Zhang Guilan ran back home and sat in the dark room wiping her tears.
"What's wrong with you?" Su Daqiang opened the door, "Why are you crying? Did I make you feel uncomfortable?"
"No..." The woman's voice was filled with sobs, "It's not uncomfortable..."
"Why are you hiding here alone and crying if you don't feel uncomfortable?"
Under the moonlight, Su Daqiang sat next to his wife, holding one of her hands with both hands, "I have made you suffer these years. If I don't work, the people in the village will laugh at me behind my back, and you will be laughed at too."
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"I don't care about the gossip others say. I'm just worried that our family will have no source of income in the future, and the dogs will have no food to eat in the future."
Zhang Guilan wiped away her tears and looked at her husband, "You are afraid of doing those repetitive manual jobs. In fact, I understand you. You have to suffer such hard work and earn a few cents a day. You simply don't treat people as human beings.
Why can city people choose different jobs, but we rural people can only work in production teams?"
"Don't say this nonsense!" Su Daqiang frowned, "We are uneducated and can only do hard labor. It will be the same in the city."
"Okay, then I won't talk about this..."
Zhang Guilan leaned her head on her husband's shoulder, "I know how reluctant you are to go to the production team, but since you said you want to go, don't stop going when the time comes."
"Don't worry, I won't tell you otherwise. I will definitely go if I tell you. Now that Xiaomeng is the captain, the production team will definitely get better and better. I don't want to see the other brothers sharing money and food at the end of the year.
If you share the pork, our family doesn’t get any points.”
Su Daqiang thought of his sons, "When I save money, if I can find a way, at least let Gouzi and the others finish elementary school and not become illiterate."
"Yeah." Zhang Guilan nodded.
Although life is still very hard now, thinking that Gouzi's father has taken a difficult step in his life, she feels that life is slowly developing in a good direction.
Is it because of Jinbao?
Since she came, everyone's relationship seems to be slowly repairing, and the family has become more and more like a family.
Thinking of this, Zhang Guilan felt not only fond of Jin Bao, but also grateful.
Early the next morning, Su Daqiang took out the bullock cart and prepared to go to the health center to take Lao Wu home, and then started digging a well.
"Mom, where is Jinbao?"
"I'm still drinking porridge, don't rush me!"
After listening to his mother's words, Su Daqiang hurriedly said: "I'm not urging you, I'm just asking casually. Jinbao eats slowly and be careful not to choke."
After waiting for a while, his mother walked out of the house with little Jinbao in her arms, "I'm going too today."
"Ah? Mom, what are you going to do? I'm going to pick up Lao Wu from the hospital. When he comes back, you can take a good look at whether he has gained weight or lost weight. There is no need to see him now."
Li Xiu'e shook her head and said, "Who is looking at him? I went to see the nurse."
"Nurse? What nurse?"
"That's the nurse who lent him the novel! She might be a good girl. I have to go take a closer look and ask her if she has anyone to marry. If not, let her consider our little Meng."
After she finished speaking, her eldest son looked embarrassed and said anxiously to dissuade her: "Don't, mother, this is too embarrassing."
"What's so shameful about this? Don't you, my fifth brother, hate blind dates? If you don't want to go on a blind date, you have to do this. I'm helping him solve a life-long matter."
"How embarrassed you will make the nurse then..."
Su Daqiang wanted to say more, but his daughter-in-law interrupted: "I think this is a good idea. It doesn't matter if you ask. If you have a partner, forget it."
"Yes, yes, it doesn't matter." After Li Xiu'e finished speaking, she hugged Jinbao and got on the bullock cart.
Su Daqiang had no choice but to say, "Okay, but you'd better ask Lao Wu what he means first. If he doesn't like it, go and ask the nurse. It will be in vain."
"I'm just afraid that the fifth child will be ashamed..."
"He is already a young man in his mid-twenties, and he is not only fifteen years old. What is there to be ashamed of?"
Su Xiaowu put his hands on the armrests of the bullock cart, "Uncle, my little uncle is thin-skinned. Based on my understanding of him, if I ask him directly, he will definitely not tell."
"You little clever guy..."
Su Daqiang patted Xiao Wu's head, "Tell me, did you come up with some weird idea?"
Su Xiaowu shook his head, "I can't think of it. I can't ask directly anyway."
After saying that, he called Su Jungen over and said, "I'm not as good as him when it comes to great ideas."
Seeing that the two children seemed to have a good relationship, Su Daqiang's eyes flashed with surprise.
Aren't Xiaowu and Jungen never getting along with each other? Why are they getting along like two brothers now?
Although they are indeed cousins...
Jinbao also discovered that the fifth brother and Su Jungen often played together recently, and they were not as incompatible as before.
She was a little worried at first, but seeing that Su Jungen had been quite calm during this period and didn't complain to her grandfather about speaking ill of her fifth brother, she didn't think much about it.
"Isn't it easy to know what little uncle is thinking?" Su Jungen rolled his eyes slyly, "Just don't ask anything."
"What do you mean by that?" No one understood. "How can you know without asking anything?"
Yao Hua was the only one present who understood. The corners of his lips curved slightly and he said nothing.
Just listen to Su Jungen's explanation, "Don't ask anything, just urge the uncle to leave quickly. If he is also anxious to leave the health center, it means he doesn't like anyone. If he is procrastinating and reluctant to leave..."
Zhang Guilan couldn't help but clapped her hands, "If Lao Wu is reluctant to leave, it means he must be interested in the nurse who lent him the book."
"That makes sense!" Su Daqiang rubbed Su Jungen's head, "You're a good boy, and you know so many twists and turns."
Li Xiu'e said with a smile: "This kid Jungen has been clever since he was a child. As long as he uses it on the right path, he will definitely be successful in the future. He is afraid of using it on crooked ways."
"Grandma, I want to be a soldier in the future, so I must follow the right path."
"Okay, okay, take the right path."
The whole family laughed for a while, and Li Xiu'e patted her eldest son on the back, "Don't delay, let's go quickly."
"Okay, mother, please sit still! Wife, please support me a little and don't let her bump into you."
Just as Zhang Guilan was about to respond, Li Xiu'e said, "Your mother, I'm not that old yet."
After saying that, she was a little worried that she wouldn't be able to hold Jinbao firmly, so she handed the little baby to her eldest daughter-in-law, "Hold Jinbao well, you don't need to help me."
At the bottom of the mountain, Jinbao reminded: "Grandma, the car is going fast, hold on to the handrails, hold on tight..."
"Okay." Li Xiu'e smiled in her eyes, thinking that her little granddaughter was really sensible. She was obviously at an age where she needed others to take care of her, but she knew how to care about herself.
After a while, the speed of the car accelerated rapidly, and it felt like riding in a car.
Jinbao saw that his grandma was feeling uncomfortable, so he said to the bison: "Xiao Hei, slow down."
The cow made a "moo" sound and its speed dropped by half. Li Xiu'e breathed a sigh of relief. Even if she didn't hold on to the handrail tightly, she was not afraid of being thrown out.
About halfway through the journey, Su Daqiang saw a slow donkey cart blocking the road not far away, and hurriedly called Jin Bao to ask Xiao Hei to slow down.
When Jin Bao asked Xiao Hei to slow down, Li Xiu'e frowned and asked the eldest daughter-in-law: "Guilan, look at the person behind the donkey cart. Could it be Xu Chuntao?"