Chapter 414 New World: Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky

"Mr. Su, I don't want to hurt anyone."

Faced with Su Mingzhe's "invitation", Xia Zhu refused without hesitation even though Su Mingzhe's words were sincere.

"This is not harming anyone. Didn't I tell you that? I'm just asking you to go to... those businesses with no moral bottom line. I'm not asking you to intentionally harm others."

Su Mingzhe was a little puzzled as to why Xia Zhu was so stubborn.

I said a lot of nice and bad things, but in the end it was of no use at all.

"Mr. Su, I really don't want to hurt anyone anymore."

Xia Zhu's eyes were full of stubbornness. Seeing that the man was determined to persuade her to "harm others", she gritted her teeth, picked up her bag, and was about to leave: "If you insist that I harm others, Mr. Su, then I would rather not find a job in my life, and would rather stay at home and be a useless person who lives off my parents."

"Miss Xia, please stay."

Seeing that Xia Zhu was about to leave after a disagreement, Su Mingzhe quickly reached out to stop her and said helplessly: "Since Miss Xia is so insistent, let's discuss other cooperation."

Su Mingzhe had not expected Xia Zhu's determination.

When analyzing the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong City" on the Internet in later generations, the vast majority of opinions believed that Xia Zhu was with Wang Duoyu because of her money.

Even at the end of the movie, Xia Zhu's move to reserve property for his son and grandson was interpreted as "fraudulent donation."

No matter how those videos are interpreted, the Xia Zhu that Su Mingzhe sees now is still a girl with a simple heart, who is repenting for the several companies that went bankrupt because of her.

In order to avoid implicating innocent people, she even decided not to work outside for the rest of her life.

At this time, Xia Zhu exuded a kind of "Madonna's radiance".

Influenced by this glory, Su Mingzhe suddenly felt that he was too despicable, dirty and vulgar.

Then, Su Mingzhe shook his head and drove away the messy thoughts in his mind.

"It seems that my willpower is still not strong enough. I was actually influenced by a woman."

Su Mingzhe has always been accustomed to self-reflection.

However, the habits formed over a long life are difficult to change so easily.

For example, now, he was thinking that he must reflect deeply on himself, but he pushed Xia Zhu away.

Xia Zhu is even more innocent than Wang Kaiqi.

Wang Kaiqi's simplicity means she is ignorant of the world, has not experienced the wind and rain, and is like an orchid in the valley.

Xia Zhu, on the other hand, is an upright person in his ideas. He is responsible at work and sincere to others, but he is also a little stubborn. He corrects his mistakes as soon as he knows them and never makes excuses for his mistakes.

2019, fall.

Su Mingzhe and Qiu Ya were both forty years old without realizing it.

Their eldest daughter is only sixteen years old this year. She just entered high school and started dating. Su Mingzhe was so angry that he almost demolished the middle school.

Fortunately, it was finally determined to be a misunderstanding.

This girl is just being pursued, she hasn't agreed yet.

Because of this incident, Su Mingzhe became more strict in disciplining his dozen children.

With the joining of Xia Zhu, Wang Kaiqi had had enough of the entertainment industry, and the two of them gave birth to several more children for Su Mingzhe.

In this world, the number of Su Mingzhe's children gradually exceeded twenty.

Seeing that the eldest daughter is about to graduate from college and talk about marriage, Xia Zhu and Wang Kaiqi are still pregnant with big bellies.

Su Mingzhe finally began to regret:
"In the next world, I really can't be so wasteful."

...the dividing line of all evil...

It was the coldest time of winter in 1969.

Jiangnan Province, Jinhua City, Pujiang County.

Compared with Yiwu next door, Pujiang not only has a small population, but also has many mountains and rivers, and its land is vast and sparsely populated.

It is also because of this characteristic that even after three years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are still thousands of bandits roaming around in Pujiang area, plaguing the local area.

In 60, Pujiang was merged into Yiwu, and its administrative level was downgraded to "Pujiang Region".

However, at the end of 66, Pujiang County resumed its "county-level" administration.

During the large-scale military training a few years ago, there were 110,000 militiamen among the 240,000 people in the county.

This day, the sun is shining brightly.

After receiving the notice, the workers of Puxi Central Factory all wore tattered clothes and sat near the bridge, waiting for the grain trucks to arrive and prepare to unload the goods.

Suddenly, in the lower reaches of the Puyang River, a bamboo raft slowly moved upstream, attracting everyone's attention.

When the bamboo raft came closer, everyone saw that there was a little boy about seven or eight years old rowing the raft.

The little boy was barefoot, holding a bamboo pole, going upstream alone, and slowly came to the bridgehead at the entrance of Puyang Town.

There were many workers on the bridge. When they saw the little boy paddling over alone, they immediately became curious and looked over.

"Whose doll is this? Why would the adults in the family let such a small doll go out without worrying about it?"

"This doll doesn't look big and looks unfamiliar. I've never seen it before."

"You're not from the country, are you?"

While everyone was talking, the little boy had already secured the bamboo raft and casually thrust the bamboo pole in his hand into the water, where it stood straight up like a javelin.

A middle-aged man in charge, wearing a four-pocket Zhongshan suit and a dark blue liberation cap on his head, saw the little boy walk up to the bridge. He took out a pair of cloth shoes from his waist and put them on. Then he walked over with his hands behind his back and blocked the boy's way:

"Wow, where are you from? Who are you looking for here?"

"Ok?"

Su Mingzhe looked at the other person in confusion. Seeing that he was blocking him and not giving way, he could only frown, patted the box on his back, and said:

"My last name is Su, and I am here to send my father and mother's ashes back home."

"Su?"

The middle-aged man frowned when he heard this: "Baby, what's your father's name?"

Su Mingzhe replied: "My father's name is Su Chaoqun."

"Su Chaoqun?"

After hearing this, the middle-aged man took a long time to remember the name.

Nine years ago, Pujiang was just merged into Yiwu. At that time, enterprises streamlined their workers and the education system also decentralized teachers.

A total of five to six hundred people were sent down to Pujiang.

At that time, Su Chaoqun was a teacher at the Central Factory Primary School and was one of the teachers sent down to support agriculture.

I heard that he and his wife were both sent down to Yiwu.

I never thought that after not seeing each other for a few years, both of them were gone.

what a shame.

However, in that era of food and clothing shortages, a cold could be fatal.

Death is not that uncommon.

At this time, a young man came from a distance and asked Su Mingzhe:
"You are Uncle Chaoqun's child. Your name is Su Mingzhe, right?"

"It's me, Brother Erjun."

Su Mingzhe searched his memory carefully and had some impression of the young man in front of him.

The Su family is not a big family in Pujiang. Together with the adults, wives and children, there are only about a hundred people.

Su Erjun's grandfather and Su Mingzhe's grandfather are cousins, so their relationship is quite close.

"Come home with me. I received a call from Yiwu the day before yesterday. My family has been waiting for you for two days."

Su Erjun felt somewhat uncomfortable when he saw Su Mingzhe, who had lost both his parents at such a young age.

"Uncle Chaoqun and Aunt Chaoqun, when did they both die?"

"My mom passed away several years ago, and my dad died of illness two days ago."

The Su family’s old house is not far from the bridgehead of Puyang Town.

In his original memory, Su Mingzhe had been here several times and knew how to get there.

However, since someone wants to lead the way, let him lead the way.

Su Erjun asked Su Mingzhe a few questions.

Su Mingzhe did not hide anything and answered all the questions honestly.

Soon, Su Erjun brought Su Mingzhe to a wealthy family and asked Su Mingzhe if he had a hemp robe and mourning hat on him.

Su Mingzhe naturally brought him with him. Following Su Erjun's instructions, he knelt at the gate in mourning clothes.

Su Erjun then knocked on the door and shouted:
"Grandpa, Mingzhe is back. Mingzhe is sending Uncle Chaoqun and Aunt Chaoqun home."

A group of relatives had already been waiting at the Su family's old house. As soon as they opened the door and saw Su Mingzhe in mourning, the crowd began to cry.

Affected by the atmosphere and the memories of his original body, Su Mingzhe couldn't help but burst into tears.

Su Mingzhe doesn't need to worry about the burial of Su Chaoqun and his wife.

The Su family received the call two days ago and started preparing.

Due to the times, the funeral was not grand.

Relatives and friends helped to take care of it, and after the burial near the Su family's ancestral tomb, the matter was considered over.

Su Mingzhe didn't eat anything that day and slept soundly all night.

The next day, he was taken to the main hall, where a dozen elders of the Su family smoked pipes and began to discuss matters concerning the living.

Su Chaoqun and his wife are gone, but Su Mingzhe is still young and the Su family must take care of him until he grows up.

This is the customary rule of the clan and village.

Of course, if Su Mingzhe was a girl, we wouldn’t need to study it so carefully.

Just put her into any family, raise her up and let her marry off.

The problem is that Su Mingzhe is a boy and will have to be the man of the house in the future.

Even though he is still young, we should still treat this issue with caution.

Su Mingzhe's grandfather, Su Shitou, spoke first:

"Erwa and his wife (Su Chaoqun and his wife) left this little boy behind and left. Let's see how we can support him."

"Brother Shitou, Erwa is gone, but we are all here. We definitely can't let this kid be left without support."

Su Erjun's grandfather, who is also Su Shitou's cousin, is one of the few elders in the Su family. He spoke first at this time:

"We have 16 families here. Each family should contribute one and a half kilograms of food rations every month. Brother Shitou, what do you think?"

If each of the sixteen families contributes one and a half kilograms of food rations, that would be twenty-four kilograms of food rations.

At that time, the food ration coupons for an adult were only 26 kilograms per month.

It's really nice of you to give so much, and give so much every month.

After hearing this, Su Mingzhe's grandfather took a puff of his pipe, nodded his heavy neck, and continued:

"That's it, everyone please take more care in the future. I'll trouble Chaocheng, Chaoxiang, and Chaogui to help collect the rations."

"Okay, uncle."

Su Chaocheng, Su Chaoxiang and Su Chaogui are the leaders of three branches among the more than ten households in the Su family. Let them help collect food from their brothers and send it over together in the end, so as to save everyone the trouble of delivering it to each household one by one.

Su Shitou had two sons and three daughters, but the eldest son and two daughters went to support the frontier villages, leaving behind only a young daughter and a young son.

My little girl got married a few years ago.

Now that his youngest son is gone, Su Shitou’s already gloomy temper has become even gloomier.

(End of this chapter)