"It's getting cold now and school is closed. Here's fifty cents. Go to the city tomorrow and pick up your fourth uncle. Don't lose his luggage."
Her grandmother seemed to be giving orders, as if she really was the empress dowager, full of majesty.
That’s it?
This should be considered a good job. The round trip fare is only 20 cents, and there is still 30 cents left for a couple of drinks.
There are so many people in the family, when will it be his turn to earn this money?
Zhao Wei thought about it and said, "Okay, tomorrow I can take my wife to the city to have some fun. She has never been there before."
Yunxiu's heart was pounding when her name was suddenly called, and tears welled up in her eyes as she was about to cry.
Why take her to the county town for no reason?
Could it be that he still won't let her go and wants to use her to exchange for money?
When her grandmother heard this, her eyes lit up and she said, "Okay, take it with you. You'll have a way out when the time comes."
"Ah? What's the escape route?"
Her grandmother covered up in panic: "It's nothing, just do what I tell you to do, just listen."
"Really? I've been very good to you guys. Don't take advantage of me and just give me some peace of mind."
As her grandmother was talking, she walked away angrily.
Zhao Wei was not in a hurry, as he had plenty of time to find out the truth.
After such a long delay, the beggar's chicken in the stove was ready to eat, so he quickly pulled it out.
Not caring about the burn, the whole family swallowed it down in one gulp, burping from the fullness.
Zhao Wei looked at the three remaining chicken tails, and adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, he skewered them with a chopstick, went outside the eldest son's house, and waited for Zhao Qian to arrive.
This guy is a heavy pisser. He has to get up several times a night and sometimes even pees on the kang.
Just then, before he had waited long, he saw her coming out of the toilet.
"Zhao Qian, come here, I have something to tell you..."
Zhao Wei waved at him mysteriously.
The guy curled his lips unmovedly: "What?"
It wasn't until it saw three tails that its eyebrows lit up and instantly turned into a raised mouth, and it followed happily.
"Brother Wei, what is this? Where did you get it? Did you get it while hunting?"
"Well, you actually ate alone behind my grandmother's back... mmm..."
Zhao Qian's shouting was interrupted by Zhao Wei.
"Why are you eating alone? I got this when we were drinking together. Do you want it? If not, I can take it away."
Zhao Qian nodded quickly, saying that anyone who didn’t eat was a fool.
He is in the growing period now, always feels hungry, and is very craving for meat.
"You can eat if you want. Tell me about Fourth Uncle. If you're satisfied, I'll give it all to you."
After saying that, he let go of Zhao Qian's mouth.
Zhao Qian said with some embarrassment: "My grandmother won't let me tell you about this. She will beat me to death."
"Don't worry, I won't say it was you who told me. Besides, there are many gossipy people in this family, and you are not the only one who knows about this. Even if there is a retribution in the future, it will not be attributed to a child like you."
"this……"
"If you don't tell me, I'll go find the little girl from the third room. She's very well behaved."
My third uncle has a son and a daughter. The younger daughter is only three years old. She is not on guard against others at this age, so it is quite easy to trick the little girl.
It's just that the little girl is very careless with her mouth and tends to tell anything.
In order to avoid trouble, it is better to start with Zhao Qian.
Sure enough, as soon as he heard the meat in his mouth was about to fly away, Zhao Qian was so anxious that he immediately told everyone the whole story about his fourth uncle.
It turned out that when the fourth uncle was in school, he had a fight with someone due to jealousy and owed a large amount of medical bills. He planned to let Zhao Wei go to pick him up, and then find a way to keep him to deal with that family.
The reason he went there this time was to settle someone's account. Haha, they wanted to sell him out for fifty cents of errand fee.
By then, maybe even the wife will have to stay to pay off the debt. That's really cruel.
"Zhao Qian, if you listen to me, I'll give you some of the meat I get when I go out for drinks. You have to keep what happened tonight to yourself. Do you understand?"
"Brother Wei, don't worry, I won't say anything, hehe..."
When Zhao Wei returned home, it was still early. It was only 9 o'clock in the evening. As a modern person, this was a good time to start his nightlife.
Looking at Yunxiu who had already fallen asleep and the empty bed next to her, he felt a little flustered. After hesitating for a moment, he picked up the axe and went into the mountain in the dark.
Although it was dark at this time, the white snow was reflective, so you could see the road clearly even without a torch.
He had endless strength and he kept waving his arms and chopping the dead branches and leaves in the mountains.
After running back and forth several times, he finally filled the yard with firewood.
I was busy until late at night and was exhausted. I returned to the house covered in frost and snow.
At this time, the fire in the small stove had long gone out, and the room was as cold as the outside.
It would be strange if people on the kang could sleep well in such an environment.
He picked up some firewood and prepared to raise the temperature in the house.
It was at this time that Yunxiu came over.
"Leave this to me, you...you go to sleep!"
She sat there timidly, took over the task of lighting the fire, and started to get busy.
In the past, Zhao Wei would also come back very late, and every time he would ask her to wake him up and light the fire. He would not lie down to sleep until the kang was warm.
Moreover, he would sleep all day and would not get up until night.
Then he went out to fool around again, living this decadent life over and over again.
Zhao Wei grabbed Yunxiu's hand and said, "I can do this kind of work by myself in the future. Go back to sleep."
Yunxiu did not leave. She sat there rubbing her hands anxiously. After a long while, she pleaded in a low voice: "Zhao Wei, can I... not go into the city tomorrow..."
“I can do a lot of things. I can…”
In the light of the fire, Zhao Wei looked at her pretty face without any makeup, which was full of hesitation and helplessness, like a little white rabbit that knew nothing about the world.
"I don't mean to sell you out. I just want to take you out to play. Really, can you trust me again?"
"I know that I did a lot of things that hurt you in the past, but I promise that I will never do that again. I will take good care of you and this family."
Yunxiu didn’t know whether she could trust him, she only knew that she couldn’t resist Zhao Wei’s decision.
The other party insisted on taking her into the city, so she had only one way to go.
Yunxiu, with a gloomy face, returned to the kang like a wandering soul, touched the sharp object under the pillow, and stayed up all night with her eyes wide open until dawn.
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