Fengcheng old events

Chapter 91

The first snow in 70 years fell.

After waking up overnight, the ground in the mountains was covered with white clothes, the air became colder, and the color of the trees on the mountains turned black. Standing on the snow-covered slopes, it looked like a pair of ink.

"Ugh. Ugh~, cough cough." Liu Guixin squatted at the door of the water room and spit out tears.

"Sister-in-law, don't come out if you feel uncomfortable. I'll give you whatever you want to eat." Wei Zhongjun said with some embarrassment.

Liu Guixin shook his head, stood up against the wall: "It's okay, just spit a few mouthfuls."

Gently touched his stomach, this guy who doesn't know whether he is a man or a woman is too much toss.Her belly was obviously swollen, and the military doctor said that she should have been conceived in September or October, and the baby was healthy.

Liu Guixin was pregnant with a child, Zhang Qingzhi no longer hesitated, and handed in the discharge report.

In mid-December, the approval came down, and Comrade Zhang Qingzhi was approved to end the demobilization of the army and return to his hometown. Comrade Zhang Qingzhi successfully completed the tasks entrusted by the party and the people, and made outstanding contributions in the six years of military work. The local government is requested to arrange it as appropriate.

At the end of the month, Zhang Qingzhi handed over the work, packed his bags, and left the barracks amidst the cries of his comrades.On the bus to the train station, he squatted in the compartment and cried like a child.

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"Dad, I'm back." Zhang Qingzhi pulled Liu Guixin to stand in front of Zhang Yusheng, and Liu Guixin called out to him, "Dad."

Zhang Yusheng held a pipe and pot in his mouth, and raised his eyelids to look at Zhang Qingzhi and Liu Guixin: "Well, what are you doing when you come back from the army? Did you make a mistake? Or deserted? You can't do the work in the field, so what are you doing when you come back? The toilets in the village happen to be unattended, so it’s fine for you to go.”

Zhang Qingzhi said, "Dad, I'm out of the army."

Zhang Yusheng said: "Is the state going to take care of you after you leave the army? Our family can't afford to support you, and we don't have any room for you. Let's go to the government."

Zhang Qingzhi's second elder brother walked in: "The third one is back? He's been away for five or six years, right? It hasn't changed much, why didn't he just stay outside?"

He used to work in the city, but the movement in the city was getting bigger and bigger, and he couldn't eat enough. He took his wife and children back to the village and became a farmer again.

The boss of the Zhang family has passed away at this moment. He suffered a work-related injury in Benxi Iron and Steel and was scalded by molten iron.

The eldest sister-in-law took the child back to her natal family, and now Zhang Qingzhi's second brother is in charge of the family.

Zhang Yusheng knocked on his cigarette bag and said, "Let's make the next house up and let them live in it. There's no extra food at home, so figure out a way for yourself."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "Dad, I have to wait at home for resettlement by the government, and I have to leave when I'm resettled. The state will provide me with food."

Zhang Yusheng nodded: "It's your own, and you don't want it at home, and you don't have to think about getting anything from home, you are poor."

In fact, the family can live well, the east and west houses are all north and south kangs, and the four bunks sleep on the kangs.The fifth brother is a soldier in the army.

But Zhang Qingzhi and Liu Guixin were still assigned to the next room.

The lower house is actually a warehouse in the countryside.

Zhang Qingzhi's mother has passed away at this moment.Liver cirrhosis and ascites, belly bulging like seven or eight months pregnant.After going to the county hospital a few times, the old lady couldn't walk, so Zhang Yusheng tied a cloth belt around the old lady's waist and dragged her away.

Treatment cost money, and the family had no money, so Zhang Yusheng was reluctant to go out to borrow money, so the old lady left after suffering for more than half a year.At that time, Zhang Qingzhi was still in the army, and he had no family leave due to the construction period, so he couldn't come back even if he wanted to.

The Zhang family is in the fort, more than a mile away from Liu Gui's bride's house, but the countryside is particular, and it is not easy for married people to return to their mother's house, so the two of them pasted the leaking windows with newspapers and settled down in the lower room.

There is also a small kang in the lower house, but they have to find a way to burn firewood, and they don't have their share of the firewood at home.

Zhang Qingzhi's second sister-in-law is now pregnant with her second child, three months earlier than Liu Guixin, and her belly is quite big now, and she is about to give birth every year.

"Second sister-in-law, don't move, let me get down, you are not convenient for me." Liu Guixin came out from the lower room and called to second sister-in-law at the entrance of the cellar.

The second sister-in-law turned her head and glanced at Liu Guixin: "Okay, thank you then."

Liu Guixin struggled down the wooden ladder to the cellar with his stomach full, filled half of the pot of potatoes with the pot passed by his second sister-in-law, and then climbed up with great effort. When he came out, the second sister-in-law had already returned to the main room with potatoes.

Liu Guixin felt a little uncomfortable, wiped away his tears, covered the cellar, and went back to the next room.

Zhang Qingzhi was lighting a fire and asked, "What's wrong?"

Liu Guixin said: "I helped the second sister-in-law dig potatoes out of the cellar, thinking of coming up to her to get some back, but she went back to the house before I came up, without saying a word."

Zhang Qingzhi sighed: "Just let it go, that's for a while, just wait until my place is settled."

Liu Guixin nodded, holding back his crying, tears streaming down his face.

In the second week after Zhang Qingzhi and Liu Guixin returned to Zhangjiabao, the fifth member of the Zhang family came back from the army to visit relatives. When he saw Zhang Qingzhi, he was a little indifferent, and he didn't speak to Liu Guixin.He was blaming the old lady for passing away and Zhang Qingzhi not coming back.

"Brother, your brother and I came back from the army. We don't have anything at home. We don't have any household items. We can take two pots from home, okay?"

"No, I don't have many at home."

"I don't care what you want, just use what you want, isn't this not a good thing?"

"I don't want to borrow it, I want to hire it myself."

Liu Guixin stood by the door and looked at the fifth child: "I just borrowed it, and there is no place to buy it in this winter."

The fifth waved his hand impatiently: "No, no, don't you understand? Don't borrow it."

The fourth child came out from Westinghouse: "Sister-in-law three, what's the matter?"

Liu Guixin said, "Yes, fourth child. I discussed with fifth child to borrow two basins."

Old Wuyi threw his hand: "No borrowing. I won't borrow it if I smash it. I don't have you in my house. Let's go."

The fourth child said, "Why are you talking to the third sister-in-law like that, fifth child?"

The fifth stared at me: "What am I talking about? You can do whatever you want, you can find you everywhere." The fourth child is a bit naive, that is, he is not smart enough, and like the sixth child who is congenitally dumb, he has a little status in the family. nor.

Zhang Qingzhi opened the door and came in: "How slow is it to get a basin?"

Liu Guixin turned his face away and said nothing, Zhang Qingzhi went to the door of the back room: "Dad, I'll take two pots as a messenger."

Zhang Yusheng didn't move in the back room: "The second child and the fifth child are in charge, you can ask them."

The fifth child said: "If you don't borrow it, you can get it wherever you like."

The second child came in: "Why are you making such a fuss? The door is still open. Is it worthless?" His eldest son was seven years old and ran into the house with a frozen pear in his hands. Liu Guixin's throat twitched. She was a bit greedy for frozen pears and wanted to eat them, but she didn't.

Turning around and leaving the room, Liu Guixin called Zhang Qingzhi, and the two of them went back to the lower room, and the door of the main room was shut tightly with a snap.

Liu Guixin looked around the narrow warehouse with tears in his eyes: "I want to go back to Nangou."

Zhang Qingzhi glanced at Liu Guixin with guilt in his eyes.nodded.

(End of this chapter)