Xu Shiyan listened to his mother's words and remained silent for a long time.
It's not that he is thinking about the family property, but he is thinking about how his parents will settle down in the future.
Regardless of what the eldest couple is saying now, when Xue Xiulin can return to the city, the couple will definitely find a way to abandon their parents and move out.
"Mom, don't let your second brother build a house along the Dongjiang River.
The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law will have to go back to Songjiang River sooner or later. In that poor place along the Dongjiang River, building a house is just a waste of money.
If you wait to move out, you won't get a penny back."
Who wants a house in that shabby place? Only those who have money to burn will build a house there.
"Ah? Didn't you say that married educated youths are not allowed to return to the city? Your second brother can't always live in other people's houses."
Zhou Guilan was not reborn, so he naturally did not know what would happen a year later. The words of his third son made him a little confused.
"Policies will change, won't we start to repay the previous accounts now?
With so many people going to the countryside and only unmarried people allowed to return to the city, how can others have no idea?
There are quite a few people sneaking back into the city right now, and there will be more in the future." Xu Shiyan said very firmly.
"Mom, when you go back and tell my second brother not to build a house, just say it was me who said so. You will definitely suffer a loss if you build it."
Today's Xu Shiyan is not the same as before. He has a strong say in the family. Even Xu Chenghou will listen to his third son's opinions.
Zhou Guilan nodded, "What you said makes sense.
You don’t have to wait for me to go back, just find someone to send you a message someday. I’ll have to stay here at least until your wife is one month old.”
Zhou Guilan is here to take care of her confinement and will not go back soon.
Zhou Guilan hasn't seen her son for some days, so she has to ask about her son's situation after moving here.
Zhou Guilan was also very happy when she heard that Xu Shiyan was very happy here because of his underground gun.
"Oh, I can't even remember the ground gun.
The ginseng watcher our brigade is looking for, Li Qiang, was on the mountain two days ago and his ground gun collapsed."
Zhou Guilan suddenly remembered this incident and quickly told her son.
"I heard that you didn't teach him how to use it? He went up the mountain and stabbed it himself.
As a result, one of them didn't get it right, and the gun powder hit him, and the gun powder fell out and hit him all over."
Originally, Hu Lancheng wanted to find Xu Shiyan back and ask Xu Shiyan to teach Li Qiang how to use the ground gun.
But Li Qiang looked down on Xu Shiyan and thought he could do it, so he kept thinking about the gun when he went up the mountain.
He poked himself into it to load gun powder, gun sand, and wiring, but I don’t know how he did it. The gun powder was messed up, and the gun sand sprayed out, and half of it hit Li Qiang.
Thanks to the thick clothes he was wearing at this time, and because Li Qiang didn't know how to use it, he didn't have enough gunpowder.
But even so, Li Qiang was seriously injured.
The sand from the gun hit the flesh, and all the injuries had to be removed through surgery. The injury itself was not serious, so the surgery would be painful.
"Mom, they didn't yell to come to me to compensate?"
When Xu Shiyan heard the news, he was not surprised at all. Do you really think that one person can master the underground gun?
Not to mention that Li Qiang had never done poking before, even the apprentices taught by Xu Shiyan had to spend a lot of time to learn it.
Li Qiang is asking for trouble.
"They dare? Where do they have the face?
They were all created by you to see how you could use them. They were jealous when they saw how well you were living in the mountains, and pushed you down to get angry, so that they could just pick them up.
He deserves it, and he still dares to ask you to pay for it? Your father can beat him to death." Zhou Guilan's eyes widened, looking like she was not to be trifled with.
Xu Shiyan burst out laughing, "Mom, you look just like my dad now."
Otherwise, what people say about the appearance of husband and wife is true. The arrogant look on Zhou Guilan's face just now really imitated Xu Chenghou's look by 80%.
"It's been a lifetime, can't it be different?" Zhou Guilan also laughed when she heard this.
"Mom, is the secretary of our brigade still Hu Liancheng? My uncle Zhao has not resumed his duties?"
What Xu Shiyan actually wanted to ask was how Hu Liancheng and Cao Mingchuan were doing, and whether his report letter was of any use.
But you can't ask directly about this, for fear of revealing the truth.
Zhou Guilan was frightened by her eldest son at first, but Xu Shiyan also imitated his eldest brother's tricks, which would make him angry to death.
"Still like that, Hu Liancheng is the temporary secretary, and Uncle Zhao is now a common man."
Zhou Guilan shook her head, wondering why her son mentioned this.
"Mom, go back and persuade my father to move out of the big house as soon as possible."
Since Hu Liancheng was still the acting secretary, it meant that Xu Shiyan's letter had no effect.
In this case, it is estimated that Hu Liancheng will have to wait until Cao Mingchuan falls next year to follow him.
Now that something happened to Li Qiang, the Xu family may have a very difficult time in Dongjiangyan.
Xu Shiyan meant, why not just move out? What's there to miss about that shabby place?
"Move out? Where to move? Also move to Donggang?
You said that your father and I moved here with the fifth child. Where are your eldest and second brothers? Our family has too many people and it is difficult to settle them.
No, you have just settled down in Donggang, it would not be good for us to follow you here."
Zhou Guilan actually didn't want to stay in the big house, but she felt sorry for her son even more.
How can it be so easy for such a big family to move out? Where to live? Where to settle?
Xu Shiyan had to do all this for Zhang Luo, but Xu Shiyan had just settled down in Donggang, so how could it cause him so much trouble?
When Zhou Guilan said this, Xu Shiyan didn't persuade him any more.
Anyway, he knew that the fifth child would be admitted to college this summer, and the eldest child and the second child would return to the city with his wife next year.
Forget it, just for this year, he can make do with it. After those few are settled, he can persuade his parents to move out.
The mother and son hadn't seen each other for some time, and they had forgotten the time while chatting. Zhou Guilan looked up suddenly and realized that it was getting late.
Listening carefully, there seemed to be a tinkling sound in the outer room.
"Hey, I just went to chat with you. Yingzi is busy in the kitchen."
Zhou Guilan hurriedly went to the kitchen to help Su Anying cook.
"Yingzi, why are you chopping meat? Are you getting so much meat out of season? How good will it be if you keep it for a while and give birth to your child?"
It turned out that Su Anying had taken a piece of roe deer meat and was chopping the stuffing. Zhou Guilan hurried over and took the kitchen knife.
"Mom, let's make dumplings to eat. We still have some cabbage at home. Didn't Shiyan bring some meat back just now?"
It's a rare visit for my mother-in-law. I happen to have some white flour at home and fresh roe deer meat, so I have to make dumplings.
"It will be some time before I give birth to a baby. I won't be able to keep this meat until then. You can eat it when you need it."
The meat has been chopped, so what else can you say? Just pack it.
Zhou Guilan clinked and chopped the meat, while Su Anying scooped out the noodles, added a little salt to the noodles, and mixed the noodles with cold water until they were awake.
He called Xu Shiyan again and asked him to go to the cellar behind the house and bring back two cabbages.
The Qi family's house is very well maintained, with a pressurized water well in front of the house and a cellar behind the house.
When Qi Yunsheng's family moved away, a lot of cabbage and radishes were left in the cellar, and Xu Shiyan brought some more when he moved over.
The family has a small population, so there is still a lot of cabbage left.
The temperature in the cellar is quite good, and the cabbage is well preserved. The outer skin is a little dry, so just peel it off.