“Brother-in-law, you’re back.”
The little girl was sitting on the kang, flipping through the book her elder sister had brought, bored out of her mind.
Hearing the noise outside the courtyard, she quickly ran out.
“Hey, whose dog is this?”
She was about to go forward.
But she was startled by a dog’s head that darted out from beside Li Yu.
Taking a closer look, she realized it wasn’t her own dog, and then asked.
“This is Da Hu, Hu Saozi’s hunting dog, I took it back.”
“Ah?”
The little girl looked Da Hu up and down.
Seeing its gaunt appearance, she doubted.
“Can it still hunt in this condition?”
As if it understood the little girl’s words.
Da Hu suddenly barked twice with a loud voice.
The little girl nearly lost her soul.
“You stinky thing, you dare scare me, watch out, I won’t feed you later.”
Da Hu, who had been quite imposing just now, suddenly backed down.
He lowered his head and rubbed against her feet, showing his friendliness.
“Hey, you’re quite good at acting like a coward, you shouldn’t be called Da Hu, you should be called Da Song.”
“Alright, stop teasing him, go get some food, what time is it already.”
“Right.”
As if she thought of something.
The little girl slapped her forehead.
She hurriedly said.
“When I went to the Party Secretary’s house earlier, he was also home, he said you should go to the commune with him tomorrow if you have nothing else to do, don’t forget.”
“?”
“Go to the commune for what?”
It had snowed so heavily yesterday, the road must be difficult to travel on.
Why go through this trouble for no reason?
The little girl shook her head and said helplessly.
“I didn’t ask!”
“What use is this little girl of yours?”
“Who said I’m useless.”
The little girl made a funny face at Li Yu.
Then she pulled out a large bundle of money from her pocket.
“Here, I brought back the money we paid for the pork yesterday, exactly two hundred and fifty yuan, not one cent more, not one cent less.”
Xiuxiu, who was about to go inside to prepare dinner.
Seeing the large bundle of money in the little girl’s hand, she couldn’t help but stop.
This was two hundred and fifty yuan.
She had never seen so much money in her life.
Li Yu casually took the money from the little girl’s hand.
He waved it, feeling that it didn’t have the same sense of satisfaction as a fresh stack of money from a bank in the future.
Then he handed it to Xiuxiu next to him.
“Here, our family’s money will be managed by you, the mistress. If I and Xiaomin can’t eat, it’s your responsibility.”
“Tsk.”
Xiuxiu raised her beautiful eyes and gave him a playful look.
She still took the bundle of money.
It was heavy, all the trust Li Yu had in her.
“Sister, we made so much money today, shouldn’t we celebrate with a good meal?”
“Celebrate what?”
Xiuxiu glared at her little sister.
She said unhappily.
“We have so many good things at home, what else do you want to eat?”
“Humph, stingy, you’ve got a brother-in-law and forgotten about your sister.”
“Don’t run away, I’m going to give you a good lesson today.”
Watching the two sisters chasing and playing in the room.
Li Yu smiled, this was the way a family should live.
He had been thinking that if it didn’t snow tonight, he would go up the mountain tomorrow morning to see if he could get some sand chickens and flying dragons.
After all, eating wild boar and bear meat every day could get a little tiring.
But his uncle had told him to go to the commune, so he would go.
Just in time to buy cotton and cloth for the two girls at home to make clothes.
…
The next day.
Li Yu had just finished washing up.
He heard his uncle’s loud voice from outside.
“Big nephew, are you up yet?”
“Uncle, I’ll be ready soon, come in and have a seat.”
Li Yu looked out the window.
His uncle and a middle-aged man were standing outside the courtyard.
Behind them was an oxcart,
Li Yu had some impression of this man.
Lao Yu from the west end of the village, he often helped the brigade drive the oxcart when he was free.
“No need, I’m a little rushed, you young man just hurry up and get ready, by the way, don’t forget to bring your gun.”
“Then should I bring a dog, Uncle?”
In this kind of snowy weather, there was a chance that some animals who couldn’t find food would wander around the outskirts of the village.
It was a three-hour journey, it was safer to bring a gun.
“You can bring your Huahua.”
After tidying up, with the pancakes Xiuxiu had made in his pocket, he led Huahua out of the door.
“Uncle, why are we going to the commune in this cold weather?”
“Ai.”
Li Xuewu sighed.
He felt helpless just thinking about it.
“It’s because the higher-ups have arranged for three more educated youths to come to our brigade, just thinking about it gives me a headache.”
“What?”
Li Yu raised his eyebrows in surprise.
“More educated youths are coming, our brigade already has a dozen or so educated youths, can we take care of them?”
He remembered that he had checked the information before, it seemed that during these years, the total number of educated youths who went to the countryside exceeded ten million.
Many of them were weak and unable to carry or lift anything.
They couldn’t stand hardship and often caused trouble.
The people in the brigade already had quite a bit of resentment towards these educated youths who came to share their food and cause trouble.
If three more troublemakers arrived, their village would be in chaos again.
Speaking of this, Li Xuewu was also full of worries.
“It’s mainly because your niece-in-law and her sister have registered their residence in your house, after the higher-ups learned about it, they stuffed three more into our brigade, we couldn’t even push them away.”
Li Yu twitched his lips.
He didn’t expect this to be related to his wife and sister-in-law.
“Then why send two? Why send an extra one?”
“There are quite a few educated youths in this batch from the commune, several brigades are unwilling to accept them.”
Now Li Yu understood.
His uncle didn’t want to offend anyone, so he ate this bitter pill.
“Uncle, you have to stand up for yourself sometimes, many of our villagers are already struggling to feed themselves, if we have more people coming over, we might starve to death.”
“Big Yu is right.”
Lao Yu chimed in at this moment.
“Secretary, don’t just think about not offending anyone, it’s our villagers who are suffering.”
“Ai… let’s go first, if we miss the time, I’ll get scolded again.”
Seeing his uncle stubbornly change the subject.
Li Yu could only helplessly shrug his shoulders.
But this matter didn’t have much to do with him.
He and his wife and sister-in-law could just close the door and live a good life at home.
You can’t be too sentimental, otherwise you’ll be the first to die.
As the saying goes in the world of transmigrators.
In a chaotic world, kill the sentimental first.
He didn’t want to be a person who brings firewood for everyone, because he would likely be frozen to death in the snow and wind.