Chapter 2 Where is your Jinshan? Let him come out!
Just eating pickles and porridge, Xu Tongdao didn't even frown, even though before his rebirth, his food was much better than this.
Because of this kind of hard life, he had lived too much before, and life forced him to adapt.
In the original time and space, after his father disappeared, he worked in many jobs.
Construction site workers, restaurant handymen, security guards, cutters, waiters, bricklayers, plumbers, packers, housing agencies, food delivery...etc.
Almost no job is easy, and the easiest one was probably the half year I spent working as a security guard.
He had eaten big fish and meat, and it was just light food for him.
"Brother, where did dad go? Will he come back?"
Ge Yuzhu, who sat down on the bench on the other side of the Eight Immortals table, asked Comrade Xu softly.
When Tongdao Xu heard this, he didn't even raise his head. He just replied casually: "Just treat him as dead and don't ask again in the future! Do you remember?"
Ge Yuzhu looked at him and whispered "Oh".
Comrade Xu drank the porridge very quickly, downing half a bowl in just a few mouthfuls. When he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up pickles again, he glanced at Ge Yuzhu, who was silent next to him, and asked: "Do you remember coming to our house two days ago to ask for something?"
Debt, who are those people moving things?"
Ge Yuzhu frowned and blinked, looking a little confused, "Brother, why are you asking this? Mom said those things were moved and they were moved away. Our family will never come back."
Tongdao Xu did not argue with her, but frowned and asked: "You don't have to worry so much, just tell me how many people you remember who came to move things that day? Tell me all!"
"Brother..."
Ge Yuzhu called him weakly, obviously wanting to persuade him.
But under Xu Tongdao's gaze, she finally did not dare to persuade him any more. She lowered her head slightly and whispered the names of several people.
For Comrade Xu, this incident was too long ago. It happened more than 20 years ago. He only remembers a few memorable ones, but he can't remember the others clearly.
And his sister Ge Yuzhu couldn't remember all the people who came to their house to collect debts and move things a few days ago. Maybe she didn't know them among them.
Comrade Xu listened silently to the few names she said, his expression remained calm, he only nodded slightly, and then he drank the remaining half of the bowl of porridge.
After finishing the drink, I put down my chopsticks, got up and went to change my rubber boots by the wall at the gate. It was still raining outside, and the roads in the village were all very muddy.
Seeing that he was about to go out and seemed to be going to settle accounts with those people, Ge Yuzhu turned pale and hurriedly followed him, hurriedly persuading: "Brother, big brother! Where are you going? You'd better not go, mom said.
Already..."
never mind?
Xu Tongdao remained unmoved.
In the original time and space, he and his brother listened to their mother's words, forget it, and didn't go to trouble those people, but what was the result?
The "creditors" who emptied his house came to move them again when the grain was received. That time, if he and his brother Xu Tonglu hadn't fought those people with a kitchen knife and an ax, their family would still have had to move.
Evacuated once.
It was simply driving their whole family to death.
Therefore, Comrade Xu just made up his mind. Since this matter is not over yet, he should finish it as soon as possible. Whether it is literary or military, he will accompany him.
Fearlessness is a character he developed long before his rebirth.
In the original time and space, after his father disappeared, life at home was so difficult, and he and his younger brother often had fights with others.
But if you fight too much, there will be nothing to be afraid of.
Everyone has one shoulder to carry and one head to carry, so who do we need to be afraid of?
"You wash the pots and dishes at home and prepare lunch. You don't have to worry about anything else! Be obedient!"
After putting on his rubber boots, Comrade Xu took off an old umbrella hanging on the wall, told his sister, and went out.
Behind me came the worried call of my younger sister: "Brother! Brother, don't go! Brother, please come back..."
Tongdao Xu heard a cry in his sister's voice.
But he didn't look back, holding an umbrella and walking towards the village with a cold face.
His father left and disappeared in a disgraceful manner. There were rumors in several nearby villages that his father had eloped with his aunt and left a pile of gambling debts to their orphaned and widowed mother.
If he doesn't make changes in this life, he knows better than anyone how sad the next life will be.
In his memory, in the original time and space, not only did the creditors come to his house to rob him once when the food was received this year, but for many years to come, his family could not hold their head high in the village.
The people in the village not only laughed at their family behind their backs, but even in front of their faces. Several old bachelors and second-rate men in the village also wanted to take advantage of his mother and his sister.
They didn't even take him and his brother seriously.
They all thought that there were no men left in their family, and they only had two and a half-year-old children left, and no one dared to bully them.
He and his brother had fought countless times over these things.
Fighting is not good, he knows that.
But it turns out that every time he and his brother fought over these bad things, their family's life in the village became slightly easier.
At least, there were fewer and fewer people who dared to bully his family, his mother and his sister, and they gradually disappeared.
As for calling the police?
It's not like they haven't tried it.
But the police cannot protect their family 24 hours a day. After all, their Xujia Village is just a small mountain village below a small county. There are some things that they must face on their own.
A good man will be bullied by others, and a good horse will be ridden by others.
Tongdao Xu has long understood this truth.
It may be better in the city, but in the countryside, especially in this day and age, if a family wants to avoid being bullied by others, it must have a man in the family who can be feared.
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Xujiacun is located between two mountains, one large and one small.
A long ditch flows through the middle of the village. On a rainy day like today, the rainwater flowing down from the mountains will cause the water in the ditch to surge and rush toward the head of the village.
It will eventually flow into the West River about a mile away.
As for Xihe?
That flows into the Yangtze River.
Comrade Xu held an umbrella and walked on the dirt road beside the ditch. Listening to the sound of running water in the ditch, his face was cold but his expression was very calm. He walked unhurriedly to the entrance of the canteen at the head of the village.
At this time, a group of women, children, and a few old men and women were sitting in front of the canteen, chatting. The hostess of the canteen, Wang Cuihua, was sitting behind the counter, cracking melon seeds with a smile.
When these people saw Tongdao Xu walking towards him with a cold expression and holding an umbrella, they all looked at Tongdao Xu with different expressions, and the chatter gradually stopped.
An old lady asked out of curiosity: "Xiaodao, are you here to buy something? Does your family still have money to buy something?"
Tongdao Xu ignored her, looked straight at her, walked to the counter with a cold face, and said to Wang Cuihua inside the counter: "Where is your Jinshan? Let him come out!"