Fengcheng old events

Chapter 13

Lights came on in the house.

After a while, a human voice came: "Who? Who knocked on the door?"

Zhang Jingyi gathered all his strength and shouted, "I, I am Jingyi, your sister."

"what?"

The courtyard door was opened, and Zhang Jingyi's younger brother, Zhang Jingli, came out wearing a thin shirt.

Look carefully: "Sister, what are you, why are you here at this time?" He turned his head and looked around: "Are you alone? You didn't come here, did you?"

Zhang Jingyi's legs went limp, and he sat on the ground, tears gushing out, sobbing choked up.

Half-armed and half-carried Zhang Jingyi into the house, Zhang Jingli looked at his sister under the dim light. His hair was messed up, his eyes were swollen, his shoes were covered with plaster on his trouser legs, and his face was blue and white from the night wind.

Asking my sister to sit down by the kang, Zhang Jingli went to the outer room to fetch a basin of water and warm it up: "Sister, wash your face, and when you're done, go to the kang to keep warm."

Zhang Jingli's daughter-in-law also got up, and sat on the side without knowing why.

Zhang Jingyi took the towel in his hands, squeezed it, and looked at Zhang Jingli: "Brother, your brother-in-law is dead."

Zhang Jingli was taken aback: "Ah? When did it happen? Then you can write a letter, or have someone bring a letter. What are you doing here alone? It's not peaceful outside now, this black light is blind, you want to come out?" What about Zhaofeng and Jin Baoer?"

Zhang Jingyi looked at Zhang Jingli dully: "The family is separated, let me move out, I have nowhere to go. Jin Baoer is crying from hunger."

Zhang Jingli's daughter-in-law said: "Sister, wash your face, go to the kang and say, look at you cold."

After Zhang Jingyi said a few words, he suddenly saw that his younger brother's excitement had subsided a little. He lowered his head and washed his face with hot water and wiped it clean. Zhang Jingli said, "I'll add some hot water to burn my feet. Why don't you take the car?"

Zhang Jingyi burst into tears again: "There is no money. Your brother-in-law left suddenly, leaving nothing behind, and did not explain anything."

Zhang Jingli was stunned for a moment and asked, "Liu Huawen and his wife won't give you any money? Fuck you, you beast."

Zhang Jingyi took a few breaths, lifted his feet and took off his shoes, and now he recovered, feeling pain all over his body.

Zhang Jingli knelt down to help Zhang Jingyi take off his shoes. Both feet were swollen, his right foot was worn out, and a large piece of the sock was stained red and stuck to his feet.

Zhang Jingli carefully soaked Zhang Jingyi's feet in hot water, and then took off his socks.Zhang Jingyi said: "I will do it myself."

Zhang Jingli went to the side to search for it, and brought a porcelain pot over. After Zhang Jingyi endured the pain and washed his feet, he picked some white powder from the pot and put it on the wound on Zhang Jingyi's foot, and said to his wife, "Go to the ground, Go get something to eat, my sister must have eaten nothing. When did you leave home, sister?"

Zhang Jingyi thought for a while and said, "Morning. Jin Bao'er said she was hungry, so Zhaofeng cooked some sweet potatoes for me, and I left when I was done."

Zhang Jingli paused: "It's a crime." His wife put on a dress and went to the outhouse.

There was a voice in the yard outside, asking outside the window, "Dad, are you okay?"

He is the youngest son of Zhang Jingli.Zhang Jingli said: "It's okay, your aunt is here, you can go to bed. Get up early in the morning and call the eldest and the second."

There was a promise outside the window, but nothing happened.

After drinking a bowl of hot mud, Zhang Jingyi fell asleep on the kang without taking off his clothes. He was so tired that he couldn't stand it anymore as soon as he saw his younger brother relax.

……

Dazed, Zhang Jingyi was awakened by the sound, and habitually reached out to touch his side, but there was nothing.

"Jin Baoer." She sat up all of a sudden, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Zhang Jingli opened the door and came in: "Sister, you're awake, go down to the ground and eat something, we'll make up after eating."

Zhang Jingyi brushed his hair, moved to the side of the kang to look for shoes, and said, "I have to go back quickly, Jin Baoer hasn't seen me for a day, so I have to cry."

Zhang Jingli handed Zhang Jingyi the shoes that were drying on the stove, and said, "Eat first, and then I will accompany you back."

Put on the kang table.There is nothing good, pickles, corn noodles, and a large bowl of stewed cabbage, with only a little meat oil in it.

Zhang Jingli's family had finished eating, so they sat on the edge of the kang and talked.

"Sister, do you have any plans?"

Zhang Jingyi said: "I don't know. I'm here to ask you for advice. Zhuanghe can't stay any longer, there is no place to stay."

Zhang Jingli said: "Sister, now I am required to eat in the cafeteria. Everything is based on ticket labor. I can't support you three. Otherwise, I will find someone. Sister, take your children to Benxi. There is a steel factory over there." , is directly under the central government, the place is big, and life is good.”

In fact, the provinces of Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Xi'an have been merged at this moment, and Benxi has been brought under the direct control of the province. However, unlike ordinary prefecture-level cities under provincial jurisdiction, Benxi is one of the thirteen larger cities with legislative power in the country.

In this era, steel is everything, so Benxi and Anshan's policies and treatment are among the top in the country.

Zhang Jingyi looked at Zhang Jingli: "Can you do it?"

Zhang Jingli nodded and said, "I can do it, remember that my mother has a relative named Yang, we should call my cousin Yang Qingyuan at home, remember?"

Zhang Jingyi thought hard, then shook his head: "I can't remember."

Zhang Jingli said: "You have been away for a long time. It's okay. You can't remember. It's okay. He and I have been walking around, and the relationship is okay. He is in Benxi and works in a steel factory. I will contact him and see if I can Help. That's a hot one, sure it will work."

Zhang Jingyi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Zhang Jingli said: "Today, let's go to Zhuanghe by car and talk with Liu Huawen. After that, you can bring Zhaofeng and Jin Baoer to live here first. I will send you there when there is a letter from Yang Qingyuan."

Zhang Jingyi hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Can you live here?"

Zhang Jingli said: "I can live there. It's fine to stay for a few days. After a long time, sister, I'm afraid I won't have enough food. You have taken care of me since I was a child, and my brother-in-law helped me to take down the house and the job of the eldest and second child. You are my own sister, so I can't ignore you no matter what.

But now the world has changed. If you don’t reason with me, if you don’t have a labor force, you will be hungry. No one cares.They can no longer buy and sell, and the land is also owned by the collective, and the food is rationed and distributed according to the head of the population.I am also powerless. "

Zhang Jingyi nodded, put down his chopsticks, thought for a while, and took two pastries to find something to pack.

Zhang Jingli said: "I've prepared, I've prepared, I have. After eating, pack up and we'll leave."

Zhang Jingli took his three sons and got on the bus to Zhuanghe together with Zhang Jingyi. They staggered and arrived at Zhuanghe County at noon.

After getting out of the car, Zhang Jingyi strode home, and Zhang Jingli followed behind carrying the bread wrapped in newspaper.

Pushing open the gate, a few steps into the courtyard, Zhang Jingyi shouted loudly: "Jin Baoer, Jin Bao, Zhaofeng."

(End of this chapter)