In the afternoon, Lu Shiyi sat on a bench in the yard and started picking chestnuts with a bayonet. He looked at the mountain of chestnuts on the ground and sighed heavily.
Lin Zitao brought his wife and children back from the mountain and heard the farm families talking about having chicken stewed with mushrooms tonight. Every household could get a bowl. Some people were jealous that Lu Shiyi and his wife could only eat a pheasant.
"Bull Lu hunted the pheasant himself. If Bu Lu hadn't used stones to smash the pheasant into the range of the secret sentry, no one would have eaten it today." Leopard came back from changing shifts at the secret sentry and heard the sour remarks of the family members, and he started to make sarcastic remarks.
In order to contribute prey to everyone, the Lu team still had to be criticized by them. The members of the two Divine Sword teams came here with Lu Shiyi and could not bear to hear these people bullying Lu Shiyi.
Lin Zitao asked the mother and her two children to go back first. He went to Lu Shiyi's yard and stood at the door calling Lu Shiyi.
"Old Lin, come in quickly and call Xiaolei and Xiaoyan over to help me peel chestnuts. We will have chestnut chicken tonight." Lu Shiyi and Su Jin had agreed to invite the two elders and Mr. and Mrs. Yang before dinner, and then ask Lin Zitao and his son to help, so that the two families could have dinner together.
"Isn't it called Wu Bu?" Lin Zitao was stunned.
"I just got back. Wu Bu and my aunt said they wanted to go back to the staff quarters in the county town. They said some relatives from the old place were coming and they needed to take care of something." Lu Shiyi told Lin Zitao.
"The Wu family members are really hard to deal with. They came every year during the years you weren't here," Lin Zitao said darkly. "It's hard to be a normal person in the family compound when you're so restless. You have to apologize to everyone everywhere."
"Political Commissar Lin, call your two children to help, and tell Sister Yunfeng not to cook dinner!" Su Jin heard the noise in the yard and hurried out of the kitchen and said.
"Sister-in-law... I'm sorry to bother you. I'll bring you some rations later. Our family won't come here to eat if you don't want it." Lin Zitao threatened Lu Shiyi and his wife immediately when he saw that they didn't want the rations.
Lin Zitao knew that Lu Shiyi was capable of getting food, and there were people watching everywhere outside, so he had to take precautions in advance.
"Okay, I'll only charge you five kilograms of coarse grains." Lu Shiyi agreed with a clear price.
Lin Zitao looked at Lu Shiyi with gratitude. The two children at home were growing up and their appetites had increased a lot. Lin Zitao and his wife tried their best to buy food, but perhaps they bought too little.
If Lu Shiyi could get food, he would secretly ask Lin Zitao.
The couple worked together and saved a sum of money. Even if he stopped working now, it could cover the family's expenses for nearly 10 years.
Lin Zitao went back and called brothers Lin Lei and Lin Yan to come out to help, and went to the bedroom to watch Yun Feng counting food coupons.
"Go to Old Lu's house and take five pounds of coarse grains. We'll have dinner there tonight." Lin Zitao whispered to Yunfeng, "I'll ask Old Lu if we can buy some extra food."
"My husband's family sent me a letter asking me to send 100 kilograms of food coupons back." Yunfeng handed the letter from the Lin family to Lin Zitao. The letter was filled with commands, which made Lin Zitao unhappy.
"No need to send it. I'll call the brigade tomorrow and tell Dad in person." Lin Zitao listened to Lu Shiyi's words and reflected for a long time. "Wife, in the past few years, in addition to sending pension money to Mom and Dad every month, don't send anything extra. Send a portion of pension money to Yue's family. If it's inconvenient to mail it, just put it in the letter home."
Yunfeng looked at Lin Zitao in surprise. After marriage, Lin Zitao never told her parents alone that he would send pension money. Yunfeng had a job, but she was scolded by the Lin family for sending pension money.
"Don't stop every month. If you can't, send some food coupons or grain to your parents-in-law. When the weather gets colder, we won't be able to send anything over." Lin Zitao was thinking about the pile of mountain products sent by his father-in-law. Those were picked by the old couple and his brother-in-law and his wife in the mountains.
However, the Lin family never sent him anything, but only asked for things from him.
"If my father-in-law and mother-in-law get wind of this, they'll probably make a scene again." Yunfeng really didn't want her family to suffer any more. "Lao Lin, I heard from Xiaojin that this year's harvest wasn't good, and next year's food supply might be even harder!"
Yunfeng originally wanted to save more money to buy food on the black market, at least enough for her family of four to eat until the autumn harvest.
"If there's trouble at home, I'll take care of it." Lin Zitao realized that his family would suffer if there was trouble at home.
It has been more than 20 years since I joined the army at the age of 18. I have been home very few times and the people at home are no longer the same as when I was a child.
"Wife, you've worked hard these past few years!" Lin Zitao reached out and hugged Yunfeng. "I'll take my two brothers over to help first. Old Lu has brought back a lot of prickly chestnuts."
"Hurry up and get to work. I'll take the food over after I'm done packing." Yun Feng sent Lin Zitao to the Lu family first.
After Lin Lei and Lin Yan cleaned themselves up, they followed Lin Zitao out.
After entering the Lu family, Lu Shiyi pointed at the three benches opposite without any hesitation.
"Hurry up!" Lu Shiyi didn't stop what he was doing, and directed the father and his two sons to start eating. "If you want to eat, get them all. Peel half of them, and keep the other half in the shell."
Lin Zitao took out his new bayonet to help, and brothers Lin Lei and Lin Yan took the knife from Lu Shiyi, and the four of them sat together.
"Old Lu, can you get some food? We don't have enough at home!" Lin Zitao said in front of the two brothers. "Their appetite is increasing day by day. I also need to buy some for Yue's family."
"Is Sister Yunfeng's family in financial difficulty?" Lu Shiyi heard from Su Jin that every time Yunfeng received her salary, she would send some food coupons back home, saying that the Yun family's side had terraced fields on the hillside and the grain production was very low.
"Yes, the Yue family never said anything. It was Yunfeng who got the news from the fellow villagers," Lin Zitao directly stated the attitudes of the Lin and Yun families. He regretted helping his family for decades. "I don't care about the things sent from my hometown. Feelings are mutual. I would also feel disappointed."
"Follow me out tonight, Hu Zi should be able to get some food. You'd better send the food back tomorrow morning!" Lu Shiyi looked at Lin Zitao and said, "There are many people on the farm, and you have so much food here, there's no guarantee that there won't be jealous people."
After hearing Lu Shiyi's proposal, Lin Zitao immediately nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll go with you tonight with the money!" Lin Zitao agreed. "I've asked the logistics department to deliver the things I bought for my family!"
Lu Shiyi nodded: "My family also needs to buy some food. The two elders and Uncle Yang and his wife are coming over. There will be four more people, so we have to buy more food."
"After Hu Zi retired, you called him away, right?" Lin Zitao also knew Hu Zi, a member of the Excalibur Team. "Back then, Hu Zi was injured and had to take off his uniform after having his limbs amputated."
"When Hu Zi returned home, he found his family had all gone," Lu Shiyi recounted Hu Zi's family story. "Hu Zi's younger sister was pretty, and she was targeted by the brother-in-law of the local pigeon committee. He broke into their house at night and caused trouble, and then hanged herself the next day. Hu Zi's parents were beaten to death while seeking justice for their daughter."
What?!
"Hu Zi went back...did he seek revenge?" Lin Zitao looked at Lu Shiyi.
"Go to the local armed forces and file a complaint. They're colluding with the Pigeon Committee. If Hu Zi hadn't run fast, he would have been taken away." Lu Shiyi told Lin Zitao, "Hu Zi had no choice but to flee far away."
Hu Zi took revenge personally. Lu Shiyi didn't want to tell Lin Zitao. After all, Hu Zi killed the director of the Pigeon Committee and both families of his brother-in-law.
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