After thinking for a moment, Yao Xiujuan spoke again, "By the way, Brother Tian, ​​I heard my second brother say that you were going to pass by the steel plant? Then, can we..."

Chu Tian understood what Yao Xiujuan meant and nodded, "Well, if I have time, I will go to see the friendly forces..."

Yao Xiujuan was relieved, "Hmm..."

When Liu Zhaodi walked into the kitchen, she found Zhang Ping, Chu Min's wife, placing a large pile of pancakes into a basket covered with a white cloth. "Second brother's wife, what are you doing?"

Zhang Ping glanced up at Liu Zhaodi standing at the kitchen door and said calmly, "Mom, Dazhu's father is going to haul sand with my younger brother today. The place they're going is far away, so they probably won't be back for lunch, so I'm preparing some dry food so they can eat if they're hungry."

When Liu Zhaodi heard that the second brother was going out with Chu Tian, ​​her expression changed immediately. "What for? Why are you pulling sand when you have nothing better to do?"

Zhang Ping covered the pancake with a clean white cloth to prevent it from getting dusty on the road. After hearing what Liu Zhaodi said, she only smiled faintly, "Mom, we have separated and can't live together in the same yard anymore, so Dazhu's father decided to build a house with my younger brother, and the sand he brought is also for the house!"

After saying that, he picked up the basket and walked past her. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Liu Zhaodi's stunned expression, as if she didn't understand what he said for a while.

Zhang Ping walked to the gate with the basket in hand when she ran into Chu Jun. "Brother..."

Chu Jun nodded, "What's this, second brother's wife?"

Zhang Ping thought for a moment and began to explain, "...It's like this. Today, Dazhu's father and I are going to haul sand together."

Chu Jun was stunned for a moment, "Second brother wants to build a house too?"

Zhang Ping was also stunned, "Brother, don't you know?"

Chu Jun scratched his head and said, "I don't know! Oh, forget it, just give me the basket. There's no farm work anyway, so I'll go help my second and youngest brothers haul sand."

Before Zhang Ping could say no, Chu Jun had already taken the basket from her hand and strode towards the educated youth site.

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Looking at the Chu army that had already walked away, Zhang Ping returned to the yard helplessly.

At this time, the eldest son ran out of the house and was about to run out of the yard. Zhang Ping grabbed his arm and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Dazhu, "Mom, I want to go out and play..."

Zhang Ping said with a sullen face, "Don't go! Your mother and I need to do the laundry, and you have to look after your siblings! Also, you're going to school in two days. Have you finished your homework? Do you still want to take the junior high school entrance exam next year?"

The joyful expression on Dazhu's face instantly collapsed, and he wailed, "Mom, why do you have to say things that make me unhappy when I'm happy?"

Zhang Ping sneered, raised one hand and slapped him, saying, "I can make you even more unhappy. Do you want to try?"

Dazhu thought of his mother's cruelty, trembled, and hurriedly changed his words, "No, mother, I will go back to do my homework and teach my younger brothers and sisters to read..."

Zhang Ping nodded in satisfaction before letting go of Dazhu.

Dazhu, who was freed, immediately fled back to the house in a hurry...

Seeing this, Daya, who was washing clothes in the yard, lowered her head in envy. She also wanted to go to school. Her father and fourth uncle had both told her to study, but whether she could go when school started, she knew...

On the way back, when passing by the steel plant, Chu Tian stopped the carriage. Facing Chu Min's puzzled gaze, Chu Tian explained.

"Second brother, my brother-in-law is now an apprentice in the steel mill. Xiujuan is worried about him, so she asked me to come by this morning to see how he is doing."

Chu Min suddenly realized, "Ah, that's what you should see. Go and see it. We'll be waiting for you at this intersection."

"Um."

Chu Tian was thinking the same thing. He didn't want to drive the horse-drawn carriage carrying several carts of sand to the gate of the steel plant. Anyway, the intersection was not far from the steel plant and it would only take about ten minutes to walk there.

Chu Jun, who was driving the carriage behind, looked at Chu Tian in confusion as he walked away. He got off the carriage and walked to Chu Min and asked, "Second brother, where has Tian been?"

Chu Min explained, "That's it, my younger brother went to see his brother-in-law."

Chu Jun was surprised. "What? Tian's brother-in-law is an apprentice at the steel mill?"

"Um."

Chu Min nodded.

At this time, several team members who came to help also came over. When they heard Chu Jun's exclamation, they were all surprised and started chattering about it.

"Oh, I heard that the steel mill rarely recruits outsiders, and all the jobs are taken up by their own children..."

"Bullshit, what do you know? They also recruit workers from outside! Every year when we harvest in autumn, they recruit workers from outside..."

"Even if they recruited outsiders, so what? They're all illiterate. Who can get in? Aren't all the steel mill's own children getting in?"

"But as long as you've been to school, you still have a chance to get in..."

As he spoke, one of the young men nudged Chu Min who was standing next to him and asked, "Brother Chu Min, how did Brother Chu Tian's brother-in-law get in?"

Chu Min smiled and shook his head, "I don't know either. If my little brother hadn't said he wanted to go and take a look, I wouldn't have known either."

The man didn't believe it and turned to look at Chu Jun again, "Brother Chu Jun, don't you know either?"

Chu Jun hurriedly shook his head, "How could I possibly know?"

The man was very disappointed. He wanted to find out how to get in. If there was a way, he would also like to go in... Being an apprentice, even if the salary was low, was more comfortable than working in the brigade.

"Brother-in-law!"

Not long after Chu Tian stood at the gate of the steel factory, he saw Yao Youjun running out in work clothes.

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