Chapter 33: Turning the Willow Tree

Mei Gancai finally forgot about sending the telegram. She was now fully focused on having an argument and a fight with Su Xiangyu.

So she began to replenish her energy.

This is something I speak from experience. After all, if she were to act like she was sick, she might not be able to eat for a long time, so she certainly couldn't starve herself.

"Mingxun, send a telegram to your second sister quickly. Mu Tie is the most wanted criminal in Wulan Farm." The old lady glanced at Mu Tie and said.

One little Mu Tie is worth fifty big unity.

"Ji Huaiguo, give me the thermos cup in the bag in my car. I want to drink some water first."

Seeing that Mu Tie was always on Yu Lei's neck, the old lady had to take time to tease him: "When this child was at Wulan Farm, his face was fat and his butt was full of flesh. He must have become thin because of starvation at Chaoyang Farm and Su Xiangyu's place. This won't do. I have to take him back to Wulan Farm immediately."

The thermos cup contained chrysanthemums, wolfberries, and jujubes, as well as a few slices of American ginseng that Feng Mingyan had sent from Beijing. After taking a sip, it was like drinking golden soup, and the old lady immediately felt a lot more comfortable.

Then you have to eat some dry food, which is made of lard, eggs and pastry, and is baked into a pancake with brown sugar inside. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and so soft that it crumbles when you bite it.

Looking at Ye Xiangdong who wished he could disappear, and then at Mu Tie, the old lady was happy.

Grabbing Mu Tie with one hand, she pointed at the child and said, "Do you know what this child did in Wulan Farm? He once secretly drugged the farm director, causing him to urinate continuously and unable to get out of bed, just because the farm director criticized his mother. He also drugged the militia captain in the farm, causing him to almost die on the farm. What a child like this needs is justice, and a severe transformation of the family shrouded in party spirit. Don't look at his young age, he is a murderer, a murderer."

The old lady spoke with certainty, poking Mu Tie's head with one hand and spitting everywhere.

The child's household registration is in Wulan Farm, and he is now ownerless. Logically, Feng Mingmei should be the one to decide whether to send him to an orphanage or adopt him. However, if Ye Xiangdong and Su Xiangyu really want to snatch the child from the old lady, it would be illegal.

As for Mu Tie, he stood there motionless, as if he was being publicly executed.

Ye Xiangdong was unhappy now, and he pulled Su Xiangyu over and said, "We are a loving family. We have a marriage certificate, but we don't have any children yet. Logically, we can adopt him."

Mei Gancai suddenly laughed: "Don't think I don't know, I have found out everything, you two are getting married to make do, why did Su Xiangyu marry you, just because she was angry that my Mingxun didn't want her anymore, and besides, Xiangdong, did you tell your father before you got married? If you did, would your father agree?"

Ye Xiangdong really never told the old man about it. Of course, if he had told him, the old man would definitely not agree.

Because the old man only has this one son now, and he has a daughter-in-law that he likes. If you know that he got married in the border town, the old man would probably be so angry that he would fly to heaven on the spot.

But now he is facing Mu Tie's adoption case, so he really needs Su Xiangyu's support.

As for Mu Tie, the always smug little guy, he was pulling Mei Gancai's collar, blinking his big round eyes, staring at Su Xiangyu, just staring at her motionlessly.

"Godmother!" the child suddenly cried out and raised his head, probably trying hard to hold back the tears that were about to burst out.

"Yes, I love my country, I love the party, and I also love Ye Xiangdong. The reason why we got married is because of Mu Tie, and we have decided not to have any more children in this life. We just want to raise Mu Tie. As for education and transformation, I believe no one can do better than me. After all, I was the only outstanding female comrade in Chaoyang Farm for two years." Su Xiangyu said in a low voice. Suddenly, she took two steps forward, almost knocked Mei Gancai away, and hugged Mu Tie.

"Director, if you don't believe me, Ye Xiangdong and I can give you a written guarantee, okay?" Su Xiangyu turned and asked Ji Huaiguo.

It's just a small child. We can handle it on the farm. There's no need to take him to the welfare home.

Ji Huaiguo looked at Ye Xiangdong. He put his arm around Su Xiangyu and then Mu Tie. The three of them stood together. Except for the fact that the child was a little older, this was a good family, a good family with nothing wrong with it.

He glanced at Mu Tie, and Mu Tie turned around and hugged Su Xiangyu's thighs, with his head resting on Su Xiangyu's waist, like a little rabbit surrounded by a big bad wolf, motionless.

"Let's put it this way, old director. I will coordinate with Mingmei. Ye Xiangdong has already raised the child well, so you don't have to take him away." Ji Huaiguo said.

It's just a child, it doesn't matter who raises it.

Mei Gancai felt that she had missed the point. She had to exaggerate Mu Tie's behavior in Wulan Farm tenfold, because at such a young age, he had done many bad things, not only harming the farm manager and the militia captain.

That's not something that ordinary people can do.

But at this moment, Su Xiangyu suddenly spoke again: "Aunt Mei, when will you return my two hundred yuan?"

"What two hundred yuan?" Mei Gancai was still confused.

Su Xiangyu pointed at Feng Mingxun and said calmly, "When Director Feng and I were dating, you borrowed eight yuan a month from me on the pretext of being sick. It's been two years. I calculated it clearly. It's 192 yuan. Now that we are no longer dating, you should pay me back, right?"

"You are so good, Su Xiangyu..." As soon as the word money was mentioned, the old lady's attack shifted from Mu Tie to Su Xiangyu.

When the money was given to her, she was such a good girl, working hard without complaint, but now she is stepping on her son's head. Mei Gancai thinks that although her son has liver disease, he is more than qualified to be with Su Xiangyu, a female educated youth who doesn't even have a mother.

Besides, do you need to pay back the money you borrowed?

The old lady pointed at Su Xiangyu, tilted her head, squinted her eyes, and rushed towards Su Xiangyu.

After this collision, do you still owe me the money?

She was indispensable in the eight days in the hospital, providing intravenous drips and collecting feces and urine.

Ji Huaiguo rushed forward in fear, Yu Lei also rushed forward, Ye Xiangdong hugged Mu Tie, looking stunned, and saw that the old lady was about to bump into Su Xiangyu.

Moreover, her face turned blue, her hand was on her heart, and her eyes were looking up.

But at this moment, Su Xiangyu suddenly turned around and slapped Yu Lei: "You idiot, why are you here too?"

Yu Lei covered his neck with his hands and said in confusion: "Sister-in-law, didn't you ask me to come here?"

Mei Gancai had already rushed over and hit Su Xiangyu hard, and she immediately fell to the ground and started rolling around, ready to scream.

But Su Xiangyu was calm and indifferent, as if she didn't know anything. Instead, she pointed at Yu Lei's nose and said loudly, "I didn't ask you to come here. I asked you to go to Bart's house and get the Cistanche deserticola, safflower and Cynomorium songaricum that he promised us. We need to feed the pigs with them. What are you doing here? Go to the ranch and get the herbs."

"Ah?" Yu Lei opened his mouth wide.

Ji Huaiguo was still thinking about how to help the old lady up, but she suddenly jumped up and said, "What, Su Xiangyu, you feed Cistanche deserticola, safflower and Cynomorium songaricum to pigs, are you crazy?"

"If we don't feed them with Chinese medicine, why are our pigs so fat?" Su Xiangyu still had a calm expression on her face.

At this time, Feng Mingxun was still hiding in the car, Yu Lei was drooling, and Ye Xiangdong and Mu Tie were stunned.

In their astonished eyes, the old lady jumped up from the ground and rushed to the jeep like a whirlwind. She opened the door and said, "Hurry up, Mingxun, come with me to the ranch to find Bart. He must have dug up a lot of Chinese medicinal herbs when he was out grazing. I asked him to send them to me every day, but he didn't. He actually fed them to Su Xiangyu's pigs. Just wait and see how I'll deal with him when I get to the ranch."

Just like that, the old lady who almost had a heart attack took Feng Mingxun away from the headquarters like a flash of lightning?

Not to mention that Ye Xiangdong found it unbelievable, even Mu Tie felt it was like a miracle. Such a difficult old lady actually didn't start scolding Su Xiangyu, but just left?

Ye Xiangdong was stunned, Yu Lei nodded deeply, Ji Huaiguo took a deep breath and shook his head deeply. Obviously, seeing the old leader like this was simply a feeling of disillusionment in his mind.

At this time, Su Xiangyu smiled brightly in front of them, took out a stack of letter paper from the schoolbag on her back, and handed it to Ji Huaiguo: "Director Ji, this is our production plan after the beginning of the year. I have clearly allocated everything from people to work, and how to make money to buy seeds. It's a good time for the holiday, so why don't you study it carefully?"

Ji Huaiguo took the letter and just flipped through it hastily at first, but after turning a few pages, he was attracted to it.

"Director Su, let's meet at the beginning of the new year." Ji Huaiguo shook Su Xiangyu's hand solemnly, and whispered in her ear: "No matter what anyone says, don't worry, I will always support you the most."

When his former leader retired and threw away his reputation for a few Cynomorium songaricums, Ji Huaiguo felt deeply that a farm manager like Su Xiangyu had great potential.

"Xiangdong, take Xiangyu back to the chemical plant as soon as possible. It's so worth marrying this wife." Ji Huaiguo said.

Ye Xiangdong was holding Mu Tie, with Yu Lei, who looked confused, standing behind him. Several people were looking at Su Xiangyu.

"Let's go. Since the director has said so, let's go and take a look at our home." Su Xiangyu said.

The effect is very good. Ye Xiangdong's face turned pale with fright. Mu Tie now looks at Su Xiangyu with admiration, as if she were a god.

With a group of people watching her, Su Xiangyu had to go to the chemical plant.

There was only one bicycle. Su Xiangyu held Mu Tie and sat on the big bar, while Yu Lei sat at the back, but they didn't even get the tire flat.

The family quarters of the chemical plant is a particularly mysterious place in the border town. Outsiders are not allowed to enter, and even if relatives come, they cannot stay overnight and must leave on the same day.

And you have to be searched before entering.

However, the person at the guard post was obviously very familiar with Ye Xiangdong, so he came to greet him as soon as he saw Ye Xiangdong: "Engineer Ye, this is your wife, right? She said she would come a long time ago, why did she come only now?"

Ye Xiangdong smiled and said, "She has been planning to come over and take a look."

Since they were family members, there would definitely be no body search. Yu Lei quietly asked Ye Xiangdong, "Is the house tidy?"

Ye Xiangdong nodded but didn't say anything.

Yu Lei had been to Ye Xiangdong's single dormitory before, and remembered that it was full of all kinds of chemicals, so he was worried whether Ye Xiangdong's home was in a mess. If it was really a mess, would Su Xiangyu run away?

In the family quarters, Ye Xiangdong's house is always at the back door. If he goes to work, he should be the one living farthest away. However, when it comes to the farm, the back door is only two miles away. Obviously, he must have specially requested this house so that he can be closer when he goes to the farm.

Su Xiangyu was really shocked.

She remembered that in her previous life, whenever Han Shen mentioned Ye Xiangdong, he would always say that his eldest nephew was a talented person no matter in work, life, or business, and that even if she worked hard, she would never be able to catch up with him.

Originally she didn't understand the meaning of that sentence, but after getting down from the dugout, she understood what Han Shen meant.

It was just a small cave, divided into two rooms, the outer room had a sofa that was probably from Russia next door, the pattern on the sofa cover was all Russian style. There were carpets hanging on the wall, and a big kang was laid on the kang, which was probably also from Russia. When others lit the kang, the smoke went into the house, but he used two iron chimney pipes to pour the smoke directly out of the chimney.

This person, living in a border town, has decorated his home to be even warmer and more comfortable than those living in the city.

There are two quilts on the kang, covered with quilt covers that are unique in this era.

"Did you clean this house?" Su Xiangyu said.

Ye Xiangdong just smiled and didn't dare to say that in order for him to get married, he forced all the young men in the workshop to spend a whole night making sofas, pasting kangs and finding chimneys for him.

"Please sit down. I'll cook today, but I'm not sure if it will be delicious," he said.

The kitchen of the dugout is outside, two steps higher than the house. There is a stove with a big iron pot inside. Ye Xiangdong stood outside for a while, opened the door of the cabinet, took out a large piece of lean meat, about forty or fifty pounds in weight, and stood there frowning.

After touring the house, Yu Lei found something interesting. In the corner there was a pile of hard-shelled things. He didn't know what they were called, but they tasted sweet and had a smell of alcohol. So he squatted in the corner and concentrated on eating those things.

[Congratulations to the host, you have stopped Xiao Mutie from committing a crime once, 20,000 gold coins have been received.] The system reminded in due time.

If it hadn't mentioned this, Su Xiangyu would have forgotten that Mu Tie almost committed a crime.

She also walked around the house, and because she smelled a strong fishy smell, she came outside.

"Tell me, how did you manage to knock Feng Mingyan down?" Ye Xiangdong was holding a piece of meat, frowning and thinking about how to deal with it.

Mu Tie followed him like a little tail, whispering, "Feng Mingyan had a little edema at that time, and she had been taking diuretics. I soaked some licorice tablets in her teacup."

Licorice tablets are a mild and harmless panacea, but the only thing that should not be taken with them is diuretics. Taking the two drugs together can cause people to fall into a coma due to dehydration caused by low potassium and low sodium.

"What about the militia captain? What's going on?" Ye Xiangdong held an axe in one hand and a kitchen knife in the other, and finally chopped off a piece of meat, then asked again.

Mu Tie said: "He drank alcohol that day, and my mother happened to have Analgin, which he wanted to take. He took a lot of Analgin, which contained morphine, and he almost died. That day was the day he wanted to give me away, so I ran away from Wulan Farm."

So, these two kinds of medicine almost took the lives of two people. This is what Mu Tie did.

"Okay, go inside and warm up. Son, you are such a genius!" Ye Xiangdong actually gave Mu Tie a thumbs up.

When the child does something bad, not only does he not educate him, but he also gives him a thumbs up?

However, when he looked up and saw Su Xiangyu staring at him coldly, Ye Xiangdong's face immediately changed, and he seriously criticized Mu Tie: "Don't do this kind of thing next time. We must use all the chemical knowledge we have learned in the right way and build our motherland. Do you understand?"

Mu Tie stuck out his tongue, slid down the stairs like a rat crossing the street, and went in.

Ye Xiangdong managed to chop off a piece of meat, but it was as hard as iron. He had to introduce it to Su Xiangyu: "The camel's hump is said to taste great. I saved it for you to eat."

Su Xiangyu took the piece of camel meat that exuded a strong fishy smell and whispered, "You married me so that you could adopt Mu Tie's child openly, right?"

Ye Xiangdong pointed at Mu Tie and said, "That kid is a genius, a real genius, but unmarried gay men can't have sex with him. Besides, isn't it good to marry me? I've always said that I'm a really good gay. Why are you always so wary of me? Su Xiangyu, I really married you because I like you."

Of course he is a good comrade, but this good comrade did not teach his child well. He trained Mu Tie to become a criminal, the kind of bad element who refused to repent even after being sent to prison and wanted to publish an autobiography to teach everyone how to commit crimes.

Obviously, Ye Xiangdong is good at other things, but not cooking.

He was about to throw a piece of camel meat into his pot which had not been turned on for who knows how long.

"So now, do you still like me?" Su Xiangyu asked.

Pickled mustard greens, even Han Shen would tremble when talking about this woman, she was the one who got it done. Just ask Ye Xiangdong if he is afraid.

"Do you know my stepmother Feng Mingyan?" Ye Xiangdong paused and said softly, "Compared to this old lady, she is ten thousand times more powerful. I used to think that you would be finished if you lived with me in the border town in the future, but now I think that even if we return to the capital in the future, you should be able to handle it."

Is this a compliment on her fighting ability, or a way of scolding her for being fierce?

"Don't leave tonight. Everyone must fight for the future of the border town. You just want to be the director. I'll cook and take care of the kids. I support you in your career. Is that okay?" Ye Xiangdong said in a low voice.

From the beginning, he just thought she was very well behaved and gentle, so he wanted to coax her back so that he could have a woman to cook for him and then adopt Mu Tie with him.

Of course, the most important thing is that you like it. You don't need a reason to like something like this.

But now, he has to become a househusband?