After a while, Father Song came to his senses, opened his mouth to speak, realized that there was still half a corn in his mouth, and hurriedly swallowed: “You, cough, are you married?”
“Zho Di, don’t talk nonsense.” Mother Song saw that her daughter’s eyelids were red and swollen, and she immediately determined that she secretly cried for half the night last night, “If you don’t want to marry, we won’t marry, and we will recruit a son-in-law tomorrow. “
“Mother…” Liu Ling, that’s not right, Song Zhaodi thought, the son-in-law who came to the house was not Chinese cabbage. With an extremely serious face, he said, “I’m not talking nonsense, I don’t want to marry Wang Degui, I want to marry Zhong Jianguo.”
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The chopsticks in Father Song’s hand fell into the bowl, splashing a lot of white rice grains, but he couldn’t care about his distress: “Zhao Di, are you sleepy?”
“It’s confusing, I think it’s clearly crazy.” Song Zhaodi’s eldest sister said, “Mom, go and find Dad’s silver needle and give the little sister a few needles.”
Song Zhaodi sighed: “Sister, I’m not crazy.”
“Why don’t you let Wang Degui, an innocent young man, marry a widower?” Sister Song stared, “My aunt is not at ease, she is a stepmother to others, and I can’t see her. Hello. The second child of the Zhong family is a soldier in Shencheng as she said, and he is a college student. He still has a salary of more than 100 yuan a month. Not to mention three children, even if he has five children, there are many women. Willing to marry him.
“You don’t remember what she brought to our house? A few broken pears, and a few matchmakers brought pears to the door. By the way, her husband’s surname is Zhong, our surname is Song, and you marry the second child of the Zhong family. It’s Song Zhong, at the end of the day, you don’t know what she has in her heart?”
The original owner was only concerned that Zhao Yin was uneasy and kind, and Song Zhaodi, whose core was replaced by Liu Ling, recalled Zhao Yin’s words carefully, and found that her words were full of loopholes: “Today is National Day, and Zhong Jianguo will come back in a few days, I will ask him. “
“Zhou Di, listen to Mother’s words.” Mother Song stood up against the table with a sad face, “Mother knows that the Wang family and the Zhong family are not good match, don’t worry, I will ask someone to kiss you when I arrive tomorrow. I won’t leave my daughter alone.”
Song Zhaodi pulled Song’s mother’s hand. The gully on her hand surprised Song Zhaodi. She looked down and saw that Song’s mother had a few pieces of cloth wrapped around her fingers. She was shocked. At this time, the farmers were really bitter: “Mother, Zhong Jianguo is a college student, or a soldier who eats commercial food, and I marry him and I will be a city person—”
“You can be considered a city person when you marry into the Wang family.” Sister Song is not impatient, and she doesn’t have a lot of temper. It is about her sister’s life, and slow Langzhong is also anxious at the moment, “Wang Degui’s parents also said that you If you marry Wang Degui, I will ask Wang Degui’s uncle to transfer you to teach in the town.”
Song Zhaodi knew that the eldest sister was good for her, so she didn’t blame her for yelling: “My aunt deliberately made the second child of the Zhong family hyped up, I think my aunt didn’t know about Zhong Jianguo’s situation, but she was right. “
“What do you mean?” Mother Song was puzzled.
Song Zhaodi: “Zhong Jianguo is at least a captain.”
“Captain?” Sister Song doesn’t understand, “What kind of officer is that?”
Song Zhaodi guessed according to later generations: “I heard from my classmates that after graduating from college, he can be promoted to captain in six years. Zhong Jianguo graduated eight years ago, and Binhai Ocean University is a military academy. Now he is at least a captain, and then he is a captain, Major.”
“I know the major.” Sister Song said, “The major must be the head of the regiment, right?”
Song Zhaodi has watched military programs, but she has never noticed whether the major is the regimental commander or the division commander: “I don’t know, and no one in our family is a soldier. I guessed it based on what my former classmates said.”
“If Zhong Jianguo didn’t have children, it would be more suitable than Wang Degui.” Wang Degui is a shipyard worker, and Zhong Jianguo may be promoted to general in the future. Sister Song hesitated, “Father, mother, what do you think?”
Mother Song looked at her little girl: “It would be nice if they could make peace.”
“How can there be such a good thing in the world.” Song’s father is a barefoot doctor in Xiaosong Village. In recent years, he has been “destroying the four olds” everywhere. People in the village know that the Song family has a lot of books, but no one dares to put Song Father’s book and silver needle were taken away because he was afraid that one day he would fall ill. Father Song who did not have these things could not cure his illness.
At the craziest time, some people want to go to the Song family to collect things. When a relative’s child falls ill, he can’t care about anything, so he will go to Father Song with the child in his arms.
Father Song has only read a few medical books, and he knows that nothing is perfect in the world. He also knows that the officer Zhong Jianguo is more valuable than the worker Wang De, and his daughter is married, so he doesn’t have to worry about running out of food in times of famine. “Zhong Jianguo has three Boy, you have to think about it.”
Mother Song turned her head sharply: “Dad, why did you agree?”
“Mother, I have something to tell you and Dad.” Song Zhaodi saw Song’s mother’s impatience, and pulled people into her room.
Father Song waved to the eldest daughter and the eldest son-in-law. The couple returned to their house with their meals. Father Song went in and said, “Just say whatever you want. Your mother and I will listen to you. This is your life’s business. , you won’t regret it in the future.”
“Father, mother, don’t be angry when I tell you.” The original owner planned to rot in his stomach. In order to reassure the second old man, Song Zhaodi thought about it for a while, and then decided to tell it all, “I’ll talk to a friend when I go to school.”
Mother Song didn’t react for a while: “What friend?”
“Male?” Father Song couldn’t believe it, Song Zhaodi nodded, and Father Song hurriedly asked, “Where are the others?”
Mother Song suddenly opened her eyes: “Zhao Di—”
“Mother, don’t worry.” Song Zhaodi’s body instinctively went to help Song’s mother, “I told him to come back from the summer vacation last year, but his family background was a problem, so he secretly went overseas.”
Father Song stared at his daughter: “When you came back suddenly last year, your mother thought you had something to do. I said that your mother thought too much. Later, I heard that the university was closed, so I didn’t think about it. It was at that time. thing?”
“Yes.” Song Zhaodi said weakly, “He promised to marry me, so I’ll be with him.” Pretending to be sad and ashamed of his parents’ teachings, Song Zhaodi lowered his head, looking very embarrassed to see his father mother.
Mother Song burst into tears and hugged her daughter in her arms.
Three years of hardship, Mother Song never shed a single tear when she only ate one meal a day. At this moment, Mother Song’s tears fell down and fell on Song Zhaodi’s clothes and hit Song Zhaodi’s heart.
Liu Ling is a powerful woman. She has been to the Oscars, Cannes, and a personal fashion show in her previous life. She has encountered countless difficulties and believes that nothing in the world can make her cry.
Listening to Mother Song sobbing in a low voice, she noticed from the corner of her eyes that Father Song, who was half-white-haired, was holding the door frame and secretly wiping her tears. Liu Ling, who had long forgotten the taste of tears, was wet in the corners of her eyes: “Father, mother, don’t be sad, all It’s over. I, I found out what kind of person he was before I married him, it’s better than knowing he was a coward after we got married.”
“My Zhaodi, why is your heart so big?” Mother Song cried out with a wow.
Liu Ling patted Song’s mother’s back lightly, and said in her heart, your daughter’s heart is not big. Since Zhao Yin left, she has been crying under the quilt every night. If it weren’t for this cry, the core would not have been replaced by her Liu Ling: “Mother, Zhong Jianguo has three children, I have only had one partner, and he dares not dislike me. Don’t worry about you and Dad.”
“He doesn’t dare to dislike you, he still expects you to take care of his children.” Father Song wiped away his tears, “What did the Wang family say?”
Song Zhaodi thought about it carefully: “No need to say anything, we have not taken anything from the Wang family, so there is no need to explain it to the Wang family. Zhong Jianguo is a soldier, and the Wang family does not dare to offend Zhong Jianguo or embarrass our family.
“Father, mother, the villagers are conservative. If the Wang family knew that I had talked to friends, they would have thought that I was not serious, and I had been hesitating before.” This is true, but the original owner did not expect this. The original owner was sad because she couldn’t go back to the city, and there was no suitable partner in the country. She didn’t want to, but she couldn’t wait for her age, so she couldn’t stop crying, “It may be three or five years, or it may take another seven years. It will be eight years before I can go back to the city to continue my schooling, and the country will not give me a job until after graduation. Until then, I will not be able to talk to my neighbors. I thought about it carefully last night, and Zhong Jianguo is the most suitable.”
“Hey, you’re right. We villagers care about the innocence of the girl’s family the most, but they don’t care how much the girl’s family asks. If you don’t marry Zhong Jianguo, you will have to marry in a big city in the future.” Father Song looked at Song Mother, “The matter of recruiting Di is settled. Shall we wait at home or go to the city?”
Mother Song didn’t even think about it: “There’s no reason for me to marry my daughter and ask him to come by himself. If he doesn’t come, if he doesn’t come, I will raise Zhao Di for the rest of my life.”
“Mother, be quiet, eldest sister heard me.” Song Zhaodi hurriedly reminded.
Mother Song subconsciously covered her mouth, looked outside, and faintly heard the sound of brushing the pot: “Far away, I can’t hear it.” Turning to Father Song, “I will take Zhao Di to pull two clothes tomorrow? “
“Do we have cloth tickets?” Song Zhaodi asked.
Mother Song choked: “Mother find someone to change her.”
“Don’t change.” Song Zhaodi said, “When Zhong Jianguo comes back, I will ask him to change.”
Father Song nodded: “Zhao Di is right. Although Zhao Di has talked about friends in our family, he is still a college student. Marrying him Zhong Jianguo is a blessing he cultivated in his previous life. He must make new things for Zhao Di. clothes.”
“Mother, don’t cry.” Song Zhaodi subconsciously looked for paper, thinking that it was not 2067, it was 1967. People who learned from this era raised their sleeves to wipe tears for Song mother, “If Zhong Jianguo is a lieutenant, it costs a few dozen yuan a month, and even if he looks like Zhou Zheng, I won’t marry him. Don’t think too much about your father and you, I’ll talk about it when I meet someone.”
“Yes!” Father Song said, “After graduating from college and serving in the army for eight years, he is still only a lieutenant. Such a person may not be as good as Wang Degui.”
Mother Song: “But Wang Degui can’t get married either. If he knew about my family’s Zhao Di… he might dislike my daughter.” Tears came out again as he spoke. Mother Song believed that her own girl had only talked about one friend, and others may not believe it, “Mother’s Zhaodi, why are you so miserable?”
“Why are you still crying?” Sister Song walked in, her brows furrowed, “Mother, Zhao Di doesn’t look down on Wang Degui, and she doesn’t want to marry Zhong Jianguo, so I’ll ask someone when I go to work in the furniture factory tomorrow. There are young men about the size of Zhao Di.”
Mother Song put away her tears: “Don’t ask. My mother is worried that my stepmother is not easy to be good. The children of others cannot be beaten or scolded, and Zhong Jianguo has to complain about Zhao Di. These are heart-stopping.”
“You can’t beat him or scold him. If you starve him for three days, he will be honest.” Sister Song looked at Song Zhaodi, “Zhong Jianguo dares to protect him, so he won’t give him the child.”
Song Zhaodi deliberately asked: “If Zhong Jianguo drives me away?”
“Go home.” Sister Song blurted out without thinking, “You are a college student, and some are married to other people. We will not be wronged by his family.”
October 3rd, in the evening, when Mother Song came back from the production team, she saw that the pigpen and sheeppen had been swept clean, and Song Zhaodi was squatting on the ground chopping up rotten vegetables and throwing them into the duck pen. almost.
“Zhaodi, take a break.” Song’s mother moved a small bench and sat next to Song Zhaodi. “Today is number three, and Zhong Jianguo is still missing. Do you want to ask your elder brother-in-law to go to the city and ask?”
Song Zhaodi stopped: “Ask my cousin, Zhong Jianguo, why hasn’t she come back yet? Don’t ask. We didn’t tell her the truth when my cousin left. The elder brother-in-law went over to ask her, but it wasn’t enough for her to run.”
“Let her run a few words on the important events of your life.” Song mother sighed, “In the future, if you marry Zhong Jianguo, and in the famine years, your mother and your father will not worry about your hunger.”
Zhong Jianguo has three children, the eldest is five years old, the second is three years old, and the third is only one year old. Song Zhaodi was not worried that Zhong Jianguo would not come back, but was afraid that her cousin Zhao Yin, who was also Zhong Jianguo’s stepmother, would make Zhong Jianguo angry. As a result, Zhong Jianguo would rather not marry than his stepmother’s cousin.
“Wait two more days.” Song Zhaodi, whose core was replaced by Liu Ling, wanted to marry Zhong Jianguo, not because Zhong Jianguo had three children, it didn’t matter if she had children in the future.
The period from 1967 to 1975 was too chaotic, I had no problem finding a personality, and it was more difficult to get through the absurd eight years in peace and quiet. Not to mention that the other party is still a college student.
Liu Ling vaguely remembers that when the world was at its most chaotic, it did not affect the army, and the army was like a paradise. If Zhong Jianguo is really a senior officer, it means that he is neither mediocre nor short-sighted.
Liu Ling’s idol in her previous life was a public police officer, which also led her to be extra tolerant of men in uniforms. Although Zhong Jianguo is in the navy, which is not the same as her idol’s occupation, Liu Ling believes in herself, Zhong Jianguo should not do too much, she can hold back and don’t care about each other.
Liu Ling, who was replaced by Wang Degui and Song Zhaodi, can guarantee that she has no patience to deal with it. In other days, Wang Degui, a worker, can’t protect his wife and children. “If he doesn’t come, I will ask my brother-in-law to ask Zhong Jianguo’s eldest brother.”
Mother Song’s eyes lit up: “Yes, we don’t need to look for your cousin, we can go past her to look for the boss of the Zhong family, and ask him what Zhong Jianguo means.”
“Xiao Zhong, what are you hanging around here, why haven’t you come home yet?”
Zhong Jianguo looked back and said in surprise, “Commander, when did you come back from the imperial capital?”
“Don’t worry about me, I’ll ask you something.” A man in his 50s wearing a navy blue military uniform said, “Listen to your teacher, you have received a telegram from your family to introduce you to someone. He has already approved you. Fake, why don’t you leave?”
Zhong Jianguo was quite surprised: “Why did the teacher even tell you such a thing.”
“Your teachers are happy for you.” The man said, “I heard that you are a rural girl, and you, a college student, despise others.”
Zhong Jianguo didn’t even think about it: “No.” Looking at the other party’s eyes, seeing the other party waiting for him to continue, he pondered for a moment, and felt that the commander also cared about him, “That woman is my stepmother’s niece.”
“Your stepmother, I heard your sister-in-law say it a few times.” The man said, “Your previous daughter-in-law told your sister-in-law that when the boxing ceremony was late, he would force your father to send you a telegram. Rice, white noodles are reluctant to put salt. However, I still think that women who are not particular like your stepmother are very few.”
Zhong Jianguo is very worried: “What if? All three of them are still young.”
“What if it’s not?” the man asked, “Your three children plus one dollar is not ten years old. If you don’t marry this year, you must marry next year. Your teacher wants to introduce you to the teachers in the school. I don’t want to.”
Zhong Jianguo waved his hands again and again: “She just graduated from high school, an innocent little girl, I am hurting them by marrying them.” After a while, “Besides, I have three children, and one of her has never done any work. of female students are not well taken care of.”
“Then go back and see you.” The man made up his mind for him, “Did you get the marriage report?”
Zhong Jianguo froze for a moment: “Isn’t it necessary?”
“When you go back and see what you think is appropriate, just do it quickly, to save you from being distracted.” The man said, “Lao Jiang stares at us all day long, and will kill you someday, you can’t lead troops to follow Lao Jiang. Opposite.” Then he waved to the guard behind him, “Xiao Wang, bring me Master Liu.”
Zhong Jianguo hurriedly said: “No, no, I will go to the teacher to apply for marriage.”
“That’s right.” The man smiled and patted him on the shoulder, “Don’t think about anything, just talk about it when you see someone.”
On October 4th, in the evening, Zhong Jianguo got off the train and didn’t go to the pipe building on the side of the road. Instead, he walked across a street to the door of his eldest brother’s house. A four or five-year-old child ran out of it, Zhong Jianguo subconsciously bent down and picked up the child.
Sister-in-law Zhong chased out, saw who was coming, and was overjoyed: “When did the second brother come back?”
“Just arrived.” Zhong Jianguo held the child in one hand and the bag in the other. When he got inside, he opened the bag and took out all the candies, biscuits, and malted milk inside.
Sister-in-law Zhong stared at the children, opened the candy and half of each, and then went to make the wheat milk essence: “I told your elder brother in the morning, is there something that has been delayed, why haven’t you come back? .”
“Big brother hasn’t gotten off work yet?” Zhong Jianguo asked.
Sister-in-law Zhong: “Your brother has been promoted to team leader and is busier than before. When are you going to go to the Song family?”
“The Song family…Has my sister-in-law met that girl from the Song family?” Zhong Jianguo asked.
Sister-in-law Zhong pointed to the south: “She went there that day. As soon as I came back, I smiled and said that it was done. Since she can’t see our family having a good time all day long, even if the girl of the Song family has no flaws, people are not. I can’t compare with your first daughter-in-law.”
“Dad, do you really want to marry me a stepmother?” the child leaning on Zhong Jianguo’s lap suddenly said.