The adults in this family won't cause any trouble.

This is Luo Xuan, Zhang Xiaoli, and Gu Sheng, who have just stepped into the courtyard.

The most intuitive first feeling.

Squatting on the stone strips at the edge of the yard was a slovenly man, smoking a cigarette.

This kind of home-grown leaf tobacco is generally the favorite of old people in rural areas.

Younger people rarely smoke dry cigarettes. This is just because this kind of cigarette is very powerful and can easily make people useless.

yard,

There was also a tall lady who looked a bit like Luo Tiezhu's wife Wang who deserved to be beaten, a similar type of old woman.

He was sitting under the eaves, holding a dustpan in his hand, busy sifting out the shriveled grains in the rice.

When she saw Gu Sheng and his entourage, she just pursed her lips and shouted: "My dear wife, all the comrades from the animal husbandry station are here."

You blind person, where have you been hiding?

Why don't you quickly grab two ladles of cold water from the water tank and let these public servants take a sip to quench their thirst?"

"Really!"

When the old woman saw a guest coming to her house, she did not get up.

Instead, he was minding his own business, sitting there and nagging, "She has been lazy all morning. I just said a few words to her, and now you are acting a little bit irritating to me?"

"Hey, it's coming."

With a lifetime of crisp answers.

A thin and heart-warming girl walked out carefully, holding a water gourd made of gourds.

The girl in front of me looks about 16 or 7 years old.

The girl has delicate facial features and is quite tall.

She is just too thin, so thin that it makes people look a little scared.

Luo Xuan estimated that her total body weight would not exceed 80 kilograms.

This also has to include the tattered, cumbersome and heavy cloth shoes on her feet.

With a weight of about 80 kilograms and a height of 1.65 meters, she was already pitifully thin.

and,

This is still gross weight.

"What are you doing here, you lose money? How much did you cut for the production team today? How dare you delay your arrival! Where did your mother die?"

While sifting rice, the old lady scolded the girl: "You know how to eat every day. If you are not even active in mowing grass to earn work points, what else can you do?"

The girl replied in a low voice: "Grandma, my mother is sick. She said she is very cold and is sweating under the quilt.

Grandma, don't rush me.

I have cut three baskets of cow grass today and got two loads of firewood for my family."

The old woman murmured: "It took a whole morning to cut three baskets of cow grass? When I was young, I could cut so much in the morning with just a piece of urine."

"Grandma, don't worry. After lunch later, I will go back to cut a basket of grass."

The girl said,

While handing the water ladle in his hand to Gu Sheng, "Uncle, we don't have tea or brown sugar at home.

I'm really sorry, I can only ask you to take a sip of cold water to quench your thirst."

Perhaps the girl recognized among Luo Xuan, Zhang Xiaoli and Gu Sheng that Gu Sheng was the staff member who came to help the family breed chickens.

Seniority is respected.

Therefore, the girl handed the water ladle to Gu Sheng first.

"What are you talking about?"

The old woman obviously didn't like seeing her granddaughter. "Why don't you go to the agency store quickly and buy a pack of cigarettes? It's hard for the family to come to our house. Why are you so ignorant?"

The girl blushed and replied: "Please give me some money, grandma. Oh, by the way, what price should I buy cigarettes?"

"Ask!"

The old woman said angrily: "You have grown so old and you have no brains. You don't know how to buy cigarettes at what price. If you want money, go to your mother."

In the countryside,

There are many people who are poor but still have good reputation.

Like this girl just now, she asked her grandma how much a pack of cigarettes should cost.

This would make the old woman lose her face: she couldn't say, why don't you go buy a box of Hongmei cigarettes for 30 cents and come back?

Then why not torture the old woman to death?

But the old woman couldn't say in front of Gu Sheng that you just need to buy a box of 13 cents cigarettes.

In this case, the old woman was worried that Gu Sheng would dislike her and the cigarettes she bought were not good.

Things like this,

Generally speaking, they would close the door or hide aside, quietly discussing the price of cigarettes to buy, and then come back to entertain the stockman in front of them.

This girl seems to have been used to being scolded by her grandmother since she was a child.

I have long been accustomed to this.

I just heard her whisper: "My mother usually doesn't have a penny on her. Grandma, please give me some money so that I can buy a pack of cigarettes for my comrades."

"Money, money, life are connected. Just reach out to me and ask for money! It's like I made the money."

The old woman chattered.

But in the end, he put down the dustpan in his hand and turned back to the house to get the money.

There are people like this in the world: She clearly knows the outcome, but she just keeps talking about it.

It seems that I don’t want to find some nonsense to talk about, and I don’t want to destroy others all the time.

The tone in her heart seemed to be unbearable.

Before long,

A woman who walked crookedly and looked limp, with messy hair, was leaning on the door frame and raising her legs with difficulty.

The threshold in rural areas is often very high, as much as one foot.

This woman, who had obviously suffered from heatstroke or the flu, was severely lacking in strength.

So it was quite difficult for her to cross the high threshold.

"Mom, you should go back and have a rest. I'll just go to the agency store to buy cigarettes."

The girl hurried forward, stretched out her hand to support her mother, and comforted her in a soft voice: "Today, I will do all the work of carrying firewood, carrying water, and cooking.

Mom, you'd better go back and have a rest, don't get exhausted."

Subsequently,

The old woman who came out of the house saw this and scolded: "Why take a break? We come from poor families and are not that valuable.

Ask your mother to go to the consignment store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and then buy me 2 fruit candies that I just bought from the consignment store.

Your brother is greedy for that kind of candy and has been complaining about it for several days.

From now on, our old Liu family will have to rely on your brother to carry on the family line and establish a family. Otherwise, how can we count on you, a loser?"

The girl stamped her foot: "Grandma, my mother is so sick that she has no strength to walk. You'd better let me go to the agency store to buy cigarettes and candies."

The old woman shook her head and said, "My father-in-law and his family are already here, and it is inevitable that someone will be needed later to help me and pass them here and there."

"Let your mother do the shopping for cigarettes and candies. Just stay at home and see if there is anything you need your help with?"

The old woman said,

He casually pulled out a bamboo pole from the pile of firewood under the eaves.

She handed it to her daughter-in-law and said, "Here, my daughter-in-law, Gouzi, use this as a walking stick. It's just a two-mile stretch of land. I can crawl across it if I were to crawl."

Zhang Xiaoli saw this,

He quickly stepped forward, supported the woman and said, "How about I take you there on my bicycle?"

The old woman smiled at Zhang Xiaoli and said: "Oh, I said to this comrade of the family, your bicycle is expensive, and we poor people don't dare to ride on it.

If it is accidentally damaged by you, how can we, who are poor and broke, afford to pay for it?"

Zhang Xiaoli said softly: "This old lady and your daughter-in-law have become like this. How could she have walked such a long way?"

That sick woman now had someone speaking up to make the decision for him, which made her more courageous.

She looked up at her mother-in-law and begged feebly, "Mom, why don't you let Gillian go? I'll stay at home and deliver water to the family, or catch chickens or something."
To be continued...