However, Xu Hui's departure passed quickly, because there was no time to calm down and think about something.

Every time you go to school, there is one thing that makes the family feel very heavy, and that is money!

Xiao Mu found a pulley from the stockade, and then found a few wooden sticks to make a trolley.

A trolley can be much less labor-intensive than carrying it on your shoulder, you can only carry one bag, but you can push several bags with a trolley.

That afternoon, Xiao Mu rested on the board at the door after lunch, and didn't dare to watch TV, nor did he dare to go back to his room to rest, because no matter which one of them he had, he might be scolded.

Zhang Laohan sat down next to Xiao Mu and asked Xiao Mu, "Xiao Mu, do you still want to go to junior high school?"

Xiao Mu didn't think about it, and said, "Yes, you have to go up, don't you want to give it to me?"

Zhang Laohan shook his head and smiled helplessly: "No, it's just that I'm afraid the conditions don't allow it, you see you, your family has been a little overwhelmed in the past two years, and the cost of living in junior high school is definitely much higher than before, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist it then." ”

Xiao Mu continued to squint and did not speak.

I wanted to refute it, but I didn't dare, once I refuted it, it would definitely be another scolding.

I thought silently in my heart, how much money I have shared in the past two years, and I don't use much, only fifteen yuan a week, is this a lot?

Xiao Mu didn't know what Zhang Laohan had intentions, and for what kind of thoughts he would say this to himself, but he kept telling himself that he was poor, which was true.

"If you really want to go to school, then you go to work and earn your own money. ”

Where do you go to earn money for two months?

So he asked, "Where will I go to earn money in just two months?"

Zhang Laohan said with a smile: "Our chestnuts are almost ripe, so you go to the chestnut field every day and guard it." ”

"First of all, you have to weed the chestnuts while picking them, and secondly, you have to keep a good eye on them so that no one else can steal them, you know?"

Nodding slightly, "Well, okay, I see." ”

"I know, you don't want to go quickly!" Zhang Laohan yelled.

Although he was very sleepy, he didn't dare to delay for a moment, so he had to take a pocket, take a machete, two screwdrivers, backstabbing gloves, a sunhat, put on Zhang Laohan's liberation shoes and went to the chestnut field.

But that's good, you can be lazy in the chestnut field for a while, and secretly sleep under the big tree.

After waking up, I began to pick up chestnuts, chestnuts are a very dangerous thing, the skin is sharp thorns, the slightest carelessness will be pricked, being pricked will remain in the meat, sometimes with a needle can not be buckled.

Moreover, the pain is not only painful, but also has an itchy feeling, which is very uncomfortable.

No one managed the chestnut field before, and the chestnut fields of other people's houses were clean and clean, without too many weeds, but the chestnut fields of Zhang Laohan's house were indeed overgrown with weeds.

It's not that Zhang Laohan doesn't want to manage, but he can't be busy, and Wanrong is idle all day long, which eventually led to the current situation.

Now it is handed over to Xiao Mu, and Xiao Mu is just a child, it is impossible to manage it well, at most it is to open up a way out.

Picking up the machete, he walked under a chestnut tree and looked at the five or six acres of chestnut land, when it would be finished.

I was a little timid, afraid that I wouldn't be able to do it, and that I wouldn't be able to earn tuition.

Wielding a knife is like cutting under a tree, cleaning up the corners of the tree first, so that it is convenient to pick up chestnuts in the future, but Xiao Mu, who has a thin body, is very difficult to deal with, and it takes half an hour to deal with a chestnut tree.

Pick up a tree when you deal with it, if there is no ripe chestnut, then automatically ignore it, and at the end of the day, you will be covered with injuries, but the chestnut has not picked up a few.

So when I returned home in the evening, I said to Zhang Laohan: "Grandpa, can I pull the shell back together, and then peel it when I have time at home, otherwise I won't get much at all." ”

Zhang Laohan also knew how difficult it was to peel off, so he agreed to Xiao Mu's request and said, "Okay, as long as you can get it back, no matter what." ”

Since that day, Xiao Mu has been staying in the chestnut field, setting off at dawn in the morning, arriving home at about 12.00 noon, going out immediately after eating, and returning home at night It was almost 7.00.

The old people in the village couldn't help but praise Xiao Mu when they saw it, saying: Xiao Mu is already an adult, unlike other children.

As everyone knows, Xiao Mu doesn't want to live like an adult so early, but more wants to play, or simply herd cattle like other children.

Although, other children of the same age also have work, but they are all playing and doing it, if you don't want to do it, it's okay not to do it, but Xiao Mu can't, you have to do it, you have to do it, you have to do it if you don't do it, there is no choice, this is the so-called children of poor families are in charge early!

Moreover, it was still the rainy season at that time, and I was drenched in soup many times.

There is no umbrella, you can only take shelter from the rain under the chestnut tree or under the big tree, although the lightning and thunder, it is very dangerous to hide from the rain under the tree, but you have no place to hide from the rain.

If it is a heavy rainstorm and it is raining heavily, then choose to go home directly in the rain, because after a heavy rain, I don't want to work, I am so cold that I shiver, where do I still have the heart to work.

In this case, Zhang Laohan will not scold Xiao Mu, because he knows that it is inevitable.

So later, Xiao Mu gradually liked the rainy day, because he could rest on a rainy day, and he couldn't find a better reason to rest except for a rainy day.

When the fire was roasting, Zhang Laohan asked Xiao Mu: "How is it, do you feel tired, can you still hold on?"

"I'm tired, why don't I get tired, if I don't work, I want to rest for three days and three nights, and sleep in the dark. ”

"You know how hard it is, you have to go out to work in any weather. If you don't work, you won't have anything to eat. ”

But Xiao Mu already understood this truth, but he couldn't hold on because he was too tired.

"By the way, how is the ripening of the chestnuts, can you still be busy alone?"

After thinking about it, that time was indeed much more mature than before, and I was indeed a little overwhelmed, but I still wanted to be lazy for a few more days, so I said: "It's okay, I can still withstand it." ”

"What? Are you going to help with the rhythm?"

"Of course, otherwise you can't be busy, don't do it, it's a waste, not to mention more, there are still thousands of dollars a year." ”

However, Xiao Mu really thought that Zhang Laohan would not help him, because he had said before that he would let him manage the chestnut field, thinking that he would leave it all to himself.

"Since you can still resist it, then I won't help you yet, and your grandmother and I will do something else first. ”

"Hmm" nodded silently.

It's over!

If Zhang Laohan went to the field one day, it would be over, and so many chestnuts fell, he panicked because he wanted to be lazy.