Chapter 48 - Awakening of wealth
Bai Zhenggan asked people to call his brothers, and then asked the villagers, “Let everyone see the joke! Please give me a face, and let me and my brothers solve this problem in private!”
He has always been popular, and everyone can understand, so he persuaded a few words—
“Big brother, the mother is a coward, but the baby is a good fruit. The third and fourth cannot choose who will be the father, right? For the sake of your brother’s forty years, don’t hold it accountable…”
“Oh, you really don’t mind your back pain when you’re standing and talking! It’s not your business, what qualifications do you have to let Big Brother Zhenggan hold you accountable or not! Let’s go, you will be mad at what you say!”
“I’m doing it, brother, then you stay and talk to the third and fourth, don’t be angry, let’s go to work!”
“We’re leaving, we’re doing big brother, let’s shout if something happens!”
Not long after the villagers left, the second, the third and the fourth came over.
The few sect elders who remained, involuntarily looked at the old brothers of the Bai family.
——Bai Zhengqian and the second child are tall and thin. Although they are a little older, it can be seen that they are rather handsome and look upright. The most important thing is that the surname Bai is a common surname in Ruyi Village, and everyone in Bantiao Village is surnamed Bai. Therefore, most of the men surnamed Bai in the village are the same as the eldest and second eldest. They are tall, slender and long with long faces.
——The third and the fourth were short and strong, with a Chinese-character face, and the heads of the two were very similar. The two of them are nearly ten years younger than the eldest and the second, probably because of their sorrowful expressions for many years, but they are older than the eldest and the second.
At this moment, the second child, the third child, and the fourth child have just come back from the field, and everyone has pulled their trouser legs to the top of their knees, and they are bare-legged poles!
So the elders of the sect saw again that the third and fourth had obvious round legs, and the second’s legs, although wrinkled, were straight and had long legs.
This……
The expressions of the elders became complicated.
“Brother, what’s the matter, I have to go to work soon after finishing it.” The second child said.
The third and fourth were staring at Chen Juxiang, who had collapsed and passed out on the ground with a white cloth tied to her forehead, and Li Cuier, who was kneeling and crying.
In Chen Juxiang’s hand, there is actually a piece of their father’s spiritual position?
The fourth child asked, “Li Cui’er, what happened?”
Li Cui’er gave Bai Zhenggan a frightened look, then looked at her husband again, lowered her head and sobbed, “It’s none of my business… It’s really none of my business!”
Bai Zhenggan sighed and instructed Taotao, “Peach, tell your uncles about it.”
Tao Tao spoke with a crackle.
She was articulate, but it took a few minutes to make things clear.
Second child: …
Third child: …
Fourth: …
The place was silent.
After a long while, it was still the fourth child who said, “She stole a man? Is it her own brother?”
The second child obviously didn’t believe it, “Can’t you? Our father wasn’t dead at that time…”
After a pause, the second child was a little angry again, “If it’s true, it means that our father was already regarded as a dead person at that time! I don’t know if our father was killed by this poisonous woman!”
“Second!”
Bai Zhengqian stopped, “You and I know how Dad died. It can’t be said that the Chen family killed him, but she also caused part of the reason…”
The third child asked, “Big brother and second brother, what’s going on? Didn’t you hear that?”
The second child glared at Chen Juxiang, who had fainted on the ground, and said, “My father was exhausted to death! First, he went to Chen’s house to help build the house, and he was busy for three days and three nights without sleeping. After coming back, Chen’s family said again. The niece is going to get married, and she wants my father to make furniture. She finished making furniture for her niece again in the dark, and then the autumn harvest…”
“It wasn’t liberated at that time. If our father didn’t do it, the long-term work at the landlord’s house would not be able to be done. He was reluctant to pay two yuan a month for the servants. Live, I planted my head in the paddy field and choked to death!”
Speaking of the past, the second child’s eyes were red.
——When Dad died, the eldest brother was thirteen, he was eleven, the oldest was three or five years old, and the fourth was only three years old. But Chen Juxiang was also unwilling to work in the field to support her son, and was clamoring to go back to her mother’s house at that time. No way, Bai Zhenggan could only stand up and carry the burden of life on his tender shoulders.
Of course, this was also because Chen Juxiang had been married twice at that time, and she was too old to be able to find a third marriage partner, and the Chen family was unwilling to support her as an idler, so Chen Juxiang failed to return to the Chen family.
Later, Chen Juxiang also worked odd jobs everywhere, but she would not give a cent to her four sons, even if her own son was starving, she insisted not to give it, and only gave money and food. Save it in your hands, go back to your mother’s house every month, and deliver everything.
Ah, by the way, what she usually eats is still earned by Bai Zhenggan.
Hearing this, the third and the fourth looked at each other and said nothing for a long time.
The fourth asked Bai Zhenggan, “Brother, how do you think this matter should be handled?”
Bai Zhenggan looked at the third child, and then at the fourth child. Seeing how sad and old they looked now, he couldn’t help but think of how cute they were when they were young.
At that time, he was still a teenager, and his father died. In order to earn two oceans’ wages a month, he replaced his father as a long-term worker at the landlord’s house in Zhou. Those days were really hard, there were supervisors watching, how much work was done every day, if it was not done, the supervisor would keep an account, and the settlement would be settled at the end of the month… Not to mention that the two oceans could not earn enough, they would still owe weeks. Landlord’s money.
At that time, Bai Zhengqian hated the landlord Zhou thoroughly, and many times wanted to follow the Red Army and overthrow that evil old society! But thinking about it, there are still five mouths at home waiting to eat…
As a last resort, no matter how tired he is, no matter how tired he is, he will die!
Of course, it was also at that time that he joined the party and became an activist, transporting materials for the organization, covering intelligence personnel, etc… He made a lot of contributions. After liberation, he became the first village head, and only now has he become a village chief. Party branch secretary.
Thinking back to when he had just assumed the responsibility of supporting his family, thirteen-year-old Bai Zhenggan came home every night, too tired to eat. The second child can’t cook at all, but he also learns to cook and feed it to him. The third pours hot water for him to soak his feet, and the fourth lies behind him and pinches his shoulders.
At night, the four brothers slept together on a kang bed, and the third and fourth must be close to him.
The third child was only five or six years old at the time, and sometimes he would get up three or four times a night to secretly touch the bottom of Bai Zhenggan’s nose, fearing that he would die suddenly like his father.
Once, an old man in the village saw that the family was pitiful, and secretly stuffed two boiled eggs for him and the fourth child to eat. Grab it and eat it. The third child was older and a little more sensible. He was afraid of being seen by Chen Juxiang, so he put the boiled egg in his trouser pocket and ran to find his elder brother.
When he found his eldest brother, but because he fell a few times on the road, a hole in his trouser pocket was broken again, and the egg was boiled… I don’t know when it disappeared!
At that time, Bai Zhenggan didn’t know what was going on at all, so he saw the third child came happily and ran away crying?
It wasn’t until night that the third child came back with all the paint all over his body and was dirty, took out a boiled egg that had been squashed, had been smeared with mud and water and had a few ants on it, and cried and said, “Brother, eat it.” Well, after eating, you will have the strength to work and earn work points tomorrow…
At that time, Bai Zhengqian and the second child were looking for the third child in the whole village and mountains, and they were dying of anxiety! Seeing that the third child came back with that egg?
The fourth brother immediately babbled–whoever he met today, gave me and the third brother an egg each, my mother ate mine, and the third brother said that he would take it for the eldest brother to eat…
Bai Zhenggan cried at that time. It took him a long time to peel off the broken egg shell bit by bit, wash off the part that was stained with ants and mud with clean water, and finally put it into his mouth, but only his thumb was left. Just a little bit of protein.
The third child kept staring at him, watching him eat the eggs, and then asked him hopefully: Brother, are you strong?
Bai Zheng nodded desperately with red eyes, and the third child was satisfied.
When the fourth child was young, it was sticky and dry. The little guy, as soon as he slept in the middle of the night, would call Big Brother in a daze. As long as Bai Zhenggan responded to let him know that Big Brother was still there, he could continue to sleep peacefully; if Bai Zhenggan didn’t respond to him, he would wake up completely and cry. Crawling all over the place, I have to find Big Brother.
The fourth child was very naughty when he was a child. When he was four or five years old, he went to the back mountain to pick up mushrooms by himself, but fell into a trap set up by others. Bai Zhenggan called for people to look for the fourth child in the mountains and plains. He searched for two days. Found it in two nights.
At that time, a yellow goat fell into the trap. The frightened yellow goat used the horn on his head to poke the fourth child all over his body. The whole trap was full of his blood, and he was already in a coma, no matter what. Can’t wake up either.
Others said that the fourth child was so badly injured that he would definitely not survive.
Bai Zhengqian seemed to be going crazy, so he hurried to the county town with the fourth child on his back—I heard that there is a church hospital run by a foreigner in the county town, and it can definitely save the fourth child!
So Bai Zhenggan settled the third child at his clan’s house, and took turns carrying the fourth child with the second child. If he could get a ride, he would kneel and kowtow to others and ask for a ride. If he couldn’t, he would walk. It took them a day and a night to get to the county seat, found the church hospital, and managed to save the fourth child’s life.
As soon as the fourth child woke up, he grabbed the hands of the doctors and nurses and cried and shouted, “Please give my brothers a cure for their feet…”
It turned out that the shoes of Bai Zhengqian and the second child had already been worn out. The two of them ran all the way into the city, and the soles of their feet had been worn out for many layers, and the blood was dripping with blood.
Recalling the past, Bai Zhenggan’s eyes turned red.
The second, third, and fourth couldn’t help but recall the time when the brothers depended on each other, and tears filled their eyes.
The fourth uncle, the seventh wife and other elders persuaded—
“You’re doing it right now, you brothers are having a fight. This has nothing to do with the Chen family, it’s your own fate.”
“Yeah, besides, this is just a guess, and it may not be accurate.”
“You can just deal with the Chen family, and forget about the rest. Don’t hurt your brother’s peace.”
“Oh, your brothers are very good friends… Who doesn’t envy your brothers in the village, it’s mainly because the Chen family is disgusting!”
On one side is the annoying Chen Juxiang, and on the other side is the brothers who have been dependent on each other since childhood, pulling each other and growing up, Bai Zhenggan can’t make a decision for a while.
The fourth child understands.
——His mother repeatedly asked the elder brother’s family for trouble, but the elder brother has been enduring it all the time. Up to now, the elder brother has pierced this matter… Obviously because his mother has touched the bottom line of the elder brother. And my brother was silent for a long time, because he was still thinking of a bit of brotherhood.
The fourth child opened his mouth slowly, “Brother, let me tell you a solution, just listen and see—”
“You said.”
The fourth child, “I will send her back to the Chen family, and from now on I will cut off this relationship. The Chen family is not my mother-in-law, and the Chen family is not my mother…”
“no!”
Chen Juxiang got up and screamed angrily.
She wasn’t dizzy at all, but she couldn’t face it for a while, so she pretended to be dizzy.
Now the fourth child is saying that he wants to send her back to the Chen family and cut off ties with the Chen family? ? ?
She knew very well what kind of environment the Chen family was in—if she was really sent back to the Chen family, she would be useless, and would be grinded to death by the Chen family!
Following the third and fourth, even if she can’t make a fortune like now, as long as she no longer subsidizes the Chen family, she will never starve to death.
“Fourth, are you crazy? I won’t go to Chen’s house! I won’t go!” Chen Juxiang shouted frantically.
The fourth said coldly, “Don’t you like going back to Chen’s house the most? Move to Chen’s house as soon as you have something good? Now I let you stay in Chen’s house forever… Why, are you not happy anymore?”
After a pause, he said again: “In short, you have to leave, or you have to leave! We brothers have been harmed by you for decades, are you still not enough? Don’t worry, I will let you take you with you. Those things that I saved for the Chen family will come home with you!”
“I’m not going to Chen’s house!” Chen Juxiang screamed.
The third child asked her excitedly, “…Did you really do something scandalous? You really, really… made me and the fourth child change fathers?”
Chen Juxiang suddenly closed her mouth.
The third child was very angry and asked loudly, “Say it! Say it! I tell you, don’t lie! When I was in the city last time, I heard that it can be tested by blood test…”
Bai Zhengqian: Sins and sins, in fact, it was the beauty who deceived you.
Naturally, when Chen Juxiang was in the city, she heard Tang Liren say that a blood test can detect whether it is the biological father and son, so she just cried and didn’t dare to refute.
When everyone saw her guilty conscience, they knew that the dead ghost father who was doing the job not only really wore a green hat, but also involved his own son to raise sons for others…
The third child was so angry, “Are you mean? Are you mean? I tell you, after you return to Chen’s house… you will never be allowed to come to me and the fourth. If you dare to come, I will give you a leg. There’s a discount! Go and beg!”
Chen Juxiang shook her head desperately, “I won’t go back to Chen’s house! I won’t go back to Chen’s house! Bai Zhenggan doesn’t care about me, I can’t blame him, and he didn’t climb out of my stomach! But the third, you and the fourth are my October Born in pregnancy, I, I am your own mother…”
This time she was really crying.
“Mother?”
The third child laughed angrily, “Then let me ask you, why did you ignore us when your father died? What were you doing when the fourth child and I were relying on you? You won’t let any money you earn. If we touch it, you won’t give us a grain of rice you bought, you will send it all to Chen’s house!”
“Now we don’t need you to support us, and you can’t earn any money, so you came to tell me, you are my mother? You are not a person at all, and you have the face to say that it is our mother! You, you are disgusting! I would rather not be your biological son, I can’t afford to lose this person!”
The third child scolded Chen Juxiang in a **** way.
Chen Juxiang was crying.
On the other side, the fourth brother is still working on his plan with Bai Zheng, “Big brother, in addition to sending her back to the Chen family… Let the third brother and I move out of the ancestral house, and the land deed will also be given to you and the second brother. It’s me. The surname of the third brother and the third brother… After all, it has been used for so many years, so it should be… I and the third brother are also supported and raised by you, so that we are today. So, let’s continue the surname Bai, but we can start from On the ancestral tree… let’s cross out our names!”
Rural people are very particular about kinship, and they also trace their origins to their ancestors, and attach great importance to their origins.
The Bai family has been handed down for more than 30 generations, so the people in the clan are still very proud of their ancestral genealogy.
Now that the fourth child proposes to eliminate the clan, he feels terribly uncomfortable and hates Chen Juxiang even more.
Bai Zhengqian pondered for a moment, “I have to discuss it with your sister-in-law.”
While speaking, Tang Liren arrived in a hurry.
She pinned her hands behind her back, as if there was something hidden behind her, and her face was full of anger, but she rushed over to take a look…
Yo ho, as if the scene was not what she thought it was?
——The four brothers of Bai Zhengqian sat on the side, muttering with solemn expressions, while Chen Juxiang fell to the side with her hair disheveled and howling?
Seems like this side of the house has the upper hand?
Bai Zhenggan saw his wife and waved, “Liren, come here!”
Tang Liren laughed dryly, moved towards Tao Tao first, and said sneakily, “Tao Tao, come here first, come here…”
Taotao followed her mother to the side without knowing why, and under her mother’s signal, she turned her back to Bai Zhenggan and the others.
Then Tang Liren quickly handed one thing to Taotao, and ordered, “Quick, take this home and put it in the main room for offering… Be careful on the road, don’t let anyone see it.”
Tao Tao saw that it was actually the spiritual position of her long-dead grandmother?
Tang Liren saw Tao Tao’s eyes widened, and she smiled and said, “I didn’t hear that Chen Juxiang came here with your grandfather’s spiritual position to do things, so I brought your grandma’s here… thinking that Chen Juxiang came from From the old society, seeing the spiritual position of the original spouse is always a bit taboo, who knows that your father and the others have already done it? How did they do it?”
Before Taotao could answer, Bai Zhenggan called Tang Liren again.
Tang Liren had no choice but to say to Taotao, “Take it back! I’ve passed…”
Tao Tao had no choice but to hold the tablet tightly in her arms and hurried home.
Seeing her nervousness, Song Zhi chased after her in two steps and three steps, looking concerned, and asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”
Taotao, “My mother brought my grandmother’s tablet in order to suppress Chen Juxiang, but I can’t use it now, let me take it back!”
Song Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, looked down at the tablet that Tao Tao was holding in his arms, and thought it was a little funny.
“Do you want me to take you back?” he asked Tao Tao.
Tao Tao, “No need!”
Song Zhi smiled and said, “Then I went to work?”
Tao Tao nodded again and saw Gui Cai standing aside, as if waiting for Song zhi?
She asked him in a low voice, “Hey, do you really care about your wealth? Aren’t you afraid of being corrupted by him?”
Song Zhi looked back at Guicai and said to Taotao, “Don’t worry, he can’t deceive me… If it is Fuguier and Fuguier, then I really don’t want to care. Guicai is still young, maybe he can Save it. Well, there is a lot of work in the field today, I have to go, so you can hurry up too.”
Tao Tao stared at Gui Cai with a serious look on her face, and said to Song Zhi, “If Gui Cai comes to corrupt you or bully you, don’t be afraid… Come to me and I will deal with him!”
Song Zhi laughed.
He kept watching Tao Tao come to the intersection, and then he left with Gui Cai.
On the way, Gui Cai was a little uneasy, “Brother Song zhi, how could it be like this? My dad and uncle…are they not blood brothers?”
Song Zhi didn’t answer and asked, “Do you still have the face to ask your uncle’s family for something in the future?”
Gui Cai was speechless with shame.
After a long while, he asked in a low voice, “Brother Song Zhi, let me ask you… The people in the village hate me, Fugui and Fuguier so much because they hate old women? Or are we born evil?”
Song Zhi thought for a while and said, “This is caused by the environment.”
Gui Cai grimaced, “I don’t want to be hated, I don’t want to have no friends, and I also hope that my family is the same as my uncle’s family. None of my uncle’s sisters have a handle, but the villagers all like theirs. People woo…their food is delicious, and they smile so happily…”
Song zhi, “Then they are just like you. They are unreasonable and make jokes every day? Or are they just like you who are lazy and don’t work every day?”
Gui Cai couldn’t hold back, “I know what you mean! But look at the pearls in my third uncle’s house! Except for her and her father, her family is full of slackers! She is the only one among the sisters who is willing to. Work, but look, who has ever felt sorry for her?”
Song Zhi thought for a while and said, “Maybe I gave the wrong example. Can you refer to Zhou Xiaoni again?”
Gui Cai was stunned.
– Zhou Xiaoni? Zhou Xiaoni is the most miserable person in the village, no one! Her brother is gone, her sister is married, and she is left alone, with no way to survive.
But I seem to have heard that on the day that Zhou Chunni was about to leave, Xiao Ni angrily went to make a bet with her sister that for ten years, she would definitely be better off than her sister in the future?
Gui Cai thinks that Zhou Xiaoni is just nonsense!
A twelve- or thirteen-year-old yellow-haired girl who was so thin that she was dying alone… It’s hard to say whether she could survive on her own. Zhou Chunni was an adult and married, and Zhou Xiaoni couldn’t be better than her sister.
However, such a skinny Zhou Xiaoni was working like an adult in the fields with a sickle.
Song Zhi said: “Zhou Xiaoni can earn five work points a day, and she can live on by catching some small fish and shrimp in the river, picking up some bamboo shoots and fungi in the mountains, and so on. And those are the work points she earned by herself, I think Whether the production team exchanges rice or noodles, duck eggs or other things, she has the final say, and no one else can be her master.”
“As for the bet she made with her sister, it’s not that she has no chance of winning. When the farming is busy, she works **** the farm, and when the farming is slack, she does some side jobs and learns some culture… If she has been so diligent, her sister is still the same as before. If you are so lazy in the village and don’t change at all, in ten years, Xiao Ni might be better off than her sister.”
Treasures stay.
After a long while, he asked with difficulty: “Then, what if I do the work, but Fu Gui’er and Fu Gui’er treat me like a cow and a dog again?”
Song Zhiqi said, “Is your father still alive?”
Treasures: …
Song Zhi said: “I know your mother is lazy and may be biased. But your father and your third uncle were raised by your uncle. Your uncle is a reasonable person, so your father and your third uncle will not be too bad. Go. It looks like your dad doesn’t teach children very well… You tell your dad your worries and see what your dad has to say.”
Gui Cai gritted his teeth, “Success!”
While speaking, the two had already come to the field.
Guicai ate a roasted sweet potato in the morning and was hungry again, so he couldn’t help but ask Song Zhi again, “Brother Song Zhi, what you said… I cut the rice, and the production team will take care of it at noon. Rice, and it’s full, right?”
Song Zhi nodded.
“But I’m a big eater!”
“Sufficiency.”
“What if you don’t have enough to eat?”
“I’ll give you mine. But you can’t take it away, you have to eat it on the spot.”
Gui Cai finally let go of his heart.
Although there was such a big **** drama today, it was the autumn harvest, and the life in the fields was waiting for no one. So everyone talked a lot, but their hands and feet were very fast…
At noon, the women’s team really came to deliver meals.
Gui Cai smelled the fragrance of the food from a distance, and suddenly became flustered.
Song Zhi, who was not far away, pointed at him, “You haven’t finished your work, don’t let you eat… Hurry up, you have to finish the piece of land that Lao Baishi gave you.”
Gui Cai straightened his waist and looked–
Song Zhi’s work has been done, but his is still a little bit short, but not too far.
So he endured hunger and gritted his teeth and continued to work, moving quickly.
After more than ten minutes, Gui Cai finally finished his work and ran to Tian Kan.
The daughter-in-law who came to deliver the meal saw him and was very surprised, “Yo, you have also come to work?”
Gui Cai’s eyes were fixed on the large wooden barrels and nodded.
Several daughters-in-law divided the labor and cooperated, and soon took a big bowl, filled him with a large bowl of white rice, pressed it firmly, then poured some marinade on it, and piled a pile of fried cabbage on it. , fried pickles, and a duck egg fried black fungus.
The food is piled up in the bowl of the sea, which is bigger than the head of your wealth!
Excited for wealth!
——Song zhi didn’t lie to him, as long as he came to work, he would really have food! And it’s pure rice!
gosh…
This guy drives better than his family!
A daughter-in-law next to her also said with a smile: “Fool, aren’t you hungry? Why don’t you just look at it and eat it? Hurry up and eat!”
Gui Cai’s tears flowed down, and he desperately grabbed the rice with chopsticks.
The daughter-in-law laughed again, “Oh, eat slowly, be careful of choking… Don’t worry, there’s not enough to eat! There’s enough food! If you’re choking, there’s vegetable leaf soup here!”
It only took Gui Cai a few minutes to eat up an entire bowl of rice and vegetables!
“Sister-in-law, give me another bowl!” he said excitedly.
The daughter-in-law really gave him another bowl and asked, “Are these enough? Do you want to add a little more?”
Treasure nodded.
The daughter-in-law gave him more rice, and she pressed it down firmly. She still poured a spoonful of braised soup on the rice, and all kinds of dishes came a little.
The rich took it and was about to eat—
Song Zhi said to him, “Have you thanked them for giving you food?”
Gui Cai was stunned.
He immediately looked at his daughter-in-law, bowed to her, and said, “Thank you, sister-in-law!”
This time, the daughter-in-law was stunned.
She looked at Gui Cai up and down, and said with relief: “Oh, Gui Cai has grown up and is sensible! That’s right! You, although you are still young, you are also a man…you Mom is dead lazy, and your two brothers are lazy too! You rely on your father to work alone, so you can eat enough at home? Come here to work! Come back tomorrow, and my sister-in-law will bring you so much food, okay?”
No outsider has ever talked to him so calmly like the sister-in-law in front of him.
Gui Cai’s eyes turned red.
With the food in his mouth, he wanted to cry, but he wanted to eat more…
The daughter-in-law smiled, “Okay, my sister-in-law won’t talk about you anymore, you have to eat well! After you have eaten your fill, you will have the strength to continue working hard in the afternoon!”
Gui Cai nodded desperately.
Later, Gui Cai added a large bowl of vegetable leaf soup.
Gudonggudong drink it in one breath…
When he was too full to bear, he handed the empty bowl back to his daughter-in-law.
Suddenly remembering Song Zhi’s teaching, he stood up again and bowed to his daughter-in-law, “Thank you, sister-in-law.”
This sister-in-law was the first person to speak to him in a kind and gentle voice since he could remember. So Gui Cai added another sentence, “This meal is delicious.”
The daughter-in-law instantly widened her eyes!
“Oh, this meal…I didn’t cook it by myself hahahaha, but ah, in order to allow you to work hard in the fields, we are also responsible for the logistics, and we are afraid that the food will not be cooked enough and not delicious. I’m afraid that the meal will be delivered late and you will be hungry…”
Gui Cai seems to have discovered the wealth code, “Sister-in-law, you have worked hard too!”
In a word, the daughter-in-law’s face turned red and her eye circles were red, “No, it’s not hard! Oh, after you finish eating, I’ll… hurry back!”
Having said that, the daughter-in-law hurriedly ran away with the rice bucket in one hand and the bucket for the bowl in the other. Whenever she meets someone, she tells them, hey, let me tell you, your wealth has changed! Really changed! He has done work today, and it’s not bad…and he is so sweet and can speak well, like the people in the city, “Thank you, sister-in-law”, “sister-in-law, you have worked hard”…
Gui Cai smirked and scratched his head, feeling that this kind of hard work, full meal, and a few words with others in a good voice, it feels so good!
There is a half-hour break after meals.
Most people leaned on the field ridges, covered their faces with bamboo hats, and took a nap when they grasped.
Gui Cai was terribly happy, sitting alone by the ridge, thinking about his future plans, and snickering all afternoon.
When the time was almost up, the old man came over and knocked on the gong to inform everyone that we were going to resume work.
Like a ball, Gui Cai jumped up with a “rub” and was ready to start work happily.
Song Zhi also sat by the ridge and took a nap. He looked at Gui Cai with a funny look, and said, “The production team doesn’t include dinner.”
He wanted to see if the child would be mercenary.
The smile on Gui Cai’s face faded, “It’s alright, I eat a lot at noon, so it’s the same if I carry it until tomorrow at noon.”
“Just for one meal a day?” Song Zhi started to work, and asked while cutting the rice, “But the production team only manages the rice if they have to grab it these few days.”
Gui Cai said curiously: “Didn’t you say that? You should earn work points every day, and go up the mountain and down the river when you don’t have work points? I’ve already thought about it, I’ll follow Zhou Xiaoni to learn how to catch small fish, and then follow me. The fourth sister (Peach) went to pick up mushrooms together… If Li Cuier and Fuguier want to eat my food and take advantage of me…then I will build a stove outside, I have caught fish and shrimp, and I have picked up mushrooms I cook it outside and eat it before I go back! Anyway, if they don’t work, don’t try to take advantage of me!”
Song Zhi smiled, “Yes, it’s just a little bit mean.”
Gui Cai was waiting for Song Zhi’s compliment, but heard that… Is it almost meaningless?
“What’s wrong?” He asked after Song Zhi.
Song Zhi, “You have already made a plan. It is good to rely on labor to solve the problem of hunger, but this is the basic need of survival, not life.”
“What?” Gui Cai’s eyes widened.
Song Zhi thought for a while, “Forget it, you’d better fill your stomach first!”
“No, Brother Song Zhi, what’s the difference between this life and life?” Gui Cai asked suspiciously.
Song Zhi’s subordinates kept moving, “Survival means that you can be full… But whether you are full of bran or wild vegetables, it doesn’t matter, you only need to be full anyway. Life is that When you’re full, you still want to eat something good, and when you’re warm, you want to dress clean… that’s what it means!”
Gui Cai understood, “Isn’t that my uncle’s family!”
Song Zhi laughed.
Treasures take a deep breath—
“I’ll fill my stomach first! I’ll talk to my dad about it when I go back in the evening… I don’t want to be like White Pearl! If my three brothers are the only ones to work, then not only will I have to eat my dad’s income Yes, what I earn is my own! Unless they also work together to earn work points, then I am willing to eat as much as I want with them… As for the life you are talking about, wait I’ll talk about it later when I’m full!”
Song Zhi smiled.
After working hard for a while, Gui Cai suddenly remembered something very important, “Brother Song Zhi, let me ask you… How many work points do you earn in a day? How much rice can you exchange for one work point?”
Song Zhi’s position is rather special.
He is a blacksmith, and he counts 12 work points a day if he is alive or not. Now he is working in the fields. He is strong and quick, and can do 12 work points a day.
But he was not going to tell Guicai about it, so he said: “Your second uncle, third uncle and your father, they are physically strong and experienced, they can earn 12 work points a day, which is the highest work point. Earn 8 work points, your third sister earns 7 work points a day, Zhou Xiaoni earns 5 work points a day, you can earn 3 work points today.”
Gui Cai was stunned, “I-I only earn 3 work points?”
Song Zhi, “You four sisters and five sisters only earn 5 work points a day in total.”
Guicai was not convinced, “Give me 5 work points tomorrow, I, I can’t lose to anyone, and I can’t lose to Zhou Xiaoni! Look at how thin she is, her waist is not as thick as Xiaoye’s thighs. By the way, Brother Song Zhi, tell me quickly, how much rice can be exchanged for 1 work point?”
Song Zhi smiled and told him.
Gui Cai was suddenly disappointed, “So little…”
– No wonder he refuses to work in the fields!
Song Zhi, “You don’t think it’s worth it again?”
Gui Cai worriedly said: “That’s not true, I just feel like… it seems like I have 5 divisions of labor a day, and I can’t get enough to eat after working for a whole month.”
As he said that, he suddenly saw Zhou Xiaoni who was working in the distance. Her thin body was half-bowed, and the movement of cutting rice with a knife was extremely sluggish…
Gui Cai suddenly became full of pride again, “It’s okay, Zhou Xiaoni can do it, so can I! Can’t I still go up the mountain and down the river!”