For a moment, the dim room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The mother and daughter all widened their eyes and opened their mouths in shock.
"You, you're not back to visit relatives?"
After he finished speaking, Du Xiaoying remembered what the man said in the afternoon, and her mind was immediately in a mess. Everything that happened today was so different from her previous life.
Song Guoliang's expression was complicated, with a look of guilt and apology in his dark eyes. "You and your daughter have worked hard over the years. I've been demobilized and assigned a job in the security department of the county supply and marketing cooperative."
"County Supply and Marketing Cooperative? When are you going to report?"
"No hurry, settle the house first."
Du Xiaoying was stared at by the man's sharp and deep eyes. She pursed her lips uncomfortably. The man in this world had only been away from home for four years.
But for her, who was reborn, she had experienced nearly 30 years of widowhood in her previous life, and it was a little difficult to accept it for a while. She didn't know how to face this man who sacrificed his life to defend his country.
In public, he is a man who stands tall and defends his country!
Personally, I feel guilty towards my daughters!
....
"Dad, does that mean our family is sending out workers?" Twelve-year-old Erya said excitedly.
Song Guoliang met his daughters' sparkling eyes, curled his lips slightly, and nodded, "Well, the salary should be over 40."
In this day and age, who doesn’t want to have a worker in the family? If one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit.
Not only do they receive wages, but they also receive various coupons every month. Unlike the farmers in the countryside, who have to work hard all year round and tighten their belts to make a living, they can hardly save any money at the end of the year, let alone coupons.
Even if farmers get sick, they just endure it. They will not spend a dime or two to go to the brigade clinic unless it is absolutely necessary. If they are lucky enough to get through it, they are heroes, but if they are unlucky, they will end up in dust.
Du Xiaoying thought about how she was too sick to get up in her previous life, but she still had to get up with a stick to take care of the house, feed the pigs and chickens, do the laundry and cook. If she was a little slow, she would be beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, and her daughters would be beaten and scolded as well.
Especially the most sensible Daya, as she was the eldest among the sisters, she had to help with housework and take care of her younger sisters. She was such a well-behaved and obedient child, but she ended up like that in her previous life.
Among her daughters, she felt most guilty towards Daya.
"Yeah~ Dad is awesome~"
"I know, forty is four tens, 1234...9, 10." San Ya counted on her little fingers.
Du Xiaoying was shocked, "Saya, how can you count?"
San Ya smiled secretly and scratched her head embarrassedly, "I'll learn it by listening to Third Brother's talk."
"My San Ya is so smart!" Du Xiaoying was very surprised. San Ya, who had never attended school for a day, was so sensitive to numbers at such a young age. She was much better than Song Zihu, the idiot who always failed.
Seeing the smiles on her daughters' faces, which were no longer dull and wooden, Du Xiaoying couldn't help but smile from the bottom of her heart.
Suddenly, Du Xiaoying was stunned when she met the man's eyes as dark and deep as ink.
Suddenly, a series of clicking sounds echoed along with a whirring sound.
"Mom, I'm scared~" Wu Ya threw herself into Du Xiaoying's arms and buried her little head.
The seven-year-old Si Ya seemed to have thought of something, and her little body trembled, "Mom, the old landlord's house——"
Du Xiaoying opened her arms and hugged her daughters. Her voice was calm and steady. "Mom knows what you are afraid of. It's just that there has been a rumor in the village that the old landlord's house is haunted."
In the previous life, the old landlord's family either died or fled, so this house became the target of many people. They found various ways to move in. Strange things happened one after another that night to several families who moved in. After that, the rumors in the village about the old landlord's house being haunted became more and more intense. Even though feudal superstitions are being broken now, the villagers have been avoiding it since then.
This is also the reason why those who were sent down to the countryside were arranged to live in the cowshed next to the old landlord's house.
Du Xiaoying remembers it clearly. Many years later, an expert who came to visit came to investigate. The reason turned out to be the "clicking" sound made by ants gnawing on the wooden beams, the sound caused by the cracks in the dilapidated walls and the wind, as well as the carved windows and the pottery jars for storing kerosene, plus the illusion created by the moldy wall.
"We moved in here out of necessity. The original owner wouldn't mind. Besides, we're not living here for free; we have to pay the village. That sound just now was the sound of a small animal eating. We shouldn't be afraid."
"Don't be afraid, Dad is here."
.....
Seeing that Si Ya and Wu Ya had already stuck to the man in just one night, Du Xiaoying couldn't help but sigh that blood relationship was really magical.
Song Guoliang said in a deep voice, "Early tomorrow morning, I'll go find the team leader to get a note to go up the mountain and get some trees. There are so many things we need at home."
"Well, this house has been uninhabited for many years. You should carefully check the beams and other things tomorrow." Du Xiaoying hugged her little daughter and thought for a moment before asking, "Why did you suddenly retire from the army?"
Song Guoliang pondered for a moment, his face expressionless. "You're injured, so you're discharged. Thank you for your hard work over the years."
Du Xiaoying bit her lip. It would be a lie to say that she didn't feel sad all these years, but she also knew that Song Guoliang was not to blame for all this. However, she still couldn't help but feel resentful in her heart.
Looking at the passbook the man handed over, she opened it with some doubts, looked at the numbers on it, and counted silently in her heart, tens, hundreds, and thousands!
His pupils suddenly dilated, "What is this?"
"The money I send home is my allowance. It's a combination of the rewards I've received from missions over the years and the money I've saved."
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