Chapter VII
Because there is chicken to eat at night, the mood of the family is very good, and it is better than the New Year.
When the aroma of chicken soup wafted outside, the door of the Zhou family was patronized all the time.
"Yo, the old Zhou family is developed, and it's not a good year to stew chicken soup."
Zhou Xiaojun explained: "My mother hasn't raised her brother well since she gave birth to it, no, it took a lot of effort to get an old hen to make up for my mother's body." ”
"Your mother is really blessed, and there are old hens to eat, I gave birth to our two treasures, and I only ate an egg in a week."
Zhou Xiaojun smiled and didn't speak.
When the chicken soup was ready, Zhou Xiaojun sent a bowl of chicken soup to the other three families in the courtyard, which contained two pieces of meat the size of a thumb.
Zhou Xiaoran is still very unaccustomed to this mode of getting along with neighbors, there is no way, it is difficult to change the values formed in the previous life for more than 20 years.
"You, don't just pay attention to your own one-third of an acre of land, deal with the neighborhood well, and it is also part of life, people are social animals, as the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors." Zhou Xiaojun said softly, "When you start a family in the future, you have to pay attention, in addition to taking care of the family, you also have to deal with various social relations." ”
Zhou Xiaojun is six years older than Zhou Xiaoran, but in some ways, Zhou Xiaoran, who has lived two lifetimes, is actually not as mature as his sister.
"Ouch, sister, you must be a good wife and mother in the future, whoever marries you will be blessed, hey, it's really cheap Wu Lei's nerd." Zhou Xiaoran quipped.
"You bad girl, I'll tear your mouth apart."
The two giggled and played, and the time passed quickly.
In the evening, the family had a beautiful meal.
Aunt Huang walked in with a bowl, "This is eaten, come, this is the soybeans sent from my hometown, bring a little for your family to taste." With that, he put the bowl on the table and left.
Then someone brought food to each family one after another.
And the table was full.
Zhou Xiaoran thought about it for several days, and finally decided not to buy a watch for the time being, but he really couldn't explain where such a large sum of money came from..... It's better to wait until after work and stick with it for a few more months.
Half a month later, Tan Shiguo came to Zhou Xiaoran again.
"Why are you here again, it's been less than a month." Zhou Xiaoran was surprised.
"Comrade Zhou Xiaoran, I heard you say last time that you have fresh fruits here, I don't know if you still have them?"
"Yes, you want it?"
Tan Shiguo nodded, "One of my leaders is hospitalized, and I want to go see him." ”
Zhou Xiaoran looked at him with a smile, "Yo, Uncle PLA still knows how to please the leader, then there must be, if I don't have it, I will conjure it up for you." ”
Tan Shiguo directly ignored the little girl's playful expression, and said seriously: "It's not appropriate to use the word flattery, the revolution does not distinguish between high and low, and the leader is also a human being, our class comrades, comrades-in-arms, and should receive care from comrades-in-arms." ”
Swap the concept.
"Then you just wait here, I'll go home and get it."
Zhou Xiaoran looked left and right in the alley as usual, carefully entered the space, packed a bag of apples and a bag of peaches, and stayed for a while before leaving the space.
"Five dollars, no tickets."
Zhou Xiaoran directly took the money and put it in his pocket.
Tan Shiguo looked at the back in the distance, his mouth opened and wanted to stop Zhou Xiaoran, but he didn't know what to say, so he stood in place for a while and went to the hospital.
Provincial Military District Hospital Ward.
"You kid, you move quite fast, I just transferred to the military hospital yesterday and you came smelling it." Lying on the hospital bed was a man of about thirty-five years old.
"Don't you know I'm a famous dog-nosed." Tan Shiguo said as he handed the peeled apple in his hand to the man on the bed.
The man took a bite, "Well, this apple is delicious, I'm charging into the battlefield, but you kid is living a happy life with good food and drink, it's not fair!" ”
"Hey, you come back this time and move up another level." Now there is no large-scale war on the border, and small fights from time to time are a good opportunity for gilding, although the two used to be a relationship between superiors and subordinates, but it is a fateful friendship, and they crawled out of the pile of dead together in the war to aid Korea.
The man choked, "Ahem, what, you went to see Uncle Shen last time, how is he doing?" ”
Mentioning this topic, Tan Shiguo couldn't help sighing, "The body is fine, but I'm a little worried about my mental condition, and it's difficult to persist in the days when I can't see hope." ”
"The current situation, our family has to keep a low profile in Beijing, my second brother sent a letter last month, and the top is going to pull a new team, Shiguo, you can go there after graduating from the military academy, don't move the nest in the past ten years." After speaking, the man smiled evilly, "I just took advantage of the past few years to have a few more children, by the way, you haven't found a partner yet, huh, there are a new batch of little girls in the art troupe, a few are not bad, do you want to organize help, ah?" Hahaha"
Tan Shiguo looked at the man on the bed calmly, and gulped down the peaches he brought, well, there was so much juice, sweet!
"Hey, that's mine, are you embarrassed to grab something from a patient!"
.........
The Zhou family has been a little annoyed lately.
After less than a month of dissipation, there is another letter from my hometown.
Aunt Zhou gave birth to three daughters in a row, at the age of forty finally gave birth to a handle, Uncle Zhou worked in the post and telecommunications office of the county, the old people in the family are gone, Aunt Zhou's mother and daughter are all rural hukou, it can be said that the five members of the Zhou family all rely on Uncle Zhou's salary and food supply, if it weren't for Grandma Zhou's food sent into the city from time to time, they would have starved to death.
This is another person, and Uncle Zhou can't afford to raise it, but who makes it a son, the only son, and he can't afford not to raise it.
Aunt Zhou came up with a way, the eldest daughter is 19, and the second daughter is also 16, so she can support the family. No, after discussing with Grandma Zhou, I decided to let her second uncle find a job, preferably as a worker in the factory, and solve the hukou problem.
Looking at Zhou Zhipeng's slumped shoulders, Chen Yun couldn't stop feeling distressed.
Chen Yun couldn't help but think, if she hadn't raised Grandma Zhou's appetite at the beginning, would she still be like this now, but thinking of her own situation, she didn't have the confidence anymore.
"Or, send something to Officer Wang of the Personnel Department, Dachun Erchun only has a primary school education, so he can only be a temporary worker." Chen Yun thought for a long time.
Zhou Zhipeng glanced up at Chen Yun, "Xiao Yun..... Thank you. ”
"Thank you, I am the one who should say thank you, if it wasn't for you, it wasn't for you....."
Before Chen Yun finished speaking, he was gagged by Zhou Zhipeng, and after a while, Zhou Zhipeng hugged Chen Yun, and a small kiss fell on the top of his hair, "I thank God, it was his old man who sent you to me, and I also want to thank Xiaoran, I know that if it wasn't for her, you wouldn't have married me in the first place." The more Zhou Zhipeng spoke, the more emotional he became, and the bed shook after a while.
Zhou Xiaoran was so embarrassed that she just got up to go to the toilet, and when she heard something inappropriate for children, she hurriedly ran back to the house and climbed into bed.
"What's wrong Xiaoran, who's chasing you." Zhou Xiaojun was woken up by Zhou Xiaoran.
"No, I just saw a mouse." Zhou Xiaoran said perfunctorily.
"Mouse? How can there be a mouse, I'm going to fight. ”
Zhou Xiaoguang also woke up.
The Zhou family has two bedrooms, one for Zhou's father and Zhou's mother, and the other room is separated by a board in the middle, sleeping Zhou Xiaoguang on one side and Zhou Xiaojun and sisters on the other.
"It's better not to, brother, let's talk about it tomorrow, now I don't know where to run, don't wake up my parents." The main thing is not to disturb your parents, hehe.
And at the same time that the Zhou family sent a letter to ask Aunt Zhou's two daughters to pack up and come to the provincial capital, the Liu family was also planning to get a piece of the pie.
"The two girls of the Li family can go to the provincial capital to be workers, so can the big and second pillars of our family." Aunt Liu said happily.
"Yo, sister-in-law, don't you know, people's textile factories only recruit female workers, do your big pillars and two pillars spin fabrics?" The third aunt of the Liu family said coldly, "If you want to go, it will be our plums." ”
Lanzi, who bowed his head and worked, quickly looked up at his mother, heh, thinking that the pleasing of this time could be a little rewarding, it seems that his mother really feels sorry for the plum, when it comes to the critical moment, the heart doesn't know where it goes, is it possible that he picked it up? Why can't her heart be warm?
Liu Mei glanced at Liu Lan proudly, and said obediently: "Mother, if I become a worker, I will hand over all my wages to you for safekeeping, and when I do a good job in the future, I will also take you to the city to enjoy happiness." ”
Hehe, if there really is such a day, she Liu Lan will praise her mother and daughter's filial piety, but what kind of person you Liu Mei is, she knows better than anyone else!
"Phew! A money-losing goods also want to go to the city as a worker, I think you should send it out as soon as possible, so as not to eat the grain of our old Liu family in vain. "Aunt Liu and Aunt Liu San, you quarreled with me every word, the second room family shrank like a quail, anyway, this kind of good thing can't be his turn.
"Okay, this is not allowed, tomorrow I will personally go to Zhou's house, and then I will talk about who will go." Uncle Liu's uncle smoked a dry cigarette and said.
"This thing will definitely come to pass, if the old lady of the Zhou family doesn't agree, we will all go to her house to make trouble, how did the sister-in-law die in the first place, I know everything to the people who shouted, I think his old Zhou family still has a foothold in the village." The aunt of the Liu family said fiercely, and the rest of the people didn't speak, obviously this is also the idea.
Liu Lan couldn't sleep all night.
Liu Mei is one and a half years older than her, and she has always been the most loved by her own mother Wang Guihua, two sisters and two sisters in the third room, since she was a child, she did the heaviest and most tiring work, ate the least and worst, and her sixteen-year-old body looks like she was twelve or thirteen years old.
Liu Lan, who has already lived once, knows that in the end, her uncle's family will still agree to the Liu family's request, but there is only one place, and that place is given to Liu Mei, and she was given to a fifty-year-old Mazi as a daughter-in-law a year later!
Liu Lan shuddered when she thought of this, no! Don't go through those nightmares again, you must seize this opportunity, leave this home, and never come back! Isn't your heart higher than the sky? Give you an introduction and you'll go to heaven!