Zhang Xudong wanted to go home, but the Third Master and several team leaders stopped him.
"Dongzi, look, there are only 30 chicks, and some of the people nowadays haven't got any, right? Not to mention that there are 183 households in our brigade," the brigade leader was stopped by Zhang Xudong before he could finish his words.
"Stop, Third Grandpa. As long as the few people present want it, I promise to give it to them. But for the rest, I can't do anything more.
Generally speaking, I have thirty or fifty eggs, which is not bad. But what about hundreds?
"What's wrong with you always looking at me and wanting me to get shot? If anyone with bad intentions reports me, I'll be in trouble. Can you guarantee that this won't happen?"
"Let's start from the beginning. You think that exchanging one chick for two eggs is not expensive, but can you guarantee that everyone thinks so?
Also, what if someone kills all the chicks and doesn't return the eggs? Whose eggs are they?
"So, Third Uncle, it's not that I don't want to help everyone, but when I help others, I have to ensure my own safety first!
Is there anything wrong with this? The lesson of dividing pork happened just this morning, how could I have forgotten it?
"Everyone, I'm going home. See you later." Zhang Xudong waved his hand and left with the medicine box on his back, not caring what those who stayed behind thought.
"Oh, am I old?" The captain sighed after Zhang Xudong left.
Zhang Xudong returned home and found Aunt Gen sitting there. It seemed like she had been there for a while.
"What's wrong, Auntie? Is there something wrong with Heidan? Why don't you go to the team headquarters and call me?"
"Dongzi, Heidan is fine, his sister is at home taking care of her. I just came to thank you.
"Auntie, you're welcome. How can neighbors be so polite? Besides, I like Heidan very much, so please don't be polite."
"Okay, I won't be polite. However, I can help you, but I can't let you pay for the medicine.
I know you're using good medicine. Your Aunt Guihua told me. What other injections did you give Heidan? I searched the house, and now I only have these five yuan and thirty-three cents.
I know this money is not enough. How much more do you think is needed? Your aunt will owe you the money first and pay you back later, okay?
As she spoke, Aunt Gen took out a handful of change. The largest denomination was a one-yuan note, and the rest were dimes.
Zhang Xudong thought for a moment, and when he saw his grandmother was about to speak, he shook his head and said:
"Aunt, do you think this is okay? I want Grandma to raise a few pigs at home, but we don't have a pigpen. Can you ask Uncle Gen and Brother Shuanzi to help build a pigpen after work?"
"Okay, that's no big deal. I'll go get them right away. But it's just hard work, and I'll pay you."
"That won't do. My strength comes from eating food. If you pay me back, I'll hire someone else." Aunt Gen became jealous after hearing this.
"Nephew, I know you are helping my family. I will accept this favor. I will ask Shuanzi and your uncle to come over now." After saying that, she stood up and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute, Auntie." Zhang Xudong stopped Auntie Gen who was about to leave and went to the kitchen. He took out a pig liver from the supermarket and returned to the main room. He said to Grandma:
"Grandma, please give some of the mushrooms I picked to Aunt Gen." Then she gave the pig liver to Aunt Gen:
"Aunt, Heidan is injured. Normally I have to go visit him. Now that you're here, I won't go to your house. Take this pork liver away and stew it with mushrooms for Heidan. It's a good way to replenish blood quickly."
Aunt Gen looked at the pig liver in her hand and thought for a while and said:
"Dongzi and my aunt, I shamelessly took it. Who made me, as a mother, incompetent and unable to give the child some good things to nourish his body?
I will tell Heidan that he will be Dongzi's biological brother and your grandson in the future.
If he dares to disrespect you in the future, I will break his legs with my own hands, then I will kowtow to you and apologize, and after that I will hang myself, otherwise I, Ma Daying, cannot afford to lose this person."
After saying that, Aunt Gen picked up her things, wiped her red eyes, turned around and left.
Zhang Xudong and his grandmother looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and sighed, "This is all because of poverty!"
His original intention was just to help those who knew what was good and what was bad, and who knew how to be grateful. He never imagined that someone could equate a pig's liver and a handful of mushrooms with a pair of legs and a human life.
"Grandma, I'll take out some cornmeal, sorghum flour, and white flour. Let's steam some more steamed bread with three-grain flour.
I figured if we were to build a pigpen, there would be plenty of people coming to help. Let's give each person two steamed buns. White flour buns are too conspicuous. Let's give them three-grain flour buns, and you can add more white flour.
Besides, those kids are coming over to practice martial arts tomorrow, and we can't just watch them go hungry, right? Let them make as much steamed bread as they want with this three-grain flour."
"Dongzi, you can't put too much pressure on yourself. I know you are thinking about the future of Yanyan and me.
But the little brat is eating me to death. Besides, there are so many kids jumping around all day long. You can't push yourself too hard.
"Don't worry, grandma. I can afford to raise more, as long as they are not ungrateful. Even if there is an ungrateful one, I won't let him go."
"Brother, Yanyan doesn't want to make things difficult for you. Yanyan can protect herself and grandma. Yanyan does boxing many times every day."
"Don't worry, little sister. Brother won't make things difficult for you. He's very capable. As for you, you can't be impatient when practicing martial arts. You have to proceed step by step. The same goes for boxing. Don't exhaust yourself."
"Brother, I'm not tired. When I'm tired, I just drink a few sips of water and I'll have strength again. Even Brother Shengli isn't as strong as me now."
"That's good, just master it yourself and go have fun." Zhang Xudong said.
"What's wrong, grandma? Why did you keep looking at me? What's the matter?" Zhang Xudong asked after his sister left.
"Xiaodong, why do I feel my strength getting stronger? Your Aunt Gen wanted to put the money down and leave just now. I didn't know what you meant, so I stopped her.
Before I even felt the strength, I pushed her down into the chair and she couldn't stand up. What happened?
"Grandma, it's not surprising. Didn't I tell you that there was a spiritual well in the magic weapon grandpa gave me?
The water in our jar is from the spiritual well that I put there. You drink the spiritual well water all day long, so how can you not be strong? "
"Don't think too much. Isn't being strong a good thing? Let's steam the steamed buns first! Don't let the people who come to help you go hungry."
"Okay, steamed buns. Why couldn't your damn grandfather come a few months earlier? How great it would have been if he could have saved your father? Sigh!"
Zhang Xudong wanted to say, if he really came, what would happen to me?
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