The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 494: Broken Engagement Farce!!
Liujiazhuang, Liujia Courtyard, the main house in the middle courtyard.

"Mom, I heard Benming was here just now?" Gan Ning did not go down to inspect the company today and came back early. She heard that Liu Benming was back.

Liu Benming is the grandson of Liu Zhiye’s sixth grandfather, the son of his eldest cousin Liu Shuhua, and the eldest in the family.

Last year, it was Gan Ning who personally sent these boys from Liujiazhuang to the district armed forces department to sign up for the army.

Therefore, Gan Ning had a deeper impression of his nephew Liu Zhiye.

“Well, Ben Ming had just left not long ago, and he came to visit the old man.

This kid is really promising now. He has performed well on the front line. Not only has he made contributions, but he is also going to be promoted!"

Deng Ru was wearing reading glasses and sitting under the awning in the yard, picking vegetables. When she saw Gan Ning coming home from get off work early, she said with a happy look on her face.

"Wow! Really? I didn't expect that..." Gan Ning seemed quite happy when he heard this.

Liu Benming is Liu Zhiye’s nephew, and the two families are closely related.

Gan Ning was well aware of how much her husband valued these younger generations of the Liu family, and she had been making every effort to cultivate them.

"By the way, Mom, didn't you ask Benming? The troops have already returned, when will his uncle be able to come back?" Gan Ning couldn't help but ask.

Her husband has been on the front line for more than half a year and has not been able to return home. They have only talked on the phone a few times during this period. It is really heartbreaking.

Deng Ru couldn't help but sigh when she heard this and said, "Why didn't I ask? Guess how this kid answered?

He actually said that he was just a small pawn and how could he know the situation at the front-line command.

She even perfunctorily told me, "Grandma, don't worry, my uncle will be back soon, soon!" After that, she shook her head helplessly.

Seeing this, Gan Ning couldn't help but smile and shook his head, thinking that he was crazy and was desperate. How could this grassroots unit know the movements of the top leaders?

"Hey! Xiao Ning, don't worry too much, didn't you see that it's already reported in the newspaper?

The counterattack is over. I think it won't be long before Zhiye returns safely!" Deng Ru knew her daughter-in-law's mood and quickly spoke to comfort her.

Gan Ning smiled and nodded, then changed the subject: "Mom, where is my dad? Why can't I see him?"

Deng Ru pursed her lips and said, "Your dad, Old Yan came to play with him, and they went to the river to fish together early in the morning.

We should just ignore them and eat when it’s time to eat. They can fish all day and never come home! "

"Oh, it's my third uncle!" When Gan Ning heard that it was Yan Bugui who came, she understood. Yan Bugui was the best at fishing, and now he has led his father-in-law Liu Jingzhai to become obsessed with this activity.

Gan Ningyu picked up a stool and helped her mother-in-law pick vegetables. "Well, we two have some free time today!"

Deng Ru sighed, "That's right! Liu Wen and Liu Wu didn't go home for lunch either, saying that the food in the school cafeteria is delicious."

"These two little heartless kids, can the crappy food in school compare to what I cook? I really don't believe it..."

Gan Ning smiled and responded, "Mom, that's all outdated. Nowadays, the logistics canteens of all levels of schools in Liujiazhuang are managed by our street office."

"Take the ingredients for example. We purchase them all in bulk. We strictly prohibit waste and substitute inferior ingredients for good ones. We ensure that the ingredients are fresh and have a rich nutritional balance."

"Also, the chefs in each school have all received professional training from our technical school, so their skills are definitely good enough."

When Deng Ru heard this, she opened her mouth wide and said in disbelief, "Do children nowadays have such good study conditions?"

Gan Ning laughed when she heard this. She said, "Actually, not all places are like this. Other places don't have such good conditions as our Liujia Village."

"In Liujiazhuang, everything from kindergarten to high school and technical secondary school is free. If a child can get into university, the neighborhood office will give extra subsidies."

"Education here is all supported by the financial support of the subdistrict office. The annual investment in education accounts for more than 30% of the fiscal revenue."

"This is a major part of our fiscal expenditure. Another major expenditure is investment in universal health care."

"This year, our Liujiazhuang Subdistrict Office will usher in the official operation of the second Class III hospital.

In addition, the planned maternal and child health care hospital is about to be completed, and the military hospital will also be relocated here, so our medical level will undoubtedly be greatly improved.”

"I never dreamed that I would have such a good life..." Deng Ru nodded with deep emotion. She was undoubtedly the best witness of the earth-shaking changes in Liujiazhuang.

Gan Ning's situation was different. When she set foot in Liujiazhuang, the place had already begun to rise and many changes had taken place.

Looking back twenty years ago, who could have predicted that this modern metropolis with tall buildings, endless traffic, bright lights, bustling crowds and colorful flowers was once just an unknown mountain village with a population of more than 2,000?
Deng Ru felt extremely proud because she knew better than anyone that the person who brought all this to her was her son.

It was precisely because of Liu Zhiye’s planning twenty years ago that village cadres such as Liu Yuanhai led the villagers to embark on the road to happiness.

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When Liu Benming went home to visit his relatives this time, he didn't expect that he would cause quite a bit of trouble.

Because of his heroic performance in the self-defense counterattack, Liu Benming was awarded the second-class meritorious service after the war and was reported to the regiment as a candidate for promotion by the battalion.

After learning the news of his promotion, Liu Benming immediately sent an urgent telegram to his family while he was at the front line.

He shared the promotion with his family.

After the troops returned to Beijing, Liu Benming applied for the opportunity to go home to visit his family.

This time when he went home to visit his relatives, Liu Benming had two things to do. One was to visit his parents and relatives.

The second is that he plans to get engaged to his blind date Wei Qiuxia to settle his life, so that Liu Benming can work and struggle in the army with peace of mind.

That day, it was already evening when Liu Benming returned to Liujiazhuang.

The neighbors came back from work one after another, and when they saw Liu Benming, they greeted him enthusiastically.

"Hey! Mingzi is back?"

"Yes, Uncle! Are you off work?"

"I heard you guys went to the front line, tell me now..."

"Kid, war is so dangerous, are you okay?"

"Grandma, I'm fine! Look, I'm fine..."

Several of Liu Benming's childhood friends even approached him and started to chat politely, "Mingzi, how are you doing in the army? Have you made any meritorious service? Have you become an officer?"

Liu Benming said: "Not yet!"

He had indeed been reported to the regiment as a candidate for promotion, but the promotion order had not yet been formally issued, so in reality he was not yet a real military cadre.

So Liu Benming said that he had not been promoted, and that his visit home this time was specially approved by the army, and he was returning home to visit his family as an ordinary soldier.

When a few of his childhood friends heard him say that he had failed to be promoted, they immediately changed their attitude and said, "If you don't get promoted and stay in the army, you will come back soon and become a worker like us."

Liu Benming just smiled and said: "It's not bad to come back and be a worker. We working class are the big brothers!"

When he got home, his parents were in the yard cleaning and organizing tools.

Seeing Liu Benming suddenly appear, his mother Wang Fen was both surprised and happy. She hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Liu Benming into the house and chatted with him.

When Wang Fen pulled her eldest son into the house, she kept scolding him for not writing to his family in advance to tell them that he was coming back.

When the younger brothers and sisters who were doing homework in the room heard the voice of their eldest brother Liu Benming, they hurried out and surrounded him, insisting that Liu Benming take off his military uniform and cap and put them on.

Liu Benming realized that his younger brother had grown a lot taller than he had been before, and was almost as tall as him, while his younger sister had grown into a big girl and had lost her previous childishness.

After dinner, Liu Benming talked to his parents about the villagers asking him about promotion.

His father Liu Shuhua said that it was right not to publicize the promotion.

Now Liu Benming’s promotion order has not been officially issued. If there are any changes, he might be laughed at behind his back.

So Liu Benming's parents did not tell anyone about his promotion.

The next day, Liu Benming went to the home of his blind date Yu Qiuxia with a valuable gift.

I thought Yu Qiuxia would be very happy to see me.

But when Yu Qiuxia saw Liu Benming, she acted indifferent.

After sitting down and chatting with Yu Qiuxia for a while, Liu Benming finally understood why Yu Qiuxia was so lukewarm towards him.

It turned out that the news that Liu Benming had not been promoted had reached their family. They also learned that Yu Qiuxia's parents had already made up their minds that if Liu Benming failed to be promoted in the army, they would not agree to Yu Qiuxia marrying him.

They have helped Yu Qiuxia find a young man from another place who works as a junior cadre in a street office, and they hope to have him become her son-in-law.

Although the Yu family is also an outsider, they moved here early and also reaped the benefits of Liujiazhuang's development.

Yu Qiuxia's parents are both small cadres in an enterprise in Liujiazhuang, and the couple are rather snobbish.

At the beginning, Yu Qiuxia and Liu Benming agreed to go on a blind date.

Liu Benming was born into a well-off Liu family and was a high school student.

Their marriage was almost settled, but this boy refused to take the college entrance examination and insisted on joining the army.

This made Yu Qiuxia's parents angry, and they yelled at her: "It's fine if he insists on joining the army, but unless he can make a name for himself in the army, otherwise, there's no chance for you two to get married!"

They are not just saying this in anger.

Sure enough, when they learned that Liu Ben was not promoted, they immediately changed their attitude.

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Not only them, Yu Qiuxia herself was also very disappointed with Liu Benming, and her attitude towards him was also different.

That day, Liu Benming and Yu Qiuxia parted unhappily. When they returned home at noon, they told their parents about what had happened.

After learning about this, Liu Shuhua and his wife also said that they did not expect Yu Qiuxia's family to be so snobbish, and it would be better if they wanted to have such in-laws.

On the eleventh day of his home visit, Liu Benming saw that most of his relatives had left, his parents had to work, and his younger brothers and sisters had to go to school. He felt bored at home alone, so he ended his home visit early and returned to the army.

One month after returning to the army, Liu Benming's promotion order was officially issued. After Liu Benming's promotion order was issued, the armed forces department of the street office went to their home with the good news.

Only then did the neighbors and Yu Qiuxia's family learn that Liu Benming had been promoted in the army.

When one's own intentions are not right, they assume that others are the same as them.

Yu Qiuxia's parents thought that Liu Benming had deliberately concealed the fact of his promotion when he returned home to visit his family last time, in order to get rid of their daughter Yu Qiuxia.

Their family made a lot of noise everywhere, ruining the reputation of Liu Benming's family.

Some onlookers who did not know the truth accused Liu Benming behind his back.

This is not finished!
Instigated by some people, Yu Qiuxia and her parents took the work bus and ran to the army to ask Liu Benming for an explanation.

Yu Qiuxia and his parents were standing at the entrance of the barracks, which immediately attracted a lot of people to come and watch.

At this time, the guard on duty at the barracks door happened to be from Liu Benming's company. He hurried back to the company to inform the company commander, instructor and Liu Benming.

After the instructor learned about this, he immediately asked Liu Benming whether this was true.

When Liu Benming was visiting his relatives, the promotion order had not been issued, so there was no such thing as him concealing the fact, and he reported the matter truthfully to the instructor.

After the instructor understood the whole situation, he asked the guards to invite Yu Qiuxia and her parents to the reception room for military families for a conversation and mediation.

In the reception room for military families, when Yu Qiuxia and her parents saw Liu Benming, they still gave him a cold expression, as if Liu Benming owed them a lot.

The instructor acted as a peacemaker and told Yu Qiuxia and her parents the whole story, thinking that he would be able to gain their forgiveness.

Unexpectedly, Yu Qiuxia's parents still refused to give in, insisting that Liu Benming deliberately concealed the promotion in order to get rid of Yu Qiuxia, and put forward conditions to Liu Benming, unless Liu Benming and Yu Qiuxia registered their marriage immediately.

Faced with Qiuxia's parents' unreasonable demands, the instructor felt helpless, so he asked Liu Benming and Guo Qiuxia's parents to sit down and discuss how to deal with the situation.

Liu Benming suppressed his anger and said, "It is a fact that I did not get promoted at that time, and there is no such thing as concealing it.

Now that you have made such a fuss about things, there is no way I will marry Yu Qiuxia.

Besides, you were the ones who had the evil idea in the first place.

If I hadn't been promoted, you wouldn't have agreed to Yu Qiuxia marrying me."

When Yu Qiuxia saw Liu Benming's firm attitude, she immediately started crying.

Yu Qiuxia's parents further threatened him that if Liu Benming did not agree, they would keep making trouble until the senior leaders of the army found out.

To be honest, if Yu Caixia's parents had been able to sit down and discuss things with Liu Benming calmly at that time, things would definitely have turned around.

Liu Benming also understood that his breaking off the engagement would have a great impact and harm on Yu Qiuxia.

But the more Yu Qiuxia's parents refused to give in, the more disgusted Liu Benming became.

So he left a sentence: "You can make trouble if you want. If you had known this would happen, you wouldn't have done it in the first place!", and turned to leave the reception room for military families.

After the leaders of the group learned about Liu Benming's situation, they all said they would deal with it coldly and ignore it.

Seeing that no one paid any attention to them for several days, Yu Qiuxia's parents went home in dejection.

After returning home, Yu Qiuxia's parents started to spread rumors about Liu Benming, saying that he was a Chen Shimei and that he abandoned his previous blind date after being promoted.

During that period, Liu Benming's parents tried not to go out to avoid hearing these gossips.

Not long after, Yu Qiuxia felt hopeless and married the young man from another place who worked in the street office.

Yu Qiuxia's parents forced this man to become their son-in-law.

Liu Benming's incident was a bit ugly, even Gan Ning knew about it.

Gan Ning was very angry. Wasn't it that the Yu family simply wanted to regret Liu Benming?

Although she was angry, she couldn't think of retaliating against this family like Liu Zhiye did.

It just so happened that this year their street office assigned several college students, including two female college students, each of whom had their own unique looks and were still single.

Gan Ning immediately became concerned.

It was such a coincidence that just when Gan Ning was thinking about how to find a marriage for Liu Benming and how to make some matchmaking, Ge Xiaohu's mother Du Juan happened to come to visit Liu Jingzhai and his wife.

After some greetings, Du Juan casually mentioned the recent situation of her son Ge Xiaohu.

"What? The Jia family is really outrageous!" Gan Ning was speechless and shocked. She knew Qin Huairu was shameless, but she never expected that Huaihua, a little girl, would learn that trick at such a young age.

Deng Ru saw this and quickly told Du Juan, "Xiao Juan, you have to keep your eyes open and keep a close eye on them. Don't let them take advantage of you. Once they get on top of you, it will be hard to get rid of them."

Du Juan sighed and said slowly: "No fly will bite an egg without cracks. In the final analysis, it's because Xiaohu still hasn't found a partner yet, so people have the opportunity to take advantage of him!"

Gan Ning was moved when she heard this, and quickly asked, "Sister-in-law, is Xiaohu really still single?"

Du Juan nodded and replied, "No, no, that's what I'm worried about!"

Gan Ning smiled when he heard this and said, "I just happen to have a suitable candidate. How about introducing him to me?"

When Du Juan heard this, she immediately perked up and asked anxiously, "Oh, that's great!
Please tell me quickly, how old is this girl? What job does she do? Where is she from? "

Gan Ning looked at Du Juan's anxious look and couldn't help laughing. She said, "Sister-in-law, don't be anxious yet. Let me tell you slowly."

"Let's talk about this first, I don't know if it will work or not!
Both girls are university graduates, and are young cadres in our subdistrict office, key training targets, and they are both single. "

"How about this, I'll go find them both and feel them out when I get back. If they're interested, I'll let them meet. What do you think?"

Du Juan agreed immediately after hearing this: "I'll listen to you. You are Hu Zi's aunt, and your nephew's happiness depends on you!"

Gan Ning covered her mouth and smiled, "Hehe, please go ahead!"

Du Juan was in a good mood and naturally changed the subject, saying to Gan Ning: "Sister, why hasn't your Lao Liu come back yet? The battle is over."

Gan Ning sighed softly and responded, "Who said it wasn't true? We haven't been able to contact him, so we can only wait for him to contact us."

Du Juan frowned and said in confusion: "I really don't understand what these men are thinking. Don't they know that their wives, elders, and children at home are always thinking about them?"

Then, Du Juan continued, "Xiao Ning, a few days ago I asked Lao Ge about Lao Liu's situation at the front line. Guess what?"

Gan Ning asked curiously, "What's going on?"

Du Juan shook her head and said angrily, "He actually scolded me and told me not to ask about Zhiye's affairs at the front. Do you think he is irritating?"

(End of this chapter)