It took him a week to get a job as a porter in a brick factory, where he was responsible for moving bricks every day. Although this job is also hard and tiring, his small body can still bear it, and the heavy physical work of other factories, his thin size, is disliked by others.

The conditions in the brick factory were very simple, the workers lived in their own wooden sheds, and the strong son had to move to live in the factory.

After Yuan Bin went to see it, he asked Qiangzi to stay at home. "You live at home first, save your salary every month, and move out by yourself when you have money."

Yuan Bin didn't want Qiangzi to move out because he was afraid that he would learn badly from others, and the workers in the brick factory still loved to gamble after work, so he left Qiangzi at home.

There are many people in the family to live for a long time, of course Lin Xiaoxiao is not very happy, but Yuan Bin opened her mouth, and she didn't make a sound. Yuan Bin still explained to Lin Xiaoxiao at night, and flattered him in various ways, and this matter passed.

In the summer, the vegetables in the vegetable garden could not be eaten, so Lin Xiaoxiao made a large part of them into dried vegetables and stored them, and the family even bought a lot of jars and jars of pickled cabbage.

Peanut has begun to learn to walk, and follows Lin Xiaoxiao like a little tail every day. Mother and son are together every day, and the first thing he says is to shout "Mom".

After Yuan Bin went home, he hugged him and asked him to shout "Dad", and he didn't learn it after teaching all night. The next morning, he was going out to work, and Peanut suddenly called "Dad".

Yuan Bin kissed him proudly before going to work.

After Qiangzi got his first month's salary, in front of Lin Xiaoxiao, he took the initiative to find Yuan Bin to pay for food. He still eats at home every morning and evening, and only eats at the brickyard at noon.

"You keep it for yourself, and the family doesn't want your money." Lin Xiaoxiao took the initiative to stop it.

"Your fourth aunt doesn't take it, you save it yourself, this money can't be spent indiscriminately, you have to save money to buy a house, don't learn to gamble." The tone of Yuan Bin's last sentence was very serious.

"I don't spend it indiscriminately, I want to send all my wages home." Qiangzi still remembers the confession of his parents before leaving his hometown.

"Having trouble at home?" Yuan Bin thought that life at home should not be too sad.

"No, my mother said that I should send all my salary back, and she will build me a house and marry a daughter-in-law." Qiangzi mentioned that marrying a daughter-in-law also had the shyness peculiar to teenagers.

"Are you going to go back to your hometown in the future? What's so bad about this job? ”

"I don't know. Fourth uncle, what do you mean, I won't go back to my hometown in the future? "Hadron never seems to have thought about leaving his homeland for the rest of his life.

"You're not too young, I'm already fighting devils when I'm your age, you make your own decisions about this, and you decide whether to send your salary or not." Yuan Bin is just an uncle, not Qiangzi's father, there are some things he is not suitable to say, he can only let Qiangzi understand himself.

He knew that it was better to stay in the south, but he couldn't say this, otherwise his brother and sister-in-law in his hometown would think that he was going to rob his son.

Qiangzi thought about it all night but didn't come up with it, he turned his back to Yuan Bin and asked Lin Xiaoxiao, what did his fourth uncle mean.

Lin Xiaoxiao was playing with Peanut at the time, the smile on her face was frozen on her face, Yuan Bin didn't care if she was an uncle, and her aunt was an outsider, so she had so many mouths.

"Qiangzi, your fourth uncle probably wants you to be independent, you think about it yourself, anyway, this matter is not in a hurry." Lin Xiaoxiao could only persuade him with procrastination.

"Oh." Qiangzi didn't ask the answer from Lin Xiaoxiao, and he was quite disappointed.

Lin Xiaoxiao didn't care about how to deal with Hadron's salary, she was more concerned about the problem of taking advantage of the winter. There is not much coal at home, and it is cold to save more, so this job can only wait for Yuan Bin to rest before he can buy coal back.

After Yuan Bin knew that there was not much coal at home, he deliberately chose a big day to rest. He borrowed a board car and bought thousands of catties of coal for his family at one time, so he didn't have to worry about it this winter. In addition to coal, there are thousands of firewood at home, which Lin Xiaoxiao usually buys and saves.

She is like a squirrel, all the materials that can be stored for a long time, the house has a lot of storage, except for the half of the room where Qiangzi is now sleeping, the rest of the room is used to put all kinds of sundries.

After the first frost of winter, the house began to burn a fire to keep warm, and Lin Xiaoxiao even locked Peanuts at home and did not allow him to go out.

Peanut is also honest, there are no friends of the same age nearby, as long as he is given toys and snacks, he will not be noisy to run. He also knows that it's cold, unlike last winter, when he went out to play even though he knew it was cold outside.

Peanut is more than a year old, Lin Xiaoxiao will tell him a few stories every day, and before going to bed at night, the mother and son will pull the picture book to tell stories.

Peanuts like to gnaw peanuts the most, but Lin Xiaoxiao didn't dare to give them to him, he was still afraid of choking.

At noon, Lin Xiaoxiao will always secretly cook all kinds of food, and the mother and son are at home, and the corpse can be destroyed after eating, and he is not afraid that Yuan Bin will find something abnormal.

Of course, Lin Xiaoxiao will not lose Yuan Bin, she will find a way to change her tricks to improve the food standard at home. Yuan Bin's training tasks in winter have been reduced a lot, the weather is not good, and the food standards of the soldiers are not high, and they dare not practice too hard, for fear of damaging the soldiers' bodies.

Before the arrival of the Spring Festival, Hadron's brick factory also issued some benefits. Lin Xiaoxiao saw that it was rice noodles and fruits, but he accepted it very happily.

During the Spring Festival holiday, Yuan Bin has to be on duty, he has no holiday, but the more he gets to the holiday, the busier he becomes.

It was inconvenient to build a house on a cold day, the business of the brick factory was much worse, and the strong son had an early holiday. He has eaten well for most of the past six months, his body is no longer thin, and his size is still rushing up.

Qiangzi proposed to go back to his hometown to have a look, but Yuan Bin only regretted that he and Lin Xiaoxiao couldn't go back together. He wanted to stay on duty, Lin Xiaoxiao took peanuts with him, and he didn't worry about letting their mother and son go back alone.

After Lin Xiaoxiao knew that she didn't have to go back to her hometown, she was very sorry on her face, but she was still relieved in her heart. This time, Qiangzi can bring a lot of things when she goes back, and she also prepares gifts for her in-laws in her hometown.

She knew that her in-laws were not in good health, so she specially spent money to order two sheepskin coats and a few dog skin mats. She packed a large bag of meat such as bacon and sausages she made, and felt that she was almost gone.

Yuan Bin personally bought a ticket to send Qiangzi on the train, and when he came back, he still had a regretful face, saying that he would take peanuts back to his hometown next year.

Lin Xiaoxiao was also curious about what Yuan Bin's hometown was like, and she was more worried that the people in her hometown didn't say hello, and asked Qiangzi to bring someone over to find a job without a sound.

"No, Hadron's work is not easier than farming, people in my hometown don't necessarily want to come, you think too much." Yuan Bin remembered that his parents did not agree to join the army, how could anyone still follow Qiangzi over.

He didn't believe it because Qiangzi was the eldest grandson of the family, and the next generation of the family was still young, far from the age when he could go out to work. The nephews are too young, and the brothers are all married, so they will not go to the south to make a living at a young age.

Lin Xiaoxiao was noncommittal, she waited for Qiangzi to come back.