Rebirth at Seventy: Counterattack on Life

"Okay, go back quickly. We have to go out to work early tomorrow morning. We also have work in a nearby county. We don't have a car, so we have to walk there. It will probably take two days. Let's go home and tell your mother."

Without waiting for her reply, Captain Wang walked away with his heavy tool bag.

Today was almost a shame. He had to go home and drink some wine to calm down.

As Captain Wang left, everyone dispersed. Zhou Jinxin also hurried back. His home was still quite far away. This was really an exercise.

"Sister, how was your first day at work?" When Zhou Jinxin returned home, Xiaowu Zhou Jinhuan was the first to rush out and ask.

"It's good, where is mom?" Zhou Jinxin asked Xiao Wu as he walked into the side room.

"Mom took the second, third, and fourth sisters to collect cinders." Xiao Wu followed Zhou Jinxin into the house and got on the kang.

Every household here has a stove, and even when they don't burn the kang in the summer, they still have to use the small stove they surrounded themselves with to cook.

Their family was poor and could not afford good coal to burn, so the sisters often went to pick up the ashes dumped out of other people's furnaces. There would still be unburned cinders there, and they picked them up and continued to use them.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jinxin felt a little sad. People in this era were not rich, but their family was the poorest among them. It must be difficult for a woman who had never gone to school or worked to support the family alone.

Now she no longer had any resentment towards the mother in this body as before.

"Hmm~"

The old man of the Zhou family, who was lying on the kang, found out that his eldest daughter had returned. He whimpered and wanted to say something, but helplessly, saliva flowed out of the corner of his mouth, but he could not say a complete sentence.

"Dad, don't worry. I'm fine at work. Captain Wang and Uncle Zhao take good care of me. I don't have much work to do."

Zhou Jinxin helped Mr. Zhou up and sat on the kang, wiped the saliva from his mouth, and then dragged his sore arms to help him move his legs.

He didn't dare to tell his dad everything about today, he just said not to let him worry.

"Uh~uh~" Mr. Zhou tried a few more times but still couldn't speak, so he nodded helplessly.

"Don't worry, Dad, I will take you to a big city to see a doctor when I get my salary. You can just rest and recuperate." Zhou Jinxin comforted Mr. Zhou.

In fact, she didn't know if there was any place that could cure this disease in this era.

"Xiao Wu, please stay with dad and call me if you need anything. I'll cook."

After Zhou Jinxin settled down, Old Zhou pulled over Xiao Wu who wanted to go out to play, then turned around and went out again.

When I came to the outside, I opened the lid of the water tank, and there was still half a tank full of water.

Looking at the big earth stove again, Zhou Jinxin was glad that she was used to doing these tasks and still had instinctive memory, otherwise she would have been taught a lesson by her mother again.

After skillfully stewing a pot of cabbage and steaming whole-grain rice, Zhou Jinxin shook his arms. This was considered an activity, but he wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow morning.

"Boss is back, how was work?"

When Yao Yawen came back with his three daughters, he saw the eldest daughter throwing her arm on her head in the yard and asked her quickly.

"It's good. Captain Wang and the others took good care of me because of my father's relationship and didn't let me do any heavy work."

Zhou Jinxin quickly took the basket her mother carried on her arm, which contained nearly half of the basket of unburned cinders.

It seems that today's harvest is not too good.

She skillfully poured the cinders onto the pile of cinders that was originally in the yard, knocked the basket and hung it under the eaves.

"Your dad is very popular when he is at work. How else can he take care of you like this?"

Old Mrs. Yao was relieved to hear that her daughter did not do any heavy work, and she did not forget to brag about the old man's popularity.

Although she felt more sorry for the little girl, the eldest girl was also her own child. She would also feel uncomfortable if she was wronged when she went out.

"Well, Uncle Zhao and the others also said they would come to see my dad another day."

Zhou Jinxin did not deny what Mrs. Yao said. Her father was quite popular.

"We are going to work in another county tomorrow. The captain said it will take two days. I have to leave early tomorrow."

Zhou Jinxin said as he put the cabbage in the pot.

"What? You are a big girl, and you are asked to go out to work with me?"

After hearing what her daughter said, Mrs. Yao was not happy.

This eldest girl always goes out to work with a group of old men. It's inconvenient not to tell her, and it won't sound good if he does. And with those gossiping women arranging the arrangements, does her daughter still need her face?

"Mom, this is the nature of this job, and it can be changed because of me."

Zhou Jinxin doesn't want to go either, but what can he do? He heard that he can earn more wages by working out.

Her father used to go out to work a lot, and these two days were still short. Sometimes he would go out for more than ten or twenty days, and he could earn about forty yuan a month.

When workers in this ordinary factory can only earn more than thirty yuan, this is a high wage.

"Sister, what kind of work did you do today? I see your sleeves are torn."

Before Mrs. Yao could say anything else, Lao Zhou Jinling pulled Zhou Jinxin's sleeve and asked.

"I didn't do much, I just smashed rocks for a while. This sleeve may have been accidentally scratched on the tool. It's okay. I'll sew it up after dinner later."

Zhou Jinxin looked at her sleeves. There was indeed a cut on the cuff. She didn't even notice when it was cut.

The younger sisters didn't know about the stone-throwing, but Old Zhou and Old Mrs. Yao knew about it. Looking at Zhou Jin's newly torn cuffs, Old Zhou looked worried, and Old Mrs. Yao also swallowed her words.

What else could she say?It would be nice if the child didn't complain to the family. If she could, she would like to take over the class and endure the hardship.

"Let's eat. I'm already hungry. The food cooked by eldest sister is delicious."

Xiao Wu saw that everyone was silent, silently looked at the food on the table, and couldn't help but whisper.

"Oh, I just saw how much oil you put in, you loser."

Mrs. Yao looked at the few oily flowers floating on the dish and clapped her hands in distress, holding a spoon to skim the oily flowers out.

ah?Oops, she forgot about this.

Her oil jar has long since bottomed out, and her mother has been refusing to let her buy it, saying she was saving the little oil to eat during the Chinese New Year before buying any more.

She used to put oil in when cooking, but she couldn't remember it now. Wouldn't she have to clear the oil can now?

To say that their family was not so frugal in the past, but since her father became ill, their family has not been able to open the pot, so it is almost the same.

Her mother had quietly taken out the tickets she had saved in the past and exchanged them for her father's medical treatment. Her mother had long said that she would keep the oil pot for the Chinese New Year as it had bottomed out a long time ago.

"Mom, I forgot for a moment. It's my first day at work, so just celebrate it."

Zhou Jinxin looked at Mrs. Yao's distressed look and had no choice but to whisper.