In the afternoon of the same day, a guest came to Lao Mu's house, and this guest was none other than Lao Mu's father-in-law, Yang Qinglin.

When Yang Qinglin came to the gate of Lao Mu's house, the door of the house was locked, Yang Qinglin wanted to go to the school to find Lao Mu, but he was worried that it would affect his teaching, so he sat on the edge of the stream outside the gate, smoking a dry cigarette and admiring the lotus flowers in the stream.

Wang Sanyuan, who came back from the field, saw Yang Qinglin sitting by the stream, and hurriedly stepped forward to answer: "Brother, where did this come from?"

When Yang Qinglin heard the voice, he hurriedly stood up and promised: "Come from home, just sit here, see that there is no one in their family, sit here and wait for a while." ”

"Come to me and drink some water, I'll have someone call them!" Wang Sanyuan enthusiastically let Yang Qinglin go.

For Wang Sanyuan's enthusiasm, Yang Qinglin didn't meet it once, after all, Lao Mu lived only with such a neighbor, everything about Lao Mu's family couldn't hide from Wang Sanyuan's eyes, Yang Qinglin was not polite, and followed Wang Sanyuan directly to his hut.

"You haven't been here for a long time?" asked Wang Sanyuan politely.

"Yes, this is not a lot of things at home, young people weave a bag to earn some pocket money, at our age, we can help take care of the children, and we can't do without it!" Yang Qinglin spoke very truthfully.

"How's the crop this year?" asked Wang Sanyuan casually.

"We used to plant in the team, but now we manage it ourselves, don't say it, the most lacking thing is technology, in our rural area, we don't understand technology, how can people plant and we plant, rely on the sky to eat!" Yang Qinglin smiled and replied.

"Do you have a side hustle this year?" Wang Sanyuan asked again.

"What are you doing with the side business? We won't do anything else, I heard that the pig farm in your village sells piglets, I bought two piglets here, and now they have raised almost 200 catties, I don't know if I can catch up with a good price?" Yang Qinglin sighed and said.

"In these years, you can earn more by working harder!" Wang Sanyuan said.

"That's right, my son has been tossing and turning in the past two years, going north to Heilongjiang and south to Guangzhou, doing some small business, which is better than farming at home. Yang Qinglin said and took out a cigarette and handed it to Wang Sanyuan.

"Look at my brain, just nagging for you, I forgot to let you smoke!" said as he took out his own cigarette and handed it over at the same time.

The hands of the two men who handed the cigarettes touched each other, exchanged a few words, and each lit it, and suddenly the smoke in the hut was filled.

"Recently, I saw that your daughter-in-law bought a few truckloads of bricks and pulled them to the homestead in the south of the village, ready to build a new house!" Wang Sanyuan pulled the matter to Lao Mu's house again.

"Yes, you see the three broken grass houses he lives in, there should have been a new place to live a long time ago, last year, I persuaded him to build it, but he said that where to get so much money at home, this year is not more expensive than last year's things, the same three tiled houses will cost two or three hundred yuan more than last year, and it will not be worth waiting any longer! If I hadn't built a house at home last year, I would have supported him to build it last year. Yang Qinglin choked on the smoke and coughed a few times, and then continued: "Now rural people have a little money in their hands, either marrying a wife or building a house, where do you say there is still a place to spend a lot of money?"

"Yes, I think it is, in the past, it was just to fill the stomach, in the past two years, as long as you work hard, you can get rich, you look at the Tiancheng of our village, the pig farm built last year, this year not only has some money, but also for the people in the village to share the red, this is really fame and fortune. Wang Sanyuan felt that when it came to Tiancheng, the faces of the whole village were bright.

"That's it, I heard that Tiancheng and my son-in-law are classmates, and the relationship between the two is good!" Yang Qinglin also echoed.

"That's right, your son-in-law is also a good person, he has helped Tiancheng a lot!" Wang Sanyuan took the opportunity to praise Lao Mu a few words, making Yang Qinglin happy when he heard it.

"We're talking to each other, I'll find someone to call your girl who went down to the ground. With that, Wang Sanyuan walked outside the house.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, he happened to meet Mu Yan who was going home, Wang Sanyuan casually shouted: "Mu Yan, your grandfather is here, go and call your mother!"

When Mu Yan heard Wang Sanyuan call her, she immediately turned around and entered Wang Sanyuan's hut: "Grandpa, go home first, I'll open the door for you." As he spoke, he pulled his grandfather to stand up.

"Look at this girl, see that grandpa is a parent!" Wang Sanyuan boasted.

"Then I'll go, you can come over and drink water later. Yang Qinglin said as he went out.

Mu Yan asked her grandfather to drink water at home and wait, and ran out to find Xiuhua by herself.

After a while, Yang Qinglin heard a voice outside the gate: "When did your grandfather come?" Yang Qinglin listened carefully, this was Xiuhua's voice.

"Just after a short while, I met the third grandfather, and saw that the grandfather was drinking water in his house! Mu Yan said softly.

As soon as Mu Yan's voice stopped, Xiuhua had already arrived at the door of the hall: "Dad, you didn't say anything when you came, so you waited here for so long." ”

"It's okay, this is not an outsider, my daughter's house, everything is easy to say!" Yang Qinglin looked at Xiuhua and said: "You went to say that you wanted to build a house that day, almost money, after you left, I began to prepare, there is less than 200 yuan left in the family, and the rest is used by your brother to do business, I am worried about how to prepare it for you? I said that there was a difference of 400 yuan, and your brother took 500 yuan from his bag and gave it to me, and asked me to say that if it was not enough, he would prepare it for you, and the house should not be delayed any longer, and the children were about to go to high school, and they could no longer be crowded in this broken grass house. Look at the many tiled houses that have been built in your village in the past two years, and it is your turn to live in a new house!" Yang Qinglin took out a stack of large tickets for picking up yuan while chattering to Xiuhua, Xiuhua took it and counted it, turned around and tucked the money into the fruit basket at the head of the bed.

Turning back to Yang Qinglin, he continued: "Who doesn't say it? Last year, when Tiancheng took out an interest-free loan, I thought about discussing with Lao Mu whether I could borrow some money to build a house, your son-in-law was good, not only did not build a house, but directly asked Tiancheng to give a loan to build a pig farm, you said that you are not angry, and this year you mentioned building a house, he said that there is no money, and said to me that the funds are in place, why worry about not building a house?" Xiuhua said that he was angry, he picked up the cold boiled water on the board, "Goo Dong, Gu Dong" drank it in one go, and continued: " Now it's okay, everything is expensive this year, I asked him to go to his classmates to borrow some, but he said that although people have a little money, but there are many places to raise so many pigs with money, once you open your mouth, people are no matter how tight they are to lend, but they delay people's affairs, it is a big thing for the whole village, I also think he is reasonable, no, I just thought of going to you to embezzle a point, lest this year's house can not be built, and next year's price will rise, I don't know when this house will start construction!"

"Go to me to get it, that's right, I don't have more or less, and besides, if your brother runs around, he can earn it back quickly! When I came back this time, I heard him say that he sold a batch of clothes from the south to the north, and he made hundreds of yuan at one time, so I didn't want to stay at home anymore, and I also wanted to follow him to do business!" Yang Qinglin said proudly, his face was happy.

"No matter how profitable the business is, you can't talk nonsense outside, otherwise it will be strange if it doesn't cause trouble!" Xiuhua said as if reminded.

"Let's just talk about it in our own home, what's the use of me talking about it outside? We're not ostentatious people outside, you know this best, when did we brag outside?" Yang Qinglin said, glaring at Xiuhua.

"Or are you thoughtful, okay?" said Xiuhua a little coquettishly.

Mu Yan, who was cleaning up straw in the courtyard, listened to the conversation between the father and daughter in the house, and muttered in her heart: "It seems that my uncle has made a lot of money!"

"Dad, I still have something to discuss with you, Lao Mu leans on the school every day, except for Sunday, which is empty, but only counting on his Sunday, I can't prepare this material before the autumn harvest, I am a woman's family, where do I have the vision to prepare materials? You see these days, you follow the market to prepare materials for my family's house, and then my family's new house can be built quickly, if it drags on any longer, I don't know how long it will be delayed!" Xiuhua said in a consultative tone.

"Look, the family doesn't talk to the two families, who makes me your father? Your family's business is my business, I just look at the children at home, although the work in the field can also be done, but the children don't see well, a little bump will inevitably worry about the whole family, I let your mother take care of the children, here to prepare the matter of the material will be handed over to me, the money has been gathered, all kinds of materials directly to the market to catch, last year our family just built a new house, at that time I bought it, speaking of this, I still have experience!" When Yang Qinglin heard his daughter begging for help, he naturally couldn't shirk it, and it was incumbent on him to do his daughter's business.

"Then it's settled, you tell me with money. Xiuhua was afraid that she would delay things with money, so she told her father like this.

"You don't understand this, the current business, where do you still have no trust, you just need to go to the set to see the good things, set down, he sent us directly to the home, after the number of accounts, never pay first and then deliver to the door, is cement sand, as long as you say how much you want with the seller, he will be delivered to the door on time, and then return the rest of the house, and then go to uncover the account, there has never been a first payment and then delivery, this you can rest assured, when the time comes to build a house, it will be difficult to find someone, now the countryside will build a lot of houses, but the team leader is lacking, so it is not easy to find a foreman to build a houseYang Qinglin said this, took a puff of cigarette, paused slightly, and then said: "The foreman has been found, and everything else has been solved!"

"You see how I forgot about this, you just built a house last year, and your experience is all here, do you still need to worry about this again? Why don't you just use the foreman you used last year, isn't it much easier!" Xiuhua reminded.

"The foreman I used is now building a house for other people! Or I'll ask tomorrow to see if someone else has taken over the job, if not, we will settle down with someone, and then our family will start construction soon!" Yang Qinglin reminded Xiuhua that the hearts of two people were better than one person.

The two of them were discussing the construction of a house when they heard the bell ringing in the courtyard of the school to the west, and the cheers of the children rose higher and higher.

"The school is over, and Lao Mu will come back in a while, let's talk to him. Xiuhua said and walked out of the house, standing in the courtyard and looking out of the gate.

Lao Mu, who came home from school, saw that his old father-in-law was there, and hurriedly entered the door and greeted: "Uncle is here!"

"I'll send you the money to build a house, just now I was discussing with Xiuhua when your house will be built?" Yang Qinglin said to Lao Mu.

"I don't have enough time right now, and I can't leave school. Lao Mu just said a few words, but was interrupted by Yang Qinglin: "Don't say it, we have discussed it just now, I will help you prepare materials and find someone, you can teach your books in school with peace of mind, and you will only take care of the house when the time comes!"

Lao Mu was happy in his heart, this matter was covered by the old father-in-law, this is like pie falling from the sky, for himself, it is naturally a great good thing.

"Okay, okay, with you to worry about it, I can't rest assured!" Lao Mu was happy in his heart, and naturally said it easily.

Yang Qinglin got up and went home, he hummed a little song along the way, planning the building of his daughter's house, he felt that his daughter's marriage to Lao Mu could be regarded as green smoke on Lao Muzu's grave.