The next day, when it was still dark, Sun Weiguo came again to collect supplies. Now Chu Tian basically asked Sun Weiguo and his brother to make a trip every day, so that they could earn more money before the busy farming season began.

When the busy farming season really begins, everyone, from the elderly in their seventies to children as young as five or six, except for pregnant women who are about to give birth or those who are in confinement after childbirth, goes to the fields. They all want to seize the time to farm, otherwise how can they finish farming the one or two thousand acres of land in a brigade?

Even after planting, other tasks come one after another. Watering when there is a water shortage, weeding and removing seedlings when there is no water shortage. Even when everything is fine, you have to open up new land...

Well, anyway, we are busy until the autumn harvest in October.

Chu Tian handed him a written letter and a package, and instructed, "Be sure to send it out today, don't forget!"

Sun Weiguo carefully held the letter and package, nodded heavily and said, "Brother Tian, ​​don't worry, my brother and I will go to the post office after delivering the goods."

As he was about to leave, Chu Tian hurriedly grabbed him, "Hey, wait."

Sun Weiguo was puzzled, "What's wrong?"

Chu Tian smiled and took out four dollars from his pocket and handed it to him, "I didn't pay you and your elder brother your wages yesterday..."

Sun Weiguo didn't hesitate at all and took it without hesitation, saying with a smile, "Nothing. Weren't you busy yesterday?"

Chu Tian watched the two brothers Sun Weiguo gradually disappear into the darkness before turning around and returning to his own sleeping dugout. While lying on the kang and trying to fall asleep, he was still thinking about the letter he had written to Old Lady Chu and the others.

He said in the letter that if Mrs. Chu wanted to come, one of him and his second brother would go back to pick her up during the slack season. If she didn't want to come, she could wait until this winter or next winter, when he would bring his wife and children back to see them...

Finally, he put in another fifty yuan and some national food coupons that Sun Weiguo had bought from Li Gang. He felt embarrassed to accept the dozen yuan that Mrs. Chu had saved for many years, but Mrs. Chu had already given it to him, so he could only return it double...

When Chu Tian was half asleep, he vaguely heard someone calling him. He thought he was dreaming, but when he heard Yao Xiujuan calling "Second Brother", he knew he was not dreaming!

"Second brother, are you looking for me?"

Chu Tian didn't even put on his shoes or clothes, he quickly opened the door and looked at Chu Min who was standing outside the house talking to his wife!

Chu Min and Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Tian and saw that he was disheveled. Yao Xiujuan walked towards him and scolded him coquettishly, "Brother Tian, ​​why don't you put on your clothes before coming out?"

Chu Tian looked down at his clothes and said calmly, "We are all family, it doesn't matter."

Chu Min coughed and smiled, "Yes, what I said is right, please don't mind it, sister-in-law."

Yao Xiujuan looked around and wanted to say, "Why should I mind? He's my man, what kind of person have I seen before?"

Chu Tian had learned a lesson about Chu Min's shamelessness. He rolled his eyes at Chu Min and asked, "Second brother, what's the matter with you coming to see me so early?"

Chu Min didn't mind Chu Tian's eye roll. He just pointed at Chu Tian's clothes with a smile and asked, "Little brother, are you sure you want to listen to me dressed like this? Or do you want to get dressed while I talk?"

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In the end, Chu Tian and Chu Min drove out in a carriage again.

Chu Tian came home in the evening, said hello to Yao Xiujuan, and went back to the dugout next door. He collapsed on the kang and didn't want to move at all. He was tired from running today. He and Chu Min ran to the cement factory 20 or 30 kilometers away. In order to buy some cement, they had to talk a lot. They followed the sales director around the cement factory for countless times. Finally, after much persuasion, the director was willing to sell it to them in advance. Only the two brothers understood the hardships involved. Alas...

The production of cement is very slow now, and the supply is always in short supply every year, so many orders are placed half a year or a year in advance. Even the cement used for the construction of new factory buildings in the city’s textile factories is ordered a year and a half in advance.

But how could the Chu Tian brothers know all this? But since they were already here, they couldn't leave empty-handed, so they went to the supply and marketing cooperative of the Changsheng Production Corps, which was less than ten kilometers away from the cement factory.

Each of them pooled a few dollars, bought a few packs of cigarettes and two bottles of wine, and returned to the cement factory. They found the sales manager and started to beg him again. The manager probably felt embarrassed to refuse because he saw that the Chu Tian brothers were giving him cigarettes and wine.

After much thought, he took out a portion of the one ton of cement that was originally intended for the textile factory and gave it to them. Anyway, the Chu Tian brothers didn't ask for much, so he could just send more to the textile factory in the next batch to make up for it...

Of course, they didn't ask for much, so the delivery was not carried out. Chu Tian and the others had to go and get the goods themselves.

Yao Xiujuan walked into the dugout next door carrying a bowl of rice. Just as she was about to say that it was time to eat, she saw that Chu Tian had fallen asleep. She gently placed the bowl and chopsticks on the head of the kang, looked at Chu Tian's slightly tired face, and thought that he must be very tired today, otherwise how could he fall asleep while she went to serve him the rice?

After carefully covering Chu Tian with a quilt, Yao Xiujuan went out again with the dishes and chopsticks.

Yao Xiuli was washing Wu Ya's feet when she looked up and saw Yao Xiujuan coming back with the untouched dishes. She quickly wiped Wu Ya's feet, carried her back to the kang, and said, "Sister, doesn't your brother-in-law like to eat? How about I make something else?"

Yao Xiujuan put the rice into the pot and covered it, then shook her head and said, "No, don't do it. Your brother-in-law is asleep."

Yao Xiuli was surprised, "Didn't my brother-in-law just come back?"

Yao Xiujuan scooped some more water from the basin and answered while washing her hands, "Well, your brother-in-law has been running all day today. I guess he's exhausted..."

After thinking for a while, she said, "Xiu Li, why don't you cook early tomorrow morning? Your brother-in-law likes to eat soup and rice, so why don't you make soup and rice?"

Yao Xiuli nodded. "Okay, it just so happened that Sister Weiguo gave me a few potatoes and a small bottle of tomato sauce yesterday..."

Yao Xiujuan walked back to the kang, glanced back at Yao Xiuli, and smiled, "You and Weiguo's wife are on good terms now, aren't you?"

Yao Xiuli grinned and said, "Sister-in-law Weiguo is a very nice person..."

Yao Xiujuan took off her clothes and nodded, "In that case, if you have nothing to do during the day, go play with her more."

Yao Xiuli pouted, "No, my elder sister is already eight months pregnant, I have to stay with you!"

After a pause, he continued, "I don't know how my brother is doing now... He's been gone for almost a month..."

Yao Xiujuan was also worried about Yao Youjun, but she tried to comfort him, "It's okay, he listens to your brother-in-law very much. If your brother-in-law tells him to work hard, he will definitely work hard..."