The three of them hurried towards the brigade. Sun Jianjun thought for a moment and approached Chu Tian to ask, "Brother Tian, why don't I see Comrade Chu Lifang?"
Chu Tian was shaking off the mud with one foot in his foot at this moment. When he heard Sun Jianjun's words, he answered without thinking, "Ah, she and my wife took Xinxin to Sister Guihua's house."
Sun Jianjun blinked. "Ah? Going to Sister Guihua's house? Going to make clothes?"
Chu Tian finally shook off the mud on his feet, looked up at him and said, "Well, Sister Guihua wore a new shirt a few days ago. Lifang and my wife both liked the style. It happened to be raining today and there was no farm work, so we went to ask her how to make it."
Sun Jianjun nodded in understanding, thinking to himself, Chu Lifang has fair skin and is pretty. He still has two cloth coupons on hand. When he goes to the regiment in a few days, he can buy her a piece of the fashionable Dacron cloth...
Hearing that they could eat fish, every family sent someone to help. Chu Min and Chu Jun were of course present, but Chu Tian looked at Dazhu strangely and pulled the hood of his raincoat, and asked loudly.
"Dazhu, why are you going too?"
Dazhu raised his head and looked at Chu Tian, "Fourth Uncle, I want to see how you catch fish..."
Chu Tian raised his eyebrows slightly, "Well, then when you get to the reservoir, don't go in the water, just watch from the shore."
Dazhu nodded, "Uncle Si, I know. My father told me how deep the water in the reservoir is..."
Chu Tian had no memory of fishing, so he didn't know how to fish. He could only help them. When they asked him to pull the fishing net hard, he pulled hard. When they asked him to load the fish onto the cart they brought, he loaded the fish onto the cart. In short, Chu Tian was like a brick at this moment, he would be moved wherever he was needed...
Chu Min wiped the rain off his face, his face full of surprise, "Oh, that's a lot, it must be around 400 to 500 kilograms, right?"
Captain Sun also had a happy look on his face. "Yes, our team was the third to come and fish out the fish. I thought it would only be a little over 100 kilograms at most, but I didn't expect it to take longer than the second team..."
"Captain, when are we going to divide the fish?"
The team members were all soaked, but no one cared at this time. They all looked at Captain Sun with anticipation.
Captain Sun waved his hand and said, "Go back to the team, weigh out the fish that need to be handed in, and then distribute the fish to everyone!"
"Okay, divide the fish, divide the fish..."
Everyone shouted loudly, and without delay, they packed up the various tools they had brought with them, wanting to quickly return to the team to divide the fish.
Chu Tian, Chu Min and Chu Jun each carried four or five fish, each weighing about two kilograms, and walked back. When they reached a fork in the road, Chu Jun handed one of the fish in his hand to Chu Tian.
"Hey, take this fish home for grandma to eat."
Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and smiled, "Then shouldn't I give my mother a fish too?"
Chu Jun shook his head. "It's different. As a daughter-in-law, my mother should be filial to grandma, but..."
Seeing this, Chu Min took the fish from Chu Jun and handed it to Chu Tian. "Little brother, this is a gift from my elder brother to grandma on behalf of my mother. Just accept it! After all, grandma is living and eating at your place now..."
Having said that, Chu Tian accepted it without hesitation, but giving Liu Zhaodi the fish? Sorry! It’s not a festival, so he won’t give it to her...
"Then I'll go back..."
Chu Jun walked towards the old Chu family's house. He didn't care that Chu Tian didn't show filial piety to Liu Zhaodi. Although he was filial, after the separation of the family and Ma Cuihua's affair, he understood some things. He no longer expected his brothers to be as mindless and filial to their mother as he was before...
Anyway, his younger brothers' pensions and food rations were given on time every month and were never in arrears. As for the rest, whether they wanted to give it or not was their business. In short, he would not say another word.
Chu Tian, Chu Min and Dazhu watched Chu Jun's figure gradually disappear in the rain, then turned around and walked quietly towards their home.
Dazhu's voice came, "Dad, Fourth Uncle, have you noticed? Uncle has changed a lot..."
Chu Tian wiped the splashed rain off his face. "Everyone changes, especially someone like your uncle who has been through so much. It's normal to change..."
Dazhu nodded silently, and after a while he spoke again, "But I like the uncle now. He's not like before, always telling us to respect grandma, even though grandma didn't treat us very well..."
Chu Min's voice came at this time, "Dazhu, you are the younger generation, you can't say the elders are wrong, and your uncle asked you to respect your grandmother, that's what you should do. In short, you must remember that as a younger generation, it is natural for you to respect your elders, but this filial piety also has to have a limit. As for how to find this limit, you will have to wait until you grow up and explore it yourself..."
Dazhu responded with "OK" and chattered something else, but Chu Tian didn't listen to him. Instead, he looked at Chu Min in surprise several times.
They passed by Chu Min's house first. Chu Min also chose the biggest fish and handed it to Chu Tian, saying the same thing as Chu Jun.
Chu Tian was not polite. After all, it was a gift to the old lady, so there was no need to be polite.
"Oh, oh, my dear grandson is so amazing! He caught so many fish!"
Old Mrs. Chu looked at the seven fish that Chu Tian put in the basin, each weighing nearly two kilograms, and she couldn't stop smiling.
Chu Tian paused while wiping his hair, "Grandma, these were caught by the team members using a fishing net..."
"And there are two more inside, which are given to you by my eldest and second brothers as a gift."
Old Madam Chu waved her hands and said, "That's also because my good grandson is so good. If he hadn't participated, we wouldn't have been able to catch so many..."
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Chu Tian really wanted to tell Old Lady Chu that he hadn't even gone into the water and had been standing on the shore the entire time, but seeing Old Lady Chu praising him mindlessly, he silently swallowed the words he wanted to explain.
Chu Lifang squatted beside the basin, grabbed Xinxin's hand that had been playing with the fish, looked at the fish that were already swimming on their backs, raised her head and looked at Chu Tian, "Brother Xiaoshi, what should we do if we can't keep these fish anymore?"
Chu Tian asked doubtfully, "What should I do? What else can I do? Just eat it all?"
Yao Xiujuan looked at the fish weighing more than ten kilograms and frowned, "But this is too much. There are only a few people in our family. We can't finish it all in one go..."
Old Madam Chu said, "What's the big deal? If you can't finish it, just sprinkle some salt on it and marinate it. Anyway, I think it's dry here in Xinjiang. After the rain stops, hang it in the shade. It will become jerky in a few days. You can eat it slowly when you want to eat it later!"
Yao Xiujuan suddenly realized, "Oh, yes, it can be pickled. I'll prepare it now."
Chu Lifang also stood up and said, "Sister-in-law Xiao Shi, let me help you clean the fish."
Xinxin followed suit and shouted, "Mom, Auntie, Xinxin also wants to help!"
Yao Xiujuan laughed, "It's all blood, what are you doing? It would be ugly if your clothes were stained with blood..."
Xinxin was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chu Tian, "Dad, what is blood?"
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