I asked you to modify it, what the hell is this fighter jet's engine?

"High-tech, are you home? There's a woman who claims to be your sister looking for you."

Hearing this, Gao Xiaoguang opened the door and saw a man in his forties, wearing work clothes from a machinery factory and with a tattoo of the character "川" on his forehead, standing in front of his house.

That's right!

This person is Jiang Shifeng, a seventh-level fitter in the machinery factory and the manager of the backyard.

Standing behind him was a girl wearing a floral top, trousers and clothes covered with patches. The girl had slightly dark skin and it was obvious that she had been working hard to make a living. The tired girl had tears in her eyes when she saw him.

"sister!"

"How did you come?"

"Is there something wrong at home?"

Gao Xiaoguang asked three fatal questions in a row. He knew the situation in his hometown of Mentougou very well. Originally, his family wanted to split up, but because he was admitted to a technical secondary school, his grandparents suddenly changed their minds and were unwilling to split up. His lazy uncle was even sucking his blood.

Jiang Shifeng, who was standing by, saw the girl trying hard to hold back her tears and not speak. Being an experienced man, he understood immediately, exchanged a few words, and turned away with his hands behind his back.

Gao Xiaoguang pulled his 17-year-old sister Gao Xiaoshan into the room, poured water from the water tank into a basin, asked his sister to wash her face, and asked with concern, "Sister, tell me what happened at home?"

"Little...little brother..."

Tears fell down Gao Xiaoshan's cheeks onto her clothes as she choked and said, "My uncle wanted to get married, but the other party found out that he was lazy and wanted a 20 yuan betrothal gift. He also wanted him to build two big tiled houses before he would marry his daughter.

My family couldn't afford the money, so grandma let me go to marry in exchange for my uncle's marriage."

What the hell!

20 yuan betrothal gift?

And add two more big tiled houses?

Even in the city of Beijing, people don’t dare to ask for such a high price.

Gao Xiaoguang was shocked.

But he couldn't understand why his grandmother, who had always been stingy, agreed to the woman's conditions.

There must be something wrong here.

As for his father agreeing to the marriage exchange, he was not surprised.

My father is a well-known filial son. As long as my grandmother threatens to commit suicide, it will be of no use even if my mother objects.

"You know, it's not that I don't want to get married, but... the marriage partner that grandma found for me turned out to be a 30-year-old hunter from Qinjiazhuang. I heard that this old hunter beats his wife after drinking. His previous wife was driven away by him."

Gao Xiaoshan grabbed his wrist and pleaded, "Little brother, you can't just watch me jump into the fire pit."

"Sister, don't worry, with me here, we won't change."

"Just stay here peacefully for the time being."

Gao Xiaoguang comforted himself, feeling guilty. When he was in school, his sister risked her life to go up the mountain to collect herbs. She was reluctant to spend the money and secretly exchanged it for food to supplement his nutrition.

Moreover, my sister has been smart since she was young. She studied in a literacy class. The villagers in the brigade could not recognize a single word in a day, but she got her graduation certificate within a month.

It can be seen that as long as my sister is given the opportunity to go to school, she will definitely be admitted to a technical secondary school.

Ever since he left Mentougou to attend technical secondary school, he has been thinking about spending money to buy a job for his sister after he gets a job.

"Thank you, little brother."

"It's awkward for a family to say thank you."

"By the way, do your family know that you're coming to my place?"

Gao Xiaoshan shook her head and lowered her head, like a little girl who had made a mistake, and said, "I... I left a letter for my family. This morning, while my parents were at work, I secretly asked the village chief to give me a letter of introduction, and then I ran away.

But...but I didn't write to you, little brother."

"It's better not to tell Mom and Dad. I just want to see if Dad is worried about you running away from home."

Although he has accepted his original family, Gao Xiaoguang is helpless about his foolish filial piety towards his cheap father.

Reputation is very important in this era. Once your reputation is ruined, the impact will be huge.

You have to know that these days, whether you are going to school or working, you have to undergo political review, and if your reputation is ruined, you will have no chance of passing the political review.

In rural areas, people would rather lose their lives than lose their reputation.

"Little brother, you should tell our mother secretly. I don't want her to worry."

The brother and sister were chatting, and Gao Xiaoguang learned from the conversation that his sister had found the factory first, and learned his current address from the factory. He also learned that his sister had not eaten since morning. He got up and left, went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy toiletries, and pretended to go to the vegetable market. Seeing that the stalls in the vegetable market had closed, he took out celery, beans, tomatoes, eggs, and 1 pound of pork belly from the space.

I returned to the courtyard and bought a few coal briquettes from my neighbor. When I got home and looked at the clean and bright room, I knew it must be the masterpiece of my diligent sister.

"Little brother! Don't you live a normal life? Why are you buying so many vegetables?"

Gao Xiaoshan looked at the vegetables in his basket and complained.

"hey-hey."

Gao Xiaoguang smiled innocently, "Isn't this because I'm happy to see you?"

"You, you really don't know how to live. If you are like this, how can you save money to marry a wife?"

Gao Xiaoshan took the basket with a complaint, "We'll eat some of this pork belly tonight, and I'll pickle the rest with salt."

"Sister, please cook a meal. I haven't eaten meat in a long time."

"There's really nothing I can do about you."

While the diligent Gao Xiaoshan was washing vegetables and cooking, on the other side in Gaojia Village, Mentougou, a rural woman was wiping her tears and complaining about a man squatting in the corner smoking a pipe.

The man had dark skin, a face full of wrinkles, and every part of his clothes was patched.

"Boss, it's all your fault for being such a coward that my daughter ran away from home. I'm telling you, if anything happens to my daughter, I won't live anymore."

"Mother, tomorrow I will ask my uncle to issue a certificate to go to the Forbidden City to look for my daughter."

"Gao Jizu, let me tell you, if I can't find my daughter, I can't live like this anymore."

Liu Cuilan was so angry that she shouted loudly at the main house next door.

That's right!

She was angry at her husband for being a coward, as he even agreed to marry his daughter off to his own mother.

What’s more, I hate myself as a mother, watching my daughter jump into the fire pit but being unable to do anything.

"Mother, just keep your voice down. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by the villagers?" Gao Jizu said in a low voice.

"I've already let my granddaughter marry my uncle, and I'm still afraid of being laughed at?"

Liu Cuilan screamed.

"..."

Gao Jizu was speechless. His own mother was threatening to commit suicide, so how could he not agree?

In the main room next door, Grandpa Gao Xiaoguang learned that his granddaughter had run away from home. He squatted in the corner of the room with a frown on his face, puffing on his pipe.

"The situation is urgent, and you just smoke. I won't kill you."

"If we can't find the second son's daughter for marriage and can't give the Qin family the bride price they want, once things get out of hand, what will happen to our... our son?"

Hearing this, the old man of the Gao family stood up and tapped his pipe with his foot, as if he had made up his mind. "I will ask the village chief to write a letter of introduction right now. I will go to Sijiucheng to find Xiaoguang tomorrow. I guess Xiaoshan's daughter is with him."

Gao Zhang thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "You go with the second brother tomorrow."

"Ah."

"After our youngest gets married, we'll separate from the second oldest."