Because Shen's family often drove over to Qiao's house in a car, for the villagers of the Qili production team, cars were not a particularly rare thing.
But when these two limousines entered the production team, they attracted everyone's attention.
"My God, is that also a car? Why is it so big?"
"That's not to say, it's much bigger than the one opened by the director of Qiao's relatives, and it's so new and stylish, it's very expensive at first glance!"
"It's one thing whether it's expensive or not. The question is why this car came to our production team. Could it be the Qiao family's god-in-law again?"
"But didn't Aunt Xiuzhi and his wife go to the town to send their granddaughter to the college entrance examination? If a god-in-law came over, they probably wouldn't leave."
Everyone made various guesses, and their eyes were glued to the two cars like glue.
When Wang Shuisheng saw the car, although he was a little curious, he didn't intend to go there immediately, but his eyes kept following the car.
The two cars stopped at the office of the production team. Seeing the situation, Wang Shuisheng knew that he couldn't go if he didn't go.
He told everyone a few words and was about to go there when he saw the director of the commune rushing over on a broken bicycle. His face was as red as a braised pig's head, and he looked very funny.
Seeing Wang Shuisheng, he slammed on the brakes, and his bicycle almost rushed into the field: "Why are you still standing here, didn't you see the mayor passing by?"
Mayor? !
Hearing these two words, let alone the villagers, even Wang Shuisheng was taken aback: "Why did the mayor suddenly come here? Did something happen?"
The director of the commune chased the car all the way, already exhausted, he waved his hand and said, "Don't ask too many questions, you'll know as soon as you go over there."
Wang Shuisheng quickly put down his trousers, and rushed towards the office while arranging his clothes and hair.
At this moment, the door of a car behind was opened, and a tall man stepped out from inside. He was wearing a black suit, wearing a pair of black leather shoes, and his hair was combed back, as if he had been styled one by one.
The mayor got down from the car in front, smiled at the man in the black suit, and said, "Mr. Huo, this is the Qili production team. I'm the person you're looking for...I'll call the production team leader here."
In fact, he didn't know the real identity of this Mr. Huo, but his superiors specially called and asked him to treat him well, saying that this person not only has the ability to develop their entire town, but even the entire county, so no matter what The other party was disappointed.
He was very shocked when he heard this, and he didn't dare to ask more questions. He quickly patted his chest and promised that he would treat the other party well, so he personally accompanied him for a walk!
The director of the commune rushed over on his bicycle, and behind him was Wang Shuisheng, who was running on his legs. Even so, the mayor thought they were slow and kept urging them.
Wang Shuisheng was running out of breath, and came over and asked, "Mayor, mayor, is there anything I can help you with?"
The mayor waved his hand and said, "I don't need your help here, but Mr. Huo has something to ask you!"
Mr. Huo
When Wang Shuisheng heard this surname, he immediately thought of the bad guys in the pigsty.
He turned his head to look at the other party, and was stunned for a moment. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that this Mr. Huo looked familiar.
Huo Zhengchen turned around, bowed slightly to Wang Shuisheng very politely and said, "Hi, my name is Huo Zhengchen, my father Huo Huaqing, his wife and children heard that they were transferred from the farm to your production team five years ago, I don't know them Where are they now? Are they... okay?"
Wang Shuisheng was taken aback again when he heard the words. He said it looked familiar just now, but he didn't expect it to be father and son!
It's just that what is the identity of this person, that he can let the mayor personally accompany him, if he finds out that his son is gone later, will he take his anger on him
Wang Shuisheng's heart suddenly thumped: "They are... at the pigsty."
He couldn't help but feel a little guilty when he said this, but he couldn't blame them, the Huo family were bad elements, and they certainly couldn't live in a good place.
In fact, compared with other bad elements, the Huo family is doing very well, especially in the past two years, except that they cannot move freely, they are almost the same as other villagers.
Hearing the pigsty, Huo Zhengchen's face was a little moved, but he didn't blame Wang Shuisheng: "Can I trouble you to show me the way?"
Wang Shuisheng nodded repeatedly, then waved his hand: "No trouble, no trouble, I'll take you there right away."
As he spoke, he hurriedly led a group of people towards the pigsty.
At this time, he was very grateful that he led someone to renovate the pigsty two years ago.
When he came to the pigsty, the mayor felt a little upset when he smelled the stench and looked at the surrounding environment.
He really didn't expect Mr. Huo's father to be a bad guy, but his father was a bad guy, so why didn't he come here with him back then
Everyone had countless questions in their hearts, but no one dared to ask them.
Huo Zhengchen stepped on the muddy ground with his leather shoes, and walked in step by step, feeling both excited and heavy.
Dai Shufang heard such a commotion outside, and ran out while wiping her hands. When she saw a tall man standing in front of the main room, she suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart. .
This figure was inexplicably familiar.
She frowned and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
When Huo Zhengchen heard the voice from behind, he stopped abruptly, and slowly turned around. The woman who came into his eyes was familiar to him even when he turned into ashes, but she was so unfamiliar that he wanted to cry.
I saw that she was wearing patched clothes, her face was pale and sallow, and the white hair on her temples was faintly visible.
In his impression, his wife was a well-known beauty, with plump cheeks, rosy face, always wearing the most fashionable clothes, he never dreamed that one day she would look like this!
Huo Zhengchen's lips trembled, and he choked up and called out, "Fangfang."
When Dai Shufang turned around, her eyes widened suddenly, staring at him as if seeing a ghost.
She would not forget the man in front of her even if she turned into ashes, but he was already dead!
Twelve years ago, when Huo Chi was just one year old, in order to support the country's foreign wars, he personally delivered military supplies there, but he never expected that he would never come back after he left.
If the child hadn't been there back then, she would have followed him. Two years after he left, they were beaten as bad elements and then sent to the farm.
For twelve years, the person she thought had been dead for twelve years suddenly appeared in front of her again!
Dai Shufang looked at him and asked, "Are you a human or a ghost?"
Before Huo Zhengchen could answer, an old man walked into the door. This person was none other than Huo Huaqing.
Like Dai Shufang, Huo Huaqing was so stunned that he couldn't react when he saw his son who had been dead for twelve years suddenly standing in front of him alive.
Seeing his white-haired father, Huo Zhengchen suddenly felt sad, knelt down towards him and said, "Dad, the unfilial son is back!"
"You! Are you still alive?"
Huo Huaqing stared at him so tightly that his eyeballs almost protruded.
Huo Zhengchen's eyes were red: "Dad, I'm still alive!"
As soon as the words fell to the ground, Dai Shufang rushed up and beat him a while: "You are still alive, so why didn't you come back before? Why?"
In the past twelve years, his death has become a scar that they dare not mention easily. In the past twelve years, they have been struggling on the verge of hell, but he has lived a bright and beautiful life!
Huo Zhengchen let her beat and vent.
Back then when he was sending the military supplies to the battlefield, I don’t know who leaked the news. They met the enemy army on the way, and the two sides fought. Before he fell unconscious, he was blown out and hit his head hard on a stone. He doesn't know about it.
When he woke up, he had lost his memory, and he didn't know what went wrong. He became a black worker in the United States.
In those years in the United States, he also had a very bad life. He had no status and no human rights, worked day and night, and would be beaten if he slack off.
He swallowed his anger there for more than three years before he found an opportunity to escape from that black workshop. Afterwards, with the help of the nobleman, he got a new identity and started to help the nobleman.
Later, he became independent from the nobles and started to create his own business. In less than ten years, he accumulated a wealth that others could not earn in their lifetime.
It's just that he hasn't recovered his memory for so many years, until a few months ago, he hit his head again, and the memory that had disappeared for many years suddenly returned.
After recovering his memory, he immediately rushed from the United States to Xiangjiang, and through various relationships and contacts, asked them to help find the whereabouts of his family members.
Huo Huaqing looked at his son with cloudy eyes, and couldn't help crying.
No one from outside came in, leaving space for their family of three.
In 1976 last year, three important political figures in the country passed away one after another, and the people were in great grief. But in this year, the Cultural Revolution, which lasted for ten years, finally came to an end.
Since last year, people have been rehabilitated, but at the beginning, those who were rehabilitated were those who were not involved in politics, such as educators or experts in various industries, and some people with connections behind them.
After the Huo family, the farm assigned another family of bad elements, that is to say, there were two bad elements in the Qili production team, but there was no one to help them rehabilitate them, so no one knew that there was such a thing as rehabilitating them. matter.
When the villagers knew that the Huo family in the pigsty had been rehabilitated, everyone was shocked.
They really didn't expect that the bad guys would have a day of redress, and judging from this posture, the Huo family in the pigsty is still a remarkable figure!
Everyone immediately regretted it.
If I had known that the Huo family would be rehabilitated, if I had known that their background was so great, I should have treated them better in the first place!
Now, it's too late!
But speaking of it, the Huo family seems to have a good relationship with the Qiao family, especially Huo Chi, who drowned and died, had a good relationship with Da Qiao back then.
Now that the Huo family has been rehabilitated, they will definitely thank the Qiao family.
Why do you think the Qiao family is so lucky
To save someone casually is the son of the deputy director, to lose a daughter and still recognize a god-in-law in the city, and now to support a bad person casually, and to support a big man!
How could they not have such luck!
It's really different!
Everyone looked at the Huo family's limousine, and some of them were thick-skinned, so they hurriedly took the time to get close, but there was one person who hid far away in the crowd and didn't dare to approach at all.
This person is none other than Wan Chunju.
When Wan Chunju was working in the pigsty, she often bossed the Huo family around, and from time to time she almost poked their fingers in the face and called them bad elements.
She didn't continue to scold them until she stopped working in the pigsty, but when she saw them on the road, she always wanted to despise them.
I didn't expect that the bad guys who got stuck in the mud would have a day of rehabilitation, and the mayor personally accompanied them to pick them up. One can imagine how scary this identity is.
Thinking of what she did back then, Wan Chunju was so frightened that her legs went limp.
She wanted to go home secretly while no one was paying attention to her, but she was stopped when she just turned around.
"Master Qiao, don't your Qiao family have a good relationship with the Huo family? Why didn't you join in?"
"Yeah, that's not like your character!"
In the past when the Shen family came over, Wan Chunju acted like she was licking a dog, but now that the mayor is with her, she didn't go up to please her, which is very abnormal.
When everyone shouted, Dai Shufang also saw Wan Chunju and walked towards her step by step.
Seeing this, Wan Chunju's legs softened and she fell to the ground: "I was wrong, Sister Fang!!! I was wrong, I shouldn't call you bad elements, don't arrest me and go to the farm!"
Hearing Wan Chunju's words, Dai Shufang was speechless for a while.
In fact, she never took what Wan Chunju said to heart.
Although Wan Chunju's words were ugly, they were really nothing compared to those people on the farm, and she endured even worse things.
What's more, the Qiao family has been taking care of them all these years. Her son Huo Chi and Da Qiao are good friends from childhood. Even for the sake of the Qiao family, she will not take revenge on Wan Chunju.
She wanted to go up to help Wan Chunju up, but Wan Chunju thought she was going to hit her, so she was so frightened that she let out the sound of killing a pig.
The people around couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Wan Shazhu is worthy of being Wan Shazhu. After so many years, he still likes to yell like a pig!"
"No, if one day she stops barking, I may not be used to it yet!"
Seeing this, Dai Shufang didn't help her at all, and asked softly, "Is your mother-in-law at home?"
Seeing that she didn't hit her, Wan Chunju became bolder: "My in-laws are going to the town, and my daughter is going to take the college entrance examination these few days. They will go to the town to take care of her, and it will take two days before they come back."
Only then did Dai Shufang remember the matter of the college entrance examination, nodded and said, "Alright then, we'll come back in two days."
Her husband was going to take them back to the capital, and before going back, they had to meet with Qiao's family once to say goodbye to each other.
The Huo family left in a car. Long after they left, the villagers were still talking about it.
—
Da Qiao and others in the town didn't know what happened to the production team.
After the cousin entered the examination room, she and grandma did not leave immediately, but waited outside.
Qiao Donghe entered the examination room with stationery, his heart beating all the time.
Her brain has never been very smart, especially compared with sister Da Qiao, she has never been the first in the exam.
It's just that she has a bad temper, can't speak nice words, and doesn't like dealing with strangers. Apart from reading, she really doesn't know what she can do.
So she has to go to university no matter what!
But the more she thought about it, the more nervous she became. After finding a place to sit down, she couldn't help but tremble.
At this moment, the invigilating teacher hadn't come yet. A young man sitting behind her saw her like this and poked her on the back with a pen.
Qiao Donghe was taken aback, turned around and looked at him like a frightened little animal, and said, "Did you call me?"
The man's name was Luo Junliang, his eyes fell on Qiao Donghe's face, he grinned and said, "Don't you remember me?"
Qiao Donghe looked at him, and finally shook his head: "I don't remember."
A look of disappointment flashed across Luo Junliang's face: "We are from the same school, but I'm in Class Two. Half a year ago, I bumped into you in the school cafeteria and knocked down your lunch box. Don't you really remember?"
Qiao Donghe only remembered when he heard his words: "So it's you!"
Luo Junliang grinned and said, "That's right, it's me. My name is Luo Junliang. I'm so sorry last time!"
Qiao Donghe waved his hands, his face turned red: "It's okay, you have already apologized to me before, and you even paid me for the meal!"
Luo Junliang smiled and said: "I saw you trembling just now, are you cold, or are you too nervous?"
Qiao Donghe was reminded by him, and remembered his nervousness again: "I'm very nervous, I'm afraid I won't pass the exam."
Luo Junliang said: "If you don't pass the exam, you can take the exam next year. Since the country has resumed enrollment, it will definitely not be the only one."
Qiao Donghe pursed his lips and smiled, but did not respond to these words.
She was afraid that if she failed the exam this time, her mother would not let her take the exam again and would force her to go on a blind date.
Although her milk can suppress her mother, it is also very annoying to listen to her mother nagging at home every day.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Luo Junliang said again: "If you're still nervous for a while, just take a deep breath and write the herringbone in your hands. Write three times in a row, and you won't be nervous soon."
Qiao Donghe's eyes widened: "Is this useful?"
"Of course it works, I won't lie to you!"
Luo Junliang smiled and nodded, the sunlight came in from the window and reflected on his young face, making his smile look extremely bright.
Qiao Donghe couldn't use this method in front of his interview, so after thanking the other party in a low voice, he turned around.
At this moment, the invigilator also came over, and the chattering examination room suddenly became quiet.
Seeing the invigilator's serious face, Qiao Donghe's heartbeat started to speed up again. She thought for a while, and then wrote with the method Luo Junliang taught her just now while taking a deep breath.
I don't know if it's because of her heart, after taking a few deep breaths, she really calmed down a lot.
She couldn't help being grateful to him.
Before writing, she took a sip of the water prepared for her by sister Da Qiao, which was sweetened with sugar.
Sister Da Qiao has this kind of ability. No matter how ordinary ingredients are in her hands, she can make them more delicious than others. It is just an ordinary glass of sugar water, and what she makes is sweeter than others.
What's even more strange is that after drinking the water, the rest of her nervousness disappeared.
She felt that her mind was clearer than ever before. After the test papers were handed out, she also found it very easy to do the questions.
She thinks this is the good luck brought to her by sister Da Qiao!
After the exam in the morning, Qiao Donghe came out of the exam room.
As soon as she came out, she saw sister Da Qiao and her grandparents standing in the wind waiting for her. Her eyes were sour and she almost shed tears.
When Da Qiao saw her cousin come out, she immediately flew over, took out the prepared steamed stuffed bun from her bosom and handed it over, "Cousin, this steamed stuffed stuffed bun was just bought and it's still warm, hurry up and take a bite!"
Qiao Donghe was more and more moved. He rubbed his sister's hair and said with a smile, "Why don't you go back, the wind is so strong, and you are waiting outside so dryly, you will catch cold easily!"
Da Qiao shook his head: "It's okay, we went to wait somewhere else, and just came here, cousin, hurry up and eat!"
Qiao Donghe didn't hold back, and took the bun in sister Da Qiao's hand and took a big bite.
The meaty taste in the mouth is her favorite meat bun.
Sister Da Qiao and grandma are so kind to her, she is so happy!
When Qiao Donghe was chomping on the steamed stuffed bun, Luo Junliang happened to pass by. Seeing her gobbled it up, he immediately burst out laughing, and her white teeth were particularly conspicuous in the sunlight.
"Ahem..."
Qiao Donghe didn't expect that he would pass by suddenly, let alone that he would choke and cough when he saw his rude appearance.
Luo Junliang saw that her family was there, but he didn't come over, and went towards his family with a smile.
Seeing that her cousin was coughing and crying, Da Qiao quickly patted her on the back: "Who is that person? Why are you so rude!"
Qiao Donghe's face suddenly turned red, which was blurred by coughing.
The exam lasted for two days.
After the exam, Qiao Donghe felt that she did well in the exam, at least she could do all the questions, and she didn't know if she was right or wrong.
After the exam, they stayed in the town for a long time. Xue Chuan personally cooked for his granddaughter and made a delicious meal. By the way, he invited the Wei family couple over to thank them for helping to take care of the eldest granddaughter during this time.
The two elders of the Wei family liked the two girls Qiao Donghe and Da Qiao very much, and they felt sad for a while when they heard that they were going back in the afternoon.
Da Qiao hurriedly comforted them, saying that they would come here often in the future.
Only then did the two elders of the Wei family become happy.
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Back in the production team, villagers immediately told them about the Huo family.
Several people were shocked when they found out.
Unexpectedly, the Huo family's son, who had been dead for twelve years, came back to life, and even used his own connections to help the Huo family rehabilitate!
After being shocked, they were happy for the Huo family.
The Huo family's status has improved in the past few years, but they are still bad elements after all, they can only work in the production team and have no freedom at all. Now that they have been rehabilitated, they can also be free people.
And in this way, Huo Chi can also come back from the army, and their family can be reunited.
Da Qiao was also very happy for brother Huo Chi.
The Huo family came to the production team the next morning, bringing a lot of things in large and small bags. When the people in the production team saw it, their eyes turned red with envy.
The Huo family had lunch at Qiao's house, and then they said goodbye. They were going back to Beijing, and then tried to bring their son back.
The Chinese New Year came soon after the college entrance examination, and the time came to 1978.
The limelight outside became more and more loose. Under this circumstance, Qiao Zhenjun made an important decision. He wanted to change his youngest son's surname to Xue.