When Sangouzi cried like this, his two brothers tried hard to hold back, but when they thought that Jinbao would not be able to see him for a long time after returning to the provincial capital, they also put down their dishes and started crying.
"Oh, stop crying," Zhang Guilan hugged the youngest Sangouzi on her lap, "Why are you crying? Jinbao hasn't left yet?"
"Woooooooo..."
Seeing that her son was still crying, Zhang Guilan said angrily to her husband: "It's all your fault! Why do you say those words so politely? Don't tell me that Gouzi and the others are sad, I'm also sad."
Little Jinbao comforted him with a sweet voice: "Don't cry, brother, don't cry, Jinbao is here..."
Sangouzi usually seemed stupid and didn't understand anything, but he actually liked Jinbao very much. When he saw her talking to him, telling him not to cry, he raised his hand to wipe away his tears and nodded, "Don't cry."
He sniffed and said to his two brothers: "Jinbao said he won't cry. The eldest brother won't cry, and the second brother won't cry either."
"I'm not crying." Dagouzi raised his arm and wiped it on his face.
"I didn't cry either." Ergouzi imitated his elder brother and wiped his tears.
"Hey," Su Daqiang sighed, "You blame me, but in fact I just can't let go of Jinbao. It would be great if Jinbao had stayed in our village. I would definitely go to work in the production team."
Li Xiu'e looked at his expression and said, "Come on, stop using Jin Bao as an excuse. You are just lazy. When Jin Bao returns to her parents, I want to see if your two old hens can still lay eggs!"
"
When Su Daqiang heard this, his whole face fell instantly when he thought about the eggs.
"Xiao Wu will also leave by then. I asked the third child not to send any more money home. Your father and I don't need him to support us. Our hands and feet are still neat. Let the fifth child arrange some work for us and earn two or three work points a day.
OK."
After Li Xiu'e finished speaking, Su Changzhu nodded hurriedly, "Okay! That's a good idea, like shoveling grass, herding cattle, keeping food, or going to the pond to watch and raise fish. I'll be there just in time!"
"Dad, what are you talking about? You are already so old..."
"I'm old, but I don't want to sit at home and wait to die like you!
In the past, when Li Dashu was the team leader, it was stipulated that elderly people over sixty years old should not receive work points. I think we elderly people should also receive work points, just less. I will have to discuss this matter with Xiao Meng when he comes back from the health center.
carry."
Speaking of which, Su Changzhu asked: "By the way, when will Xiaomeng come back?"
Seeing that her husband was silent, Zhang Guilan hurriedly replied: "We will check carefully tomorrow. If there are no problems with the bones, we can go home to recuperate. However, the doctor said that it will take a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, so I guess I will have to lie down for a while when I go home."
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"He can't stay in bed. Let me make him a walking stick."
Hearing that his father cared so much about Xiao Meng, Su Daqiang felt a little sad for no reason, "I think Lao Wu is quite comfortable in the hospital bed. He reads a novel every day and is fascinated. When I talk to him, he ignores me.
"
"Novel?" Su Changzhu wondered, "Where did the novel come from? Why did he read that thing?"
Li Xiu'e explained: "The nurse lent it to him to read. Xiao Meng loves to read, and novels are also books."
"I don't know a few characters, can you understand? I think he is just pretending to be a cultured person..."
Before Su Daqiang could finish his words, he was pushed hard by his wife.
"Why are you pushing me?" Su Daqiang asked angrily.
"What did you say I did? Look at what you said, it smells sour."
"I know you think I'm useless. I'm the most useless in this family. I'm a waste!"
A wave of negative emotions surged into his chest, and Su Daqiang got up and ran out.
There was worry in Jinbao's eyes, "Uncle..."
"Really, what's so sudden about this? Who dislikes him?"
Zhang Guilan said she wanted to chase him, but Yao Hua suddenly said, "Shall I go talk to Uncle Su?"
"Hua Hua?" Zhang Guilan was stunned for a moment, then nodded towards the little boy, "Okay, you might as well talk to him."
Su Daqiang ran out of the yard and shouted out of frustration, "Ah——"
"Uncle Su, are you okay?"
Startled by the sudden sound, Su Daqiang turned his head and saw Yao Hua walking beside him at some point. His tone was full of displeasure, "Why did you come out if you didn't stay at home and have a good meal?"
"I think everyone has wrongly blamed you. During this period, you have been going down the mountain to carry water every day, and you are not lazy at all. I heard that you used to walk to the town every month, one day at a time. You are obviously very hardworking."
Unexpectedly, he would praise himself, and most of Su Daqiang's resistance to Yao Hua disappeared.
"You don't know, compared with the endless work of the production team, going down the mountain to fetch water is nothing. Going to the town every month is even more trivial... Hey, I am afraid of the production team.
"
He sighed to himself for a while.
He said that he used to work in a production team and was assigned to renovate ponds.
Desilting, dredging, loading trucks, and climbing hills. When climbing, I put my head down and my face to the ground. I kept staring because of the exertion, and I felt like my eyeballs were about to pop out.
Repeated every day, day after day.
The pond was finally repaired and the soil had to be dug up again.
Several times he felt like he was going to die, and there was nothing but pain.
Once he went up the mountain alone to the edge of the cliff, thinking to himself, he might as well jump off.
"If life is so tiring, why should we live?" Su Daqiang said, "When I was almost about to jump, I thought of my wife and several children. They must be bullied in the village without a father. I thought so
, I didn’t jump..."
When he said this, he was stunned. He didn't expect that he would talk about this to Yao Hua, a brat.
"I haven't told anyone else about this, so you have to keep it a secret."
Yao Hua asked: "Why keep it a secret? Let Grandpa Su know, and he will understand you."
"Don't!" Su Daqiang said anxiously, "If my father knew that I was so tired that I almost wanted to jump off a cliff because I was working in the production team, he would think that I am an incompetent waste."
"Uncle Su, I want to ask you a question."
"What's the problem?"
"Dig a well...will it be painful for you?"
Su Daqiang frowned when he heard Yao Hua's words coming out of nowhere.
"What did you say?" He thought he heard wrongly, "Dig a well?"
Yao Hua nodded, "Actually, I've wanted to ask you for a long time, but I was afraid that you wouldn't be willing. But listening to what you just said, I feel that as long as the labor intensity does not exceed your limit and there is hope, you should agree."
Su Daqiang was confused when he heard this, "What are you talking about? What kind of well are you digging? Where can I dig a well?"
"It's in the yard. There is running water in the ground in front of the kitchen. You can dig a well!
In this way, you don’t have to go down the mountain to carry water in the future. Not only Grandpa Su and Grandma Su, you dug the first well in Qishui Village. This will make the whole village praise you, and absolutely no one will.