"See you next year!"

After saying goodbye to Zheng Jia, Tong Yao and Xu Yue got on the No. 155 bus with their luggage, and they had to go to the Chengxi long-distance bus station and take the shuttle bus back to Tianyun County.

The two of them returned to Tianyun County by car, and seeing that the time was still early, Tong Yao pulled the promise again and opened the purchase mode.

From clothes to shoes, from the inside to the outside, from food to drink, Tong Yao bought several large bags for her mother, and finally found that the two of them couldn't bring back a lot of luggage at all.

Take these things on the line shuttle, and people won't let them get on at all.

So later, I had no choice but to take a taxi, and the trunk and back seat of the taxi were stuffed, and the 80 yuan directly pulled the two to Yangshu Village.

"Mom! I'm back!!"

"Auntie, help!"

Chen Huizhen came out of the back room, promising to carry two large bags of things and shout for help, but when Chen Huizhen wanted to pick it up, she bypassed it again.

"There's more to come......"

Chen Huizhen ran to the taxi and looked at it, almost stunned.

"This ...... What's going on here?"

"The gifts I bought for you, and the things that our family needs to prepare for the New Year. ”

Tong Yao explained with a smile while carrying two large plastic bags.

Chen Huizhen wanted to ask something, but Tong Yao had already walked into the house quickly.

She could only shake her head helplessly to help transfer things from the car to home.

The three of them went back and forth twice, and Tong Yao was about to pay for the taxi, but she had no choice but to see her mother go to bargain with the taxi driver.

"Hey, how many roads are there from the county, usually a taxi to us is up to 50 yuan, even if it is the New Year, it can't rise so much, at most 60 yuan will be given to you......"

"60 is not good, everyone is 100, I only need 80......"

"Then take ......a step back, big brother, don't be angry about this money during the New Year, I'll give you an auspicious number, 68!

……

Tong Yao looked at Xu Yue embarrassedly, she felt that her mother's calculating behavior was a bit embarrassing.

But suddenly she frowned again, and said in her heart when did she start to dislike her mother's good habit of being thrifty and thrifty?

Could it be a change after going to college?

Or is it because I can make money now? I don't like the little money my mother saved?

Just when she was reflecting on her own problem, her mother had already negotiated the price with the taxi driver, and in the end, the two of them made a deal for 70 yuan, directly saving 10 yuan.

Then I saw my mother hand over the 100 yuan that had been prepared a long time ago, and the driver retrieved three pieces of ten yuan.

Chen Huizhen took the money and counted and looked at it one by one, as if she was looking to see if there was any fake money.

This scene reminded Tong Yao of Zhu Ziqing's "Back".

"Let's go, what are you doing stupidly, hurry home, it's cold outside, don't catch a cold." ”

Her mother's voice interrupted Tong Yao's thoughts, Tong Yao smiled, mumbled, and grabbed her mother's arm.

promised that he would leave, but Chen Huizhen did not keep it twice.

"Auntie, I just came back, and I haven't come home yet. ”

"Hehe, then you can come over, Auntie just baked sweet potatoes today, but they are fragrant. ”

"Okay. ”

promised to agree, and walked towards his house with a smile.

After returning home, Tong Yao couldn't wait to show her mother the gift she bought, but her mother dragged her to the kitchen and showed her roasted sweet potatoes first.

"I must not have eaten it on the road, hurry up, eat a sweet potato to pad my stomach first, and my mother will cook for you." ”

Tong Yao took the sweet potato handed by her mother, and couldn't help but look gloomy.

She knows her mother's temperament too well, and this sweet potato must be her mother's noon ration, just to save a little food, to save a little money.

Of course, this sweet potato is not bought, let alone planted, but picked!

Yes, she picked it up with her mother.

Because every year in September, when the sweet potatoes are ripe, she and her mother will carry the basket to the next village and wait, and after the sweet potato fields are dug up, the mother and daughter will go in to rummage.

Don't look for those who are a little smaller.

Look for the hoes that rot when they are dug up.

Look for the ones that have fallen in the sweet potato seedlings that no one else has noticed.

……

When the sweet potatoes were brought home, the mother would steam the better ones for herself, and the chopped ones would be cut into sweet potato slices to dry and later eaten, and the smaller ones would be stored for the winter.

What I get in my hand now is what my mother picked up this year, and when I'm not at home, my mother usually eats this? How long has it been? A month? Two months? Or has it always been?

Thinking of this, Tong Yao's eyes were red, and she looked at her mother, who was busy in the kitchen, ate the sweet potatoes in her hand in three or two bites, and then wiped a handful of tears and went up to pull her mother's arm.

"Mom, stop cooking, I bought cooked food today...... If you don't eat it, it's bad. ”

If you don't eat it, it will be bad, this is Tong Yao's killer weapon to deal with her mother.

Hearing this, Chen Huizhen turned her head and sighed, although she blamed her for wasting two sentences, she still couldn't stop the joy on her face.

Tong Yao rummaged through a few plastic bags, and then quickly took out the things she had bought at the county deli.

"Mom, this is braised beef, this is roast chicken, here are pig's trotters, braised vegetables, and ......"

Chen Huizhen originally wanted to reprimand a few words for waste, but when the words came to her mouth, she stopped, she knew that what Tong Yao bought was not just cooked food, she understood the meaning contained in this pile of cooked food, she understood everything......

"Mom, what do you think this is?"

"Oh, mom has gloves, you can make a lot of money writing novels, buy blindly!"

"Your torn gloves should have been thrown away a long time ago, it's leather, and there's wool in it, but it's warm......"

Tong Yao shook it, put the gloves beside her, and began to rummage through them again.

"And this, your waist is not good, I heard that this thing can massage your waist when plugged in, this is a new thing, I haven't seen it...... Let's try it later. ”

"This is a hot water bottle, you don't need to fill it with hot water, it can be heated in a few minutes when you plug it in, and then you will hold it when you go out, and you will envy others to death......

"And this, I bought it from the county seat after a long queue......"

……

Tong Yao took it out the same way, Chen Huizhen took it the same with a smile, the smile on her face became more and more, but her eyes unconsciously shed tears.

At this moment, she suddenly realized that perhaps her daughter had unconsciously become someone she could rely on.

"Mom, what do you think this is?"

"Tape recorder? What are you buying this for, how expensive is this!!"

In 2002, people in the city no longer played tape recorders, but this thing is still a mainstream entertainment tool in rural areas, and even many families are still reluctant to buy it.

Especially Tong Yao's family, it's good to be able to eat, not to mention the tape recorder.

One hundred and fifty-eight, this price is not unacceptable for Chen Huizhen, but if there is this one hundred and fifty-eight, she will definitely not use it to buy a tape recorder.