1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 161 What are you talking about? Did you buy a house in Yanjing? (Request full order)
The things were a mess, all kinds of things, and Feng Jiayou bought basically everything he could think of!

Cheng Xuemin also thought of something!

She immediately took out a pack of Yanjing brand cigarettes from his bag that Feng Jiayou had prepared for her father-in-law.

This is a cigarette with a handle. In that era, even in Yanjing, her own father, Mr. Feng, would not be willing to smoke it.

But this time, in order to honor her father-in-law and to make her man proud when he returned home for the New Year, Feng Jiayou prepared six items for him.

It’s like it’s free!

Immediately, Cheng Xuemin opened two packs of cigarettes and started giving cigarettes to my grandfather, uncle and others first.

"Oh! Are these cigarettes? Xuemin, did you bring them back from Yanjing?"

The grandfather took the cigarette handed to him by his grandson, his eyes sparkled, and he took it with trembling hands. The uncle next to him also exclaimed.

"Grandpa, try this! My son bought it for you in Beijing!"

Seeing that his grandfather was very excited, Cheng Xuemin quickly offered it to him with both hands. However, he did not dare to be arrogant in front of his grandfather and handed the cigarette to the old man with one hand.

"Good, good, good! Xuemin, you have made progress!"

My grandfather nodded repeatedly, his heart trembling with excitement. He didn't expect that he could still smoke this kind of cigarette even though he was half buried in the ground.

"Xuemin, are these cigarettes specially supplied to Tiananmen Square?"

Uncle Cheng Yunjin took the cigarette offered by Cheng Xuemin with both hands, wiped the cigarette tenderly, and also made a bold guess.

Because they only saw leaders smoking this kind of cigarette in the county government compound.

I heard they are all specially supplied!

Without a certain level, don’t even think about it.

But who knows!

Cheng Xuemin, a young man from Chengjiawan, brought back this kind of special cigarettes after a trip to Yanjing. It's incredible!
After hearing what the old man said, not to mention grandpa, uncles, and aunts, even Cheng Youben, father of Cheng who was cursing the spendthrift in his heart, was also shocked!
I thought, could these cigarettes really be specially supplied to the leaders?
But even if it was not a special cigarette for the leaders, it was a rare thing and no one in their commune had ever smoked it.

Even the commune secretary may not have smoked many cigarettes. He might have gone to the county to get them shamelessly.

But what a spendthrift eldest son he is!

He just took out two whole packs and gave them out to everyone he met. Each time he gave out a whole stick!
Can't you just save a little and cut half a stick for each person to try for fun? ?

"Dad! You want one too!"

When Cheng Xuemin sent the money to his father, he was met with a huge eye roll. The father even took the whole bag from his hand. The look in his eyes was definitely scolding him for being a spendthrift!

This made Cheng Xuemin smile bitterly!
No, no, no!

Your daughter-in-law brought you six cartons of cigarettes. You won’t feel bad if you give some cigarettes to your relatives!

"Xuemin has made great progress! He even brought back the special cigarettes from Yanjing. Youben, your Xuemin has made great progress!"

"Xuemin, Xuemin, give me one too. Let us country bumpkins have a taste of the delicious food that is only available in the city!"

The villagers and members of the Chengjiawan Brigade who were surrounding him were so envious when they saw Cheng Xuemin handing out cigarettes.

Those who are more shameless keep praising Cheng Xuemin, hoping to get at least half a hair.
Those who are thicker-skinned will just start joking and say, "I want it myself!"

"Uncle! Uncle! Uncle! All of them, all of them!"

"I brought it back specially to give my uncles and grandfathers something new!"

Feng Jiayou had told him not to hide the cigarettes he brought back and be reluctant to take them out to smoke.

When you get home, go and meet whoever you want. Don’t be reluctant to leave. How much does a pack of cigarettes cost?

Anyway, it’s just the woman herself who couldn’t come back, otherwise she would have wanted her man to be even more glorious.

Immediately!

Cheng Xuemin followed her instructions and opened another pack of cigarettes, giving them to these enthusiastic tribesmen one by one.

It caused a commotion instantly, and people were about to snatch it!
"Yang Ximei, why would a woman like you want Xuemin's cigarettes? You don't smoke!"

"Why, I just want to try something new!"

"Haha, you are so new to this. You must be trying to use this cigarette to trick the little dog into helping you open up the wasteland!"

It instantly caused everyone to burst into laughter.

Cheng Xuemin gave out two more packs of cigarettes. Not only was Cheng's father distressed and kept calling him a spendthrift, but Cheng's mother also wanted to rush over and take the cigarettes back from Cheng Xuemin's hands.

Unfortunately, her side is even more chaotic!
Mother Cheng never expected that her eldest son would bring back so many good things for them from Yanjing!
New clothes, new pants, new shoes, candy, Yanjing roast duck, malted milk, clam shell oil, toothpaste powder, shampoo powder...

The dazzling array of things really overwhelmed Cheng's mother and his aunts and uncles, and they were amazed.

Cheng Xuemin is also miserable!

The woman Feng Jiayou really wants to move the entire Yanjing Shopping Mall back home to her parents-in-law!
Even clam shell oil can be thought of!

Because she said that every winter, the weather in northern Shaanxi is dry and people's hands are most likely to crack. Harry Oil is the best thing to prevent hand cracks, so she must bring it to her parents-in-law.

It seems like the commune supply and marketing cooperative here has nothing to sell.

Anyway, the main point is that a woman wants her man to return home in glory and honor.

It was lively for a long time!
It was New Year's Day, so it was difficult for Cheng's father and mother to chase them away.

It was only after a scolding from the brigade secretary Cheng Yunjin that they left and stopped making trouble at Cheng Xuemin's house.

But they would inevitably gather outside at the millstone and continue eating the melons from Qin Guilan's family, and most of them would definitely be envious and jealous.

"Xuemin, I heard from my parents that the magazines you sent back were all your published articles?"

"The Shepherd was written by you, Xuemin?"

"Did you also write the record of Director Qiao's appointment?"

Among the family present, only Cheng Xuemin's brother-in-law Wang Quanwen could be considered half an intellectual. Although he did not graduate from high school, he is now a private elementary school teacher in the village primary school in their brigade.

So every time Feng Jiayou sent back a magazine, after Cheng's mother and the others showed it off in the team, they would let her intellectual son-in-law take a good look at it!

As a brother-in-law, he must know how much knowledge his brother-in-law has. When he heard that the popular works "The Horse Wrangler" and "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office" were written by his brother-in-law, his first reaction must be that he was joking, right?
But his mother-in-law let him read all the letters sent back home!

It was clearly written in the letter, and it really dumbfounded his brother-in-law!

Whether in the commune or the county, "The Shepherd" and "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office", which are widely circulated among teachers and government agencies, were written by his brother-in-law?
As a brother-in-law, I really can’t believe it and I want to question it!
But there are a fierce wife, brother-in-law, and her sister next to them, as well as a complacent mother-in-law and father-in-law. How dare the son-in-law question and pour a basin of cold water on them?

I can only keep my doubts in my heart and wait for my brother-in-law to come back and ask him in person.

Now that Wang Quanwen asked this, the topic came up again!

Yes!

What the fuck are they shouting about all over the village, this is another article published by her eldest son, now that the real owner is back, can they finally verify it?
"Xuemin, you are amazing! You are like the God of Literature from heaven who has come down to our Chengjia Bay!"

"Ke Xuemin, why don't you use your real name when you write articles? It will also allow me, an old man, to show off in the commune or the county!"

"Then I will take the article you wrote and publish it to our commune secretary and tell him that this is written by our Chengjiawan Wenquxing! I will go to the county and show it to the secretary, saying that this is written by our Chengjiawan Wenquxing!"

"But if you don't use your real name Cheng Xuemin, no one will believe us if we tell them!"

When talking about the article, the brigade secretary Cheng Yunjin slapped his thigh repeatedly and lamented why Cheng Xuemin didn't use his real name!

What about Lao Xu and Lao Qiao? If anyone tells others that they are the Wenquxing of Chengjiawan, who would believe them?

No one believed it at all!

"Uncle, this is a pen name! When you submit articles to newspapers and magazines, you usually use a pen name. It's rare to use your real name!"

Cheng Xuemin smiled awkwardly. He didn't let the old man and the others go to the commune to show off. Was this all Cheng Xuemin's fault?
"Yes, yes, yes, pen name, pen name! Sir, I know this one!"

"Just like those great writers, like Lu Xun, Mao Dun, and Ba Jin, these are all pen names, right? Full text?"

My uncle then took over the topic and talked continuously, and at the end he did not forget to ask Wang Quanwen, the most educated person present, to corroborate his opinion.

"Yes, yes, yes, uncle, these are all great writers, and they all use pen names! And Mr. Mao Dun is still the top leader of the Writers Association!" Brother-in-law Wang Quanwen quickly echoed.

"Yes, yes, you are right about the whole article. It's the most awesome one! We have seen his article published in the newspaper before!"

My uncle nodded again and again and said.

"Then you should also write your real name, Xuemin, next to your pen name!"

My grandfather also had his dignity to save, so he followed the uncle's words and pointed out Cheng Xuemin.

"Yes, yes, your grandpa is right! Xuemin, why don't you write your real name?! If you don't write your name, it would be good if you could at least mention our Chengjiawan in the article!" When it comes to only having a pen name and no real name, the most conflicted person present must be Cheng's father, Cheng Xuemin's father!

Just as the uncle said just now, if this article is spread out, no one will believe it, right?

Father Cheng is also very proud!

I heard his wife going around the brigade and the commune telling people how great his eldest son was.

It’s a pity that his eldest son’s name is not on the list. No matter how much he brags, no one will believe him!
Father Cheng was so angry that he stomped his feet beside him!

"Well... next time, grandpa, uncle, next time I... I will write an article specifically about Chengjiawan and northern Shaanxi!"

Cheng Xuemin was very unhappy again. His father had repeatedly emphasized in the letter that he should write Cheng Xuemin's real name.

However, his mother-in-law was launching a united front at that time, so how could he really listen to my father and publish an article under his real name so that he could really show off in the brigade and the commune?
"What? Xuemin, are you going to write an article for our Chengjiawan?"

Before the brigade secretary's uncle Cheng Yunjin could be shocked, Cheng Xuemin's uncle Cheng Youli exclaimed.

"Uncle, I have this idea, but it should be in the second half of the year!"

Cheng Xuemin also nodded. He had long wanted to write a tribute to their fathers' book "Ordinary World".

But time may be a bit tight in the first half of the year, so we have to wait until the second half of the year!

Then just change the location inside to their Chengjiawan, their commune, or their county. It's easy!
They can definitely make Chengjiawan, their commune, and their county famous.

"That's great! Xuemin, your idea is good. Then our Chengjiawan will become famous!"

Upon hearing this, my uncle nodded and praised it repeatedly, and he thought it was really great.

His uncle also nodded repeatedly and laughed heartily.

In fact, it is very simple to prove that those manuscripts were written by Cheng Xuemin!
Because Feng Jiayou had thought of it long ago, he asked Cheng Xuemin to bring a copy of the People's Daily from the second day of the Lunar New Year.

The above reports are all about Cheng Xuemin, the pioneer of reform and opening up. Not only his pen name is included, but also Cheng Xuemin's personal information, which is written in great detail by Cheng Jiawan.

So if we calculate the time, Cheng Xuemin left a day late, and the People's Daily on the second day of the Chinese New Year hasn't arrived yet?

Otherwise, the relatives and clansmen present should not have reacted like this.

But that’s normal!

Newspapers in that era were not transported by air. They were circulated from place to place by train, and then delivered by postmen from one commune to another. It would take at least a week for them to reach their commune.

Therefore, in this era, when we read newspapers and follow national affairs, there is a certain lag.

If the cadres in the commune want to know the latest news, they can just listen to the radio, not watch TV.

With everyone in the yard complimenting and praising his grown-up son, not only was Cheng's father feeling very happy, but so was Cheng's mother. She was so excited when cooking dinner in the evening that she was willing to use a few more drops of oil!
"What? Is this Maotai?"

We were almost ready to hold a banquet in the evening. There were three tables of people, big and small, filling the yard. It was really too lively.

Fortunately, Cheng's father and mother had made preparations yesterday and bought enough food. In addition, they knew that Cheng Xuemin would be back today, so the main meal was saved for the evening instead of noon.

At the dinner table, Cheng Xuemin took out another bottle of Moutai liquor, which shocked his uncle who had seen the world and made him exclaim!

But no matter how worldly-wise I have been, I have never drunk such a delicious wine in my life!

Moutai!
This is the legendary Moutai, which can only be seen in movies shown in the commune.

Physical...

Not to mention that I have hardly ever seen my uncle who is a cadre in the commune, let alone the other old farmers who are present!

"What? Maotai?! Xuemin, what are you doing with this?"

Father Cheng, who had no idea about this beforehand, was about to collapse on the spot. This was not the way his eldest son would spend money!

Wouldn't it be nice to save this special wine for your wedding banquet with your wife?

Taking it out at this time would be a waste!

Father Cheng was so angry that he wanted to snatch the wine away on the spot. If he didn't let go, he would tell his wife, Mother Cheng, to put it away quickly!

"Dad! Dad! Dad! It's okay! This is my little girl's dad. He brought it back from their workplace. He asked me to bring it back for you and grandpa to drink!"

"It's okay, it's okay, Dad. It's open. It's open!"

Cheng Xuemin knew that his father was like this, but his father-in-law asked him to bring back Moutai, which really raised the quality to the highest level, making Cheng Xuemin feel it was too luxurious!

But I brought it back to drink, so there's no need to feel sorry for one or two bottles of wine.

To Cheng Xuemin, all wine is the same.

The most important thing is to improve his father's reputation in front of relatives and friends.

From now on, whenever his father walked with a proud look on his face, people would come forward respectfully, or even jog over to greet him.

Just this, a bottle of wine and two packs of cigarettes, it’s worth it!

Of course, he only took out a bottle of Moutai for everyone to try, and Cheng Xuemin didn't dare to take out the other bottle.

Otherwise, after the guests leave, his father will definitely beat him up.

However, Yan Cheng Xuemin did make a lot of noise, which also made his father very angry. In the end, he simply turned a blind eye to it and went to drink with his uncle.

After dinner, most people would stagger out of the door.

The most exaggerated case was that my uncle was dragged back by my aunt and cousin on a cart.

Let that aunt be ashamed...

Fortunately, Cheng's mother secretly gave her aunt a can of oatmeal and a pack of cigarettes, otherwise she would have been better off not having this man.

After most of the guests had left, Cheng Xuemin's home finally became quiet!
Next, Cheng Xuemin had to face torture from his father, mother, sister and Cheng Xiuwen. Of course, his father was drunk, so it was impossible for him to confess!
The most important thing is to deal with the two women at home!

My brother-in-law Wang Quanwen was outside accompanying my grandfather who had not left yet, while Cheng Xuemin was pulled into the house by her mother and sister.

"Mom, sister! These are the clothes and shoes that my mother bought for you. Why don't you try them on?!"

"Sister, you too, my son bought you a pair of new leather shoes, saying they would look great on you!"

There were so many big and small bags of things, and there were many guests at home, so it was not convenient for Cheng's mother to sort them out in front of everyone.

They are all placed in the inner room!

When the guests left, I took out some candies and other things as gifts in return.

Those uncles and aunts who smoked also took a pack of cigarettes back home, all smiling happily.

"So, those letters were really written by Jiayou to her family?! Did she really follow you?"

My elder sister Cheng Wenxiu also found the new clothes and shoes beautiful.

But what they heard in the brigade and even in the commune always made them feel insecure.

Everyone was questioning why a girl from the city would fall in love with a blind farmer from Chengjiawan?
Although the letter was sent back and the family really believed it, they were still somewhat uneasy because Cheng Xuemin himself did not come back.

"Sister, how can this be false? Didn't my son tell me in the letter?"

I'm bringing up the same old thing again, why don't you believe it?

"Okay, okay, okay! In a couple of days, I'll go to Yanjing with my brother-in-law, mom and dad, and then you can see it with your own eyes. That should be fine, right?"

Seeing that his sister continued to question him, Cheng Xuemin couldn't believe it and could only say this.

Anyway, this time he came back to pick up his parents and elder sister and go to Yanjing to live for a while, and by the way, pay the betrothal gift to Feng Jiayou.

Although there will be no wedding banquet, the necessary etiquette must be followed. Moreover, Feng's mother is such a proud person that it is impossible for her to marry her daughter off so quietly.

"With so many of us going, will there be enough room for the children to stay?!"

Cheng's mother asked worriedly.

"There's room for it! Jiayou and I bought a house in Yanjing!"

Cheng Xuemin mentioned it again lightly, it seemed that he had not told his family about buying the courtyard house yet.

It was originally a surprise that Feng Jiayou left for her parents-in-law.

"very?"

"Xuemin, you bought a house in Yanjing!?"

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(End of this chapter)