Chu Jie sat on the doorstep, looking at his family members in the yard carrying things, chattering and asking him if he could take this or that, and his throat was almost smoking from answering!
Finally, Chu Ren came out with a bag of his family's stored grain and asked, "Chu Jie, we still have more than 300 kilograms of grain in our store. Why don't you take it all with you? Otherwise, if we go there now, Xinjiang hasn't harvested yet, and we won't have anywhere to borrow grain! We can't just borrow all the food from Xiao Shi's family, right?"
Chu Jie thought that three hundred kilograms was not a lot, so he and his elder brother each carried a bag and nodded, "Okay, take it."
In the evening, Chu Jie saw off his two aunts and the married sisters of the old Chu family. He turned around and walked into the yard until he could no longer see their backs. At this time, all the things that the family wanted to take away had been packed and were waiting to be sent out early the next morning.
Chu Ren stopped Chu Jie who was about to go back to the house, "Jie, we are going to the city tomorrow. Are you sure you have a car?"
Chu Jie stopped, turned and walked towards Chu Ren, smiled and said, "Dad, don't worry. I've asked around. There are buses from Xinjiang every Tuesday and Friday, and from our hometown to Xinjiang every Monday and Thursday. Tomorrow is Wednesday, and it will be almost dark when we get to the city. We can stay at the train station for one night and catch the 6 o'clock bus on Thursday morning."
Chu Ren nodded, "Well, then we should set off a day in advance..."
After a pause, he asked, "How many tickets do we need for our family? Dad went to the brigade a few days ago to exchange all his work points for the past six months for cash. Now he only has a little over 120 yuan. Adding to our family savings, we only have a little over 200 yuan. Is that enough?"
Chu Jie smiled and comforted, "Dad, don't worry. I've asked around, and among our children, only Xinmin and Xinguo need to buy half-price tickets. The rest of the children don't need to buy tickets!"
"As for Second Uncle's family, don't worry about them. They are richer than ours."
"It's okay even if it's not enough. Grandma gave me money when I came back..."
Chu Ren paused in nodding, "Where did your grandma get the money? Isn't it just the fifty yuan your little tenth brother gave her?"
Chu Jie grinned, "Grandma extorted this from Chu Wen!"
At that time, Mrs. Chu only kept more than 300 yuan of the money she extorted, and gave the rest to Chu Tian. Mrs. Chu was worried that the money would not be enough when his relatives from the old town came, so she gave him another 300 yuan when he came back.
Chu Ren, "·····"
"Wow, this is the first time grandma has seen such heavy rain."
Old Mrs. Chu stood at the door, looking at the heavy rain outside, sighing constantly.
Chu Tian couldn't help laughing, "Grandma, actually it rained several times in the past two months, but it always rained at night and stopped in the morning, so you didn't see it..."
Old Mrs. Chu shook her head repeatedly. "Anyway, I now understand why they do it this way in Xinjiang. Even if it rains heavily at night, everything will dry up as soon as the wind blows during the day..."
"It's amazing that there's no water shortage!"
Chu Tian explained slowly, "Grandma, Xinjiang actually has quite abundant groundwater, and there's also snow water from the Tianshan Mountains, so even if it gets dry, there's no shortage of water."
He paused and continued, "Of course, cities near the desert still lack water."
Old Mrs. Chu nodded, moved a stool and sat at the door of the house, took out a piece of pink fine cloth from the basket and began to sew.
Chu Tian took a look and felt that it looked familiar. "Grandma, is this the cloth I brought back for Daya to make clothes?"
Mrs. Chu answered without even looking up, "Yes."
"...But why is it so small? It's so small that Da Ya can't wear it, right?"
Mrs. Chu unfolded the gown she had sewn and said, "It wasn't originally made for Daya. Her face is dark and yellow, and this color doesn't look good on her. Xinxin has fair skin, so it will look better on her. So I swapped the piece of cloth I was going to make for Xinxin with hers!"
“······”
Chu Tian rubbed his forehead helplessly, feeling helpless about Old Lady Chu's self-willed behavior.
After thinking about it, he decided to forget it. The cloth he brought back for Xinxin all had floral patterns on it, so he might as well change it.
In fact, it was because Xinxin was naughty now. She liked to climb trees and play in the mud with the two little ones in Chu Min's family. They always got dirty, so he used darker-colored cloths for Xinxin. Although Daya's face was dark and yellow now, her skin was not dark and she loved cleanliness, so he chose some light-colored cloths for her.
At this time, there was a knock on the door and a shout, "Brother Tian, are you there?"
Chu Tian hurriedly shouted, "I'm here, I'm here, the door is not locked, come in!"
Sun Weiguo pushed open the door and walked in with Sun Jianjun. The two stood under the eaves, took off their raincoats and piled them against the wall before walking into the house.
"Hello, Grandma Chu."
"Okay, okay, come in and sit down, grandma will make you some sugar water."
Old Mrs. Chu stopped sewing clothes and hurriedly carried the basket to the table beside her, and started to make sugar water for them with a smile.
Sun Weiguo hurriedly stopped her, "Grandma Chu, you don't have to bother. We want to ask Brother Tian to go fishing with us in the reservoir below the company!"
Old Mrs. Chu was stunned for a moment, "There is a reservoir here?"
Sun Weiguo chuckled, "Hey, how could there not be any? Yes, there are still two!"
Chu Tian asked curiously, "Going fishing in the rain? Are you kidding me?"
Sun Jianjun hurriedly explained, "Brother Tian, it's because of the heavy rain that we can go fishing. The company issued a notice yesterday saying that the fish fry we put into the reservoir last year have grown a lot bigger this year. Each of our four teams in the reservoir below can go fishing for two hours. This morning, the members of the first and second teams went fishing. I don't know how much the first team caught, but the members of the second team caught more than 300 kilograms. I heard that each family got several kilograms..."
Chu Tian then remembered that there were two reservoirs within the territory of their Seventh Company. Although they were called reservoirs, they had rarely used the water from the reservoirs. The company had started to release fish fry into them a few years ago. In the beginning, very few fish survived, and they could only catch a few hundred kilograms every year. However, after two years of continuous release of fish fry, the annual harvest was much better than the first few years...
Mrs. Chu's eyes lit up when she heard this. "Oh, fish?"
Chu Tian blinked and asked with a smile, "Grandma, do you want to eat fish?"
Mrs. Chu smiled and said, "Who doesn't want to eat?"
Sun Weiguo smiled and asked, "How is it? Brother Tian, are you going? Those who go will get an extra pound of fish than those who don't go..."
"go."
As he spoke, Chu Tian took out an old-fashioned raincoat that he had asked Li Gang to buy for him from behind the door and put it on.
After taking two steps, he still looked at Mrs. Chu, "Grandma, when Xiujuan comes back later, please tell her for me."
Old Mrs. Chu waved her hand and said with a smile, "I know, I know, you have to be careful!"
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