mesbooks Chapter 141 Chinese New Year
Chapter 141 Chinese New Year
Time passed quickly, and by the end of 1959, both Zhang Yu and Ma Luoying had gone on vacation.
Over the past year, they have been living in the county town and rarely returned to Zhangjia Village, so as soon as the holiday came, they packed up their things and prepared to return to Zhangjia Village to celebrate the New Year.
It has been a year and a half since Zhang Yu came to this era. From being alone to now having a wife and children, he has adapted to this era.
After half a year of hard work by Zhang Yu and his wife, Ma Luoying is now the deputy director of a department in the county government office, which brings them one step closer to their goal.
As someone who was close to the leader, Ma Luoying was familiar with the people in various factories in the county, so when she went home for the New Year this time, she borrowed a car from a factory.
When they drove back to Zhangjia Village, they immediately attracted a crowd of onlookers. Even Captain Zhang came over. For a while, Zhang Yu's house was blocked by traffic.
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Over the past year, thanks to extensive publicity by Captain Zhang and the two nearby villages, everyone now knows that the village’s food was obtained with the help of Zhang Yu, so everyone respects him very much.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhang Yu took out the melon seeds and candies he had brought back from his luggage and handed them to the team leader, asking him to help distribute them.
Finally, the captain stood up and said, "Everyone, please be quiet. I know that everyone is very excited to see Zhang Yu, but he will stay in the village for a long time this time, so there will be many opportunities for everyone to meet. Let's disperse and let them have a good rest."
After everyone left, Zhang Yu moved all the New Year's goods and their luggage out of the car.
Zhang's mother couldn't stop smiling when she looked at Zhang Yu's family. Isn't this what the old woman is looking forward to?
After chatting with Zhang's mother and others at home, Zhang Yu suggested going to the captain's house. After all, he was away from home all year round, and his family still relied on the captain to take care of him.
There was one more thing he wanted to discuss with the team leader, which was that he could no longer provide bean dregs. He heard Director Han mention this by accident when he was about to go on holiday.
Before the holiday, Director Han lamented to Zhang Yu that they used to be able to eat fried foods like tofu, but this year, all relatives and friends came to him to buy tofu, but in the end, there hadn't been a single piece of tofu in the supply and marketing cooperative in the past few months, which made him, the sales director, embarrassed.
He was expecting Zhang Yu to help him, but when Zhang Yu heard this, he was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat when he thought about how he had recently provided a large amount of bean dregs to the village. He immediately said that he had no other choice.
In order to express his gratitude to the team leader, Zhang Yu specially prepared a bag of brown sugar, two chickens, and a basket of eggs, put them all in a backpack, and walked towards the team leader's house.
It was Captain Zhang himself who opened the door for him. As soon as he entered, Zhang Yu found something wrong.
There was a woman in her 30s kneeling in the captain's main hall. However, he had spent very little time in the village, and he had not paid attention to the people in the village since he came here. So Zhang Yu just thought that the woman looked familiar, but he couldn't tell who she was.
The woman looked at the captain with a pleading look on her face, but when she saw Zhang Yu coming in, she was probably embarrassed and stopped talking.
But Captain Zhang looked at her deeply and said, "Zhang Shengli's family, you go back first. I will discuss your matter seriously with the elders."
The woman left reluctantly. The captain sighed and said to Zhang Yu: "Xiao Yu, the village is so grateful to you. You don't know that except for our village and those two villages, the other villages are now in desperate situations. Alas, how pitiful!"
Zhang Yu said politely: "Captain, you are too polite. I was born and raised here. Seeing my fellow villagers suffer, how can I not help them?"
As he spoke, Zhang Yu took out the things he brought from his backpack and said, "Uncle, I have been in the county for the past six months, and you have been helping to take care of my family. Today I am here mainly to thank you. This little thing is not just a token of respect, you must accept it."
The captain looked at the chicken and the egg and didn't know what to say for a moment. Seeing Zhang Yu's determination, he accepted it. This was just right, solving the problem of this year's New Year's Eve dinner.
At this time, the captain thought of the woman who had come to see him just now. Now there were only two of them in the room, so the captain asked Zhang Yu for his opinion.
It turned out that the woman was the wife of Captain Zhang's nephew, who was within the fifth degree of mourning. They were newly married at the time, and the nephew was particularly concerned about his wife. When he heard that his wife wanted to eat game, he bravely went into the mountains. As a result, he never came back.
Originally, the woman's parents wanted her to go back and remarry, but she refused to do so. Her parents couldn't persuade her, so they let her stay.
After a while, the woman found out that she was pregnant.
At that time, my nephew's family lived with a large family, so only my nephew's parents were happy, and the faces of other people in the family were very ugly.
In this way, the nephew's family often quarreled. Later, the nephew's parents could not stand it anymore, so they asked the team leader to divide the family and separate the nephew's wife and her children.
After the distribution was made, my nephew's wife realized how difficult life was. As a young woman with a little child, she had to work to earn work points, but she could not even get enough to eat.
At first she could still borrow some money from everywhere, but later, especially this year, when the disaster struck, no one lent her food anymore, and everyone avoided her.
However, in the past month or two, she stopped borrowing food, and her complexion looked much better.
Up to now, the whole village is talking about it. Just now, the team leader called her over and asked her what was going on.
As a result, when the captain asked, the woman spoke frankly and said that it was given by her lover. This sentence confused the captain.
He pointed at her nose and started scolding her, telling her to stop this behavior before anyone noticed.
But people just talked about it and said that I had to live like this, otherwise I would have nothing to eat and starve to death.
Just when the two sides were arguing, Zhang Yu knocked on the door. The woman knew it was too embarrassing to say this in front of Zhang Yu, so this gave the captain a chance, and the three captains were able to take a break.
Finally, the captain asked: "Xiao Yu, you are a capable person, give me some ideas, what should I do?"
Zhang Yu was stunned. This was something a woman of this era could do, and she admired her very much. Although this woman was a bit fierce.
However, this kind of thing is not something a junior like him can say, so he replied: "Uncle, this kind of thing needs to be handled by you experienced people. I am young and I don't think things through enough."
"No, Xiaoyu, don't be like those people out there who hide things. Just the two of us should speak our minds out."
After saying that, the captain stared at Zhang Yu seriously, insisting that he make that decision.
Seeing this, Zhang Yu thought, "Well, let's talk." So he said, "Uncle, since you asked me to talk, I will talk. If you don't like what I say, just pretend I didn't say it."
"Okay, you say, don't worry, can I still sell you?"
Zhang Yu said seriously, "Master, this is what I think. We don't know when the famine will end. If that woman doesn't do this, then according to you, she might starve to death."
As Zhang Yu spoke, the captain nodded, indicating that this was indeed the case.
Then, Zhang Yu changed the subject and said, "Captain, are there many people like her in our village?"
The captain sighed and said, "There are so many. In addition to young wives like her, there are also many families without able-bodied men. Sigh, this world is difficult."