You said you would tell fortunes, so you can catch ghosts and exterminate zombies easily?

People in the countryside usually eat dinner early.

It was getting dark by now and every household was packing up and getting ready for bed. Suddenly there was such a loud noise that many closed doors were quietly opened.

Du Jie came out of the door holding a hot towel, glanced at the courtyard, and immediately retreated, whispering to Zhang Ju inside: "Ashan is calling."

Zhang Ju was disgusted: "He still has the nerve?"

Su Chen glanced at him and walked over here. He happened to catch up with Xu Jiahua coming down the stairs. He saw his face through the crack in the door. The latter was stunned for a moment and hurried forward: "Achen, why are you here?"

The door that was about to close was opened, and Su Chen walked in with a smile: "I made a little money recently, and bought some gold for my parents as a gift."

He took out the gold bracelet and gold ring, looked around and asked, "Where's Dad? Not home?"

"Yes, yes, I'm mending the baskets at the back."

Zhang Ju hurried to the back door and called out. When Xu Dasheng came in, she couldn't help but mutter, "Achen, if you have money, just save it. Why buy gold for us? It's not a big birthday."

Xu Jiahua nodded: "That's right, don't waste that money, just in case you need it in the future."

"Brother-in-law, they all have it. My sister, sister-in-law, and children have all bought it. We can't leave our parents behind, right?"

After hearing this, Xu Jiahua was stunned.

"You bought them all?"

“How much did it cost?”

Su Chen coughed lightly: "A few tens of thousands."

Du Jie and Xu Jiahua exchanged glances, and the latter gave in. "If you have the money, buy it. I don't have the ability to do that anyway."

Du Jie patted his shoulder and said, "Just say what you want to say. Why are you being so sour?"

"What are you saying? I'm just being honest." Xu Jiahua sighed, "If only you could make this much money when Ah Hua was here~"

Du Jie twisted his waist hard, and Xu Jiahua asked with a dry laugh, "Um, have you eaten yet?"

"I'll come over after I finish eating..."

Zhang Ju: "Eat another bowl of noodles after you finish eating. Your dad is already lighting the fire."

Su Chen turned his head and saw that Xu Dasheng had already sat in the firewood room and a fire had been lit in the stove.

In this case, he didn't hesitate: "Then Mom, please fry two eggs for me."

"Okay, okay, then you sit down for a while."

Su Chen had just sat down when he heard a creaking sound from the stairs. Xu Jiating, with a towel tied on her forehead, walked down a few steps and sat directly at the top of the stairs.

"Brother-in-law, please show me the gold bracelet you bought for my parents."

Du Jie gave it to her.

Xu Jiating weighed it and said, "It's very heavy. This one must cost a lot of money, right?"

"Yeah, not bad."

A solid one costs several thousand.

Xu Jiating turned her head and said, "Look at this too. When we get rich, you have to buy this much gold for your parents!"

Huang Shaowei had a tearful face.

"Okay, buy it!"

Xu Jiating glared at him and said, "Alright, alright. I don't ask you to get rich, as long as you don't look like that Ah Shan."

When it comes to Ashan, the Xu family is very disgusted with him.

Su Chen knew that Ashan was the youngest son of Old Xu. Even after Old Xu died, he refused to leave, just to leave all his property to his youngest son.

"What's up with him?"

"Going to play cards? Or gambling?"

When farmers are not busy with farming, they sometimes play cards. They don’t have much money, so whether they win or lose, it doesn’t hurt their money.

But if you go to town specifically to play cards or go to the casino, you risk losing everything.

Xu Jiahua clicked his tongue: "If it were just a gamble, it would be fine, but that guy..."

He shook his head and couldn't continue.

Du Jie snorted, "Not only did he lose all his money and land, but he also gambled his wife away and gave her to five people."

Su Chen: “!!!”

It has come to this, his wife wants to run away, how can he have the nerve to say such things?

After thinking for a while, he asked:

"What kind of society is this? Even if I write a contract, it's useless, right?"

Xu Jiahua sighed, "Useless, yes, but the ones I lost to were all second-rate people. They come to your house every few days to make trouble, mess up your fields, and throw manure at your door. Can you stand it?"

"Just in the past two days, our house was also splashed with feces."

Su Chen: "..."

Therefore, the ones who suffer the most are the kind people.

I can endure the suffering myself, but I probably won’t be able to endure it as long as my neighbors are implicated.

Xu Jiating played with the gold bracelet: "Aunt Yue came to apologize, and my parents and brother said it was okay, but I saw she was still crying miserably."

Zhang Ju waved her hand: "A Ting, stop talking."

"What's wrong with telling my brother-in-law? He's not a big talker."

"Brother-in-law, let me tell you, when the family was divided, Uncle Ashan took the lion's share. His brothers and sisters all cut off contact with him, and Aunt Yue was the one who suffered the most..."

While she was talking, Du Jie secretly went to the door and looked for a while.

He came back only after the hot noodles were served.

"Sister-in-law, has Aunt Yue left?"

"She should not be stupid. It is better for her to run away and not go back to her parents' home."

Du Jie nodded: "Let's go."

Xu Jiating breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just leave."

She became cheerful again, holding the gold bracelet and looking at it against the light again and again: "Hey, I don't expect Wei to buy me such a big bracelet. I will buy it for me when my Xiaobao grows up and makes money!"

Xu Jiahua laughed: "How old is Xiaobao? If he knew you were targeting him so early, he would be scared awake."

"Brother, don't talk nonsense. Xiaobao won't..."

"Wow~"

Xu Jiating's body stiffened: "No way? I haven't slept for long!"

She hurriedly turned around and went upstairs, but then she remembered the gold bracelet and motioned Du Jie to come and get it.

There was chaos upstairs.

Du Jie watched Su Chen slurp his noodles while calling Zhang Ju over to put the bracelet on her. She joked, "A Ting is almost out of confinement, but she still doesn't know how to do anything. The same goes for A Wei."

Xu Jiahua was helpless: "Who asked you to help every day? Xiaobao should be raised by the two of them."

Su Chen slurped the hot noodles, paused for a moment, and asked, "Now that A-Ting is out of confinement, should they think about finding work?"

"Ah Wei is already looking for one. He went to town to work for three days a few days ago."

Su Chen frowned: "Short-term work?"

Xu Jiahua said quickly: "It's good that we can find a short-term job. It's also because we didn't catch the right time. When the town announced the road construction, we didn't get the news. When we went to sign up, it was full."

Du Jie hit his arm and reminded him in a low voice: "Why are you telling this to Ah Chen?"

Xu Jiahua was puzzled: "I just... tell the truth."

Su Chen smiled at Du Jie.

"It's my fault. I was a bit busy before and didn't think about it."

He took out his cell phone and called the village, hoping that Hu Shiliang would talk to the town, but no one answered the phone, so he had to give up.

"I'll talk to Boss Zhang later. Road construction is really tiring... Or I can ask the city if there's any stable work."

Xu Jiahua was stunned for a moment, then quickly waved his hand: "Forget about the city, I still have to take care of my family. It's troublesome to go back and forth, and it costs money for the car."

"Or you can ask Ah Wei. He has already split up the family business, so maybe he'd be willing to go."

Zhang Ju couldn't wait any longer, so she went upstairs to take care of Xiaobao and sent Awei and Xu Jiating downstairs.

"Brother-in-law, can you really find a job for Wei in the city? Of course he can go. We are worried about how to make a living in the future. I also want to ask my sister-in-law to teach me how to sew clothes and see if I can make some money mending clothes for others. If I can go to the city, I might be able to get a job in a factory."

Su Chen asked: "You want to work too? What about Xiaobao?"

Xu Jiating sighed: "I can only trouble my mother and sister-in-law to help take care of her. We will earn money to provide her with living expenses."

……

Several people quickly went to the city to work out the plan. By the time Su Chen finished a bowl of noodles, the matter was roughly settled.

When Su Chen was helping Zhang Ju put on the gold bracelet, the noise outside, which had been quiet for a while, suddenly started again.

"What's wrong again?" Du Jie frowned and went to open the door.

A clearer voice came in.

"Hit him, hit him, Ah Shan is being chopped off!"