Return to the small mountain village in 1993

Chapter 16 I think you are still drifting
After Tian Daming heard this, he couldn't help but start the angry mode again, "You like to brag a lot every day. How big a boss or official are you, and you are guaranteed to get rich? I think you just make some money. Piao, I don’t know what my last name is…”

"Yes, yes, dad is right."

Tian Hao was criticized, and the whole family was laughing. Tian Hao was not annoyed, but nodded repeatedly, which made Tian Daming a little embarrassed to continue the criticism.

Tian Hao quickly raised the fish basket in his hand and said to Tian Daming: "Dad, can you still make this kind of fish basket?"

Tian Daming's illness was very strange. After being bitten by some kind of insect, his whole body always felt weak and weak, especially his lower limbs. It was difficult to walk. A few years later, he became completely paralyzed.

He sighed quietly: "You can knit it, but it's very difficult to chop bamboo, split bamboo, and make bamboo strips. I can't even hold a knife steadily..."

"Will eldest brother do it?" Tian Hao asked again.

"He will, but now he..."

Speaking of his eldest son Tian Hua, Tian Daming sighed again.

"As long as he knows how to do it, I'll go find him later." Tian Hao said, "I need a lot of bamboo baskets to catch snakes. It's best to have a lid on them. That would be perfect."

"time to eat."

Wang Xiuying brought all the food.

Tian Zhuang and Tian Xiaohua are both studying in Wulipu Village, five miles away. If they don't come back for lunch, they will come back in the afternoon.

Tian Hao's daughter 'Tian Meili' was taking a nap.

Tian Hao greeted Tian Shilei and said, "Stone, eat."

Tian Shilei glanced at the food on the table.

The rice is potato rice, and the vegetables are stir-fried dried radish with pickled peppers, steamed old pumpkin, cold folded ear root, stir-fried Kuding vegetables... They are all vegetarian dishes, not fishy at all, just like what you have at home.

"I've eaten it, you can eat it."

Tian Shilei's stomach growled, and he quickly stood up to leave, but was caught by Tian Hao, "I heard your stomach growling, just eat here, I'll have something else for you to do later."

"what's up?"

After hearing this, Tian Shilei stopped moving.

"Let's talk after dinner." Tian Hao said.

"Okay, okay."

Tian Shilei sat down and ate together.

Several people were hungry, no matter what the food was, it was a vigorous meal. In the end, a large pot of potato rice was eaten clean, and all the vegetables were eaten until there was no soup left.

It's just that such meals don't stop hunger, and they will be digested in a short time.

It still needs to be a bit meaty!
After eating, Tian Hao quietly followed Wang Xiuying to the kitchen and asked in a low voice: "Didn't I buy some meat? I also caught a lot of wild rabbits and pheasants. Why don't you get them to eat?"

"I sold all those hares and pheasants yesterday and got more than sixty yuan." Wang Xiuying said proudly while washing the dishes.

"Why are you selling it? Don't we enjoy it ourselves? Besides, we don't need more than sixty yuan now, right?" Tian Hao said with a bitter face.

Wang Xiuying glanced at Tian Hao and said with a smile: "Dad is right, you really start to lose money when you make some money. You can't even look down on sixty yuan. You have to know that I only cost two yuan to knit a pair of straw sandals..."

"That's not what I mean. What I mean is that we have to earn money, but we also have to spend what we should spend. If we lose ourselves, what's the point of making money?" Tian Hao said.

Wang Xiuying listened, tilted her head and thought for a while, and finally said something that made Tian Hao almost vomit three liters of blood.

"I think you're still drifting."

"puff!"

Tian Hao stopped talking, walked out of the kitchen, came to the main room, and said to Tian Shilei: "Shitou, peel off the skins of these bamboo shoots. Don't throw away the skins. They can be used to feed pigs or rabbits. Peel off the skins of the bamboo shoots." After you're done, go catch some earthworms, spiders, fish, frogs, mice, whatever, as long as they stay alive."

"okay."

Tian Shilei is only afraid of snakes, but he is not afraid of other animals. "You kid, how can you do all the work assigned to Shi Lei? He is your brother, not your permanent employee." Wang Cuifen cursed at Tian Hao, then smiled and said to Tian Shi Lei, "Shi Lei, don't listen to him, these jobs We just need to do it. You finally come to our house and sit down and drink tea."

"That won't work, my brother gave me a salary!"

Tian Shilei said honestly.

"Salary?"

Wang Cuifen and Tian Daming were both stunned.

Tian Hao knew what was about to happen, so he quickly said to Tian Shilei: "Shitou, you'd better catch the small animals first."

Tian Shilei said in confusion: "Brother Hao, Aunt Cuifen is still asking me..."

This idiot is really stupid. Didn’t he know that a disaster was about to happen?
Tian Hao couldn't help but pull him away.

"Shitou, remember, you can't tell anyone about my salary for you, do you understand?"

After leaving the house, Tian Hao whispered.

"why?"

Tian Shilei was puzzled.

Isn’t it a good thing to raise wages?Why can't you say it?

Tian Hao didn't bother to explain to him. He glared and said, "Don't ask so many questions. Just remember what I said!"

"Oh."

Tian Shilei agreed blankly, and then parted ways with Tian Hao to catch small animals.

Tian Hao then went all the way to his eldest brother's house.

His eldest brother Tian Hua had separated their family as early as five years ago when Tian Hao got married.

The relationship between husband and wife has never been very harmonious. The main reason is that Tian Hua is too useless, and his wife is too strong and pretty. Therefore, I always feel that marrying Tian Hua is bad luck for eight lifetimes.

A year ago, Tian Hua had a big fight with his wife, drank some wine, and then accidentally rolled down the hillside, broke his leg and became a cripple. Since then, his wife has looked down on him even more.

I quarreled with him every day. Finally, in the twelfth lunar month of last year, I took my child back to my parents' home and never came back.

It is said that he left the child at Gaga's house (meaning grandma's house) and went to the south to work with a man from their village.

After hearing the news, Tian Hua felt like he was struck by lightning. He hid at home and drank alcohol every day, and did not dare to go to his wife's parents' house to ask for a child. If he wanted to speak out, he was really a coward!
In fact, now Tian Hao can also understand why Tian Hua dare not go to his wife's natal house to make trouble.

One is because he is disabled and his family is in such a bad situation that no one can support him. The other is because he is really too poor. Even if he takes the child back, how will he support it?Who raises it?
For this reason, Tian Huadu had several thoughts of committing suicide, but was persuaded by the villagers to do so.

Recently, his mood has become stable, but he drinks alcohol every day until he is unconscious. The house is always in a mess, smelly and dirty, even worse than a pigsty!
Tian Zhuang and Tian Xiaohua would come to see Tian Hua every day after school.

And Tian Hao...

In his own memory, this was the first time he came to his eldest brother's house after the separation!
In the previous life, the two brothers were like strangers, never having contact with each other until death.

Thinking about it now, Tian Hao still felt a little guilty in his heart.

He remembered that when he was a child, his eldest brother always took good care of him. Every time he took out bird eggs, picked cucumbers and watermelons from other people's houses, he would give them to him to eat. Even if he got into trouble, his eldest brother would carry them for him.

But when they grew up, the two couldn't stand each other.

Tian Hao disliked Tian Hua for being too cowardly, while Tian Hua disliked Tian Hao for being too lazy. They talked less and less between them, and they would choke or even fight after a few words.

"Brother, are you home?"

With this in mind, Tian Hao came to the door of Tian Hua's house.

(End of this chapter)