My mother is fifty-three years old this year, which is still young at this age in 2020, but in 82 years, it is obvious that she is old.

Material scarcity and monotonous and hard life make people's spirits sluggish, and they naturally appear old earlier.

In her previous life, even if she made money by doing real estate, she was still reluctant to buy more food.

There are always a few oranges, two bags of candy, cakes, etc., in the room, which is the surplus of abundance. If there were a few more cans of food, drinks, etc., she would feel very full.

When I married my father, my great-grandmother was still alive, but she was also very old. Great-grandmother is also a person who has come through hardship, and the way of running a family passed on to her parents is naturally diligent and thrifty.

At that time, foundry such as spinning and weaving could earn money to support the family, and my mother recalled many times when she was young, spinning or weaving every night until the rooster crowed.

There is no way, the old lady lies on the bed, she will wake up without hearing the sound of weaving, and when she wakes up, she will curse. At that time, the younger daughters-in-law did not dare to resist.

After that, the family added population, and it was necessary to earn money to support the family. My mother told me that the most bitter thing is picking feet. Picking feet is to pick up the goods from Liuhe to the field, and walk two or three hundred miles. If you don't dare to pick up more, 60 or 80 pounds, that burden will be pressed on your shoulders for two or three days. After arriving at the destination, pick up another cargo and return to Liuhe.

Dad also picks feet, but he doesn't have much strength, he can only pick 60 pounds at most, and sometimes he needs his mother's help on the way.

Today, my mother rents a house at her uncle's house on the outskirts of Liuhe, and she usually does odd jobs. There are people who buy coal for others and transport it home, and there are people who wash quilts and curtains for others.

For more than a year, my mother has been taking care of children and working as a nanny. I don't know the specifics of Yang Changting, it seems that he goes to pick up the child every morning, takes it during the day, and sends it back at night.

How much is the monthly salary, and the confinement lady at that time didn't make much money. When you meet a good customer, you will negotiate at the beginning, and you will buy a set of clothes for the confinement lady, and you will need one or twenty yuan for the next set. The host and the guest get along, and the time with this child will be longer, from about one year old to about three years old.

Now, the mother has been taking the child for a year, and the child is more than two years old. It is more difficult to bring such a child, because at this time the child begins to walk, and the adult does not want to hold it.

In this way, unless the child is asleep, you have to watch and support the child to walk, and you can't let the child be too tired and coax the child to hold or carry it.

When I go to see my mother, I naturally can't be empty-handed, I have money on me, and I can't spend more and I have to buy food that my mother likes. Yang Changting bought a bag of cakes at a small shop halfway down, which is his mother's favorite food.

At this time, although there are also small shops, there are few of them. There are fewer goods in the store, except for salt, cigarette rolls, and bulk wine, just a few kinds of candy: cakes, orchid roots, rat droppings, and fruit candy is the most common.

Fruit candy (candies) is the cheapest, ten for a dime, and a handful to grab. At this time, money is hard to make, and adults and children have almost no pocket money.

Yang Changting saw the small shop, and the lack of materials made his heart move. This year, the production teams and households around Liuhe have definitely increased their grain production, and most families will accumulate grain, but some people will still start to think about what to do with the surplus grain.

In particular, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans and other miscellaneous grains, people in Liuhe and even Jiangshang Province despise the concept of miscellaneous grains and are not optimistic about these miscellaneous grains.

In this way, you can buy these grains for processing, and the machinery required for processing is really not difficult for you. What's more, there is also a machinery factory in Liuhe, and I am too familiar with the situation of the machinery factory.

Thinking that he could find another way to make money, and even let the fifth sister take charge of these things, Yang Changting suddenly felt much more relaxed.

After being reborn, the short-term pressure on the body is mainly how to solve the poverty of the family, let the fifth sister leave the prefabricated factory, and let the father go to the provincial hospital as soon as possible to treat stomach problems.

It doesn't seem too difficult to achieve such a goal.

It is four or five miles from Liuhe to my uncle's house, and it is now a suburb, but in 2005 this area was planned as an urban area, and by 2020, this area has completely become the center of Liuhe.

Along the road, there are vegetable farmland, planted peppers, eggplants, long pods, soybeans, etc., and the varieties are relatively monotonous. Eggplants and long pods begin to end, and some families have pulled out the old plants and are ready to plant garlic, rotten and cabbage.

The season of planting vegetables in the countryside village is later than that of the Liuhe vegetable team, such as eggplant and long pods, etc., are in season, and the peppers are just beginning to turn red and are flourishing.

This piece of land is several miles away, and later all of it was developed into commercial land and community construction. Yang Changting tried to remember as he walked, what year did he start moving these lands?

By the way, I can completely buy land through my uncle, and in the past few years, I have slowly started to buy land. However, there is no urgency, and at present, there is no policy on the sale and purchase of land.

The world is big, and the policy is the biggest!

Come to think of it, when I go back to the age of seventeen, there are actually a lot of things that can be done and should be done.

The clan uncle's house is near the river, on the side of a road. An old-fashioned adobe house, three rooms. My mother rented three main houses, because the three rooms were divided between the brothers and uncles, and then there were new houses on the left and right.

In front of the house there is a wide flat yard with mud floors. When Yang Changting walked, he saw that his mother was drying the children's clothes and pants and cloth diapers in the Ping Courtyard.

"Mom-" When Yang Changting shouted, he felt that his voice was stuck, and he used his strength to rush out.

"San'er is here. Be gentle, don't wake up the child. Mom said in a suppressed voice.

Yang Changting listened to the familiar and somewhat hazy voice, and the tears in his eyes couldn't help it, but his mother was collecting clothes and didn't pay full attention to him, so she didn't notice that Yang Changting was crying.

Control your emotions, seeing that my mother has deep wrinkled eyes and brows, I don't know what to say for a while. "Mom, today I went to the No. 3 Middle School to find Principal Zhang and said that I wanted to repeat it. I also borrowed my classmates' materials. ”

"If you want to repeat it, you can repeat it, there should always be someone in the family who wants to study. Mom said. Put the collected child's diapers and clothes on the inside of the house, spread them out, and put them away.

According to Liuhe's side, children's personal belongings, after being exposed to the scorching sun, are taken back to remove the fire so as not to hurt the skin.

"I will study hard and try to get into university. Yang Changting handed the bag of cakes to his mother, "Mom, this is your favorite food." ”

"Spending money again?" Mom glanced at Yang Changting and didn't say much.

"Dad gave it to me, let me buy you something to eat, saying that you have worked hard here. ”

"How's it going at home?"

"Everything was fine. Mom, I'll go back to the village tomorrow, and it will take a while for school to start. Yang Changting said the itinerary first, lest his mother open his mouth and go to the prefabrication factory to help the fifth sister make bricks. "By the way, I'll go see the fifth sister later and bring her something to eat. ”