In the early morning, when the sun had just come out, Li Zhan stood at the entrance of Beikeng Village with the handlebars of his bicycle, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and pushed the bicycle inside.

There is a small shop at the intersection not far away, and there are three or five people sitting in front of the door, some are holding a big bowl and squatting barefoot on the bench to eat porridge, some are holding hookahs with their legs crossed, and some farm tools are placed on the side.

Li Zhan pushed the car and walked over, and asked with a smile, "Uncle, let me ask, how should the whole family go?" ”

The uncle who smoked the hookah raised his head and looked at Li Zhan, "Who are you, which village?" ”

Because of the problem of mountain division, Beikeng Village is in conflict with neighboring villages, so the villagers are staring at Li Zhan vigilantly. Even Li Zhan didn't doubt it at all, as long as he reported the name of the neighboring village, the one-meter-long hookah in the uncle's hand would be beckoned, and he wouldn't drag mud and water at all.

Li Zhan said, "I came from the machinery factory to protect my family." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the dowry hanging from the faucet of the car, wrapped in a big red cloth, square, and couldn't see anything.

"Propose?"

Several villagers suddenly became interested, and they also smiled, and the uncle strode over with a hookah, not wearing slippers, stepping on the sand without changing color, and looked at Li Zhan more seriously, "From the machinery factory, you are the pilot who introduced the girl who should protect the family, right?" ”

"yes, yes, that's me." Li Zhan's Adam's apple rolled a little, and he glanced at the hookah in his uncle's hand vigilantly.

The villagers of Beikeng are notoriously fierce and xenophobic, and it is definitely nothing new for a hookah to come over without a word!

"I'll take you, I'll take you!"

The uncle beckoned Li Zhan to leave with a hookah, and the villagers hurriedly followed to see the excitement.

"You're flying a plane, why don't you drive?" It was a young man, the one who was holding a big bowl of porridge, and he didn't wear slippers or shorts, but he was barebacked.

Li Zhan smiled kindly and patiently explained, "We can't drive, the army has regulations." I didn't buy a car either, because the traveling army has a special car, and it's a waste of money to buy it, so I bought a big house, Xiangjiang Garden, 150 square meters. ”

"Tut-tut, pilots are just amazing, pilots are rich. I know a boss who used to deal with the army a lot, and he said that you pilots have tens of thousands of salaries a month, and there are subsidies or something. I have a friend in my village who has been tested as a pilot, and the army has given tens of thousands of yuan to hold a banquet! The bare-backed young man said with his eyebrows fluttering, the front was at Li Zhan, and the back was boasting to others.

Li Zhan nodded again and again and said modestly, "Yes, yes, the pilot is good, but it doesn't have that much money, but it's not bad, hehehe." ”

He's here today to pretend to be forced, and he has to do it in one step.

"Xiangjiang Garden, I know, I know a boss who bought it there, more than a million sets!" Another young villager said coldly, and his words were conclusive.

Li Zhan smiled, "I'll buy it cheaper, seven or eight hundred thousand." ”

"It's great, you should protect this guy, it's amazing, the girl is married to a pilot, it's a big deal." The uncle with the hookah said.

That's it, Li Zhan was knocked on the side and asked, and then went to Ying Wanjun's house.

Two red brick bungalows, three tiled houses made of loess, a middle-aged man squatting in front of the door is repairing and climbing a plow, and a middle-aged woman is making breakfast. There was no other movement. Li Zhan knew that Ying Wanjun worked in the restaurant of the Royal Hotel, lived in the staff dormitory over there, and was not at home these days.

There is no need for Ying Wanjun to be at home, it is better not to be at home.

"Security, your son-in-law is here, don't make trouble, hurry up and cook rice and chicken." The uncle with the hookah greeted him with a loud voice, and the neighbors could hear it.

No, on the second-floor balcony of the neighbor on the left, the head of a woman drying clothes stuck out, looking down curiously.

Ying Bao looked at it suspiciously, but he didn't react for a while.

Li Zhan hurriedly propped up the car, took off the dowry hanging from the faucet of the car and held it in his hand, walked over quickly, and greeted, "Uncle, aunt, I am the eldest son of Li Jianguo of the Machinery Factory, my name is Li Zhan, and I am a soldier in the army." ”

"What are you doing in a daze, security, Caiyan, hurry up and call your son-in-law to sit, serve tea and smoke." The uncle who carried the hookah laughed.

The young man holding the rice bowl walked to the kitchen with a smile and said, "Aunt Caiyan has made something delicious today, I'll take a look." ”

Aunt Caiyan chased him a few times, rubbed her hands on the hem of her clothes a few times and walked this way, standing beside Ying Baoquan.

The pilot of the machine factory!

The couple came back to their senses in an instant, Ying Baoquan stood up suddenly, hurriedly wiped his hands with the hem of his clothes, wiped them vigorously, looked at the stains, wiped them a few more times, and hurriedly walked over and looked at Li Zhan, "Are you the son of Li Jianguo who flew the plane?" ”

"Yes, Uncle Baoquan, it's me." Li Zhan explained with a smile, "I was really embarrassed yesterday, the army had something to do temporarily, so I couldn't rush home for lunch." ”

"No, no, no, the affairs of the army are important, the affairs of the troops are important, you, you should make a phone call before you come, Wanjun is not at home doing summer work." Ying Bao said embarrassedly, quite at a loss.

Li Zhan said, "It's okay, Uncle Baoquan, I came here today to talk to you about business, and I want to propose." Why don't we go into the house and talk? ”

"Propose?"

Aunt Caiyan was stunned suddenly, and suddenly became excited, and went to the chicken coop as she spoke, "I'll kill the chicken, you talk first." ”

The villagers who came to see the excitement spoke out to promote the progress, and many of them were sincerely happy for Ying Bao. Look, there are two or three storey small western-style buildings on the left and right, but their family, these two blue brick bungalows were built last year, and they are not enough to live in at all, so the previous loess adobe tile houses are retained.

"Li, cadre Li, come in and sit down." Ying Bao was busy leading Li Zhan into the house.

In the middle of the two bungalows is the living room, more than a dozen square meters, a very simple wooden sofa, the simplest X-shaped round dining table, a few red rubber round stools, facing the door against the wall is a very old TV cabinet, on which there is a long-obsolete color transistor TV. To Li Zhan's surprise, portraits of the mentor and the commander-in-chief were pasted above the wall against which the TV was leaning. This is definitely a must-have for every household in the West County area, and the people here regard these two as immortals, who can bless the family.

After beckoning Li Zhan to sit down, Ying Bao was busy making tea, and trotted to the windows of the two bungalows on the left and right to call a few sons to get up, but he finally came back very embarrassed, and said with a smile, "A few little ones went to bed very late yesterday and couldn't shout." ”

"It's okay, uncle, let's talk about things." Li Zhan said with a smile.

The villagers who were gathered at the door of the living room should be driven away, Li Zhan hurriedly said, "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, a few uncles and uncles, it's better to come in and sit down, so that you can give me a witness." ”

He wants to pretend, and if there is no audience, pretending to be forced will be meaningless.

As soon as he heard him say this, Ying Bao didn't dare to drive him away, and he came back with Xiaoxiao, and before he could speak, Li Zhan said again, "Uncle, please ask Auntie to come over, what you want to talk about is Wanjun's big business, and you two must be present." ”

Ying Baoquan promised to go in a hurry, and the young man with the rice bowl volunteered, "Brother Baoquan, I'll go, you sit, you sit." ”

The uncle who carried the hookah walked in, dragged a round stool and sat down, cocked Erlang's legs, took out the cooked cigarette from his pocket and twisted it a little, stuffed it on the cigarette holder, blocked the mouth of the cigarette barrel, lit the cooked smoke on the cigarette holder, smoked it vigorously, the water in the hookah gurgled loudly, he blew it lightly, and the air pushed out the burned ash on the cigarette holder, and it fell squarely in the half of the mineral water bottle hanging on the cigarette holder, and then he raised his head and spit out the smoke intoxicated.

"Cadre Li, let me give you a witness, rest assured, as long as you give a dowry, this matter will definitely not run away." The uncle who carried the hookah said.

Ying Baoquan sat on the small bench by the door, and said dissatisfiedly, "Short boy, haven't you finished your peanuts, go and get busy with you." ”

"I'll take it after a few waits, and I'll worry about you." It turned out that the uncle who carried the hookah was called Shorty Boy.

Aunt Caiyan wiped her hands and hurriedly came over, Li Zhan hurriedly stood up and said, "Uncle, auntie, you sit, sit here, sit down and talk." ”

As he spoke, he helped them to the sofa and sat down, and then Li Zhan sat down opposite them.

From the meeting to the present, everyone here can clearly feel the temperament of the upright posture and the blazing eyes, every word and deed and every action is a standard they have never seen before, and the momentum has completely controlled the scene. The natural inferiority complex of the rural people will make them feel frightened at first, then restrained, and then awaken to the realization that "cadres are also people", and finally calm down and face Li Zhan with fear.

Li Zhan was wearing civilian clothes, but after his identity was revealed, in the eyes of the villagers, he had troops on his head, which was more deterrent than the police who terrified the people.

Everything was ready, and Li Zhan took the gift that was held in red cloth at his feet and tied it with red rope like a bag of explosives. The villagers who stood at the door, squatting and watching, craned their necks to look inside. Li Zhan opened the gift in front of everyone.

"Wow!"

"Suck!"

Uncle Qiang slowly put down the hookah, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and the young man who was squatting on the door frame drinking porridge had straight eyes, and everyone gasped and let out all kinds of exclamations.

Li Zhan looked at the stunned Ying Baoquan couple, his expression was very serious, and said, "Uncle, aunt, you know that I am a soldier, and I am not as free in the army as I am in the locality, and I don't have a lot of time to buy other things. Here is 60,000 yuan, which is considered the lottery money for me and Wanjun to marry. If you have no opinion, this family matter will be settled, and I also ask all uncles, uncles and brothers to testify. ”

The couple should be kept alive.