The groom was kidnapped on the wedding day? Fine! I'll marry someone else.

Xu Yu's family raised hundreds of chickens and ducks, and the whole village was always watching them.

So people on the street asked them: "I see your chickens and ducks have grown a bit. Do they need to eat more grass every day? Do you want to find someone to help cut the grass?"

After hearing this, many people said that they had children who could help, and that they would just need to give their children some food.

Xu Yu and the others neither objected nor agreed.

Yang Wenhui simply said, "Now the grass I cut is enough by myself. There are banana trees on the mountain that can be cut to feed them. No help is needed."

"Then you must let me know if you need help in the future. Our kids are idle anyway, so why not let them do some work?"

"Row."

After they parted ways, Yang Wenhui and Xu Yu discussed the matter with the others, "When the chickens and ducks grow up a bit, we'll really need help mowing the grass. I'd like to ask Shi Lan from the third family to help. After all, we're brothers, and we've never been bad to them. They're going through such a hard time, so I'll give Shi Lan some money so she can help with the household expenses. What do you think?"

Jiang Qingyun and Xu Yu both agreed with her arrangement.

But Xu Yu thought of something and said, "If you give money to Sister Shi Lan, there will definitely be a lot of people who want to make money. When they ask you, will you find it difficult to refuse?"

"There's nothing wrong with refusing. I'm the biggest payer anyway."

Xu Yu couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and nodded in agreement.

Two days later, the village chief informed Shangping Village of what projects they were going to undertake.

First, the county furniture factory needs a large number of carpenters to do carving, so anyone in the village who knows how to carve can participate.

There are not many people in the village who know how to do carpentry, but Jiang Jun does. After being notified by the village chief, his family went to get some wood.

Jiang Jun, who had been lying in bed and not going out, was helped out on the day the wood was taken back and sat by the gate to start carving wood. Aunt Jiang San and Jiang Shilan helped him.

For a time, their family became the focus of attention of the entire village.

Some are envious, while others are skeptical.

When he carved a pattern that satisfied the other party and placed an order with him, the voices of doubt turned into envy.

Li Cuihua's eyes turned red.

"He, a cripple, can make money, but why should our family, full of able-bodied people, only be able to work in the fields?"

"No, Xiaogang, Xiaolei, you should also learn carpentry and carving. He can make money. If you learn well, you will definitely make more than him."

But how could a skilled master in the village casually teach his skills to outsiders?

Unless you become an apprentice.

In the past, to become an apprentice, one only needed to cut two pounds of pork, drink two pounds of wine, and buy some other food. However, in the past two years, everyone's life has been a little better, so if you want to become an apprentice, you not only have to cut pork, drink wine, and buy food, but also have to pay ten yuan.

Li Cuihua wanted her two sons to study, but where could her family afford the twenty yuan?

Li Cuihua wanted to let her eldest son learn from a master first, but her second son refused.

Jiang Lei felt that his parents were partial to him and threatened not to support him in his old age.

Li Cuihua was frightened. She definitely couldn't let her sons think that she was partial, so she came up with another idea and went directly to find Jiang Jun from the third son's family.

She was clearly asking for help, but her tone was as if she was doing Jiang Jun a great favor.

"How much work can you do in your current state? If you can't do much work, you won't earn much money. It's better to teach the skills to Xiaogang and Xiaolei. We are the closest people, and they are the brothers you should be closest to. Once they learn it, our lives will be better."

After two years of being bedridden, Jiang Jun had long seen through the true faces of his second uncle's family. Upon hearing this, he sneered and replied, "I taught them that it's your family that's better off, not ours."

Li Cuihua said to him, "Our two families are one family. How can we separate you and me? You've been lying in bed for over two years, and you're becoming increasingly clueless. With your personality, it's no wonder Guifen wanted to..."

"roll!"

……

When Xu Yu and the others found out that Li Cuihua had asked Jiang Jun to teach her two sons carpentry, Li Cuihua was still sitting in her own yard, loudly cursing Jiang Jun and Uncle Jiang's family for being inhuman and not caring about the lives of her brothers.

Xu Yu was hanging clothes in the yard. When he heard the faint cursing, he just sighed in his heart.

She had a deeper understanding of the saying "thick-skinned people are invincible in the world".

……

On the eighteenth day after Xu Yu and her friends returned from the county town, Xiao Tang called to inform Xu Yu that the house had been obtained and asked her to go to the county town to see the house.

Xu Yu told this matter to both her husband's family and her own family.

This time Xu Jianping will go with him.

Jiang Qingyun and Yang Wenhui couldn't leave either, so only Xu Yu and Xu Jianping went together.

As soon as the two arrived in the county town, Xiao Tang took the key and said to them with a smile: "My uncle is on a business trip, and he asked me to take you to see the house."

When the three of them went to see the house, Xiao Tang also told Xu Yu about the follow-up of He Meifeng and the others.

"He Meifeng was supposed to be in jail, but I heard she was bullied by other prisoners and went crazy, so her family took her back. Now she is being held captive at home by her family and can't get out at all."

Xu Jianping didn't know about this and was a little confused.

Xu Yu said to Xiao Tang worriedly, "Even if this man is mentally ill and tied up at home, you still have to be careful."

Xiao Tang nodded: "I will be careful."

Xu Jianping couldn't help but ask, "What are you talking about? Did something happen?"

Xu Yu and Xiao Tang looked at each other.

Then Xu Yu told Xu Jianping about what happened last time he came here.

After hearing this, Xu Jianping frowned and said to Xu Yu: "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell us?"

"It's already been resolved. Telling you would only make you worry."

Xu Jianping was about to hit her, but seeing that Xiao Tang was still nearby, he retracted his outstretched hand and sternly lectured her: "No matter what happens in the future, you must tell us. What if you get hurt in such a big thing?"

Xu Yu grinned at him, "I know, I know. You're the most nagging, second brother."

This time, Xu Jianping couldn't help himself and directly reached out and flicked her forehead.

Xu Yu was used to hiding behind Jiang Yi, and this time was no exception. Seeing her second brother's hand reaching out, she subconsciously pulled Xiao Tang over and hid behind her.

Xu Jianping didn't have time to retract his hand and directly flicked his finger on Xiao Tang's forehead.

"what!"

Xiao Tang exclaimed and subconsciously covered his forehead with his hand.

Then she and Brother Xu were both stunned.

Xu Yu even deliberately said to Xu Jianping behind Xiao Tang: "Second brother, you actually dare to criticize Xiao Tang."

Xu Jianping's cheeks flushed instantly. He was so bewildered that he scratched his head and tried to explain, "Comrade Xiao Tang, don't listen to my sister's nonsense. I didn't expect her to hide behind you. I..."

"I played it, so I played it. You still want to quibble?"

After Xu Yu interrupted him, Xu Jianping didn't know how to explain it.

Xiao Tang's cheeks also turned red. As the eldest in the family, she had never felt such an intimate gesture of being tapped on the forehead, especially by a young gay man.

Reason told her not to take it seriously and just treat it as playing with a good friend, but she felt an indescribable shyness in her heart.

This made her blush and lower her head, not knowing how to respond to Xu Jianping at all.

When Xu Jianping saw Xiao Tang blushing and lowering her head, he thought she was angry and became even more anxious. He glared at his sister who was still making trouble, and then signaled her with his eyes to help comfort her.

Xu Yu also noticed that something was wrong with Xiao Tang, so he hurried over to her, took her hand, and asked, "Xiao Tang, did my second brother hurt your forehead?"

Xu Jianping hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry."

Xiao Tang looked at the brother and sister. Although her cheeks were still burning, she didn't want them to see her shyness, so she shook her head quickly: "No, it's just the first time someone tapped my forehead, and I was a little confused."

Xu Yu pulled her aside and apologized: "I'm sorry. Every time my second brother reached out to me, I liked to hide behind Brother Yi. I just dodged out of reflex."

"It's okay." Xiao Tang glanced at Xu Jianping, still feeling a little shy. He quickly looked away and looked at Xu Yu and said, "Actually, I'm quite envious of the way you two get along as siblings."

After saying that, he pulled Xu Yu forward and said, "Let's go quickly. Don't you want to see the house sooner?"