After eating breakfast, it's almost time to go out and play.

Xiao Mu went back to the room to change the clothes and pants that Wan Rong bought for him, and looked at the broken mirror at the door, and the feather light floated towards Zhang Laohan from time to time.

Thinking that Zhang Laohan had told himself that he would give him pocket money for the New Year, but why did he not move for a long time, and he was embarrassed to ask for it.

put the mirror back on the window door panel, and walked to Zhang Laohan, who was eating rice balls, and dangled it.

Zhang Laohan saw Xiao Mu's thoughts early, but he didn't say it, but teased Xiao Mu and said, "What are you doing, don't keep dangling in front of me, I look dizzy." ”

Xiao Mu said mischievously: "Oh, I'm dizzy when I shake you in front of you like this? ”

Zhang Laohan said that he didn't want to ignore Xiao Mu, and wandered around with the bowl.

Xiao Mu followed, Zhang Laohan followed wherever he went, did not speak, lowered his head, and was a little lost.

"Why are you following me?" asked Zhang Laohan.

"How can I follow you, but you walked in front of me, obviously you were in my way, and said that I followed you. After speaking, Xiao Mu didn't continue to follow Zhang Laohan, found a stool and sat down, silent.

Zhang Laohan saw that Xiao Mu was unhappy, so he didn't continue to tease him.

When he returned to the room, he took out the worn-out plastic bag from under the blackened pillow by the yellowed light, took out the only dozens of yuan left in it, dipped his fingers in saliva, and took out two of them, one by one, and one with five cents.

Then he carefully put the rest of the money back into the bag, wrapped it and put it back in place, rubbed the pillow with calloused hands, and walked to Xiao Mu with a bent waist.

"Come, kid, this is your New Year's fee for this year. ”

Staring at the five cents in Zhang Laohan's hand, he was dumbfounded, could it be that a piece of five just sent me away? What can I buy for a piece of five, this is a little less.

Seeing that Xiao Mu didn't answer, Zhang Laohan said, "Do you want to, don't you want me to take it back?"

What kind of line is this, grasshoppers are also meat when they are small, and they quickly grabbed it and stuffed it into their pockets and said, "Yes, why don't you want it, I can also buy candy for five pieces and eat it!"

Although there is not much money, Xiao Mu is also very happy to get the money, it is better than nothing, which is much better than not even seeing money in ordinary times.

"Bye-bye, I'm going to play with my friends, I won't play with you anymore, it's not fun at home. With a wave of his hand, he ran to the road to Guo Yang's house.

When he came to the door of Guo Yang's house, Xiao Mu did not immediately go to find Guo Yang, but lingered at the door of Guo Yang's house.

While wandering, three or two young girls and young men came from the stockade, dressed brightly and showy.

Seeing Xiao Mu wandering alone, one of them asked, "Xiao Mu, what are you doing here, come to play with your brother?"

Xiao Mu glanced sideways, as if he didn't know it, but it was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, so he nodded and didn't speak.

Someone else asked, "Who is this child, why haven't I seen it?"

That person should have gone to the city to work, and only returned home once in a few years, so he didn't know about Xiao Mu, if the villagers who had been in the village for a long time already knew about Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu's matter had completely spread, and even spread to Shili Eight Villages.

Someone explained for the man: "Oh, you don't know this, Sister Xiaoying and his son, I heard that they divorced a few years ago, and then sent Xiao Mu back to Brother Wanrong's house, and he has always been here." ”

The man was very excited when he heard this, clapped his hands and stomped his feet and shouted: "Oh oh oh, I know I know, my mother mentioned it the night I just came back, and I thought this child was so pitiful, I didn't think I met it here today." ”

After speaking, the man walked up to Xiao Mu and squatted down, and asked Xiao Mu, "Xiao Mu, my sister asked you, you have to answer well." ”

Xiao Mu was a little timid, stared at the girl, nodded lightly and said, "Hmm!"

"Do you want Mom and Dad?"

These words touched Xiao Mu, and he chuckled in his heart, he didn't seem to have thought much about his parents, maybe he hadn't intersected with them for a long time.

His hands kept rubbing and poking in his pockets, which was very unnatural, and he resignedly said, "I don't want to, what is there to think about." ”

The man asked, "Then hasn't your mother come back to see you all these years?"

Don't say that I read it, there is no news, and I almost forgot that I still have a mother.

Xiao Mu shook his head and said, "No." ”

The man seemed to care about Xiao Mu very much, and then asked, "Then do you think it's okay here, is your grandfather treating you well?" ”

Although both Zhang Laohan and Wan Rong usually beat and scolded themselves, they were all out of love for themselves, not out of bad treatment for themselves. So Xiao Mu still replied: "No, they are very good to me." ”

Patting the clothes on his body, "Look, my uncle bought this dress for me." ”

The man took a look, although the quality was not so good, and it was not as warm as the clothes worn by the children in the city, but it was okay for the children in the mountain village.

"That's good, your uncle will buy you clothes to wear, and you will repay them well in the future." ”

After speaking, the man took out an orange leather bag from his coat pocket, the size of a palm, and it didn't seem to have much money inside, so he took out a dollar and gave it to Xiao Mu.

But Xiao Mu didn't answer, because Zhang Laohan once said to himself that no matter how poor he was, he couldn't accept other people's handouts casually.

Xiao Mu pushed the man's hand away and said, "No, sister, I can't ask for it, I have money, my grandfather gave me a piece of five, I can't ask for your money." ”

The man smiled and said, "You kid, are you afraid of being scolded by your grandfather? It's okay, my sister won't tell your grandfather about them, and you don't want to say it, isn't that good?" He stuffed the money into Xiao Mu's pocket.

Seeing that the man gave Xiao Mu a dollar, several other people laughed and teased: "You are really a person, you have been chatting with people for a long time, you can also give more, just one dollar, if it were me, I would be embarrassed to give it." ”

I thought that sister would be angry, but I didn't expect that sister was not angry, but laughed very happily, "You will laugh, you can't stand it, you give him more." ”

Xiao Mu was grateful to this strange sister, but Xiao Mu, who was not good at words, did not thank her, but responded by staring at her.

In their laughter, they didn't find that Xiao Mu was sad at this moment, and they also regretted why they took the money given by the sister instead of choosing to return it to her.

The unintentional joy of everyone is not joy in Xiao Mu's eyes, but a feeling of being pitied, pitied, and charity by others.

In their eyes, the ridicule of that sister was just ridicule, and it was a kind of harm to Xiao Mu.