Chapter 53

This time the grain production was only reduced, not a total loss, all thanks to the villagers carrying the grain with a single pole. The water in the river was finally turned into mud, what was the result?

They worked hard and sweated a lot to harvest the grain, but in the end they didn’t even see the grain. It was gone, just gone like that.

When they saw the empty granary, at that moment, everyone’s face was filled with despair and helplessness.

Thinking of this, Wang Dacheng drank the wine in the glass again. He felt bitter but had no place to express it. How bitter!

Du Yilei and Wang Guotai were both in the same boat. Since they left that land, they never thought about going back. They would rather be scolded in the factory than go back and work in the fields like an old ox.

The days without tomorrow are too vague, but everyone likes the days with hope.

For example, now, they do this kind of work because they won’t be scolded. When they learn how to do it, no one will scold them anymore.

Another example is the day when salary is paid every month!

“Uncle, eat some food. Drinking on an empty stomach can hurt your body.” Du Yimeng also guessed that Wang Dacheng was thinking about those bad things. She picked up a piece of braised pork with clean chopsticks and put it in Wang Dacheng’s bowl.

The people in this era are really suffering!

Life was extremely hard, with food shortages and material scarcity at all times, not to mention the most important thing: the labor intensity was very high.

This is still a general description. If I were to explain it in detail, it would take three days and three nights to finish.

Words are pale, but that miserable life is what millions of ordinary people have experienced personally.

“Da Meng, you are a good person.” Wang Dacheng smiled and praised Du Yimeng again. He had something else in his words. First, he praised Du Yimeng for her success and for not looking down on their poor relatives. Second, she did not forget her roots and still cared about her family and their poor relatives.

Many people want to cut off ties with their poor relatives when they become successful, because they are worried that their poor relatives will come to them to ask for money.

In fact, poor people also have pride. There is a saying that goes, “A poor man may have great ambition.”

Unless they are shameless, any person with a little self-respect will not ask for money from others.

“Uncle, stop praising me and eat your vegetables!” Du Yimeng smiled and pointed at the meat in the bowl in front of him.

“My daughter is really filial. Wei Hai, you have raised a good daughter.” Wang Dacheng turned around and saw Wang Guotai desperately showing off his fans, and the other boys did the same. He turned back and sighed to Du Wei Hai.

Sure enough, his mother was right. Raising a son was useless. He would never admit that his mother was trying to trick him.

“That’s right. My Da Meng has been sensible and obedient since he was young. We don’t have to worry about his grades. He is even more outstanding after he started working. He was at level 14 when he first joined the company. He was promoted to a regular employee within a month. Within two months, he jumped three levels and was directly promoted to section chief, and a regular section chief at that…” Du Weihai talked crazily, completely disregarding Wang Dacheng’s life or death.

Wang Dacheng: Who would be so shameless as to praise their own children? Now that you have praised them, how can you let others praise them?

Du Weihai: He doesn’t need anyone’s praise, he alone is enough.

Wang Dacheng was all smiles at first, of course he was happy that his niece was successful. But as Du Weihai talked more and more, the smile on his face became more and more stiff.

Since when did Du Weihai start to nag like an old woman?

The feeling the other person gave him was like countless flies flapping their wings beside his ears.

He wanted to twist off the other person’s head and make the whole world quiet.

But he couldn’t do that. After all, he was still working for someone else and it was too difficult for him.

Du Yimeng held her forehead with her hands in embarrassment. She found that the versions her father showed off to others were becoming more and more perfect. She wondered if he showed off too much or if he was constantly improving?

“Wei Hai, come… have a go…” Wang Dacheng looked at the wine glass in front of him, his eyes lit up, he found a way to make Du Wei Hai shut up.

This brother-in-law, who is known for getting drunk after three cups of wine, will today let you get to know his huge capacity for drinking.

After three glasses of wine, Du Weihai finally shut up and fell down. Du’s mother glared at Wang Dacheng fiercely. Getting him drunk wasted her wine and made him wait on her.

Wang Dacheng touched his nose bridge awkwardly. It wasn’t that he was too brave, it was that Du Weihai was too weak. It was not his fault.

After dinner, Du Yilei and Wang Guotai went back to the machinery factory together, and Wang Dacheng stayed at Du’s house. Du Yidong lived with the third brother again, leaving a room for Wang Dacheng.

After everyone in the family went to bed, Du Yimeng knocked on his parents’ room door with a thick envelope.

“Dad, are you okay?” Du Yimeng didn’t understand Du Weihai’s behavior. He knew that he was a weakling at the table, so why couldn’t he be more low-key?

Now that’s good, the person is lying down.

Du Weihai: Even if the person falls, the wine glass cannot fall over. This is the last stubbornness of a man.

“It’s okay. Your dad is just too proud to accept the consequences. The first time he went to your grandma’s house, I told him not to touch the wine glass, but he insisted. As a result, he slept under the table for half an hour. If it weren’t for your grandma’s kindness, he might have had to spend the night under the table.” When Du’s mother said this, an expression of both heartache and disgust flashed across her face.

At that time, I secretly asked her, who in the Wang family can drink?

She thought he wanted to challenge the entire Wang family alone, but it turned out that just any random person from the Wang family got him drunk.

At that time, Du Weihai became famous in Xiangyang Brigade, and the villagers even gave him a nickname, “Three Cups to Fall”.

Du Yimeng tried hard to hold back her laughter. That was her biological father, she couldn’t laugh. But she really couldn’t help it!

“Mom, here is 300 yuan, and here is a radio ticket.” Du Yimeng took out the ticket and handed it to Du’s mother along with the big envelope.

She kept the bicycle ticket. The bicycle the factory gave her as a reward was a 28-bar model. She wanted to buy a women’s bicycle, but the supply and marketing cooperative was always out of stock.

Now her father takes her to and from get off work on his bike, and Du Yidonggang runs behind them, looking so pitiful.

Du’s mother looked at the big envelope in disbelief. How much money was in it?

Then she looked at Du Yimeng again, and her mind was confused for a moment. In addition, Da Meng bought things for the family from time to time, so how much private money did her family’s Da Meng have?

If Dameng hadn’t taken a lot of food from home during this period, Lao Wu would have been howling with hunger. But she felt that Lao Wu’s howling was obviously fake, and people who were really hungry would not want to talk.

What is she thinking about?

The most important thing right now is where does Da Meng’s money come from?

As a qualified mother, sometimes she doesn’t need to be too smart, she knows nothing.

“I was just thinking of lending some money to your eldest uncle. Your second uncle must also need it. Then I was worried that the money would be lent out and life would be hard at home. Who knew you would send it to me? Daming is really a caring person.” Du’s mother didn’t ask anything, but said with a smile.