Chapter 378: The House Ruiner in the 1970s (9)

Xu Yin felt a little bit sorry, so she said, "I'll make a lot of fat later. You can pick some up and take it back."

 “No, no, no, I have it myself.”

 Chen Lei put down the dung bucket and ran away.

 Xu Yin: “…”

 Don’t forget it, my sister is still reluctant to part with it!

 This new method of retting farmyard manure still cost 500 energy points to exchange with the system.

Hurry home after making some fat.

Sure enough, the couple had finished their work and collapsed on the bed from exhaustion. When they saw her, they groaned feebly:

“Yin, why haven’t you cooked yet? I’m so hungry that my chest is touching my back.”

“Daughter, what are you going to have for lunch? You can’t just boil two sweet potatoes, right? Then you won’t have the energy to pull weeds in the afternoon.”

Xu Yin almost tripped over the threshold: "..."

These two guys are really unwilling to work without giving them some sweetness.

 The second elder of the Xu family, who lives in Shanghetou, has heard a lot about the third elder's family in the past two days.

"Old man, do you think what the big guy said is true? Are the two of them really not lazy and going to work every day? Is Yin girl also working in the fields? I heard Mancang say that she is stronger than a strong man. Today In the morning, my son even competed with the youngest son of the former family. He said that Yin girl plowed half a ridge of land in less than a quarter of an hour and beat a bunch of young boys!"

 Old man Xu took a puff of dry cigarette, stood up and said, "I'll go to Lao San's house to have a look."

"It's better for me to go, you've been tired all morning. I'm going to run and get some rice for the third child. Maybe I can't open the pot, so I want to go to the fields to earn work points..."

Mrs. Xu knew her son very well. She walked to the back room, took a rice bag, and scooped a few bowls of rice into it.

Thinking about it, I scooped a few more spoonfuls of soybeans from the bean bag, then tied the mouth of the bag tightly, put it into my clothes, quietly opened the back door, and took a long detour to my youngest son's house in Xiahetou.

It's not that I'm on guard against the villagers, but I'm worried that when the second daughter-in-law who lives next door sees her, she'll angrily scold them for being partial and favoring their younger son. Annoyed.

Old Xu’s house and his youngest son’s house are separated by a small river running from north to south, and they have to cross a stone arch bridge in the middle.

 The terrain at the east end of the bridge is relatively high, so it is called Shanghetou; the terrain at the west end of the bridge is slightly lower, so it is called Lower River head.

 When the three sons first got married, they all lived in the old house.

 Later, grandchildren were born one after another, and the old house ran out of rooms.

 Old man Xu discussed with his three brothers that the second and third brothers should go out to find homesteads, build houses, and move out. Dafang stayed, after all, they would definitely live with Dafang in the future.

Just approving land for homesteads and building a house requires a lot of expenses. The two elders don't have that much money to build a house for their two sons, so they can only supplement the brothers within their capabilities. If there is more money, they have to find a way to solve it themselves.

As a result, the second daughter-in-law was not happy: "Why should we move out? Can't we move out from the big house? The old man gets a salary every month, and the old woman can do a lot of work at her age. The big house takes advantage of the house. And taking advantage of labor, how can it be such a good thing!"

The second house refused to be moved. Later, the eldest daughter-in-law said: "If you don't move, let's move! Move to my parents' house. There was an old man who was alone and widowed. He died a few years ago and left two houses for the brigade. Just pay some money and pack up and you can live in it. You will save money by asking someone to buy bricks and tiles. It’s hard to say whether you can buy it or not. I don’t know how long it will take to get a good house..."

In this way, Xu Lao's family moved to the south corner of the village near his mother-in-law's home, and Xu Lao Er stayed in the old house as he wished.

Xu Laosan and his wife really wanted to live in a new house, so they found a piece of land in Xiahetou and built three small bungalows.

The two elders felt sorry for their younger son. In addition to the official subsidies, they also secretly stuffed him with a lot of money. Fortunately, they did not let him go into debt.

The two elders of the Xu family are partial to their youngest son, which is really nothing to say, but the younger son is really too lazy, so lazy that he can't hold up the wall with mud. Otherwise, when old man Xu retires at an old age, he will definitely let his younger son take his place.

 How can you be so lazy?

 Public factories do not earn more work points than those in the brigade. If you work as a foreigner in the brigade, all you will lose is your own work points, and others will at most accuse you of being lazy.

 But in the factory, it’s a carrot and a pit. If you don’t do your job well, it will affect the work of other positions, and even affect the progress of the entire workshop.

Rather than letting the younger son get fired for being late and leaving early after entering the factory, it would be better to let the honest and responsible boss go.

If you don’t care about anything else, just keep the old Xu family’s only worker position, it will be considered a success!

Mrs. Xu was walking very fast on her little feet. When passing by Chen Qianjin's house, she heard Qianjin's wife scolding her youngest son at the top of her voice: "You bastard! I had to run home after holding in my urine all afternoon." Come on, you're good! You picked two buckets of dung and gave it away? I thought you had become more diligent and knew how to pick dung in the brigade to earn work points for your family. You spent a long time picking other people's fields. You You bastard! See if I don’t beat you to death!"

Chen Lei was not willing to stand still and let his mother beat him, so of course he ran out of the courtyard gate and almost bumped into Mrs. Xu.

 The daughter-in-law of Qianjin chased her out with a broom. When she saw Mrs. Xu, her face immediately changed.

 Old Xu's family was the first family in the brigade to become workers. Many people respected Mr. Xu and were naturally courteous to Mrs. Xu.

 “Auntie, are you going to Lao San’s house?”

"Yes, Lan Lan followed the boss to live in the agricultural machinery factory. I was afraid that the third daughter-in-law would miss her, so I came here to have a look."

Hearing this, Qianjin’s wife twitched the corner of her mouth.

I thought in my heart that the third daughter-in-law would not be worried, she would only be eager to do so.

The little girl lives in the old man's house, the boss is responsible for food and accommodation, and the clothes are washed by the boss's daughter-in-law. How comfortable it is for the third daughter-in-law.

If given a choice, the third daughter-in-law might want to rely on the old man to go.

 Chen Lei saw that it was Xu Yin's grandma, and said hello with a smile, and rushed out of his house. He turned back and made a face at his mother: "Mom, I went to my eldest brother's house for dinner."

"You still have the nerve to eat? Where is the excrement bucket? Bring it back to me quickly! Don't you need it at home?" After yelling, he complained a few words to Mrs. Xu, "This **** boy didn't know where he was in the wrong place, and he actually used the toilet in his own house. He picks up his feces and takes it to someone else’s house. He’s so mad at me! He’s so mad at me! If I knew which house it was from, he would definitely come to their door and scold him!”

Mrs. Xu was filled with righteous indignation: "That really deserves to be scolded! Instead of handing over to the brigade, it would be better to keep it to fertilize the private land."

 “That’s right! This **** refuses to admit his mistake! It makes me so angry!”

 "Calm down, calm down, talk to him later."

Mrs. Xu exchanged greetings with Qianjin's daughter-in-law, stopped lingering, and hurried to her youngest son's house.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw my youngest son sitting in the yard washing a pair of dung buckets, and my youngest daughter-in-law was collecting clothes, which they had dried all night and all morning.

 Mrs. Xu: “…”

 Subconsciously, I looked up at the sky: Has the sun come out from the west? No wow!

"Hey, mother! Why did you come here at noon? Have you eaten? If not, eat something here. Yin Yin is cooking, you can eat soon."

“…” Mrs. Xu was surprised again, “Yinyin is cooking?”

Yin girl, can you eat the food you cook?

"Grandma?" Xu Yin heard the noise and stuck her head out and said, "The food is ready. You can stay and eat before leaving. If grandpa hasn't eaten, I will send him some."

 “No, no, no, the food is ready.” Mrs. Xu said.

Looking back at the salty and bitter stir-fried cabbage dish that my granddaughter once made, I still have lingering fears.

As soon as Xu Laosan heard that he could eat, he immediately threw the dirty bucket aside.

 Chen Huilan also put the clothes in her arms into the room, and the couple rushed to the kitchen at a racing speed.

 One serves the dishes and the other serves the rice, and they work together in a tacit understanding.

 “It’s time to eat, it’s time to eat!”

“Scrambled eggs with leeks? Not bad! I can eat two big bowls of this dish!”

“The garlic beans made by Yinyin are so oily that I never get tired of it!”

“Seaweed and shrimp skin soup quenches your thirst!”

The old lady was a little confused: Something feels wrong?

 (End of this chapter)