"As long as we work hard enough, our future life will be happier than it is now."
Fang Yan found a handkerchief, handed it to Zhu Xiuhua, and comforted her, "From now on, the country will pay more and more attention to economic development each year. There will be plenty of opportunities to make money in the future. As long as we choose the right direction and work hard steadfastly, our lives will definitely get better and better, and we will be happier and happier. Believe me."
“Yes, I believe you,” Zhu Xiuhua wiped away her tears. “You’ve become quite successful now, and you speak so eloquently, talking about development and all that. I don’t understand it, but I’ll just listen to you from now on.”
Fang Yan said that she learned to read secretly, then read books, studied and researched, which led to the changes she has today.
Zhu Xiuhua believed every word her daughter said.
She wasn't stupid or foolish; she could sense whether her daughter's changes were for the better or for the worse.
Now that she has become so outstanding, she should listen to her daughter.
Anyway, she's always been indecisive.
“Okay,” Fang Yan really liked Zhu Xiuhua’s attitude. If she didn’t understand something, she should just listen to the advice of someone who did. How wonderful! “Mom, your main task now is to take good care of your health and then help me manage the vegetable garden in the yard and the housework.”
People like Zhu Xiuhua are hardworking and have worked hard for most of their lives.
If Fang Yan were to stay at home every day, eating and sleeping to "enjoy life," she probably wouldn't be able to stand it.
So they simply assigned her some work.
Zhu Xiuhua disagreed, saying, "My body is fine, I don't need any special care. These tasks are too few; I can still do a lot of work."
"Your body is fine now because you haven't gotten any older yet. When you're in your fifties, sixties, or seventies, all the health problems caused by your current physical depletion will come out. You'll be sickly all the time and have to go to the hospital to spend money and suffer."
The choice is yours: take care of your health now so that it will save you, me, and my brother trouble in the future?
Or will you be lying in a hospital every day when you're old?
Fang Yan gave her a choice between two options.
Zhu Xiuhua pouted, like a child who dared not talk back to an adult, and only dared to mutter softly, "But you can't guarantee that if I take care of myself at home every day now, I won't get sick when I get old."
"puff……"
Great, it seems a little child has come to our house.
Now that we have Xiaoyuzai, Qibei, and Zhu Xiuhua, well, you can foresee the lively scene that will unfold at home in the future.
Fang Yan couldn't help but laugh, raising an eyebrow at her, "If you take good care of your health now, there's only a 50% or even 20% chance you'll get sick in the future. But if you don't take care of your health now, there's a 95% or higher chance you'll get sick in the future, and it will be a serious illness that will cost you a lot of money and cause you a lot of suffering. So tell me, which one do you choose?"
Who among Zhu Xiuhua's generation doesn't feel the pinch of spending a lot of money?
Fang Yan deliberately emphasized the phrase "spending a lot of money".
As expected, Zhu Xiuhua fell silent.
Fang Jie stepped in to smooth things over, "Mom, listen to Yan Yan. If you get well soon, you can help me and Yan Yan for a few more years, right?"
"Okay, I'll listen to Yan Yan."
Zhu Xiuhua was someone who listened to advice and quickly agreed.
Fang Jie picked up a piece of fish with his chopsticks, carefully examined it for a long time to make sure there were no fish bones, then placed it on the plate, soaked it in sweet and sour sauce, and then put the fish into the small fish's bowl.
Children love all kinds of sweet and sour food, and they especially enjoy eating meat with sauce.
After watching Fang Yan serve fish to Xiao Yuzai like this a few times, Fang Jie automatically and consciously took over the job.
"Yan Yan, should we talk to your village chief about renting the land, or should we talk to Chief Zhang next door first?"
Although Fang Jie is an honest and simple man, he is quite adept at handling interpersonal relationships.
From Fang Yan's words, he learned of Zhang Zongde's status in Gouzi Village, which is why he asked this question.
Fang Yan had almost finished eating. She finished the last mouthful of seaweed soup in her bowl and looked at him. "Brother, Gouzi Village has a large population, and all the land has been allocated to individual households. Unless the main labor force of the family goes out to work and can't manage it all, they will rent out the family's land."
The rented land is scattered and fragmented; it's impossible for it to be a large, contiguous area of ten or twenty acres to be rented out together.
“I know, it’s fine to rent it in several different places.”
The situation in rural areas is largely the same now, and Fang Jie, who also lives in a rural area, knows this situation.
Fang Yan told him, "There aren't many people from Gouzi Village who go out to work right now, so it's probably going to be very difficult to rent this much land here."
In those days, many people were illiterate and afraid of being cheated or sold when they went out, so most of them dared not go out and stayed at home, making a living by farming.
Only a few daring people dare to venture out, so there isn't much vacant land in the village.
In early spring, their family's land was divided up by their uncles because the siblings couldn't manage to cultivate it all. At the end of the year, they would give them a token amount of grain, euphemistically called "rent."
Having just climbed out of a hellish situation and full of hope for the future, Fang Jie suddenly felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head. "Then... what should I do? Where can I rent land? All I know is farming."
He was an average student, and the Fang family refused to pay for his education, so he only completed primary school before dropping out.
I do recognize some characters.
But he lacked education and had been stuck in the fields farming for many years.
Aside from farming, Fang Jie didn't know what else he could do.
"Brother, all these years you've just been farming, but that doesn't mean all you know how to do is farm. You haven't tried anything else yet, so how do you know you can't do it?"
Contracting land and engaging in large-scale planting is certainly a way to get rich.
However, the thought that he would soon be joining the army and might be confined to this small county town in the future made him hesitate.
Now that we've pulled Zhu Xiuhua and Fang Jie out of the Fang family's hellhole.
Fang Yan never intended to leave them here to fend for themselves.
What if those three shameless troublemakers from the Fang family come and bother them again?
Fang Jie looked a little lost. "Then tell me, what else can I do?"
"You're only twenty-three. You have so many years ahead of you. How will you know you can't do anything else if you don't try other jobs?"
Fang Yan's encouragement rekindled hope in Fang Jie's eyes. "You're right. I'm only twenty-three. I should try other things. Maybe I can do other things very well too."
Fang Jie, an honest and simple man, has one very obvious advantage: he is down-to-earth and hardworking.
With this advantage, why worry about not finding work?
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