"Father, mother, you do what you can. If you are really tired, take a rest. Filter..."
"Aren't you tired?" Xu Laosan was afraid that she would take the filtered cigarette back, so he hurriedly expressed his position, "What kind of work is this? Tomorrow, my father will talk to the team leader, and I will go to the hoeing group and try to get ten
Let me show you my work points!"
Chen Huilan put the cream into the drawer and locked it carefully. She hid the key for a long time before hiding it properly, and then said:
"Mom, you're not tired. Why don't you just pull some weeds? Next time I'll go fertilize. That job will get more points."
In this way, the couple was hung by a carrot in front of their respective noses to earn long-term work points.
Every time I am so tired that I groan, want to give up, want to be lazy, want to lie down, my daughter cooks meat dishes, takes out the roasting knife, filters, new clothes, and cream, which makes my eyes go straight and my head becomes hairy.
Hun, then Xu Yin took the initiative to run to the ground without needing to say anything.
The villagers were surprised:
"Hey! Xu Laosan and his wife have really changed their lives recently? They work so hard!"
"Not only the couple, but also their second daughter? One person has at least robbed the work of three big men."
"What's going on with this family? They're afraid of hunger, so they're working hard to earn work points. Do you want to get more food at the end of the year?"
"I don't know about anything else. Xu Laosan is definitely not doing it for food, but for filtered cigarettes. The first one showed off to me, saying that his second daughter bought him a package of red plum blossoms, tsk! It smells bad when it is stuck in his ears all day long.
It took me three days to show off."
"Where did his second daughter get the money?"
"I heard that I earned it from pasting matchboxes and bought meat for my family. Didn't you notice when I went to work that afternoon? Mr. Xu and his wife had a greasy mouth. Before dinner, I saw his second daughter delivering it to the old house.
The bowl of soybean and pig's trotter soup was so delicious that I took the opportunity to run home and eat a bowl of sweet potato rice."
"Why are you saying it now? If you had said it earlier, I would rush over and take a whiff, so I could save a few bites of food when I go home."
"..."
Xu Laosan's family became famous.
From Xu Laosan showing off her filter, Xu Yin delivering pig's trotter soup to her old house, and Chen Huilan chatting with fellow women after applying it so fragrantly...
If there were hot searches these days, a family of three might dominate the Seven Stars team rankings one after another.
But even if not, no one in the brigade knows about it.
Xu Laoer's wife became jealous after hearing this.
He thought that the good life of the third child's family depended on the matchbox business organized by the old man, so he encouraged the second child Xu to go to the old house to cause trouble.
"The eldest brother took over dad's job. The third brother's house has matchboxes, so why don't we have matchboxes? Are you going? If not, I will go back to my parents' house!" Li Chunxiang said in a loud voice.
Xu Laoer was not happy: "The third child has no son and will be raised by his daughter in the future, so dad gave the matchbox to the third child's family to support his family. This was all agreed upon, wouldn't it be bad to regret it now?"
"Okay! You guys have such a deep love for each other as brothers. You blame me, an outsider, for talking too much. I will go back to my parents' home right away!"
Li Chunxiang packed up her baggage and kept complaining:
"You are the stupidest of the three brothers! I married you when I was blind!"
Xu Laoer originally wanted to coax his wife, but when he heard this, he became angry:
"Okay! I'm stupid! I'm a coward! Then find someone who can do it!"
The two elders heard the commotion and came over to break up the fight.
Li Chunxiang took advantage of the situation and said: "Dad! Mom! Why are we quarreling? It's not that you and I are doing something unfair. My family has workers' establishment, and my third family has matchboxes to make a living, but our family has nothing!"
"The boss took over your father's job. Didn't he already agree to raise a child for you two?" Mrs. Xu persuaded her.
"What about the matchbox? Why only give it to the third family? Aren't we also foraging in the fields? Don't we need this extra money?"
"This..." Mrs. Xu turned to look at the old man.
The matchbox was obtained by my wife when she saw that Yin girl was unwilling to work in the fields at her age and asked someone to get it. This was originally hidden from the second brother's family. But paper can't wrap up the fire. It belongs to a village. After a long time, what happened?
Maybe you don’t know?
Now it's better, the brothers are no longer at odds.
Old man Xu knocked the cigarette butt and said: "What use is that matchbox? The time and energy spent on going to the city to deliver goods every few days is not as good as earning full work points in the field, and everything comes back!"
"That's not what they say." Li Chunxiang said unwillingly, "No matter how old you are, the brothers must share a bowl of water, right? Why does the third child's family have ours? Isn't the second child your son?"
"..."
Old man Xu glanced at his second son: "Second son, do you think so too?"
"Dad, of course I don't think so." Xu Laoer shook his head.
After a pause, he added nervously: "But the third child smoked the filter and ate the braised pork because the girl paste the matchbox. I..."
Old man Xu nodded: "Okay, I've got it figured out."
"..."
Count what?
What counts?
Xu Laoer was a little confused.
Li Chunxiang was secretly happy for a while, thinking that the two elders had enlightened and wanted to get a batch of matchboxes for their family.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, not to mention that she didn't expect to receive the matchbox, I heard that the matchbox from the third family was gone. It was said that the matchbox from the match factory would be given priority to the families of employees in the future, and would not be mixed by outsiders.
Li Chunxiang: "..."
How many days have you waited? What a waste of time?
"Grandpa, thank you for this." Seeing the old man coming to the door, Xu Yin made him a pot of wild mountain tea, "otherwise my second uncle would have made trouble."
When she was delivering pig's trotter soup to the old house a few days ago, she mentioned it to the old man and said that she planned to earn full work points from now on, so she gave the matchbox job to her eldest sister.
The old man nodded at that time.
Sang Yatou's life is indeed poor. After marriage, she lives separately from her parents-in-law and lives independently. She is comfortable. However, she has no elders to help her. She still owes food. This year's new food has not been harvested yet, and half of the debt must be paid off first. Sang Yatou pastes a matchbox.
It would be good to subsidize some household expenses.
Unexpectedly, the second daughter-in-law would quarrel over the matchbox. The grandfather and grandson met again, and after discussion they decided to agree on the same thing - to tell the public that the matchbox job was gone.
As for the future, even if Xu Sang is discovered by Li Chunxiang gluing matchboxes, can't Xu Sang's man entrust someone to collect it? What's the business of the old Xu family?
As soon as this happened, Xu Yin seriously criticized Comrade Xu Laosan: "Dad, please stop talking about what our family eats and drinks in the future. You almost started a family revolution, you know, right?"
Xu Laosan's expression was stern, this matter was indeed caused by his big mouth.
"But you can't blame me alone. Didn't your mother go out to show off too?"
Chen Huilan pinched him, why did she drag her into the water? Isn't that enough for my daughter to be angry?
Xu Yin earnestly advised the couple: "In short, no matter what good things our family has in the future, don't tell anyone about it! Have you ever heard of the saying that you will make a fortune in silence? Our family will make a fortune in the future, but where is it now?
Where? If there is something wrong, let’s talk about it. People are thinking about you even before you get rich. Will the wealth still stay in our family? I’m scared to death.”
When the couple heard this, they looked at each other and were extremely surprised: "Can our family really get rich in the future?"