Reborn in a small village in the 1990s

Chapter 136

After a while, Zhao Da'e got up again and cursed, "Damn it! Sister, it's not that someone set a fire, but some idiot is smoking next to your woodpile! For God's sake, this place is so big, and in the middle of the night, he's smoking next to the woodpile. Is he really afraid that the woodpile won't catch fire?"

Zhou Chunwen saw it too and nodded: "There are indeed people there."

Zhao Da'e was stunned for a moment: "Hey, big sister. Do you think that idiot might be your dad?"

Zhou Chunwen shook her head: "Impossible. My dad isn't stupid enough to go out for a smoke in the middle of the night. It's freezing cold, around minus twenty degrees Celsius. My dad isn't stupid enough to go out in the middle of the night."

Zhao Da'e curled his lip: "Forget it. I saw my uncle go out in the middle of the night a couple of days ago and didn't come back until noon the next day. I guess he went gambling, but he didn't let you know."

"Big sister, there were two hundred yuan under the felt blanket in my uncle's room. Hehehe, now it's gone. Your dad must have gambled it away. Otherwise, look how energetic my uncle has been lately. If he hadn't lost money, would he be so energetic?"

Zhou Chunwen: "..."

Zhou Chunhong said, "Yes...yes...yes...Dad...midnight...midnight..."

Zhou Chunwen glared at Zhou Chunhong and comforted her, "Er Ya, you should go to sleep. It's hard enough for you to talk. By the time you finish telling this story, I reckon Dad will have already walked two miles away."

Zhao Da'e chuckled: "Second Sister can be quite articulate sometimes."

Zhou Chunwen pouted and said, "Never done it properly."

Zhao Da'e scoffed, "Second sister. See how your eldest sister always criticizes you? She often whispers to me, 'Your second sister is just pretending to stutter so she won't do any work. As long as she pretends to stutter, she won't bother making you do any work, so you won't have to work, right?'"

Zhou Chunhong blurted out in anger, "She's talking nonsense."

Zhou Chunwen was stunned: "???"

Er Ya has stopped stuttering? And she can swear so smoothly now?

Zhao Da'e shrugged: "See, it's true. People who usually stutter never stutter when they're cursing."

After a while, Zhao Da'e saw that there were still sparks outside, and she was furious.

"Hey sis, there really is someone smoking next to the woodpile. Look, he's smoking one cigarette after another. Why don't you call out and ask if it's my uncle? Do you think it's possible that my uncle misses my aunt because she hasn't been home for over twenty days, but he's too embarrassed to say it. When people get old, they miss their spouses and are in a bad mood, so they smoke to relieve their boredom?"

Zhou Chunwen thought for a moment and said, "That's possible. My mom hasn't been home for quite a while. I miss her. You know, my mom and my third aunt seem to be doing quite well at their parents' home. In more than twenty days, our aunt hasn't caused a single problem."

"You underestimate your aunt, don't you? She's stingy, fussy, and always going back to her parents' house, but she does have one redeeming quality. She cares about her reputation. I told my mom to pretend to stay at my second uncle's house first, and then go to my eldest uncle's house. You know, my second and eldest uncles aren't blood relatives; only my eldest uncle is my blood relative."

This whole thing will make my aunt think that my second and eldest uncles are talking badly about her behind her back, and she won't dare to say anything even if she's reluctant. And you don't know, a few days ago I had Xiangzi deliver two bags of flour and two bags of rice. Of course, that's not the key point. I had Xiangzi tell my aunt: "We have trees in our backyard, you know. I said, 'Auntie, if you're going to build a house in the future, I'll take care of all the purlins. How many purlins do you need?'"

Zhou Chunwen was stunned: "Big Goose, a purlin costs over a hundred or two hundred yuan, and a beam costs over three hundred. To build a four-room house, the most expensive thing is the purlin, and poplar wood would cost over four thousand yuan. You bought them all?"

Zhao Da'e nodded.