After a year, Jian Guochang finally returned home the day before the New Year. Li Wenhua was quite happy at first, at least to go home for the New Year, but in the end he was still inevitably disappointed.

Because Jian Guochang said that day that he was going to work in the factory, he left 30 yuan before leaving.

Li Wenhua couldn't bear it anymore and angrily chased him into the yard, "Jian Guochang, what do you mean? If you don't want to go through with it, just say so."

"What's the point of me? The factory is short of people for the New Year. What can I do? Besides, I'm not here to make more money." Jian Guochang also felt aggrieved. Did he not want to come back?

That woman Xiao Shan has changed since she gave birth to her daughter. She is usually gentle and naughty to him, but whenever she doesn't get what she wants, she threatens to sue him for being a hooligan and refuses to let him stay at home any longer.

Li Wenhua became even more angry when he heard the words "make more money" and almost said, "That's nice, but how much money do you earn? Registration for duty in the factory is voluntary. You give up your vacation every year to go on duty. You are the only one who is active." Yes or no?"

Jian Guochang felt a little angry because of his guilty conscience, but now he did not dare to make a move to the woman in front of him, so he could only say perfunctorily:

"Okay, okay, I won't be on duty next year, and I will definitely go home for the New Year."

Jian Xing, who was standing by the door of the main room, sneered in her heart when she heard this. Next year, the mistress will come to Longmen Village to settle down, so of course she will come back to celebrate the New Year.

Li Wenhua looked at the man's back as he walked away, standing there confused. Is this kind of marriage normal?

After coming back to his senses, he saw his daughter walking over with slightly red eyes. She couldn't help but suppress the sourness in her heart, and hugged her daughter to comfort her:

"Xing'er is not sad. Dad is going to earn money for us, Xing'er, to buy candies."

Jian Xing was not sad that her father was not at home for the New Year, but felt sorry for her mother's confused look just now.

She couldn't hold back her emotions and threw herself into her mother's arms and cried:

"Mom, we don't want dad, okay? I don't like dad. He has never hugged Xing'er. He doesn't like Xing'er."

Li Wenhua stepped away in shock and looked at his daughter, "Xing, Xing'er, why do you say that? It's not that dad doesn't like you, he's just too busy."

He never expected that his one-year-old daughter would say such things. Li Wenhua's heart felt like it was about to burst. He hugged his daughter fiercely into his arms and choked with sobs:

"Dad, he is just too busy. My Xing'er is so good, how could anyone not like her?"

Knowing that she had made her mother more miserable, Jian Xing endured her emotions and said nothing.

This year was still spent by mother and daughter. The daughter was chirping in his ears like a little sparrow, which made Li Wenhua not think about anything else at all.

There was no need to look at the man's face, but he and his daughter felt at ease. Thinking of this, they suddenly no longer felt sad.

I can't continue to wait for the unreliable man to get his salary back, otherwise my daughter may not be able to eat meat once a month.

So after the New Year, Li Wenhua caught two piglets from a house in the village and bought some chickens.

In this way, there will be eggs to eat in the future, and the pigs can be sold for money when they are raised. Even if the man does not get the money back, he and his daughter will not be unable to survive.

It's just that Li Wenhua didn't expect that a man could be so cruel that he wouldn't take back a penny.

*

After Jian Xing's second birthday, that is, in the twelfth lunar month of 1985, two things happened in Longmen Village.

I don’t know if it’s a big deal or not, but it has occupied the top and second spots on Longmen Village’s hot search list for many days.

The first thing is that Li Shuying, who married an educated youth and followed her back to the city to Kyoto, came back alone with a big belly!

Instead of coming back to visit relatives, I was sent back in a car!

This made the villagers curious and scratching their heads, but Li Shuying was famously fierce in Longmen Village. She was the only one in Longmen Village who dared to fight Jian Guochang, and others didn't dare to do anything to her.

So no one dared to come and inquire.

Her shrewdness is either a bit of a sass or a sharp talker. Of course, her hands-on skills are not bad either. There are really some people who can't beat her. Isn't there an educated youth Yun Mu who loves her dearly behind her.

But this time, the man who valued her like a treasure didn't come back with her? !

This alone is enough for the villagers to come up with several versions of bloody plots.

Jian Xing was not curious, because she knew that Yun Mu had specially sent someone to send her back.

The Yun family was relatively complicated, and Yun Mu didn't want to get involved in family affairs anymore, so he simply sent his wife back to the village to raise her baby on the grounds that she was pregnant and needed to rest.

After finishing the matters at hand, he told the old man of the Yun family that he was going to accompany his wife. What everyone didn't expect was that he would be away for more than ten years.

Well, this is exactly what my future neighbor will be.

The second thing was that three days after Li Shuying came back, people from the Women's Federation brought a woman with a little girl about one year old in her arms.

When I arrived in the village, I went to the village chief and said that this woman's family had suffered a disaster. The man died and her family was gone. Now she wanted to settle in Longmen Village and asked the village chief to make arrangements.

The village chief is in trouble. Settling in the village means dividing the land, and the villagers are definitely not willing to do so.

The woman holding the child, that is, Xiao Shan, offered not to give up the land, and only asked the village chief to give her and her mother a place to live.

Jian Guochang said that there were empty houses in the village, and as long as she took the initiative to give up the land, the villagers would not make things difficult for her. It was impossible for her to farm anyway, which was exactly what she wanted.

After hearing her words and seeing the pitiful looks of the two women, the village chief finally relented. There was nothing he could do if he didn't relent, so the Women's Federation came directly with people.

After discussing with the village leaders, it was decided to give her three empty old houses near the village entrance.

The village chief came out and said to Xiao Shan who was waiting next door: "The village has decided to let you live in the three old houses at the entrance of the village. I will take you to see them."

After saying that, he looked at the people from the Women's Federation and asked, "Are the comrades from the Women's Federation coming with us?" He couldn't stay alone with the widow.

Then several people walked towards the entrance of the village. When Xiao Shan saw the dilapidated adobe house in front of him because it had been unoccupied for a long time, the corners of his mouth twitched and he really wanted to turn around and leave.

But in the end, I endured it. It was too difficult to keep it secret for more than a year.

As my daughter gets older, she can no longer stay at home every day. People near the cement factory basically know her situation, and she must leave there.

Xiao Shan didn't say anything, but the people from the Women's Federation frowned and said, "Village Chief, is this house too shabby?"

As if he didn't see their expressions, the village chief led the people inside.

"This house looks shabby, but it's actually very strong."

Then he turned to look at Xiao Shan and said, "Go buy some roof tiles and other things when the time comes. I'll ask the villagers to help you repair them. I won't charge you any labor fees. Just take care of the meals."

Xiao Shan forced a smile and said, "Thank you, village chief, but I'm not very familiar with it when I first arrived. Could you please ask the village chief to find someone to buy it for me? I also need to add some things to the house."

The people from the Women's Federation on the side saw that Xiao Shan had accepted it, so they didn't say anything anymore. Anyway, she just accepted the entrustment to arrange the settlement, and others should mind their own business.

"Okay, I'll have someone come over later and the homestead will be granted to you. I'll report it to you then. If nothing happens, I'll leave first."

After the village chief finished speaking, he walked out. After taking two steps, he stopped and turned to look at the woman holding the child. "You really don't want the land? If you ask for it when your life becomes difficult, the villagers will not agree."

Their area is a plain, but there is no way to open up wasteland without mountains.

Xiao Shan responded without hesitation, "Don't worry, village chief, I won't regret it. I can't farm the land alone with my children."

After hearing this, the village chief didn't say anything more, he just thought with disapproval in his heart, Ren Guochang's wife looks much smaller than you, isn't she also raising a child and farming alone.

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