Seeing two, no, three people were dumbfounded.

Zhang Xianghong is a soldier, the founding marshal is a god-like figure in their minds, and these two old generals are still leading the army in various units, a little more down-to-earth.

Wushan didn't explain either.

It was my father who woke up first: "Political Commissar Wu, don't say anything else, let's eat and drink enough today." Comrade Zhang, don't be polite. ”

Zhang Xianghong was still in surprise, and when he heard this, he raised his wine glass: "Two chiefs, I never drink." It would be too hypocritical for me not to drink today, and not to give face to the two chiefs. I did it, you feel free. "Good fellow, then toast three times in a row.

Datiao's mother's motherhood was overflowing, and she hurriedly gave Zhang Xianghong a pick-up: "You young man, don't drink if you can't drink, and the two uncles won't say anything." Eat some food first. ”

Zhang Xianghong doesn't have a lot of alcohol, but he has a lot of wine, and it is estimated that he has almost drunk it. My mother snatched his wine glass and ate it for him, and if she didn't give him food, she would sit there and giggle like Maitreya Buddha.

Later, Wu Shan saw that his chopsticks were a little unstable, so he hurriedly walked out of the house, and saw that the soldiers had finished eating, and sat around the dinner table. Then he ordered the two closest fighters to help the squad leader back. But it was not enough to walk, one soldier immediately bent his legs slightly, and the other soldier immediately pulled Zhang Xianghong on his back.

Father, the two big men saw that the little soldier couldn't do it alone, and they also came to help. When he went out with his back, the little squad leader was already snoring. Another soldier helped Zhang Xianghong to salute and say goodbye to the two leaders, and the two of them held the soldier's hand and asked them to send the squad leader back safely.

Back at the dinner table, the two looked at each other and smiled, as if the relationship was suddenly a lot closer.

My mother is a good wife and mother, and she looks heroic, but at any time, my father talks about work or talks to colleagues, never interjects, and is busy serving tea and water. is even more cold and warm to Wushan, and has achieved the ultimate of a mother.

The initial hectic situation had passed, and my mother looked Wushan up and down, asking him to stand up and see, and his mother also stood up, and she was even taller than her.

The mother is very tall among the women in Wu County, about one meter six or five, and the mother kept rubbing her baby son's short hair. Her favorite action is to touch Wushan's head often, from the resistance at the beginning of rebirth to the current enjoyment, Wushan has adapted to his identity.

I haven't seen my mother for half a year, and from now on, Wushan has fully adapted to this role. Knowing the direction of history, he can change some things as much as he can, but home is his eternal harbor.

"Director Wu, I have received an order, and I am about to go to Yixian County to be the deputy political commissar."

"Then I wish Political Commissar Wu every step of the way, I will occasionally go to the region for meetings, and our brothers will often meet in the future."

"Ha Luha, I almost forgot that you are still the deputy director of the region, or my leader. Come, Director Wu, please! ”

"I said buddy, let's not be so polite, okay? I was born in the 39th year, belonging to the rabbit, and the birthday is the 24th day of the second lunar month. ”

"Yo, then I have to call you eldest brother, I am also thirty-nine years old, you are the youngest month, born on the day of the end of the afternoon."

Wu Lixing stretched out his two hands, and the other party immediately stretched out his hand: "Brother! "Big brother!"

The two men who were affectionate laughed at each other. The two brothers had a good conversation, and he told his father that Luo Dengfu, who replaced him, was an old comrade-in-arms and a pure soldier, and he would greet each other when the time came.

At this time, there was basically no entertainment, and everyone left the table to go home before nine o'clock in the evening.

When it came time to pay the bill, the restaurant manager was giving discounts everywhere, and as a result, the meals and drinks for more than a dozen people were less than ten yuan. Wushan didn't bother him with kindness, and preemptively paid the bill before his father took out the money.

This action made the manager's eyes light up, and he asked Wu Shan: "My brother is the boss of Director Wu's family, right?" My name is Yao Anping, and I will report your name directly when I eat here in the future, and I will let them remember it. ”

After speaking, he looked at Wushan expectantly, and Wushan also smiled at him with a friendly smile: "Hello Brother Yao, then I will trouble you, my name is Wushan." After saying that, he waved his hand, and the family walked towards his grandfather's house amid the goodbyes of Manager Yao and other service employees.

When they arrived at Grandpa's side, they really hadn't rested yet, and Daddy Wu Licui and Uncle Zhang Dechun were also in the hall to accompany their grandparents to set up a dragon gate array. Jianjun was already asleep, and the big daddy held him in his arms, gently patting the little guy's back from time to time.

In Wuxian County in winter, it is still very cold, and it occasionally snows, unlike when the climate warms later, I don't know what the snow looks like.

Every household has to be fired, and people who live in bungalows usually dig a pit in the corner of the wall, mainly to put the burnt charcoal ash inside.

Every day, the laborers have to clean the pit of ashes. If the situation of the people in the building is better, they will buy a coal stove, and if the conditions are not good, they will use the cooking stove to bake the fire.

The ashes of the city's furnaces were dumped in the garbage heap. People in the countryside are different, people who live on the mountains on both sides, before the winter, the adults in the family will go to dig up some big tree roots. The roots of the big trees are very burned, and they are buried with plant ashes before going to bed every night, and the ashes are removed when they get up the next morning, and some potatoes or red weeds are burned in them, and occasionally the buns are left aside to roast.

Generally, a large tree root can be burned for ten and a half days, and five or six roots are enough for the whole winter, and some particularly large roots cannot be burned in a month.

The people on the mountain, especially next to Hanjiang Province, close to Shennongjia, the terrain is relatively high, and the temperature is about ten degrees lower than that in the dam in winter. Even if the people over there were roasting on fire, the front was hot, and the back was frozen.

So in the evening they roasted the front, then the back, then the front, and so on. People here often say that in winter, the fire is baked in the front and the wood is frozen in the back.

In fact, it is mainly the house that is tiled, and the cold wind is constantly coming in through the cracks of the tiles. The people in the dam are very troublesome, and the people in slightly better conditions will also burn small furnace pits and use coal to roast the fire like in the city.

If the house is not very good, cut some thatch and shrubs, these things are not burned, and they will be burned out in a hurry, but they are often covered with sawdust or deflated millet on these unburned, and it is good to have a little temperature. Grass ash or charcoal ash in rural areas will not be discarded, and is often piled up in firewood houses, mixed with human and animal urine and manure when planting crops, and used as farm fertilizer to lay the foundation for seeds.

Regardless of whether it is a mountain or a dam, in winter, when the meat is divided with a meat ticket, the meat is hung with palm leaves and smoked into bacon above the roasting fire. this

At that time, the standard of living was really low, and many people used a bowl to connect the bacon under it to prevent the lard from dripping into the fire and wasting it, and these black lard often saved a little to make dishes for ten days and eight days.

Each family's meat ticket is limited, so generally in addition to a small piece of pork, the meat ticket will also be used to buy a ten catties and eight catties of lard, dip a few soybeans on it and wrap it into a roll, hang it on the fire pit and smoke it with pork to make cured lard. Then cut a knife and a pound of wax oil, and then cut it into thumb-sized pieces on the cutting board and put them in a bowl one by one.

In fact, many of the iron pot kitchen knives in every household are rusty because there is no oil.

Wushan often thinks, why do people in this area eat bacon since ancient times? It should be that it is relatively humid here, and the meat is not easy to keep, so I have to smoke and dry it.

It seems that the ingenuity of the ancients can be seen. In other provinces, because there is no firewood, meat is generally smeared with salt and hung under the eaves to dry.

Grandpa was wearing a fur hat, and grandma said that it seemed to be brought back by my uncle and grandfather when he was a soldier, and some of the hair had fallen off. Grandma herself wrapped her hair tightly with strips of white cloth more than five inches wide and three feet long.

The courtyard door was hidden, and when I heard the sound of the Wushan family pushing open the courtyard door, the big dad said, "Wushan, they are here", except for the grandfather who sat there alone, everyone else got up and pushed the door open to greet them.

Grandma's little feet that were wrapped around when she was a child were the slowest walking among several people. Jianjun was blown by the cold wind outside the door, and he whined twice in his dream, and the big father hurriedly stopped to wrap his apron on him.

"Boss, don't take the child out, lest you catch him a cold." When the mother saw the eldest father coming out with Jianjun in her arms, she hurriedly took a step forward to pick up the child.

Wushan called a few elders obediently, and ran into the house to live upstairs to live with his grandfather. Unfastened the two ears of his fur hat, pulled the ears down and tied them under his chin, and the grandfather watched his grandson toss lovingly, his eyes full of smiles.

Everyone else also walked to the stove and sat down, and Dad finally couldn't help it after holding it for a long time: "Wushan, tell me about your situation in the past few months." ”

"It's good," Wu Shan immediately stopped coquettishly with his grandfather and sat on his grandfather: "We went all the way smoothly, from Wu County to Yi County, when I was in Yi County, it was Uncle Qin, my father's colleague, who drove the car." When he came to live in Yixian County, he lived with Uncle Qin's current daughter-in-law. By the way, I heard that they were married, so I went this morning and gave ten dollars in gift money. The next morning, it was Luo Xianxian, Uncle Qin, and his daughter-in-law sent us on the boat, and in the evening, we went directly to Rongcheng when we arrived in Shancheng. When we were in Rongcheng, it was Zhang Dajun's apprentice who bought the sleeper tickets for us, and he didn't ask for our money. ”

Wu Shan reported his experience in the past few months to his family little by little. Hearing that Wushan was actually kidnapped by others, the mother was scared, and immediately pulled her son over and hugged her in her arms.

In fact, Wushan is almost more than 100 pounds now, and it is still very difficult for them to sit on the elders. Wu Shan also stood next to his mother to narrate the experience. His eloquence was already good, plus what happened was unbelievable in the eyes of his family. Everyone let out exclamations from time to time, including the calm grandfather and the calm father, who were also full of surprise. After talking for nearly two hours and drinking two jars of tea, Wu Shan finished speaking.

"Wushan, you said that our family still has a bank over there? ＂

"Yes, I asked Wu Jianguo and them to use some working capital, plus loans, we invested five billion US dollars."

"How much? Billion? "Dad Zhang, this turtle can stuff an egg in his mouth. In fact, the rest of the family is not much better. What kind of concept, a dollar is almost ten yuan, and five billion is equivalent to 50 billion people, yuan.

"Grandparents, the conditions on Hong Kong Island are much better than ours here. Next, I want to take you over for the elderly after the New Year at home. The main thing is that the medical conditions are much better, don't you want to have dental implants? The techniques over there are much better than those in the provincial capital, and they are almost the best techniques in the world. Also, I want to give you a check-up all over your body to prevent it from happening. ”

"And when will we be able to come back once?" Grandma is a bit unsure.

"Actually, at present, there is a relationship between Uncle Xu Shiyou, and it is very convenient for us to enter and exit there, and we don't need to go through customs. Besides, I still have a household registration on Hong Kong Island, and my grandparents will also apply for a household registration for you when you go there. It's still pretty good. ”

"What do you say, old man?" Grandma asked Grandpa hopefully.

Grandpa was still groaning.

Wu Shan saw that the old man seemed to be a little nostalgic for his homeland and didn't want to go, so he immediately grabbed his arm and began to be coquettish: "Grandpa, you can go." Daddy and Daddy want you to go over. I think that if you study at the university over there during this time, you can take care of us when you go. The main thing is, hehe, you went to see your second son-in-law. ”

"Huh?" Grandma was shocked again: "The second child is looking for a partner?" ”

"That's right," Wu Shan smiled slyly, "I also said his name just now." ”

"That's what you said, Wu or something?"

"Wu Jianguo is the youngest son of General Wu Zhen."

"The emperor loves the eldest son, the people love the youngest son, and his youngest son should be more spoiled. Will that work? ”

"Grandma, at this time, they themselves are being criticized in school, how can they have time to take care of him. You can go to the school by yourself. ”

"Okay, Xiaoshan Boy, grandpa goes, isn't it okay?"

This topic has finally come to an end.

"Dad Zhang, how is the factory here?"

"We built one in a food factory and found someone who had worked as an engineer in a large food factory to manage the technology. His name is Pan Xiwu, he was arrested and sent to labor camp before the special period, and now he has come out and sent to Fenglin Commune as a farmer. A local educated youth in Yixian County fell in love with him, and the two got married. Life is tight, and I hit it off with him. The factories and houses we set up in the name of the supply and marketing cooperatives are all bought by the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the current sales of peach slice cakes are also good, but they are sold everywhere through the channels of the supply and marketing cooperatives. The beverage factory is not easy to clean up at present. Originally, I was going to take down the cannery, but now that canned food is in short supply, people don't buy it at all. We also bought a house built on the land, and we still run a brewery in the name of a supply and marketing cooperative. But the most troublesome thing is that the hops are not neat, and you can't get them everywhere. We can't compare the scale with yours, and the sales of beer are not a problem. The money is in the hands of your father, I don't know the exact amount, but it's only tens of thousands of yuan. ”

I went, a hundred yuan was a large amount before I left, and now tens of thousands of yuan are still so calm? Wushan not only lamented the shift of time.

"The total is forty-six thousand five hundred and five, and the wages of the workers are all paid. All the workers are young people who are looking for home-based unemployed people who don't want to go around all day with other people. Big Daddy added on the side.

"That's it, Dad Zhang," Wu Shan thought for a moment before saying, "To be honest, I didn't expect you to do so well at the moment. Two problems, the first is the issue of property rights, we must not be entangled with the supply and marketing cooperatives, and implement the property rights, otherwise they will see that the factory is profitable and what to do in the future? The supply and marketing cooperatives and the government are two systems, and people don't necessarily buy my father's account. As for hops, Victoria is the production area, you go there in person, don't be afraid to spend money. Continuously expand the scale, keep part of the working capital with the extra money, and use the rest to buy equipment, recruit more pragmatic workers, and the next step can be to go to the countryside to find some educated farmers. The current form will not last long. As soon as the policy changes, we will make a big splash. When the time comes, I will ask them to bring funds from Hong Kong Island and strive to become the largest in the country as soon as the country reforms. ”

The family doesn't think it's bragging, five billion dollars of dollars, what kind of concept, pulling a hair at random is more than those state-owned factories.

"Hey, I almost forgot, grandparents, haven't you seen those gifts?" Both old men shook their heads.

The wing room on the left of the hall is the storage room, and Wushan has put it in separate categories when they unload, and the wooden boxes containing the family's gifts are opened with a hammer. Men's and women's tweed coats, sweaters, sweaters, pants, shoes. The family has clothes for all seasons. Of course, I don't dare to make a lot of bright colors.

A dazzling array of clothes, a full range of snacks, and small dolls make the family happy.

This night, I slept late, but the family slept with laughter. Mom and Dad went home, Wushan slept with his grandparents, and his grandmother kept hugging Wushan all night, as if she was afraid that her grandson would run away.