Stepmother

Song Zhaodi was speechless and wanted to laugh: "You guys think about slaughtering chickens and ducks every day, have you ever thought about how chickens and ducks feel? The oldest of them is only one year old."

"The value of the drake's existence is that it is eaten by us." Zhong Jianguo said, "When the male goose grows up, we will eat the big goose stewed in the iron pot."

Zhong Dawa nodded again and again: "Yes. And those three little roosters and two little drakes."

This summer, Song Zhaodi bought ten more eggs, and asked fishermen on the island for two goose eggs, which were sent to Mrs. Duan's house for incubation.

Twelve eggs hatched, but this time, there were few mothers hatched, so Song Zhaodi was a little disappointed, noticing that Erwa was staring at them and stopped eating, and wanted to laugh again: "Erwa also wants to eat duck?"

"I want to." Erwa said, "Eat fried duck wings, fried duck legs."

Song Zhaodi pinched his little face: "The wings and legs of the big rooster are delicious when fried, but the fried duck is not delicious, and the braised duck is delicious."

"Then make braised duck." Zhong Dawa answered quickly.

Song Zhaodi looked at Zhong Jianguo: "Don't you go to sea during the Spring Festival?"

"Don't talk about it, it's possible to go out." Zhong Jianguo said, "The actions of the Soviet Union are becoming more and more frequent. Lao Jiang watched the Soviet Union make a fuss. It's getting more and more embarrassing."

Song Zhaodi pondered: "If you are not allowed to live in peace in the 30th year, then your cooking class will catch a few baskets of perch, set up two large pots on the ship, and cook perch, stewed tofu, and braised perch three times a day. Seafood such as prawns. Then set up a row of simple stoves, grill squid on charcoal to feed the soldiers, and kill them by the way.”

"This method is feasible, anyway, the soldiers don't want to eat canned food." Zhong Jianguo thought about it carefully, "I'll report to the commander later. It's best to provoke Lao Jiang's people to eat along, we take advantage of Give them a shot when they eat."

Song Zhaodi did not advise him to do this: "What about after a good shot?"

Zhong Jianguo's face changed slightly, he glared at Song Zhaodi, and drank his porridge.

Song Zhaodi pursed her lips and smiled, raised her leg and stepped on his foot.

Zhong Jianguo snorted in pain.

"What's wrong with Dad?" Erwa asked with concern.

Zhong Jianguo endured the pain and said nonsense: "I'm biting my tongue. Eat slowly, don't worry."

Zhong Erwa no doubt has him: "Okay, Dad."

At the same time, in Binhai City, more than 2,000 miles away, Zhong Weiguo went to the cooperative to buy a few catties of fruit and candy after breakfast. Then go to the long-distance bus station to take a bus to Hongya Town.

After eleven o'clock, Zhong Weiguo arrived at Xiaosong Village.

In winter, there is not much work in the production team, the weather is cold, and the villagers who have worked for a year are too lazy to get up before dawn. Breakfast was late, so it was after eleven o'clock. The villagers of Xiaosong Village hadn't cooked yet, and they were chatting at the door in twos and threes in the sun.

As soon as Zhong Weiguo entered the village, the villagers stared at him. Before Zhong Weiguo could speak, some enthusiastic people asked him who he was looking for.

Remembering that Song Zhaodi said on the phone to try to make everyone known, Zhong Weiguo glanced around and saw that there were more than a dozen people, men and women, young and old, he hesitated for a while, but was still embarrassed in front of so many people Exploding the family scandal, he asked directly, "How will Song Zhaodi's family go?"

Zhong Weiguo: "I know, I'm her husband Jianguo's eldest brother, and I understand the situation in Zhao Di's family." The voice fell, and all the people nearby turned to Zhong Weiguo.

"Are you the eldest brother of Captain Zhong?" The enthusiastic villager looked at him, "You and Captain Zhong are quite similar."

Zhong Weiguo nodded: "Yes, how to go?"

"There is a big road in the south, walk more than 100 meters to the east, and ask someone again." The enthusiastic villager said, "The houses in the village are similar, I told you, you also look for Not clear."

Zhong Weiguo nodded: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." The villager laughed, "What are you looking for with the elder sister of Zhaodi?"

Zhong Weiguo sighed: "It's hard to say. Thank you." After speaking, he turned and went south.

A long sigh lifted everyone's appetite. The three lively women looked at each other and followed Zhong Weiguo quietly. At the door of Song's house, the three women did not go in, but went to Goudan's house next door.

Mother Song planted some peanuts on the ground. The weather was nice today, Liu Yang's mother took out the peanuts and sat in the sun, watching the two grandchildren play while peeling the peanuts.

Yang didn't know Zhong Weiguo. Seeing that Zhong Weiguo said he was Zhong Jianguo's eldest brother, he saw that he came over again with a bag of things, and he looked a little like Zhong Jianguo, so he had no doubts.

What's the urgency?"

"Zhao Di's eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law come back at noon?" Zhong Weiguo did not answer the question.

Yang: "Come back. Ever since Jianguo bought a bicycle for our family, they have come back for dinner every noon. By the way, his big brother, don't leave at noon, I'll cook right now. ."

"Auntie, no need." Zhong Weiguo said, "It's almost New Year's Eve, our factory is busy reconciling accounts, and there is no rest on Saturdays and Sundays, so I will take a day off, and I have to take a day off in the afternoon. Get back."

Yang: "Soon, I'll make some pancakes for you, and you can eat them on the road. By the way, his eldest brother, what are you doing with Laibao and Liu Yang?"

"Oh, it has something to do with Zhao Di's second sister." Zhong Weiguo didn't speak English, and English is too conspicuous in the countryside, for fear that Yang's family would not understand it and would cause trouble for the family by shouting everywhere, "Zhao Di is now She works as a teacher over there, and she has several books at home. Her second sister probably took one because she saw it was good. She also took Zhaodi’s vanishing cream, clam oil, and pancreas from her family.”

Yang Shi was stunned and couldn't believe what she heard: "Take it all, what do you mean?"

"Cough, it's stealing." Zhong Weiguo was embarrassed to say, after all, they were all relatives.

Yang's eyes widened: "What do you mean, what do you mean for men to steal Di's things?"

"Yes." Zhong Weiguo said, "Zhao Di also said that she hopes her eldest sister and her eldest brother-in-law will go to town to wait for her second sister, and get those things back, mainly books. By the way. , Zhao Di also said that she will write a letter to you and explain in detail in the letter."

Yang shi couldn't help sighing: "This is a boy. The child is about to go to elementary school, how can he do such a thing."

Zhong Weiguo has never had contact with a few women, so Zhong Weiguo believes that the most inattentive woman in the world is Zhao Yin.

When I mentioned Song Lainan to the Yang family, Zhong Weiguo still couldn't believe it: "Auntie, Zhao Di also said that when her second sister comes back, remember to guard her."

Yang sighed deeply: "Remember, remember, definitely remember." The voice fell, and the sound of jingle bells was heard, "Maybe Liu Yang and Noble are back."

"Mr. Deng, are you going to school again? Aren't the students on vacation?"

Liu Yang's voice came in from outside, and Song Dali stood up with a swipe: "Grandma, it's my father talking to Teacher Deng." Then he said to Zhong Weiguo, "Uncle, I'll call my father. "

"No need." Zhong Weiguo smiled, "I'll go out and have a look." At the door, I saw a middle-aged woman approaching, a middle-aged man leaning on a bicycle and a man in his fifties man talking. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Song Dali coming out, and asked, "Dali, are they your parents?"

Song Dali shouted: "Father, mother, we have a visitor."

The three of them glanced over.

Zhong Weiguo was shocked and froze.

Song Laibao hurried to the front, saw the stupid man standing in front of his house, and subconsciously looked at Song Dali: "Who is this?"

"Uncle's eldest brother." Song Dali said, "eldest uncle of eldest baby, buy us a lot of delicious food."

Song Laibao turned his head and shouted, "Brother Zhong, what's wrong with you?"

"Weiguo?"

"Uncle?"

Two exclamations sounded simultaneously.

Song Laibao shuddered, followed Zhong Weiguo's line of sight, and saw Teacher Deng tremblingly running here, his heart moved, and his eyes widened in disbelief: "Uncle?!"

Liu Yang was also startled, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Zhong Weiguo was shocked, he subconsciously twisted it on his thigh, thinking that he would wake up from the dream, but he heard, "Weiguo, you , why are you here?"

"Uncle, why are you here?" Zhong Weiguo subconsciously felt that he had made a mistake, so he did not dare to come forward, and when he came to him, he was indeed the same as the person in memory, except for a few more white hairs and a few wrinkles, "Uncle—"

Liu Yang couldn't help but interrupt Zhong Weiguo: "Wait a minute, Brother Zhong, Teacher Deng, don't rush to recognize your relatives, what's going on?"

A relative whom he hadn't seen for many years suddenly appeared in front of him, Zhong Weiguo didn't care to explain to Liu Yang, and he turned around and asked, "Uncle, what's going on?"

"Is he your uncle?"

There was an exclamation from behind, Zhong Weiguo turned around and saw that it was a woman with a slightly fat body and a dark complexion who had never met before, "Who are you?"

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Zhong Weiguo's face changed slightly: "Don't talk nonsense! My uncle is just a teacher, not any of the seven black categories."

"Weiguo, don't be rude." Deng Peilin patted Zhong Weiguo's arm, "My fellow villagers are very kind to me, they give rice, noodles, oil and salt, and even let us build a new house. A lesbian's house is still bright."

Goudan's mother raised her chin and snorted.

"Then what happened to the capitalist she said?" Zhong Weiguo didn't understand.

Deng Peilin said: "One year after your mother's death, I will be transferred to another university as a substitute. In 1963, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister proposed to set up a foreign language school and recruit teachers who are good at foreign languages ​​from the university. I teach in a foreign language school. My English is very good, so I was chosen as the English teacher.

"The foreign language school was proposed by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The great revolution just started, there was a lot of noise outside, but the people in the foreign language school didn't dare to make trouble. Last year, the situation intensified, and the foreign language school was not spared. I and you My aunt was sent here on the grounds that I was suspected of being a capitalist."

"So you are not a capitalist." Gou Dan's mother said it, realizing what she heard, and asked quickly, "Wait, Lao Deng, you said you are a university teacher, university What does the teacher mean to teach college students?"

Zhong Weiguo: "Of course!"

"Then, our dog Dan will learn from you, will he become a college student in the future?" Goudan's mother then asked.

Deng Peilin said: "You have to be admitted to a university." As soon as the voice fell, Goudan's face darkened, "However, you don't have to worry. The country has already started to run universities, and it may be more in the future. There are many universities, your dog, your children study hard, and they will definitely be admitted to university and become a college student in the future."

"It's almost the same." Goudan's mother was satisfied, "Hey, I won't call you Lao Deng in the future, I will call you Mr. Deng, you have to teach our family Goudan well. By the way, Zhao Di's husband's eldest brother, what you said in the yard just now, I won't make it public."

Song Laibao didn't understand: "What?"

"The man is here to steal Di's things." Goudan's mother blurted out, Song Laibao's face changed suddenly, Goudan's mother realized that a bald mouth had said it, and smiled awkwardly, "Then What, my pigs are hungry, I'll go feed the pigs." Before Song Laibao could speak, he slipped into the house.

The three women who followed Zhong Weiguo saw Goudan's mother running so fast, so they quickly found a reason to leave. However, because Zhong Weiguo and Deng Peilin recognized their relatives, a lot of people had already gathered at the door of Song's house.

The villagers of Xiaosong Village didn't care how many college students Deng Peilin had taught and whether they could teach their children to be college students. Anyway, Deng Peilin couldn't run away. The villagers ordered to ask Zhong Weiguo what happened to the man who came to steal.

"Mr. Deng, Wei Guo, it's cold outside. If you have anything to say, go to the room." Mrs. Yang said quickly, "Go to the main room."

Zhong Weiguo helped Deng Peilin in, and the villagers of Xiaosong Village turned around and knocked on the door of Goudan's house.

Zhong Weiguo at first wondered how Goudan's mother knew. Out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed an extra row of heads on the top of the wall, and his head was buzzing.

Song Laibao followed his line of sight and found that many people were eavesdropping, and sighed: "This is the virtue of the people in our village."

"Laibao, I don't like listening to what you say." A distant cousin of Song Laibao said, "You can't hide from us that the man is stealing things. It's New Year's Eve, the man has to go to my father's New Year's greetings, her hands and feet are not clean, I have to stare at her."

Zhong Weiguo looked at Song Laibao, what should I do?

"Brother Zhong, what did Zhao Di lose?" Being stared at by a row of heads, Song Laibao simply asked his son to move some stools into the house and sat in the yard.

Zhong Weiguo said: "Book, vanishing cream, clam oil and pancreas."

"So much?" Someone was surprised, "A lot of vanishing cream and pancreas are worth a lot."

Song Laibao said quickly: "It's a lot of money, but my family is not short of that money."

"You are not lacking." Song Laibao's cousin said, "I heard from your mother that your family's Zhaodi is now a middle school teacher, with thirty or forty yuan a month, her husband is the head of the regiment, No matter what, you have to have a small hundred, and the leakage is enough for your family to eat and drink. Therefore, we didn't say you stole anything. "

"How come I heard that the husband's salary is quite high."

Song Laibao's cousin choked for a moment and said, "That's because men are not satisfied."

"Zhao Di said the same." Zhong Weiguo said, "When Zhao Di called me, I heard a very bad tone. I think I was very disappointed with her second sister."

"No one will be happy with such a second sister." Song Laibao's cousin said, sighing, "It's a pity that our family has a stall. Laibao, you have this matter. Say what to do."

Song Laibao has always felt that the family scandal cannot be made public: "I'll come back and ask my mother."

"Then I'll find you when my aunt comes." After the man finished speaking, he disappeared from the wall. The others saw this and left. Song Laibao immediately asked her son to call Deng Peilin's wife, and then asked Zhong Weiguo and Deng Peilin to speak in the house.

Zhong Weiguo talked to his uncle and aunt for two hours. Liu Yang asked for leave and rode him to the station. When Zhong Weiguo arrived at Binhai to call Zhong Jianguo, it was past eight o'clock in the evening.

Zhong Jianguo answered the phone and went home, saw Song Zhaodi washing Sanwa's feet, and reached out to pick her up.

"Dad is crazy?" Erwa was startled and asked his brother quickly.

Zhong Dawa glanced at the man who was holding Song Zhaodi in circles: "I'm ill, it's not too bad."

Zhong Jianguo put down Song Zhaodi, raised his hand and slapped his son: "Go upstairs to sleep."

"Don't sleep." Zhong Dawa rubbed her head and hid beside Song Zhaodi, "Dad, are you going to be promoted?"

Zhong Jianguo was delighted: "Official fans! It's not a promotion, but it's also a happy event. There is news from your uncle and grandpa's family."

"Uncle and grandpa?" Zhong Dawa heard it for the first time, "Is it the same as grandpa?"

Song Zhaodi said with a smile: "It's hard to find a person like your grandfather in a hundred families, he must be different from him. Zhong Jianguo, don't betray you, your uncle has news, what do you have with me? relation?"

"In your village." Zhong Jianguo told Song Zhaodi about his uncle's release, "It's fortunate that you didn't call my eldest brother later, otherwise, we might not be able to see my uncle again in our lifetime. ."

Song Zhaodi was stunned and incredulous: "What a coincidence?"

"Sometimes things just happen to be so coincidental." Zhong Jianguo said, "Is this what the ancients said about the interdependence of good and bad?"

Zhong Dawa raised her hand and motioned his father to pause first, allowing him to say: "Is Uncle and Grandpa coming to our house? Dad, can you not let him come first? We just bought it today. New vanishing cream, clam oil and pancreas."

Zhong Jianguo smiled bitterly: "Uncle and grandpa are temporarily unavailable."

"Will you come in the future?" Zhong Dawa asked.

Song Zhaodi: "Never in the future. They are too old to take a car. However, we have to see him."

"I can visit that uncle and grandpa." Zhong Dawa said seriously, "Just don't come to our house."