"What happened today? Did you get drunk when you went to the brigade?" Huang Han's aunt Ge Lanying smelled the smell of alcohol on Zhang Yugen's body, which was very strange.

"Xiu'er, Xiu'er, it's a good thing! A great thing! Your aunt asked you to go to her house to help, and she will give you thirty yuan a month!"

Ge Lanying didn't believe it at all and said: "Xiu'er, get some water for your father to wash his face. Don't listen to him. He's drunk and crazy!"

"Go, go, go, I'm a scholar. When did I get drunk? Xiu'er, you can read it for yourself. This is a handwritten letter specially sent by your uncle to the stationmaster Qian of the agricultural machinery station!"

Ge Lanying said in surprise: "The director of the agricultural machinery station helped Huang Daozhou deliver the letter? Are you really not talking nonsense?"

"I can't tell you."

"What do you mean? Please make it clear!"

"You are illiterate and can't read letters. Can I explain this to you clearly?"

"You're such a stinker, but you're so literate! Do you think it's two centimeters to go to the field? You're not a poor person!"

Seeing that his wife looked like she was about to quarrel, Zhang Yugen immediately gave up and gave up. He had had enough over the years and didn't want to make the family miserable.

"Come here, Xiu'er, read the letter to your mother, so that she won't be confused about the situation!"

Xiu'er, who didn't believe it at first, was overjoyed after reading the letter.

She really didn't expect that her eldest aunt's family would suddenly become prosperous and be able to open a restaurant.

To be honest, Xiu'er has really suffered enough. The life at home is just miserable, and she has no hope.

Indeed, at that time, there was no distribution of fields to each household, and members of the People's Commune had to go to the fields to work every day.

Rural people are naive and uncomfortable with the dog days of summer, as can be seen in the pity poem "It's noon on the day of hoeing, and sweat drips from the hoeing on the soil."

Xiu'er said: "My aunt asked me to help. As long as I take care of food and shelter, I'm happy even if I don't give you any money! Why wait until tomorrow? Can I go now?"

Yu'er became anxious when she heard this and said:

"I want to go too. I don't want to work in the production team. Those second-rate people talk dirty words all day long. If my sister is not around, they will definitely talk even more nonsense."

Uncle Huang Han's family has six children, four boys and two girls. The two daughters are the third and fourth children, with two older brothers at the top and two younger brothers at the bottom.

The eldest Zhang Yuesheng and the second eldest Zhang Jusheng have married and separated and are living alone.

Now the second eldest son and the sixth eldest son, Zhang Jisheng, who is only 16 years old, went to Northeast China with the construction team this year, probably to participate in the construction of Daqing Oilfield.

Sanshui County is a well-known hometown of construction, and more than half of the towns and villages have construction teams.

Starting in the 1980s, there should have been between 10,000 and 20,000 construction workers involved in the construction of the Daqing Oilfield.

This job brings hope to many rural families who are already too poor to survive.

As long as one person from a rural family can join the construction team and work in the Northeast for eight months, even if it is just a stupid laborer, he can get four to five hundred yuan when he returns home.

The Northeast is very cold, and the construction team building the Daqing Oilfield can work for at least eight months a year.

In order to rush for time, the construction workers from Sanshui County worked hard, and their drive to make money rather than their lives scared many workers who donated oil to the motherland.

This working spirit of not being afraid of hardship or tiredness, working twelve hours a day, made Sanshui Construction famous for itself, and later became one of the pillar industries of Sanshui County.

Huang Han still remembers the words of Liu Xiao Zhang Jisheng:

"It's so hard to work in the Daqing Oilfield to do construction! I'm so tired that I can't even sleep standing up all day long. Although I can earn double the monthly salary of urban residents in a month, most of the urban residents can't bear the hardship!"

There are too many construction workers in Sanshui County, but most of them insist on going there for three years.

Because I have been working for three years without any trouble and I am not exhausted, I can earn enough money to go back to my hometown to build three kitchens and a kitchen, hold banquets and marry a wife.

Unless they are cadres or technicians who go there every year, the workers are exhausted and struggling to hold on, and they really can’t hold on.

Another situation is very practical. When you come out of school in the first year, your family is completely poor. Who wouldn’t risk their lives if they have the opportunity to make a lot of money?

In the second year, the family had enough food and clothing, but the old man was much less motivated!

You can have a new house and a new wife in the third year, so there is even less motivation to suffer that fate again!

Zhang Qiu, the fifth eldest child in my uncle's family, grew up thin and was the best-educated among his brothers and sisters. He dropped out of high school for a year and became an apprentice, and later worked as a temporary worker in a machinery factory in the town.

He does not have the conditions to make a lot of money as a construction worker in the Northeast because his physical strength is so poor that he is not as good as Xiu'er and has never won a fight in his life.

If the sixth brother Zhang Jisheng fights with the fifth brother Zhang Qiusheng, one person can beat three or four of them.

Now the ones earning work points in the family are Zhang Yugen and his wife, the eldest couple, Xiu'er and Yu'er.

Peasants have lost any enthusiasm to work, and they are unwilling to work even if they have the strength. They use it to fight and talk dirty words, especially when they find that there are young wives and older girls among the people working together.

Xiu'er is fierce and will hit anyone who dares to talk nonsense with a pole. Yu'er is two years younger and is not as courageous as her sister and dare not hit anyone.

Seeing Yu'er's pitiful look, Xiu'er consoled her:

"I'm not going to work, so you might as well pretend to be sick and not go. I'll go to my aunt's house first. If there's really any work to do, I'll send you a message. It'll cost us two at most thirty yuan!

Anyway, I'm tired of working, and I never want to work with those people all day long."

"I'm afraid I can't do it if I don't go to work. Dad is responsible for keeping track of work! People who work originally said that my family does not have enough work. I don't know how much nonsense this will cause!"

"Whatever, the team can't afford a few dollars all year round. We have food and shelter, so what do we have to worry about?"

"We are so poor, I'm so scared! I'm just scared of dad..."

"Snoring, snoring..."

Zhang Yugen, who was drunk, had already fallen asleep. The two sisters looked at each other and stuck out their tongues.

Grannying said: "Xiu'er! Don't be too happy too soon, your aunt's family is also extremely poor.

Huang Daozhou is still a bad-tempered person and we haven’t seen each other for just a few months. How could his family be so prosperous?”

"Mom, I know the reason why you have always looked down on your uncle is that he is a scholar and doesn't like to talk to an illiterate like you?"

"Tch! Who cares? Talking to the poor can make you gain weight? What I don't like the most is that your father and your uncle become sour after drinking some wine! Both families are so poor because they are sour!"

"Hehe, haha..."

Xiu'er, Yu'er smiled and bent over...

The next day, Xiuer didn't come alone. Zhang Yugen was worried and took a day off to visit his sister's house.

They didn't know the newly bought house of Huang Han's family, so they still went to the old house.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Fangfen met her little girl Zhang Huifen who was sewing. Fang Guilan had an early shift today and hasn't come back yet!

The door of Huang Han's house was not closed. Zhang Yugen took Xiu'er and went straight in. Seeing the light on in the west room and the movement, he thought it was Zhang Fangfen who was mending. When he went in, he was surprised and said: "Huifen, why is it you? Where is Fangfen?"

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"Ah! Brother, why are you here?"

"It was Dao Zhou who wrote a letter asking Xiu'er to come to the house to help. I stopped by to take a look! Where did Fang Fen go?"

Zhang Yugen and Huang Daozhou are the same age, and they call each other by their first names.

"My sister has gone to the house where she has a shop on the street. After I finish this little work, I will accompany you to find her. When Xiuer comes to help, she must be helping at the newly bought house of her sister's house!"

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Chapter completed!