Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

Elder Chu's letter gave everyone in the Xu family hope.

After dinner, Zhou Guilan immediately led Xu Shiqin home, packed up his things and prepared to go out.

"You go out this time, I don't know how long you have to live in the provincial capital, bring a few more clothes."

Zhou Guilan chanted while helping her daughter pack her clothes.

"Wear that purple woolen overcoat when you leave, let's go out, we can't wear something too shabby to make people look down on us."

The overcoat that Zhou Guilan was talking about was a piece of material that Xu Shiyan bought for Zhou Guilan when he first went to Tonghua.

Zhou Guilan felt that the color was too bright and not suitable for an old lady like her, so she never used it.

Isn't this planning to get engaged to Xu Shiqin and Han Liwei this winter?

A while ago, Zhou Guilan dug out the piece of purple-red woolen fabric and asked her daughter to make a coat, so as not to have decent clothes when she got engaged, which would be unsightly.

Unexpectedly, before Han Liwei came back to get engaged, news came from the provincial capital, so let's go to the provincial capital to see a doctor wearing it.

Such a big girl can't be too gray and ugly when she goes out.

"By the way, hurry up and send a telegram to Liwei tomorrow, and it's best to ask your third brother to go to Han's house to say something.

You don't know how many months it will take to get medical treatment, so if you two can't get engaged, just postpone it? "

Zhou Guilan suddenly remembered this and reminded Xu Shiqin.

Xu Shiqin stopped packing his clothes, "Well, I'll send a telegram to Liwei first, and then write a letter to discuss it with him.

I hope he can agree to postpone the engagement, and medical treatment is the most important thing.

As long as there is some hope that I can return to normal, I still want to marry him in a healthy and healthy way.

In case others would laugh at him, with such a good young man, he would not find a healthy daughter-in-law. "

This was Xu Shiqin's heart knot. She refused to agree to Han Liwei before, mainly because she was afraid that people would laugh at him.

Now, there is finally hope, no matter how painful it is, Xu Shiqin is willing to try if there is a possibility of recovery.

She only hoped that on the wedding day, she could straighten her back, stand beside Han Liwei, and accept everyone's blessings.

Instead of being laughed at by others and pointed at by others.

After Zhou Guilan heard her daughter's words, her eye sockets became hot, and her nose was sore, tears were about to fall.

"Hey, if I put more effort into it back then, how could I make you suffer this crime?"

Because of her daughter's hunchback, Zhou Guilan regretted it all her life.

"Mom, what are you talking about? What conditions did our family have at that time?

Six children, my dad goes out to work all day long and can’t take care of the family. You wash clothes, cook and chop firewood by yourself, and you have to watch the six of us.

It would be nice to be able to support all six of us, who would have thought that there would be accidents? "

When I was young, I did complain about my parents, hated my brother, and hated God for being unfair.

As Xu Shiqin grew older and became sensible, he no longer resented and was able to accept the reality.

Zhou Guilan raised her hand to wipe away her tears, got up and went to the inner room of the east room, and moved a cabinet on the ground to reveal the wall behind.

At the base of the wall, there is a brick whose color is different from the surrounding ones.

Zhou Guilan started to remove the brick, and reached out to take out a cloth bag from inside. In the cloth bag, of course, was the money she had saved over the past few years.

The sons pay pensions every month, from five yuan in the first year, and now it has risen to eight yuan a month.

Xu Chenghou watched ginseng on the mountain, eating and drinking were managed by the team, and he earned high work points.

How much can Zhou Guilan eat at home alone? In the past two years, the family has saved some money.

My daughter is going to see a doctor. This is a major operation. Who knows how much it will cost?

Zhou Guilan counted, and there was a total of about 1,200 yuan in the family.

Zhou Guilan gritted her teeth and kept the two hundred, and gave all the one thousand yuan to her daughter.

Poor family and rich road, besides, this is for medical treatment, so bring as much as you can.

The third son actually said that he gave the big head, but how could Zhou Guilan be willing?

Isn't it so easy for my son to earn some money? In the past two years, what kind of virtue has he been tired of? He was dark and thin, and looked pitiful.

As long as the family can contribute a little bit, they can't make their son pay more.

Zhou Guilan pocketed 1,000 yuan, and wrapped the rest in cloth and stuffed it into the hole in the wall, then plugged it with bricks, and moved the cabinet back.

"Then, this is a thousand dollars, you put it away carefully.

Going out and seeing a doctor, there are a lot of places to spend money, and I don't know if this little money is enough.

Try to be able to spend the money first. It is not easy for your third brother to earn money. If you can’t spend it, don’t spend it. "

Zhou Guilan came out from the back room and put the money into her daughter's hand.

"Mom, you gave me so much money, is it still useful at home?

I've saved some money in the past few years, don't give me so much, five hundred is fine. "

Xu Shiqin started working in the autumn of 1978, and it has been four full years now, and has long since turned from an apprentice to a regular worker.

The salary of the Forestry Bureau is the same as other places, but the subsidy is high. Xu Shiqin now earns about 50 yuan a month.

As a girl, she spends lightly, eats at home in the morning and evening, and takes care of meals in the shop at noon.

Usually it is to buy some daily necessities, and then go back to buy some fine grains, meat and the like.

Xu Shiqin has always been looking forward to medical treatment, so he doesn't spend much on weekdays, and just wants to save more money.

She has almost a thousand yuan in her hand, and she doesn't want to have so much money at home.

"No, just take it all. You don't know how much it will cost you for this problem. Bring more money and feel at ease."

Zhou Guilan shook her head, froze and gave the money to her daughter.

Xu Shiqin had no choice but to take it, and then the couple began to think about where to put the money.

This amount of money would definitely not fit in a pocket, and it wouldn't fit in a pocket sewn into the underpants.

In the end, Zhou Guilan decided to take apart Xu Shiqin's thin padded jacket.

Divide the money into three parts, and sew the most in the interlayer of the cotton-padded jacket. When waiting for the money to be used, the cotton-padded jacket is unthreaded and taken out.

The other part was put into the pocket of the drawers, which was also sewn with thread.

The rest are stuffed separately into the socks and under the insoles.

Zhou Guilan's mother and daughter were thinking about hiding money, and Xu Shiyan was doing the same thing on the other side.

Xu Shiyan was not willing to dig a hole in the wall of the new house, he was making a fuss under the ground of the new house.

The floor of the storage room was planed by him and a basement was dug.

It's not too big, only six or seven square meters, and it's built with bricks and cement all around, so it's quite dry.

Ginseng, money, and several sets of stamps that he entrusted to find the year before last were all locked in a box in the basement by Xu Shiyan.

In the past two years, the family has spent a lot of money, and besides, isn't there a basement? Simply did not deposit money in the bank.

There are around 5,000 yuan in cash at home, so I simply take all of it with me. Who knows how much it will cost? Be prepared.

After thinking about it, Xu Shiyan picked another ginseng, and then took the ginseng and money together.

After taking the money out, Xu Shiyan ran into a problem again, how can he get so much money?

There are no hundred-yuan bills these days, they are all ten yuan, and five thousand is five whole bundles.

There are a lot of money in these five bundles, how can they not be conspicuous when they go out with them?

The waist bag can hold almost three thousand, and the remaining two thousand is stuffed in the back pocket for five hundred, five hundred is sewn into the pocket of the pants, and a pocket is sewn into the inner pocket of the padded jacket, eight hundred is sewn in, and the remaining two hundred is put outside for minor use.

Finally, Xu Shiyan put his hunting knife into his back pocket again.

I don't know what to encounter when I go out, so I bring a knife and feel at ease.