The history of raising children from the Republic of China to the 70s

The two had a preliminary discussion and then went back to sleep. At this moment, Li's mother had already taken a shower and called someone to sleep inside.

The next morning, Li Chengye and Xu Liu packed up and went out, because Li Chengye told Li's mother in advance that he would go to the Capital University to visit the next day, but Li's mother didn't suspect anything.

Li Chengye and the others went out relatively early, so they went directly to the city government compound first.The city hall compound is still a little far away. Although they set off before seven o'clock, it was already eight o'clock or nine o'clock when they arrived.

At this time, the management in the government compound was still very strict, and Li Chengye and the others had no way to go in without attracting attention, they could only watch from a place not far from the government compound.

"What are we going to do now?" Xu Liu was wearing Li's mother's padded jacket, and the cloth scarf and scarf on her head almost covered her face. Li Chengye also dressed in a normal way, picking out the oldest and most shabby clothes at home. Wearing it on the body, it is like rushing to relatives from a far away countryside.

Li Chengye took a look. At this time, a person like an aunt came out of the yard, holding a basket in his hand as if he was going to buy vegetables, but the aunt didn't intend to leave immediately, and was talking to the old man at the door. What, it looks like he will leave in a while.

Pointing in the direction of the door, Li Chengye asked Xu Liu, "Do you know that aunt over there?"

Xu Liu hurriedly removed the cloth towel that covered her eyes, and took a closer look, "I know her, her surname is Jiang, and she seems to live in the next building with my stepfather's."

"What's your mother's last name? Do you have any relatives in the countryside who are not far or close, and it's best not to have much contact with each other?"

Xu Liu frowned and thought for a while, "My mother's surname is Qu. There really is such a family, it's my mother's sister-in-law's family, but she married far away, and we haven't contacted her for a long time."

The idea in Li Chengye's mind gradually took shape, he chuckled, and whispered in Xu Liu's ear, Xu Liu's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he nodded repeatedly, almost losing his head.

Xu Liu and Li Chengye quickly changed their destinations. Seeing that the aunt named Jiang was gradually approaching them, they immediately walked towards each other slowly.At this time Xu Liu had already dressed up as an old lady, bowing her waist and walking slowly, while Li Chengye was carrying a basket on his back, supporting Xu Liu with one hand, the two of them were like a pair of mother and son from the countryside, It looks very ordinary.

When the distance between the two parties was less than two meters, Xu Liu fell to the ground as if tripped by something. Li Chengye quickly threw down the basket and squatted on the ground trying to help him up .

"Mom, are you okay?" Li Chengye's voice was very anxious.

"Oh, are you okay?" Aunt Jiang was taken aback when she saw this scene, but people are still in a better mood now, so they hurried over to help.But seeing that Li Chengye was busy helping Xu Liu, she wanted to go over and help Li Chengye's back basket.

There were a lot of things in Li Chengye's back basket, but the most important ones were cured fish, bacon and sausages. At this time, some of them had fallen to the ground because of the back basket.That Aunt Jiang's eyes lit up almost immediately when she saw these things, but she still forced herself to turn her eyes away from the meat, and straightened the back basket.

"It's okay, it's okay, Auntie really troubled you, my mother just tripped, it's nothing wrong." Li Chengye was about to take the pannier from her hand.

Xu Liu didn't dare to speak, and she couldn't hold back her voice, she just waved her hands quickly, looking like a countryman who dared not say anything when he entered the city.

"No trouble, no trouble." Aunt Jiang resisted the reluctance in her heart and handed the basket to Li Chengye.Li Chengye smiled gratefully at the other party, said almost thank you, and planned to leave.

Seeing that the other party seemed to be leaving, Aunt Jiang finally couldn't help but said, "Hey, comrade, wait a minute."

Li Chengye stopped in his tracks and looked at him with doubts on his face, "Auntie, do you have anything else to do?"

Aunt Jiang took another look at the pannier Li Chengye was carrying, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said calmly, "Young man, are you here to visit relatives in the capital?"

Li Chengye hesitated, as if he didn't want to say more.

Aunt Jiang also knew that she was very abrupt, but when she thought of all the meat, she explained eagerly: "Don't worry, I'm a good person, and I live in the government compound over there. I just want to help out because of your mother's behavior." .”

Li Chengye looked at the other party's fingers, his face seemed to be less defensive, he hesitated for a while and said: "We are here to find relatives. My cousin and her husband's family live in the government compound. Before my mother Married far away, haven't come back for many years, just want to see relatives."

Aunt Jiang didn't expect that they were going to the city government compound, so she immediately became happy, and hurriedly said: "Really? That's really great. I might know who your cousin is. If you go like this, I'm sure You can't get in the door."

Li Chengye also seemed very happy, and immediately said: "My cousin's surname is Qu, and it is said that her husband's surname is Xu." Xu Liu and his family lived here before, and many people here know her, which is why she has to hide it so much reason.

Aunt Jiang frowned, and muttered: "The surname is Qu, this surname is rare, but it seems that my husband's family name is Xu..." She frowned and thought carefully for a while, and then she thought of someone Well, that person was really married to Xu, but it's a pity that he was already an ex-husband. If she hadn't stayed here long enough, she might not know.

"There is indeed a person with the surname Qu here, but her ex-husband's surname is Xu. They divorced a few years ago, and her current husband's surname is Long. If you're not mistaken, it should be this one, right?"

Li Chengye also looked a little dazed, "Auntie, my mother hasn't been in touch with my family for more than ten years. We really don't know about this, but my cousin's name is Qu Qiuyan."

Aunt Jiang was really sure now, "That's right, it's their house, but if you want to find them, there may be no way." Aunt Jiang looked a little regretful.

Li Chengye immediately became anxious, and Xu Liu also took a step forward, grabbing Li Chengye's sleeve nervously, "Did something happen?"

Aunt Jiang looked at them with some sympathy, "I don't know the specifics, but it seems that I made some mistakes and was transferred to another place by the higher-ups." Aunt Jiang actually didn't think much of her family. Well, the reason why they are willing to tell Li Chengye and the others so much is because of the meat in Li Chengye's back basket.

In the big city of the capital, although you will not starve to death, it is impossible to eat well. Eating meat all at once is even more delusional. She saw it just now. There is half a basket of meat in this man's back basket , at least a few dozen catties, if I could buy some for her, that would be great.

Hearing what she said, Li Chengye immediately became very anxious, and looked a little at a loss, and murmured in a low voice: "Then what should I do, I still want to use this meat to exchange some money for my mother's medical treatment." Woolen cloth!"

The voice was not too loud, just enough for the other party to hear, and as expected, the aunt's eyes lit up immediately, and she hurriedly said: "Young man, do you want to exchange money for this meat?"

Li Chengye's eyes widened, and he immediately denied it: "No, no, buying and selling things are illegal, I dare not."

Aunt Jiang smiled very kindly, "Oh, young man, don't worry, I didn't say you were going to do business, I just wanted to exchange some, come here with me." She was about to drag Li Chengye to a place .

Li Chengye hesitated for a while, and finally helped Xu Liu pass.

In the end, Li Chengye exchanged some meat for Aunt Jiang, which weighed about ten catties. This was also because Li Chengye and the others brought a lot of things from Menjiang County, otherwise they would not have dared to do so.

After leaving the area of ​​the city government compound, the two immediately accelerated their walking speed, and Xu Liu also straightened his arched back.

After changing the meat for a while, Li Chengye also got a lot of words out of Aunt Jiang's mouth.It turned out that at the end of last year, Xu Liu's stepfather and her mother's family had an accident. It is said that they made some major mistakes.It's just that no one knew what the mistake was, and no one dared to ask. They only knew that this incident was quite sudden, and even several family members who had close contacts with their family were also arrested.But Xu Liu didn't get any news because of the very unpleasant quarrel with their family before, nor was he implicated.

But what is certain now is that no one is staring at Xu Liu now, because these people must be too busy to take care of themselves now.

The two didn't go back to Li's new house immediately, but quickly went to Xu's old house.

The Xu family's old house is a big courtyard house, which was kept very well at first, but after something happened to Xu's family, several families moved in, and now the inside has been tossed and it's hard to see what it used to be like.

At the beginning, the place where Xu Liu hid his things was relatively remote, and now that it was a working day, no one in the streets outside noticed them.Li Chengye let the air go, Xu Liu quickly found the place where he buried his things with the basket on his back, Li Chengye waited for almost 10 minutes, Xu Liu finally came out mysteriously, with the basket on his chest, and his hands were involuntarily protecting it.

"You are so obvious." Li Chengye was also very helpless with her appearance, and quickly snatched the pannier from her hand. Xu Liu almost resisted, but he let go because he remembered that the person in front of him was with him. Still, she kept her eyes on the pannier.

Li Chengye took a look inside the back basket, and it seemed that there was a sandalwood-colored box at the bottom. He thought that he was afraid of being discovered, so he used sausages and other things to press it down.

"Give me the scarf." Li Chengye stretched out his hand towards Xu Liu.

Xu Liu hurriedly took off the turban on her head and handed it to Li Chengye, she would no longer look like an old lady.

After the result, Li Chengye covered the top of the basket with a scarf, so that no one could see what was inside.

"Okay, let's go back now, stop staring at the inside of the pannier, and look at the road ahead, no one will know what's inside."

After Li Chengye finished speaking, he strode forward without looking at Xu Liu at all, as if he didn't have that important box in his back basket.Xu Liu also knew that her state was wrong, it was easy to be noticed by others, so she ran forward with a steady mind, and she had already caught up with Li Chengye in a short while, but she looked at ease now. No, I'm not as nervous as before, and my eyes won't wander around anymore.

Li Chengye and the others rushed home before eating. Although Li's mother was a little surprised that they were carrying a basket, she didn't pursue these matters too much.She is also getting old, and she can't control many things. Besides, Li Chengye is not a random person, so she still has nothing to worry about.

After dinner, Li's mother saw that Li Chengye and Xu Liu had something to talk about, so she didn't waste time at home, and went to the next door with her two children. The Li family next door happened to have a TV, and the two The children like it so much, it was agreed yesterday that I will take them to watch TV after lunch today.

After everyone had left, the entire Li family was quiet. In the even quieter main room, Li Chengye and Xu Liu were sitting opposite each other. A sandalwood box was placed in the middle of the square table. There was still some dirt on the box. Mottled marks.

"Do you want to open it?" Li Chengye looked at Xu Liu, who had been struggling for a long time.

Xu Liu looked at her box in front of her, and she didn't know what was inside.But she knew that these things would definitely affect many people, otherwise her father wouldn't have warned her so solemnly back then.She collected herself, and finally said: "Open."

Li Chengye nodded, but he just sat opposite, not planning to intervene, and looked away.

Slowly there were bursts of faint sounds, followed by the light sound of the lock being opened, and then sporadic movements. When Li Chengye heard the sound of the box being closed and looked over, Xu Liu seemed to have finished reading the contents of the box. thing.

She clenched one hand into a fist and pressed firmly on the box, her teeth clenched her lower lip tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably, as if she saw something frightening, big drops of sweat appeared on her forehead after a while Zhu, knowing that it is still cold winter, one can imagine how serious the things inside are.

Although Li Chengye didn't mind helping Xu Liu, he didn't want to get himself into trouble, so he didn't even look at the box. He just looked at Xu Liu and reminded, "What's your plan next?"

Only then did Xu Liu seem to have come to his senses, he let out a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "Thank you Brother Li, I can handle the next thing by myself, it's better for you not to look at it."