Return To 1998

During the few days of rest at home, Xu Tongdao did not really rest.

Early the next morning, he took a bucket and a pole and went to the Xihe River at the head of the village to fetch water. After four trips, he filled the water tank at home.

For the next three days, he went out to collect firewood every day. He went out to collect firewood in the morning, and chopped firewood at home in the afternoon. For three days, the firewood he got filled the kitchen firewood warehouse.

On the morning of his departure, he went out, found a fish farmer who contracted Xihe, and bought a little wolf dog from the fish farmer.

A real wolf dog.

Fish breeders these days generally like to keep wolf dogs and use them to help watch fish ponds, because dogs don’t have to sleep at night and their hearing is sharp enough. If you keep one or a few wolf dogs, you don’t have to worry about someone going to the fish pond to steal fish at night.

In this era, there are many people who are poor and crazy. If no one is watching a fish pond, or if they are not watching closely enough, someone will definitely steal fish at night.

Raising a wolf dog is often the best choice.

It's useless to keep rural native dogs, because people in the countryside have seen so many native dogs, and those who dare to go out to steal fish in the middle of the night are generally not afraid of native dogs. Maybe not even the local dog stole it together.

But the wolf dog is different. Everyone knows that the wolf dog eats meat every day. It is very fierce. Once it is targeted by the wolf dog, it may really be killed.

The fish farmer who contracted Xihe had several wolf dogs at home. Tongdao Xu was lucky. When he came to the door, the big wolf dog just gave birth to a few small wolf dogs not long ago.

He picked the biggest one.

When he brought this little wolf dog home, his mother Ge Xiaozhu was startled.

It was after ten o'clock in the morning, and both Xu Tonglu and Ge Yuzhu had gone to school and were not at home.

Ge Xiaozhu: Xiao Dao, are you crazy? What are you doing with a little wolf dog? If you want to raise a dog, you don't need to bring a wolf dog back! I heard that wolf dogs want to eat meat every day, how can our family have so much money? Buying meat for the dog? What the hell do you think?

Tongdao Xu put the puppy cage outside the door and let the puppy bask in the sun.

Hearing his mother's question, he smiled and said, Mom, I'm not at home usually, I don't worry about you, and Xiaolu is not at home during the day. When our family buys a house in the county town in the second half of the year, Xiaolu and I will not be at home. , you and Yuzhu are left at home, how can you reassure us? I bought this dog specially to protect you and Yuzhu. It eats meat as long as it eats meat! You give it some meat to eat every day, the money is not enough , tell me! Our family can afford it now!

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Then he said, Mom! Keep it in a cage during the day, and after a while, I'll change it to a bigger cage. At night, after you close the door and back door, let it out of the cage and let it go. It is active in the main room, and when it is dawn, it will be locked in the cage again! With it watching your house every night, I will be relieved when I am outside.

Ge Xiaozhu looked at him in surprise, speechless.

It was the first time she heard of raising a wolf dog to watch the house.

But after listening to her son's explanation, she also felt that what he said made sense.

Think about why Xu Hengbing dared to tease her daughter Yuzhu last year?

Also, why did Xu Hengbing dare to break the arm of her younger son Tonglu?

If she had a big wolf dog in her family at that time, would Xu Hengbing dare to be so bold?

Also, there is actually one thing that she never dared to tell Xu Tongdao. In the second half of last year, someone knocked on her window several times in the middle of the night.

Thinking of these things, Ge Xiaozhu sighed and nodded, Okay! Mom listens to you, if you want to raise it, then raise it!

After saying this, Ge Xiaozhu couldn't help but ask again: By the way, Hengxin's wife wants to go to work in your store, can't you arrange it in your store?

This is not the first time that Xu Tongdao's mother has told him about it in the past few days.

In fact, when he returned to the village this time, several women in the village found him and said they wanted to go to work in his shop, and asked him if he wanted it?

Some of these women are older than his mother and want to wash dishes in his shop; some are about the same age as his mother and also want to wash dishes in his shop; there are older girls and little daughter-in-law who want to go to his shop Waitress in the store.

The Hengxin his wife mentioned by his mother Ge Xiaozhu just now is the wife of Xu Hengxin in the village, a young daughter-in-law who has been married for a few years.

The reason why Ge Xiaozhu spoke for this woman, Tongdao Xu knew the reason.

Because that woman and his mother Ge Xiaozhu's family belonged to the same village, and they were the kind that were close relatives.

Mom, there is really no shortage of people in my store for the time being. When you look back, tell her that when there is a shortage of people there, I'll be the first to find her. Can you see?

When he said this, Xu Tongdao was a little glad that he didn't find a waiter and a dishwashing aunt in this village.

Otherwise, when he returns to the village this time, there must be more women who want to go to work in his shop.

As for the women in this village, he has no confidence that he can manage them well.

Ge Xiaozhu nodded helplessly, Okay! You really can't arrange it, so I can only tell her that when I look back.

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That evening, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin left home with their luggage and boarded the Wu Peng boat back to the county seat.

Their vacation is over.

I have to rush back to the county town tonight. I will go to the vegetable market early tomorrow to purchase ingredients, and then prepare food during the day. Tomorrow night, their barbecue restaurant will reopen.

The five-day vacation allowed Xu Tonglin to adjust his mood.

Anyway, when he left the village, Xu Tongdao noticed that Xu Tonglin was in good condition, there was a smile on his face again, and his steps were brisk.

There were not many passengers on the Wu Peng boat that went to the county seat in the evening.

The cabin is empty.

But Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin prefer to sit on the bow, blowing the wind and watching the scenery on both sides of the strait.

Xu Tongdao lit a cigarette, and Xu Tonglin sat beside him and muttered, Xiaodao, has Changsheng been looking for you these few days?

What he asked was Xu Changsheng.

He knew that Xu Tongdao and Xu Changsheng had a good relationship.

I also know that Tongdao Xu also invited Xu Changsheng to go to the county town with him, and they got along well in the county town. I regret that I didn't go to the county town with them.

Well, came to see me once.

He wants to go to the county seat with us, right? Xu Tonglin was a little funny.

Tongdao Xu shook his head, He didn't say it explicitly, but that's what he meant.

Xu Tonglin tilted his head to look at Xu Tongdao, You didn't agree?

Xu Tongdao hummed.

Why? Don't you have a good relationship with him? Xu Tonglin was a little strange.

Tongdao Xu smiled lightly, I listened to what he said, this time it was his parents who asked him to come to me, it was his parents who wanted him to earn money with me, not himself, wait for him when When I want to come, I will consider helping him!

Xu Tonglin blinked, his eyes puzzled, Is there a difference?

Xu Tongdao flicked the ashtray, Of course! His father and his stepmother asked him to come to me. After that, the money he earned from us will definitely be handed over to them. I am not interested in helping.