forty-four

The next morning, Sun Chengwei took the three children of Aid Korea, Shengli, and Yuejin to visit Liu Cunyi in the hospital.

As soon as Liu Cunyi met, he said to Sun Chengwei: "Dawei, Cheng Hui and I are both hospitalized, and the child has to be handed over to you." ”

Sun Chengwei rolled his eyes and said, "What? Mine Chief Liu, hand over the child to me, are you still not at ease? ”

Liu Cunyi was really not at ease, but it was difficult to say it in front of the children, so he said implicitly: "Dawei, don't let the children cause trouble for me, especially to aid the DPRK." ”

Sun Chengwei tucked the corner of the quilt for Liu Cunyi, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Cunyi, you can rest your mind and take care of your injuries!" I will certainly strive to carefully train my children to be the successors of the proletarian revolutionary cause. ”

Liu Yuanchao walked to the bed, and said with admiration in his eyes: "Dad, Secretary Tang, they all praise you as a hero." ”

Liu Cunyi looked at Liu Yuanchao sarcastically: "Aren't you also a hero?" ”

Liu Yuanchao immediately remembered what he had done, raised his face and looked at the ceiling, pretending not to hear.

Liu Cunyi was unrelenting: "Hey, comrade little hero, you still owe me an account, right?" ”

Liu Yuanchao said: "You announced on the radio: preferential treatment for prisoners. ”

Liu Cunyi said: "There is also a limit to preferential treatment, I will keep your account in mind." ”

Liu Yuanchao nodded: "Okay, I'm not bad." But, Dad, I have a request, don't let me take off my pants again when you smoke me again, okay? What a shame! ”

Liu Cunyi refused: "No, it's a pity to tear out your pants, you only spread a few feet of cloth tickets a year?" Can it afford such waste? Then he explained to Sun Chengwei, "Dawei, don't be polite to this Comrade Liu Yuanchao, his ass is beaten with iron, he is not afraid of smoking, as long as you get into trouble, you will give me a smoking, don't owe any more debts." ”

Sun Chengwei squeezed his eyes at the aid court: "Cunyi, don't worry, I will definitely help you draw this kid well, and you must take off your pants to smoke, this is not only to save the cloth ticket, but also to extinguish the prestige of this kid!" ”

Coming out of the surgical ward, Sun Chengwei took a string of children and appeared in front of Sun Chenghui's bed to see the two twins.

Sun Chengwei frowned when he saw the two babies: "Why are these two children so young?" Like kittens. ”

Liu Yuanchao immediately picked it up and said, "I look like a mouse!" ”

Sun Chenghui glanced at Liu Yuanchao weakly, and wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

Zou Zhaodi, who was waiting for the confinement on the side, was annoyed, and glared at Yuan Chao fiercely: "The skin is itchy again, right?" ”

Liu Yuanchao didn't dare to make a sound.

A nurse came over and asked, "Sister Sun, what are the names for these two children?" ”

Sun Chenghui looked at Sun Chengwei and said, "Brother, go and ask Cunyi, what is the name of the child?" ”

When he rushed to the surgical ward again, Tang Ping, secretary of the party committee of the mine, was sitting in front of Liu Cunyi's bed, talking about work with Liu Cunyi.

Liu Cunyi asked: "Dawei, what's the matter?" ”

Sun Chengwei said: "What are the names of the two children? Cheng Hui asked you. ”

Liu Cunyi thought for a while and blurted out: "One is called nature, and the other is called difficulty!" ”

Sun Chengwei was happy when he heard it: "Okay, good, these two names are very good." ”

Tang Ping was stunned, and couldn't help but interject and said, "Lao Liu, look at you, are you here again?" No wonder Comrade Bai Jie always gives you advice! What's the name of this incident? Yes? ”

Liu Cunyi was serious, and he didn't mean to joke at all: "Hey, Secretary Tang, my children are named like this." When the eldest son was born in 1951 to resist US aggression and aid Korea, he was called Aid Korea; The eldest daughter was born when she won the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it was called victory; In 1956***, the second son was called Yuejin; Nowadays, natural disasters and difficult times are, of course, natural and difficult! It's not called a disaster or anything, who will give an opinion?! ”

Tang Ping sighed: "Natural disasters and difficult times will pass, this name is still not very good!" ”

Liu Cunyi was very stubborn and insisted: "I think it's good, since our republic has such a difficult period, I have to ask the children to remember this difficult period." When they grow up, they will look back and know: what kind of situation did their parents work hard in 1961! ”

Tang Ping smiled bitterly: "This ...... And that makes some sense! Well, Lao Liu, let's wish these two children born in difficult times, and wish them a happy and beautiful life in the future! ”

Tang Ping's wishes made Sun Chengwei secretly laugh in his heart at that time, and on that morning in the early spring of 1961, Sun Chengwei did not believe that Liu Tianzhi and Liu Qianwei, the twins, would have any happy life in the future. He could never have imagined that Tang Ping's wish would really come true, and that Comrade Liu Weiwei, who had been malnourished in his mother's womb, would grow up and make a fortune, and arranged his marriage, which tossed him for 20 years. Therefore, in his later years, whenever he was tossed dizzy by his niece, Sun Chengwei always had to talk until 1961.

In 1961, Sun Chengwei had to deal with the children's three meals a day. Liu Cunyi and Sun Chenghui were hospitalized, and his mother, Zou Zhaodi, had to take care of both her premature daughter and her injured son-in-law in the hospital, and Sun Chengwei had to act as the temporary manager of the children.

As soon as the manager took office, there was a mess - on the first day of cooking, Sun Chengwei poured all the only half of the oil bottle oil in the family into the pot, and fried the rice flour cakes mixed with half of the elm bark powder into the oil pot.

Yuejin was less than three years old at the time, and looked at the oil pot and sniffed his nose: "Uncle, it's so fragrant, what do you cook?" ”

Sun Chengwei was very proud: "It's not a dish, it's fried glutinous rice dumplings, haven't you eaten it?" ”

Yuejin swallowed and said, "I haven't eaten it." ”

Sun Chengwei took out a piece of fried glutinous rice and handed it to Yuejin: "Give, Yuejin, you taste one first." ”

Yuejin took a bite and said, "Oh, uncle, it's so delicious, my mother never makes it for us!" ”

Sun Chengwei was even more proud, and while frying the glutinous rice dumplings, he said: "In the future, my uncle will make it for you every day." Yuejin, don't you know, my uncle has seen the world, and he has eaten all kinds of famous dishes. It's a pity this time, if you make it with glutinous rice flour, it will taste even better, and it will stick off all your small teeth! ”

After aiding Korea, victory, and Panpan came home from school, they were all happy when they saw the glutinous rice cakes, and they ate extremely crazy.

Sun Chengwei didn't eat at all, but asked: "Comrades, how is my uncle's craftsmanship?" ”

Liu Yuanchao gave a thumbs up to the first one: "Great, uncle, your craftsmanship is the best in the world!" ”

After Liu Shengli snatched the last glutinous rice cake, he solemnly announced: "This is the best thing in the world!" ”

At this time, Zou Zhaodi went home from the hospital to get something, looked at the last piece of glutinous rice in Liu Shengli's hand, and then looked at the empty oil bottle, his face immediately sank, and he opened it in front of the children: "Dawei, are you still going to heaven?" Now one person only has one or two oils a month, do you still dare to fry glutinous rice cakes? You...... Tell me, you can't get over this month? Do you still need oil for stir-frying? You...... You can do it for me! ”

Sun Chengwei was stunned for a moment.

Because of the luxury of eating glutinous rice cakes this time, Sun Chengwei took the children to live a period of no oil and water. The craftsmanship of "the best in the world" disappeared, and Sun Chengwei, who once made "the best food in the world", became the worst chef in the eyes of children. After several days of painfully chewing salted boiled turnips, the children are going to rebel.

At the most difficult time, Liu Cunyi's ex-wife, Tang Ronghua, who had already become the deputy secretary of the county party committee, sent 200 yuan and 50 catties of national grain stamps from Shandong - these 50 catties of national grain stamps can buy more than two taels of oil while buying grain, and the days without oil are over. Later, Sun Chengwei learned to calculate the amount of oil used in drops.

At this time, Tian Jianchuan and Sun Chengfen asked for leave from the Red Star Commune and rushed to visit Liu Cunyi and Sun Chenghui. They brought ten eggs and a skinny chicken, or a rooster. The eggs were sent to the hospital and eaten by Sun Chenghui, and the skinny rooster was all cheap for the children in the name of entertaining Tian Jianchuan. Therefore, Sun Chengwei showed his cooking skills again, and only then did he save some face in front of the children.

That night, under the dim fifteen light bulbs, Sun Chengwei entertained Tian Jianchuan on behalf of Sun Chenghui and Liu Cunyi, and did his best to make three dishes, a plate of small and deflated boiled peanuts, a plate of fried vegetables, and a plate of fried chicken offal.

At the end of the wine glass, Sun Chengwei said a lot: "...... Jianchuan, don't say you don't understand, even I can't figure it out! It's too funny that you and Aunt Six are rightists, and you are also bourgeois rightists. I still have a little to do with the bourgeoisie, I spent the money of the Chen family's bourgeoisie, and I married the Chen family's little wife. What kind of bourgeoisie are you? ”

Tian Jianchuan already looked like a peasant, one leg of his glasses was broken, and he was tied with a thin hemp rope on his ear.

Sun Chengwei sighed: "It's okay, we have different paths to the same end......"

Tian Jianchuan then said: "What are the different paths? You are you, I am me, we are two different things. ”

Sun Chengwei said: "Two different things? It's one thing, the rich are against the bad right, I'm the fourth, you're the fifth. ”

Tian Jianchuan put down his wine glass with a "snap": "I was wronged, you are not, we are not the same thing!" ”

At this time, Zou Zhaodi came over: "You should be quiet, let the children hear it badly!" ”

Sun Chengwei no longer said: "Okay, okay, let's drink!" Come, Jianchuan, drink it, drink more and you won't be annoyed. ”

Tian Jianchuan's eyes were full of tears, and he sighed: "I really miss the time when I was just liberated!" ”

Sun Chengwei also said: "Yes, who would have thought that socialism would be like this?!" ”

On this day, Tian Jianchuan was drunk, staggered to the courtyard, looked up at the starry sky, and recited Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong": "Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests." Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty merits, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and ...... moon"

Sun Chengwei walked over and persuaded: "Okay, okay, Jianchuan, go back to sleep, you have to hurry tomorrow." ”

Tian Jianchuan didn't listen, and was still reciting: "Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad!" Tears rolled down his eyes, "The white boy's head, Dawei, I ...... I'm a white boy......"