"Grandma, shouldn't we go home? We've been here for a month..."
Chu Jie was casually watering the vegetable garden in Chu Tian's house while secretly watching Old Mrs. Chu who was thinning out the spinach seedlings.
Mrs. Chu paused for a moment, holding a few stalks of spinach in her hand, and slowly straightened her back. "It's been a month already? I don't think it's been that long..."
“···”
Chu Jie put down the bucket and walked to Old Mrs. Chu, asking helplessly, "Grandma, you don't want to go back, do you?"
Old Mrs. Chu sighed, "I said I don't want to go back, are you willing?"
Chu Jie rubbed his temples, "Milk..."
Before he could finish his words, Mrs. Chu interrupted him and said, "Chu Jie, what do you think about our family moving here?"
"What?"
Chu Jie was stunned and didn't react for a while.
Old Mrs. Chu took Chu Jie to sit under a tree by the road and said coaxingly, "Look, Xinjiang is a sparsely populated area with vast land. Not only does every family have more than an acre of land, but they only have to do farm work once a year. Every winter, they organize team members to do some side jobs, and the work points they earn are converted into money and distributed to the team members at the end of the year. And here..."
"What do you think?"
After saying that, Old Mrs. Chu looked at Chu Jie expectantly.
Chu Jie swallowed his saliva and spoke after a while, "I, I think my father and second uncle would be so angry if they knew what you were thinking right now..."
Old Madam Chu widened her eyes in anger, "You damned bastard, I'm talking to you nicely, and you can't even talk nicely?"
Chu Jie said innocently, "Grandma, I did explain it nicely, but this matter... I really can't explain it..."
Old Mrs. Chu stood up angrily, put her hands behind her back, and walked back. After walking a few meters, she turned back and shouted, "Don't forget to bring the bucket back!"
Chu Jie reluctantly replied "OK", turned around and walked back to the vegetable garden to pick up the bucket before walking back. Halfway through the journey, they met Chu Min who was returning from work.
"Brother Min, are you off work?"
"Well, you and grandma just came back from the house?"
Chu Min nodded, glanced at the unhappy old lady Chu, and wondered what was going on. Could it be that his mother and the third brother had offended her again?
But I can't... My mother hasn't left the house for a month. She sits at home like an old monk every day. Even meals are brought to the house by Chu Jun three times a day. As for Chu Wen and his wife? That's even more impossible. After extorting hundreds of dollars from them in the hospital, a few days after he was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Chu took Chu Jie to the school where Chu Wen worked while Chu Tian was at work, and extorted another three hundred...
So, the couple probably doesn't have enough time to hide from them now, so how could they come back and deliberately make the old lady unhappy?
Chu Jie nodded and was about to say something when he heard Old Lady Chu say something with a tone of loss.
"I'm going back first, you guys can chat."
After saying that, he walked towards the educated youth point.
Chu Min looked at the old lady's back and frowned, "What happened?"
Chu Jie uttered an "Ah" and explained with a headache, "That's it, grandma wants all the brothers from my hometown to move here..."
Chu Min was stunned when he heard this, "Huh?"
Chu Jie thought Chu Min also thought his grandmother was dreaming, so he continued, "Yeah, I think grandma is taking things for granted. Who doesn't lack food these days? Although there's more farm work in my hometown than here, and there's not much left after eating and drinking every year, at least we can still eat..."
"but···"
Before he could finish his words, Chu Min interrupted him, "Chu Jie, I think grandma's idea is good. Our Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, especially our company. Because it was the last company established in the entire Red Flag Corps, the number of people has always been insufficient, and the amount of land we reclaim each year is also limited..."
"I don't know much about the current situation in my hometown, but I went back to their hometown with your sister-in-law before the New Year. There are many people and little land in their hometown now. Even if you work hard every day, you won't get much food or money throughout the year. The land allocated to each family is also very small..."
Chu Jie widened his eyes in shock and said in disbelief, "Fourth brother, you, you..."
Chu Min smiled lightly. "I think none of us can make a decision. Why don't we write another letter back home? Write down the specific situation in Xinjiang, as well as the approximate amount of money and grain each person can get each year. Even if the eldest and second uncles don't want to come, the other brothers may not be willing to come!"
"We can't decide to let them come, but we can't decide not to let them come either..."
Chu Jie fell silent. He knew Chu Min was right. In the brigade where his family belonged, there were more than a hundred households, and the farmland was only about two thousand acres. However, among these hundred households, the smallest one had four people, and the largest ones, especially his family and his second uncle's family, had more than twenty people each. On average, each family had more than ten people...
It's easy to imagine that with so many people, the amount of food that can be distributed to each person every year is really not that much...
Chu Min knew that Chu Jie was smart, so he didn't say anything else. He patted him on the shoulder and walked towards the old Chu family, leaving him alone to think.
In fact, he also hoped that the Chu family from his hometown could come. Not only would Chu Wen never dare to act rashly again, but his mother would also be much more obedient. Well, although he was not afraid of Chu Wen and Liu Zhaodi.
"Dad, Mom, I'll go back first."
After Yao's father and mother woke up from their nap, Chu Tian prepared to leave.
Father Yao nodded slightly and said, "Well, go back. Be careful on the road."
Yao's mother came over with a bag and hung it on Chu Tian's back seat. "This is the first batch of leeks for our family. I guess the roots of the leeks planted in your garden haven't grown very tall yet. These leeks can be used for one or two meals if you take them home."
"Well, I'll be leaving first then?"
After saying that, Chu Tian waved to Yao's father, Yao's mother and Yao Xiuli, then rode away on his bike.
After seeing Chu Tian off, the three members of the Yao family were about to go to work. Mother Yao hesitated for a moment and asked.
"Xiujuan's father, why didn't you tell your eldest son-in-law?"
Father Yao glanced at Mother Yao beside him and asked in confusion, "What did you say?"
Yao's mother was furious. "What else can I say? Talk about the marriage between Youjun and my eldest son-in-law's cousin!"
Yao Xiuli was shocked. "Mom, are you really planning to let my brother marry Sister Lifang?"
Yao's mother slapped her unhappily, "What? Is it not possible?"
Yao Xiuli, "..."
Father Yao said helplessly, "If you want to talk about this, you should talk to the girl's parents or the in-laws' grandmother. What should you say to your eldest son-in-law?"
Yao's mother knew what Yao's father said made sense, but she still couldn't help but grumble, "There's nothing wrong with telling the eldest son-in-law in advance..."
Yao's father waved his hand impatiently, "Why rush? If it belongs to our friendly forces, it will still be his even if we tell him later. If it doesn't belong to him, what difference will it make even if we tell him in advance?"
Yao's mother, "..."
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