182: Yingying, I miss my big brother a little bit
After dinner, it was already dark.
Xu Ying arranged accommodation for Yu Erye.
There are four main rooms in the house, with a door in every two rooms.
Before, when there were only three of them, they stayed in the two rooms on the west side, and the two rooms on the east side were always idle. Now that the second child is back, it is natural to arrange him in the two rooms on the east side.
Xu Ying carried the lantern and brought the second child to the east room:
"You'll live here from now on."
Yu Erye, holding his luggage and bedding, looked at the empty, bare room and asked stammeringly:
"Mom, can I sleep with you?"
"cannot!!"
A young man in his twenties actually wants to sleep with his parents?
Xu Ying really wanted to slap him again!
Seeing that his mother was getting angry again, Yu Erye nodded quickly:
"oh oh."
Xu Ying placed the lantern on the kang, suppressed his anger and said:
"I'll leave the lamp to you. Don't forget to turn it off before you go to bed. Don't waste the oil. Tomorrow, take apart all the sheets and wash them yourself. I don't want any lice in the house, not even one!"
Yu Erye responded obediently again, and Xu Ying left.
Yu Erye was the only one left in the room.
He looked around the room in the light of the lantern. The room was actually not big, but because there was nothing inside, it seemed particularly empty. Yu Erye hugged the quilt tightly in his arms, feeling a little scared.
Since childhood, he and his older brother have always slept with their parents. Even now, in their twenties, they have never left their parents' room.
Later, he arrived in the Great Northern Wilderness. Although he was separated from his parents, he was not very scared because he had his elder brother with him.
This was the first time in his life that he slept in a room by himself, and he felt very uncomfortable.
There was nothing he could do about not adapting. Now his parents favored his younger sister and disliked him, so he could only endure it.
But on second thought, he now has his own room. In this way, can't he marry Cuihua?
Oh haha, hahahaha——
Yu Erye suddenly became happy.
When I was in my hometown, there were many people in my family and the house was not big enough. It was very difficult for my brothers to get married. Among my cousins, only my cousin from my eldest uncle's family got married. Because he was the eldest son and grandson, his status in the family was very important. My grandparents and the whole family worked hard to help my cousin get married.
After arranging my cousin's marriage, my grandparents gave up and ignored everyone else, so all the other brothers are bachelors.
On the surface, building a few adobe houses in the countryside doesn't seem to cost much money. The land is public, so you don't have to spend money or buy bricks and tiles. You just need to dig some mud from the river and come back to make the adobe houses.
But in reality, building a few houses is still a very difficult thing for ordinary people.
First of all, to build a house, you need to hire craftsmen. Even if you don’t have to pay the craftsmen, you have to provide them with two meals a day. Providing meals requires food. Where does the food come from?
The little bit of food distributed by the production team was often not enough to eat, so how could there be any extra food to build houses?
However, although building a house is difficult, it is not completely impossible. If the male owner is capable and the female owner is frugal, the whole family can build a house with a hard work and determination.
But the Yu family obviously does not belong to this category.
The Yu family has adhered to the principle of not dividing the family while the parents are still alive. Up to now, four generations live together, and more than a dozen people live together and eat from a big pot. Each family has its own little calculations, and they fight for trivial interests every day. No one wants to put in more effort. In this situation of disunity, it is difficult to build a toilet, let alone a house!
Therefore, it is extremely difficult for Yu Erye to marry his beloved Cuihua in his hometown, as difficult as climbing to the sky!
The first hurdle is the lack of housing.
Now, in the Great Northern Wilderness, he finally has a house of his own. Isn't the first problem facing him solved?
He has a house now, he can marry Cuihua!
Yu Erye happily lay down on the earthen kang, almost going crazy with joy:
I can marry Cuihua!
I can marry Cuihua and have a litter of kids with her!
Yu Erye rolled around on the kang excitedly. Thinking about sleeping on the kang with Cuihua in the future, his heart seemed to be beating out of his throat.
Wow, nervous, excited, and thrilling!
After being intoxicated with joy for a long time, he spread out the quilt, climbed onto the kang and got into bed.
As soon as I lay down, I felt that the whole world was at peace.
He suddenly thought of his elder brother again.
What a pity, it’s a pity that my elder brother is gone.
If the eldest brother had not left and had come back with him, they would have been able to eat dumplings and sleep in such a clean house. The eldest brother would also have a house and a wife. There would be two rooms, one for each brother.
It's a pity that big brother asked for trouble. Why did he leave alone when everything was fine?
How can one survive when wandering around alone? It's better to go home.
I don’t know where he is now, what he ate in the evening, and where he slept tonight?
Yingyingying, I really miss my big brother.
Yu Erye lay on the kang, thinking about many things, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
This was the most peaceful sleep he had had in a while.
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Outside, Yu Xiaoye took advantage of the fact that it was still light and took two roe deer meats, preparing to go out and deliver the meat to Widow Wang's family and Sai Jinhua's family.
Yu Jiahui watched his daughter leave and quickly chased after her to find out what happened:
"Xiao Ye, you haven't told me yet, why did you suddenly bring him back?"
Yu Xiaoye walked to the gate of the yard and stopped, telling his father what had happened today.
After hearing this, Yu Jiahui did not blame or complain. He had planned to bring the two brothers back home a long time ago, so it was a good opportunity to do so. Besides, the family situation was much better than before, and they could bear the pressure of having two more people at home.
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"But why did you only bring back one? Where's the other one? Where's your eldest brother?"
Yu Xiaoye sighed:
"I miscalculated. I knew that my eldest brother might not trust others easily, but I didn't expect him to be so bold and ambitious that he would quietly abandon my second brother and go out on his own to explore the world."
Yu Jiahui's "Fuck" was stuck in his throat, and he didn't say it in front of his daughter. After two seconds, he sighed and asked:
"How did you leave?"
"My second brother said that when they were coming here together, my eldest brother suddenly stopped a passing carriage on the road and left alone in the carriage."
Yu Jiahui couldn't help but curse:
"That little jerk actually abandoned his brother and ran away. Luckily, we brought the second brother back. If he had really been tricked away, he would have died without knowing how he died."
"But, we've completely lost our eldest brother. What should we do?"
"What can I do? He ran away on his own, who can I blame?!"
Although Yu Jiahui said this, he still felt a little empty in his heart, as if something was missing.
Although he had no memory of these two innocent sons, they were still the biological sons of this body. It was impossible for him to say that he didn't miss them at all.
I didn't think about them much before, firstly because my family conditions at that time didn't allow me to take them back, and secondly because I knew their whereabouts and knew that they were living in Li Dasong's house.
Now that his whereabouts are unknown, Yu Jiahui always feels uneasy.
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