Chapter 18 Brothers
Same as Lu Yang.

My eldest cousin also just got married not long ago.

However, 150 a month is not a small amount, which is equivalent to a normal monthly salary of a worker in the city. This is a huge sum of money that rural people who only make a living in the countryside dare not even think about in this era.

It's no wonder that his uncle would be moved.

Take Lu Yang for example. He followed his master, Old Man Yin, and learned carpentry for seven or eight years.

For the first two years, until he graduated from junior high school, he just had food to eat.

From the third year onwards, I officially became an apprentice, and my master would give me 10 yuan pocket money a month, which I continued to receive for more than two years.

In the fifth year, when the master was satisfied with me and I was officially certified as an apprentice, I started to receive a formal salary of 50 yuan a month. The salary increased intermittently until the beginning of this year, when the master's furniture workshop business was getting better and better, the monthly salary rose to the current level of over 100 yuan.

From this we can imagine how difficult it is to make money in this day and age, especially in rural areas, without a skill.

My eldest cousin is newly married.

But if there is such an opportunity to make money, I believe he will definitely not miss it.

After Lu Yang finished talking about the first thing, he immediately started talking about the second thing, "Uncle, I don't plan to take back the two and a half houses left by my father. I plan to give them to several cousins ​​so that they can use them to get married in the future. But I also have a request."

His uncle said excitedly, "Tell me quickly, good boy. I know you are a good boy. By the way, now that you have money, you must have looked down on these old houses with mud bricks and green tiles. You want to build a new house, right?"

"Okay, uncle supports you. As for the place where you want to build the new house, uncle has several pieces of land that are very suitable. Just pick the one you like, a big one. Your cousins ​​are also very strong. When the time comes to break ground for the new house, I will ask them to come and help you. They don't need to be paid, and they can be used as collateral for your two and a half old houses. What do you think?"
If you still feel that you are being taken advantage of, I will write you an IOU."

It can solve the current housing problem.

His uncle just felt that he should be able to close his eyes after dying now.

Lu Yang said, "There's no need to write an IOU, but uncle, this piece of land I'm eyeing might be a little troublesome."

His uncle asked, "What's the trouble?"

Lu Yang said, "When I passed by this land before, it seemed that there were quite a few peach saplings planted on it. Uncle, are you really willing to pull them out?"

His uncle was stunned for a moment before he remembered which piece of land Lu Yang was talking about.

This piece of land should be the best wasteland of the Lu family. It is right next to the only rough road in the village. So since the new daughter-in-law came into the family last year, her husband Lu Youren proposed to plant peach trees on this land. The money for the peach seedlings will be paid by the couple, and the usual watering and maintenance will be done by them in turns. When the peach trees bear fruit and the money is sold, it will be divided equally between everyone and their small family. At that time, everyone in the family agreed unanimously.

But now we have to pull out the seedlings.

His uncle said with some pain: "Can't we just change the land?"

Lu Yang shook his head: "It can't be changed, it has to be this."

The Lu family lives in too remote a place, and all of their land is too remote. Only this piece of land, which was originally a barren mountain, has the best location, right next to the Maoma Road. If they change to other lands, it will not only be difficult to build a house, but also impossible to use a tractor, so they can only carry it on their shoulders or hands. It will also be inconvenient after the house is built. In the future, when they become their own boss, they will have to buy a car, and they cannot do without a house built next to a main road.

Seeing Lu Yang's insistence, his uncle had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll pull it out. I'll listen to you."

The words just fell.

The door curtain had been drawn open, and four or five burly men walked in one after another.

The ancestors of the Lu family fled from the north, so the northerner pattern may be relatively high in their genes. Neither Lu Yang nor his cousins ​​can be considered short. Even the youngest brother, Lu Youxin, is only thirteen years old this year, but his height is nearly 1.7 meters, but he is as thin as a stick.

"What did you pull out?"

"peach?"

"Who wants to pull up our peach tree seedlings?"

"Dad, are you getting old and confused? Don't you know that those peach trees are our lifeblood now? We are all looking forward to them growing up quickly, blooming and bearing fruit so that we can exchange them for money to marry wives. Do you want to pull them all out?"

As soon as the talented person came in, he started questioning his father.

Some people also nodded after seeing their cousin Lu Yang, and then stepped aside like a taciturn person.

Someone glared at him.

Someone smiled at him in a friendly way.

Someone winked at him secretly, then slipped away to eat dried fish and fried peanuts. Five cousins, five minds.

"Okay, shut up, you little bastards. Things are not what you think."

His uncle was rebuked by his sons.

Even my face is turning green.

At this time, the eldest cousin, who was the most burly, snorted coldly, suppressing the tempers of his brothers, "Aren't you all worried about having no place to live?"

"I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you, okay? I'll give my house to my cousin Lu Yang to live in, and this house was originally his. At worst, I can move to my father-in-law's house for a few years, and then build a new house when I have money."

Let’s talk about it.

But he was unsure.

The father-in-law has not only his wife and one daughter, but also another married daughter and a son. Although his son is still young and not old enough to get married, if the couple continues to live there, the father-in-law will probably feel embarrassed. He is not sure whether he will be sent back overnight.

But what else can we do?
The eldest brother is like a father!
He had thought about this before. Even if he never got married, he couldn't bear to see his brothers and sisters living in poverty all their lives, unable to get married, and unable to marry into a good family.

But the matchmaker happened to come to propose marriage.

Whether it's my wife or my father-in-law, they only like me, an old bachelor in the Lu family, and they like me because I'm strong and can endure hardships and work. What can I do?

Just marry her.

It was like a pie falling from the sky, such a good thing to happen. No matter how great Lu Youren thought he was, could he really not want to have a wife from the bottom of his heart?

Now I have a wife.

He should also consider his younger brothers and make some sacrifices. In his opinion, this is what he should do, since he is the eldest brother of the Lu family.

When the other brothers saw what their eldest brother said, they stopped making trouble.

Only the sixth brother Lu Youzhi and the seventh brother Lu Youxin, the two younger brothers, were reluctant to leave and felt sorry for their eldest brother.

"No, brother, if you move away, the family will be without a backbone."

"Yes, and my sister-in-law may not agree. Besides, there is Xiahuai Village between Yangliu Village and us. If you move there, you will have to work in the fields, get up early and go to bed late, and travel back and forth. You will be exhausted to death."

My eldest cousin also remained silent.

He also thought about this problem. When the other two younger brothers, who were old enough to get married, saw their eldest brother, they would know that if he didn't move out, they would have to stop their cousin Lu Yang from moving in.

The brave and aggressive third cousin Lu Youyi, even though he has a lame leg, his temperament has not changed at all. He is decadent, and it was him who just scolded his father for being old and confused. Now he is looking at his cousin Lu Yang aggressively, and it is him who wants to fight for survival.

It’s because of poverty!
This is the disease of poverty. He already has a lame leg. If he loses the house he lives in now, his life will be over, completely over.

Lu Yang was also observing his third cousin.

He could even see the bloodshot in the other person's eyes clearly.

As I recall, the ending of this third cousin was not very good, and he was single all his life. He lived alone in this old house until he was in his forties. He watched his younger brothers get married, move away and have their own families. He was so depressed, or maybe he really found life boring, that one winter morning, he drank and jumped into the pond in front of the old hall, choosing the same way to die as his alcoholic father.

only.

One day and one night.

One consciousness is clear, and the other consciousness is not clear.

Being conscious but forcing yourself to bury your head in the water, walking step by step towards death, this should be more painful, right?

"Boom"

His third cousin knelt down in front of him.

Everything happened so suddenly that Lu Yang was caught off guard.

(End of this chapter)