Chapter 8
The other person had a look of anticipation on his face, and he could barely suppress the smile at the corners of his mouth. "Haha, cough cough cough, that's right!"
As the old saying goes, two kinds of people can't sleep in the same bed. No matter how cheerful Bi Laosan looks, after spending so many years with Cai Juhua, how can he be a good person? He deserves it! The last time my family had a quarrel, it was because Bi Laosan wanted to please the team leader. You can lick him if you want, but he had to step on my family's faces and talk without any hesitation. In the end, my family had to pay 20 eggs as compensation. My mother-in-law was heartbroken for half a month. Haha, this time you have to pay too! Dogs are worse than men! The people in the village are also blind! When talking about Bi Laosan, they say that he has a miserable life. He married a wife who is not easy to take care of and married her off so far away like selling his daughter. If she said that Cai Juhua alone could marry both of her daughters to such a family, would she dare to do so if Bi Laosan didn't agree? She just pushed her daughter-in-law to block him. Ugh!
The man who spoke first: "Bi Laosan, apart from being honest and not controlling his wife, can he be considered a good man? Look how many times he has followed Cai Juhua to settle things for her. Tsk~ I don't think it will be easy for him to settle it this time. Cai Juhua quarreled with Wang Laosan's family this time. Tsk, she really takes advantage of everything! She even scolded Wang Laosan's two grandsons. Wang Laosan and his wife treat those two children like babies. How could they let them suffer such grievances!"
"Really?! I don't know what she and the two sisters-in-law from the Wang family were arguing about, but I heard someone say Cai Juhua and someone started arguing, so I came out. Tell me what's going on!"
"Well, this matter really blames Cai Juhua..."
"Huh? Aunt San got into a fight with someone?!" Bi Chunliu and Bi Xiahe exchanged glances, then tacitly followed the two women.
The four sisters followed the two of them and finally figured out what was going on.
The fight started with cow dung. Yes, a few pieces of cow dung sparked the fight.
Before chemical fertilizers became widely available, farmyard manure was the only fertilizing method. Manure, especially livestock manure, was a scarce resource. Fermented and buried, it worked wonders! The Tongxi Production Team had a cow, who primarily traveled between the Tongxi Production Team, the commune, and other production teams. After all, a trip to the commune cost only ten cents per oxcart, and it could be carried out directly from the village—how convenient!
Back to the topic of cows. Cow dung is so valuable and important that feeding, herding, and collecting dung are important tasks. However, this doesn't warrant dedicating an entire adult workforce to this task. Furthermore, the main issue is that the pay is minimal. The amount of money earned from feeding, herding, and collecting dung is simply not enough to support an adult.
Then herding cattle was the children's job. The cadres of Tongxi Production Team looked and selected again and again. Finally, under the suggestion of the team leader, they unanimously agreed that the granddaughter and grandson of the team leader's third brother could be qualified for this job!
So the two children would walk through the village with their heads held high, one leading the cow while the other followed behind, carrying a small shovel and a basket filled with manure. If they were lucky, they would even climb onto the cow's back and ride it, much to the envy of the other children.
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