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Chapter 2 Annoying Dad

The daily salary for surface workers in coal mines is two yuan and eighteen cents, while the daily salary for underground workers is three yuan and twenty-four cents.

After working twenty-six days a month, after deducting the public welfare funds from the commune and the brigade, the collective funds were 5 yuan and 40 cents, and the remaining amount was 52 cents for open-air work and 78 cents for underground work.

The work points of the Dongjiangyan Brigade are not low. Those with full work points can earn one yuan, fifty-six cents per day, but compared with the wages of coal miners, the difference is still very big.

Just like what Zhao Dahai said to Xu Chenghou just now, there are countless people trying to grab this quota for both workers and farmers.

It's just work, who doesn't want to make more money?

So Zhao Dahai was quite puzzled, why didn't Xu Shiyan want to go to work in Da'an Coal Mine?

"Uncle Zhao, I asked you to take your time to think about me, and I will accept your thoughts."

Xu Shiyan nodded slightly towards Zhao Dahai, thanking him.

"Now that I have a wife, even if I don't have a job in the coal mine and don't have to rely on my parents, I can still afford to support my wife and children.

I really can't do that job in the coal mine." No matter how high the salary in the coal mine is, you still have to live to earn it.

On July 26, 1979, a gas explosion occurred in Da'an Coal Mine, killing seven and seriously injuring two.

Xu Shiyan was one of the two people who was seriously injured. He was lucky enough to survive, and it took him half a year to recover.

After resurrecting his life, Xu Shiyan did not want to follow the same path of his life. He would never go to the coal mine again.

"Can you support your wife and children? What are you pointing to? Do you expect you to fish and fish all day long to support your family?"

When Xu Chenghou heard his son's words, he became angry again, pointed at the two fish in Xu Shiyan's hand and cursed.

"You bastard, you are a worthless thing. You only catch fish and shrimps every day, but you can't play with anything serious.

Can you support your family? With the few work points you earn, can you support yourself?"

Xu Chenghou has always looked down upon Xu Shiyan, and the third among his five sons is the worst.

He is not as literate as the eldest brother who can write, he is not as quick and quick as the second eldest brother at work, he is not as shrewd, capable and thoughtful as the fourth eldest brother, and he is not as smart, lively and energetic as the fifth eldest brother.

The third son was calm and serious no matter what he did. Xu Chenghou had a short temper. When he saw the third son acting like this, he got angry and wanted to kick him.

"I'm not a useful person? Why don't I be a useful person because of your gift?

I was in junior high school, and you said it was useless to study so many books, why not just come down and work.

I am studying medicine with Mr. Chu, but you are afraid of being implicated, so you go to the commune to cause trouble.

The year before last, Barefoot Doctor selected candidates and went to the county health school for half-year training. You thought it was a delay in earning work points, so you refused to let them go."

Xu Shiyan looked at his father with an angry face in front of him. The excitement and emotion he felt after being reborn had long since disappeared.

If we really talk about it, Xu Shiyan accomplished nothing in his previous life, and his father Xu Chenghou's contribution was also indispensable.

Xu Shiyan was in poor health when he was a child, so he went to school late. He didn't go to elementary school until he was ten years old. When he was in junior high school, he happened to be at his most noisy.

Xu Chenghou said that there was no use studying, so he might as well work as a farmer and earn some work points.

Xu Shiyan was obedient and obediently quit school and went home to work.

He was young and helped feed the animals at the cowshed.

Just in time, the province sent a group of people to Daying Commune. Among them was a man named Chu who was quite old and was tortured a lot.

Xu Shiyan was kind-hearted and took special care of others. Mr. Chu saw that Xu Shiyan was kind-hearted, smart and calm-tempered, so he wanted to accept him as his apprentice and teach him some medical skills.

As a result, Xu Chenghou found out, and for fear of being implicated, he almost harmed Mr. Chu by making a fuss. There was no choice but to find Xu Shiyan to work elsewhere.

Xu Shiyan was very interested in studying medicine, and later he found a way to buy books and study on his own.

It happened that the barefoot doctors were selected the year before last. They went to the county for training for half a year and passed the exam before they could practice medicine.

Xu Shiyan excitedly wanted to sign up, but was stopped by Xu Chenghou, who felt that half a year of off-the-job study would be a waste of time and make less money.

"What's the result? All my classmates who graduated from junior high school are now employed and have jobs.

I was the only one who didn't finish junior high school, so I could only work at home and farm.

Mr. Chu, he was the president of the provincial medical university. He was taken over last year and resumed his duties.

Just wait and see, in a few years the barefoot doctor might be able to become a regular doctor and be assigned to a commune hospital, where he would have a serious job.

Do you regret it at that time?" Xu Shiyan said through gritted teeth as he thought of the opportunities he missed in his previous life.

Is this not the only thing that was delayed by my father in my previous life?

In 1979, Xu Shixian and Xu Shi'an followed their wives back to the city and moved away. Xu Shiyan also had his mind set on leaving this poor and remote place along the Dongjiang River.

Maybe Chenghou disagrees life and death, so he just won't let it go.

It wasn't until 1987, when Xu Chenghou passed away and Xu Shiyan took charge of the family, that he moved from Dongjiangyan Village to Donggang Town.

It's a pity that it's too late. The land in Donggang has long been divided, and there is no farmland. We can only start from scratch with nothing.

From the beginning, I was far behind others, and I couldn't catch up no matter what.

Not only that, Mr. Xu disliked Xu Shiyan's daughter-in-law for giving birth to two daughters, and he kept pouting and scolding her all day long.

However, Xu Shiyan and his wife finally gave birth to a son despite the pressure, and were fined a lot of money.

Life was not going well in the first place, but now it was even worse.

What's even more irritating is that the son Baal took so much trouble to raise is a prodigal son.

I can't do anything well, I can't eat anything, I can only play Xuanxuan in one day, I have to use a dustpan to say the words three times, and there are few words that are sincere.

Xu Shiyan has been caring about his son all his life, and sometimes he thinks, if he had known that he would raise such a thing, it would be better not to have one.

Well, if he had to start over in this life, he would definitely not let that little bastard have a chance to be born.

Xu Shiyan's words really poked Xu Chenghou's lungs.

That's all. Let's just talk about Mr. Chu's incident. Xu Chenghou didn't regret it when he learned the news.

The president of the Medical University, if he had known about it at the beginning, he would have asked the third child to learn from him.

In the past seven or eight years, even if the third child has learned half of his skills from others, that would be a big deal.

When the time comes, I will go to the provincial capital with Mr. Chu, and maybe I can even get along with a worker, peasant, and soldier college student.

That would mean changing the courtyard and no longer being a mud-legged person digging in the dirt.

When Xu Chenghou thought of the regretful words from his relatives and friends when he visited Daying last year, he felt his blood welling up.

Why didn't he think of it at the beginning? He missed a good opportunity.

But regrets are regrets, letting his son choke in front of outsiders, how can Xu Chenghou's old face hold up?

I was annoyed at that time and picked up the hoe in my hand again.

"How worthy are you? Why don't you show off your own virtue by peeing in the urine?

You were born poor, even if you are given a golden palace, you still have to have the life to sit in it.

Let me ask you, are you going to the Da'an Coal Mine? If you don't go to work, I will beat you to death today." Xu Chenghou asked fiercely, his eyes turning red.

"If you don't go, you won't go. You can do whatever you want, even if you kill me, you will have to pay with your life." Xu Shiyan's temper also increased.

He is over sixty years old, and he has lived again. How can he still be as afraid of his father as he was in his last life? Today he has a confrontation with this old man.


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