Just do it, Wang Ailan came to Li Mo after dinner the next afternoon. Li Mo is collecting sweet potatoes in the yard. When she made the new house, she deliberately made the yard larger. After the house was completed, she applied to the village to change her own plot to the yard.

Li Mo planted some cotton and sweet potatoes on her own plot, but she did not grow other agricultural products such as peanuts and soybeans.

"Li Mo, are you at home?"

Hearing the sound, Li Mo hurried to open the courtyard door and said, "Grandma Wang, why are you here? Come in."

Wang Ailan was not polite, and stated the purpose straightforwardly. "I have something to discuss with you today. Our family is going to make a kiss with you. What do you think?"

Li Mo was taken aback for a moment and quickly said, "You are willing to confess to me and I agree with one hundred people. But I have to go to a letter and talk to my family first, so that they will also know that you will be a relative in the future."

When Wang Ailan heard this, he agreed? "It has to be said that if they took you so big, you have to ask them to agree. We will wait for the reply from your family before we do it."

Li Mo said, "Okay, I'll write a letter later, and I will send it to town tomorrow."

"Aren't you going to class tomorrow? Your second uncle is going to town to have something to do, let him take it to you. I'll let Gou Dan and Shuan come to get the letter later."

"good."

In the evening Li Mo just finished writing the letter and the two little guys came knocking on the door.

"Sister Li Mo, we are here, you should open the door for us soon."

"Come here. Why come here so early? Come sit on the kang."

"Sister Li Mo, are you going to be our sister right away?"

"Yeah, are you happy?"

"Happy, Sister Li Mo's grandma asked us to get the letter, have you finished it?"

"It's finished, here you are. You should go home early, and come to my place for dinner tomorrow."

"Grandma won't let us come this time."

"Yes, just say that my sister has something to do with you."

The next day, Uncle Liu took the letter to the town and mailed it. Now he is waiting for the letter from the Li family.

The cadres in the village are discussing how to rectify these educated youths. Although it is now a slack farm, there are still a lot of things to do in rural areas.

They decided to leave things like picking pig manure and mixing farm manure to the educated youth. In the coming year, give them the heaviest and most tiring work.

The educated youths didn't know that the village needed to rectify them, and they were happily waiting for the communes to come.

People just didn't talk about it, and the leaders of the commune's educated youth office came in the afternoon. The village party secretary summoned everyone to the Shaigu Farm in the village, and the leaders of the Educated Youth Office spoke on it.

The educated youth thought they were going to criticize the cadres in the village.

"Comrades, yesterday we received a report from the educated youth in Lihua Village. Lihua Village treated the educated youth harshly and the village cadres messed up the relationship between men and women."

The villagers at the beginning of these words were all making noise, some wanted to trouble the educated youth, some thought that the village cadres would not do this kind of thing, and some others were ecstatic, maybe the village cadres would be able to get on their own after the downfall.

"Quiet, the leaders of our commune investigated this, and finally found that this was a false accusation by the educated youth."

"For this, we have to criticize most of the educated youth in Lihua Village. You have destroyed the image of the educated youth group. You have not achieved the task of learning from the working people. I hope you will work hard in the future and obey all arrangements in the village."

The educated youths are depressed and can't believe this will be the result. The villagers all looked at them with white eyes and talked about their problems.

"In addition, our commune would like to commend Comrade Li Mo. She is a good educated youth who has sincerely integrated into the vast rural areas. Since coming to the countryside, she has been working hard to complete the tasks assigned to her by the party and the state, working actively, and working hard to make contributions to the village. The commune decided to give Comrade Li Mo the opportunity to join the party."

Li Mo hurried to the stage and took the certificate with both hands. First of all, I thank the leaders of the commune for their fairness and selflessness, and thank the village cadres for their long-term help, and the enthusiasm of the villagers that made her feel the warmth of home here.

Everyone who said something beautiful was very happy, and this child was so happy and thankful that they were very happy.

In the end, the village gave some food to the educated youth who made trouble, and they also praised some centimeters before the autumn harvest. Not many, one person divided a hundred catties of sweet potatoes, this one is to eat for the next autumn harvest. The people in the village don't care if they can feed themselves.

The educated youths in the educated youth spots are all anxious and complain about each other. In the end, they couldn't trouble Li Mo and Lu Ping, and Mao Lin became the object of their anger.

Everyone talked weirdly, especially the educated youths who were in the same room with Mao Lin, who excluded her and deliberately messed up her things.

Mao Lin really couldn't stand it anymore, so he moved to the room where Li Mo lived before.

In order to avoid these educated youths, Mao Lin often stayed outside until night before going back to sleep.

A young man named Liu Zhoucun in the village pursued Mao Lin at this time and took care of her.

When Mao Lin was squeezed out in this trough and everywhere, Liu Zhoucun helped her everywhere and gave her little things from time to time. Mao Lin fell in this way.

One week later, the Li family received Li Mo's letter. After dinner, Xia Mei held the letter and read it.

Comrade Xia Mei:

Hi. Is everything well at home?

I had a good time in Lihua Village, and the children were very obedient. Recently, I have allocated a lot of food for the autumn harvest. My house in the village is also very well built. You can live there when you have time.

I have an important matter to discuss with you this time. Our village branch secretary and family have been enthusiastic and selfless to help me since I arrived in the village. With their help, I escaped some bad things. I am really grateful to them.

Now the party secretary, Comrade Wang Ailan, wants to marry the two of us, and their family has agreed, and now we need to ask for your consent.

Li Mo

Autumn 1972

After reading the letter, Xia Mei looked around and asked, "Momo's letter, what do you think?"

Li Ru coaxed her two sons and said, "Mom wants me to say that this is also a good thing. I have recognized a relative who is the village party secretary and no one is bullied by Momo."

Li Ru's child had already given birth. Li Mo didn't have time to come back. She replaced all the cloth tickets she had saved with cloth, and remitted the cotton she had grown to Li Ru.

Brother Li also said: "Isn't it said that the village party secretary has been helping her? You can rest assured after confessing you and your dad."

The children agreed, and Xia Mei looked at Li Zhongguo again.

Li Zhongguo thought for a long time and said, "Tomorrow you go ask your parents for their opinions."

"Okay, I'll ask mom early tomorrow morning."

After breakfast the next day, after the family went to work and school, Xia Mei went to Mrs. Xia's house.

"Mom, are you at home?"

"Here, Meizi, what are you doing here?"

"Let's go to the room, I have something important to tell you."

The mother and daughter walked into the room, and Old Man Xia was also at home. "Dad, you're at home too, you just happen to have an idea for you."

Old man Xia was very puzzled. His daughter and son-in-law were already grandparents, and there was very little to ask them about the old couple.

"Parents, that's the case. Momo said that the branch secretary in their village has been helpful to her, and now I want to recognize her as a relative. I'll ask your opinions."

Old man Xia and Mrs. Xia thought for a while, and the old lady said: "This is something I think is feasible. But you and Zhongguo had better go to Lihua Village, and then you can visit the old Liu's family style and character; Secondly, it also shows that our family values ​​our children; for these three years, I also want to thank others for helping you take care of the children. Our family can't say nothing."

Old man Xia also said: "Your mother said this, and we should have gone, but this distance is too far, and our two old bones can't walk. We have to prepare the gifts that should be prepared. People think we are rude."

"Parents, you all agree that I will let Zhongguo write a letter later, and then ask him to go to the work unit to ask for a leave, and we will go there as soon as possible."

"Okay, there is still a bottle of Moutai at home. Your father is not willing to drink it. You can take it and give it to the old Liu's house. Don't say anything, this is our gift for grandma and you prepare to go."

"Okay, I'll go back first. There must be a lot of things to arrange."

In the evening, Xia Mei announced the news. She said at the dinner table: "I went to ask your grandma today, and they all agreed. Now the situation is that your dad and I are going to Lihua Village. During the time we are not at home, you Solve the problem of eating."

Several people agreed, and Xia Mei nodded and said to Li Zhongguo: "You send a letter to Momo tomorrow, telling her that we agree, and we will go to Lihua Village in a few days. Go to the factory and ask for a few days off, let's prepare. Good gift to go to the country to take a look."

The next day Li Zhongguo was busy writing a letter asking for leave, but Xia Mei was not idle, and bought some gifts for her relatives. It's a custom to give the juniors a meeting ceremony the first time you come home.

When Li Mo received the letter, the village started hunting. Li Mo took the letter and came to Liu Zhishu's house.

"Grandma Wang has a letter from my house, and my parents said they want to come." Then she handed the letter to Wang Ailan. Wang Ailan was literate and could read the letter, so she held the letter and looked at it.

"Your parents are really polite, and even come here in person. You don't have enough quilts, and you will let Brother Liu send a set later. Your parents should be here soon, just in time for the hunt to taste our game."

"Shanghai meat is not easy to buy. I said that I eat meat every day in the autumn, but my mother still doesn't believe it. Come and let her eat enough."