Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 55
Translated by Serena Love
After eating, Gu Huaijin still remembered to save people. He patted the dust on his body and ran to the mountain to dig more people out.
He was very poorly dressed. Some people who didn't have a deep relationship with him could not even recognize this old man as the magnificent engineer Gu. They only felt that this old man has extraordinary enthusiasm. Maybe his relatives have not been dug out.
Teacher Gu followed the search and rescue team and took a big wolf dog to trace the blood from people. He ran around the mountain for three days and quickly rummaged through the entire Niujiao Mountain. His three days of hard work were not without any harvest.
The group finally dug out one living person and two dead people. As for the remaining five people, they could not find the trail. It's hard to live for more than three days if you are injured and don't eat or drink. The workers searched for another week without hesitation. But after more than a week, there was no hope of survival.
The living man who was dug out was the only blasting worker who survived. His eyes were almost blind after he was dug out.
His breath was faint and almost silent, but he vaguely saw Teacher Gu.
"Thank you."
Gu Huaijin's uneasy conscience was forcibly pressed down by this conclusion.
He saved one more person!
He can finally feel at ease.
However, Gu Huaijin couldn't sleep all night. He was thinking about Sun Xiang's words and tossing and turning on his bed. The more he tried, the more he struggled.
Among the four apprentices he accepted, the oldest, Hu Xianzhi, was stupid but calm. The second, Wang Yang, was proud but hardworking. The third was practical and not afraid of hardship, and the fourth, Sun Xiang, was young and energetic but he is also the smartest and most talented. This low-level mistake committed by the fourth made Teacher Gu's conscience dropped. This is actually the clever apprentice he taught!
It's ironic when he think about it!
When Hu Xianzhi brought his own ragged luggage in awkwardness and came to the bullpen, Gu Huaijin didn't even give him extra glance.
Hu Xianzhi knelt in the cowshed for a day. When it was meal time, he took a broken bowl and followed his teacher to the cafeteria for dinner.
Gu Huaijin's usual sweet potato brown rice was unexpectedly received one or two more sweet potatoes. Then the thin cook with a spoon said coldly, "Next."
When it was Hu Xianzhi's turn, his rice is more like soup and sweet potatoes.
As soon as he finished eating, he was crushed and beaten by people.
In addition to the villagers who lost their relatives, there are also Li Dali's younger brothers.
Li Daniu wiped his tears and stepped on Hu Xianzhi's feet. "Intellectuals kill people!"
"My good brother! If it were not for you, he would marry, have children and lived a good life!"
Li Daniu beat Hu Xianzhi again, and left with indignation.
Sometimes death is a relief. Hanging to life without death will only make the family suffer more in vain.
Li Dali is such a person. After he was sent to the hospital, they found that his brain was congested with blood, his body has many fractures, and even his lungs were pierced by sharp rocks. The doctor even said that he was very strong to survive this long.
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Li Dali woke up sickly on the bed after three days but passed out again.
The Li family just paid off their debt. Now, because Li Dali was treated for his illness, they got another huge debt. However, after a week of treatment, the doctor asked them to take him back to live at home, and prepare for the funeral.
Li Dali just waited to die, hanging slowly and painfully.
In fact, he himself wanted to die. He refused to eat every day when he wakes up. He comforted his parents not to be sad and tell his brothers to work hard to earn more money. It makes the whole family more uncomfortable, such a kind son/brother, why should he die?
Li Daniu returned home after beating people, and Li Dali's mother Li Cuihua came back after being insulted.
She came back just to pick up her sons. She wanted to lead her younger sons, Dama and Dagou, to Branch Secretary Li's house. She just ran into Daniu as she went out, and she called him as well.
"Go, let's go to the branch secretary house to get judgement for your brother!
Your eldest brother is now between life or death in order to save his granddaughter's life. Now that people couldn't breathe, they are so anxious to retreat from this engagement. This old lady will put down the words, even if my eldest is dead, I have to get this daughter-in-law!"
Hearing this, Daniu immediately picked up a rolling pin and went to Branch Secretary Li's house with his third and fourth brothers.
"You old and undead bastard. Aren't you so embarrassed to deny what you said to everyone?"
Li Cuihua picked up a piece of mud and threw it on Li Dehong's body. The more she threw it, the more crazy she became, as if the suffering of her son could get better with every trace of mud.
Li Dehong jumped in anger, but his heart also felt really bad.
It is not easy for him to compromise his image in front of the members. He angrily asked, "How much money did your family spend on Dali's treatment?
I'll give him some subsidies. The most important thing now is to treat him. You took him home without curing his disease. Isn't it obvious that my daughter will become a widow?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the contemptuous eyes of the members around him pierced him like silver needles.
Li Dehong coughed violently and continued, "The eight characters of my baby's birthday was switched by her mother. I only learned about it today, I am sorry.
Her horoscope is actually a wood. Gold and wood husband and wife are unheard of for many years. They will cry and quarrelling all day long... I don't dare to let my daughter to kill your son after he has vigorously crossed the ghost gate!"
Gold male and water female have high ambitions, the couple will have a long lifespan.
Gold and wood couple has not been seen for many years.
[T/N: This is in relation to the five elements in Chinese Zodiac sign: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal (Gold) and Water. Each have their own compatibility.]
At this time, Wang Laizi ran out to sing a big show again, "Gold and wood husband and wife have not been heard for many years. They will cry and quarrelling all day long. It turns out that their two horoscope are harmful to each other. They only have half a marriage and already widowed!"
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Li Cuihua heard the words, and she was like being hit by thunder, her mind was broken.
She even wanted to kill Li Dehong. Her eyes were red from excitement, she immediately hit him with a hoe and sprain his foot.
"My Dali was killed by your daughter!"
"He wouldn't die without this engagement!"
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It was only that evening that the two Li families finally reconciled their quarrels. The results were as follows: Li'er and Dali's engagement ended, Li Dehong's family returned Li Dali's 300 yuans gift and subsidize another 300 yuans as Li Dali's life-saving money to Li Ahua .
Li Cuihua beat him, so Li Dehong wanted her to apologize.
However, Li Cuihua took the money, rolled her eyes, shouted at her three sons, and left the Li Dehong's house.
Although they were helpless, no one felt that she was excessive.
That day everyone heard Li Dehong vowed that, "He is responsible if there is something wrong." It should be him who should have gone to the mountain to rescue his granddaughter. He should be the one who was buried in stones and barely hung to dear life. Another man was injured instead of him, but he turned his head around and break off the man's engagement with his daughter.
It's better to break off engagement. If they don't break up, the captain's family has to be responsible to this scum man's daughter for her whole life.
The engagement was cancelled but it was a clean break. Whoever wants to marry Li Dehong's precious daughter could marry her! Their reputation is stinky, what good people can they find?
Li Cuihua ran to the field and cried loudly before she dare to go home to serve her son. Li Dali was lying on the bed crookedly, his dark and ruddy face was covered with a lifeless gray, he asked with a weak voice.
"You cried?"
"Why cry?" (Why did you cry?)
Li Cuihua's eyes are reddened again, "My son, my poor son. Mother is useless. Mother lost your wife."
Li Dali saw her crying and he couldn't breathe. He wanted to comfort her, but his throat and eyes are painful, he is almost out of breath.
Li Cuihua looked at her son's "dead" eyes, determined with pain, and decided to get a "water" daughter-in-law.
Li Cuihua inquired everywhere. No one will say anything if she didn't inquire, but she asked. When people heard that they were going to marry a dying person, even if the man was their former respected captain, the bride price requested were no less than 800 yuan or even 1,000 yuan. The whole Li family could not get so much money even if they tighten their belts. Li Cuihua was sad and bitter.
Finally someone who couldn't see her suffering anymore secretly said to her, "If you don't think that it is a shame, and if you don't mind that the woman is disabled, in fact, the daughter of the old landlord's family is also water!"
For Li Cuihua, this news is tantamount to disperse the clouds and let her see the light. She is delighted and surprised, "Not ashamed!
That's just right! Their family must not be so pretentious!"
Li Cuihua finally remembered He Songye, the quietest person in the entire brigade. She would not speak or complain, only worked silently. She was just a few months older than her son. When she was born that year, the landlord's family opened ten tables of banquets with big fish and meat, and set a few firecrackers. Li Cuihua also touched her stomach and sighed at that time. A worthless girl is more precious than her son.
Li Cuihua jumped up, cleaned herself up and ran to the He family to "propose".
Grandma Li was originally sitting on a stool to watch the sunset over the mountain. Her turbid eyes looked hard at the ruined Niujiao Mountain, and she felt distressed at the treasure buried there.
Fortunately, He Songbai's golden lock piece was dug out, or Grandma Li would be more distressed.
Soon Li Cuihua rushed to the He family, crying and howling in front of Grandma Li. She even almost kneel.
Granny Li calmly listened to Li Cuihua's upside down remarks. She asked He Songbai to carry her to visit Li Dali, who was a solid young man. She pressed Li Dali's body with her dry and skinny hands, and looked at his eyes like a doctor.
He Songbai took her back to the He family's home again, and she responded lightly, "Alright, but I have a condition.
If you want your son to marry my Songye, your son will come to live in our He family's house. Not counted as a superfluous, but I can't bear to lose my Songye. If he lives, he will live in my house, and if he dies, he will go to your Li family grave. Songye will not go to your Li family house.
I don't want your bride price. Just forget it."
Li Cuihua's eyes almost went black when she heard this.
She sobbed and said, "My Dali's days are running out. I want to send him away by my own hand."
Grandma Li said indifferently and stubbornly, "If you can't do it, just forget it.
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If you send him here, he has a way to live, even if my family smashed the pot and sold the iron to cure him. If he stay in your house, he can be buried in his ancestral grave."
Li Cuihua begged again, "Let Songye go to my house to wait for him for a few days, so that he will be happy in the last few days. He is lying on the bed and can't move or anything. Songye from your family could marry again with innocent body after sending him off."
Granny Li smashed her crutches angrily. "Can Songye, who would have outlived her husband and has a bad composition, still expect to marry?
I have listened to your request. Now get out."
It was difficult for Li Cuihua to make this decision. Her eyes rolled back and forth, then she remembered the old lady's phrase, "smashing the pots and selling the iron" and sent her son to see a doctor.
She is like a dying person holding a life-saving straw, and her head is lit up. Maybe the old landlord's house still hides gold!
They can save her son!
Li Cuihua wiped away her tears and choked out to agree.
Grandma Li is still not satisfied enough. She knocked on her crutches and said, "When the time comes, please invite a few notaries over. I will let them witness that Dali will live in my house.
Songye will stay with me."
Li Cuihua responded "humiliatingly" for her son's life. In the evening, she immediately invited several respected elders in the village to sign the treaty with them as witnesses.
If he lived vigorously, he earned his life and earned a wife for nothing! Later, if he gave birth to any son, his surname will be Li not He; If he died, he is still going to the Li family grave, and He Songye will mourn him as a widow for two years. Li Cuihua felt that she is not losing anything with the contract and signed it very readily.
Zhao Lanxiang finished watching Grandma Li get an engagement to Sister He. She only feels that the old woman would not pit her beloved granddaughter.
The captain may have another life!
Soon, Grandma called her grandson to her room, and took the golden bean that He Songbai didn't want to take before. She told him to take it, and told the grandson to dig for more gold.
He Songbai was shocked and happy, it turns out that their family is quite "rich"?
The gold was dug one after another, and it was endless.
Grandma Li gave her grandson a glance and said lightly, "The money is all left by your grandfather's desperate efforts to provide for us.
Just in case in the future, we need to rely on it to save our life. If we can survive, we can just grit our teeth. There is very little money, so don't rely on this."
He Songbai immediately said, "I don't care about those money. I can earn it myself!
Take out the money I gave to grandma during this period to treat my brother-in-law. People is alive but money is dead. I don't want my sister to be a widow."
He quickly changed the way he call Li Dali from "captain" to "brother-in-law". The appointment made today is more useful than anything. Li Dali could not escape from being his brother-in-law.
Speaking of this, Grandma Li couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
She said, "Relax, your brother-in-law will not die!
They are reluctant to pay. If they don't send it to the major hospital, what can be done in the broken hospital in the county town? But if it is delayed, he might not survive."
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