In the year of Bingzi, the month of Xin Chou, the day of Ding Mao.

In other words, normal people can understand, that is, January 25, 1997 in the solar calendar, the seventeenth day of the lunar month.

On this day, the weather in Trois-Rivières was clear, and the town's high school ended its final exam in the afternoon and began its winter vacation.

Zhao Qiwu, who had just entered the first year of high school, because he did not have a bicycle, gave a girl in the neighboring village who was also in high school, and was nicknamed Liu Da by him as a coolie all the way, and finally had to walk several miles with a bunk on his back before returning to his home Zhaojiawan.

As soon as he entered the house, he sensed that the atmosphere was not right.

My parents, second aunt and cousin are all in my home, and they are all worried.

The joy of the holiday in Zhao Qiwu's heart suddenly disappeared: "Parents, what's wrong with you, what's going on at home?"

The adults didn't speak, and the six-year-old cousin Zhao Tuqiang said with a sad face: "Brother, my dad ran away, and he won't come back!"

"Ran away?" Zhao Qiwu was stunned.

"He hit someone's car!" Zhao Jingshan explained to his son in a sullen voice.

Zhao Qiwu suddenly remembered the rumors at school in the past two days. In the past two days, someone in the school said that a person in a village in the west drove a walk-behind tractor and hit a car, so frightened that the tractor driver ran away without a trace.

At that time, he didn't care about the exam, and laughed when he heard it, saying that the driver was really unlucky...... It's just that I didn't expect this unfortunate thing to be spread on my own head.

He still couldn't believe it, and confirmed again: "The tractor hit the car, is it your father?"

"Xiao Wu also heard about it?" said the second aunt Yang Xiu'e. "Your second uncle, who is not responsible, is not a gentleman. What should I do if he runs away and leaves us two behind? People say, the car can be repaired for tens of thousands of yuan, where can I get so much money? ”

Zhao Qiwu was also silent.

......

Speaking of buying this walk-behind tractor, there is also the reason for Zhao Qiwu.

He is in high school this year, and his tuition fee is more than 300 yuan. The family can give this money, but my parents discussed it with the second uncle's family, saying that the cost of going to school would be greater in the future, and they had to think of a way to make money.

So the two partners smashed the pot and sold iron, scraped together more than 3,000 yuan, and bought a walk-behind tractor.

Zhao Jingshan is 40 years old this year, and his parents died in an accident at the age of 19, leaving him alone with his younger brother Zhao Jinghai, who is 12 years younger than him. Because of carelessness in work, I sprained my waist, and I couldn't do heavy work in recent years.

Therefore, this tractor can only be driven by Zhao Qiwu's second uncle and go to the kiln to pull bricks to make money.

No one expected that such a big thing would happen before they had earned money for a few days.

When I bought a tractor, I hollowed out the family funds of the two families, and now I have to pay tens of thousands of yuan for car repairs, and the two families can't make up enough after selling their houses.

In the past, although Zhao Qiwu knew that his family did not have much money, he could always get by. Now looking at the bleak appearance of the family, I know that sometimes there is no money, and that is really a terrible thing.

Somehow, he remembered a phrase he saw out of nowhere: Poverty is the original sin!

......

The two families were worried for a long time, and finally didn't come up with an idea.

After dinner, Yang Xiu'e took Tu Qiang home, and Zhao Qiwu couldn't help but say, "Mom and Dad, why don't we go into business?"

"What kind of business can make tens of thousands of dollars at once, you are confused in school. Mother Huang Dani couldn't help but count him down. "You're still young, don't think about crooked ways. ”

Zhao Qiwu stiffened his neck: "Why do I want to be crooked, can't I use my own skills?"

"You?" Huang Dani was so angry that she turned her head to find help. "Dad, you don't care about your son, you know that smoking your broken cigarette will kill you ......"

Zhao Jingshan smoked with his head in his head and was silent.

Huang Dani didn't move to rescue the soldiers, she turned her head to Zhao Qiwu and fell again: "Your own ability? I know that you have the ability, what should I do if you use it to be seen? Besides, how can you make money with your ability?"

Zhao Qiwu suddenly came to his senses: "I've thought about it, go sell vegetables!"

Huang Dani despised him: "You melon baby, I'm afraid you want to make money and want to go crazy! How much money can you earn by selling vegetables? A few cents a pound of vegetables, if you want to earn 10,000 yuan, you have to sell until your beard is white!"

"We don't make money selling vegetables here, so let's sell them far away!" Zhao Qiwu explained. "Anyway, we're not afraid of going far. ”

"I can't think of any other way at this time, now I'm burning my eyebrows, and I can't care about it so much, so I let the baby use his skills to sell vegetables. Zhao Jingshan, who was smoking, spoke, threw away the cigarette butt as he spoke, stepped on the ground and twisted it again and again, as if he had a deep hatred for the cigarette butt.

"Zhao Jingshan, you want to go to heaven, right?" Huang Dani broke out instantly. "I said I wouldn't let you throw the cigarette butts on the ground, you still throw them, right? Sweep the floor without being tired, right? Next time you sweep by yourself, don't ...... like a big man all day long"

"Mom, Mom!" Zhao Qiwu hurriedly stopped his mother from continuing to go crazy. "Speaking of business, I will sweep the floor, and I will sweep the floor when the holidays are in the future. ”

Zhao Jingshan turned a deaf ear to his wife's roar, and said to himself: "Our family has planted a lot of chili peppers this year, Dani, don't you have a lot of people who love chili peppers over there? Let's take that chili pepper first and let the baby try it......"

Huang Dani was stunned for a moment, suddenly turned her anger into fun, and leaned back with a smile: "Zhao Jingshan, I have followed you in this life, and I didn't expect you to get rich." But don't take out that little brain in your head and make me laugh, okay? You can really think of selling chili peppers to my hometown. ”

Zhao Qiwu also reacted when he heard what his mother said.

Sanhe Town is located in Yuzhou Province, and Huang Dani's hometown is from Sichuan and Shu.

In the early years, around Sanhe Town, there were many daughters-in-law from Sichuan and Shu, and Huang Dani came over at that time. If this is not the case, Zhao Jingshan's family still has a younger brother who is a teenager, and it is really difficult to find a daughter-in-law for a while.

It is precisely because Huang Dani loves to eat that the old Zhao family will grow so many chili peppers - in Zhao Jingshan's words, although there is no money to let the daughter-in-law go home to see, it is better to grow more chili peppers so that the daughter-in-law can eat better and feel less homesick.

However, the idea of selling chili peppers to Sichuan and Shu ......

Zhao Qiwu held back his laughter, interrupted his mother's change of topic, and said: "It's not profitable to sell vegetables in our place, but I've heard that it's winter now, and Chinese cabbage over there in Western Xinjiang can be sold for several pieces, which is more expensive than meat!"

Speaking of this, Zhao Qiwu is very confident, and there are evidence witnesses: "Don't believe it, it's true." Some of my classmates' relatives went to Western Xinjiang to pick cotton, and they heard about it there and came back to tell it in person. ”

Zhao Jingshan was stunned: "It's so expensive, it's really fake? If it's true, this thing can be done." ”

"Do you really want to sell vegetables? Master, have you thought about it, let your son use his Shinto skills?" Huang Dani failed to change the topic twice, and when she saw that the father and son had begun to discuss the actual operation, she immediately panicked. "What if my son is seen......?"

"Invisible. Zhao Qiwu is very confident. "Haven't we all tried? You can't see when you stand in front of you, and who else can see when you fly into the sky?"

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a faint mist suddenly rose in the room, enveloping him, and then gently drifting off the ground.

The fog seems to be very thin, and if you look closely, you can't see the figure inside.

Zhao Qiwu's voice came out from inside: "I said it all, I don't have the ability to do anything about the Tao of God and Shinto, I call it Tengyun Driving the Mist." You know? It's a skill that only gods have. ”