Zhou Yuan and his friends rode their bicycles and sang as they went back along the bumpy gravel road. Everyone was in high spirits and sang at the top of their lungs.

Fortunately, there are few people on both sides of the road, so no one will care even if you shout at the top of your lungs.

Tired of singing and stepping, I sat down to rest and continued to rush home.

When you get tired of pedaling, you sit at the back and I take over. We take turns like this and return home from the town seven or eight kilometers away under the cover of night.

It was already past 11 o'clock in the evening when Zhou Yuan pushed his bicycle into the house quietly.

He thought everyone in the family was asleep, but he found his father still sitting in the yard smoking. Seeing him come back, he couldn't help but ask:

"Zhou Yuan, where have you been? Why are you back so late?"

"Dad, you haven't slept yet. You had dinner outside with some classmates and then watched a movie."

Zhou Yuan locked his bicycle in the yard and sat down to chat with his father.

He has been very busy recently and hasn't had a good chat with his father for a long time.

Although my father is not yet 50 years old, he looks very old due to his poor health. He even has a hunchback, which is heartbreaking to see.

"Dad, our family's conditions are better now. I can make money outside. Why don't we subcontract the land and stop being a banker? You and Mom can just enjoy a few days at home, okay?"

The reason why Zhou Yuan sat down and chatted with his father was mainly to talk about the contracted land.

He felt that he was hanging around outside and couldn't take care of the crops at home.

My dad is not in good health, my sister has to go to school, and it is too hard for my mom to do all the farm work by herself.

I have my own warehouse and now I am planning to contract a construction site outside to earn some money and support my family.

So he thought that since it was just the beginning of spring and the work in the fields had not been done much, he might as well subcontract it to someone else and just take a small commission.

In the past, you could still collect some grain when subcontracting out the land, but now it is impossible to collect grain. No one would work on the bad land even if they offered it for free, and it would just be left to grow weeds.

When his father Zhou Yimin heard this, he almost jumped up and said, "What? Don't think you can get cocky just because you contracted a construction site and built a few schools.

Farmers don't even need to farm anymore. What a joke! If rural people don't farm, what will they eat? Your mom, your sister, and I need to go to school. Where will our food come from? Where will our money come from?

"Dad, don't worry. From now on, I will give you a sum of money every month. I won't let you and mom go hungry, and I won't let my sister go without money for school."

Zhou Yuan patted his chest, took out two hundred yuan from his pocket, handed it to his father and said, "Dad, this is your pocket money. You can spend it however you want. I will give you two hundred yuan every month from now on.

As for the household expenses and the money for my sister's education, I'll hand it over to Mom and let her make all the arrangements. She'll make sure you eat well and wear good clothes. Is that okay with you?"

"Bullshit! Your mother and I are still young. Why don't we work and become idlers at such a young age? I don't want this money. You can spend it on yourself.

From now on, you just need to take care of yourself and don’t worry about things at home. Your mother and I have made arrangements.

If you think we're not living well, you can give us some money as a subsidy, but you can't deprive us of our right to do farm work."

Zhou Yimin said this in a muffled voice, and stuffed the money Zhou Yuan had just given him back into Zou Yuan's hand. He stood up decisively, took his pipe and went back to the house.

Zhou Yuan originally wanted to tell his father not to smoke that kind of low-quality dry tobacco. He is old and coughs frequently, so it is best to quit smoking.

Even if he couldn't quit, he should at least smoke something better, but he knew that his father wouldn't listen to him at all.

Alas, there is indeed a generation gap between the older generation and the younger generation.

Dad didn't agree to subcontract the land. That night, Zhou Yuan thought about it again while lying in bed, but couldn't come up with any good ideas.

The next day at breakfast, he brought it up to his mother again, hoping she wouldn't object.

Unexpectedly, my mother was even more opposed to it. My father had already told Zhou Yuan’s mother about it before he went to bed last night.

The couple had already agreed that no matter what, they would not agree to their son renting out the land.

In the past, the production team had no food to eat, but now that we have contracted the land to ourselves, we can just barely have food to eat.

But his son asked them not to grow crops. How could that be possible?

They have deep feelings for the land and crops. In their hearts, the land is as important as their lives.

So, haha!

"What? Son, you really think you're rich, don't you?

Now no one in the village dares to say that he doesn’t want to grow crops. If rural people don’t grow crops and just idle away all day long, people will laugh at you.

So I don't agree.

I don't care what you do outside, but don't get involved in the things at home. If you want to help, I'll help. If you don't want to help, I won't force you."

My mother Liu Caijuan answered in a very arbitrary and loud voice. After she finished speaking, she knocked the chopsticks hard on the bowl, making a loud noise.

Not to mention his parents, even his sister Zhou Xiaoyu disagreed after finding out, saying that he had forgotten the pain after the wound healed.

I just made some money to build a house, but now I ask my parents to stop farming and just play around like this every day. Can they afford it?

Faced with opposition from his entire family, Zhou Yuan could only remain speechless.

Now he finally understood what it meant to be outnumbered. There were four people in his family, three of them opposed him, and he was alone and helpless, so this matter had to come to nothing.

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