Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 36
"Second brother, why are you back?"

Zhao Wenjun's sudden appearance in front of his family brought not only the joy of seeing his daughter, but also full of worries and doubts.

The married daughter came back suddenly, or married so far away, why was she not accompanied by her husband?
"What about the weekly meeting?"

Zhao Xuehai's complexion has darkened visibly to the naked eye.

"Father, mother, tomorrow is mother's [-]th birthday, I'm coming back to celebrate mother's birthday. He was busy during the meeting, so he didn't come back this time."

Zhao Wenjun looked a little tired. It took two full days for him to go from car to train to car and finally walk back home.

Zhao Xuehai, Liu Sufang and his wife didn't say anything more, and hurriedly greeted her to go home for dinner.

Not long after dinner, Zhao Wenjun fell into a deep sleep.

After Zhao Wenjun fell asleep, Liu Sufang gently opened the small package she brought. There were only two catties of hard candy, two catties of fried fruit, some shoes and clothes, which were obviously made by Zhao Wenjun himself.

Liu Sufang closed the bag and went to the yard, where Zhao Xuehai was smoking a pipe.

More than two years later, the second daughter is still wearing the dress Liu Xiumei bought for her when she got married, and she has lost a lot of weight.

The two sat there for a long time, but Liu Sufang couldn't hold back her tears after all.

The daughter is obviously having a bad time, but as an old mother, what can she do for her?

In this era, it's not all about Ren Ren's lifetime.

The next day, the brothers and sisters of the Zhao family brought their families to the old house. Everyone was very happy to see Zhao Wenjun. After all, they hadn't seen each other for two years since she married and went to Jin Province.

Liu Xiumei and Zhao Wenyan had worried eyes and wanted to ask something, even Zhao Jing felt that something was wrong, only Song Yun was stupid and only knew happiness.

Zhao Wenmu was also full of worries when he saw his sister's thinner figure.

In his previous life, after he was kicked out of the house, he never contacted Zhao Wenjun. It was not until many years later that he heard that Zhao Wenjun died of illness in 1983.

He cried bitterly, but didn't think much about it.

From childhood to adulthood, the second sister has always been the one who gave silently, and never competed with her brothers and sisters for anything.When he thought that he had put his second sister behind him in his past and present lives, he couldn't help feeling extremely guilty.

Although the second sister was thin and thin, she seldom got sick since she was a child. How could she suddenly die of illness without any warning?
Thinking of that weekly meeting again, he couldn't help feeling extremely worried, wishing to detain Zhao Wenjun immediately and not let her go back.

Zhao Wenjun has always avoided questions from his relatives, and whenever he talked about his situation, he would always say "very good" with a slight smile.

It's pretty good, so why would you go back to your mother's house but only bring such a few worthless things?
It's fine, so why would you wear the clothes you had two years ago? If you had better clothes, why would you wear this one?

She was pretty good, but why did she lose so much weight, and even had a little white strands in her hair.

The meal at noon was hearty but not lively. Everyone obviously had their own concerns and forced smiles.

The brothers and sisters of the Zhao family originally wanted to invite relatives and friends to celebrate together, but Liu Sufang and Zhao Xuehai firmly disagreed.

"It's not a full life of sixty or eighty, so there's no need to make such a fuss, it's enough for our family to have a meal!"

Liu Sufang insisted on this, and was unwilling to make a fuss.

So the family gathered in the old house, had a sumptuous lunch, and cooked longevity noodles. Zhao Zimeng, Zhao Ziting, and Zhang Yuanming kowtowed to grandma/grandmother, and it was over.

The little girl also waved to grandma to express her congratulations.

Zhao Wenjun also realized that she spoiled everyone's mood, but what could she say?

She just misses her relatives so much. It has been more than two years, and she can hardly remember what the temperature at home is like.After finally saving up enough round-trip tickets, she really had no money to buy anything.

She could only try to persuade everyone to eat more vegetables with a smile.

Zhao Wenjun only stayed at home for two days before leaving in a hurry. Before leaving, the older sisters Zhao Wenyan and Liu Xiumei sent a lot of clothes, but they were stopped by Liu Sufang.

Bringing so many things back is not necessarily a good thing. After living for decades, she understands the twists and turns of the human heart.

It ended up being just a few pairs of shoes and a few nondescript pieces of clothing.

Zhao Wenmu asked Li San'er to buy train tickets to Jin Province in the past few days, and exchanged as many national food stamps as possible, as much as possible.

In this day and age, money alone is not enough, you need a ticket to go anywhere.When you go to other places, local food stamps cannot be used, and national food stamps are required.

"Brother Zheng, how is your mother?"

After arresting Sun Guoqing and Li Ergou last time, Zhao Wenmu hired Zheng Guangming with a salary of 10 yuan a day.

Although Zheng Guangming refused repeatedly, he felt that he was not worth so much money, but he couldn't beat Zhao Wenmu after all.

For the past few days, he has been taking care of his old mother at home, and he feels more and more guilty.

"I can already walk on the ground, and now Meiyun is taking care of me at home, there is no problem at all!"

Zhao Wenmu came over suddenly, there must be something he needs to do by himself, Zheng Guangming hurriedly assured that he is not needed at home now.

After all, he has only been thinking about Zhao Wenmu to come to him to do business these days!

"Okay, I need to trouble Brother Zheng to take a trip to Jin Province."

"no problem!"

Zhao Wenmu asked Li San'er to get a ticket for the same train as Zhao Wenjun. Zhao Wenmu stuffed the ticket, food stamps, letter of introduction and 500 yuan into Zheng Guangming's hands.

The letter of introduction was handled by Yang Yuping.

He briefly said what he wanted Zheng Guangming to do.

"Brother Zheng, please escort my second sister back to Jin Province, and then see how she is doing there. Don't let her find out."

"no problem."

Zheng Guangming said concisely, and immediately entered the house to pack up his things, Zhao Wenmu didn't stay long, and went straight home.

On the second day, brothers Zhao Wenmu and Zhao Wenguang drove Zhao Wenjun to the Pingyang County bus station in a mule cart. Zheng Guangming, who had been waiting here, gave Zhao Wenmu a wink, and followed Zhao Wenjun to the bus to Quancheng City.

In Shanqian Village, at the same time that the villagers harvested the wheat and rushed to plant summer corn, the production team issued an order to build a water lifting station.

Corn planting does not take much time. Villagers can prepare the tools and dry food needed for building water lifting stations while planting corn.

In this era, production teams and commune organizations participated in public projects such as digging rivers and building roads for free, which is the so-called "official husband". Everyone brought their own tools and dry food to participate in the labor, and the remuneration was only a few work points. A little bit of money can be symbolically distributed.

Zhao Xuelei also won 100 yuan from the commune, which is better than nothing.

Zhao Xuelei set the number of wives at about one-third of the village's young and middle-aged labor force, so as not to delay the progress of the project, but also to ensure that the village has enough manpower to hunt game and handle farm work.

The Zhao family brothers did not participate in the labor, and they paid a sum of money to the production team in place of the labor according to the regulations.

The construction of the water pumping station is a good thing. The villagers are very active, and soon cement, red bricks and other materials are transported to the construction site, and the work begins in full swing.

People in this era really have inexhaustible strength. People push carts loaded with hundreds of catties of soil and still walk like flying.Even for women, there are three big baskets full of soil on the cart, at least more than 400 catties.

People's faces are also full of simple smiles. The living conditions of later generations have improved a lot. Why did the smiles disappear from people's faces?
Zhao Wenmu didn't bother to think about this question.

He is arranging the next business plan in the orchard.

　Cough and headache, that's all for today

　　I wish you all good health~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)