Chapter 69

When Wei Ming and Wei Hong found Old Wei, he looked at his son in surprise: "Why did you bring a barrel of oil from Yanjing?"

Wei Ming pointed to the pickle jar in Xiao Hong's hand: "This is what I brought back, the oil was sent by the elder."

"Ah?" Wei Jiefang was pleasantly surprised. This barrel of oil was at least five or six jin, no worse than a bottle of Maotai.

Wei Ming added: "Yesterday his nephew came to see him and sent some grain and oil. He said he couldn't eat so much, so he gave me a barrel. He wouldn't be happy if I didn't take it."

Wei Jiefang immediately looked at Qi Delong: "Look at other people's nephews!"

Qi Delong chewed on the sweet sorghum stalk bought by Wei Jiefang: "Cou, cousin~"

Wei Jiefang kicked him: "Useless thing!"

Wei Ming and Wei Hong also got on the cart, ready to go home. The donkey only felt a weight on its shoulders, and its fifth leg had no spirit.

With this workload every day, who would still think about that matter.

Wei Jiefang fiddled with the pickle jar Wei Ming bought: "Is this what you brought for your mother from so far away?"

"Yes, you can make the kind of pickles she talked about."

Wei Jiefang: "Seeing this, she will probably miss home again."

Wei Ming: "Then accompany her back for a trip. We are not without that strength now."

Wei Jiefang sighed: "So far away, it's easy to say."

At this time, in the Dog Village brigade office, Zhao Chunlai said angrily: "This Wei Jiefang is too unreasonable. He really treats the mules and horses of the production team as his own, using them as he pleases!"

And in the audience, the comrades were all whispering about what happened last night.

"Have you heard? The Wei family's ancestral grave is emitting green smoke!"

"Ah, did someone set the ancestral grave on fire?"

"No, it's really emitting green smoke. Someone saw it at the north end of the village yesterday, and then heard about the Wei family boy's affairs."

"The big fire last night was also eerie. It felt like it was lighting the way for little Wei Ming to return home."

"That's right, it only burned a shed, and that was built by the village for him. He didn't lose anything himself."

"Oh my, although the Wei family has few people, none of them are simple!"

"That's right, only Wei Jiefang is a bit of a drag."

Seeing that everyone didn't take his words seriously, Zhao Chunlai was even more furious. He slapped the table and increased his volume: "Wei Jiefang's behavior can be said to be typical of using public office for private gain, infringing on the interests of the brigade collective, and must be vigorously criticized!"

Old Secretary Zhou Xingbang knocked on his cigarette pipe, feeling that Zhao Chunlai was purely looking for trouble.

Who in the whole Heng River commune didn't know that Wei Jiefang was a friend of livestock? There was only one genuine veterinarian in the commune, and when he was too busy, even neighboring villages would come to find Wei Jiefang for help.

Dog Village had a Wei Jiefang, and the livestock could basically live to the end of their lives, and they didn't mess up when giving birth, saving how much loss for the brigade collective. Other villages were envious.

So sometimes Wei Jiefang would use some "off-duty" livestock to do his own things. This was tacitly approved by the village. Who told him to have ability.

Now Zhao Chunlai suddenly brought this up. The Old Secretary could only think that he was sour, jealous that Jiefang had a good son, while he, Brigade Leader Zhao, only had four daughters.

Then Zhao Chunlai also asked the Old Secretary for instructions.

What could Zhou Xingbang say: "I think Chunlai is right. Why don't we just remove Wei Jiefang's position and not let him manage the brigade's livestock in the future."

Zhou Xingbang thought that saying this would scare Zhao Chunlai, but he didn't expect him to agree immediately and even nominated his brother-in-law.

Now Zhou Xingbang wouldn't do it: "Although Jiefang is not very diligent, at least he doesn't steal or take. Your brother-in-law, humph, I'm afraid he'll compete with the livestock for food again."

"Hahaha!"

The whole audience laughed into a group. Zhao Chunlai's brother-in-law had indeed done such a thing, but it was also because he was starving during a special period. Wei Ming also drew on this when writing "The Story of Two Donkeys."

"The candidate for replacement can be discussed again, but Wei Jiefang's behavior must be criticized. I think it's about time. I estimate that family should be back from their outing. Let's go to the south end of the village and block him!"

The Old Secretary shook his head and turned to go to the fields to check if there were any missed corn. He wouldn't get involved. There were a few other leaders who went to join in the fun. Anyway, the autumn harvest was over, and it was rare to have fun.

The story is divided into two parts. Qi Kexiu's side was miserable.

Qi Kexiu never did farm work at home. He was a noble Beijing master.

Early in the morning, his wife Fan Chunhua made breakfast and went to the fields to earn work points, and his son went to school.

Because there were no classes for the first two periods, Qi Kexiu decided to sleep in. He hadn't slept well all night because he was uncomfortable yesterday, so he had to make up for it.

Until he was woken up by the urge to urinate, Qi Kexiu checked the time. It was about time, and he should go to school after eating.

As a result, he couldn't find his clothes or pants. He was now left with only a pair of briefs. "This old woman, she washed my clothes without saying a word."

Fortunately, he had more than one set of clothes. He opened the wardrobe and was shocked to find that his clothes, including winter clothes, were gone, leaving only a few of his wife's underwear.

What's the situation? Was the house robbed?

But he was holding it in badly right now. Either he went out in just his underwear, or he solved it in the room.

Although this was his house, the courtyard walls were low, even fence walls, and there was no privacy in the courtyard at all.

He wondered if he could take down the curtains and drape them over himself, only to find that the curtains in the house were gone, and not even a towel was left!

Who? Did it so absolutely! I curse you for having no anus when you have children!

Actually, there was another choice, which was to use a quilt to go to the toilet. This was the only cloth product he could find in the house now to cover his shame.

But the situation of the dry toilets in the countryside these days was really hard to describe. Let's just say, using a quilt to go to the toilet, the quilt definitely couldn't be kept. This sacrifice was too big.

So it was better to take a risk.

In the end, Qi Kexiu found a cover, blocked it below his waist, and went out of the room, wanting to run to the toilet.

As a result, halfway through, he saw a young and delicate girl push the door open and shout: "Teacher Qi is... ah, you, you, you hooligan!"

!

The girl was Qi Delong's head teacher, Hu Qiuyang, a new teacher who had just arrived at the village primary school. Seeing that the child didn't come to class, and even his father, Teacher Qi, didn't come to work, she hurriedly ran over during the break to ask what was going on.

Then she saw this scene. Teacher Qi Delong was suspected of running naked in the courtyard. It was simply too shameless and too insulting to the literati, scaring the little girl to tears.

Just one look, and she felt she was no longer clean!

Coincidentally, Zhao Chunlai took people to the south end of the village to block Wei Jiefang and happened to see Teacher Hu running out crying.

"What's wrong, what's the situation?"

Teacher Hu pointed to Qi Kexiu's house: "Teacher Qi, he, he is acting like a hooligan!"

Ho!

Qi Kexiu was Wei Jiefang's brother-in-law and was also known as the most cultured person in the village. Zhao Chunlai was immediately energized. He would definitely take care of this matter!

Wei Ming and his party returned home with the donkey cart. Before they even entered the courtyard, they could already smell the fragrance.

Wei Jiefang said: "Unload the things first, I'll send the donkey cart back."

Usually, there was a shed at home, which could let the old partner rest, but now it was inconvenient.

Qi Delong swallowed his saliva: "Uncle, I don't dare to go home. Can I eat at your place at noon?"

Wei Jiefang: "Aren't you a cousin."

Qi Delong: "Although it's a cousin, it's closer than a real one!"

Wei Jiefang wasn't a stingy person either: "Help your brother work, lift the pig."

"Okay!"

The Wei family originally had a pigsty, connected to the toilet. A few years ago, when his grandmother passed away, the family owed a lot of debt, and people couldn't even get enough to eat, so naturally, they couldn't afford to raise pigs.

After fixing the pig, he put the three chicks into the chicken coop.

Xu Shufen happily carried a bucket of water over and poured it into the trough. There were some chicken scraps inside, and the pig ate very happily.

"Mom, don't be busy for now. Look, do you like this?" Wei Hong put the oil barrel away and hugged the pickle jar to show her mother, "This was brought by Brother from Yanjing."

"Ah!"

Xu Shufen took it very unexpectedly and said excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes, this is how we make pickles there! It's just why it's so small~"

Sure enough, as her father guessed, her mother was tearful with excitement. She missed home. She missed her hometown and relatives she had left for twenty years.

She didn't even know if those relatives were still alive.

She ran out of her Sichuan-Chongqing hometown during the three years of hardship, just for a bite to eat, just to survive.

She didn't know how many times she had hopped on trains before she drifted to this completely strange, and even difficult to communicate, Hebei place.

This was a big plain with plenty of cultivated land per capita, and the people were kind. She felt that she shouldn't be hungry here anymore.

So after being picked up by her mother-in-law who ran a tofu workshop, she obediently agreed to marry Wei Jiefang, who had no one to play with because his cousin Wei Pingan went to the county town to go to school. At that time, they were both only eighteen.

Wei Jiefang wasn't happy at first. This woman was dark and dirty, and he couldn't understand what she was saying. If he married her, he wouldn't be able to hold his head up in the village, and if Pingan knew, he would laugh at him to death.

It was still the old lady who had a poisonous eye. After taking a bath, the black coal ball actually turned into a beautiful girl with fair skin and beautiful features, giving Dog Village a little shock from the Land of Abundance.

Besides being beautiful, the key was that she was diligent, sensible, obedient, and kind. Wei Jiefang was considered to have made a profit. With such a wife, he also developed his lazy personality.

Xu Shufen was hugging the jar and recalling the past when Wei Jiefang suddenly turned back halfway, poked his head in, and said excitedly: "Long, your dad was arrested! They say he acted like a hooligan to your Teacher Hu!"

(End of chapter)