FIMA Ch109: Moving

Seeing his own husband at a glance, Xie Yiyang immediately ignored everything else. Pushing aside the crowd, he rushed over happily, raising his head and asking with a brilliant smile: “Why did you come back so early today?”

Holding the person’s hand, Gu Siyuan said casually: “Came back to handle a minor matter.”

“Oh…” Xie Yiyang responded, puffing his cheeks.

Just at this moment, with a sweep of his peripheral vision, he finally noticed the Public Security comrades standing to the side wearing police uniforms, and also that stinky hooligan idler who had just bullied him yesterday.

Xie Yiyang’s expression instantly changed, and he said extremely excitedly: “Public Security comrades, are you here to catch this stinky hooligan? Wonderful, this guy needs to be properly educated and educated!”

Hearing this, that idler immediately shouted loudly again: “Xie-ger, that matter yesterday was my fault! But I’m not the mastermind behind this, ah. It was Gu Lili! It was him who gave me benefits to instruct me, that’s why I did it!”

Xie Yiyang widened his eyes.

At this time, he finally noticed that Gu Lili and Feng Keng seemed to also be controlled by the Public Security comrades.

His emotions rushing to his head, he immediately rushed forward and grabbed Gu Lili’s collar. Mother Gu, standing to the side, was directly knocked into staggering by him.

“Well okay, it was actually you, this guy, who instructed the idler! You dare to harm me like this? Gu Lili!”

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, the Public Security comrades hurriedly patted Xie Yiyang: “This comrade, calm down a bit. We will go back and investigate clearly, and return justice to you!”

Gu Siyuan went and pulled down his little wife, who was baring his fangs and brandishing his claws.

Gu Lili finally managed to take a few breaths, yet still insisted stubbornly: “You listen to this little hooligan’s nonsense? He’s just scared crazy from seeing Public Security, acting hysterical here!”

Father Gu and Mother Gu also hurriedly echoed: “Right, right, how could our Lili possibly have any contact with this little hooligan?”

Hearing these words, the idler became even more displeased.

He immediately retorted loudly: “Who’s spouting nonsense! I still kept the benefit you gave me. That’s a gold ring! If it weren’t for this kind of good thing, how would I have the guts to dare go bully Xie-ger? Acting like a hooligan is a major crime! In the past, I at most just pilfered a few eggs in the village…”

Saying so, he slowly fished out a gold ring from his pocket and handed it over: “Public Security comrades, this is the evidence! I’m actively handing it over, can I be handled leniently, ah?”

One of the Public Security officers immediately reached out to take it, saying coldly: “We’ll talk about it after investigating clearly.”

And at this moment.

The complexions of all the other people present completely changed.

Gu Lili and Feng Keng almost had their eyes completely blacked out, never expecting this stinky hooligan would surprisingly even be willing to take this out.

Father and Mother Gu also changed their expressions, glancing at Gu Lili covertly.

A gold ring, where did Lili get this plaything from? Could it be he went to engage in speculation and profiteering again…

“Good heavens, it’s actually really a gold ring! No wonder this idler used to at most engage in petty theft and snatch children’s candies to eat, but now actually dared to act like a hooligan?”

“He actually really gave this idler a gold ring? Although the Gu family’s conditions aren’t bad, since when could they be so generous?”

“No, rather, why did Gu Lili have to harm Gu Laosan and his wife like this, ah? Aren’t they blood brothers?”

The onlookers to the side also began discussing spiritedly.

Xie Yiyang stared fixedly at Gu Lili: “Gu Lili, what enmity and resentment do I have with you, that you had to spend such a great price to harm me like this?”

Dodging his gaze, Gu Lili resolutely denied verbally: “He’s spouting nonsense, this gold ring has nothing to do with me.”

Just at this moment, Gu Siyuan suddenly said: “Yangyang, I remember you said, the day before yesterday when you went up the mountain to pick fruits, didn’t you happen to see the two of them secretly digging up something on the mountain?”

Xie Yiyang was stunned. He didn’t say that, ah, he only saw Gu Lili and the others going up the mountain.

However, his husband saying this definitely had an intention.

He immediately reacted, nodding fiercely in agreement: “Right! But I didn’t notice anything unusual at the time. Yet thinking about it now, Gu Lili seems to have started going crazy ever since then! Could it be they were doing some shameful deed at that time and were bumped into by me?”

Public Security were naturally the most sensitive people. Hearing these words, they also grew suspicious, immediately looking at Gu Lili: “Comrade, confess and be treated leniently.”

“…”

Gu Lili and Feng Keng’s faces instantly turned deathly pale, never expecting they would surprisingly outsmart themselves and ruin the matter.

…

After a long while, with the help of the village militiamen, Public Security dug out a chest of gold, silver, and jewelry from somewhere on the mountain. Along with it were two wooden guns (firearms) and ammunition.

This was clearly the hidden stash of some bandit, or things left behind by the people from the other shore (Taiwan) when they retreated back in the day.

But no matter what, seeing wooden guns definitely meant they had to be handed over to the state.

Amidst Mother Gu’s shrewish crying and shouting, both Gu Lili and Feng Keng were taken away.

The gathered crowd also slowly dispersed.

Gu Siyuan and the other held hands and walked toward their home.

Turning his head, Xie Yiyang looked at Gu Siyuan curiously: “Husband, how did you know Gu Lili dug up so much gold, silver, and jewelry on the mountain?”

Rubbing his head, Gu Siyuan: “I guessed.”

Xie Yiyang looked at him blankly.

Gu Siyuan explained: “Didn’t I go out for a trip last night?”

Puffing his cheeks, Xie Yiyang remembered the matter from last night, humming and grumbling: “Mm, when I asked you at that time, didn’t you say you just went to the toilet?”

Giving him a look, Gu Siyuan was extremely calm: “Oh, I probably misremembered at that time.”

“…” Xie Yiyang was shocked.

His husband’s ability to casually spout nonsense had simply reached the peak of perfection.

Aren’t you the one with a photographic memory? Even a small matter like going to the toilet or going out could be remembered wrongly?

Last night, when he was sleeping in a daze, he felt some movement beside him. Opening his eyes, he found it was his husband. Seeing him fully dressed, seeming to have gone out for a trip, he casually asked a question.

As a result, his husband not only didn’t admit it, but insisted on wrongly accusing him, saying he definitely missed him and wanted it. Using this as an excuse, he fiercely bullied him for a bout, tossing about continuously until the roosters crowed.

Cough, cough… Although essentially, he was half-refusing and half-yielding.

Gu Siyuan watched as his own wife was talking perfectly fine, and then his face suddenly turned pink.

Unable to resist, he reached out and gently pinched it, while explaining without changing his expression: “The reason I got up last night was to go teach that stinky hooligan a lesson.”

This time, not only did Xie Yiyang’s face turn pink, but his heart also softened. Reaching out, he hugged his own husband: “Husband, you are so good, even going to help me take revenge in the middle of the night.”

Xie Yiyang secretly said to himself: Husband worked hard going out in the middle of the night to hit someone, what’s wrong with getting intimate with him after coming back?

How could this be called tossing about?

This was clearly having nowhere to express his love!

Mm, Xie Yiyang was just such a pragmatic and fickle person.

After thinking it through, he hugged Gu Siyuan’s arm and continued asking: “So, it was after that idler was beaten that he told you about the collusion between him and Gu Lili?”

Gu Siyuan nodded: “Pretty much. At that time, that hooligan also took out the gold ring. I felt it was strange; Gu Lili’s hands weren’t that loose (didn’t have much money). Moreover, you and him only had a verbal dispute, it wasn’t to the point of making him spend such a huge price to target you. There must be some trickery in between.”

Xie Yiyang also nodded deeply: “Right, ah! Actually, ever since separating the family, I’ve been too lazy to pay attention to him, haven’t even spoken more than a few words. I study hard every day!”

Raising his face, he acted cute and spoiled toward Gu Siyuan.

Lowering his head, Gu Siyuan kissed the person’s fair forehead, and only then nodded and said: “Yes, that’s why it was weird. You haven’t had much contact with him recently, and wouldn’t have offended him to that extent. Except the day before yesterday, when arguing over the food, you casually mentioned you had been keeping an eye on him, and also mentioned the matter of him roasting a small bird to eat on the mountain. So I thought, him suddenly targeting you for no reason, was it because he thought you saw something else on the mountain, and thus went crazy out of a guilty conscience?”

“So it was like this!” Clapping his palms, Xie Yiyang frowned his pretty eyebrows and said indignantly: “Hmph, so he let a hooligan bully me, just wanting to make me too busy to look after myself, so I wouldn’t have the energy to pay attention to his matter of going up the mountain?”

Rubbing his head, Gu Siyuan said faintly: “Probably.”

Yesterday, after beating that hooligan, he felt a bit of abnormality.

That idler had been in the village for so many years, engaging in petty theft and bullying children, yet hadn’t been driven away, precisely because he hadn’t touched the villagers’ bottom line.

To say he coveted Xie Yiyang’s beauty, but it wasn’t his first day knowing Xie Yiyang either. Why would he happen to suddenly dare to go crazy and act like a hooligan exactly yesterday?

Unless there was some other reason?

Plus, Gu Siyuan always felt this operation was somewhat familiar.

Combining it with the original plotline, where Feng Keng and Gu Lili played a trick of “besieging Wei to rescue Zhao” to eliminate enemies after being discovered engaging in speculation and profiteering by Xie Yiyang, he subconsciously understood.

Xie Yiyang must have touched their interests again.

And specifically what aspect of interests it was, wasn’t hard to guess.

In the original work, to show Gu Lili’s koi fish good luck constitution, it was once described that during a certain accident, Feng Keng and Gu Lili found a small hidden treasure on the mountain, which included quite a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and other items.

This also became the principal capital for the two’s final entrepreneurial venture.

Then this time, Gu Lili reacting so fiercely was highly likely because of this. And seeing this exquisitely crafted gold ring on the idler further increased the possibility of this guess.

Looking at Gu Siyuan with admiration, Xie Yiyang bounded onto him: “Husband, you are so smart, predicting things like a god! Come, give me a kiss.”

Catching the person in one go, Gu Siyuan hugged and bounced him slightly, secretly saying to himself: The wife is so passionate in broad daylight, it must be that I still didn’t work hard enough last night. Let’s go back and continue!

The next day, when Gu Siyuan went to work at the agricultural repair factory, Section Chief Lu called him over and inquired about the situation of the draft drawings being stolen.

Gu Siyuan had nothing to hide, and explained the matter clearly.

Section Chief Lu was quite speechless about this, but didn’t say much more.

In this era, there were too many bizarre things.

Finally, he told Gu Siyuan that Ma Jun had already been dismissed by the agricultural repair factory.

Additionally, the leaders and experts from the city would arrive shortly. Gu Siyuan’s design drawing, after being studied, would also be reported up to the City Machinery Factory. After all, their county agricultural repair factory absolutely didn’t have the ability to independently research, develop, and produce engines.

Regarding these two handling methods, Gu Siyuan had no objections, as it was expected early on.

Nodding in admiration, Section Chief Lu said: “The design concept of your new type of engine is very good. Even looking at it, I only understood a rough outline. Later when the experts from the city arrive, you will probably have to go up and explain a bit.”

Nodding indifferently, Gu Siyuan: “Can do.”

“…” Section Chief Lu looked at him, speechless for a moment.

Why just so, so cold and aloof.

However, for a talented person, even if arrogant, it was relying on talent to be haughty, which didn’t make people loathe them.

And very quickly, he understood the meaning of this word even more profoundly.

In the spacious and bright conference room.

Section Chief Lu sat in his seat, holding up tea and drinking leisurely. Looking left and right, several other leaders were in a similar state to him, some even yawning out of boredom.

As for the very end of the long table, the two experts from the city were holding the design drawing, intensely discussing with Gu Siyuan.

The corners of Section Chief Lu’s mouth hooked up.

Thinking back to the beginning, when he took the design drawing to show the experts from the city and told them this was designed independently by a young man in their section, the experts didn’t believe it at all.

Yet when Gu Siyuan was called over and explained a few sentences to their faces, the experts from the city treated him like a supreme treasure, pulling the person to the side and inquiring and conversing intimately and meticulously.

Up until now, almost half an hour had passed.

Just at this moment, the expert named Deng Qi turned his head to look at the City Machinery Factory leader who came with them, extremely excited: “Minister Feng, Old Zhao and I both feel the possibility of this design is very high! If successfully researched and developed, in the future, not only tractors, but even the engines of small cars and large trucks can use this principle to improve and upgrade! Our City Machinery Factory has a bright future ahead, ah.”

Hearing these words, Minister Feng’s whole person was also immediately roused: “Really? Then that’s wonderful! After we go back, we will immediately report upwards and consider setting up a project for research!”

The other expert named Zhao Jitong directly said to Gu Siyuan: “Little Comrade, do you want to go back with us? You are the engine designer. When the project group is established, having you join will inevitably be like adding wings to a tiger.”

“Cough, cough… cough, cough…”

Just at this moment, several clear coughs rang out from the other end of the table.

Everyone looked up, and the person sitting there was exactly Deputy Director Sun of the agricultural repair factory.

The official Director of the county agricultural repair factory was their County Party Secretary. But government affairs were busy enough, so he didn’t come often. Usually, Deputy Director Sun presided over various matters within the factory.

The leaders and experts from the city smiled awkwardly, seemingly suddenly realizing that Gu Siyuan was currently still someone from the agricultural repair factory.

Minister Feng hurriedly looked at Deputy Director Sun and said: “Hi, right, right, this matter still needs to be properly discussed with Old Sun…”

Deputy Director Sun nodded, this was more like it.

“…” Gu Siyuan.

So, the opinion of him, the person involved, isn’t important, right?

Finally, after discussions between both sides, Minister Feng and the others would temporarily go back first to report this project. After finishing meetings and discussions, they would submit a report and successfully establish the project before talking further.

Researching and developing a new type of engine wasn’t a minor matter, it inevitably had to go through many rounds of meetings and considerations.

And after the project was successfully established, they still had to slowly go through procedures, waiting for financial allocations, buying machines, and building production lines. Anyway, adding these two ends together, it would take at least several months to finish.

Then during this period of time, Gu Siyuan going to the City Machinery Factory would have nothing to do, so he temporarily still stayed at the county agricultural repair factory.

Deputy Director Sun decided to establish Gu Siyuan as a typical model, promoting him in the agricultural repair factory to encourage all workers to love reading and have the courage to innovate.

During this time, Gu Siyuan would guide the workers in relevant mechanical knowledge.

Of course, at the same time, the agricultural repair factory would also improve his treatment, promoting him from an ordinary worker to a researcher, and additionally providing a bonus for researching and developing the new type of engine.

In the evening, Gu Siyuan returned home from the county town. Just as the tractor reached the village entrance, as usual, he saw the small lump squatting under the big tree at the village entrance at a glance.

Hearing the “tu tu” commotion, the small lump looked up and saw the person, stood up, and dashed over fiercely.

Reaching out, Gu Siyuan carried the person up in one go, moving him to sit on the other half of the seat.

Holding the tractor with both hands to drive home, he glanced at his little wife’s unusual silence today and slightly puffed cheek flesh, asking softly: “What’s wrong, unhappy?”

Xie Yiyang nodded, saying pitifully: “Father and Mother have been crying and scolding in front of me all day today…”

Narrowing his eyes, Gu Siyuan didn’t even need to think to know it was definitely because of the matter of Gu Lili being taken away by Public Security for investigation yesterday.

He chuckled: “Are you the kind of person who lets people scold and cry at you?”

“…” Xie Yiyang looked up and glared fiercely at Gu Siyuan.

Is this my image in my husband’s heart?

Curling his lip, he said: “Father and Mother are already at such an old age. Suddenly encountering such a sudden change, I was afraid that if I wasn’t careful and spoke too heavily, I might provoke a mishap out of them.”

Pausing, he continued: “Moreover, this kind of thing is very complicated. Don’t look at how Gu Lili has done so many bad things now, and the villagers think we are quite miserable. But as time goes on, watching us living better and better, while Gu Lili might go to jail, and Father and Mother are so old, everyone will definitely say in their hearts that we are heartless and unrighteous and things like that, hmph…”

Gu Siyuan narrowed his eyes, the little wife was quite wise.

This was also the reason why he was very satisfied with the improved treatment from the county agricultural repair factory today.

Turning his head to glance at the person beside him, he said faintly: “It’s fine, you won’t see these things tomorrow.”

“Ah…” Xie Yiyang opened his eyes wide in confusion.

Gu Siyuan: “After submitting the engine design drawing, the factory improved my treatment, increased my wages a bit, and also provided a county town dormitory. We just need to move over there and live.”

Clutching his hem tightly with both hands, Xie Yiyang was incredulous: “Husband, are you telling the truth?”

Pulling the handbrake lightly to stop the tractor, Gu Siyuan said faintly: “I specially drove the factory’s tractor back today precisely for the convenience of moving tomorrow. Besides, when have I ever lied to you.”

“…” Xie Yiyang almost rolled his eyes.

You forgot, you just coaxed me yesterday.

However…

Turning around, he fiercely hugged Gu Siyuan’s waist, rubbing his cheek against his hard abdominal muscles.

For this kind of thing, his husband definitely wouldn’t lie to him.

Hehe, he can go live in the county town.

He is going to live in the county town.

After moving back to the county town, he absolutely must go do a round of showing off in front of the Xie family.

The county agricultural repair factory’s dormitory seems to be in the same direction as the soda factory’s dormitory…

After the two returned home, Mother Gu directly threw herself toward Gu Siyuan.

She kept repeating those same few sentences, asking Gu Siyuan to go tell the Public Security that Gu Lili was innocent, that their family was just playing a joke, and begging the Public Security to let Gu Lili out.

Xie Yiyang immediately rushed up indignantly and said: “Mother, what kind of joke are you making! This involves several cases, ah, implicating not just Gu Lili alone. My husband’s colleagues in the factory were dismissed to cooperate with the investigation, and that stinky hooligan was also caught. If you make Laosan go overturn the case now, then the one making a false accusation and breaking the law will be Laosan, and the one going to jail will be Laosan! Do you want to harm him to death?”

“Even if you’ve always been biased toward Gu Lili, it shouldn’t be this kind of biased way, right!”

Mother Gu’s gaze flickered slightly, but she refused to give up, still crying to Gu Siyuan: “Laosan, Laosan, Lili is your blood brother, ah! He’s still so young, he…”

Lifting his eyelids lightly, Gu Siyuan said indifferently: “Mother, if I were you, I would cut my losses in time. You doted on Gu Lili so much since childhood, wasn’t it because of his blessed destiny? But who has ever blessed themselves into a prison?”

Mother Gu was instantly stunned.

The corners of Gu Siyuan’s mouth hooked up slightly, continuing: “So, this shows that destiny and what not are all coincidences. Now that the family is already separated, you should just live properly with Lao Si, don’t think so much anymore. If this matter gets blown out of proportion again, Lao Si is graduating soon. Having a law-breaking older brother will make his resume look bad, I’m afraid he won’t be assigned to a good work unit when the time comes.”

Hearing these words, Mother Gu’s lips trembled slightly. Glaring at Gu Siyuan, she mumbled for a long time, but ultimately couldn’t speak a word.

…

The day before at the factory, Gu Siyuan had already asked for a leave of absence from the leaders, arranging to move today.

The two of them didn’t have many things. Emptying the entire room, the tractor only just fit it all, completely unlike modern moving, which easily required several large trucks.

When the tractor drove out of Yunxi Village, quite a few people working in the fields stretched their necks to look.

Yesterday evening, Gu Siyuan specially waited for everyone to record their work points, to go to the brigade and tell Captain Zhou Jiandang about the matter of moving.

Both to transfer Xie Yiyang’s grain relations, and additionally to express gratitude to Zhou Jiandang for lending him the bicycle these past days, conveniently gifting some cloth tickets and meat tickets as a thank-you gift.

The villagers present were all amazed. Originally, Gu Laosan entering the city to be a worker was enough for everyone to envy, didn’t expect now he surprisingly directly moved into the city.

Everyone also heard that it was actually that drawing stolen by Feng Keng and Gu Lili that made a huge contribution, causing the factory to allocate him a house.

Instantly, everyone felt that Gu Lili truly went quite overboard.

If they had lost such a precious thing, they definitely would have reported it to the police too. Then who could have known it was actually a thief within the family? Ultimately catching Gu Lili, this matter truly couldn’t be blamed on Gu Laosan being heartless.

Gu Siyuan was clearly very satisfied with everyone’s reaction. Although he didn’t care at all about the views of these people in the village, for anyone to be wrongly misunderstood was never good, not to mention it could further trample Gu Lili and Feng Keng into the mud.

It was mid-June right now, and the sun in the sky was blazing.

The tractor armrests, including the seats, were baked burning hot, but this bit of minor tribulation clearly couldn’t affect Xie Yiyang’s mood at all.

He just sat in the back carriage, happily singing songs all the way. The tune was extremely loud and clear; although the rhythms were all strange and bizarre, it couldn’t offset the fact that his voice sounded good.

Listening for half an hour, Gu Siyuan still felt it was very pleasing to the ear.

It wasn’t until the tractor drove into the county town that Xie Yiyang’s voice finally lowered a bit.

Gu Siyuan took seven turns and eight twists, finally stopping in front of a large courtyard.

Yesterday afternoon, the factory’s personnel had brought him over to see the house, and also gave him the keys. His memory had always been good, so naturally he remembered the location.

Looking at this place, Xie Yiyang was also extremely happy: “Aiya, so we’re living here! Here is good, ah, I like it.”

This place was just separated by one courtyard from the soda factory dormitory where the Xie family used to live, he had even wandered over here following a group of people before.

This side belonged to the newly built large courtyard, the conditions were exceptionally good. He heard every family had tap water and bathrooms; no need to squeeze together every morning to fight for water to brush teeth, and no need to fight when cooking meals.

Moreover, he heard that inside the courtyard, there were not only flower beds, but also slides and other things to play with.

A tractor arrived at the entrance of the large courtyard. Very quickly, several old men and old ladies having a heart-to-heart chat under the shade of the trees stretched their necks to look outside.

Xie Yiyang belonged to the type of person with a social butterfly syndrome (socially awesome). Seeing people, he immediately greeted enthusiastically: “Grandpas and grandmas, hello, ah! We are newly moved in, everyone please get along well in the future, ah.”

Good looks inherently had an advantage, let alone he knew how to speak. The grandpas and grandmas immediately also responded enthusiastically.

Taking advantage of the time Gu Siyuan was moving things down, Xie Yiyang almost reported his own bankbook password out.

Then, the grandpas and grandmas in the courtyard all looked at Gu Siyuan with a kind of respectful gaze, and began discussing spiritedly.

“Working at the agricultural repair factory, and already a researcher at such a young age, ah?”

“Being able to be allocated a dormitory in our large courtyard so quickly, truly remarkable!”

“Right, ah, boundless prospects in the future, ah!”

Thus, amidst the heavy crowd of onlookers, Gu Siyuan and Xie Yiyang moved their things upstairs trip by trip.

There were even grandpas and grandmas enthusiastically coming up wanting to help, which was refused by Gu Siyuan.

Going up and down the stairs like this, it wasn’t safe.

Moreover, they lived in 205, going up and down the stairs was actually quite convenient. Gu Siyuan also had great strength; moving this bit of things wasn’t considered troublesome at all.

Xie Yiyang circled the inside and outside of the dormitory. Although it was just a simple one bedroom and one living room, it was almost looked into having a patina by him, as if a mischievous child encountered some peerless rare toy.

After a long while, with a ‘bang’, he collapsed onto the sofa in the living room.

“I’m exhausted to death!”

Sitting to the side, Gu Siyuan pinched his face: “Is it your mouth that’s exhausted, had enough of showing off to people?”

“Hehe… hehe…” Covering his mouth, Xie Yiyang started laughing joyfully: “Was I acting that obviously just now?”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

What do you think?

The two sat for a while, and Gu Siyuan picked the person up again.

Today was their first day at the county town dormitory, and they were lacking many things here. If they didn’t go out to buy, buy, buy, when the time came they wouldn’t even have a sip of hot water to drink.

Hearing they were going to buy things, Student Xie Yiyang, who was just demanding life and death, immediately recovered his energy again.

When going downstairs, his face still flushed with the spring breeze, he called out to the grandpas and grandmas one by one. At the same time, he actively declared that he was going to stroll the department store.

Mm, showed off again.

Awesome!

Xie Yiyang almost bounced all the way toward the department store.

As the saying goes, dizzy with success (forgetting oneself in one’s elation). If it weren’t for Gu Siyuan pulling him, he would have almost bumped into someone.

Moreover, it was an old acquaintance he considered an ungrateful wretch.

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