At night in the countryside, it is dark and there is no trace of the stars.

Walking outside the window of the bright building, the black oppressive shadow seemed to be collapsing, and the dim light cast on the gravel road was as faint as the last moan of a dying old man, but it made Lu Wei feel like he had a burning eye, poverty was more terrible than darkness, but he was wrapped in this horror, and it seemed that he would be drowned anytime and anywhere.

The day of helping people as a small worker is over.

Lu Wei dragged his tired body back to the door of the house, his messy long hair had not been cut for a long time, his black and yellow face was covered with cement ash, and he had a tattered nylon shirt that could not be seen in color, and he shook off a few stars of dust with a slight movement, and with the north wind swaying, the liberation shoes on his feet had broken a hole, and his big toe was about to come out, and the cold night wind seemed to tell his bitterness.

He took out the key and was about to open the door, when suddenly, to his surprise, found that the lock on the door had disappeared for some time.

Lu Wei was startled, don't you come here to be a thief, right? Although the valuable object in the house is only a big iron pot, he still hurriedly pushed open the door, for fear that the big iron pot on which he used to cook rice would be stolen.

The house was pitch black.

Suddenly, a crisp and bitter girl's voice appeared, "Brother." ”

"Junjun!?" Lu Wei stood on the edge of the threshold in disbelief, he tried to open his eyes wide and look in, and vaguely saw a thin figure sitting next to the table with half a corner missing from his memory.

A voice of assurance came from there, "Hmm. ”

Lu Wei didn't know why his sister suddenly came back from school, he hurriedly groped in the dark, and finally touched the kerosene lamp that he was usually reluctant to light under the table, and found a boxed match from the stove.

With the pungent smell of sulfur, the flame burned on the small wooden stick, and he carefully stretched out his left hand to care for the flame, slowly approaching the already blackened wick.

lit.

Lu Weicai put the glass cover on with relief, and finally did not waste another match.

The room suddenly lit up, or rather, the four immortal tables with missing corners lit up in a circle.

At this time, he had time to look at his sister sitting on the stool, it was okay not to look at it, but he was shocked, his sister's face with her head down was full of tears, and her eye bubbles were swollen from crying, as if she had been wronged, Lu Wei, the most precious sister, was inexplicably angry, and said viciously with a rattling fist: "Is there someone bullying you at school? Who is it? I beat him!"

Lu Junjun stretched out his sleeves with two or three large and small patches in a panic to wipe his face, and choked up: "No, no, no one bullied me." ”

"Then why did you come back all of a sudden? and still cry like this?" Lu Wei said distressedly.

Lu Junjun tried his best to control his emotions and whispered, "I don't want to go to school anymore." ”

Hearing this, Lu Wei was stunned for a moment, and then a wave of anger arose in his chest, and he yelled at his sister for the first time: "Why can you go to farming if you don't go to school?"

Lu Junjun covered his face with his hands and cried again, "Farming is farming, and the opposite is ...... I'm not going to school anyway. ”

What happened?

Is it really bullying at school?

Seeing his sister crying profusely, Lu Wei, who was originally full of anger, softened his heart, squatted down and said in relief: "If there is anything you tell your brother, I can solve it for you, don't move and say that you don't go to school, ho?"

But my sister couldn't stop crying while she was sitting.

After comforting for a long time, Lu Wei understood what was going on from his sister's intermittent words, it turned out that the school required to pay class fees, tuition and miscellaneous fees, classwork fees, etc. tomorrow, but she only had about 30 yuan in her pocket for living expenses, and if she paid it, she couldn't even afford to eat.

After listening, Lu Wei was silent, the cost was not much, adding up to thirty yuan, but when he touched his pocket, there was only six yuan left in his pocket that he earned from doing small work today, and he was desperate.

A penny is hard to beat a hero.

At this moment, he finally realized the meaning of this sentence.

In the thatched house, Lu Junjun had stopped crying, but the brother and sister were speechless to each other, and the silent atmosphere was gradually drowned out by the night as time went by.

Suddenly, I heard a bicycle coming from outside the door.

Then a voice sounded like a heavenly savior, "Lu Wei, are you at home?"

……

Half an hour ago.

Wang Qiang, who had just finished lunch, was helping his mother wash the dishes, and he was a little worried about the fact that the physical status of several elderly people did not allow his mother to leave his hometown.

It's just that Wang Qiang, who decided to let his parents live a good life at the beginning, did not give up and continued to find a way.

It is a good thing for one's mother to be filial to the elderly.

I'm afraid that some people think that the old man is a burden, that is the wrong thinking, where can the old man come from his parents without both sides, and where does he come from his own without his parents?

The grace of earnest nurturing is unforgettable.

Forget it, let's go to Shanghai tomorrow afternoon, and then talk about earning the money first, Wang Qiang knows that the main task now is to make money, as for how to settle his mother, he will think slowly in the future.

While washing the dishes, the mother and son chatted casually.

"What time is Lu Wei at home?"

"It seems like it's around seven o'clock. ”

"Oh yes, then I'll be over at six-fifty. ”

"Hey, how do you say brother and sister? Lu Wei, this child, after being asked by you last time, he came over early every morning to help me collect the fish cage, and then came to the fish cage again in the afternoon, and another time, I was busy in the vegetable field, he and Junjun came to help, and they picked and poured manure, and they didn't know what to do. ”

Wang Qiang was stunned, the action of washing the dishes was three points slower, although he was giving Lu Wei a salary of ten yuan a day, but the work content was only to help his mother raise the cage and get out of the cage, and there was nothing else at all, the brother and sister also helped their mother to plant a small vegetable field?

In particular, the work of picking and pouring manure is not easy.

People who have never lived in the countryside do not know that a flat pole carries two large wooden barrels, at least there are more than 100 catties, and the manure is very dirty, and more or less feces and urine will get on some trouser legs and shoes.

Not to mention the young people who came later, even now, many young people of Lu Wei's age are not happy. After all, almost all of this generation are only children, even if they have endured hardships, they are still the object of the family's baby.

But now, the brother and sister actually took the initiative to help with the tiring and dirty work?

Wang Qiang stood by the stove and felt a little emotional.

Mother sighed and said: "A while ago, I heard that Junjun's registration fee was not enough, and I don't know if I had made it up, Lu Wei worked day and night for that girl, and I heard Junjun say that once he was busy until more than twelve o'clock in the evening before going home, but he got up and went out at half past five in the morning. ”

Wang Qiang frowned and said, "Is the tuition fee ready?"

"I don't know, I can't help much, I'm going to ask what those are doing. Mother said.

Wang Qiang finished washing the dishes and took the water out of the pot.

I went back to the house and touched 75 yuan and was about to go out, but I thought about it, and the ghost made God take an extra 300 yuan and put it in his pocket.

Seeing him take so much money, his mother asked, "Why are you taking so much money out?"

Wang Qiang said with a smile: "Didn't you say that there was no shortage of people in my game room during the meal? I want Lu Wei to work for me, he and Lu Junjun are so difficult, if they agree to work with me, I will advance a month's salary, so that their brothers and sisters can tide over the difficulties temporarily." ”

It is true that there is a shortage of people in the game room, so you can't let Lao Zhu and his son stare at the game room all day and ignore themselves, right? Speaking of which, Wang Qiang is still the big boss, why do people not take as much money as themselves, and they still have to pay all the manpower?

It doesn't make sense in the sense.

Originally, it was okay for her mother to go to Shanghai, but now she can't go because of the old people on both sides, so Wang Qiang naturally wants to recruit someone to watch the game room.

Anyway, one thing is certain, he doesn't have time to spend all day in the game room.

"Then you're the boss. Mother quipped.

Wang Qiang smiled and said: "Just recruit someone, what kind of boss is it." ”

The mother said, "Why don't you count it? Recruit one person today, you are a small boss, and in the future, you will recruit ten or twenty people, you will be a big boss, and people must always think in a good direction." ”

That's right.

In the future, the business will become bigger and bigger.

Besides, it's not expensive to ask someone to help watch the game room for ten yuan a day, open at eight o'clock in the morning every day, close at seven o'clock in the evening, and clean up or something, almost twelve hours a day, and even no days off, in a big city like Shanghai, it may be more than this price to find an old mother.

At first, when he asked his mother to go to Shanghai, Wang Qiang thought about the high intensity of work, and wanted to recruit someone to work with his mother, but now he doesn't need to, he can directly recruit one person for the whole class.

But the key is to see if Lu Weitong disagrees.

And Wang Qiang thought very carefully, if Lu Wei agreed, work diligently, the salary can be mentioned again in the future, sympathy to give a job is sympathy, work is another thing, your own money is not blowing in the wind, you can't recruit an uncle to come back and serve and give money at the same time, right?

……

In a thatched hut.

Seeing Wang Qiang running in from outside, Lu Junjun stretched out his hands in a panic and touched his face.

Lu Wei hurriedly moved a bench for him to sit down and asked, "Why did you come here at night?"

"I'm here to pay off my debts. Wang Qiang smiled and groaned, biting the word "debt repayment" very hard.

Lu Wei and his sister glanced at each other and said with a wry smile: "Actually, I didn't help Aunt Cheng for a few days, and the seventy-five yuan you gave me before was enough." ”

Wang Qiang didn't say anything, he directly took out seventy-five yuan from his bag and put it on the table, and said: "Since I promised you one hundred and fifteen, then I must be true to my word, so I specially sent you the money today." ”

Lu Wei wanted to refuse with dignity, because he really didn't help for a few days, and now he always feels like being given by someone, and that feeling is not very pleasant, but I don't know why, he swallowed back the words several times when they came to his mouth.

Perhaps, it's because of being too poor.

Thinking of his sister waiting to pay tuition and fees, he did not have the courage to refuse the seventy-five dollars on the table.

It is true that Lu Wei's self-esteem told him that he was being chared, and according to his backbone, Wang Qiang should be allowed to take it back. However, he needed this money, and he also understood that Wang Qiang was sending charcoal in the snow, and he was inexplicably moved in his heart.

There are a lot of people who put the icing on the cake.

How many people are there in the snow?

Especially because the object of this charcoal in the snow is still one year younger than himself, Wang Qiang, who is the same age as his sister, Lu Wei has an urge to cry, there are still good Samaritans in this world, and he can't help but be grateful to Wang Qiang in his heart.