The Role of Women in Novels
Chapter 24

At night, Chen Zhaodi boiled the crickets into medicine, dried the medicinal juice and sent it to Li Yufeng.

Li's house was close to the grain-drying field, and the wires were already connected. Li Yufeng was sorting through the items left behind by his original body under the incandescent lamp. Being loved by Chen Zhaodi since childhood, his original body did not go to school until graduation from Junior High School. First, their rural girl can talk to each other at the age of sixteen or seventeen; second, she is not in good health when she is at school, and Chen Zhaodi was naturally reluctant to live in a county town in high school.

But now that the point had been changed, and the grievances between him and Zhao Guodong had been reconciled, Li Yufeng also planned to start planning her own life path. With the guarantee of the villa for several years, he would not have to worry about becoming homeless in the future. Although the college entrance exam is daunting, if you can get a diploma and get a solid job in the future, it is actually pretty good.

But it is still too early to mention this now, it would definitely make one feel strange that he made a fuss about going to school before the college entrance exam resumed.

"Girl, drink this potion." Chen Zhaodi moved the stool and sat down beside Li Yufeng, watching her slowly drink a bowl of potions, and peeled the candy for her and put it in her mouth. He said: "Girl ... I know you don't like Tie Dan, but there's something I still want to tell you."

Li Yufeng raised her head and looked at Chen Zhaodi, listening to her continue: "Although the Tie Dan family is poor, I still want to tell you something." The others are poor and ambitious, no matter how poor they are, our family can help you young couple; that Liu Zhiqing looks better than Tie Dan now, he said, but we don't know anything about him, if one day he packs up and leaves, we can't even find anyone, can we?" Chen Zhaodi said, just sighed and said, "When I saw Tie Dan, it was like looking at your father first. People saw him, but I just fell in love with him, thought he would become a great talent in the future, and persuaded him to come to our old Chen's house, and almost a door-to-door daughter-in-law." Although these things were not detailed in the original text, Li Yufeng also knew something . Her grandparents were in the brigade next door, and there were two boys in the family, back then, they looked down on Li Guoji and thought he was the least valuable, the most, so they didn't care for her, but now it was good.Their two sons were not good, After Li Guoji married Chen Zhaodi, the two sons were not good, he became the captain of the satellite brigade of a small captain of a production team like Kaiguang.

"Bu .. I understand what you're saying." Li Yufeng lowered her head, a red hue appeared on her white and gentle face, thinking of Zhao Guodong, she was very kind, but suddenly she was so serious by Chen Zhaodi. It's embarrassing to mention it.

Chen Zhaodi loved her very much, if she really thought that Zhao Guodong was not a suitable match, she would definitely not approve of this marriage before Yuan jumped into the river. It was precisely because they recognized Zhao Guodong that they agreed to the marriage proposal of the Zhao family.

"Mother is just a girl like you, and I just want to see you under her nose. If you follow that Liu Zhenhua, if he wants to return to the city in the future, then we will be far away." Chen Zhaodi thought for a moment and continued.: "Your father discussed with me a few days ago. He said he wanted to recommend someone to educated youth. He's afraid your man is worthless in the future. If you really like Liu Zhenhua, you should give him this place!" " Mom!" Li Yufeng hurriedly called out to stop Chen Zhaodi, under the dim light, the white hair of Chen Zhaodi at the temple slightly glistened. Li Yufeng spread her arms and hugged Chen Zhaodi, placed her head on her shoulder and said, "Tell my father, I don't like that Liu Zhenhua at all. I was wrong before ..." Chen Zhaodi felt a little pretentious after hearing this, She reached out and patted Li Yufeng on the back, and asked curiously, "Then ....do you see someone now?" Li Yufeng did not react for a moment, and only after she understood the meaning of those words., she blushed and acted flirtatious with Chen Zhaodi Said: "Mom, why are you like this! Don't you agree that you'll take care of me as long as I want to stay home?" Chen Zhaodi laughed. She could not complain, she said with a smile: "Good, grow up, raise it until you beg me to marry you!"... They were chatting in the room when suddenly heard a shout from outside, and Li Yufeng recognized that it was a horse. Xiuzhen Voice. "Is Auntie Li home?" Ma Xiuzhen cut Sister Jiang's hair. He is not tall, but has a round face and looks very energetic. Among the educated young women on the production team, Chen Zhaodi liked it the most. "Here, is something wrong?"

Chen Zhaodi and Li Yufeng both walked to the door, and it was raining outside again. Ma Xiuzhen stood outside Li's courtyard with a dark yellow umbrella and said, "I'm here to borrow some brown sugar. Liu Zhiqing is cold in the rain today, maybe I catch a cold, so I will make ginger soup for him."

Hearing what he said, Li Yufeng recalled the fact that they left Liu Yiyi and Liu Zhenhua in the commune, and they had not expected them to come back very late, either, and they followed this afternoon Heavy rain? “I'll get it for you.” Red sugar is an expensive item in this day and age. If ordinary people want to buy brown sugar, in addition to sugar tickets, they also need a newborn birth certificate issued by the hospital. But Li Yufeng's aunt had connections in the city, and knowing that Li Dahu's daughter-in-law would give birth in two months, she asked someone to bring home some brown sugar catties. “Then I can thank you.” Ma Xiuzhen watched Chen Zhaodi go to the stove to pick up brown sugar, walked over to Li Yufeng's side and whispered: “Do you? Liu Yiyi and Liu Zhenhua got back together, and they were both soaked in water." " "Why are you telling me these things?" Li Yufeng pretended to be clear about the matter, and lowered her head not to look at it, but Ma Xiuzhen laughed, looked at him deliberately and said, "It should be 't be, t be, your third brother When did you not wait for Liu Yiyi to come, why did you return today when Liu Yiyi did not board the bus?" Li Yufeng pretended to be indifferent, and asked, "When do you care about my third brother so much? Do you know who he's polite with?" Ma Xiuzhen originally wanted to test Li Yufeng, but he was instead tempted by Li Yufeng, and his face suddenly became hot, but he still pretended to be serious and said: “Your third brother and Liu Yiyi Who in our production team does not know about this problem?” Li Yufeng looked at Ma Xiuzhen who was talking with his head bowed, and did not continue. The people in this era were very humble, and most of them were already dead in plain sight. Now if he understood Ma Xiuzhen's thoughts too clearly, he would probably be embarrassed and stop. “Don't worry, my third brother won't like Liu Yiyi.” He looked at his third-in-law, and said slowly with a smile.

Chen Zhaodi had taken out a small bag of brown sugar from the kitchen, handed it to Ma Xiuzhen and said, "If that's not enough, then ask for more, if Liu Zhiqing doesn't recover, then, please ask the barefoot doctor to come over and give me an injection, it will recover faster."

I see, thank you, Mom." Ma Xiuzhen picked up the items and was about to leave with an umbrella, when Chen Zhaodi turned her head and shouted to the bright room: "Old man, it's dark outside and the road isn't easy to walk through." , You sent Comrade Ma back to the educated youth hostel."

Both Li Yufeng and Ma Xiuzhen were stunned for a moment, and looked at each other, one looked embarrassed, and hurriedly looked away; the other looked suspiciously Staring at Chen Zhaodi, he saw a smile on his face, and he looked at her, it was as if he was just casually mentioning it.

Thinking about it, Li Erhu was married, so she was too embarrassed to ask him to send the lesbians home in the middle of the night, so Li Sanhu was the only one in the Li family who could give Ma Xiuzhen a ride.

Li Sanhu did not know what was happening, so he put on a coat and walked out of the room. When he heard that Chen Zhaodi asked him to send Ma Xiuzhen back to the educated youth dormitory, he did not hesitate. He lifted it. The umbrella broke from the corner and put it on Xiuzhen said: "Camerad Ma, let's go."

Li Yufeng stepped forward and pushed Ma Xiuzhen, leaning into his ear and whispering: "Sister Xiuzhen, my third brother is calling you."

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Ma Xiuzhen and Li Sanhu walked one after another on the muddy road.

Light rain at night was blown by the wind, and soaked the cheeks of the people.

Seeing Li Sanhu speechless, Ma Xiuzhen simply slowed down his steps, raised his head and said to his back, "Camerad Liu caught a cold in the rain today, why don't you go and see him?" Everyone in the production team knew that Li Sanhu liked

Liu Yiyi, Ma Xiuzhen did not have the slightest question when he asked this question.

Li Sanhu was a little annoyed when he heard this, he stopped in his footsteps, and when he thought about what Li Yufeng said to him, he still felt sad, like "stiffness", played by Liu Yiyi. But after all, she liked Liu Yiyi, even if she was angry, she did not want to talk badly about him.

"Camerad Ma, be careful what you say. I have nothing to do with Comrade Liu. You need to be educated for your nonsense," Li Sanhu said seriously.

Ma Xiuzhen was blocked by Li Sanhu for no reason, he was a little depressed, but he also felt a little happy when he heard that he had nothing to do with Liu Yiyi, and feel very contradictory for a while.

"Then I won't talk about it." He lowered his head and walked slowly, and saw there were huge footprints of rubber shoes on the ground where Li Sanhu was walking. He took it step by step, and the rubber shoes were not even dirty.

Seeing no sound behind him, Li Sanhu felt a little strange, turned his head and saw Ma Xiuzhen walking along his footprints. His stature was short, and his steps were not big enough, so he looked bounced, which was very funny.

The people in the city were the people in the city, and they were already working in the countryside, so they were afraid of these messy things? Ma Zhiqing was not as good as Liu Zhiqing in this regard. Liu Zhiqing always looked right in everything he did. Where had he ever had an expression of disdain in front of others?

When he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong, Liu Yiyi was so perfect, so perfect that he could not even find a single flaw. But would Li Sanhu like such a perfect person in turn? Even if he liked it, would people look at him seriously? He no longer had any self-knowledge, and he also knew that it was highly impossible for him to compete with Liu Zhenhua.