On January 25, the weather was overcast and cold.

Tao Xueming, who got up early, began to do farm work at home.

He first swept the snow on the yard and roof, then cleaned the bottles and cans in the corner, and cleaned the small dilapidated house where he lived.

After Tao Xueming took out all the garbage in the house, he threw it into the garbage heap outside the village, and when he got home, he saw his stepmother stewing broth in the kitchen for her daughter to drink.

Her daughter Cai'e also has a pair of thick gloves on her hands, and Tao Xueming is looking at her frozen stiff and cold hands, and her heart is very bitter.

"Little Taozi, seeing that the New Year is coming soon, the family is short of money to buy meat, you go to work in the county, and you earn money to come back to buy things for the New Year. ”

The stepmother said coldly.

Tao Xueming lowered his head and said, "Tomorrow I will go with Xiao Baozi and make money, I will buy medicine for my father." ”

"Give me ten dollars, or I won't have anything to eat." ”

When the stepmother heard this, she raised her eyebrows and said, "You need so much money to go to work, it would be great to give you one dollar at most." ”

"Mom, give him five dollars. Cai'e said.

"Cheng, you say five yuan, five yuan. ”

The stepmother listened to her daughter very much, and gave the money generously.

After getting the money, Tao Xueming silently went outside to find Bao Zhipeng.

After he left, the stepmother asked her daughter, "Daughter, why do you want to give him so much money?"

Cai'e threw herself into her mother's arms, and said with a smile: "Give a big stick, give a sweet date, so that he can honestly make money for us." ”

"This is what the teacher taught me. ”

"It's so good, my daughter is really literate. ”

The stepmother couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and the two of them turned this father and son around.

……

Tao Xueming walked into the courtyard of Bao Zhipeng's house and looked around, and the ground was full of wood and garbage bottles scattered everywhere.

No one cleared the snow.

Bao Zhipeng's house is also an ordinary mud house, with clods of earth inside and out, and the windows are blocked by a few wooden boards.

Tao Xueming directly pushed the door open and entered the room, and when he came in, he saw Bao Zhipeng taking care of his grandfather.

"Grandpa is fine, is this a fall?"

Tao Xueming asked pretending to be surprised.

In fact, he knew that people would fall today, because he clearly remembered what would happen today.

Bao Zhipeng said while lighting the fire: "I just went out to get some dry firewood, and grandpa fell off the bed, fortunately it was not very serious, and his foot was only a little swollen." ”

Tao Xueming nodded lightly, thinking that it was right for me to let you stay at home yesterday, if you follow the memory of the previous life, your grandfather will have an accident.

Immediately afterwards, Tao Xueming sat on the small bench next to him and roasted the fire, and said, "Tomorrow I will go to the county to work and earn some money to come back for the New Year." ”

After hearing this, Bao Zhipeng was surprised, it is not a few days before the New Year, why do you still go to the county.

Tao Xueming shrugged, revealing a look that you understand, and Bao Zhipeng instantly understood.

He muttered, "Your mother didn't say to make you a warm dress." ”

Tao Xueming snorted, that kind of stepmother who has no conscience, can't count on her.

"I'll go back first, and come to my house tomorrow. ”

Tao Xueming got up and walked out of the room.

Early the next morning, Bao Zhipeng came over with a red woven bag.

Seeing Tao Xueming, Bao Zhipeng took out a shabby piece of clothes from his bag.

"Take it and wear it, this is my second aunt's son's clothes, a little older. ”

Tao Xueming was stunned for a moment, but he didn't say anything, and silently put on his thick clothes.

In this era, everyone is poor, and the clothes are left over from other people's children, and in my impression, in the past thirteen years, the family has never bought new clothes.

Putting on his clothes and warming his body a little, Tao Xueming looked back at his father and said, "Dad, I'm going to the county, you take good care of yourself, decoct the medicine on time, and wait for your son to make a lot of money, and take you to live in a big house." ”

The stepmother heard this sentence in the house and sneered: "As far as your father and son, it is impossible to build a house in this life." ”

Tao Xueming, with a snort in his mouth, Lao Tzu will build the house into the largest and tallest house in the village sooner or later.

packed his luggage and followed Bao Zhipeng away.

It's cold today, the wind is blowing, and the road surface is smooth and hard.

After several hours of hiking, the two finally arrived in the county.

Tao Xueming walked to the front of the coal factory, and there was a sign hanging next to him, recruiting a few miscellaneous workers, giving twenty yuan and five cents a month, including food and accommodation.

That's it.

Tao Xueming slammed the door twice, and a dog barked in the yard, and after a while, an old man came out.

"We're here to find a living. Tao Xueming took the initiative to say.

The old man looked at them, then nodded slightly, and turned to go inside.

"Two meals a day, dormitory, and a monthly salary. ”

Tao Xueming nodded, feeling that there was no problem.

Because he and Bao Zhipeng are still young, they can't get the salary of adults.

A few minutes later, the old man led the two to the dormitory, which was covered with bunk beds, no windows, dark and damp, and smelled of coaxing, and the floor was full of garbage beer bottles.

"I've got it and I'm going straight to the workshop. The old man turned and walked away.

Tao Xueming and the two began to make the bed, which was quickly done, and then the two went out and walked to the workshop.

"Little Taozi, why are we here?" asked Bao Zhipeng.

Tao Xueming said: "My mother-in-law may be here. ”

While the two were talking, they had already come to the workshop, and an old man who looked like a foreman still came to shovel and asked them to shovel coal.

Tao Xueming picked up the shovel and began to get started, while doing it, his eyes were stealing meows around the workshop.

"Taozi, what are you looking for?" asked Bao Zhipeng.

Tao Xueming muttered in his heart, no, my mother-in-law should work here.

Before being reborn, the last girlfriend I found was more than ten years younger than myself, and if I calculate the time, my mother-in-law should be in her twenties this year.

And she is also the daughter of the boss of the factory, very rich.

Tonight, the mother-in-law will be bullied by several factory workers, and Tao Xueming must save it and prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

A few hours passed, it was dark, the workshop got off work, Tao Xueming and the two went to the canteen to eat, and both of them ate a lot.

After eating and drinking, Tao Xueming came to squat near the female staff dormitory.

It's cold outside, and frozen people are like dead rabbits.

"Taozi, I can't do it, let's go back to sleep. Bao Zhipeng said tremblingly.

Tao Xueming stared at the women's dormitory intently, and said without looking back: "You go back first, I have something important." ”

Bao Zhipeng turned around and left, so he didn't freeze here.

Tao Xueming continued to wait, wait, wait, his hair was frozen hard.

After a long time, it was dark and I couldn't see my fingers clearly, and finally, out of the female staff dormitory, a girl in her twenties with braided hair came out.

Tao Xueming rubbed his eyes, excited in his heart, it was her.

The girl pushed a girder bicycle and walked out, and Tao Xueming immediately followed.

Out of the door, the girl got on the car and walked forward very slowly, Tao Xueming followed behind without hurry.

There was not a single street lamp on the whole street, it was scary, and there was not even a ghost on the street.

The girl rides a bicycle and hums a little song.

Suddenly, three dark shadows appeared in front of her, and the girl screamed in fright.

Immediately after, three black shadows rushed over, forcibly dragged the girl out of the car, and dragged her into the wheat field, and the girl shouted for help but no one could hear her.

Tao Xueming ran over quickly, anxious, sure enough, it still happened, what should I do, can I change history?

Listening to the frightened cry for help coming from the wheat field, Tao Xueming's head was hot, no matter what it was doing so much, save people first.

Picking up a stick on the ground, Tao Xueming boldly took a few steps forward and shouted: "What are you doing, let her go." ”

The three people who were committing violence were stunned at the same time, obviously not expecting someone to be here.

At this moment, a low, cold and threatening voice came: "Get out, don't meddle!"

Tao Xueming took a deep breath and said, "My uncle is the director, I have already called him over, you still have time to run now." ”

Hearing this, the three men panicked a little.

Tao Xueming smiled secretly, fortunately he was witty and frightened the three of them.

Suddenly, one of them ran over and knocked Tao Xueming to the ground with a punch.

The three of them ran away.

Tao Xueming covered his face, it hurt.

The girl walked over tremblingly, glanced at Tao Xueming, and ran away directly.

Tao Xueming was stunned, the plot is not right, shouldn't you ask me if there's anything wrong.

With a helpless smile, Tao Xueming got up and prepared to go back.

Suddenly, someone appeared in the distance with a flashlight and shouted, "He's here!"

Tao Xueming sighed in his heart, no, those three people, dare to find a helper?

He panicked in his heart, in the era of social chaos, killing individuals is nothing at all.

Tao Xueming secretly hated, he knew that he wouldn't save people, and finally killed himself.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight people ran to him and shook Tao Xueming's eyes with flashlights.