Chapter 4 3 Don't hide anything from him

Ever since Hu Tai's rubber car was driven to Nuanshuitun by Gu Yong, people in Nuanshuitun had more topics to talk about.Nuanshuitun is located in the mountains, not a major traffic road, and there are no such beautiful carts in the nearby villages.In the past, Li Zijun's family only had a cart with iron wheels. Jiang Shirong bought his car the year before last, and this year the cooperative bought Li Yingjun's old car.Now how did Gu Erbo come back with such a good car?Some curious people went to inquire, but they didn't find anything new. It seemed that Hu Tai from Baliqiao was ill and couldn't drive the car.Sure enough, Gu Yong went to the lower garden to load coal on the second day, and went again on the third day, everyone believed him and stopped asking.There was only one person in the village who didn't believe his words, and that person was Qian Wengui.Qian Wengui's family was originally a peasant family.But in recent years, people in the village seem not to understand Qian Wengui's origin; although everyone knows Qian Wenfu who planted a two-acre vegetable garden, everyone remembers that he is the son of the old man Qian Guanggeng. I also know that he and Qian Wengui are brothers, but Qian Wengui always seems to be a rich man who flew from the sky, he is not like a farmer.Although he only studied in a private school for two years, he is like a gentleman.He has a good eye for what he says and does. He loves to go to the pier since he was a child. He has been to Zhangjiakou. I don’t know when he went to Beijing. He came back wearing a fur cloak and a fur hat.A man grows a mustache before he is thirty years old.They have contacts with the chief guarantors and call them brothers.Later, he even knew people in the county.When the Japanese came, he had relations with the upper class.Somehow, later even the people in Nuanshuitun had to listen to him who should be the head of the armor, who should pay the money, and who should be the assistant.He doesn't work as an official, he doesn't work as the head of the township, he doesn't do business, but everyone has to compliment him and give him things and money.Everyone said he was a goose-feather fan shaker, a stringer who sang puppet shows.He has such power.The life of their family is just like that of the people in the city. There is endless wine, fragrant tea, and white flour and rice. They don’t see sorghum and corn for a year. The whole family wears very fashionable clothes. .Now the Japanese devils are gone, the Eighth Route Army has come, and it has become the world of the Communist Party, and revenge is everywhere.Last year, Nuanshuitun fought Xu Youwu. Xu Youwu used to be the head of the village. He fled to Beijing, and his family also went to Zhangjiakou. The village confiscated his property.In the spring of this year, Hou Diankui fought again, and Hou Diankui paid him a hundred shi of millet.But Qian Wengui, he sat at home and did nothing, smoking cigarettes, waving his fan, his son became the Eighth Route Army, and found a village security officer to be his son-in-law, and some of the village cadres turned to him, maybe Or his friend, who dares to touch him?When people in the village met him, they smiled and said, "Second Uncle Qian, have you eaten yet?" It's best if you don't meet him, so you avoid him, for fear that he will dislike you and come to harm you somewhere where you can't see him. people.It's easy for him to entrap people, he doesn't care where he says a few words, you don't know where it started, and whose fault it is.The common people secretly say that he is a "Jian", and he is the first of the eight sharps in the village.

Hearing others say that Gu Yong had borrowed Hu Tai's car, he was amused: You, Gu Laoer, are an honest man, and you have learned to tell lies?If Hu Tai really fell ill, can he let his wife go back to her natal home?Isn't it time to harvest garlic?Hu Tai can grow at least four or five acres of garlic this year. This year is the year for them to grow vegetables in Baliqiao. The women in their own family can't weave garlic alone. There must be something particular about it.Since Qian Wengui found out, he must know, he likes to inquire.If something is hidden from him, and he can't make it clear for a while, he will feel uncomfortable.He began to investigate the matter, although everyone believed it to be true.

While eating breakfast, he watched his wife attentively. The second girl of the Gu family was busy bringing food to his kang table, then turned around and left.She is very afraid of her father-in-law.At this time, the father-in-law asked, "Are you going home?" "No." The second girl stopped, looking at her father-in-law suspiciously.The second girl was born with a very dignified appearance. The father-in-law glanced at the black oily hair again, and then said, "Your sister is back." "I heard that I came back with your father last night. People say that they are dressed in colorful clothes. After all, Baliqiao is a big village, and all the women there are particular about how to dress." The mother-in-law, who is almost fifty years old, has fallen She had two or three teeth cut out, and she wore a fake bun, often with a flower on it.At this point she also interrupted.

The father-in-law's eyes have already fallen on the second girl's hands, a pair of silver bracelets are wrapped around her wrists, her rough hands are very restrained under this aggressive shooting, she rolled up the corners of her shirt, and the snow-white foreign cloth blouse covered the black Red hands covered.When she saw her father-in-law serving the wine glass, she was going to go out again, but at this time the father-in-law said again: "Go home and have a look after dinner, and ask your sister, how is the harvest there?" The second girl came out of the room and hurried to the kitchen, where her sister-in-law and nephew were eating, and her sister-in-law, Heini, was boiling water to make tea. As soon as the second girl walked in, she couldn't help shouting:

"Heini!" Everyone in the kitchen stared at her with stupefied eyes, and Hei Ni flashed two big black eyes, and after a long time, she laughed too: "Second sister-in-law! Why are you so crazy?" The second sister-in-law was about to tell her, but the father-in-law in the north room called him his niece.Hei Ni hurriedly poured boiling water into the teapot, and carried two teacups and the teapot to her uncle on a small tea tray.The second sister-in-law followed, and stood outside the door looking at the two pomegranate trees and two oleander trees in the yard.There is a butterfly flying back and forth among the fiery red flowers.

Qian Wengui told his niece again that he wanted Hei Ni to accompany her second sister-in-law back to her natal home to see the woman who came back from Baliqiao, ask Hu Tai what's wrong, and see if there's any news over there.It is on the railway line, and the news is well-informed, so you can know quickly if there are any changes.He was very worried about the actions of the "central" army and the upcoming civil war. Heini said: "Whatever it is, why ask these questions? It has nothing to do with us." But she was scolded.She dared not talk back.But I thought in my heart: "Hmph, you are just meddling!"

After eating, she changed into a shirt, and went to Gu's house with her second sister-in-law.She planned to follow what her second uncle told her to ask, but she didn't necessarily tell him everything.She doesn't like the second uncle, nor is she liked, she is afraid of him, but recently her feelings towards him are slightly better than before, because she feels that the second uncle has been less harsh recently, rarely blames her, and sometimes shows some The look of sympathy.