Chapter 3 The Laziest Man in the Countryside 70 (3)
My sister-in-law cooked a lot of corn and also made sweet potato porridge, but there weren't many rice grains in the porridge; it was mostly sweet potato.
Everyone enjoyed the meal, but eating too much didn't fill them up and caused heartburn.
"The rain has stopped outside, and it looks like the sun will come out again. The rice will be easier to harvest when it's sunny." Ji Hong finally breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the weather outside.
"Yes, it's harvest time, so please, God, don't let it rain."
Ji Huaizhi also glanced back.
He finished half a bowl of porridge and half a corncob and then stopped eating, as food was rationed.
Since he wasn't working, he had to share some of his food rations with his older brothers.
"Eat more, your brother and the others aren't home today," Sister-in-law Ji said to her younger brother.
Sister-in-law Ji is a little worried because the three of them haven't eaten after doing so much work today.
Third Sister-in-law Ji had no objection. The water used to soak the sponge cake smelled really sweet, so she took a sip. Eldest Sister-in-law and Father Ji left it all for the children.
"I'm not hungry," Ji Huaizhi said softly.
Seeing his youngest son like this, Ji Hong's anger flared up again.
"Can't you speak louder? You can't even speak clearly if you can't do your job properly!" Ji Hong's voice was loud and clear.
The wives in the family are all afraid of their fathers-in-law.
After his sister-in-law offered a few words of advice, Ji Huaizhi silently returned to his room.
Father Ji was so angry that he picked up a small stool and threw it at him: "You're driving me crazy!"
Ji's father was disappointed in him because he was the youngest in the family and had not yet married. Ji's father was most worried about him.
"Elder sister, please leave an extra stick here for later."
Sister-in-law Ji nodded; it was definitely meant for her brother-in-law.
But her father-in-law didn't know that her brother-in-law wouldn't touch it if she left it there, so she planned to secretly take it to his room later.
"Uncle! Don't hit him!" Little Stone pointed at his grandfather and exclaimed.
The others looked at the little man and laughed.
"You're quite protective of your uncle." Third Sister-in-law looked at her son and thought he was so cute, so she took another bite.
Ji Hong couldn't help but laugh when he saw his grandson like that.
Sister-in-law Ji took a yellowed gauze and covered the food rations she had left for her mother-in-law and the others. Then she took a stick and knocked on her brother-in-law's door.
"Here, have some." Sister-in-law Ji stuffed a corncob into his hand. She was quite a bit older than Ji Huaizhi and had taken care of her younger brother-in-law when he was a child. He was only a few years older than her daughter.
He used to be so smart and capable: "Don't yell at your dad!"
"Once your second sister-in-law's stomach is better, have your eldest brother take you to the hospital to see what happened!"
"I know you can't help wanting to sleep." She said, ruffling his hair.
Good oil, I'll have him get his hair washed tomorrow.
Ji Huaizhi split the stick in two: "For the peach blossoms and the plum blossoms."
"They're full." Before Sister-in-law Ji could finish speaking, he shoved the food into her hands and closed the door.
Looking at the tightly closed wooden door, and hearing the sound of the bolt being tightened from inside, Sister-in-law Ji sighed.
Ji's father sat under the eaves, a pipe in his mouth; he had heard the commotion.
Seeing his eldest daughter-in-law standing there motionless, he frowned and said, "Fine, if you don't want to eat, I'll save some food by starving myself. You can take it and give it to the child."
Once everyone was out, Father Ji put down the bamboo stick in his hand and started puffing on his tobacco leaf.
His dark, yellowish face was filled with worry.
The next day, the Ji family returned. Seeing that nothing had happened, Ji's father breathed a sigh of relief: "The second son's wife isn't working. Who didn't sleep well last night?"
The eldest and second eldest raised their hands, their eyes still bruised and swollen. The third eldest had come back with the tractor driver that night.
They slept in the hospital corridor last night; it was very cold.
"Then you can go pick up the educated youth today, and you can rest when you get back and not go to work," Father Ji instructed them.
"What? There are educated youth too?" Ji's mother, Wang Xiuju, looked utterly disgusted. "They're so annoying! There's already not enough food, and now they have to give it to those lazybones."
"Who's lazier than your youngest son?" Father Ji sneered, his hands behind his back.
"Isn't that your son?" Ji's mother's voice was fierce, which startled Ji's father into silence.
"Little one, go with your two older brothers, don't stay cooped up in this room." Wang Xiuju thought of what her eldest daughter-in-law had told her and felt that it made sense.
The youngest child used to be well-behaved and capable, not like this.
However, she felt that her youngest son was missing his soul, but she dared not consult a shaman now.
He secretly gave the eldest son some money and took the two brothers and the youngest son to visit as well.
Ji's father pretended not to see it.
He just muttered a curse under his breath about a spendthrift woman.
The three brothers pulled the oxcart towards the city, and in perfect unison, they all yawned one after another.
The older brother watched as his younger brother started shaking his head, and the next second he saw him fall to the ground.
The second son's lips twitched: "Don't be like what Mom said, that my little brother is missing a soul and a spirit."
"Don't talk nonsense. Saying these things now is just asking for trouble, isn't it?" the boss scolded him.
The second brother didn't say anything more. He put his younger brother on the oxcart, and the two resignedly took him to the hospital.
As for the educated youth, waiting a little longer won't cost them anything.
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When they arrived at the hospital, Ji Huaizhi was carried up by the eldest brother. The doctor examined him and looked fierce: "You guys are really wasting resources. He's just asleep."
"As for his usual behavior, to put it bluntly, he's just lazy."
The second brother blushed slightly, feeling embarrassed by what he was being said, but the eldest brother felt that his younger brother's behavior was really abnormal.
“He’s really not normal. He’s the kind of person who can’t be woken up. Even if my dad splashes water on him, he might not wake up. And when he’s walking, he’ll suddenly lose consciousness. He doesn’t even react when he’s injured.”
The doctor frowned as he looked at the bruises on Ji Huaizhi's body.
He couldn't explain it either: "Then he's just faking it. He'll be fine after a few more days of starvation."
"Let's go, let's go!"
The two brothers exchanged a glance, and had no choice but to carry their younger brother downstairs.
“I knew it was useless.” The second son, remembering that they still had some money left, said, “Let’s use the rest to buy some steamed cakes. My wife is pregnant.”
The boss glanced at him: "No tickets."
Just then, Ji Huaizhi woke up and said, "I'll go buy it."
Ji Huaizhi felt awkward around his elder brother: "Last time I bought four tickets and met an acquaintance who didn't need them. You guys go pick up the educated youth."
Second brother: "You bought four and didn't even say how the older brothers should share them?"
“I fed it to my own child, and I’ll give it to your baby when your second sister-in-law’s baby comes out.” Ji Huaizhi glanced at him.
The second son felt relieved: "That makes sense."
The eldest brother was a little worried, but Ji Huaizhi said he wouldn't sleep for the time being.
Ji Huaizhi didn't actually know anyone, but he had studied in town before, so his brother didn't think there was any problem. On the contrary, he thought Ji Huaizhi had quite a few connections.
The original owner used to have excellent grades, but she stopped going to school because she was sleeping.
The older brother gave him one dollar and fifty cents, and when they parted, he said that if he wanted a ticket, he wouldn't buy one.
Ji Huaizhi has food ration coupons in his own space.
When I arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, I bought some sponge cakes and peach shortbread. After paying with money and grain coupons, I saw the fabric stall on the far side and, after thinking for a moment, took out a cloth coupon worth 10 feet.
"Comrade, how much is a foot of cloth?"
"Three and a half cents a foot." Seeing that the cloth coupon in the man's hand was for ten feet, he added, "If you buy ten feet, it will cost three dollars and thirty cents in total, which will be two cents cheaper."
Ji Huaizhi looked at the twill cotton fabric he had chosen and said, "Give me ten feet of this style."
"Okay." The sales clerk gave him a receipt and pointed inside: "Take this receipt to the warehouse to pick up the goods, and the people over there will find it for you."
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