Chapter 986: The Story of the Second Elder of the Gao Family (2)
Tang Jingyue held her chin and asked seriously, "Is that young man in military uniform my Uncle Gao?"
Mrs. Gao smiled and nodded, "Yes."
"What's next?" Tang Jingyue became even more curious.
"It turns out that this boy in military uniform is the son of my father's workmate. He used to fight outside. After the Japanese were beaten away, he returned home. Because of the war, he became an older man.
, His parents were very anxious. That day his father brought him to my house and wanted my father to introduce his son to a mother-in-law in a nearby village. When my father saw how handsome she was, he even
He was a soldier. His eyes were shining brightly at that time. He ran into the woodshed and took me, who was unkempt, to the kitchen to wash up. My mother braided my hair again and put on a red flower braid.
The cotton-padded jacket then pulled me in front of his friend and soldier."
Tang Jingyue heard this in disbelief.
Mrs. Gao vividly and emotionally performed the scene at that time.
My father said to his coworker, "Lao Gao, what do you think of my daughter?"
His co-worker was shocked when he saw me. He opened his eyes wide and asked, "Old Yao, when did you have such a handsome girl? Why haven't you seen her before when you came home?"
My dad said excitedly, "She is Erya."
Mrs. Gao was afraid that Tang Jingyue wouldn't understand who Erya was, so she first added a narration, "My name was Erya at the time, silly Erya."
“At that time, Xiaozheng’s grandfather was shocked when he heard it.
He has been to my house several times before. Every time he came, he saw that I was dressed in dirty clothes and my face was smeared black. Whenever I saw a stranger, I would run into the woodshed. He always thought that I was stupid.
Son, every time I see you I sigh with regret."
Mrs. Gao said, "After my father explained to them the reason why I acted ugly and stupid, the military uniform student was very angry and told me in a very gentle tone that the Japanese had surrendered.
You won’t have to be afraid anymore.”
Tang Jing also had mixed feelings when she heard this and was very touched.
Unexpectedly, during the war years, Mrs. Gao would encounter such a thrilling thing.
In order to hide from the Japanese and traitors, the young girl spent her days unkempt.
She asked again, "Have you decided to get married after seeing this?"
Old Mrs. Gao smiled and said, "It has been decided, but it is not easy to decide because Grandpa Xiaozheng has always been worried and tried to trick my father by saying that this girl is really okay with her brain, right?
Of course my father said no, but he was skeptical. My father had gone to great lengths to get me to marry that young man in military uniform. In front of Grandpa Xiaozheng, he changed his mind.
He tested me in law, including addition and subtraction, and a lot of common sense questions about life. I remember that he asked me some very strange questions at that time, and also asked me what I thought about the landlords and their old wealth.
view.
I still had a bright mind and answered his questions diligently. After the efforts of our father and daughter, the Gao family finally believed that I was not a fool."
Mrs. Gao recalled these past events with deep nostalgia on her wrinkled cheeks, "The two elders made the decision and decided on this marriage at that time."
"Then you guys just got married without ever seeing each other again?" Tang Jingyue really listened to the story now.
Mrs. Gao nodded, "When Grandpa Xiaozheng came for the second time, he brought a basket of sweet potatoes as a betrothal gift. He found an auspicious day and got married."
"After we got married, he gave me a name, Cuiping, or Erya Taitu. He also told me a lot about the policies at that time, Jingyue, do you know, at that time
At that time, I really seemed to have opened the door to a new world. He said that in the future life, the people will be the masters of the country, there will be no landlords, and there will be no oppression. Hearing this made my blood boil, and I began to
Learn to write, go to night school, and make progress with him."
When Mrs. Gao said this, her expression darkened again and she began to sigh, "Oh, but the good times did not last long. Within two or three months of getting married, he was going to fight again."
"This fight lasted another four years. When he left, I happened to be pregnant with your sister. The child was born in the countryside for more than three years, and she never saw what her father looked like. During those three years,
, Xiaozheng’s grandparents also passed away one after another, and I gave them death alone. After the war, he returned to the village to find us. When Xiaolan saw him, he was so frightened that he cried out.
Crying, the child was crying, and his father was crying too. The father and daughter were crying in the dilapidated yard of our house, crying so sadly that all the neighbors came to watch."
Mrs. Gao's tears fell unconsciously when she said this.
She thought about the hard years in the past and was so sad that she wiped her tears.
Tang Jingyue was very moved when she heard this. The peaceful and happy life now was obtained by the older generation of soldiers. The hardships they had endured before, the young people now have
It's simply unimaginable.
She handed Mrs. Gao a handkerchief, and the old man wiped her tears and continued, "It took Xiaolan and her father four or five days to make Xiaolan not be so afraid of him. Those four or five days
In the sky, he makes a bed on the floor at night, and when he gets on the kang, the child cries."
The old man recalled the past events with mixed feelings.
"Later, he took me and my child to Bincheng and lived in the military compound. Only then did I know that he was already a battalion commander, and I was just a rural woman who had never seen the world.
I don’t understand anything. In this military compound, it’s like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. I see that the chiefs who are soldiers have married wives who are educated and fashionable. I feel very inferior.
, and I was afraid of embarrassing Lao Gao, so I told Lao Gao, how about we get divorced, and you could settle me and the children in the village, and you, I would marry you another wife. With your current conditions,
It is not difficult to find a wife with good conditions.
I remember there was a political commissar in their compound at that time. After he became an official, he divorced his wife in the village and found a beautiful nurse in the city."
"What did my uncle Gao say?" Tang Jingyue looked at her curiously and asked.
When Mrs. Gao said this, she couldn't hide the look of happiness on her face. She smiled and said, "He scolded me and said that if I divorce him because of my low self-esteem, he will resign and be with me and the children."
I will go back to my hometown to farm so that I won’t feel inferior.”
"I was frightened when I heard it, for fear of delaying his future. From then on, I never dared to mention the divorce. Later, after living in the compound and getting to know each other, I found that everyone
She's quite approachable. I think your grandma is a daughter of a wealthy family. She's quite squeamish. However, she's quite nice to me and doesn't look down on me. After all, your grandpa and Xiaozheng's father are good brothers.
."
Tang Jingyue heard the old lady mention her grandparents, and she asked with a smile, "Does my grandpa particularly dote on my grandma?"
Mrs. Gao nodded, "That's right, your grandfather was famous for doting on his wife. Your grandma was injured that year, and he went against all odds to find a nanny."
