"Yo, why doesn't that sound real?" the fourth grandmother expressed strong suspicion.

Liu Xiulian took out her mobile phone, opened a WeChat group, then clicked on a video and handed it to the fourth grandmother: "Look, he is still kneeling in front of that woman to admit his mistakes." The videos were all posted to the group. ”

"Tut-tut, I really didn't expect it. The fourth grandmother looked at the fat people who had lost a lot of weight on the mobile phone screen, and was very embarrassed, "I really didn't expect that a person who used to be so dragged has changed now, and it feels like hearing that dogs suddenly don't eat." ”

"Yes, fat people used to be so awesome. Jointly with the purchase points of other villages to lower the purchase price of mountain pepper, and often point fingers at people, he looks like a soil emperor, who would have thought that he would have today?"

It seems that he was frightened by Xiaoyang that day, otherwise, he would not have changed so quickly. ”

"Well, thanks to Xiaoyang, otherwise we would have to continue to be deceived by him. ”

Therefore, you can't do things that don't have a bad conscience, you have to be down-to-earth. ”

"Alas, it's good to be down-to-earth. But it's good to play slippery heads. The fourth grandmother sighed again, "Although this fat man has sincerely changed now, he has made a lot of money in the past ten years." Look at us again, we have worked hard all my life honestly, and we haven't saved a few dollars. When I got old, I had to climb the mountains and wade through the mountains to pick peppers to sell, and when I came out of the mountains, I looked like a beggar. ”

The fourth grandmother's words can be regarded as speaking to everyone's hearts.

Which of the people present is not an honest worker?

But because he was too honest, he couldn't make any money in his life, so he could only make a living.

And what about the slippery ones? Others have already become rich.

For a while, everyone was a little indignant and helpless.

Chen Yang saw that the atmosphere was a little heavy, so he said, "Oh, don't you just want to pick more mountain peppers, isn't it easy?"

Everyone looked at him in bewilderment.

Chen Yang continued: "In this way, you all leave your phone numbers to me, and when I am free tonight, I will call you one by one and tell you where to pick mountain pepper tomorrow, what do you think?"

"Huh?" the fourth grandmother remembered, Chen Yang had said before that he knew where mountain pepper grew in the mountains. When I asked him where he was, he said he couldn't tell him, and he only knew when he got to the mountains.

Why is it so much said now?

Chen Yang saw that the fourth grandmother looked at him suspiciously, so he smiled and said, "You don't have to think too much, anyway, you can pick mountain pepper and sell it for money, don't you say?"

"That's right, but how do you know where the mountain pepper is?" Liu Xiulian asked puzzledly, "In case, I mean in case, we follow your instructions to find the mountain pepper, but if we don't find it, then it will be in vain." ”

"Anyway, you're wandering around in the mountains. Chen Yang said, "Then it's better to try my method, if you follow the route I said, if you can pick mountain pepper, then it would be the best, if not, then you are all in the mountains anyway, and you will definitely be able to find some mountain pepper with your own ability." Anyway, the mountain pepper in the mountains won't go, right? ”

After some discussion, everyone felt that it made sense, so they left their phone numbers one after another.

Although most of them are elderly, because their children have been working outside the home for many years, even if they don't have smartphones, they still have a mobile phone for the elderly with a loud voice and wide buttons.

After sending everyone away, Chen Yang counted the amount of mountain pepper he had earned today.

After summing it up, he couldn't help but sigh.

The fourth uncle asked, "Xiaoyang, what are you sighing for?"

Chen Yang pointed to the numbers on the small notebook, and said helplessly: "The number of people who went into the mountain to pick mountain pepper today is more than yesterday, but the total weight of this mountain pepper is thirty catties less than yesterday." No wonder they just said that mountain pepper is getting harder and harder to find. ”

"Not really. The fourth uncle stood aside with Xiao Qian in his arms and said, "The weather is getting drier and drier, and people are getting harder and harder to work in the mountains." The mountain pepper found will definitely get fewer and fewer every day. ”

"Alas, this ghost weather, when it is waterlogged, it dies of waterlogging, and when it is dry, it dies of drought. ”

"It is estimated that it will not rain until the end of the ninth lunar month. ”

It's not yet September in the solar calendar......

After dinner, the fourth uncle went to the backyard to make the mountain pepper that he had earned yesterday evening, while Chen Yang took care of Xiao Qian in the hall, and by the way, he used his consciousness to go into the mountain forest to look for the mountain pepper.

Although mountain pepper does not grow everywhere like sandalwood, its abundance should definitely not be underestimated.

Therefore, in Chen Yang's carpet search, hundreds of fruitful mountain pepper trees can be found on a single hill.

And that's not even counting those who don't bear fruit and those who don't bear fruit.

He divided these mountain pepper trees into more than ten parts, and then called the grandmothers and aunts who left their phones in the evening one by one, and pointed them out which mountain to look for tomorrow and which path to enter, and then when they walked to the first few intersections, pay attention to looking up or down, and there was a mountain pepper tree with fruit hanging on not less than seven or eight catties next to a certain fir tree or pine tree......

Originally, everyone thought that Chen Yang's words in the evening were just a joke, but they didn't want to, but at night, he actually called.

This made everyone feel a little incredible.

Was he joking, or was he serious?

In order to verify the truth of Chen Yang's words, he will know by following the route he gave tomorrow morning.

After Chen Yang ended the call with Lu Wenen, he was a little hesitant to point out Lu Xiahua as well.

To tell the truth, Lu Xiahua's image in his heart has collapsed a little.

Because that day, he saw Lu Xiahua use violence against her sister Sanhua.

This kind of person is the most terrible, and he vents his temper on children when he has a slight disappointment. He despised this kind of behavior from the bottom of his heart.

Although it was Lu Xiahua's own family's business, he still couldn't see it.

Therefore, after a little hesitation, after glancing at the last phone number on the book, Chen Yang chose to turn off the mobile phone, and then slept with Xiao Qian.

And Xia Hua has been sitting in the courtyard waiting for Chen Yang's call.

However, by ten o'clock, he had yawned and yawned, but he still did not wait.

She picked up her phone again and again, lit up the screen again and again, and thought again and again that the call was actually coming, but she didn't hear it. So she pressed the volume increase button again and again, and turned on the sound to the maximum and still pressed.

The wind in the mountains was a little cool by ten o'clock.

It's a very comfortable coolness.

But Natsuka didn't feel comfortable.

She felt nothing but exhaustion and weakness.

She kept speculating why Chen Yang, who had said that he would call, didn't call.

Did you forget her, or did you deliberately not beat her?

When Chen Yang said that he wanted to point out the route to find mountain pepper, most people couldn't believe it, but Xia Hua did.

Because she felt that someone with the ability like Chen Yang should not deceive them, these ants who live at the bottom.

But why didn't she call her?

Is it because of those rumors?

Thinking of this, Xia Hua couldn't help but look up at the bright moon.

The bright moon hung high in the night sky, as if she was watching her.

Behind her was a one-story concrete building.

The house was built when she was fourteen years old. Half of the old house where the family used to live has collapsed and has become a completely dilapidated house, and it is absolutely impossible to live in it anymore.

So that year, my parents borrowed money from everywhere and built a new house.

Thanks to the efforts of his parents, the new house was built, but the family was also in debt.

In order to pay off the debt as soon as possible, in the spring when Xia Hua was fifteen years old, her mother decided to leave her five children and follow her father to go to other provinces to pick pine resin.

As the eldest, Xia Hua voluntarily stopped her studies and stayed at home to take care of her younger siblings.

If she insisted on going to school, her parents would not object. But Xia Hua is well aware that if she does not shoulder the responsibility of taking care of her younger siblings, the family's debt may crush the family.

When the younger siblings are a little older, the family's expenses will only increase, and if the mother can't follow the father to the province to pick pine resin, then either the family will collapse or the father will fall.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Xia Hua took the initiative to make the decision to give up her studies and stay at home to take care of her younger siblings.

So, in the spring when she was fifteen years old, her mother went with her father to the provinces.

And she has also shouldered the burden of taking care of her younger siblings since that spring.

As everyone knows, at that time, she was just a child herself.

When children take care of children, there will always be times when they are overlooked.

One night, Xia Hua noticed that something was wrong with her brother, and touched her forehead only to find that her brother, who was only about five years old at the time, was already burning all over.

Unfortunately, that night, it rained heavily in the sky, and even the village's quiet and well-behaved river roared wildly that night, like a beast, constantly devouring the wild grass on both sides of the river.

After Xia Hua found out that her brother had a high fever, she didn't dare to slack off, so she hurriedly boiled hot water, mixed it with cold water, and then wiped her brother's body to help him cool him down physically.

I found that wiping couldn't cool down, so I took a warm bath for my younger brother.

When I took a bath, I touched my forehead and it was not hot, but within ten minutes of coming out of the bathtub, it was hot again.

In this way, Xia Hua fed her brother ibuprofen again. Thinking that after taking the medicine, the fever will go down soon.

The antipyretic medicine that would have been good if you took a little bit in the past lost its effect this time, but instead of lowering the body temperature, my brother's forehead became hotter and hotter as time went by.

Even, the younger brother's entire body has been burned red.

Xia Hua wanted to call her parents, but the storm interrupted the communication signal in the village.

If she wanted to send her brother to get an injection, she had to turn to someone else.

So, after instructing Sanhua to take care of her younger brother, she took a broken umbrella and ran into the dark rainy night.

But as soon as she ran out of the yard, she stopped.

Standing in the rainstorm, she looked desperately at the lights in the distance, tears poured down with the torrential rain, and she couldn't tell which ones were water and which were tears.

Although she was only fifteen years old, she knew that the world was not kind to women.

She was afraid, she was desperate, she felt useless.

Because at this critical juncture, she didn't know who she could turn to for help.

The people who remain in the village today are roughly divided into three types: the elderly, the young children, and the slackers with bad minds.

Maybe she didn't summarize it all, but what she suffered told her that it was just that.

Who could she go to? The old man and the child obviously couldn't help her.

Is she going to find those lazy people?

No, even if she died, she would never say a word to those lazy people again.

She looked up at the sky, and there were no gods in the sky, only non-stop torrential rain.

She turned her head to look in the direction of the entrance of the village, which was ten or twenty kilometers away from her nearest health center.

However, there are village doctors in the new housing estate!

Without a trace of hesitation, she immediately turned around and ran back into the house, threw the umbrella, carried her brother on her back with a strap, and then put on a raincoat and put her brother tightly under the raincoat.

She turned her head and looked at her frightened sisters with sharp eyes, and told her very resolutely: "I will take my younger brother to get an injection, you stay at home, no matter who tells you to open the door, you are not allowed to open it, do you hear?"

The sound of the storm outside was loud, but so was her voice.

"Hmm. The three sisters nodded in unison.

She picked up a woodcutter from the ground, put it behind the door, and then pointed to the woodcutter and said, "If a man insists on breaking in, you will kill him with a knife, do you know?"

The three younger sisters were taken aback by their sister's words, and they looked at each other, all a little scared.

Sihua cried: "Sister, I want to go with you." ”

"No!" Xia Hua refused without hesitation, "You must stay at home, it is raining heavily outside, even the river is flooding, there may be landslides on the road, it is very dangerous, you stay at home, as long as the house is not on fire and not flooded, you don't leave the house, stay for me honestly, no matter who calls the door, you don't respond." ”

After that, she didn't wait for her three sisters to agree, so she hurriedly ran into the night with a broken umbrella.

She doesn't know how to ride a donkey, so she has to walk for several kilometers of mountain roads.

Moreover, I have to carry my younger brother on my back.

Although it was tough, she didn't slack off and trotted almost the whole time.

But when she spent more than half an hour, fell forward twice, and finally arrived at Xinwu Village and found the village doctor's house, she still patted the door for nearly half an hour before the female village doctor in her forties was called up from the comfort of the bed.

When the female village doctor opened the door, when she saw her hair wet and messy, and she was dirty, she was first startled, and then asked a little impatiently, "What are you doing?"

"My brother had a high fever, it was very hot, I bathed him, and the medicine didn't work. Please, save him. Her mouth was flattened, and her big eyes were already overflowing with tears.

She is fifteen years old, she shouldn't have cried, but should have told the doctor with a very firm expression and tone like a fifteen-year-old adult, I brought my brother to get an injection, please move quickly.