Ma Chunhua just stayed like this, she didn't care about any men and women, shook off the burden and spread it on the ground, lay down and fell asleep, Yang Shugen was anxious: "How can you be like this comrade, you get up, let's talk." ”

"What are you talking about, aren't you sleepy when you're full?" Ma Chunhua yawned, sleepy-eyed, "I have walked eighty miles to Beitai, and I am tired and want to sleep." ”

Yang Shugen said: "You are a lesbian, I am a gay man, how to make it clear in the future when lonely men and widows sleep together." ”

Ma Chunhua raised her eyebrows: "Ouch, I said Comrade Yang Shugen, I didn't expect your educated people to have such a feudal brain, I don't like you as a Huanghua girl who is not married, you still don't like me, this is revolutionary work or not, besides, it is common to fight in the army for a few days and nights without meeting your eyes, and you will sleep when you fall down, so you don't care about men and women." ”

Yang Shugen had no choice but to pick up the quilt and go out: "You sleep in the bed, I'll go out and find a place to sleep." ”

After saying that, she went straight out, Ma Chunhua chased out and shouted: "You turtle son, come back to me!" ”

Yang Shugen left without looking back, and met Corey's colleague head-on, and couldn't help snickering when they saw this scene, they understood very well that Yang Shugen, a young and handsome intellectual, how could he find such a village girl with five big and three coarse children, it must be an arranged marriage arranged by the family.

"My marriage is a tragedy of the times." The next day, Yang Shugen sighed so long and short in the office, and everyone echoed and suggested that he quickly drive Ma Chunhua away, but Yang Shugen said that he couldn't disobey the elders in the family, so he could only wait.

The section chief patted Yang Shugen's shoulder with concern with the teacup and said, "Xiao Yang, it's better to transfer you to the company's cultural night school as a teacher, where there is a bed to take refuge for a while." ”

Yang Shugen's eyes lit up, and he was worried that he would not have the opportunity to contact the workers, but the night school teacher was the best opportunity, and he immediately cried gratefully: "Section chief, I really don't know what to say, thank you so much." ”

The section chief laughed and said, "Your daughter-in-law from the countryside is not easy to send away for the time being, so she can simply arrange to help cook in the canteen." ”

Yang Shugen was even more grateful: "Section Chief, you are really good. ”

The section chief said: "They are all revolutionary comrades, what are you polite." ”

In this way, Yang Shugen and Ma Chunhua took root in Jiangbei United Machinery Company.

……

The Spring Festival of 1947 arrived, according to the tradition of the Chinese, families were reunited for the festival, and in the official residence on Fenglin Road in the provincial capital, it was as warm as spring, and the family was reunited, not only Chen Zikun's family, but also relatives from all walks of life were invited.

Li Yaoting did not continue after losing his wife, a pair of children also grew up, all stayed in the UK to study for a doctorate, a Cambridge and an Oxford, and did not come back for the New Year, he was alone in Shanghai to guard the big mansion and was bored, after returning from visiting relatives in Beiping, people seemed to be ten years old, and there was no longer the sharpness of the year, so they simply moved in with Chen Zikun for the New Year, and the brothers chatted well.

Lin Wenlong originally planned to go to Shanghai to see his mother, but the ship was delayed by the procession, Chen Zikun learned about it and called the left-behind personnel in Shanghai, and directly took Aunt Mi to Jiangdong, Aunt Mi has also seen some of the world, but when he came to the Chen family's official residence, he was still shocked, even the Mahler Villa in Shanghai is nothing more than that, luxurious and full of beauty, there are sentries standing guard at the door, and the style is much more than that of Shanghai tycoons.

Lin Wenjing personally arranged her stepmother's room and board, afraid that she would not be accustomed to the Jiangdong taste of food, so she specially invited a chef and pastry master from Shanghai, three yellow chickens fried steamed buns and lion heads, all of which are Shanghai flavors, and the bedroom is arranged on the first floor, and the elderly are not used to sleeping on soft mattresses, so they made a brown mattress, and bought horses of silk to make new clothes for Aunt Mi.

Aunt Mi burst into tears and said quietly, Aunt I'm sorry for you.

Lin Wenjing said that you have raised me and have been kind to me, so why am you sorry.

Aunt Mi knew that this stepdaughter was benevolent, and she no longer mentioned the old things, but instead scolded her younger brother Mi Jiafu, saying that he looked at people with low eyes or something, and became proud again: "If your uncle knows such a big show, I will regret killing him." ”

Lin Wenjing said: "If you are happy, just stay, the family is lively." ”

Aunt Mi looked embarrassed: "Master, he ......"

Lin Wenjing knew that Aunt Mi was worried that Chen Zikun would be unhappy, so she said, "It's okay, he's easy to talk." ”

Aunt Mi was happy: "Then Allah will stay for a few more days, but although the countryside is good, it is not as good as Shanghai after all, Allah will still go back to Shanghai in a few months, by the way, is your brother's marriage eyebrows, are they in their thirties and almost forty." ”

Lin Wenjing said: "Wenlong is a professor at Jiangdong University, how many female teachers and female students like him, don't worry." ”

Aunt Mi was relieved.

At the same time, Yao Yilei's parents came to the provincial capital, Mrs. Yao accompanied her daughter to talk, and Chen Zikun and her father-in-law discussed the situation in the study.

Yao Qizhen was a student in Japan in his early years, served as the vice minister of the Ministry of Communications, vice president of the bank, and has a keen sense of finance, he said: "After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, prices fell for a while, and the price of fiat currency for US bills also fell, but the good times did not last long, the country's livelihood withered, the bureaucracy was corrupt, and it was the time when it was necessary to recuperate and recuperate. It is not possible to expect the Americans to fail, so they can only issue currency indiscriminately and loot the people's wealth. ”

Chen Zikun said: "If you can win the war, it will be fine, but the Northeast Battlefield has been defeated in successive battles, and the Shandong Battlefield is also not optimistic, so if military spending continues, military spending will become a bottomless pit, and the financial sector will collapse again, and the money saved by the people will become waste paper, and the loyalty to the government will be reduced." ”

Yao Qizhen said: "Yes, the government has exploited the middle class that was originally focused on itself into the proletariat, which has increased the strength of ***, in my opinion, the building will collapse, and it will not be a few years, Zikun, you have to make plans early." ”

Chen Zikun said: "I have both hands ready at any time, but my roots are in Jiangdong, I will not give up easily, I am ready to do this, you and your mother-in-law go to Hong Kong first, buy a few houses, the situation will change in the future, so that there will be no place to go." ”

Yao Qizhen said: "Hong Kong is still safe for the time being, I will start arranging it, by the way, if there is a fiat currency deposit at home, quickly exchange it into US dollars or gold, and it will fall sharply in a few days." ”

……

This New Year is very difficult for Liang Maocai, because he doesn't know where to spend the New Year, a home in Shanghai, a home in Nantai, Haruko Yanagi and Liang Qiaoshi, daughter Sakura and son Liang Pan, the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat.

In the end, he decided to go to Nantai, because he owed too much to Liang Qiao's and his son, Nantai is an area where the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting for each other, and the county is currently occupied by the traffic police corps, and the countryside is occupied by the return to the hometown.

Liang Maocai rode back to Liangjiazhuang with a gun, and saw a group of people being tied to a rope from a distance, and looked at it in the past, it was the return to the hometown group that was arresting people, and all those who divided the landlord's good land during the occupation period and robbed the landlord's property had to be cut off with a guillotine, that is, the head was cut off with a guillotine knife of the rural pigweed.

There were already a lot of heads on the threshing floor, the regimental members of the returning regiment stood on a high place with rifles, the landlord carried a box cannon and a horse whip, sat on the chair of the Taishi to show off his might, and the former peasant union cadres, women directors and others were pale and trembling at this time, and some were impassioned, chanting slogans and resolutely going to their deaths.

Liang Maocai watched the excitement for a while, didn't say anything, patted the horse home, Liang Qiaoshi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw him come back, and Liang Pan also jumped happily.

Liang Qiao's family spread eggs and steamed buns in the pot house, and chattered: "There were murders on the threshing floor again, and when the Eighth Road was there, the old landlord of our village put on a high hat and paraded through the streets, and the public trial was executed. ”

Liang Maocai said: "I saw it, it is natural to repay debts and pay for life, but it is a bit unkind to take a guillotine, so I can leave a whole corpse." ”

Liang Qiaoshi said: "When you come back this time, you won't leave." ”

Liang Maocai said: "It's not over yet. ”

Liang Pan ran over and shouted: "Dad, what you say doesn't count, you said that you will go home after beating away Japan, why don't you come back." ”

Liang Maocai thought for a while and said: "Dad is a man who eats food and is a soldier, how can he be a deserter, or you can come to live in the city with your mother." ”

Liang Qiaoshi pulled the bellows, handed the firewood to the hearth, and said quietly: "My country mother-in-law, I won't embarrass you." ”

……

After the Spring Festival, the situation deteriorated even more, and Hua Ye defeated the Nationalist army in Shandong, capturing 50,000 people under Lieutenant General Li Xianzhou, director of the Second Pacification District.

"50,000 people will be finished in three days, and even 50,000 pigs will not be caught in three days." This sentence is said to have reached Chen Zikun's ears under the anger of the commission, but he said: "No wonder Li Xianzhou, the national army is full of holes, and it has long been infiltrated.

At the same time, the situation in the Northeast is also extremely unfavorable, Lin Biao's ** coalition army broke the national army, Chen Zikun also has a view on this: ** The top and bottom are united, the national army Du Guangting and Sun Liren are not on good terms, and they can win.

The defeat on the battlefield will inevitably affect the economy, the fiat currency has fallen sharply again, and the price of rice has soared, and the salary of a university professor is difficult to support his family, Liu Cunren is a retiree from the provincial government, and his pension is very generous, not only can he have no worries about food and clothing but also subsidize his children, and now his monthly pension is not enough to buy ten catties of rice.

Liu Cunren came back with a pension from the provincial government's finance department, he went with a sack, loaded a sack of banknotes, hired a tricycle to transport it back, and when he went home, he took a basket of banknotes for his wife to buy rice, and he took a bag of banknotes to the black market to exchange silver dollars.

Although the dollar gold is a good thing, but after all, the value is too high, the hard currency of the second-tier cities is the ocean, this currency of the Beiyang period was abolished in the early thirties, but at this time it reappeared, becoming the best safe-haven financial variety in small and medium-sized cities.

The same banknotes, yesterday can still be exchanged for four big heads, today can only be exchanged for three, the same banknotes, yesterday can buy five buckets of rice, today can only buy four buckets, the price rise is calculated by the minute, business people are better, after all, money is circulating, for the fixed salary of the urban wage earners, this salary can no longer make ends meet.