69novels Chapter 130 Marriage
Chapter 130 Marriage
On the day of great joy, Jin Lao Wu's face was full of red, and he looked extraordinarily energetic, and his original rough appearance became brighter, which made the new daughter-in-law beside him even more petite and lovely.
After a simple ceremony, the young men and women are married.
Sitting at the banquet, Gu Mingdong's gaze fell on the bride. She was pretty and fair-skinned, which was different from most girls in the countryside at that time.
Jin Lao Wu's elder brothers and sisters-in-law had plain faces, but Jin's mother kept smiling and entertained the guests affectionately.
Gu Mingnan walked around somewhere and came back, sat down and said, "Brother, have you heard that Jin Lao Wu's new wife is an educated youth."
"I see." Gu Mingdong said lightly.
Gu Mingnan was surprised and said: "I didn't expect him to marry an educated youth. I thought that Jin Lao Wu would like spicy and crisp."
When he said this, he didn't mean to look down on the educated youth, it was just purely strange.
At first glance, the new daughter-in-law is obviously the complete opposite of sharp and sharp, and her speech is gentle and kind.
The guest next to him interjected: "Lao Jin's family used to be poor, but it has gotten better in the past few years. This green brick and large tile house can be built. Who knows that Jin Lao chose an educated youth as his wife out of thousands of choices."
Gu Mingnan asked with a smile: "Is the educated youth bad?"
"What's so good about it? It's not useful." The guest's words expressed the general views of rural people on educated youth.
"Look at the appearance of the new bride, can she work in the fields? After marrying such a girl, you have to coax her to go home. From now on, the fifth child will have to take care of everything outside the house. Look, it won't be long before he will die." I have to regret it."
"This woman has to go to work in the fields, wash clothes and cook, otherwise marry home and become an ancestor?"
However, Gu Mingnan said: "A promising man earns money to support his family, what would a daughter-in-law do if she is so capable?"
After hearing this, the guest gave him a strange look: "You are the second child of the Gu family in Shanghe Village, hey, you are a worker now, so you don't need to care whether your wife can work in the fields."
After speaking sourly, she turned her head and ignored him.
Gu Mingnan felt that his words were a bit weird, so he turned around and asked, "Brother, what did I say wrong?"
Before Gu Mingdong could answer, he saw Jin Laowu bringing his new wife over.
"Adong, this is my daughter-in-law Zhang Yuanyuan, an educated youth from the city, Yuanyuan, this is Gu Mingdong, the boss of the Gu family I mentioned to you, he is a capable person."
Zhang Yuanyuan's complexion was fair at a close look, her features were delicate, and she spoke with a gentle manner of a sub-cultural person: "Hello, Brother Gu, thank you for coming to drink our wedding wine."
She spoke softly, her face was rosy, and there was always a slight smile on her lips, she didn't force it at all.
The husband and wife are very close, with the restraint and sweetness unique to the new couple, which complement each other perfectly.
"Congratulations, we also want to be happy." Gu Mingdong said with a smile.
Jin Laowu glanced at him, except for Gu Laoer, he didn't see anyone else, he could only sigh for his nephew, but he didn't have time to deal with the disappointed elder nephew today, so he dragged his wife to see other people.
Gu Mingnan also glanced at the new wife, and said in a low voice, "Brother, I think the two of them are pretty good, why do they think the new wife is not good?"
Not only the guests just now, but many members of the production team of Xiahe Village during the dinner were not optimistic about this marriage, and felt that it was not good for Jin Laowu to marry a wife.
Gu Mingdong said with a smile: "Life is lived by oneself, like a person who knows how warm his drinking water is, it doesn't matter what others think of him."
After hearing this, Gu Mingnan took it for granted.
After a simple wedding banquet, Gu Mingdong took his younger brother to say goodbye and left.
It was Jin Tiangeng who sent them out, hesitating to speak along the way.
Gu Mingdong glanced at him, and said lightly: "No need to send it away, how can we two big men not know the way?"
Jin Tiangeng blushed, and suddenly took out a paper bag in his arms: "Brother Gu, here, these are the extra snacks from the banquet, they are all uneaten, you take them back and give them to the children."
After finishing speaking, he didn't give Gu Mingdong a chance to refuse, turned around and ran away.
Gu Mingnan yelled at his back: "What's the matter with you, calling you uncle and brother, taking advantage of our family, right? If I do this again, I'll complain to your uncle."
Poor Jin Tiangeng was so frightened that he staggered, and almost fell to the ground in front of his future brother-in-law.
"Hey, be careful when you walk." Gu Mingnan saw someone yelling, and said to his elder brother when he was done: "The children nowadays are too frizzy, and they can fall when they walk properly."
Gu Mingdong laughed and threw the paper bag to him: "Take it."
"It's polite to be polite, but if you don't listen, he calls you brother, so you can't call him old fifth uncle Jin. It's a big loss." Gu Mingnan commented in this way, completely unaware that Jin Tiangeng called his brother because he wanted to take advantage of it. Well, that's because he fell in love with his fourth sister.
Gu Mingdong looked on coldly, feeling worried for Qian Xiaoru from the bottom of his heart, as for the straight-hearted Gu Laoer, he had to wait until the Year of the Monkey to understand the girl's mind.
As soon as the two brothers got home, Gu Sanmei asked curiously, "Brother, I heard that Jin Laowu's new daughter-in-law is an educated youth, is it true?"
"How do you know?" Gu Mingnan opened the paper bag, and distributed the snacks inside to the three children.
"There are people in the production team who are married from Xiahe Village. I went to wash clothes by the river today and heard them talking about what that female educated youth can't do. She has been with Jin Laowu since she went to the countryside."
The twins and Gu Yun ate the oily fruit and looked at them curiously.
Gu Mingdong said hello: "Xiao Bei, come and have a taste."
Gu Mingbei wiped his hands and said with a smile: "I'm already an adult, where can I compete with children for food."
"You're still a child." Gu Mingdong couldn't help stuffing a piece for her. Gu Mingbei took a sip and commented: "The taste is not bad, and the Jin family's craftsmanship is quite good."
This oily fruit is homemade at first glance, it should be the handicraft of Jin Laowu's own mother or some sister-in-law.
Gu Mingnan also took a sip and said, "It's not as delicious as the one from the biscuit factory."
"That's for sure. The biscuit factory has put a lot of oil and sugar, so how can I make it myself?" Gu Mingxi also took a sip, and then asked, "Is his wife really an educated youth?"
Gu Mingdong nodded and said, "He is indeed an educated youth."
Gu Sanmei was surprised: "Is this the first educated youth in the neighborhood to marry a local?"
It has been nearly four years since the educated youth went to the countryside to go to the mountains, but Shanghe Village started late, and in fact the first batch of educated youths who fell into their production team took only two years.
Xiahe Village, where Jin Laowu lived, was a little later than them. It has been more than a year since the first batch of educated youths in their production team went to the countryside.
The educated youth at this time knew the hardships and hardships of going to the countryside, but they all hoped that they could go back. Naturally, they would not casually combine with the local farmers.
Moreover, the policy at this time has not yet begun to encourage educated youths to marry farmers, but only encourages educated youths to go to the countryside, marry late, and work hard for construction.
Therefore, marriages like Zhang Yuanyuan who voluntarily marry local farmers are special cases at this time.
However, Gu Mingdong knows that as time goes on, the educated youth will continue to go to the countryside in batches, and there will be more and more such special cases.
Regarding the fact that Jin Laowu married an educated youth as his wife, Gu Mingdong forgot about it after attending the wedding.
People in the nearby production team heard the news about the combination of educated youths and farmers, and they were surprised to see it. Some older male youths who were single couldn't help but look at the female educated youths.
Even in Shanghe Village, the young men from the production team came to show their hospitality one after another.
Because of Liu Dazhu's incident, the educated youth who were supposed to be assigned to the Shanghe village production team were temporarily relocated to another place, which saved Gu Jianguo's trouble.
The educated youths in the surrounding production teams all knew about the "tragedy" that happened in Shanghe Village, and now they are afraid to visit their production teams.
However, the educated youths have a lot of contact with each other, especially the fellow villagers who often walk around, so you can still know the news you should know.
The educated youths in Shanghe Village naturally heard about this marriage, but unlike the members of the production team, they looked down on Zhang Yuanyuan who married Jin Laowu.
In their words: "As soon as I heard it, I knew that the ideological awareness of this female educated youth was not enough. The above said that the educated youth who go to the countryside should advocate late marriage, engage in production before thinking about themselves, and strive to become a model worker in the countryside. She is fine, use marriage to escape labor."
At this time, the policy of the superiors was indeed the case. Putting personal problems behind the collective, and going to the countryside did not think about great goals.
When Zhang Yuanyuan got married, no one felt that she fell in love freely, but that she wanted to escape labor by marrying.
What's more, after she married into the Jin family, Mr. Jin loved his daughter-in-law very much and never let her go to work in the fields. The head mother-in-law was getting old and didn't care much about her daughter-in-law's affairs, so she lived a very relaxed life.
The rest of the female educated youths saw it, and they were envious in their hearts, but they even confirmed her status as a backward person and drew a clear line with her.
Zhang Yuanyuan herself didn't care about it, she closed the door to live every day, and within a year she gave birth to a fat boy for Jin Laowu, and was held in the palm of Jin Laowu's hands.
But when a few years later, the tone of the higher-ups changed from advocating late marriage to contribute first, to taking root and settling down in the countryside, and more and more marriages between educated youths and farmers, Zhang Yuanyuan's situation of being squeezed out by educated youths improved.
The small conflicts among the educated youths were not taken seriously by the local commune members. Captains like Gu Jianguo didn't bother to take care of such trivial matters at all, and focused on production.
With the weather getting hotter and hotter, the double competition in Shanghe Village finally officially kicked off.
During the double-grab period, everything that could move had to go to the field to collect it. Even the school directly gave the students a holiday so that they could go home and help.
When it was still daylight, every household in the production team became lively, and even the children were awakened by loud and small shouts, and every one of them was sleepy and couldn't escape the days of double robbery.
In the old Gu family, Gu Mingnan and Gu Mingxi were workers, so they could not have participated in the double-robbery, but they still asked for leave these two days to come back to help.
Early in the morning, Gu Mingdong turned over and got up. Unlike other families, the twins got up without his urging, and obediently went to the latrine to solve the problem, and then helped fill up the breakfast.
Double robbing is heavy physical work. Gu Mingdong asked his younger siblings to buy meat in the city early, and strived to have at least one meal of meat every day, so as not to keep up with energy consumption. Even the breakfast at home these two days is very solid.
Thick white porridge with eggs, after eating and drinking, the whole family can keep up with their physical strength.
Rice matures early and late. In the rice field, Gu Jianguo has divided the rice field into pieces based on his experience and repeated inspections. Where to cut rice first and where to cut late, he said at the mobilization meeting the day before Be clear.
Seeing the eldest nephew's family coming, Gu Jianguo waved his hand: "Let's start, work hard."
The endless rice fields have turned into bright gold at this moment.
The water in the rice field had been drained a few days ago. Gu Mingdong stepped on the half-dry field, holding a polished sickle, bent down, and with a click, several stubbles of rice were cut off, and he put it beside him.
With the clicking sound of the sickle, the golden ears of rice disappeared and were replaced by neat piles of rice.
Two years ago, Gu Mingdong was still very unfamiliar with this job, but after two years of experience, he is now strong and quick, and he is a well-known rice harvester in the production team, and he can get full work points every time.
Behind him, a road with only stumps of rice revealed.
The twins and Gu Yun were young, so Gu Mingdong didn't let them cut the rice, but only let them follow behind the four brothers and sisters, tidy up the rice they had cut, and tie it up.
The members of the commune were busy working, everyone wanted to do more before the sun rose, and they didn't even have time to talk.
Gu Mingdong seemed to be tireless. After working for a long time, he even felt that the sound of harvesting "clicking" was very healing.
Occasionally he straightened up to take a rest, and looked up at the surrounding rice fields, and the golden color always made him feel happy.
This time, from catalyzing the grain seeds, to finding ways to obtain fertilizers, and every step of the cultivation after that, there were traces of Gu Mingdong's participation. Even with the harvest season, his heart was full of joy of harvest.
When it was near noon, the sun above his head was extremely hot. Even if Gu Jianguo was in a hurry for the autumn harvest, he would not dare to let the commune members continue to work at this time.
The members who had been busy all morning were able to take a rest in the fields.
The people staying at home pinched their hands, Gu Jianguo just called for a break, and the next moment they appeared in the field one by one with baskets.
It was Gu Sanmei and Gu Simei who came to the old Gu family to deliver the meals. After the sun rose, Gu Mingdong asked the two younger sisters to go back to cook.
The twins and Gu Yun refused to go back, and were still busy working in the fields with their hats on. Regardless of how small they are, they can earn a lot of work points if they work hard together.
Even the younger children in the production team carry a bamboo basket these days and follow the adults to pick up the fallen ears of rice. If they are diligent, they can pick up a full basket in a day.
At this moment, Gu Sanmei and Gu Simei were each carrying a big bamboo basket. When they opened it, there was a large kettle inside, and next to them were the meals prepared for Gu Mingdong and the others.
In order to save trouble, some people usually eat the leftover porridge in the morning, but the old Gu's is different, they are all freshly made.
Gu Mingdong took off his straw hat to take a breather, and drank a bowl of water before eating.
There are a few slices of meat and a lot of vegetables on the white rice. Gu Simei deliberately made it salty, which immediately whetted people's appetite.
Second brother Gu ate half of the bowl in one sitting, and then said with a smile, "It's best to eat when you're tired from work."
Li Tiezhu was eating porridge and pickled vegetables, and saw that their food was also hot. Hearing this, he said: "It's not that it's delicious after work, but your food is good."
When the people around saw it, they were all envious: "No, you still have meat in your house."
Gu Mingdong said with a smile: "Who doesn't eat some meat at this time of year, how can they have the strength to work if they don't eat enough?"
That's the way it is said, but most people only buy a small amount, fry it with the vegetables and taste it, and they can only eat a bite at night, nowhere like Lao Gu's family can eat it at noon and night, and they still have such a big mouthful.
Thinking about it again, whoever makes the first two workers in the family, they will naturally be able to afford it.
Facing the envious eyes of the people around, the old Gu's family quickly ate up their lunch.
Gu Yun looked around while eating, and soon saw Zheng Tong who was eating on the ridge not far away.
Old man Zheng was too old, and Gu Jianguo was afraid that he would be too tired for something, so he only let him do the work that children can do.
Even so, Zheng Tong was exhausted, and besides, they were no more able to eat meat than the commune members. Now the four of them were sitting together, and there were only sweet potatoes and pickles in the bowl.
After a few days of double robbing, the four people who were originally thin looked darker and thinner.
The members can still wear straw hats, but the four of them need to be reformed. They can't even wear hats. Even Wu Xuanxuan, who has been taken care of by her parents, is now tanned like a little black.
Zheng Tong has white hair and a white beard, which makes his complexion darker.
Gu Yun looked down at the braised pork and white rice in her bowl, she couldn't eat for a while, but with so many commune members in the field, she dared not disobey her grandfather's orders.
If she goes there, it will only bring more trouble to Grandpa, Gu Yun has already recognized this.
After Gu Mingdong took the last bite, he also noticed Gu Yun's thoughts, and said in a low voice: "Let's eat first, I'll go and have a look at it tonight."
When Gu Yun heard this, she immediately showed a grateful smile, lowered her head and tried hard to swallow the rice, not daring to let the surrounding members see the tears on her face, so she swallowed the rice together.
That night, Gu Mingdong really went there, he didn't send any meat, but only some solid food, so that they wouldn't be able to survive the autumn harvest.
The next day, Gu Mingdong went to Gu Jianguo again, and suggested that the four of them should wear straw hats, so that they would not directly die in the rice fields and affect the production progress.
As soon as the production progress was mentioned, Gu Jianguo did not object.
Although he had to go to the field, Zheng Tong immediately felt that life was much easier after wearing the straw hat. The three members of Wu Wei's family knew the reason for this change, and they were very grateful from the bottom of their hearts.
The golden ears of rice in the paddy fields are cut off, and the bundles of rice ears are transported to the threshing machine.
Members stepped on the threshing machine, and with the buzzing sound, the golden ears of rice broke away from the rice stalks and fell into the barn of the threshing machine.
Zhizhi screamed hoarsely, the summer heat took away the sweat of the members, and the harvest that lasted for more than half a month was coming to an end, and even Wu Mengting, who had never worked very much, had more than one color number.
Looking at her broken arm, Wu Mengting felt indescribably annoyed.
Beauty is something she has always been proud of, but if this continues, how long can her beauty last?
However, Gu Jianguo is ruthless and selfless. During the double-grab period, anyone who can move has to go to the field, from an 80-year-old man to a three-year-old child, all have to do what they can, without exception.
Normally, if Wu Mengting was playing tricks and acting coquettishly, there would naturally be young men rushing to help.
But no one has the time to grab the time, but anyone who shows up is pulled back by the head of the family by the ear, so there is no time to take care of her.
Qian Zhiyi couldn't count on it, the work was too heavy these days, and his broken leg started to hurt again.
At first, the educated youths thought he was deliberately pretending to be sick to be lazy, but when they saw it at night, Qian Zhiyi's broken leg was red and swollen, so they hurried to the hospital.
It's a pity that the doctor only said that I didn't take good care of it at the beginning, but now I can only take good care of it and can't do heavy physical work, and I have to recover by myself.
Once Qian Zhi got this convenience, he didn't have to go to the field to cut the rice, but just tied the rice like a child. It was much easier than that, but at the same time, he would get less work points.
Wu Mengting looked at her hands covered with small wounds, and suddenly felt fear in her heart. For a moment, she thought of Zhang Yuanyuan, who was married to Jin Lao Wu, so what if she was isolated and spurned, at least she didn't have to work in the fields!
Unlike Wu Mengting, who was frustrated and frightened, the members of the production team who were also hacked a lot were exhausted, but what they saw was the joy of a bumper harvest when they saw the sound of threshing in the drying field.
The rice harvested on the first day has been stripped and dried, put into sacks and stuffed into the warehouse. At a speed visible to the naked eye, the originally empty warehouse has become fuller.
While sweating, the members of the production team were elated.
Now when the members of the production team of Shanghe Village meet, they don’t ask if you have eaten, but they say: Have you seen the warehouse?
As soon as they started talking, the other would immediately reply: "Of course I've seen it. I knew that this year's harvest must be good. I didn't expect it to be so good."
"I don't know if the warehouse of our production team is big enough. What do you say if we can't fit it?"
"It's better to be led by the team leader. He has only been in charge for one year, and our production team has had a bumper harvest."
Once upon a time, the members of the production team in Shanghe Village would never have thought that they would be worried that the harvest would be too large and the warehouse would not fit.
Nowadays, not only the grain-drying fields are in use, but all the places where the production team is flat and can spread the grain have been occupied by the golden rice.
The shriveled old Liu saw it in his eyes, and felt very uncomfortable in his heart.
He consciously worked hard for the production team, but as a result, he couldn't get any results after working for many years, but Gu Jianguo immediately got results when he came up.
For a while, old Liu sighed and had to start to obey the old man, and he stopped competing for the team leader.
Gu Jianguo, on the contrary, was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear all day long, he patted Gu Mingdong's shoulder vigorously and said, "Ah Dong, our production team's harvest this year has at least doubled compared to last year, and it's all thanks to you! "
Fully doubled, that is a number that Gu Jianguo could not have imagined before.
At the beginning of the year, Gu Jianguo was worried about the military order he had issued in front of Secretary Wang. At that time, he patted his chest and promised that as long as there was chemical fertilizer, it would increase by at least three levels on the basis of guaranteeing last year's harvest.
At that time, he spoke eloquently, but he was actually very guilty. After all, increasing food production is a big problem.
In the middle of the year, Gu Jianguo was relieved to see that the rice fields were growing well, and he secretly thought that [-]% was saved, and he could think about raising it to [-]%.
Who knows the last harvest, even though it has not been weighed yet, Gu Jianguo estimates that it will be more than doubled. He was so excited that he didn't sleep much at night, and he was full of energy when he saw the scene of drying the grain the next day.
"This is the result of everyone's hard work." Gu Mingdong smiled, and it's no wonder that the harvest didn't improve with a multi-pronged approach.
The bumper harvest was originally a great thing, but who knew that within a few days, Gu Jianguo was called to the town and scolded sternly.
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