Everything went smoothly afterwards. Xu Fei and Sun Qianqian fell in love at first sight and got engaged within a few days. The wedding date was set for June, after the spring plowing was over, when the weather was relatively free and supplies were plentiful.

After a month's rest, Chu Tian and Chu Min started working again. Just as they started working, all the drivers were sent out, and the regiment headquarters temporarily assigned them the task of delivering a batch of supplies to the Altay region. They went home that day, packed some luggage, and were sent out again.

That morning, the Kazakh herdsmen they were staying with fried their specialty snack, baursak, to express their gratitude to Chu Tian for the brown sugar he had given them, and served it to them for breakfast with their homemade jam and freshly brewed milk tea.

(Note: It is actually similar to fried dough cakes, but it is made with ghee and milk.)

Chu Tian took a sip of Xinjiang's special salty milk tea and squinted his eyes. Speaking of which, he especially liked salty milk tea, especially the milk tea brewed by herdsmen themselves. It was made with freshly squeezed milk without any water. The milky aroma was unrestrained and it tasted much better than the sweet milk tea with various ingredients added...

Chu Min picked up a triangular baursak and said with a smile, "I remember when I first heard you talk about this, I was wondering what baursak was. It wasn't until I ate it that I realized that baursak is the fried pancake we eat."

"It's different. The fried pancakes we eat at home are basically made with water and flour, but baursak is made with milk and ghee. When paired with jam and yogurt, it tastes much better than fried pancakes..."

Chu Tian smiled and picked up a baursak, tore it in half, and used a small spoon to add a little jam and a few spoonfuls of yogurt to mix them together. After spreading it evenly, he put it into his mouth.

"really····"

Chu Min nodded in agreement. He wanted to say something else, but suddenly he felt panicky. He looked at Chu Tian in panic, "Little brother, I..."

Chu Tian saw Chu Min's face turn pale. He was stunned for a moment, then quickly put down the unfinished baursak in his hand and asked with concern, "Second brother, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Chu Min murmured, "I, I feel like my mother might be gone..."

"What?"

Chu Tian was a little confused. He thought Chu Min had an allergic reaction to something he ate wrong, but Chu Min said this.

Chu Min's eyes were red, "Brother, I can feel that mother is definitely gone..."

“·····”

Chu Tian stared. He, he really didn't know what to say. He thought, is there really such a psychological connection between mother and son? Then why didn't he feel anything at all?

What Chu Tian didn't know was that besides him, Chu Wen, who had just been assigned to work today, was also feeling a little nervous in a labor farm somewhere. However, he didn't think too much about it. He thought it was because he didn't get enough rest, so he shook his head and went to work.

Facts proved that their feeling was correct. Liu Zhaodi was indeed gone and would not last long. Everyone had actually prepared themselves mentally. Even the coffin was made early. So when Chu Min and Chu Tian came back and found that Liu Zhaodi had been buried, they were not too sad.

Everyone accepted the result very calmly, but there was nothing they could do about it, as the dead could not be brought back to life.

After Chu Jun took Chu Min and Chu Tian to kowtow in front of Liu Zhaodi's grave, they returned to the main hall of Chu Jun's house. Chu Jun entered the room where Liu Zhaodi used to live, took out a wooden box and placed it on the table. He opened it towards Chu Tian and Chu Min and gestured.

"This is something my mother left behind..."

Chu Tian didn't wait for Chu Jun to finish his words before saying, "Big Brother, Second Brother, I don't want the things left by mother. My conditions are better than yours and Second Brother's. You can divide these things among yourselves."

Chu Min also said, "I don't want it either. Although my conditions are not as good as you and my younger brother, they are still better than most. Besides, our mother is basically taken care of by you and your sister-in-law. You can keep this little private money left by our mother!"

Chu Jun opened his mouth and was about to say something when he saw his two younger brothers stand up.

"Brother, it's spring plowing time now, and it's almost time to go back to work in the afternoon. Let's go back first."

After saying this, without waiting for Chu Jun to object, the two of them turned around and walked out of the main hall of Chu Jun's house.

At this time, Yu Zhen walked in from outside and looked at Chu Jun, "Second brother and younger brother are gone?"

Chu Jun nodded, picked up the box on the table and handed it to Yu Zhen, saying, "Let's go. Keep this."

Yu Zhen looked at the gold bar and about three hundred yuan in the box, frowned and asked, "Brother Jun, didn't you give it to my second and youngest brothers?"

Chu Jun: "I gave it to them, but they don't want it..."

Yu Zhen was silent for a moment after hearing this and said, "Second brother and youngest brother are taking care of us."

"Well... okay, put it away quickly, we have to go to work."

Chu Jun certainly knew that his two younger brothers were taking care of him. Among the three brothers, he was the only one without a job. Even though he had the 3,000 yuan compensated by Wu Dafa, plus the few hundred yuan he got when the family was divided, plus the money he saved in the past few years, which added up to about 4,000 yuan, he was actually already a rich man in the brigade, but still far behind Chu Tian and Chu Min.

Envy? Of course he was, but he wasn't jealous either. After all, he wasn't as smooth-talking as his two younger brothers. Even if he were given a job, he wouldn't necessarily be able to do it well. It would be better for him to farm the land...

Chu Tian and Chu Min returned home and without having time to rest, they changed their clothes and went to the fields to work on spring plowing.

"Captain, when will our team buy a tractor?"

During the break, Chu Tian heard the rumbling sound of the tractor of the Sixth Company in the distance. After thinking for a while, he looked at Captain Sun who was also resting beside him.

Captain Sun wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked sideways at the tractor in the distance. His eyes were red with envy. He gritted his teeth and said, "Buy it. After the spring plowing is over, I will write a note to the company!"

The team member's eyes lit up and he asked loudly, "Captain, are you telling the truth?"

Captain Sun nodded. "Really? Our brigade has been raising rabbits for the past few years, and we've got quite a bit of money in our account. We should be able to afford a tractor."

"Captain, do you know how much a tractor costs?"

"I don't know, but I imagine it's a few thousand dollars?"

"Wow? Is it that expensive?"

"After all, it's an oil-burning iron thing, it's definitely not cheap..."

After a pause, Captain Sun looked at Chu Tian again, "Chu Tian, ​​do you know how much it is?"

Chu Tian actually knew that Li Gang's team had bought a tractor before the New Year, so when he heard Captain Sun's question, he smiled and said, "Our local October Agricultural Machinery Factory in Xinjiang seems to have three models of tractors now, with different prices."

Captain Sun was curious, "What's the difference?"