Nearly noon.

Sun Zhinong and Sun Jun, father and son, came back from working in the field, and the gray-haired Sun Zhinong walked in front with his hands behind his back, dark skin and not tall, but the sturdy Sun Jun walked behind with half a cigarette in his hand.

The father and son walked into the courtyard next to Sun's family one after the other.

As soon as they entered the courtyard gate, the little boy who was playing with mud in the yard immediately ran happily to the kitchen, shouting as he ran: "Mommy, grandma! Daddy and grandpa are back, and they can start eating...... I'm going to cut the rice......

"This little thing, you know how to eat it all day long!"

Sun Zhinong scolded with a smile.

Sun Jun laughed twice, "Kid! I'm hungry." ”

……

A few minutes later, the family sat around the kitchen table and began to eat.

Their kitchen is very large, two rooms on the left and right, the kitchen on the left and the dining room on the right.

A family of five chatted while eating.

Sun Quantang's sister-in-law: "Ah Quan came back today, his mother told him to come into the house to drink some water, but he didn't drink it, he turned around and went to find his parents!"

Her mother-in-law, Aunt Sun Quantang, laughed, "College students, how can you drink our water?" ”

Sun Jun frowned, "Coming back so soon? Is it to blame our family for not keeping his parents? Anyway, our father and his father are also cousins, Dad! Otherwise, let's go and invite them later, let them come to live in our house for a while, anyway, our house is big!"

Before Sun Zhinong could say anything, Sun Quan's rich cousin raised her eyebrows and raised her voice: "Hey, how can we do that? What's wrong with our house? If the house is big, we should give them a place to live? Besides! As the old saying goes, it's easy to please God and it's hard to send God! It's because your father and his father are cousins that we can't let them live in! With this level of kinship, let them really move in, if they don't want to move out in the future, can we drive them away at that time? Right? Really!"

Sun Jun was dumbfounded, and looked at his father Sun Zhinong.

Sun Zhinong took a sip of the wine glass in front of him, and when he put down the wine glass, he finally spoke: "Ah Jun, what your mother said is right! It's easy to please God and it's hard to send God! Their house is now completely burned down, and when they earn enough money to build a house, who knows how many years later? Moreover, if they live in, they will definitely have to eat and drink with us, and the cost will be huge!"

After all, I am cousins with Zhicai, and the previous generation is still a brother, and they all live in the same village, and when this kind of thing happens to their family, we don't help at all, and the people in the village don't know how to scold me behind my back!"

After a pause, Sun Zhinong glanced at Sun Jun beside him, smiled and said: "I've thought about it, isn't our grape field going to dig a ditch? It is estimated that it will not be finished in a month, the work is too tiring, we have to find someone to help, and I will go to Zhicai to talk to him after eating later, let him dig a ditch with us every day, and give him 20 yuan a day! Let him earn some money for the New Year!"

"20 dollars a day?"

Before Sun Jun could say anything, his mother shouted, "You're sorry! Their family can't eat now, if you give him 15 yuan a day, he will definitely do it! It's almost the end of the year, where can he go to earn money if he doesn't do it? Right? You just tell Zhicai 15 yuan a day! 20 yuan a day...... Isn't that 600 yuan a month? You really want him to make a fortune!"

Sun Jun frowned when he heard this, and couldn't help but say: "Mom! digging a grape ditch is very tiring, even if we find someone else, 20 yuan a day, people may not be willing to do it!"

His mother glanced at him, "People are people, are people short of food and drink? Listen to me! It's just 15 yuan a day! Zhicai will definitely do it!"

"Dad?"

Sun Jun couldn't compete with his mother, so he asked his father.

But Sun Zhinong chewed the food in his mouth, but nodded slightly, "That's right! What your mother said makes sense! You can give more than 100 yuan less a month! My brother also has to settle accounts, right? Our family also has to live." ”

……

After the meal, Sun Zhinong walked unhurriedly to the ancestral hall at the end of the village with his hands behind his back, ready to tell Sun Zhicai about digging a grape field ditch.

Halfway through, I saw an electric tricycle approaching.

Sun Zhinong was a little stunned at the time, because he saw that it was his cousin Sun Quan who was driving, and Sun Zhicai and Xu Mei were sitting in the carriage, and there were some bedding in the carriage, as well as bits and pieces of pots and pans.

He was familiar with the electric tricycle, as if it belonged to the village chief's family.

Sun Zhinong subconsciously let go to the side of the road, but shouted from a distance, "Zhicai! Zhicai, where are you going? Don't live in the ancestral hall?"

In the carriage, Sun Zhicai's expression was a little complicated, after all, he was about to leave his hometown where he had lived for most of his life, and when he heard his cousin's voice, he replied with a smile: "Go to the county seat! Ah Quan came back with some money, and I went to the county with my mother to beg for food!"

"Begging" ......

Taken literally, the word certainly means "to ask for rice", something that Hanako does.

However, rural people like to brag, but they also like to be overly modest, and many people are accustomed to saying that they go out to work and say that they go out to "beg for food".

Sun Zhicai said this at this time.

But listening to Sun Zhinong's ears, he was a little skeptical that what he said was true?

Do you really want to go to the county seat to beg for food?

Seeing that the electric tricycle was about to pass in front of him, Sun Zhinong hurriedly shouted again: "Hey! Zhicai! No, no! This is about to celebrate the New Year, how can you go to beg for food? It's just right! My grape field is about to dig a ditch, you stay and dig with us, and I will give you 15 yuan a day! That's enough for you to earn a New Year's fee! Stop! Ah Quan is about to stop the car! Your father doesn't have to go to the county seat. ”

Sun Quan parked the car in front of Sun Zhinong, smiled slightly, and looked back at his parents in the carriage.

Sun Zhicai got up and gave Sun Zhinong a cigarette, and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm sorry, our family has already discussed, let's go to the county to rent a small storefront first, do some small business, and beg for a bite to eat! When it comes to digging grape fields and ditches, you better find someone else! Ah Quan can't stay too long when he comes back this time, I have to learn how to cook from Xuexue first." ”

"Learn to cook, what to cook?"

Sun Zhinong was a little dazed, how did this topic turn to cooking?

Xu Mei explained to him, "His uncle! Ah Quan is not a chef, he said that he would teach us a few dishes, let me and his father get a small restaurant in the county to open, the time is not early, our family has not eaten at noon, so let's go first! Ah Quan, let's drive!"

Sun Quan smiled at Sun Zhinong again, "Uncle, let's go!

After speaking, as soon as he twisted the handlebar, the electric tricycle slipped away, and under Sun Zhinong's puzzled gaze, he went to the village.

"You can open a restaurant by learning a few dishes? What the hell is that restaurant?"

Sun Zhinong grunted, his brows furrowed.

……

15 dollars a day......

Sun Quan, who was driving, echoed in his mind the salary that Uncle Tang had just said, and he felt a little emotional.

This is how my father used to earn money to raise him and provide him with school, and 15 yuan a day was also a high price that I couldn't think of before.

He remembers that when he was a child, his father worked hard for a month, and he earned twenty or thirty yuan.