Wu Cuimei said: "Do you think everyone is willing to kill chickens, although it is true that chicken is not as expensive as pork now, but it costs more than a dozen yuan a catty, you look at the people who are working in the village now, how many people can earn more than 100 yuan a day?"

"That's not. Liu Yuanhe answered, "Don't talk about others, just say that Agui's family, like his family, relies on his mother to support his two sisters and brothers alone, and he has to send them to study, not to mention eating chicken, even if he eats a few yuan a pound of fish, he doesn't often eat it." ”

"yes. Speaking of this family, Wu Cuimei couldn't help but sigh, "Alas, Agui's mother is really hard enough, not to mention raising a baby, but also raising a few cows." ”

"That cow can make money. Liu Yuanhe said with a smile, "The cow has a calf every year, he has many cows, and there are two cows alone, even if he can sell two cows a year, a cow costs a few thousand yuan, then there are ten thousand yuan." ”

"That's easy to say. Wu Cuimei pouted and said, "It doesn't cost money to raise two children? Moreover, like Agui, you have to cut the cow grass in the morning to go to school, and on Sunday, you have to raise cattle separately from your sister, and you can raise a few cows by yourself, how hard it is." ”

"Hehe, but even so, isn't the study of the two siblings very good. Liu Yuanhe said, "I heard that Ah Gui won the first place in the exam every year." ”

"Yo, so powerful?" Wu Cuimei said in surprise, "I thought he had to be like Qingshan and he wanted to sleep when he saw the test papers." ”

"Of course not, I've heard that not only did he get the first place in the school exam, but he also won the first place in the math competition. Anyway, Agui, this kid, is just a reading material. But ......," Liu Yuanhe paused, "and some people in the village always say that he is stupid in his mind. ”

"Hey, those people are just mouthful. Wu Cuimei said disdainfully, "They must have seen that their children were not as good as Ah Gui, so they said such things." ”

"Well, it should be, but anyway, it's a good thing that the child is willing to learn on his own, even if it's really stupid, he shouldn't say such things. ”

Agui doesn't care much about that.

When he went out in the morning, his mother told him that when he saw the uncles and aunts in the village, he must greet people with a smile on his face, and he must not be rude.

However, he didn't want to do that.

Because, he really can't tell which uncle should be called uncle or uncle, and which aunt should be called aunt or mother-in-law. Sometimes he really felt that it was harder than the hardest math problem to sort out the people of this large village one by one.

Math problems are always changing, but people's appearance and clothing are the same every day, sometimes there are too many people, forget the name, call the wrong one, people are not happy.

Last time, he met a man in the village, and he really couldn't remember whether he wanted to call him the second uncle, the third uncle, the fourth uncle, the fifth uncle, the second uncle, the third uncle, the fourth uncle, the fifth uncle, or the second uncle, the second uncle, the third uncle......

When he really couldn't remember, he said hello with a smile: "Where are you going?

I thought to myself, this is the most ordinary and ordinary greeting, and no matter what, you can't go wrong.

However, the man snorted heavily with his nose with a straight face, and did not respond to his greeting.

He asked suspiciously, "I greeted you, why didn't you ignore me?"

The man snorted angrily and scolded: "No name or surname, do I know who you are talking to?"

The conscience of heaven and earth, within a radius of 100 meters at that time, there were just two of them, and they met each other head-on, not to greet him, but to whom did they greet him?

Since then, Ah Gui doesn't like to greet people very much, and sometimes when he sees people in the village, he will take a detour to avoid it.

It is also because of this that some people in the village say that he is stupid in reading.

It doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter.

I went to school, started my day's study life, and in the evening, I walked back to the village.

He didn't have any friends, and he walked a few kilometers of mountain roads back to the village outside Xishan Village from the Hope Primary School of the village committee, all by himself.

He doesn't like to form cliques, and he doesn't say anything flattering, plus he has a problem, so other children don't like to play with him very much.

His problem is that he likes to walk and recite texts or ancient poems at the same time.

The point is, even so, this guy's feet are very fast, and the other friends stop and go, and it takes more than an hour to get home, but he half walks and half runs, and returns home in less than half an hour, leaving the other friends far behind.

As a result, some children who return late will inevitably be reprimanded by their families: "Look at Agui, he came home at half past four after school, why did you go? Why did you come home so late?"

In this way, Agui is naturally even more unpopular.

However, Agui doesn't care about any of that.

When he walked into the door with brisk steps, he happened to see his mother killing fish in the yard.

It was not a big fish, but a small one, the largest of which was half the size of the palm of his hand, and the small one the size of a finger.

However, he still ran over happily and asked his mother excitedly, "Mom, do we have any fish to eat tonight?"

Gui's mother is in her forties, and her years of hard work make her look like a woman in her fifties.

She was so thin that there was not a trace of excess flesh on her body, and even her eye sockets were deeply sunken.

However, when he saw his son coming back, he still smiled and squinted his eyes, squeezed out the folds on his face and replied: "Yes, today is the second day of February, it's a festival anyway, Mom just went to the river to catch some fish, not a lot, but I can make you a bowl of fish soup to eat." ”

"My favorite fish soup is my favorite. Agui squatted aside, ready to reach out and grab a small fish, wanting to help her mother squeeze out the fish intestines in the fish's stomach.

But my mother stopped: "Agui, don't move." ”

She looked at the sky and asked, "What time is it?"

Ah Gui hurriedly ran to the hall, looked at the old-fashioned gossip clock hanging on the wall and had no glass mirror, and replied loudly: "Mom, it's just five o'clock." ”

"Oh, it's still early, Ah Gui, there's a hundred yuan on the table in Mom's room, you take it out. ”

"Huh?" Ah Gui didn't quite understand, but still went to get the money.

In his mother's small, cluttered room, Agui saw a wad of scattered bills on a table in the corner that had lost all the red paint, and he counted it, and it was exactly a hundred yuan.

took the money, returned to the yard, and handed it to my mother: "Mom, is that it?"

Agui's mother glanced at it, nodded and said: "Well, yes, Agui, you send this money to Brother Qingshan, this is the money that your brother Qingshan sent you to sell the bamboo shoots yesterday, Mom took it to the town this morning to sell, and sold it for a hundred yuan, Mom was greedy, and she kept ten yuan for her hard work, this hundred yuan, you send it to Brother Qingshan, remember to tell him, saying that it was originally one hundred and ten yuan, but Mom took ten yuan to take the car." ”

"Well, got it. ”

"And. Ah Gui was about to leave, but his mother stopped him and said, "Ah Gui, we can't take other people's money for nothing, ten yuan is also money, there are a few fish here, you send it to Brother Qingshan, just say that it is worth the ten yuan." ”

Agui took the plastic bag handed by his mother and looked inside.

There are a few big fish in it. Although this big fish is not really big, it is the largest fish that my mother has caught, the size of half his hand.

He looked at his mother hesitantly, and said with some reluctance: "Mom, today is the second day of the second month of February, and today is the ...... holiday."

Mom smiled, "Yes, so, I'm not going to make fish soup for you." ”

Ah Gui looked at the few small fish in the white porcelain bowl on the ground, and said with some grievances: "However, those fish are not enough for us to eat." ”

The fish in the bowl is so small that it is more than half smaller than the fish in the bag.

If you give the fish in the bag to Brother Qingshan, then tonight, my mother will say that she has eaten something good at noon, and she is a little too tired, so she doesn't want to eat meat.

Today is the second day of the second month of February, today is a holiday, how can my mother not have meat to eat.

With tears in his eyes, he tried his best to say calmly: "Mom, if you don't give the fish to Brother Qingshan, I'll catch more fish for him on Sunday." ”

"Oh, the meaning is different. Mom looked at Ah Gui patiently and taught, "Ah Gui, Mom took ten yuan, and ten yuan can buy a big fish, let's give Brother Qingshan a few small fish, and we will take advantage of him." You said that if my mother didn't take ten yuan, my mother would have to pay for the bus from her own money, which would be equivalent to my mother making ten dollars less today. ”

"Ten yuan, when the weather is hotter, I can buy you and my sister a pair of slippers. Do you say?"

Ah Gui wiped his eyes vigorously and nodded: "Well, I'll send it right away." ”

"Be careful, don't fall. ”

"Got it. Agui nodded, holding the money, covering his pocket with one hand and carrying the bag with the other, and ran in the direction of the old village like a rabbit.

The old village is not far away.

For a child like Agui who trots home from school every day, the few kilometers of mountain road from the outer village to the old village are not far.

Moreover, he is not carrying a schoolbag now, and the whole person feels a lot lighter, and when he runs, it is like a gust of wind.

He was a little excited, his eyes looked at the red clouds of the West Mountain from time to time, and his cheeks on both sides were flushed.

The reason why I was excited was probably because I thought of the new slippers that my mother said.

He needed a new pair of slippers, and he didn't want to wait until summer came, and he would be laughed at by the other friends in his sister's pink slippers. Although he didn't care about that, it would be a great pleasure to have a pair of slippers of his own.

The reason why he was excited was probably because he was able to give the money to Brother Qingshan, so that the fact that the family's cattle ate the tea of Brother Qingshan's family could somewhat reduce the burden in his heart.

Although Brother Qingshan said that he didn't blame him, all kinds of temperaments inherited from his mother made him naturally feel guilty.

However, yesterday I helped Brother Qingshan pick bamboo leaves, and today I helped him sell bamboo shoots to send money, so that the stone in his heart is lighter, the person is lighter, and the pace is getting faster and faster.

When he ran to Brother Qingshan's house, before he walked into the door of someone's house, his stomach rumbled because of the smell of a strong fragrance.

Oops, this damn belly, it doesn't scream in the morning, it doesn't scream in the evening, but it screams at this time.

It would have been embarrassing to scream again in front of their uncles and brothers later.

He stood in the courtyard, wanting to rest for a while, and then go in when the fragrance was far away and his stomach was gone.

However, for some reason, instead of drifting away, the tempting fragrance became more and more intense, and his stomach became more and more cheerful, as if he were fighting.

Nasty, nasty. He smacked himself hard in the stomach. As a result, the stomach rebelled against him with a louder voice.

"Agui?" a voice sounded in front of him.

Ah Gui raised his head in a panic, just in time to meet Liu Qingshan's puzzled eyes.

Liu Qingshan looked at Ah Gui who suddenly appeared in the courtyard in confusion, and asked, "Ah Gui, aren't you going to school today?"

"I'm out of school. Agui embarrassedly covered his cooing stomach and replied, "I'll bring you something." ”

"What is it?" Liu Qingshan looked at Ah Gui, and saw that the child's forehead was covered with sweat, and his face was flushed, so he thought that he must have run in.

What was it that would be worth it?

Agui first took out the money in his pocket and handed it to Brother Qingshan: "Brother Qingshan, this is the money you gave me for selling the bamboo shoots yesterday, early this morning, my mother went to the town to sell bamboo shoots, and by the way, she also sold the bamboo shoots you sent, and sold them for one hundred and ten yuan, and then, my mother said that she took ten yuan for the hard work, so here is one hundred yuan." ”

His bright eyes reflected the clouds of the West Mountain, like two pink pearls, which looked incomparably precious.

Liu Qingshan was stunned and looked at the colorful loose banknotes held in Ah Gui's small black palm, speechless.

I don't know what to say, as if nothing I can say can describe his mood at the moment.

How could there be such a stupid person in this world? If something was given to him, it was his, even if it was sold for 10,000 yuan, it was also his, so why did he send it all the way away?

What's more, it's only a hundred dollars.

"And this. Ah Gui handed the plastic bag he was holding in his other hand to Liu Qingshan, "This is the fish that my mother caught, she said that she couldn't take your ten yuan for nothing, so I asked me to send this fish to you together." ”

Liu Qingshan stood in place, looking at the plastic bag in Ah Gui's hand, looking at the colorful loose banknotes, and his heart felt like a boulder had fallen, almost shattering his internal organs.

It's stupid, this family is so stupid.

However, he is so stupid and cute.

Liu Qingshan looked at Agui with a smile and laughter, listened to the sound in his stomach, and asked, "Agui, do you want to eat?" ”

"Huh?" Ah Gui was stunned, smelling the soul-stirring fragrance in the air, enduring the strong hunger in his stomach, and shook his head stubbornly, "No, I don't want to, I still have to go home to feed the chickens." Brother, you take it, I'm leaving. ”

He stuffed the things in his hand into Brother Qingshan's hand, turned his head and was about to run.

Liu Qingshan stopped him: "Agui, wait a minute." ”

"What's wrong?" Ah Gui looked back at Brother Qingshan who was facing away from the sunset, and saw that he was shrouded in the light of the sunset, like a god who came down from the sky.