He Jianguo had just gotten off work when he heard a colleague inform him: "Jianguo, there are your letters and packages!"

"I know!" He Jianguo, who had been thinking about his daughter-in-law's reply, listened, his eyes lit up, and his spirit was so good that he seemed to have not gone through a day of precise calculation of work, trotting all the way, holding a heavy package like the wind and going straight to the dormitory, he couldn't wait to open the letter, and was immediately moved, the family can only eat meat once a year, but his daughter-in-law sent him the hard-won air-dried meat!

Before he could continue to look down at what his daughter-in-law had said in the letter, he was interrupted by a colleague who entered the door later, "Jianguo, did your family send you something? Is it your father or your brother?"

"It's my daughter-in-law. He Jianguo's swarthy face was grinning like a big mouth, almost reaching the root of his ears. His father lives in the eldest brother's house, although the rations have gone to the eldest brother's house, but he is embarrassed to send money and things to himself, the eldest brother has a wife and four children to support, and the second brother also has three children, and the burden is very heavy, and he will not send anything to himself.

It's still a daughter-in-law, a daughter-in-law is the best, she has practiced so many times, and finally caught the prey The first thing that came to mind was himself, He Jianguo's heart was sweet, holding the letter and smirking vigorously, and the daughter-in-law was also filial to her father.

"Ah, it's my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law finally sent you something?

Niu Hao, who was in the same dormitory as He Jianguo, hugged his neck, and was very disgusted with He Jianguo's wife's behavior of only sending letters and not sending things, how could other colleagues receive a little bit of things sent from home, but she only gave He Jianguo a letter a month. On the other hand, He Jianguo, Yueyue squeezed out some supplies and sent them back to her, and early before the New Year, he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to ask his colleague who had a way to get watch tickets and industrial vouchers to buy bridges and bills of exchange, just to buy watches and coats for his daughter-in-law.

Niu Hao resolutely refused to admit that it was He Jianguo who often robbed him of his monthly supplies.

"Go, it's not like you don't know that my family is poor, and I can't get there with white rice, fine noodles, melon and fructomy, frosting and many daily necessities. Moreover, we are surrounded by mountains on three sides, deep mountains and old forests, and the land is barren, and the annual ration is according to the work, and we only eat a mouthful of meat during the New Year. I'm not at home, and I don't know how my daughter-in-law, a weak woman, works to earn rations! I can't wait to send my rations back to my daughter-in-law, but she won't let me. Besides, because many aspects require precise calculations, I just got married and came back to work, and I haven't had time to go back for a year, leaving her in my family unfamiliar, and she has never complained that I am lucky. ”

He Jianguo shook him off, and while unpacking the package, he said, "Don't say that my daughter-in-law is not good, my daughter-in-law is fine." She didn't send me anything before, because she didn't have anything to send me, no food stamps, no cloth stamps, no stamps, no tickets, and no qualifications to buy them, so why should she send me something? No, my daughter-in-law didn't know how much effort it took to put a few pheasants and hares, and they immediately dried them and sent them to me, for fear that I would work hard here and that the little food I supplied would not have enough oil and water to eat. ”

"Meat?"

Niu Hao perked up, looking at the air-dried pheasant and air-dried rabbit that He Jianguo took out of the rag bag, it was really meat, he immediately grabbed an air-dried pheasant in his hand, put it under his nose and smelled it, and said intoxicatedly: "It's so fragrant! I haven't tasted meat for a long time." This chicken weighs two or three catties when it is dried, and if it is not alive, it will not be four, five or six catties?"

He Jianguo nodded and said, "It seems to be." Keep the cloth bag for me, so I can fill my daughter-in-law with some food and send it back. You send the air-dried meat to the canteen, and give everyone a tooth sacrifice at night, the work intensity has been high recently, and it is not easy for everyone. My daughter-in-law said that there was some game at home that had not had time to be dried, and she also got a stupid roe deer, so she ate a piece of fresh meat herself, and sent me the rest when it was dried. No, I have to write to my daughter-in-law and ask her to keep it for herself, and she can't send it all to me!"

He Jianguo went to write a letter in a hurry, and Niu Hao, who was salivating, got his signal, and ran out with the cloth bag in his arms, "Okay, I'll get the bag back for you later." ”

Niu Hao was hiding, afraid that there would be many people who knew, so they all came to them to share the soup.

He Jianguo read the letter again, then wrote back, and just finished writing and was about to put it in the envelope, when he saw Niu Hao coming in with half a bag of things, "Jianguo, come here, see what good things I got for your daughter-in-law." ”

He Jianguo's eyes flashed with question marks, and he saw that he took out a bottle of canned yellow peaches, two packets of peanuts, three packets of melon seeds, two packets of preserved fruits, a packet of malt milk essence, two packets of brown sugar and a large packet of dried bamboo shoots from the cloth bag.

"Where did it come from?" He Jianguo was shocked.

Niu Hao smiled, "How can you eat my sister-in-law's things for nothing?" I mobilized my brothers in our unit who have no home and no job, and the burden is light and dedicated to their own enjoyment, and I dragged Lao Li in the canteen to hold on, everyone made it up, you send it back to my sister-in-law." ”

He Jianguo wanted to excuse himself again, and thought that it was not easy for his daughter-in-law to be at home, and finally turned into a sentence of gratitude, "Thank you, brother!"

After putting away the things, he added a few more strokes to the letter, deliberately indicating the origin of the things, and then put the letter paper into the envelope and put the stamp, and hurried out the door to send the letter and things back to his hometown.

If only he could have time to go home, on the way back, He Jianguo suddenly had this sentence in his heart.

He Jianguo is in a hurry, can he not be in a hurry? There is such a daughter-in-law at home, even if He Jianguo trusts his daughter-in-law's character, he doesn't believe that outsiders don't have a word of gossip! My father's brother wrote to say that his daughter-in-law lives in a simple house and rarely communicates with outsiders, as if he told him that his daughter-in-law is very honest, but He Jianguo feels distressed, and this is all because he has not returned to the army for a year before he has even returned to the cave.

However, thinking of the tasks assigned by the state, the precision of the project, and the intensity of the work, He Jianguo does not dare to go home at present, even if he has family leave, he must focus on the national task, and must not let his private life affect his work.

He Jianguo is twenty-six years old this year, and his two brothers already have two children at this age, and he hasn't had a room with his daughter-in-law yet!

What's going on?

He Jianguo was depressed, even the delicious pheasant soup in the evening and a chicken leg in his bowl in the cafeteria to thank him for his selfless dedication did not eliminate his depression.

As soon as the things he sent home were on the road, Qi Shufang had already knitted Old Man He's sweater.

Old man He is relatively thin, and he is not tall, the sweater is knitted, and there is still about half a catty of wool left.

Qi Shufang sent the sweater to He Jiandang's house and handed it to Old Man He, and the four nephews and nieces immediately surrounded him, "Third aunt, third aunt, do you still have sugar cubes at home?"

Of course there is, but will Qi Shufang give it?

No.

Qi Shufang also likes to eat sugar, in her own time, although candy is not completely extinct, but it is definitely the highest luxury, I have eaten it once, and I can't forget the sweet taste.

There was only a quarter of the sugar cube He Jianguo sent her, which was almost the amount for the eldest and second uncle's family.

Today, I gave a few pieces of candy to the children of the eldest uncle's family, and I have to give it to the second uncle's family when I turn around. When the children of the eldest uncle's family eat and go out to show off, can the children of the second uncle's family not come to the door to ask for it? Once or twice is fine, but if they get into the habit of eating candy, they will come to ask themselves if they want it, where do they have it? If they don't give it, they will definitely think that they are hiding their secrets.

So, Qi Shufang spread her hands and said apologetically: "No, your third uncle will send a little, give you some, give some to your second uncle's family, and I will eat the rest of the pieces." ”

Only then did Wang Chunling say to the child with a tiger face: "How can you have sugar to eat every day? We are all old farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, digging in the soil, relying on the sky to eat, unlike your third uncle who is a worker, and there is a supply every month, if it weren't for our family to give your third uncle the only place as a worker, do you think you can eat sugar?"

Qi Shufang pretended not to hear the meaning of Wang Chunling's words, don't think she doesn't know, in this era, it is not for everyone to participate in the third-line construction, and when the He Lou brigade has a quota, He Jiandang and He Jianjun are both married and have children, and they are reluctant to go.

To participate in the third-line construction, they have to stay away from their hometowns, and some are even assigned to the deep mountains and old forests, and they cannot return home for many years.

She heard Zhang Cuihua say once that He Jianguo's major was very important at that time, and it was very useful for the construction of the third line, and she was assigned to that aspect of the project as soon as she graduated.

Now that the weather is getting warmer, wearing a cotton jacket makes her sweat unconsciously, and the woolen coat and watch He Jianguo sent her are wearing on her? What is there to be jealous about? Isn't their bicycle a big item? Isn't their brick house built with money? I don't envy their good life, but they are jealous of themselves.

"Dad, it's getting hotter and hotter, you can wear this line clothes, catch up with Ming'er and have a ticket to pull the cloth, I'll make you a gown to cover it, so you won't be afraid of getting dirty or wearing out the line clothes, I'll go home first." Qi Shufang turned her head to look at Old Man He, who couldn't stop rubbing his sweater.

A sweater is a sweater, but here it is usually called a thread coat, is it called so because it is knitted with wool?

Old man He waved his hand, "The third child is not at home, it is all up to you, if you have cloth, you can make your own clothes, you don't need to make it for me, I have a gown to wear, don't ask the third child to send me something, what new clothes do I wear for an old man?"

Old man He sighed in his heart, the youngest son is a filial piety, and the younger daughter-in-law is also a filial piety, he used to have a bad time, recently entered the mountains, occasionally brought a pheasant and a hare back, and secretly brought him a big bowl of mending his body every day, but he lived in the eldest son's house, and he couldn't protect her in front of the eldest daughter-in-law, so as not to cause bad gossip.

Qi Shufang has been in the mountains twice in the past few days, originally planning to go out early and return late, but she was afraid that others would say that she was out and had a private meeting with others, so she went directly into the mountains in the eyes of everyone openly, and when she came out, she carried a pheasant or hare dripping with blood in her hand.

Of course, the rest is in the back basket.

Even so, there were still people gossiping, saying how she was a little girl hunting, Qi Shufang came out of her uncle's house, and just heard the two women in front of her with their backs to her say this, she smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I really have the ability to hunt, but I didn't like it before." As he spoke, he clasped the eye of the grinding plate at the door of the uncle's house with one hand, and picked it up gently and skillfully.

Seeing such a scene, the two women who turned around because of her words and Wang Chunling, who came out of the hall to pour water, were suddenly stunned.

That grinding disc is the only one in the He Lou brigade, at least two hundred catties!

Qi Shufang put down the grinding disc silently and clapped her hands, "I was born with a lot of strength, and I never let anyone know, I went into the mountains with my grandfather when I was a child, and I am very familiar with the mountains, why can't I hunt?"

After speaking, Qi Shufang entered her house directly with high spirits.