"Dad! Is he really the son-in-law of the Xu family? He would rather cut in the door than marry me? Why is he like this!"
Zhao Xuefang went to school early this morning to wait for Xu Chengjin. Unexpectedly, she didn't arrive, but when she heard the news, she was shocked and angry. She ran home to cry to her parents.
Zhao Youcheng is the production captain of the first team.
There are six production teams in the Qixing Brigade. Before the commune was established, there were six natural villages.
Because their team has a good geographical location and flat fields, most of which are fertile fields, they harvest the most grain every year. Their team has the highest yield.
Gradually, under the subtle leadership of Zhao Youcheng, most of the members of the first team became arrogant and looked down on the people of other teams, feeling that they were all dragging them down.
If the output of other teams is as high as that of one team, the Red Flag Commune's selection of pacesetter teams every year will definitely include the Seven-Star Team.
Just because the output of several other production teams was slow and held back, their Seven-Star Brigade ranked last in the entire commune.
Zhao Youcheng, who is ambitious and unwilling to stop at the position of production captain, hates it.
For this reason, he often went to the commune, hoping to show his face in front of all the cadres, and he might one day replace the party secretary and become the head of the Seven Star Brigade.
After running like this, the commune cadres got to know him. It just so happened that in the past few years, educated youths went to the countryside every year to join the team. Out of fairness, each brigade was evenly distributed, and a few were allocated to the Seven-Star Brigade for Zhao Youcheng to bring back.
Zhao Youcheng thought this was an opportunity - the commune cadres trusted him and wanted to investigate him before giving him this task. Therefore, when the educated youth station was built, he strongly requested that a first team be built.
Other production teams have little idea about educated youth.
How many students from the city can farm?
If one team wants to be the best, the other team will get it! They don't even bother to care!
Therefore, the educated youth who came down every year were put into a team and under the supervision of Zhao Youcheng.
This management made Zhao Youcheng's youngest daughter, Zhao Xuefang, fall in love with Xu Chengjin, who came here two years ago to join the team, and she wanted to marry him ever since.
But the other party refuses to accept it, just unwilling.
This year, the Seven-Star Brigade received a recommended quota for the University of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers. Zhao Xuefang used the quota to manipulate Xu Chengjin: "If you marry me, I will beg my father to give you the quota so that you can go back to the city to study at university!"
Xu Chengjin flatly refused.
But Chen Binghui, who lived in the same room with him, was moved.
He is one of the first batch of educated youth to go to the countryside. He is 23 this year. If he does not return to the city, he is worried that he will really settle in the countryside for the rest of his life.
So, he seized this opportunity and recommended himself to discuss with Zhao Xuefang: he helped Zhao Xuefang get Xu Chengjin, and Zhao Xuefang persuaded Captain Zhao to give him the spot.
Unexpectedly, he ended up taking advantage of Xu Laosan's second daughter.
"Dad! You have to make the decision for me! If you don't say this, I won't be willing to do it for the rest of my life!"
Zhao Xuefang cried and fussed, begging Zhao Youcheng.
Zhao Youcheng sighed, banged his pipe and said: "You have heard about it, don't others know about this? With Xu Laosan's showmanship, maybe the whole brigade knows about it. This matter is a foregone conclusion, what can I do?
way?"
"But dad..."
"Xu Chengjin seems to not care about anything and doesn't care about anything, but in fact he is very deep-minded. You can't defeat him. Even if you use the quota to control him and become a couple with him, you will know that he will go to the city to study with the quota.
College, what can you do with him if he doesn't come back? Or is it a waste of money? Fortunately, the quota is not taken away by him, and our family has no losses. Just listen to your mother and find someone with rich local labor force.
Marry me and live a peaceful life. As for you asking your father to vent your anger for you..."
Zhao Youcheng took a deep drag on his cigarette, squinted his eyes and blew out a string of smoke rings, and said wisely:
"This is easy to handle. Didn't he have a fracture and be unable to go to school? Didn't he ask me for leave? Why don't he stop going to school forever? Let him do farm work in the fields. By then, Xu Laosan's family may not be able to dislike him..."
Zhao Xuefang felt a little angry when she heard her father pull such a trick.
Xu Chengjin was lucky. The year she went to the countryside, she happened to be recruiting teachers for the brigade primary school.
Because of his outstanding literary talent, he caught the attention of commune cadres and was appointed as the teacher of the senior class for two consecutive years.
When farming was busy, I only went to the brigade headquarters to help the accountant calculate work points. I never went to the fields or touched farm tools.
When he becomes a farmhouse son-in-law and loses his job at school, will Xu Laosan not let him go to the fields to earn work points? If he can’t earn many work points, will Xu Laosan’s family look good on him?
Zhao Xuefang thought bitterly:
Xu Chengjin, Xu Chengjin, there is a road to heaven but you don’t take it, and there is no door to hell but you have to break through it! Do you think it is so easy to be a door-to-door son-in-law? You will suffer it in the future! I am waiting to see you fall into dire straits in the future and regret your choice today.
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Perhaps with a sigh of relief, Zhao Xuefang agreed to her parents' proposal: she and the young man from a wealthy family, who had three brothers in the same team next door and everyone earned full work points, had their sights on each other.
She also deliberately spread the news to let Xu Chengjin know: Zhao Xuefang is not wanted by no one! On the contrary, she is very popular, and some young people are vying to marry her!
When Mr. Wang, who came to visit him, heard gossip that Zhao Xuefang was engaged, and that the wedding was scheduled for September, Xu Chengjin, who was peeling peas with his eyes downcast, didn't even pause.
But another news made him raise his eyebrows: "Captain Zhao asked Chen Binghui to teach the senior class?"
"No, other people are making trouble." Wang Zhibo looked helpless, "I think you and I were selected by the commune cadres at the beginning. Who does Chen Binghui mean to him? Why did the captain let him take over your position with just one word? He can
, why can’t others? Sigh... The Educated Youth Station has been very noisy recently. It’s so wise of you to move out! If I have a chance, I’d like to move too.”
"You can do it. It's just a marriage, isn't it?" Xu Chengjin raised her eyes and glanced at him with a smile.
Wang Zhibo choked: "That's it?... Let's forget about this! I'm worried that my parents will not recognize me as their son when they find out."
Just as he was talking, Xu Yin came back from work to cook dinner.
Seeing Wang Zhibo, he greeted with a smile: "Teacher Wang, stay and have a light meal before leaving."
She plans to steam peas and rice tonight.
A small amount of bacon that was pickled a while ago can be eaten, and there are too many peas in the private plot to eat. Together with the bacon, dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and potatoes, we will make a meal of beans and rice.
Xu Chengjin handed the peeled peas to Xu Yin, and glanced at her pretty face that was rosy after working for a long time with a smile: "Teacher Wang still wants to help me go to the commune to send a letter, so I won't eat it. Right, Teacher Wang?"
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Wang Zhibo: No! I want to eat it! That bacon and pea rice, it sounds delicious!
"If I go to the commune now, I won't be able to catch up with today's postman, and it will be the same if I send it tomorrow morning."
Xu Yin looked at Xu Chengjin and said.
Since you have to ask people to run errands, you should leave them to have a meal. Does this guy have emotional intelligence? Even after dinner, he sends people to the commune to send letters.
Xu Chengjin responded with a kind smile: "My wife is right! Then Teacher Wang will stay and have a meal before leaving."
Wang Zhibo: "..."
Xu Chengjin, you should change your name to Xu Gou!