Chapter 52

Self-reliance and rehabilitation did not move.

Erwa ran to the stairs with Sanwa, and found that the two new brothers were not following, so they went back and held one hand in hand: "Let's go."

"What about the quarrel." Zi Li was very worried and reminded Erwa with a very small voice.

Zhong Erwa looked back at Song Zhaodi and then at Zhong Jianguo, and said in a normal voice, "My mother and my father are arguing and playing every day. It's alright, don't be afraid, they will be reconciled in a while." Asking while walking, "Do you prefer to sleep on the upper floor or the lower floor? Let me tell you, my brother and I like to sleep on the upper floor."

Song Zhaodi supported her forehead, did this Zhong Erwa say that?

Zhong Jianguo also wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

"Zhao Di, listen to my explanation, I didn't mean to deceive you." Zhong Jianguo said, "I think you know, you will definitely not agree, and I won't tell you because I'm afraid of being blown up by you."

Song Zhaodi asked, "Aren't you afraid that I won't go to Shencheng?"

"You won't have trouble with your children." Zhong Jianguo is very confident about this. "Although the protagonists of this incident are the two children, they are innocent. I know you won't blame them."

Song Zhaodi mocked: "You really know me, Zhong Jianguo."

"We are husband and wife." Zhong Jianguo thought for a moment and sat next to Song Zhaodi, "Listen to me first, after I finish speaking, you can beat or scold as you please."

After ten days in Xiaosong Village, the two brothers, Zili and Gengsheng, did not cause Song Zhaodi any trouble, what they eat and what they wear at home. The child is so sensible, and Song Zhaodi's anger has mostly disappeared: "Okay, you can talk."

"These two children's grandfather's surname is Qi, one of the founding marshals." Zhong Jianguo looked outside to see if anyone came in, and when he looked back, he found Song Zhaodi's face full of shock, "I was also shocked when I first heard— "

Song Zhaodi hurriedly interrupted him: "Wait a minute, what are the original names of those two children?"

"This, Commander Zhao didn't say it." Zhong Jianguo thought about it carefully, "At first, General Qi was only restricted from moving. At the beginning of this year, General Qi was locked up, and the aunts and uncles of the two children were also sent to various places.

"The father of the two children was forced to commit suicide by jumping off the building, and they followed their mother. Later, Lao Qi's daughter-in-law separated from the Qi family, and the two children were sent back to the Qi family by his uncle. There were no adults in the family, so the two children were Relying on Qi Lao's comrades and subordinates, as well as the left and right neighbors, he secretly supported him.

"Commander Zhao went to the imperial capital for a meeting in July, and when he heard about Mr. Qi, he felt that the child would be hungry after a long time, and he would definitely suffer from hunger for a long time, so he ordered his guards to steal the two children out in the middle of the night.

"Those who take care of Mrs. Qi probably felt that the two children were nothing to be afraid of, and they didn't look for them if they lost them. However, Commander Zhao was still afraid of being discovered, so he sent them to the homes of people who didn't seem to have anything to do with him. Unexpectedly, the family is not willing to support.

"The commander wanted to hand them over to someone else, but he was afraid that the situation would happen again, and he would drive the two children crazy again, so he planned to bring the children to his side." After a pause, he continued, "The commander sent People check the fishermen on the island, and when they see which one is suitable, they somehow find that you are nosy... The commander thinks you are more suitable than anyone else."

"So, the root of this matter lies with me?" Song Zhaodi pointed at herself, in disbelief.

Zhong Jianguo nodded: "I can swear to God that everything I said is true." After a while, "The reason why I don't tell you is because I'm afraid you won't want to. After all, the two children's life experience is really troublesome, and there is another point. That's right, I'm embarrassed. We already have three children in our family."

Song Zhaodi snorted: "I'm afraid that my disagreement is the main reason, right?"

"Hey, I knew you would agree." Song Zhaodi did not leave directly, but ran on him. Zhong Jianguo knew immediately that she agreed to take care of the two children, "Don't worry, from now on, I will wash the clothes, pots and pans. I'll clean up."

Song Zhaodi looked at him: "It's as if you didn't wash or clean up before."

Zhong Jianguo choked: "Comrade Song Zhaodi, I don't need to sleep tonight, but you must save me some face, especially in front of the children."

"You are unreliable in doing things yourself, I will save face for you, and the children will not worship you." Song Zhaodi said, "Don't believe it, on the way to Shencheng, Dawa said that you are unbelievable and capricious. I taught him the words anyway, and he repeated them."

Zhong Jianguo suddenly felt a pain in his chest: "I used to be too used to him!"

"Speaking of business." Song Zhaodi slapped him on the arm, "What is the relationship between Commander Zhao and General Qi?"

Zhong Jianguo: "Saved the commander's life."

"No wonder." Song Zhaodi said it, and found that it was wrong, "Why do they call Commander Zhao uncle?"

Zhong Jianguo: "The commander is ten years younger than General Qi, and he is not a peer."

"So it is." Song Zhaodi understood, "However, since they have such a relationship, why hasn't Commander Zhao been investigated?"

Zhong Jianguo said: "That incident happened during the Anti-Japanese War. After Lao Jiang was driven out, the commander was transferred to the East China Sea Fleet. It has been nearly 30 years. Who still remembers that incident. What's more, there were people all the time in that era. If he was shot to death, maybe the people who followed General Qi would also die."

"Then your commander is bold enough." Song Zhaodi looked at Zhong Jianguo, "Your courage is not small."

Zhong Jianguo sighed: "The commander found me and offered to give our family money, even if I knew that the two children were hot potatoes, I couldn't refuse.

"By the way, don't let those two children go out. You can bask in the sun in the yard every day, and you will make some delicious food for the children. After the new year, they will become dark and fat, not to mention the commander, even if the old general Qi sees them You may not even recognize it.”

"I want to do it, but I can't buy it with money." Song Zhaodi reminded.

Zhong Jianguo: "There was a lot of trouble two years ago. The workers didn't go to work, and the farmers didn't farm the land. This year the situation is relatively stable. Next year, the farmers have a good harvest, and the food stamps, oil stamps, and cloth stamps will increase.

"There's really nothing to eat, so I'll give them kelp and pork bone soup and sea bass stewed tofu. Anyway, there's no ticket for these. Our salary is enough for five children to eat like this three times a day."

"What's delicious?" Zhong Dawa asked from outside.

Song Zhaodi couldn't help sighing, the snacker: "Ask your dad, he cooks, I'll go up and rest for a while." Without waiting for Zhong Dawa to speak, she got up and went upstairs.

"Dad made my mother angry again?" Zhong Dawa affirmed.

When Song Zhaodi was not in front of him, Zhong Jianguo trembled: "Nonsense! Your mother doesn't cook because I have done it. If you don't believe me, go to the kitchen and see for yourself."

Zhong Dawa raised her feet and ran to the kitchen, lifted the pot on the stove, and saw a pot full of scrambled eggs with shallots on the drawer, she turned around and ran upstairs, shouting as she ran, "Mom, Dad put the Eggs are a scourge."

"Zhong Dawa!" Zhong Jianguo was furious.

Song Zhaodi walked to the stairs and asked, "What does it mean to be a disaster?"

Zhong Jianguo stopped, took a pair of chopsticks and scrambled eggs with shallots in the kitchen, and hurriedly came back and said, "He means I scrambled the eggs, but I didn't fry them this time. This kid is talking nonsense."

Song Zhaodi was tired: "I thought something happened. Zhong Jianguo, put the food on the table, we'll go down later. Zhong Dawa, come over here! If you don't know the truth, you just make a fool of yourself and show your loudness. no."

Zhong Dawa looked back at Zhong Jianguo with a look of disbelief: "It's not bad? How is it possible."

"It's impossible." Song Zhaodi took two steps down and grabbed his arm, "It's not difficult to scramble an egg with a spring onion. Come here and take out your clothes and Erwa's clothes, and give half of them to self-reliance and rejuvenation. After waiting. Years, I will make new ones for you."

Zhong Dawa wanted to say no, but when she heard the new clothes, she hurriedly asked, "Do we have cloth tickets at home?"

"Tomorrow, your father will go to register the household registration for the self-reliance and the rejuvenation, and you will get seven tickets after the year." Song Zhaodi said, "One ticket is enough for the clothes of the second baby and the third baby. Your father and I don't need to add new ones. Clothes, six cloth tickets are reserved for you to make clothes."

The big baby is happy: "Thank you mother."

"But you have to promise me two things." Song Zhaodi said, "First, you are not allowed to talk back to your father. Second, you can't go out to play during this time, and teach Chinese and mathematics in the second grade of self-reliance and rehabilitation at home. They go to school with you." After a pause, "Two things can be done, and I will cook you at least one delicious meal every day."

Zhong Dawa stretched out her hand: "The deal will be done in two meals."

"Believe it or not, I'll beat you?" Song Zhaodi stared.

Zhong Dawa believes: "Two meals, I'm not going anywhere."

"Food." Song Zhaodi nodded helplessly on his forehead.

Zhong Dawa immediately knew that he had agreed, and hugged Song Zhaodi's arm: "Mother, where do self-reliance and rejuvenation sleep?"

"Brother, they both sleep on the big bed." Zhong Erwa came out of the room, "Mom, come in quickly, they don't want to sleep on two bunk beds."

There are three beds in several children's rooms. When the weather is warm, the eldest baby and the second baby sleep on the bunk beds. When it is cold, the three brothers huddle together on the ground floor.

No one cares about the single bunk bed, and over time, that bed is used for sundries. The older baby's schoolbag, the second baby's clothes, the third baby's diaper, everything is on it anyway.

Song Zhaodi understood why Erwa was so surprised. In his opinion, some sleep on new bunk beds.

Song Zhaodi was not surprised at all by choosing to sleep in an old bed for self-reliance and rehabilitation. The two children wandered around at a very young age. They had a place to live and some to eat. They would no longer be frozen and hungry. It was enough for them.

Song Zhaodi went in and saw Zili and Jiasheng standing beside the bed. She was at a loss, and said with a smile: "Ziliang, Jiasheng, we don't have a thick quilt anymore. Zili and the eldest baby sleep on the upper floor, Gengsheng, Erwa and Sanwa sleep on the bottom floor. When it gets warmer in a few days, you can sleep separately."

"Yes, I also thought of it." Zhong Dawa said, "When grandma and grandpa came, they were covered with the quilt from Grandpa Liu's house."

Song Zhaodi: "That's right." Then, she took out all the winter clothes of the eldest baby and the second baby. However, the two children only have three sets, one of which is still worn by the self-reliant and reborn brothers.

Self-reliance and rebirth were also found. The brothers looked at each other and said on their own: "Auntie, we just need to wear our clothes."

"No." Song Zhaodi said, "If you don't change your clothes, you will have lice on your body." He looked around, "Give me both of your thin jackets and thin cotton pants, and I will take them down tomorrow and make them for you first. A thick set."

Erwa reminded: "Mother, two sets."

Song Zhaodi twisted his face: "I know. I'll go to the supply and marketing agency tomorrow to see if there is any cotton, buy some cotton and make a set." Then, stuffing the clothes into the box, she led the five children down. However, there was no meal.

Picking a basket full of lettuce, Song Zhaodi fry a large pot of lettuce, and the whole family can eat.

Zhong Jianguo was afraid that he would not have enough to eat, so he cooked half a pot of thick rice porridge. Even so, in the end, not only was the porridge completely drained, but lettuce and scrambled eggs with shallots were also eaten up.

Looking at the clean plates and bowls, Zhong Jianguo was stunned for a while, and then he looked at Song Zhaodi, who only had two children, how could he eat so much?

The eldest child and the second child do not like to drink porridge, so they usually drink a bowl of porridge. Today, saw Zili and Regenerating drinking two bowls, and they both followed suit. Seeing that several brothers had eaten so much, Sanwa was unwilling to be left behind, and desperately stuffed it into her stomach.

Song Zhaodi wanted to stop her, for fear of being self-reliant and thinking too much about rebirth, so she let the three little cubs eat it. Seeing that Zhong Jianguo couldn't figure it out, Song Zhaodi didn't help him, but asked, "Er baby, are you full? I'll make some more if you're not full."

Zhong Erwa covered her stomach and shook her head again and again: "I'll do it tomorrow, it's too supportive."

Zhong Jianguo immediately wanted to understand the key, and raised his hand to give Erwa a slap: "You fool. Sit on a chair and rest."

"Mother, do me a favor." Zhong Erwa stretched out her hand.

Song Zhaodi pulled him up and slapped him on the buttocks: "Let's see if you will eat so much tomorrow."

"Don't eat, don't eat." Zhong Erwa shook her head repeatedly, lay down on the bench, and couldn't help sighing: "Comfortable."

Sister-in-law Duan walked in and saw five children lying on the bench in a row, she couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

"Eating too much." Song Zhaodi said, "one is more stupid than the other." Then he asked, "Have you eaten well at my aunt's house?"

Sister-in-law Duan: "Liu Ping is doing it. I suddenly thought that your family should not have thick quilts, so I came to ask you how many quilts you still need."

"No need." Song Zhaodi said, "Several children sleep together."

Zhong Dawa said while rubbing her stomach lightly, "I sleep with Zili."

"Call brother." Song Zhaodi reminded.

Zi Li said quickly, "No need."

"Whatever you want." Song Zhaodi did not intend to interfere with the children's affairs, "Auntie, is there anything else besides this?"

Sister-in-law Duan did not avoid the child: "This is a fifty catty food stamp, you can keep it." Putting the food stamp in Song Zhaodi's hand, she said, "We didn't give it."

Song Zhaodi immediately understood: "Okay, I'll keep it. I want to buy some more cotton, but I don't know if it's cheaper here or in the city. Does my aunt know?"

"Go to the city to buy." Sister Duan said, "I'll help you look after the child, you can find someone to accompany you."

Song Zhaodi looked at her litter of children: "No. I will get up early tomorrow morning, so I can be back at noon."

"Yes, no." Zhong Dawa continued, "Grandma, we can take care of ourselves."

Sister-in-law Duan was delighted: "My eldest child is getting more and more capable."

"It is necessary." Zhong Dawa sat up and wanted to pat her chest, but she couldn't help but groan.

Sister-in-law Duan was startled: "What's wrong?"

"I ate too much, got up too violently, and squeezed my stomach." Song Zhaodi knew what was going on at a glance, "If you eat again in the morning, you won't have to eat it at noon or at night."

Sister-in-law Duan suddenly didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I thought you were joking just now."

"I want to be joking." Song Zhaodi said angrily, "It's a pity that I can't laugh, raising such a litter of fools."

Zhong Dawa made a face at Song Zhaodi: "Not stupid at all."

Sister-in-law Duan shook her head and laughed: "I'll go back if I'm fine, you guys should rest early too."

"Okay." Song Zhaodi sent the person to the door, watched the child wash his feet, wash his face, and rushed the child upstairs, and asked, "Captain Zhong, where do you sleep at night?"

Zhong Jianguo sighed in his heart: "The bench, the guest room, anywhere. It's fine not to sleep, as long as Teacher Xiao Song is happy."