Chapter 489

After the old couple looked at each other for a while, Liu Guilan turned her head and lowered her tone, saying: "Your father and I aren't old yet; we can do what we can. When we get old, we can also reduce the burden on you."

When Wang An heard this, he felt quite helpless, because based on his own ability, how could there be any talk of "burden"? After thinking for a moment, Wang An advised:

"If you keep working like this, your health definitely won't be good in the future. Only when you are healthy and free from illness and disaster will you be reducing the burden on me, you know?"

Wang Dazhu immediately didn't want to listen to Wang An's words and directly retorted: "What's wrong? Can this little bit of work tire people out?"

Wang An thought for a moment and suddenly found that he didn't know what to say.

Mainly because Wang Dazhu and his wife were only in their early 40s now; even in the countryside, they couldn't be considered elderly!

Besides, now it was Wang An who had been reborn, and the key was that he had made money; otherwise, the main economic pillar of this family would still be Wang Dazhu and his wife.

Because at this time in his past life, Wang An's contribution to this family couldn't be said to be nothing, but it was indeed dispensable.

Wang An pondered for a while and felt that it was better not to interfere too much with his parents' ideas. They could do whatever they wanted; only when they felt comfortable themselves was that the most important thing.

Thinking of this, Wang An changed his previous attitude and said with a smile: "No problem, then you decide. Anyway, our family isn't short of the money from those few horses."

Hearing Wang An's words, Wang Dazhu and Liu Guilan immediately laughed.

Wang Dazhu said with a smile: "Mm, raising anything is raising; selling two-year-old horses every year is also not a small amount."

After Wang Dazhu finished speaking, Liu Guilan immediately added:

"Besides, there are many families in our village who don't have large livestock. Our family's mules and horses are idle anyway. In the future, if we exchange labor, we can also gain a lot of favor."

It must be said that what the couple said was correct.

If you don't consider labor costs, although raising horses doesn't have high returns, it is indeed a steady profit without loss.

Besides, the matter of exchanging labor is also a phenomenon that generally exists in the countryside of this era.

Whether it is people exchanging labor with people, or people exchanging labor with large livestock, it is normal.

Not to mention people exchanging labor with people, but the main reason for people exchanging labor with large livestock is that farmers' ability to resist risks is really too weak.

Whenever the man of the house gets sick or has an accident, the whole family basically collapses.

For example, Mu Xueqing's family before, for example, Shen Wei's family, all belong to this situation.

It is no exaggeration to say that they really didn't know where the next meal was coming from; things like having no rice in the rice jar when it was time to cook were normal situations.

And in Heilongjiang Province, although the land is fertile and there has never been a drought, floods occur frequently. After a flood, really, not even a chicken feather is left.

But no matter what situation occurs, it is not something a normal family can bear.

Of course, there are also those who are relatively unlucky, that is, those whose families always have such or such unexpected situations.

That is, no matter how hard the whole family works, the family can't save any money, and every year they have nothing.

And all of the above are genuine poor people, and naturally, they are families who can't afford large livestock and also can't afford to raise large livestock.

But in the countryside of this era, whether it is going on a long journey or farming, it is absolutely impossible without large livestock. Therefore, besides exchanging labor with families who have large livestock, there is really no other way.

Some people might say, will you die without large livestock? It must be said that death is certainly not the case, but living in the countryside, you really have no way without large livestock! You can choose not to go on long journeys, you can carry firewood back from the mountains after cutting it, and you can push the millstone yourself to grind rice and flour, but what about farming? Use people to dig holes? If you think so, then there is no need to discuss it, because you—are ignorant! Thinking of this, Wang An praised with a smile:

"You are the ones who consider things long-term; you are much better than me."

Hearing this, Wang Dazhu's happy expression was overflowing, and after taking a sip of wine, he said proudly:

"Otherwise why would I say I'm your father? If you were better than me, then you would have to be my father."

To tell the truth, after Wang An heard this, he didn't take it seriously at first, because his father often showed off, and the whole family was used to it.

But after pondering a little, he felt that something was wrong with these words.

The key is that the question of who is the father and who is the son has nothing to do with who is better than whom!

Thinking of this, Wang An subconsciously raised his head, wanting to advise his father a few words.

But just when Wang An raised his head with a smile and was about to speak, Liu Guilan had already raised her hand and patted Wang Dazhu lightly.

Liu Guilan patted him while scolding with a smile:

"I just praised you twice and you lost your way, talking nonsense. How can you say this to your own son?"

Mu Xueqing and Wang Yi next to them couldn't help but laugh out loud, and Wang An, after hearing his mother's words and seeing his father's awkward appearance, laughed out like a pig.

Only the two younger sisters didn't quite understand the adults' words, but just followed everyone and laughed... After dinner, the whole family listened to the radio for a while, and it wasn't until nearly eight o'clock that they prepared to sleep and rest.

And it wasn't until this time that Wang An took out the medicine Fang Xiue had prepared. Of course, the deer blood was not left out.

After Mu Xueqing noticed Wang An's movements, she pointed to the canned food jar containing the medicine in Wang An's hand and said subconsciously:

"Is this the medicine that woman Fang Xiue prepared for you?"

Wang An nodded and replied casually, then continued to take the medicine with great difficulty.

The reason why it is said to be difficult is that this dry medicine powder prepared by Fang Xiue is really hard to swallow; it can be said that it is even harder to drink than decoction.

Of course, this difficulty in drinking is not about the taste, because the taste of Chinese medicine is not very good, but it is precisely because of this that there is the saying "good medicine is bitter to the mouth but beneficial to the disease."

And this difficulty in drinking is that this thing sticks to the throat; not only does it stick to the throat, but it also sticks to the teeth and the roof of the mouth.

At this moment, Wang An felt that taking this medicine was even more uncomfortable than eating the tree glue used by carpenters. No matter how he bit, chewed, or pushed with his tongue, the medicine wouldn't go down in his mouth.

Consequently, Wang An stuck his finger into his mouth and started poking, poking in all sorts of ways... After seeing this scene, Mu Xueqing immediately laughed on the side, laughing quite happily, and couldn't stop "giggling..."

Wang An glared at Mu Xueqing irritably, didn't pay any more attention to her, and continued to struggle with the medicine in his mouth.

Finally, after Wang An exerted all his strength, his fingers were covered in saliva, and after drinking two full enamel mugs of water, the medicine in his mouth reluctantly went into his stomach.

And at this moment, Wang An felt his stomach was full of water, and it was so bloated!

(End of chapter)