Chapter 3 Moving
Li Dequan looked at Zhao Yi helplessly, shook his head and walked back to his home.
"Master, why did the Boss of the Zhao family ask you to come over so late at night?"
Li Dequan's wife looked puzzled. Zhao Yi was a man they had watched grow up. He was a very honest and quiet person since he was a child.
"Just split up the family, what else can happen?"
Li Dequan said with a sigh.
"Why are they going to split up the family for no reason? They don't have many strong laborers."
Li Dequan's wife asked hurriedly.
"I guess Zhao Yi feels that following his parents is a disadvantage. He feels unbalanced that he and his parents have to help raise his younger siblings while earning work points."
Li Dequan expressed his own guess.
"I'm afraid this was the idea of the Zhang family's daughter. Li Daju is so unlucky. She raised her son with great difficulty and it seemed that he would relieve a lot of pressure on the family. But now she has to separate from him just after starting a family. The rest are just teenagers who have little labor and eat a lot."
Li Dequan's wife shook her head and sighed.
"Every family has its own problems. Who cares?"
Li Dequan shook his head as if he didn't want to delve into the topic. The important thing now was to quickly complete the harvest and planting, and he could also go to the forest farm to work for a month or two and earn a dozen yuan.
Wangou Village is not on the edge of the city, so naturally there are no side jobs and no dividends throughout the year. Fortunately, there is a forest farm not far away, and families with many strong laborers can assign one or two strong laborers to the forest farm to do odd jobs and earn some money. Otherwise, relying solely on the old hens at home can only maintain the daily expenses of the family, and there is no spare money to buy cloth to make clothes for the family.
Zhao family yard.
Zhang Jing followed Zhao Yi back to the room.
At this time, Zhao Dahai and Li Daju were sitting in the main room staring at each other, unable to understand what had happened today. Their son had changed so much when he woke up this morning, as if he had become a completely different person.
Now I know how to fight for my own interests, whereas before I only knew how to work honestly.
"Boss, what's wrong with you? Why is it that you are like a different person?"
Li Daju looked at Zhao Dahai puzzledly.
"I've grown up and know how to think about myself."
Zhao Dahai took a puff of welding smoke and said in silence for a while, "In the past, Zhao Yi was so honest and never said a word. He didn't even say anything when he was bullied. He thought Zhao Yi would be like this for the rest of his life. He didn't expect that he would change after getting married."
In the room.
Zhang Jing was a little restless, but when she looked at Zhao Yi, she found that he seemed to be fine. He had already washed up and was lying on the bed ready to sleep.
"Boss, are we really going to move out tomorrow?"
Zhang Jing still couldn't believe it. Her husband was so decisive and her mother-in-law was just scolding her verbally. But this man actually wanted to separate from the family and live alone for her.
"If you don't move out, do you really like being scolded every day?"
Zhao Yi smiled and patted the bed, telling Zhang Jing to go to sleep quickly and not think about those trivial things.
"But."
Zhang Jing just said two words.
"There's nothing to worry about. It's more important for us to live our own lives. Others can say whatever they want. The things you worry about are not ours to worry about."
Zhao Yi pulled Zhang Jing closer to him and signaled her to wash up and go to bed.
early morning.
The sky was just beginning to show a hint of paleness.
Zhang Jing followed Zhao Yi to move the luggage to the old house. The old house, which had been uninhabited for a long time, was covered with dust and had many cobwebs. Zhang Jing put on a headscarf and began to clean it carefully.
Zhao Yi carried a wooden bucket to the well and fetched water back.
Without iron pots and other things, we can only eat boiled potatoes these days. Fortunately, the harvest will be over in two days, so the fields will not be so busy then.
Zhao Yi watched Zhang Jing cleaning the room, and he himself was not idle either. He took out a lot of bamboo strips that were still left in the utility room of the old house.
Before my grandfather passed away, he was a craftsman who could make many things with bamboo. There are still a lot of unused thin bamboo pieces in the utility room.
While weaving the fish basket, Zhao Yi was not idle either. He put the clay pot on the stove and cooked some corn kernels.
Soon, two simple fish baskets were made. They were tied with two thin hemp ropes and a few cooked corn kernels were placed in each basket. The couple ate a few potatoes for breakfast and prepared to rush to the team headquarters.
There is a big river not far from the old house, which turns and flows downstream at the village, so this place is also called Wangou Village. It is called a big river, but in fact it is not much different from the surface of the river.
This place is right at the turning point, and the area is particularly spacious with a relatively slow water flow, making it a favorite place for children in the village to cool off. Although they might get beaten every time they come here to swim, they cannot resist the temptation.
Zhao Yi threw two fish baskets into the river, tied the hemp ropes beside them, and then followed Zhang Jing to the team headquarters.
"Have you heard that the girl from the Zhang family is not a good person? As soon as she married into the Zhao family, she instigated the eldest son of the Zhao family to separate from the family, fearing that he would suffer any loss. The eldest son of the Zhao family is also a person without his own opinion, and he does whatever his wife says.
He doesn't even think about the fact that his parents have a hard time too, and he expects two strong laborers to share the burden of the family. But now he just listens to his wife and forgets about his mother after getting married. What's the point of this? ”
Zhao Yi and Zhang Jing had just arrived at the team headquarters to get farm tools to go to work when they heard a number of women talking about this matter.
Zhang Jing hid behind Zhao Yi feeling a little uneasily, and the thing she worried about really happened.
"Just treat it as a turtle chanting sutras. These people are the kind of people who talk without any hesitation. Only they know whether their lives are bitter or sweet. Others can only gossip about them."
Zhao Yi doesn't care what others say at all. No matter how much they say, he won't lose any weight.
In his previous life, he worked hard for his family but no one in the village said a good word about him. However, after his ungrateful brothers and sisters got jobs, the villagers praised them for their abilities, unlike him who had no skills at all and just did hard labor.
It is unknown whether they would have the chance to continue their studies if they had not worked hard themselves.
When Zhang Jing heard her man say this, her uneasiness disappeared completely. Yes, she would live with the man in front of her for the rest of her life, and nothing these people said could change her family's life.
As for who spread these gossips, Zhao Yi knew without guessing that Li Dequan's wife had a loud voice and would help publicize anything for free.
"Xiaoyi, your parents have a hard time."
When receiving the farm tools, an old man looked at Zhao Yi and sighed.
"So since they haven't reached retirement age yet, I'm willing to give them five kilograms of food every month. When they reach retirement age, I'll definitely give them more food."
Zhao Yi said with a smile.
As soon as these words were spoken, the women in the village nodded secretly. It seemed that the eldest son of the Zhao family was not an ungrateful person. Zhao Dahai and Li Daju were still strong laborers and did not need to be supported at all.
Zhao Yi is willing to do this much, and he will definitely be even more filial when he can no longer work in the future.
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