"We should send Xiao Shu to school, educate both brothers properly. It’s not about getting them into university, but at least completing a junior college so they could be assigned a job."
Zhao Tianhai thought about Da Shu’s grades, thought about jobs.
It was time to properly educate them.
He still needed to maintain a good relationship with Laosan. If his son couldn’t even get into junior college, they couldn’t rely on the son for retirement.
At worst, if Laosan ate meat, he could have a little soup.
"How’s your corn harvest?"
Now that the land was his own, of course, he cared more.
His wife tended to the fields of the four of them particularly well.
"The harvest is alright, better than when it was collectively farmed."
Since there wasn’t much land in his family, they also raised two pigs.
Not to mention, Captain Zhao had noticed it himself.
When it was collective work, everyone just skimmed through their tasks.
But now that the land had been distributed to individual households, they were even more attentive to their fields.
How could the harvest not be good?
Moreover, their few families had that seedling liquid given by Yun Xiaoxiao, which made the corn and rice seedlings grow very well.
"Dad, our corn seems to be taller than others, and the ears of corn seem better too,"
Team leader noticed as well.
So, that seedling liquid really worked wonders.
Although Captain Zhao had fields for two people, picking corn meant just an entire morning’s work for the father and son.
"Come to my house for a meal, your sister brought me some liquor, and there’s half a bottle left."
It seemed like the Special Supply Wine his sister gave to their dad.
On the day of the family reunion, his dad had opened a bottle to sample.
"Then I’ll take advantage of your kindness."
After bringing back the corn, they still needed to shell the kernels.
Mrs. Zhao was talking with Grandma Fang when suddenly, they heard crying from next door, leaving them both stunned.
Grandma Fang had no clue, "Shall we go and see?"
Mrs. Zhao followed Grandma Fang out of the house, only to hear a voice from next door.
"Xu Fangfang, Zhenzhen and Rourou are my daughters, I’m here to see them, why are you blocking me?"
It was a man’s voice.
"Miss Xu, what’s going on?" Grandma Fang knew that next door lived a divorced young woman with two daughters and two elderly relatives.
It was said that the man despised Miss Xu for not giving him a son.
Having found another woman, he ended up divorced and penniless, severing ties with his daughters and Miss Xu.
Why had he come back now?
"Who is this?" Grandma Fang took another look at Xu Fangfang’s ex-husband, wondering what made Zhenzhen and the others cry so heartbreakingly.
Hadn’t all ties been severed?
Xu Fangfang spoke with disdain, "Zhenzhen’s father?"
Grandma Fang, puzzled, said, "Didn’t he sever all relations? Why has he come knocking again? Could it be that his other woman didn’t bear him a son, and now he wants to come crawling back?"
Mrs. Zhao roughly understood the situation.
"Auntie, you’re out of the loop. It must be that the current wife isn’t as good as the previous wife and kids, so he’s remembering the good times with his ex."
Xu Fangfang’s ex-husband’s face looked a little ugly, and seeing that Nini was still crying, he just wanted to come and see.
Before marrying his current wife, she was all meek and mild.
But after the marriage, she completely changed.
But that wasn’t the issue.
She had given him another daughter.
And now, they were enforcing the planned parenthood policy.
If he were to have another child, he would lose his job.
Initially, he had divorced to keep his job.
But now, with two daughters from his ex-wife and another daughter from his current wife, he had three daughters.