Chapter 1849 Roots
Following the old man’s guidance, Chu Heng and the others quickly arrived at the team headquarters.
Seeing that they were traveling in both cars and trucks, the brigade secretary knew that they were not ordinary people, and they were treated with great courtesy.
In addition, Chu Heng was also very generous. When they met, each person gave a box of Daqianmen. Therefore, after learning their intentions, the brigade secretary was also very cooperative and immediately asked the accountant to bring out the roster. , find them one by one.
It took them half an hour to sift through the roster, and finally found out that there were five people named Zhou Ju in the team, but only one agreed to the conditions.
Over sixty years old, married from out of town, and still alive.
"It should be her."
Looking at the information on the roster, the brigade secretary, who was only in his fifties, smacked the front door hard and recalled: "I remember this The old lady is from She was married from a big city. I went to her house to have dinner at that time, and I was very impressed. Her husband’s surname was Feng. He was killed when he was building a river embankment a few years ago. She also had a son who was a fool, and the family relied on her. Supporting Lao Wu and his wife, this is Life has been quite hard these past few years.”
“It’s quite hard!” Chu Heng couldn’t help sighing after hearing this, and then said impatiently: “Secretary, can you please send someone to take us? Come and take a look? Is that so?"
"I'll go, I'll go!" The accountant hurriedly volunteered. It wasn't that he was very enthusiastic, but he wanted to take a ride in Chu Heng's car and hang out with a few other people. Smoking at the front door.
And not only did he have this idea, some other brigade cadres in the room also had the same idea and stepped forward enthusiastically.
"I'd better go with you. I'm familiar with the Feng family."
"Are you okay? I'll go."
"I'm okay too."< br>
The room was in a mess for a while.
This made Chu Heng and others quite dumbfounded.
"What are you fighting for? It's embarrassing and makes the comrades in the capital laugh!" The secretary of the brigade immediately frowned and scolded them. Only then did the group calm down and shut their mouths angrily. Then they saw The secretary slowly stood up , straightened his clothes, and hummed: "You all work hard, Xiaoliu will come with me."
"In."
A young man who lives near Feng's house Hearing this, he stood up happily and walked over.
The others sighed when they saw this, thinking that if they missed this opportunity, they would never be able to ride in a car in this life.
"Let's go, comrades."
The secretary ignored them, rubbed his hands expectantly, and led Chu Heng and the others out of the door. Without even looking at the liberation, he went straight to the parking lot. Volga left at the door.
Chu Heng is also a transparent person and immediately invited the two of them to the Volga.
The secretary quickly got into the passenger seat and looked around curiously at what was going on inside the car.
“Hey~the cars the chiefs ride in are not bad!”
"Haha, that's all."
Chu Heng quickly started the car and walked out of the team headquarters. Under the guidance of the young man named Xiaoliu, he swerved to the east end of the village. Outside the fenced yard.
The yard is very spacious and somewhat dilapidated.
A circle of old and rickety fences, with several boards missing from the gate. The spacious yard is empty. There is nothing else except four mud and thatched houses. One of the walls has some spots. It is tilted and supported by several thick wooden stakes.
However, there are quite a lot of people in the courtyard. There are five or six ragged or naked dolls squatting together and playing with something. There is also a man in his forties standing next to him. He was a bit silly, with a grin on his face and a drop of saliva from the corner of his mouth from time to time. He had no clothes on his upper body, his exposed skin was pitch black, and his lower body pants also had several holes, one of which exposed half of his butt.
When the two cars came to a stop, the children and the man in the yard were attracted by the sound and looked over.
“Big car!”
“What’s that black one?”
“It’s also a car, right?”
The uninformed children are curious Muttering, the stupid man still giggled.
"Bang!" Chu Heng and others got out of the car at this time and looked at the dilapidated yard.
After sitting in the car where the leaders were riding, the secretary felt that he was no longer an ordinary brigade secretary. He put his hands on his hips and shouted into the yard with a loud voice: "Aunt Feng, Are you at home?”
“Here you are.”
Hearing that the brigade secretary was coming, a gray-haired old woman hurriedly came out and saw someone still parked outside the door. Two cars, she was stunned.
"Secretary, what are you doing?"
"These are comrades from the capital. I have something to ask you." The secretary took it upon himself to step forward and open the courtyard door, inviting Chu Heng and the others in. In the courtyard.
The old woman looked uneasily at Chu Heng and the others, who were all dressed in smooth and slippery clothes. She couldn't figure out what they were asking a poor old woman like herself.
"Aunt Feng, don't stand here, why don't you invite a few comrades in quickly." Seeing the woman standing there in a daze, the secretary hurriedly reminded her.
"Oh, comrades, please sit inside quickly." The woman came back to her senses and quickly invited Chu Heng and the others into the room.
The inside of the Feng family's house was no better than the outside. It had a bumpy yellow mud floor, dark walls, and few pieces of furniture, all of which were shabby and old.
"Secretary, please sit down quickly."
The woman led Chu Heng and the others to the room and sat down, then turned and walked out: "I'll get you some water."
“ Don't be busy, ma'am, I'll just ask you a few questions." Chu Heng quickly grabbed her and asked, "Your name is Zhou Ju, right?"
"Yes, my name is Zhou Ju. What's wrong?" ?" The old woman looked at him puzzled.
"Where is your mother's family?" Chu Heng asked again.
Zhou Ju was even more surprised. He didn’t understand why he was asking about her, but he still said truthfully: "That side of Langfang."
Chu Heng felt happy when he heard this, knowing that he was probably looking for Right, but still confirmed: "Can you be more specific?"
"Dacheng County, Liugezhuang Commune, Xicao Brigade."
"What is your mother's name?"< br>
"My mother? My name is Wu Xiumei, what happened to my comrade?" Zhou Ju felt a little panicked when she was asked, thinking that there was something wrong with my mother's ingredients, and she would suffer the consequences.
"Don't panic." Chu Heng also saw the old lady's panic and hurriedly explained: "We came here this time to pick you up. Your mother, Mrs. Wu Xiumei, is now terminally ill and dying. The only thing I want to think about now is to see my daughter.”
“My mother is gone?”
Zhou Ju, who had not been back to her parents' home for almost forty years, was stunned when she heard this, and then a series of vague memories came to her mind. Tears fell on the spot, and she hurriedly said: "Well, then... wait for me first, I'll go. I'll tell my children in the field, and I'll follow you when I get back."
The old lady hurried away as she said that.
"Zhengwen'er, go and see the old lady off." Upon seeing this, Chu Heng immediately ordered Hu Zhengwen.
“Alas.”
Hu Zhengwen immediately stood up, came out with Zhou Ju, and drove her out of the village in Jiefang.
Chu Heng took advantage of the old lady's absence to inquire about the situation of the Feng family with the brigade secretary, and finally understood why the Feng family was so poor and why Zhou Ju had not returned to her parents' home for so many years.
The reason is no other than too many babies and too little labor.
I won’t talk about the previous generation, but just talking about the children of Zhou Ju’s family, there are nine in total.
Among these children, except for the third and fifth children, who are sons, the others are all daughters.
In order to raise their children, the old couple often borrowed money and food from the team and fellow villagers. But when they finally raised their children, they were able to go to the fields to earn work points, and the girls were alone. All of them are married, and one of the two sons is a fool. Only the fifth son is left with foreign debts to support the family.
The fifth child is also fertile. So far, he has eight children. Except for a few half-year-olds who can go to the team to help with some work within their capabilities, the others are all waiting for food. Can this family become rich if they only have a hard life to eat and have a stupid brother who can eat twice as much?
Not to mention being rich, it is estimated that it will be difficult to eat enough, let alone let Zhou Ju go back to her parents' home. Where will the money come from?
(End of this chapter)