Shi Wenju glanced at the candy, said nothing, and wrote a note.

"Five thousand bricks, one hundred dollars, pay up."

"for you."

Chen Tan counted out a hundred from the money Qin Qiuniang gave him, took the note from his hand, and looked at it carefully.

Shi Wenju is an old scholar after all, and his handwriting is quite good.

Shi Wenju took the money and said, "Your brother-in-law is in the factory, go find him to move bricks."

"Okay, thank you."

After thanking him politely, Chen Tan went to where the bricks were piled.

The brick factory has not started operations yet. Only the stable and two other masters are mixing mud and making bricks.

The weather is hot today, so Chen Tan took off his jacket and only wore a burgundy sweater with a hood and black trousers.

She was thin but had very fair skin. Even the old-fashioned sweater made her look like cherry blossoms in early spring, as white as snow with a hint of delicate pink.

The two masters pushed the stable and joked, "Look, your cousin is here!"

"Ma Baldy, you're so lucky. Your wife is beautiful, and your two younger sisters-in-law are like fresh flowers. Can you handle that?"

Listening to their dirty talk, Ma Peng's eyes fell on Shen Tanbai's face. Thinking of Qin Li beating him, he felt a surge of anger for no reason.

He walked over and met Chen Tan, smiling obscenely, "Auntie, are you going to build a house?"

"Build a road."

Chen Tan looked at the five words "...Garment Factory" embroidered on his clothes, his eyes slightly cold.

Last time, Liu Xu and Suonier said that Shen Changwang's family had a good thing happen to them and picked up a lot of other people's old clothes. Now, Ma Peng has also put them on.

They are old work clothes from a garment factory. This is too abnormal.

Neither the Shen family nor the Hu family has any relatives working in the factory, so who sent them the clothes?

These two days, the stable heard that Meng Wenwu led the entire team to build a road for Qin Li.

The cadres of the brigade headquarters don’t care, and these people can’t do anything about it.

He took the note, checked the number, and told the two men to go to the brick pile. Then he said with a forced smile:

"Auntie, if you ask us to deliver the goods to your door, you must at least give us a pack of cigarettes. Otherwise, you will have to find a bullock cart to take them back yourself."

Chen Tan knew that there was a tractor in the brick factory that was specifically used to deliver bricks.

It’s free.

But the little devil is difficult to deal with.

She didn't want to waste any more words and took out a dollar and fifty cents. "I don't know how to buy cigarettes. Take this money and buy them yourself."

The two masters got fifty cents for free, and their eyes lit up. After taking the money, they happily started to move bricks onto the tractor.

Ma Peng bit his cheek angrily. After Qin Li was sent to jail by Shen Changwang, he would exercise his rights as a brother-in-law.

After buying the bricks, Meng Wenwu and his team had already dug out the bricks for the steps, and the next step was to lay the bricks.

Chen Tan ran home, brought a kettle, and made them some brown sugar water.

A few honest men drank the water and did their work beautifully.

On both sides of the one-meter-long and fifty-centimeter-wide steps, there are thirty-centimeter-wide slopes paved with bricks.

A group of people worked until dark, and half of the work was still to be completed. If they worked hard for another day tomorrow, the whole work would be completed.

The next day, just after dawn, when Chen Tan was cleaning the yard, the gate rang.

"Aunt, uncle, please save my mom, please save my mom."

"Suo Ni'er?" Chen Tan ran quickly to open the door.

Chen Suosuo was covered in mud, her skinny little face was swollen, and there was a bruise at the corner of her mouth, as if she had been beaten.

Chen Tan's expression changed immediately, and he asked nervously, "Who hit you?"

"Wow, little aunt, my second and third uncles broke my dad's head and beat my mom so hard that she's lying on the ground and can't get up," the little girl cried, then plopped to her knees. "Little aunt, they all say my uncle-in-law is very powerful. Please ask him to save my parents."

Everyone says that my uncle-in-law is a bad guy and no one dares to mess with him.

Even the tigers in the mountains are afraid of him, so he will definitely be able to help her save her father and mother.

"Hurry up and get up. I'll go with you." Chen Tan pulled her up, his usual gentle features becoming cold. "Your uncle-in-law is not at home. I'll go back with you."

Qin Qiuniang didn't stop Chen Tan, "Go find Meng Wenwu and ask him to find a few people to go with you."

"Okay, grandma, stay home and don't go out."

Chen Tan took out his bicycle and took Chen Suosuo to Wei's house first.

On the way, the little girl explained the reason in detail.

Yesterday, the team leader Liu Kaishan went to Shen Changfu's house and asked Liu Xu and Shen Jinquan to move to the team headquarters today to clean up the farm.

The two knew about the breeding plan early on, but they didn't dare tell their families.

Now that Shen Changfu's family knew about it, they naturally didn't want them to move out.

Shen Jinquan worked hard and was responsible for chopping firewood and fetching water at home.

Liu Xu not only goes to work, but also has to cook for them, raise pigs and clean the house when she returns home every day.

If they all leave, who will do the work?

But Liu Xu insisted on leaving this home, and had a fierce conflict with them.

During the quarrel, Shen Jinquan's second brother Shen Jinshui hit Liu Xu on the back of the head with a wooden stick, knocking him unconscious.

It also broke Shen Jinquan's head.

Seeing this, Shen Suosuo begged her grandparents to let her parents go, but was slapped hard by her second aunt.

The little girl had to escape and seek help from her aunt's family.

Wu Xia and Liang Yujin were making breakfast at home. After hearing what the two said, they were both furious.

Wu Xia angrily took out a wooden stick and said, "This is too bullying. I will go with you."

Chen Tan decided to go and take a look first. "Aunt Wu, it's definitely not enough for the two of us. You go find Captain Meng and Aunt Yu, and ask them to find a few people. Suonier and I will go first. Also, ask Uncle Meng to drive the ox cart to Shen Changfu's house."

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