After New Year's Day, in 1970, a few days later, it was the Spring Festival, Zhao Jinju took a few days off and returned to his hometown in Leping, Jiangxi Province in advance. It was Liu Lei's car, Hu Si and Tu Yihong came to see him off, and Hu Si also bought some Shanghai dim sum to eat, saying that he was honoring his parents-in-law who had not met. Originally, two thousand yuan was given, but Zhao Jinju had put it in the pocket of her close-fitting clothes in advance, wore a small padded jacket outside, and then put a coat on her coat, which was absolutely safe and reliable.

There is a send-off of this level, which is considered high, and when I usually go back, at most I am a fellow countryman. Fellow Zhang Ping'an has graduated and gone back. Since the letter came to report the mailing address, he has not received a reply, and Zhang Ping'an has never written again. Zhang Ping'an is more realistic, there is no hope, he doesn't want to do useless work. But in Zhao Jinju's memory, there is still more or less the shadow of Zhang Ping'an, mainly because he sat in the car alone. To be honest, he's still fine, and I'll have to go see him this time.

Zhao Jinju arrived home at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and Sun Erniang saw that her daughter's demeanor had changed, she had become fat, and she had become more like a big girl. Sun Erniang is really, her daughter is married, not a girl anymore (the local unmarried girl is called a girl)! But why don't you see your son-in-law? Sun Erniang was a little disappointed, why didn't her daughter bring her husband back for the New Year? Zhao Jinju understood her mother's thoughts, and it was not easy to say it in front of her grandparents and grandmothers, so she took the big bags of snacks to her grandparents and said, "This is your grandson-in-law's filial piety to you!" She didn't think of her parents, Hu Si was talking about honoring her parents-in-law, and Zhao Jinju felt that her grandparents were the biggest, so she took it to her grandparents on her own initiative.

The two old men happily took it with both hands, and the grandmother knew that it was more expensive when she saw this package, so she took back two packs and gave them to Zhao Jinju and said: "Ah Ju, how can we afford such a valuable thing, let's leave two packs for your mother!" ”

"I can't afford it, I should be!" However, she still reached out and took the two packets and turned around to give them to her mother.

After a while, Zhao's father came back from work, and Zhao Jinju saw his father's limping appearance, and suddenly felt a little sad, so he shouted loudly: "Dad! "Tears flowed.

Sun Erniang didn't say anything when she saw this, so she said loudly: "I'm going to have dinner!" ”

Sun Erniang, in order to welcome her daughter's return, added a scrambled egg with chives. The green onions are grown in the vegetable garden, the eggs are laid by their own chickens, and the five people eat and scramble four eggs, which is already hearty. Usually at night it is nothing more than leftovers, the mother gives her daughter vegetables are eggs, the grandmother gives her granddaughter vegetables are eggs, four eggs, almost three to Zhao Jinju, Zhao Jinju all went back one by one and said: "Mother! Grandmother! I can eat it myself, and you can eat it too, you can't give me a person to eat! ”

The eggs couldn't be eaten more, so after a pause, she took a coercion to her grandfather, and then to her father, and said, "Dad! You should eat a little more, you work hardest! ”

Zhao's father is the hardest, his legs and feet are not good, and he has to work. Zhao Jinju is bitter to think about! Zhao's father has a low status, and he can't always raise his head in front of his wife, but Sun Erniang can be said to be a widow when she is young, and she has complaints, not about her husband, but about the "eight characters" (two words each for year, month, day, and hour). Causing them today's situation is completely unfair to fate. But she is still respectful to the government, she often says that the top is good, but the bottom is nonsense. She was very good to her husband and loyal to her husband, although she couldn't do that with her, she never kept her wife and didn't do anything sorry for her husband or the Zhao family. It turned out that Zhao Jinju was young and didn't understand the affairs between men and women. Later, Zhao Jinju developed into an adult and menstruated, Sun Erniang inadvertently said something between men and women when educating her daughter, and her daughter asked: "Mother, is Dad good to you?" ”

"Okay, it's just that your father's health is not good, and he can't give you a little brother anymore!" Zhao Jinju gradually understood that the reason why she couldn't give birth to her younger brother was that her father had lost her reproductive function and her mother was widowed, and she sympathized with her mother and even more sympathized with her father. Dad hurt his body and his spirit. It's really pitiful, but for the sake of the family's life, even if the legs and feet are inconvenient, they still have to work. Being a daughter feels even more guilty, others can be disrespectful, and the father must be respectful. She took a large amount of scrambled eggs with green onions into her father's bowl, and used chopsticks to flick the rice onto the eggs, which means that she can only eat it and can't return it to the bowl. Dad Zhao looked at Sun Erniang's eyes, as if waiting for an order.

Sun Erniang understood her husband and asked her to express her position, so Sun Erniang said: "You eat, see what I do, this is your daughter's intention, you don't have to be polite!" "Dad Zhao didn't speak, and ate his meal.

After dinner, clean up. Sun Erniang came to her daughter's room, this is a habit, the mother-daughter conversation must be the mother to the daughter's room, the daughter to the mother's room is inconvenient, the matter between women, the daughter is most willing to talk about the mother, not the father, and the man also finds it inconvenient.

When Zhao Jinju saw her mother enter the house, the first thing she did was to take out the two thousand yuan in her underwear and hand it to Sun Erniang, saying, "Mother, this is your son-in-law's filial piety to you, please take it!" ”

Sun Erniang has seen so much money, two cents, Wu cents, and a dime of money, she sells tea is the change she collects, but when it comes to a hot day, it is very good to receive dozens of fast money. People get a salary of dozens of yuan a month, and if they don't eat for a year, they only pay a few hundred yuan. If you add food, how many years will you have to save 2,000 yuan? Sun Erniang was so excited that her hands trembled a little, but she still took it.

The second thing, that is, to answer the question, Zhao Jinju has to think a little hard.

The first question: Aren't you and Ai Qing in a relationship? So is the son-in-law called Ai Qingluo?

"It's not!" Zhao Jinju said: "Mother, I have been in love with Ai Qing, and I also told you in the letter, but you don't have to get married if you fall in love, and you can't get married if you can't talk about it, it's normal." ”

Yes, who will you marry if you don't succeed in falling in love! Normal;

Second question: So what is the name of the son-in-law?

"His name is Hu Si, Hu surnamed Hu, or Hu Lai Hu (really right), Mingsi, thinking of thought."

"Ah, Huss!" Sun Erniang repeated softly;

The third question: what does he do?

"It's a director at a film studio."

Sun Erniang stared at her daughter with wide eyes, you must know that the film director is too profound and mysterious for Sun Erniang, she doesn't believe it anymore.

"Have I seen any of his films? (Fourth question)? ”

"I definitely haven't seen it, I haven't seen it, and we haven't seen it in the countryside!" Zhao Jinju herself is a little difficult to justify, but she said: "He is still just a new director, and he hasn't directed any films yet!" ”

"Ah, no wonder!" Sun Erniang also found the reason.

"Isn't the director's salary very high? (Fifth question)" Sun Erniang asked again.

"Just over a hundred dollars!" Zhao Jinju said it very easily. More than 100 yuan, for the township, it is a lot of money, you can buy a family (three people) for a year's rations. (Nine cents a pound of rice, peasants' self-production and self-purchase is only eight cents, calculated as 30 catties a month, a family of three is 90 catties, 90 * 8 = 720 points, even if it is eight yuan, 12 months a year, 8 * 12 = 96 yuan, less than 100 yuan) Rural rations are food to eat, as for what vegetables, that is never counted. Generally, farmers do not buy vegetables, and only buy some vegetables at special times (such as the Chinese New Year), which is a special case. Therefore, the peasants are bitter, and if they have 100 yuan a month, they can pay it back, like Sun Erniang can make some living money by selling tea, which is already very good.

"How did you meet?" Sun Erniang raised the sixth question, which is a sensitive issue.

Zhao Jinju was very afraid of touching, even her mother, she didn't dare to tell the truth, so she pretended to be casual and said, "Someone else introduced it." ”

"Who is it?" Sun Erniang's incidental question. What she means is that you don't have any acquaintances in society, who introduced you.

"Ai Qing's father!" Zhao Jinju said.

"Ahh Ai Qing's father! Sun Erniang said in surprise.

Zhao Jinju lost her words all of a sudden, how did she get Ai Qing's father involved? Yes, it was indeed recommended by Ai Buyi, but it was not a marriage introducer. Referral is introduction, it's one thing, but Ai's dad introduced her to acting, not to Hu Si, which is different. Who would have thought that rape would happen? Since Ai Dad is said, he can only say that he is Ai Dad, and he can't change it anymore, and if he changes it, there will be a loophole. "Mother! It was indeed introduced by Ai Qing's father, if you don't believe it, you can write to ask! ”

Jin Ju's affirmative answer made Sun Erniang also hazy, obviously she was talking to her son, how could she introduce her to others again, I don't understand, Sun Erniang really doesn't understand.

"Why?" This is the seventh question asked by Sun Erniang, and it can be regarded as the last question.

Zhao Jinju thought for a while, and then told Sun Erniang: "At first, I was just introduced to learn acting, but I didn't expect Hu Si to fall in love with me, so I started to do it, but I felt that I had a boyfriend, so I didn't agree to Hu Si." But Ai Qing actually suspected that I was stepping on two boats (Ai Qing was wronged!) So, he proposed to break up with me, and after that, I got along with Hu Si! ”

In this way, Ai Qing is wrong, her daughter is right, Sun Erniang is relieved. I heard that my daughter was learning to act, but my daughter was really going to make a movie, and Jin Ju saw her suspicious demeanor, so she took the initiative to tell Sun Erniang: "Mother, I have accepted the filming, and I will start shooting after the spring next year, and I will play an important role in the film." ”

Although Hu Si agreed to play the leading role, she was not sure, so she had to change to an important role.

Hearing that her daughter was going to be a movie actress, Sun Erniang was even happier, she knew that the actor would make a lot of money. moved the money in his hand again, was stunned by the money, and had a son-in-law who was a director - alas! It's a pity that they haven't met yet, so they said to Jin Ju: "No matter what, you must Director Hu-"

"Mother! It's called Huss! Zhao Jinju said.

"That's right! Be sure to come and have fun! Sun Erniang said.

Jin Ju told Sun Erniang: "When we finish filming, we will come back together!" Sun Erniang didn't figure out what "finishing" was, but she understood that it meant that it was over, and she was looking forward to meeting her son-in-law.

The mother and daughter also talked about the situation of the school, but what are you doing without class? Sun Erniang couldn't figure it out, so she took the ticket and went back to rest.

Early the next morning, Sun Erniang went to Zhangjiaqiao Town to buy more than a pound of meat, and also sold a live carp weighing more than a pound. The meat is free of charge, the fish has to be planned, and Sun Erniang can't buy it without a ticket. But she was willing to spend money, and on the black market she took a fancy to a live carp and bought it. Although Zhao's father didn't care about anything, he was sensible, when Sun Erniang went back to the room with a handful of tickets, he saw it, he didn't ask, it was Sun Erniang who took the initiative to tell him that he was a son-in-law to honor them. He didn't even ask the name of his son-in-law, but he said that he wanted Sun Erniang to go to the town to buy some vegetables, and when his daughter got married, he would be a guest when he went home, and he should be polite if he was a guest. Besides, the daughter is about to (already) make money, and life will be better, if it is not for her husband to remind her, Sun Erniang will also go.

Zhao Jinju was idle at home for two days, and life was quite good. Grandma and mother didn't let her do anything, and she was a little bored. When people are idle and bored, they will miss people. The first thing I thought about was, of course, Hu Si, who had only been away for a few days, and it was bearable. The second thing she thought about was Zhang Ping'an, she planned to come back to see him this time.