Hearing Wang Yansheng's words, Qiao Hongxia felt something explode in her mind!
Her whole body was like a shrimp thrown into boiling water, turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Her hands gripped the corner of the clothes tightly and loosely, loosen and tight again, and the corners of the clothes were rubbed by her until they looked ugly. After a long time, she found her voice and said, "Why me?"
Not only was she a year older than him, but she was also divorced with a child. With his status and achievements, he could have married a better girl!
Even if he wants to marry a girl from the city, it is not impossible. If she didn't know that he is not the kind of person who makes fun of others casually, she would think that he is teasing herself!
Qiao Hongxia was nervous, but Wang Yansheng was actually more nervous than she was.
It's just that he is dark-skinned and serious, so people who are not very familiar with him will definitely not be able to see it.
He stared at her face without blinking his eyes, seeing her flushed cheeks, he thought it looked good.
After staring at it for a long time, he was afraid that she would think he was a hooligan, so he forced himself to look away from her face, and then heard her question.
He was relieved, but fortunately she didn't reject him outright: "I, I have noticed you for a long time."
As soon as he said those words, he wished he could slap himself.
Bah, this sounds more like a hooligan!
Sure enough, Qiao Hongxia raised her eyes to look at him when she heard his words.
Wang Yansheng was so nervous that his heart would jump out of his throat: "I, I didn't mean that, I mean, do you still remember that year in 1960?"
Qiao Hongxia was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Of course I remember, three years of famine, I will never forget it in my life!"
Wang Yansheng also nodded. From 1959 to 1961, there was a famine throughout the country, and many people did not survive those years.
In the past, the Wang family was not well-off, and it could even be said that they were poor. When the famine came, they were the first to be impacted by a family with four walls and a large population.
His grandfather, grandmother, and a little aunt swelled to death after eating Guanyin soil in 1959. He used to have a little sister who also starved to death that year.
During those three years, people in the production team were starved to death almost every day!
Although the family members warned them not to eat Guanyin soil every day, but that day, he was so hungry that he was trembling and trying to stuff the Guanyin soil into his mouth, she appeared to him with half a piece of rough bread before.
He still remembers what she said to himself, she said: "Eating this dirt will kill you, don't eat it, you can eat this piece of steamed bun!"
He looked up at her in a daze, thinking she was so stupid, how important food was in those days, she actually gave him steamed buns to eat!
Seeing that he hadn't moved, she stuffed the steamed bun into his hand, and told him again before leaving, telling him not to eat Guanyin soil in the future.
At that time, he was staring blankly at her receding back while wolfing down his food, and thought that she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life, even at that time she was thin and pale.
She was thirteen years old that year, and he was twelve years old. After that day, he knew her name and knew that she was the third eldest in the family just like himself.
Later, they all survived the most difficult three years. After that, the life of the Qiao family became more and more prosperous, while the Wang family was still clinking poor. His eldest brother and second brother got married one after another, and the family had more and more children, and the burden became heavier and heavier.
A girl in the village can talk about her husband's family at the age of sixteen or seventeen. When she is sixteen years old, the matchmaker frequently goes to Qiao's house to talk about marriage. The boys in the production team from far and near all want to marry her as a wife, and he also wants to.
But he didn't want to marry her back, let her live in a thatched hut, and let her eat pickles and porridge with him every meal, so when the army came to the production team to select people to serve as soldiers, he seized the opportunity.
Before going to the army, he really wanted to ask her to wait for him, but he really couldn't. He had nothing, and if he didn't achieve any results, why would he let her waste time for him
In the end, he didn't say anything, and went to the army alone with a bag on his back.
He almost worked hard with his life. When others put in 100 percent of sweat, he paid 200 percent. When others practiced for ten hours, he gave himself an extra two hours of practice.
His hard work paid off in exchange for a good harvest. He was promoted from soldier to squad leader to platoon leader. When he thought he had finally made some achievements and could come back to propose marriage to her, she got married.
After knowing that she was married, he regretted and blamed himself very much in his heart. He should have come back earlier, he should have the cheek to express his feelings to her, maybe she would be willing to wait for him.
But it was useless to regret it any more. Before returning to the army, he found an excuse to go to the production team where her husband's family was, just to take a look at her from a distance.
After returning to the army, he worked even harder. Although he didn't know who he was fighting for, he didn't want to miss the person he liked again because of his incompetence.
It took him three years to become a platoon leader, and another eight years to become a team leader. During this period, countless people wanted to match him. Let his heart beat.
This time when he came back because of family matters, he never thought that he would meet her, let alone that she would go home after a divorce!
At the moment when he heard about her divorce, he felt his heart beating rapidly, and he was very happy. It sounded a bit gloating and despicable, but he was really thankful that the man had no eyes!
In the past few days after he came back, besides being busy with Huo's family, he also went to the county to inquire about his fifth brother. He thought that he would not be able to think of other things when he was busy, but her appearance seemed to be engraved in his heart. The busier I get, the more I want to see her.
After a few days of precipitation, he also figured it out, he wants to marry her!
He doesn't want to miss this opportunity again, if he misses this opportunity again, he will regret it for the rest of his life!
Qiao Hongxia heard him mention that she gave him half a steamed bun back then, and heard him say that she wanted to marry herself eleven years ago, her heart seemed to be put into many rabbits, each of which was jumping wildly.
"Bang bang bang—"
That was the sound of her heart beating.
The two stood so close that she wondered if he could hear her heartbeat.
She tried to calm herself down, but it didn't work at all!
She blushed, bit her lower lip and said, "So... you want to repay your kindness?"
Wang Yansheng nodded like a fool: "Didn't the ancients say that the grace of saving life should be promised with your body? I want to promise myself to you..."
After finishing speaking, he wanted to smoke himself again!
What happened to him today
Why are you being so hooligan in every sentence? !
Qiao Hongxia's neck was completely red: "Do you usually talk to women like this?"
Wang Yansheng shook his head like a rattle: "No, I didn't talk like that with other women, no, no, I don't have other women!"
"Pfft—"
Qiao Hongxia finally couldn't help laughing seeing him talking nonsense nervously.
Wang Yansheng looked at her pink cheeks and the corners of her lips, and an impulse surged in his heart, he really wanted to hug her in his arms!
He took a deep breath and said, "Hongxia, I'm dumb and can't speak, but I really want to have sex with you. If you want, we can get engaged right away, just after getting married for one year."
According to the customs in the village, after the death of the elders in the family, one year must pass before they can get married and have a happy event.
Qiao Hongxia seemed to have a sweet date stuffed into her mouth, sweet from her mouth to her heart: "I, I will tell you after I think about it!"
After speaking, she turned and ran down the mountain, running as if a wolf was chasing her behind her.
Wang Yansheng looked at the back of her "running away", the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitched.
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Qiao Hongxia ran home angrily.
Lin Hui walked out of the kitchen holding her stomach, and just in time to see her panting, she couldn't help asking, "Why did you run like this? Did something happen to you?"
Qiao Hongxia was "guilty for being a thief", and her eyes were erratic and she didn't dare to look at her: "Nothing happened."
Her temperament has always been generous, but now she is coy, and Lin Hui doesn't have to notice it. It's just that she is gentle, and she will never talk too much about things the other party doesn't want to say.
She stretched her hand over her basket and said, "Give me the dishes, and I'll wash them."
Qiao Hongxia shook her head: "No, I'll do it, you have such a big belly, don't do your usual housework, just wait until I come back to do it!"
Lin Hui curled her lips: "It's only been five months, and it's still several months before the actual delivery. How can I do nothing?"
Auntie and sister-in-law who get along so well with each other like them, I'm afraid there is no second pair in the whole production team.
In the end, Qiao Hongxia took over the job of washing vegetables.
But after washing for a long time, she didn't finish washing, and even ruined all the choy sum!
Lin Hui came out again and saw her like this, and couldn't help feeling a little worried: "Hongxia, is there something on your mind? The women in the village have always spoken badly, so don't take their words to heart!"
Some time ago, Zhao Jiefang remarried. This was publicized by Song Jinlai's wife so that the entire production team knew about it. Many people made sarcastic remarks, some of which were particularly harsh.
She was worried that Qiao Hongxia heard some nasty things when she went out just now, and she refused to tell others, keeping her grievances in her heart.
Qiao Hongxia looked up and saw the second sister-in-law looking at her worriedly, and said warmly, "Second sister-in-law, I'm really fine, but I have something... I want to ask your opinion."
Lin Hui saw her cheeks blushing suddenly, and felt a strange feeling in her heart: "What happened?"
Qiao Hongxia faltered: "Second sister-in-law, how did you make up your mind to stay with my second brother?"
Speaking of which, the second sister-in-law is really infatuated with the second brother!
Back when her second brother's legs were not healed, she wanted to marry her second brother without hesitation!
This time it was Lin Hui's turn to blush: "Why is it all about me? Actually, there is nothing to say, I just don't want to miss it again."
Qiao Hongxia looked at her with bright eyes: "Then are you worried that you won't be suitable for each other after remarriage?"
Speaking of which, the marriages of their aunts and sisters-in-law are very bumpy, one is a widow and the other is divorced. In the eyes of others, they are both "broken shoes"!
People like them who have been married once need more courage to remarry, because they are afraid of making a wrong decision. If they make another wrong decision, can she still get divorced again
If she really divorces again, I'm afraid her reputation will be rotten all over the world!
Lin Hui smiled and nodded: "Of course I'm worried, but compared to worrying about being inappropriate, I'm more afraid of my own regrets."
She has already regretted it once, and this rare opportunity came to her again, if she misses it again this time, she will definitely regret it for the rest of her life!
Qiao Hongxia held a vegetable leaf in her hand, looking thoughtful.
Lin Hui looked at the vegetable leaves that had been kneaded into shape in her hands, and asked tentatively, "Hongxia, do you... have any thoughts in your heart?"
Qiao Hongxia came back to her senses, her face burned with a "thump".
She stood up in a panic, holding the pot of rotten vegetables and said: "Second sister-in-law, I'm going to cook, you go to the house to rest for a while, I'll call you after dinner!"
After speaking, she ran away again.
When it was time to eat, the dining table was full of "sorrows and complaints".
"Third Aunt, this dish is so salty!" Da Qiao almost cried when he took a bite of the dish.
When Qiao Hongxia heard this, she quickly picked up her chopsticks and tasted it. She almost spat it out. It was too salty. How many times did she add salt
Xiao Yiming hugged his little arms and said with a sullen face, "Mom, it's shameful to waste it, you can't spit it out!"
Qiao Hongxia: "..."
Seeing the deflated look of the third aunt, Da Qiao covered her mouth and laughed.
Qiao Hongxia stood up and said, "Don't eat these, I'll go get you some noodles."
Lin Hui followed suit and stood up: "Forget it, I'll go, I don't worry about handing over the kitchen to you with your appearance!"
She is now very sure that Qiao Hongxia has something on her mind, and it should be a good thing.
Qiao Hongxia felt guilty again.
That night, Qiao Hongxia had a little late dinner in the small courtyard, and it was also that night that Qiao Hongxia suffered from insomnia again.
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"Clang clang clang—"
The next day Wang Shuisheng got off work half an hour earlier, and then beat the gong to let everyone gather at the threshing ground. He had something to announce.
"What do you think the captain wants to say? Could it be that the matter of Xilinzi has been spread?"
"No way? Didn't the captain tell everyone not to speak out?"
"It's hard to say, you also know that there are a lot of people in this production team who talk bad!"
"Damn it, if this is the case, I will definitely not spare him if I find out who said it!"
The word spread in an instant, and the more it spread, the more it became more and more unseemly. Everyone suspected each other, and several people almost got into a fight.
Wang Shuisheng came over, knocked on the gong and said, "Be quiet, everyone, no fights are allowed, or I will deduct centimeters!"
When everyone heard that centimeters would be deducted, they became quiet.
Wang Shuisheng coughed and said, "Our production team's harvest is mediocre, we don't have any special products, and we don't have geographical advantages. As a result, our production team has been struggling all these years. We can't starve to death, but we can't get rich either!"
"Since I have become the production team leader, I naturally want to lead everyone and the entire production team to get rich, but I am stupid and inflexible, and I have no connections, so I have really let everyone down all these years!"
When everyone heard this beginning, they couldn't help being a little stunned.
Captain, what does this mean
Doesn't he want to do it
Most of the people looked worried. After all, although Wang Shuisheng, the production leader, was not very capable, he was fair and not greedy. Everyone was quite satisfied with him as the production leader.
There are also a small number of people who are very happy. Some people have long wanted to pull Wang Shuisheng from the position of production team leader to replace him, but because the Wang family has an officer in the army, no one dares to tell him Against.
Wang Shuisheng ignored everyone's discussions, and continued to shout with a thick throat: "My third brother came back this time and pointed me to a way. He said that the country needs a lot of Chinese herbal medicines, but there are almost no production teams for planting Chinese herbal medicines, so he suggested that we The production team can develop in this direction!"
Someone shouted: "Captain, how do we develop? Don't everyone grow food and instead grow Chinese herbal medicine? Then what will we eat at the end of the year?"
"Eat the northwest wind!" Someone raised the bar, "The commune stipulates that the production team can only grow cash crops, and the captain has changed to plant Chinese herbal medicines without permission. If we can't pay the food, we can only stay in prison one by one!"
When everyone heard this, they panicked.
"Captain, you can't do this!"
"Yes, yes, we don't want to go to jail, what's wrong with growing food?"
"That is, although I can't be rich, I still have something to eat. If I grow some Chinese herbal medicine, can that thing survive? Even if I grow it, it won't be able to fill my stomach!"
Wang Shuisheng saw that the crowd was in high spirits, so he knocked on the gong quickly, but his voice was hoarse, and he still couldn't calm down the crowd.
At this moment, Wang Yansheng walked out from the crowd with long legs and came to the stage.
He glanced at everyone coldly, and said in a powerful and powerful voice, "Shut up all of them!"
After this sound, the whole threshing floor was like a duck being strangled by someone's neck, and they lost their voice.
Few people in the production team did not know Wang Yansheng's status in the army. When he came back this time, many people wanted to build a relationship with him. Unfortunately, he has been back for so many days and has been out almost every day. It is difficult for everyone to see him!
At this moment, he was standing tall and straight on the top, and his aura was self-assured. Everyone was naturally afraid after being drank by him like this.
Wang Yansheng said with a solemn face: "My elder brother said that the planting of Chinese herbal medicines does not mean that there is no need to grow food. The land of the production team belongs to the state. It can only be replanted after confirmation with the government, otherwise it will be illegal!"
"Then what did the captain mean when he said that just now?" Someone asked boldly.
Wang Yansheng said: "Every family has their own private land. Although the area is not large, if you wish, you can use this private land to try to grow Chinese herbal medicine."
It turned out that it was about private plots. When everyone heard this, their hearts were finally relieved.
Private plots are not allowed to grow cash crops, so ordinary people use them to grow vegetables, such as cucumbers, pumpkins, radishes, and cabbage. There are all kinds of vegetables. The amount is not much, but it is enough for the whole family to eat daily.
If this private land is changed to Chinese herbal medicine, what will they eat in the future, white porridge with boiled water every day
So someone is not happy again!
"Third son, the Chinese herbal medicine you mentioned, is there any benefit after planting it?"
For example, can it be sold to a supply and marketing cooperative for a good price, or will the country send people to buy it? If the price is good, then naturally they are happy, but if there is no benefit, why do they plant it
Wang Yansheng said: "If you can plant a large area, it will be beneficial, but it is only now, the amount is not large, and everyone has never planted it before, so it needs a process of exploration and adaptation. In other words, in the short term, it may be possible. There's no benefit to it."
If you don't get any benefits, you still want everyone to grow it
Isn't this sick
Everyone boiled up again, all kinds of complaints.
Qiao Hongxia looked at the man on the stage with complicated emotions.
Before yesterday, he was a fellow villager to himself, other than that, there was no relationship between them.
But after yesterday, there was a relationship between them that others didn't know about. At this time, seeing everyone dissatisfied with his words, she felt nervous for some reason.
"Mom, I don't think Wang... Lao San seems like a reckless person. If he dares to say such a thing, he must have a plan behind him, but it's not easy to tell everyone now."
She considered it for a while, then turned her head and lowered her voice to her mother.
Qiao Xiuzhi glanced at her and said, "You... seem to know him well?"
"Boom!"
It was as if a thunderbolt had exploded in Qiao Hongxia's heart, and her face instantly turned red.
She wanted to say that she didn't understand him, but seeing her mother's penetrating eyes, she couldn't say a word, so she could only lower her head with a blushing face.
From Qiao Xiuzhi's point of view, that made her feel more guilty.
At this time, there was another woman in the crowd who was staring at Wang Yansheng closely.
That person is not Fang Xiaojuan, but the female educated youth Da Zhi.
With bright eyes and pink cheeks, A Zhi stared at the tall and straight man on the stage without blinking, and asked the female educated youth beside him, "Who is that man on the stage? Why haven't I seen him before?"
The men on stage are amazing!
That pair of straight and slender legs, that tall and straight figure, that handsome and resolute facial features, no matter which one they are, they all fit her interpretation of a perfect man!
"You talk about him. He is the third brother of the production team leader. I heard that he is a very capable person. He was just promoted to the team leader in the army last year. He hasn't been home for several years. It's normal that you don't know him."
The female educated youth next to her was the first group of educated youths to go to the countryside. Because she was old, she married a member of the production team a few years ago and gave birth to a child, so she knew Wang Yansheng's origin very well.
Head! ! !
Dazhi's entire face turned even redder, and his body trembled from excitement.
This man is simply a dream lover tailor-made for her!
This man, she wants to decide! !
Wang Yansheng spoke again to keep everyone quiet: "Brother and I are just telling everyone about it. As for whether you want to switch to Chinese herbal medicine, you can decide for yourself. If you don't want to, the production team will never force you! I will give you a day to think about it. If you want to switch to Chinese herbal medicine, go to the production team office to sign up tomorrow!"
"We have never grown Chinese herbal medicine, what if we die?"
Some people knew that Wang Yansheng was a capable person. Like what Qiao Hongxia thought just now, they felt that he would not be indiscriminate. So when they saw him on stage just now, they were a little moved.
When Wang Yansheng heard this question, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly: "Our production team had three people from the farm before, and it happened that they had planted Chinese herbal medicine before, so we can ask them to guide everyone in planting!"
Some people who wanted to plant were immediately relieved when they heard this.
"Do you have any questions? If not, then—"
Just when Wang Shuisheng was about to call everyone out of the meeting, a delicate voice suddenly sounded: "Captain, I have something to say!"
A Zhi squeezed out from the crowd, twisted his waist and walked onto the stage.