097: Am I that unreasonable?
The two men took great pains to hide the three bundles of firewood, and then they left with peace of mind to chop wood.
In the past, when I chopped wood, I just did it to get it done, so I chopped slowly and perfunctorily. But this time it was different.
This time, chopping wood and selling it, and putting the money into their own pockets, had a different meaning. Neither of the brothers was perfunctory anymore, and both used all their strength to cut down those thick and strong trees.
It has to be at least as thick as a thigh.
Just cut down a tree and cut it into pieces, and you can produce dozens of kilograms of firewood from it.
It would be perfect to keep the trunks and sell them, and take the remaining branches back to the Li family!
The two brothers spent an afternoon cutting down two small trees. When they carried them back and weighed them using their own traditional method, they found that they weighed more than 60 kilograms.
After having dinner at Li's house that night, Yu Daye pretended to go out to relieve himself, quietly slipped out of the house, and met Du Lianxi who was buying firewood. He directly carried out five bundles of firewood weighing a total of 100 kilograms!
Du Lianxi was stunned when he saw the pile of firewood: So much?!
Du Lianxi had no choice but to pay fifty-five cents and carry the hundred kilograms of firewood back in three trips.
Yu Daye made an appointment with him to cut some more tomorrow, and then left happily with fifty-five cents in his pocket.
Yu Daye, who made money for the first time, said: I’m rich! I’m finally rich!
Why does it feel like a dream?
He reached into his pocket and held the fifty-five cents note tightly, afraid that he would lose it.
The two brothers continued to chop firewood for Du Lianxi until the day before May Day. They sold a total of 220 kilograms of firewood and earned 1.21 yuan.
This was his first pot of gold earned in the Great Northern Wilderness.
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Next door, the Eighth Company.
In fact, Yu Jiahui and Yu Xiaoye, father and daughter, have always been thinking about their two brothers who are in the Ninth Company.
Last time, the father and daughter accidentally met the two brothers by the river. They wanted to help them, so they threw them a big lobster and a big fish weighing more than 20 kilograms.
However, the two brothers mistook it for an animal spirit and missed it.
Yu Xiaoye threw out four more cans.
This time it was picked up by two brothers. I don’t know if they figured out that it was edible after they went back.
Although the father and daughter were still thinking about each other, Yu Xiaoye was busy rehearsing programs every day after returning home and had no time to take care of anything else.
In addition, they didn't have anyone reliable to help them get information at that time, so the plan was put on hold.
Now that he had finally finished the May Day performance, and had taken the opportunity to meet a few people who seemed reliable, Yu Xiaoye discussed with his father whether he should study whether he should secretly give the two brothers some help or something.
Yu Jiahui waved to his daughter.
Yu Xiaoye asked in surprise:
"Are you really going to completely ignore them?"
"No, what I mean is that it's better for us to discuss this in front of your mother. Otherwise, if your mother knew that we were discussing these things behind her back, she would be suspicious, don't you understand?"
"Oh——" I understand. This is because he is afraid of his wife. No, it is because he respects his wife!
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of her. Your mother is like this right now. You can discuss anything you want in front of her. If you do something behind her back, she won't know what earth-shattering conspiracy you are up to. So let's be frank in front of her and don't let her get suspicious."
"I understand. I understand."
The father and daughter really stopped discussing it.
At night, the family sat at the dining table on the yacht to eat.
When they had almost finished eating, Yu Jiahui looked up and secretly gave his daughter a wink.
Yu Xiaoye understood what his father meant and then brought up the matter:
"Dad, Mom, our family's conditions are better now. We have food and new clothes. Should we send someone to the Ninth Company to find out what's happening with our two brothers?"
Yu Jiahui coughed dryly and said in a serious tone:
"Xiao Ye, our family's life has just started to get a little better, don't worry about it."
Yu Xiaoye's eyes widened: "Fuck, Dad betrayed me?! He didn't say that during the day!"
She then added:
"Well, just forget I didn't say anything—"
Yu Jiahui: "But since you brought it up, why not talk about it first."
Xu Ying calmly put down the chopsticks in her hand, raised her head, glanced at the old man, and then glanced at her daughter:
"What kind of play are you two going to put on for me?"
Yu Jiahui: ——
Yu Xiaoye:——
Isn't it that being too clever can backfire?
Yu Jiahui said with a forced smile:
"No, wife, we don't know what your two sons of bitches are doing in the Ninth Company. We can ask someone to find out."
"Who should I ask?" Xu Ying asked.
Yu Xiaoye had already thought about it and said:
"Let's find Lao Pu."
It’s Sai Jinhua’s man.
In the past two days, Yu Xiaoye also heard the story between Sai Jinhua and Lao Pu from others. He knew that Lao Pu had liked Sai Jinhua since he was a teenager. He never cared about Sai Jinhua's background or the fact that she was someone else's concubine. He had been pursuing her for more than ten or twenty years.
He even traveled thousands of miles to the Great Northern Wilderness, waiting for Sai Jinhua to be released from prison, and finally married the middle-aged Sai Jinhua.
Based on this point alone, Yu Xiaoye felt that Lao Pu was a reliable person.
Now their family has a good relationship with Sai Jinhua. If they ask Lao Pu to do this, Lao Pu should not refuse, right?
Yu Xiaoye told her parents her analysis.
Yu Jiahui slammed the table and said:
"Or maybe it's my daughter. That's what I mean. I also think it's appropriate to ask Lao Pu to do this!"
Xu Ying: "You two have discussed this during the day, right?"
The father and daughter shook their heads desperately:
"No, no, absolutely not!"
Yu Xiaoye also said:
"Mom, this time I really didn't
I was thinking about discussing this with my dad during the day, but he said it wasn't a good idea to discuss this behind your back, so we kept it a secret. Didn't I wait until you came back at night to tell you?
Xu Ying listened to her daughter's words and believed that the father and son had not discussed this matter behind her back. She was very satisfied, but she deliberately said:
"Just discuss it if you want. Why are you afraid of me? Am I that unreasonable?"
Yu Jiahui smiled playfully:
"The main thing is, you still have to make the decision, right?"
Xu Ying couldn't help laughing:
"Okay, you guys can do whatever you want. Find out what the brothers are up to now and help them if you can."
Yu Jiahui: "Okay, then I'll go find Lao Pu tomorrow!"
Yu Xiaoye quickly stopped him:
"no--"
“???” Yu Jiahui looked at his daughter in confusion.
Yu Xiaoye said:
"Should I go find Lao Pu?"
"Why?" the couple asked in unison.
"Dad, Mom, you forgot. You don't have the original owner's memories. You don't even know you have two sons. Only I know."
The old couple suddenly realized:
"Oh, that's right. How could I have overlooked this? What a mistake! My daughter really thought it through carefully."
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