Xu Yin felt a little bit sorry, so she said: "I'll make some fat later, you can pick some to take back."
"No, no, no, I have it at home."
Chen Lei put down the dung bucket and ran away.
Xu Yin: "..."
Forget it if you don’t want to, my sister is still reluctant to part with it!
This new method of retting farmyard manure still cost 500 energy points to mix with the system.
After making some fat, he hurried home.
Sure enough, the couple had already 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 really don't want 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? The two of them are really not lazy and go to work every day. Yin girl also works 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 younger 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 over and get some rice for the third child. Maybe I just want to go to the fields to earn work points because I can't open the pot..."
Mrs. Xu knew her son very well, so she walked to the back room, took a millet bag, and scooped a few bowls of rice into it.
After 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. It's annoying.
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 Upper River Head; 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 the three brothers: the second and third brothers should go out to find a homestead to build a house and move out. The eldest family would stay, after all, they would definitely live with the eldest family in the future.
Just approving homestead land 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 ability. If there is more, 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! Let's move to my parents' house. There was an old man who lived alone and died a few years ago, leaving two houses for the brigade.
Just pay some money and pack up and you can move in. 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's family moved to the south corner of the village near his mother-in-law's home, while Xu's second son 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 providing subsidies on the surface, they also secretly stuffed him with a lot of money, luckily not letting him go into debt.
It’s hard to say that the two elders of the Xu family are partial to their younger son, but the younger son is really too lazy, so lazy that he can’t hold up a wall through mud. Otherwise, when old man Xu retires at an age, he will definitely let his younger son take his place.
of.
But 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, everything is doomed. 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 having the younger son be 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 old Xu's only worker position, you will be considered successful!
Mrs. Xu walked very fast with 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 urinate all day long and had to run home to urinate. How about you? Did you pick up two buckets of dung and give it away? I thought you had become more diligent and knew how to go to the brigade to pick it up.
Shit, you earn work points for your family, but you spent a long time picking other people’s fields, you bastard! See if I don’t beat you to death!”
Chen Lei was not willing to stand there and let his mother beat him, so of course he ran out of the courtyard gate and almost bumped into Mrs. Xu.
Jinjin's wife chased her out with a broom. When she saw Mrs. Xu, her face immediately changed.
Old Xu's family was the first family to become a worker in the brigade. Many people respected Mr. Xu and were naturally courteous to Mrs. Xu.
"Auntie, are you going to Lao San's house?"
"Yes, didn't Lan Lan follow the boss to live in the agricultural machinery factory? She was afraid that the third daughter-in-law would miss her, so she came here to have a look."
When Qianjin's wife heard this, she twitched her lips.
I thought in my heart that the third daughter-in-law wouldn't be worried, she would just be eager for it.
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 elders to go.
Seeing that it was Xu Yin's grandma, Chen Lei said hello with a smile, ran out of his house, turned around and made a face at his mother: "Mom, I'm going 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 damn boy didn't know where he was in the wrong place, and he actually used the toilet in his own house.
He picked up his excrement and took it to someone else’s house. It makes me so angry! It makes me so angry! If I knew which house it was from, I would scold him at his door!”
Mrs. Xu was filled with righteous indignation: "That really deserves to be scolded! If you don't hand it over to the brigade, you might as well keep it to fertilize your own land."
"No way! This bastard refuses to admit his mistakes! I'm 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. They had dried them all night and all morning.
Mrs. Xu: "..."
Subconsciously I looked up at the sky: Has the sun come out from the west? No!
"Hey, mother! Why did you come here at noon? Have you eaten? If not, eat something here. Yinyin is cooking, you can eat soon."
"..." Mrs. Xu was surprised again, "Yinyin is cooking?"
Can Yin girl eat the food she cooks?
"Grandma?" Xu Yin heard the noise and stuck her head out and said, "The food is ready. You can stay and eat before you leave. If grandpa hasn't eaten, I will send him some."
"No, no, no, the food is ready at home," Mrs. Xu said.
I still have lingering fears when I think back to the salty and bitter stir-fried cabbage my granddaughter once made.
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 the speed of a race.
One serves the dishes, the other serves the rice, and they work together in perfect harmony.
"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!"
"Fried eggs with chives? Not bad! I can eat two big bowls of this dish!"
"The garlic beans made by Yinyin are so oily that you never get tired of it!"
“Seaweed and shrimp skin soup quenches your thirst!”
The old lady was a little confused: Something feels wrong?