It is said that it is ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, and the world is changing. Now Cui Fengming, a capitalist roader who has been pulled down by the broad masses of revolutionaries, finally has a bright future.

Cui Fengming was a cadre who participated in the revolution before the liberation, and in his own words, he was a hero who sacrificed an arm for the revolution; in the process of combining the old, middle-aged, and young members of the leading group, he resumed his work, and as an old leader in the factory, he was integrated into the leading group of the Revolutionary Committee of the Lihua Printing Plant, and served as the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee in charge of production.

After Cui Fengming returned to work, he lit three fires in the factory, the first fire was to reformulate the rules and regulations of the factory, so as to rectify the chaotic production order in the factory; The second fire is to concentrate on production, improve productivity, and pay close attention to product quality; The third fire is to promote the employees who have skills, experience, and management ability to management positions. He believed that Wang Hongxing belonged to a person with production experience and management ability, so he tried his best to transfer Wang Hongxing, who had been supervised and transformed, back to the production workshop as a quality supervisor. Cui Fengming's three-plate axe soon restored the production capacity of the semi-paralyzed factory, and he regained his prestige among the working masses.

After Wang Hongxing returned to his familiar production position, he felt that most of the employees did not discriminate against him and could obey the management, so he had a feeling of being a new man. In order to thank Cui Fengming for his reuse, Wang Hongxing and his wife Gui Fang agreed to invite Cui Fengming to come to the house for dinner on Sunday. Because Cui Fengming and Wang Hongju were comrades-in-arms and good friends, and he and the Wang family were also old acquaintances, he happily agreed to Wang Hongxing's invitation.

This Sunday afternoon, Cui Fengming and his wife came to Wang Hongxing's house as promised, and after they were let into the small house by Wang Hongxing, Cui Fengming frowned. This room is only about ten square meters, and a large kang for the whole family to sleep in the house occupies half of the room, and there is a table and a wardrobe in the rest of the room, and there is almost no place to stand on people.

Gui Fang saw that the guests were standing still, so he said apologetically, "Comrade Cui, our place is too small, and there is no place for anyone to stand, so please order a few of you." Take off your shoes and sit on the kang! ”

Cui Fengming couldn't help laughing: "Then I'm welcome, but my sweaty feet smell a little." ”

Wang Hongxing said to Cui Fengming: "It doesn't matter! I'm not that particular at home! ”

While talking, Cui Fengming and his wife took off their shoes and went to the kang, and the hostess Gui Fang diligently made tea and poured water for the guests.

Cui Fengming said to Wang Hongxing reluctantly: "Alas! I haven't been to your king's house since I was defeated. I think you lived in a deep house compound back then, and now this big courtyard has become the family dormitory of Lihua Factory, and your family of five and two generations are crammed into such a small house, I can't help you! Alas! He sighed again!

"This house used to be a place for my family to put miscellaneous items, the place is a little smaller, let's make do with it!" Wang Hongxing's words were full of helplessness.

Gui Fang interjected and said, "Director Cui, our eldest sister Shuzhen's house is diagonally opposite our house, and her house is empty now." But Sister Shuzhen and Yijing's mother and daughter all died in that room. They are two unjust souls who will not be blind, we dare not live! I can only live in this room. ”

Chunxiu accosted: "Shuzhen's mother and daughter died quite unjustly, and the two of us were sad for several days after hearing about it!" ”

Cui Fengming shook his head and sighed: "This is something that everyone can't think of!" Especially Yijing, what a gentle and delicate girl! A flower withered before it could bloom, but alas! ”

As soon as she talked about what happened to Shuzhen's mother and daughter, the atmosphere in the house was a little depressing. Wang Hongxing complained about his wife: "Gui Fang, Director Cui's family came to visit the door today, everyone should be happy, how do you talk about sadness?" ”

Gui Fang said that he had left his mouth. Busy with a smile on his face said: "Yes, don't mention the past!" Let's talk, I'll get ready for dinner. She turned and walked to the kitchen outside.

"Guifang, I'll cook with you." Chunxiu said and went down to the ground to put on her shoes. Wang Hongxing stopped Chunxiu and said, "Sister-in-law." You are a guest, and I don't need you to help my daughter-in-law cook. ”

Cui Fengming said to Wang Hongxing: "Don't stop her, Sister Chunxiu is a cook, and her cooking skills can't be compared to your daughter-in-law!" Let the two of them cook together! ”

After Gui Fang and Chunxiu left the house. Wang Hongxing picked up the teapot and poured tea for Cui Fengming, and he said respectfully: "Director Cui, this tea is the special tea I just bought this morning. It tastes good, and it was bought especially for entertaining you. Please use tea. ”

Cui Fengming deliberately asked funny: "Wang Hongxing, you are an honest man who has also learned to bribe leaders?" ”

"It's not a bribe but gratitude, only if you are bold enough to use me, a capitalist, to work in a key position, you are tantamount to liberating me. Of course I want to thank you! ”

"I offended some people by letting you focus on the production quality of the workshop, and they said that I reused you because I didn't have the class struggle in my head, and guess what I said? I said that in the past, the proletariat served the capitalists, and today I let the capitalists serve the proletariat, which is to insist on taking the class struggle as the key link! As a result, these people were speechless! ”

Cui Fengming laughed proudly after speaking, and Hongxing also laughed.

When the two were talking, the door of the house was pushed open, and two men and one woman ran in from the outside, the eldest boy was Wang Hongxing's child Han Qiang, the younger boy was Wang Hongju's son Han Ming, the youngest was Hongxing's daughter Yuqing, and Wang Yunqing followed the child into the door. There are guests coming to the house today, and Gui Fang felt that the room was too small to sit down, so he asked his grandfather Wang Yunqing to take his grandson and granddaughter out of the house for a walk first, and then go home when it was time to eat. That's when they returned.

"Dad, you're back!" Wang Hongxing said.

"Uncle, Fengming's nephew sees that you are here!" Cui Fengming was very excited when he saw Wang Yunqing, and he moved more to get down to the ground and put on his shoes.

Wang Yunqing stretched out his hand and pressed him and said, "Feng Ming, just sit on the bed, we are old friends, we don't pay much attention to it." ”

Cui Fengming said respectfully to Wang Yunqing: "Hello, uncle! Chunxiu and I are here today to make trouble for you! ”

Wang Yunqing said humorously. "Hey, what's the bother! If you, the director, can come to my house, my house is already full of splendor! Ha Lu Ha! ”

"I don't dare to say that!" Cui Fengming also laughed.

Wang Yunqing said to the three children: "This uncle who came to visit the door is a good friend of our family, you ask Uncle Hou Cui how well!" ”

"Hello Uncle Cui!" The children greeted Cui Fengming politely. Then I took off my shoes and got on the kang with my grandfather.

Cui Fengming joked humorously: "Uncle, this house is small, even if this kang is a living room, dining room or bedroom, it is fully functional!" ”

"The house is small. But the matter has come to this point, and it can only be settled with the situation! What else to do? Wang Yunqing said this, but his expression was very depressed.

Cui Fengming patted his chest and said, "What should I do when the children are older, I can't sleep with my parents!" Your yard is now the staff dormitory of our factory, and I will find a way to change Hongxing to a bigger house in this yard in the future! ”

Wang Hongxing was happy when he heard it, but Wang Yunqing shook his head and said: "Fengming, our class composition is not good, if you do this, others will say that you have no class position, you will take care of Hongxing as soon as you are liberated, and then transfer him to a bigger house, it will affect your future!" Now I'm a single old man, and I'll let Hongju's children live with me in a few days. He'll be more lenient on his side. ”

Cui Feng knew that what Wang Yunqing said was reasonable, so he didn't talk about the house anymore, and he looked at Han Ming carefully.

Cui Fengming said to Wang Yunqing: "Uncle, I see that this kid Hanming looks more and more like Hongju!" Look at his facial features, it's like he and his dad are knocked out of the same mold! But his father's face was angular, and he looked much more delicate. ”

Wang Yunqing smiled and said: "If there is a father, there must be a son!" Hamming's child not only looks like his father, but also has a temperament like his father. ”

Cui Fengming looked at Han Ming with a kind face and asked, "Han Ming, do you miss your father?" ”

Han Ming replied with a smile: "I think so, but I don't remember what he looks like!" ”

There was a hint of melancholy in Han Ming's big black and shiny eyes as he spoke, urging him to feel that the child's melancholy eyes did not match his age.

Han Ming was fostered in his uncle's house since he was a child. His grandparents and uncle's family gave him meticulous care and care, and his grandfather especially loved Hanming. But there is a big difference between this kind of love and parental love. The growth of a seedling must be inseparable from the moisture of sunshine and rain, and the same is true for children's needs for father's love and mother's love.

Since his grandfather's house was raided, the friends who used to play together not only stopped playing with him. and often bullied him, and gave him the nickname of a little rightist. If Hamming came across those children on the street, he would stay away from being ridiculed and bullied, and sometimes he would fight with them if he couldn't hide. The sunny and happy childhood life of the past is gone. Some are mostly discriminated against and insulted. In this state of life, a simple child bears too many things in his heart that he should not bear at his age.

Cui Fengming looked at Han Ming's melancholy eyes and felt very uncomfortable, he sighed: "Alas! Hongju is an upright and stubborn person. He is proud of his talent and jealousy, and there is no room for a little sand in his eyes. I have long advised him to be more low-key, to be softer in his demeanor, and to be less provocative. But he didn't listen to me! As a result, a rightist hat broke his family and separated his wife, and it also affected young and innocent children! ”

Cui Fengming's sentimental words suddenly made the atmosphere in the room become depressed, and he realized that his words touched the things that the Wang family was most unwilling to touch, so he changed the conversation again and said: "Of course, you can't complain about Brother Hongju, he is an idealist, his heart is as pure as a basin of water, he can't tolerate a trace of dirty and ugly things!" So he doesn't fit in with this society. ”

Wang Yunqing said to Cui Fengming: "Fengming, don't talk about Hongju, why isn't your temperament like this?" ”

"Uncle, you're right! Hongju and I became good friends because of our similar tempers. Anyway, I've been liberated and resumed my work now, I don't know what Hongju's current state is? ”

"After Hongju's labor reform, he worked as a farmer in the local tropical botanical garden, and last year he wrote to him that because he belonged to the right-wing elements of the land rich and anti-bad, he was sent to a remote village to undergo labor reform while cleaning up the class ranks."

"Alas! It's really unlucky, unlucky! Cui Fengming shook his head sadly when he heard this.

"The place where Hongju was reformed through labor was the place of exile of Su Dongpo in the Northern Song Dynasty, not to mention the backward local production and traffic blockage, but the custom of advocating reading and respecting cultural people has been passed down since ancient times. Hongju is a cultural person, he writes well, and he is a person who likes to socialize with a bold personality, and the villagers there write critical drafts, write big-character posters, brush slogans and even write letters to ask him for help, and slowly he is accepted by the villagers, and people almost forget his rightist identity. When there was a shortage of teachers in the commune primary school, he was recommended by the villagers to become a private teacher. It is said that several more women are pursuing him! In a word. He's not in a bad mood right now, he's just as happy as I am! Wang Yunqing said this, a smile appeared on his face, this was a helpless smile.

Cui Fengming said: "Hongju is a very adaptable person, I really admire him!" ”

Wang Yunqing put away the smile on his face and said, "If you don't adapt, you have to adapt, depression can only self-destruct!" ”

At this time, Gui Fang served a plate of fragrant stir-fried vegetables, and she said to Cui Fengming with a smile: "Comrade Cui, this dish will be served in a while, and a few of you will drink the bar first." ”

Wang Yunqing instructed Hongxing: "Hongxing, the bottle of Erguotou you bought is not good enough to entertain Director Cui, go to my house and bring that bottle of Moutai." ”

Hongxing answered and walked out. After a while, he walked in with Moutai. Wang Yunqing took Moutai and said to Cui Fengming: "This wine was given to me by my old friend Huang Boyang when he said goodbye to me before going to Wuqi Cadre School. ”

Cui Fengming asked with interest: "Uncle, I once heard Hongju say that Huang Boyang in the city bureau is Huang Tingting's father, right?" ”

"yes."

Cui Fengming asked again: "Is that Huang Tingting married?" ”

"Tingting is still single."

Cui Fengming couldn't help but sigh: "Alas! Life is geometric, Shaohua is fleeting, but it's a pity that such a good woman with good talent and color is here! ”

Wang Yunqing said: "There are many men who pursue Tingting, and there are also many people with good conditions. Ke Tingting has no interest in falling in love. It's good to make Huang Boyang and his wife so anxious that they don't know what to do! Tingting, the child, has suffered two major setbacks emotionally, once with her brother-in-law Huang Dawei, and once with my family. These two people are people she loves deeply, and unfortunately both of them have passed by her. In particular, Hongju's marriage to Lin Meijiao hit Tingting very hard, and she has never met me again! ”

"Uncle, does Huang Tingting know that Dao Hongju has been divorced for many years?"

"Zhilu Dao."

"Uncle, I analyzed that Huang Tingting has not been in love so far, probably she still has Hongju in her heart. Maybe one day they can renew their old love! ”

"No way!" Wang Yunqing shook his head. "Huang Tingting is a state cadre, Hongju works as a private teacher in a remote village thousands of miles away, and she is also a rightist. The two of them can't get together again! ”

Cui Fengming sighed: "It's a pity that the two of them couldn't get married! It seems that there are lovers who eventually become married, which is not reliable! ”

At this time, Hongxing, who was sitting and listening, had already opened the wine bottle. He poured wine for his old father and Cui Fengming and said, "Director Cui, my family and Gui Fang's marriage were desperately opposed, and they were not optimistic about me at all. Later, after many twists and turns, Gui Fang finally became my daughter-in-law, and my parents got along with her very well at night. My brother and Huang Tingting's love is unanimously optimistic, but as a result, their love is like a soap bubble blown out, although it is colorful and beautiful and flies very high, but sooner or later it will be broken! ”

Cui Fengming heard Hongxing say that it was not easy to marry a wife, and he laughed, "You said that it was not easy for your wife to marry, so the process of trying to get a wife is even more difficult than yours!" Your sister-in-law and I have been separated for many years and she is married, and I finally let her come back to me! Of course, I went to great lengths to marry your sister-in-law! ”

Wang Hongxing complimented and said: "We have all heard the story of Director Cui's love, and we can write a novel for that wonderful energy!" ”

"That's it!" Cui Fengming had a smug expression on his face when he spoke.

"Who is using us women as bragging capital?" After speaking, Chunxiu walked in with a curtain on the door, followed by Gui Fang.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law had entered the house, Hongxing and Cui Fengming just laughed and stopped ridiculing.

"The dishes are ready, let's move the chopsticks together! First of all, Comrade Xie Lu and Comrade Xie Cui take care of my family Hongxing, and I will toast you with a glass of wine for Hongxing. Gui Fang, as the hostess of the house, raised her glass to Cui Fengming.

"Director Xie Lu and Director Xie Cui are here at the Humble House!" Wang Yunqing and Hongxing also followed closely and raised their wine glasses.

The meal was very pleasant, and after eating, everyone drank tea and chatted for a while, it was getting late, and Cui Fengming and his wife were about to leave. Before leaving, Cui Fengming made an unexpected request to Wang Yunqing, he wanted to pass the child Han Ming of Ji Hongju.

Cui Fengming expressed his thoughts to Wang Yunqing very sincerely: "Uncle, Han Ming is still a child, but Hongju's rightist hat has put the child's young mind under tremendous pressure, and I can see that there is an inferiority complex in his eyes, which is not conducive to the child's growth." Chunxiu and I can be his stepparents, and we can give him the same love as our biological parents. I am a demobilized soldier and a state cadre, and after Han Ming succeeded me, he was no longer a rightist child, and no one discriminated against or bullied him. ”

Wang Yunqing said embarrassedly: "We understand Director Cui's kindness, but it's not appropriate to do this, right?" ”

Cui Fengming asked: "Old man, I am doing this to help Hongju, are you afraid that your grandson will inherit the incense for others?" I can assure you that Han Ming will still be surnamed Wang after he succeeds me! When the child grows up, I will give him back to his father! ”

Hongxing shook his head vigorously at Cui Fengming and said, "This is not appropriate!" You already have several children in your family, and raising a Hammin would not be a burden to you! Besides, you adopted Han Ming, where can I put my uncle's face! ”

"Alas! Your composition is a capitalist, and you are no better than Hongju! This kid can only have a future if he follows me! ”

Chunxiu was very supportive of her husband's idea, she smiled and said to Wang Yunqing: "Uncle, Feng Ming and I just like children, and there are many Hanmings and more lively!" How handsome this kid is! I like him, I want him to be my son first, and then my son-in-law in the future! Wouldn't it be nice to say that, you say? ”

Wang Yunqing said to Cui Fengming and his wife with gratitude: "You two are really rare good people, Hongju has no wrong friends!" However, I understand your kindness, and we have to carry our own problems, and we must not cause you trouble! ”

"Oops! What's the trouble with this? It's nothing more than an extra pair of chopsticks for eating at home! Cui Fengming asked Han Ming, who was standing aside and listening to the adults, "Han Ming, are you willing to let me be your father?" ”

Han Ming replied in a whisper: "My father is Wang Hongju, I miss my father, I want to find him." ”

Cui Fengming said: "Han Ming, you will be my son first, and when you grow up, I will take you to find your own father, okay?" ”

Han Ming lowered his head and did not answer, Cui Fengming was a little embarrassed. Gui Fang said to Cui Fengming: "Comrade Cui, none of us can make decisions in this matter, I will ask Hongxing to write a letter to Hongju in a few days, let's listen to his opinions before making a decision." ”

"Gui Fang is right, then let's wait for the news of Hongju." Cui Fengming glanced at Chunxiu after speaking, Chunxiu understood, she took advantage of Cui Fengming and Wang Yunqing to talk, and quietly stuffed a stack of RMB under the quilt on the bed. (To be continued......)