102: The lights are finally on at home
The two brothers went to chop wood with axes. Lao Pu walked opposite them and looked at each other. Lao Pu could tell at a glance that the two brothers looked a bit like Yu Jiahui and Xu Ying.
Lao Pu deliberately stopped to talk to the two brothers, and soon he found out everything about them.
What the two brothers said matched what Yu Xiaoye said, and the two brothers did live in Li Dasong's house.
Moreover, Lao Pu also found out that the two brothers were now secretly cutting firewood and selling it to others at one cent per bundle.
But now there is no firewood to sell, because the firewood people buy is enough to burn for a while, so the two brothers have no business.
When Yu Xiaoye heard this, his eyes rolled and he came up with an idea. He asked Lao Pu if he could take advantage of the time when he delivered the baskets and bowls tomorrow to go to the place where they chopped firewood and buy a bundle of firewood from the two brothers, and buy one bundle every day from then on.
Lao Pu asked:
"You mean, buying firewood from your two brothers?"
"Yes, you don't need to buy too much. I only need one bundle a day. We don't have much firewood at home. My mom has to go out to work, and my dad's arm is not working well and needs to be healed. I don't have much strength either. There's no one in our family to chop wood, so I might as well buy some from my two brothers. It's better to keep the money within the family. Just pretend that you bought it and don't let them know the truth."
"My daughter, if you don't have firewood, come to our house and get some. We have plenty!"
"No, no, no, uncle, isn't this also a chance for me to help my two brothers? I can help them earn some money every day so that they can have something to look forward to in life. Besides, every time you go there, please bring them some grilled fish to improve their diet."
After hearing what Yu Xiaoye said, Lao Pu was so moved that he almost shed tears:
"What good deeds did these two brothers do in their previous lives to have a sister like you? They're going to marry you off to a fool, and yet you're still trying so hard to help them. Girl, you're really kind-hearted!"
"Uncle Pu, are you willing to help me with this?"
"Girl, I'm telling you the truth. If someone else asked me to do this, I wouldn't agree. But you're different. No matter what you ask me to do, I won't refuse."
Yu Xiaoye:——
I sighed silently. This old man, he just helps people without any help, but he adds psychological burden to others for no reason, which makes me very stressed.
But no matter what, this matter should be resolved appropriately.
After the two of them had discussed it, Yu Xiaoye went back and told Yu Jiahui about it. Yu Jiahui also thought that this method was feasible. She was worthy of being his daughter. This method really killed two birds with one stone!
It not only helped the two brothers, but also solved the firewood problem at home.
Although their family can cook and boil water in the kitchen of the space yacht without actually using firewood, this cannot be made public.
You have to get some firewood at home to pretend that everything is fine.
Moreover, they cannot rely on the convenience of the space yacht forever. Sooner or later they will have to cook in their small mud house, and in winter they will have to heat the kang like other families.
Another point that Yu Jiahui also took into consideration was that this portable space belonged to his daughter. In the future, his daughter would have her own life and her own life. As parents, it was impossible for them to stay with their children all their lives, so they tried to adapt to life in the real world as soon as possible and not cause trouble for their children in the future.
He took every aspect into consideration.
Yu Xiaoye hasn't thought about this last point yet, and hasn't thought about separating from his parents.
She just wanted their home to be like a normal home as soon as possible, otherwise she would always feel nervous, afraid that one day someone would break in and find that there was nothing in the house and it didn't look like a normal home.
Fortunately, after so much hard work, the house has been cleaned up inside and out.
The walls of the inner room have been painted.
The exterior walls have also been repainted to be smooth and bright, making it look like a newly built house.
At dinner time, Yu Xiaoye went to the cafeteria to get food. Jia Song greeted her and handed her a kerosene lamp made of an ink bottle.
She had never seen such a small kerosene lamp—
Can this really light up?
After getting dinner and returning home, the family of three did not rush back to the space. Instead, they studied the lamp first.
They sat on the cleaned kang. Yu Jiahui looked at the kerosene lamp made of an ink bottle again and again, and exclaimed in admiration:
"Don't be surprised, this Secretary Jia is really handy. He can actually make a lamp out of an ink bottle."
Yu Xiaoye found the lamp oil:
"Come on, pour some lamp oil in and see if it can be lit."
"Let's try—"
Yu Jiahui unscrewed the bottle cap and Yu Xiaoye poured some lamp oil into it.
The ink bottle has a very small capacity and it is full after I poured a little.
Pour the lamp oil, screw on the lid, and put it on the kang.
Here, Xu Ying lit a match and carefully placed it on the wick.
The whole family held their breath, fearing that their strong breathing would blow out the flame.
The flame on the match head lit the wick.
Xu Ying threw away the match and saw that the wick really caught fire!
"Wow, it's really bright!"
All three of them had smiles on their faces. This was the first time the lights were on in the house!
"Dad, Mom, we have lights at home!" Yu Xiaoye was very happy.
"Yeah, the lights are finally on in our house."
The three of them stared intently at the small flame in the middle.
The flame was very small, illuminating a very limited area, and it was swaying, making people worry that it would be blown out by a gust of wind.
This dim little flame is completely different from the bright lights of later generations, but when reflected in people's eyes, it gives people a sense of hope.
Yu Jiahui proposed:
"Oh, how about this: to celebrate the first lighting of our house, let's have dinner in the cabin tonight? How do you think?"
Xu Ying raised her eyes and glanced at the kang:
"How do we eat it? Do we just spread it out on the ground and eat it like the people in the African tribes?"
Yu Jiahui then remembered
Come on, there’s not even a table at home!
Other people's homes have a small kang table on their kangs, the kind found in Northeast China, which is quite convenient, but their home can be said to be bare, let alone a kang table, there is not even a small stool.
Yu Jiahui sighed softly:
"It seems that our family is still lacking a lot of things!"
Yu Xiaoye said:
"We don't really need much at home right now. The main thing we need is a large iron pot—"
Speaking of the big iron pot, Yu Xiaoye had another flash of inspiration in his mind:
“Hey, I remember now!!”
Yu Jiahui and Xu Ying looked at their daughter and asked in unison:
"What do you remember?"
"Who said we don't have a big iron pot at home? We do!"
“???”
"Didn't my dad bring a big iron pot all the way from his hometown?"
"Oh!" Yu Jiahui suddenly understood what his daughter meant and slapped his thigh. "I remember now. You two mentioned before that we should bring a big iron pot from our hometown, right?"
Xu Ying didn't know what the father and son were talking about, so he asked:
"But, the pot was taken away by the two sons, right?"
"If you take it away, we can buy it back!"
Xu Ying: “???” It was another day when I couldn’t keep up with the train of thought of these father and son.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
