Chapter 337 It’s time to take some measures
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Dalong was able to successfully get this job position from Zhou Yong.
Zhang Dalong's wife's face was full of embarrassment. Zhang Guifang sighed: "You two should remember that trouble comes from the mouth."
Some things cannot be said. Once said, there is a high possibility that good things will turn into bad things.
"Aunt, I know I was wrong."
Zhang Guifang glanced at her niece-in-law and said, "I am saying these things for your own good. If it were someone else, I wouldn't bother to say these things..."
Zhang Dalong and his wife nodded repeatedly. They were not stupid and knew that Zhang Guifang was doing this for their own good.
After a while, Zhang Guifang took Li Jingan for a stroll to the fields.
Li Baotian was shoveling the ground. When he saw Zhang Guifang and Li Jingan coming, he walked to the edge of the field, sat down, drank some water, and took a rest.
"Grandpa, are you tired?"
Li Baotian wiped the sweat off his face with a towel and said with a smile, "Do you think Grandpa is tired?"
Li Jingan said with a smile: "Grandpa, you must be very tired."
"What should we do then?"
Li Jingan thought: "Grandpa, then you can take a rest while shoveling the ground."
His words made Li Baotian and Zhang Guifang laugh.
"You won't feel tired if you take a break and shovel the floor?"
Li Jingan blinked and said, "Grandpa, why don't you stop shoveling the ground? This way you won't get tired."
Li Baotian smiled and raised his hand to touch his head: "If we don't shovel the land, it will be in trouble. What will our family eat and drink in autumn?"
This question was a bit profound for Li Jingan, and there was confusion in the boy's eyes.
Zhang Guifang picked up the hoe and Li Baotian stood up and took it away.
"You can take the child home. I can finish this job in a few days."
Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun both have to go to work, so the couple has no time to shovel the land, and they can't expect their children to go to school.
Zhang Guifang has a bad back and cannot do any physical work, so most of the work in the fields falls on Li Baotian.
In fact, according to Zhou Yong's wishes, his family will not cultivate the contracted land this year, but will symbolically plant some food rations.
When the time comes, we will give the contracted land to other families to cultivate, and we will just need to pay the full amount of public grain on their behalf.
Li Baotian was unwilling to do so, as he meant that his family did not have much land to begin with, and with the nanny and ten other people in the family, if they planted less land they would have to spend money to buy food.
Seeing this, Zhou Yong couldn't persuade him anymore and could only follow Li Baotian's wishes.
Zhang Guifang said: "I try to shovel the ground, but if my waist hurts, I won't shovel."
Li Baotian looked at her and said, "Come on, calm down. If you get sick from overwork, what's too much or too little?"
Zhang Guifang opened her mouth, and Li Baotian continued to shovel the ground with a hoe.
Li Jingan picked a few wild flowers from the field and said, "Grandma, these are for you."
Zhang Guifang shifted her gaze away from her husband's back and took the few small wild flowers that Li Jingan handed to her with a smile.
"Grandma will take you home."
Li Jing'an nodded, and he walked skipping in front, while Zhang Guifang followed behind him slowly.
When she got home, Zhang Guifang sat on the sofa and couldn't help sighing.
Jiang Yue'e: "Auntie, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Guifang said: "I feel like a useless person. I can't do any work and can only watch and worry."
Jiang Yue'e smiled and said, "Aunt, aren't you sick?"
Zhang Guifang sighed: "It is because of my illness that I feel like a useless person."
Jiang Yue'e said, "Aunt, think positively about things and don't get stuck in a rut. Besides, everyone in my family treats you well, but you always look down on me. If they knew, they would be so sad..."
Zhang Guifang smiled and said, "I'm just nagging you a few words. I wouldn't dare say such things in front of them..."
Jiang Yue'e knew this, so she comforted Zhang Guifang with a few words and then went to the yard to wash clothes.
When it was time to go home from school, Zhou Kexin, Li Jingchu, Li Jingen and Zhou Kerou actually returned home with a child in their arms.
"Whose child is this?"
Zhang Guifang didn't understand what was going on, so she went forward to look at the child in Zhou Kexin's arms.
The little guy stared around with his big eyes, and Zhang Guifang smiled.
Zhou Kexin looked down at the child and said, "Grandma, we picked up this child on the way home from school."
"Picked it up?"
Li Jingchu nodded: "Grandma, on the way home from school, Gousheng couldn't hold his urine anymore, so he got off the carriage to pee, and then he found this child in the bushes..."
Zhang Guifang took the child and opened the blanket to check the baby's gender.
Although she had guessed that it was a girl, she still couldn't help but sigh after confirming the gender.
“It’s really a sin.”
Nowadays, family planning is strictly enforced. Any working family will face the risk of losing their job if they have more than one child.
So in the past two years, villagers in Huaixi Village have been picking up children from time to time, and everyone has almost gotten used to it.
"Grandma, what should we do now?"
"Don't worry about it, go back to your room and do your homework!"
The four children responded and went back to the house one by one.
Zhang Guifang sat on the sofa holding the child. The child was probably hungry and started to make noises.
There was no milk powder at home, so Zhang Guifang fed her child some rice soup.
When Zhou Yong got home from get off work, he saw that there was a new child at home. When he learned the reason, he couldn't help but frown.
So far, seven or eight children have been picked up in the village, and the police station is unable to find their biological parents. Therefore, some of the children who were picked up were adopted by the families who picked them up, while others were given away.
Li Baotian said: "Zhou Yong, Dad wants to give you some advice."
Zhou Yong looked at his father-in-law: "Dad, what do you want to say?"
Li Baotian pondered: "Why can people in our village pick up children so easily? To put it bluntly, the people who lost their children know it themselves. Our village is rich. In order to prevent such incidents from happening again, we need to send people to guard the entrance to the village..."
Zhou Yong nodded: "It's time to take some measures."
Zhang Guifang changed the subject: "Don't talk about those things for now. What should we do with the child now?"
Li Caiyun stared at the child and said, "Why don't you keep the child?"
It is possible for them to stay, but the problem is that Zhang Guifang has a bad back, Li Caiyun and Zhou Yong need to go to work, and Li Baotian is busy working in the fields. Who will take care of the child?
We can't let Jiang Yue'e take care of the child, right?
That would be a bit inappropriate.
Because Jiang Yue'e already had a lot of housework to do and was responsible for the Li family's three meals a day, she had no time to take care of the children.
After Li Baotian finished speaking, everyone looked at each other and fell silent.
Zhang Guifang sighed: "If not, then find a good family for the child!"
"Mom, every household in our village has children. If we want to find a good family for our child, we can only go to other villages."
Zhang Guifang frowned slightly: "Outside the village? Then wouldn't the fate of this child be even more pitiful?"
The living standards of every household in other villages are limited, and they are not as wealthy as Huaixi Village. In a girl's house, no one would be willing to adopt her unless the family is childless.
Li Caiyun bit her lip and looked at Zhou Yong who remained silent.
"Zhou Yong, why don't you say anything? What are you thinking about?"
Zhou Yong rubbed his face and said, "Why don't we keep this child and find a nanny for the family later..."
"Find another nanny? Wouldn't that add burden to the family?"
Just as Zhou Yong finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhang Guifang with a frown.
Li Baotian coughed in dissatisfaction: "You talk too much. Just listen to whatever Zhou Yong arranges. It doesn't cost you or me..."
Zhang Guifang seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and finally remained silent.
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