Chapter 3 The first visit

Zhong Jianguo lowered his head and asked, "Don't you want a stepmother?"

"No!" the child stubbornly said, "I don't want a stepmother, I want to be at my uncle's house."

Zhong Jianguo carried his eldest son to his lap: "Your aunt has to take care of your elder sister and younger sister, and you can't take care of them. I'll send the three of you to your grandparents' house, or your grandparents' house?"

"Don't!" The child shouted and cried, "I don't want to go to grandma's house! Don't go to grandma's house!"

Sister-in-law Zhong was taken aback: "How can this child cry? He won't go if he doesn't go."

"It's okay." Zhong Jianguo patted his son's back, "Don't cry. Let's go to Wengzhou Island tomorrow with your stepmother."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Sister-in-law Zhong didn't continue to ask: "You have been transferred to Wengzhou Island in the south of Shencheng for two years, and will not return to Shencheng after listening to you?"

"The East China Sea Fleet has moved to Wengzhou Island, and will be there in the future." Zhong Jianguo said, "Sister-in-law, I have to trouble you to help me take care of the three of them for a few more days. I will go to Xiaosong Village in the morning tomorrow. I'm not stupid, I can work and take care of the children, I plan to get the certificate in a few days."

Sister-in-law Zhong was surprised: "So fast?"

"I have to go back on the 9th, today is the 4th." Zhong Jianguo sighed, "We received news that Lao Jiang asked the Americans to buy some weapons again, and it is estimated that he wants to make a comeback."

Sister-in-law Zhong sighed: "This old Jiang is really not a thief. You fought him last time, why didn't you kill all his soldiers at once?"

"There's no way." As soon as Zhong Jianguo remembered the last naval battle, he weakly wanted to hit the wall, "Lao Jiang's things were bought from the Americans. The Americans were decades before us, and we didn't have one for forty or fifty years. I want to wrestle with the Americans." Seeing the eldest son sobbing in a low voice, he stopped crying, "I repeat, it is impossible to stay here, your aunt has to take care of your sister and sister, and can't take care of your three brothers all the time. If you go to grandma's house or go back to the island with your stepmother, you can only choose one."

The child raised his arm and wiped his tears with his sleeve: "Go back to the island with you, no stepmother!"

"Who will take care of the three of you?" Zhong Jianguo said with an expressionless face, "I won't be able to come back until seven or eight days after I go out to sea. What will the three of you eat at home? Who will bathe you and wash your clothes?"

The child choked: "I, let's go to the cafeteria to eat."

"Brother also went to the cafeteria?" Zhong Jianguo pointed at his younger son who was sitting beside his eldest niece, who was still unsteady.

The child followed Zhong Jianguo's hand and said, "...I will make malted milk essence for my brother."

"My younger brother can't just drink wheat milk essence, he has to eat, and he has to go to bed at night." Sister-in-law Zhong reminded, "Who will take my brother to bed without an adult around? My brother is sick, and your father goes to sea again to fight, who will take him to bed? Brother going to the hospital?"

The child was speechless.

Zhong Jianguo thought that he would stop making trouble, and began to discuss with his sister-in-law what to bring to Song's house tomorrow. Feeling a pain in his leg, he looked down, and the eldest son's hand moved away: "What are you pinching me for?"

"I thought about it." The child raised his head and said, "Dad, don't let that woman be my stepmother and our nanny."

Zhong Jianguo was stunned.

Sister-in-law Zhong was dumbfounded.

"No?" the child asked again.

Sister-in-law Zhong regained her senses and was incredulous: "How can you think of such a young child?"

"Listen to what his grandma said." Zhong Jianguo was startled by the child's words at first, and he thought about it carefully, "My mother-in-law used to be a nanny in a tycoon's house in Shencheng for several years, so she probably said it in front of the child. She was a babysitter, didn't she?" He lowered his head and asked the eldest son.

The child pursed his lips, nodded, and then asked, "Can't you? Then let's give her more money."

"The babysitter doesn't have a stepmother's heart." Sister-in-law Zhong thought to herself, your father goes out to sea every now and then, and he can't come back every ten days and a half months. The Song family girl married your father to be a nanny for your three brothers. , without having to pay wages, "The nanny has to go home during the holidays. If you don't want to do it, you can just leave. The stepmother can't leave if she wants to. She has to take care of the three of you."

The child subconsciously glanced to the south: "Grandma is also a stepmother, and my sister said that grandma is the worst!"

Sister-in-law Zhong turned to her eldest daughter, and suddenly realized: "I said why this child suddenly doesn't want a stepmother, and asked me what my stepmother looked like a few days ago. The co-author is your girl talking nonsense in front of him."

"I'm not talking nonsense. I heard everything you and Dad said. That woman is a relative of grandma, so she must be as bad as grandma. Second uncle, you can't marry that bad woman."

Zhong Jianguo had been worried that Song Zhaodi would be as restless as her aunt Zhao Yin on the way here. He never thought that before he went to Song's house, his family would be in chaos: "She is really like your grandma, so I won't marry her."

"Can you tell? My dad said she was good to you and dad when she first married grandpa, but she might pretend."

Zhong Jianguo wanted to laugh: "I'm 30 years old this year, not 12 years old. I can distinguish between good people and bad people. If you can't even see this, how can you lead troops to fight?" Turning to his eldest son, "Believe it or not?"

The child wanted to say no, but he thought that his father was very powerful and could bring Lao Jiang's army back to Taiwan. The teacher and uncle also praised his father. He couldn't help licking his lips and nodded vigorously: "Trust!"

"Zhao Di, come out quickly, Zhong Jianguo is here." On October 5th, at noon, Song Zhaodi was cleaning the pot, and Sister Song came in and snatched the loofah from her hand, grabbed her arm and pulled it out, "Go and change. clothes."

Song Zhaodi was caught off guard, staggered for a while, and said helplessly: "Eldest sister, it's me who married, not me asking for a wife. He begged us, not our family rushing to curry favor with him."

"The enemy!" Sister Song stopped, "We're not in a hurry, let's go back to the house and wait."

Song Zhaodi didn't forget that although her eldest sister was persuaded by her, she was actually not happy with her marrying Zhong Jianguo. Today's attitude has changed so much, it's hard to believe, "Big sister saw Zhong Jianguo? She looks pretty good."

"How do you know?" Sister Song asked, waving her hand to signal that Song Zhaodi didn't need to explain, "You've always been smart, but I don't know where you got it.

"I told you that when my brother-in-law and I walked to the entrance of the village, a man waved at your brother-in-law and asked your brother-in-law Song Zhaodi's house where he was going. I heard him speak without any accent, and he spoke very well to a few college students from the imperial capital in the village. Like, seeing that he was in his thirties again, he guessed that he was Zhong Jianguo. Your brother-in-law also guessed it, so he gave me a wink and told me to come back and tell you."

Song Zhaodi: "Where's my brother-in-law?"

"If your brother-in-law is going to play Zhong Jianguo, the two of you are going too slowly." Sister Song gestured, "Better than Wang Degui, taller than Wang Degui, with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a square face, he looks like a powerful person. ."

With thick eyebrows, big eyes and a square face, he is still tall, exactly like her idol in her previous life. Song Zhaodi was quite surprised: "Black or not?"

"It's dark, it's just a little dark." Sister Song said regretfully, "If it can be whiter, the Prime Minister must look good."

Song Zhaodi immediately understood why her cheap sister was excited, and wanted to say that the Prime Minister is a famous and beautiful man. When she was in middle school in her previous life, the Prime Minister had passed away for more than half a century, and more than half of the girls in the class called the Prime Minister a "male god". , "He's in the navy, and it's normal for him to be black all day at the seaside. Am I black?"

Sister Song looked at her sister, "Your face is similar to that of rice in the field. He is black and red, much darker than yours."

"Eldest sister doesn't go to work in a furniture factory today, will the leader deduct her salary?" Song Zhaodi asked.

Sister Song's face changed suddenly: "No, no, I have to go. Zhao Di, you, don't be afraid, I will call my parents to come back."

"Don't go yet." Song Zhaodi said, "When your parents come back, the work points in the afternoon will be gone. I have to go to Cuntou Primary School for class at two o'clock. Let me have a few words with Zhong Jianguo first. I think it is appropriate to go to my parents. "

"Go to work." Sister Song's mother-in-law came out of the side room. "With me at home, I won't let that Zhong Jianguo bully our family's Zhao Di."

Twelve years ago, Song Zhaodi came back from school and met a mother and son at the entrance of the village. The first thing she said when she saw her was, "Little girl, can you give me a hug."

Song Zhaodi retreated subconsciously, and the mother and son knelt down and begged Song Zhaodi again.

In 1955, although the Song family was not well-off, Song Zhaodi never went hungry. Seeing the two of them kneel down for her for a nest, she felt sympathetic, and Song Zhaodi took them home.

My mother's surname was Yang, and she didn't give a proper name to the Eight Classics. The son's name is Liu Yang. Mother Song saw that Yang's hands were frozen and rotten, and Liu Yang was as thin as a ghost, so she left the mother and son to stay first, and then left when the spring was warm.

The sky and the earth are big, but Yang's mother and son didn't know where to go. Seeing that they were pitiful, Song's mother took them to the village chief, and the village chief gave the mother two acres of wasteland.

If Song Zhaodi hadn't brought people back, Song's mother wouldn't care if she couldn't see it. Now that she saw it, she couldn't see the mother and son starving to death, so she continued to take in the mother and son until she saw rice in the field.

Seven years ago, the national catastrophe spread to Xiaosong Village, and every family was in short supply of food. Several families in the village suggested to the village chief to drive out Yang's mother and son two foreign surnames to save a little ration.

Xiaosong Village is close to the sea, so if there is no food in the ground, you can go out to the sea to catch some fish and shrimp. Other places are not close to the sea, and if you don't have food, you can only wait to die.

The village chief is neither a good person nor a bad person. Knowing the situation outside, once the mother and son of the Yang family are kicked out, there is only one way for them to die. In the evening, when everyone in the village was resting, the village chief went to the Song family to talk about this, and Yang's mother and son turned pale with fright.

The village chief gave an idea, and Liu Yang joined the Song family.

Father Song looked at Liu Yang's honesty, and he was a good worker at work. He only had three daughters, and sooner or later he would have to hire a son-in-law. He agreed without thinking.

Liu Yang didn't know what to do, so he asked his mother for help. Yang said, the big girl is not bad.

The next day, Liu Yang married the eldest sister of the Song family.

When Liu Yang entered the family, it was like a girl married into the family, and from then on she was the Song family. Father Song was the only doctor in Shili Ba Village. The villagers did not dare to offend Father Song to death, and never said anything about driving Yang and Liu Yang out.

The eldest sister of the Song family gave birth to two sons to Liu Yang, the eldest surnamed Song and the second surnamed Liu.

The youngest son's surname Liu was suggested by the eldest sister of the Song family. Liu Yang's mother, Mrs. Yang, thought of her daughter-in-law, as if she regarded her as a daughter-in-law, and Song Zhaodi was her youngest daughter-in-law.

Yang's body is not good, so he takes care of his two grandchildren at home. Sister Song knew that her mother-in-law was also very concerned about Song Zhaodi's affairs: "Mother, look at me, I'm leaving."

"Go to work, don't be late." Mrs. Yang said, "Zhao Di, that Zhong Jianguo comes over, remember to call me."

"Auntie, it's alright." Song Zhaodi smiled, "The two children are still sleeping, go back to the house and watch them, don't wake up and fall off the bed."

Yang's two grandchildren hurt so much that he couldn't care about nagging any more, but when he got inside, he pricked up his ears to listen to what was going on outside.

After a bowl of tea, Mr. Yang heard his son's voice, walked to the door and saw the man beside his son, and said in surprise, "He doesn't look like his father at all."

The three of them looked at each other in unison.

Realizing the slip of the tongue, Mr. Yang smiled awkwardly: "Comrade Zhong, here we come."

Song Zhaodi's eldest brother-in-law, Liu Yang, was quite speechless: "Mother, don't talk nonsense. Comrade Zhong doesn't look like his father, but his mother. What's surprising?"

Liu Ling had never met Zhong Jianguo's father, but the original owner had. When Zhao Yin came to the Song family to talk about matchmaking, he came with Zhong Jianguo's father. Liu Ling had the memory of Song Zhaodi and knew that Zhong Jianguo looked a lot like his father. The two don't look like father and son? Zhong's father followed behind Zhao Yin, and he was very petty.

Zhong Jianguo held his head high when he came in, and after graduating from the military academy, he stayed in the army for many years.

"Come in and sit, I'll pour the water." Song Zhaodi said and turned back to the main room.

Liu Yang had already asked his daughter-in-law to ask for leave for him, so he didn't go out. He greeted Zhong Jianguo to enter the house, and pointed to Song Zhaodi's back and said to Zhong Jianguo, "This is my sister, Song Zhaodi, she is in the village now—"

"There is only water in my house, it's a little hot, I'll drink it later." Song Zhaodi interrupted her eldest brother-in-law Liu Yang, and took out the porcelain jar that Liu Yang bought when she got married to entertain Zhong Jianguo.

After entering the door, Zhong Jianguo said hello to Song Zhaodi in addition to saying hello, but his eyes were far less honest than his mouth. Seeing that the yard was cleaned and there were pigsties and ducksties nearby, and there was no smell of excrement at all, was satisfied that the women of the Song family were very diligent.

Later, it was found that Song Zhaodi had an apron on her body, and her sleeves were rolled up to her elbows. She was obviously working before he came, and she was more satisfied. She was a hard-working and capable girl.

Song Zhaodi was not idle either. As soon as Zhong Jianguo came in, Song Zhaodi could see that he was really good-looking, but unfortunately he was not as handsome as her idol in her previous life, and his temperament was not as good as her idol. Her idol is full of extravagance, and Zhong Jianguo is upright.

When calling Zhong Jianguo to drink water, Song Zhaodi noticed calluses on his hands. Song Zhaodi had played shooting in her previous life, and at a glance, she could see that the calluses on Zhong Jianguo's hands were left by holding a gun all the year round. The cocoon is very thick, which shows that Zhong Jianguo needs to use a gun frequently, and it also shows that Zhong Jianguo is not an incompetent person, at least not a coward who is greedy for life and fear of death.

Song Zhaodi was very satisfied with this, and said with a three-point smile: "Brother-in-law, go and ask for a leave for me, I want to chat with Comrade Zhong."