The second brother took Chaohua to live in the school, solved the urgent need, and got a bag of wheat from his mother's family, Sun Laowan and his wife cheered up, and the two agreed that they would no longer be depressed for the unfair division of the family, and should take advantage of the fact that the children are still young, they are young, and do more practical things for the children.

"Since the second brother let Chaohua live in the school, then let's provide the baby as a promising person." The two agree that they should cultivate Chaohua into a talent.

Chaohua's school, its name is Xinzhuang School, it was originally built as a primary school, and it has a history of 60 years today, according to the second brother (that is, Chaohua's second uncle), it is rebuilt from five large temples, which is only open to the first three grades of primary school, and the enlightenment education of the second brother is here.

After the liberation, the school was expanded into a junior high school, and in '75 and '76, it also undertook two sessions of high school teaching with hats.

The school has about 500 students, with about 6 public teachers and about 12 private teachers, who are responsible for teaching children in five nearby villages.

The second brother usually lives in the school, and stays at home for one night on weekends, and there is a desk in the office, a small kang, although it is smaller, but it can also give Sun Chaohua a place to sleep.

Unknowingly, Sun Laowan relied on the sweet potato vermicelli distributed by the production team to be exchanged for corn in Hebei, fifty miles away, to support the life of a family of six.

Although life is hard, there is no brother contradiction to worry about, Sun Laowan especially does not want to see the third brother's yin and yang strange face.

Two years later, that is, in 1974, Sun Laowan applied for a pile foundation, although it was only two feet wide and seven feet wide, commonly known as the small three rooms, and it was a fertile manure pit for the production team in the past, and it was not easy to build it into a village where houses could be built.

With the help of relatives of the township party, with 30 manpower frame trucks, after more than half a month of pulling soil and adding soil, the pile foundation was made, although the pile foundation was two feet lower than the next door, but after all, a decent yard was made.

The father-in-law, with a group of craftsmen, prepared timber and built three one-sided adobe houses, two of which could accommodate the children.

This year, Sun Chaohua was fifteen years old and still lived in school, Sun Chaoqun was twelve years old and lived with Sun Laowan, Sun Dani was nine years old, Sun Xiaoni was three years old, and lived in one room.

Sun Chaohua is very sensible, he lives in school with his second uncle, burns the kang every day in winter, and when the bell rings in the morning, he is the first to get up, go to the school kitchen to fetch water, and prepare for his uncle to wash his face.

The second uncle likes Sun Chaohua very much, because he is not only sensible, but also has excellent academic performance.

In order to thank the second brother, Sun Laowan often counted the days when the pigsty of the second brother's house was full of manure, and helped to raise the pen and pull the soil washer without waiting for the date.

The second brother didn't want to go, so he used his teacher's subsidy to buy some sweat cigarettes for Sun Laowan, Sun Laowan excused himself and said, "The second brother can take my family to live in Chaohua, it is a great kindness, I have no intention of reciprocating, I can only use some brute force, how can I be embarrassed to ask you for this." ”

"Big brother, don't care, I know that big brother is sincere, you can use this, if you don't take it, I won't enjoy it, it's a pity to throw it away, let's take it."

Sun Laowan couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it.

Chaohua is also used to calling the second uncle Teacher Song at school, and he once asked the second uncle, why is it good to him? Is it good for my father?

The second uncle told him that when he was in the most difficult time, Chaohua's father provided for him to go to school, and he had to walk more than 20 miles to and from school every week to deliver food and clothing, and he never complained. At this difficult time, he should show something and do his best to repay the love of his eldest brother.

Sun Laowan was kind-hearted, and crop work was a good style, so the township party elected him as the deputy leader of the production team, mainly responsible for the arrangement of farm work.

After being the production captain for three years, his character was recognized by the township party, and he accumulated some contacts and had a good credit.

They never forget the help of the township party, and always look for opportunities to repay them.

Seeing that the second son is not young, and it is extremely inconvenient to live with his parents again, under the urging of his father-in-law, Sun Laowan borrowed some money from the township party, plus the savings he saved from doing a side job, and finally rebuilt three adobe tile houses, which have four houses, one for Sun Laowan and his wife, and one for Chaohua, and one for Chaoqun, and one for Dani and Xiaoni.

After building the house, Sun Laowan also took his mother over to live, Zhang enthusiastically said, "Mom, the conditions are much better now, you can live as long as you want." ”

The grandchildren, especially Chaohua, saw that grandma was coming, they were very affectionate, and asked long and short questions, and grandma took Chaohua's hand and said, "It's so good." ”

The playful Sun Chaoqun interjected, "I'm also good." It made everyone laugh.

Grandma looked at her children and grandchildren, remembered her eldest son and grandchildren who had been wronged by the separation, and said to herself, "It's all to blame for my confusion at the time and let you suffer." ”

At this time, Xiao Ni, who was already six years old, crawled over and said, "Grandma, I miss you too, last year my sister took me to my uncle's house, and my aunt saw us and looked at us for a long time, as if she was angry, and my sister pulled me back." ”

Xiaoni's innocent words made grandma listen to it, her nose was sour again, but she still took over the conversation enthusiastically and said, "Mom has passed, and now it's all right." ”

In those days, it was a blessing for the elderly to be able to eat steamed buns, drink sugar, and occasionally brand sesame cakes every day, although Zhang was enthusiastic and blessed that life was not as rich as being rich, but she always gave everything to improve the life of her mother-in-law, and told the children not to grab something else for their grandmother, and the children were also sensible, and they tried to refuse when their grandmother gave them.

Mrs. Sun lived very happily in Sun Laowan's place, and told her brother Zhou Ming, who was a cadre of the brigade, that she was going to live with the boss.

This frightened Sun Laoer, firstly, he was worried that his uncle would talk to him more, and secondly, he was afraid that the old lady would turn over the accounts and propose to compensate the boss.

"I don't have any opinion, as for whether my mother will go back or not, it depends on what my mother means", Sun Laowan told Sun Lao Er what he really thought.

Sun Lao Er promised his uncle and second uncle that he would be like the eldest to his mother, and he would come to invite his mother several times, and use Liu Beisan's trick of inviting Zhuge to cry very sadly every time he came, so as to influence his mother.

The mother was really reluctant, and the second uncle Zhou Ming persuaded her again and again, and Mrs. Sun reluctantly went back with Sun Lao Er.

The old lady was unhappy when she went back, and Sun Lao Er did not take good care of her, the old lady did not control her high blood pressure properly, she felt aggrieved, and died the next year.

Many years later, no matter where Sun Chaohua went, Zhang Enthusiasm always instructed Sun Chaohua to go to the grave and burn paper for Mrs. Sun every death day to express his sorrows.

After his mother left, Sun Laowan built two more Xiazi rooms (commonly known as one-sided) in front of the courtyard in the second year, that is, in 1979, which specialized in stove rooms, which solved the problem of smoke and fog in the house, and made the house much cleaner and more comfortable to live in.