Chapter 149: Sending Firewood
Shufenniang carried the bacon sent from the village, and she was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. Although the family also killed a 300-pound fat pig this year, the government's compensation is more important for her family, and it is a kind of spiritual condolence to this disabled family.
Wu's mother is busy inside and outside the house, and this is the most proud year she has felt since she was born. The "housekeeper's wife" asked Yang Hui to calculate a detailed account, the income of slaughtered pigs and sericulture was more than 800 yuan, the income of pineapple was more than 700 yuan, and the processing house was only a few months, and the income was more than 600. After digging through the family's expenses and Shufei's tuition, plus the money sent by Fushun, he now has a deposit of 2,000 yuan in the credit union.
Such a deposit, for Shufenniang before, I couldn't think of it, a dilapidated family, not even a real labor force, now can actually have surplus grain, I really don't know which life is the blessing of cultivation!
There is a rumor in the village that the old wizard showed himself a good feng shui and buried a good place, and the descendants will not only become a big official, but also make a fortune. You see that on the street that day, Yang Zejin was a county leader with his head held high! There is also Yang Zehua, who contracted the highway, and it is said that once the project is completed, it will not be just a "10,000 yuan household"! Even Yang Zegui, who was the most columsy in the past few years, is also "the machine is clattering, and the tickets are rolling"!
Of course, such a feudal theory is untenable. Look at the descendants of the same old wizard, Yang Zefu is shivering from the cold in his dilapidated house at this moment, he is too lazy to go to the mountains to pick up firewood, and all the wood of the pigsty is dismantled and burned. It's the bacon sent by the condolences, and he doesn't know what to cook it!
"Dad, the fish in the eldest sister's house is so big, many people have gone to his house to buy fish in the past few days, and they have sold four or five hundred catties!" Shufei had just returned from her brother-in-law's house with two large carps in her hands.
Yang Zegui killed chickens and ducks in the dam, and he didn't have time to answer. Shufenniang selected glutinous rice in the eaves and asked, "I called you to help there, why did you run back?" I also mentioned two fish! β
"My brother-in-law said to give it to us to eat, hehe!" Shufei put the fish in the stone jar where the red weed was washed. With a flick of his hand, the fish that had just been half dead stepped forward and frolicked in the water. Shufei continued: "People don't need me to help at all, his eldest brother and sister-in-law and Brother Guozhi are helping." My sister said that the water's edge was dangerous, and I couldn't intervene, so I came back first! β
Her mother put down what she was doing and went to the side of the tank to look at the two big carps, and smiled from ear to ear: "You said that the people who eat feed have become sperm, and they will grow so big in a few months!" β
"That's it. That's the power of technology! Shufei curled her mouth, suddenly thought of something, and said, "Dad, why don't we go and take the third uncle to our house for the New Year?" β
Her mother glared at her, "It is estimated that he will not be able to leave until fifteen years after taking it back!" β
Shufei said: "Why is he celebrating the New Year alone?" β
"Your second sister sent him firewood, and I'll talk about it when I come back! Last year, I was at my second brother's house, so I will come to ...... this year," Yang Zegui said.
"Fourth, don't you know the third brother's lazy method? If he were like you, he would have broken his feet and hands. It's almost the same as if we helped, you see him for a day, he is strong, and he doesn't do......"
"Oh, don't talk about it, go and stack the anvil (a simple tool for steaming glutinous rice) into the pot, I'll be ready here in no time...... Shufei, wash your hands and play glutinous rice cakes! Yang Zegui handed Shufei the plucked chicken and duck, and took his crutches to the back of the house to chop the green bamboo used for glutinous rice cakes.
Shufei is almost fourteen years old. The well-behaved face looks like the second sister before she was burned. However, Xiao Shufei didn't like to tie pigtails, so she casually pulled her long hair into a ponytail and hung down at the back of her head, and jumped to the kitchen.
This year, the first child in the township has been promoted to the third year of junior high school, and there are still a few months to take the college entrance examination. There is basically no problem in being admitted to the county No. 1 middle school......
Shufen carried a full load of firewood and walked into the stinking eaves. The stone cracks of the eaves are full of withered weeds, and at a glance, the agricultural tools that can be used as firewood, such as the back basket, basket, dustpan, and flat shoulder, have all been burned by this lazy man. Yang Zefu sat on the stone pier and howled with hunger, and the big yellow dog on the side held a piece of bacon in his mouth. He looked at his master.
"Third Uncle ......" Shufen greeted him while sending Chai He to the kitchen.
"You're here, my mother, you're starving! Yang Zehua has no conscience, put down these pieces of bacon and ran away, what is the difference between him and feeding the dog, ouch......" Yang Zefu screamed while finding a lighter, pulled a handful of hay casually, and snatched his bacon from the yellow dog's mouth, and went to the stove to start the fire.
Shufen brought a bucket of water from the well outside the dam, washed the rusty iron pot several times, and put some rice in the bag she had just brought.
"Or my niece and nephew are good to me!" Yang Zefu smiled, completely ignoring Shufen's angry gaze.
"Third uncle, if you continue like this, no one really cares about you, you said that you want fields and fields, mountains and forests, you have good arms and legs, you can't do a living?"
Yang Zefu didn't answer, he screamed while handing firewood to the stove hole, Shufen settled YiqiΔ and looked aroundβeven the wooden stool in his house was chopped and burned by him.
Shufen, who was angry, swallowed all the words into her stomach and left with the back in front of the stove. "Shufen, let's go after eating," ...... voice came from behind him.
Shufen was so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry. There are seven brothers in my father, all of whom are hardworking, intelligent and capable people, why did the third uncle become like this? When she was young, the third uncle was not so virtuous, and he was even the most powerful one in the uncle.
At that time he was the captain of the militia and took several people to patrol the production team every day. Earning work and eating a big pot of rice, maybe that's the life he wants! Later, he contracted to households, he didn't want to work in the fields, the collective that once relied on his survival was dissolved, and the rights in his hands were reclaimed, if he pointed fingers at others again, it would be nosy!
If you don't adapt to it, it will definitely abandon you! In fact, it was not only the times that abandoned him, but also his wife and daughter, and the departure of Sanniang and his cousin was a heavy blow to him.
So, will there be a way for him to regain his confidence? Shufen has thought about this question many times, there must be! Father can come over strongly, let alone the third uncle? She also thought of many ways, and even discussed with the second uncle a few times, but the second uncle's answer was often "the mud can't support the wall"!
It's really annoying to see that rotten bag! Shufen, who was going to go home, walked outside the bamboo forest, picked up a basket of dried bamboo in the forest, and turned back.
Yang Zefu was leisurely, cut two pieces of bacon with a knife, and roasted them on the fire in the stove hole, regardless of what the rice in the pot looked like.
Shufen searched for a long time to find a spoon, stirred it twice in the pot, then poured the back basket down and sat on it, and said, "Third uncle, tomorrow is the New Year, do you know?" β
"I know," Yang Zefu pinched a piece of meat with a tongs and burned it on the fire, "I went to the street to drink in the afternoon, didn't your second uncle send a hundred yuan?" β
"You're too lazy to go, I'll call you!" Shufen smiled, "Second uncle, you said that you drink every day, do you know where that wine came from?" β
"The winery brews, how else can it come, it doesn't make wine when it rains!" He ate a mouthful of meat, and his mouth was full of oil.
"That's it, if you don't drink in the sky, you can't pay for it! The wine is also made of grain, and the grain is grown by us, you see my father, he can grow grain with one foot, why don't you go to farm? β
"Your father feeds the family, and I feed the whole family without hunger, what are you doing when you grow food?"
"Then when did my second mother and Sister Shulan come back, they couldn't even open the pot, didn't they scare away again?"
Yang Zefu suddenly froze there, looking at the bamboo forest outside the door, his daughter's lively appearance appeared in his mind again, and he repeated softly in his mouth: "I won't come back, I won't come back......"
"Second uncle, you believe me, my sister Shulan will definitely come back, look at that Yang Guiying, who has been outside for so many years, suddenly came back with a doll. You said my sister will come back with my brother-in-law one day......"
"Brother-in-law? She's married? β
"Look at your family like this, she can't even afford a dowry, and she can't rely on you to get married, if he really likes it, it's normal for him to start a family!"
"You can't be like Yang Guiying's old man! No matter how rich you are, what can you do? Can you live for a lifetime? β
"I'll just say that my second uncle is an understanding person," Shufen stood up and strained the rice in the pot, "If you want me to say that Yang Guiying can't find that, my sister Shulan will definitely not look for that, I heard that she is in Jiangyun, she said that as long as you make your home look good, she will come back to support you for the elderly!" β
"Jiang Yun? I'm going to get her back! Yang Zefu stood up suddenly and was pulled by Shufen.
"Second uncle, where are you looking for such a big Jiang Yun? I've asked someone to go and talk to her, and I said that you're not as lazy as you used to be, and your home has a home! β
Yang Zefu raised his head, looked at the roof full of loopholes and the house with four walls, and tears flowed uncontrollably, "Shufen, your second uncle has no rest...... It's not that I don't want to do a living road, I don't know how to do a living road at all, and I don't know how to ...... farming."
Shufen also burst into tears, although he really hadn't seen the man in his fifties in front of him go to the ground, she couldn't believe that he couldn't farm. "I won't be afraid, now I don't have to farm to live, you see my father, you can still make money by fiddling with those big iron bumps at home!"
"Your dad's brain is so good, I'm stupid!"
"In this way, second uncle, I heard that the forest farm on Yantai Mountain is going to be contracted, I will contract to plant orange trees, you take 'rhubarb' to help me look at the forest farm, and I will pay you a salary......"
"Really wow? I...... I...... Shufen, then you sue Shulan, just say that I earned money to make a dowry for him, and tell her to come back quickly......" Yang Zefu cried so hard that he almost knelt down for Shufen...... (To be continued.) )