Seventy Buddha Cannon Fodder

"Captain, we don't mean to embarrass you. After all, the purpose of going to the countryside is to build for the motherland, and we are not picky about living conditions."

Qian Zhiyi said in a monotonous manner: "But you see that the house is too dilapidated, and there is still air leakage inside, so people can live in it without getting sick?"

"If we are sick, won't we delay working in the fields?"

"Captain, can you see if this works? We take out money to subsidize and live in the homes of ordinary people in the production team, so that we can take care of each other."

The shriveled old Liu was not a person with many ideas, and he was faintly moved by his words.

Qian Zhiyi continued: "Why don't you bother the captain to come and help us to ask who has a vacant room, so that we can stay for a while."

The shriveled old Liu hesitated and said, "Then I'll ask first?"

Unexpectedly, at this time, Du Tao pushed Du Ming, and the two brothers directly put the salute in: "Captain, you can ask them for them, we are fine, and it's good to live here."

Qian Zhiyi didn't expect that the educated youth would tear things apart, so he frowned and asked, "Brothers of the Du family, have you made up your mind?"

"If the house is broken and leaks, fix it. There is nothing you can't live in." Du Tao said.

But Du Ming said with a smile: "Yeah, what are we two big men afraid of?"

In fact, they had no money in their pockets, and not everyone came from Beijing like Qian Zhiyi and Wu Mengting. The Du family sent them to the countryside to make room for them simply because there were too many sons in the family.

The two brothers, who don't love their parents and don't love them, can only sign up for a regiment to keep warm. Instead of spending money just to live in a better house, they might as well obey the arrangement.

Seeing that they had made a decision, Old Liu looked at Xu Zhenzhen again.

The little girl hesitated in her heart. While she felt that she was here for construction, she had to endure hardships, while looking at the dilapidated house, her scalp felt a little numb, while she thought about the inconvenience of living in someone else's house, and at the same time she was a little afraid of living alone.

With a twinkle in Wu Mengting's eyes, she reached out to take her arm, and persuaded softly: "Zhenzhen, we are a girl's house after all, this house is too remote, it's not safe to live here."

"Don't say there are bad people, just say that in the middle of the night, we got into rats and poisonous snakes. Don't we scare to death?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhenzhen also said: "Captain, I also want to live in a member's house."

The shriveled old Liu nodded, and still said, "Okay, then I will ask for you, but the conditions of the production team are poor, and everyone's family is a group of children, so there may not be a vacant house for you to live in."

Seeing that they had settled on this matter, Gu Mingdong said: "Captain, if it's okay, I'll go to the field first."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left without looking at the educated youths.

The other two young men also greeted Old Liu and followed suit.

As soon as the person left, Wu Mengting inquired casually: "Captain, did that elder brother have any objections to us just now, and he never laughed all the way."

The flat old Liu comforted: "A Dong was born with that look, and he treats others the same way, so don't think too much about it."

Wu Mengting showed a bright smile, nodded and said: "Then I can rest assured, I thought he didn't welcome educated youth."

The old Liu didn't want his production team to be accused of not welcoming educated youth, so he quickly said, "You can't talk nonsense."

"I was just joking." Wu Mengting said with a smile.

Then he said casually: "Captain, how many people are there in their family, do you have any vacant rooms?"

"Are you talking about A'Dong's family?" The crumpled old Liu was taken aback, thinking to himself what's the matter with this girl, just now he thought that A'Dong's face was too stinky, and now he asked about the situation at home.

Suddenly, the shriveled old Liu thought of a possibility. He secretly thought that if he was good-looking, he would take advantage of it, and went to pick up the educated youth together. The most beautiful girl immediately fell in love with A Dong, just like A Dong's wife back then.

No, it's all because of A Dong's good looks and talent.

The shriveled old Liu saw Wu Mengting's innocent smile, so he kindly reminded him: "He married a wife, and his wife left him a pair of twin sons."

In case this young man who is young and young doesn't know the depth, he will fall into it, and it will make a mess at that time.

"What, they have a son?" Wu Mengting's face changed slightly.

Seeing her turn pale with shock, old Liu thought that he had hit her mind, and continued: "Isn't it? There are two twins, both of whom are four years old this year, and they look very clever."

"How is this possible?" Wu Mengting frowned.

The shriveled old Liu said with a smile: "We get married early in the countryside. Don't look at A Dong as young, but he's actually married a long time ago."

Wu Mengting wanted to ask again, but Qian Zhiyi interrupted her displeasedly: "Mengting, why do you keep asking him about things?"

Wu Mengting's complexion changed slightly, she turned around and said with a smile: "It's nothing, originally I thought that if their family members are small, I can just borrow their house, at least I still know someone."

Qian Zhiyi said impatiently: "Let's forget it, it's not easy to get along with."

After he said that, Wu Mengting could only smile and didn't speak.

The old Liu glanced at them, and said, "Put your things away first, and I'll take you to the people in the production team who have a small population and ask if there is any room for you to borrow."

Qian Zhiyi originally thought that he would be accompanied by old Liu. They were educated youths from the city, and they were willing to give a monthly subsidy of one yuan. The production team must have rushed to ask them to borrow them.

Who knows how many houses the flat old Liu took him to, and the members of the commune didn't quite agree.

Either men feel inconvenient looking at Qian Zhiyi, or women also feel inconvenient looking at Wu Mengting and Xu Zhenzhen, saying that it is not used to living with strangers in the house.

There were those who were willing, but the house was not as good as the one provided by the production team for free.

Qian Zhiyi was dissatisfied from the bottom of his heart, and secretly felt that the old Liu was deliberately making things difficult, so he couldn't help asking: "Captain, isn't there someone more suitable?"

Deep down in his heart, old Liu felt that this educated youth had too many things to do, and he was not satisfied with this, nor was he satisfied with that.

But because they are educated youths, he still smiled and said: "If not, you go back to live first, and I will ask after everyone gets off work at night."

"Now that the big guys are all in the field, it's not good to delay production at the moment of transplanting rice seedlings, don't you think?"

Qian Zhiyi and the others had no choice but to go back dejectedly.

On the other side of the rice planting field, as soon as the three of Gu Mingdong came back, the members of the commune asked one after another: "Have the educated youths arrived, and what do they look like?"

Gu Mingdong rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the field, and said, "They all have two eyes and one nose."

"Hey, that's what you said." Aunt Gu next to her laughed, "Isn't it good or bad?"

Gu Mingdong smiled: "Anyway, they look similar to me."

Third Aunt Gu smiled helplessly, and wondered to herself that her eldest nephew was a lover, and she only thought about her dead wife in her heart.

She stopped joking and said instead: "A Xing and A Chen are playing at my house, remember to pick them up later."

"Your younger brother and sister went to work at the foot of the mountain. Xiaobei said he brought food for them so as not to waste time walking back and forth, so he won't go back to eat at noon."

"Okay." Gu Mingdong nodded.

At this time, someone asked: "Do they really look similar? The educated youths in the city must be a little different, right?"

The young man who went together said: "They all look gentle, and their temperament is really different from ours. There are two girls in it, and one of them looks really good-looking, like a fairy."

"Fairy, what does that look like?"

"Anyway, it's good-looking, and it's different from our country girls."

"What's wrong with our girls in the country? Only country girls can do it. In the city, they are all ostentatious and can't work."

"If I married a daughter-in-law like that, I wouldn't want her to work."

"Yo, this is a fancy..."

Everyone in the field started talking around the fairy.

Gu Mingdong was working on his own, but he felt strange in his heart. Wu Mengting obviously didn't know him, but why was he surprised when he heard his name?

Does she know herself?

Looking through the memory of the original owner, Gu Mingdong didn't find any evidence. He couldn't help but frown and suspected that there was still a missing part of the memory.

At noon, Gu Mingdong went home to heat up the meal before going to Gu Jianguo to pick him up.

After refusing Aunt Gu's offer to leave a meal, Gu Mingdong dragged his two sons to the house from left to right.

Gu Liangxing and Gu Liangchen were wearing spring shirts, sweating profusely from playing, and now they were unwilling to walk honestly, jumping and jumping endlessly.

The one on the left said, "Dad, can I come over to play again this afternoon?"

The one on the right said: "Just now we played the game of catching traitors, and we won."

Gu Mingdong touched their heads: "Go and play if you want to play, but remember not to fight."

"What if they bully us?"

Gu Mingdong pondered for a while: "Then fight back, you two can't beat them together?"

Gu Liangxing immediately said: "They don't dare to beat us. I told you, if they dare to bully us, we won't give them any biscuits in the future."

Well, a biscuit during Chinese New Year can become their talisman.

The father and son were walking back talking and laughing when suddenly a figure blocked their way.

Gu Mingdong looked up and saw that it was Wu Mengting.

"busy?"

Wu Mengting lifted the broken hair on her cheeks, and said with a smile: "Brother Adong, can I say a few words to you."

Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows slightly: "Tell me."

The twins hugged their father's thigh subconsciously. They were young, but they knew that many people made matchmaking with their father first.

The mother-in-law in the village said that if the father married the stepmother, they would become pitiful little ones with no one to love them.

Wu Mengting glanced at the twins and frowned slightly: "It's not good for others to hear."

Gu Mingdong sneered: "What can't my son listen to? Girl, we don't know each other well, do we?"

"You can talk if you like. If you don't talk, I'll go home for dinner. I have to work in the afternoon." After speaking, he took the twins and left.

Wu Mengting's face turned pale, and when she turned around, she saw the twins walking and making faces at her.

Feeling angry for a while, Wu Mengting subconsciously shouted: "I want to talk to you about Cousin Lijuan."

Gu Mingdong paused and looked at her in disbelief.

In the memory of the original owner, he took great care of Wu Mengting in the next ten years, but he never had a reason why he took care of her, let alone the relationship between Wu Mengting and Li Lijuan.

Gu Mingdong's eyes darkened, and he turned his head and asked, "Are you Lijuan's cousin? She never mentioned you, and she is from Daishan City. Aren't you from Beijing?"

Wu Mengting stroked her hair, hiding the guilt in her eyes: "We are cousins. When I was young, my father's work unit transferred to Beijing, so the two families had little contact. But cousin Lijuan and I have a good relationship. We have been writing letters. She mentioned you to me."

Gu Mingdong didn't believe this at all, Li Lijuan was dead anyway, and he didn't contact the Li family, so he just let Wu Mengting say whatever he wanted.

Even if they were cousins, Gu Mingdong felt that Li Lijuan would be out of luck to have such a cousin.

But he didn't express his doubts, he just murmured: "Lijuan also mentioned me to you."

Wu Mengting nodded quickly: "Yes, she often mentioned you and two children in her letters to me."

Speaking of children, Wu Mengting couldn't help but glanced at the twins, a trace of contempt and coldness flashed in her eyes.

She thought that after Li Lijuan couldn't stay in Daishan City, she pretended to marry to the countryside to avoid those rumors, but she didn't expect that she would give birth to two sons by a country man.

Thinking of what she heard in the production team in the morning, Li Lijuan's end, made her heart burst with joy.

Wu Mengting lowered her head and covered the gloating eyes: "It's been so many years, I didn't expect her son to be so old, but it's a pity that I came a little late, and I didn't get to see Cousin Lijuan for the last time."

Gu Mingdong sneered from the bottom of his heart, but said in his mouth: "Lijuan found out from the bottom, and I don't think I will blame you."

Wu Mengting's complexion changed slightly, and she concealed her embarrassment and said, "Cousin-in-law, I came here today not only to recognize relatives, but also to ask if there is any vacancy in your house."

"As you know, I came all the way here as a girl. I thought that my cousin Lijuan was here, and the two of us could be taken care of. Who knows... Fortunately, although my cousin is gone, my cousin's husband is still there. you……"

What she said, it seemed that she went to the village production team in Shanghe village all because of Li Lijuan.

I don't even think that if Li Lijuan has such a good relationship with her, how could she not send a letter when she was lingering on the sick bed.

Wu Mengting's cheeks were flushed, and she continued: "Cousin-in-law, do you have any spare room?"

Unexpectedly, Gu Mingdong said lightly: "It's a pity, we don't have any vacant rooms at home..."

"Ah?" Wu Mengting was taken aback, "No room available?"

Gu Mingdong nodded and said, "Six people live in the first three rooms of the house, and I still want to borrow a house."

Wu Mengting's face was a bit ugly: "Hey, that's right, that's okay, and I don't want to make things difficult for you, brother-in-law."

"That's good, I'll go home for dinner first." After speaking, he took the twins and left.

Wu Mengting was still behind him, her face turned green and pale, she didn't know how to react.

She had calculated thousands of times, but she never expected that Gu Mingdong would not give him any face.

Didn't everyone in the production team say that Gu Mingdong had a good relationship with his dead wife, and because she refused to remarry, did they treat a pair of twin sons as jewelry?

Wu Mengting also found out that Gu Mingdong can hunt wild boars, and there is often meat to eat at home, which moved her mind to live in their house.

Who knew that after all her calculations, it was all in vain on Gu Mingdong's side.

Wu Mengting was unwilling in her heart and couldn't help shouting: "Brother-in-law?"

Gu Mingdong turned around and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Wu Mengting held back her dissatisfaction and said pointedly: "We are relatives, can you not tell it, you also know that the identity of the educated youth going to the countryside is embarrassing, I am afraid that if others find out, some people will say that I took a shortcut and defected. relative."

"Okay, let's pretend we don't know each other." Gu Mingdong agreed without hesitation.

Tsk, kinship is not something to be shady, and you can get special care if you tell it, but Wu Mengting made a request not to let others know, which shows that there is a ghost in her heart.

Gu Mingdong once again doubted whether the cousin she was talking about was real.

He promised so happily that Wu Mengting always felt that something was wrong in her heart.

She frowned and sighed faintly. She thought that Gu Mingdong seemed to have a good status in the production team, had a good relationship with the team leader, and was a relative with the scorekeeper, so he could take care of her more. Now it seems that Li Lijuan has no face at all.

Gu Mingdong took the two children back home, and when they were eating, the twins looked at their father after every bite of food.

Gu Mingdong knocked on their rice bowls: "If you don't eat, what am I going to do?"

Gu Liangxing asked, "Dad, was that our aunt just now?"

In their memory, no one from their mother's family had ever appeared before, so they were so curious this time.

Gu Mingdong didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "Do you remember the last time you were taken away by human traffickers?"

The two children nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

Gu Mingdong said: "There are many liars in this world. Some people look kind and friendly, but they are actually human traffickers."

The twins didn't understand.

Gu Liangchen asked, "Dad, is that educated youth a human trafficker?"

Gu Liangxing said, "Father didn't say she was a human trafficker, he just said she was a liar."

"Isn't a liar a human trafficker?"

"It seems to be about the same."

Gu Mingdong knocked on their heads: "Hurry up and eat, remember to stay away from strangers."

The twins let out an oh, and finally stopped discussing.

Gu Mingdong thought that he refused bluntly, so Wu Mengting gave up the idea of ​​living in their house. Who knew that the family had just had dinner that night, and the old Liu brought the educated youth to the door. .