The next day.
As dawn broke, the Lu family began to bustle with activity.
Lu Guoqing and his two siblings, Lu Xiaoqin and Lu Guoqing, got up very early to help Lu Yuan and the others pack their things.
Lu Guoan had his brothers Lu Jiefang and Lu Yuanchao bring over the oxcart, and Xu Dong also pushed a handcart.
One by one, other people who came to help arrived, and everyone gathered in the Lu family's courtyard, chatting noisily.
Lu Yuan and Wen Moxue didn't let them down either.
I got up early and packed my things.
First, load large and heavy items such as wooden crates, iron pots, and grains onto the oxcart.
If you can't put it down, have someone carry it for you.
When everyone saw the cartload of pheasants, rabbits, roe deer, and pork, their eyes lit up.
Wow, we're in for a treat today!
Suddenly, I had even more energy to work.
Lu Yuan asked Wen Moxue to take some people to move the things to the new house first, while he was going to take a group of men to Sun Maodou's house to carry the furniture.
A group of about twenty men carried all the furniture to the new house in one trip.
Everyone looked at the brand-new wardrobe, eight-immortal table, desk, bathtub and other furniture and felt very envious.
Who has that much furniture?
Lu Yuan, that good-for-nothing, got lucky and married such a well-off educated youth.
This wife has only been married for a short time, yet she has already built such a big brick house and made new furniture.
This life is so wonderful, no one else could compare.
It's true what they say, comparisons are the thief of joy.
A slacker can do better than those who honestly work hard.
Who can I reason with?!
After the furniture was moved into the new house, Wen Moxue directed everyone to place it in the correct location.
Knowing that Grandpa Liu would be living with them from now on, she went to buy a kang table, a chest, and a wardrobe.
I also added a large desk and a bookshelf.
Besides the side room added for Old Man Liu, their own three large brick houses had three rooms.
Unlike the Lu family, the kitchen wasn't built behind the main hall; it was located in the west wing. The small room behind the main hall was used as a storage room.
There are two rooms on the west side. The front room is a bedroom, and the back room is a kitchen and a bathroom.
There are also two rooms, one in front and one behind, on the east side.
Wen Moxue also decorated these two rooms. The empty room in the west wing was furnished with a desk and bookshelves.
The villagers couldn't understand why this young couple had two rooms, and what was this study?
People from the city are just picky and fussy.
And in Old Liu's room, everything was brand new, and they even gave him a whole wardrobe.
The old man's few tattered clothes weren't even worth as much as that wardrobe.
Why be so kind to an old man who's practically half-buried?
Wardrobes are something only city dwellers use; people in the countryside are lucky to have a wardrobe on their kang (heated brick bed).
The eight-immortal table was placed directly in the spacious courtyard.
Today we're having a feast, and one table definitely won't be enough, so Lu Guoqing brought over his large round table and even borrowed another large table from Lu Guoan's house.
There were about thirty people, and three tables were just right.
Sun Maodou was also helping to move the furniture. As soon as the furniture was delivered to the new house, he found Lu Yuan.
"I'm going to drive the oxcart away to the commune to pick up Old Liu."
Lu Yuan nodded, "Okay, we'll pick up Dr. Gao and Brother Qianjin along with them when we come. You can stay for lunch too."
Sun Maodou didn't stand on ceremony and readily agreed with a smile.
He'd been craving meat, pheasants, and rabbits ever since he saw them were served today.
After Sun Maodou left, the people who came to help, except for those busy in the kitchen, also left first.
They still have to go to work, and will come back for lunch.
Once everyone left, the noisy courtyard became much quieter, and Lu Yuan suddenly had some free time.
He didn't have to tidy the rooms or work in the kitchen. The house was full of women, and he, a grown man, felt completely out of place.
Oh wait, there's also that little brat Lu Xiaojun.
"You didn't go to school?"
Lu Xiaojun said with a bitter face, "I'm not going to school anymore."
Why?
The little boy lowered his head and kicked at the pebbles on the ground.
"I don't want to go anymore."
"How old are you? What can you do if you don't go to school?"
"I'm going to work."
"Tch~"
It wasn't that Lu Yuan looked down on him, but he knew that this job was really not easy.
A ten-year-old kid can work himself to the bone all day and only earn one or two work points if he's lucky.
"Are you able to endure the hardships of working?"
"I can."
"If you can endure the hardships of working, why can't you endure the hardships of studying?"
The little brat didn't say anything.
“Study hard. Your mother wouldn’t let me go to school before, otherwise I would be a high school student now, and maybe I could even work in the city. Why would I be stuck in this village as a hoodlum?”
The little boy looked up and asked, "Can I go to the city and become a worker by studying?"
"almost."
In the city, besides recommendations from acquaintances and job placements, the only other way to recruit workers is through examinations.
This recruitment requires a certain level of education.
Of course, it's not easy for people from the village to get into factories; they often have to work hard in other ways.
Lu Xiaojun was torn, unsure whether he should continue going to school.
He wanted to go to the city and become a worker.
That way, no one will look down on him anymore.
But the thought of his classmates bullying him made him frown again.
Looking at his changing expressions, Lu Yuan knew that he was struggling with the question of whether or not to go to school.
This child was pampered by Zhang Yuping until he was ten years old, but now that Zhang Yuping has been arrested, he has experienced the coldness of human nature. It seems he has grown up overnight.
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