1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

Although he hated his uncle and aunt for what they did, it was not the time to fall out with them, so Li Dahe walked home angrily.

Home.

Li Weiguo spoke softly to Grandpa Li, while Li Weidong and Li Weijun snuggled up to Grandma Li on either side, silently comforting her.

Although the two children are young, they are very perceptive. They can see that their grandparents are very sad, so they behave themselves and stop playing mischief.

"Mom and Dad, let's go to work!" Li Dahe and Wang Dahua said to the inner room, picked up the buckets and walked towards the village brigade.

As Wang Dahua walked away, she said angrily, "I never thought my second uncle and second aunt would be such people!"

"Hmph! You can't judge a person by his appearance. My parents are so sincere to them, but I never thought that my second uncle would do such a thing!" Li Dahe said viciously.

"It's a pity that my uncle lost a leg. It's not worth it for such a person!" Wang Dahua also felt it was not worth it for her uncle and looked regretful.

"Hey! Why do good people have to be dragged down by bad people!"

In Li Dahe's mind, his elder brother Li Dajiang is his role model. He felt very uncomfortable when he saw his elder brother being cheated.

"I think Weiguo is a man with his own ideas. Looking at the expression on Second Uncle's face when he left home today, it seems that our Weiguo will punish him! It's really refreshing!"

Wang Dahua was very happy when she thought about Li Weiguo sending his hateful second uncle back home for dinner. A lazy person like his second uncle should not be allowed to get what he wants.

"Brother Dahe, sister-in-law, what are you talking about? This is so refreshing!"

The couple was talking excitedly when they saw Li Dahai, the second son of their second uncle, and his wife coming over carrying a carrying pole.

"Nothing, just chatting!"

When the couple saw someone coming, they immediately stopped talking and quickened their pace towards the team.

"What happened to Dahe and his wife? They were talking excitedly just now, why did they suddenly stop talking?"

Li Dahai's wife was keenly aware of something. The feeling seemed familiar, just like when they were caught saying bad things about others behind their backs.

"You old woman likes to think about things when you have nothing to do. Dahe and his wife are both straightforward people. There is no need to worry about it. Let's go!"

Li Dahai is a typical honest man in the village. He has a simple mind and is rough and rough. However, he is not as sensitive as his wife.

"Humph! If you don't believe me, forget it. I see something's wrong inside!"

Li Dahai's wife glared at Li Dahai and followed him mumbling.

These days, people have to work on time. If they are late, their work points will be deducted. Especially at noon when working, people love to be lazy, and the team leader who records work points is very strict!

Li Weiguo comforted his grandfather. His core idea was only one: help in emergencies but not in poverty, and to stop interfering in the affairs of his second grandfather's family in the future.

Grandpa was very disappointed at the moment. He never expected that his second brother, whom he had worked so hard to recruit, would be so inhumane that he would even embezzle the life-saving money and food of his own son.

Li Weiguo knew that his grandfather would take some time to recover, so he wanted to let his grandparents talk alone, and sensibly took his two younger brothers out to play.

Children are just children. Just now, Li Weidong and Li Weijun were sad at home with their grandparents, but they changed as soon as they left the house.

Li Weiguo looked at the two of them walking in front with an excited look on his face.

"Brother, where are we going to play?"

Li Weidong asked excitedly while jumping up and down.

The eldest brother has been here for two days, and this is the first time he has taken them both out to play.

The children don't care about the adults at home. They only have one thing in mind: "Play!"

"Where do you usually play?"

Perhaps influenced by the two of them, Li Weiguo's gloomy mood suddenly became much brighter.

"Let's go to the river! I want to play in the water! I haven't been to the river for several days, and my body is sticky." Li Weidong had an idea when he was older.

"I want to go too. I want to look for small fish and shrimps in there!"

Originally he liked to play firecrackers with his brother, but unfortunately his elder brother didn't like them playing that game and said he wouldn't give him candy if they played firecrackers again.

Now the only things they can do are climbing trees to catch birds and going to the river to catch fish.

Li Weiguo looked up at the sky. The sun was so high and big that he didn't want to go.

How could Li Weidong miss this good opportunity? "Brother, go ahead! Take a bath and have a good time!!"

Seeing that the two little guys were in high spirits, he nodded and agreed: "Okay! Let's go to the river to play!"

"Ah! Let's go to the river!"

The three brothers decided on a place and headed straight for the river.

The Changliu River is not wide, only about ten meters wide. Due to the severe drought this year, the water level has dropped a lot.

Not far away, people from the brigade commune were carrying water to irrigate the corn fields.

They were dressed in simple patched clothes, straw hats, carrying buckets on their shoulders and shoulder poles in their hands, and walking steadily on the paths in the fields.

Although carrying water was hard work for them, they were in high spirits. The sweat dripping from their foreheads did not diminish their enthusiasm for work in the slightest.

It seems that the drought is much more serious than Li Weiguo had imagined.

As far as he remembered, the water level of the river was far less shallow. Now it had shrunk by at least two meters.

"Alas! In the face of natural disasters, human efforts seem particularly humble. After all, they are just a drop in the bucket. How can we save this curled cornfield just by carrying water?"

Li Weiguo sighed and sat down by the river, picked up a small stone and threw it into the river.

With a "dong" sound, ripples appeared on the surface of the river.

"Weiguo, why are you here by the river? It's the hottest time of the day, it's really hard!"

"It's ok, just watching my two younger brothers play for a while!"

"Okay! Stay out of the sun and don't let our Weiguo get tanned!"

"Aunt, please don't tease me. I'm a child who grew up in the village and I'm not afraid of the sun!"

“Haha…that’s right!”

While Li Weiguo was speaking, his two younger brothers had already taken off their clothes and shoes and stepped into the river in their patched trousers.

The water was warm at this time. As soon as the two younger brothers entered the water, they swam around in the water like two loaches and had a lot of fun.

Li Weiguo did not go into the water. He just watched his two younger brothers playing on the shore. Suddenly, he thought of exploring the river to see if there were any treasures.

With a thought, he activated the invincible treasure hunting skill in his mind.

"Huh? Why are there so many weapon parts at the bottom of the river? Holy shit! Are these bullets?"

Li Weiguo jumped up all of a sudden.

"It's a neat little package of 15 bullets! It seems the legend in the village is not groundless."

There is no use burying these weapon parts at the bottom of the river. It would be better to fish them out and contribute to the village!

He remembered that the Great Steel Production Campaign began in September last year, and the village mobilized villagers to hand over various metal objects. He heard that some families even knocked off the rivets on their own doors and handed them over.

Unfortunately, there was no professional boiler in the village, so how could they produce good steel? The Great Steelmaking Movement also ended in failure.