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When I walked out of the gate, I ran to the brigade headquarters. The road was too far, and the second brother was afraid that I wouldn't be able to walk, so he said he would borrow an ox cart first.

When I arrived at the brigade headquarters, I said hello to the village chief, and it was my uncle. Second brother, I drove an ox cart, and we were on the road.

Along the way, I met a few people who wanted to catch the market, and I picked up half a car and walked for two hours before arriving at the county seat.

When I bolted the ox cart to the big tree outside the market and walked inside, I found that although there were not many people in the market, there were not many people. When the country is opened, many people will take the dishes they can't eat at home to the market to sell, and as long as everyone pays a booth fee, no one will care.

Walking through the market to the post office, the second brother said that he was waiting outside, and I let me go in by myself.

When I entered the post office, a young girl asked, "Mail or telegram."

I said, "Shoot the telegram." ”

The little girl looked at me and said, "Take a telegram, five cents per word." You think about how to say it first, and you think about it. Go inside this room and tell him, and I'll shoot it for you. ”

I nodded, looked down and thought about it, organized the language, and walked towards the room inside, where there was a telegraph and a middle-aged man was sitting.

He must have heard our conversation while he was sitting inside. So when I opened my mouth, I said, "Let's talk about it."

I opened my mouth and said, "Mother, Ping, An, I, I, Birth, Birth, Dragon, Phoenix, Fetus, Mother, Child, Ping, An." Huh, read, big, brother, knot, marriage, use, money" thought about it and added "very, much." "I want to see how much this man will mail me when he sees me helping my family so much?

The middle-aged man said: "A total of 24 words, one yuan and two dimes, say the address, and pay the money." ”

nodded and handed over the money, and said the address of such and such a military region. After saying that, the telegraph operator looked at me a few times, probably not expecting that I would be a family member of a soldier.

After coming out, the second brother asked: "Did you make it clear after filming?"

I said, "Well, that's clear. Let's go to the bazaar and see what's there, let's buy some and go. ”

The second brother said: "There is nothing missing at home, you buy less, don't waste money." ”

I dragged him forward and smiled and replied, "Okay."

In the bazaar, apart from the vegetable sellers, I saw two baskets and home-made cloth shoes. When I went to the corner, I saw a pork seller, but when we came and sold all the meat, there was only one pig's head left.

I asked the stall owner, "Why do you sell this pig's head?"

The stall owner said, "You can give two dollars, and if you want it, you can take it." ”

The second brother said, "Don't you eat meat and fish every day for the past two days? Don't buy it, save some money."

I said, "Grandpa loves to eat pig's head, let's buy it, it's not too expensive."

As soon as the second brother heard me say that my grandfather loves to eat, he didn't say anything. Later, I bought a bottle of wine from the supply and marketing cooperatives and spent a dollar.

Sitting on the ox cart going back, he still counted how much money he still had at home? The family originally had 16 yuan and 3 cents, and the full moon received gifts of 63 yuan and 7 cents, and brought 30 yuan for the banquet, 4 yuan and 2 cents spent today, and now there are 45 yuan and 8 cents left at home.

I couldn't help but laugh when I counted it. In my previous life, when my children were young, life was harder. Since then, the family has never been short of money. Those days have deprived me of any vitality. Living like this now, calculating money, but this day makes me feel full of energy. (Have you forgotten your gold?) )

When I got home, everyone didn't have a smile on their faces, but they didn't have the same sad faces as they did in the morning.

Grandpa, even laughing, asked the uncle to accompany him to drink two taels of wine on the pig's head I bought.

After drinking, the grandfather patted the uncle on the shoulder and said, "There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome, and there is no way that cannot be imagined." With that, Grandpa went back to the house and went to sleep.

After staying at my uncle's house for another five days, I received a letter from the pillar that sent me by express delivery. It was a very thick letter, very heavy to hold, and the village chief's uncle handed the letter into my hands. I took it back to the house and opened it to see a thick stack of money. There was also a letter, I took out the money, put it aside, opened it and read it first.

In the letter, he said, "I am glad that I have given birth to twins, and I want to buy more meat to eat to take care of my body, and thank you for taking care of my mother for him." also said that she had 600 yuan in the money, and the rest was borrowed by him from the leader. It's a total of 1,000 yuan, if it's not enough, I'm writing to him and he's thinking of a way. ”

Looking at the letter in his hand with a hint of concern, thinking about his serious face without a smile, I wondered if this letter was ghostwritten. Or is this his nature, I haven't known him before? This man can mail so much money without saying anything, and a faint warm current suddenly crosses his heart.

After reading the letter, I put away 200 yuan, took 800 yuan, walked to the uncle's house, and saw the uncle and the aunt sitting there frowning, thinking about who else to borrow money from. I put the 800 yuan on the kang. Seeing the money I put on the kang, Uncle Qian and Uncle Niang looked at me in surprise and asked me, "Where did you get so much money?"

I said, "This is 800 yuan, the pillar just mailed me back, you can take it to the eldest brother's wedding." ”

The aunt looked at the uncle and didn't squeak, the uncle took a deep breath of cigarette and said, "Okay, this money is borrowed from the uncle, and the uncle will pay you back in the future." But I don't need so much, we have borrowed some in the past few days, and even have 200 yuan in our own hands. You take back 200 and keep it for yourself, I'll borrow 600 from you, and you wait for the uncle to write you an IOU. ”

Watching the uncle write me an IOU, I didn't squeak and I knew if I didn't take the IOU. Uncle will definitely not take the money. Actually, I really didn't want them to pay it back.

took the remaining 200 yuan and the IOU and went to grandpa's house, and told grandpa about the matter, and left 200 yuan for grandpa. Tell him to let him keep it for emergencies, and take out the 200 yuan in his pocket to show him, and he believes that I still have the money here.

Grandpa smiled and said, "I, now I'm enjoying our Niu Niu Fu." This is my nickname, and when I grew up, my grandfather rarely called it anymore.

Finished solving the matter of the big brother's bride price. The next day, I went home with my baby and my mother-in-law, and it was my two brothers who sent us back. This time, I stayed at my mother's house for a total of eight days, and I was very satisfied with the changes in my mother-in-law during these eight days.

After returning home, I went to thank Aunt Guo once. After that, I started the busy work of drying vegetables.

I dried some shredded beans, slices of beans, dried eggplant, and potato slices.

In the end, I also took the old cucumbers in the garden, eliminated them, removed the heart, cut them into slices, and dried some old cucumber slices.

My mother-in-law's symptoms are getting better and better during this time, and she will help me protect me every day when I am drying vegetables.