Chapter 16 Make a living for the eldest brother

"Ah~sneeze!"

Xu Jingli lowered her head and sneezed into the outside of her left arm.

"Sister, what's wrong with you, are you feeling unwell?" Xu Jingping, the second daughter of the Xu family, who was lying on the table of the Eight Immortals, holding a white porcelain bowl and drinking millet porridge, said with concern.

"It's okay, it's just that my nose was a little uncomfortable just now." Xu Jingli took out a handkerchief, wiped his nose, and waved his hand.

Xu Huizhen, the patriarch of the Xu family, put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked at the eldest daughter Xu Jingli wearing a long skirt for almost an autumn and frowned: "No, the weather is starting to get colder, when you finish eating, you turn Jingli's long coat and trousers out of the cabinet, and let the child change it before school tomorrow." ”

"Hmm." The middle-aged man sitting next to Xu Huizhen's right hand replied in a low voice.

The man looks a little wooden, with a big long face, ears close to the brain, swollen eyes, and a square chin. He was wearing a blue-black cotton shirt on his upper body, and his figure looked burly.

Xu Jingli put down the flower handkerchief in her hand and said anxiously to her father: "Dad, I'm not cold. ”

"Obedient, let's wear trousers to school tomorrow." Cai Quanwu grinned and showed a smile that was neither good-looking nor ugly.

"Hmph." Xu Jingli pursed her lips in protest.

"Hmph." Xu Jingtian, the youngest daughter in the grade, also pouted.

"Haha, what are you little guy humming?" Xu Huizhen laughed and touched the little daughter sitting in her arms.

In this family, the relationship between Xu Jingli's three sisters and her father is far closer than that of her mother.

Mother Xu Hui is really the head of the family, and she is also the representative of the Xu family on the scene, and the tavern inherited by the family is well maintained in her hands.

Father Cai Quanwu is more like a long-term worker in the family, and he is truly the man behind the successful woman, not only firmly obeying Xu Huizhen's leadership in his career, but also pulling up the three children at home.

Xu Jingli, who has gradually become sensible, has shaped her father Cai Quanwu into the most perfect male representative in her mind, but occasionally from time to time she will take out the table that makes her hate the root of her teeth itch and compare it with her father little by little.

Two villains with different personalities and different looks often appear in the girl's head, constantly fighting, and no one obeys anyone.

The eldest daughter's careful thoughts in Xu Hui were naturally not clear, and she thought that she was angry because she didn't let her wear the cotton skirt sent by Chen Xueru anymore, so she shifted the topic to a plate of duck eggs cut into petals on the dinner table, and said with a smile: "Jingli, you said that this duck egg was a gift from the male classmate who often teased you?" ”

"Sister, is that the bad boy who stuffed a toad into your desk?" Xu Jingtian, who was sitting in her mother's arms, tilted her little head and looked at the duck egg yolk in her hand, she never thought that such a delicious duck egg would be given by a bad boy who bullied her eldest sister.

Wanting to throw it away, but feeling a little pity, Xu Jingtian pouted and hesitated.

"I like this kid, it's okay for boys to be naughty, but if you do something wrong, you have to have the courage to admit your mistakes, and you dare to be a man." Cai Quanwu swallowed the mixed noodles in his mouth, touched the little head of his third daughter Xu Jingtian, picked up the duck egg in her hand, peeled off the duck egg shell and stuffed it into Xu Jingtian's small mouth: "The duck egg given by this child tastes really good, Jingping, you eat more." ”

Xu Jingtian ate the duck eggs with a smile, thinking in his heart that this was not because he didn't stand on the side of the eldest sister, but because his father forced it for him.

"Well, the taste is really good, and it's rare to have a double yolk egg." Xu Huizhen also gave the second daughter Xu Jingping a piece of yellow duck eggs and gave a good evaluation, her eyes suddenly lit up and she seemed to think of something, and asked her eldest daughter: "Jingli, do you know where the duck eggs he gave you came from?" ”

"He forced the duck eggs into me, I didn't ask, or I'll ask him at school tomorrow?"

Xu Jingli looked at the duck eggs that were not left on the plate and felt a little distressed, if it weren't for the fact that the second sister Xu Jingping accidentally found the duck eggs hidden at the bottom of the bag when she was looking for a paintbrush in her schoolbag just now, Xu Jingli really didn't want to take out the duck eggs and eat them.

However, since it was discovered by the second sister who was greedy since childhood, there was naturally no reason to be spared, although Xu Jingli was reluctant, she had no choice but to contribute the duck eggs, and by the way, she told her parents about the origin of the two duck eggs.

"Forget it, invite your tablemate to dinner at home tomorrow, it's a return gift from our family." Xu Huizhen thought about it and invited the child to the house for a meal, what can be asked in person, and the provincial sentence is not clear.

"Hmm." Xu Jingli lowered her head and whispered.

Cai Quan glanced at his eldest daughter suspiciously.

In the middle of the night, a wild cat came running into the compound out of nowhere, and its hoarse whining like a baby was disturbing.

The Li family in the front yard turned off the lights early, Li Wang slept in the north house with his second daughter Li Ailian, and the eldest son Li Guoqing and younger son Li Tong slept in the south house.

Li Tong, who was lying on the bed, turned over to the left and then to the right, and didn't remember how many stinky pigs Zhou Huimin still couldn't sleep.

"Three boys, go to sleep, you have to get up early to go to school tomorrow." Li Guoqing, who had just scrubbed his body in the house with cold water, wore big pants and got into the bed.

"Brother, are you tired from working in the grain store? I've heard people say that carrying a big bag hurts your neck and costs your waist, and it's very hard. Li Tong tilted his head sideways and pillowed on his forearm to look at the familiar and unfamiliar eldest brother.

"Your brother is not highly educated, and he should be tired, even if he can't earn much money from hard work, he is really annoying." Li Guoqing looked at the handsome third brother and laughed at himself.

I really don't know how the third doll was born, neither like my parents nor like a few uncles in my hometown, she looks handsome and cute, Li Guoqing couldn't help but reach out and pinch Li Tong's little face and said seriously: "Three boys, you have to remember my brother's words, the future of our Li family depends on you, you have to study hard to fight for your family, take the university entrance examination as a cadre, and wear clothes with four pockets." ”

"Well, when I grow up, I will definitely be a cadre to support our mother and your second sister!" Li Tong replied solemnly that he did not mention the matter of taking the university entrance examination, because according to the development trajectory of history, Li Tong estimated that he should not have the opportunity to go to college in his life.

"Okay, good, I know that I have to support my family" Li Guoqing happily patted Li Tong's shoulder, he was so tired that he fell asleep after patting it.

Looking at the tired eldest brother, Li Tong sighed softly.

After suffering a lot on the battlefield in Korea, he was finally expelled from the army after escaping death, and he also left a stain in his files, and his future life is at a glance.

One day is not as good as one day, one month is not as good as January, one year is not as good as one year, and the further you go, the more unlucky you are.

It's 1963, and although my eldest brother is tired and tired, he still has a job to make ends meet.

Three years later, the rolling red wave swept across the country, and people like Big Brother with tainted files could not escape the disaster.

Li Tong has conceived many sets of solutions for his hard-working eldest brother during this time, and there are only two ways to think about it.

Make a decision, take defense as the offense, roll up a group of fish and shrimp diving at the bottom, and make a patrol yaksha! It's a big deal!

The best policy, thirty-six strategies to go is the best policy!

Escaping Hong Kong is the best choice that can be seen right in front of your eyes.

Escaping from Hong Kong is simple but not simple, in case it is exposed and caught, the eldest brother will have to get in for half of his life.

However, Li Tong has an insurance candidate.

Lou Xiao'e!

In the original plot, the Lou family is a real case of escaping Hong Kong and succeeding, although Li Tong does not remember how the Lou family spent 20 years in Hong Kong in the play.

But after the reform and opening up, just because Lou Xiao'e was able to spend millions of dollars to open a restaurant immediately after returning to the mainland, it has already proved that the Lou family's life in Hong Kong is definitely not bad.

Thinking of Lou Xiao'e, there was still one thing in front of Li Tong to solve.

Li Tong remembered that Xu Dongqing was dissatisfied with Xu Damao's character, so he stuffed a small note to Lou's family three times and twice to tell Xu Damao.

What is especially vicious is that Xu Dongqing talked about Xu Damao's infertility hidden disease, which completely disturbed the marriage between Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e.

However, Li Tong thinks that he has a way to persuade the Lou family to change their minds!