At noon one day at the end of September 1980, Mo Caide's father drove a tractor to send Xiaohui and Hu'er to the student department of the county middle school.

This middle school is very large, with a capacity of three to four thousand students for study and boarding life, etc., and is divided into a junior high school and a high school.

Because Xiaohui came to the school for nearly a month late, the administrator of the student department said that Xiaohui's degree was still there, but the school's dormitory beds and meals had been fully occupied.

Therefore, Xiaohui can only participate in normal classes and studies as a day student, and she has to solve the problems of accommodation and meals outside the school.

For this matter, their family is in trouble!

Xiaohui said, "Oh, Dad! Now, where are we going to find a place to live and eat? I don't want to read this book anymore! Let's go to the bookstore and buy some textbooks and go home, you and your mother can teach me!"

Father Mo smiled and said: "Alas! Xiaohui! Home and school are two different things! From junior high school onwards, you have to learn biology, chemistry, physics, and other scientific knowledge, and in order to master this knowledge, you must participate in many scientific experiments! These experiments cannot be done at home! Therefore, you still have to study in school! The problem of food and housing is not difficult! There is a vegetable garden near this school, which is the eldest son of the second master of the Mo family, and your Uncle Mo Cailong is contracted to manage it! He must have a vacant house there! Once we've checked in, let's go there!"

Hu'er smiled and said, "Alas, Dad! I have read all the textbooks and homework that my sister left when she was in elementary school, and I have done all the homework again! In addition, you and my mother have nagged me about that knowledge every day! Therefore, I don't want to study in the village primary school anymore! I keep here to cook for my sister and help Cai Longbo and them grow vegetables and work!"

Father Mo said: "Yes! Xiaohui's body has just recovered, and she is studying here, and your mother and I are not at ease! Hu'er, you are smart and powerful, so you can stay here and study with your sister! However, you have to go home for a few days every semester to take the entrance examination of the village elementary school, so that you can get your graduation certificate and take the entrance examination for junior high school in the future!

Xiaohui and Hu'er applauded happily!

After Dad Mo signed up for Xiaohui and paid the tuition and miscellaneous fees, Xiaohui received her student ID, passes, textbooks, homework books, stationery and school uniforms and other items.

After they packed up the belongings they received, Father Mo drove the tractor out of school and went to Uncle Choilong's vegetable garden.

Cai Longbo's vegetable garden was only more than 500 meters away from Xiaohui's middle school, so they arrived at Uncle Cailong's house in the vegetable garden at once.

Uncle Choilong's vegetable garden has more than 600 cultivated land, mainly vegetable plots for growing various seasonal vegetables, and a farm with 100 pigs, hundreds of chickens and other livestock and poultry.

The place where Cai Longbo and his family lived was in a large courtyard surrounded by a bungalow, and there were more than 20 hired workers in the courtyard, as well as Cai Longbo's family.

When they arrived at Cai Longbo's house, Cai Longbo was having lunch with his wife Wei Xiaomei, a small woman in her thirties, Cai Longbo's fifteen-year-old son Mo Wenxian, thirteen-year-old daughter Mo Xiaoqing, and nine-year-old son Mo Wengang.

Cai Longbo is a hospitable person, and after everyone meets, he invites Cai De's father, Xiaohui and Hu'er to eat with them, and then they talk while eating.

Caide's father told Uncle Cai Long and his little sister and aunt about Xiaohui and Hu'er's request to eat and live in their place.

Cai Longbo smiled and said: "There is no problem with this! There is still an empty house for hired workers here, and the house has a kitchen, a handsome room, a small living room, and two bedrooms! Xiaohui and Hu'er have no problem eating and living there! I don't charge their rent anymore! However, we have to pay for the water and electricity ourselves! As for eating, we usually eat late, so let's cook their own food! We will provide them with the vegetables in the vegetable garden at cost price! If they want to buy them themselves, the vegetable market is not far from here, and there is everything in the market!"

Caide's father smiled and said, "Brother Cailong, I am so grateful to you! In the future, Hu'er will stay here to take care of her sister, in addition to cooking and other housework, she will also help you do farm work and learn agricultural skills!"

Cai Longbo smiled and said: "Okay! Hu'er is a smart and capable child! Although he is only eight years old, he looks like a mature adult! He is more than 1.7 meters tall, right?"

Hu'er smiled and said: "Longbo! I have grown to a year of seventy-two, and I weigh 110 pounds! The doctor who helped me with the physical examination said that in the future, I can grow to more than 1.8 meters, and he asked me to practice basketball more in school! They said that I can enter the provincial team or the national team!"

Everyone laughed!

Cai Longbo said: "Okay! We just lack a helper to raise chickens! Hu'er! In the future, you can learn how to raise chickens and pigs from Brother Wen Gang! Give you a salary of eight yuan a month! You should pay the water and electricity bills and buy vegetables!"

Several of Choilongbo's children are no longer in school, and they all work in this vegetable garden. This vegetable garden is Cai Longbo with a few thousand yuan from the public to contract to operate, they have been here for two or three years, I heard, they have earned back the capital, now, every year there are thousands to tens of thousands of yuan of profits, therefore, Cai Longbo is the Mo family's rich man!

After they finished eating and talking, Cai Longbo's family took Cai De's father, Xiaohui and Hu'er to arrange housing for them.

After arriving at the house, they felt that the house was spacious and bright, the doors and windows, walls, floors, etc. were all in good condition, the ceramic tiles and thermal insulation layers on the roof were newly installed, the beds, tables and chairs in the bedroom were complete, the kitchen was complete with tableware such as stoves, cooking utensils and chopsticks, and the living room had a small round table and stool for eating, and there were teas and teapots on the table.

Cai Longbo's family helped them tidy up their bedrooms and kitchens, and also provided them with some insufficient daily necessities and furniture.

Cai Longbo smiled and said: "Cai De! If you don't have enough things, you can go to the market tomorrow to buy them! We will accompany you enough to cook and take a bath and rest tonight!"

Caide's father said, "Brother Long, thank you so much! You go and get busy! We can do the rest by ourselves!"

Cai Longbo smiled and said: "Alas! We are clan relatives! Don't be polite! After a while, please help me and send my father Mo Erye here to live with us! Alas, after my mother left, he lived at home alone, and he was quite lonely!"

Caide's father said, "Okay! When the time comes, Hu'er and I will pick up his old man!"

After the conversation, Cai Longbo and his family went to work in the busy vegetable garden, and Cai De's father and two children sat in the living room drinking tea and chatting.

Xiaohui smiled and said, "Dad, I feel that this house is better than our house!"

Caide's father said: "Yes! These are houses built by the government! The building materials used are different from those used in our rural areas! The houses here are all built of cement, steel bars, and other materials! The houses in our rural areas are built with local materials, wood, adobe bricks, green tiles, and so on! I am used to living in rural houses, and I feel that the houses here are too tough!"

Hu'er smiled and said: "Alas! There are many people in the city and few places, and the houses are all made into small rooms! I still feel that the house at home is spacious and comfortable! Moreover, the smell is relatively good! I feel that the house here smells strange!"

Everyone laughed!

Xiaohui said: "Dad! Tomorrow morning, you can drive a tractor home! Mom is pregnant, she is alone at home, we don't worry!"

Caide's father said: "Alas! It doesn't matter! Tomorrow morning, I will go to the county agricultural materials market to buy some agricultural materials and tools for the tea garden! I will buy you some daily necessities at will! At noon, I will have lunch with you here, and then go home! This is only more than 50 kilometers away from our village! I will drive a tractor and walk slowly, and I will arrive home in more than two hours!"

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After discussing things, they tidy up the room, make dinner, etc., and after they are busy with these things, it starts to get dark.

After dark, the family had dinner at the small round table in the living room.

Xiaohui said, "Dad! I feel that this place is quieter than in our countryside! If I live here alone, I will definitely be afraid!"

Caide's father said, "Xiaohui! Since the last incident, your courage has become smaller! There is life and death in this world at all times! Life and death are very common! In the future, don't think about those sad and unpleasant things! Understand?"

Xiaohui said, "Dad! I know! I may have been frightened by the last incident! With my brother with me, I won't be afraid!"

Hu'er smiled and said: "Don't worry! The demon powder left by grandpa! Look at the demon mirror! Demon slaying sword! Limu soul chasing hammer! Demon slayer***! Lock the ghost rope! Lock the soul treasure box! Demon suppression talisman and other complete sets of magic equipment, I brought them all! After eating, I will install a mechanism for this house! I let all the demons and monsters know that this is the Shenwei Fortress!"

Everyone laughed!

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Early the next morning, as soon as the rooster crowed, Caide's father and his family of three got up.

They washed up, dressed neatly, and after a brief meal leftover from last night, discussed things in the living room.

Caide's father said: "Xiaohui! Here are 30 yuan! Wait a minute, you can put these away! This is the living expenses of the two of you for three months! The 100 catties of rice brought by the family are enough for you to eat for a few months, or you still bring dry goods such as bacon and preserved fish, and you can also eat them first, and the dry goods cannot be left for a long time, so don't eat them if they are eaten by insects! Wait a minute, I will go to stationery stores and department stores with you to buy some urgent stationery and daily necessities, as well as buy agricultural materials for your family. ”

Then, Caide's father handed over the money to Xiaohui, and after Xiaohui hid the money in the bedroom, he and his father and younger brother hung the bacon and bacon in the kitchen to cool, and put the rice they brought in the rice jar for preservation.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, everyone thought that after the shops in the city were open, the three of them locked the door, and Caide's father drove a tractor to take Xiaohui and Hu'er to the city to buy things.

The county where they live is called Xianling County, which is an ethnic minority area, most of them belong to the Zhuang nationality, the Buyi nationality, the Yao nationality, the Miao nationality, etc., and the Mo family belongs to the Zhuang nationality and is a famous family of the Zhuang nationality.

There are more than 20,000 residents living in this county, and the residents here are mainly ethnic minorities, of course, the residents here are no longer like the residents in the isolated mountain villages, they still wear colorful national costumes, they are the same as people in other non-ethnic minority areas, they like to wear the popular Zhongshan suits, military uniforms, Tang costumes, etc., some fashionable young men and women, also wear the clothes that big city people like, such as suits, jackets, jeans, dresses, etc., if you don't listen to them, you can't feel at all, this is an ethnic minority area.

Xiaohui and the mountain village where they live, fifty kilometers northwest of Xianling County, this mountain village is called Mowei Village, Zhuang language means "where there are cattle and buffaloes", Zhuang people read "cattle" as "momo", "buffalo" as "waiwei", here in ancient times should be cattle raised and sold place.

There are more than 2,000 residents living in Mowei Village, most of whom are surnamed Mo, and all the residents are farmers who cultivate rice fields and grow cash crops, because there are abundant water resources such as rivers, vast paddy fields, soil slopes and mountains, etc., and the climate is mild, therefore, the agricultural harvest here is very good, and the residents here are much richer than other mountain people who are poor in natural resources.

Cai Longbo's vegetable garden was in the northwest of Xianling County, about a kilometer away from the county seat, so they quickly arrived at the commercial concentration area of the county seat.

Because the county seat is not large, therefore, all kinds of goods are concentrated, a paved bluestone pavement, shops and markets on both sides of the commercial street are sold, because today is the day of the weekend market, there are already many people buying and selling goods here, and it is already very crowded to walk here.

After they parked their tractors in the parking lot at the entrance of the street, Caide's father took Xiaohui and Hu'er to the commercial street to buy stationery and daily necessities.

After buying toys and supplies, they returned to the place where the tractor was stored, and drove the tractor to the door of the agricultural material store, where Caide's father bought some fertilizers, pesticides, farm tools, vegetable seeds and other agricultural materials, and after loading the truck, they went back to the vegetable garden together.

At noon, they returned to their home in the courtyard of the vegetable garden, and after Xiaohui and Hu'er put away their stationery and daily necessities, they made tea for their father and went to the kitchen to cook.

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The three of them had lunch, and after resting for a while, Caide's father was going to drive a tractor to Mowei Village, and Xiaohui and Hu'er sent their father to the yard.

Caide's father said: "Xiaohui, Hu'er, you can live and study well here! Don't worry about your family! If you have an emergency, you go to Uncle Cailong! Let him call me!"

Hu'er smiled and said, "Alas! What is the urgent matter here? Dad! You and your mother don't have to worry about me and my sister and me at home! We must take care of ourselves! I see, there are a few horses in Uncle Cailong's stable! If there is something, I will borrow a horse from her, and I will ride back to inform you! The road from here to Mowei Village is easy to walk, and the fast horse will be able to get home in an hour! It should be a little faster than this tractor!"

Everyone laughed!

After they said goodbye, Caide's father drove a tractor out of the courtyard of the courtyard, and he drove along the road next to the vegetable garden in the direction of Mowei Village.

Hu'er and Xiaohui followed the tractor to the side of the road and watched their father, but the smoke from the tractor's diesel engine and the billowing dust on the road made them unable to see their father's back clearly!

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After Xiaohui and Xiaohu had dinner, the two went to the vegetable garden, next to the vegetable garden, to sit on the grass by a stream and chat.

Xiaohui said: "Hu'er! It's been a few days since the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon is still so round!"

Hu'er said: "Yes! Tonight, the stars in the Milky Way are colorful and dazzling! Alas, how high and profound the sky is!"

Xiaohui said, "Hu'er, do you say, the stars are the same as our earth?"

Hu'er smiled and said, "I really don't know this! According to reasoning, some stars should be similar to the earth, and there should be matter, life, and things they should have!"

Xiaohui said: "Yes! The material world should be like this! Hu'er! You say, in the future, will we be reincarnated in that kind of place? I don't want to leave the earth, the people and mountains and rivers here!"

Hu'er said: "Alas! The reincarnation of life is a troublesome thing! The mystery in this is too profound! Sister, when Second Master Mo comes here, let's ask him for advice! Now, those who are familiar with and master these 'ghost things' are only the second master Mo alone! I heard my father say that the day I was born, our grandfather will return to heaven (that is, he will die)! If grandpa does not return to heaven! He can teach us a lot of laws and spells!"

Xiaohui said: "Alas! When I was a child, my grandfather was very kind to me! He often carried me to the village to play and watch the mountains and rivers! Grandpa, at night, he often burned incense and meditated in the backyard of his house, and sometimes sat until dawn! Hu'er! The morning you were born, my grandfather sat on the mat in the backyard of the house! When my father and I went to see my grandfather, the incense around him had not yet been broken! However, my father said that my grandfather had no breath! Grandpa had already returned to heaven! Subsequently, Mo Erye and several other mages came to do Dharma for our grandfather, and they burned his grandfather's body with wood in accordance with the rules! At that time, when I saw this scene, I cried and fainted! Now, I know that my grandfather has completed his merits!"

Hu'er said: "Yes! The people in the village and outside the village are all good people of our grandfather! His good fortune must be very good! Look at our current situation! If we don't have the blessing of our grandfather's good fortune, how can we live so calmly?!"

Xiaohui smiled and said, "Yes! Tomorrow is Monday! I'm going to go to school and study, and you're going to help Uncle Cailong work! Let's all be good people! Let's take our time in self-cultivation, Taoism, morality, cultivation, immortal cultivation, Buddha cultivation, and other things!"

Hu'er said, "Okay! In addition to work, I want to study the classroom knowledge you have learned! I also want to seriously study the Dharma books that my grandfather left us!"

Xiaohui said, "Okay! But the books that Grandpa left behind, Dad said, they are very profound, and people who don't understand them will get crazy!

Hu'er smiled and said: "Alas! Sister! You can rest assured about this! I believe in my own concentration and understanding! I won't drill the horns of the bull! If I don't understand it, I'll keep it for the future, think slowly, and slowly come to my senses!"

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In this way, in the days that followed, Xiaohui went out early and returned late every day, studied in the county, Hu'er raised chickens and pigs in the vegetable garden, carried water and planted vegetables, as well as read books and think, etc., and their life in the county began to be dull.

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