When "Brother Xian" returned home, everyone was busy. Sun Junqing was holding his trouser legs and tidying up the small garden and vegetable garden in the yard; the four children were surrounding Liu Jianjian, seriously watching him make toys out of wood; Zhao Lina and Liu Chunyan were preparing lunch, and "Brother Xian" shouted to the kitchen: "When is this time, you have started to make lunch?" Liu Chunyan replied: "Finish eating early, get out early, and prepare to make dumplings, can you eat?" "Brother Xian" wondered and said: Can it be simpler, but change to a different one? Liu Chunyan walked to the door of the kitchen, looked at "Brother Xian" and said, "That's not good, go out and get dumplings into the store!" "Brother Xian." Zhao Lina stood behind Liu Chunyan, squeezed out her head, and said jokingly: Seeing your brother, don't cry!

"Brother Xian" waved his hand and stood in the middle of the courtyard, everyone was doing their own thing, but he seemed to be out of place with the whole atmosphere, and he didn't know what to do. Liu Jianshe saw him standing there, doing nothing, and said while busy with the work in his hands: Guixian, just now I packed some things for you with Lina and Yanyan, you take them with you when you leave, you go and have a look, see what else you need!

"Brother Xian" said angrily: What do you bring, carry the stones into the mountains! When I walked into the house, I put a bunch of large bags and small bags, ready to "count", and was attracted by the old photo album on the sea of tea, and I hadn't seen it for more than ten years. I took the photo album and opened it - three good students, outstanding class cadres, county-level individual sports champions, and city-level competition runners-up...... Full of splendor, full of memories, and intoxicated. Liu Chunyan quietly walked to the back, looked at the "virtuous brother" who was distracted, and deliberately said: Brother virtuous, don't be intoxicated, look at the things that are packed for you!

Only then did I pull open the bag - dried sweet potatoes, walnuts, peanuts...... It is all local products, "Brother Xian" looked at these, took out a few things and tasted them, some excited and happy, and the taste of the years will burst out instantly between the lips and teeth.

After "Brother Ghost" "sacrificed his life to save people", he surrounded a group of "fox friends and dog friends", learning the scenes in TV and movies, "blood for the alliance" and "brother and brother". There will be such a scene in the yard every day - lying here, squatting there, some are anxious, some are proud, and the "ghost brother" will shuttle back and forth in this gang - this is the "ghost brother" to the brothers, he asks to play after the homework is completed, and he will not be able to help each other, saying that it is helping, and a few are naturally able to copy it, and how can it care about the help of others. As long as you can finish your homework as soon as possible and start playing. On the way out of school, a group of people chased after me, hooked shoulders and backs, and walked the streets and alleys mightily. Go down to the river to fish, go up to the mountains to collect bees, go down to the fields to hunt pigweed, go to the trees to eat persimmons, pick flowers in spring, catch shrimp in summer, catch dates in autumn, and play with fire in winter; steal sweet potatoes in the middle of the mountains and apricots from the courtyard wall; ride on 28 bars with oblique feet, play acrobatics on the wheels of the car; cut the hair of female classmates, and pretend to be a ghost and scary in the night...... Needless to say, do everything, dig out your mind, and play with all your ideas, you can give up.

Just after Liu Chunyan was successfully admitted to the Municipal Health School and got the admission notice of the secondary school. Liu Jianjian's unit is in sharp contrast to the two individual bookstores in the town, which are mostly teaching aids, student books, student stationery, and student periodicals, and the shops are crowded with people all day long; their stores are still mostly traditional literary masterpieces, academic journals, and political reading materials, and the stores are obviously much more depressed, and they are rarely visited and have many doors. Liu Jianjian's income naturally declined year by year, month by month, although carpentry work is still done, but obviously people are more interested in the glamour of finished furniture. There is little carpentry work, the unit salary is low, and the two sisters and brothers who are "waiting to be fed" also need money.

Liu Chunyan's tuition, accommodation fees, daily necessities, and new clothes add up to about 600, which is enough for his monthly salary. Liu Jianshe deliberately set aside a month's salary as Liu Chunyan's school expenses, and put it in an envelope in the drawer of the dressing table in the bedroom. One day during the summer vacation, it happened to be a fair, and the hot weather steamed the white swaying earth. There were few pedestrians on the street, and the "ghost brother" and his brothers were bored, so they walked around the street, looking at people's wheat jelly stalls, and their legs couldn't walk. The two of them each carried their pockets, it was empty, it was better to go swimming in the Qishui River, and halfway through, "Brother Ghost" looked back at the cold powder stall under the shade of the tree, thinking about the sour, spicy, and cool taste, and his mouth was full of saliva. He turned to his brother and told him to wait, and he went back to find money. "Brother Ghost" thought as he walked, Liu Jianshe took the envelope containing his salary and put it in the bedroom that day. Running home, there was no one at home, he slipped into Liu Jianjian's bedroom, it was easy to find the envelope in the drawer of the dressing table, and when he saw that no one had drawn one, he ran away, sweating profusely, and the two sat on the stool in front of the stall, burying their heads and eating two bowls of each of them. With the rest of the money left, I ran to the store next to it, looked at the tempting packaging of the fashionable instant noodles, two packs per person, bread, pots, etc., and when I was about to go down to the river with my things, I happened to run into a popsicle seller pushing a bicycle, and bought a few more popsicles.

The two sat in the shade of the trees on the embankment of the Qishui River, set up a formation, prepared a delicious meal, ate and drank to their heart's content, and then went down to the river to swim. At this moment, Liu Jianshe came back from the town and was hit squarely, and the "ghost brother" was stunned, looking at Liu Jianjian's wide-eyed eyes, and he kept hiccups. Liu Jianshe didn't say anything, only said: Guixian, take your things and go home!

As soon as he entered the house, Liu Jianshe began to ask loudly: Where did you get the money to buy those things? "Ghost Brother" stopped hiccuping after this roar, raised his head, his two eyes widened, looked at Liu Jianshe with an angry face, and pointed to the dressing table in the bedroom. As soon as I finished pointing it, I felt the heat on my face, the buzzing of my ears, and the Venus in front of me. Liu Jianshe took out the rest of the money from his pocket, put it back in the envelope, and went to work in the woodworking shed under the shade of the tree, leaving the "ghost brother" alone in the house sobbing "woo-woo-wow-" and crying and falling asleep on the bed.

When eating dinner, Liu Chunyan woke up the "ghost brother", he had already forgotten everything just now, after washing his face, he saw Liu Jianshe sitting at the dinner table and remembered what happened, he was stunned, and he didn't dare to move. Liu Chunyan couldn't pull it, Liu Jianshe raised his head and said to the "ghost brother": Come and eat! "Ghost brother" then walked over and sat down, Liu Jianshe put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said: Guixian, are you still wronged? Do you know what you did wrong today?

"Brother Ghost" didn't dare to answer, his face was still slightly painful, but he lowered his head and touched the edge of the table with his hand. Liu Jianshe continued: The money in the envelope is the tuition fee left for your sister, as well as the tuition fee for your school year.

Liu Jianshe sighed and continued earnestly: Originally, I didn't plan to tell you two, since this is the case, you are both older, Yanyan is about to go to secondary school, Guixian, you are also about to go to junior high school, you are about to become adults - since we are a family, then we have to bear it together and get through the difficulties together. Recently, you can also see the economy of my family, my carpentry work is also less, and the unit salary is also less, so don't say save money, but don't be extravagant and wasteful.

Liu Chunyan and "Ghost Brother" both looked at Liu Jianshe calmly, full of sadness and hope, Liu Jianshe squeezed and said with a smile: I am also thinking of a way, the town came from the south to make new furniture, I also met with them today, and said that I can go to them to work every day after work, take the opportunity to learn the craft, and slowly we can also make new furniture at home.

Liu Jianshe picked up the chopsticks and said to Liu Chunyan and the "ghost brother": Let's eat—there will always be a way, you two can go to school well. Guixian, Dad's shot is a bit heavy today, but the problem of money is not a small problem. You stole sweet potatoes from other people's houses last year, and you didn't eat much of them in the fire, so that people can find schools, forget about it—you can be naughty and naughty, but you can't hurt people; and money is not stolen with your hands, you have to pay the price with your hands! What is that sentence called, Yanyan?

Liu Chunyan raised her head, bit her chopsticks and said: A gentleman loves money - take it in a good way!

Oh-yes-yes-yes——, from this semester onwards, Guixian will give you 10 yuan of pocket money every month, and Yanyan will give you 20 yuan, Guixian, you won't think I give my sister more than you, right? After Liu Jianshe finished speaking, he asked "Brother Ghost" with a smile, "Brother Ghost" was full of joy, forced to laugh, and kept shaking his head.

My sister is going to live in school, and she has to take care of herself, be broad, isn't it? Liu Jianshe said, Liu Chunyan wanted to say something, but was stopped by Liu Jianjian, and said: My brother and I are at home, we won't be hungry or frozen!

The sun set, the cool breeze blew in the yard, blowing on the body, the day's sultry disappeared, and I was immediately refreshed. Liu Chunyan took the instant noodles bought by the "ghost brother" and let the two of them taste them, and the "ghost brother" looked at the packaging bag and looked at the bowl, and said in surprise: I was fooled, I thought it was the same as the one on the bag! The three of them raised their heads and laughed with a cool breeze.