Chapter 32

Xu Wen refused without even thinking, “No You get married and then you bring your brother and sister-in-law to live with you! You get married and then you bring your brother and sister-in-law to live with you, do you want to lose your reputation? How do you want the Lu family to think of you? The neighbors will make fun of you”

Grandma and Xu Qiushi also disagreed

The reasons were similar to Xu Wen’s

Xu Wen had no choice but to re-propose, “Then Grandma will live with me?”

“Silly girl, it’s good that you’re filial But no one in the family can go live with you I have a son and a grandson, and if I follow my granddaughter to live with her, where would you let your father and brother go? Your parents can’t go either They have an old man and a young man, so they can’t go”

Zhu Meizhen also disagreed: “Ask, you’ve just gotten married, everyone is still fresh and won’t say anything But this life can’t last forever When people get used to Xiaozheng not being at home, even if you live by yourself with your child, there may be something to say”

As the saying goes, “A widow’s doorstep is full of wrongs and wrongs” Although Xu Man wasn’t a widow, she wasn’t much better

Moreover, Xu Wen is not her own mother, but a stepmother

Lu Yuanzheng is safe and sound, if he has a shortcoming, Xu family members in the courtyard can be Lu Yuanzheng their production brigade members spittle drowned

The uncles and uncles of Lu Yuanzheng will have to come to the door

Xu Man knew that even though the Xu family had treated themselves better than most of the commune’s families had treated their daughters, they were still feudalistic and felt that they were a married woman who couldn’t live in their own house

But they were still feudalistic, thinking that it would be embarrassing for them to live in their own house, and that if they came to live with them again, they would always feel like they were living under someone else’s roof

So they could only persuade them to accept the money

If you want your family to accept the money, you have to solve the foundation problem first

Xu Wen thought for a moment and spoke, “Actually, there’s a piece of land that can be used as a home base, but it’s just a bit troublesome”

Sang Xiaoqing’s eyes lit up and asked, “Which place”

Xu Man pointed towards the outside of the house with his chopsticks, “The south side of the front neighbor”

Sang Xiaoqing was instantly discouraged, “The palm-sized area to the south of the front neighbor can’t even cover a room”

A single round of area can also be used to build two rooms, but no one can build a house on a residential site, and there must be a few dozen centimeters of space around it

Xu Wen also shook his head, “Even if I could build it, it wouldn’t work, and it would fall into the bay as soon as I pushed the door open”

The “bay” is the local name for the river on this side of the commune

“I’ve seen it, the water in that bay is not deep It has been abandoned and the water inside is stagnant and stinks, it’s not much of a bay but a big puddle There’s no point in keeping it If you really want to build a house, you can discuss it with the production team, and fill in the soil with a little bit more effort to fill in the size of a house site”

The Xu family was silent

Xu Wen was a bit moved, “That’s a good idea But that bay isn’t shallow, I even swam in it when I was a kid, it’s at least a meter deep It’s a big job to fill it in”

“It’s not that deep from the edge” Xu Qiusi knew better, “How long will it take to fill in such a big place by ourselves? If you ask for help, it will be after the fall And if you ask for help, you’ll have to buy food and wine, so I’m afraid you’ll have to spend even more”

Most of the people in the Taoyuan Production Brigade were simple and kind

If anyone’s family needed work, everyone would go together to help

For example, building a house and organizing red and white events

Especially when it comes to things like building a house, many members of the community not only contribute to the work, but also contribute to the work, taking out all the shovels and pickaxes

When people contributed their labor and tools, the host family had to take care of the food, right?

For those who are well off, they will take care of two meals at noon and two at night, and for those who are not well off, they will take care of one meal

Most of the meals were stews

Cabbage and tofu soup or winter melon soup with some meat in it

You have to have enough food, and you have to have cigarettes and alcohol

Fill the river is obviously not a small project, ask for help how to continue for ten days and a half months, just so many people to eat is also a small expense

“The problem is to ask for help after the fall harvest” Xu Wen pointed to the crux of the problem, “After the fall harvest, we still have to repair the river By the time everyone is finished and free to help, it will be freezing”

It will be too cold to start work

Sang Xiaoqing glanced at Xu Wen and said she wanted to speak again

Xu Wen, who has been married for a year and understands what Sang Xiaoqing means, clenched his teeth and spoke, “Why don’t we do it ourselves? In the morning before work, at night after the end of the work to bulldoze a little pad Do it yourself slow one or two months can also get finished”

“OK! I’ll join you” Xu Qiushi also stated, “We can finish it before the fall harvest”

Zhu Meizhen felt a little bit sorry for her man and son, “What if you two get exhausted again?”

Grandma didn’t think so: “Strength is something that can be used up and then born again If you don’t have money and don’t want to put in some effort, how can that be a good thing? Qiushi, when you go to work in the afternoon, go and talk to the captain to see if this piece of land in front of us can be granted to us as a homestead”

Xu Qiusi agreed

If we really want to build a house, the family’s two hundred dollars won’t be enough, and we’ll still need Xu Man’s money

The Xu family are honest people, do not come out to take advantage of the son-in-law, but this money do not certainly not build a house

In the end, after discussion, said to wait to buy bricks and then borrowed money Xu asked

In the evening Xu asked to give Dongsheng after the bath, he took three steps back reluctantly back to his bedroom

In fact, it is just a wall away from Xu Man

Xu can see that he is not willing to separate from himself, but also feel that children avoid their mothers, not to mention that she is not the real mother

Dongsheng is a boy and should be more independent

But Dongsheng’s look of forced unhappiness made Xu Wen’s heart ache

After her bath, she still can’t help but want to see Dongsheng, just want to open the door to the room, heard a small sob coming from the inside

Xu Man stiffened

She closed her eyes and summoned the Magic Mirror, “Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, at what age is it appropriate for little boys to sleep in separate rooms?”

“The Magic Mirror thinks that boys can share beds at the age of three, and it’s more appropriate to share rooms at the age of six The specifics depend on the child’s condition”

Xu Wen rolled her eyes, saying it was as good as not saying it

However, when she went to the gym decades later, there was a reminder sign on each of the men’s and women’s bathrooms

It said that boys four years old and older couldn’t enter the women’s bathroom, and likewise girls four years old and older couldn’t enter the men’s bathroom

So sleeping in a room for another six months was still okay, right?

Xu Wen raised his hand and knocked on Dongsheng’s bedroom door

“Dongsheng, can I come in?”

Dongsheng huffed, “Ma Ma, I fell asleep”

Xu Man lost his smile and pushed the door open

The curtains in Dongsheng’s house were not drawn, and the moonlight and starlight filtered in through the window, barely able to see inside the house

Dongsheng seemed to particularly like the ostrich’s sleeping position, still pouting his little buttocks on the bed, face buried in the pillow

Xu Wen went to the edge of the bed and sat down, asking him: ”Dongsheng, do you miss your dad? Or just want to sleep with me?”

Dongsheng’s butt arched, as if he wanted to raise his head but didn’t want to

“Really asleep, huh?” Xu Wen stifled a smile and pretended not to notice his little gesture, “Alright then! I also wanted to ask Dongsheng to stay with me, but since Dongsheng is asleep I’d better go!”

“I didn’t fall asleep,” Dongsheng crawled up at once, tugging at Xu Man’s clothes, his face still streaked with tears, his eyes as red as a rabbit’s eyes

Xu Man took Dongsheng into his arms, wiping his tears away with his fingers, “Don’t cry! Do you miss daddy or do you want to sleep with me?”

“Want to sleep with you”

“Then why did you always say you wanted to sleep by yourself before?”

Before the bath, Xu Wen had also asked Dongsheng if it was okay for him to sleep by himself

Dongsheng firmly replied that he could, adding that he also slept by himself with Lu Yuanzheng

Dongsheng huffed and lifted his eyes to look at Xu Wen

“Just tell the truth, I won’t be angry”

“Dad said he can’t pester you to sleep together Said you like to sleep by yourself And said if I play around you won’t like me and won’t let me call Ma Ma” Dongsheng deflated in aggravation, “He also said that if I don’t listen to what I say, he’ll come back and beat me”

Xu asked, “”

It could be a really simple and rough way of education

“Dad wasn’t wrong though, I do want to sleep on my own, and I also want you to be more independent and sleep on your own But how do you usually sleep? Sleep with daddy or by yourself?”

“Sleep together”

Xu asked, “”

She thought about it and asked differently, “Do you sleep in one bed with Daddy or one bed in one house?”

“One bed for one person I get scared sleeping by myself”

Xu Wen’s heart was soft, patting his back, “Then let’s take it slow First, like before, we will sleep in the same room, but each of us will have a bed When you’re a little older, you can sleep in a room by yourself”

“Is it really okay?” Dongsheng jumped, “Then will you not like me?

“No” Xu Wen put Dongsheng on the floor, “Now you help me along, let’s move your crib next door, okay?”

“Good”

Dongsheng’s bed was somewhat similar to a marching bed, with a wooden board on an iron frame

The construction was very simple, and it wasn’t troublesome to move it

After tossing and turning for a while, Xu Man finally managed to put Dongsheng’s bed on the wall

Dongsheng didn’t cry this time, bouncing on the bed for a while before lying down with a giggle

“Dongsheng”

“To”

Xu asked, “”

But you know who brought you up

“Tomorrow, I have to go to school Do you want to go to Big Grandpa’s house or Little Grandpa’s house”

Dongsheng did up, “I want to stay with Ma Ma”

“But I have to go to school and can’t take you with me, I’ll come back to stay with you on the weekend, okay? This is what we agreed before right?”

Dongsheng reluctantly nodded and made his choice, “Little Grandpa’s house”

The next morning, Xu Man first took Dongsheng to move his account to the Lu Family Production Team

This was because Lu Yuanzheng did not have a permanent household registration Dongsheng’s account can’t be moved alone, so Xu had to open a household account book and put Dongsheng under her own name

Moving Dongsheng out of the household register was a relief for the Xu family

Because Xu Man doesn’t earn many labor points but only shares the population grain, once her account is gone, the Xu family can still share less population grain and more money

Her family has enough food, but not enough money

The Lu family production team, Lu Yuanzheng’s eldest uncle is the captain, relatively good to talk

In addition, Xu Wen’s mother and son don’t work and don’t earn any labor points, and the distribution of rations is equivalent to the payment of money, which won’t interfere with other people’s interests, so the members don’t have a problem with it

Although the two neighboring production teams are moving their household accounts, it’s really a bit of a hassle to handle One day is definitely not enough, but at most you can just submit the information

The rest will be handled by Xu Wen and Uncle Lu Yuanzheng, so she doesn’t have to worry about it

After waking up in the afternoon, Xu Wen sent Dongsheng to Lu Yuanzheng’s younger uncle’s house, and returned five dollars to his aunt as Dongsheng’s food expenses

Five dollars is already enough for Xu Man to eat for a month But Dongsheng is asking someone else to help him out, so he may be delayed in earning work credits, so he has to give some compensation

As soon as school ended on Saturday, Xu Man rode her bicycle back

She was worried about Dongsheng

Although Dongsheng is used to being separated from Lu Yuanzheng, but listening to him, he was born and has always lived in the compound, at least he doesn’t have to change his environment

Moreover, the compound is military management, see all the comrades of Lu Yuanzheng or family members of comrades, eat the compound canteen

Dongsheng in terms of treatment and the other children in the family building is actually not too different

Now it was Lu Yuanzheng who had left and she was not at home

Dongsheng was considered a real parasite

She was afraid that he wouldn’t adapt

Xu Man saw Dongsheng standing at the intersection from afar

Xu Man quickly stomped a few times to reach Dongsheng

It had only been a week since she had seen Dongsheng, and she almost didn’t recognize him

Before Lu Yuanzheng brought Dongsheng, although he also led him to the wilderness often, but gave Dongsheng a timely bath, most of them are still clean and dry

Now Dongsheng was wearing clothes that could not even be seen in their original color, his face was white and black, and his neck, arms, legs, and feet were all too dirty to look at

She had brought Dongsheng along and bathed him once or twice a day

She had never seen Dongsheng so dirty

Not only was he dirty, but he also seemed to have lost a little weight

Xu Wen parked her bike, looked around, didn’t see her uncle or aunt, bent down and opened her arms to Dongsheng, who was waiting for her to hug him

Dongsheng jumped into her arms, “Ma Ma! Oooh, I miss you”

“I miss you too”

“Dongsheng” Xu Wen righted Dongsheng and asked him, “When did you come? Does little grandpa and grandma know?”

Dongsheng shook his head