dhibooks Chapter 86 The Secret
Chapter 86 The Secret
"Where did this come from?"
Zheng Tong's eyes were like eagles, and he stared sharply at the person in front of him, showing suspicion that he had never seen before.
Gu Mingdong didn't expect him to react so strongly, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Why, is this something extraordinary?"
Seeing that his expression was normal, Zheng Tong obviously didn't know what it was, but he was relieved from the bottom of his heart.
The world has changed, and everything is in chaos. It is not unusual for many treasured jewels to be thrown away as worthless tiles.
He glanced at his granddaughter who was still snuggling beside him, pondered for a while, and said: "Yes, it's true that this is no longer a big deal."
Gu Mingdong watched, Zheng Tong must have known what kind of characters this is, otherwise the reaction would not be so big.
And I'm afraid this is still a powerful thing.
Zheng Tong put the piece of paper away carefully: "The old man knows what this word is, but it will take some time to identify it."
These words surprised Gu Mingdong a bit, but he was not in a hurry or urged, but instead said: "Take your time."
After saying this, Zheng Tong patted the little girl's head again, and said: "Xiao Yun'er, go back quickly, grandpa will see you again when he has time."
Zheng Yun was very obedient. Although she was reluctant to leave her grandfather, she followed Gu Mingdong and left step by step.
At this time, the people in the production team had already left for work one after another. Seeing Gu Mingdong dragging a little girl home, they all looked around curiously.
"Adong, is this the little mute you brought home yesterday?"
Gu Mingdong glanced at him, and said calmly: "Her name is Gu Yun, and she will be the daughter of the old Gu family from now on."
After finishing speaking, he ignored the expressions of those people and took Zheng Yun home directly.
The members of the production team talked a lot, and most of them felt that Gu Mingdong was stupid:
"It's not enough to have so many children in my own family. I have to raise children from other people's families. My brain is out of order."
"If it's a normal one, at least I can get a share of the gift money in the future. This is still a little dumb, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get married."
"It can't be the child bride-in-law for his son, can it?"
There are also people who ask Aunt Gu about things: "Old Gu's family, this is your own nephew, don't you care?"
Third Aunt Gu sneered and said: "He spends the work points he earns, whoever he likes to raise, and what is my aunt in the next room messing around with?"
Third Aunt Gu spoke the truth. In the past, Third Uncle Gu always sent money and food to her nephew's house. She would say sour words when she was upset. Now, old Gu's family doesn't need her man to take care of her. Instead, she sends some food and drink from time to time. Aunt Gu is satisfied if she has to come to the door.
It's a pity that other people don't think so. Seeing her cold face, she even discusses in private: The two sons of the old Gu family failed the entrance examination to recruit workers, so they are not happy about it.
There were so many people in the production team of Shanghe Village, but none of them were selected, and morale was hit for a while.
Even the shriveled old Liu said: "I thought there were so many people going, and if you were lucky, you could get one or two. Who knew..."
Uncle Gu was quite open-minded and persuaded: "It's so easy to enter the city. The big guys have gone to the city. If you can't get in, forget it. If you work hard, you can support your wife and children."
"Who says it's not..." the flat old Liu sighed.
Gu Mingdong dragged Zheng Yun towards the house, and looked down at the little girl, because she drooped her head because of the gossip just now.
"Gu Yun, hold your head up and chest out." Gu Mingdong suddenly shouted.
Gu Yun paused for a moment before forcing herself to raise her head and straighten her chest. She looked towards Gu Mingdong with both eyes, looking cautiously worried that he would be angry.
Gu Mingdong laughed: "Don't care about those people's words, you have to remember, now your name is Gu Yun, and you are a child of our old Gu family. If someone bullies you, beat you back, and dad will help you back up."
dad? !
Gu Yun froze, her big eyes flickered, and suddenly, big tears fell down one by one.
Gu Mingdong was taken aback, thinking that he was too fierce to scare the little girl, so he hurriedly said, "Don't cry, don't cry, I'm not mean to you."
Gu Yun stretched her arms around his neck, and silently called her father.
The word "father" is what Gu Yun desires most in her life, but she has never received a response.
But today, the tall and burly man in front of him said that he is the father.
Gu Yun didn't make a sound, but Gu Mingdong seemed to have heard the call. He was determined, and touched Gu Yun's hair with a smile: "Okay, don't cry, your eyes are not beautiful if you cry."
After a while, Gu Mingdong's shoulders were wet from crying, and the little girl stopped crying after sniffling.
Gu Yun who cried just now was a little embarrassed, her eyes were red and her cheeks were also flushed, but those eyes were like the sky washed by the rainstorm, clear to the bottom.
In an instant, Gu Mingdong suddenly understood the feelings of many people raising their daughters.
Gu Yun lowered her head slightly when he saw him, a bubble popped out of her nose suddenly, the little girl covered her nose and wiped it vigorously with her sleeve.
Gu Mingdong saw that her ears were red with shame, looked around, and suddenly walked towards the back of the forest.
As soon as he left, Gu Yun didn't care about being shy anymore, and hurriedly tried to catch up.
In the end, before she could run over, Gu Mingdong came out from behind the forest, holding a branch of Bougainvillea in his hand, weaving it as he walked, and soon weaved it into a wreath.
Seeing Gu Yun, Gu Mingdong raised his hand and put the wreath on her head.
The bright red bougainvillea is a rare color in late autumn and early winter, and it seems that Gu Yun's overall improvement has improved a lot.
Gu Yun touched her wreath a little foolishly.
Gu Mingdong smiled and praised: "After wearing it, it will be very beautiful again."
One big and one small continued to walk home, Gu Yun carefully touched the wreath above her head all the way, obviously liking it very much.
Gu Sanmei was packing up the farm tools and planning to go to work. When she saw them coming back, she was delighted: "Brother, where did you pick the bougainvillea? It's still open in this weather?"
"That's just one, thank you for the others." The ability is overkill now.
When Gu Mingdong and Gu Mingxi went to work in the field, only Gu Mingbei and the three children were left in the house.
The twins were still catching bugs in the yard to feed the chickens, but Gu Yun followed Gu Mingbei step by step. When Gu Mingbei washed the clothes, she helped to do the laundry. When Gu Mingbei swept the floor, she also followed.
Gu Simei saw that she was young, but she did the work very neatly, as if she had an extra little helper.
"You don't need to do this, go play with Ah Xing Ah Chen." Gu Simei said with a smile.
Gu Yun shook her head, gestured for work.
Gu Simei didn't stop after thinking about it, she just let her do it easily.
After a while, the twins ran in rattling after feeding the chickens: "Si Gu, when are we going to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden? Last night, my father said, let us help you and make all the leftover vegetables." Eat pickles."
When Gu Simei heard this, she simply took them to the vegetable garden.
Gu Mingdong didn't dare to do too much, as the weather got colder and colder, the vegetable garden of the old Gu's family finally showed a bit of depression.
The twins looked eager to try: "Si Gu, what shall we pick first?"
"Pick the tomatoes first, then Sigu will cook tomato sauce for you, it's especially delicious for bibimbap."
The twins cheered, and immediately ran towards Tomato, licking down one by one.
Gu Liangxing took one off and put it in his mouth first: "It's so sweet!"
Gu Simei shook her head and laughed, but she didn't stop them.
Gu Liangxing knocked on the little girl next to him, picked another one and handed it over: "Sister Xiaoyun, try it too."
Gu Yun quickly waved her hand.
But Gu Liangxing stuffed it into her hand: "I'm not kidding you, it's really sweet, not sour at all."
Gu Simei also smiled and said: "Xiaoyun also try it, if you want to eat tomatoes after this season, you will have to next year."
Gu Yun took a bite, and the sweet and sour taste made her narrow her eyes happily.
The four of them ate, laughed, and worked without feeling tired at all.
On the other side, old Liu was discussing with Gu Jianguo about killing pigs.
When mentioning the six big fat pigs in the production team, old blunt Liu squinted his eyes happily: "If you want me to say that A Dong is capable, none of the six piglets died, and all of them have grown into big fat pigs. "
"I went to see them yesterday. Each one can weigh more than two hundred catties. The heaviest and fattest one is amazing. It can be compared to the size of a wild boar."
Gu Jianguo said a few words modestly: "A Dong, this kid was ignorant before, but now he knows things, and he does things properly."
The crumpled old Liu smiled and said, "Jianguo, what I mean is that our production team will hand over this task first, and then we will feel at ease after handing over the task. Killing the big guy will make New Year's Eve easier."
Gu Jianguo asked strangely: "Aren't you going to build a fish pond this year?"
The shriveled old Liu shook his head and said, "I just got up last year, and I didn't put fish fry in it, so I guess there aren't many fish in it."
Just as he was talking, Gu Mingdong happened to pass by, and the shriveled old Liu hurriedly shouted, "Ah Dong, come here."
"Captain, what's the matter?"
The crumpled old Liu asked: "If we raise those fat pigs again, can we still gain a few catties of meat? Is it worthwhile to hand in the task pigs now?"
Gu Mingdong understood what he meant as soon as he heard it: "No matter how much you raise it, you can grow meat, but by the end of the year, it will be limited to one or two catties."
These days it is not large white pigs, but native pigs. This kind of pigs tastes better, but relatively speaking, they have low fat content, grow slowly, and relatively speaking, their adult weight is limited.
Gu Mingdong has the ability to open the golden finger to raise those piglets to two hundred catties. They still have fur, and if they want to grow fat, they have to break through the genetic limit.
As soon as the old Liu heard this, he immediately said: "Then it's time to hand it over, it's time to kill, don't waste food."
After finishing speaking, he looked at Gu Mingdong with a kind face: "Ah Dong, you have raised pigs well this year, but you have made contributions to our production team. I have to give you a big reward."
"It's all about serving the people, and there's no need for rewards." Gu Mingdong said politely.
The crumpled old Liu smiled and said, "If you want something, you will definitely be rewarded."
Two days later, the production team of Shanghe Village went to hand in the task pigs vigorously. There are so many production teams nearby, and the pigs in their team are the fattest, the fattest, and the heaviest.
The production team of Shanghe Village cleaned up the six big fat pigs and handed over three of them, and the remaining three were divided among the production teams.
Three big fat pigs are a lot of meat, and there are a lot of people in the production team of Shanghe Village, but every household can have a share, which is much better than last year's shabby situation.
When the pig was slaughtered, even Gu Mingdong sighed, to eat meat, you have to eat native pigs, and with a swipe, the white pork is much better than the smelly wild boar pig's head.
Fat meat is so good, what people lack these days is this mouthful of fat meat.
It was a person who saw it, and praised the pigs raised by the Shanghe Village production team as good pigs, which made people salivate.
Unsurprisingly, Gu Mingdong won the title of Little Pig Raising Expert.
The shriveled old Liu was praised a few times, and when he came back, he was all smiles.
Soon, Gu Mingdong knew what the reward he was talking about was.
On the day when the pigs were slaughtered, old Liu shouted loudly in front of everyone in the production team: "This year, our production team will still be able to eat pork after handing over the tasks, thanks to Comrade Gu Mingdong's hard work."
"After discussion among the cadres of the production team, it was decided to use a whole pig head as a reward for Comrade Gu Mingdong, a young pig raising expert."
"I hope that Comrade Gu Mingdong will continue to work hard next year after eating the pig's head meat, and raise fatter and fatter pigs."
Even Old Liu explained thoughtfully: "Adong, this pig's head is a reward for you, and it doesn't count in the pork that your family gets. You can take it home and eat it."
As soon as these words were said, envious voices filled the audience below.
"This is such a big pig's head. This year, the old Gu's family has no shortage of meat to eat."
"Who would let others know how to raise pigs? Last year they raised them for a year, but there was no meat to eat during the Chinese New Year. This year, Adong raised them. Every family can share a few catties. There are so many people that they can be relatives."
"Can you compare with A Dong? The secretary of the town praises him as a young expert."
"Hey, why don't I have such a good skill in raising pigs?"
Not only the commune members are envious, but the educated youths are also very envious. They said in private: "We are not as good as others in farming, and we are not as good as him in raising pigs. Otherwise, we would be able to eat pork heads today."
When Qian Zhi heard this, he thought it was alluding to the fact that they won the pig raising back then, but they gave the pig to recuperate, and his face immediately turned black.
He glared at the male educated youth who was talking, got up and walked out.
Wu Mengting hurriedly followed, since she was severely beaten by Zhou Zijin, she has learned a lot, and has rarely left the Educated Youth Center recently.
It's just that the educated youth also had Lin Aiguo's cold eyes and sarcastic remarks, which made Wu Mengting, who had always been favored by men, very uncomfortable.
"What's wrong with him? He's so cold all day long, and if he doesn't know, he thinks who owes him money." The male educated youth said unwillingly.
"So what if they have a cold face, some women like it." Lin Aiguo said sourly.
The brothers of the Du family knew what happened back then, so they explained it to them in a low voice.
Lin Aiguo said: "He can't do it himself, and he blames others for telling the truth."
Wu Mengting shook his face at him, and while Lin Aiguo felt resentful in his heart, he also hated Qian Zhiyi, thinking that they were a couple of dogs.
As time went by, everyone knew that the news in Qian Zhi's family seemed to be broken, and they never sent money and food stamps. They could tolerate Qian Zhi's clean appearance before, but now they feel that he is not good enough. Know the good and the bad.
The educated youth institute was turbulent, and it was vaguely divided into three factions.
The kindness is hard to refuse, Gu Mingdong can only go home with a hideous pig's head under the envious eyes of the members.
Before entering the door, he was still worried about scaring the children in the family. After all, the twins looked brave, but they were young, let alone Gu Yun who had just arrived.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they entered the door, the children coaxed them around, and their eyes widened in novelty: "Dad, is this the pig's head rewarded by the brigade? It's so big."
Gu Liangchen walked around and commented: "It can last for many days."
Gu Yun sucked her saliva in a timely manner.
Gu Simei said even more flatteredly: "This pig's head is also very meaty. It's rare for the captain to handle it. It can weigh twenty or thirty catties, and the neck is not cut off."
"Pig head meat, pig ears, pig nose, pig tongue... pig brains are also edible, I heard they are as tender as tofu." Gu Sanmei wrung her fingers, and the more she talked, the brighter her eyes became.
The three children slobbered louder.
Gu Mingdong rubbed his chin, and asked curiously: "Xiaobei, don't you think this pig's head is a bit hideous?"
Gu Simei gave him a strange look: "What's the matter, as long as it tastes good."
When Gu Mingdong heard it, he also laughed: "Well, let's marinate the pig's head, the braised pig's head meat is delicious."
Gu Simei agreed very much: "There are still ingredients at home, which can be used to marinate the meat. I will boil the fatty meat later, and I will make the rest into bacon first, so that it can be eaten for a long time."
"The star anise was used up before, and my third uncle's house must have some. I'll borrow some." When Gu Sanmei heard this, she ran away.
Without Gu Mingdong's instructions, Gu Simei took the three children to get busy, and the division of labor and cooperation was very appropriate.
Gu Mingdong wanted to help, but in the end he could only become a meat cutter.
Now he is doing it smoothly, and the hard pig's head can be directly divided into two. The strength is so great that the twins can't help but lie on his arms and watch, and they all say: "Daddy is so good, I will also follow Daddy in the future." Just as great."
Gu Mingdong was amused by them and laughed.
Gu Simei also had a smile on her lips, and said: "Brother, the new batch of vegetables are all pickled. I haven't finished eating the ones before. It just so happens that our family divided the meat. Why don't you pack it up and come out together with the pickled vegetables?" Take them to my aunt's house together."
"They live in the town, and they have to pay for food."
Upon hearing this, Gu Mingdong nodded and said, "Then pack up, I'll go with Xiaoxi tomorrow, just to ask about work."
It has been several days since the biscuit factory recruited workers. There has been no news from Sun Shumei. I don't know if she has encountered difficulties.
The brothers and sisters agreed on this matter.
There is a lot of pork in Lao Gu's house, except for the big pig's head, the rest weighs more than ten catties.
Pork is also divided into grades. These days there is a lack of oil and water, and the fatter the more people like it, but the ten catties of the old Gu's family are obviously half fat and half thin.
When dividing the meat, the pig butcher is also very good. The fat meat and lean meat are matched separately, so that no one can find faults.
The flat old Liu said that Gu Mingdong is a hero, so he can be picked first.
How could Gu Mingdong take such a small advantage, he has already received a pig's head reward, if he is greedy for such a small advantage, he will be scolded by poking his spine, so he simply follows the rules.
The pork is distributed according to the head, and the old Gu's family only takes the adults' share from Gu Mingdong, Gu Mingnan, and Gu Mingxi. Gu Mingbei and the twins only have the child's share, which is half of the adult's share.
Gu Yun said that she is the daughter of the Gu family, but her household registration has not yet been settled, so she has no part in this meat division.
Even so, the old Gu's family was still harmonious and beautiful, the children shouted and yelled to eat meat, and the house could be filled with cheers.
Soon, a delicious smell of meat came from the house.
Widow Liu next door had a sullen face.
Originally, the meat was divided with great difficulty, and it was different from the wild boar meat last time. This time, it can be distributed by the head, and every family can eat meat.
But when she saw the meat distributed to her family, Widow Liu couldn't hold back her face, and Liu Dazhu even scolded: "What do you mean, there are five of us in our family, why do we only order so much meat?"
The meat divider snorted coldly: "There are five people in your family, but there are only two adults, how much more do you want?"
"There are obviously three adults in our family, why do you count me as two?" Liu Dazhu quit.
Don't be afraid of him if you divide the meat, and continued: "After your wife got married, she didn't work in the field for a day. According to the rules of our production team, those who don't work in the field can only be counted as children."
Liu Dazhu's face darkened: "Why does Gu Mingdong get so many points?"
"Why, these pigs are fattened by others, why do you say?" The man didn't give a good face.
Liu Dazhu wanted to make trouble again, so the shriveled old Liu walked over with a cold face: "Dazhu, go home as soon as you divide the meat."
As soon as Widow Liu saw him coming, she cried out quickly: "Little uncle, it's good that you come here, just look at how they bully our orphans and widows."
Unexpectedly, the shriveled old Liu didn't eat this set now, he just said: "Ah Dong spent money to make up the child's quota, if your family wants to eat meat, you can do the same."
The mother and son were reluctant, but the old Liu didn't help them, so they could only go back with the meat in dismay.
In fact, compared to last year, this year's meat is free, and Widow Liu's mother and son should be satisfied, but it's a pity that both mother and son are not calm people.
As soon as Widow Liu entered the door, she pointed at Sang and scolded Huai and said: "Some people are really lucky, they can have food while lying down, unlike me, who have to work hard for their children all their lives."
Bai Xiaohua was lying in the back room, this time she was not lazy, but she was tired from recruiting last time, and she was a little bit popular when she came back, so she had to lie on the bed to raise her baby.
But she was not easy to provoke. Hearing Widow Liu's words, she held her head up and scolded: "Mom, if you are dead, a man's life is hard, so no one else can blame her. Who made my man still alive?"
Widow Liu was so angry that she almost fainted.
Liu Aihua and Liu Xiaozhu were happy looking at the red and white flesh, but when they heard their mother and sister-in-law scolding each other again, they were trembling.
One of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was outside, and the other was in the back room, but they scolded equally.
With a dark face, Liu Dazhu slammed the table and said, "Stop making noise, you'll know it all day long, so hurry up and cook when you have this spare time."
Widow Liu was holding her breath, she was going to cook.
Bai Xiaohua sat back down triumphantly, but the next moment her stomach throbbed in pain, making her gasp.
How did she know that Liu Dazhu seemed to protect his wife, but in fact he was secretly ruthless in his heart. When she gave birth to a child, she would have to go to work to earn a few catties of pork for the family.
The old Gu's family didn't know about the commotion next door.
That night, the old Gu's family ate a solid meal of braised pork, and early the next morning, Gu Mingdong took Gu Mingxi to set off.
In addition to the pork to be given to the Sun family, they also brought an enamel jar full of braised pork, which was prepared for the second brother Gu who was too busy to go home recently.
The two brothers and sisters walked happily into the town, but when they arrived at Sun's house, when they opened the door, they saw Sun Shumei's expression was wrong.
The author has something to say: I bought a lot of blueberries today. I didn’t realize until after I bought them that my teeth might fall out after eating them.