"Then, Qingshan, if you take the bracken to the county seat and sell it, will it be more expensive than selling it in our town?" asked Gui's mother.

Liu Qingshan nodded: "Yes, it must be more expensive, otherwise what's the point." ”

"Then, can I go with you at noon tomorrow?" Agui's mother said embarrassedly, "I'll try to sell it, if I can sell it, I will pick bracken to sell every day in the future." ”

Seeing that her eyes were shining, and she was talking so seriously, Liu Qingshan said with a smile: "Auntie, of course there is no problem, it's just decided, tomorrow at one o'clock at noon, you wait for me at the intersection of the outer village, and when the time comes, let's go to the county seat to sell bracken together." ”

"Haha, okay, thank you in advance, Auntie. ”

Gui's mother was overjoyed, threw away her hoe, and went to a farther place to pick bracken.

She thought, Aoyama is so helpful, she can't grab land and bracken with him.

Liu Qingshan picked bracken for an afternoon, and the next morning, he picked more than 100 catties of bracken in the mountains around the village, and finally made up enough for 600 catties.

After putting the bracken on the carriage, he drove to the outer village to meet Agui's mother.

However, when he arrived at the intersection of the outer village, he didn't see Agui's mother, and after waiting for a while, he saw Agui's mother walking down from the mountain road next to him.

She was carrying a bag of bracken on her shoulder, and when she saw Aoyama's car, she greeted happily: "Aoyama, why are you so early, I just came back from picking bracken, I didn't bring my mobile phone, I forgot the time, I'm really sorry, you've been waiting for a long time." ”

"It's okay, it's less than half a year now, it's okay. Liu Qingshan smiled nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter if it's early or late." ”

Gui's mother put the bracken on the carriage, but she was still embarrassed. She said, "Then Qingshan, you wait for me a little longer, and I'll go and bring the bracken that I picked at home yesterday afternoon." ”

"Okay, auntie, don't worry, you slow down. ”

Gui's mother also wanted to slow down, but the joy in her heart urged her to hurry up.

When I got home, I washed my face, drank saliva, didn't even eat lunch, picked up the bracken I picked yesterday afternoon, and went back to the intersection.

Qingshan was a little stunned: "Auntie, your speed is too fast." ”

"Haha, I can't help it, I think I'll be able to sell bracken soon, and I'm happy. Gui's mother sat in the back seat, a little embarrassed again.

Because the clothes she was wearing at the moment were the same clothes she wore when she went into the mountains this morning. There are not only various leaves on the clothes, but also some dirt. She felt dirty on her body, for fear of soiling Qingshan's car.

Seeing that she was sitting a little restrained, Liu Qingshan pretended to be annoyed and said: "Oops, no, I just forgot to change my clothes, my body is full of mud, and my shoes are full of mud, well, but it doesn't matter, haha, I bought insurance for the car, and people will give it a few car washes for free, it doesn't cost money to wash the car, and it doesn't matter if it gets dirty." ”

Although these words seemed to be talking to themselves, in the ears of Agui's mother, they secretly relaxed a little, and their bodies were not so stiff.

Agui's mother looked around at everything in the car, and said with envy: "Qingshan, I heard that your car costs hundreds of thousands, right?"

"Yes. Liu Qingshan replied while driving the car, "It costs more than 100,000 yuan to get all down, this is the money I originally saved to marry my daughter-in-law, but after thinking about it carefully, it is inconvenient to have no car, so I will use it to buy a car first, and as for the money for marrying a daughter-in-law, I will slowly save it later." ”

"Qingshan, you are so capable, and you can save it quickly, it is estimated that one year is enough. Agui's mother praised.

Qingshan smiled heartily: "How can I have an aunt, you have great ability, look at you, a woman works, not only raised two children, but also sent them to study, the point is that the grades of the two children are so good, to say that you have great ability, there is no one in the village who can compare to you." ”

Agui's mother also smiled, a little relieved, but also a little melancholy.

I am relieved probably because the fact is that as Liu Qingshan said, she not only raised her two children, but also did not sell her children like others because of the hardships of life, nor did she let her two children drop out of school and go home to help because of the hardships of labor.

In her opinion, everything is worth it. As long as the children are good, no matter how hard they work, it is worth it and it should be. The mother of the world has this kind of thinking nine times out of ten. As long as the child is well, no matter how hard and tired he is, what does it matter.

However, she was just a woman after all. She doesn't have the ability to go through the sky, nor does she have the ability to make a lot of money, and there are still many problems that her family has to face, so how should she go in the future?

Gui!

She suddenly thought of Agui. When the child went out this morning, he told her that he had scored a perfect score in yesterday's test, and that in the future, he would redouble his efforts to study and that he must go to the best university. And it's the kind that doesn't have to pay tuition.

It's so far away.

But she really hoped that it would never come.

Just let the time stay forever in the present, she has been working so hard with her two children, not later. Although it is hard now, it is already the happiest time of her life.

The two children went to school safely and happily, and she was also working hard and earning money not only to buy some new clothes for the children, but also to buy some delicious food for the children. This was indeed the happiest time of her life in decades.

Gui's mother tilted her head sideways, looked at the blue sunny sky outside the window, and prayed silently in her heart, time slowed down, slow down, don't take the child away from her.

"Agui's mother, originally, I can help you wholesale these dozens of catties of bracken to others, but I think you still have to take this opportunity today to sell it once, if it sells well, you can continue to sell it in the future. Liu Qingshan glanced out the window from the rearview mirror, and said to Agui's mother, who looked gloomy and sad, "You don't have to worry too much, there are still few bracken now, and you seem to be the kind of person who is very honest and kind, and people like you sell things, and it is easiest to sell them." ”

"Really?" Agui's mother came back to her senses, sat up straight, and replied, "Then I'll listen to you, go and try it myself, if it can really be sold as you said, then I can take the shuttle bus out to sell it in the future." ”

"That's right, the prices in the county are relatively high, and there are more rich people, no matter what you sell, it is better to sell than in our town. Moreover, it is convenient to take the car out early in the morning, there is no car on the road in the morning, the driver drives faster, you can come out in less than an hour, and the journey you come back will also take an hour, and it will take two hours to go back and forth. ”

Liu Qingshan's calculations made Gui's mother seem to see hope again, and her original melancholy look brightened up a little, and she seemed to be a lot happier.

Seeing this, Liu Qingshan continued: "Auntie, after a while, there will be more bracken in the mountains, if you can pick at least seventy or eighty catties of bracken a day, and sell them all, I estimate that selling them in the county town can be at least forty or fifty yuan more than selling them in the town, or even more, in addition to the round-trip fare of twenty yuan or so, it can also be dozens more." Moreover, there are more people selling bracken in the town than buying bracken, I estimate that dozens of catties of bracken may not be able to be sold for a whole day in the town, but it is different when you get to the county seat. ”

Liu Qingshan's words made Gui's mother's heart surge.

In a trance, she saw some light in this bleak world.

Can she make money too?

Can she make a lot of money too?

If she can also earn enough money, perhaps, she will be able to keep the child with her.

She flattened her mouth, didn't look away, continued to look at the scenery speeding by outside the window, mumbled, nodded and said, "Then, hehe, then borrow your auspicious words, I hope everything will go so smoothly in the future." ”

"Yes, yes. Liu Qingshan laughed and said, "Auntie, don't worry, people who work as hard as you will be fine." ”

Gui's mother's eyes were fogged and she smiled at the scenery speeding by outside the car window.

When he arrived at the county seat, Liu Qingshan first drove Agui's mother to the central vegetable market, and explained to the vegetable vendors at the door, asking everyone to help take care of Agui's mother, and then pulled the last batch of bracken to the restaurant that had signed the contract before.

Seeing the last batch of bracken delivered, the older manager couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Qingshan, you kid has made a lot of money in the past ten days." Tell me how many. ”

Liu Qingshan brought the bracken down and said with a smile: "Haha, there is not much money, it is just enough to eat." ”

"Heh, you can really eat, so much money, just enough to eat. The manager laughed, "If you say it, I won't rob you of your money." ”

Liu Qingshan just smiled innocently and didn't say anything directly.

The contract price of one pound of bracken is 20 yuan a catty, and in the past ten days, each restaurant has received about 600 catties of bracken.

The six stores are about 3,600 catties, and each catty is 20 yuan, which is more than 70,000 yuan.

I earned more than 70,000 yuan in ten days, and on average, it is equivalent to earning more than 7,000 yuan a day.

However, you must know that this more than 7,000 yuan a day is really not easy to come by. Every morning, before the big rooster in the yard crows, he has to go into the mountains to work.

Then in the evening, when all the nocturnal animals in the mountains and forests came out for activities, he returned home from the mountains.

Although he makes a lot of money, it can be said that no one in this world can bear this hardship.

Even if there are many hard-working people among ordinary people, it is absolutely impossible to complete this bracken with hundreds of catties every day without such a strong physique and strength.

Therefore, Liu Qingshan can only know the hardships he has endured, if he shows off to others how much money he has earned, others will only envy him, but he really can't see the hardships behind it.

If you say that you have worked hard, I'm afraid few people believe it.

Therefore, Liu Qingshan is not the kind of person who likes to say how hard he works in front of others, anyway, how hard he works, he knows and has a clear conscience, there is really no need to pour bitter water with others.

Moreover, compared to his hardships, the pain endured by others caused far more physical and mental damage than he did.

Although he also worked hard, but with superpowers, no matter how hard he worked, he felt that it was a trivial matter, and it passed in the blink of an eye.

However, for the toiling masses, some hardships are not only physical exertion, but also mental torture day and night.

Agui's mother looked at the endless flow of vehicles on the street and the buildings around the square, as well as the dazzling array of goods in those buildings, and felt a lot of emotion in her heart.

Although it is not the first time to come to the county, nor is it the first time to see such a landscape, after grinding my eyes in the difficulties of life day after day, I can still feel the waves and emotions in my heart when I look at these unreachable things.

She knew that she would never get this on her own.

Of course, she also knows very well that even if she envies and sighs countless times in her heart, these things have nothing to do with her.

However, this does not affect her humble fantasy in her heart: if, just say, if these things have her share, presumably, the children's future will be different.

She smiled bitterly at the corners of her mouth, and lowered her head to look at the bracken, which was already about the same, but her heart became more and more bitter.

Even if she sells bracken every day, and can sell so many bracken every day, and the price of bracken is so good every day, but even so, she has to save a lifetime of money to make up hundreds of thousands.

Hundreds of thousands, between these high-rise buildings, seem to be just a few bricks, but also just four wheels among countless cars.

However, for a woman like her, it is an unattainable and distant dream.

If she had hundreds of thousands, everything would have been different.

But she didn't.

She didn't!

"Agui's mother. A deep voice sounded in front of him.

Agui's mother was stunned for a moment, looked at the two pairs of shoes standing in front of her, slowly raised her head, and looked at the two charitable faces that appeared in front of her in shock.

A couple over half a hundred years old stood in front of the snakeskin bag in front of her, with their faces slightly drooping, looking at her very gently.

The corners of their mouths were slightly raised, and their eyes were full of soft light, obviously surprised and happy to meet Gui's mother here.

But Agui's mother seemed to have seen a ghost, her face was full of shock, and at the same time, she also dodged their gaze.

She was a little uneasy and flustered: "You guys...... Oh, by the way, this is my own bracken, but it's fresh, so let's take some and eat it. ”

With that, she hurriedly grabbed a handful of bracken from the snakeskin bag, hurriedly put it into a plastic bag, and hurriedly stuffed it into the woman's hand, as if she wished they had taken the bracken and left.

The woman and the old man looked at each other, slightly embarrassed.

Although the woman was more than half a hundred years old, she was probably well-maintained because of her family's good fortune, and there were not many gray hairs in her hair.

If it weren't for the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and the traces of age in her eyes, no one would have imagined her as a woman in her fifties or sixties, just by looking at her dress and the state of her skin.

The same was true of the old man standing beside her, who, though a little older, looked much younger than the other old men of her age.

In addition to the mental appearance, although the clothes of the two are not exaggerated and gorgeous, judging from the soft fabric and well-fitting cut, you know that the price is expensive.