"Is the child asleep?" Liu Nanxu saw Xu Luolin coming out of her daughter's room, leaned in and asked softly.

"Well, shh," Xu Luolin put her index finger to her mouth and made a silent motion, "Yiyi talked to me a lot just now......"

"I know, I've heard it all, I won't give up like this, why do I have to think about Yiyi's future?" Xu Luolin was interrupted by Liu Nanxu hurriedly before she finished speaking.

Xu Luolin took Liu Nanxu's hand and pulled him into his room and said, "That's natural, let's find a way to go tomorrow, okay, daddy, rest early." ”

"Well, good. Liu Nanxu arrived while undressing.

Nothing was said all night.

The genius was bright, Liu Nanxu got up, saw that his wife was still asleep, tiptoed out of the room, after washing rice, plugged in the electricity and went to the vegetable garden to fish a handful of cabbage back, seeing that his wife and children had not woken up yet, he made some food by himself, and couldn't bear to wake up her mother and son, so he dug two bowls of rice and went out.

Seeing that it was still early, Liu Nanxu thought that he would not be able to get a good fortune if he went to borrow money from other people's houses so early, so he went to work in the fields, and stayed until ten o'clock in the afternoon and then went to his relatives' houses.

Liu Nanxu plucked grass in the ground for a while, looked up at the sky, and secretly said in his heart: "Well, it's past noon now, everyone should be having lunch at home, right?"

After a while, he came to the door of Xu Luowen's house and saw that their family was having lunch, "Brother Nanxu, are you here, have you had lunch, can you eat some?" Xu Luowen asked while bringing a stool to Liu Nanxu.

Liu Nanxu hurriedly put on a smile and said, "No, no, no, I just eat, Luo Wen, I'm here to ......"

"Brother Nanxu, it's not that I don't support you, it's really that I can't do it during this time. You see that the child is about to go to high school, I have recently started a small business, and the business is not very good, and I haven't come back yet! I've been doing things with you for so many years, you should understand my situation, don't you?" Xu Luowen seemed to know what he was going to do, and before he could finish speaking, he interrupted urgently.

Liu Nanxu felt a "sigh" in his heart, it was cold, but he still smiled and said: "In this way, it's okay, it's okay, then I'll go and take a few more looks." ”

"Brother Nanxu," Liu Nanxu walked to the main road, Xu Luowen chased out breathlessly and continued: "I still have a few hundred here, let's take it first, I'm really sorry, let you run for nothing." As he spoke, he put two hundred dollars in the palm of his hand.

Liu Nanxu shirked it, but he didn't push it away and took the money, and said, "I thank you for the child." ”

"It's okay, it's okay. We're sorry for you. Xu Luowen waved his hand and said as he turned back and walked home.

"Alas. Liu Nanxu looked at the red money in his hand, shook his head and sighed, and continued to run to the next one.

In this way, Liu Nanxu almost ran more than ten people like this, some did not have a dime, and some gave one or two hundred symbolically, and there were less than 1,000 yuan in his hand after a circle, which is a drop in the bucket for more than 6,000 tuition.

Looking at the money in his hand, it still didn't work, he immediately rushed to Liujia Village again, and came out of Liujia Village in a circle, and there were hundreds more in his hand, at this time the sky was almost dark, and a little wind blew, Liu Nanxu felt very cold, he thought about it, let's go home first.

"Daddy, you're back, come into the house, Luo Dong is here. As soon as Liu Nanxu walked to the door of the house, Xu Luolin came out of the house with a basin and saw him and said.

When Liu Nanxu heard this, he hurriedly took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to his wife: "Take you to the Dongtou store to get two catties of wine, I want to have a few drinks with Luo Dong!"

"It's good to get drunk again. Xu Luolin took the money and muttered as she walked out, although she was reluctant to drink with her husband, but when Xu Luodong came, she still had to go to drink, after all, this younger brother has been the best with her since he was a child.

"Luo Dong, what did you come from? I haven't seen you in the past few days, and the land has been planted?" asked Liu Nanxu after taking the tobacco handed over by Xu Luodong.

Xu Luodong responded while rubbing the tobacco into the cigarette holder: "Well, the potatoes are harvested, and the sweet potatoes are almost inserted, so we will wait until the autumn to harvest corn and rice." Brother-in-law, what about yours?"

"Oh my eye, it's early. During this time, I was busy with the children's tuition fees, and the grass in the field was about to be high, but I was not in a hurry, and I would get it together when the time came. Liu Nanxu could take a puff of cigarette and highlight a large cloud of smoke and replied.

Xu Luodong put the cigarette holder on the stool next to him, took out a stack of money from his coat pocket, handed it to Liu Nanxu and said: "Brother-in-law, there are two thousand, I only have so much, take it first, don't shirk it! Otherwise, I'm going to get angry! Of course, don't worry about me, the child's tuition can wait until the corn is collected to buy it." ”

"How can that be done?" Liu Nanxu pushed the money towards Xu Luodong.

"Brother-in-law, do you want me to get angry or what? I can't shirk it!" Xu Luodong said loudly as he put the money in Liu Nanxu's hand.

Liu Nanxu told him that he was really angry, so he didn't excuse himself, carefully put the money into a cloth money bag on the waistband of his trousers, and then sorted out his clothes and said, "Luo Dong, I'll eat in the house later, I'll call your sister to go drinking." ”

"Well, this can be had, I have to have a few drinks with you, I haven't had a drink with you in a long time. Xu Luodong said happily when he saw that he had received the money.

"I'm back," Xu Luolin walked in with a pot of wine and two packets of peanuts, looked at Liu Nanxu and said, "Daddy, is the meal ready?"

"Ah, I only remember to talk to Luo Dong, this is not yet!" Liu Nanxu heard his wife ask, smiled awkwardly and continued: "Luo Dong, you sit down for a while, I'll cook now, it will be fine soon, you can talk to your sister for a while." ”

After a while, the meal was ready, Liu Yiyi also cut a handful of pigweed and returned home, and after she washed her hands, everyone picked up the wine jug and poured it full of wine and began to drink.

To be honest, Liu Nanxu is really not in a good mood today, and he is also a little emotional, but he can't tell others in person, and it's very hard to stuff in his heart. Sometimes it's really hard to be a human being, you don't dare to say what you want to say, and you can't do what you want to do. But life is short, and can withstand the profligacy of a few people in their forties?

Liu Yiyi didn't drink alcohol today, she went to her room to read after eating. It was very quiet, Liu Nanxu looked at the back of her daughter going out, and felt a little comfortable. I was still very happy to drink with Xu Luofang, but after a few glasses of wine, I couldn't hold back the grievances in my heart anymore, and my courage became bigger!

"Luo Dong, did you say that I helped everyone less?" With a little drunkenness, Liu Nanxu asked angrily.

Hearing him say this, Xu Luolin hurriedly stood up and helped him and asked worriedly, "Daddy, are you drunk?"

"I'm not drunk, I'm sober, leave me alone, I'll talk to Luo Dong!" Liu Nanxu broke away from his wife's hand and said.

"Also, no one cares about me today, I want to drink, I want to drink!" Liu Nanxu continued after pushing his wife away.

Xu Luolin saw that she was pushed away by Liu Nanxu, and her tears flowed down uncontrollably. "Mom, come to my room, I have something to tell you. At this time, Liu Yiyi pulled her mother and said, and then forcibly pulled her mother into her room.

"Sister, it's okay, I'll talk to my brother-in-law, don't worry. Xu Luodong ran to the door of Liu Yiyi's room and said softly.

Xu Luodong walked over and looked at Liu Nanxu and said, "Brother-in-law, you dissipate your anger, don't be angry because of some bad things, your family depends on you!"

"Why? Why? I didn't really help them with money in the past, but it was also hard work, and it was a lot of money, right?" Liu Nanxu thought that since he entered Xujia Village, as long as there was a family in need of help, he had always tried his best to help without hesitation, but even his own children were in school and lacked tuition fees, and it was still so difficult to borrow some from them.

His shoulders shrugged weakly, and his voice was already a little choked,

Xu Luodong held Liu Nanxu's shoulder and said softly: "It's love for others to lend you money, and it's also your duty not to borrow it, brother-in-law, are you a little complaining like this? Is this still the same you? We're all old, and we're all from here, so we shouldn't look down on ourselves, you know?"

He paused for a moment and continued: "People who have no ability always complain about others and always want to rely on others to change themselves; Don't we all teach our children like this all the time? Don't you forget? Even if we are poor, we have to be poor and ambitious, don't we?"

That being said, there is also such a reason. It's just that I'm not comfortable in my heart, alas," Liu Nanxu calmed down and continued: "I'll just let you vent, uh-huh, it's me who is rude!"

Xu Luodong hurriedly said: "Brother-in-law, what are you talking about? What is rude or not?" Come on, let's continue to drink and walk ......."

"Yiyi's child said that she doesn't want to go to school anymore and wants to go to work, why don't I feel good about it? We parents can't leave her anything, but we want him to suffer as soon as possible!" Liu Nanxu took a sip of wine glass and said.

After hearing his words, Xu Luodong thought for a while and said: "Part-time work? This is not a bad idea! Reading less does not necessarily make less money? Besides, there are many people in our families who are as old as her to work, right? Although reading will make her more capable, but going to work can add a lot of experience to her, and with a lot of experience, she can do better things, I think this is a good idea, if I don't have the ability to let Feng'er go to college, let him go outside!"

Liu Nanxu patted him on the shoulder with his hand and said angrily: "What are you talking about? Isn't this completely irresponsible? This can only prove that you have no ability as a parent and can't even afford to send your children to school!"

"Then what's the solution? I only have this ability!" Xu Luodong said decadently.