Qin San's incident still had a great impact on Zhou Xiaoran's state of mind.

Since then, unless necessary, she rarely runs to the county seat, with the help of space, in addition to going to work, there is time to read books and practice calligraphy every day, of course, all in the space.

"Xiaoran, are you at home?"

Zhou Xiaoran smiled and came again.

Grandma Zhou will ask her to have a meal or something from time to time, after a long time, her guard is also down, if Grandma Zhou intends to fix it, if she refuses, it is not hers, after all, it is an elder.

But later, she also tasted Grandma Zhou's meaning.

Grandma Zhou asked the eldest aunt to borrow something every once in a while, all of which were rice, noodles, oil and the like, not much, but it was enough for the family to eat, and she never said anything back, Zhou Xiaoran was of course not a fool, and sighed that Grandma Zhou had become smarter, and knew how to invest in the cost first, and then take it back with interest.

It's a lot of hard work to get that little stuff.

Of course, Zhou Xiaoran will not leave everything to her, and basically the eldest aunt will go back empty-handed half of the time.

No, this time I'm here to borrow eggs again.

"Your grandmother, when you are old, you just want to eat something good, and those of us who are children and grandchildren have to try our best to satisfy it."

"If you want to say that your child is capable, and even the chickens you raise lay more eggs than other families, tell your aunt if there is any secret recipe."

The two chickens in her yard can't beat four eggs a day.

"The secret ingredient is to let them eat well, every day when I go up the mountain to pick pigweed, I will shave some earthworms or something by the way, and add a meal to them."

The eldest aunt took the egg but didn't leave, sat down and put on a posture to chat.

Zhou Xiaoran held her forehead, every time she came, she had a lot of it, she and her really didn't have any common topics, so it was usually the eldest aunt who said it, and she made a look of listening.

"You're a subject... Haven't heard from you yet? ”

Feelings are still like this.

"No, as soon as you believe it, I'll ask you about it."

Who knew that the eldest aunt waved her hand, "You don't have to be busy, Xiaohong has a partner over there." ”

Zhou Xiaoran was surprised, "Really." When was this? ”

The eldest aunt smiled and said: "It was the one who came with you who knew about it, Zheng Hongbing introduced it, saying that it was her distant relative, her family is also rural, and she was a soldier in the army, I heard that she was already a company commander, and she was in charge of more than 100 soldiers under her hands." ”

Zheng Hongbing introduced? How do you feel a little unreliable?

"Zheng Hongbing is from a neighboring province, and her relatives are also from a neighboring province, right? Are you willing to marry Sister Hong so far? ”

"There is no one in their family, the two old people died two years ago, and a younger sister has been married for many years. After speaking, he added: "This is what the man said in the letter, and they have exchanged several letters." ”

My sister has been married for several years, but my brother is still single, there must be some reason, just like Tan Shiguo, didn't Nong also get married.

Zhou Xiaoran is not good at asking too much, anyway, the eldest aunt is quite shrewd, so she should not let Zhou Xiaohong suffer.

"Congratulations."

"Hey, I'm going to let Xiaohong go to the army to see each other, if it's really good, it's settled."

It can be seen that the eldest aunt is very happy, but she is not dizzy.

"But, let Xiaohong go alone, I can't rest assured in my heart."

"Then you follow along."

Zhou Xiaoran said casually.

The eldest aunt patted her thigh, "Isn't it, I think so too, but your grandmother has to let Xiaohong go alone, saying that she will only pay for one person's journey, hey, your uncle is incompetent, won't this stump me." ”

The eldest aunt glanced at Zhou Xiaoran, "It's not like your parents and your parents, who earn wages to eat and supply food, and can also subsidize your children." ”

Is this trying to get yourself to give her the way out?

Excuse me, why?

Zhou Xiaoran did not pick up.

The eldest aunt said again: "Xiaoran, you are a sensible child, I have always said so, and now your grandmother praises you at home, and she is very satisfied with you, and she also said that even if you give the old house to the second family, it should be." ”

Talking about the house, it really poked her weakness, she didn't want to move out of here more than at the beginning, if she lived back to Zhiqing, it would be inconvenient to feed her pigs, sheep and chickens.

However, she was threatened like this, why was she so unwilling.

"How can this be, this old house is an ancestral house, of course it will be inherited by the uncle, besides, my father has a house in the provincial capital, and I live here to see the house, and it will only be these two years, and I will go back to the city in the future."

Zhou Xiaoran made it clear that she didn't care.

The eldest aunt saw that Zhou Xiaoran didn't eat oil and salt, she didn't pull out a dime, and she had no choice, and she was not as enthusiastic about Zhou Xiaoran as before.

But she finally went, and Zhou Xiaoran knew that she had private money.

As soon as the eldest aunt walked on the front foot, an incident broke out on the back foot.

When Zhou Xiaoran arrived at the team headquarters, he saw that the educated youths were all surrounding the captain, and Yu Xiangyang and Zheng Weiguo were talking about something.

Uncle Yougen saw Zhou Xiaoran coming, and hurriedly told the educated youths to shut up.

said to Zhou Xiaoran: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, come and tell them, have I given you the quota of workers, peasants and soldiers?" ”

Zhou Xiaoran was confused, how did the educated youths know about this? I also know the anticlimactic tail.

"What worker-peasant-soldier cadets? Is there a place on our team? ”

Uncle Yougen immediately said: "Take a look, Comrade Xiao Zhou is the same as you, and I don't know, who passed on her to take the quota?" ”

Educated youth, look at me, I'll look at you.

"Who knows if it's your double reed?"

Yu Xiangyang looked at Zhou Xiaoran and said to the captain: "We don't mean anything else, we just think it's not good to settle this matter so secretly..."

Zheng Weiguo also said: "Yes, the enrollment of workers, peasants and soldiers is open to the entire class of workers, peasants and soldiers, and we all have the right to know and compete. ”

Yes, people always stand on their side first in front of interests, usually she thinks that it is not easy for the educated youth, and she can help them, although the relationship with everyone is not very good, but it is still harmonious, Zhou Xiaoran felt a little lost in her heart, but just for a moment, she can understand the mood of the educated youth, and she also feels that some words make sense, no matter what, Uncle Gen is so sneaky and loses the reason first.

Zheng Hongbing glanced at Zhou Xiaoran happily, hum, do you think everyone is facing you!

Uncle Yougen knocked the head of the tobacco pot, took two puffs of dry tobacco, and asked, "Are you all finished?" ”

None of the intellectuals spoke.

"Okay, then I'll say a few words. The matter of giving the quota to Comrade Xiao Zhou is purely false, no matter who spread it, stop it. ”

After a pause, he continued.

"As for why this was not announced to you, it is because you are not eligible, and the requirement is three years of practical experience, do you? It's only been a year since you've been full! If you want to go to the University of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, you should perform well in the past two years, excellent comrades, I naturally look at it. ”

The educated youths did not expect that the captain would use this to block them, saying that it was three years of practical experience, and it was not without precedent in other places, and especially outstanding comrades relaxed this condition.

However, they had nothing to say, and at this moment they really realized that the captain was an impenetrable barrier for them to return to the city.

Uncle Yougen saw that the educated youths were all gone, so he nodded with satisfaction.

"In the future, don't make trouble about this kind of chasing after the wind and shadows, this time I won't pursue it, and next time I will deduct your centimeters, and you will all go back to work hard, and delay things all day long."

Zhou Yi kept hanging his head and didn't speak.

At this time, he raised his head and glanced at Xu Hui, "Are you satisfied?" ”

Unexpectedly, Xu Hui burst into tears.

Zhou Yi didn't look at her anymore and walked away.

Zheng Hongbing patted Xu Hui on the back and comforted softly.

Zhou Xiaoran also felt tired, she was really a little tired of staying in this place, at this moment she especially missed Tan Shiguo, what is he doing now? When will I get the letter?

As soon as I finished thinking about it, the letter came.

Zhou Xiaoran thought happily, isn't this called having a heart.

Unfortunately, the letter was sent more than 20 days ago, and it was barely enough for the Prophet.

The address is somewhere in a neighboring province, and it seems that it is Tan Shiguo's station, which is much closer than expected.

The letter said that he had settled down, and the family home was also under construction, and she could go to see him during the Chinese New Year, choose a house by the way, and live in it directly when she got married......

Zhou Xiaoran, who watched it, was slightly drunk.

Hmph, didn't you say that she would choose a house directly with the army or not, duplicitous.

But now Zhou Xiaoran really wants to leave this place early, it's very boring to stay.

Yu Xiangyang and Zheng Weiguo later looked for her again, and they tried to explain that they were not targeting her, Zhou Xiaoran generously said that it didn't matter, she didn't pay attention to it at all, but from then on, she didn't like to go to the youth point anymore.