"Mom, where are you?"
Liu Jianhao, who came out of the space for the first time, looked at the unfamiliar environment around him with his big curious eyes.
"This is mom's home"
Listening to Liu Jianhao's soft and waxy voice, Bai Hui felt that her heart was about to melt. She rubbed the little face of Liu Jianhao's fans and said.
"Mom's home, isn't mom's home also my aunt's home?"
"Yes, my son is really smart."
"Then grandma, grandpa, and grandpa also live here."
"That's right, how come you know everything? Our Haohao is so awesome."
Seeing Liu Jianhao's eloquent analysis, Bai Hui's face lit up with joy. She used to think that nothing was as important as money, but since she had her son, she now feels that nothing is as important as her son, not to mention that her son is smart and sensible.
"Do you still remember what mom agreed with you at home?"
Bai Hui pinched Liu Jianhao's slim face and asked
"Remember, you are not allowed to mention dad's name, nor are you allowed to mention aunt and little brother. And my name is Bai Zhenhao from now on."
"Well, we Haohao have really good memories. Let's go, mom will take you to grandma and grandpa's house."
Hearing Liu Jianhao's reply, Bai Hui nodded with satisfaction, and then walked towards the Bai family mansion. The door was unlocked and ajar because she was going back to her own home. Bai Hui didn't knock on the door and just opened it and walked in. .
"Hey, hey, madam, who are you looking for? You didn't say anything when you came in. You could just knock on the door."
When he saw someone coming in, Chef Feng, who was cooking in the kitchen, walked out of the kitchen holding a knife.
"Hey, Chef Feng, you are getting more and more courageous. You have to take care of me even when I come home. When will you also do the concierge's work?"
As soon as she entered the Bai family's old house, Bai Hui immediately changed back to her original look with eyes higher than her head. Her charming temperament returned to her body, and she turned her head and looked at Chef Feng arrogantly.
"Ah, Miss Huizi, ah, ghost, ghost"
Chef Feng was stunned for a moment when he saw Bai Hui turning around. Then he yelled as if he had seen a ghost, threw the kitchen knife in his hand to the ground and ran straight into the yard.
"This man is not young at all. Why is he so timid?"
Looking at Chef Feng who was scared away by him, Bai Hui whispered, then walked towards the yard with the child in her arms.
"Ghosts, there are ghosts."
"What are you screaming for? Where did this ghost come from in broad daylight? There are no rules at all."
As soon as Chef Feng entered the yard, he met Bai Jingqi and Li Xiangxiu who were wandering in the yard. He looked at Chef Feng and Li Xiangxiu who was yelling and scolded him impatiently.
"No, madam, there are ghosts."
He was scolded by Li Xiangxiu. Chef Feng immediately ran to Bai Jingqi. Maybe Bai Hui's appearance was so sudden that he was so frightened that he stuttered for a long time and couldn't speak fluently.
"What are you talking about? There are so many people in broad daylight. What are you afraid of?"
Seeing Chef Feng stuttering, Li Xiangxiu scolded him again.
"Madam, there is a ghost. There is a ghost in this house. I just saw Miss Huizi at home."
After being told by Li Xiangxiu and looking at the bright sun above his head, Chef Feng finally gained some confidence to tell what he had just seen Bai Hui.
"Who are you calling a ghost? Chef Feng, I think you are out of your mind, so I will deduct your wages for this month. Let's see if you still dare to talk nonsense."
At this moment, Bai Hui walked in with her child in her arms. Everyone present was stunned when they heard Bai Hui's figure. When they saw Bai Hui's sudden figure, they were all frightened. Li Xiangxiu was even more frightened and hid. After Bai Jingqi's death, only Bai Jingqi, who has lived for decades, is still calm. He squinted his eyes and looked at Bai Hui, then asked in disbelief.
"Are you, Hui Zi?"
"It's me, grandpa. You don't even recognize your granddaughter, do you?"
Seeing Bai Jingqi's squinting action, Bai Hui stepped forward so that the dim-sighted Bai Jingqi could see her face clearly. This move frightened the people behind Bai Jingqi and took a few steps back.
"It's Huizi, it's really Huizi, you're not dead,
"Who said I'm dead? I'm alive and well. Whose ghost comes out in broad daylight to scare people? Look at the shadows on the ground."
"Hey, my dear, you miss grandpa so much. Where have you been these past few years? Grandpa thought you were gone."
Bai Jingqi looked at Bai Hui carefully again. Bai Hui was immediately overjoyed when he was sure that he was alive. He walked toward Bai Hui with trembling steps. He hugged Bai Hui and burst into tears.
"Chef Feng, you are just talking nonsense. You want to scare people to death."
After seeing that Bai Hui was a human being and not a ghost, the people in the courtyard breathed a sigh of relief. After thinking carefully, no one saw Bai Hui's body at the beginning, and no one knew whether Bai Hui was dead or not for all these years.
"After all these years, how could I know that Miss Huizi is still alive and well?"
Chef Feng said aggrievedly.
"Hello, grandpa."
After the grandfather and grandson hugged each other and cried, Bai Jingqi was about to take Bai Hui to the house to ask where Bai Hui had been all these years. Liu Jianhao in Bai Hui's arms spoke, and Bai Jingqi's heart trembled as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Is this your child?"
Bai Jingqi stared at Liu Jianhao in Bai Hui's arms carefully.
"Well, this is my son, Bai Zhenhao."
"This child's surname is Bai? Is it your surname, or the child's father's surname is also Bai."
Bai Jingqi asked in surprise when he heard Liu Jianhao's name.
"Well, with my last name, we are ranked according to our family tree."
"Okay, I've grown up and I haven't seen you have children for a few years."
"Hey, this child is really fair and clean. I have never seen such a clean child. Why didn't the child's father see it?"
Knowing that Bai Hui was a living person, Li Xiangxiu also regained her former composure, walked up to Bai Hui and teased Liu Jianhao.
"His dad is too busy to come over. Jianhao, no, Zhenhao, this is Grandma Tai, please call Grandma Tai."
When Li Xiangxiu asked about Liu Guangqi, Bai Hui responded casually, then pointed at Li Xiangxiu and asked Bai Zhenhao how to call someone.
"Hello, grandma"
"Hey, why is this kid so smart? How old is he?"
Hearing Liu Jianhao call her grandma, Li Xiangxiu was so happy that she couldn't help but pat Liu Jianhao's head and started to praise her.
"You'll be three years old in a few days. Grandpa, why are you unhappy when I see you? Do you think you don't welcome me back? If you don't welcome me, leave now."
Bai Hui saw Bai Jingqi's expression was wrong and handed Liu Jianhao to Li Xiangxiu, holding Bai Jingqi's arm and asked.
"No, no, my granddaughter is coming home. I'm so happy that she's not in a hurry. How can I not welcome her?"
As soon as Bai Hui said he was leaving, Bai Jingqi quickly grabbed Bai Hui and squeezed Bai Hui's arms tightly into her armpits. The granddaughter who had been missing for several years finally came back. How could she find her again if she just left like this? Bai Jingqi has been regretting these years, regretting why he scolded Bai Hui back then.
"It's not that grandpa doesn't welcome you. This is your home. Why wouldn't grandpa welcome you? I'm angry with you as a man. This little bastard abducted my granddaughter and hasn't said anything about letting you come back after all these years. Look, even the child is so old now, and even though he is in this situation, he doesn't even say come over and let me see. He is really big. If he were in front of me now, I would have to kick him."
Bai Jingqi said angrily.
"That's right, this guy is nothing. I will definitely teach him a lesson when I go back."
Bai Hui followed Bai Jingqi's words and said.
"If you can't teach me a lesson, I can't teach you a lesson, otherwise I won't be able to get out of my mouth like this."
"Okay, okay, you have to vent your anger for me when the time comes."
"What's the matter? I hear what you mean. This guy is not good to you."
When Bai Jingqi heard this, his eyes widened immediately, and he looked at Bai Hui with a pair of tiger eyes without anger or authority.
"No, do you think I'm living a bad life?"
With that said, Bai Hui turned around in front of Bai Jingqi. Her plump figure was fully displayed under the modification of the cheongsam. She was bulging forward and backward, plump but not greasy, which made Chef Feng's eyes wide open when she saw her.
As for the clothes on the body, they also show the aura of wealth. Needless to say, the cheongsam is made of fine Suzhou embroidery. One of the wrists is wearing a big gold bracelet with a dragon and a phoenix, and the other is wearing an emerald green ice bracelet. The jade bracelets, the earrings on the ears, the necklace on the neck, and the rings on the hands all sparkled with dazzling light. Coupled with Bai Hui's rosy complexion, anyone who looks at her knows that Bai Hui must have lived a good life these years.
"It really doesn't look like it. Assuming that the boy has not treated you badly, if he dares to treat you badly, I will definitely kill him."
"Come on, go into the house and tell grandpa where you have been all these years. Why don't you give grandpa a letter?"
With that said, Bai Jingqi took Bai Hui's hand and walked towards the house. After entering the house, Bai Jingqi and Li Xiangxiu conducted a three-party interrogation of Bai Hui. According to Bai Hui's original idea, he planned to fabricate an office location based on the background of this era and set up a fake department lake in the northwest to get rid of his family. This routine was actually the same as Liu Guangqi's. Hu Nong Xu Huizhi's family used similar methods.
But this idea was rejected by Liu Guangqi as soon as it was raised, because the people in Bai Hui's family are not as easy to deal with as the people in Xu Huizhi's family. She just made up a reason to scare her and believed her. Her eldest brother Bai Zhanyuan is the deputy district chief of BJ. , can be regarded as a middle- and senior-level leader.
Bai Zhanyuan can find out the truth or falsehood of the things she made up by just looking for someone. Even if he doesn't understand, he can make some circumstantial observations. If there is any unreasonableness in it, it will definitely arouse Bai Zhanyuan's suspicion, and if this explanation spreads, it will definitely It will trigger an investigation by the relevant personnel. When the time comes, everything will be revealed.
If Bai Hui can't tell where he has been all these years, Bai Zhanyuan will definitely come back and kill his relatives. It’s a no-brainer.
So this reason definitely won't work. Since this reason didn't work, Bai Hui thought of another reason and said that she was kidnapped and trafficked abroad when she went to use the toilet. It was not easy for me to escape this time.
As soon as he said this, he was rejected by Liu Guangqi. Even if leaving the country is illegal, there must be legal procedures for entering the country. When the time comes, wouldn’t everything be revealed once the investigation is done?
I thought it was a simple matter, but after discussing it for a long time, the two couldn't find a suitable excuse that could reasonably explain Bai Hui's disappearance these years.
In the end, Liu Guangqi simply gave Bai Hui an idea, that is, don't say anything. If you don't say anything, you won't be wrong. When others asked, Bai Hui looked like he couldn't bear to look back. At that time, others will definitely not continue to ask questions in order not to touch Bai Hui's pain.
Bai Hui originally thought this was a bad idea, but the effect was surprisingly good. Seeing Bai Hui's lost and silent look, Bai Jingqi immediately closed her mouth and stopped asking questions.
"Huizi, my daughter."
"Huizi, where are you?"
As soon as Bai Hui finished dealing with Bai Jingqi, the voices of Tang Youqiong and Bai Jingye rang outside the door. After the two of them entered the house, they burst into tears when they saw Bai Hui. They hugged Bai Hui and started crying. After crying, they inevitably asked questions.
Bai Hui had no choice but to repeat the performance in the same posture as before, with a forced smile and a pretending to be calm. Suddenly, she saw Tang Youqiong felt distressed and hugged Bai Hui and started crying again.
While Bai Hui was busy dealing with her family, Liu Guangqi took the bus back to Liujia Village, where he had not returned for a long time.
"Uncle, how is the harvest in the fields this year?"
Standing on the low courtyard wall in front of his house, Liu Guangqi looked at the endless golden cornfield at the foot of the mountain and asked.
"It's not that good. One acre of land only weighs five to six hundred kilograms. It's incomparable to the previous two years."
Uncle Liu took out a match and lit the smoke pot, looked at the busy villagers at the foot of the mountain and said with a slightly sad expression. In fact, this output is already very good, better than most areas in the country.
As for why it is not as good as the previous two years, it is entirely because of the inability to buy chemical fertilizers. Since the corn seeds and farming experience of Liujiacun were promoted, all parts of the country began to rush to learn from Liujiacun’s experience. Chemical fertilizers in the early days of New China The production capacity is not enough to begin with.
Nowadays, there are more wolves than meat. Originally, Liujiacun could use the relationship between Liu Guangqi and Bai Zhanyuan to buy more fertilizers, but now Bai Zhanyuan's face is no longer easy to use. The fertilizers were snatched away by leaders from various places as soon as they left the factory. There wasn't much left when we arrived in BJ, not to mention there were so many agricultural cooperatives in the BJ area that needed fertilizer.
Originally, growing corn on the 2,000 acres of land in Liujia Village required at least 100 tons of chemical fertilizer for one season. However, now Liujia Village can only buy a dozen tons, not even one-fifth of the original amount. It is impossible to spread this small amount of chemical fertilizer on the ground. It won't do much.
"How much food can be harvested from the wasteland on the mountain?"
Knowing the yield in the field, Liu Guangqi asked about the wasteland opened on the mountain.
"How much can there be? The total wasteland of our family only weighs five to six hundred kilograms, which is just enough for one person."
Uncle Liu said truthfully.
"so little"
Liu Guangqi frowned after hearing this. Since helping Liujiacun get rid of poverty, Liu Guangqi has rarely interfered in Liujiacun's affairs.
After all, the times are not right. Even if he had all his abilities, he wouldn't be able to use them in this era. He is very satisfied to be able to help the villagers of Liujia Village get rid of poverty and ensure food and clothing.
He came back this time just to see the situation in Liujiacun. After all, the next two years would be a famously difficult era in history, and he had to make plans early.
It was definitely the most difficult hurdle to overcome since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The situation at that time could be said to be one of internal and external difficulties.
Helping the villagers of Liujia Village survive these three years is definitely not an easy task, and it can even be said to be an impossible task.
Liu Guangqi didn't dare to guarantee that he could solve this problem. He just gave it a try with the attitude of trying his best. After all, saving a life was better than building a seven-level pagoda. Even if it couldn't help much, it was still better than standing by and watching indifferently.
"This is not okay"
Hearing his uncle's words, Liu Guangqi couldn't help but feel a little worried. We can’t buy chemical fertilizers, we can’t increase the yield in the fields, and we can’t count on the wasteland in the mountains. It’s really hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
"What's wrong, Guangqi, I think you're a little worried like this. Don't worry. Although the yield in this field is not as good as in the past two years, it will be enough for us after paying the public rations."
Seeing Liu Guangqi's sad face, Uncle Liu comforted him with a smile.
"Enough food now does not mean enough food in the future. What if there is a disaster next year."
Liu Guangqi jumped down from the low wall and said.
"Isn't it normal to suffer from disasters? If we didn't suffer from disasters in the years before liberation, we would get over it as soon as possible. Even if we can't get through it, isn't there still a country? The government will definitely not ignore us."
Uncle Liu said with confidence.
"You are very open-minded."
After learning about the situation in the fields with Uncle Liu, Liu Guangqi wandered around Liujia Village aimlessly. Soon Liu Guangqi came to a motorized well.
At this time, a child in the village was squatting next to the well with a sweet potato that had just been dug out of the ground and cleaning it. Looking at the sweet potato and the well in front of him, Liu Guangqi suddenly thought of a solution in his mind. Although this method is uncomfortable, it is better than starving to death.
