"Zhao Cheng, Zhao Cheng, wake up, wake up quickly."
Wang Gang felt that his face was slapped several times, and he subconsciously waved his hand and murmured: "Don't make trouble, let me sleep for a while."
The next moment Wang Gang felt something was wrong, he opened his eyes suddenly, and then saw a middle-aged woman staring at him.
"Mom." Wang Gang blurted out.
The middle-aged woman had a mouthful of water in her mouth, as if she wanted to squirt Wang Gang, but she swallowed it with difficulty when he woke up.
"Zhaocheng, you're finally awake. You've been sleeping all day, and I thought you had passed away." The middle-aged woman complained: "The same goes for your dad. You don't know how to drink, so he let you drink so much."
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Wang Gang rubbed his groggy head and realized that he was wearing clothes again. He said with experience: "I'm a little thirsty and want to drink water."
"Brother, give you some water."
At this time, a little girl's voice sounded next to Wang Gang, and then Wang Gang saw a little girl wearing a small flower coat, bringing a bowl of water to him in a blue-rimmed bowl.
"Feng Qin, thank you." Wang Gang blurted out again.
?He took the water bowl and drank half of it.
At this time, a large number of memories had already appeared in Wang Gang's mind, and he almost stopped holding the water bowl due to the severe discomfort.
"Be careful." The middle-aged woman helped Wang Gang hold the bowl to prevent water from spilling on the Kang.
"You kid, don't know how to drink. Drink less from now on." The middle-aged woman said distressedly:
"You lie down for a while, and mom will prepare dinner and call you."
Wang Gang lay down and pretended to sleep, but in fact he was receiving the memory of the original owner.
The woman took the little girl out of the house and warned: "Feng Qin, you are doing homework outside the house, don't disturb big brother, you know?"
"I know, Auntie."
After a while, Wang Gang opened his eyes again and had finished receiving the memory of the original owner.
His current name is Gu Zhaocheng, a child who grew up in Sandaogou Forest Farm, Bianhe.
The middle-aged woman just now was called Na Cunhua, and she was his biological mother. However, the little girl was not his sister, but the second daughter of a neighbor's family, who was temporarily fostered with the Gu family.
The Gu family members are quite complicated. His father, Gu Changshan, is the captain of the 923 work team of the forest farm, but he is not Gu Zhaocheng's biological father.
Na Cunhua married Gu Changshan with her children, so Gu Zhaocheng was his stepson. After the two got married, they gave birth to a son, Gu Zhaoxi, who was Gu Zhaocheng's half-brother.
In addition to the family of four, the Gu family also has three unrelated people.
Grandpa Song Liuxi was Gu Changshan's master, the first generation worker of Sandaogou Forest Farm, childless, and then Gu Changshan took on the responsibility of providing for Song Liuxi's old age.
?However, Song Liuxi has her own house and does not usually live in the Gu family.
Chen Xingjie, the son of Gu Changshan's co-worker, was adopted by Gu Changshan because his father died young and his mother ran away. He temporarily lived in Gu's family and prepared to take the college entrance examination.
Liang Fengqin, the second daughter of Gu Changshan's neighbor Ma Xiaoyun, is also fostered in the Gu family.
After Wang Gang recalled the information about his family, he looked at the room again.
"This is really a family with four walls!"
The Gu family is very poor. There are six people living in a large tile-roofed house. They sleep on a big kang at night, with a curtain at most.
The Gu family doesn't even have any decent furniture, let alone electrical appliances.
Wang Gang looked around the whole house and couldn't see a single live object except for electric lights.
Not to mention the newspapers plastered on the surrounding walls, which were so tattered that Wang Gang doubted how long this rotten house could last.
If this house had been left in the 1960s or 1970s, it would have been okay, but now it is 1997, and Hong Kong has returned.
Wang just opened the quilt, got off the hot bed, put on a pair of cotton shoes with multiple patches, walked out of the house, and saw his mother cooking in front of the stove.
"Zhaocheng, why are you up? Why don't you lie down for a while?" Na Cunhua saw her eldest son, put down the spatula and straightened up and asked.
"I've had enough sleep and want to go to a hut."
"Then go quickly!"
Wang Gang lifted the curtain, opened the door, and then walked into the yard and saw Xiao Fengqin sitting in the sun doing homework. There was a chicken coop next to her with several chickens in it.
The latrine was in the northwest corner of the yard. It was just a temporary shed. Wang Gang was almost knocked down by the smoke.
After pinching his nose and solving his personal problems, Wang Gang hurriedly ran out.
"Brother." Liang Fengqin suddenly ran over mysteriously and stuffed an egg into Wang Gang's hand.
"This is what aunt gave me to eat. Brother, please eat it!"
Wang Gang looked at Liang Fengqin's sallow and thin face and couldn't help but be moved.
Although the Gu family raises chickens, not everyone can eat eggs every day. Except for the younger ones Liang Fengqin and Gu Zhaoxi, only Chen Xingjie has one egg every day, and no one else has.
"Brother, you're not hungry, you can eat it!" Wang Gang returned the eggs to Liang Fengqin. He had just tried it and found that his space was still usable. There were a lot of supplies stored in it. Let alone eggs, he could just eat a chicken every day.
"I ate it yesterday, but I don't want to eat it." Liang Fengqin pushed the egg back and said.
Wang Gang knew that Liang Fengqin had lied because he heard Liang Fengqin's stomach growling.
Liang Fengqin naturally heard it and quickly covered his stomach, his face turning red from holding back.
Wang Gang smiled and stuffed the egg into Liang Fengqin's pocket and said, "Brother just woke up from a hangover and really has no appetite to eat."
"Then you save it for dinner." Liang Fengqin said sensibly.
Wang Gang felt a little sorry for Liang Fengqin, what a good daughter! Then why didn’t the old Liang family want to raise her?
"Feng Qin, keep the eggs for yourself. Brother is really not hungry and doesn't like eggs either."
Wang Gang forced the egg into Liang Fengqin's hand, and then walked into the room without giving her a chance to refuse.
Na Cunhua, who had been cooking in the house, could always see what was happening in the yard, and was both pleased and sympathetic to Liang Fengqin.
As soon as Wang entered the room, Liang Fengqin said: "Zhaocheng, if you want to eat eggs, my mother will cook one for you later."
"Mom, no need, I'm really not hungry." Wang Gang smiled and said, "I'll help you cook."
"Don't make trouble for me. This is not what a man should do." Na Cunhua smiled and said, "Go and call Xingjie back for dinner."
"Okay." Wang Gang nodded, then walked out of the house, walked out of the yard, and walked to the left of Gu's house until he saw a burnt, dilapidated and pitch black house.
The village where the Gu family is located is not big, it can be reached in ten minutes, and most of the people living there are members of the 923 Work Team.
This burned house originally lived in a family of three named Chen. Later, the head of the family had an accident on the mountain, leaving only an orphan and a widowed mother.
The mother didn't want to take care of her children, so she left her seventeen-year-old son Chen Xingjie behind and went to Guangshen to work alone.
How could Chen Xingjie, a half-year-old child, take care of himself? He burned the kang to keep warm at night, and ended up burning down the house.
Seeing that he was homeless, Gu Changshan took him home and adopted him as his godson.??
Chen Xingjie usually goes back to his old house to study, and then returns to Gu's house for dinner in the evening.
"Xingjie, go back and eat." Wang Gang shouted into the room.
"Brother, I'll come right away."
A voice came from the room, and soon a tall, thin young man came out with a few books.
Seeing Chen Xingjie, Wang Gang was in a daze for a moment, because he was not exactly the same as himself (Qiao Erqiang) in the Qiao family world, and there was no difference.
When Wang Gang saw Chen Xingjie, he always had an awkward yet friendly feeling.
In fact, the Cunhua just now looks very similar to Mrs. Wang from Zhiwu World. Seeing so many "acquaintances", Wang Gang knew that he had entered the world of film and television dramas again.
"Brother, are you sober?" Chen Xingjie asked enthusiastically when he saw Wang Gang.
"Yeah." Wang Gang nodded silently, still feeling awkward.
"Brother, it's actually good not to be a soldier. I heard that being a soldier is very hard, and sometimes your life is in danger during exercises." Chen Xingjie thought that Wang Gang hadn't come out yet, so he advised.
Wang Gang curled his lips, disapproving.
Through his memory, he already knew the reason why Gu Zhaocheng was drunk.
Yesterday, Gu Changshan found Gu Zhaocheng and told him the "bad news". Due to political review, Gu Zhaocheng failed the selection and missed the opportunity to join the army.
Being a soldier has always been Gu Zhaocheng's "ideal".
At first, Gu Changshan felt guilty and drank a bottle of Erguotou. Later, Gu Zhaocheng also drank some, and ended up drunk for a whole day.
"I'm fine. If I don't serve as a soldier, I'll go to work. Anyway, I won't die." Wang Gang is not Gu Zhaocheng, so of course he doesn't care whether he can become a soldier or not.
In fact, when Gu Zhaocheng joined the army, it would be more troublesome for Wang Gang to cross over again. He didn't want to stay in the army for two or three years and then retire.
After Wang Gang and Chen Xingjie returned home, almost everyone else came back. Everyone had to comfort Wang Gang when they saw him, which left Wang Gang speechless.
Gu Changshan, in particular, felt guilty towards his stepson and kept apologizing.
"Zhaocheng, Dad is sorry for you. I will definitely let you join the army next year."
Gu Zhaocheng could not join the army because there was a problem with Gu Changshan's political review. Someone reported him recently, and the recruitment office directly rejected Gu Zhaocheng.
In fact, Gu Changshan was also wrongly accused. Recently, his superiors asked him to submit a list of people who were suspended without pay. This was a thankless and offending job.
The son of an old worker was elected. He was resentful and wrote a report letter to accuse Gu Changshan. Although it was later found out, it also delayed Gu Zhaocheng's future.
"Dad, I'm fine. I don't want to be a soldier anymore. I want to go out and have a try."
The family gathered around the small dining table and sat on the big Kang, and Wang Gang directly expressed his thoughts.
"Going out, where are you going? To Bianhe?" Gu Changshan was stunned and looked at Wang Gang in confusion.
Wang had been thinking about it for a long time just now, thinking that if he stayed in the forest farm, there was only one way to die. He also wanted to help Gu Changshan share some of the burden.
"You are not allowed to go anywhere." Na Cunhua directly refused Wang Gang.
Gu Changshan glanced at Chen Xingjie, who had a complicated expression, and then said to Wang Gang: "Guangzhou and Shenzhen are too far away. Your mother and I can't safely let you go there. If you ask me, I will find the director of the field tomorrow and arrange a job for you, even if it is temporary.
Work is fine too.”
When Wang Gang mentioned Guangshen, Chen Xingjie thought of his own mother who left him to work in Guangshen, and couldn't help but advise:
"Brother, did you listen to my mother's lies? In fact, it's not easy to find a job in Guangzhou and Shenzhen."
Wang Gang shook his head and said: "Good men have ambitions in all directions. I am still young and cannot stay in Sandaogou forever. I want to go out and see more."
In fact, these are Wang Gang's excuses. He just wants to find an excuse to go out, cash out the materials and gold in the space, and then come back as a successful businessman to help the Gu family and change the lives of his relatives.
The Gu family is so poor that it is difficult to support the family of seven with just Gu Changshan's salary.
Wang Gang has a head full of ideas to make a fortune, and he has a space treasure. It is too easy to make a fortune, but the prerequisite is to leave Sandaogou. Otherwise, as soon as he takes out the gold, Gu Changshan may kill his relatives and send him to the police.
"Zhaocheng, it's not that Mom won't let you go, it's just that you have been dull and dull since you were a child. I really don't feel comfortable going out alone." Cunhua held Wang Gang's hand as if he was leaving tonight.
Gu Changshan also expressed his position: "Zhaocheng, don't worry, you are my son, even if I show my old face, I will get you a formal job."
"Yes." Na Cunhua said: "Your dad is a model worker in the forestry farm and the captain of the work team, so he still has some respect."
Grandpa Song Liuxi also said: "Zhaocheng, don't worry about not being able to do the work at the forest farm. Grandpa, I will teach you personally. Your father, a model worker, was trained by me."
"Brother, don't leave. I can't bear to have you leave." My younger brother Gu Zhaoxi also came to join in the fun.
Wang Gang felt the deep concern of his family and felt warm in his heart, but he also knew that it was inevitable to leave Sandaogou.
The wave of layoffs is coming soon, and even Gu Changshan may not be able to keep his job by then. Who can everyone rely on for their livelihood?
Gu Changshan and Na Cunhua wanted Wang Gang to stay for his own good.
People of their generation are still stuck in the era of eating from a big pot. They think that a formal job in a state-owned enterprise, an iron rice bowl, and a guaranteed income during droughts and floods are better than wandering outside.
Gu Changshan was trapped in the mountain forest farm all his life, and he could not see the raging reform in the south, nor the vast and deep flowers.
Today's Northeast, or the Bianhe area, is at least twenty years behind Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
"Dad, are there going to be layoffs again in the field recently?" Wang Gang was about to wake up Gu Changshan.
"Even if we are laid off, our model worker family will not be able to be laid off." Na Cunhua said nonchalantly.
Wang Gang shook his head and said: "Dad, starting from the year before last, how many months have you been able to get your full salary?"
Gu Changshan's breath was stagnant, as if Wang Gang was talking about the central issue.
In the 1970s and 1980s, forestry workers were actually treated very well. If someone worked as a formal worker in the forest, it would not be a problem to support a large family. Even the people in the city were envious of Sandaogou lumberjacks.
Unfortunately, in recent years, with the tightening of national policies, lumberjacks have had less and less work, and their income has naturally shrunk significantly.
Even Gu Changshan, the captain of the work team and a model worker, was so poor that he couldn't afford an egg every day, let alone other people.
"Actually, many young people in the village have gone to work in the city. I just want to explore the road. If I really can't survive, I will come back." Wang Gang advised again.
Gu Changshan said angrily: "Do you think jobs in forest farms are so easy to find and you can get them if you want them?"
There is no need to discuss this matter. I have no control over other people's children, and my son is not allowed to leave Sandaogou."
Wang Gang retorted: "If Xingjie goes to college in the future, you won't let him go?"
Gu Changshan suddenly became furious and scolded: "Can that be the same? College students become cadres after graduation. If you can also go to college, you can go wherever you want, and I will never stop you."
As Gu Changshan got angry, the atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became tense.
