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Li Xiuxian is now living in the village and is always being pointed at. It's so embarrassing! Moreover, her sister-in-law said that she has no job and is idle anyway, so she is asked to do all the housework. She is exhausted!

Liao Ruixiang's wife is also very powerful. The lawyer she hired said that she also had a share of Liao Ruixiang's money before the divorce, and she was not allowed to touch a single cent of it. She could only do so after the divorce lawsuit was over and the judge made a ruling!

She wanted Liao Ruixiang to rent a house for her to live in the city, but it was impossible.

Li Xiuxian had some money, but she didn't dare to spend it. What if she spent it all and Liao Ruixiang hadn't finished the lawsuit yet? She would lose her job. So she wanted to move back to the house in town. After all, she also had a share in the house. Zhou Chengsen disagreed, so she also filed for divorce! She didn't get anything when she divorced, which was a big loss.

She is too kind and too stupid, not as capable as Liao Ruixiang's wife.

Li Xiuxian decided to find an opportunity to ask Zhou Chengsen.

It would be best if he took Zhou Ying out to play and his daughter was there so Zhou Chengsen couldn't refuse him.

Or ask Yingying to talk to Zhou Chengsen?

*When Zhou's father and Zhou Chengsen returned home, the yard was bustling with activity.

The great-grandmother was coaxing the triplets in the stroller, sometimes holding the little sister's little finger and playing "Bug Fly", and sometimes holding the big brother and little brother's fingers and playing "Bug Fly".

Zhou Zhou, Zhou Ying and Zhou Jie are playing with bamboo dragonflies for the triplets to see.

The brothers who made great contributions to their family were just asking Zhou's mother to use the feathers from the chickens she had killed that morning to make shuttlecocks for Zhou Zhou and Zhou Ying to play with.

Zhou's mother, Tian Caihua is washing vegetables.

Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei were cooking in the kitchen.

Zhou Chengxin is killing fish and ducks.

Zhou's father went into the kitchen and talked to Zhou Chenglei and his wife about hiring people, and mentioned four people.

Zhou Chenglei heard this and said, "Please invite Uncle Guiquan and Uncle Dequan! We don't need to invite the others. Twenty-two people should be enough."

"That's enough!" It's not like we don't have to pay wages, but it's not good to hire too many people! If we are unlucky and don't catch any fish, the more people we hire, the more we lose.

The most important thing is that it is stressful to take so many people out to sea.

In addition to economic pressure, there is also security pressure.

Father Zhou sat down to help light the fire and discuss when to go out to sea.

"In a few days, some people won't be available until three days later."

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In the evening, the three families celebrated with great enthusiasm.

Zhou Chenglei was in a good mood today, so he took a bottle of Moutai and filled everyone's cup, and also poured Jiang Xia half a cup of rice wine.

People in the village also put some rice wine in the chicken soup when they are in confinement after childbirth, so Jiangxia is not afraid to drink a little rice wine.

Everyone toasted together, and Zhou's father said with a smile: "I wish everyone smooth sailing and abundant prosperity every year!"

Grandma smiled and said, "The boats we buy are getting bigger and bigger! The houses we build are getting bigger and bigger!"

The whole family happily drank the wine in their glasses in one gulp.

*The next morning, after the sun came out, Zhou Chenglei and his father dried the rice in preparation for paying the public tax.

The rooftop and the ground in the yard are all filled with rice drying in the sun.

After the father and son dried the rice, they drove a tractor to pull twenty bags of rice to grind them. The rice was then put on a big ship to be taken out to sea. Then they had to go to the town to buy some things needed for the sea trip.

The new ship has a kitchen, but it does not have cooking utensils, gas stoves, iron pots, bowls, chopsticks, plates, washbasins and other daily necessities.

All the necessities of life had to be bought, as well as food, and in the end, we brought home a tractor full of stuff.

After lunch, Zhou Chenglei and his father drove the tractor out again, bought twenty gas cylinders, filled them with gas, and moved them to the new boat.

When the sun was about to set in the evening, the father and son returned home with Zhou Chengsen who had just got off work.

Zhou's mother and Jiang Xia were preparing to go upstairs to harvest the rice. They had already harvested all the rice in the yard.

Seeing Jiang Xia's face full of sweat and his neck red from scratching, Zhou Chenglei said, "I'll harvest the rice. Go take a shower. The child should be waking up soon."

It is easy to get itchy skin all over the body when harvesting rice.

When Zhou's mother saw them coming back, she said to the father and his two sons, "Then you go and harvest the rice. After harvesting, carry it down and weigh it, then load it onto the tractor. I'll cook."

Jiang Xia went back upstairs to take a shower. Her skin was already itchy. Her face, neck, and arms were itchy.

She never knew harvesting rice was so painful and thought it was easy.

She took off her sleeves as she walked and found that her arms were all scratched red.

Zhou Chenglei followed behind her and saw Jiang Xia's snow-white arm turned red: "It will feel better after taking a shower, don't scratch it."

"Yeah." Jiang Xia went upstairs to take a shower.

The children were sleeping soundly in their cribs.

Zhou Chenglei, Zhou Chengsen, and Zhou's father and son harvested the rice on the roof, and then carried bag after bag of rice downstairs and put them on the tractor.

There were many people paying grain and there were long queues, so they prepared at night and planned to set out for the grain station before dawn the next day, otherwise they would be late and would have to queue for a whole day.

This time, together with the public grain tax for the second wife's three acres of land, there were more than fifty bags of rice in total. The father and his two sons walked up and down more than ten times before they moved all the fifty bags of rice onto the tractor's bed.

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Zhou Chengxin also brought over a cart of rice, with more than ten bags.

A few more bags were moved up and the pile was very high. Anyway, there was no such thing as overloading. Generally, when using a tractor to pull goods, you keep loading as much as the tractor can hold, until the tractor can no longer hold it, and then you stop.

All the public grain was loaded onto the tractor, and they covered it with red, white and blue plastic tarps to prevent it from raining in the middle of the night.

Father Zhou told the three brothers: "We will go to the grain station to line up at 4:30 tomorrow morning. Now go back to sleep!"

The three brothers responded and went back to sleep.

The next day, Zhou Chenglei got up at four o'clock, tiptoed downstairs to wash his face and brush his teeth without waking Jiang Xia.

However, the roar of the tractor still woke Jiang Xia up.

The three kids were still sleeping soundly, and it seemed that they had inherited this ability from Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia took a coat and put it on, then walked out onto the balcony and looked downstairs.

Zhou Chenglei drove out on a tractor.

Zhou Chengxin and Zhou Chengsen also went out pushing a cart of rice, and Zhou's mother closed and locked the gate again.

In the next yard, Zhou Bingqiang and Zhou Guohua were also pushing a large cart loaded with grain out.

Jiang Xia went back to his room and continued sleeping after seeing them leave.

She thought that after she woke up, she would go and see the famous scene of paying public grain, but she had never seen it.

Their village was not far from the town. When they arrived at the grain station at less than five o'clock, there were already more than a dozen carts lined up.

Moreover, they had just seen many people walking on the road pulling carts loaded with bags of grain.

They were faster than those people because they had tractors.

Zhou Chengxin sighed: "It came early this year, so we don't have to wait so long."

Zhou Chenglei glanced at his watch. It would take two or three hours for the grain station staff to start work. Is this not a long wait? Zhou Chenglei said, "Big brother, second brother, you guys go back home and continue to sleep. I'll wait here. There's no point in having too many people waiting here. It's better to go back and rest."

There really was no need for so many people to wait. Zhou Chengsen still had to go to work, so he said, "Brother, come back to our house in town and continue to sleep. We'll get up around seven and make breakfast for Lei."

Zhou Chengxin was too lazy to move: "You and Alei go back! I'll just sleep here. I'm too lazy to move. It's almost dawn."

Zhou Chenglei said, "Big Brother, you stay here and watch. I'll go run a few laps."

So one of the brothers went back to the house in town to sleep, while the other ran back to the village.

Li Xiuxian also followed Li Qingmin and Li's father to pay the public grain today. Her family asked her to come and wait in line because she was the only one in the family who had nothing to do.

Then Li Xiuxian saw Zhou Chengsen walking towards the house in town.

She quickly gave instructions and followed.