Time is sometimes like the road under your feet, you think it's far away, but when you look back, you realize that you've come a long way. Time came to the summer of 2000 One night after the high school entrance examination, Zeng Hao's family sat in the stove house for dinner.

Liu Feng said to her husband: "My dad looked at the situation in our family, and my son was about to go to high school, saying that he had found a master for me and took me to do some business." ”

Zeng Renmin was suddenly surprised to hear the news and asked, "What kind of business?"

Liu Feng replied: "The clothing business, if you want to do it, you will take me to buy it in a few days, and you have to use money to press the goods." I said I'd think about such a big thing, and I'll discuss it with my family. ”

"Do you still want to press the goods?

"Didn't I go back to my parents' house two days ago! I think what my dad said is right, I talked to Sister Yan, and roughly calculated, if you want to put the stall up, the stall will cost about 1,000 plus goods!"

Zeng Renming didn't speak anymore after hearing this, but he was smoking a cigarette in the corner alone.

Zeng Hao, who was sitting next to him, really couldn't stand it, and said to them: "Dad, I think it's a good thing." ”

"Adults talk, children don't interject. It's none of your business, eat your meal!" Turning his head, Zeng Renmin then said to his wife: "You also know the situation at home, this house has just been up for less than two years, and there are still foreign debts, and there are not so many savings, Xiaohao is going to high school soon, and the tuition fee is about more than 200, seeing that it is the time to use the money, you take out all the money, what if you lose it?"

Liu Feng didn't know how to talk when he heard it. With a sigh, he put the bowl down, propped up the bench and walked to the door and sat down. For a while, the whole room was quiet, and I didn't know how to pick up this topic again and talk about it.

Although Zeng Hao knew that in his previous life, his family was also the one who would start doing business, but with his current identity, he didn't know how to persuade him, after all, he was young.

After a while, Zeng Hao felt that he couldn't be so silent anymore, and this opportunity had to be seized.

"Mom, Dad...... Listen to me, first of all, when my father split the family, he only divided this little land, and I don't think there are two people who need to guard it every day, and there are not so many things to do when they are guarded. Second, Dad, you farm the land for a lifetime is to plant a starvation ending, and the situation in the family is like this, I think why ask my mother to try, if it succeeds, our family will be fine, and if it fails, where do you think our family can be sad? Anyway, it's like this, why bother to try?"

Zeng Hao said as he looked at his father.

After a while, I saw that my father was still smoking in the corner and did not speak.

Zeng Hao suddenly became anxious, and asked his mother, "Mom, what do you think I said?"

Liu Feng sat by the door and didn't speak, just looked at her husband with her eyes.

"I said, what do you think, Mom and Dad, what do you mean, say a word, squeak, what do you mean by not talking like this?"

After about ten minutes like this, Zeng Renmin glanced at Zeng Hao, then at his wife, put out the cigarette butt with his foot, stood up and said, "Okay, it's not too early, let's do it today, I'll think about it." Without looking back, he went into the house.

Zeng Hao saw that his mother also got up, and hurriedly said: "Mom, what do you think, you can talk to Dad, this is an opportunity?"

"Okay, what to say, adults talk, what do you interject, have you finished eating, after eating, wash your feet and go to sleep. After speaking, without waiting for Zeng Hao to answer, Liu Feng took care of cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks.

Lying in bed at night, Zeng Hao kept thinking about how to persuade his father to agree with his mother to follow him to do business, and not let the opportunity slip away from his eyes.

However, when Zeng Hao was anxious but unable to do anything, they also experienced an ideological struggle in the room that was unprecedented for them.

"What do you think? What do you say? I think it's an opportunity, and I want to try it. ”

"I'm not saying I won't let you try, it's just that you say I'm going to ............ the situation at home now , even the money for this store may not be enough. Can you make me think again. ”

"What else can I do if the days are like this?" replied the mother, and then stopped talking. Tonight's events are more important than ever for my own family.

In the middle of the night, the family of three couldn't sleep, and the two rooms were silent.

Early the next morning, there was a knock on the door again: "Xiaohao, your father and I will go to your grandfather's house to run errands, and we will get up and eat by ourselves later, and we will come back in the afternoon." As soon as he finished speaking, he left.

"What's going on? I haven't heard anything to do at my grandfather's house these days?"

"Besides, you're on vacation, so why don't you take me with you? ”

Although Zeng Hao thought so, he didn't care because he slept too late last night. I felt that my body was not my own, so I continued to sleep. When I got up at noon and had lunch, I started to think about organizing the language well, and when my parents came back in the evening, I would persuade them that they could not waste this opportunity.

When it was dark at night, his parents came back on a bicycle, and Zeng Hao hurriedly brought the prepared meal to the table.

He said to his parents, "Dad, Mom, what are you busy with? I've already made the meal, it's getting cold, so I'm going to pack up and eat. ”

Zeng Renmin said: "Okay! Come over when I finish the car, you and your mother will eat first." ”

"Good. Then you hurry up. Hearing his father say this, Zeng Hao turned his head to his mother and said, "Mom, what are you and Dad doing today, you came back so late." ”

"Nothing, borrowed money and went. Xiao Hao, your dad and I have decided, go try it........."

"It's been a long time? Why don't I know. That's a good thing, I think I can. ”

Liu Feng helped his son with the dishes and chopsticks, and said to him, "I decided this morning." ”

Later, Zeng Hao learned in the family chat that his father didn't sleep all night that day, and he smoked alone by the door with the moon, and the next day when his mother got up and saw her husband's appearance and was startled, her eyes were red and red, and she thought she had pink eye.

When her father saw her get up, the first thing he said was: "I thought about it all night, and I think that what the child and you said are right, no matter how poor you are, you can only be poor and poor, and you can only have food and clothing for a lifetime." You'd better try it, and you'll be able to do it. ”

On the same day, they went to their grandfather's house to worship the master, mainly to borrow money, why did they come back so late, what they said to Zeng Hao at that time was: "Walking around relatives, sometimes chatting endlessly, chatting and chatting time passes." I went to borrow money again, and I was embarrassed to say a word or two and turned around and left, so I was delayed until now.

It makes sense to hear them say it, but it doesn't feel that simple. In his previous life, Zeng Hao also knew that it was okay for these relatives not to talk about money, as long as they talked about money, the good guy directly taught you to appreciate the real kung fu of bargaining in the Chinese aunt vegetable market, and when he was older, he basically didn't move around much, why did he borrow money so happily this time? Zeng Hao expressed his doubts!

Later, through an inadvertent conversation between them, Zeng Hao learned that his parents went to borrow money at that time, first went to his father's relatives, seven aunts and eight aunts ran all over, and they couldn't borrow a penny, some said that the family also had no money, and originally wanted to ask your family to pay back the money to them in case of emergency, and then thought about the situation of your family, and was embarrassed to speak; some said that there was no savings when they just started the house; some said that the money stored in the bank was not withdrawn regularly, and the parents were told a bunch of big truths, what business is risky, there is no benefit from growing vegetables, don't be ambitious all day long, be down-to-earth。 Anyway, it was going around and around until the end, and the gifts that were sent to ask for help were all accepted, and none of the money was borrowed.

Later, I begged my mother, and my uncle secretly lent 300 to the family without telling my aunt, and my aunt had just worked for a long time, and there was a cousin at home to support, so I borrowed 100 yuan from my colleagues and borrowed 100 yuan for myself. plus his own family's 500, enough 900.Zeng Hao didn't pay attention to it at the time, and then thought, this shouldn't be enough? How did the money come from, and his father didn't say it at the time.

A family of three is just eating while imagining the future with the strength of wine, this is Zeng Hao's past and present life, and for the first time in his life, he feels that he and his parents can have so much to talk about!