The village chief took Zhou Xiaobai to a small workshop, and when he entered the door: "This is a small pickle processing factory in our village, and Lele is sitting in it to wash vegetables. ”

"Can I go in and have a look?"

"You come in with me! The boss is very good, and he is willing to keep her so young to fight here. ”

When I went in, I looked at the vegetables drying everywhere, including cabbage and mustard greens, and several women were doing their work in a division of labor.

Seeing their village chief, they greeted the village chief while working.

When Zhou Xiaobai approached Wang Lele, standing on the small stool, she stopped washing vegetables in her hand, wiped her tattered clothes with her wet hands, and said with a smile:

"Uncle Zhou, Uncle Village, how did you come here. ”

"It's okay, I'll come to see you work, you continue to leave me alone. Zhou Xiaobai frowned slightly and smiled.

"Hmm!" she nodded, and got back to work.

Zhou Xiaobai stood aside and watched, and the village chief said to him: "Doctor Zhou, I have to deal with other things, so I'll go away first." ”

"Hmm!"

After the village chief left, Zhou Xiaobai said to Wang Lele, who was washing vegetables: "Lele, can you teach your uncle how to wash vegetables?"

"Hasn't Uncle washed the vegetables?" Wang Lele looked up at Zhou Xiaobai and said suspiciously while tearing off the 6 percent dried cabbage piece by piece and putting it into a basin of water to clean.

"Hmm, can you teach me?" Zhou Xiaobai scratched his head and pretended to be embarrassed.

"Well, washing vegetables is actually very simple, mainly because there will be mud and dust in the position of the vegetable heads. ”

Wang Lele picked up a piece of the vegetable, then put it in the water, rubbed the bottom of the vegetable leaf, shook it, and then threw it into a clean vegetable box on the side, "That's it, it's very simple!"

Raising her gloved hand, she said with a smile: "But wear gloves, otherwise if you wash it for a long time, your hands will rot." ”

Zhou Xiaobai pretended not to understand and picked up a Chinese cabbage, slowly washed it according to her method, threw a washed vegetable leaf into the vegetable frame, and looked at her with a look of expectation 1 to get praise and said, "Is that so?"

"Uh-huh, Uncle Zhou, you're very smart. She actually smiled at Zhou Xiaobai with the child's innocent smile.

Zhou Xiaobai scratched her nose with her hand with water, and said with a smile: "It's Lele's good teaching." How much can you earn in a day?"

"My work is not as fast as the aunt here, and the working hours are not as long as the aunt's. The boss is very good, as long as I come, I will be paid for a day, 50 yuan. Wang Lele said gratefully.

"Well, the owner is nice. ”

"Uncle Zhou, you are also very good. ”

"Really?" Zhou Xiaobai smirked slightly, and then asked her, "Lele, have you mastered all the methods of making pickles?"

"Hmm!" she nodded, pointing to the vegetables that were drying, "and let the picked cabbage or mustard greens dry in the sun until they are 6 percent dry, and then we will wash the vegetables." ”

Pointing to the people and cauldrons in the distance, "After washing off the dirt, scald it with boiling water." ”

Pointing to the larger jars in the shade, "Finally, control the surface moisture, sprinkle the appropriate amount of salt, put the jar, and after cooling, you can seal the jar." ”

Zhou Xiaobai, who followed the customs, wiped his hands dry with his own clothes, and then hugged Wang Lele off the small stool, put it on the ground, squatted down, and said to her:

"Lele is very smart, what does Lele want to do in the future?

"Doctor! I want to be a doctor when I grow up. ”

"Why?"

She hesitated: "Because ......"

She didn't continue, her eyes were red, and Zhou Xiaobai said worriedly: "What's wrong?"

Crying: "Treat grandpa and grandma." ”

"Didn't I treat Grandpa's illness?"

Crying: "Grandpa and grandma are so old and easy to get sick, so you can take better care of them by studying medicine." ”

As she spoke, tears finally welled up in her struggling eyes, "They are already old, and if we don't take care of them, they won't be able to stay with us for many years."

Cough... Dad and Mom died early, it was our grandparents who raised us, they are so old, I take care of them, who else will take care of them. ”

Zhou Xiaobai felt as if she had been stabbed from the inside by a knife, and her hands helped her wipe the tears that kept gushing out, and said sadly:

"Don't cry, uncle, help you realize your dream of becoming a doctor, let you take good care of your grandparents." ”

"Hmm!" he nodded sharply.

...... Zhou Xiaobai didn't let her do it anymore, and asked her to take herself to his brother.

They went to a big cattle farm, and they were stopped by the security guards and refused to enter.

Fortunately, a manager of the cattle farm happened to come back in a pickup truck loaded with staff ingredients, and he happened to know Wang Lele, so he let them in, but they had to be disinfected.

After they and the administrator were sprayed with a spray of potion, the administrator took them to the location where Wang Xiaoming worked.

In the distance, they saw a small figure dragging a cart larger than him, holding a shovel taller than him, shoveling mixed hay fodder for the buffalo to eat.

The administrator pointed to the small figure in the distance and said, "That's Xiao Ming, go over by yourself! ”

Zhou Xiaobai nodded: "Hmm! Thank you!"

Zhou Xiaobai took Wang Lele's rough calloused little hand and walked over.

Wang Xiaoming, who was working, didn't see them in the past, and was still working hard there.

With a shovel, he laboriously shoveled the hay into the feeding cao for the cattle, and the cows were eating and chewing with relish with their heads down.

Zhou Xiaobai and Wang Lele, who walked in, shouted, he glanced at them, but he didn't stop what he was doing, and smiled: "Sister, Uncle Zhou, why are you here." ”

Wang Xiaoming's smile was as deep as an ice thorn in Zhou Xiaobai's heart, Wang Lele ran over, and threw the hay into the feeding Cao Cao with his hand: "Brother, I'll help you." ”

When Zhou Xiaobai walked to their side, he wanted to help them, but he raised his hand and stayed there, quietly looking at the two brothers and sisters who were enjoying themselves in suffering.

Wang Xiaoming, who was working, glanced at him, saw his incomprehensible sneer, and asked while working, "Uncle Zhou, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou Xiaobai shook his head and said calmly: "It's nothing!

He put the shovel down and said in a frightened hurry, "Is something wrong with my grandfather or grandmother?"

The little girl smiled innocently, approached him, grabbed his hand, and said with red eyes:

"Brother, no, grandparents are fine. It was Uncle Zhou who said that he would support us and our grandparents, and we didn't have to work. ”

The little boy looked at him silently.

Zhou Xiaobai, who looked at the little boy looking at him with adult eyes, was full of heartache, and asked him heartache: "Don't you want to?"

The little boy shook his head, "Thank you!" He grabbed his sister's hand and continued to swing the shovel vigorously, shoveling hay shovel after shovel,

"Our family is a burden, Uncle Zhou is a good person, I don't want our family to drag Uncle Zhou down, you ......"

Listening, Zhou Xiaobai's heart trembled, he couldn't listen anymore, he walked over, squatted, hugged the two of them into his arms, stroked the back of their heads, and said sadly:

"Silly boy, uncle is not afraid of being dragged down, the main thing is that you can't drag down uncle. Listen to your uncle, and let him take care of you. ”

Zhou Xiaobai knew at this moment why he loved money so much, and he didn't love money because he liked money.

Rather, when he needs it, he can use it without hesitation. With the help of this, money can be turned into another flavor......

The little boy leaning on Zhou Xiaobai's arms was silent, and the little girl was silent.

Zhou Xiaobai pushed them away, grabbed the little boy's hard little shoulders with both hands, looked at him with eye contact, and said seriously: "Don't you want your sister, grandfather, and grandmother to live a good life?"

The little girl grabbed Zhou Xiaobai's shoulder, looked at her brother, and whispered: "Brother!"

The perseverance and self-esteem in the heart of the strong little boy who did not ask for others were shaken, and his shaking eyes looked at Zhou Xiaobai's eyes: "Then how are you going to help us?"

Zhou Xiaobai looked at him as he unloaded his strong weapon, Zhou Xiaobai smiled slightly: "Do you want to go to the city with me to live, or will I give you some money every month to improve your life." ”

The smiling little boy looked down and thought: "Grandparents have lived here all their lives, although it is very bitter, but this is a place where their emotions are hidden and scattered, and they must not want to live outside." ”

Zhou Xiaobai listened to his little adult's words, pinched his thin skin and tender flesh, but now his rough face smiled and said: "You little boy knows a lot and is quite profound! Okay, uncle knows what you think." ”

If someone said that he was a little kid before, he would definitely go back, because he wanted to stand up to this family, although he knew that he didn't have enough strength, but now he smirked at Zhou Xiaobai.

And the little girl who grabbed Zhou Xiaobai looked at the smile on their faces, and she smiled innocently: "That's, my brother is smart, Uncle Zhou, don't look at my poor family, we picked up a lot of books in the garbage heap in the town to read." ”

Zhou Xiaobai rubbed her with one hand, but now she had a rough face, and said with a smile: "Lele is also very smart, okay!"

The little girl smirked as she listened.

"In the future, you will study well, and if you want to read any books, you can tell your uncle, and your uncle will buy it for you, and you will not pick up things from the garbage heap, okay? ”

"Hmm!" The two smirking siblings nodded and threw themselves into Zhou Xiaobai's arms.

Zhou Xiaobai stroked their little backs and said with a smile: "Then let's go back!"

The little boy pushed Zhou Xiaobai away and said seriously: "No, I haven't fed these ten cows yet? There is a beginning and an end to life, Uncle Zhou, you should take my sister back first! I will go back today after I finish my work. ”

"It's so sensible, it's so sensible that it hurts people's hearts. Uncle good help you finish, and then we will go home together, okay?" As he spoke, Zhou Xiaobai picked up the shovel and shoveled the hay.

The two siblings looked at each other and smiled, and they divided their labors, taking brooms and shovels to clean up the manure of the cattle pen he was going to clean......