"Aren't you sleepy, do you have to talk about those things now?"

"Mother, we're not sleepy." We've been so awake that if you don't say it, we'll only be even more sleepless.

Mrs. Xu raised her eyes to look at her son and sighed.

In fact, she knows it in her heart.

What these guys do outside is digging sewers.

Probably hired for a short period of hard work, otherwise he wouldn't have been paid that much home.

Why do you say that you will earn more by doing this? Sewers and modernity here are two different things. Modern sewage can be discharged from septic tanks and the like, and workers at least have protective masks and gloves, so she guesses that they won't drink so much "brine" that contains bacteria in their stomachs.

It can't be called sewage here, but brine, and all kinds of maggots will crawl into it through the mouth and nose, and it is particularly dangerous.

Because modern times are made of reinforced concrete, the sewers here are made of mud to burn and splice ditches, when a large amount of sewage is washed over, especially these days when it rains heavily, it will collapse, and people will be washed away with all kinds of sewage, and they can't find the whole body if they want to salvage it.

Although she didn't understand the specifics, Mrs. Xu knew that there were two things she didn't do.

The first is that the local people do not dry leech collectors unless they are too poor to do so, that is, the kind of people who walk in ponds and rivers, use their bare skin and wait for the leeches to take the bait, when their legs are all crawling with leeches, let the leeches absorb their bodies and suck blood, and then pick the leeches and sell them to the hospital. Pure blood sales to make money.

The second is the kind of conscription that does not clean up the sewage. This kind of money is given a lot, but you think that there are leeches in the pond, and there are all kinds of insects in the filthy brine. After being bitten by all kinds of insects in the fall, in modern terms, all the bacteria go along the wound, and there are people who come back with any disease, and how many people's legs are sawed off, not to mention that they will be washed away by sewage at any time. Many people would rather work for two more months, helping the government to mine and build city towers than doing this, purely working hard to make money.

And her sons earn money for their lives, which is why the people of Wangjiagou laughed at her when they fought with her.

Thanks to good luck, all the beards and tails are back.

But she couldn't cry and howl and complain, "How can you take the risk of doing this?" ”

Why can it be, poor, this still needs to be asked.

Coupled with the young age, one by one always feels that his body is great, he has no fear of death, and he feels that some misfortunes will not happen to him.

So what do you do with scolding the children.

In the future, the family will not be poor, and there is no chance for them to worry about making quick money.

Believe it or not? Just when she said that she owed so much silver taels, this boy wanted to make quick money again.

Mrs. Xu motioned to the boy, then go back to the house with her to talk.

The brothers didn't know if it was an illusion, but they always felt that the gestures and gestures of the mother signaling them to enter the house and speak carried an indescribable power.

It seems that he was trained by the leader of the village.

How can they know that the core of the mother has long been changed, and it is not the old lady who can be fooled and smile when she sees the money. It's not that the mother doesn't love them, it's just that sometimes it's a matter of looking at things.

After Mrs. Xu entered the house, she first arranged for her granddaughter to go to sleep, and she didn't get better from the cold, so she asked Qin Niang to burn the kang in the big house and spread the kang mat quilt.

Otherwise, there would be no place for this brother to sleep tonight, and the two wings would be full of food. Especially the third and fourth children have no place to stay.

Hearing the big house, the three brothers of the Xu family hurriedly raised their eyes to observe their niece.

The big house is a house that the whole family specially left for the eldest brother to live in.

The eldest brother really couldn't come back, and the whole family decided to have a house if they didn't come back, and the kang in that house had never been inhabited.

It's just that every day at dinner, I deliberately put the table in that room, and I don't want my eldest brother's house to be deserted.

I kept that house, and I also planned to let my niece live when she was a year or two older and not afraid to sleep alone. In the future, let Tian Xin marry from the best house in the family.

But at this time, the mother asked them to go to sleep in the big house for a while, and the niece would not be happy.

Xu Tianxin was inexplicably looked at by the three uncles, put down the brewed dandelion tea and said to his grandmother: "I'm not sleepy yet, go and help my aunt lay the kang together, and then brush the bowl, you can talk." ”

Wait for the granddaughter to leave.

Mrs. Xu sat cross-legged on the kang and motioned her sons to drink the mother-in-law Ding water first, and the mother-in-law Ding cleared the heat and detoxified the sewage in the stomach, and then lay on the hot kang head to warm her waist, and set the wormwood pillar on the smoked navel.

The boy didn't want to show his belly in front of his mother, his mother was a woman, and he was glared at by Mrs. Xu, the village boy was not born to her, and he hasn't been shirtless recently, and Guan Erbald shows his big white ass and doesn't smell as much as you.

While digging out his heart, he said:

"Let's start with your eldest brother's comrade-in-arms, Zhao Dashan...... I guess, that Liu Laozhu was afraid that his eldest son's affairs would be exposed, so he coaxed me to take care of things, wanting to tie my legs and not owe my mouth. ”

Xu Lao Er held the Ai Zhu in one hand, only showing a little navel, while looking at the roof of the shed, hearing that Li Zheng's eldest son was tired of military service, he felt very uncomfortable.

It turns out that military service can be avoided, and it would be nice if someone in his family had helped him in the first place.

Mrs. Xu saw the loneliness of her sons: "Are you uncomfortable listening to it?" So he didn't want me to talk about it. Of course, if you really tell the people in the village, he is actually not afraid, but he has a bad reputation, what can the people in the village do to him? The people in the village are quite simple. ”

Mrs. Xu can also understand through her recent contact with the people in the village that there are really no big treacherous people in Erdaohe. Even the Yujia stick next door is counted, and he is not a rotten evil person, he is rotten and improper.

Only in the village life will see the strange phenomenon, many villagers can fight because of the two melons and dates, and they can't wait to stop talking for two months because of a chicken feather, but when there is a happy event or a funeral in anyone's family, they will take the initiative to help Zhang Luo without a penny benefit.

The three brothers of the Xu family thought to themselves: Yes, it is a skill to be able to evade military service, even if they are jealous, they will not look forward to the death of Liu Laozhu's eldest son. Death on the battlefield is such a thing, and there can still be one less, one less.

Mrs. Xu continued: "Is he afraid that I will be stabbed outside, and Zhao Dashan will be stabbed up again, and their family will be in prison, otherwise he will be able to listen to me?" However, he has since changed. And because of this river fish, our whole village fought with Wangjiagou, and we fought ......."

Mrs. Xu and her sons talked about it one by one, and even told them what they thought in their hearts at the beginning. Step by step, she wants fish, so how can she achieve what she wants. She also wants to go out and make money. can live in the village, how can you borrow Liu Laozhu's strength from above, and how can you make the villagers not jealous and pay attention to our family, and will not let the Xu family become the target of public criticism.

Otherwise, your family will be rich, and the rest of the people in the village will be poor. If your family is rich from the roots, everyone will get used to not being jealous, but if your family suddenly rises, the poorer the people in the village, the more psychologically they will be unbearable. I can't stand it, can we live that day? Our family is not a big family, a family of six wants to have a place, let's eat meat, how to let the villagers drink some soup, she told her sons.

Mrs. Xu didn't bother, this was a member of the family.

What Mrs. Xu didn't know was that Xu Lao Er and Xu Lao Si were fascinated by what they heard, and the third child stared at each other, until his mother said: "Isn't this Zhao Dashan coming to tell Hushi, I quickly bought wasteland...... The silver coin is the twenty taels that your eldest brother left to Tian Xin, and he only told me before leaving. ”

Xu Laosan woke up in a daze, and was burned by the fourth child's Ai Zhu.

Xu Youyin compared half of the Ai Zhu and collapsed, people will die compared to people, and a few brothers have to be thrown away: "Mother, my eldest brother went to Yanmen Pass with the caravan back then, how much money did he earn!" ”

Why are their brothers so tired that they are dying of exhaustion, counting the robbers' seven taels and halves, they have a total of less than twenty taels. And their eldest brother, I heard that when he went out that year, he came back to spend fifteen taels for his daughter-in-law, added two acres of fertile land to the family, and bought clothes and materials for his mother.

So what made my brother most upset this night was not the debt, but the fact that the eldest brother still had money left behind after many years.

Back then, let them go to military service, but they didn't have the ability to leave their eldest brother behind.

No, in the middle of the night, Xu Lao Er came to the backyard first, touched the tree planted by Xu Youtian with red eyes, "Big brother, I miss you again." ”

Then the third and fourth children also came over silently, and they guessed that the second brother was here.