Chapter 72 Gifts from uncles (first update)

Two vegetable dumplings are just enough to fill the stomach.

Every time Xu Youcang eats dry food, he has to drink a few more scoops of cold water to fill his stomach.

While he was pouring water into his stomach, the forest farm manager came out of the oilcloth shed and looked up to the west. The sky had turned dark again, and he felt very annoyed.

Logically we should stop in this kind of weather, as it is more dangerous and the wet trees are heavier, so we should end the work early today.

But the boss was in a hurry, and they were delayed a lot by the bad weather.

One more day of labor and one more day of food waste will be scolded by his employer.

The person in charge could only say:

"I see it's getting cloudy again over there. Those who go up the mountain must pay attention to their steps. If it rains heavily, stop in the woods!"

There is also an awning at the logging area on the mountain.

Xu Youcang and other men shouted back: "I know."

Xu Youcang put down the water ladle and tied the tools again.

The only tools he had to carry the wood were a pair of back clamps and a cane.

He has already figured out the trick. The real position to bear the weight is the shoulders.

His shoulders and back were already scarred by months of wear and tear.

Xu Youcang also felt that the most severely worn areas were bleeding and edematous. He felt wet wherever he touched the work shed where he slept at night. When he woke up, he saw blood on the straw mat.

However, Xu Youcang never took it seriously, thinking:

Just wait until you get home.

When he goes home, if my mother can make him some hot noodle soup, he will get better faster.

Thinking of the noodles made by his mother, Xu Youcang walked up the mountain faster.

Arriving at the logging point halfway up the mountain, Xu Youcang steadied his horse and asked people to pile wood onto his shoulders.

"Is it okay? Can I add one more?"

"Come."

What do you mean, can it be done? Men cannot say no.

When Xu Youcang was carrying wood down the mountain, he saw a worker named Dachengzi stopped halfway.

At night, Dachengzi's mat was next to him.

Xu Youcang also heard that this man in his early twenties came to carry wood to earn money to treat his two-year-old daughter.

Some workers said, "Why treat a girl? If you collapse from exhaustion, can she take care of you? It's better to have another one as soon as possible."

Dachengzi was very angry, saying that it was the couple's first child, and it would never be like this again, and even though his daughter was only two years old and was very sensible, how could she care about him when she grew up?

When Xu Youcang heard this, he thought of his niece and said, "Stop talking nonsense, what's wrong with the baby girl? My niece will be a filial one. My mother said that the baby girl will be filial, and she will leave her shoes and socks to her mother's family."

If you buy it, you are old enough to give money to your mother’s family. Brother, you have to work hard to get medicine for your baby, and you will have good luck behind you.”

"How old is your niece?"

"Thirteen."

Dachengzi: "..." The co-author is not much younger than your uncle.

But because of this incident, the relationship between the two became closest this month.

Xu Youcang saw Dachengzi stopped on the side of the road and took a glance.

But he didn't dare to delay, for fear of affecting the workers who were following behind him.

Just a reminder: It will be difficult to put the wood on your shoulders when it is placed on the ground. Use your shoulders and the crutches in your hands to support it and rest for a while.

At this time, Dachengzi's face looked a little abnormal. When he was carrying the wood just now, his legs suddenly lost strength.

On a slippery mountain road, you have to be careful when walking lightly, not to mention carrying a heavy load, which may cause knee problems.

So the accident came so suddenly.

After Xu Youcang walked over, the thick wood on Dachengzi's back slipped from the uphill slope. Dachengzi knelt on the ground and was dumbfounded. He felt that it was too late to remind him.

And all the way downhill were workers carrying logs next to each other.

Xu Youcang's ears twitched. It would have been impossible for anyone else to smoothly remove the wood from his shoulders and at the same time hug the fallen thick tree and roll it to the side.

Xu Youcang relied solely on his brute strength.

When the workers were struggling to carry Xu Youcang down the hillside, the manager was so frightened after hearing this.

Such a thick tree, if Xu Youcang did not block it from reaching the grassland next to it, would knock down a group of people. At least many people would roll down the mountain, and at worst, many people would be crushed to death on the spot by the wood they were carrying.

The young man in front of me was so stunned that he hugged the tree trunk and changed the direction forcefully. Only a small change could save everyone's lives.

It's just that I was seriously hit by the tree trunk that rolled down with inertia.

The steward used his trembling hands to wipe the blood on Xu Youcang's mouth with his sleeve.

There is no doctor nearby, what should I do?

If he still doesn't wake up, he can only take him to the orchard village, where there will be a doctor and medicine.

Xu Youcang felt a little tinnitus and his bones all over his body ached.

He vaguely heard the steward say: "Little brother, can you hear me? Wake up. You don't have to work when you wake up. I'll give you six taels and you can go home. Don't you want to go home? Come back.

Home."

"real?"

Xu Youcang waited for a while, feeling that his body could move, and then he grinned at the manager and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper."

The manager couldn't bear to say, "I should thank you. Without you, something big would have happened. I will not only pay you six taels of wages, but also write you a note. You go to Guolin Zhuangzi and let the doctor feel your pulse and get some medicine."

Go home and drink."

When Xu Youcang heard about Guolin Zhuangzi, he quickly sat up and wiped the blood from his mouth and said: "Shopkeeper, I really don't have anything serious to do, so I just vomited blood and looked at bluffing people. I don't want to find you later, and I won't be a rogue... then...

Can the medicine be exchanged for fruit?"

"What do you want fruit for?"

He has a niece who has neither father nor mother.

Mom said, let them uncles be kinder to Tian Xin.

He didn't know what to say was good for the child, and he didn't understand the twists and turns, so he could only act as the big brother.

He thought that if his eldest brother was alive, he would use his wages to exchange some fruits for Tian Xin'er before returning home.

So Xu Youcang, the third child, carried a sack of autumn pears covered with luggage rolls to protect them from the rain, and carried six taels of warm silver in his arms, happily walking on the way to the county in advance.

At the same time, the second and fourth children in the county were smelly and wet and had just finished eating. They were looking for a nook in the shed to squat together while eating and talking.

"Second brother, have you come up with any ideas? What should I tell my mother when I get home? What kind of work should we do outside?"

If you say you have been in the orchard all the time, grandma will reveal her secret when she comes back.

But I can't always tell the truth, lest my mother would feel uncomfortable hearing it.

"You kid is smart, think about it."

Uncle Xu, who was only four years older than Xu Tianxin, looked at the dam building in the rain and said: "We have found a fishing job outside. As for why we earn so much..."

Xu Youyin thought to himself, "Second brother, you helped people repair their boats. Third brother is very strong and can cast the net far. I am good at swimming, so they rewarded us three brothers with a lot of money."

Xu Youliang also laughed: "Okay, let's buy two fish when we go back. Uncles like us are out for a trip, we can't go back empty-handed and let Tian Xin eat the fish."

"Hey, it would be great if Tian Xin could leave me a fish head." Xu Youyin also wanted to eat fish, but he knew it was impossible because his niece was very protective about eating.
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