Chapter 179 I'll live my good life, you live your miserable one.
Zhang Chunxue couldn't help but laugh: "It's convenient for me, but what about you? What are you going to do at the brigade headquarters? You have to leave from the county to get there before dawn!"
Song Xingzhi answered without hesitation: "Sure!"
"Don't you find it troublesome!" Zhang Chunxue couldn't help but poke his head. "I think the town is pretty good... I also really like this courtyard..."
"From now on, I'll leave earlier every day, so you don't need to pick me up."
"Then I also want to spend more time with Sister Chunxue, right?" Song Xingzhi looked at Zhang Chunxue pitifully. "Instead of anxiously waiting for you at home, I'd rather come pick you up, and we can walk back together under the moonlight... right?"
As he spoke, his voice became even more aggrieved: "Doesn't Sister Chunxue want to spend more time with me?"
Zhang Chunxue's lips twitched.
Why is Song Xingzhi becoming more and more clingy every day?
There are children in the kitchen!
Zhou Mingli washed the dishes with her eyes closed and mind at ease, pretending that she was deaf.
Song Yanshen turned his back to them, holding Zhong Yuanyuan like a statue.
Zhang Chunxue secretly pinched Song Xingzhi's waist before saying, "If you don't mind the effort, then do as you please!"
Song Xingzhi immediately flashed a bright smile: "Then it's settled!"
He looked up at Zhou Mingli again: "Mingli, your mother and I will definitely be back later than you. When you get back, please have dinner ready, okay?"
Zhou Mingli regained her hearing instantly: "No problem!"
Their family was enjoying a happy time together, while in Zhongjia Village, Zhong Chengfa was arguing with Li Hongjuan again.
He felt he couldn't go on living like this anymore.
Li Hongjuan has become increasingly lazy at work lately, and when she goes to the fields, she just goes through the motions.
You have to understand that now that the household responsibility system has been implemented, you have to do the work on your own land. If you don't do it well, you might not have enough to eat all year round.
But Li Hongjuan, every day she complains of pain here or there, she can always find eight hundred reasons to avoid working.
Zhong Chengfa was really angry, so he argued with her today.
Li Hongjuan even argued that this was how it always was, and that's how life always was before.
Zhong Chengfa slammed his fist on the table in anger: "Before? Before, that was before the family was divided! Now the family is divided, and the land is divided too!"
“Before, there were three men in the family who did the work, but now it’s just me! Before, when you did some housework, cooking and washing clothes, your second son’s wife would come along to help in the fields… Now? Now it’s just the two of us!”
Li Hongjuan was still unconvinced: "But I'm also cooking and washing clothes at home now! I also have to take care of the children!"
Zhong Chengfa looked at her, his disappointment growing stronger with each passing moment.
Now, Li Hongjuan no longer has the thin and frail appearance she had when she first returned, nor does she have that timid look in her eyes.
She seemed to have him completely under her thumb.
She knew he couldn't live without her; after all, without her, Zhong Chengfa would never be able to marry another woman.
That's just how things are at home, what else can we do? We just have to make do!
The couple was arguing fiercely at home, while Zhong Hongqing stood blankly at the door.
He rubbed his rumbling stomach, hesitated for a moment, and then turned to walk out.
Zhong Chengren, on the other hand, has been doing quite well lately.
His good friend took him to a new gambling den, where he was incredibly lucky. He won more than he lost, basically winning eight out of ten times. During this time, he made a lot of money and lived a very comfortable life.
However, he dared not go to the grain and oil station again, for fear of running into his mother again.
He was craving braised food, but it was okay, he could resist! When Meng Wanshu was on vacation, he took her to the county to buy a gold bracelet, which he bought and ate back home!
The third son, Zhong Chengyi, had a rather tough life.
During this time, he frantically searched for the person who might have stolen his treasure, but he couldn't find them.
He and Zhong Xiaoyang kept an eye on the villagers, investigating which family bought meat to eat.
Even so, he still couldn't find the person who stole the treasure.
This made Zhong Chengyi increasingly irritable.
Only Zhang Chunxue lived a life of unparalleled comfort.
Every morning she goes to the meat processing plant to buy ingredients, and when she comes back she starts cleaning and braising them. Then in the afternoon she rides her tricycle to the county to set up her stall.
Starting from the second day, she brought more items, so she spent more time setting up her stall. Anyway, she waited until around seven o'clock for Song Xingzhi to come and pick her up.
If they didn't sell out, they would sell together with Song Xingzhi. Once they sold out, they would go to find Song Xingzhi along the way they came. The two would meet on the road and then go back together.
Just as Song Xingzhi said, the two of them walked back under the moonlight, and sometimes they walked back in the rain.
But the two chatted and laughed along the way, so they didn't feel tired at all.
Three days passed in this way, and on this day it was pouring rain. Because the rain was so heavy, Zhang Chunxue decided to take a day off and go back to her stall the next day.
Zhou Mingli was washing clothes for Zhong Yuanyuan under the eaves when she suddenly looked up at the gate of the courtyard and saw something.
She looked at it a few more times, and the more she looked, the more she felt... how could that be a person?
Is he still a child?
Upon closer inspection, wasn't that the child, soaked to the bone, Zhong Hongqing?
Zhou Mingli immediately gasped, and without even bothering to open her umbrella, she quickly put down what she was holding and rushed over.
Zhong Hongqing, soaked to the bone, looked up at Zhou Mingli and said weakly, "Second Aunt..."
Zhou Mingli quickly picked him up and ran towards the eaves, shouting, "Mom! Mom! Come out quickly!"
Zhang Chunxue thought something had happened to her and quickly ran out: "What's wrong? Mingli? What happened?"
"Mom! Hongqing! Hongqing is here!" Zhou Mingli showed the baby in her arms to Zhang Chunxue.
Zhang Chunxue was also taken aback.
Zhang Chunxue had been living a very comfortable life for so long that she had almost forgotten about her three good-for-nothing sons, and of course, she had also forgotten about this so-called grandson.
"Xiao Shen, quickly get a dry towel!" Zhang Chunxue immediately ordered. "I'll go to the kitchen to boil some water; this child needs a hot bath."
It wasn't that she felt particularly sorry for the child, it was just that...
If something really happens, it can't happen in her house!
Song Yanshen quickly found a dry towel, then hurriedly ran back to his room and found a set of clean clothes that were a little too small for him.
Fortunately, the weather wasn't too hot, so Zhou Mingli pulled Zhong Hongqing to the stove in the kitchen and stripped him of his clothes.
Looking at Zhong Hongqing's emaciated body, Zhou Mingli couldn't help but widen her eyes.
"Mom, you used to raise Hongqing to be plump and healthy, how come he's become so thin? Did your older brother not feed him?"
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