Zhu Xiaohua drove the harvester to Xicun, put a few sacks of wheat on the side of the road, and Captain Xiao went to inform the people on the farm to carry the wheat, and he rushed straight to Luoshui West Village.

Zhu Xiaohua drove the harvester and worked all night, and it was not until the second half of the night that Captain Xiao brought people over.

Among the people who came, there were Tang Yimin and others.

Zhu Xiaohua taught them how to operate the harvester, and only after these people were proficient did he go back to the farm to sleep with confidence.

In the days that followed, they were replaced by these men, who worked day and night.

Zhu Xiaohua organized people to carry the exchanged grain back to the farm, dry it, and then go to the grain station to sell it.

Ten days later, they harvested a quarter of the wheat around Los Angeles. Food, banknotes, a steady stream of Captain Xiao's desk.

On the side of the brick kiln, Zhang Shui's family of six burned the bricks of the third kiln, and they were all tired and lying on the ground.

Zhang Shui sighed and said: "I didn't expect to be so tired from burning bricks, but fortunately it was returned to Zhu Xiaohua, otherwise if it goes on like this, within half a year, our whole family will be exhausted." ”

In the open space in front of the brick kiln, Wu Zhi and others have made more than 10,000 bricks.

After Zhang Shui's family withdrew, they immediately burned the first kiln bricks, and after the red bricks came out of the kiln, they were sold out instantly.

Immediately after the second kiln and the third kiln, for each kiln brick burned, they would pay an extra 120 to 150 yuan. The brick kiln became an assembly-line automatic money printing machine.

At noon that day, Zhu Xiaohua settled accounts in Captain Xiao's office.

"These days, when you harvest wheat, you earn three hundred and fifty pieces for the first five days and fourteen hundred pieces for the last ten days."

"A total of 1,750 pieces."

"The cost of the harvester is four thousand eight hundred and eight, and at this rate, you can buy this harvester back in less than two years."

Captain Xiao listened to the income brought by the harvester, his face did not ease, although the income brought by the harvester was far more than imagined, but the heavy number "dead father" was like a mountain pressing on his heart, making him feel breathless.

He only hopes that the brick kiln can make persistent efforts, sell bricks quickly, and make money quickly to make up for the astronomical amount on the harvester's account.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the office door.

"Knock knock!"

Both paused and looked at the door.

There was a guard standing at the door.

"Report to the captain, Zhu Xiaohua's family came to visit, and it was in the reception room."

Family?

Zhu Xiaohua remembered that he had a family.

His father is in a Los Angeles tractor factory, his mother is sick in bed, and his sister Zhu Xiaoyan and younger brother Zhu Xiaoming are still in school.

I don't know who came to visit me.

Zhu Xiaohua stood up, said goodbye to Captain Xiao, and hurriedly left with the guards.

I've been here for so long, and it's rare to finally have my family come to visit me.

Pushing open the red wooden door of the reception room, a woman with braids, a red head rope, and long sleeves of army green coarse cloth came into view, and the person who came was her sister Zhu Xiaoyan.

She is sixteen years old and has just entered high school.

Her face was gray, her eyes were red and swollen, as if she had just cried.

Seeing Zhu Xiaohua coming in, she suddenly stood up and said hurriedly, "Brother, something happened to Dad." ”

Although this is someone else's father, Zhu Xiaohua couldn't help but chuckle in his heart after hearing it.

Zhu Xiaohua said: "What's the matter, sit down and talk slowly." ”

Zhu Xiaoyan said: "When Dad was operating equipment in the tractor factory, there was a production accident, the machine collapsed, and Dad was smashed in an instant. ”

As she spoke, tears flowed down her eyes again.

Zhu Xiaohua pulled her up and said, "Then what are you waiting for, we'll go see him now." ”

The two walked straight out, but before they could go out, they were stopped by the guards.

"Zhu Xiaohua, your sentence is not yet complete, and you can't leave yet."

The guards dodged in the doorway.

"Zhu Xiaohua, you have been doing well recently, if you leave like this, it will be wasted."

Another guard also advised him.

Zhu Xiaohua was about to break in, when suddenly Captain Xiao appeared behind the door.

Captain Xiao said: "When people go home to mourn, you also stop them." Zhu Xiaohua, I will grant you a day off, come to me to get a fake note. ”

Captain Xiao went back to the office, found the official seal, and after Zhu Xiaohua finished writing the fake note, he stamped it to confirm.

Captain Xiao sent two more guards to accompany Zhu Xiaohua home.

Zhu Xiaohua's home is in the dormitory building of the tractor factory staff compound.

When the group took a bus to the family compound south of Los Angeles, the downstairs was full of people.

Everyone is discussing Zhu Zhiwu's death.

"Good person, I came to talk to my shopkeeper yesterday, how can I say that it is gone today."

"Alas, alas. I don't know if the tractor factory will give compensation. ”

"If you don't pay compensation, it will be too unjust."

Zhu Xiaohua, Zhu Xiaoyan, and two guards walked into the compound. The crowd suddenly shut up.

Zhu Xiaoyan squeezed through the crowd and took the lead in walking upstairs.

Zhu Xiaohua and two guards followed.

The body of his father Zhu Zhiwu was parked in the aisle, and his younger brother Zhu Xiaoming was alone in front of the spirit.

"Your father is dead, your mother is sick, and your brother is a hooligan, leaving you and your sister behind. How will you live in the future? ”

A middle-aged man with thick hair is standing in the aisle smoking a cigarette.

Cigarettes are a brand that leaders will only smoke in this era, big front door, five cents a pack, and the price is several times that of ordinary cigarettes.

He spat out a puff of smoke and said, "If Zhu Xiaohua is not a hooligan, your father is gone, you and your sister, and your sick mother can still have something to rely on." It's a pity, a good singer was ruined because he sang hooligan songs, and your family won't want to turn over in this life. ”

"My brother is not a hooligan!" Zhu Xiaoming argued on the basis of reason.

"Yo, how can you talk to your uncle, you have to be so rude again, return to me the fifty yuan I lent to your family just now!"

The middle-aged man with thick hair stroked his parted hair, and then said, "Not a hooligan, can you go to prison for hooliganism?" ”

"It doesn't matter if your brother is second-rate, how many years has your mother been sick. Spent all the money your dad had to work in a tractor factory, and borrowed money from everywhere. ”

Zhu Xiaoming's weak body erupted into a hundred-decibel roar: "If you pay you back, you will pay you back, my brother is not a hooligan!" ”

As he spoke, he threw a few banknotes in a circle towards his uncle Huang Ren.

The banknotes hit Huang Ren's body and scattered.

Huang Ren bent down to pick up the money, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, and a few banknotes fell downstairs through the red brick railing of the corridor.

Huang Ren helped the white shirt tucked into the waistband of his trousers, stood up, and shouted downstairs: "This money is mine, don't pick it up." ”

The people downstairs giggled and watched the five-cent bills fall leisurely.

Zhu Xiaoming said: "In the future, if my brother is a hooligan, you are not my uncle!" ”