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Yuan Qiu was discharged from the hospital on Saturday, and she stayed in the hospital for a week. She was too weak, and the hospital suggested staying in the hospital for a few more days for observation.

Yuan Qiu wanted to leave the hospital and go home a long time ago, because his brother had no place to rest in the hospital, so he lay on the bedside for several days.

But at Yuan Xia's insistence, he stayed until Saturday.

When Hu Meilian came to visit her, she only bought some fruit and malted milk, but did not take any money.

Yuan Xia found ten yuan in the apple that Ma Anmin bought for Yuan Qiu. Obviously, it was Ma Anmin who gave it away.

These days, followers can only earn [-] cents at most, not relatives and friends who have a particularly good relationship, who would give such a huge sum of money.

Of course, Yuan Xia didn't intend to ask for the money, and planned to return it to Ma Anmin after returning home.

Hospitalized for seven days, the medical bills totaled 134.79 yuan, including food and drink for siblings and other expenses, and the cost was nearly 150 yuan.

After Yuanqiu knew about the fee, she felt distressed and said that she was too disappointing.

Yuan Xia patted her head and said, "What's the point, I think it's a good deal to save my sister's life with more than 100 yuan. Not much, less than I thought."

It was indeed cheaper than he expected. In this way, he still has a surplus of more than 200 yuan in his hand, which should be able to last for a while.But he can't just sit and eat, he has to find a way to make a profitable living.

It was already noon when we got home, and Chongyang, who was eating lunch at the Ma's house next door, was so excited when he heard his eldest brother and sister came back: "Big brother, big sister, you are finally back." Before the words were finished, he began to cry aggrieved.

Li Yuying quickly coaxed him: "Yangyang don't cry, brother and sister aren't coming back?"

Yuan Xia opened the door with a key, and then reached out to hug Chong Yang: "You are such a big boy, and you are still crying. Don't cry, big brother and big sister are back."

Yuan Qiu took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his younger brother's tears and snot: "Yangyang don't cry, brother and sister are back."

Li Yuying looked at Yuanqiu: "Qiu'er is much better? You probably haven't eaten yet, my aunt's made dumplings, I'll make some dumplings."

Yuan Xia didn't refuse: "Thank you, auntie. Xiao Qiu, you go into the house first, it's windy outside." Today's weather is not bad, it has been cloudy for several days, and finally cleared up, but there is still wind.

When Yuan Qiu entered the room, he bent down to lift up his brother's bag on the ground, but Yuan Xia snatched it away. He held Chongyang in one hand, and entered the room with a handbag in the other.

Chong Yang put his arms around Yuan Xia's neck, buried his face in the crook of his neck, sobbing: "Mom... Mom has been back."

Yuan Xia put the bag on the ground: "I know. Do you want to go with mom?"

Chongyang shook his head: "I don't know."

Yuan Xia knows that the little brother misses his mother, but he has to be cruel and not soft-hearted. He touched the little brother's head with his other hand: "Mom is an adult, when she misses us, she will naturally come back to see us. Wait for you When I get older, I can recognize the way, and I can go to see my mother by myself."

"Oh." Chongyang was a little frustrated.

Yuan Qiu sat down by the bed, slowly stretched out his hand to untie the blanket wrapped around him, and went to take off his hat.

Yuan Xia said: "Xiao Qiu, after dinner, you can go to bed and lie down."

Yuan Qiu looked at his younger brother and sister changing the dirty clothes in the basin, and said, "Brother, I want to do the laundry." In the past, when my mother was here, I mainly washed the clothes at home by myself, but now that my mother is gone, I have to do it myself.

Yuan Xia said: "You haven't fully recovered yet, how can you wash your clothes? I'll wash your clothes in a while. During this period of time, you can't soak in cold water, and you don't need to wash and cook. Leave it to us. Your task is to take good care of your body."

Yuan Qiu asked: "Brother, when can I go to school?"

Yuan Xia thought for a while: "The final exam is coming soon, I will go to school to ask for a leave of absence for you, and you will not take the final exam this year."

Yuan Qiu's grades are good. Hearing this, he hesitated: "I'm already cured, and I want to go to school."

Yuan Xia didn't back down: "If you want to study, you can study at home. It's too cold, and your school is a bit far away, so it's inconvenient to go to school. Don't catch cold and affect your body. After studying, you will have plenty of time."

Yuan Qiu had no choice but to stop rebutting. Since his mother remarried, the eldest brother has become a lot more serious, and what he said is not easy to refuse.

Li Yuying brought over the cooked dumplings, and Yuan Xia hurried to take them: "Thank you, auntie, my brother and sister have caused you trouble during this time."

Li Yuying smiled and said, "No trouble. Is twenty dumplings enough? Not enough for my family to steam steamed buns."

"That's enough, thank you, auntie." Yuan Xia was extremely grateful to Li Yuying and his wife.

Li Yuying nodded: "That's fine, you eat first, if you don't have enough, come and get it."

Chongyang also came back with his small enamel bowl. He goes to the kindergarten for children run by the factory and goes home for lunch. He eats at Li Yuying's house these days.

Yuan Dong was in the fifth grade, and Yuan Chun was in the second grade. Their schools were a little further away, and they bought food at the state-run canteen at noon.

Their elementary school is not far from home, and they used to go home to eat, but in order not to cause trouble for Li Yuying, Yuan Xia also let them buy and eat by themselves.

Yuan Xia knew that Li Yuying was very kind to them, but he couldn't rely on their family just because of his kindness.

When he was in the hospital, he had already written a letter to his grandfather, asking him to come over. First, he hoped that he could help take care of his younger siblings. Second, as the old man was getting older, he hoped that he could take the old man by his side to take care of him.

Grandpa is a capable old man. He is a carpenter. He usually makes furniture for others, so it is not a problem to support himself.

But living alone is too pitiful, he died unexpectedly in his previous life.He went to beat furniture for others, had some wine at the master's house, and fell into a pit on the way back at night and broke his leg.It was freezing cold, and when people found out, they had already lost their temperature and passed away. This was also a pain point in Yuan Xia's heart.

Yuan Xia hoped that the old man in this life could die in peace.

After lunch, Chongyang went to the kindergarten, and Yuan Xia didn't plan to go to school, he wanted to tidy up the house.

Without an adult, the house is in disarray, and no one washes the clothes changed by younger siblings.Yuanqiu is sick, and these are all his own work.

Before doing laundry, Yuan Xia went to the bathhouse to take a shower.After going to Jianning for so many days, he didn't take a bath or change clothes, he just felt very uncomfortable, and the first thought when he came back was to take a bath and change clothes.

The first group of people in the factory came from the Northeast, and they also brought some customs of the Northeast. There are men's and women's bathhouses in the factory for the use of the factory workers and their families, and each family is issued a bath ticket.

Some nearby people also used different channels to get bath tickets to take a bath. Later, the factory simply sold bath tickets.

Yuan Xia's father has passed away. Although they still live in the factory, the free benefits are not their turn. Fortunately, they can still buy bath tickets.

So Yuan Xia found out the clothes and the bath ticket, and went to the bathhouse to take a bath.Today is not a holiday, not many people come to take a bath, the bathhouse is relatively clean, but Yuan Xia doesn't like to take a bath, so he rinses under the tap, washes off the dirt, and returns home refreshed.

Lying on the bed, Yuan Qiu learned that his brother came back after taking a bath, and said enviously, "Brother, I want to take a bath too."

Yuan Xia smiled: "Wait a few days until your wound heals better before going. Let's boil water at home and wipe it off today."

Yuan Qiu said again: "Brother, don't wash your clothes in cold water, it's too cold, boil some hot water."

"I know." Yuan Xia didn't plan to wash clothes directly with tap water, such a big basin, after washing in cold water, his bones would probably hurt.

While the water was being boiled, Yuan Xia went downstairs to the coal shed to pick up briquettes, and found that there were not many briquettes left, and Li Yuying's next door had slightly more briquettes than his own, and at most they would be used for years to come.

Go back and discuss it with Aunt Li, and buy a car together and come back. If you buy too much, his family's coal shed will not fit.

After working all afternoon, Yuan Xia finally washed the clothes, cleaned up the house, and started preparing dinner.

I didn't go to the vegetable market in the morning, and there was nothing to buy in the vegetable market in the evening. Yuan Xia only bought some dried tofu and a few eggs, not a single vegetable.It seems that I have to get up early to buy vegetables in the future, and buy more at one time to stock up at home. Fortunately, the weather is cold and vegetables can be stored.

When Li Yuying came back from get off work, she saw Yuan Xia beating eggs with chopsticks, she smiled and said, "Yuan Xia, can you cook?"

Yuan Xia said: "Not very good, try to cook." Although he hasn't cooked for a long time, he can cook. He learned it after his mother remarried in his previous life. He may have some talent, but he can do it well.

Li Yuying said with a smile: "If you need help, just tell me, auntie will teach you."

"Okay, thank you auntie. Auntie, I didn't buy vegetables in the morning, and there were no vegetables for sale when I went there in the afternoon. Do you have shallots at home?"

"Yes, yes. If there is no food, come to my house and get some. I bought some food."

Yuan Xia said: "I'm going to order chopped green onions, and I'll go shopping with you tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Li Yuying agreed wholeheartedly.

Li Yuying went home and brought Yuan Xia not only a handful of shallots, but also a head of Chinese cabbage. She is a typical Northeast person and likes to hoard vegetables. Even in the south, in winter, she still likes to buy vegetables in piles at home. .

Her family often has wilted carrots, white radishes, potatoes, and vegetables that are too late to eat, and there are so many that they are spoiled in summer, but today the Yuanxia brothers and sisters made money.

That night, the five brothers and sisters sat around a small dining table to eat.The only meat dishes were egg custard, Yuan Xia didn't taste it, and gave it to his younger siblings, he ate some fried vegetables and cabbage in vinegar.

Chongyang scraped the bowl of egg custard clean with his small spoon. He thought the egg custard steamed by elder brother was so delicious, tender and fragrant: "Brother, shall we still eat egg custard tomorrow?"

Yuan Xia smiled and said: "I'll take a look tomorrow, if there are no other dishes, I'll steam eggs for you."

Although the family conditions are very difficult now, Yuan Xia does not intend to be too frugal in food.When my father was still there, although there were many children in the family, the standard of living was not bad. My mother was willing to spend money on food and clothing, which was also the reason why the family had no money left.

This is also the reason why my mother was eager to remarry after my father died.The family had no source of income and could not maintain the original standard of living. When she heard that Guo Zhiqiang was a sixth-grade worker with a higher salary than her father, she agreed without hesitation.

After eating, Yuan Xia sent back the money that Ma Andong took a few days ago, but Li Yuying refused to take it.

Yuan Xia finally said: "Auntie, I appreciate your kindness and uncle's kindness. I know you sympathize with our brothers and sisters. I am not at the end of my rope yet. When it really comes, I will personally ask you to borrow it. Now I can't accept this money, my self-esteem won't allow it."

Li Yuying heard him talk about self-esteem, so she stopped insisting: "Then if you are really short of money, you must tell auntie."

Yuan Xia nodded: "I will." He talked to Li Yuying about buying coal again.

Li Yuying immediately said, "My family is going to buy coal too. Tomorrow afternoon, I will go to the coal factory to buy a carload of coal. I will bring over 600 yuan, and the two of us will pay 300 yuan. It will cost about eight yuan."

Yuan Xia said: "Okay, I will trouble Auntie."

When they got home, Yuanchun was doing homework under the lamp, Yuandong was fiddle with a book and a disassembled radio, and Chongyang squatted aside to watch.

Seeing Yuan Xia coming back, Yuan Dong stopped, put the book on his lap on the bed, and reached for his pocket: "Brother, there is still six yuan and seventy-five cents left from the living expenses you gave me, here it is for you."

When Yuan Xia saw the money, he understood: "Did you eat at Aunt Li's house in the morning and evening?"

Yuan Dong nodded: "Yes. I gave her the money, but she doesn't want it."

Yuan Xia took the money: "Okay, I see. If you need to buy things in the future, just ask me."

Yuan Dong lowered his eyes, nodded: "Yeah." He squatted down and fiddled with the broken radio again.

This radio was Yuan Dong's favorite. Before his father died, it was accidentally broken by Chongyang. Originally, his father promised to buy a new one when his salary was paid next month, but he never returned.

The matter of buying a new radio has never been mentioned, and Yuan Dong never mentioned it to his mother even after receiving his father's pension.

A child of his age was supposed to be at the age of rebellion, but his father's death made him grow up overnight, and he was already able to think about issues from an adult's perspective.

Yuan Dong tried to fix the broken radio, but after dismantling it into pieces, he couldn't put it back together.

He picked up the book spread on the bed and looked at it carefully, frowning and then looked at the parts in his hand: "That's what it said, why is it useless?"

Yuan Xia walked over: "What book are you reading?"

Yuan Dong handed the book to him: "The book I borrowed from my classmate contains an article on repairing radios."

Yuan Xia took it and took a look. It turned out to be "Radio" magazine, which was a divine book in the 80s and [-]s. He once used a "Radio and Television" magazine to successfully assemble a TV.

Yuan Xia carefully read the article from beginning to end, then looked at the parts of the radio, and said: "It may be that the electronic tube was broken at the beginning, but now there are not many parts that can be repaired. It can't be repaired."

Yuan Dong was extremely regretful: "Oh, I didn't understand before, it was broken."

Chong Yang yawned, looked up at Yuan Xia with big watery eyes: "Brother, can't you fix it? Then you still can't hear the small horn?"

Yuan Xia put down the things and picked up Chong Yang: "Is Yang Yang sleepy? Wash and sleep. Don't mess with Dongdong, and I'll buy you a new one when I make money later."

Yuan Dong's eyes widened: "Brother, how do you make money? It's very expensive to buy a new one, and the cheapest one costs more than 32 yuan. I bought a new one at home at the same table. It's a four-pipe tube, and it cost [-] yuan. Money. How about we follow the book and buy a few ores and assemble an ore radio by ourselves. Some parts of our radio are still usable, and it only takes two or three yuan to fix it.”

Yuan Xia looked at Yuan Dong unexpectedly: "So cheap?" It seems that he has studied the radio thoroughly.

Yuan Dong nodded: "Well, I went to the department store and asked. A fixed ore is only more than one dime, and a movable ore is more expensive, and it is more than four dime. The tuner of our radio can still be used. Maybe you don't need to buy it. The speakers are also available. , with luck, it can be done for a few cents.”

Yuan Xia's eyes glowed when his younger brother said these things, it seemed that he really liked them, so he said, "I'll give you one yuan, and you can go buy the parts you need."

Yuan Dong shook his head and laughed: "You don't need to give it to me, I still have money here."

Yuan Xia understood: "Did you save money to buy parts?"

Yuan Dong said embarrassingly: "Brother, don't be angry, I left a dollar, I wanted to buy an electronic tube."

Yuan Xia patted his head: "I'm not angry. But you remember, this kind of behavior of yours is called enriching your own pocket. It's not a big deal if you do it at home, but if you participate in work and take money from the public house, it's a big deal. Those who violate the law and commit crimes will be punished or even jailed, understand?"

Yuan Dong hurriedly nodded: "I know, I won't make such a mistake again in the future."

Yuan Xia nodded with satisfaction: "You must remember it firmly."

"Well. After I finish buying the parts, I will give you the rest of the money."

Yuan Xia didn't refuse: "Ask me if it's not enough."