Chapter 407: The House Ruiner in the 1970s (38)

"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.

 Their team has a good geographical location, flat fields, and most of them are fertile fields. They harvest the most grain every year, and 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, Hongqi Commune will definitely select the Seven Stars Brigade as a model team every year.

 Because the output of several other production teams was slow and held back, their Seven-Star Brigade ranked last in the entire commune.

Chao Youcheng, who is ambitious and unwilling to stop at the position of production captain, hates this.

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 such a run, 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, so they gave him this task. Therefore, when the educated youth station was built, he strongly requested that the first team be built.

 Other production teams have little idea about educated youth.

 How many of the students from the city are good at farming?

If one team wants to be the best, it will all be won by one team! They don't even bother to care!

 Therefore, the educated youth who came down every year were put into a team and put under Zhao Youcheng's control.

This management made Zhao Youcheng's youngest daughter Zhao Xuefang very excited - she fell 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 the offer, 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 and let you go back to the city to study at university!"

Xu Chengjin flatly refused.

 On the other hand, Chen Binghui, who lived in the same room as him, was moved.

He is one of the first batch of educated youth to go to the countryside. He is 23 years old 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 Zhao Xuefang for discussion: 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 will never 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? Method?"

"But dad..." "Xu Chengjin seems to not care about anything, but in fact he has a very deep mind. You can't fight him. Even if you use your quota to win over him and marry him, you still have to know that he He went to the city to study in college with a quota, but what can you do to him if he doesn't come back? Or is it all in vain? Fortunately, the quota has not been taken away by him, and our family has not suffered any losses. Just listen to your mother and find a job. Marry into a local family with rich labor force and live a stable 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 broken bone 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 go to the fields to do farm work in the future. By then, Xu Laosan's family may not be able to dislike him..."

Zhao Xuefang was a little angry when she thought about it when her father made such a move.

 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 is busy, I only go to the brigade headquarters to help the accountant calculate work points. I have never been to the fields or touched farm tools.

　　Since he became the son-in-law of a farmer and lost his job at school, would Xu Laosan not let him go to the fields to earn work points? When the time comes when he won't be able to earn a few work points, will Xu Laosan's family look good on him?

Zhao Xuefang thought bitterly:

Xu Chengjin, Xu Chengjin, if there is a way to heaven, you will not take it, but if there is no way to hell, you will go through it! Do you think it’s so easy to be a door-to-door son-in-law? You will suffer it from now on! I'm waiting to see you in dire straits in the future and regret your choice today!

 Perhaps with a sigh of relief, Zhao Xuefang agreed to her parents' proposal: she fell in love with a wealthy young man from a hard-working family in the next-door brigade who had three brothers and everyone earned full work points.

Even deliberately spread the news to let Xu Chengjin know: Zhao Xuefang is not wanted by anyone! On the contrary, she is very popular, and many young people are vying to marry her!

He heard the gossip from Mr. Wang who came to visit him that Zhao Xuefang was engaged. The wedding was scheduled for September. Xu Chengjin, who was peeling peas with his eyes lowered, didn't even pause his hands.

It was another news that 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 smart of you to move out! If I have the chance, I want 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 make 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.

●The small piece of bacon I picked a while ago can be eaten, and there are too many peas in my own plot to eat. I will stew beans and rice with the bacon, dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and potatoes.

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. Right Teacher Wang?" "

 Wang Zhibo: No! I want to eat! That bacon and pea rice is delicious!

“I can’t catch up with today’s postman if I go to the commune now, 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 save them for a meal. Does this guy have emotional intelligence? Even after dinner was over, they sent people to the commune to send letters.

Xu Chengjin responded with a kind smile: "My daughter-in-law 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!

 (End of this chapter)