Following the old man's guidance, Chu Heng and the others quickly arrived at the team headquarters.
When the secretary of the brigade saw that they were traveling in cars and trucks, he knew they were not ordinary people, and they were treated with great courtesy.
In addition, Chu Heng was also very generous. When they met, he gave a box of Daqianmen to each of them. Therefore, after learning their intention, the brigade secretary was also very cooperative and immediately asked the accountant to take out the roster and give it to them one by one.
try to find.
It took them half an hour to sift through the roster, and finally found out that there were five people named Zhou Ju in the team, but only one agreed to the conditions.
She is over sixty years old, married from out of town, and is still alive.
"It should be her."
Looking at the information on the roster, the brigade secretary, who was only in his fifties, took a hard bite at the front door and recalled: "I remember that this old lady was married from that big city, and I went to her house to eat at that time.
When I came to Xi, I was very impressed. Her husband’s surname was Feng. He was killed when he was building a river embankment a few years ago. He also had a son who was a fool. The family relied on the fifth and fifth couple to support them. Life has been quite hard these years.
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"It's quite painful!" Chu Heng couldn't help sighing after hearing this, and then he couldn't wait to say: "Secretary, do you think you can send someone to take us there to have a look? Let's ask if it is true."
"I'll go, I'll go!" Upon hearing this, the accountant hurriedly volunteered. It wasn't because he was very enthusiastic, but because he wanted to take a ride in Chu Heng's car and smoke some big Qianmen cigarettes.
And not only did he have this idea, some other brigade cadres in the room also had the same idea and stepped forward enthusiastically.
"It's better for me to accompany you. I'm familiar with the Feng family."
"Are you okay? I'll go."
"I'm fine too."
The room was in a mess for a while.
This made Chu Heng and others quite dumbfounded.
"What are you fighting for? It's embarrassing and makes the comrades in the capital laugh!" The secretary of the brigade immediately frowned and scolded them. Only then did the group calm down and shut their mouths angrily. Then they saw the secretary slowly get up and tidy up.
He took off his clothes and hummed: "You all work hard, Xiao Liu will come with me."
"middle."
A young man who lived near Feng's house happily got up and walked over after hearing this.
When the others saw this, they immediately sighed, feeling that if they missed this opportunity, they might never be able to ride in a car again.
"Let's go, comrades."
The secretary ignored them, rubbed his hands in anticipation, and led Chu Heng and the others out of the door. Without even looking at the liberation, he went straight to Volga who was parked at the door.
Chu Heng was also a transparent person and immediately invited the two of them to the Volga.
The secretary quickly got into the passenger seat and looked around curiously at what was going on inside the car.
"Eh~ The cars the chiefs are riding in are not bad!"
"Haha, that's all."
Chu Heng quickly started the car and walked out of the team headquarters. Under the guidance of the young man named Xiaoliu, he walked in a zigzag manner to the east end of the village, outside a fenced courtyard.
The yard was spacious and somewhat dilapidated.
There is a circle of old and rickety fences, and several boards on the gate are missing. The spacious yard is empty. There is nothing else except four mud and thatched houses. The wall of one of them is a bit sloping and is covered by a few thick
supported by wooden piles.
However, there were quite a few people in the courtyard. There were five or six ragged or naked dolls squatting together and playing with something. Next to them stood a man in his forties, a little silly and grinning.
He had a silly smile on his face, with a drop of drool leaving the corner of his mouth from time to time. He had no clothes on his upper body, his exposed skin was pitch black, and his lower body pants also had several holes, one of which even exposed half of his buttocks.
When the two cars came to a stop, the children and the man in the yard were attracted by the sound and looked over.
"Big car!"
"What's that black one?"
"It's also a car, right?"
The ignorant children murmured curiously, while the stupid man still giggled.
"Bang!"
Chu Heng and others got out of the car at this time and looked at the dilapidated yard.
After riding in the car where the leaders were riding, the secretary felt that he was no longer an ordinary brigade secretary. He put his hands on his hips and shouted into the yard with a loud voice: "Aunt Feng, are you at home?"
"Here, there, there."
When she heard that the brigade secretary was coming, a gray-haired old woman hunched over hurriedly out. She was stunned when she saw two cars parked outside the door.
"Secretary, what are you doing?"
"These are comrades from the capital. I have something to ask you." The secretary took it upon himself to step forward and open the courtyard door, inviting Chu Heng and others into the courtyard.
The old woman looked uneasily at Chu Heng and the others, who were all dressed in sleek clothes. She couldn't figure out what they were asking a poor old woman like herself.
"Aunt Feng, don't stand here, please invite some comrades in quickly." Seeing the woman standing there in a daze, the secretary hurriedly reminded her.
"Oh, comrades, please come and sit inside." The woman came back to her senses and quickly invited Chu Heng and others into the room.
The inside of the Feng family's house was no better than the outside. It had a bumpy yellow mud floor, dark walls, and few pieces of furniture, all of which were shabby and old.
"Secretary, please sit down quickly."
The woman led Chu Heng and others into the house and sat down, then turned and walked out: "I'll get you some water."
"Stop being busy, aunt, I'll just ask you a few questions and I'll be done." Chu Heng quickly grabbed her and asked, "Your name is Zhou Ju, right?"
"Yes, my name is Zhou Ju, what's wrong?" The old woman looked at him puzzled.
"Where is your mother's family?" Chu Heng asked again.
Zhou Ju was even more surprised. He didn't understand why he was asking her, but he still said truthfully: "The Langfang side."
When Chu Heng heard this, he felt happy, knowing that he was probably looking for the right one, but he still confirmed: "Can you be more specific?"
"Dacheng County, Liugezhuang Commune, Xicao Brigade."
"What's your mother's name?"
"My mother? My name is Wu Xiumei, what happened to my comrade?" Zhou Ju felt a little panicked when she was asked, thinking that there was something wrong with my mother's ingredients, and she would suffer the consequences.
"Don't panic." Chu Heng also saw the old lady's panic and hurriedly explained: "We came here this time to pick you up. Your mother, Mrs. Wu Xiumei, is now terminally ill. Her only thought before she died was
I want to see my daughter."
"My mother is going to die?"
Zhou Ju, who had not been back to her parents' home for almost forty years, was stunned when she heard this, and then a series of vague memories came to her mind. Tears fell on the spot, and she hurriedly said: "Well, then... wait for me first, I'll go.
I'll tell my children in the fields, and I'll follow you when I get back."
Saying that, the old lady hurried out.
"Zhengwen'er, go see the old lady off." Upon seeing this, Chu Heng immediately ordered Hu Zhengwen.
"well."
Hu Zhengwen immediately got up, came out with Zhou Ju, and drove her out of the village in Jiefang.
Chu Heng took advantage of the old lady's absence to inquire about the situation of the Feng family with the brigade secretary, and finally understood why the Feng family was so poor and why Zhou Ju had not returned to her parents' home for so many years.
There is no other reason than the fact that there are too many children and too little labor.
I won’t talk about the previous generation, but just talking about the children of Zhou Ju’s family, there are nine children in total.
Among these children, except for the third and fifth children, who are sons, the others are all daughters.
In order to raise their children, the old couple often borrowed money and food from the team and fellow villagers. But when they finally raised their children and were able to work in the fields to earn work points, the girls all got married.
One of the two sons is a fool, leaving only the fifth son to support the family with foreign debts.
In addition, the fifth child is also a fertile child. So far, he has eight children. Except for a few half-year-olds who can go to the team to help with some work within their capabilities, the others are all hungry for food and food.
There is a stupid brother who can eat a lot of food. Can this family become rich?
Not to mention being rich, it is estimated that it will be difficult to eat enough, let alone let Zhou Ju return to her parents' home. Where will the money come from?
