Mrs. Xu burst into tears. "I've seen Miss Zhou's abilities and tried to ask for help several times, but Old Xu wouldn't let me."

"Didn't I ask Ling Ran to carry him away? If he dares to be stubborn, tell Ling Ran to teach him a lesson."

Mrs. Xu immediately waved her hand, "No, no, Old Xu still has an old waist injury."

"Then tell me! Is there anything I can't help you with at home?"

Mrs. Xu hesitated for a long time before she said, "Okay! I'll tell Miss Zhou everything. Please help me."

When getting married in the countryside, all you need to do is hold a banquet. Xu Tong and his wife are the same age, so they held a banquet when they were 21 years old.

In winter, he went to the county town to play and encountered conscription. In the second half of that year, there were fewer people of conscription age, so he ran up for fun to make up the numbers, thinking that he would not be conscripted, but who knew that he was conscripted.

His family had no choice but to send him to the army. In the third year, when he came back to visit his family, he said proudly that he was kept in the army and became a volunteer soldier because of his cooking skills.

In fact, when he first went there, he was not in charge of logistics. There was an activity in the team, and there were too many people eating, so there was a shortage of people in the logistics department, and their class was sent to help.

The Xu family can be said to be a family of hunters, and they also have the skill of cooking big pot dishes. This time when he went to help with logistics, it was not his turn to cook. However, when he saw others cooking the big pot dishes, he was very dissatisfied and said this and that.

The chef got angry and stuffed a big iron shovel into his hand. He actually took the big shovel. Then, the dishes he cooked were praised and he was transferred to logistics.

He didn't tell his family about his transfer to logistics. He just thought that since they were all retired after three years, there was nothing to say. His wife was waiting for him to come home and have a baby!

There were many opportunities to cook in the logistics department, and his skills improved with practice, so the team advised him to stay and become a volunteer soldier.

He agreed because volunteers received wages, which meant he had a job. It was a great pride for a mountain man to have a job.

The family was also proud, but Xu Tong came and went in a hurry during his visits, and Mrs. Xu had never gotten pregnant. The family was doubly nice to Mrs. Xu, asking her to be considerate of Xu Tong and to work for a few years before returning to civilian work. Maybe she could be assigned a job.

Just wait! She had already married this man, and seeing that he was the most promising person in the village, she couldn't make a fuss.

After waiting for three years, Xu Tong once again did not come to the house and signed another three-year contract, which made Mrs. Xu unhappy.

Xu Tong said that this was the last time, and he would change his career immediately after these three years.

However, if another three years were to pass, Xu Tong would have been delayed for nine years. She was almost thirty, could she still have a child? Seeing that other people's children were already in school.

Xu Tong was also anxious and planned to ask his wife to live there for a while.

Isn't this just coming back to pick someone up? The team gave them a few more days off, and Xu Dasao's younger brother came to see her off. Together with Xu Tong's younger brother, the three of them drank together, and somehow they got involved in hunting.

Xu Tong, in high spirits, took his younger brother and his wife's brother to the back mountain to hunt, and they encountered a group of wild boars.

How can a hunting rifle do all the work?

The wild boar that was wounded by the hunting rifle went crazy and bit off one calf of each of the two younger brothers. Xu Tong was also injured in the waist.

The two younger brothers' calves became repeatedly inflamed and their injuries became increasingly serious, so the hospital recommended amputation.

In the end, one had his left calf amputated and the other had his right calf amputated. Both became disabled, and their wives ran away, leaving behind two boys aged two or three.

Xu Tong himself injured his waist and the doctor said that he might not be able to have children in this lifetime.

The Xu family and Xu Dasao's family felt like the sky had fallen. After Xu Tong recovered from his injury, he returned to the team because two, no, three families needed him to support them. He carried his two younger brothers and two nephews on his back.

Because he thought that he went up the mountain because he boasted, and he encountered the wild boars because he underestimated the enemy.

When the three years were over, he returned home as promised. However, how could he manage three families while farming at home?

After two years of enduring, the situation became increasingly difficult. A teammate who knew his family's situation went to their village and asked them if they were willing to work as domestic workers. Without hesitation, they agreed immediately.

The teammates left two hundred yuan, and they gave one hundred yuan to each family and came with some dry food.

Mrs. Xu couldn't stop crying. "After the accident, Xu Tong changed his personality. He is no longer as talkative and cheerful as before. We can't have our own children, so we raise our two nephews as our own children.

Both sets of elders were still alive and could help the two younger brothers. So, when they asked to recruit people to work on the logistics of the food court, Xu Tong hesitated and directly refused. It was not appropriate to ask the elders from either side to come.

The old man is old, and my younger brother and nephew need to be taken care of. We send our salary back home every month, but it is still difficult to make ends meet.

After the amputation of the two younger brothers, it was not the end of the matter. They still had to take painkillers frequently. It was also a problem for my nephew to go to school. He had to go out of the mountains to go to school and could only stay in the dormitory. In addition, the elderly in both families were getting older, and the expenses were increasing.

My nephew is already ten years old, and we will need to take care of building a house and getting him married, so the burden will only get heavier."

Zhou Xiang frowned, "Your brother only had one leg amputated, but he still has the other leg! He's not completely disabled, so why does he still need an old man to take care of him?"

"After being depressed for a while, they finally picked themselves up and decided not to become useless. However, the phantom pain was unbearable. When it hurt, they would roll around in bed."

Phantom limb pain? Hallucination?

"No prosthetic limbs?"

"We have no money. The doctor suggested they see a psychologist for their phantom limb pain, but we can't afford the psychologist's fees, and they don't want to go either."

It all came down to money. Xu Tong was too stubborn, causing his two younger brothers to suffer at home. "You're only 36 years old this year?"

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