Rebirth in 1958: Getting rich starts from Nanluoguxiang

Chapter 58 The Firewood Pile Was Set on Fire

When Qin Dabao got home, he just told his mother that he needed to do some simple renovations on the house and that he had enough money in his pocket. Lu Xiu'e didn't ask any more questions. She pointed to the inner room and whispered, "Wenwen misses her parents. Go and comfort her."

Qin Dabao agreed, took off his coat and hat and threw them in the ear room, then went to the inner room. Lu Xiu'e was chopping meat and cabbage, preparing to make dumplings for the children.

The Qin family's living standard is so good that they dare not brag about it. Not only can they have enough to eat, but they can also have meat in their dishes every day. With this kind of life, 80% of the families in the entire capital cannot catch up.

Qin Dabao entered the inner room and saw Wenwen sitting on the edge of the kang, leaning against the kangqin, sobbing with her head down. Little Niuniu snuggled in her sister's arms and kept wiping her tears. Erbao was so anxious that he pretended to be a kitten and a puppy to cheer his sister up.

When Qin Dabao saw this, he immediately slumped down, looking exhausted, and fell on the kang.

When Wenwen saw this, she immediately wiped her face and crawled to Qin Dabao with Niuniu.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Brother..."

"Woo woo, pot, pot."

Qin Dabao turned over and lay on his back. Three little faces came over. Wenwen cared about her brother and had forgotten her sadness.

Qin Dabao opened his palm, turned it back and forth several times, and slowly clenched it. The three little guys didn't understand what was going on and all looked at their brother's big hand.

Qin Dabao suddenly opened his palm, with eight White Rabbit candies pinched between his fingers.

The three little guys shouted "Wow" at the same time.

Qin Dabao sprinkled the candy between his fingers onto his chest, then opened his hand again, and eight colorful fruit candies appeared between his fingers again.

The little ones' mouths became O-shaped and they kept shouting "Wow, wow".

Lu Xiu'e lifted the door curtain and peeked in. Seeing that the children were having fun, she smiled and then retracted her lips.

The three little guys were so happy that they grabbed the candy from their brother's chest and kept shouting: "I want more, I want more..."

Qin Dabao secretly wiped his sweat. This trick would not be possible without space.

He grabbed left and right, tomatoes and Daoxiangcun snacks kept appearing in his hands, and soon they piled up like a small mountain on his chest.

The little ones ate while watching their brother perform magic tricks, and they laughed so hard that they thought their brother was the most powerful person in the world.

Qin Dabao sat up, crossed his legs and leaned against the kangqin, put Wenwen and Niuniu on his legs, and Erbao lay on his brother's shoulder.

Qin Dabao said softly: "Do you know? Every person in this world is a star in the sky. When they leave, they return to the sky to warm us and illuminate us.

Wenwen, your parents have turned into stars and returned to the sky. If you miss them, just look up at the sky. The stars that are twinkling towards you are the ones looking at you and greeting you.

Even Qin Dabao thought this explanation was bullshit, but he couldn't find a more suitable way to make Wenwen happy.

Wenwen raised her little face and said: "Brother, I actually miss you a little bit, but when I saw you, I didn't think about it anymore. I love you the most."

"Me too. I like Guoguo the most too."

At this moment, Qin Dabao suddenly felt that his two sisters were the most beautiful stars.

He hugged his two sisters tightly, his eyes full of pampering: "Since you all like me, shouldn't I make something delicious to show my appreciation?"

"Oh, eat something delicious."

"It's all right."

Erbao suddenly hugged Qin Dabao's neck and kissed him hard, leaving Qin Dabao's face covered in saliva.

"I like my brother the most, too."

Qin Dabao said angrily: "Get lost! Qin Erbao, you made my face full of drool!" This is definitely not a star, but an orangutan.

Erbao laughed out loud...

. . . . .

The next day, Master Lei came with four people. They were obviously experienced craftsmen. They worked efficiently and in an orderly manner.

Qin Dabao let them start working. When they started working, the people in the yard knew that the houses in the backyard had been allocated. They started talking about it.

The house in the backyard is big and the yard is spacious, which makes the people in the yard covet it. Many people have gone to the street office to apply for it, but it didn't work.

This allocation immediately attracted everyone's attention. After asking for a long time, Master Lei remembered Qin Dabao's instructions and never revealed who the master was.

Qin Dabao didn't know about this. He got up early and went to the countryside to visit his grandparents.

If we talk about the people who treat him best in the world, it is not his parents, but his grandmother, and his grandfather comes second. Qin Dabao originally thought that it was in line with the old saying: the eldest son and the eldest grandson are the lifeblood of the elderly.

I just found out a few days ago that this was only one of the reasons. There was a more important reason. When Qin Dabao was three years old, his grandmother carried him up the mountain to pick mushrooms. He was bitten by a poisonous snake when he was not careful. At that time, Qin Dabao understood a little bit. He ran down the mountain to call his grandfather and father and saved his grandmother's life. That's why his grandmother loves him the most.

When Qin Dabao heard this, he was shocked. He thought again and again, there was no such link in his previous life? If there was, he would have heard of it, but he had no impression of it at all, which proved that 90% of it did not happen in his previous life.

This made Qin Dabao doubt again. Would the history of this dimension be different from that one? In her previous life, Wenwen was being locked up in a small room, starving and freezing. In three months, she would starve to death and be thrown into a mass grave.

But now, under the care of herself and her family, Wenwen's fate has undergone a drastic change, which means that history has been changed. Given this, will the great storm come again? Will the three-year famine continue?

Qin Dabao's brain short-circuited when he thought of this. Finally, he admitted that he did not have Einstein's IQ, so he should stop bothering with such things.

When they arrived at the entrance of Qinjiagou Village, they found a deserted place and pulled out a sack from the space. It contained 20 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of flour, 50 kilograms of cornmeal, 2 kilograms of sugar, a roll of cloth, 10 kilograms of cotton, and two bottles of Erguotou.

Carrying such a big sack, like a small mountain, Qin Dabao sniffed his nose and walked towards his grandparents' house.

Fewer and fewer people are going out in Qinjiagou. Hunger has begun to spread. Children don’t have the energy to run around in the streets. This is why Erbao is not allowed to come to the countryside.

First, whenever he came, his grandparents would desperately save food for him. Old Qin and his wife would rather not eat themselves but put the food into the mouths of their grandchildren, but their granddaughter could not enjoy this kind of care.

Don’t blame the old people for favoring boys over girls. In the old society, once a woman got married, she would lose even her own surname. Jia Dongxu’s mother has always been called Jia Zhang. Does anyone remember her real name when she was in her parents’ home?

In the minds of the old people, a daughter who is married off is like spilled water. No matter how well she eats, she will still belong to someone else when she gets married.

Qin Dabao was powerless to change this. Who could say that the feudal customs left over from thousands of years could be changed?

Second, Erbao has plenty of food and clothing now. How can a chubby, white kid like you play with a bunch of skinny, pale kids? Aren't you afraid of being cursed behind your back? Everyone's hungry, so why should you?

People in the world worry not about scarcity but about inequality, not about poverty but about insecurity; this is human nature.

. . . . .

Qin Dabao stood at the entrance of the village and looked around. There was not much smoke in the village. After thinking about it, he couldn't bear to see his people starving. It seemed that he had to think of a way to get some food to help them.

As soon as the door was opened, Dajun Daquan ran out and threw himself on Qin Dabao. Qin Dabao smiled and hugged his two younger brothers with one hand. He felt extremely warm in his heart for the family affection.

Unexpectedly, the two guys were going for the sack. They grabbed the sack and rolled it back into the house like the wind, leaving Qin Dabao disheveled in the cold wind.

Qin Dabao was so angry that he gnashed his teeth, rolled up his sleeves and rushed into the house, ready to beat them up, but was stopped by Old Qin.

After hearing what Qin Dabao said, Old Qin laughed so hard that he slapped his thigh.

The old lady picked up the broom and handed it to Qin Dabao: "Grandson, use this to beat me, it won't hurt your hands."

Qin Dabao kicked each of the two guys once. They were squatting on the ground trying to get something out, and they didn't care at all. They didn't even take a picture of their footprints.

Old Qin pulled his grandson to sit on the edge of the kang, and the old lady hugged her eldest grandson, and they couldn't get enough of him.

Qin Dabao touched the kang and found it was only slightly warm, and he immediately became furious.

"Grandpa, why don't you heat the kang? Didn't my second uncle and my uncle go to chop firewood?"

If this happened in the city, where there was no firewood and only a little coal available, it would be understandable that the kang was not heated.

But you're stuck on the mountainside with no firewood? You're kidding! You can just go up the mountain and scrape some wood.

"Ahem," Old Qin sighed, "Grandson, your fifth uncle's Liye has gone mad. He doesn't recognize anyone and is talking nonsense. He claims to be the Fire God who has descended to earth and wants to burn the world to ashes."

"Ah? My eldest brother's second son, Liye? Why is he crazy? What did he do?"

The old lady sneered: "In one night, the firewood stacks of twelve households in the village were set on fire, and ours was also burned. Didn't your second uncle and your old uncle get up early and go into the mountains to chop firewood?"

"Grandma, isn't Liye a few years older than me? Why is he so crazy?"

"Isn't he five years older than you? Why? It's not embarrassing enough to say it out loud..."

"What's the matter?"

"Liye caught his wife and his father in bed together."

"What?" Qin Dabao jumped up: "What the hell?"

"This Dachu has not been a good person since he was young. When he was young, he worked as a peddler outside and had many affairs with other people. He returned to the village when he was older, and now he is having an affair with his own daughter-in-law."

Old Qin sat on the edge of the kang, took his pipe, and said as he filled it with tobacco: "Liye has been an honest child since he was young, how could he stand this? The child went from house to house to light the firewood pile, saying it was too dirty and that he needed to use fire to cleanse the world..."

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