On the way home, Zhou An told his mother that he wanted to fry snails and sell them for money.

Zhou's mother did not vehemently object, but was just worried.

"Can this make money?"

The current situation at home, her husband is still lying in bed to recuperate, unable to work, unable to earn money, but the family still owes tens of thousands of foreign debts, except for doing housework and raising some chickens, ducks and pigs, she can only do farm work in the field, and she will not be able to earn money.

Therefore, Zhou An just finished the high school entrance examination, and she thought about making money by herself, and her opposition was not serious.

Moreover, she also knew that with her son's past grades, there was almost no hope of being admitted to high school, and she and her husband had been discussing what trade he would learn recently.

Therefore, although she was not optimistic, she still agreed with Zhou An to sell and see.

In her mind, Zhou An has been idle recently anyway, and it is best to earn money, if he can't make money, he naturally doesn't want to do it, and it's not too late to tell him about going out to learn the craft.

After returning home, Zhou An poured all the snails in the bucket into the large wooden basin used for bathing at home, and scooped half a tank of water to raise these things.

During the whole process, her mother was there to help, and when she saw Zhou An dripping rapeseed oil into the wooden basin where she raised snails, she was used to being thrifty.

"Hey, hey, are you stupid, how do you pour oil into the water!"

Zhou An smiled, brushed aside his mother's blocked hands, and continued to drip oil into the basin while explaining: "Mom! You don't understand, before making five-spice snails, you must first let the snails vomit the mud and sand in their stomachs!

Zhou's mother listened in a daze, and saw that Zhou An really only dropped a few drops and didn't pour more, so she withdrew her hand suspiciously.

"Who are you listening to?

Zhou An replied with a smile: "You can see the effect tomorrow!"

"Okay, then I'll take a look tomorrow!"

……

It was dark, and when it was time for dinner, Zhou An was a family of three, only Zhou An and his mother were around the table, and his father had just undergone surgery recently, and he was still lying in the room to recuperate, and it was not suitable to move on the ground for the time being.

Zhou An looked at the leeks, water spinach, boiled tofu and loofah soup on the table, all of which were vegetarian dishes, and the only thing that could barely be regarded as a meat dish was a small bowl of eggs that his mother specially steamed for his father.

Because he had to fast for a long time before and after the rectectal surgery, his father had recently been skinny and had just been allowed to eat, and he was in great need of nutrition, but the family only had these vegetarian dishes with oil and water for him to eat.

These vegetarian dishes are all grown at home, and the eggs are also laid by the hens at home.

Zhou An felt very uncomfortable when he saw it.

But he knows that the current situation of the family is already stretched, when he operated on his father, the family's money was used up, and he borrowed tens of thousands of yuan, and now that the operation is done, he wants to find someone to borrow money, not to mention that his parents can't open their mouths, even if they do, with the virtues of those relatives, it is estimated that they can't borrow it.

While picking up rice in his mouth, Zhou An was thinking about how to get something to make up for his father's body.

After hurriedly picking up two bowls of rice and putting down the dishes and chopsticks, he went into his room and opened the desk drawer by the window, there were some books in the shabby drawer, he took out one from the bottom and opened it, and a few banknotes that had been sandwiched in the book for a long time appeared.

A five-dollar bill, a ten-dollar bill, and two one-dollar bills.

Seventeen yuan, which is all his current savings, was saved from his rations when he was studying.

At the current price, seventeen yuan can probably cut two or three catties of meat, and there can be no more.

But what if two or three catties of meat are eaten? Can two or three catties of meat raise my father's body?

Unless it's Tang monk meat!

Zhou An didn't take ten yuan, only took the five yuan, and the remaining twelve yuan, he hid it at the bottom of the drawer again, turned around and went out of the house, and went straight to the small store at the entrance of the village.

It's impossible to have a glamorous proprietress in a small store!

The proprietress is the wife of the village chief, and she has nothing to do with beauty, but her daughter Zhou Yuting, slim and elegant, with a beautiful face, is the same age as Zhou An, from primary school to middle school, and has always been in the same class as Zhou An.

In fact, Zhou An doesn't like to come to her house to buy things, because Zhou Yuting and him have always been people from two worlds and have never had a common topic.

He could feel that Zhou Yuting looked down on him since he was a child.

Although they are the same age, the difference is very obvious.

His family has been poor peasants for generations, Zhou Yuting's ancestors are landlords, she was a child, her father was the village head, and the family also runs the only small store in the village.

If Zhou An's surname is Pan and he has Pan An's appearance, maybe Zhou Yuting will have a lot of common topics with him, but unfortunately, Zhou An's appearance is ordinary, his family background is ordinary, and his academic performance is also ordinary.

And Zhou Yuting is not only beautiful, her family background is more than ten times better than Zhou An, and her academic performance is also very good, I don't know how many boys have revolved around her since she was a child, where can I see Zhou An?

Since she was a child, Zhou An has never received her white eyes.

But there is no way, who let her be the only one in the village There is a small store! Zhou An wants to buy something, and if he doesn't want to wait until tomorrow, he can only come to her house.

When I entered the door, I happened to see Zhou Yuting, who was wearing a white dress, squatting at the door, feeding a pet dog with pure white fur with ham sausage.

Dogs fight people, that's not bad at all!

If only Zhou An and this Zhou An could kick a pet dog a few meters away, this dog would definitely not dare to show his teeth when he saw him.

But at this time, because its hostess was there, when she saw Zhou An, who was shirtless, wearing only a pair of big pants, and walking barefoot and stepping on the mud on the road, the dog immediately stopped eating ham sausages, raised his head and barked at Zhou An, and rushed over to bite Zhou An.

Zhou Yuting looked up and saw that it was Zhou An who came to the door, her brows furrowed, and she swept Zhou An's naked upper body and bare feet, and didn't say hello, and asked directly, "Do you buy anything?"

The implication is that Zhou An heard it, if you don't come to buy something, it's better not to enter her door, she doesn't welcome it.

If it was in the previous life, when he encountered this kind of situation, Zhou An, who was introverted and inferior, would probably blush immediately, but right now, Zhou Yuting, who seems to be spotless, is just a superficial thing with a tail up to the sky in his eyes, and he can only show her arrogance in this Zhoujia Village.

"Get me two packs of sewing needles!"

Zhou An said, and his big feet covered with mud and water had already stepped on the cement floor in front of Zhou Yuting's house and walked into the store.

Leaving a series of clear footprints on the clean cement floor, Zhou Yuting was so angry that she had a pretty face, she actually didn't know, if she wasn't so rude, Zhou An wouldn't have deliberately walked in, although he didn't have a good impression of Zhou Yuting, but he still had the basic consciousness of being a man.

"Here, two packs of sewing needles!"

Zhou Yuting turned around and entered the store, took out a pack of sewing needles with a black face and slapped it in front of Zhou An, and rolled her eyes by the way.

"How much?"

Zhou An picked up the sewing needle on the counter and asked casually.

"Four pieces!"

Zhou Yuting looked away, and didn't look at Zhou An across the counter at all. Zhou An was not interested in looking at her stinky face, so he paid and turned around and left.

When he went out, he heard Zhou Yuting "hissing" behind him, and he was very disdainful.