[Part 1] Back To The Sixties: Farm, Get Wealthy & Raise The Cubs

Chapter 13

The mother and sons had filling breakfast. Zhou Da Wa wanted to go out to play but had been restrained back by Lin Qing He: "Mother is going to do the laundry, you take care of your younger brothers at home. Wait for me to come back."

Zhou Da Wa did not refute her, as he was satisfied with the meal from yesterday to this morning.

Lin Qing He departed to do the laundry.

There was a river on the tail of the village, which everyone goes there to wash.

"Shenzi, the autumn harvest will be over in a few days. Do you still need firewood at home?"

Lin Qing He beat the clothes with a wooden board, especially with Zhou Da Wa's clothes. It was really dirty. In her mind, she deeply yearned for the era of the washing machine, when a little girl came over and asked.

As soon as Lin Qing He looked back, it then emerged from her memory: "Little Xi ah! I do, ah. We're almost out of firewood at home. When you go back and tell your elder brother that once the autumn harvest is over, send it over. How much he can get is how much I'll take. The price will be according to the amount."

This little girl was called Zhou Xi, only about ten years old. And her brother was Zhou Dong, fifteen this year.

The ancestors of the brother and sister were also relatives of the old Zhou family, but now they were distant.

Their parents were gone early, and it wasn't easy for the siblings to survive. But her brother Zhou Dong was very capable, even if he was young. He followed the adults to work and could earn two work points.

This wasn't a lot of food. In the end, the team pitied the brother and sister, so on the premise of obtaining everyone's consent, they gave a little more during food distribution and there were some neighbors occasionally reduce their intake. That's how the brothers and sisters survived.

Initially, the brother and sister had nothing to do with the original owner, but the original owner was lazy.

Her own son was still unreliable, so she asked her brother from her maternal family to send her firewood and occasionally gave him a little fee for the effort.

However, her younger brother got married later on and was strictly managed by her younger sister-in-law, so he never came back.

At that time, the original owner had to get the firewood by herself. How could the original owner willingly let her well-maintained hands do the rough work? If the conditions didn't allow it, she wouldn't wash the dishes, chopsticks, and clothes!

But in desperation, she can only collect firewood once. In the original owner's impression, there was no work more insulting than this in the world...

So, she set her eyes on Zhou Dong, who just turned 12 years old that year.

She made him go get firewood for her to use and they'll treat it as she bought it from him. How could Zhou Dong not be happy? He kept at it 'til now.

To others, the original owner said that this was not capitalism. She felt that the brother and sister don't have it easy and didn't want them to feel like they owe her, so they did this.

It wasn't like nobody in the village didn't know her temperament, but at least every time the original owner paid an adequate amount to Zhou Dong.

When he brought less, it was a dime. When it was more, it was two dimes. Don't look down on these one and two dimes. To the siblings, Zhou Dong and Zhou Xi, who have no other income except for fieldwork, this money allowed them to eat three full meals on days when they can't earn much work points in winter.