Xiangyang Village is more than 10 kilometers away from Longmen Town. When night fell, Cheng Yiping and Zhang Peng arrived here. In the night, Xiangyang Village was dotted with lights, like stars in the sky. After getting off the car at the entrance of the village, Zhang Peng opened his arms and closed his eyes.
He took a deep breath and cursed: "The air in the countryside is good. It's not like the city. You have to wear a mask when you go to the streets."
Cheng Yiping said: "Let's go, my eldest son!" Zhang Peng opened the back door of the car and took out two boxes of health care products and a few cartons of Chinese cigarettes. He followed Cheng Yiping and walked towards the village. Cheng Yiping was carrying two bags.
Fruits and chocolate candies. As soon as they entered the village, a group of children rushed up. They were a little scared and a little curious when they saw two strangers.
Cheng Yiping smiled and said: "Come here, give you candies." A few bold children ran over. Cheng Yiping grabbed a handful of chocolate candies and handed them to the child who was walking in front. The child held the candies in both hands and said, "Thank you, uncle!"
When the other children saw that they had gotten the candies, they all said, "Uncle, I want it too, I want it too!" Cheng Yiping said, "Don't worry, everyone has it!"
Mr. Zhang had never seen anything like this before. He laughed and said, "If you want cigarettes, come here and I'll smoke them for you." Cheng Yiping glared and said, "Can you say something serious?" The noise of children could be heard next to the roadside.
Someone opened the door and came out. When they saw Cheng Yiping, some said, "Xiaobao, you're back" and some called him "Brother Bao." Cheng Yiping smiled and greeted them one by one.
Cheng Yiping's home is in the south of the village. Surrounded by a large group of children, he arrived in front of a two-story building. The dim light shone out from the windows. Amid the chirping sounds of the children, the side door on the first floor opened, and a
A middle-aged woman walked out, with a kind face and a few strands of white hair mixed in her black hair.
A seven or eight-year-old girl hid behind her. Cheng Yiping stepped forward and said, "Mom, I'm back." The woman was Cheng Yiping's mother, Wen Xiuli. Wen Xiuli said angrily, "You brat, you still know how to come back?"
Today is already twenty-eight!" Cheng Yiping smiled awkwardly. Zhang Peng stepped forward and said: "Hello, aunt! I am a colleague of Brother Cheng, my name is Zhang Peng, you can just call me Xiao Zhang." Wen Xiuli looked at Zhang
A trace of doubt flashed in Peng's eyes, and he smiled and said: "Hello, this kid is so handsome, come in quickly!"
Zhang Peng smiled proudly at Cheng Yiping, and Cheng Yiping scratched his head. The two followed Wen Xiuli into the house. On the left side of the first floor is the living room. There are coffee tables, sofas, and furniture in the living room, although they are a bit old but very neat. Behind Wen Xiuli,
The little girl stuck her head out and looked at Cheng Yiping and then at Zhang Peng with a pair of big and flexible eyes, showing a curious expression.
Cheng Yiping said: "Mom, whose child is this?" Wen Xiuli said: "I'll tell you later, Xiao Xi, call me uncle!" The little girl bowed to Cheng Yiping and said: "Hello, uncle!" Wen Xiuli said
Xiuli pointed at Zhang Peng and said, "This is Uncle Zhang." Xiao Xi bowed to Zhang Peng again and said, "Hello, Uncle Zhang!" Xiao Xi's bowing and saluting look was so adorable, Cheng and Zhang smiled.
He smiled and said, "Hello, Xiao Xi!"
Xiao Xi looked at Cheng Yiping and said, "Uncle, are you Uncle Bao'er that grandma often talks about?" Cheng Yiping bent down and held her in his arms, kissed her little pink face, and said with a smile:
"I am Uncle Bao'er. What grade is Xiao Xi in?" Xiao Xi said, "Third grade." The two little hands pinched each other and then separated, and asked in a low voice: "Uncle, do you like me?" Cheng Yiping nodded and said:
"You are so cute, of course uncle likes it!" Xiaoling said, "Did you bring me a gift?" Cheng Yiping was stunned.
She looked up at her mother and thought to herself: "Mom, you're really good. When you were talking to me on the phone, why didn't you mention that there was a little girl at home?" Zhizi Mo Ruomu, seeing Cheng Yiping's depressed look, Wen Xiuli had already guessed that he was not there.
Prepare a gift. He said with a smile: "Aren't you very smart? You can think of a way on your own. Make Xiao Xi cry for me. Let's see if I can forgive you!"
Seeing that Cheng Yiping couldn't bring out the gift, Xiao Xi's eyes turned red and he slowly lowered his head. Cheng Yiping felt that his head was a little big, and he groped around with his hands. He took out a pen from his pocket and said, "Xiao Xi, this is uncle
I used it when I went to college, can I give it to you?" Xiao Xi raised her head and looked at the pen, and said with a happy smile: "Thank you, uncle!"
Wen Xiuli said: "You are smart!" She poured a cup of tea for Zhang Peng and said: "Xiao Zhang, you can sit down wherever you like. When you get here, you can treat it as your own home." Zhang Peng picked up the health care products on the table and said:
"Auntie, my mother heard that I wanted to go home with Brother Cheng to celebrate the New Year. She asked someone to bring this to me for you. A small gift is not respectful."
Wen Xiuli took the health care product and said with a smile: "Thank your mother for me! When she is free, she is welcome to come and sit at home." Zhang Peng said: "Auntie, I will definitely bring your message." Wen Xiuli said: "
Are you hungry? I'll cook for you." He turned around and walked to the kitchen.
Zhang Peng sat on the sofa, picked up the tea and took a sip. He just discovered a problem. Cheng Yiping's mother spoke with an old Beijing accent. Why was that? He was a person who couldn't hide things in his heart, so he stroked
Teacup asked: "Brother Cheng, is your aunt from the north?" Cheng Yiping put Xiao Xi on the ground and said with a smile: "Xiao Xi, can you bring your report card to uncle to see?"
Xiao Xi said: "Uncle, I got the first place in the class!" He jumped up and ran to the second floor. When Xiao Xi went upstairs, Cheng Yiping nodded and said: "My mother is an educated youth." Zhang Peng understood a little bit.
, in that special era, the supreme leader gave instructions that "the countryside is a vast world, and you can do a lot there." "It is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive education from poor and lower-middle peasants."
In response to the instructions of the Supreme Leader, the government organized a large number of urban "educated youth" to leave the big cities and settle and work in the countryside. Cheng Yiping's mother must have arrived in Xiangyang Village at that time. This is not a pleasant topic, Zhang Peng points out
He nodded and asked no more questions.
Cheng Yiping heard his mother say that when her mother came to Xiangyang Village, her father was the party secretary of the production brigade of Xiangyang Commune. Her mother's beauty, kindness, and father's simplicity and hard work attracted each other. Soon the two established a relationship, and they met at the Revolutionary Committee
With the approval of the Congress, my father and my mother formed a revolutionary partnership.
I gave birth to myself a year before the end of the ten years of catastrophe, but unfortunately the good times did not last long. Less than half a year after I was born, my father was labeled a capitalist roader because of a report, and my mother was imprisoned in a cowshed. After being criticized several times, my father
, died unjustly soon. In the early 1980s, his father’s unjust case was vindicated.
When Xiao Xi came down from upstairs, she was carrying a big schoolbag. Cheng Yiping secretly sighed that today's children have been carrying such a heavy burden since childhood. This is not a good thing. Xiao Xi took out a few winter vacation homework and report cards from the schoolbag and said
: "Uncle, these are my final exam results. Grandma said they are better than what you did when you were a kid!"
With a childish voice, she tilted her head and looked at Cheng Yiping with a pair of big eyes. Seeing her cute look, Cheng Yiping couldn't help but hug her in his arms again and said with a smile: "Well, you are better than uncle. What do you want from uncle?"
Where is the reward for you?" Xiao Xi hugged Cheng Yiping's neck, kissed her and said, "Thank you, uncle, grandma bought me a lot of things." Cheng Yiping thought to himself that with this cute little girl accompanying his mother, his mother should be less
A little lonely.
There were footsteps outside the door, and a loud voice said: "Brothers and sisters, is Xiaobao back?" Wen Xiuli said: "Uncle is here, Xiaobao is in the living room!" It was uncle Cheng Yuankai who arrived and hurriedly got up and opened the living room door.
The person walking in front of the door was a young woman in a casual suit, white underwear, short hair, a pretty face, a straight nose and a pair of black-framed women's glasses. Cheng Yiping was stunned, and his cousin Cheng Yifan was behind the young woman.
She was looking at him proudly.
Behind Cheng Yifan stood a middle-aged man with a curly beard. He took off the pipe in his mouth and said, "What are you doing standing there in a daze? She is Yifan's wife, why don't you call me sister-in-law!"
Cheng Yiping smiled awkwardly and said: "Hello, sister-in-law, please come in!" The young woman smiled and said: "You are Uncle Yiping, my name is Shu Dan." Cheng Yiping nodded and said: "I am Cheng Yiping." His face was full of curly beard.
The man said: "Uncle, I haven't seen you for two years and your health is getting better and better." The bearded man was Cheng Yuankai, Cheng Yifan's father. Hearing this, he laughed loudly and said: "I just like to listen to what you say, I really like it!"
Cheng Yiping let them into the living room and introduced Zhang Peng to them. After the greetings, the two parties sat down. Cheng Yiping said: "Uncle, where is the aunt? Why didn't she come?" Cheng Yuankai knocked on the table with his pipe and said:
"I know you're back. You're cooking at home, and I wanted to invite you over for dinner."
Wen Xiuli, who came in to make tea for Cheng Yuankai and others, heard this and said: "Xiao Xi, go and invite the Yifan family's grandmother. She said that Uncle Xiaobao is back and invites her to come over for dinner." Xiao Xi responded with an "oh",
He ran out the door. Cheng Yuankai picked up the tea on the coffee table and said: "Xiaobao, I heard from Yifan that you were transferred to Yunshan and are now the deputy secretary of the Yunshan County Party Committee?"
Wen Xiuli was stunned for a moment when she heard Cheng Yuankai's words. She put down the tea set and looked at Cheng Yiping up and down with a smile. Cheng Yiping was so frightened by her mother's gaze that she apologized and said with a smile: "Mom, I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just arrived in Yunshan."
You are familiar with the local situation and busy at work, so you only know it now." Wen Xiuli sighed softly for some reason: "Mom doesn't blame you, there is nothing good about being the county party secretary, you can do it if you like it.
Bar!"
Cheng Yiping thought his mother was really angry and said hurriedly: "Mom, if you don't like it, then I will resign and stay with you at home every day." Wen Xiuli laughed and scolded: "You bastard, what nonsense are you talking about? The county party secretary is
Did you say you can't do it if you don't do it? Since you have done it, do it well and do more good things for the people!" Cheng Yiping said: "Okay, I listen to you."
Wen Xiuli said: "Shu Dan, come here and help me cook." Shu Dan stood up and said: "Okay, Auntie!" The two walked to the kitchen. Wen Xiuli sighed to herself, is this fate? Xiaobao also joined politics.
.I originally wanted him to return to the village to be a teacher, but unexpectedly he entered the Secretariat of the Provincial Party Committee General Office after graduation, and now he is one step closer to becoming the county party committee secretary. Do you want to contact them? I think of my father's teaching, "Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings."
"Then he shook his head.
Seeing Wen Xiuli shaking her head for no reason, Shu Dan asked: "Aunt, what's wrong with you?" Wen Xiuli then remembered that Shu Dan was still beside her and smiled: "Xiaobao became the county party committee secretary. Look at how he is doing nothing. How can he be a county party committee member?"
What does the secretary look like?”
Shu Dan smiled and said: "Aunt, I think it's very good. Uncle Yiping has become the secretary of the county party committee, and you will be blessed in the future!" Wen Xiuli said: "What blessing? I'm afraid that he won't do well and will let down the party and the government.
Trust." Shu Dan stuck out his tongue secretly and thought to himself: "If you don't know my aunt's identity, listening to her talk, you must think that she is a senior national cadre."
In the living room, Cheng Yuankai muttered: "Xiaobao, uncle, tell you something?" Cheng Yiping said: "Say!" Cheng Yifan interjected: "Dad, Yiping just got home, why are you talking about this?" Cheng Yifan thought about it in the afternoon.
, my cousin is now the secretary of the county party committee, and it would not be good for outsiders to hear him call him "Xiaobao" as he did before. So he changed the title immediately.
Cheng Yiping smiled and said: "Uncle has something to do, but it's okay to say it." Cheng Yuankai said: "Do you think we can transfer Yifan's wife to Yunshan?" Cheng Yiping knew that his uncle was not the kind of person who was greedy for power, and now he asked for help.
There must be other reasons for Shu Dan's transfer. He asked, "Where does my sister-in-law work?" Cheng Yifan said: "Longmen Town Industrial and Commercial Office." Cheng Yiping said: "Sister-in-law's work is not going well?"