happy apocalypse

Chapter 162 One-time payment, stay away from the best
After we drove away the best, we continued to pretend to squat in the yard, studying the stone mill that had been studied several times, but our ears were all pricked up to eavesdrop on the movement in the house.

But there was no big movement inside for a long time. When we thought that the fight was over, my aunt and uncle had finished fighting, but after a while, my uncle came out of the house, accompanied us, squatted in the corner and smoked a pipe.

Looking at this posture, we still haven't coaxed my aunt well. I decided that I couldn't continue to wait and see, so I dragged Jiang Zhi into the living room.

Auntie was sitting on the sofa, crying with Mama Jiang.

"Sister, what do you think is going too far these days? Lu Qing doesn't care about our mother and daughter at all."

Jiang Ma heard this, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Lu Qing usually treats you so well, isn't it just this one time that you are a little bit of a donkey?"

"Just this one time is enough. I counted it out. Even if I have been with him for 10 or 20 years, I can't catch up with his younger brother. He is just a white-eyed wolf who doesn't care about it." Very angry.

"You can do it, who doesn't have any top-notch relatives, and his younger brother doesn't come here once every year, you are doing well." Jiang Ma continued to persuade.

"Even if there are few people coming, it is enough for the Huo Huo people. The family has just harvested some food, and before it is warmed up, he can lick his face and door to ask for it, and there is that stupid person who cares about him. Brotherly love, but also want to be deceived.

This time I donated food to his brother again and again, and I didn't say anything, but this time, his brother was too shameless. His family of three wanted to go to the safe zone, but there was no food to pay, so he thought about my family's food.

That's 2000 catties of rice, not 10 catties or 20 catties. He, Lu Qing, digs his roots and digs the ground for food every year. How many 2000 catties can he collect? Not to mention 2000 catties, even 1000 catties is enough. I just received some food, and my wife and children haven't eaten it yet, so I have to give it to others. Lu Qing, are you worthy of me? "My aunt was talking, tears couldn't help falling down, and she said the last sentence very loudly, for the little uncle outside the house to listen to.

The little uncle heard it outside, and said helplessly: "I didn't agree, didn't I discuss it with you?"

"What are you discussing, what is there to discuss. You treat him like a younger brother, do they treat you as your own brother?
Do you remember why we drank porridge for several months last winter?When people come to cry for poverty, you will send all the food at home, and they don’t have to do anything, just call me brother and wait for dry food at home, our mother and I are exhausted At the end, pick up some thin drink.Lu Qing, are you worthy of our mothers? "My aunt became more and more sad as she talked, and finally she couldn't control her emotions, and choked up as she spoke.

"Shuju, you know I'm just such a younger brother. When my mother was dying, she specifically told me to take good care of him. Do you think I can leave him alone?" The uncle's voice was also very helpless.

"I don't care if he is like that. Over the years, during the Chinese New Year, when did he want to see you, the eldest brother who has been taking care of him, knowing that we are farming, and which autumn he came to the village to help you with work. He I don’t go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and I only think of you as a big brother when I have something to do.” My aunt argued with her uncle with her eyes wide open excitedly.

Seeing that the little uncle opened his mouth, he couldn't say anything in the end.

"If he, Lu An, wants to bring his family of three into the safe zone, and is short of a hundred and eighty catties of grain, and begs us, I, as a sister-in-law, will definitely give it to him without saying a word. But look at you and him What are you doing now? It costs 2000 catties for a mouthful. Is that a small amount? If we farm the land as usual this year, then he just wants to take away all the food from our family. What to eat, has he considered it?

He dared to light up when he didn't even have a catty of food. Where did he have the guts?This is what you are used to.If you want food, you will give it, if you want food, you will give it. Now you can't count.

And your good brother said that the safe zone is so good and so good, so why did he rectify his family's quota, why didn't your own brother's family give a few quotas. "

"Isn't that awkward? Besides, didn't you say you didn't go to the safe zone? Why do we need that quota?" The little uncle said in a muffled voice outside.

"I don't want it because I don't want it, and if I don't go it's because I don't want to go, but it didn't happen that way, so he got the quota for his family of three. He never thought about your life as an older brother in his heart, and even more so. I never thought about the life and death of my sister-in-law and his niece." The more the aunt spoke, the more angry she became, and her voice became louder.

"Besides, did he start talking in human language when he came to our house? What does it mean to leave a queen for the old Lu's family? Didn't I have a child? Isn't my daughter's surname Lu? My sister-in-law gave birth to a girl, so it's not you Is it the child of the old Lu family? Lu Qing, do you think so in your heart, you dislike me for giving birth to a girl, right? You are looking for a big girl to give birth to your son." The auntie said this, stood up from the sofa suddenly, and was about to walk out if she really lifted her legs.

Jiang Zhi and I hurriedly stopped her and forced her back to sit on the sofa.

After hearing this, the little uncle became anxious and said: "What are you talking about, when did I dislike you for giving birth to a girl? If I dislike it, I can't wait until my daughter is so old. How sad your daughter is when she hears it .”

"You still have time to control whether your daughter is hurt or not. You just need to take care of your prodigal brother. Let me tell you, the rice in our family is not yours alone. There is also my daughter and me, and you Don't try to touch the food your daughter earns."

After the autumn harvest, Lu Fang found several people in the county and organized a construction team to dig ice cellars for people.If you have time, you can also repair houses for others.After our family’s autumn harvest, Lu Fang’s construction team refurbished the houses of the second sister and the eldest sister from the inside to the outside.Of course it was free, so Lao Jiang gave them all the building materials he had obtained from the county.

After the drought in your summer, the villagers in Tashan Village also know the benefits of ice cellars, and they all want to dig one for their own homes while the weather is still warm.Some people want to dig bigger, but they can't dig out so much grain at once.I gave Lu Fang an idea, let her implement the method of installment payment.That is, if there is not enough food this year, you can pay some deposit first, and then pay back the remaining food in the next two or three years.These days, I have carried several bags of rice home.

We also understood it from the side. This is the family of the best brother who wants to go to the safe zone, but he has no food, so he thought of his brother in the countryside. It costs 2000 catties of rice for a mouth here, and when he wants food, there is no food. Saying nice words made my aunt very angry.Besides, 2000 catties of rice is not a decimal, so my aunt firmly disagrees, but my uncle seems to be a little loose and wants to give his brother food.

"Then, what should Lu An do? I'm just such a younger brother, and I've been begged. What do you say? Besides, this may be a matter of life and death. We still have some food, look..." Listen The meaning of the little uncle is that he still can't let go of his own brother and still wants to help him.

After hearing what my uncle said, my aunt immediately jumped up from the sofa, pointed at my uncle's nose and was about to curse.

I hurriedly stopped my aunt, "Calm down, auntie, calm down, we can't let such excellent relatives make us angry. Come upstairs with me, auntie, and I'll have a few words with you."

Then I pulled my aunt upstairs who was still struggling to fight with my uncle.

When I got upstairs, I said to my aunt: "Auntie, some things should not be taken on the surface. Now you think that 2000 catties of grain is too much for the top product to come home. In fact, if you think about it the other way around, if you take out 2000 catties of grain, If you can stay away from the best food from now on, then the food is not much, and it is worth the money.”

My aunt looked at me suspiciously.

I continued to explain to him: "In fact, everyone wants to go to the safe zone because it is safe, but if you think about it from the other side, this safety means no freedom, and you can also regard the safe zone as a prison. It is easy to enter , it’s hard to get out.”

"Really?" It was the first time my aunt heard such remarks.

"It's not far from ten, think about it, if we ordinary people go in, we must be used as cows and horses for others. It's just nothing else. The old land circled by the safe zone is not allowed to be humanized, it is impossible to let others People who use computers should use hoes instead, and those high-ranking officials should not be allowed to use shovels, so in the end ordinary people go to work. Think about it, after entering, can people easily let these laborers go?"

"The most important thing is that we have these grains now, and the 2000 catties of grains don't have much impact on our life. If you look at it this way, which one is more important, auntie?" I handed over the choice of the question to Gave it to my aunt.

"Well, let me tell you this, the food must be given. I'd rather he come and jostle us once, than just come and answer us when he has nothing to do." After listening to my words, the auntie figured it out.

"That is, if you spend these grains, you will be able to avoid future troubles forever. We need to worry less."

When we came down again, my aunt changed her anger just now, and said to my uncle calmly: "You have to think about it, do you really want to give your brother food and let his family go to the safe zone? If you really want to, I didn't stop it anymore, as if I was a vicious person.

But let’s make an agreement, you can’t touch the food that Xiaofang earns back at home, and the rice that our family took back this year is divided into three shares, and we will eat our own share in the future, and your share is for your brother , I still want to throw it away, I don’t care, but in the future, if you have no rice to eat and starve to death, don’t come to us. "

Auntie was obviously out of anger when she said that. There were sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in the house when there was no rice, so it was impossible to be hungry.

The little uncle heard that the little aunt agreed, and said with a big grin: "Okay, I will eat sweet potatoes when I finish eating the rice. I definitely can't let you two have nothing to eat."

Then my aunt said that she would stay at my house for a while, and she didn't want to see Lu An at home, so she asked my uncle to send him away as soon as possible.The little uncle left happily, and when he left, he said that after he sent Lu An away, he would come to pick up the little aunt.

After my uncle left, my aunt regained her composure and continued chatting with Mama Jiang, and we left the house.

Li Cheng came over and asked curiously: "Sister, what did you say to my aunt just now, why did she change so quickly?"

"I didn't say anything, so I told my aunt that if I went to the safe zone, I couldn't get out, and then I asked her if she wanted to spend 2000 catties of rice to buy it, and then I would like to spend [-] catties of rice to buy it. Or do I want the best brother to come to the house to make a fuss? Auntie still thinks it is more important to stay away from the best."

After hearing this, Li Cheng asked me suspiciously: "Sister, who told you that if you enter the safe zone, you will not be able to get out."

"No one told me, I guess." I said very irresponsibly.

(End of this chapter)