Yu Xuelin counted them and found a total of eighty-nine. "Why is there only this many?"
"The money Xuewei sent back is all with our father. He said he wanted to save it for Xuewei to use when he gets married," Sun Yanhong said dissatisfiedly. She had already told Yu Xuelin about this, but he hadn't taken it to heart. Now he came to her and asked, "If you want to bring more money, just ask our father directly!"
Sun Yanhong swallowed the rest of the words and didn't say them out loud. Xuewei was already seriously injured and might be left with some disability. It was not certain whether he would be able to find a wife in the future. What's the point of saving the money? He should save his life first.
Although she had some small thoughts, she was not a bad person. Ever since Yu Xuewei's third year in the army, Yu Guoqing had disagreed with him sending all his allowances back and asked him to keep half for himself.
Only a very small portion of the money sent back could reach Sun Yanhong, and most of it was in Yu Guoqing's hands. The family occasionally had to spend a large sum of money, and had to buy meat every now and then, all of which came from Yu Guoqing's hands.
Yu Guoqing is an old man in his fifties. How much he can earn comes from Yu Xuewei's allowance. Sun Yanhong can be said to have taken advantage of him, so she is willing to shut up.
Over the years, Sun Yanhong and Yu Xuelin have saved most of their own earnings. Although the Yu family has not split up on the surface, they have split up financially. Everyone's money is calculated separately, and they only eat and live together.
Soon, Yu Xuelin and Yu Guoqing took the letter of introduction from Zhang Defa and went to the address given on the phone.
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That evening, Mimi came back with two pheasants in her beak, so Tian Cai threw the eggplants he had just picked aside and planned to make chicken stewed with mushrooms again.
But this time she wanted to eat home-raised chicken.
So Tian Cai exchanged the pheasant with Aunt Du. The texture and taste of domestic chickens are different from those of pheasants. Tian Cai exchanged two pheasants for domestic chickens. She agreed very readily and insisted on giving Tian Cai four eggs.
"We'll eat one at home and send the other to Xiuyan. I'll ask her to make chicken soup for Xiaojun later," Aunt Du said with a smile, looking very fond of Liu Xiaojun from Luo Xiuyan's family. "You don't know how fat that kid is now. He's so cute!"
The last time Tian Cai saw the child was during the Chinese New Year. The little guy couldn't sit still at that time, like a wobbly tumbler. He looked exactly like his father and was quite handsome, but Tian Cai himself didn't like him.
She calculated the days and said, "Xiaojun is already over ten months old. Even if the chicken is a little soft, it's still edible."
"That's what I was saying. I was thinking that if I gave the chicken to my second son's wife, she wouldn't be happy. She'd be hanging around me with a sullen face every day, saying something displeased and annoying."
Tian Cai listened to Aunt Du's complaints for a few more times before he took the chicken home. In the evening, he made chicken stewed with mushrooms as before, and also smashed a cucumber and ate until he was full.
It had been hot for several days in a row, and the vegetables in the garden looked a bit listless. Tian Cai planned to water them again before it got too hot. As soon as she went out with the bucket of water, she was seen by Qin Ling.
So the person carrying water became him without any explanation.
The water had to be carried up from the river one trip at a time. Fortunately, she opened a door in the backyard, which was a little closer to the river.
I don’t know if it’s because of frequent watering or dew on the fields, but the vegetable field is almost unaffected by the drought. The slightly wilted leaves quickly perked up after drinking water. Spinach, rapeseed, Chinese cabbage and other leafy vegetables are planted together, and the lush green looks very pleasing. A few cabbages and radishes are also planted on the other side.
Tian Cai bent down slightly and looked carefully, and found that there were holes on many leaves. She guessed that there were insects, so she took a thin bamboo stick and dug under the leaves bit by bit to search.
The ones that eat radish and cabbage leaves are soft green caterpillars. They hide on the back of the leaves and even drill into the cabbage. Their light green bodies wriggle slowly, which makes her hair stand on end.
I guess it's girls' nature. I'm not necessarily afraid of insects, but seeing them wriggling in such a disgusting way still gives me goosebumps.
She found two bamboo sticks of similar thickness, and brought a bamboo pot over. She turned over the leaves bit by bit and searched, grinning as she searched.
When you see them, use bamboo sticks to clamp them, pull them off, and throw them into a bamboo jar. The caterpillars will then curl up into a ball in the jar and pretend to be dead. After a while, they will stretch out again and use the advantages of their bodies to crawl on the inner wall.
Tian Cai took a look and quickly closed the lid of the bamboo pot before the caterpillars crawled up, and continued to fight with the vegetable field.
When he came back from Qinling to fetch water, he saw Tian Cai holding two bamboo sticks and searching carefully for something on the vegetable leaves. When the girl picked up something and looked up with a look of disgust, he finally understood what was going on and couldn't help laughing. After all, she was a girl. He simply put the bucket aside and walked over to her and said, "You water the plants, I'll take care of the insects."
Tian Cai threw the bamboo stick and the can to him without any hesitation, and ran to the other side with the bucket.
After a few days of hard work, the bugs in the vegetable garden were finally cleared away. However, she became apprehensive about the small patch of vegetable ground infested with bugs. She didn't want to pick the vegetables unless she had nothing to eat, for fear that there might be bug eggs that could not be cleaned off.
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The news of Yu Xuewei's injury gave the villagers of Kaoshan Village some topics to talk about after work at the beginning, but gradually faded away, and few people asked about how the Yu father and son were doing in the care over there.
Until that morning, a military jeep drove into the village and stopped outside the Yu family's house.
At that time, people were naturally in awe of things related to the People's Liberation Army. When they saw a few people in green military uniforms escorting Yu Xuewei back, the villagers only dared to watch from afar, and for a while no one dared to move forward.
"Xuewei is back."
"Oh my, is Xuewei paralyzed? Why did he have to be carried out of the car?"
"Xuewei had already been promoted, but now it's all for nothing. What a pity..."
The villagers knew to avoid talking about the Yu family and lowered their voices for fear of being heard, but no one was a fool and could not guess what would be said at this time.
Qin Ling saw from afar Yu Xuewei being carried down from the car and carried into the house on a stretcher by two men in green military uniforms.
Qin Ling and Yu Xuewei were both well-connected, so he wanted to go over and take a look, but when he saw the villagers watching the excitement in the distance, he frowned and decided to give up. He decided to wait a few days.
Sun Yanhong was returning from the river with her trouser legs rolled up and a wooden basin in her hand after washing clothes. When she saw a military green car parked at the door of her house, she hurriedly quickened her pace and headed home.
She didn't even hear Liu Guihua calling her from behind.
Someone called Zhang Defa over. The couple did not stand outside the Yu family's door like everyone else, but went straight into the yard and into the inner room.
Tian Cai didn't pay much attention to it. He didn't know what Yu Xuewei's condition was. He thought that if so many doctors in the military hospital couldn't cure his injury, it must be very serious.
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