"Xiao Chen, what did you say? I heard you right, you want to do a business, and you want me to help you rent a house?" In the evening, the third uncle Hu Jianqiang came back from Fanger Town, and Hu Mingchen intercepted him on the path.

As soon as he heard Hu Mingchen say that he wanted to do business and ask him to help him talk about renting a house with others, Hu Jianqiang's reaction was even greater than Hu Yandie's.

"Third uncle, you heard me right, you have to help me no matter what. Hu Mingchen prayed.

The reason why I asked the third uncle for help is nothing more than because the third uncle has always taken good care of their three sisters and brothers, even if he is married, among several uncles and aunts, Hu Mingchen's family is also closest to Hu Jianqiang's family and has the best relationship.

In Hu Mingchen's memory, when he was a child, during the Chinese New Year, only the third uncle who worked outside would give their three siblings a few yuan of New Year's money. So when encountering difficulties, Hu Mingchen's first thought was the third uncle Hu Jianqiang.

"I can help you, but your parents can rest assured that you are doing business? You are so young, what should you do if you are recognized as a cheater, and how much capital do you have? These are all problems, doing business is not as simple as you think. The third uncle took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff and asked continuously.

"I only make gadgets with a unit price of a few cents, and I mainly sell them to students, who will cheat me? ”

"The second sister-in-law left you more than 40 yuan? Isn't she at home, why do you want to give you so much living expenses?" asked Hu Jianqiang suspiciously.

"Don't you know? My dad had an accident in the old state and went to the hospital, and my mom went there to take care of him. ”

"Nobody told me, oh, if I had known, I'd have gone with your mother. Is your dad badly injured?"

"I don't know exactly what it is, it's the second father over there in Sanjiazhai who came back with a message, my mother has been gone for a few days, and there is no news yet. For this matter, my mother borrowed a lot of money, and there were debts everywhere, and there was no way, we had to do something ourselves, so I came up with the idea of doing business, and it was impossible to wait and rely on. Hu Mingchen said.

"Here, I've got ten dollars here, you take it. Hu Jianqiang put the cigarette in his mouth, reached out and touched it in his trouser pocket, and took out ten yuan to hand it to Hu Mingchen.

"Third uncle, I don't want your money, you take it back, we still have money. Hu Mingchen reasoned no.

Hu Mingchen knew that Hu Jianqiang went to work as an apprentice, and he didn't have much salary, so it would be good to be able to maintain smoking for a month. Ten yuan, if you don't get it, it's all the belongings he has now.

"If you want to take it, you can take it, don't you still have to do business? All the living expenses are used to trade, what do you three sisters and brothers eat? Hu Jianqiang forcibly stuffed the ten yuan into the pocket of Hu Mingchen's old shirt.

The third uncle's personality Hu Mingchen knows that he has stuffed it all in his pocket, if he takes it out and returns it to him, he will feel uncomfortable, so he will simply accept it, and if he has the ability in the future, he will thank and repay him well.

"Third uncle, did you promise to help me?"

"I don't know what you're doing, I don't know, but I'm in favor of your idea. I can't help much in your family's situation, if you really want to do it, I will support you to gamble. It's just that the capital is only more than 40 yuan, in addition to the rent, in addition to the car fare, I really don't know how much else you can take. The third uncle supported his mouth, but in his heart, he was also worried.

"Take as much as you can, waiting for good luck and relying on others is not a way, people die in the sky, they don't die for thousands of years, I'm afraid of a bird." Rely on heaven and earth, and ultimately have to rely on yourself. ”

Hu Jianqiang looked at Hu Mingchen as if he didn't know him, he couldn't imagine that Hu Mingchen was not only a lot more sensible, but also able to say such things, not at all like the nephew he knew in the past.

"Third uncle, I, my face is dirty, why are you staring at me like this?"

"No, I haven't seen you for more than a week, how do I think you're a completely different person? Hu Jianqiang shook his head and said.

"Third uncle, isn't there such a big thing going on in the family, how can I continue to mess around? People will change, especially under the pressure of life, if I don't change again, I'm afraid my family will collapse." Hu Mingchen said half-truthfully and emotionally.

"I'll go to that family with you tomorrow afternoon, and in the morning your three fathers' house on the Qingshui River will make wine, and I'm going to help." ”

There are two main branches of the Hu family in Duge Township, one is in Huangni Village and Sanjiazhai, and the other is in Qingshui River, which mainly stems from the liberation of Hu Erhua's uncle who moved to Qingshui River and spread branches there. The two villages are an hour apart, but the cousins often move back and forth between them.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if it's early or late, what kind of wine does he do at home, my dad is not at home, should I go for a while?"

"His family moved to a new house, and he did a moving wine, so don't go, you are a little doll, and it won't be a problem if you go, I'll help you talk about it when the time comes." Okay, you go back quickly, I'll be back tomorrow, I'll call you. ”

"Okay, thank you, Uncle San. ”

When I got up early the next morning, after Hu Mingchen's three sisters and brothers ate breakfast, Hu Mingchen mentioned the matter of money to his sister again.

"Xiao Chen, I thought about it in the middle of the night last night, and I was still a little worried. You haven't done business at all, how sure are you?" Hu Yandie carried a hoe, planning to take her sister to the field to hoe corn.

"Sister, I'm ninety percent sure, just believe me, I told the third uncle yesterday, and he supports it. We can't continue to be cowardly, cowardice can't be angry. I thought that my sister would readily agree to cooperate after one night, but I didn't know that there were signs of retreating, so anxious that Hu Mingchen wanted to jump.

Hu Mingchen is ready, just this east wind. If Hu Yandie is unwilling, then isn't Hu Mingchen full of bags?

Hu Mingchen has to persuade his sister to come up with money no matter what, and he has no way out on the road of life. If you don't hurry up, once you are deflated, it will be even more difficult to win Hu Yandie's cooperation.

"Third Uncle support?"

If you don't believe it, if he goes to Qingshui River and comes back, you can ask him, I don't need to lie to you, he also gave me ten yuan. "Yesterday, Hu Mingchen didn't give the ten yuan given by Hu Jianqiang to his sister, and now in order to attract her to come up with more money, Hu Mingchen can only take it out.

Hu Mingchen never planned to swallow the ten yuan alone, but he had already made up his mind to put the ten yuan into the purchase.

If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent, Hu Mingchen is resolutely open and wants to do a big job.

"Okay, wait for the third uncle to come back, if he ......."

"Sister, brother, what kind of voice are you listening?" Hu Yandie's words were interrupted by Hu Yujiao before she finished speaking.

Hu Mingchen and Hu Yandie held their breath and listened carefully, and they really heard the sound of suona blowing.

"Don't think about it, there must be another dead family who came to the sacred tree in our house to pray for blessings. Hearing that it was the sound of suona, Hu Yandie asserted.

There is a camphor tree in Hu Mingchen's house under the well, and the tree is so tall that two or three people may not be able to hold it hand in hand. It's just that the tree has been struck by lightning more than once, the upper half is black, the trunk is opened into several petals, and the lower half is hollow, and there are often some small animals who use the hollow tree hole as a temporary home. Still, every year at the beginning of spring, the tree sprouts new shoots and shoots.

I don't know when it began, this tree was called a sacred tree by the locals, and its branches were always covered with dense strips of red cloth, becoming an important local place of prayer.

It is said that at the beginning, if the children of any family cried at night, the adults took the children to the sacred tree to burn some incense, burn some paper, kowtow a few times, and the children would stop crying, which was very spiritual.

Later, after the death of the elderly, the children of the children would ask the husband to blow and blow to the bottom of the tree to pray for blessings, as if to tell the news of the death of the ancestors to the sacred tree, hoping that it can help the ancestors become immortals in heaven, and then protect the descendants of the future generations to be smooth and prosperous, blessed and long-lived.

Even though the tree now looks a little old in recent years, its status as a sacred tree is still maintained.

However, this so-called sacred tree did not bring much help to the Hu family, their Hu family should still be poor, and what should not be good or unsmooth, on the contrary, this tree in turn brought a lot of trouble.

If it's just someone else's family bringing their children to pray for good health and safety, then it's better, and the most troublesome thing is that someone who has passed away comes to the house.

After a long time of noisy people, the team of people who came had to walk through the field of Hu Mingchen's house, and a large part of the land was trampled on so hard that they couldn't plant. In addition, they will burn a lot of incense and paper, which will cause a miasma of smoke and ignition of the surrounding weeds and crops if they are not careful.

In Hu Mingchen's memory, in order to avoid these troubles, after he entered junior high school, the sacred tree was cut down. Since there is no sacred tree, the believers naturally stop coming and seek all kinds of other ways of praying and worshipping.

Now that the sacred tree is still there, it is inevitable that someone will come to make a noise from time to time.

"Sister, why don't we go and see which one is dancing under the sacred tree?" Hu Yujiao happily proposed.

Children, they like to watch the excitement, and it's understandable.

"What's so good, many times a year, it's not that I haven't seen it, it's just like that, it's not interesting. Hu Yandie has no interest in watching people dancing under the sacred tree in their own fields.

Hu Mingchen, who was standing next to him, was expressionless and didn't say a word, and on the surface, it seemed that he was also interested.

In fact, Hu Mingchen is not only interested, but also very, very interested.

His mind was now rapidly revolving around the sacred tree.

Isn't Hu Mingchen's family facing huge difficulties now, so Hu Mingchen thought, can he make some articles on the sacred tree?