Chronicle of the 70s

The river cleaning continued until September, and then the Li Family Village Production Team started a new round of rushed harvesting.

Corn needed to be harvested, wheat needed to be harvested, and soybeans as well, all the men who went to the river returned.

And Li Erfu returned too. He rushed back midway to see his recovering mother and then left again, only saying that he would resolve this issue upon his return and hoped his elder brother and sister-in-law would help watch over things, ensuring no more trouble arose.

Ge Sanmei inexplicably started to feel anxious, she always felt that something was off with him this time; he didn’t speak a word to her upon returning, no matter if she made a scene, threw a tantrum, or begged for the sake of their two children, no one paid attention to her.

She always felt that this matter wasn’t simple, so before the man returned, she went back to her maiden home at Xixiang Team first, telling her brother and sister-in-law that they must come over one day when they received her message.

Ge Sanmei’s intuition was right, something really did happen.

The day after Li Erfu returned, he gathered all the elders of Li Family Village into one room.

Ge Sanmei was puzzled, but she felt that it wasn’t a good topic to broach, so she sneaked off to Li Sanwang’s house first, gave Li Sanwang’s youngest son one yuan, and asked him to ride a bicycle to inform her brother and sister-in-law to come over, saying something big had happened at home.

When Ge Sanmei returned to the house, the room was extremely quiet. Old Mrs. Wu was already sitting by the bed, her eyes slightly red, as if she had just cried.

Li Erfu looked up at the person who entered and coldly said, "Since you sent for your family, let them come, today we need to clarify things."

Ge Sanmei was stunned, "Clarify what? What is there to talk about?"