The book is set in the 1970s, and it’s not easy to be the villain’s mother

Gu Tian was very curious: "This woman looks pretty and doesn't look like a local. Why did she also come to the Northwest?"

"She may not be here, it may be her partner who brought her photo here. Too many people have lived in this cave dwelling, and it's probably impossible to find the owner of the photo."

"It's possible." Gu Tian put up the photo.

The three people cleaned up for several hours and used more than a dozen buckets of water. The house finally looked like something.

Gu Tian was so tired that her bones ached, but she still gritted her teeth and lit the stove with Shi Hongzhao.

Mother Nie once said that the temperature difference here is too big and the nights are damp and cold. If you don’t light the stove, you will get arthritis.

Smoke leaked from the fire wall and stove, making Xiu'er choke and cough.

Shi Hongzhao hurriedly filled the cracks in the wall with mud.

"Is it ready now?" Huzi walked in with dinner, looked at the smoke in the room and said, "the firewood is all wet, I will send you some wood tomorrow. Eat first!"

Lamb stewed with potatoes, cornmeal pancakes, a few corns, and duck eggs as big as a fist.

Gu Tian was really hungry. She didn't have time to eat vegetables, so she ate two pancakes first.

Really fragrant!

Huzi smiled and said: "Although the environment here is bad, the food is good, especially the beef and mutton. I will go back first. I will pick you up to work tomorrow morning."

"Wait a minute." Gu Tian stopped him: "I want to ask you about someone, have you heard of Shi Honglong?"

"I know! I'm planting trees in the town just in front, less than 10 minutes away from here. I just got married to a local widow last month. His name is similar to the factory director?"

Shi Hongzhao said: "I know him, but I'm not familiar with him. Be careful when you go back."

Huzi seemed to be relieved: "It's okay if you're not familiar with it."

"What's wrong?" Gu Tian smiled and said, "It sounds like you have some inside information?"

"No, I'll go back first!" Huzi quickly got in the car and left.

Gu Tian said: "Did Shi Honglong do something bad?"

"I don't know. I'll ask you about it later." Shi Hongzhao ate his food and said after a while: "Even Shi Honglong can get married and start a business. I also hope to make a difference in the northwest."

Gu Tian thought the same way. If you don't work hard, you won't get any results, and you won't be offended.

After dinner in the evening, Gu Tian asked Shi Hongzhao to take him and Xiu'er to take a bath in a nearby lake.

After staying on the train for nearly a week, my body was already sticky. As soon as the warm water washed away, all the fatigue was gone.

Gu Tian and Xiu'er were swimming in the water like two free fish.

She asked Shi Hongzhao to come down and take a shower: "There's no one around anyway."

"Come up here while I wash, and someone has to watch. Huzi said there are wolves here at night, so you and Xiu'er should hurry up."

As soon as the sound fell, a faint wolf howl was heard in the distance.

"Well, this place is really scary." Xiu'er looked around nervously.

She and Xiu'er quickly finished washing and climbed up from the pond.Shi Hongzhao went down to wash again.

Gu Tian and Xiu'er held up flashlights and looked around.

The moonlight at night was very beautiful. Gu Tian saw a horse team walking slowly forward on the mountain road ahead. The moonlight cast long shadows, giving it a very desolate and solemn beauty.

They were so tired that they all returned home, fell on the kang and fell asleep.

The next day, the three people started busy.

Gu Tian went to the police station to report that there were only two people here, a 70-year-old director and a 68-year-old clerk.

They are older, so she has to take the lead in all the work.

People around here come here to help with everything from cleaning to cooking, lost chickens and ducks, quarreling between husband and wife, disobedient children, and even bachelors without a wife.

Gu Tian was so busy that she hit the back of her head with her feet.

There is nothing in Shi Hongzhao's factory.There is only a broken lathe from the 50s.

He racked his brains to repair the machine and looked for parts everywhere. Many of the workers were not up to standard and could not understand the drawings, so they relied on him for everything.

Xiu'er's school has a total of seventy students and one teacher who teaches all subjects.

She didn't understand the teacher's half-baked Mandarin, and she was probably in fourth grade when school started, but she was still learning addition and subtraction. After Xiu'er expressed her doubts, the teacher looked happy.

"Do you know how to multiply and divide? Well, you can explain it to everyone. I don't really understand it either."

Xiu'er: ...

She actually became a temporary teacher from a student, teaching math and pinyin to lower grade students.

She feels so tired!

The three of us went home in the evening and complained to each other while having dinner.

Gu Tian said to Shi Hongzhao: "Call the main factory to ask for parts and an old lathe. This is business, don't be embarrassed."

Shi Hongzhao nodded: "I'll report it right away."

"By the way, I want to help Xiu'er get some textbooks and textbooks. Before the textbooks arrive, teach them the multiplication tables. They can't graduate from elementary school, and they don't even know multiplication and division."

Xiuer's eyes were full of stars: "Mom, you are so amazing!"

"There's no other way. When you encounter a problem, you have to solve it. Hurry up and eat. I'm almost exhausted and have to lie down."

When she went to bed at night, Shi Hongzhao gently beat her on the back and legs: "Why don't your director and clerks retire? Only when they go down will the younger ones come up. You are too tired to work on your own."

Gu Tian said: "Two people have a lot of children and grandchildren, and they all rely on their salary, so their retirement income will be less than half."

Shi Hongzhao snorted and said nothing.

Gu Tian pursed her lips and smiled: "You also have worldly worries and resentments, right? You never cared about these in the past. You only worked on your lathe."

Shi Hongzhao sighed: "I am too idealistic. I have dragged our family down and cannot live such a hard life."

"Regret?"

"A little bit." Shi Hongzhao smiled bitterly: "This place is really too broken, and no one understands my work. I feel there is no way out."

Gu Tian hugged Shi Hongzhao and patted him gently: "Okay. Our ancestors suffered more than us. They didn't say anything. It will get better."

Shi Hongzhao sighed and hugged his wife tightly: "Without you and Xiu'er, I really don't know how I would survive."

Gu Tian kissed his cheek: "You are a big hero in my heart."

Shi Hongzhao wanted to hold his wife and play and kiss her like crazy, but looking at Xiu'er who was sleeping soundly next to him, he could only suppress Qinian.

The next morning, the family of three was busy in their own ways, and all the emo stuff was gone.

On this day, Gu Tian was mediating the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at the police station.

The two women were loud and bickering about trivial matters, which made Gu Tian's head buzz.

At this time, a man ran in like crazy: "Save my wife! She has a difficult delivery, and the midwife has ran away!"

This person turned out to be Shi Honglong, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

He is now dark and strong, with a face just like Bao Gong, and his arms are as thick as Gu Tian's waist.

The previous wretchedness and laziness are all gone, and he is just a rough and arrogant northwest man.

He also recognized Gu Tian and said anxiously: "You know medical skills, please show me!"