In the blink of an eye, it has been two weeks since the start of school, but Mu Zhen did not go home because of the break, during this period, except for the expenses brought at the beginning of the school year, he did not ask for a penny from his family, and Lao Mu was a little relieved.

"How much money did you give Mu Zhen when he started school?" asked Lao Mu, who had left his job, staring at Xiuhua.

"Didn't you say that in addition to the tuition fee paid to him, he was given five yuan a week? Xiuhua responded seriously.

"Ten yuan, it's been more than two weeks, can he still have living expenses there?" asked Lao Mu rhetorically.

"It's just that there aren't many, you can send some money when you are free, and at the same time see what the child lacks at school? You're a father, you don't care about the child going to school anymore, and you still want the child to come back with a golden job?" Xiuhua complained a little.

"I don't care, don't I also have a lot of school affairs? We are so close to the school, don't you know, Teacher Xiao Wang has a child, I take care of the twenty students in the class for him, how can I have time to leave! In addition to school affairs, on weekends, I have to be busy preparing bricks and tiles, wood, if you don't propose to build a house, you can save some time this weekend, but you complain every day that our house is dewy on sunny days and leaky on rainy days, isn't this still busy preparing materials for building a house?" Lao Mu has always been unforgiving, and he has said a lot of things in a reasonable and restrained manner.

"Don't mention the house, I get angry when I mention it, the two homesteads we want in front of the village, that are optimistic about others, at that time Tiancheng helped distribute it to us, the homestead that people wanted, all built red bricks and red tiles of the big tile house, you don't look at what we live in, the broken thatched house when we got married, it has been more than ten years now, the children are all older, and they still live together, the children have ideas, don't complain that my son doesn't come back on the weekend, how can he come back? The more Xiuhua spoke, the more angry she became, and her voice raised a lot.

"Build, build, who said not to build, haven't you heard the people in the village? Whoever you want to have a holiday with, then persuade him to pick up the house and build a house, this is reasonable, to build a house, one must have money, and the other must have labor, although there has been some money in the past two years, but after all, it is not generous to use money to build a house. I can only prepare a little bit now, and when the materials are almost ready, we will start construction, and besides, we live here, so close to the school, how much effort will be saved. Lao Mu finally confessed that he was not in a hurry.

"If you build, the money can be scraped together, today I will go back to Yangliu and ask my father to borrow some money to solve the famine of lack of money to build a house!" Mu Hua heard Lao Mu mention the lack of money, and felt that it was absolutely impossible to build a house without money, no money, everything was in vain, living at home, she knew best the dilemma of this clever woman who was difficult to cook without rice. At this time, even if Xiuhua is a little angry, it is inconvenient to put all the difficulties on Lao Mu's shoulders, she knows very well that Lao Mu is now the school and the family, although the school is only a wall away from home, but as long as Lao Mu enters the courtyard of the partition wall, his people stay in that courtyard, his heart is accompanied by the children in the courtyard, never think about anything at home, so many years, Xiuhua is very clear that Lao Mu has paid much more in education than the dedication to this family, otherwise those honors achieved every year are not innocent.

Lao Mu nodded, relieved his emotions, and said in a rather calm tone: "What you said is still like that, these days, because of the construction of a house, our family has more things, but the most important problem we face is the problem of money, if the money is in place, are we still worried about not having a new house to live in?" Lao Mu said very practically, last week he went to the market to see the bricks, a time to ask for five trucks of bricks, although the price of a brick is only two and a half cents, but to build such three tile houses, at least 10,000 pieces, the bricks alone also cost 300 yuan, their own busy salary for a year is only 200 yuan, plus the income in the field, the total is only four or five hundred yuan, in addition to the family, this year's income, not enough to build a house with brick money, plus the following stones, cement, sand, white ash, rafters, Fortunately, there are 400 yuan of dividends in the pig farm this year, otherwise how can I have the ability to build these three tile houses?

"You calculated that day, how much is our house missing?" Xiuhua pondered, this money is not much different, but there is no place to borrow, it seems to be stretched.

"Everything, if all the materials are ready, without 1,200 yuan, the problem will not be solved at all, and now all that we have is added, it will only be 800 yuan, and there is at least 400 yuan short!"

"Well, I'll borrow 400 yuan from my father, and strive to build the house after the autumn, I heard that the materials for building the house are cheaper at this time, and the price of the materials in the spring of next year will be longer, and the difficulties we will encounter will be greater. Xiuhua said not without reason, at this time of the year, due to the lack of green and yellow, is the time when everyone is more short of money, the rural building houses are less, all building materials are relatively cheaper, the spring season is warm, is the time when the rural people's pockets are the most bulging, at this time to build more houses, all the building materials are relatively expensive, the village people have mentioned to her, these two seasons to build a house, three houses can save more than 200 yuan of money!

"You go to Yangliu, I'm going to the town today, and the Education Committee notified me to go to a meeting with the principal, and go to see Mu Zhen by the way. Lao Mu has a little idea of giving up on Mu Zhen, he had such high hopes for Mu Zhen back then, he graduated from primary school and went to the middle school in the county, in order to help him solve the problem of partial subjects, he was transferred to Binhu Middle School to study, and in this Binhu Middle School for nearly two years, although the middle grades are very satisfactory, but the final results are not as good as the grades in Gucheng No. 1 Middle School, which makes Lao Mu feel very annoyed, so when Mu Zhen started school, he did not directly give his son the fee, but let Xiuhua do it for him, but after all, it is his own child, no matter how unsatisfactory, he should also think about his basic living expenses, his consistent principle, can not be a child like himself back then, helpless, he wants to see the child and send his son the family warmth he deserves.

"Mu Yan, your father and I are both out today, after school at noon, if we can't come back, take care of Mu Bao!" Xiuhua, who was about to go out, said to Mu Yan, who was there with her head bowed and picking up the sloppy hair in the freshly dried soybeans.

Mu Yan raised her head, glanced at her mother and promised, "Well, let's make salty dry rice at noon!"

Mu Yan, who has not been in the school gate for a few days, although she is only twelve years old, starts housework, like an expert, not only can cook all kinds of home-cooked food at home, but also learn to evaporate noodles with Xiuhua, which is incomparable among children of the same age, don't look at his time in school for a short time, but he was the first in the class that year, if it weren't for the accident, the middle finger and index finger of the right hand were amputated in two, and she was a little disabled, maybe she is also the best among students of the same age!

Mu Yan looked at the backs of her parents going out, she didn't know whether she was confused or stabbed by her parents' words just now, she was stunned for a while, and continued to look down and pick up the stumps hidden in the soybeans.