After working outside for almost a month, Mei Dahu felt much more relaxed when he returned home with money in his pocket.

However, before entering the village, he specially stuffed two pieces of broken silver into the soles of his shoes, stepped on them repeatedly to make sure they couldn't be seen, and then walked into the village.

Because Mei Pei's family lived at the end of the village, Mei Dahu would pass by their house when he came back.

As soon as Mei Berry took out two hot eggs from the chicken coop, she looked up and met Mei Dahu's eyes.

"Uncle..." Mei Bei stood up and said hello, but Mei Dahu didn't have the same "real feelings" as his wife and his mother, and everything showed on his face.

He nodded slightly, even as he accepted Mei Lida's greeting, he raised his head and glanced at the smoke coming from the chimney in their kitchen, and asked casually: "Where is your father?"

"My father went to the village chief." Mei Bei's eyes fell on the package behind Mei Dahu. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Go to the village chief to talk about the corvee."

"Wha, what?"

Seeing Mei Dahu's blank mind, Mei Bei was deliberately surprised and said: "Huh? Uncle, didn't you come back to join the corvee?"

Mei Dahu:!!!

At this moment, the toes heading towards home could not help but start to change directions.

He had even forgotten about corvee service!

"Uncle?"

Seeing Mei Dahu looking like he was about to start a dyeing workshop on his face, Mei Bei yelled harshly to bring him back to his senses, and then poured salt on his wounds:

"Uncle, it's getting late. Don't you want to go back and pack up? I heard that everyone is leaving the day after tomorrow~"

After hearing Mei Bei's words, Mei Dahu's face turned even paler, and he staggered around to leave.

The departing figure looked too embarrassed, and even Mei Bei felt that Mei Dahu wanted to turn around and run out of the village for a moment and never come back!

Mei Dahu ran away from the door of Mei Pei's house, and the way he rushed forward in front of the door was immediately seen by Mei Youqian, who had just handed over the money and walked back easily.

Ouch~

They were indeed a father and daughter. When Mei Youqian recognized who the person running over was at a glance, he stopped him.

"Ah, brother, are you back?"

He didn't realize that the person walking by him was Mei Laoer, but he didn't know that the other person reached out to stop him. When he saw Mei Youqian's smiling face, Mei Dahu instantly became nervous.

The hand holding the bundle was so hard that you could see the veins on his back.

"Brother, are you coming back to join the corvee?"

When Mei Dahu didn't want to hear something, Mei Youqian rushed up to say it.

Who would rush to join the corvee?

"Haha." Mei Dahupi smiled but looked at Mei Youqian, "Aren't you the same?"

"Hey~ Brother, then we are different."

Mei Youqian immediately shook his head, smashed his mouth, and said to the other party with a "little man's ambition" face, "I have the final say in our family, and no one in the family said no to me when I said that I had to use my wealth to pay for the corvee."

,Brother, are you okay?"

"You're not going?!"

Mei Dahu immediately opened his eyes when he realized that Mei Youqian did not participate in the corvee.

An astonishing scream came from his throat, just like the struggling neigh of an old rooster being grabbed by someone's throat.

"Oh, not only me, but also the third child is not going."

Leaning forward slightly, Mei Youqian approached Mei Dahu and spoke devilishly.

After saying that, he raised his eyes and met Mei Dahu's expression that looked like he had seen a ghost. Mei Youqian couldn't help but laugh.

With his laughter, a feeling of depression suddenly came out in my heart.

That's the original feeling, a kind of pleasure of getting revenge!

Then the laughter got louder and louder, and Mei Youqian even finally left with his head up to the sky laughing, leaving Mei Dahu standing there with a blank look on his face.

Looking at the back of Mei Youqian leaving arrogantly, Mei Dahu suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself.

There was a "pop" sound, accompanied by a burning pain. Mei Dahu took a breath of cold air and muttered: "Oh my God, I didn't dream..."

***

"Pfft hahahaha, you haven't seen Mei Dahu's ghostly appearance!"

Even during dinner, Mei Youqian couldn't stop laughing.

Mayberry silently held the bowl away from the range of her father's laughter and saliva.

"When I went to hand over the money today, I happened to see my father reporting Mei Dahu's name. You don't know the look of disbelief on his face when he saw me handing over the money.

I was in a really good mood at the time, and when I came back I met Mei Dahu again, oh, what a damn fate, hahahaha!"

Mei Bei listened and asked curiously: "Is my grandfather really willing to let his uncle do corvee service?"

"What else?" Mei Youqian glanced at his daughter, "Do you think five taels of silver is easy to pay?"

"That's not..."

Mei Bei felt a little awkward. She had thought that her partial grandfather would still be partial in this matter, but in the end, he reported Mei Dahu's name so happily, without even hesitating!

"Okay, okay, let's eat!"

Wei Meili saw that the whole family was worried about eating, so she started to urge them.

"Well, shouldn't such a happy thing be shared properly? In my opinion, we should celebrate it~ How about... let's eat meat tomorrow?"

Mei Bei's father, this is a case of Tu Qiong Ding met.

"No, tomorrow I'll have stir-fried bean sprouts, cold cucumbers, and braised winter melon."

But Mayberry was damn unmoved.

"Ah?" Mei Qian couldn't stand it anymore, "Do you really want to be a vegetarian?"

Mayberry also thought her mother was just talking.

"Of course, keep your word and eat less meat~" Wei Meili raised her hand and gently pinched Meiberry's cheek meat, "Also, remember to take your dad to water the fields at night, you know

What?"

"oh!"

After being reminded by his mother, Mei Qi Mei Mei remembered that the crops in their field were dying of thirst.

On the other side, the Mei family’s old house.

"Dad, do you really want to do corvée work?"

Just after finishing his meal, Mei Dahu looked pitifully at Old Mei, who was sitting on the threshold looking at the moon.

Old man Mei lowered his head and glanced at his son squatting aside, sighing helplessly.

"The names are all given. Tomorrow, ask your wife to cook some good food for you, pack it up and take it with you. This time it will be nearby, not far. I will ask your wife to visit you when she has time."

Old man Mei took the cigarette rod and took a long puff of dry cigarette, and his words were made very clear.

But Mei Dahu still refused to give up and asked tentatively: "I heard... I can pay for it with money..."

"Five two to one person!"

Old Man Mei directly broke Mei Dahu's delusion and said: "Every year, you can take out five taels every year? Sooner or later you will have to do the corvée. Is it possible that you want me to do it for you?"

"No, no, that's not what I meant. But, the corvee is so hard..." Mei Dahu's eyes turned red. He had really never participated in the corvee in so many years!

"I heard them say that the corvee was very hard. Someone died every time. It was so hard... wouldn't it cost my son's life?"

Mei Dahu never thought that one day he would have to participate in corvee labor. Just thinking about it made him scared.

"The second and third children have participated in so many corvées before, and they have not died. Don't scare yourself. Besides, there is no money left at home."

Mei Dahu was startled. When his family bought four acres of land, his father had told him that the family had no money left. He would leave all the four acres of land to him when he was a hundred years old.

Having spent all that money to buy land, it would be really hard to come up with another five taels of silver in a short period of time.

He opened his mouth, but in the end he just sighed. He slowly lowered his head and said in a frustrated tone: "It's because my son has no ability..."

After Mei Dahu finished speaking, he originally wanted to accept his fate, but in the end he heard his mother say: "Boss, don't think so, your brother will still be studying in the fall, and he also needs money~

Right now, my family really doesn’t have that much money to spare~”

Mei Dahu:???

So, it’s not that the family doesn’t have money, it’s just that there’s no money for him?
Chapter completed!