"Mom, how many days are you guys staying here?"

"We won't be staying for a few days. We'll be going back the day after tomorrow."

"It's winter, and there's not much work to do in the fields. Why don't you stay a few more days?"

Zhao Meiya curled her lips. "Forget it. Your eldest brother's family is too busy to move around. It's so cramped. The chickens and ducks in the house need to be fed by others. Your third sister-in-law is a fool, not to mention your third brother. He's lazier than a snake in winter and never seems to be alive. I'm afraid they'll lose the chickens."

He Ruixue's third brother He Qiu Sheng also attended junior high school. As a rare "high diploma" in the village, he returned to the team and worked as an accountant.

He doesn't have to worry about work points, and he can get a few dollars in subsidies every month. Because he is fair and keeps neat accounts, he has a good reputation in the village.

He has a good relationship with his third sister-in-law. They currently have only one son. He is a family-oriented man who comes home as soon as he gets off work and never flirts with other men in the village. His only shortcoming is that he is lazy and would never sit if he could lie down.

In the 1960s, people believed that labor was the most glorious thing. In order to cultivate a spirit of hard work, there were clear regulations that major party and government cadres at the county, district and township levels who were able to work should spend part of their time each year going to the fields to participate in production.

The same is true for major party, government and military cadres at all levels above the county level. Jiang Mengheng's father and his superiors would set aside some time every year to participate in physical labor with workers and farmers.

The same applies to students. In order to support national construction, in addition to studying, they need to be unified and go to railways, farmlands, mines, construction sites... to perform voluntary labor.

When He Qiu Sheng was in junior high school, he was assigned to the railway line by the school. Although he was still young at that time, his true nature was faintly revealed, and he always avoided the important and focused on the trivial.

When asked to clean the sleepers, he pulled weeds instead; when asked to lay the roadbed, he picked up gravel instead. Because he always failed to complete the tasks, no one was willing to work with him.

After graduation, when the village was busy with farming, he, as an accountant, had to go to the fields and fetch water from the river with others. When everyone was almost at the fields, he was the only one nowhere to be seen.

The people in the team thought he had fallen into the river and hurried back to look for him, only to see him walking slowly with a bucket on his shoulder halfway. Seeing that the water in the bucket was almost gone, he cried out and went back to add more water. He did this over and over again, but he wasted time and time without any water left.

The team leader couldn't do anything about him and threatened to deduct his work points, but he didn't care at all. So he could only assign him an easy job - herding cattle, which any child in the village could do.

But his laziness was beyond everyone's expectations. Others would lead the cattle to places with abundant water and grass, but he let the cattle find food by themselves. He would ride lazily on the cattle and read martial arts novels he found in the recycling station. At the end of the day, the cattle were so tired that they had lost half a pound.

The reason He Qiu Sheng became an accountant, in addition to having a junior high school education, was that he was strongly recommended by most villagers.

He Ruixue couldn't help but suspect that a big part of the reason was that no one in the village wanted to work in the same group with him, so they simply kicked him out of the team going to the fields.

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He Qiu Sheng had good grades when he was studying, and the commune tried to recruit him, but he disliked the long commute to work every day and refused to go.

How nice it is to be able to stay at home.

They call it taking care of their parents, but of course both elders say it is not necessary.

The third sister-in-law was even more bizarre. She was the daughter of a landlord. Her father was a gambler in his early years and lost all the family wealth shortly after liberation. Her brothers bought the land and ran away with the money, leaving only a few acres of land for her.

It was a blessing in disguise, as she was classified as a rich peasant when her class status was determined.

Pan Shuyu was a young lady brought up in the traditional way. She read books and embroidered in her daily life and spoke softly. She looked gentle and dignified, but her personality was not rigid. She was even a little careless and not sensitive to the details of life.

To put it bluntly, he is stupid.

She is not lazy, but she has no plans. She looks busy, but no one knows what she is busy with.

I'm wandering around all day long and can't take a break, but when I look closely, I find I'm not doing anything.

If you ask her to cook, she will get up early in the morning to prepare, then procrastinate until noon, and go to collect firewood halfway through boiling water. When the pot is dry, she will look for eggs in the chicken coop, put the eggs aside and add water... Don't even think about eating the food she cooks until the afternoon.

She selects vegetables very carefully, picking out and washing each one, which usually takes her an hour or so. She has to change the water four or five times to wash rice. Others have already stewed the chicken, but she hasn't finished plucking the chicken feathers yet.

The old lady was so angry that she kept calling her a turtle, saying that she didn't know how to move after turning her shell over.

Because these two people are unreliable, the old lady is still the head of the family.

If she had no choice, Zhao Meiya would have wanted to separate her third son's family.

She didn't dare to imagine what it would be like for her to be taken care of by these two guys when she was old. She probably would starve to death in bed and no one would notice.

However, although my third sister-in-law and third brother have various shortcomings, they are filial, gentle, and never disobey their elders.

Seeing that his parents were in a bad mood, he apologized quickly before they got angry. He was eloquent and only said nice things, which could easily make people calm down.

He Ruixue shook Zhao Meiya's arm, "Are a few chickens more important than your daughter? Mom and Dad, I just started working and I'm feeling anxious. Can you stay a few more days~"

The old lady was a little tempted, but still shook her head. "No, the villagers are talkative. It's a good thing that you found a job, but there might be some cunning people playing tricks behind the scenes. If we take a few more days off or work a few days less, they will definitely say that we are a family that likes to enjoy life and are like capitalists."

The movement was now so loud that it had affected the village. They had attended several struggle sessions, which were truly shocking. They began to be nervous in everything they said and did.

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