Chapter 569: Another Year

Wang Yan gently pried open the big white legs riding on him, then covered her with the quilt to cover the large expanse of spring light exposed.

Perhaps feeling his movement, Su Meng in her deep sleep frowned, but in the end, the exhaustion of her body and the consumption of her spirit had not yet recovered, so she just turned over, exposing her smooth back, riding on the quilt and sleeping soundly again, the startup failed. Even when she was completely awake, she wouldn't know that such a thing happened in the morning.

Su Meng's appearance was of course not bad, and her physical condition was also okay. Coupled with the shy cooperation in tension, it was quite comfortable. It's just that the conditions were not good now, and after ending the battle, cleaning the battlefield was a bit clumsy...

Covering Su Meng with the quilt again, Wang Yan put on his clothes, washed his face in the courtyard, and went out to Chang'an Street to be a monkey as usual.

He now had some fame on Chang'an Street at five or six in the morning. This, of course, was not because of any foreign devil reporter's report, but because he had been a monkey for several months with perseverance. Although people still treated him as a monkey, there was also a feeling of admiration in it. If nothing else, this perseverance was there.

The foreign devil's report was certainly not reported in vain. The influence of the New York Times in the world is beyond doubt, not to mention that this is about China. He had already seen the original version, perhaps the foreign devil reporter knew what "Yi" was and was ashamed into anger, or perhaps people were just working. No matter what, that was an article that seemed to praise but actually criticized, and it was destined to be like this. After all, in the international community, China has never been good, not to mention that the situation has not eased yet.

Seen by many, the photo had influence. It was submitted to some photography competitions, such as the World Press Photo, which are relatively authoritative competitions. However, because it is now the submission period and it is not yet time for awards, there is no movement.

However, with the spread of news, Wang Yan had some heat in a short period of time. In such a backward country, in the complex situation in the country, the appearance of a person like him is in itself a thing worth exploring.

And there is never a shortage of people in the world who want to pursue heat, because it is profitable. Now the heat is China, and naturally, some other newspapers sent people to China for interviews, and by the way, they also wanted to interview Wang Yan, who could be considered to have set off the heat to a certain extent.

If it were in the 21st century when the internet was developed, just with this wave, Wang Yan could have exploded directly. If operated properly, he might have debuted directly.

There were more foreign devils who came to take photos, and more people who stopped him halfway to interview him. Wang Yan... didn't accept, just accepted the interview, which could be considered an exclusive interview.

He certainly performed very well, took the interviewing reporter to look around his home, and talked about his experiences from childhood to adulthood. Factories and schools were all visited. He expressed his firm support for our party, his beautiful expectations for the country's future development, firmly believed that the life of the Chinese people would get better and better, and at the same time talked about the responsibilities that today's youth should fulfill, etc.

After publication, there was certainly influence. His level was enough, plus the embellishment of the reporter's text organization later, it was very spirited and very encouraging, making him fire in front of the people of the whole country.

However, it didn't have much impact on his life. If you want to say it, it was just that period. After all, this is not the time for chasing stars later, a group of people who rely on this thing to make money. It was nothing more than just reported, people in the alley ran to see it, and it was over after that. Even at that time, some people ran together in the morning.

These were all things in August before. After more than a month, they had already sunk to the bottom. So he was still running on Chang'an Street, no different from being a monkey before. Only occasionally someone passed by and would mutter a few words to the person walking with him. The people who ran together before were gone. After all, they couldn't even eat enough, so how could they have the energy to get up early and waste physical strength.

After daily exercise, he didn't go straight home, but went to a little brother's house, got an old hen, wiped its neck and killed it, cleaned it up, and then found a bag to put it in and carry it home.

After washing up, carrying the old hen and some medicinal materials bought early, as well as a large casserole, he went to the Su family in the backyard.

Although he returned a bit late, it was not yet eight o'clock now. Su Fu and Su Mu had already gone to work, leaving only the old lady sweeping the ground in the courtyard diligently. Although it had been cleaned once last night, it was late autumn, and there were many withered yellow leaves in just one night. The old lady had nothing to do, and could sweep the courtyard eight times a day.

Hearing Wang Yan call Grandmother, she asked with concern: "What about Mengmeng? Not awake yet?"

Seeing him nod, she looked at the things he was carrying and asked: "What did you take?"

"This isn't because I'm afraid Su Meng hurt her vitality for the first time, so I got an old hen back, and prepared some medicinal materials, to make up for her properly, so as not to hurt her body." Wang Yan opened the bag, let Su Grandmother take a look, and laughed: "I'm afraid of disturbing Su Meng's rest with the clanging, so I came here to stew it for her."

"Prodigal son, I haven't heard of anyone whose daughter-in-law needs an old hen to make up for her body after the bridal chamber for so many years." Su Grandmother scolded with annoyance, but she was very happy to see it. Her granddaughter was loved, that was real money. She symbolically gave Wang Yan a broom: "Can you stew it? Or should I do it?"

Can stew it? Please remove the "can". Not only can he, but he is very good, too good, very good...

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "No need, Grandmother, you just watch, I have a recipe specifically for stewing old hens, which supplements qi and blood, and the effect is particularly good. In a while, you also drink two more bowls, when you are old, your body will have a deficit, and it is good to make up for it."

"The meal is left for you in the pot, all are leftovers from yesterday."

"Got it, Grandmother."

Wang Yan responded, carried the things into the room, and skillfully chopped the chicken and started stewing...

Su Meng opened her eyes in a daze. The discomfort of her body made her wake up instantly. She brushed aside the hair on her face, took a look at the time on the wall, and it was already past eleven.

Although she was dizzy from sleep, although she was very hungry, she still didn't want to get up in bed.

"What are you thinking about, so fascinated?"

Su Meng woke up with a start, turned to look at Wang Yan who was sitting by the bed laughing, and gave him a slap with annoyance: "Still laughing, it's all your fault. I said don't come, don't come, you insisted on having no end. Now it's good, the second day after marriage and I slept until noon, how do you want me to see people in our courtyard in the future?"

"Dunlun is the great way of man, what is there that can't be seen? It's just you thinking blindly. Get up, I stewed an old hen for you, stewed it all morning, the child of the Li family next door hit three times, tore off a chicken leg and that was it, it was really fragrant."

Su Meng widened her eyes: "Where would we have a chicken at home? Did you go out and buy it this morning?"

"Yeah, my friend's family raised two hens to lay eggs. Isn't this because I'm afraid you hurt your body, so I went over to get it after running this morning. Hurry up, put on your clothes and get up... Why don't you move? What are you looking at me for? Do you want me to help you put on clothes?"

"Oh my, you go out, I'm embarrassed when you look at me... Oh my, Wang Yan!"

The quilt was lifted by Wang Yan, hugged into his arms, and he sat at the table by the bed, looking at Su Meng who was panicked and didn't know what to cover for a while, laughing: "Old couple, what are you shy about, hurry up and put on clothes and get up."

After a long while, Su Meng, with a flushed face, finally put on her clothes, tied a ponytail casually, and followed Wang Yan out of the room with annoyance, arriving at the courtyard to wash up. Wang Yan greeted people in the courtyard and left for the backyard first.

Aunt Guo, the wife of Uncle Guo who was washing clothes in the courtyard, looked at Wang Yan walking away and asked with a smile: "Su Meng, did you just get up?"

"Ah... no, Aunt Guo, I've been up for a while, just didn't want to move, and just came out of the room now." Su Meng pretended to be fine and splashed cold water on her face.

Aunt Guo had the look of "I'm an experienced person, I understand everything," and talked to Su Meng about the life of men and women.

Old women are gossipy, and they talk about everything. Su Meng, a little lady who had just become a woman, couldn't stand these. She washed up quickly, put the basin in the room, closed the door, greeted, and then endured the discomfort and trotted to the backyard.

"Yo, Mengmeng is up, let Grandmother see." Su Grandmother happily pulled her granddaughter and looked left and right. After a long while, Su Meng was looked at until she was hairy, and then she gave a hmm and nodded: "This is different, there is a woman's flavor."

"Oh my, Grandmother~~"

"Get get get, don't say don't say. I tell you, Wang Yan ran out early in the morning to get an old hen for you, and stewed soup for you to drink after busy for a long time. He loves you so much. You must live a good life with Wang Yan in the future, and you can't be like before, playing little temper at every turn."

Su Meng looked helplessly at her grandmother who was teaching her in a low voice: "Oh my, Grandmother, since I started dating Wang Yan, you and my dad and mom have been saying this to me together, my ears have calluses, let me go, okay?"

"Look at you, child, you don't like to listen when I say it, you don't like to listen when I say it, isn't it for your own good?"

"Yes, Grandmother is the best to me." Su Meng hurriedly changed the topic: "Grandmother, you don't know, just now I was washing up in the front yard, Aunt Guo told me... You say it looks quite good usually, why is it so shameless?"

"They are all women, you will know later. What she said is nothing. Grandmother, I have heard more shameful things. Before, people didn't tell you those, because you were still a big girl. Now it's different, you know what you should know, so there is no taboo in speaking."

"That's too much, I have to stay away from them in the future."

Wang Yan came out of the kitchen in the back with a casserole in one hand and a rag in the other: "Yo, this look of disgust, what's the matter? Don't like the old hen I stewed?"

"It has nothing to do with you." Su Meng looked at the chicken soup stewing in the casserole, took a deep breath, nodded repeatedly: "It's okay, Master Wang, I thought you were already good at cooking, didn't expect the soup you stewed is called absolute? Grandmother, you drink it quickly, it's very delicious, I can't describe that feeling in words."

The old lady had smelled the taste for a whole morning, and witnessed the child of the Li family next door hitting the child. Originally, Wang Yan tore off a chicken leg when he hit the second time, and gave the little thing a bowl of soup to drink. The reason why he was hit for the third time was that he wanted to drink more after drinking it. Children, wanting something is crying, adults, especially in this era, if the child is disobedient, hit him, if it doesn't work, hit him twice...

Having received high praise from Su Meng and Su Grandmother, Wang Yan just nodded with a smile: "If it's delicious, drink more. This chicken soup can't be drunk on weekdays, it's too nourishing. When you are in confinement later, I will stew it for you again..."

No way, this kind of pleasure of making delicious food and being praised by others, he had long been numb to the point of losing it. Just his old hen stewed soup had far exceeded the fifth level evaluated by the living father, absolutely reached the realm of perfection, absolutely the best in the world. So far, no woman has said that this old hen soup is not delicious. People are like this, there are too many women who say it is delicious, he can't remember any of them...

Because of the marriage, Wang Yan and Su Meng both asked for three days off, just to enjoy the life after marriage. After being intimate shamelessly for three days, they finally started a new life.

Su Meng's life was simple, it was the daily work schedule, two points and one line between the Children's Palace and home. In fact, she wished she could be tied to Wang Yan every day. After all, they had just gotten married, and the freshness that had almost disappeared before they dated was on top again. Men and women don't know how to restrain, although it is agonizing, it is also very happy, just want to be intimate, feel the most essential pleasure, and feel the stimulation that reaches the depths of the soul.

Wang Yan was full of energy, although there was an extra Su Meng who needed to be arranged, it didn't affect his original life rhythm. Even because he was on the university campus, he had more freedom than when he was in the factory, although there were rules and regulations in the food factory, it was not as unrestrained as the university.

But that's just saying, after all, he didn't have so many things to do, just occasionally went out to meet his little brothers, went to see what was collected again, and then collected some money back. The rest of the time, he was always being his genius in school, the progress of learning things was not fast, but far faster than ordinary people. He even put forward some constructive ideas for computer R&D, which was highly valued and had begun research and experiments.

Life was about the same, basically unchanged.

Cheng Army Supervisor was stimulated, and while on a blind date, he also searched among his past classmates, and finally successfully found a classmate who was in the same grade as Su Meng and Cai Xiaoli. She was quite beautiful, her family was also a grassroots cadre, with three brothers and three sisters, also a big family. This was competing with Wang Yan, as for whether he was competing with Han Chunming, it was unclear, but it was thought that there was, after all, although he said he wore a pair of pants with Han Chunming since childhood and thought it was fat, that narrow mind was definitely not good, this thing was all from childhood.

Su Meng and Cai Xiaoli were both twenty-one. According to current words, they were both proper knowledgeable young women, and they didn't look bad. This is a real world, corrected according to the rationality of the original plot, not twenty looking like thirty, they were all in their youth. Cheng Army Supervisor must not be convinced, plus he only lived by that mouth, his eyeballs rolled, it was not a big problem to cheat little girls, so he started dating.

He led her to run home every day, isn't that just to show Wang Yan and Han Chunming. After all, dating is not like that, like Han Chunming and Cai Xiaoli, they all went out to press the road, and they didn't necessarily come to the Han family once a month. Cheng Army Supervisor also pressed the road, and after pressing, he pressed home, listening to people in the courtyard praising him and his girlfriend every day, and he was happy.

Han Chunming and Cai Xiaoli were always good, after all, Cai Xiaoli really cherished Han Chunming. If a woman cherishes a man, she almost tolerates and takes care of him like a mother.

Han Chunming's salary every month was only that much, and he bought things back when he saw them. Of course, he had no money to spend on Cai Xiaoli, so when the two dated, it was all Cai Xiaoli spending money. She didn't know what Han Chunming was doing, the money was always not enough, and when she asked and didn't get an answer, she didn't ask anymore, and just followed Han Chunming, and didn't complain to Han Mu. However, actually, she didn't spend much money, after all, she was the eldest in the family, and there were three younger sisters below, and some external debts, so she had to subsidize the family, and she could only spend a few yuan every month.

So the two were really affectionate. The weather was getting colder, and being outside together was just pressing the road. Seeing the heart over time, Han Chunming also confessed the matter of collecting antiques, and also moved out Old Guan Tou and Wang Yan to endorse, saying that it would definitely be valuable in the future. Although Cai Xiaoli didn't understand and didn't quite believe it, she still supported it.

This was more than a notch stronger than Su Meng...

The obstacle to Han Chunming and Cai Xiaoli's marriage was Han Chunming's second brother, Han Chunsheng. Under the busy work of Han Mu who broke her heart, finally in December, the blind date was successful. The girl was an educated youth who returned to the city, returned from the west, two years younger than Han Chunsheng, her family was an ordinary family, and there were quite a few brothers and sisters, and life was very difficult. For a while, she couldn't find a job, so marrying early to settle down became a good way, which could rely on the man to support herself, and also help the difficult family.

Both sides had met and talked quite well. At the same time, Han Chunsheng also got a house, and things would be handled when the weather warmed up in March.

Han Chunming's side was also arranged. Two months later, in May of the coming year, the banquet would be held. The reason for separating a month was to give relatives and friends a period of time to slow down. After all, one family followed two gifts, although the children were about the same, they would be collected back sooner or later, but the feeling was different, and it couldn't be comfortable anyway...

In a blink of an eye, time passed from late autumn to cold winter, from October 1975 to January 1976.

This is a year when the people are very happy, and even 1.5 million people in Jingcheng spontaneously took to the streets to parade to celebrate the great victory and welcome the new future. Similarly, this is also a year of disasters, when the people are very sad and sigh.

On January 31, the Lunar New Year, Wang Yan followed the Su family to wrap cabbage and pork dumplings in the backyard, and also made several other small dishes. Because they had few people, it was not lively, and the food was easy to make, so they didn't wait until zero o'clock happily. And now there is no Spring Festival holiday, because it has been revolutionized...

However, they were still okay. Su Fu and Su Mu were teachers, Su Meng taught children in the Children's Palace, which could be considered a teacher, Wang Yan was a university student, Su Grandmother didn't work, and they could all rest.

"Come, Wang Yan, another year has passed, this is the first Spring Festival we spent together, let's have a drink together."

Wang Yan nodded with a chuckle, picked up the wine glass and touched the glass with Su Fu, raised his head and drank a glass. Su Meng, Su Grandmother, and Su Mu were also not idle, drinking drinks together.

After putting down the glass, everyone started to eat dishes. Sighing that life was better than before, Wang Yan's cooking skills had improved again, and while chatting, they talked about the Premier who had passed away not long ago, sighing that such a good person who served the people had left. This is a topic that every family must have, and the influence is really too great.

Wang Yan drank wine and ate dishes in big mouthfuls, which did not delay him from dealing with the sighing father-in-law. He even had the heart to recall that the last time this happened, he seemed to be in the world of people, and the poet Feng Huacheng was in prison...

It's not that he has no respect in his heart, it's just that he understands life, old age, sickness, and death. He was the best doctor, and the patients who died in his hands were still countless.

Chatting like this, Su Meng, who was eating slowly, suddenly vomited. Instantly, Su Grandmother, Su Fu, and Su Mu stopped their chopsticks and looked over. Wang Yan also turned his head in cooperation, patting her back with concern: "What's wrong? The food is not to your taste? Or are you feeling unwell?"

Su Meng slowed down for a moment, patted her chest with one hand, frowned and said: "I don't know what's going on, I haven't been feeling very well lately, have no appetite, and just now I felt nauseous for no reason..."

Wang Yan pretended to be a fool, Su Grandmother and the three looked at each other, Su Mu tentatively asked: "Could it be that you are pregnant?"

Su Grandmother nodded affirmatively: "It is pregnant, I saw that she has not been right for the past two days, it should be about right."

Wang Yan opened his eyes wide in surprise, and drank a sip of wine suddenly: "Really pregnant?"

"Don't be so assertive, whether you are pregnant or not, it's better to see what the doctor says at the hospital. Otherwise, what if you are not? A happy event in vain." Su Fu was mature and prudent, although he was also looking forward to good news, he was still safe. He said: "Wang Yan, take Mengmeng to the hospital tomorrow to see if she is really pregnant."

"Hey." Wang Yan nodded with a smile, put his hand on Su Meng's thigh, and looked happily at Su Meng who didn't know what to do for a while.

A week ago, she was still jumping and playing temper, but at this moment, she found that she seemed to be a mother, Su Meng was a bit confused...

Unknowingly, small snowflakes drifted in the sky. Children who had good food for the New Year and were energetic and had no worries, ran around in the alley in groups of three or five, regardless of wind and snow, not afraid of severe cold, runny noses flowed to their lips, hands were frozen in several places, but they were still grinning, and wiped them across the tip of their noses with black sleeves without hesitation, flowing like clouds and water without a trace of hesitation, and the running action had never stopped... ===== CHAPTER 570 =====

A week ago, she was still jumping around and throwing tantrums, but at this moment, she discovered that she seemed to be about to become a mother, and Su Meng was a bit dazed...

Unknowingly, light snow began to drift in the sky. The children, full of energy and without a care in the world, ate well for the New Year and darted around the hutongs in groups of three or five, howling. Regardless of the wind and snow, unafraid of the bitter cold, with runny noses reaching their lips and hands chapped with frostbite, they still grinned, carelessly wiping their noses with their blackened sleeves in one fluid motion without a hint of hesitation, never even stopping their running...