Chapter 97: We still need to help when we need to.



The clan leader Gu Yuxi and Ma Bagouzi sent nearly 100 kilograms of things in total.

Chen Xuanxuan and Gu Yanzhang carefully counted them and found that there were more than 10 kilograms of moldy bacon and nearly 50 kilograms of red sorghum seeds.

30 eggs, two kilograms of pickled vegetables. Finally, there were two jars of honey.

The total weight of the honey was almost 20 kilograms. The color was not golden yellow, but yellow with black.

Chen Xuanxuan smelled it carefully and felt that the honey was quite authentic. It was just that it had been stored for too long.

However, it was still edible.

After Gu Yanzhang took out the two jars of honey, he said with a smile, "Wife, that's great. From today on, I will make honey tea for you every day. This thing is especially good for your health. I remember that my mother's health has been poor after she gave birth to my younger sister. She couldn't even get up from the bed. It was my uncle who thought of a lot of ways and went to the deep mountains and forests to look for wasp nests everywhere. Later, he brought back dozens of kilograms of wasp nests with injuries all over his body."

"At that time, my mother ate stewed beehives every day to make her face look rosy."

Recalling the past, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but sigh.

"Time flies. If my uncle were still alive, he would be 70 years old this year."

Hearing Gu Yanzhang talking about his uncle's family, Chen Xuanxuan asked curiously, "Yanzhang, it seems that your uncle was quite nice to you when you were young?"

Gu Yanzhang nodded, "My eldest uncle and second uncle are both good. When I asked them for money, they were also very straightforward. It's just that since they passed away, my dad doesn't want to associate with them anymore..." When

Chen Xuanxuan heard this, her heart moved, her eyes rolled, and she said with a smile. "Your uncle and second uncle are very good to you after all. They are good relatives! How can you just make a decision?"

"Besides, there is strength in numbers. We are all here, and you help me and I help you to make a living, right? I think we should take an opportunity to visit your uncle and second uncle's house in the future. Then, we can also take a look at how their family is doing. If their life is difficult, like ours before, with no food or clothing, then we should still help them. Boss, do you think I am right?"

Gu Yanzhang heard this and nodded heavily without thinking.

In fact, he had this idea a long time ago.

However, their family could hardly take care of themselves before, and they simply did not have the conditions to support certain people.

But now, the situation is different.

Thinking of his two uncles' families, their current lives are not good. Gu Yanzhang thought that he would pick up some things and go to their homes after a while.

In the rural areas with poor conditions, the vast majority of families have seven or eight children at the least, and more than ten at the most.

However, due to poor living conditions and low medical standards, at least half of the children in many families will die.

But even so, everyone will still have more children.

The families of Gu Yanzhang's two uncles are now under a particularly heavy burden. Each household has 10 to 20 children.

After Gu Yanzhang's eldest uncle, Yu Lao Da, died, his wife was still alive. The two sons raised by the family have married and have children.

The eldest and second sons of the Yu family lived together when they were still alive. They have never separated.

There are more than 40 people living in the three thatched houses.

During this period, the men of the Yu family were carrying bags in Tongzhen every day. When Gu Yanzhang went there to sell buns, he would send them a dozen buns every two or three days.

Gu Yu'an told Gu Yanzhang about this matter countless times. After returning home, the father and son kept this matter in their hearts and never dared to tell Chen Xuanxuan. At this moment,

Gu Yanzhang saw that Chen Xuanxuan had no opinion on his uncle's family and was willing to help them. He was not only happy in his heart. Countless emotions were expressed.

"Wife, you are such a good person..."

After being flattered by him, Chen Xuanxuan immediately glared at Yan, "What's good about that?"

"Boss, yes, I know some things are not nice to say, but I still want to remind you. We should help those who have helped us before. However, we should not go too far. Help within our ability, but don't go beyond that limit. Don't think that you can go all out just because you have made money and a little fortune at home. You have to think about the burdens at home. If they can't stand up on their own, no matter how much money you give them, it will all be in vain..."

Hearing Chen Xuanxuan say this, Gu Yanzhang immediately felt empty.

He raised his hand, touched his head, nodded naively, and said, "Wife, I still know this truth."

"Don't worry, I won't help them much. I just want to send them a few pounds of food. Otherwise, their children will starve to death..."

Gu Yanzhang's two uncles both live in Yujiashan, more than 100 meters away.

It is a mountainous area with many high mountains and few plains. It

is really deep in the mountains.

There are tigers, wild wolves and black bears living there. There are also all kinds of fierce wild animals.

Living in that place, transportation is particularly inconvenient.

It is not easy for those people in Yujiashan to come out to buy some needles and thread. Most of them will only go out a few times a year. He didn't want to go to that place even

for a peddler like Chen Daming. Because it was too poor. The people there

were poor and fierce, and they would kill people for a little money.

Chen Daming cherished his life very much. He never went to such a place for business. And all the adult men in Gu Yanzhang's two uncles' families, in order to earn a little more money to survive, would move in batches every year after finishing the spring plowing in the fields, and rush to the wealthy Tongzhen to work as short-term workers for a few months. Thinking of their difficulties, Gu Yanzhang said to Chen Xuanxuan with emotion, "Wife, actually, our life here is still good. The farmers who really live in the mountains have a miserable life!" After hearing Gu Yanzhang's rambling about the difficulties of his two uncles' families, Chen Xuanxuan, who had never heard of these tragic stories, couldn't help but shed tears and sighed. Oh, isn't this life too hard? Without the development of productivity and the improvement of living standards, food and cash crops cannot feed enough people, and those people can only risk their lives.

Every copper plate earned outside is hard-earned money stained with blood and tears.


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