Xu Shiqin will not take a day off on Thursday, August 17th, but there are not many people making clothes in summer, so it doesn’t matter if he takes a day off.
So after dinner in the morning, the three of them pushed Xu Haiyuan to the Songjianghe Store to buy some things as they did last time, and then returned to the big house.
Xu Shide was originally teaching in Qingling Brigade. Before the summer vacation, Daying Commune notified him that he would be transferred to Daying Central Primary School.
So taking advantage of the summer vacation and Wu Qiuyan's confinement, Xu Shide vacated the house in Qingling and temporarily moved back to the big house.
Waiting for the start of school, he first went to Daying Commune to settle down, and Wu Qiuyan also moved there after her confinement.
Wu Qiuyan was in confinement on the north kang in the east room, and Zhou Guilan took care of her attentively. Both mother and son were well raised.
Xu Shiyan and the others went back and brought thirty eggs, one pound of brown sugar, two pounds of dried noodles, and two pieces of cloth to Wu Qiuyan and Xiaowa.
It's a little more than what the fourth couple gave me back then, but it's not too much.
"Lao Wu, this is a watch ticket, this is twenty yuan.
If you go out to study, I won’t buy you anything. When you go to school and see what’s missing, go buy it yourself.”
Xu Shiyan took out the money and tickets and handed them to Lao Wu.
The money given to the fifth child this time is different from the money Xu Shiyan gave to the family last time when the fourth child married a wife.
Last time it was for my family, mainly to help my parents.
And at that time, he was the only one who had passed the divorce, so he gave more and less, and Xu Shixian and others did not compare with him.
After all, the money earned by the Xu Shixian brothers also belongs to their parents and is not under their control.
Things are different now, the brothers have all separated.
If the fifth brother goes to college, if Xu Shiyan is given too much, will the other brothers give it or not? How much should they give?
Others are not as strong as Xu Shiyan, and they will feel unhappy by then.
Twenty yuan, no more, no less, those brothers can all afford it, and no one will worry too much.
"Oh, Third Brother, where did you get the watch ticket? I've been looking for it everywhere for a while, but I haven't gotten it yet."
Watches are considered big items these days and are not easy to find.
In the past, when Xu Chenghou was engaged and married for his sons, he would start asking people to find connections several years in advance, and it took a lot of effort to get them.
"The county rewarded me a while ago. I have a watch. This ticket is just right for you."
When Xu Shiyan got married, the Xu family also gave Su Anying a watch.
Most of the watches at this time were of similar models, and there were very few pure women’s watches, and even if there were, ordinary people wouldn’t buy them.
After getting married, Su Anying didn't wear it much, so she gave it to Xu Shiyan.
"Lao San, what have you done again? Will the county give you a reward?"
When Xu Shiyan said this, the brothers became curious and came over to ask.
Xu Shiyan told his family about the earth-moving pickaxe.
It suddenly dawned on everyone that the twenty large pickaxes the team had brought back a while ago were actually made by Xu Shiyan.
"We've all heard about this. It seems that Donggang Commune has made a fortune this time. It's been a long time, and it's my third brother's credit again."
Xu Shian patted Xu Shiyan on the shoulder and laughed.
"If Hu Liancheng found out about this, his nose would be so angry that he would drive the third brother away. As a result, he didn't get any advantage, but lost a lot of money."
Xu Shixiang suddenly thought of this and thought it was quite funny, so he also started laughing.
After being reminded by Xu Shixiang, everyone thought about it and started laughing.
"He deserves it, who told him not to have a good heart?
I squeezed the third child and pushed him away, thinking that his relatives could take advantage by going to see the ginseng. What was the result?
A few days after Li Qiang went up the mountain, his ground gun collapsed. Li Ming and Li Gang went up again to see ginseng and went hunting in the mountain.
I went into the mountains with some dogs and met a black blind man. The black blind man scratched me and three dogs died."
On the other end, Xu Chenghou snorted with a look of disdain. "Do you really think it's that easy to hunt with ginseng? Come on, have sweet dreams."
"Dad, when did you say that Li Ming was scratched by a blind man when he first entered the mountain? Why didn't I hear about it?" Xu Shiyan was stunned when he heard this.
Brother Li Ming had nothing to do with him whether he was alive or dead, but those dogs were all good, so it would be a pity to die.
"It was just two days ago. Isn't this the Honglangtou Market? A group of ne'er-do-wells in the village remembered that you released the mountain last year.
I just thought about going into the mountains and wandering around. If I'm lucky, I might encounter a stick stick.
As a result, I didn't meet Bang Chui when I entered the mountain, but I met Heixiazi.
Then Li Ming went into the mountains with a dog and a gun, saying he was going to fight the black blind man."
Xu Chenghou sighed and told his son what happened recently.
"Li Ming and Li Gang took the five dogs and two guns into the mountain.
I don’t know how they managed it. The black blind man scratched it and almost died. Of the five dogs, only two spotted dogs came back.
The head dog Dahuang, the female dog Dahei, and the green dog are all gone.
Alas, these bastards are really capable of causing harm. Three good dogs were lost in vain."
At the end of Xu Chenghou's words, he couldn't help but start cursing.
"You haven't seen Uncle Li and Aunt Li. They knew the dog was dead and Uncle Li burst into tears." On the other end, Xu Shi'an continued.
Those five dogs were all raised by Old Li Tou, and Mrs. Li also helped to feed them every winter, and they had a deep affection for them.
When they learned that the dog had died, the couple was so heartbroken that they couldn't eat for two days.
When Xu Shiyan heard this, he felt a pang in his heart. It was a pity that those good dogs were blinded in vain.
"Dad, I remember you told me last time that it seemed that the black dog had a baby? Did he give birth to a baby?"
When Xu Haiyuan was a hundred days old, Xu Chenghou mentioned that the black dog on the mountain had a puppy, and Xu Shiyan was still thinking about asking his father to help him get a puppy.
"It's down. Less than twenty days after Dahei gave birth to her cub, she asked Li Ming to take her into the mountains.
Alas, what a pity those puppies are. Their mother is gone and they don’t have milk to feed them. I don’t know if they can feed them.”
Xu Shian knows this best.
"The Li brothers are injured and are still hospitalized in the commune hospital.
There is no one to take care of those brats. Uncle Li asked us to bring them back, and they are now being raised by Uncle Li."
In this day and age, most people don’t have enough food to keep a dog.
Furthermore, the puppy was not yet a month old and was too young to take care of. He would have died if he was not taken care of, so no one in the village took care of him.
Old Li Tou couldn't bear it, so he had to ask someone to help him bring the puppy back to him, and he would keep it.
Old Li Tou has been watching ginseng in the mountains for many years. The first few dogs he brought up were his own hunting dogs.
Over the years, dogs gave birth to dogs, and with the addition of dogs from other places, the dog gang came into being.
It's a pity that two of them were killed by Lao Hutou last year, and three more were destroyed at the hands of Brother Li Ming.
Lao Li Tou asked for the remaining two big dogs, but the team refused to give them to him. They only gave them to Lao Li Tou a few unsupervised puppies.
"Hey, Lao Litou is also a stubborn person. You think he has no virtue now, so why does he keep a dog? Can he afford it?" Xu Chenghou sighed.
"Father, Mom, you guys chat first, I'm going to see Uncle Li." Xu Shiyan's heart moved and he immediately got up and went out.