Following behind a donkey, looking at the two large baskets of grain, Dazhu's mouth never closed.

Since the cold father fell and was injured, his mother has been detaining him for fear of another accident, and the family has been without food for several months, relying on borrowing a little from the villagers, borrowing a little, and digging some wild vegetables and adding some sweet potatoes has been boiling, as the eldest son, Dazhu's heart is really not tasteful, now it's okay, there is food, and the family finally doesn't have to starve anymore.

Just thinking about borrowing food, he was a little entangled again.

"Little sister, in the past few months, my family has borrowed about eight buckets of grain from the villagers, should we return this batch of grain to others first?"

Han Chuxue's brows sank, she really didn't think of this problem just now, I remember that when I came back yesterday, the third brother also mentioned that someone came to collect debts or something.

"Big brother, is the family borrowing brown rice or white rice?"

"Of course, it's brown rice, except for the village chief and grandma, who eat white rice from time to time, everyone else only eats brown rice."

The village chief is also an official, and it is not strange that he can eat white rice, but Han Xiucai's family can eat like this, which shows that their food is definitely very surplus, but as their son, Han's father and his family have faced the threat of food shortages several times, although they don't want to gnaw on the old, but with such a big gap, Han Chuxue is still a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Big brother, after my father fell and was injured, didn't my grandmother give us any food?"

Dazhu sank his face, "No." The grandmother said that the food was sent to the uncle's house in the town, and they didn't keep much, so they couldn't give it to us anymore. ”

Xiuniang also knew that she was in charge of the house and did not please the second elder, and she didn't want to take it but wanted to borrow some first, and it was the two brothers who went to borrow food at that time, remembering that the milk not only did not borrow food at that time, but also scolded her mother for being a broom star, and the simple young man couldn't help but clench his fists.

"Little sister, we have separated from grandma, and our family doesn't touch their things."

This is the second time that Dazhu has mentioned the light of the Han Xiucai family, which shows that some things have left scars in the heart of the simple young man.

Han Chuxue nodded and said, "I know, it's just the eldest brother, hasn't the uncle been separated from his grandmother?" ”

According to the household registration system of the Dachang Dynasty, this kind of thing is unlikely to happen.

Sure enough, Dazhu shook his head and said, "It's divided, but he is the eldest son, and the grandmother said that in the future, she and her grandfather will be given a pension and inherit the ancestral hall." ”

This concept is not strange, not to mention that in ancient times, even in modern times, some old people hold this concept, no matter how unpromising the eldest son is, no matter how he is not angry, they will protect it, but like Xiucai's grandmother, the second son has been injured at home, and the family can't open the pot, and they can still ignore the eldest son, it's a bit too much.

"What does Uncle do in town? Why did his grandmother still send him food, didn't he get the field himself? ”

Dazhu said in a sullen voice, "Yes, but it's not much, and it's nothing to pay taxes, the uncle originally studied in the town, but he never got into Xiucai, and then he found a job in Luo's house, I heard that it was Mr. Bookkeeper, and I didn't say which shop my father was, anyway, we haven't seen it so many times in town." ”

It sounds like this uncle is okay, "Since the uncle has a job, why does the milk send him so much food?" ”

"Grandma said that his family is in the town, and Brother Yuqi still has to study, so he will send him new food every year, so that his family will not have food or clothing."

"Since you can't afford to spend so much, why does the uncle's family have to be in the town? Anyway, the town is not far from the village, even if the uncle stays in the town to work, the uncle and the aunt will not be unable to see each other for a long time when they return to the village, why do they have to work hard in the town, and drag the grandmother to send them food every year instead of coming back to help do some farm work and serve the grandmother? ”

Xiucai's grandmother's words, Han Daddy, they may believe it, but Han Chuxue doesn't believe it at all, the uncle named Han Yongsong made it clear that he didn't want to go back to the village to be a farmer, and even his family didn't want to come back to do farm work, so he died in the town.

But since he guessed it, it is impossible to let his family be fools again, otherwise when he takes his family to a well-off life in the future, maybe he will come up, so he should be reminded, Han Chuxue still has to say it, of course, based on Dazhu's deep-rooted filial piety thoughts, her words still have to be skilled.

Sure enough, hearing her question, Dazhu pondered, yes, the uncle has to work, Yuqi has to study, the eldest uncle and Sister Yuqin have nothing to do, why don't they go back to the village to live, even if they can't do farm work, at least they can take care of grandma.

Although Dazhu is honest, it doesn't mean that he is stupid, he didn't think of this aspect before, but now that he thinks about it, the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that something is wrong.

No matter how you say it, it should be the uncle who raises the grandmother, but now he wants the grandmother to support his family, and he has not taken care of the land allocated to the village, and the grandmother has always let her family help take care of it, but the food is not at all, and the uncle's family who does not work has even taken away most of the grandmother's share, which should not be.

Since then, a seed of doubt has been left in the heart of the simple boy, and it can take root and sprout as soon as the time comes.

In this regard, Han Chuxue expressed great satisfaction.

Because they traveled lightly (a certain donkey with a heavy load was directly ignored), the time for them to return to Xiatang Village was shorter than when they went.

Seeing his bamboo fence from afar, and thinking that his family would be able to eat white rice soon, Dazhu's steps became much lighter.

The brother and sister happily returned to their yard, but they heard a female voice that didn't belong to Xiuniang or the eldest girl saying something, there were still visitors to the house?

Han Chuxue looked at Dazhu suspiciously, but saw that the honest eldest brother's thick eyebrows were tightly wrinkled, "It's the third aunt." ”

Is that the wife of the third uncle Han who said he died?

Han Chuxue soon found the name tag of the person who came in a pile of directories where he only knew the name and even the name of the relatives.

At this time, Erzhu happened to come out angrily, and when he saw that they were back from the cold and early snow, he immediately shouted happily, "Big brother, little sister, are you back?" ”

Dazhu answered, "Third brother, come and help me unload this grain." ”

Erzhu immediately ran over, looking at the two large baskets of grain, his eyes lit up, "Big brother, this is all our family's grain?" ”

"yes." Although it was a pity that he didn't change to more brown rice pillars, he still felt that his little sister's decision was not wrong, and he just used logistics to go up the mountain to hunt quickly.

The eldest girl also heard the sound and walked out, and when she saw the two big baskets of rice, she was also surprised, "Little sister, why did you come back with so much rice?" ”