On the day of the Qingming Festival, I don't know what happened, the news that the old Zhang family moved to Jiangchuan City suddenly spread all over the village, which made the calm and quiet Yunxi Village suddenly agitated.

In the mountains, at home, in the gossip centers of the village, this incident became a hot topic of discussion among the whole village.

When the villagers gossip, they all sighed, the two brothers of the Zhang family are really the first-class capable people in the village's first generation, just eight or nine months, the family has become so prosperous, tractors, big color TVs, big refrigerators, these precious things that ordinary crops dare not look forward to, but the old Zhang family is carrying them home one by one, and now it is even more unbelievable, they actually bought a big house in the city, ready to open a powder shop to do business, Zhang Yunfeng, a local farmer, has greater ambitions! It's to pull off the layer of mud on his body and turn into a noble city person.

It's impressive!

On the morning of this day, many people in the village went to visit Zhang's family, and moved together with Zhang's family, and now seeing that Zhang's family is going to develop, the villagers in addition to sincere help, but also more or less with a little bit of attachment to the meaning of feelings, in the future they have something to go to the city, there is also a place to stay, there is a person who can speak.

In fact, the old Zhang family has no direct relatives in the village, his family was thin in the previous generation, Zhang Yunqi's grandparents gave birth to four children successively, but only his father Zhang Liushun grew up smoothly.

Further up his grandfather's generation there are three brothers, after the branches are scattered, there are two cousins and one cousin below, according to the blood relationship, Zhang Yunqi's generation has not yet produced five suits, but there are fewer interactions on weekdays, that is, during the Chinese New Year, after Zhang's father was imprisoned, the relationship became even weaker.

There are a lot of relatives on my mother's side, his grandmother is still alive, in addition to Zhang's mother, there are three sons, that is, Zhang Yunqi's three uncles, among the three uncles, the eldest uncle Liu Hongjun is honest, and the younger uncle Liu Hongxing is simply greedy, but the best one is the second uncle Liu Hongbing, who has made a little money from a small adobe factory over the years, but his personality is a little selfish and greedy.

One thing that Zhang Yunqi will never forget is that after his father had an accident and went to prison last year, Zhang's mother begged him for a whole day at his second uncle Liu Hongbing's house in order to make up for his and Chunlan's tuition, and he agreed to borrow money very embarrassed.

But this is also conditional, the second uncle Liu Hongbing told Zhang's mother that he was short on hand and couldn't come up with money, so he could only help borrow some usury, and he had to pay double the interest after selling flue-cured tobacco.

Last year, when Zhang Yunqi and his brothers resold flue-cured tobacco, the second uncle Liu Hongbing heard the news and knew that his family had made some money, so he immediately ran to his house to collect debts.

Liu Hongbing's family is in Liu Jiachong, under Yunxi Village, and Zhang Yunfeng's family is going to live in the city, in fact, he has known about it for a long time, but he has not taken any action.

Until the day of the Qingming Festival, he was sure that his nephew Zhang Yunfeng would go back to the village to sweep the tomb, so he rushed to Lao Zhang's house at the time and did not inform his other two brothers.

In fact, Liu Hongbing also knew in his heart that the bad incident at the beginning of last year made his sister feel bad about him, eh! Now that he thinks about it, he also regrets not being at the beginning.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fact in front of him, he wouldn't have dared to believe that these two nephews were so capable and silent, and they had made a broken family so prosperous, and now they were going to open a shop in the city to run a big business.

Eh! I'm still shallow in my own vision, and I've ruined a big thing for a little bit of a small profit! Right now, he wants to renew this family and ask his nephew Zhang Yunfeng to do him a favor, but I'm afraid it's very difficult, but things have already happened, and I can only find a way to make up for it.

After Liu Hongbing came to the door with six catties of fried peanuts, he looked very enthusiastic, and talked a lot with his nephew Zhang Yunfeng about moving to live in the city, and then said slowly: "Yunfeng, your noodle shop is about to open, have you hired a waiter?"

Zhang Yunfeng shook his head and said, "Not yet." ”

Liu Hongbing rolled the cigarette butt under the sole of his shoe and stepped on it, and said: "That's good, I just want to tell you about your sister Chunli, you also know, your sister doesn't want to farm at home, saying that there is no prospect, and she is clamoring to go out to work, but she is a little girl's family, and there is no acquaintance to guide the way, I really don't worry about letting her go out, you always need a waiter to open a powder shop, just let your sister Chunli go to the city to help, she is diligent and her own person, you can use it steadily." ”

Zhang Yunfeng smoked a dry tobacco stick and did not squeak.

Zhang's mother has been staring at Liu Hongbing since he entered the door, she knows this second brother too well, and it will be no good thing to come to the door, after hearing the words of the second brother, she walked over directly and said: "Red Army, the store has not opened yet, but all the funds in the family have been smashed in, and now I don't plan to ask someone to do things, and I can't afford to hire people to do things." You can understand this nephew, he just went out for a wandering, and he can't take care of himself. ”

Liu Hongbing nodded and said, "That's also done, when Yunfeng's shop is booming, bring Chunli with her, and let her go to the city to see the world." ”

Neither Zhang's mother nor Zhang Yunfeng responded to him.

Liu Hongbing's face was not embarrassed, he sat on the chair and pulled Zhang Yunfeng to pull around, one moment talking about his brother-in-law Zhang Liushun being in prison, and another time saying that Zhang's mother was not in good health and went to the city to recuperate.

As soon as he left, Zhang Yunqi and his brothers carried a bamboo basket of money, paper and candles, and took their two younger sisters to Jiangjunling to sweep the tomb.

The climate in April has warmed, the sun shines warmly on the thawed earth, in the mountain bay near the General Ridge, the peach blossoms are once again in full bloom, on the gentle slope on both sides of the river, the grass buds that have just come out of the ground and the dead grass are mixed together, yellow, yellow, green and green, showing a full of vitality, and the willow silk is like a girl's hair, swaying in the spring breeze.

When burning paper and lighting candles, Zhang Yunqi looked at Yunxi Village, which was covered by green, and was in a very comfortable mood, but he didn't know when it would be the next time he came here.

After sweeping the tomb, Zhang Yunqi called Chunlan to stop, and the two walked behind, he wanted to tell Chunlan about the fact that after the family went to the city, she stayed alone in Longwan Town Middle School to study.

This is also a helpless thing, in three months, Chunlan will take the high school entrance examination, and the temporary transfer to the city will definitely affect her studies, on the other hand, with Chunlan's results, it is unlikely that Longwan Town Middle School will easily let her transfer.

The whole family went to the city, and she stayed in the countryside as a girl, Zhang Yunqi knew that Chunlan must be uncomfortable in her heart, but in the past two days, her increasingly beautiful face did not show the slightest sadness.

This sister is indeed sensible when she is young.

Zhang Yunqi still remembers that when she was less than five years old, she pestered her mother to weave a small basket for her, held it on her arm all day long, staggered behind her buttocks, and went to the back mountain to collect firewood.

Over the years, no matter how hungry she is, no matter how tattered her clothes are, Zhang Yunqi has never seen her ask her family for anything, when she is at home, she is proficient in housework, herding cattle, picking pigweed, planting seedlings, and picking tobacco leaves; when she was studying, she had no money to buy pens and paper, so she picked up garbage in the town by herself, and she still went back to get the first place in the exam, and got rid of the second place N grades.

Perhaps her young heart understands that their family used to be a poor poor family, and the children of poor families had to fight for their own lives!

Zhang Yunqi stretched out his hand and patted Chunlan's little head, and said: "I will move to the city tomorrow, and when the time comes, I will send you to school first, you are in school, and you will stay in school on weekends, and if you have a holiday, you will take a car to live in the city, if there is no minibus in the evening, you will find Zhu Da and ask him to send you to Fengyang County and then transfer to the car." ”

Chunlan said, "Second brother, I know. ”

Zhang Yunqi took out a pink Aihua Walkman from his pocket and handed it to her: "The high school entrance examination will be in a few months, you don't have too much pressure, as for the grades, just let it be, no matter how crooked it is, my brother can ensure that you have a great future in this life, and play more with your classmates when you have nothing to do in school, don't always sit in the classroom and read books, this is a Walkman, you can usually listen to songs and relax." ”

Chunlan clasped her fingers on the delicate walkman: "This is very expensive, right?"

Zhang Yunqi said happily: "What does it matter if it is expensive or not? Your brother is not short of this money." ”