I felt sorry for the hardship he had to endure throughout his life, but I was also angry at his good-natured nature and his unwillingness to be selfish.
Ye Xiaozhen smiled and said, "If Grandpa wasn't like this, and was like Ye Zhengguo, only caring about his own comfort, you brothers would have to suffer so much."
Xie Linli and Xie Linqi were silent for a moment.
Xie Linqi sighed, "If Grandpa was more selfish, he would have gone to the city with his second and third uncles to retire. My elder sister and elder brother were able to grow up despite some hardships, but it was difficult for my second brother and I. I'm afraid we would die early."
They were both raised by a lame old man on rice soup.
As he was talking, Lin Xinghua limped out with money in his hand.
Guessed it.
"Here, baby, this is the gift you should receive. Take it."
There were both new and old money in various denominations, some of which were wrinkled and had their corners curled up by him.
Ye Xiaozhen looked at him with tears in her eyes.
Xie Linli and Xie Linqi both urged her to take it quickly.
Ye Xiaozhen took a breath and reached out to take it. "Thank you, Grandpa."
Seeing her accept it, Lin Xinghua smiled happily, "I prepared it for you. Before, your brain wasn't working well, so I said I would give it to you. But Lin An said you used it as toilet paper and would give it to you when you got better. Now that you are finally better, I should give it to you."
I didn't expect to be slandered by Xie Linan.
When it was getting dark, Xie Linan came back with Xie Li and Zhang Hongxia.
She was holding a huge watermelon in her arms, which she threw to Xie Linli and let him take it away.
Seeing his gloomy face, Ye Xiaozhen thought that he was having trouble finding a school, so she said, "We can't leave a child this old without going to school. If this one doesn't work, we can try another one. There has to be a place for him to go to."
Xie Linan said: "The school matters have been arranged."
Um?
Everything has been arranged. Why is he looking so gloomy?
"Then you act like someone owes you $80,000."
Eight hundred thousand?
Other people's wives say they owe 1,800 yuan, but my wife's example is...
If anyone owes me 80,000 yuan, I can beat his whole family to death.
"It's not that serious." He looked at Xie Li.
Xie Li looked away awkwardly and said, "I'm going to cook."
"What?"
Xie Linan snorted and said coldly: "It's just that my sister hasn't married yet."
Ye Xiaozhen: "..." What do you mean?
Lin Xinghua also looked at him curiously.
"Hmph." Xie Linan was so angry that he punched the wall at home. "Grandpa, my sister and Zhang Jianhua are not married, and Hongxia doesn't even have a household registration."
ah?
Now the whole family is confused.
"How come they are not married? Hongxia is already ten years old, how come she doesn't have a household registration?" Lin Xinghua asked anxiously.
Xie Linan said calmly: "Go ask her."
Lin Xinghua hurried into the house, "Li, Li, stop busying yourself, come out, Grandpa wants to know what's going on with you."
There is no use in escaping. Xie Li came out of the kitchen, hugged Hongxia and tearfully recounted the grievances she had suffered over the years.
"When we had a romance, I was 17 and he was 19, too old to get married."
"Then you can go to the marriage age and get the marriage certificate."
Xie Li shook her head. "At that time, he said he had to prepare for college and couldn't get married. He said he would get married after he went to college. Later, for the sake of the child, he also went to college, but he said he couldn't get married after college and would get married after graduation. After he graduated, he said it would be easier to get a house since he was single, so he would get married after he got a house. I... just kept dragging it on like this."
Xie Linan sneered, thinking he had heard of it before.
"It's ridiculous." Even my grandfather, an old country man, thought it was ridiculous. "It's obviously easier for married people to get rooms than single people. He is deliberately deceiving you."
Sheri sobbed and nodded.
"What do we do now?"
"I don't know either."
"Alas!" Lin Xinghua let out a long sigh, took out a cigarette stick, stuffed it with leaves and started smoking.
Hongxia's eyes were wide open, but the tears in her eyes were so obvious that it made people feel distressed.
She is not even ten years old. She should understand everything she should and shouldn't understand.
I realized that my mother and I had been abandoned by that damn thing.
She is still a real illegal resident.
Xie Linan said: "Hongxia is still attending a primary school in our village. I gave her some money so that she could go to the primary school even if she did not have a household registration. But the principal also said that if she wanted to be enrolled in the school and go to junior high school, she must have a household registration."
He was silent for a while, then said, "Register Hongxia's household registration to our family."
Nowadays, household registration is not as strictly managed as it was in later generations, and many people’s household registrations are registered with relatives or friends.
In particular, some families who want sons have suspended their daughters’ household registration or even refused to register them at all.
Lin Xinghua nodded, "Let's do it this way."
Then he looked at Xie Li and asked, "Xie Li, where is your household registration? Are you moving back?"
Xie Li shook her head and said, "I won't move. After Zhang Jianhua was admitted to university, he moved his household registration to the city. After his parents died, I was the only one left on that household registration. It doesn't matter whether I move or not."
Ye Xiaozhen thought that the management was really chaotic at that time. Since they were not married, how did Xie Li's household registration get transferred to Zhang Jianhua's family ten years ago?
Yes, she remembered that they were now acknowledging a de facto marriage, so even without a marriage certificate, Zhang Jianhua could not escape.
I thought, since Xie Li's household registration had been moved there, why didn't she give Hong Xia one?
Later I learned that Xie Li had been planning to wait until they got married to transfer Hongxia's household registration to Zhang Jianhua's, because Zhang Jianhua had a city household registration.
But it’s also good that she doesn’t move her household registration. Their home is in the mountains, where the land is vast and the population is sparse.
Although Xie Li's household registration does not have many paddy fields, she does have a large piece of mountain land.
…
In mid-August, the villagers began to harvest rice, and the Xie family was no exception.
Xie Linan has negotiated a project, but cannot start work now because every household is busy harvesting rice and the able-bodied people in the family cannot leave, including himself.
He took his two younger brothers, his grandfather, and his eldest sister, and the whole family went to work in the fields.
Ye Xiaozhen couldn't help much with the work in the fields; she really wasn't up to it.
But she can cook and do the laundry for the family.
The whole family cannot go out. Someone has to stay at home. Those who stay at home have a lot of work to do and it is not easy.
Zhang Hongxia was also at home. She was responsible for delivering water to the fields every day, as well as helping to dry the crops and chase away the birds.
While Hongxia was bringing them water, Ye Xiaozhen secretly stuffed the clothes into the washing machine.
There is a washing machine in her kitchen, which is used to wash various rags and tablecloths.
It is fast, has strong cleaning power and good disinfection effect, which comes in handy now.
Otherwise, you would be exhausted just washing clothes for the whole family.
By the time Hongxia sent Yuanshui back, Ye Xiaozhen had finished washing all the clothes.
The child was not so thoughtful and did not think much about it.
The steamed buns continue to be steamed, but now it is done by machines and manual labor.
Some are neatly cut, while others are of different sizes, and are steamed together.
In order to get Hongxia away, Ye Xiaozhen caught her and gave her some candy, asking her to guard the food on the drying dam in the village to prevent it from being eaten by birds.
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