"Brother Du, why are your whole family out?" Li Haoran asked in surprise.
"Happy event! We are here for happy event." Du Qingcang said cheerfully.
"Is it Jiankang's marriage?"
"Yes, we are going to go to the eldest girl's house to propose marriage and discuss the wedding date."
"Well, this is really a happy event."
"Dad, didn't you go to work today? Why are you at home?" Yi Ke asked curiously.
"What kind of work is there? A few bad guys were sent over today and a criticism meeting was held for the whole afternoon. Those members have no intention of going to work at all." Li Haoran looked sad.
Yike and Ziyi couldn't help but look at each other, both feeling heavy-hearted.
"What bad things did they do?" Du Jiankang asked curiously.
"What are they saying, reactionaries? What are they saying, capitalists? Anyway, don't worry about what bad things they have done. Just listen to what your superiors say. Don't ask why. Do you understand? It's not like the mountains outside. No one will say anything about you no matter what you say. But if you say something wrong outside, you will be criticized like those bad elements." Li Haoran warned Du Jiankang.
Li Haoran was afraid that Du Jiankang didn't know the seriousness of the situation, so he told him about today's criticism and denunciation. Some were poured with feces, some were slapped, and one was given a yin-yang haircut. There was a woman with a child who couldn't stand up after the criticism and denunciation because she wanted to protect the child. She had to be carried back by her companions. She might not survive the night.
Du Jiankang shuddered when he heard this, and Wang Cuihua hurriedly warned her son not to talk nonsense outside.
Ziyi decided to take them there early tomorrow to get things done so that they could return to the mountains earlier. It would be safer to go into the mountains since it was so chaotic outside.
Li Haoran went to the team leader Wang Guoqing to get some letters of introduction, because Li Haoran and his friends didn't have any letters of introduction when they went to discuss marriage. What if the other party wanted to see the letters of introduction? So it’s better to be prepared.
At night, Ziyi and Yike waited until everyone fell asleep, then quietly went to the dilapidated thatched house behind Beishan Village.
The thatched hut used to be a place for storing cow dung and pig manure. There was a flood last year, and because the hut was close to the top of the mountain, it was not flooded. Only the roof collapsed due to wind and rain, and half of the wall collapsed. Later, the thatched hut was idle, and this time it was occupied by bad elements.
Bad guys definitely can't live in a good house, but this also makes it convenient for Ziyi and Yike to visit the bad guys at night without being discovered.
The two of them arrived at the thatched hut where the bad guys lived. They walked lightly to the outside of the wall and could see in the darkness that only one room in the hut was habitable. The other two rooms didn't even have roofs. There were women among this group of people, so they definitely couldn't live in one room.
Yike thought to himself that after returning, he would ask Li Haoran to talk to the team leader and at least ask him to help build the other house.
"What should we do? If she doesn't have medicine to take, I'm afraid she won't make it through the night." said an old voice in the room.
"Grandpa, please save my mother, wuwu, wuwu." A little boy cried softly.
"There's nothing we can do. There's no medicine. She's so badly injured that she's already started having a fever. Alas!" A man let out a long sigh.
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