Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 141
Translated by Serena Love
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Chapter 141: Bonus Chapter - Tangtang and Dahai (4)
The wedding anniversary of He Songbai and Zhao Lanxiang is in midwinter.
At that time, He Songbai's "Xiangbai" was still rooted in the north, and he had not had time to move it to the south. When Tang Tang and Dahai were still in their swaddling clothes, He Songbai began his days of running around. Zhao Lanxiang often felt that he was working too hard all his life. No matter how poor he used to be, their situation was getting better today.
She was very distressed and asked Li Zhong in B City to take care of him.
When the husband and wife just returned to G City, it happened that Gu Shuoming's transfer order also came. He was transferred to the B Military Region of the capital. Before Gu Shuoming left, he deliberately brought his wife and children to the He family as a guest.
His wife is a bright northern girl called Mingxue. Her skin is fair and clean, and she is very tall. Her personality is enthusiastic and generous. She is a military doctor in the military department. In 1979, Gu Shuoming listened to Zhao Lanxiang's opinion and went to the Sino-Vietnamese war. He made solid achievements on the battlefield. Although he encountered many twists and turns on the way, the troops returned with honor.
In addition to his glorious return of that year, he also brought home a pure northern girl. Madam Gu was always disgusted that her son was not good enough in romance, and she thought he would be a bachelor for life. As a result, he went out, not only solving the major events of his life, they even made a baby.
Since then, Madam Gu no longer has to whisper in dissatisfaction.
Zhao Lanxiang asked about how they met, and Mingxue said with a smile, "I am his entourage doctor. He usually looks very stable, but he was almost dead on the battlefield. The bandages I brought were not enough. After we finished all the food, Shuo Ming and I thought that we might not live long enough to see tomorrow. So on the night before the last battle, we got married under the witness of several chiefs."
Madam Gu got a daughter-in-law out of thin air, and she was shocked but happy. A few months later, her grandson, Tiedan, fell to the ground, and Madam Gu wept with joy.
Tiedan was conceived on the battlefield. The flames of war did not defeat him. Severe food shortages and supply shortages did not knock him down. Mingxue once had signs of miscarriage, but he survived well. When he was born, he weighed less than five pounds, and his breath was so weak that people thought that he would leave at any time.
But Tiedan still survived tenaciously. In order to keep him healthy and commemorate his comrades-in-arms, Gu Shuoming gave him the nickname meaning "Iron Egg." Mingxue and Madam Gu held Tiedan all day and did not let him go.
Gu Shuoming was afraid that the northern weather in B City was too cold, and he did not even dare to take his sickly son to the north.
The day before Gu Shuoming left, Tong Mingxue came to the He family as a guest.
At that time, Tiedan was three years old. His little hand hooked his mother's hand, sitting on the sofa of the He family. When he was eating the nutritional meal that was especially prepared by Zhao Lanxiang, his clear eyes flickered. His little hand was holding an orange and gnawed it up, which made the elders' heart warm.
Gu Shuoming came to implore Zhao Lanxiang to make some body-conditioning meals for Tiedan. At that time, Zhao Lanxiang's "Song Lan" was trying out some dietary supplements and dietary adjustment therapy.
Zhao Lanxiang saw that Gu Shuoming looked like he had something hard to tell and thought that there was something terrible. As a result, he only asked for Tiedan's dietary needs.
She responded happily, lowering her head and gently touching Tiedan's soft hair, "Tiedan will come to Aunt Xiang's house for dinner."
Tiedan was tempted by the delicious meals made by his Aunt Xiang and nodded as if he knew something.
Gu Huaijin also served as a professor at the architecture school in G University, and for his grandson, he came to the warm G city to raise Tiedan. Well... he actually came to eat the meals of the He family. He has a cheeky face and comes to the He family for dinner every day. He has become a frequent visitor to the He family table.
Day by day, like the flowing water, the Tiedan gradually became familiar with the He family and regarded the He family as his second home. He often teased the baby brother and sister, Dahai and Tang Tang and accompanied Grandma Li to read and walk together.
On their first anniversary, the two small dumplings of the He family had grown fat and happy. With the two dumplings and the Gu family's treasure, the He family is very lively for a while.
It makes up for He Songbai's occasional absence so that Zhao Lanxiang can't feel so sad.
She and He Songbai were still in the countryside when they celebrated their first wedding anniversary, and the newly-married couple was immersed in the sweetness of their children's one hundred days celebration.
But on their second anniversary, He Songbai struggled for his career in a city thousands of kilometers away from home.
Zhao Lanxiang, who has not seen her husband for a long time, suddenly missed him. She entrusted the child to her mother and grandmother, took a vacation, bought a ticket, and flew to S city.
He Songbai was wearing a hard hat, directing the workers to work on the construction site. It sounded decent, but when Zhao Lanxiang went to the construction site, he saw a dirty man wearing a yellow hat.
In order to narrow the relationship with the workers, He Songbai sometimes even works with the workers. They eat and drink together. In these few short years, he has learned to drive a tractor and an excavator, a loader... Like a solid screw, he can do any job, and he can make up where there is a shortage. Because this year, technology is money. The masters of each technology are too rare and too few. The traditional construction industry is facing the massive challenge of importing emerging technologies.
Even Li Zhong had to be convinced. Even though he scolded him for being too idle, he silently admired him.
Zhao Lanxiang came to the construction site and saw what he was doing while sitting in a bulldozer. In the days of midwinter, a thin layer of frost was formed on the glass. His face was solemn and serious, and the thick tooling lined him up like tens of millions of ordinary workers.
But it is her favorite appearance. She loves his hard work when he was serious and does what he loves.
Although the work he is doing is very hard and tiring, it is not as glorious as people think.
In the early 1980s, supplies were scarce, and pork prices were still too high for everyone. Girls all want to marry pig farmers. The country has set off in a pig farming boom. Individual businesses have sprung up like mushrooms, and funds have flowed into the breeding industry. The pig killers in the country can save enough money for the most beautiful wife.
Everyone envied this work but did not know the true face of the job. A few years ago, He Songbai was dirty and smelly when he was working as a pig butcher. He came back every day with the smell of feces. He needs to take a few baths a day to clean it up.
This time, Zhao Lanxiang also saw He Songbai at the construction site for the first time.
He Songbai had missed lunch when he was busy. Fortunately, he had packed the meal in the heat preservation box early, and when he ate, the meal had become warm.
He mixed these chopped pieces of vegetable leaves and ate them with great gusto. Although the taste is average, for hungry people, it is extremely delicious.
After a few bites, he realized that something was not right.
He looked up, his gentle and sweet wife that he was thinking day and night reflected in his eyes. He Songbai froze, rubbing his eyes.
"You, you... why are you here?"
The corners of his lips raised slightly, showing a happy smile.
Zhao Lanxiang said, "Are you busy today?"
He Songbai has lived a monk's life for a month and thought that his wife must be busy. He quickly shook his head and touched the back of his head.
"The bulldozer is no longer used for construction in the afternoon. Can I accompany you? Have you eaten, Lanxiang?"
Zhao Lanxiang touched her hungry belly and shook her head.
"I haven't eaten yet. I came to you just after getting off the plane. I didn't want to bother you at work."
He Songbai put down his lunch box and took her wife's hand. He led her to the apartment where he had settled.
He wanted to take her to the restaurant for dinner, but Zhao Lanxiang went to the vegetable market to buy some meat dishes. In the rental house, he made simple but warm three dishes and one soup. Pork ribs and carrots form a mellow and nutritious soup.
He Songbai ate a bowl of soup and he asked his wife, "Are you still hungry?"
Zhao Lanxiang put down the soup bowl and wiped her mouth, said with a smile, "Not hungry."
He Songbai hugged her into her arms and took a deep breath, kissing her face.
The hard embrace seemed to rub her into his bones. He took a deep breath and said fiercely, "I was about to die."
"I really want to pack you up and put it on my side to watch you every day."
He Songbai could not expect that she got pregnant as soon as they got married. In fact, he and his wife haven't lived in a two-person world for long. He groped her softness across her clothing, then he frowned and asked, "Did Tangtang and Dahai succeed in weaning?"
Zhao Lanxiang's cheeks were flushed, and she whispered, "Uh."
At this moment, He Songbai became a fierce and hungry wolf, and his eyes suddenly glowed dimly. He put his sweet wife in his arms and hugged her on the warm couch.
His breath was short and chaotic, and he stripped her off.
After seeing the beautiful scene in front of him, He Songbai sighed. His wife's body really occupies his day and night thoughts, and his wife was overwhelming with these mature breasts. He kissed ambiguously. The kiss fell like a storm, and the man who had been hungry for months turned into a hungry wolf.
He tasted this top dessert patiently and persistently.
Zhao Lanxiang touched his back with a thin sweat with both her hands, the muscles under her thumb were tough and firm. Her nails buried deep into his flesh.
A cold wind roared outside the window, and the snow fell.
But the interior is like spring, warm and ice was melting.
...
After the incident, He Songbai hugged his wife to fall asleep.
His vague voice was hoarse afterward, "I'm so happy that you come to see me."
Zhao Lanxiang pinched his waist and glanced at him, "If I'm not coming, you don't even know to go home. I am afraid that you have forgotten what day it is today."
His wife pinched He Songbai, his body stiffened, but he smiled faintly. The breath sprayed between her breath was warm and hot.
"How could I forget it." He kissed in the corner of her eyes.
"If you didn't come, I will catch the plane after finishing my morning work."
Zhao Lanxiang gradually smiled after listening, and her heart was as thick as honey.
She raised her head slightly and looked up at the man's house. He really had sorted out a piece of luggage.
She kissed him and said softly, "Then that ticket is wasted?"
He Songbai pressed her soft chest and smiled lowly, "Thank you for coming to see me. Stay with me today."
...
In the summer, He Songbai rarely ended his long and arduous project. He gave himself a long vacation.
He returned to the countryside with his old grandmother, his wife, the two baby babies, and Liang Tiezhu's family, who also returned to the countryside on holiday.
Dahai has learned to walk, and it walks smoothly. The little one-year-old doll is as beautiful as a girl, with white skin and tenderness, as if you could pinch water from his cheeks. When the two little babies took the train for the first time, He Songbai thought it would cause a disaster. Unexpectedly, the two little babies were surprisingly clever.
When Granny took the storybook and told them fairy tales, the pure black eyes of the dolls seemed able to hold the world.
He Songbai rewarded Dahai to sit on his neck. Tiezhu's wife pushed Grandma Li's wheelchair and followed behind. Zhao Lanxiang embraced Tang Tang, and the whole group was full of enthusiasm.
He Songbai earned a lot of money in a pig farm in the countryside, and the scale of breeding has grown to 5,000 pigs. In order to dig up his ancestral treasures, he contracted the mountain. After two years, he combined pig farms with orchards and poultry farming and built an ecological breeding base for livestock, poultry, and fish. He had efficiently using the output of various parts to recycle resources.
In the second year, he contracted the fruit trees on the hills, which were unexpectedly high-yielding. Since then, in addition to producing meat, "Xiangbai" farms also produced fruits and vegetables, which made "Xiangbai" a famous brand for fresh food.
Before "Xiangbai" made an outstanding performance in the real estate industry, it had already made a splash in the public's vegetable basket.
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After returning to the countryside, the two little dumplings were not familiar with the place where they were born, but they loved the countryside very much.
Tang Tang often chased after the old hen at home. Her third aunt, Sanya couldn't stop her. Dahai likes to eat fruits from the countryside. Summer bayberry, carambola, mango, and watermelon are his favorites. He often stays under other people's trees, waiting for his father to pick fruits.
Tang Tang and Dahai like to follow their third aunt to the cornfield. Dahai breaks the corn, and Tang Tang helps her aunt to catch the insects and feed the chickens.
When Zhao Lanxiang went to look for the children, the two babies came out from the lush cornfield and happily called her "mother." The white and tender face was stained with soil, and they were like balls rolling back in the mud.
He Songbai took the children home to wash them in vain and found that his wife had not returned.
He went to the cornfield again, and he saw between the green corn stalks and leaves a woman's slim figure hidden in the sun. He called out, "Don't you want to go home? We picked so much corn. It is enough to eat."
As soon as his words finished, the woman suddenly lifted the corn leaves and called out clearly, "Comrade, wait a minute. I have difficulty. Can you help me?"
Her voice is sweet and clear, like a lark in the mountains.
He Songbai's gaze froze. His wife smiled at him with between the leaves, and her posture, her expression... A scene suddenly jumped out in his mind.
Their first encounter overlapped with the scene in front of him.
He smiled abruptly, got into the cornfield, and asked her roughly, "Which field is yours?"
Zhao Lanxiang threw a basket full of corn, threw him to the ground, and began to laugh uncontrollably.
She kissed him and asked seriously, "Do you want to eat sugar?"
He Songbai was pressed down, with rough grass and hard black soil on his back, but in front of him was the woman with a smile as bright as the blue sky. The sun reflected the woman's skin as white as snow as if it would shine.
When he was a poor boy, he helped her work in the cornfield, but he dared not look at her for more than a glance.
He knew she was watching him. Her gaze fell hot on him, and he never missed it. Her burning desire is sweet poison for him, which makes him avoid her like a beast avoiding the flood.
He said, "The first year you went to the countryside, you had the same expression when you first spoke to me."
"Get up." He Songbai resisted impatiently and pulled his wife.
She was motionless.
The man patted her tender face and said seriously, "You know, you can't run away if you mess with me again."
Zhao Lanxiang fell on his chest and couldn't help but smile, staring at him closely with her clear eyes.
She hugged his thin waist.
He Songbai raised her head and kissed her eagerly. His thumb gently brushed her hair, unbuttoned her clothes, and got into her tenderness.
"Well, you were the one that messes with me."
...
In the 1990s, the economy had developed rapidly, factories were blossoming everywhere, heavy industry and light industry ushered in the warmth of spring, and the city's floating population increased. The ensuing house prices are becoming more and more expensive, and "Xiangbai" also ushered in its first leap.
The project of the land that He Songbai bought early on has been opened one after another, and skyscrapers have risen up. Commercial districts and fancy residential areas have been built one after another, and the turnover has reached tens of thousands. The assets of the entire enterprise easily broke 100 million from couple of years ago.
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His name appeared on the list of the richest people in Mainland China for the first time. The personal brand of "Xiangbai" caught up with the tide of the times and walked at the forefront.
Although some people criticized He Songbai as an upstart who started the business with his father-in-law, he was certainly not rich for three generations. However, some people later saw the antique porcelain sold by the He family at a charity auction. The total price of the few sets of porcelain was nearly ten million yuan, which was donated to Project Hope. Such big handwriting caused a social uproar.
At this time, some talented people discovered the background of the He family. The He family was originally a family of scholars and intellectuals from generation to generation in the X Province. If it was in today's society, it is enough to make people focus on them and properly clarify the family as innocent intellectuals. The He family has been wealthy for generations. Although it used to be as brilliant as a meteor, it fell down in a flash, but is it now rising again?
Some people went down to the bottom and found out that He Songbai's son-in-law is a distinguished talent in the military. His family is the leader of the G military region. His son and daughter are all outstanding celebrities in the industry, and everyone was completely relieved. His family is completely justified.
He Songbai's life, except for the time when his family was poor, and he had suffered a lot, the rest of his life was smooth. He is rich but very low-key. Except for supporting charity, there is almost no personal news about him. However, almost everyone knows that he loves his wife very much.
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At the age of eighty-five, his wife passed away. He also waved his sleeves, followed his wife's pace, and passed away.
Before he died, He Songbai vaguely saw the woman who was clear and water-like. Her skin was white as if she could shine, and her gentle eyebrows were smiling, like starry ornaments.
He told his children, "I'm going to find your mother."
In midsummer, the strong fragrance of gardenias outside the window is like music, gorgeous and intoxicating.
He remembered many years ago that his wife said that she only likes gardenia because he likes the fragrance. When you love a house, you love the crows too. But he also loved gardenia because of her, for the same reason: love a house and the crows. Their time sequence and logic seem to be a little different, but He Songbai suddenly understood when he was dying. His mouth filled with a faint smile, calm and pleasant.
The scorching summer breeze blows, and gardenia falls to the ground.
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