Chapter 132
Chapter 132
"Wife, guess what I bought for you."
Lin Mucheng was so shocked that her head was already a mess. How could she guess?
"Don't keep me in suspense."
Lin Mucheng also wanted to see what surprise Meng Haisheng could bring back for her.
"Dad, you only brought gifts for Mom. Did you bring any for Momo? I want a watch, too."
Momo, the little smart guy, pouted unhappily when she saw that Meng Haisheng only talked to Lin Mucheng.
Meng Haisheng hugged Momo with a smile, "Dad also bought something for Momo. I'm sure she likes it."
Under Momo's gaze, Meng Haisheng opened the woven bag. In addition to a few nice-looking wool sweaters, there was also a large bag of White Rabbit milk candy and some specialty snacks from Jingnan City.
Momo's eyes lit up when she saw the food.
Lin Mucheng next to her was calmer.
Meng Haisheng must have given her more than just some food.
The beautiful wool sweaters were taken out one by one and placed on the kang, and then Meng Haisheng took out a paper box.
Lin Muching was shocked just by looking at the cover.
"Haisheng, did you buy a tape recorder? It's a Sanyo brand. It must have cost a lot of money."
"It's a little more expensive than your watch. I also bought some tapes. Do you like them?"
Although Meng Haisheng spoke lightly, he was very happy in his heart and handed Lin Muching a pile of tapes.
A long time ago, Lin Muching had heard Teresa Teng's songs on the radio of other educated youth.
At that time, she was attracted by Teresa Teng's singing.
Unfortunately, she never had the chance to listen to it again.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, she could get Teresa Teng's tapes.
Lin Muching couldn't wait to put the tapes into the tape recorder.
"Haisheng, why isn't the tape recorder ringing?"
"This is for batteries."
"There's a power restriction here. If you plug it in, you won't be able to hear anything for three days or two."
As he spoke, Meng Haisheng put the newly bought batteries into the tape recorder.
He pressed lightly, and the tape started spinning.
Teresa Teng's melodious and sweet voice poured out of the tape recorder, which scared Momo who was circling around the tape recorder.
"Mom, how come there's someone singing in the big brick?"
Momo, who was hugging Lin Muching's arm tightly, curiously poked her little head out from behind Lin Muching.
She was both scared and curious, and her big round eyes rolled around.
"This is called a tape recorder, not a big brick."
Lin Muching held Momo in front of him and asked her to touch the tape recorder.
At first, Momo was still scared, but she was no longer afraid after her chubby hand touched it twice.
"I also bought a tape for Momo, which sings nursery rhymes and tells stories."
Momo is about to turn three years old, and she is very active. When she heard the familiar melody in the tape, she also sang along.
"The red star shines brightly, and the red star warms my heart."
Momo is still young, and her pronunciation is not very accurate, and sometimes she is even out of tune.
But her baby voice makes Meng Haisheng, an old father, feel cute.
"Does Momo like singing?"
"Yes, I can dance."
Momo stood on the kang and turned around, shaking her head and singing along with the tape.
"Okay, my Momo is really amazing. Dad will buy you more tapes in the future so that you can learn to sing along."
Meng Haisheng accompanied Momo for a while, and then talked to Lin Mucheng about the English tapes.
"Listen to these English tapes first, and ask me if you don't understand anything later."
Lin Mucheng had some contact with English when he was in Beijing before, so he had a basic understanding of English.
But Meng Haisheng was born and raised in a farmhouse, how could he speak English?
Lin Mucheng didn't ask much, just thought Meng Haisheng was joking with her.
"I have something to tell you too."
Lin Mucheng took out a letter from the kang kitchen.
"This is the letter my parents mailed to me. They said it was a good thing that we mailed them 100 yuan last time."
"Not long after we mailed the money, my brother's tendons were cut by the criminals."
"At that time, they spent a lot of money to send my brother to the hospital. If it weren't for the 100 yuan we mailed, my brother's hand would probably not be saved."
"Wait, Mucheng, you still have a brother? Why don't I know?"
Meng Haisheng looked at Lin Mucheng with a confused face. No matter in the past life or this life, he didn't know that Lin Mucheng had a brother.
Even in some dreams, he vaguely knew that Lin Mucheng's parents seemed to have died in a car accident.
But he had no memory of her brother.
"I didn't mention it to you. I remember I did. Did you forget it?"
Meng Haisheng had a question mark in his mind. Could it be that his memory was confused?
"How is your brother now?"
"The letter said, my brother was seriously injured and will not recover for a while. My brother applied to the leader and took the exam. He is going to study in Jingnan Military Academy for a year. I don’t know if he has gone there now. ”
“Is your brother a soldier? Can he go to the military academy just by applying casually?”
Meng Haisheng’s mind was instantly tangled.
“Well, my brother seems to have made a lot of contributions in the past two years. It is precisely because of this that my parents’ life in the frontier has become better.”
“Mucheng, are you hiding something from me? Do you still not trust me?”
Meng Haisheng was a little sad. He thought he was good enough to Lin Mucheng and she had accepted him now.
But it seems that this is not the case.
He still knows nothing about Lin Mucheng.
Except for knowing her name, she is an educated youth who came to the countryside from Beijing, and her parents are in the frontier. He doesn’t know anything else.
“Haisheng, listen to me, I, I am afraid that you will dislike me. "
The loneliness on Meng Haisheng's face was so obvious that Lin Mucheng could see it at a glance.
"Mucheng, how could I despise you when you are so outstanding?"
"Sit down, I will tell you everything, okay?"
Lin Mucheng felt bad when she saw Meng Haisheng was sad. She gritted her teeth and told Meng Haisheng about her family's affairs.
"I am the adopted daughter of the Lin family. It is precisely because of my status as an adopted daughter that I was not allowed to go to the frontier with my parents and come to Xiashan Village to work in the countryside."
"My parents were exiled rather than going to build the frontier."
"They were not ordinary workers. My father's ancestors could be traced back to the imperial physician of the Ming Dynasty. However, by my father's generation, they had declined and only my father knew medical skills. My brother didn't like this since he was a child and joined the army after graduating from high school. ”
“My grandmother’s family is also a medical family. When she was young, she went abroad to study medicine. She was a very good surgeon. My parents also met when they were studying medicine abroad.”
“When they returned to China to serve the country, you know they encountered some difficulties. Not only did they lose all their property, but they were also forcibly sent to the frontier for reform.”
“Haisheng, do you know the difference between reform and going to the countryside as educated youth? When we came to the mountain village, at least we had something to eat. When my parents first went to the frontier, they were hungry.”
When she mentioned the past, Lin Muching’s eyes turned red.
At the beginning, she really couldn’t survive, so she wrote a letter to her parents to borrow 10 yuan, otherwise she would never ask for it.
“Mucheng, don’t cry, I won’t ask anymore.”
Seeing that Lin Muching was emotionally unstable, Meng Haisheng panicked instantly.
“No, I want to make things clear to you today. I don’t want you to have a knot in your heart.”
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