recognized her brother but avoided it, Qi Shufang had a deeper understanding of He Jianhong's indifference, fortunately, she and He Jianguo didn't plan to play a good show with her sister and brother, and they didn't feel sad.

Li Wei went to work in the afternoon, of course He Jianguo too, and the Qi Shufang sisters and the Li family sent He Shengnan back to the new house.

The gifts given by everyone have been sent by He Jianguo and his clerks, and they are piled up in the small room.

There is not much new furniture in the new house, a bed, a writing desk, a large wardrobe, a small square table, four domino stools, all made of walnut, generous and beautiful, and important radios, sewing machines and bicycles are also placed in the house.

There are five or six beddings, woolen blankets, towels, etc., piled up on the bed, and hot water bottles and enamel jars are placed on the writing desk and table.

Jin Yufeng and Ou Mingxiang were so envious, most people had a bed and two quilts, even if they had a good life, they actually had everything here, and they had more things than Qi Shufang's house.

"Katsuo, you're so happy, you have everything. Waiting for herself, I don't know what the situation is, Jin Yufeng sighed.

Ou Mingxiang congratulated with crooked eyebrows: "Shengnan, you must be good!"

He Shengnan pursed his lips, smiled happily, turned his head to see Qi Shufang looking at his new house, and said happily: "Shufang, how is the room? Fortunately, I didn't ask you to stand next to me, otherwise you would have taken away the brilliance alone!"

"The room was nice. For the latter sentence, Qi Shufang did not answer.

The room of twenty square meters is relatively large, generally ten square meters, Li He and his two families asked Aunt Wu to make a lot of effort to get this room, but with their own Zhuyu in front, Qi Shufang only felt that this room was very small, and the room was full of people, it was very difficult to turn around, and it was also difficult to breathe.

Qi Shufang and others hurriedly said goodbye, leaving He Shengnan and the Li family.

Except for Grandpa Li, Grandma Li, and Li Yun, everyone else has jobs, including Li Ying's husband Li Xiaochun, who can't hear or speak, but his limbs are sound and he is now working in a food factory, so they left one after another after saying a few words to He Shengnan, leaving only Grandpa Li, Grandma Li, and Li Yun, and the room was instantly spacious.

He Shengnan grabbed a few handfuls of melon seeds and peanuts that he finally got and gave them to Li Yun, "Thank you, second sister-in-law, you are so good, second sister-in-law." ”

Li Yunzui was very sweet, and he praised He Shengnan's heart.

Grandma Li took her hand, glanced at the watch on her wrist, nodded secretly, and said lovingly: "From today on, you and Xiao Wei live well, if he treats you badly, you sue me, and I will clean him up for you." ”

"Comrade Li Wei is very good to me, grandma, don't worry. He Shengnan has basically never suffered hardships, and he is also very optimistic, and Li Wei is really good to her, getting married today, she received a lot of surprises that are not in the two plans, expensive plum brand watches, brand new silk jackets, and a navy blue woolen coat.

"That's good, that's good. Grandma Li was very pleased, took out two small boxes from her pocket and handed them to her, "There are not many things left in our family, when your eldest brother and sister-in-law got married, I gave you two pairs of sisters-in-law, and now I will also give you two pairs, keep them well, don't tell outsiders, otherwise we will ask our family to donate all the family property to the state, and we have to say that our family has private secrets." "Their family has not been raided, first, they rely on their daughter-in-law's maiden family, and second, they know the current affairs and have a meritorious service.

"Grandma, what?" He Shengnan opened the heavy small box and was slightly taken aback.

One box contains a pair of gold dragon and phoenix bracelets, the body of the bracelet is a finger wide, the style is old, very heavy, still shiny, very splendid; the other box contains a pair of white jade bracelets without any flaws, as white as milk, crystal clear, and soft luster, which is a little tarnished against the background of the gold bracelets.

He Shengnan has been educated by his parents since he was a child, but he is not as selfless as some people nowadays, fanatically dedicated to the country, she solemnly agreed to her grandmother's request, and after her grandfather and grandmother and brother-in-law left, she cleaned up the room and put the two small boxes in the closet, but Li Wei opened the wardrobe to take things after work in the evening, and accidentally took off a box, and fell to the ground with a "bang", and the two jade bracelets in the box rolled out, and when she picked it up, one of them had a crack.

Deputy Secretary He and Cao Yunshan are both from poor peasant families, He Shengnan doesn't know the value of the jade bracelet, and he doesn't feel a pity, just let Li Wei pay attention next time, don't hit his own feet, Li Wei is very annoyed.

The next day, Li Wei went to work as usual.

This day was still the rest time for He Shengnan and Qi Shufang, and Qi Shufang returned to her hometown. He's father asked someone to bring her a letter, and it is already January, and the production team is calculating dividends and asking her to go home to receive the money.

Although it didn't take long to receive the salary, the two of them added up to about 100, but last month it cost 150 to buy a sewing machine, and only this salary in her hand, Qi Shufang felt unsure, and now she has dividends to receive, and she can have a good year. Qi Shufang asked He Jianguo to take the bus to work, and he rode his bicycle to the He Lou brigade in high spirits.

At the beginning, the work of the two wild boars was recorded in the production team, not the production team, so Qi Shufang received two dividends. A sum is the money for the work of the production team, according to the value of her work before going to work, minus the ration money, the cost of straw and thatch for repairing the house, etc., and there are still seven yuan, two cents and five cents. The other is the money that she handed over to the wild boar before, she didn't take the things of the production team, and received the full dividend, a total of 390 yuan, eight cents and six cents.

Some time ago, Qi Shufang led people to hunt and generated a lot of income for the production team, and Qi Shufang did not ask the production team to give her a credit, let alone occupy all the spoils.

He Jiandang knew very well in his heart that the wild boars were all killed by Qi Shufang, and she also killed a lot of other prey, and fifty laborers fished out a few wild beasts from the trap, and in the end, except for one wild boar, it was all counted as collective property. However, if she asks for it to be owned by her alone, and then it is turned in, then the production brigade must give her more than a thousand dollars.

He Jianguo and Qi Shufang only needed the wild boar that they had agreed in advance, even the people in the He Lou brigade who were jealous of the good life of the two of them all changed their original attitudes and praised them for understanding the righteousness.

As soon as Qi Shufang stepped into the Helou brigade, she felt everyone's enthusiasm.

The Helou Brigade has a particularly good income this year, mainly thanks to the wild boars they hunted.

There is not much difference between He Jiandang and He Jianjun's dividends this year, excluding rations and miscellaneous expenses, there are still more than 60 yuan left, and He's father's dividend of more than 14 yuan was taken away by himself and not given to his eldest son. Knowing that Qi Shufang received nearly four hundred yuan at once, Wang Chunling was jealous, and in a blink of an eye, Zhang Cuihua stood in front of Qi Shufang to congratulate her, and hurriedly walked over.

"Shufang, congratulations, you have received so much money, which is enough for you to build three brick houses. Wang Chunling is not to be outdone, but she can't let Zhang Cuihua get Qi Shufang's favor alone.

Wang Chunling smiled at each other, Qi Shufang didn't feel flattered, but wondered if she was going to ask for it unconditionally again.

Zhang Cuihua couldn't help but smile, she and Wang Chunling can be regarded as getting along day and night, and she has long noticed that Wang Chunling's mentality has changed a little, although she has not yet recovered to the normal routine of a year ago, but it is much better than the recent period, and she is also concerned about the child's education, but the effect is not obvious.

"Cuihua, what are you laughing at?" Wang Chunling was unhappy.

Zhang Cuihua hurriedly shook her hand: "Sister-in-law, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing at Shufang." ”

"Huh, laugh at me?" Qi Shufang pointed at her nose with her index finger, not understanding what Zhang Cuihua was laughing at, but she was very smart, and soon realized that she said this in order to answer Wang Chunling, and put down her hand.

Wang Chunling was not stupid after all, and looked at Zhang Cuihua suspiciously.

"Sister-in-law, I really didn't laugh at you. Zhang Cuihua doesn't want to be hated by this sister-in-law, she doesn't have a bad heart, but sometimes she doesn't do things through her brain, her mind turns quickly, remembering what Wang Chunling just said, Zhang Cuihua smiled: "I want to say that Shufang and the third child have settled in the city, and there is no need to build a brick house at home." Shufang, you said yes, right?"

Qi Shufang nodded: "Yes, Jianguo and I don't plan to build a brick house at home for the time being." When we bought a house, we borrowed a lot of foreign debt, and we had to use the money to pay it off. ”

In the future, when the catastrophe is over, the economy is developing, and the lives of the people are changing with each passing day, the old family will definitely replace the thatched house with a new house.

From beginning to end, she and He Jianguo had no intention of giving up the foundation of their hometown.

Wang Chunling and Zhang Cui spent it, they have always wondered, where did He Jianguo and Qi Shufang get the money to buy a house in the city, although the two of them earned some money before, but they spent almost the same amount when they went to Shanghai, and they could make sense if they borrowed money.

Zhang Cuihua invited Qi Shufang to her house for dinner at noon, cut a piece of pickled wild boar and Chinese cabbage and stewed a vegetable, chopped half of the dried rabbit and half a chicken, and fried a plate of scrambled eggs with garlic and yellow water. He Daoxing, who was the only one at home, jumped up and down with joy, and his two older brothers went to school after they turned seven, and did not wait until they were ten years old to go.

"Three eggs, ask your master to come to our house for dinner. The two of them cooked together and set the table.

"Hey!"

Father He wanted to know how his youngest son's life was now, so he came over, and the five of them ate around the table.

While eating and talking, when it was almost over, Qi Shufang suddenly remembered He Jianguo's advice to herself, and couldn't help but speak: "Dad, Jianguo and I have met the eldest sister." ”

The lively atmosphere on the table was swept away, everyone's chopsticks stopped at the same time, and the table was silent.

Father He put down the dishes and chopsticks and said with a calm face: "Why are you mentioning her? ”

Children are the hearts and minds of their parents, and if they don't mention it, how can they not worry about it in their hearts? Zhang Cuihua always remembered her mother-in-law's regret before she died, and took the initiative to ask: "Where did you meet? When did you meet her? How is the eldest sister doing now?" I heard my mother say that the eldest sister has been smart and clever since she was a child, and she speaks and does things very simply. ”

"Yesterday my colleague and Jianguo's colleague got married, the wedding was held in Jianguo's unit, and I met the eldest sister by chance, and it was actually the sister-in-law of one of my colleagues. However, the eldest sister didn't recognize Jianguo at first, and she didn't know that I was her brother's daughter-in-law, and she talked to me for a while. Towards the end of lunch, others called Jianguo's full name, and the eldest sister looked back at us and left without speaking. ”

Father He sneered: "After more than ten years, Jianguo is now tall and strong, and you dress Jianguo better than everyone in the city, and you are no longer a thin little mud leg with yellow muscles in front of you, of course she can't recognize it." ”

The person who knows his daughter best is Father He.

As soon as he thought of He Jianhong, Father He felt very sad.

He didn't dare to say that what he had done in his life was all good things, but he dared to say that he was worthy of heaven and earth with the thought he spent on his children, whether it was a man or a woman, it was all his own flesh and blood, and he had always been treated fairly, and he worked hard to let them receive education, increase their knowledge, and not be short-sighted and illiterate, and because He Jianhong was the oldest and a girl, she was the only child in the family when her younger brother was not born, and everything good was close to her first, and the next few brothers were wearing old clothes that she couldn't wear.

However, love in exchange for grace and righteousness.

At that time, he was so angry that he almost fainted, he really wanted to ask her face to face what was wrong with her mother's family, regardless of the life and death of her mother's family, thinking that there was a family facing annihilation, he had to swallow this breath, and decided to go out to escape the famine to ask for food, fortunately, there is no endless road, just on the eve of preparing to escape the famine, He Jianguo found that his ancestral house was a chestnut powder wall.

Although he was angry, the old father and mother were worried about his eldest granddaughter, and he had to ask He Jianguo to send chestnut powder to He Jianhong, thinking that his daughter might not have enough food to eat before, so he was ruthless, but later he realized that this daughter who did not give He Jianguo a chance to speak and even had no contact with his own family was selfish!

The more Father He thought about it, the more angry he became.

"Dad, don't be angry, maybe the eldest sister didn't recognize Jianguo later, so she didn't recognize each other. Zhang Cuihua doesn't like this eldest sister, although she has been married for several years when she entered the door, and there is no contradiction between her sister-in-law, but seeing her two or three times a year, it is enough to see what kind of character the eldest sister is, especially when her family is desperate and ready to flee the famine, she actually saw death and did not save her, and she did not come back to attend the funeral of her grandparents and mother-in-law.

"Can't you recognize Brother Jianguo, several body types and appearances follow his father, especially Jianguo, who looks the most similar, many of our old people say that Jianguo and his father are almost exactly the same. At first, she didn't recognize me and believed it, but then she couldn't recognize Jianguo's full name? Hmph! I didn't believe it! I just didn't want to recognize it! We were mud-legged people in the countryside, poor, and we couldn't climb up to her, a city person. Father He sneered.

He Jianjun persuaded: "Dad, if you don't recognize it, you won't recognize it, anyway, we don't rely on her to eat." ”

"That's it, Dad, we are relieved to know that the eldest sister is well, and we don't need to care about anything else. Zhang Cuihua agrees with her husband's meaning, the son is not ugly, the dog is not poor, the eldest sister thinks of herself as a city person, looks down on the countrymen, forgets that she is also from a mud leg, and she still looks down on her!

Father He's face was still angry, and Qi Shufang was a little reluctant in her heart, but she had to let them know about this matter after all, "Dad, if you are angry again, it will be difficult for me to explain to Jianguo when I go back." ”

Father He took a few deep breaths, "I'm not angry, why am I angry with a white-eyed wolf?

After eating the last bite of food in the bowl, Father He got up and went out.

He Jianjun hurriedly finished the food in his bowl and went out, afraid that his father would be angry, and at the same time, he had to tell his eldest brother that he didn't have to worry about whether something happened to his eldest sister all the time.

He Jianjun sighed, how many years have passed, and he finally heard the news of his eldest sister, and he was finally able to go to the graves of his grandparents and mother to say a word.

He Jianjun was silent on the surface, but he understood everything clearly in his heart.

"Mother, third aunt, why are my father and my father going in a huff? Why don't you continue to eat? I fried so much meat today, it's so delicious, I can't even bear to get off the table." He Daoxing touched his bulging belly, stared at the leftovers on the table reluctantly, and said bitterly: "I won't eat it, leave it to my brother to eat at home in the evening." ”

Zhang Cuihua touched his head, "It's okay, don't ask, children, let's play with Xiaogui!"

"Oh!"

Zhang Cuihua finished eating slowly, and asked Qi Shufang when she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks: "Did Jianguo tell you about our eldest sister?"

Seeing Qi Shufang nodded, Zhang Cuihua sighed: "I have never seen someone like our eldest sister, if you want to say that our family is sorry for her, forget it, but no one is sorry for her, I can't understand why she did this." ”

"Why can we embarrass her with mud legs!" Wang Chunling, who had just learned the news, rushed over.

Zhang Cuihua and Qi Shufang looked at her together, and saw that she was uncomfortable, "What do you want me to do? I'm telling the truth! People in the city already look down on the countrymen, and if the eldest sister marries into the city, if she doesn't dislike us, she will definitely not have anything to do with our family." Only this explanation makes sense, Wang Chunling knows best, if she becomes a city person, her eyes are full of the shortcomings of the countrymen, and she will have that sense of superiority, He Jiandang watched "Hundred Tempered into Steel" There is this sentence, she doesn't remember what the original words were.

Qi Shufang smiled: "I'm thinking, sister-in-law is really smart, in a word." ”

Wang Chunling couldn't stand her praise, and immediately triumphed: "That is, I am a few years older than you and have experienced a lot of things, of course I understand the sophistication of human feelings." By the way, what's the situation with the eldest sister?"

Qi Shufang told the truth.

"It turns out that she is so powerful, although I am not from the city, but I know that the salary of a sixth-level worker is very high, and I have to have more than 60 yuan a month, right? Wang Chunling smacked her lips.

Zhang Cuihua said angrily: "Is it useful to have a high salary? ”

"Also, it's a pity, if anyone in our family becomes a worker, they will definitely not be as ungrateful as her. Wang Chunling sighed, how come it is someone else who has the opportunity and ability?

Qi Shufang had no intention of sighing with her, just bring He Jianguo's words, so she went out to visit Shen Yaowu.

Shen Yaowu was wearing the cotton clothes that Shen's second grandfather, Tuo Qi Shufang, bought from Shanghai, and his body was bloated, but he couldn't show his pregnant belly, and he was very happy to see her, "Shufang, you're here!"

"Are you okay?

"In April and May of the solar calendar next year, the confinement will be completed just in time before the wheat harvest, so there is no need to delay the work. Shen Yaowu smiled sweetly, "Grandpa and Tie Zhu said, let me have a good confinement." ”

"That's good. Qi Shufang knows that many women in the countryside do not have confinement, they should still work, because if they can't earn work, there is no food, and many children are born in the field, He Jiandang and He Jianjun are very good husbands, and their wives are confined to their children, so the relationship between the two couples is very good.

"Hmm!" Shen Yaowu felt that his current life was like falling into a honey pot, "By the way, Shufang, I have to entrust you with one thing, the next time you go to Shanghai, bring me a processed cotton jacket and ten feet of processed cotton cloth, I have to take advantage of the winter leisure to make the child's small bag and small clothes." It would be nice if my family had old clothes, just change them, and they don't need to spend money, but unfortunately our family was so poor that there were no old clothes to change to children. Grandpa said that the first baby in our family can't wear old clothes. ”

Qi Shufang agreed to her request, and Shen Yaowu immediately paid her thirty yuan, which was most of their family's dividend this year.

While gossiping, Qi Shufang said casually: "Some time ago, there was a movie in the city, I seemed to see your Lingling watching a movie with someone, it's dark, I don't know if it's wrong, Lingling is still teaching?"

When Shen Yaowu heard the word "Lingling", his face immediately changed.

Qi Shufang was stunned, "What's wrong?" she asked.

Shen Yaowu asked when he watched the movie, and asked if it was a man or a woman, Qi Shufang hesitated for a moment, and didn't know how to speak, according to the results of her discussion with He Jianguo, it should be vague and not picky.

"We have such a good relationship, you don't have to hide it from me, Lingling must not have done a good deed. That person is not Ma Junli, Ma Junli works every day, I can see Lingling every day! Lingling went to the city in those two days, and said that she was going to be a guest at the same school, and Tie Zhu and I were a little suspicious, so Ma Junli stupidly believed Lingling. Lingling, like me, is a junior Chinese Cheng dù, in our production brigade, how can there be classmates in the city? ”

Qi Shufang thought for a while and said in a low voice: "It's a man, I haven't seen it." ”

Shen Yaowu's face was even more ugly, "I guess that's the case, no wonder she divorced Ma Junli every day! Lingling had already moved back to her parents' house a few days ago." What to say follow the new customs, to have the freedom to love, her and Ma Junli's marriage belongs to the marriage arranged by her parents, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are not in harmony, the husband and wife are not in harmony, and they can't live together, so they should be divorced. ”

Qi Shufang opened her cherry lips and formed a circle.

Divorce is too ...... Although it is true that divorce can be obtained if the husband and wife are not in harmony, but that is a matter of the future, and it is a bit shocking for the current era, especially in the countryside.

Shen Yaowu obviously didn't want to care about Shen Lingling's affairs, "I just know the reason for her divorce now, anyway, she is getting divorced all the time, my father and mother are actually used to her, the day Lingling returned to her parents' house, my mother ran to quarrel with her in-laws, and also asked her brother to go to Ma's house to beat Ma Junli, saying that he must have been bad to Lingling and bullied Lingling!"

Qi Shufang was amazed.

Ma Junli was beaten a little hard, and he was recuperating at home, and the two families seemed to have no room for reconciliation, Shen Yaowu didn't care, and he didn't let Qi Shufang spread the word, he would let his grandfather come forward. Qi Shufang agreed, she didn't plan to meddle in Shen Lingling's derailment, and suing Shen Yaowu was also to make her conscience passable.

Before going home, Qi Shufang stuffed fifty yuan to He's father.

Father He shook his hand and didn't accept it, "You can keep the flowers for yourselves, I have nowhere to buy things at home, and I can't spend them." ”

"Jianguo asked me to give it, Dad will take it, and don't worry about running out of money when you encounter money in the future. Qi Shufang stumbled upon the scene of Father He and the old man He Zhaoping privately trading old furniture, silver dollars, and old things, and they were willing to sponsor it.

Father He repeatedly refused, accepted it, and secretly decided to use the money of the two of them to buy things for them separately in the future.

There was also an unexpected surprise, Qi Shufang was about to hit the road with a bicycle, Wang Chunling ran out of her hall and handed her a small bamboo basket, "The salty green skin pickled at home, take a few for you to take back to eat." ”

"Sister-in-law?"

"Go, go, go, it's going to be dark. ”

The first time she got the unconditional benefits from her sister-in-law, Qi Shufang was flattered, and when she returned to her door, she was unhappy, because she saw He Jianhong and He Jianguo, who had just gotten off work, and her face was not good-looking.