They both had no jobs and were idle all day, so they often practiced martial arts to pass the time, and from time to time they would practice against each other. After two years, their skills became very good.
After hearing the explanation, Liu Gang showed a look of sudden enlightenment. "I was wondering how they could fight so well. I'll talk to your second uncle and ask him to practice when he has time. Otherwise, it would be so embarrassing for the older brother to be unable to beat the younger brother."
Li Xu looked at him strangely, "Uncle Liu can't beat you, do you dare to fight back when he hits you?"
Liu Gang: ...
This sentence caused him great psychological harm, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a moment of silence, he said stubbornly, "It's different. Your Uncle Liu is the eldest in the family, but your second uncle is not."
"That's what I said. I heard from Grandma Liu that Uncle Liu beat you up before, but you didn't dare to fight back."
The second uncle Liu here refers to Liu Gang’s second brother Liu Wu.
Liu Gang was furious. "I couldn't beat him, and I was afraid that if I fought back I would get beaten even more. Otherwise, how could I let him?"
Unlike Liu Wen who has changed his job, Liu Wu has always been in the army, so his combat effectiveness is naturally better than Liu Gang's.
Li Xu said with a wicked smile, "If you say so, I will complain to Uncle Liu Er the next time he comes back."
His relationship with the Liu family can be described as close. Before Liu Wu came back to visit his relatives, Grandpa Liu and others specially called him to introduce the two of them.
Afterwards we had several meals together.
Liu Gang glanced over and said, "I can't beat him, but can I beat you?"
Faced with this naked threat, Li Xu's face changed and he pretended to blame, "Look, you're anxious again. With our relationship, how could I betray you?"
"That's hard to say."
"Your words show a great lack of trust in me. Only treating me to a meal can mend my wounded heart."
"It's better to ask you to eat your fart." Liu Gang said unhappily, opened the car door and jumped out.
Li Xu was stunned at first, then shook his head with a smile and jumped down.
In the afternoon, while everyone in the car team was chatting, something happened in the Li family courtyard.
As usual, some neighbors were chatting at Li's house.
As they were chatting, a postman stopped at the door on his bicycle and shouted inside, "Is anyone from the Liu Gui family here?"
Hearing the sound, a middle-aged woman quickly stood up and walked towards the door, responding, "Yes, yes, is it a letter from the Northeast?"
"right."
Upon hearing this, two more people in the yard stood up and walked out.
After a while, the three of them came back, but each of them had a letter in their hands.
Seeing this, others asked, "Is this a letter from the child?"
The three of them had red eyes and excited expressions on their faces. After saying "hmm", they were about to take the children home.
At this time, the woman sitting next to Hu Guilan stood up and said, "Three sisters-in-law, the letters sent by the children are nothing more than describing the local situation, or complaining and asking for money like my child did. There is nothing shameful about it. If you ask me, you might as well read it here so you don't have to come back after you go back."
Hu Guilan glanced at her calmly, thinking to herself, if the situation in the border areas is really difficult as Xiaoxu said, I will see how I will squeeze you.
The three of them looked at each other and thought it made sense, but there was a problem: they could hardly read.
They were eager to go home so that their family members could read the letters to them.
After hearing about their difficulties, Hu Guilan said that her primary school education was enough and took the initiative to take on the task of reading the letters.
After receiving the letter, she casually opened one and read the contents on it. "Grandma, Dad, Mom, I'm here. You don't know how far it is from home. We set out from home that day..."
Two whole pages were filled with what they saw and heard on the road. It wasn't until the third page that Hu Guilan perked up, her voice rising considerably. "We couldn't stand it right after we arrived. It's so cold here. In Tang County, snow rarely reaches above the ankles, but here, the snow is as high as half a person. I heard from the people here that it's best not to poop or pee outside during this season, otherwise it will be very painful.
Fortunately, the receptionist gave each of us a set of grass-green cotton-padded clothes and trousers, as well as a cotton coat, a dog-skin hat, and cotton-rubber shoes. Otherwise, we would have frozen to death. They said that in winter here, the head and the hat are one and the same, and cannot be separated. We also need to wear a scarf, otherwise the nose and ears will be frozen off.
I didn't believe it at first, but that night when I washed up and went out to get some water, my hands were wet and got stuck to the door handle when I entered the house. I pulled hard and tore off a piece of skin from my hand, and that's when I started to believe it.
Without scarves, we could only wrap our summer clothes around our necks, but it still couldn't keep out the biting cold wind. When we got to our shelter, we had no feeling on our faces.
Here, many people have to live in one room. We have a special heating device in the middle of the room, but it is quite troublesome. We have to add more fuel to the fire every night, otherwise we can't sleep. Finally, we discussed it and decided to take turns to be on duty every day.
The receptionist said that we were living a semi-military life and our mission was to open up wasteland, so we only had one day of rest. We asked how we were supposed to work in such weather, and they said we had to work our ass off.
Seeing the serious looks on their faces, we believed it;
When we learned from them what we were going to do, our hearts turned colder than the ice and snow outside;
You will often encounter dangerous things here. If you are lucky, you can escape unharmed. If you are unlucky, you will be injured, or even disabled. The worst case scenario is death.
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