Liu Qingshan is not a mother-in-law, since he said that he wants to build a chicken coop, he will not be sloppy.

He called the boss of the town overnight, and the next morning, the boss sent cement, reinforced steel, sand, gravel and other materials needed to build the house.

However, before that, Liu Qingshan went to the outer village early in the morning to find Agui's house.

The sky was not yet very bright, and the morning wind was still mixed with the night stars.

It stands to reason that few people should have gotten up to work at this time. However, because there are a lot of cattle in the family and a lot of other farm work, Ah Gui and his mother have to get up before dawn, and after a simple breakfast, they have to go out to cut the cow grass when it is slightly bright.

Cows are not like chickens and ducks, they can fill their stomachs by eating a little bit. Cows eat a lot and eat a lot, so the mother and son have to go to different places every day to cut the cow grass.

Mountain people raise cattle, and do not specialize in planting cattle grass, but will directly harvest all kinds of grass that cattle love to eat from the mountains, such as barmao.

After they came back from mowing the cow grass, Ah Gui went to school, and Ah Gui's mother went to work in the fields.

As for the cows, they had to be kept in the cattle pen all day, and it was only on the weekend when the two siblings had a holiday that they had time to take them out for a walk.

In fact, in the past, they would drive the cattle directly into the mountains, and when the cows had eaten their fills in the mountains, they would go home. But later, because the mountain people opened up a large number of wastelands, no matter which mountain the cattle went to, it was very likely that they would destroy what was grown in other people's mountains.

As a result, the cattle were confined to the pen.

However, this is fine, but it saves you from worrying.

When the mother and son were about to go out, they unexpectedly saw Liu Qingshan.

Strange, it's just dawn this day, why is he here?

Agui's mother hurriedly beckoned: "Qingshan, where are you going so early?"

"Brother Aoyama. Agui also greeted Brother Qingshan with joy.

Even though it had been a night, the delicious food he enjoyed last night was still swirling in his mind at the moment.

Liu Qingshan stepped forward and said with a smile: "I know that you have to cut the cow grass every morning, so I came here without breakfast." ”

"Is there anything important?" Agui's mother asked anxiously, "Is there something wrong?"

"No, no, no, it's fine. Liu Qingshan saw that Agui's mother was a little nervous, so he quickly waved his hand and vetoed, "It's okay, nothing happened, I just want to ask you if you are willing to help me work." ”

"What's the job?" Agui's mother frowned and asked puzzled, "What kind of work?"

"That's right. My family is now going to build a chicken coop, the area is a bit big, but I don't plan to ask someone to do it, I plan to do it myself, it's just that I can't do it alone, and my dad is not available, he wants to plant orange trees, and he has to fertilize the forest, so he can only help occasionally, so I want to ask my aunt to help me work, you see, you have time to dig bamboo shoots now, you must have done almost all the work in the mountains, right. ”

Agui's mother nodded happily: "Yes, now yes, everything that should be fertilized in the mountains has been fertilized, and peanuts can't be planted yet, so there is time." ”

"That would be great. Liu Qingshan said happily, "In that case, then Auntie go and help me work." Although it may be a bit hard to help me work, you see, if you dig bamboo shoots for a day and sell them for a day, it will only cost you a hundred yuan, but if you go to work for me, I can give you two hundred yuan a day. ”

Two hundred?

This number made Agui's mother and Agui both wide-eyed.

Although Agui is still young, he also knows that two hundred yuan is a lot.

I remember one time, he got sick and went to the hospital, and after medical reimbursement, the hospital asked them to pay a few hundred yuan.

However, at that time, my mother did not have much money left, and after taking it all out, there was still a gap of two hundred.

This made my mother anxious, and she begged the doctor with wet eyes but an apologetic face, saying that she didn't have so much money on her now, and she would send it later, but the doctor disagreed, saying that if she didn't pay the money, she couldn't be discharged from the hospital, and if she couldn't be discharged, she would continue to incur expenses.

In the end, in desperation, my mother, who has never troubled others, had to trouble the village chief with full guilt.

Two hundred yuan is not much for most people, but for Agui's family, it is too much, so much that it can make my mother's tears fall.

Another time, the Chinese teacher at my sister's school asked the students to buy a set of extracurricular reading materials, which cost nearly 200 yuan. Although the teacher said that it was not mandatory to ask for it or not, the teacher would ask the students to take out one of the books and read the articles in it together, saying that it could help improve their writing.

In desperation, my sister had no choice but to ask her mother for money.

However, it was the autumn harvest season, and my mother had been busy harvesting the family's crops, so she didn't go into the mountains to dig mountain goods such as five-fingered peaches, so she only had twenty or thirty yuan left in her hand.

If it weren't for the chickens and ducks at home laying eggs all the time, my mother would have collapsed due to overwork and lack of nutritional supplements during such a busy farming season.

When I heard that a set of extracurricular reading materials would cost nearly 200 yuan, I instantly turned my mother's hair gray.

That night, the lights in her house were kept on, and she kept rummaging through the cabinets, hoping for some miracle, hoping to find some forgotten money in some forgotten trouser pocket.

But the family is so poor, how can there be forgotten money.

Mom didn't find anything.

She didn't say anything.

Because she knew that if her sister didn't have that set of books, not only would the teachers dislike her, but her classmates would also look down on her.

So, early the next morning, my mother quietly went out.

By the time she came back in the evening, she already had a few hundred dollars more in her hand.

No one asked where the money came from, but that night, my mother and sister hugged me in the room and cried for a long time.

At that time, Agui was still young, not even ten years old, and he didn't understand anything. He quietly leaned on the door frame, poked out half of his head, and looked at his mother and sister in the room, crying bitterly.

To this day, he still hasn't figured out how the money came from.

However, from the tears of his mother and sister, he knew that two hundred yuan was a lot, so much that his sister, who had not done well in the past, would soon become the top of the class.

He looked at Brother Qingshan, who had given him a lot of vegetables yesterday, in amazement, and thought of when he stood in the sunset at dusk yesterday, with his back to the West Mountain, like a bodhisattva with golden light all over his body.

He must be a living bodhisattva, he must be a living bodhisattva who saves suffering. Agui thought excitedly.

If my mother can help Brother Aoyama with her work, maybe my sister's high school tuition will be settled this year, and she won't have to sell the family's cows.

He was overjoyed at the thought of this, and his whole face was full of joy and excitement.

Agui's mother's heartbeat also accelerated. She looked at Liu Qingshan in front of her with the same surprise and asked, "Qingshan, you, do you think, me, is it okay?"

She couldn't believe it, how could such a good thing fall on her?

If you want to be diligent, there are more people in the village who are more diligent than her. If you want to say that you have great strength, there are more people in the village who have great strength.

However, how did such a good thing fall on her?

Seeing that the eyes of these two mothers and sons burst out with a light like the scorching sun, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but smile and said: "Of course it's true, auntie, what am I lying to you for, in this way, in the morning, you and Agui go to cut the cow grass first, and after cutting the cow grass, before ten o'clock, you just go to my house, we will work eight hours a day and end at six o'clock in the evening." ”

"Six o'clock?" Gui's mother hesitated.

After all, there is still a child at home, and if she doesn't finish work until six o'clock and goes home, I'm afraid it will affect Agui's homework.

Because, if she doesn't come home until six o'clock, then the family will have to feed the chickens and ducks, find goose intestines, cook chickens, and clean up the manure of the cowpen.

Ah Gui seemed to see his mother's thoughts, so he hurriedly said: "Mom, it's okay, I'm already an adult, I'll do the things at home, you go and help my brother work." ”

"Can you?" asked Mom, a little unbearable.

"Well, I can. Agui nodded vigorously, "My homework, I will write it at school." ”

"That's, that's fine. Agui's mother gritted her teeth and looked at Qingshan Dao with a firm face, "Qingshan, is it starting today?"

"That's right. Qingshan smiled, "From today onwards, then you will go and cut the cow grass first." Wait a minute, cut the cow grass, and you will go to my house. ”

"Good. ”

After the three separated, Qingshan went home, and Agui followed his mother to cut the cow grass.

When cutting the cow grass, Ah Gui happily said: "Mom, if you can help Brother Qingshan work for ten days, will you be able to have two thousand yuan?"

"yes. Agui's mother nodded, "If you can work for ten days, it should be two thousand yuan." ”

Two hundred dollars is a lot better, let alone two thousand.

Although the family can sell two cows every year, because the cows are not big, one cow is only a few thousand yuan, and two cows are only ten thousand yuan.

This money is very reluctant to maintain the expenses of a family and to support the food and clothing of two children.

Fortunately, Agui's mother goes into the mountains every year to dig five-fingered peaches or yams or bamboo shoots and other things, so she can always take her two children with her.

If it had been someone else, I guess I would have sold my daughter a long time ago.

But Agui's mother didn't do this, she felt that no matter how hard and tired she was, she had to raise the child by her side. This is a mother's mission, and it is also the spiritual sustenance that a mother relies on to survive.

Agui got her mother's affirmation, so she said: "If that's the case, then this summer, when my sister goes to high school to enroll, will our family have money?"

Mom hung her head and mowed the lawn, but didn't speak.

Agui was very excited, and said to himself: "My sister is so good at studying, in the future, I will definitely be able to be admitted to a good university, and when the time comes, when my sister graduates from college, she will definitely find a good job." ”

Agui's mother was stunned, raised her head, looked at her son with a bright smile in the gray morning light, and asked, "Agui, if my sister stopped studying, what would you think?"

Agui looked at her mother in astonishment: "Why? Why doesn't my sister study? Her grades are so good now, not to mention being admitted to the best high school in the county, even if she is admitted to the best high school in the city, there is no problem." Mom, are you worried about your sister's tuition? I heard my sister say that as long as she takes the first place in the exam and goes to the best school in the city, but when the time comes, if she chooses a high school in the county, the county school will give her a scholarship so that she doesn't have to pay any tuition. ”

Agui's mother listened to her son's words and smiled reluctantly: "That's good, that's good." ”

After mowing the cow grass and returning home, Agui is ready to go to school.

My mother washed a handful of red dates, stuffed them into Ah Gui's school bag, and said, "Ah Gui, if you feel hungry or a little dizzy at school, eat a few red dates, you know? ”

"I know, Mom, I'm about to vomit, when can I stop eating red dates, I eat every day, I'm about to grow jujube trees." Agui said coquettishly.

Mom smiled, touched Agui's head, and said, "Our family is not as good as other classmates' families, my mother doesn't have pocket money for you, so she can only give you red dates." Wait, when you grow up in the future, you don't need to eat red dates. ”

As she spoke, Agui's mother's tears instantly poured down like a river bursting its embankment.

Agui panicked, and hurriedly said: "Mom, I'll eat, I eat every day, don't cry, I'll eat if you let me eat, I won't give it to others." Even if I grow up and get old in the future, as long as you let me eat, I will always eat it, I don't like to eat snacks, I like to eat red dates. ”

Agui's mother turned her back, wiped her tears, and choked up: "Agui, go to school quickly, don't be late, mom is going to work." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll go. Ah Gui said and ran out of the house like a rabbit.

He was so thin, so light, like a lively rabbit.

Liu Qingshan is already working.

The owner of the town is sending all kinds of materials needed to build the house one after another.

He pushed the bucket cart alone to transport the materials from the flat ground below the house to the yard.

Gui's mother also arrived at nine o'clock.

As soon as he saw Qingshan, he hurriedly said, "Qingshan, I'm sorry, I'm late." ”

Qingshan smiled: "It's not too late, I know you have a lot of things at home, so didn't I say it, you just come before ten o'clock." ”

Agui's mother shook her head and said, "It's too late at ten o'clock, Qingshan, let's change the time, arrive before nine o'clock, and then, finish work at five o'clock, do you think it's okay?"

Liu Qingshan said with some puzzlement: "But, Mother Gui, you are working alone at home, if you advance the time to nine o'clock, can you come?"