Just as time rewards hard work.

Maybe before today, life may be difficult, maybe it is not satisfactory, but when those old people who go into the mountains to pick mountain pepper sit under the trees, wipe their sweat, and hear from various sources that Chen Yang buys mountain pepper at a very high price, they must be smiling sweetly.

The fourth grandmother was probably sweetened by herself, so she couldn't help but call Chen Yang and ask about the truth of the matter.

After getting Chen Yang's repeated affirmation, the fourth grandmother spread this grand good news to others through various channels.

Call or WeChat, if it doesn't work, just riveting your strength and shouting from this mountain to that mountain.

After everyone informed each other, it didn't take long for the entire Baishi Village to know the good news.

The good news was like a stimulant, and everyone was instantly energized, and then they burrowed into the various bushes like rabbits alive in search of mountain peppers......

In the evening, the first to 'run' towards Chen Yang's house was Grandma Lu.

When Grandma Lu appeared in sight, Chen Yang was cleaning the mud stains at the entrance of the courtyard.

A few aunts who came to sell peanuts have just left, and it is inevitable that some dirt will be left in the yard.

"Chen Yang, do you want to collect mountain pepper?" Grandma Lu just walked to the intersection and shouted at Chen Yang from a distance.

There was inevitably a bit of joy in his voice.

Chen Yang looked up at her fixedly.

Although she was still ragged and her hair was messy, and she still had a few blood marks on her face, she looked really good in spirit, as if she had suddenly become several years younger.

There was no more camouflage in that bright smile, no more forbearance, as if time had gone backwards, and she was back in her twenties, and every fine line on her wrinkled face was full of simplicity and truth.

"Accept it. Chen Yang replied, and laughed happily.

Grandma Lu had a heavy snakeskin bag on her shoulder, she didn't walk fast, and her figure was a little rickety, but she was shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun, and her whole person looked as light as a cloud.

Is it because the shackles that imprisoned her are finally gone?

She approached and grinned, "I probably only have a dozen pounds here." ”

She put the snakeskin bag on the ground, opened the opening, grabbed a handful of mountain pepper from it, and showed it to Chen Yang: "Although it is not much, I have done everything according to your requirements, and I have picked every leaf cleanly, and I have also picked the fruit handle, so I will leave a small fruit for you." ”

The handful of round mountain peppers lay in her withered twig-like hands, and it looked like a rotten tree sprouting green shoots.

Chen Yang smiled: "Okay, Grandma Lu, wait a minute, I'll go in and get the scales out." ”

Once the scale is taken out, place the peppercorns on the weighing platform. Chen Yang pointed to the red number in the weight box and said, "Grandma Lu, look, you picked twenty-two catties of mountain pepper." ”

"Huh?" Grandma Lu was a little surprised, "Twenty-two pounds, I thought it was only ten pounds." ”

She frowned, remembering that when the fat people weighed themselves before, the weight was heavier than the mountain pepper they picked this time, but the weight they weighed was not as much as this time.

You don't have to think about it to know what the fat people did.

"Twenty-two pounds. Chen Yang told her categorically, "It's just twenty-two catties, Grandma Lu, five yuan per catty, and twenty-two catties is one hundred and ten yuan." ”

As he spoke, he took out a wad of colorful banknotes from his pocket, drew a hundred-yuan bill and a ten-yuan bill and handed them to Grandma Lu: "Grandma Lu, you take it." ”

Grandma Lu looked at the red banknotes handed over by Chen Yang and was stunned.

When she came back from picking pepper in the mountains, she couldn't be more excited when she heard her son say that Chen Yang was going to collect pepper for five yuan a catty.

She hadn't been so excited in decades.

However, because she was so excited, she forgot to doubt the truth of this matter, and just hurriedly selected the mountain pepper according to Chen Yang's request, and then hurriedly sent it.

During the whole process, she was so excited that she forgot to doubt it.

And at this moment, looking at the red hundred-yuan bill handed over by Chen Yang, she finally doubted.

She didn't doubt Chen Yang, nor did she doubt the authenticity of the money.

She was just wondering, would such a good thing happen to a hard-working person like her, who had been spent all her life by God?

She has been trapped in the swamp of life for decades, struggling for decades, and now she is dying of old age, and one foot has stepped into the coffin, but how can she still encounter such a good thing?

Although peanuts can be sold for three yuan a catty, it is considered a high price, but it should not be much higher than the market price outside.

But this mountain pepper is usually sold for two yuan a catty, and it has to be calculated that it is short of two catties. And now, how can it be sold for five yuan a catty?

This one hundred and ten dollars is not money.

For Grandma Lu, it is God's grace, and it is God's eyes that she has finally gained after decades of struggle.

She stretched out her calloused and indistinguishable scarred palm, took the two bills tremblingly, and then, her eyes instantly wet.

Tears welled up in her eyes, winding from her earthy brown cheeks all the way to twists and turns, just as she had never been flat in her life.

She sobbed and laughed again, and the pain buried in her heart for decades seemed to have found an outlet, and it flowed down the tear stains of Fang Cai.

God has opened my eyes!

God has finally opened his eyes!

Her spring is finally here!

Grandma Lu clutched one hundred and ten yuan tightly, like Chen Yang when he hugged Xiaoqian.

What they embrace is their own world.

For Grandma Lu, the 110 yuan is a new beginning and a symbol of a better and better life. She had to hold on tightly, lest she lose her hard-won happiness if she was not careful.

Chen Yang saw Grandma Lu crying and laughing, and couldn't help but think in his heart, if his grandparents lived until now, maybe they would be like Grandma Lu, because their lives were better, and they couldn't help crying with joy.

He smiled deliberately: "Grandma Lu, how much is this, are you happy to be like this? Tomorrow you let Uncle Lu go into the mountains to pick pepper together, I believe that with his ability, picking fifty catties a day is not a problem." ”

Grandma Lu wiped away her tears, looked at Chen Yang with sour eyes and asked, "Xiaoyang, didn't you ask him to help you chop wood?"

"Oops, it doesn't matter. Chen Yang said, "Now that the price of mountain pepper is so good, you let him pick mountain pepper first, and it doesn't matter if you wait for the mountain pepper to be picked." ”

Grandma Lu nodded vigorously: "That's okay, I'll tell him what you said when I go back later." ”

"Grandma Lu, you have taken the money, go back to the house, and put it away. Chen Yang said.

Grandma Lu nodded again: "Mmmm, I understand, I understand." I'll go back first, so I won't delay you in doing things. ”

"Slow down, don't get too excited. Chen Yang looked at Grandma Lu crying and smiling, he was really happy for her and worried about her.

After all, people are all old, and if the mood swings are too great, it will inevitably cause dizziness or something.

However, he believes that a person like Grandma Lu, who works in the field all year round, should be quite strong.

After Grandma Lu left Chen Yang's house, she went straight to the house. When I walked to the open space in front of my house, I found that the people who had been sitting here and chatting all day had not left.

Grandma Lu wanted to show off to them how much money she sold mountain pepper today, but when she thought of Chen Yang's words just now, she didn't say anything, she just couldn't stop laughing.

Seeing that she was smiling so happily, an old man asked, "You have found the money, you are smiling so happily." ”

Grandma Lu glanced at him, didn't reply, and walked into her yard with a smile.

It's weird.

Everyone in the room thought it was strange. Although this old woman is usually smiling, her usual smile is obviously full of politeness, but today's smile is really like picking up money, and her smile is very bright and real.

"It must have been mountain pepper that sold for a lot of money. Someone speculated.

"How much can it be sold for? The bag of mountain pepper she just carried seemed to be about twenty pounds. It's two dollars a catty, and it's estimated that it's not fifty yuan after selling it all. "There's a lazy guy who doesn't think so.

An old man sat on a stone, crossed Erlang's legs, held a cigarette, and said with a smile: "The mountain pepper that Chen Yang harvested is five yuan a catty, didn't you look at the red paper he posted." ”

"Five dollars a pound?" the lazy man was surprised, and he couldn't say anything in his heart.

"It's five dollars a pound. The old man looked at the lazy man from afar and said, "Look at you, you have hands and feet, if you go into the mountains to pick peppercorns, you can earn at least fifty yuan a day." ”

The lazy man didn't like to hear this, so he laughed and replied, "Then why don't you go yourself?"

The old man was a little helpless when he heard this. Isn't it boring to say such things to such lazy people to the bones?

Since it was boring, he didn't bother to say more, just stood up slowly, and then limped home.

As soon as the old man left, the villagers who had gone into the mountain to pick mountain pepper came down from the mountain together.

When they got to the clearing, everyone stopped and found a random place to sit down.

Among these people are Chen Yang's fourth grandmother, Aiqiang's grandmother, her neighbor Liu Xiulian, and several other women.

The fourth grandmother said, "Let's take a rest here, and pick up the leaves by the way." Chen Yang said that it should be picked up cleanly, and there should be no leaves and branches. If we go to his yard and pick it up again, it will stain his yard. ”

The others nodded in agreement.

The lazy man who had just taken away the uncle smiled: "Then why don't you pick it up in the mountains and come back?"

The fourth grandmother turned her head and glanced at the lazy man, and replied, "Don't you know that there are many mosquitoes in the mountains?"

"Yes. Liu Xiulian also said, "I can't sit down in the mountains at all, and as soon as I sit down, the mosquitoes will buzz like bees and keep biting." ”

"That's right. Grandma Aiqiang also said, "It's okay when people are moving, but if you stop, at least a dozen mosquitoes bite people at the same time." ”

"Alas. The fourth grandmother is about to make an old mistake, "Why are other people's lives so good? We don't have to work and have food, and we are only barely tired and tired." ”

If the fourth grandfather heard this, he would definitely say to her again: Is someone forcing you to go into the mountains?

Jokes are jokes, though. The fourth grandmother is telling the truth.

Among the people present, except for the old people who couldn't enter the mountain, and a few of them who had just returned from the mountain, the rest were all lazy men with complete hands and feet.

These lazy people don't have to do anything, as long as they live in their own dilapidated houses, the politicians will keep sending them money and things.

Like them, women and wives usually have to help young people take care of their children at home, plant crops, and have to go into the mountains to pick peppers and dig five-fingered peaches and the like to maintain a good life.

Alas, it's really more human than human, and it's infuriating.

But......

The fourth grandmother said happily: "If it's five yuan a catty, if I have thirty catties here, then I can sell it for one hundred and fifty yuan." ”

Haha, one hundred and fifty bucks. If you really have 150 yuan, you must show off to her when my daughter calls back tonight.

In addition, Chen Jia's grandfather will never dare to underestimate her in the future.

"yes. Grandma Aiqiang was also happy, and said with a smile while picking up leaves, "Even if it's only a hundred yuan, that's very good, one hundred today, one hundred tomorrow, and a thousand yuan in ten days." ”

What do you do with a thousand dollars?

Grandma Aiqiang will definitely choose to save her money. Because Aiqiang Aihui is about to start school. It is customary for the two cowhides to go to school every morning and spend two dollars each on snacks when they pass by the kiosk in the new housing estate.

If you don't buy it, you don't go to school.

Then in the evening, when she walked to pick them up from school, she would pass by the commissary, and then, she would have to give two yuan each to buy snacks to eat.

If you don't buy it, the two siblings will lie directly on the ground and don't want to go home.

So, if you can make some money selling mountain pepper, it is of course to save it and buy snacks for your grandchildren. Although their parents send thousands of dollars back every month, she doesn't know how to read, she can't go to the bank to withdraw money, and she can't ride a bicycle, so it's not easy to get to town.

It just so happens that if the mountain pepper is sold for money, you don't have to save it, you just stay at home and buy snacks for the two cowhides.

"Oh, you've picked so many mountain peppers today. A man's voice suddenly appeared, immediately interrupting the beautiful reverie of several women.

Several people looked up at the voice, and when they saw the fat people's greasy grinning face, a wave of disgust suddenly rose in their hearts.

The fourth grandmother smiled and said, "Yes, I estimate that I have fifty catties here." ”

"Fifty pounds?" the fat man walked over, picked up the snakeskin bag in front of her, weighed it, and already had a rough idea in his heart.

In this bag, there are about thirty-five catties at most.

He smiled: "Are you confused, you have about twenty-five pounds in this bag at most." ”

"Twenty-five pounds?" the fourth grandmother pulled back her snakeskin bag, "I said it has fifty pounds, it has fifty pounds, if you can't weigh fifty pounds, then you don't want it." ”

"Hehehe. The fat man thought she was joking, so he reached out for the snakeskin bag again, and said with a smile, "Fifty pounds, why don't you say five hundred pounds?"

The fourth grandmother didn't let go: "Don't go over the scales, I count fifty catties here, and besides, I want to sell it for three yuan a catty." ”

The fat people saw that she looked very serious, not like a joke, but as if she was deliberately making things difficult for herself, so she pulled her hand back violently and sneered: "Hmph, three yuan a catty? Fifty catties? Then you can keep it for yourself." ”

After that, he walked in front of Grandma Aiqiang.

This woman is the weakest. He thought. Every time he said how many pounds, she would not refute it.

"You've got a lot of them here. The fat man sneered, "Come on, don't pick it up, it's clean enough, I'll help you weigh it and see how many catties there are." ”

So saying, he reached for the snakeskin bag.

But I didn't want to, Grandma Aiqiang clutched the snakeskin bag tightly, just like holding the red yuan.

"You let go. The fat man frowned and said, "If you don't let go, how can I help you pass the scale." ”

"The mountain peppers we picked today are about the same, and you don't have to weigh them. Liu Xiulian sat next to Grandma Aiqiang, turned her head to look at the fat people and said, "It's all fifty catties, three yuan a catty, if you agree, you can take it away, if you don't agree, then forget it." ”

In fact, they can also directly raise the price to five yuan a catty, and then let the fat people pass the scales. But isn't this bastard going to do anything on the scales, so when a few people were in the mountains, they discussed it, anyway, if they don't give him the scales, it's all fifty pounds.

In this way, this bastard must be so angry that his face turns green, and then he walks away. Then, they can happily take the mountain pepper and sell it to Chen Yang.

Sure enough, after listening to Liu Xiulian's words, the fat people's faces were really green.

He let go of his hand, stood up straight in front of several women, looked at the few women sitting on the ground with messy hair and tattered clothes in front of him with a very high attitude, and laughed contemptuously: "Heh, you guys have discussed it?

The fourth grandmother now has Chen Yang's support, and she doesn't have to give face to the fat people anymore.

She said, "Yes, give each of us one hundred and fifty yuan, and you can take away the mountain pepper in our hands, otherwise, then we will throw it away and not sell it to you." ”

The fat people thought they had misheard, and looked at the fourth grandmother with a face full of disbelief.

The fourth grandmother looked at him with an arrogant face, and even had a bit of mockery in her eyes. She looked at him as if she were looking at a monkey.

The fat man was furious, and his greasy face was instantly stained red by boiling blood.

Lao Tzu has been buying mountain pepper for more than ten years, and this kind of thing has never happened.