Siheyuan: I found a wife right after I crossed over

"Your man?" Uncle and Aunt were stunned and looked at Yang Chong in surprise.

Yang Chong smiled slightly and took the initiative to call out, "Hello, Third Uncle and Third Aunt."

Then he turned around and went back to the car, took down a bag of flour from the car, and placed it in front of Uncle San and Aunt San: "Uncle San and Aunt San, we came here from Sijiu City and didn't bring much with us. Please accept this bag of flour."

Uncle San and Aunt San were both stunned, pleasantly surprised, and quickly shook their heads: "No, this is not possible, you should keep it for yourselves."

The famine was severe these years, especially here, people could not get enough food. The bark and grass roots in the countryside had been eaten up, and food was more precious to the people than life. Seeing that Yang Chong was going to give them a bag of flour, the old couple were flattered, but they did not dare to accept it.

Yu Xiu said, "Uncle San and Aunt San, just take it. We have more. We don't need this bag."

The old couple accepted it and said excitedly: "Xiu'er has married a god of wealth. You will be blessed in this life. If your parents knew about it, they would laugh out loud in the underground."

The two of them originally wanted to go to Zhangjia Village overnight to look for Yu Xiu's brother and sister-in-law, but their third uncle and aunt said that they could not go there at night. The construction site was under strict surveillance and outsiders were not allowed to go there at night. Even if they went there, they would not be able to see anyone.

The two of them had no choice but to give up and stay at their uncle and aunt's house until tomorrow.

Since they were going to stay, Yang Chong simply took down the remaining bag of flour and a piece of pork from the car and gave them to the old couple. He had plenty of them in his space anyway and could take them out at any time.

Yu Xiu didn't have any objection. Her uncle and aunt had always taken good care of her and her siblings. Moreover, Yang Chong also said that this time they would take her brother and sister-in-law to Sijiu City as well, so there was no need to keep them there.

The old couple were so excited that they didn't know what to say. They were originally worried that there was nothing at home and they couldn't cook for their two children. Now, everything was fine. Uncle San hurriedly urged his wife to make pancakes and fried meat for the children.

Although the two of them were not hungry on the road, they did not have any proper food, so they did not show any courtesy. Yu Xiu went to help Third Aunt to cook. While Third Aunt was cooking, she asked her about her experiences in the past year. When she talked about how she failed to find a relative and wandered around the city begging for food, Third Aunt's tears fell quickly, saying that the child had suffered.

When she talked about meeting Yang Chong and living a good life with him, Third Aunt said happily: "Good people will be rewarded. You can meet such a good family because of the good deeds of your ancestors."

Yang Chong was also pulled into the room by his uncle and asked all sorts of questions. He was asked almost everything, but when he heard that Yang Chong was now a high-ranking official in a state-owned factory in the old city, he was so shocked that he didn't even dare to speak.

However, Goudan, the little grandson of Uncle San, ran up to Yang Chong and called him uncle without any shyness. Yang Chong took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from his pocket, and the little guy was so happy that his mouth grinned to the back of his head.

The son and daughter-in-law of the third uncle, like Yu Xiu's brother and sister-in-law, went to work at the reservoir construction site, leaving only the old and the young at home. The family was hungry and everyone was so skinny that their faces were pale and their bones were just visible.

After a while, Yu Xiu and Third Aunt came over with the prepared food, including white flour soup, white flour pancakes, and a large pot of stir-fried radish and meat.

Goudan was drooling as he watched, but his uncle pulled him aside and let Yang Chong, Yu Xiu and the others eat.

Yang Chong didn't agree at all and just pulled the three of them to sit down as well: "Uncle and Aunt, sit down and eat together. There are so many things, there's no way the two of us can finish them all."

Even though Xiao Gou Dan's saliva had flowed down to his chin, he still looked at his uncle and aunt, not daring to move.

Yu Xiu directly stuffed a white flour cake with meat and vegetables into his hand and said, "Eat it, Goudan. Just eat it if your aunt tells you to. Your grandparents won't say anything to you."

Goudan still looked at his uncle.

Finally, it was Aunt Three who said, "Child, eat if you want to. These are your aunt and uncle. Eat if you are told to. Remember to be kind to them in the future."

Goudan nodded vigorously with joy, and with a grunt, he couldn't wait to stuff the white flour cake into his mouth. He took a big bite, and the gravy flowed all over his mouth. It tasted so delicious.

Yang Chong rolled up a pancake and stuffed it into his hands for his uncle and aunt. The old couple pushed and pushed for a while but couldn't resist and started eating too.

The three of them hadn't had a full meal for a long time. They were embarrassed to eat at first, but later they let go and ate with relish.

There were more than twenty white flour cakes, but Yang Chong and Yu Xiu only ate three or four, and the rest were basically all eaten by the family of three.

In the end, there were only two or three pieces of bread left on the table, and the large bowl of meat and vegetables was almost empty. Goudan stopped eating only when he could no longer eat. The old couple felt a little embarrassed.

Yang Chong was afraid that Xiao Gou Dan had eaten too much all of a sudden and his stomach couldn't digest it, so he rubbed his stomach and only then did he feel relieved.

After cleaning up the dishes, it was already late, so Third Aunt cleared out her son's room and let Yang Chong and Yu Xiu live in it. However, the two of them refused, so in the end Third Aunt stayed with Yu Xiu in the inner room, while Yang Chong lived in the outer room with Third Uncle and Goudan.

The next morning, Aunt San got up early and prepared food. After the two of them had their meal, they asked Uncle San to lead the way and drove to Zhangjia Village.

Zhangjia Village is more than ten miles away from Yu Xiu’s hometown, Yu Gou, but because there is a jeep, it only takes ten or twenty minutes to get there. From a distance, you can see red flags everywhere, but no people.

Uncle San told Yang Chong: "There is a ditch ahead, and the reservoir construction site is in the ditch."

The car drove all the way to the ditch before stopping. Three people jumped out of the jeep and Yang Chong was shocked by the spectacular scene before him.

There is a deep ditch several hundred meters wide in front of us, and now a reservoir dam has been cast in this deep ditch. If it were in the future, it would not be difficult to build a reservoir dam several hundred meters wide.

But this was the 1960s, a backward era when there were almost no machines and everything was built piece by piece by hand.

Looking around, the earth dam that is several hundred meters long is full of people, working in groups of several people. It is only early spring in March, and the weather is still a bit cold, but most of the people are bare-backed, sweating profusely, working there in full swing.

The entire reservoir was filled with people, and there were at least several thousand or even tens of thousands of people at a glance.

"Where are my brother and sister-in-law?" Yu Xiu was looking for them anxiously, but there were so many people on the dam and the distance was so far, how could she possibly find them.

"Your brother should be pushing earth on the reservoir dam, and your sister-in-law is loading earth at the back." Uncle San said, and led them over there.

Before I got there, I saw a sudden commotion over there, and then someone shouted, "Where's the doctor? Call a doctor quickly, someone has fainted!"