A doctor who travels through two eras

When Zhao Jintao returned home, he saw his barefoot and ragged wife cooking wild vegetable porridge, while his two twin sons were playing in the mud at the door.

"A Tao, you're back. The porridge is almost ready. I'll serve it to you."

Zhao Jintao nodded, went into the house, carefully took off his military uniform and folded it. This was his only good set of clothes and also all his spiritual sustenance.

When he came out of the room, he saw that his wife had already served the porridge and there was a sweet potato on the table.

Zhao Jintao looked at his own bowl which was full of dry goods, and then looked at his wife's bowl which was mostly full of soup, and felt indescribably uncomfortable.

My wife was so young and pretty before we got married. Everyone in the area would praise her for being such a good girl.

Since I married her, I have to work in the fields, take care of the children, do housework, and I don’t have enough to eat every day. I have become so thin that I am just bones, and my complexion is getting paler and paler.

This made Zhao Jintao, a soldier, feel extremely guilty, but he had no way to change his poor life.

Even though he gets up early and works late every day on the farm, and can do the work of two others, there are only so many work points in the village, and it is impossible to give him too many work points or too much food.

Doing business was not allowed, and even entering the city required a letter of introduction.

It is even more impossible for him to be a bandit. Not to mention that he is a soldier and it is impossible for him to break the law. Even if he wants to rob people, everyone in the surrounding area is poor and there is not even a landlord. Who can he rob?
Thinking of this, Zhao Jintao remembered the solution given by the armed forces staff in the morning.

He was a little hesitant at first, but when he thought about how poor his family was and how his wife and children could hardly survive, he became more determined.

He would go to Hong Kong and get a high salary, even if it meant fighting with others.

With an annual salary of 7200 yuan, even if he was beaten to death after only working for a year, this money would be enough for his wife and children to live on the mainland.

"Afen, come in and sit down. I want to discuss something with you."

"What's the matter? You usually work hard, you didn't go to the commune to get criticized, did you?"

"Bullshit, how could a man of seven feet tall like me be criticized? I went to the commune this morning, and the county said that they are organizing a group of people to go to Xiangjiang to be security guards... to be workers. The salary is very high, and I want to go."

Sun Afen was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and didn't know what to say:
"A Tao, are you going to abandon the three of us?"

Many people from Guangdong and Guangxi fled to Hong Kong, almost every village had such people. Sun Afen thought her husband was also going to follow others and fled to Hong Kong, so she became anxious:

"No, even if you want to go to Hong Kong, my son and I will go with you. I can endure hardships, and I won't be a burden to you."

Zhao Jintao stood up and hugged his excited wife, patiently stroking her back: "Don't be excited, don't be excited."

"Wuwuwu, A Tao, don't abandon us, how will we live if you leave, wuwu~~~"

"Silly boy, how could I bear to abandon you and the child? I am not escaping from Hong Kong. I am working in Hong Kong in an open and aboveboard manner, and my boss is also from the mainland. Do you know how much I can earn a month? 600 yuan."

Women's attention is easily distracted. When she heard the salary of 600 yuan, Sun Afen stopped crying:

"Is this true? How can the salary be so high? I have a relative who works as a clerk in the commune and only makes 18 yuan a month."

"It's true. This morning the county's armed forces department came to solicit our opinions and asked us to sign up voluntarily. The county also said that if we settle down in Hong Kong, we can bring our families to live in Hong Kong in the future."

"That……"

"Ah Fen, I want to go. Don't worry. My accommodation and food are provided when I go to Hong Kong. My boss also said that I can send my monthly salary back to my family, and the government won't take a penny. For you and the children, I want to give it a try."

"But what if you go to Hong Kong and don't come back?"

"Believe me, Afen, even if I don't go back to Shuangxi, I will definitely take you and the children out. If we want to survive, we have to go out and try our luck. I don't want my son to be a farmer for generations, starving and hungry."

The couple discussed it all night...

Such scenes are happening in many small families in Dongguang and Xiguang provinces.

Some people decide to go out and fight for a chance to carve out a path for their family's future.

Some people think it is unreliable. Conservative people think that being a bodyguard for capitalists is like being a slave, and the key is that it is easy to become cannon fodder.

In the end, out of the 13 veterans from Shuangxi Commune, 10 chose to go to Hong Kong, and 3 chose to stay in their hometown with their families.

The first batch of 500 veterans were quickly recruited and reported to Huadu from all over the province.

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Huadu Railway Station.

Lin Sanqi stood on the platform, watching the train from Wuhan slowly approach the station, and then saw his parents, brothers, and his wife Pan Ye getting off the train.

"Dad, Mom~~"

Lin Sanqi went to meet him, and the whole family was very happy, especially Pan Ye, who was reluctant to let go of her husband's hand after seeing him for a month.

"How's it going? Everyone, are you in a good mood after traveling around the country?"

Lin Sanqi looked at his family members and felt a little strange. His parents and eldest brother's family all traveled light, but why did his second brother's family carry so many bags?

Lin Kucan looked at the surrounding environment and said with emotion:
"We have been close to home for a long time, and have not heard from anyone outside the mountains. Winter has passed and spring has come. We are even more timid and dare not ask the people who have come. After 12 years, we are back again."

Jin Caifeng's eyes were also filled with tears:
"What a pity, we have to leave again just after coming back. Let's go home!" Lin Sanqi said speechlessly:

"Mom, what home are you going back to? Didn't I tell you that our house has been occupied by our three uncles? Only your master bedroom has been left untouched. All other rooms are occupied. Now we have a home but cannot go back."

Jin Caifeng was not anxious when she heard this in Peking, but now that it was really happening, she became anxious:

"That's my home. How can it be allowed to be occupied by some relatives when the owner comes back and has no place to live? Let's go home and I want to see what's right!"

Lin Kucan patted his wife's hand and comforted her:
"Everything has its own cause. The three of them occupied one of our properties. Do you think they took advantage of us? In fact, the three of them lost a good opportunity, a good opportunity for the whole family to immigrate to Hong Kong and escape from the predicament.

So there is no need to be angry, if they want to live here, then let them live here, after all, we may not be able to come back in the future. Even if we go back to the mainland in the future, I was able to buy you a small Western-style house back then, and I can buy you a new big Western-style house in the future.”

Lin Sanqi thought, his father, who was so low-key in Peking, seemed to be ambitious again after returning to his hometown?

Jin Caifeng was still a little unconvinced:

"We can't let them get away with it that easily. Even if they want to live in the annex building where the clinic used to be, I won't say anything. The main building is our home, and they're occupying it. That's too much."

Lin Gancao's personality is not to fight or compete. Even though it is obviously the ancestral property of his eldest son, he just smiled.

Lin Duzhong is the second son. When the family was divided, it was clearly stated that the small western-style building would not be given to him, so he had no intention of fighting for it. Now he only wanted to make a fortune in Hong Kong.

Only Lin Sanqi couldn't swallow this breath, so he hugged his mother's shoulders and said in support:
"Mom, don't worry. I will go to the local street office and replace all our pre-liberation house deeds with property certificates to confirm the ownership first. This way, we won't have to worry about them causing trouble in the future."

In fact, Lin Sanqi thought too simply, just like the courtyard houses in Beijing.

Although the property rights were returned to the owner, the tenants living in the courtyard could not be driven away, and even if they wanted to sell the house, they would not be able to do so, which would completely infuriate the owner to death.

Lin Kucan changed the subject at this time and said:
"Qizi, you go home first and prepare for the journey. Where are we going now?"

Lin Sanqi smiled and said, "I have already booked a room at the Third Guesthouse. You have been busy for a month. Let's go and have a rest first, and then go to grandpa and grandma's house. I will treat you and we will have a good meal together in Beiyuan."

Lin Kucan waved his hand and said, "Let's go. No matter where we go, when we reach Huadu, we will be home."

Lin Gancao and Lin Duzhong also shouted excitedly at this time: "We are home, we are finally back!"

Sister-in-law Fu Muxiang, sister-in-law Pei Xuehua, and two children were all visiting Huadu for the first time and were full of curiosity about every tree and blade of grass on the street.

On the contrary, the third daughter-in-law Pan Ye had already come to Huadu with Lin Sanqi to visit her grandparents.

The next day, in the morning.

In front of a three-story white oriental-style building next to the Boji Church in Huadu City, Renji Road.

Lin Kucan finally returned home with his family.

After arriving in Huadu, Lin Kucan, who was usually taciturn in the capital, became noticeably more talkative and lively.

"Jiageng, Zhenzhen, this is our real hometown. Your parents were born here. Hehe, how about it? Isn't the small Western-style building that grandpa built back then magnificent?"

Pei Xuehua's eyes began to light up when she saw the small Western-style building. She was born in an ordinary family and her parents' family was considered well-off, but they definitely could not afford to live in a villa.

"Dad, this is our house. Wow, it's four stories high and 10 rooms wide. How big is this area? How many people can live in it?"

Lin Duzhong said proudly in front of his wife:
"What does this have to do with anything? This is not the main building. This is where our clinic used to be. Originally, the door was open to the street, but now I don't know who has sealed it off.

Our little Western-style building is still there. It’s really grand. It’s a three-story building. The first floor is all marble, and the second and third floors are all wooden floors. When we were little, the three of us played hide-and-seek in it, but we couldn’t find it at all.”

Pei Xuehua looked at her husband with stars in her eyes at this time. She never thought that her husband's family was so prominent in the south.

Even Fu Muxiang, who usually did not fight for anything, was a little unhappy at this time. If it was a small house, she would have given it up, but now seeing such a big villa, and thinking about it being occupied by relatives, she could not bear to give up.

"Hey, Gancao, Dad said at the beginning that this small western-style building should belong to our eldest branch. It is Jiageng's property. We can't let it go so easily. We must take the house back."

Lin Gancao's personality is too gentlemanly, or to put it bluntly, pedantic and cowardly. He stuttered a little when he heard his wife's complaints:

"But this place is full of my uncles and cousins. They have lived here for more than ten years. It is impossible to ask them to move..."

After hearing this, Fu Muxiang stomped her feet in anger and didn't want to pay any attention to her husband anymore.

Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes when he heard this, thinking that with his elder brother's temper, if he were an emperor in ancient times, he would probably be like Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youtang, who was fooled by the civil service group and never left the Forbidden City in his entire life.

Jin Caifeng was also a little angry when she heard what her eldest son said. Women tend to be more protective of their children.

"Of course not. It's mine. When your father bought this house, he didn't spend a penny of the family's money. He earned it all by himself, and my dowry was also added to it. How can he give it to others so easily?"

Pan Ye didn't comment after hearing this. Anyway, the two tons of gold and a bag of diamonds under her own crabapple tree gave her enough confidence and she didn't need to fight with her husband's family for the property.

Lin Sanqi had already set up the tripod, positioned a camera, and set the time:

"Come on, come on, we are finally back as a family, let's be happy, let's take a photo at the doorstep as a souvenir, and smile, come on, Tian Qi~~~"

With a click, the Lin family took another family photo after 12 years.

Unfortunately, what Lin Kucan and Jin Caifeng didn't know was that the youngest son was no longer their biological son... (End of this chapter)