That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 708: What do you two, master and disciple, mean?
When Li Ye and others went to the grave, the black-faced old man left. He was assigned by the village to watch the slope. He usually stayed in the shack. If someone stole a stick, he would come out and make a noise, acting as a cat to scare away mice.

After burning the paper and visiting the grave, Li Ye asked Fu Guiru: "Mom, should we leave now? Or should I go to the village for you?"

Fu Guiru looked at Li Ye, nodded and said, "Then you can go to the village! Thank you, Lao Nanggua. Thank you, Uncle Chen."

"Okay~"

Li Ye packed up his things and drove to the shack of the black-faced old man with Wen Leyu and his sister Li Yue, and first gave him a pack of cigarettes.

"Uncle, we want to go to the village to thank that old man. Can you show us the way?"

"Oh? Your relative doesn't know the way?"

"She left first because of something. It's just my sister and I and my wife."

"Oh~"

The dark-faced old man glanced at Li Ye, nodded, got into Li Ye's car, and drove all the way to Xigou Village.

When he arrived at the village, Li Ye did not go directly to find Lao Nanggua, but went to the village brigade first and found the village chief.

Sister Li Yue revealed her identity: the sales manager of Pengcheng No. 7 Factory and a senior manager of Fenghua Garment. She donated 300 yuan to the village primary school on the spot and also vaguely revealed that her husband was the section chief of the Beijing Central Selection Department.

Now everyone in Xigou Brigade was very enthusiastic. They were family members of officials from ministries and commissions in Beijing. They were five levels higher than the village brigade, so they should be treated well, right?
However, Li Yue did not seek any hospitality. He just wanted to thank the uncle and aunt from Lao Chen's family because they had been sweeping his grandfather's grave on his behalf over the years.

"Hey, Lao Nanggua. Lao Chen is a good man in our village, a real man, I will take you there."

The people from the village team quickly led Li Yue and Li Ye and his wife to find Lao Nanggua. When they arrived at the door, they shouted, "Old Chen, the child from the old Fu family is here to thank you."

"Who? The old Fu family?"

A short and thin man walked out of the house. He didn't understand what was going on for a moment, but when he saw Li Yue, he was stunned.

"You are Hongying's child? You are Xiaoyue, right?"

"Hey, uncle, do you know me?"

"Why don't I know you~"

Old Chen slapped his thigh and said with tears in his eyes: "In 1962, your mother brought you back and gave me half a bag of grain. If it weren't for that half bag of grain, our whole family would have died long ago."

Li Yue suddenly understood why Old Chen had been putting paper money on his grandfather's grave for twenty years in a row.

The simple farmer may not be able to read, but he knows the principle of repaying a drop of kindness with a spring.

As for why Lao Chen knew Li Yue, it must be because her sister looked like Fu Guiru. Otherwise, how could he recognize her appearance when her sister didn’t even know whether she could walk in 1962?

"Old Chen, stop talking about your own business. Comrade Li came from the capital with his brother and sister-in-law to visit grandpa's grave. He heard that you insisted on sweeping the grave for Comrade Fu, so he came here specially to thank you."

The people in the village team were quite capable. When they saw Old Chen crying, they hurriedly assisted him and signaled him, thinking, "The ancestral graves of your Old Chen family are smoking. You must seize this opportunity!"

But Lao Chen was an honest man, so he didn't understand all those twists and turns. When he heard that Li Yue was working in Beijing, he just kept saying yes with tears in his eyes.

"Good, that's great, you all went to work in Beijing. God has eyes, good people will always be rewarded."

Li Yue looked at Old Chen's house. It had only a half-meter-high brick wall foundation, with adobe on top and a straw roof.

Looking inside the house again, it was so dark that I couldn't see clearly. The windows were covered with white paper instead of glass. It seemed that life was very ordinary.

Li Yue was moved and said in a gentle voice: "Uncle Chen, is there any difficulty in your family? If so, please tell me and I will arrange a job for you that pays you."

Dongshan Province is one of the bases of Pengcheng's seven factories, so it was not difficult for Li Yue to arrange a job in the sales channel for him.

But Lao Chen waved his hands again and again: "No, no, really no, we have lived well these years, eating steamed buns every meal, we are fine."

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Everyone in the village brigade was speechless. Some people are just stupid, the kind of stupidity that cannot be saved even if the smoke from their ancestors' graves rises.

The dark-faced old man who had followed Li Ye all the way pointed at the honest boy behind Lao Chen.

"You old fool, you only care about your own good life, don't you care about your children and grandchildren? Your son is still single. If he finds a job that pays him, won't it be easier for him to find a wife?"

Old Chen was stunned for a moment, but still shook his head vigorously: "My son is still young, he will definitely find a wife in the future. Finding a wife is the responsibility of his parents, how can I trouble them?"

The honest boy behind Lao Chen also smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm fine~ I can get married."

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The people around were scratching their heads in anxiety, but the Chen family had no intention of taking advantage of the situation.

Li Yue smiled helplessly and said, "Uncle Chen, let me write you a note! If my brother changes his mind in the future, I can go to Fenghua Clothing in Daocheng to make a living."

"Ah? This, this, this."

Old Chen was unable to react for a moment, but Li Yue had already written the note and stuffed it into his hand.

After visiting Old Chen’s family, Li Yue and Li Ye said goodbye and left. The people from the village brigade tried to keep them, but Li Yue declined politely, leaving only one sentence: “We’ll come again next year during the Qingming Festival.”

"Oh my goodness, it's Fenghua Clothing, the Fenghua Clothing advertised on TV all day long. Is the child of the Chen family going to work there? Will he have to worry about not having clothes to wear in his life?" "What a fool has good fortune! Burning a few pieces of paper a year actually earned him a job that pays the government. What god did he pray to?"

"A deity from the capital! Didn't you see the word 'Jing' on the license plate of his car?"

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The people of Xigou Village stood at the entrance of the village, watching Li Yue's car leave, and they did not leave for a long time.

In this age without mobile phone videos, they could talk about today's incident for a month.

Twenty minutes after Li Ye had walked, two bicycles suddenly appeared from the east end of the village. They carried six or seven people on them, and rushed over here, swaying like an overloaded truck.

"Hey, where are our relatives from the Fu family? Old Zhu, where are our relatives from the family?"

"Your relatives?"

The village brigade's old Zhu smiled and said sarcastically, "Fu San, don't recognize your relatives carelessly. Otherwise, if you recognize someone and they don't recognize you, it will be embarrassing!"

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"No, what do you mean, Old Zhu? Our nephew has finally come here, why can't we just recognize him?"

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The dark-faced old man in charge of watching the slope looked at the impatient people with contempt and disdain on his face.

Do you think it’s just your nephew who came to visit the grave?
That awesome sister is back too.

In the past, rural men worked in the fields all day long, exposed to the wind and sun and did not pay attention to maintenance, so they generally aged quickly.

Even though Fu Guiru calls the dark-faced old man "uncle" and Li Ye calls him "grandfather", in fact, this old man is just in his early forties and is of the same generation as Fu Guiru!
Fu Guiru couldn't recognize him, so how could he not recognize Fu Guiru?
If Fu Guiru doesn't return to the village, doesn't that mean she doesn't recognize you distant relatives?
A bunch of short-sighted fools.

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After visiting the grave, Li Ye fulfilled Fu Guiru's wish and returned to the capital the next day.

Marriage leave was very short these days, and he exceeded his leave when he went to the island city. However, he called the office and told the section chief Wu Qingyi that he would come back and write a supplementary note for the leave.

But on the third day, when he wrote a leave note and arrived at the unit, Wu Qingyi gave Li Ye a lecture.

"Xiao Li, I'm here! This is a formal state-owned unit, not a makeshift team in the countryside. We have strict regulations. You got married right after you started working, and you didn't return home on time. Do you still have the organization in your eyes? Do you still have discipline?"

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Li Ye had experienced this kind of thing in his previous life, so he said calmly, "Chief Wu, I'm not from this place, so after getting married I have to go back to visit the grave according to traditional customs, right?
And I called you midway and asked for further leave, and you agreed."

"Do you call that continuing to take leave?"

Section Chief Wu interrupted Li Ye rudely and sternly scolded him, "You called me from thousands of miles away to ask for leave. Even if I don't approve it, can you still somersault back like Sun Wukong?"

"Besides, you are a D member, but you are into this kind of feudal superstition. Why would you leave your job just to visit your ancestors' graves? Which is more important, work or feudal superstition?"

Vonimalai~
Although Li Ye had work experience from his previous life and had a certain level of endurance, was it that the reason why I went through so much trouble after traveling through time was just to repeat the grievances of my previous life?

So Li Ye said calmly: "What's wrong with Officer D? Can't Officer D visit his ancestors' graves? Chief Wu, you can forget your ancestors, but I can't."

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"Bang~"

"What are you talking about? Say it to me again!"

After Wu Qingyi was retorted by Li Ye, he was stunned for five seconds, then suddenly stood up and slammed the table.

"You can forget your ancestors, but I can't!"

No problem, I'll satisfy you and repeat it eight times without any hesitation.

"you"

"Hey, hey, hey, stop making noise!"

Just before Wu Qingyi went berserk, Lao Ding stepped forward and said, smiling, "Xiao Li! You misunderstood what Section Chief Wu meant.
What he meant was that when your vacation is about to expire, you should come to him to discuss and ask him to arrange a business trip for you, so that your salary will not be affected.

You need to ask Section Chief Wu for advice on this. Section Chief Wu is the best at this kind of thing. You still have a lot to learn! Young people should be humble.”

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Supply Corey was completely quiet.

Wu Qingyi stared at the smiling Lao Ding and the cold Li Ye, wishing he could turn into a monster in Journey to the West and swallow the master and disciple in one bite.

[What do you two mean, master and disciple? Are you scolding me in a sarcastic way? ]

But it was difficult for Wu Qingyi to scold Lao Ding on the spot, because he was very good at handling private matters under the guise of business trips, and he had done so many times before. If he really had a quarrel with Lao Ding, it would be a mess.

(End of this chapter)