Lu Yao came to the table and sat down, picked up the pen and was about to sign, when he saw that the actual salary column said 500 yuan. He put down the pen in his hand and asked, "Eldest sister, why is it five hundred? Didn't you make statistics for your eldest brother last month?"

"You didn't do statistics last month, but you helped Ah Xin draw engineering drawings. A-Ying replied.

"Didn't I draw two drawings badly, how can I still get paid?" Lu Yao asked.

"Didn't you redraw it? Ah Xin said that you drew very well, and he also said that he would give you more important drawings to draw in the future. A-Ying said with a smile.

"Thank you!" Lu Yao finished signing, picked up the kraft paper envelope containing his salary, took out two brand-new 100 yuan bills from it, handed them to A-Ying with both hands and said, "Sister, this is the money I paid you back." Sorry, it's been a long time!

A-Ying was stunned for a moment, stared at Lu Yao with wide eyes, and asked with a confused expression, "When did you borrow my money?"

Lu Yao grinned and said, "Eldest sister, are you worried that I will blame you for opening the letter I wrote to my family without my permission? To be honest, when I knew that the letter had been opened by you for a few days, I was indeed a little awkward in my heart. After all this time, I don't care anymore. You are my eldest sister, and it is understandable to look at the letters I wrote to my family. ”

"Do you really think so?" A-Ying asked with a blushing face.

"Well! that's what I think now. Lu Yao nodded in response.

"In other words, you blamed me until tonight?" asked A-Ying with a wry smile.

"In the first few days, I did blame you in my heart, but there was no more. Lu Yao replied.

"Are you still a little worried that I will open your letters in the future?" asked A-Ying.

"I'm sure eldest sister, under normal circumstances, you wouldn't do that. Lu Yao replied.

"Well, thank you for your trust, and thank you for forgiving me for being rude to you and violating your privacy. Originally, I always wanted to find an opportunity to explain to you, but I always felt sorry for you in my heart, and I didn't have the courage to open up to you, so I had to wait for you to question me. Since you asked about this tonight, I'll tell you the ins and outs of it. When A-Ying said this, she shivered.

It's winter, and although the temperature in the south is still around 25 degrees during the day, it's still cooler at night. A gust of night wind blew just now, and A-Ying, who was dressed relatively thinly, felt a chill.

"Sister, it's too cold outside, you go into the room and rest, let's talk tomorrow." Lu Yao said.

"Let's say it now, these words have been holding in my heart for a long time, it's strangely uncomfortable. Go to my room and take out the trench coat hanging on the hanger for me. A-Ying said.

Lu Yao walked into A-Ying's room, took out a green windbreaker, put it on A-Ying, and then sat opposite A-Ying, looking at her calmly.

"At noon that day, after you handed me the letter, I took it into my room and put it in a drawer under the dresser, ready to send it to you when I went down the mountain to buy groceries the next morning. When I woke up from my lunch break, I saw that the girl had opened a letter and was washing it in a small basin in the bathroom with three pieces of stationery. It scared the hell out of me, I really don't know how she got the letter out. So I asked her, "Girl, why do you open the letter and wash it?" She replied that she saw that I often wash diapers for my sisters, and I always wash them in that little basin, and my mother is very hard, and she wants to help my mother wash diapers for her sisters, but she can't do it yet, so she uses letter paper to practice.

I asked her why she was doing the exercises with the paper on which the words were written in the envelope, and she said that the paper in the envelope was dirty, and that if she had washed the words on the letter, she would have washed the diapers of her sisters. Originally, I was angry and wanted to hit her. When I listened to her explanation, I hugged her and cried. I really didn't expect that a girl who was just over four years old would be so sensible and knew how to share the pressure for her mother. Finally I took out the three pieces of letter paper that I had wet to dry, and found that some of the words were blurred, so I copied the letter again, and changed some of the sentences. When A-Ying said this, she wiped the corners of her eyes with a tissue in her hand and tightened her windbreaker.

"Eldest sister, you are pregnant, be careful of catching a cold. Let's go in and rest, and I'll talk about some things tomorrow. Lu Yao urged again.

"It's okay, I'll finish it in a few words. As for the two hundred dollars, the situation is as follows: I saw that you put a hundred dollars in a letter paper and mailed it, which is very unsafe, and I wanted to send the hundred dollars back to you by remittance. But as I copied your letter to my family, there were many sincere words in it that touched me. I empathize with the plight of your family, because when I was young, the conditions in my family were not very good, and I also encountered days when I didn't have enough to eat, so I added 200 yuan to it. A-Ying said with a smile.

"Thank you, eldest sister, it was you who added the two hundred yuan and helped my family a lot. If it weren't for the 200 yuan, my younger siblings would have dropped out of school to work as a farmer like me, the old cow would have been confiscated by the village chief, and many crops would have been left uncultivated, and there would be no money for my grandmother's medical treatment. On behalf of the whole family, I sincerely say thank you to the eldest sister!" Lu Yao said gratefully.

"Since we are all a family, do we still need to say thank you? So, you don't have to pay me back these two hundred yuan, just let me make a contribution to the family. A-Ying said.

"But ······"

"Don't be, don't talk to the family. Okay, everything is clear, I'm going to rest, you can go back to your room and rest early. After Ah Ying finished speaking, she stood up tremblingly and walked slowly into the room.

Lu Yao stood up, watched A-Ying close the door, he let out a long breath, and then picked up the two hundred yuan and salary bag on the table, and slowly walked into the room. Two tears rolled out of his eyes uncontrollably.

A few days ago, Lu Yao received a letter from home, saying that he had received the money he sent to his family on time every month, and that his grandmother's condition had improved and that she could get out of bed to help with housework. My younger siblings are also studying hard, and their mid-term exam scores have improved significantly. What made him particularly excited was that there was already a matchmaker who came to the door to propose marriage to his eldest brother. These months are the slack season, the family is preparing bricks and tiles, and after the New Year, in the vegetable field next to the old house, a six-row five-room brick house is built. At the end of next year, the eldest brother will be able to get married.