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Reborn In The ’80s - Chapter 3

Published at 13th of May 2022 05:41:33 AM


Chapter 3: A Classmate

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by Pumpkin491 Follow

 

GXu Zuocheng's body was shaking, and even the bowl in his hand was shaking. He stared at Xu Zhao fiercely, as he was holding himself back in destroying Xu Zhao and Xu Fan.
The neighbors stared at Xu Zuocheng intently meanwhile the scare Xu Fan hide behind Xu Zhao as Xu Zhao greeted Xu Zoucheng's gaze fearlessly. 

Suddenly, Xu Zuocheng walked angrily toward the kitchen house with the big bowl. As anger took over him, Xu Zoucheng smashes the bowl heavily on the chopping board with chopsticks clapped with a snapping sound. When Xu Zuocheng came out of the kitchen room, he angrily said to Xu Zhao sharply, "Don't you dare expect me to cut the wheat in your east field!"

The wheat in the East is allocated to Xu Zhao, which that plot of wheat belongs to him, Xu Zhao.
Xu Zhao replied, "Don't worry, I do not need you to help cut the wheat."
Xu Zuocheng raised his voice again, "You can cut it yourself! Okay, you, Xu Zhao! Cut it, cut the wheat yourself then!" 

Xu Zoucheng was furious by Xu Zhao as he did not that one day Xu Zhao would rebel against him and make him lose face in front of so many people. The problem was that he had no reason to refute Xu Zhao. No one from Xu's family stepped forward for him. Xu Zoucheng pointed at the rest of the Xu's family angrily saying, "No one is allowed to help him cut the wheat from now on!" By that saying,  Xu Zoucheng then went into the East Room of Wafang angrily.1


The Xu Family's yard finally quiets down in an instant.
The rest of the Xu family gave Xu Zhao a hard look, but because Xu Zuocheng lost, several of them walked toward the hall with the broken bowl in their hands. When the neighbors saw no more exciting show, they left one after another. They left with a confused thought; being suspicious of Xu Zhao, as after he had jumped into the river, he seemed a little different than before. 

Moments later, only Xu Zhao and Xu Fan are the only two remained in the Xu family yard.
"Dad!" Xu Fan shouted.
Xu Zhao looked down at Xu Fan.
Holding Xu Zhao's thigh, Xu Fan's small face looked at Xu Zhao and said, "Dad, I will help you cut the wheat."
Xu Zhao smiled: "Okay."
"I will cut a lot of wheat for you."
What a sensible child.
Xu Zhao touched Xu Fan's head again and said, "OK, let's eat first."
" Good~"
"I will fill you up today."
"Dad you will also too."2

Xu Zhao pulled Xu Fan into the kitchen house.  Looking around, the kitchen house was made of mud and straw. As the bright sun cast beams of lights that shun into the room, one could see small dropped of soil and dust softly landing on bowls, so every time if someone eats, they must go first to the well and rinse the bowl before using it. 1

Xu Zuo found another bowl of noodles and quickly ran to the well carrying the bowl to wash off the noodles and rinse the bowl to make sure that they are clean just in case Xu Zoucheng disgusting saliva was stained on it. 1

Xu Zhao brought the cooked noodles and green vegetables from the pot into a bowl and took Xu Fan back to their hut. When he was about to eat, through the small window of the hut, he heard the chatter of the neighbors outside the door gossiping of the Xu family.

"Have the Xu family already separated?"
"Early parting could be due to the unfair share of food."
"Why eat together? Is it easy to share, isn't it?"
"Bulling Xu Zhaobao, eating one food is not enough."
"How did they bully Xu Zhao?"
"It's stupid! During the first few years of land reform, didn't they divide the land according to the number of people? At that time, the three brothers divided one acre and four quarters according to the policy. Xu Zuocheng's son, Xu Dawa was not even born yet. After birth, do you think about Xu Zuocheng's family of three quarters and one acre, was it enough to eat? Not enough?!  Hmph! I must find a way to account for Xu Zhao's, which accounts for bullying Xu Zhao who is naive. Holy earth, there is only a little quarter of the East Land left behind for Xu Zhao and you said this was not bullying Xu Zhao. What is this?! "
"Don't Xu Zhao resist?"
"Rebellion? Xu Zhao said that he will eat less and was willing to confiscate an acre of land. He had four quarters left and eats together with the family."
"Huh, it's so stupid, this time he provokes Xu Zuocheng, fearing that he won't eat together again, Xu Zhao and his son will be sure 80% hungry."
"Isn't it? I watched little Xu Dawa eat eggs several times, and Xu Fan looked at him with white eyes. The chickens, ducks, and pigs in the family, they couldn't get at all. Giving Xu Zhao an acre of land was not enough for Xu Zhao's father and son. Look at Xu Fan 's skinny figure, which looks nothing like a child over two years old. "
"very pitiful."
"Alas, Xu Zhao's life will be sad in the future."
"..."1

Xu Zhao's life will be sad in the future-
Xu Zhao felt that he would not be sad in the future, he felt that he would be sad now, eat nothing, drink nothing, and have no money, let alone starve to death in the future, now Xu's family will block him every day, he alone is already enough tormented, so what can he do?1

After Xu Zhao and Xu Fan had lunch, they came to the east with a sickle to sit in the shade of the trees. Still thinking about the earlier problem, let alone a quarter of the land, even if there is an acre of land, you can eat it if you remove the rations or something but for how long though? when will they no longer will be starving? He cannot starve to death just after being born again! He had to find a way out.1

"Dad!" Xu Fan shouted in front of Xu Zhao.
"What?" Xu Zhaoying.
"Are we going to cut the wheat?"
"Cut."
"But I won't cut bah." Xu Fan said.
"You don't need to cut. You will sit here and watch daddy cut it."
"Well, then when grandparents come back, I will let them help cut the wheat for you."
"Okay, sit here and don't run around."

Xu Fan sat obediently in the shade of the tree, picked up the grains of wheat scattered on the ground with his small hands put them in his pocket.
Only then did Xu Zhao see that Xu Fan not only has exposed his toes through the worn-out shoes but also worn the crotch of the patch and also exposed half of his little chicken thigh.
'It's so poor.'
Xu Zhao sigh, he decided to cut the wheat first and then will think of something else as he put on a straw hat, picked up a scythe, and walked into Huang Cancan's wheat field, and began to cut the wheat. Growing up, I had eaten all kinds of bitterness and had done all kinds of work, so it was not too hard for him to cut wheat. As he was cutting, suddenly he heard the sound of a bell ringing on the road.

"Popsicles for sell!"
"Sweet, ice and tasty popsicle ice cream!"
"Sweet, ice and tasty popsicle ice cream, twenty-cent per icecream, it is tasty and cheap!"
"..."

Xu Zhao straightened his body.
Xu Fan said excitedly, "Dad, there are popsicles."
Xu Zhao didn't say anything because he had no money and couldn't buy Xu Fan a popsicle in a hot day like this, but he still turned his eyes curiously to look at the small road, a boy on the road was selling on a bicycle as many people shouted for the boy and bought four or five popsicles from him. After the boys collected the money, he started pushing the bicycles to sell more, looking back and forth to search the crowd, and his eye suddenly fixed on Xu Zhao.

"Xu Zhao!" The boy shouted.

When the boy got closer,  Xu Zhao recognized the boy as his junior high school student named, Cui Qingfeng who used to live in Beiwan Village. Later, with the success of his uncle, his family moved to the county and lived a very good life. At this time, Cui Qingfeng was wearing neat gray-blue clothes with a white cloth towel on his neck. He was surprised when he saw Xu Zhao, as his eyes glowed.

"Xu Zhao, it's really you!" Cui Qingfeng said happily.
Xu Zhao has a good looked, even from afar, he still looked outstanding, but when Cui Qingfeng looked closely at Xu Zhao, he looks extraordinarily beautiful. After staring at Xu Zhao for a very long time, Cui Qinfeng could see the amazing kin, beautiful, and promising boy. There are many boys and girls in the school who like Xu Zhao, and even Cui Qingfeng was stunned by Xu Zhao's.

He never dared to get close and decided to love silently in his heart. For the past four or five years, he didn't expect to see Xu Zhao again. Although he was worn, Xu Zhao looked better than before and which made him very happy.
"Are you Cui Qingfeng?" Xu Zhao asked.
"Well, it's me, do you remember me?" Cui Qingfeng scratched his head in shame, and he couldn't help but feel happy. It was a joy that Xu Zhao still remembered him.1

Xu Zhao said, "Remember, old classmates, how did you sell popsicles?"
"Idle and earn some money."
"Aren't you going to school?"
Cui Qingfeng scratched his head again and said, "I don't like reading and studying like my uncle. What's good in a study?"
"Oh." Xu Zhao responded lightly.
"How about you?" Cui Qingfeng asked.
"I'm not going anymore." Xu Zhao said.

"Dad!" Xu Fan shouted for Xu Zhao at this moment.2

Xu Zhao beckoned Xu Fan over.
Cui Qingfeng carefully looked at Xu Fan's with a risen eyebrow, then looked at Xu Zhao, and asked in amazement, "Dad? Is he your son?"
Xu Zhao nodded, "yes."
"you are married?"
"No."
"That son--"
Xu Zhao did not want to speak about this in front of Xu Fan. Although men, pregnable men, and women were accepted by everyone in this era of the world, it is still unacceptable  and ashamed to "be born out of wedlock", especially Xu Zhao did not know who is Xu Fan's other dad, so, Xu Zhao then changed the subject and said, "You popsicle business is good."
Cui Qingfeng also followed Xu Zhao 's words, "Fortunately, it 's okay, I 'm doing it alone, and it 's going pretty well. By the way, what are you doing while being at home now?"
"Cut wheat and feed pigs."
"Nothing else?"
"No more."
"Also, you have to take care of the child alone and you don't have time to do anything else."
"Well, do you come to sell popsicles every day?"
"Yeah, but I am the only one who can only run this piece."
"How do you think of selling popsicles?"
"It was my uncle who suggested that I sell popsicles, saying that I would not do anything else anyway, so I should do this first."
Xu Zhao smiled and said, "Your uncle is so powerful."
"Yes."
At this time, someone came to buy popsicles. Cui Qingfeng didn't have time to talk to Xu Zhao and started selling popsicles to collect money. Xu Zhao continued to cut wheat and cut it for a while. While watching Cui Qingfeng still busy, his brain suddenly came up with a bold idea and then he stared at Cui Qingfeng.





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