"No, I don't. Liu Qingshan said, "Auntie, you just pile bricks honestly, I have so much strength, and I am young, pulling this thing is easier than farting, you don't have to be embarrassed, just pile bricks with peace of mind." I'm a careless person, and it's okay to do heavy work, but it's not good to pile bricks. ”

In this case, Ah Gui's mother didn't insist anymore and continued to pile bricks, but she piled harder and faster.

At the end of the day, she was stunned to pile up all the bricks.

Liu Qingshan was very surprised: "Auntie, you can't do this, you work too fast, you have to slow down, otherwise, if you are tired, there will be no one to help me work." ”

"Haha, it's okay, it's just a brick, and it's not a big job. Ah Gui Ma smiled, "It's okay for you to do such heavy work, and I'll be fine if I pile up bricks." ”

Seeing that Ah Guima's expression had not changed much, Liu Qingshan was a little relieved.

The materials were pulled up, the bricks were piled up, and after that, the foundation was dug up.

Because the excavator can't come up, it can only dig by itself.

Liu Qingshan took Agui's mother to dig the foundation, and after digging for a day, the foundation was formed, and after that, it was to lay the foundation and start the house.

Although it is just to build a chicken coop, because it is his own thing, Liu Qingshan is more meticulous, trying to use the best materials and do the best work.

In this way, after more than ten days, the chicken coop was completed.

Of course, the formwork can't be dismantled yet, but the floor has been capped, so that the chicken coop is finished. In a few days, when the formwork is dismantled, it will be ready for use.

This was the last day of the chicken coop construction, and in order to celebrate the completion of the chicken coop, Liu Qingshan asked his father to go to the town to buy vegetables.

Because it happened to be the weekend, Qingshan also called the two sisters and brothers.

When Ah Hua, who was a few years older than Ah Gui, came to the house, Wu Cuimei was very happy, and pulled Ah Hua to ask long and short questions, as if she wanted to turn Ah Hua into her daughter.

Liu Qingshan said with a smile: "Mom, Ah Hua is only in the third year of junior high school, you ask people so many strange questions, don't ask people stupid." ”

"You're stupid. Wu Cuimei saw her son Rory disturbing her conversation with Ah Hua in a hurry, so she said angrily, "You cook your rice well, don't talk." ”

Liu Qingshan stuck out his tongue and shut up.

Ah Hua is a few years older than Ah Gui, and is currently in her third year of junior high school, and if nothing else, she will be able to go to high school next semester.

Ah Hua is taller than Ah Gui, fatter, and whiter, but because she is a girl from the countryside and the conditions at home are not good, she doesn't seem to have the so-called slim feeling, giving people more of a simple and natural.

Her face is round and fleshy, and her eyes are like Gui's eyes, always shining brightly.

When the adults cook, she is very diligent.

After a period of busy work, it finally came to the most exciting part - eating.

Because of the limited number of ingredients in the town, there are only some common dishes on the table today, such as stuffed chili, button pork, bullfrog, sweet and sour carp, roast duck, salt-baked chicken, and so on......

Although these dishes are ordinary, for Ah Hua and Ah Gui, they are rare and delicious.

The two siblings looked at the food on the table, and their already twinkling eyes became brighter and brighter.

However, Liu Qingshan was more interested in a plate of fresh bracken on the table than the two siblings, who were interested in meat.

"Dad, is this the bracken you picked up this morning?"

Although the bracken on the table was also served on a plate, the amount was pitiful, and if Liu Qingshan's blood basin was to eat it, it would be a matter of one or two bites.

Liu Yuanhe was glad that his son saw his masterpiece first - a plate of slightly charred bracken.

He said happily, "Yes, I picked it in the morning." ”

"Why is there bracken now?" said Gui's mother, puzzled, "Didn't it take a while to have it in the past?" ”

"I picked it in the old woods, where it was a little warmer and the bracken grew faster. Liu Yuanhe explained, "There are no mountains and forests around our village, but if you go a little farther and have a higher mountain, you will have it." ”

"No wonder, I said that when I was digging bamboo shoots before, I hadn't seen bracken before, and it's only been ten days, and you can find such a beautiful bracken. Agui's mother smiled and said, "After a few days, the weather will be warmer, and the bracken in the mountains will be up, and you can pick bracken to sell again." ”

"Yes, in previous years, when bracken was just around, it could be sold for more than ten yuan a catty. Liu Yuanhe suddenly remembered the story of picking bracken and selling it before.

So, at the dinner table, everyone ate delicious food while listening to Liu Yuanhe, the braggart king, tell the story of his past.

Especially Ah Gui and Ah Hua, the two children are simple-minded and especially easy to be deceived, and several stories adults know that they are fake and boastful when they hear them, but the two children listen to them with relish and call them magical.

Liu Qingshan looked at the two of them and smiled helplessly. Such children are the most likely to be abducted.

After eating, Liu Qingshan began to calculate the salary with Gui's mother.

Liu Qingshan said: "Auntie, according to what we said before, a day's salary is two hundred yuan, and if you do twelve days of work, that is two thousand four hundred yuan." ”

After that, Liu Qingshan handed Agui's mother a wad of red banknotes.

Twelve days, two thousand four.

Agui's mother looked at the banknote in Qingshan's hand in a daze, and forgot to reach out to pick it up.

Agui reminded: "Mom, take it quickly." ”

Ah Gui's mother came back to her senses and hurriedly reached out to take the heavy pile of bills.

The banknote itself is not heavy, but the friendship of Aoyama.

Although Agui's mother didn't say anything, she knew very well in her heart that the reason why she was able to get this reward was not entirely because of her hard work, but because of the kindness of the child Qingshan.

Even if she hadn't worked in other places, she knew that it would be impossible to earn so much money for 12 days of work according to local labor prices.

If nothing else, let's just say that it's good to help people pick oranges, and the salary is only sixty yuan a day, and the better boss gives seventy, and they don't cover food.

Because in such a mountain village, the most important thing is labor.

If Qingshan is openly looking for workers, it will be 100 yuan a day, and there will be a lot of people to do it, let alone 200.

Therefore, Agui's mother knows very well that she can get so much remuneration, not because of her own efforts, but also because of Liu Qingshan's friendship.

She said gratefully and emotionally: "Qingshan, thank you, if it weren't for you, my aunt would not have been able to save so much money even if she had been digging bamboo shoots for a month." ”

"Brother Aoyama, thank you. The two children also thanked them.

This made Liu Qingshan of Ma Daha a little embarrassed.

Alas, although I have always been a kind person and have been thanked by many people, it is the first time that a family has said thank you to him at the same time.

He scratched the back of his head and laughed: "Haha, thank you, this is all earned by your mother's hard work, and it has nothing to do with me." You have to remember that your mother works very hard every day to provide for your education, so you must work hard, you know?"

Agui nodded vigorously: "Well, Brother Qingshan, don't worry, I will definitely study hard, and when I grow up in the future, I will definitely work hard to repay my mother." ”

Ah Hua didn't say anything, just smiled.

Because it was difficult to walk at night, Liu Qingshan drove Agui's family to another village.

When he returned home, before his ass sat on the stool, Liu Yuanhe asked: "Qingshan, why are you going tomorrow?"

Liu Qingshan looked at his father suspiciously: "Why are you asking this?"

"Hehe, if you have nothing to do, come with me to open the way. ”

"Open the road?" Liu Qingshan was a little puzzled, "What road?"

Liu Yuanhe longed: "I thought, your second grandfather is old, and he still picks pine resin every year, I see that our pine wood has also grown up, so I also want to open the road to pick pine resin this year, and I can save one or two thousand yuan in a year, do you say it." ”

"There's no need. Liu Qingshan was not very happy that his father would do this.

Because picking pine resin is too hard, although my father's health is getting better and better, he is almost fifty years old, and he can take care of the orange grove, and there is really no need to pick any pine resin.

"Why is it not necessary, our pine trees are already very tall, and we can pick pine resin. Liu Yuanhe said, "If I don't pick it now, in a few years, I will be old and I won't be able to pick it." I don't want to be like your second grandfather, who is still picking pine resin in his seventies and eighties. If you want to pick, take advantage of the fact that you are not too old to pick for a few years. ”

"Oops, it's not necessary. Liu Qingshan vetoed, "You just take care of your oranges, and there is no shortage of your money at home, besides, like our new pine forest, if you want to pick pine resin, you have to build roads, how troublesome." ”

"It's because of the trouble, that's why I want you to build the road together. Liu Yuanhe said, "Look, now, you don't dig the bamboo shoots, the chicken coop has been built, and then you have nothing to do, so it is better to follow me to repair the road, and when the road is repaired, you will follow me to learn to pick pine resin." Otherwise, you have nothing to do, just idle all day and let the people in the village gossip. ”

Liu Qingshan smiled.

It turned out that his father's statement that he was going to build roads was false, because he was afraid that his son would have nothing to do, he would be idle, and he would be gossiped about by the villagers.

"What do you say? Liu Qingshan said, "I don't eat other people's food, what do others like to say, what do you care about?"

Liu Yuanhe was a little unhappy when he saw his son being so stubborn: "Then you have nothing to do anyway, can't you go with me to find something to do?"

"Who says I don't have anything to do?"

"Now that the bamboo shoots are no longer dug and the chicken coop has been built, what else do you have to do?" asked Liu Yuanhe angrily.

"I'm going to pick bracken tomorrow. ”

"Bracken picking?"

"Yes, bracken picking. ”

"It's okay, what are you picking bracken for?" Liu Yuanhe was even more unhappy when he heard his son's words, and thought that this was just an excuse made by his son temporarily, "Although that bracken is delicious, but in order not to work, you went to pick bracken, which is too ignorant." ”

"Dad. Liu Qingshan exclaimed speechlessly, "I'm not picking bracken to eat." ”

"Isn't it for food?" Liu Yuanhe said suspiciously, "Do you still want to sell it?"

"It's meant to be sold. Liu Qingshan also said with a little wistfulness, "I've thought about it, if even the mountains and forests near our village haven't grown bracken yet, then the villages in other places must be the same." Then, as long as I can pick the bracken, I will definitely be able to sell it at a high price, just like the winter bamboo shoots and bitter bamboo shoots before, as long as I take the lead, I can make money. ”

Listening to his son's plan, although Liu Yuanhe had some undeniable appreciation, he also had some questions: "The problem is, no one else can find it, why can you find it?"

Liu Qingshan said with a smile: "Dad, it's not that others can't find it, but that others don't want to find it, don't you also say it, you have to go to a deep mountain to find bracken, then other people will definitely feel that it is not worth it, so naturally they are reluctant to look for it." ”

Moreover, the average person's foot is simply not able to travel back and forth to the mountains in one day, and pick bracken one by one.

Therefore, Liu Qingshan knows very well that as long as he seizes this opportunity, he will definitely make another profit.

In this way, before dawn in the morning, he set off quietly again as he had gone into the mountains to look for honey.

As time progressed, the sky in the mountains and forests brightened earlier day by day.

Therefore, when Liu Qingshan walked halfway, the sky was already completely bright.

At this time, the clouds in the mountains and forests were steaming, and in the endless green sea, there was a faint fog rising.

They are like hazy, pale milky veils, fluttering and swaying in the morning breeze, twisting their bodies in graceful dances, slowly swirling among the trees.

The morning sun shines through the tall canopy, throwing down thousands of sharp arrows and silently cutting light yarns.

The dew that was implicit at the tips of the leaves seemed to have been cut, and they were forced to break away from the tips of the leaves, shimmering with colorful dreams while crushing into the soft and tender grass.

The breeze continued to blow, and the cut light yarn slowly flipped and gradually dissipated.

The mountains and forests that have dispersed the morning mist are clear, just like the blue sky without half a trace of clouds at the moment, clean and transparent, like the bubbling mountain spring water.

The mountain spring water moistens the earth, and the earth is fragrant.

The colorful flowers bloom one after another, and after a few days and nights, they fall into the water and go away together.

It's a pity that bracken is a fern that relies on spores to reproduce, and has no flowers and fruits, only rhizomes and leaves, so it can't bloom colorful flowers, and it can't run with the stream to the distance.

In terms of appearance, bracken is probably more or less inferior.

Therefore, it desperately absorbs the nutrients of the earth and makes itself round and strong, like a chubby little doll.

These little dolls are scattered in all corners of the mountains and forests, but if there is one place where they grow the most, it is still some barren slopes that grow a lot.

Liu Qingshan remembered some barren slopes he had encountered when he went into the mountains to look for honey before, so he followed his memory to find these barren slopes.

These barren slopes range in size and size, with the larger ones occupying half of the mountains and the smaller ones the size of a football field.

But, without exception, they are overgrown with all kinds of ferns.

Therefore, Liu Qingshan guessed that at this time, those ferns would probably have grown delicious bracken.

So, he hurried to the nearest barren slope to himself.