Wang Shumei has always been quick and efficient. They decided to build a house here. Before Aunt Li could settle down at home, Wang Shumei dragged Lin Nianhe with her.
Li Dahe has been terribly worried these past two days.
There is a happy event going on at home, the brigade is building a primary school, and I don’t know how many educated youths are coming...
One after another, the little old man's hair was crushed.
"Uncle Captain, Aunt Li."
Lin Nianhe walked into the courtyard and greeted them with a smile.
"Hey, here we come." Before Aunt Li could tell Li Dahe about Lin Nianhe and the others' questions about the new educated youth, she could only ask with a smile, "Have you checked the house? Do you want to repair it?"
Lin Nianhe smiled and shook his head: "The house is fine. I came here with Sister Shumei."
"Huh? Is there something wrong with Miss Wang?" Aunt Li pretended to be confused.
Li Dahe watched the three women singing harmony, smoking cigarettes, and listening quietly.
He really didn't want to talk now. If he was forced to speak, he just wanted to ask Lin Nianhe how his review was going.
It wasn't that he had high expectations for her, but that he really didn't want to see this little cub in the field.
Others work hard, but she works hard.
Wang Shumei also smiled and said, "Didn't I want to build a house before? It just so happened that I talked about it today, so I wanted to take advantage of the fact that the uncles and uncles in the village were building houses at the same time to get rid of this matter. Done."
"ah?"
Li Dahe became angry instantly.
The little old man looked at Wang Shumei with surprise in his eyes: "Really? Wang Zhiqing, are you serious? You want to build a house? How big will it be? How many of you will live there?"
"I want to build two rooms and add a kitchen." Wang Shumei replied, "Xiaolan and I have one room each, so we don't need a big space."
"Ah, that's okay, that's okay!" Li Dahe nodded repeatedly, "It just so happens that they are building houses these days, so they can bring back the materials you used. It can save a lot of trouble."
Li Dahe originally thought that the three of them would live together, but after thinking about it, it was right. Lin Nianhe had just tidied up the woodshed, so naturally he would not waste money and trouble moving out.
But he was content, and it was an unexpected blessing to have a spare room. If he asked for too much, he would just wait for Wang Hong to knock on his door.
Aunt Li thought about it for a while and said, "You two girls should not live too far away from the educated youth spot. Otherwise, move the back wall further back and build a new house next to Girl Lin's house. You are still in the same courtyard."
Her words coincided with what Lin Nianhe had said.
Wang Shumei glanced at Lin Nianhe and said with a smile: "How about you, I haven't even thought about it. Okay, we don't know anything about building a house, so we have to worry about the captain and my aunt."
"This girl, why are you so polite!"
Aunt Li smiled happily.
Look at this, smart children can talk, but they are much more painful than those wooden lumps!
Wang Shumei was particularly generous and handed over 100 yuan to Li Dahe. The trust in her eyes made Li Dahe feel that he was shouldering a heavy responsibility. He patted his chest and promised to build a good and solid house for her.
In this regard, in addition to the non-farming work of the Shili Brigade, there is one more thing——
Build houses for educated youth.
The Shili Brigade lived a lively and lively life, and good things continued, but the Jiuli Brigade five miles away was not so harmonious.
"Tsk tsk, the captain is also kind-hearted and even let these two brats live in his old house."
"Everyone in his family has nothing interesting! That Zhang Dahu even snatched my eldest grandson's candy a few days ago! He scared my darling grandson to death!"
"We should let them go to the bullpen..."
No matter where Zhang Dahu goes recently, people are gossiping about his family.
In the past, they were quite cautious and just whispered.
But it will be different after today. The captain asked them to move to the old house. He said that in two months there will be educated youths going to the countryside. The Zhang family's house was built with the help of the villagers. Now their family only has They shouldn't live in such a big house, let them get out.
The so-called "old house" is actually the old ancestral hall in the village. In the past few years, only the frame was left, and even the doors and windows were chopped off and burned.
Moreover, this place was not originally intended for people to live in. There was no stove and no kang.
It's okay to be in summer right now, but when autumn comes and winter comes, it will freeze to death.
The captain's handling method was like a signal, giving the villagers the confidence to destroy their family without any scruples.
In fact, Zhang Dahu saw that Uncle Niu went to pull back a lot of tiles a few days ago, which were allocated by the commune to build houses for educated youths.
He saw that all the bricks and tiles had entered the brigade captain's house.
But he didn't dare to say.
No one believes anything he says now.
Just like he said before, the piece of candy he snatched from Erhanzi was snatched away from his younger brother by Erhanzi. It was Erhanzi who made the first move, and many people saw it.
Even though many people saw it, no one was willing to testify for him, and no one believed what he said.
They said that you will reap what you sow. He, like his parents and grandparents, are bad people and should be squatting on the fence.
They said that it is not easy to learn well, but if they run away after bad learning, they must not let him and his brother have contact with the little boys in the village, so as not to lead their own children to bad things.
They talked a lot. Zhang Dahu got tired of listening and no longer cared.
His parents had committed sins, and he, the son, was not immune.
Therefore, when Wang Wei asked them to move out, Zhang Dahu said nothing, took his brother Zhang Erhu, and left the home where he had lived for nine years with the few remaining clothes and half a bag of cornmeal.
The old house was at the western end of the village, about a hundred meters away from the nearest house, which fit the villagers' desire to separate the two of them.
The two brothers sat in an old house covered in dust and cobwebs, confused and at a loss.
"Brother, I'm hungry." Zhang Erhu whispered, covering his stomach.
Zhang Dahu is also hungry.
He didn't know how to cook without a stove. In fact, it was during this time that he learned to cook in a hurry. The food he produced was incomparable to what his mother cooked, and his brother even had diarrhea several times because of it.
Seeing that his brother was silent, Zhang Erhu flattened his lips and shed tears.
"Brother, I miss my mother. I want to eat the braised pork made by my mother."
Zhang Dahu also misses his mother very much.
He doesn't have to eat braised pork, he doesn't have to eat it for the rest of his life, he just wants his mother back.
The nine-year-old boy rubbed his eyes and said, "Mom will come back."
"Really?" Zhang Erhu cried, looking at him eagerly.
"real."
Zhang Dahu nodded affirmatively.
He sniffed, stood up, and imitated his mother's behavior, rubbing Erhu's head: "Just wait, I'll find some firewood to cook for you."
He didn't know if his mother could come back, but he knew that he had to do something.
Because he is the older brother.
Before Zhang Dahu could walk out of the old house, a man blocked his way.
He took out a white flour bun and handed it to him: "Here."
Zhang Dahu knew this person.
(End of chapter)
