Tiger picked up a piece of pastry and started eating it.
Su Xueli asked him, "Is it delicious?"
Tiger said, "It's delicious."
"Hehehe..." she laughed.
Wei Mingshen glanced at her again and again, then coldly asked Hu Zi, "Has the market started yet?"
Tiger said, "Not yet, it'll probably be past the fifteenth. Nobody's buying wheat bran yet."
Wei Mingshen said, "That's true. We bought a bag or two of flour for the New Year, and we still couldn't finish the wheat bran for the livestock."
Tiger may seem honest and clumsy with words, but he's quick-witted and hardworking. He hauls wheat bran from the county's flour mill to sell at rural markets, earning a few cents per pound.
You can earn ten or eight yuan by going to a market, which is pretty good.
Tiger saw a pile of straw weaving materials on the floor and asked innocently, "I heard that my sister-in-law and brother made a lot of money making straw weaving."
Su Xueli laughed and said, "Oh, it's just hard-earned money, the same as when you resell wheat bran."
Tiger chuckled and said, "I earn enough money to pay for my parents' medicine."
Tiger was a man with a hard life. He was the youngest in his family, but he had to take on the responsibility of supporting his family at a young age.
He has two older sisters and one older brother, but they are all older than him. His eldest sister is twenty years older than him, his second sister is seventeen or eighteen years older than him, and his eldest brother is fifteen or sixteen years older than him. They all got married early and went their separate ways, leaving their elderly and sick parents to their youngest son, Hu Zi.
Like all rural parents, they risked their lives to raise their children, but they were also exhausted, leaving them penniless and riddled with illness.
Tiger's father suffered a stroke due to overwork, resulting in hemiplegia. He walks with a cane and has difficulty taking care of himself, requiring daily medication to maintain his health.
Tiger's mother was fine, but she had a bad cold once, and because she was reluctant to spend money to see a doctor, she kept putting it off. In the end, it developed into asthma, and she has to take medicine for a long time.
At home, there is also a blind grandmother who can't do anything and we have to take care of her.
The three old men then fell to Hu Zi.
It is said that the youngest children are the most pampered, but Tiger never enjoyed a day of pampering. He became the main labor force in the family at the age of thirteen or fourteen.
Moreover, his parents were ambitious when they were young. The house they built for his eldest brother was the best in the village, and the dowries they gave to his two older sisters were also very impressive. But by the time it came to Hu Zi, there was no value left. Even the old house was dilapidated, and Hu Zi had to earn money to rebuild it himself.
Tiger took on the heavy burden of the family without complaint or regret.
Because of the heavy burden on his family, he never went to the market or drank with his fellow villagers, for fear of spending money.
As a result, he earned a reputation for being "stingy," and everyone mocked and ridiculed him. Furthermore, because his family was poor, no one dared to introduce him to a wife, and he was already 20 and still unmarried.
In rural areas, that's considered quite old. Besides, given his situation, he probably won't be able to get married in a few more years and will remain a bachelor.
Actually, Tiger is not ugly. He is as his name suggests: thick eyebrows, big eyes, a straight nose, a wide mouth, medium height, and a tiger-like face.
If his family were even slightly better off, many girls would want to marry him.
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