Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales

Chapter 87: Chapter 87: The Pitiful One Killed by His Uncle 43

”He neither raised you nor gave birth to you, so why should you bear his burden when he’s old?”

”Your uncle rejected him right then and there.”

”Your uncle said if he dared to ask you for anything, he’d chase him out of the village.”

”If it weren’t for your uncle being the village leader, the villagers would have driven him out long ago.”

”A convict in the village, it brings shame to the whole community.”

The aunt grumbled with anger for a long time before Yuan Chun asked, ”Aunt, how will the village arrange for my second uncle?”

”Do you remember Li Guai Zi’s house in the village? No one has lived there for seven or eight years; it’s abandoned now. Your uncle let your second uncle live there. Your cousins took the afternoon off to help renovate the house. It can’t be lived in without repairs.”

The aunt spoke again with disdain, ”For the time being, your second uncle will stay at my house, and he had lunch there too. I saw he’s still wearing clothes from a decade ago, all ragged and showing skin, looking disgraceful. So, I’ve found some old clothes from your uncle and your two cousins for him, and even an old bedding set from your cousin’s pre-marriage days.”

”Sigh, your second uncle is so calculating; ending up like this is his karma. But after all, being under the family name of an ancestor, it’s worth giving him a hand.”

In the afternoon, the aunt took leave to help Liu Tiezhu clean up the house and brought a set of bowls, plates, and a wooden bucket and basin from home for Liu Tiezhu to use.

The clinic had no patients, so Yuan Chun also went to help with the cleaning.

At dusk, Cheng Fang returned home, and Yuan Chun asked him to bring over the chest, wardrobe, kang table, and washbasin that her grandfather used to use to Liu Tiezhu.

Even the clothes and bedding her grandfather used were given to Liu Tiezhu.

Yuan Chun was not the original owner, didn’t need to keep her grandfather’s items as mementos; she hadn’t thrown them away earlier because rural folks don’t have the habit of discarding things. Keeping them didn’t cost anything, so she’d held onto them.

This time, she promptly gave her grandfather’s belongings to Liu Tiezhu.

She whitewashed her grandfather’s room, set up a new stove bed, and ordered a few small chests and wardrobes from the village carpenter, then let the children move in.

After that, she no longer assisted Liu Tiezhu.

After returning to the village, because of Liu Tiezhu’s convict status and being a cripple unable to handle heavy work, the village leader assigned him to work together with the women, doing some light tasks.

He earned five to six work points a day.

It wasn’t enough to be well-fed, but he wouldn’t starve.

In 1980, when land was allocated for private farming, Liu Tiezhu rented his share to a hardworking family in the village, who gave him two hundred pounds of grain a year.

Limping, he went to the county every day to collect garbage to exchange for money.

You should know, in those times, collecting garbage was quite profitable; after the reforms, some people even got rich doing it.

Yuan Chun certainly couldn’t let him become wealthy.

Then two months later, Liu Tiezhu had a fall and injured his head, after recuperating at home for a month, he was still often dazed.

In the winter of 1980, Liu Tiezhu recovered from his illness and wanted to eat fish, so he went to the river to cut a hole to fish; carelessly, he fell into the hole he had made.

By the time he was discovered, he had already been swept away by the icy river water.

The river was covered in ice, with no means to fish his body out.

It wasn’t until the next year, when spring arrived and the ice on the river melted, that a body floated up to the riverbank by the village. After confirming it was Liu Tiezhu, Liu Tielin led a group to retrieve his body and buried it in the Liu Family’s ancestral graveyard.