Return to the small mountain village in 1986

The brother and sister just mentioned Lou Xinyu at noon. In the evening, Lou Xinyu came again!

Lou Xinyu has no family and few friends in the county, so after he and Gao Shufang fell in love, he came here almost every day. If he couldn't come, he had to let him know in advance, which would make Gao Shufang worried.

"Second brother." When Lou Xinyu saw Gao Mingcheng, he called out "Second brother" calmly. He was following Gao Shufang, otherwise he would have to call "Brother Mingcheng."

Gao Mingcheng looked at him with a smile and didn't care about his little thoughts. He took out a rough turquoise stone and gave it to Lou Xinyu.

Gao Mingcheng said: "I'll give this to you. You can use it as a decoration."

Lou Xinyu immediately took it with both hands and thanked him sincerely: "Thank you, second brother. I like it very much."

Yesterday, many people went to Xinxin Clothing Store to buy turquoise bracelets, and today they sold many more. Now the wealthy families in the county are talking about turquoise.

Seeing that summer is coming, wearing a beautiful turquoise bracelet on your wrist can make people feel better!

Lou Xinyu came to see Gao Shufang during the holidays, usually asking Gao Shufang to go out to play, but when he came after get off work, he just talked. At first, Lou Xinyu only stayed for ten minutes. Seeing that Gao Shufang and the others were about to have dinner, he said goodbye.

Later, this man came every day, so naturally he stayed and had dinner together!
Now Lou Xinyu has become the restaurant's partner. He has dinner here every day and then goes home to rest.

Of course, he didn't come empty-handed. Sometimes he would bring two pounds of meat, sometimes a chicken, or a bag of fruit.

Today he brought some eggs over, saying they were given by relatives in the village when he returned to the village yesterday to do errands.

Lou Xinyu lives alone and usually brings eggs here when he doesn't open the fire.

Gao Shufang took the egg with a natural expression, without any courtesy at all.

Lou Xinyu is very observant and immediately saw a faint cyan color in Gao Shufang's eyes, so he asked with concern: "Shufang, did you sleep well last night?"

Speaking of last night, Gao Shufang could only sigh. Weaning the child was so tedious!

However, her second brother gave her a gold necklace!
Gao Shufang said: "I didn't sleep well, but I took a nap during the day."

The two whispered a few words, but they didn't talk for long, because soon Lou Xinyu went to talk to Gao Mingcheng.

"Second brother, I want to buy a piece of land and build a house. What do you think?" Gao Mingcheng was a little surprised by Lou Xinyu's words.

This question is somewhat profound. In the village, due to the housing shortage in the past, young men now have to build a house if they want to get married. In the city, if young men want to get married, they also have requirements for houses.

Lou Xinyu is single and currently lives in the family building of the police station. After getting married, he can actually live there, but it is not as good as owning his own house.

Therefore, Lou Xinyu decided to buy land and build a house.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Building a house is a good thing. If you have money, you can prepare it."

Lou Xinyu has a retirement payment in his hand, and he is now a public employee. Since the money cannot be used for business, it might as well be used to buy land and build houses.

Since the dual-track price system was abolished, prices have risen rapidly, and money will become less and less valuable in the future!
There is a joke like this: in the past, a hundred-dollar bill was enough for four people, but in the future, a hundred-dollar bill will only be enough for one person!
Now that land is cheap and bricks and tiles are not very expensive, it is also a good thing to build a house. At least you don't have to worry about mortgage payments in the future.

Lou Xinyu continued to ask: "Where do you think the second brother should build the house?"

Lou Xinyu asked Gao Mingcheng for his opinion, but Gao Mingcheng would not directly say where to build it. Although Lou Xinyu and Gao Shufang are in a relationship now, who knows whether it will work out in the future?

So Gao Mingcheng just said: "This is up to you. You have been in the county for a while. You must have your own ideas."

These words are actually a temptation.

After the conversation, Lou Xinyu knew Gao Mingcheng's attitude towards him.

It seems that he can't be in a hurry about getting married!

Forget it, you can wait until the house is built before getting married! Then we can have a grand wedding!
After the topic ended, Gao Mingcheng asked about the case of floating corpses in the park that occurred at the end of March.

At that time, Gao Mingcheng witnessed the floating corpse with his own eyes, and Deng Wanwan's stepson had fallen into the water and was frightened, so he was quite concerned about this case.

Lou Xinyu happened to be involved in handling this case.

So Lou Xinyu briefly explained the case. The victim was a nanny, but she secretly got together with the male owner, and was pregnant with the male owner's child.

After having the child, the nanny threatened the male owner to divorce her and marry her because of the unborn child.

The male host was just having fun and had no intention of marrying a nanny, but he was afraid that his family would know about it, so he just became cruel and wanted to kill her.

But just when the man was about to take action, his son discovered the incident, and then his son pushed the nanny down the stairs. The nanny bled and passed out on the spot.

However, the nanny was not dead at that time, but the male owner took advantage of the dead of night and threw the nanny into the lake in the park, trying to make it look like she had fallen into the water and died.

But because the victim had fallen down the stairs, the forensic doctor found clues during the autopsy and found that the victim was pregnant and had signs of threatened miscarriage before her death.

Lou Xinyu and others followed the clues and finally found the real culprit.

When Gao Mingcheng learned that the master's son was only twelve years old, he couldn't help but click his tongue.

That child was born at the wrong time! This year is 90, but the Minors Protection Law was only passed in 91!
However, the victim was not dead when the child pushed him down the stairs, so his crime will be lighter.

But no matter what, most of this child's life has been ruined.

The two were chatting about the case, and Gao Mingcheng said with emotion: "The most taboo thing about a couple's life is cheating. It's not worth destroying a family just for a little pleasure!"

Lou Xinyu nodded in agreement. If the male master had not cheated on the nanny, then both he and his son would have a good life, and the nanny would not have died tragically.

While talking, Gao Shufang shouted: "Second brother, Xinyu, it's time to eat!"

Dinner was ready and everyone went to the table to eat.

Because there were so many people, there were several dishes on the table, both meat and vegetable, and they all tasted pretty good.

At the dinner table, Gao Mingli said to Gao Mingcheng while picking up vegetables: "Second brother, when I returned to the village last time, Uncle Chen asked me when you would come back from the capital!"

Gao Mingcheng asked: "What's the matter?"

Gao Mingli said: "I don't know what the specific matter is. But he said that he has shaken the honey once, and now he has five or six hundred kilograms of honey at home. I think you took all that honey to Yangcheng to sell it. Yes, I didn’t bring it here.”

Gao Mingcheng calculated the days and it was time to shake the honey.

Throughout the winter, due to the lack of flowers, honey was not shaken even once. Now that spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, we can finally make money by shaking honey.

So he said, "Then I'll go back tomorrow and take a look, and bring some clothes to sell." Speaking of clothes, before he went to the capital, he just bought a batch of goods from Yangcheng. Now that a month has passed, that batch of goods has also been sold. It’s almost done, it’s time to restock!

But this matter is not urgent, wait until he returns to the village first.

After dinner, Lou Xinyu helped clear the table together, and then left after finishing the work.

Not long after he left, Gao Mingcheng and Duo Mei were going to their new home. As for the child, Gao Mingli took the child to play next door. When he came back, he would find that his parents were gone and he would have to sleep with his aunt again at night. Got it!

It's not that Gao Mingcheng is cruel, but now weaning is done by the mother and the child separately when someone helps to wean the baby. Unless there is no one to help, the mother can only do it by herself.

But in the past, many times it was not the mother who wanted to wean her child, but the mother herself who was malnourished and had no milk!
Early the next morning, after Gao Mingcheng had breakfast, he drove his tractor toward Gaojiacun.

In May, the wind is gentle and the weather is sunny!

The unrepaired road is still full of potholes, but the red flowers and green leaves on the roadside are particularly beautiful.

On the hillside, clusters of azalea bloomed, embellishing the green mountain peaks with a bright color.

There are more unknown small wild flowers, some white, some yellow, or red, stretching out in the sun, attracting bees and butterflies to come and collect nectar.

In the rice fields on the roadside, seedlings are growing prosperously, and naughty children are running around the village. Sometimes they pick flowers and play with grass, and sometimes they go fishing in the water.

The tractor wasn't very fast, but in a scene like this, it didn't hurt to go slow.

Go straight along the national highway, and when you reach Junling, it's time to turn off a small road.

There is a century-old camphor tree growing at the intersection, with entangled roots and a thick trunk that requires two people to hug each other.

The lush canopy, like a giant umbrella, can provide shelter from wind and rain.

Huang Dazhi's home is in this village.

After Gao Mingcheng came back, he had already heard about Luo Li's birth from many beauties.

On April 1st, Luo Li gave birth to a baby at her parents' home, and she gave birth to a boy.

When the boy was born, everyone was relieved.

Huang Dazhi is now a public official, so he must strictly abide by family planning and can only have one child!
His younger brother Huang Xiaoan is disabled and has difficulty getting married and raising his own children, and he also adopted an abandoned baby. If Huang Dazhi had given birth to a daughter, even if he thought about it, life at home would not be easy.

Because Huang Dazhi's parents would complain, Luo Li would also be under a lot of psychological pressure.

Now, this disharmony has completely disappeared.

Because Luo Li was in confinement at her parents' home, Gao Mingcheng did not visit Huang Dazhi's home. Instead, he continued walking along the road and passed Xing'anling.

Xing'anling is the center of several nearby villages, so there is a brigade, village committee, and a primary school here.

Children from nearby villages will attend primary school here.

However, due to the small number of students, children can only go to third grade in this elementary school. If they want to go to fourth and fifth grade, they have to go to another larger school.

There was class today. When Gao Mingcheng drove his tractor past the school, he heard the sound of children reading aloud. However, there were also children sitting by the window who were attracted by the sound of the tractor and turned to look out the window.

When passing Gao Shouwang's garment workshop, the tractor stopped here.

Gao Mingcheng noticed that there were several bicycles parked aside, and one of them had two bags of goods tied to it.

It seems that other people came here to get the goods.

Gao Mingcheng walked in and saw Gao Shouwang in the warehouse, talking to someone.

Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming, Gao Shouwang immediately left the man behind, came to Gao Mingcheng enthusiastically, and said with a smile: "Mingcheng, you are back from the capital? What is the capital like?"

The capital is the place that everyone longs for!
Gao Mingcheng had known that there was such a question, so he immediately took out the photo album and handed it to Gao Shouwang.

And said: "Uncle Shouwang, you will know what the capital looks like after reading this!"

It has to be said that Gao Mingcheng was not short of money and was willing to take photos, so he really took a lot of photos. Through these photos, we can indeed have a general understanding of the capital.

Gao Shouwang couldn't wait to look through it.

While he was watching, he didn't forget to call Dong Feixia to watch with him.

Dong Feixia was cutting clothes. When she heard his call, she immediately dropped what she was doing and trotted over.

And her daughter, no longer interested in stepping on the sewing machine, ran over to watch it together.

As for the others, even if they were curious, they just raised their heads and looked around a few times and did not dare to come over.

While Gao Shouwang was looking at the photo album, Gao Mingcheng looked at the clothing workshop.

He picked up the ready-made sample clothes on the table and looked up and down.

After looking at all the new styles in this batch, he selected a few clothes and put them aside, preparing to pick up these goods.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Uncle Shouwang, give me twenty pieces of each of these clothes in three sizes: large, medium and small. Pack them for me later and I will take them with me when I return to the county."

Gao Shouwang glanced at the clothes and responded casually: "Okay."

After reading the album, Gao Shouwang returned the album to Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Shouwang said excitedly: "Mingcheng, next month, your Aunt Feixia and I are going on a long trip! We are going to Jinling! Then, like you, I will take more photos and come back!"

Mentioning Jinling, Dong Feixia also looked excited. Even her daughter said excitedly: "I will go with my parents too!"

Gao Mingcheng looked at the joy on their faces and remembered that he was not in the mood to travel far away at the moment. After thinking for a while, he guessed: "Uncle Shou Wang is going to marry his daughter-in-law? Congratulations!"

Gao Shouwang grinned and said, "Yes, it's a long way away, and it's not convenient for the children to come back to serve the drinks. We might as well do it over there in the military area. Your aunt and I did the same thing there!"

Gao Mingcheng continued to express his congratulations. Gao Shouwang's two sons were quite good, with strong abilities and good marriages. Both sons married female soldiers from the military region, and one of them was the daughter of an officer. After they got married, they rose to great heights.

In their previous life, Gao Shouwang and Dong Feixia went there to help take care of the confinement and child care when their daughter-in-law was about to give birth. After that, because their two sons settled outside, they never came back. (End of chapter)