Not long after his wife left, he received a package.
Inside, there was malted milk. He sent a jar to the eldest family, and there was still another jar at home. He couldn’t waste it, so he made himself a cup every day.
"Grandpa, is this malted milk?"
"Yes, your Little Aunt sent it back."
The two brothers drank happily.
Zhao Tianhai was busy with meat from several factories in the county town and went everywhere looking for pigs ready for sale, riding his bicycle in the scorching heat.
But he got beaten up again, this time by a girl who had married out from the Zhao Family Village Team. She saw Zhao Tianhai and had her man take him back.
"Dad, Dad, what’s wrong with you?"
Da Shu and Xiao Shu saw their dad seemed to be beaten up.
"You just lie down!" Captain Zhao didn’t know what to say.
It was only a little over a month since the last time he got beaten, and now he was beaten again, this time more seriously.
"I’m fine." Zhao Tianhai forced a smile, intending to say it was nothing, but it pulled on his wound. Still, he squeezed out these words to comfort his two children.
"Your dad went out to find work to make money for you and got beaten up." Captain Zhao still believed these two grandsons could be taught and guided.
The two brothers were heartbroken seeing their dad so badly injured.
Zhao Tianhai also understood, "Dad’s grades were not as good as your little uncle’s, who can get into university and then be assigned a job after graduation. Dad can only find odd jobs everywhere to earn money for your tuition, clothes, shoes, and meals."
"Dad, I will definitely study hard." Xiao Shu immediately promised, seeing his dad so seriously injured, all for earning money for them.
"I will also study hard, strive to get into university, and once I have a job, I will take good care of you and mom."
"Well, Dad will wait for you to grow up and take care of me." Then Zhao Tianhai stopped talking because speaking made the wounds really painful.
Da Shu and Xiao Shu took care of their dad. Brother Zhao also came to look at Zhao Tianhai. The two of them were considered business partners; Brother Zhao only helped out on the day they bought pigs, usually doing chores at home.
"Laoer, did you see who hit you?"
"Wasn’t it some bastards? They were jealous of me making money. Damn it, three of them beat me up. It was Lingzi and her man who took me back."
Zhao Tianhai had a good relationship with the villagers in the team. Nowadays, the pigs, chickens, even eggs, and rabbits in the villagers’ homes were basically purchased by him.
This Lingzi’s dad was Captain Zhao’s cousin; he was quite active in raising rabbits and growing medicinal herbs.
"When you get better, should we find people to beat him too?"
We can’t just let this go.
"No, Laosan is coming back this New Year. Let’s have Laosan handle it. That bastard is afraid of our Laosan."
This angered his chest and couldn’t go unresolved.
Will Laosan step in to help?
"I’ll let your sister-in-law make you something delicious." Sister-in-law Zhao can’t work in the fields now, but she still has to do housework at home.
Mrs. Zhao wasn’t at home, and his dad’s cooking skills could only ensure the food was cooked.
Little Aunt also went to the Capital City.
The second brother’s wife didn’t come back.
Even if his dad made him a cup of malted milk, it wasn’t filling.
Zhao Tianlei didn’t know his second brother, Zhao Tianhai, had already arranged for a fight for him.