At noon, Lin Qingqing left the office building of the logistics department and saw Lu Cheng standing under the shade of the tree opposite. In the past, many people would be off work at this time, and everyone would greet each other warmly, but now, affected by the current situation, no one even had a fake smile on their faces.
"How are you today? Are you feeling okay?" As soon as Lu Cheng saw Lin Qingqing, he walked up to her and asked softly.
Lin Qingqing said: "It's okay. By the way, there is something I forgot to tell you yesterday. My aunt called me a few days ago..." She talked about Zhang Shimin's matter and also mentioned what Lu Cheng's aunt said.
Lu Cheng didn't expect the Zhang family to go to his aunt. A hint of indifference flashed in his eyes. The sound of them disturbing his aunt only made him choke with disgust. "I received a call from the security guard today..." He told her that Zhang Shimin had come. "Don't worry, aunt. I won't help them. It's good enough that I didn't take advantage of their misfortune. Let's not talk about them. By the way, my grandma called today..." He also told her about Lin Aojun.
"Aojun is getting married?" Lin Qingqing was shocked. "Why didn't grandma even agree to their relationship at first? Why did she agree to their marriage now?"
Lu Cheng: "I don't know about that."
"We haven't had a vacation for three years. Why don't we take a vacation and go home to visit Aojun as he's getting married? We can also visit the graves of the Lin family's great-grandfather and great-grandmother and make a small statue next to their graves." Lin Qingqing said.
Lu Cheng said, "That's fine." He hadn't had a vacation for three years, and he had just returned from a mission. With three years of vacation combined, he could take half a month off.
"Oh right..." Lin Qingqing thought of something else, "When we go back this time, if possible, let's buy a house in the county town. We will go back every few years in the future, and we can't live in my aunt's house or the Lin family every time we go back, right? That's very inconvenient."
Lu Cheng had never thought about this before, but now that Lin Qingqing mentioned it, he felt it was appropriate. Now that he had a wife and children and his own family, he really needed his own house. "Okay, I'll call Du Wei first and ask him to pay attention. What kind of house are you looking for?"
Lin Qingqing said: "We don't want a tube-shaped building, we want an independent small courtyard like the family compound."
Lu Cheng: "I understand."
The two of them were talking as they walked. When they reached the entrance of the army, someone suddenly came towards them and shouted, "Lu Cheng..."
The person who came was a man in his fifties. He looked a little tired, but he had an imposing aura and must be a person in a higher position.
Lu Cheng and Lin Qingqing stopped.
"Lu Cheng, I finally see you. Can we find a place to talk?" The person who came was Zhang Shimin. When he saw that Lu Cheng refused to come down after the soldier called, he knew that Lu Cheng was still angry with the Zhang family, so he had been waiting at the entrance of the army. He also knew that this was not face-saving, but he had no choice. Now the Zhang family was surrounded by enemies, and political enemies wanted to bring down the Zhang family. His eldest brother was already under surveillance, and he was the only one who could come out of the Zhang family. And the only innocent person in the Zhang family was Lu Cheng, so Zhang Shimin came to find Lu Cheng.
Zhang Shimin also knew that with Lu Cheng's hatred for the Zhang family, he would not help easily, so he had thought about it and decided that no matter how Lu Cheng wanted to embarrass him, he would bear it.
"Lu Cheng, who is he?" Qingqing suddenly spoke.
As Lin Qingqing spoke, Zhang Shimin's sight shifted to her. Zhang Shimin knew that Lu Cheng had married and had children. When he went to see Lu Cheng's aunt, he naturally asked about Lu Cheng's affairs. Although Lu Cheng was not a member of the Du family, but a burden brought by Lu Cheng's aunt, the Du family was very polite to Lu Cheng, and the rich were the masters. Therefore, the neighbors of the Du family never looked down on him. Their attitude towards Lu Cheng was naturally determined by the Du family. The Du family did not look down on Lu Cheng, so how could the neighbors look down on Lu Cheng? However, although the neighbors did not look down on Lu Cheng, they also gossiped a lot behind his back. But this did not affect Lu Cheng's status as a prominent figure among that group of people.
Since childhood.
When Lu Cheng was young, he was what everyone called a burden and a child without a father or a mother.
After reading, I became what everyone calls a good reader and a smart child.
After being admitted to university, I became the first college student in everyone's eyes.
After graduation, he became known as the most promising officer.
Therefore, Lu Cheng has always been a celebrity in the area near the Du family. The Du family is even proud of Lu Cheng, after all, the Du family is also a child who grew up in their family. In the past, the Du family even wanted to marry their daughter to Lu Cheng, and mentioned this to Lu Cheng's aunt. Lu Cheng's aunt directly said that if they dared to have a crooked idea about this matter, they would not even be relatives anymore.
Lu Cheng is her sister's only child, how could she possibly delay Lu Cheng? It's not that she looks down on the Du family, the Du family is not bad by nature, maybe they have some small thoughts, but they are not the kind of people who can't distinguish right from wrong. But it's really... He and her nephew are not a good match. They don't match in appearance, work, or education. Lu Cheng's aunt is more troublesome to find a partner for Lu Cheng than to find a partner for her own child. In her words, her own child is not as good as her nephew.
Lu Cheng knew that with his wife's intelligence, she must have guessed who the other person was, so she asked on purpose. He then said, "Zhang Shimin, the second son of the Zhang family."
"I am Lu Cheng's second uncle. Who is this female colleague?" Zhang Shimin added.
Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, Lin Qingqing looked at him with disgust: "So it was the Zhang family member who never fulfilled his responsibilities after driving my mother-in-law and Lu Cheng out of the Zhang family. How dare you come to Lu Cheng now? I remember that Zhang Shilin said he had a lover before he divorced my mother-in-law. According to the current situation, is that called having an affair? If we check what happened back then, I wonder if we can find any clues. Lu Cheng, why don't we check it out and wipe them out at once, so that we can avenge my mother-in-law."
Lu Cheng: “…” I knew she was going to have bad intentions.
Zhang Shimin broke out in a cold sweat and listened carefully to her words: "Are you Lu Cheng's wife?"
Lin Qingqing: "Yeah, what's wrong?"
Zhang Shimin said: "Then we are a family. I am Lu Cheng's second uncle."
"Don't... don't try to make random connections with relatives. Our family has been pure and honest for generations, and we don't have any relatives who abandon their wives and children. If there are such relatives, we will cut off ties with them, otherwise it will ruin our family's reputation." At this moment, Lin Qingqing was not like the gentle and good-tempered Comrade Lin that everyone talked about. Instead, she became sour.
"You..." Zhang Shimin didn't expect that she would be so disrespectful to him.
Lin Qingqing added: "Don't come looking for Lu Cheng. Abandoning him when he was a child is not enough. He has finally come to where he is today with his own ability. Do you want everyone in the army to know that he has a father who abandoned his wife?"
Zhang Shiming was a little angry: "Why do you talk like that? You are so disrespectful. Is that what your elders taught you?"
"You are wronged..." Lin sneered, "I was awarded a certificate of honor by a senior leader. You said I don't have family education. Are you saying that the certificate of honor was awarded to the wrong person? My family, starting from my great-grandfather, has made contributions to the motherland. But when it comes to family education, my family certainly doesn't have a family education that abandons my wife."
"You..." Zhang Shimin had never seen such a sharp-tongued person.
"I advise you not to come to Lu Cheng, just think of it as doing good deeds for your Zhang family. Otherwise, I will report your Zhang family. Zhang Shilin cheated on his wife... I think even if this incident did not happen, there are many people who are willing to make it up." Lin Qingqing's face turned cold.
"Don't be angry." Lu Cheng held her hand. He had never thought that she would stand up to protect him at this time. Although he didn't need it, but... it felt good to be protected.
"You..." Zhang Shimin looked at Lu Cheng.
"Go now." Lu Cheng said expressionlessly, "She is my wife. I will support everything she says. If you think I am just talking, I can publish an announcement to clarify my relationship with your Zhang family. When my mother took me away from the Zhang family, the divorce agreement between her and Zhang Shimin clearly stated that they divorced because Zhang Shimin fell in love with someone else and they no longer had feelings for each other."
The new country had not yet been established at that time and no one would have imagined the current situation, so this divorce agreement could be fatal to the Zhang family and Zhang Shilin.
Lu Cheng actually didn't think of taking out this divorce agreement. After all, his mother and Zhang Shilin divorced peacefully. But if the Zhang family came to pester him, he wouldn't mind taking out this agreement. Since his mother died, the Zhang family has been a stranger with a grudge against him. The Zhang family was the fuse of his mother's death. If Zhang Shilin hadn't betrayed his mother, his mother wouldn't have been so heartbroken.
Therefore, he doesn't mind taking revenge on strangers with whom he has a grudge.
Zhang Shimin looked at him and finally sighed, "Big brother doesn't know that I came to see you. Big brother was framed by political enemies and is now under surveillance. I asked him to come to see you, but he refused. He said that he didn't fulfill his father's responsibilities when you were a child, so when you grow up, he won't ask you to take on the responsibilities of a son. However, I still don't trust him, so I came to see you secretly. We all advised your mother and father about their affairs back then. We didn't want them to divorce, but you know your father and mother's personalities. We can't persuade them to stop."
The Zhang family really didn't want the eldest brother to divorce. After all, the eldest sister-in-law was impeccable no matter how you looked at it. And what kind of woman was the eldest brother looking for later? She was the sister of a servant in the eldest sister-in-law's family. Even with this status, it was not pleasant to say it out loud. But the eldest brother didn't care, and they had no choice.
After learning about Lu Cheng's future, his parents regretted their decision even more and tried to persuade their eldest brother to bring Lu Cheng back, but he refused, saying that what had been decided back then would not change now.
He even went to find Lu Cheng secretly, but Lu Cheng's personality was the same as his elder brother's, both were too stubborn to tolerate interference.
"In that case, you should listen to him." Lu Cheng said without any emotion, "Don't come to me again. Since I was six years old, people have said I was a fatherless child. Since I was eight years old, people have said I was a fatherless child. Until I die, I don't want anyone to come out and say that I am my father. If... you want the Zhang family to fall into decline faster, you can come to me again."
Zhang Shimin: "You..."
"Qingqing, let's go." Lu Cheng took Lin Qingqing's hand and turned around and left without any questioning.
Zhang Shimin looked at Lu Cheng's back and sighed heavily.
Lin Qingqing moved her fingers, clasped Lu Cheng's fingers, and intertwined them. She whispered, "Do you know? In our place, there is a name to describe children, called left-behind children." She said in a voice that only he could hear.
Lu Cheng was attracted by her words: "Left-behind children? What does this mean?"
Lin Qingqing said: "It is a child who has a father and a mother, but was thrown into his hometown and left to be taken care of by the elderly since he was born. Compared with me, you still have your mother who loves you, and I... am the left-behind child. I have been raised by my grandmother since I was born, because my parents have to go to other cities to make money. Sometimes they don't come back throughout the year, and sometimes they come back during the Chinese New Year. They didn't treat me badly. Even if they didn't come back, they would send me packages with food and clothes. However, in the eyes of others, I am still a child without parents. But I don't feel wronged. It's just that my parents are not destined to be together, and I still have my grandmother.
Later, they had their second child, my sister, who grew up with them... I probably started to complain about them from that time. Although they wanted to take me to their place later, I didn't go. When I was in college, I accumulated a certain number of fans on the Internet, so I became an Internet celebrity after graduation... You don't know Internet celebrities, they are similar to celebrities, but they are small celebrities. I am the kind of small celebrity who specializes in food. Later, my grandmother passed away. A year after my grandmother passed away, I came here and met you, met Lu Haici... Lu Cheng, I think I came here to meet you.
So, in the years to come, even if everything around me is changing, I will not change. "
Lu Cheng held her hand tightly, and only one sentence remained in his ear: Lu Cheng, I think I came here just to meet you.
So, in the years to come, even if everything around me is changing, I will not change. "Yeah." He responded heavily. He can't say nice words, nor can he say such nice words, but she is the most important person in his life, more important than his life. Qingqing, no matter what happens in the future, I will not let go of your hand.
After lunch, Lu Cheng and Lin Qingqing went to find Lin Yiyang.
Lin Yiyang and his wife lived in a small bungalow built on the farm. Although no one came to the military farm to steal things, with them around, they would immediately know if anything happened to the poultry at night.
Wang Qiuyue got pregnant in the first year after coming to the farm, that was May of 1964, and gave birth to a baby boy in February of 1965. Now it is June of 1966, and the baby is 17 months old, two years old in age, chubby, chubby and very cute.
"Sister, you said Aojun is going to marry that educated youth?" Lin Yiyang was still a little confused, "But didn't grandma disapprove of their relationship? Why did she agree to their marriage?"
Lin Qingqing had also thought about this, but she didn't know why. "Forget about it. You and sister-in-law have been away from home for three years. Enen is already two years old. She hasn't seen her grandparents, uncle and aunt yet. They must miss her too. So why don't you go home together this time? Someone will take care of you on the way."
Lin Yiyang thought for a while and said, "I can't leave yet. My new apprentice may not believe it yet. Otherwise, you and Qiuyue can take the child with you. I will feel more at ease with Lu Cheng coming with us." As the number of poultry on the farm increased, Lin Yiyang could not handle it alone, so he hired another pig castrator and taught him some medical skills.
Wang Qiuyue said, "Let's go then. I haven't been back for three years and I miss home a little. Well, do you miss your great-grandparents, your grandparents?"
Two-year-old Enen was playing by himself on the mat. When he heard his mother's words, he said crisply, "Yes, I do." He spoke unclearly, but each word was spoken loudly.
Lin Qingqing said: "If big brother can't leave, then sister-in-law and Enen can go with us." With Lu Cheng accompanying her, she was not worried.
The brother and sister discussed it and decided to wait until Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng's vacation was confirmed before Wang Qiuyue asked for leave. It was very convenient for Wang Qiuyue to ask for leave, after all, Lin Qingqing was the supervisor of the farm, and even if the farm was short of one person, it would not be too busy to get away.
So after Lu Cheng and Lin Qingqing's vacations were decided, Wang Qiuyue's vacation was also confirmed.
Knowing that he was going back to his hometown, Lu Haici was the happiest. Although he was still young when he left his hometown and didn't have much memory now, Lu Haici was brought up by his aunt Lu Cheng, and he had a very deep impression of his aunt. Now that he knew he was going back to his hometown, he thought of his aunt.
Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng's vacation is coordinated with Lu Haici's vacation. Starting in July, Lu Haici has his summer vacation. Going back to his hometown during the summer vacation will not delay the children's studies.
Gaoshanao Production Brigade
Although Grandma Lin was angry with Lin Aojun and Su Fen, she still went through the necessary procedures for the Lin family's reputation. She asked Grandma Lin to be the matchmaker and propose marriage to Su Fen. According to local customs, she gave a betrothal gift of six yuan and two kilograms of fruit candy as a betrothal gift.
This is the common standard in the local rural areas. Of course, there are poorer families who don’t have any betrothal gifts. But there are also generous families who give betrothal gifts of 16, 18, or 26 yuan.
Anyway, the betrothal money and betrothal gifts given by Grandma Lin were not as good as the best, but better than the worst. Anyway, they were just insignificant and acceptable. According to the Lin family's situation, it would not be a betrothal gift of six yuan and two kilograms of fruit candy. When Lin Yiyang got married, the Lin family gave sixteen yuan in betrothal money, and the betrothal gifts were one kilogram of fruit candy, one kilogram of White Rabbit milk candy, and two kilograms of meat. When Wang Qiuyue married, the Wang family kept ten yuan and gave her six yuan as a deposit.
Now when it comes to Lin Aojun and Su Fen, Grandma Lin is only willing to give these. Even if Su Fen has objections and wants to compete with Wang Qiuyue, she can't compare. Grandma Lin has already thought of a countermeasure. She can say that Wang Qiuyue is the eldest grandson's wife, and she is different from Su Fen.
Everyone attaches great importance to the wedding of their eldest grandson.
However, Su Fen had no objection to the six yuan betrothal gift and two kilograms of sugar. She accepted it with a smile. Later, she used the betrothal gift to buy her dowry, which was an enamel wash basin with a poster of the "Little Red Soldier" printed on it.
In this era, this is considered a luxury dowry.
Although Grandma Lin gave ordinary betrothal gifts and gifts, she still held a banquet. If she didn't hold a banquet, it would not be Lin Aojun's face, but the face of their Lin family. However, there were not many tables, so she invited the relatives of the Lin family and several families with good relationships in the brigade. Otherwise, banquets in this era were not like modern ones. If they were big, they would lose a lot of money.
Su Fen married into the Lin family from the educated youth dormitory. The Lin family had not come to pick up the bride yet. Su Fen sat quietly by the bed, listening to the female educated youth congratulating her, and she was happy. She could finally marry into the Lin family and no longer have to stay in the educated youth dormitory in fear. Since she went to the countryside, she had never had a full day or a relaxing day. She was as tired as a dog every day, but ate even less than a dog.
She had never thought of marrying into the Lin family and becoming a lazy wife. She just hoped that after marrying into the Lin family, her life would be better than it was now, without having to worry about not being able to earn work points or having enough to eat.
"Su Fen, congratulations, you finally got married to Lin Aojun."
"Yes, Lin Aojun is the most popular gay in the whole team. Who wouldn't want to marry him? Su Fen, you are really awesome. You have Lin Aojun under your thumb."
Su Fen frowned. No matter how she heard it, it was not pleasant. But today was her big day, and she didn't want to argue with him. Even if he said something sour, so what? It wouldn't change anything anyway, it was just a way to show off her eloquence.
"Here they come, the groom is here to pick us up." A bustling voice came from outside.
The female educated youth who was on good terms with Su Fen went out to take a look and then hurried back into the house: "Lin Aojun is here, Su Fen, Lin Aojun is here..."
According to local customs, the bride's feet cannot touch the ground when walking from her parents' home to her husband's home. So when Lin Aojun arrived, he picked up Su Fen, who was sitting on the bed, and carried her directly to the cart outside, and then pushed Su Fen back to the Lin family.
Lin Aojun worked a lot, so he was very strong. When he picked up Su Fen who was sitting on the bed, the people around him were envious. No matter how much the educated youth disliked the countryside and the country men, they had to admit that at this moment, seeing Su Fen getting married, they were still a little envious. Especially the female educated youth, seeing Lin Aojun wearing clean clothes without patches and the strength he had when he picked up Su Fen, they couldn't help but wonder if they should also find a country man to marry.
However, the Lin family has the best conditions in Gaoshan'ao Production Brigade. Lin Aojun of the Lin family has been taken down by Su Fen, so who else is left
Suddenly, the clever female educated youth looked at the other grandsons of the Lin family who came with Lin Aojun to pick up the bride, and she felt something in her heart.
Lin Aojun pushed the cart himself, from the educated youth dormitory to his home, and then carried Su Fen into his room. But not long after he carried Su Fen into the room, he heard even more noisy noises outside.
"Who's coming?" Su Fen, who was inside the house, also heard it. "It seems someone is coming outside."
Lin Aojun said, "You sit down, I'll go take a look." Lin Aojun walked to the door, and his eyes lit up, and he ran out, "Sister, why are you here?"