Chapter 41: One Step Away from Paying Off Debts
Shore.
The morning breeze whistled and whistled on the face.
Wang Qiang looked over carefully, wanting to see who it was, it was okay not to look at it, but he was speechless when he saw it, it turned out to be this brother and sister.
He knows, Lu Wei and Lu Junjun.
Speaking of which, this brother and sister are also hard-working people, their parents died, and they finally survived to the age of sixteen or seventeen by relying on their grandmother's pull, if memory serves, their grandmother also died not long ago, so it is not an exaggeration to describe it as having nothing to rely on.
Lu Weiwu has a short figure, known as a bold title, he laughs and laughs on weekdays, but he has nothing to say to his sister, he was admitted to high school and didn't go to school, relying on hardships and hard work, he was stunned to supply his sister until he graduated from college.
It's Lu Junjun, who is very beautiful, but later he lived up to his brother's love, maybe he was afraid of poverty, he was raised by a rich man during college, and finally abandoned him in the second year of graduation and committed suicide by jumping off the building.
Alas, this bitter brother and sister.
Wang Qiang didn't know what to do with them.
Just as he was thinking about it, his mother's shouting withdrew him from his thoughts, "Lu Ergou, you stole chickens and dogs again?
Lu Wei and Lu Junjun originally thought that there were ghosts and were frightened, but now that they heard the voice of a person, the two of them finally put their minds at ease.
Coming back to his senses, Lu Wei gasped twice, and said with a sneer: "It's Aunt Cheng, let's ......" His eyes rolled, and the lie came out, "It's not that we don't know that it's your fishing cage, just tripped my sister, I pulled it up, I didn't expect it to be a fishing cage, just now I discussed with Junjun whether to throw the cage back into the river." ”
The frightened Lu Junjun patted his chest, cooperated with his brother, and nodded very hard.
Where did the mother believe their nonsense, "Do you think I didn't hear it? Believe it or not, tell your third uncle to go?"
Regarding the third uncle of the two, Wang Qiang knows one thing, he is their only relative, but he has never helped the brothers and sisters, on the contrary, he almost took eight points from the brothers and sisters.
Hearing that he was going to tell them the third uncle, Lu Junjun immediately panicked, shook his hands and said, "Don't, Aunt Cheng, don't tell my third uncle, otherwise he will beat me and my brother." ”
Mother doesn't like the brother and sister very much, it may be related to Lu Wei's usual petty theft, or in other words, whether it is Wang Qiang's village or the village where Lu Junjun's family is located on the other side of the river, no one likes the brother and sister, until Lu Junjun jumped off the building and committed suicide, Lu Wei got drunk to vent his anger, and everyone knew that Lu Wei stole chickens and dogs to let his sister go to school.
Two brothers and sisters who don't have any financial resources and no help, what else can they do except a piece of land?
It's all forced by life.
Mother said in disgust: "You steal ......"
"Mom. Wang Qiang interrupted: "Forget it, the cage is still here anyway." He sympathized with the plight of the brother and sister, and did not want to pursue such a trivial matter.
Lu Junjun cast a grateful look.
"But......" Mother wanted to say something.
Wang Qiang shook his head at her, he knew that his mother was more upright and didn't like people who stole things, but every family had a scripture that was difficult to read, and Lu Wei chose so when he was desperate.
"Well, blame, I don't blame you. Wang Qiang looked at Lu Wei, "You two help me carry the cage to my house together, okay?"
Lu Wei hung his head in frustration, "Oh, okay. ”
Lu Junjun breathed a sigh of relief and nodded again and again, "Okay, okay." As he spoke, he quickly lifted the fishing cage.
Wang Qiang picked up the ground cage, didn't bother to see what fish were inside, but felt very heavy.
Originally, I was going to make two trips back and forth with my mother, but with the help of my brother and sister, I took it home at one time.
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Home.
Wang Qiangyu poured into the wooden basin, and picked out the crayfish and threw it aside, then he had time to observe, as before, the vast majority of them were crucian carp, and there were seven or eight silver carp, but what made people more pleased was that today they actually got three black fish, two big and one small, and the small one was only one or two catties, as for the big one, he weighed it, one estimated seven or eight catties, and one was about six catties, which was a good harvest.
The brother and sister stood there restrained, neither sitting nor walking, as if they were still waiting to fall.
My mother was having breakfast, and she had to go to town after eating.
Wang Qiang shook off the water in his hand, looked at the brothers and sisters, and turned around and said, "Mom, hold two more bowls of porridge." He deliberately sent the brother and sister back with the fish cage, just to help a little, because Wang Qiang later heard Lu Wei say that after their grandmother died, they often couldn't eat, in fact, he didn't know if the brothers and sisters had food now, but if they could, they would help.
Mother was not very happy, "What are you doing?"
"They helped us get the fish back and told them to eat something together. Wang Qiang said.
Lu Junjun couldn't help licking his lips, a little greedy, there was no half grain of rice in the rice tank yesterday, I wanted to stay up all night, but at about three o'clock in the morning, she was so hungry that she couldn't stand tossing and turning in bed, and her brother heard it, and the two ran out to find a way, originally my brother said that he was going to go into the water to touch two fish and go back to cook and eat, but he didn't expect to run into Wang Qiang's fishing cage, so there was the scene just now.
Mother reluctantly filled two more bowls of porridge and brought them to the table of the four immortals.
"Eat. Wang Qiang sat down and pointed to two bowls of porridge with chopsticks.
Lu Junjun's eyes were watery, and he was moved: "Thank you." ”
Lu Wei also followed his sister and said thank you.
The four of them sat around the table and ate silently.
Ten minutes later, a breakfast was served.
The brother and sister thanked them a few more times before leaving.
Looking at their backs, Wang Qiang shook his head helplessly, he is not a bodhisattva, but it is really sympathetic to meet such a poor brother and sister, but he can only help so much, sometimes, you help others, maybe in the future, when you encounter difficulties, others will also help you.
Of course, Wang Qiang never thought that the brother and sister would repay him, he was just sympathetic.
……
The entrance of the vegetable market.
The morning sun has risen and the temperature is getting hotter.
After saying hello to Uncle Zhai, Wang Qiang and his mother began to get busy.
The first few times I sold fish had a reputation, and today there is an old business coming to the door.
The first business was the blue shirt aunt I saw last time, and she still wears that dress today.
As soon as Wang Qiang saw her, he immediately greeted: "Auntie, come to sell fish stew soup for your daughter-in-law again to replenish your body?"
Seeing that she remembered her, the blue shirt aunt was very happy and smiled: "Yo, the young man still remembers me?"
Wang Qiang said: "That is, you have a temperament, I recognize it at a glance." ”
"Haha, I'm really good at talking, Nacheng, bring me two crucian carp ......" The blue-shirted aunt looked around in the wooden basin, and suddenly changed her words: "Give me that little black fish." ”
"Cheng, I'll weigh you. Wang Qiang fished out the black fish from the water, took the plastic bag and rod scale handed over by his mother, weighed it, two catties and one tael, he glanced at it, "Count you two catties, five yuan." ”
The aunt was very refreshed, took out five coins and handed them over.
The mother took the money and said with a smile: "Your daughter-in-law gave birth?"
"Gave me a big fat grandson. At the mention of this, the aunt smiled so much that her mouth couldn't close it, and now the patriarchal thinking in the countryside is still quite heavy.
Wang Qiang squatted on the ground to kill the fish, ripped off the fish viscera, finally washed it, threw the fish bubbles into a plastic bag, and then handed it to the aunt.
The aunt talked to her mother a few more times and left.
The second business soon came to the door, a man in his forties, who looked very capable.
"Hey, I haven't seen you before?"
"I only came to set up a stall recently. ”
"Oh, how do you sell crucian carp?"
"A piece of fifty-one catty, if you want to buy it, I will ask my son to help you kill it." ”
"Still helping to kill?"
"That's, do you want two?"
"Okay, let's have two bigger ones. ”
Seeing that his mother greeted the guests easily, Wang Qiang smiled slightly, it seems that after the first two times of doing business, she has already gotten started and knows what to do.
Maybe it's because on Sunday, business is exceptionally good today, and the metalworking machinery factory is closed, so he doesn't have to go to the factory, he can help his mother sell the fish.
How good is business?
Almost as soon as one guest left, the next one followed.
"Help me weigh a tarpon. ”
"Okay. ”
"Take four crucian carp. ”
"Chenghui, three pieces of two. ”
"How can this black fish be sold because it's big enough?"
"Two pieces and five pounds. ”
didn't bother to say a few words to Uncle Zhai, and he was busy until 8:40.
In the end, both mother and son were tired enough, and more than 80 catties of fish were all sold.
Seeing that there were no fish, Wang Qiang and his mother said hello to Uncle Zhai and pushed the cart back.
Just a few steps away, her mother smiled and told Wang Qiang that she had earned 132 yuan today, and it was obvious that she was calculating when she was selling fish.
Wang Qiang was made to cry and laugh by her, and couldn't help but shake his head.
Today, he earned more than 130 yuan, and he is one step closer to helping his family pay off the debt, he is secretly calculating in his heart, his mother has about more than 1,500 yuan in his pocket, plus what he earned today, there should be 1,070 yuan, and by Wednesday, the deadline agreed with Lu Dahai will arrive, and there will be 700 yuan in the account, and after the debt should be repaid, there will be a little surplus.
Wang Qiang is already a little impatient, hoping that Wednesday will come soon.
When you get the money to exchange for debts, discuss it with your mother and try to convince her not to force herself to go to school, then you can devote yourself to what you want to do and work hard to earn money to improve your family life.