January 31, 1959.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month, the year of the year.

Outside the No. 13 courtyard of Dongxin Temple Hutong, two carriages stopped at the door.

The two big horses were tall and thin, and their hair was a little dull, and they shook their noses from time to time......

In the courtyard, Li Yuan looked at Li Gui and Li's mother helplessly, and said, "How good is it to go back after the New Year here?" It's also spring, maybe I'll let me go home and cook. There are still some wild vegetables or something out there, and you can eat them alive. Now when I go back, there is no pot, how can I fix it? ”

Mother Li said: "People can live, but we can't live?" I can't listen to you anymore this time, my son is pregnant with a child, and you have been raising us all the time, so what's the point? ”

Li Yuan wanted to say something, but was stopped by his sister-in-law: "Okay, old man!" Know that you are filial, towards home. But after getting married and marrying a daughter-in-law, you have to take care of yourself first. It doesn't matter more than anything else that Ezi is pregnant with a child, or the first one of you. If you stay, your home will be no longer like you. Besides, look at how much food you have prepared, and you can still go hungry at home? ”

It is a lot of food prepared, and it is winter now, and the day is more than ten degrees below zero, dry and cold, and it is a natural refrigerator.

Although there is no pot at home, there is still an earthen stove, and you can bake something to eat on a stand on the stove, but the thing must be cooked, otherwise it is easy to bake or sandwich ......

So Li Yuan has always let this side steam Erhe noodles steamed buns and wotou when he has time.

Cooking meat in the cellar in the middle of the night, meat is secondary, the key is that the broth can be frozen into meat jelly, which is both delicious and nutritious.

With this batch of frozen goods, it must be no problem to hold on until you can go home to cook, and this year has passed.

Although these things are not enough to eat, thirty or forty people, these things can be eaten openly, and they can be finished in two days.

But at this time, it is life-saving to have a mouthful of food with oil and water every day to supplement the body's urgently needed nutrients!

In fact, even if you can cook, you can drink at most one bowl of gruel per person per meal every day at home.

Fortunately, Li Yuan has saved a large number of wild things, meat is second, and boiling out the soup and oil and water is the key.

That's all he can do......

Seeing that their opinions were firm, Li Yuan didn't say anything anymore.

He looked at Li Gui and asked, "Dad, I heard Uncle Song say that he wants to transfer you to work in the commune?" ”

Li Gui nodded and said, "I will also be responsible for digging the well." ”

Hey, the old man's aura is a little high today.

The second brother Li Jiang on the side couldn't hold back his excitement and whispered: "Boss, my father has been praised by the old man!" ”

Li Yuanleng paused for a moment, then reacted, and looked at Li Gui in disbelief.

No wonder, he always felt that the old man was weird today.

Looking at it now, sure enough......

The chin is always slightly raised by about ten degrees, and the eyes of people can be seen from time to time "the light of the eyes"!

It was illuminated by the Holy Light......

Li Yuan asked in a low voice, "Dad, didn't you tell me that the pressurized water well was my idea?" I don't want to be so high-profile! ”

Negative emotions from Li Gui +666!

These numbers are bent like a whip to teach unfilial sons......

Li Gui's chin drooped, glared at Li Yuan and said, "Get out of the way!" What can I say? ”

This momentum could have lasted until the end of the New Year, and maybe it could be longer, but it was vented in advance by this rebel.

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Dad, did the old man give you a book, or did he give you a piece of writing?" If you want this, you can use it as a family heirloom! ”

Li Gui frowned and said, "Before you have achieved a major victory, you want to reach out to the organization and ask for something?" After a pause, he still explained: "It was the words from above, and the old man praised me: The wisdom of the people is infinite!" Comrade Li Gui is a good secretary who uses his brains for the people and solves difficulties, and he is a good cadre! ”

After speaking, the jaw that had just been pierced by the rebel was leaking again.

Li Yuan was also a little excited in his heart, excited to be afraid.

Now the person in charge of daily affairs is not an old man, if Li Gui takes a rocket to rise, it is indispensable to contact that person directly, and after the wind, the problem will be big.

Don't you see the legendary model worker? That's the top dung digger for a while, but because he shook hands, he praised a few words......

Therefore, Li Yuan still seriously admonished: "Dad, you are an old man, and you must be loyal to you." Of course, I'm your son, and it's okay for you to use my ideas. However, there are some matters related to principles and nature, and there is no ambiguity. Otherwise, if some rumors leak in the future, it will be a catastrophe. ”

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Li Gui was annoyed and embarrassed when he heard this, and he often called himself a cultural person, and he rarely burst into foul language, and scolded: "Then you say, what should I do?" Give a confession to the above, and then take you Lao Tzu and me to go to the street? ”

The two brothers, Li Jiang and Li Hai, also whispered persuasion on the side.

Lou Xiao'e was taken aback, worried that her father-in-law and eldest brother would beat Li Yuan.

The eldest sister-in-law smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, it's okay." ”

Li Yuan also smiled and said to Li Gui: "That's not necessary. The praise of the old man should be the honor of our whole family, and your head of the family should be received by you. But then, if someone looks at the old man's face and wants to knight you, then you must hold back and don't be greedy. Otherwise, when the old man finds out, he is afraid that he will be disappointed. There are many people who know that the pressurized water well is my idea, and they can't keep it a secret. You have to rely on this to become an official at the top, and 100% people will report you. ”

When Li Gui heard this, after pondering for a while, he looked at Li Yuan with some deep eyes and said: "Since ancient times, it has been said that I want my son to become a dragon, but in fact, more people are looking forward to their father becoming an official. Lao Tzu was a big official, and his son followed behind as a ya, eating and drinking spicy food. You're good, lest I'm going to be an official and a half-job. Boss, you're ......."

There was some intimidation in the words of this king and eight lambs, which made him very puzzled.

Li Yuan said: "For me, the family is neat and tidy, safe and sound, better than anything else. You're fifty-seven years old this year, and you're not young, and I don't want to see you working hard at your age. No matter how big an official you are, it is better to live to be a hundred years old, and in the future, you will watch Li Kun and their son get married and give birth to more than 100 great-grandchildren. What could be more satisfying than a whole family living a good life, all safe and happy? ”

The women were moved, if someone else said this, they still didn't believe it, but Li Yuan has been working hard to make the family live a good life, and they believe what he said.

Generally speaking, when the men of the Li family talk about things, the women will not interject.

There are already many people, and if there is an idea in the east and an idea in the west, it will definitely be a mess.

If there are different opinions and a few sentences rush up, it will be difficult to deal with the relationship.

But today, Mother Li couldn't help but say: "His father, listen to your son." What he said is really good, those outside are all false, and you can live a long life, which is the blessing of the family. ”

Li Gui frowned and said, "The day before yesterday, the head of the commune told me that they would talk to me in the New Year...... What do I say? ”

Li Yuan said: "It's not simple, carry forward the style and give credit." Let's just say that you are old and your health is not good, if you become an official and enjoy the honor, you will not be able to work as a result, and your heart will be uncomfortable. It is better to let the young comrades go up, they are strong and in the prime of life. As for you, you are willing to be an old scalper who works silently for the construction of socialist New China. As long as you are adamant, they will not force you. ”

Li Jiang was a little unwilling and said, "How do you know? What if they have to let Dad go......"

Li Yuan smiled: "I think too much." Earlier this year, 30 million young people entered the city to expand their recruitment. It is not only the labor force that has been expanded, but also the cadres. Now a lot of idle people don't know where to put it, it's not a matter of one radish and one pit for a long time, and more than a dozen radishes are planted in a pit. If Daddy is willing to carry forward the style, the above will only breathe a sigh of relief. ”

Li Guiurn said: "I will give you the credit, but I will not do less work." ”

Compared with this rebel, he still has deep faith.

He was willing to contribute to the construction of socialism.

What's more, there are also praises from the elderly......

Li Yuan smiled and persuaded: "Dad, you can do the work, but you have to do what you can." Just believe me this time, it's a blessing to suffer! ”

The pressurized water well project is straight to heaven, and the more it will be next year.

So Li Gui really wants to go up, and he can't predict where he will go.

But this kind of rise without a foundation is too risky, so I won't talk about it......

Fortunately, Li Gui still listened to persuasion, whether it was because he listened to his youngest son's words, or because of Li Yuan's sincere lung (fear) and intestine (fear) words before, which made him feel that if he really went to be promoted, he was stealing the credit of his younger son.

In short, the old man relented.

With the old man's words, the Li family will be more stable!

After the big thing was finished, Mother Li said to Lou Xiao'e: "You have a body now, it stands to reason that I should come to serve you." But after a few lifetimes, it is easy to get into trouble between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. If you don't have this condition, forget it, like your sister-in-law, you have to endure my mother-in-law when you enter the door, whoever is a daughter-in-law comes over like this, and I came here like this back then.

But I also worked as a daughter-in-law, and I knew it in my heart, I thought at that time, if only I could go back to my parents' house to live after pregnancy, who could be closer than my parents?

The conditions of your mother's family are not bad, I asked Yuanzi, your brother and they are all outside, and the house is strangely deserted.

Ezi, if you want to go back, then you can go back, and your mother-in-law won't say anything. ”

Lou Xiao'e was really surprised and moved when she heard this, although it has been ten years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the status between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is actually almost no different from the old times.

Just look at Jia Zhang's and Qin Huairu, if you want to teach a lesson, you can teach a lesson, and when your son dies, your daughter-in-law must also be honored and supported in a proper manner.

It is not an exaggeration to live as a person of the husband's family, and death to be a ghost of the husband's family.

Sun Yuexiang, the eldest daughter of Master Li Yuan's family, is still a cadre at home, the eldest son-in-law is dead, Sun Yuexiang wants to go home, and the prerequisites are to give money to support her mother-in-law and give money to raise her brother-in-law and sister-in-law......

It can be said that there are only two biggest opponents in her daughter's life, one is her mother-in-law and the other is her daughter-in-law.

Mother Li can be so magnanimous and open her mouth to let Lou Xiao'e go back to her parents' house, which is definitely reasonable.

Of course, it may also be because Lou Xiao'e is generous enough to let Li Yuan keep sending money home, and she is still giving food to her family at such a difficult time.

Let's compare hearts to hearts.

The happy Li Yuan and the teary-eyed Lou Xiao'e sent the family members to the carriage, and both sides waved goodbye vigorously, until they couldn't see each other, and then the two closed the door and locked it in different moods, and rode back home.

After returning home, looking at his wife, who was still in the middle of being moved, Li Yuan was a little suspicious of himself, was he too cold......

Although he has given a lot of things to the Li family, to be honest, he is mostly repaying with the mentality of repaying his gratitude.

He couldn't even wait to finish the Li family's kindness to him that year at one time, and it would be easy in the future.

The rest, like investment......

The body was very weak that year, and it was difficult to accept it in my heart.

No matter how difficult it was in my previous life, I usually had little contact with my mother, but I really found that I said goodbye to that world forever, and those days became the most missed time, and my mother, who was usually negligent, also became the person I missed the most......

During those difficult days, he was silent, and it was the Li family who tried their best to make him laugh.

He has a bad appetite and can't eat coarse grains, so he gives him all the white noodles at home, and he doesn't like to eat them, so the leftovers will be distributed to the children.

In the end, he even gave him the milk of his half-year-old nephew......

But Li Yuan's feelings for the Li family are still mostly to repay kindness, and family affection is scarce.

In his heart, he still thinks that his family only has his father and mother in his previous life.

But now...... It seems that this has already begun to change.

Life has to pass, and life has to go on.

Time can really change everything......

"Genko, what do you want?"

Just as Li Yuan was thinking to himself, he heard Lou Xiao'e's voice in his ears, and she had just added two briquettes to the stove.

Li Yuan smiled: "It's nothing, I just found that you are quite reluctant to let your mother and sister-in-law go." ”

Lou Xiao'e said seriously: "Mom and sister-in-law, they are both good people." Really, Genzi, I've seen and heard about many big families, and there are many people in the family, and there is no family affection at all. Especially when dividing the family property, everyone is like an enemy, wishing that the others would die and the benefits would belong to one person. So I'm really touched to see our family like this now. I'm so glad that I not only chose the right man, but also the right in-law! ”

Li Yuan smiled and said, "I will let you feel like this all the time." Okay, it's been a day, you can lie down and rest for a while. I'm going to see Mei's house, and I'll probably come back a little later. ”

Lou Xiao'e said enviously: "It's so good, you can still see Mr. Mei Lanfang." ”

Li Yuan touched her hair and said with a smile: "My friendship with Mr. Mei is very shallow, and it is not good to use money to do things." However, I have a good relationship with Wang Shixiang and Brother Wang, and I met through Mr. Zhu Jiaming. Brother Wang is very, very interesting and very good at playing. His wife's name is Yuan Quanyou, and I call her Aunt Yuan...... Each. Aunt Yuan is also very knowledgeable, proficient in music, and the paper-cutting is very good. When the weather is good, I'll take you to Wang's house to play, in the area of Neiwu Street. Comrade He Yuzhu always boasted of his good craftsmanship...... Of course, his craftsmanship is good. But Brother Wang's craftsmanship is a must, it's everyone! ”

Lou Xiao'e nodded happily and responded: "Hmm! ”

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(End of chapter)