Chu Tian looked Chu Min up and down, and after a moment, he asked the question in his mind, "Second brother, tell me the truth, were you planning to ask mother to separate the family when you came back from visiting relatives?"

Chu Min smiled and nodded, admitting frankly, "Yes, so when I came back and heard that you had asked mother to divide the family property and the money, I was very surprised!"

Chu Tian's eyes widened in anger and he pointed at himself, "So, my younger brother is helping my second brother?"

Chu Min laughed out loud and patted Chu Tian on the shoulder, "How can you say that I'm doing this for my second brother? I'm clearly working hard for the happiness of our respective families in the future!"

“····”

Chu Tian cursed in his heart, thinking that he was indeed the second son of Chu, the smartest son of the Chu family! Much smarter than that selfish Chu Wen!

However, Chu Tian had to admit that he didn't actually hate Chu Min. In his original body's impression, he found that although Chu Min was the kind of person who watched the fire from the other side of the river and never took the initiative to stir up trouble, he never instigated any trouble behind their backs, nor did he bully Chu Tian's family of three. What's more, he would occasionally say a few words to help Chu Tian, ​​although those words were of no use...

Chu Min stopped smiling and raised his eyebrows to ask, "How about it? Do you want to go with brother to order bricks?"

Chu Tian rolled his eyes and said, "Second brother, come and call me tomorrow!" Then he turned and left!

Chu Tian returned home and saw Yao Xiujuan in a good mood, humming an unknown tune. He turned to look at Yao Xiuli in confusion, "Xiuli, what happened to your elder sister?"

Yao Xiuli looked up at Yao Xiujuan, who was sitting on the kang, humming a tune while folding the clothes she had made for her unborn child. She whispered, "Today, my eldest brother-in-law's second sister-in-law brought her child to visit me. She chatted with me for a long time and even gave me a little dress she had made herself..."

Chu Tian raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is it that my second sister-in-law and the others came not long after I left?"

Yao Xiuli nodded, "Yes, they came here less than ten minutes after my brother-in-law left. Oh, and they left not long ago too. They left about ten minutes before my brother-in-law came back..."

Chu Tian, ​​"..."

Yao Xiuli estimated that it was almost noon. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Brother-in-law, what are we having for lunch?"

Chu Tian thought about it seriously, "Is there any cabbage left at home?"

Yao Xiuli, "There's only a cabbage heart left, but there are still a few radishes."

Chu Tian nodded. "Then let's just stir-fry something and make some noodles. Do you know how to cook?"

“No, I won’t…”

Yao Xiuli knew about la tiaozi, but she had never made it before, because la tiaozi needed to be made with white flour, and her family rarely ate white flour before. Even if they did, it was always made by her mother...

“····”

Chu Tian is also a person who can only eat but not poop...

Yao Xiujuan had already folded the clothes. Seeing the two of them looking at each other, she asked curiously, "Brother Tian, ​​when did you come back?"

Chu Tian came back to his senses and quickly turned around and said, "I just came back a while ago."

Yao Xiujuan said "Oh" and stood on the ground, holding her stomach. "What were you talking about just now?"

Yao Xiuli said hurriedly, "Sister, my brother-in-law said he wanted to eat pulled noodles for lunch, but, but I don't know how to make it..."

Yao Xiujuan thought it was something, so she walked over to her, holding her belly, and said with a smile, "What's so difficult about this? Xiuli, go and knead the dough. Don't make it too hard. Cover it and let it rise. When the vegetables are cooked, I'll teach you how to pull..."

Yao Xiuli nodded, "Then I will do it now..."

Chu Tian hurriedly asked, "Is there any meat at home?"

Yao Xiuli's voice came from outside, "There's nothing fresh left. There's only the meat scraps in the oil tank that I made a few days ago, and the rest is the bacon that my eldest sister pickled..."

Chu Tian didn't like bacon, so he immediately shouted, "Then put more meat scraps in."

"Oh, I understand..."

Chu Tian sighed inwardly. Now that there was no electricity, it was a hassle not having a refrigerator! As the temperature got higher, if he wanted to eat meat, he would have to find an excuse to take it out of the space. He could no longer take out several kilograms at a time and eat it slowly like he did in winter...

"Mom, Wu Ya needs to pee..."

Wu Ya rubbed her eyes and sat up. Yao Xiujuan hurriedly shouted, "Wu Ya, hold it in for a while. Mom will carry you away..."

Chu Tian hurriedly grabbed Yao Xiujuan and said, "I'll do it, I'll do it..."

Then he walked forward, hugged Wu Ya, and walked out quickly.

At night, Chu Tian returned to the dugout next door, closed the door, and took out the letter in the candlelight. He had not looked at the name on the envelope at the brigade headquarters during the day, but now he found that the sender's address on one letter was the supply and marketing cooperative in Urumqi, and the other was the address of his hometown. The name was Chu Jie. In his memory, the one named Chu Jie seemed to be the youngest son of his uncle's family?

He first opened the letter from Wushi. Just a glance at it and he knew all the contents. It was just as he had guessed. It was an agreement made with a lady from the supply and marketing cooperative when they were picking up the educated youth a few years ago. If there was a bicycle ticket, he could exchange it for meat...

After not hearing from him for so long, he thought he couldn't get it, so he just ignored it. He was also thinking of looking for Li Gang later to see if he could receive it and buy one from him.

In short, whether you are changing or buying, you must have a bicycle...

The other letter was obviously much thicker. Chu Tian opened the envelope and poured out a lot of money of various denominations and two pieces of paper covered with words.

“····”

After reading the letter, Chu Tian held his forehead with one hand and held the change of probably only a dozen yuan in the other hand, and laughed uncontrollably. However, that smile looked particularly sad, and as he laughed, two lines of tears inexplicably flowed into his eyes.

Chu Tian wiped the tears from his face blankly. He clearly felt that this was his original body's subconscious reaction. He felt that his grandmother, uncle, second uncle, and other brothers and sisters were thinking of him. He was not redundant, and someone loved him...

In the letter, Old Mrs. Chu said that she had been missing him for ten years, but after Liu Zhaodi left with her brothers, she never sent a letter back. She couldn't find him when she wanted to see him because she didn't have the address.

They had just been planning to look for his address in the commune's records of moving out ten years ago when they received his package. They learned that Liu Zhaodi had been abusing him for the past ten years and felt very distressed. So she wanted to come to Xinjiang to personally deal with Liu Zhaodi to vent her anger, but his two uncles stopped her, saying that she should first ask herself whether she would allow him to come, etc...

Chu Tian put away the envelope and sighed inwardly. Thinking of what Old Mrs. Chu said in the letter, he couldn't really tell what he felt at the moment. Was he touched? Or sad? Or maybe...

Forget it, forget it, don’t think about it anymore. The fact that Mrs. Chu gave him all the dozen dollars she had saved for many years showed that she really loved him. As for why she didn’t think of going to the commune to check the address in the past ten years?

He doesn't know this, nor does he want to know. It's just some kind of necessity, right?