Chapter 4 Bitterness

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Now the contradiction is between a family surnamed Xiao and a family surnamed Wu, the two are less than two miles apart, one is on this side of the mountain and the other is there, but they belong to different production teams. In the past, the relationship between the two families has always been good, and both families have ancestors who died in the War of Resistance against Japan, and they are both descendants of martyrs. The Xiao family has two elderly people with limited mobility and two children, a boy and an NV, the eldest son is 20 years old this year, and the NV son is 17 years old this year.

Because the owner of the Xiao family, Xiao Shanguo, sprained his waist while repairing the reservoir five years ago, he basically couldn't do heavy work, and spent half of the year lying on the chuáng. His wife is also dependent on yào cans for maintenance due to lung disease for many years, and she is also unable to work.

In the past, when he worked in a large collective, it was not much of a problem for the two pillars of the family to be in poor health, because Xiao Shanguo was injured at work, and the production team only arranged for him to herd cattle and guard the houses in the team.

After the land is divided into households, these preferential treatments disappear immediately, and the public just does not need his family to volunteer to participate in the repair of canals and roads, but his own land still needs to be planted, and a family of six must be fed. Xiao Shanguo couldn't do a good job, and the burden of supporting his family suddenly fell on his son, Xiao Yuefei, who had just turned eighteen at the time.

However, Xiao Yuefei, who is thin and has little strength, is unwilling to do farm work like all young people, and in 77 the national college entrance examination was restored, and what he wanted to do with good grades was to take the college entrance examination and jump out of the farm. So, he was clever enough to ask his homeroom teacher to go to Mén again and again to do his father Xiao Shanguo's job.

The homeroom teacher was indeed reluctant to let his smart students drop out of school and farm, and immediately ran to Xiao's house to say that Xiao Yuefei was the smartest and hardest working child among the children he taught, and if he was allowed to take the college entrance examination, he would definitely be able to be admitted to university, and he would definitely be able to glorify his ancestors in the future, and he would definitely be much more productive than in the countryside. If he is allowed to do farm work at home, that is, he can barely fill the stomachs of his family, depending on the situation of the Xiao family and the child's embryo, there will definitely be no NV son willing to marry into his family in the future, and he will have to be a bachelor for a lifetime.

Xiao Shanguo has a short, thin son, and he is very conflicted. After thinking about it all night, under the persuasion of his wife, he forced his sick body to go to the Wu family, and asked the second son of the Wu family to help his family with farm work on the condition that his family's nv son, who was under the age of fifteen, marry the second son of the Wu family.

The Wu family - Wu Jinqiu - had four sons, the eldest son was 27 years old, and he had already married and lived separately. The second son is 25 years old, the third son is 23 years old, the third son is 21 years old, and the fourth son is 19 years old. All of them are tall and powerful, but they are all masters who eat half a catty of rice without panting and unwilling to raise their heads.

In the past, when they were in the big collective, the three unmarried sons and their father Wu Jinqiu were in the prime of life, and the family, including the youngest son, were all good at making money in the production team. They are all strong laborers, and they naturally earn the most labor points, and although they do not say how much surplus there is every year, they can basically eat from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the eldest son of the Wu family to marry the captain of the production team.

If it weren't for the second son, Wu Fangjun, who was a bit clumsy and clumsy, and he didn't seem flexible, I'm afraid he would have married and started a family. At that time, the three sons all had people to propose marriage, but at that time, Wu Jinqiufu wanted to solve the marriage of his second son Wu Fangjun first and then consider the marriage of his third son Wu Guobing, so he did not immediately agree.

What they didn't expect was that at this time, the state implemented the household responsibility system to divide the fields into households, and no matter whether you were good or weak, you could only be busy in your own fields, and you could only plow food in the limited fields. When the production team divides the fields, they are divided according to the number of people, and they will not be divided more because of the strong labor force in your family, and a newborn baby will receive as much land as a 30-year-old strong man's field.

As a result, the living standards of the Wu family, who lacked land, plummeted, and the grain produced by the few acres of land they got could not fill the stomachs of a few strong men in the family.

Everyone is Jingming, and the neighbors soon became strong outside the Wu family, and no one envied the Wu family's physical strength anymore. Now not only does no one take the initiative to propose marriage, but even the parents of the Wu family find someone else to propose marriage for their third son, and no one cares.

Seeing that the age of his sons is increasing day by day, Wu Jinqiufu, who used to be proud of his sons being able to eat and do, is worried about this. But they are loyal and honest, and they have nothing to do, they can't take their sons to drive their neighbors away and occupy their fields, although there were many bandits in the barren mountains in the past, but they are not so blatant.

When he went to Xiao Shanguo and heard Xiao Shanguo's mentions, Wu Jin Qiufu knew that his second son would become a free long-term worker for the Xiao family, but for the sake of his lifelong event and for his brother below to find a wife, they still agreed. And the NV of the Xiao family is beautiful, the two families had a good relationship before, even if they don't get married, they have to help each other.

So, Wu Fangjun, the second eldest of the Wu family, worked in the Xiao family, ate in the Xiao family, and only went home to sleep at night. The field of the six people of the Xiao family was when he was busy alone, and he couldn't be busy alone, and he also called his two brothers and his parents over to help.

The second eldest of the Wu family, Wu Fangjun, is a bit of a man, but he is a good hand at farm work, and he is hard-working, and he waits for the Xiao family's farmland beautifully, and also helps the Xiao family raise pigs and cattle. It can be said that with Wu Fangjun, the Xiao family, who could only live a hard life, became prosperous, and Xiao Shanguo, who used to only chou dry tobacco, can sometimes go to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes chou and chou, and live the addiction of a chou boxed cigarette, and eat it during the New Year

Ou drank the wine, and his face began to flush.

Not only did Xiao Yuefei continue to go to school and go to high school, but his younger sister, Wu Fangjun's fiancée, Xiao Youxiu, also continued to go to school and junior high school because her grades were also good.

The hard work of the second eldest of the Wu family did not win the sympathy of the villagers, and many young men still envied him because he had a smart, beautiful and young fiancée. Many people wish they could replace him, and some even want to be the son-in-law of the Xiao family. Especially when Xiao Youxiu grew more and more beautiful, and grew more and more beautiful, he stayed with countless young guys.

In fact, Wu Fangjun and the Wu family's NV child will not become the Wu family's daughter-in-law in the end, once she is admitted to college, she will definitely not want Wu Fangjun.

Rural people are simple and know their weight very well, Wu Fangjun's mother reminded Wu Fangjun from time to time not to let Xiao Youxiu study, if she really wanted her to take the university entrance examination and flew away, the Wu family could only fly eggs.

However, the honest Wu Fangjun was embarrassed to say it, although he was nearly ten years older than Xiao Youxiu, he still couldn't let go in front of her, and he didn't dare to say anything, let alone ask her not to study. However, Xiao Youxiu's mother came out of the Wu family's intentions, and promised Wu Fangjun's mother again and again that Xiao Youxiu, the nv son, would become the Wu family's daughter-in-law, and if Xiao Youxiu changed her mind in the future, she would just fight for her life

iShe married Wu Fangjun.

Just when the Wu family was half-convinced, a disaster happened to the Xiao family: one night during the Chun Festival this year, Xiao Shanguo went to the neighbor's house to string mén, and when it was time to eat, he was left by the enthusiastic neighbor to eat and drink. Because people flatter him that he has a smart son, he will definitely be able to pass the college entrance examination this year, and he has a caring nv son-in-law, and he doesn't have a cào heart at all. It was too late, and Xiao Shanguo refused the neighbor's offer to let him rest for a while before going home, and insisted on leaving immediately.

He walked home one foot high and one foot shallow, but when he was about to reach the mouth of his home, he fell into the ditch and, although he did not drown, broke a tui.

When his wife heard this, she went to save him, but she got wet and caught a cold, and her lung disease became more and more severe, and she coughed up blood from time to time.

Xiao Shanguo's father, who had been paralyzed in Chuáng for many years, died in a hurry, and his mother began to be paralyzed in Chuáng after taking over his wife's will......

No matter how prosperous the Xiao family's life is, it is just to solve the problem of food and clothing with the help of Wu Fangjun, and even the tuition fees for the two children are a little difficult, how can they have the money to heal Xiao Shanguo's injuries, treat Xiao Shanguo's wife, give Xiao Shanguo's father a funeral, and buy yào for his paralyzed mother?

This time, the Xiao family suffered a catastrophe, and a family was about to be dispersed.

At this time, the Wu family came forward and took out all the family's savings to buy longevity materials for the funeral, and buried the old father of the Xiao family; borrowed money to send Xiao Shanguo and his wife to the county hospital for treatment; At the same time, Wu Fangjun's mother also left her own family affairs to take care of the old mother of the Xiao family, who was paralyzed in Chuáng, ...... finally let the Xiao family tide over the difficulties.

It can be said that for the sake of the Xiao family, the Wu family went all out and did their best, which was of course in the previous good relationship between the Wu and Xiao families, but also because of Wu Fangjun's goal of marrying the young and beautiful Xiao Youxiu.

If some people envied Wu Fangjun for marrying Xiao Youxiu in the past, but after the accident of the Xiao family, many people in turn admired the kindness of the Wu family and envied the good life of the Xiao family, no one had the idea of marrying Xiao Youxiu anymore, and no one was willing to go to the Xiao family to be a ménnv son-in-law: after all, people have to live, and the burden of the Xiao family is so heavy, it can be said that no one can afford this piece of the Xiao family. Some people even openly said that the Wu family is a fool, for the sake of an NV person, let their family lose their property, can it be that if you marry a daughter-in-law and go home, your own family will not be a long time, what will happen to the third and fourth children in the future?

The Wu family's efforts finally had a "harvest": the Xiao family, who could no longer make up the extra tuition, ordered Xiao Youxiu to go home and farm.

Xiao Youxiu came to his own home, knowing that he had no money to study anymore, and he was embarrassed to go to school and let Wu Fangjun be a bumper horse in his own home. She cried and burned her books, shredded her schoolbag, and returned home to help Wu Fangjun and Wu Fangjun's mother with farm work and take care of the paralyzed nǎinǎi.

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