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When Xu Yan got up and had breakfast, Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng came.

Zhao Jisheng was fine, but Liu Mancang almost cried when he saw Xie Zhuo, and he kept calling him "third brother" all the time.

"Can you take medicine first before coming over if you are sick?" Xie Zhuo was annoyed by his yelling, frowned and slapped him on the arm, "If you say that again, I will beat you, do you believe it?"

Liu Mancang shut up.

The three of them went to the warehouse in the backyard, cleaned up the coal stove, and when they moved it into the house, Xu Yan had just finished breakfast.

To be honest, this stove is quite different from the one Xu Yan had seen on TV.

The stove is very small and has a simple structure. It has a square stove plate on top, a cylinder about forty to fifty centimeters high in the middle, and three iron legs installed underneath. That's all.

Xu Yan stared at it for a while, and saw Xie Zhuo go to the backyard and get half a basket of coal balls and put them into the furnace, and then put a large aluminum kettle on the square stove plate.

"Is this all right?" Xu Yan walked over and reached out to touch the stove, but was blocked by Xie Zhuo.

"The fire hasn't started yet," Xie Zhuo said, "when the coal balls on top are lit, the room will be warm."

Xu Yan nodded.

Seeing that she was still eager to reach out and touch the stove, Xie Zhuo was a little helpless, "Although the temperature has not yet fully risen, the stove is still very hot, don't touch it with your hands."

While the two were talking here, Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng also cleaned up the stove in Dabao and Xiaobao's room.

"Three," Liu Mancang probably wanted to call him "Third Brother" again, but he remembered Xie Zhuo's threat just now, so he swallowed the name that was on the tip of his tongue and looked into the room. "Are you going or not?"

"Right away," Xie Zhuo glanced at him, then took the broom, swept up the broken coal slag on the ground, and carried it out.

By the time Xie Zhuo, Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng went out to borrow a ox cart from the brigade and planned to go to the state-owned coal plant in the city to haul coal, the sun was at its best.

Many people who were feeling cold at home wrapped themselves in clothes and stood in the corner of a dilapidated house at the entrance of the village, chatting and basking in the sun.

When they saw Xie Zhuo, they all looked at him.

Wang Guilan even called out to Xie Zhuo, "Hey, Third Brother, you're back?"

Xie Zhuo was blown by the wind and didn't want to talk much. He always felt that as long as he opened his mouth, he would be forced to drink a mouthful of cold wind. However, he lived in the same village and he and Zhao Bin usually got along well. He turned around and nodded to Wang Guilan, "You're back, aunt."

"You'll be away for a long time this time," said Wang Guilan.

Xie Zhuo nodded again.

"Where did you go?" A woman standing next to Wang Guilan interrupted, "Did you go to Southern Province? Didn't your eldest and second sons die..."

Before she could finish her words, Wang Guilan nudged her with her elbow while frowning.

The woman stopped talking.

Xie Zhuo stopped walking and looked towards her.

There are many people in Qingshan Brigade, and Xie Zhuo can't remember the names of some of them he doesn't interact with very often. He can only roughly know whose father or mother they are.

He had some impression of the woman who was speaking, Wu Yuzhen's eldest daughter-in-law - Yao Guangju.

At the beginning, because she and Wu Yuzhen gave birth to their children one after another, the villagers talked about them for a long time.

"If you can't talk, then stop talking nonsense," Liu Mancang couldn't hold back his temper before Xie Zhuo could even open his mouth, pointing at him and cursing, "If you didn't have that mouth, you could barely be a human being."

Yao Guangju's expression suddenly turned ugly. "Liu Mancang, this is none of your business. Did I say anything about you?"

"Well, I like to stand up for what is right and do what is just," Liu Mancang grinned at her, then put away his fake smile.

"Your husband plays cards in town all day long, you gossip about others behind their backs all day long, and your mother-in-law treats that arrogant fat kid at home as her eyeball every day. It's true, how does the saying go, people from the same family are alike."

Yao Guangju's face became even uglier, and she wanted to pounce on Liu Mancang with her teeth bared, but was stopped by an aunt who lived opposite Liu Mancang's house.

"You're done, weren't you the one who started the trouble first?"

"Then did I say that he was Liu Mancang?" Yao Guangju stared, "He is just here worrying about nothing. Is Xie Laosan a mute?"

As soon as Yao Guangju finished her words, a small clod of earth exploded right in front of her. When the earth fragments fell onto the surface of her shoes, she jumped up with a scream.

Zhao Jisheng, who had been silent the whole time, was still holding a fist-sized lump of earth in his hand, staring at her with no expression on his face, "My third brother doesn't hit women, but I'm not so particular."

"Try saying something again."

Yao Guangju didn't dare to talk back this time. Her face turned red and she stared at Zhao Jisheng with her eyes.

Finally, Wang Guilan stuffed a handful of melon seeds from her pocket into her hands and said, "Alright, we all live in the same production team, we see each other everywhere, and you are such a busybody."

Walking past a few people basking in the sun, Xie Zhuo saw Zhao Jisheng still holding the clod of earth, tossing it back and forth in his hands. He glanced at his face and asked, "Is your family having a hard time again recently?"

"Hmm?" Zhao Jisheng turned his head to look at him.

"He's almost turned into a cold-blooded killer," Xie Zhuo glanced at the clod of earth in his hand, "I didn't even have a chance to exert my strength, and the battle was over."

"I don't need you. Besides, I'm just trying to scare her. I can't really fight her."

Zhao Jisheng smiled, threw the clod of dirt in his hand to the ground, clapped his hands, and then wiped his hands on Liu Mancang's pants in front of him.

"Fuck you."

Liu Mancang looked like he was bitten by something. He didn't even bother to brush the dirt off his pants and raised his hand to hit Zhao Jisheng.

Zhao Jisheng tried to dodge but failed and was slapped on the arm by Liu Mancang.

When Liu Mancang frowned and patted his pants, Zhao Jisheng continued to talk to Xie Zhuo, "Some time ago, Zhao Jihou stole the money from home and went out to play cards. He lost dozens of dollars. Recently, several groups of people have come to our house every day to ask for money."

Xie Zhuo looked at him.

"But it's okay," Zhao Jisheng said, "Except for being a little annoyed, there's nothing else to worry about. It's just that my grandparents are suffering. They've been sick from being irritated by him these past two days."

"Don't your uncle and others care?" Xie Zhuo asked.

I had heard before that Zhao Jihou gambled with money, but the Qingshan Brigade didn't allow him to, so he went to other brigades to play, and later went to the town to play.

I didn't expect that something like this would happen during the few days he was away.

"I can't control them," Zhao Jisheng said. "I told my parents that we should just split up the family and move my grandparents to my house, but they disagreed."

Xie Zhuo nodded, not knowing how to talk about this matter.

The three of them walked quite fast, and it only took them more than half an hour to reach the city. While walking towards the state-owned coal plant, Liu Mancang told Xie Zhuo another thing.

"Two days before you went home, Wang Ermaizi and his mother came back," Liu Mancang said. "After being gone for such a long time, I thought they had forgotten about their hometown, but unexpectedly, Wang Ermaizi came back lame."

"Didn't you get the money?" Xie Zhuo asked.

"He's almost there," Zhao Jisheng said, "I saw him playing cards in town yesterday."