When Gu Ren woke up, it was already six or seven o'clock in the afternoon. Out of the house, Yuyan helped her mother cook. Walking out of the yard, I was about to go to the orchard to have a look, and my father Gu Dashan had just come back.

Ask my father what he did.

Unexpectedly, my father listened to his words and really went to collect apricots, and offered a pound of five yuan. When the villagers heard this, they all picked apricots and sold them all to their father.

After Gu Tianming, who was still collecting apricots in the back village, heard this, he immediately ran out to stop his father from collecting apricots. The father ignored him and continued to harvest apricots. Gu Tianming panicked and begged for good words. Ask Gu Dashan not to rob business. He Lao Tzu also came forward to put down his figure, saying that Gu Tianming was not young, and his family repaired the house, and he had no money, so there was really no way.

The apricots of other families in the village are harvested by them for two cents and five for one piece, and five harvests for one piece of their family.

Gu Dashan eats soft and not hard, hearing the soft words of the village chief's father and son, and thinking that Gu Tianming is not small, he finally married a daughter-in-law a few years ago and ran away with someone, but now it is not easy, and finally agreed.

The meal was cooked, and the family was happy around the table.

"Dad, eat fish. ”

Gu Ren sandwiched a piece of fish and put it in his father's bowl.

"Mom, you eat too!"

Then he took another piece and put it in his mother's bowl.

"I also pick up vegetables for my parents!"

Yuyan sandwiched two pieces of meat and gave them to her parents.

"Hehe, you two children......"

Father and mother smiled.

"Ah Ren, how is the work, come back for a few days this time. ”

"It's okay, the company has stable orders now, and there is no need to go out for the time being, so take this opportunity to stay at home for a while." ”

Gu Ren replied casually.

"Oh, Dad, is there no money at home? I still have some money to take out for Yuyan's tuition. ”

The money Gu Ren said was two months' salary paid to him by the resigned company, about 10,000 yuan. As for the previous salary, it was all spent.

"Ah Ren, you don't have to worry about Yuyan's tuition. You'd better save more money for you. Mom and Dad have no ability all their lives, they are farming in this ravine, and they can't save up the money to buy you a unit building and a car, so that you can't get married now, and your parents are sorry for you. ”

The father bowed his head.

The mother also bowed her head and just ate.

Ex-girlfriend Qianqian's mother once called her parents, saying that only if she bought a house and a car in Dong'an City, she would agree to marry her daughter and Gu Ren.

"Dad, Mom, it's me who should say I'm sorry. ”

Gu Ren's nose was sour, and tears almost came out of his eyes. It's useless for him, his parents face the loess with their backs to the sky, and they raised him with a lifetime of hard work, so that he can finish college, and now he has suffered a lot of grievances in order to let him start a family.

"Dashan, don't talk about it, let Ah Ren eat well. ”

Seeing Gu Ren's expression, his mother glared at his father.

"Oh, don't talk about it, don't talk about it. We only have to work hard, and we will have everything. What does Ah Ren think this is?"

My father pulled out a stack of red bills from his pocket, more than a dozen.

"Huh......"

Yuyan and her mother were surprised.

"This is the apricot money that Tianming paid to the miscellaneous family in advance. The apricots from the trees in the orchard were sold to Tianming. ”

Father explained.

"One pound and three cents, that's a few thousand pounds. We only have a few apricot trees, so how many can we pick?"

Mother and Yuyan looked at their father in confusion.

"It's not three cents, it's one and a half pieces. Thanks to Ah Ren, he said that it was expensive to sell in the city, otherwise Gu Tianming would be pitted again!"

After the father explained the events of the afternoon in detail, the mother and Yuyan understood.

After eating, the sky gradually darkened, Yuyan went back to her room to review her homework, and her mother was weeding in the vegetable garden.

The father took out a purple flashlight, tweezers, wooden sticks, and plastic cartridges to prepare for catching scorpions at night.

They have drought and little rain here, and some villages buy drinking water. But on the loess ridge of the ravine, there are abundant scorpions.

Before, no one paid attention to this thing, and when they saw it, they hid it. This thing stings more than bees, and if you don't pay attention to the sting, it will be red and swollen and painful for days.

In recent years, with the widespread application of scorpions and scorpion venom, the market demand for scorpions has gradually expanded, and the price of wild scorpions has been rising. Even the purchase price in the rural areas has risen to more than 300.

Scorpions generally come out of the nest to hunt around nine o'clock and are active until one or two o'clock in the evening. A skilled person can catch two, three hundred, or even three or four hundred in three or four hours. Between 600 and 800 scorpions per catty, three or four hundred is half a catty. Half a catty can be sold for one or two hundred, and for rural people who can only earn a few thousand yuan a year from farming, the income of one or two hundred a night can be described as extremely rich.

Of course, there is also a great risk of catching scorpions at night, collapses, thorns, poisonous snakes...... It's all threats. Every summer, accidents often occur.

"Dad, you don't have to go, there's no moon today, it's dark in the middle of the night. ”

Gu Ren looked at his father's slightly stiff back, and couldn't bear it.

"Ah Ren, it's okay. Do not worry. You're busy with your business. ”

My father swept around the yard with a purple flashlight to see if there were any scorpions on the walls of the yard and the cracks in the stones. A violet lamp is a lamp with purple rays, and when it shines on a scorpion, the scorpion turns green, which can be seen at a glance and is very obvious.

It is said that the scorpion has a layer of fine reflectors that reflect the moonlight and attract insects around it, making it easy to hunt. Now this advantage has become the Achilles' heel of being captured.

"Ah Ren, help Mom close the pumping knife (power switch). ”

Wang Binglian, the mother over there, shouted.

In his yard, a small vegetable garden has been opened up, specializing in growing vegetables and fruits, including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, gourds, pumpkins, leeks, watermelons, melons, strawberries......

The quantity of each vegetable is not much, but the variety is complete.

In a remote mountain village like theirs, there is no supermarket or vegetable market. The vegetables and fruits that ordinary people eat are homegrown, and there is a well on the east side of the yard with a water pump in the well. The vegetable garden is in the west of the courtyard, and when irrigating the vegetable garden, the water pipe needs to be pulled from the east to the west, and after the west side is ready, the gate knife (power switch) should be closed in the well room.

"Okay, okay. ”

Gu Ren walked over and closed the switch and walked towards the vegetable garden. The vegetable garden is sparse, and the tomatoes and cucumbers are bearing fruit, but the leaves of the vegetables and fruits are a little dry in the sun for a few days, and the tomatoes and cucumbers are not very large.

"Mom, I'll get it!"

Gu Ren took the water pipe, and the cool well water sprayed out of the water pipe, splashing and making a sizzling sound.

"Be careful, don't get your clothes wet. ”

The mother told her to take a hoe to hook the soil and not let the well water flow out of the vegetable garden.

"Got it. ”

As a result of Gu Ren's thoughts, purple qi appeared around his fingers, and he cautiously approached the water outlet, controlling the distance, so that the well water that spewed out could be contaminated with a little purple qi.

The well water fused with purple gas quickly took effect when it was irrigated into the vegetable garden, wilting the leaves, slowly stretching at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye, and in a moment, it was full of greenery and full of energy.

Gu Ren was startled, and hurriedly withdrew his fingers, this purple qi has been integrated into a large amount, and the vegetables have changed too much, in case he gets up tomorrow morning, the yard will be full of huge vegetables and fruits, which can frighten people.

He moved his fingers a little farther away, reducing the amount of purple qi that had been blended in. The rate of change of vegetables irrigated with well water slowed down.

"Ah Ren, you see, our vegetable garden is still short of water, and after putting one water on it, it will be green all of a sudden. Put one water every day for the past few days, and you will be able to eat it in four or five days. ”

Mother looked at the tomato cucumber hanging on the fruit, the size of a tomato ping-pong ball, and the thickness of cucumber chopsticks.

"Don't worry, the vegetables I bought today will last for several days. ”

Gu Ren smiled.

"You bought it grown in the greenhouse, and it was ripe by others, so how can it taste good as our own planting. I've told you everything, don't buy anything, you're just disobedient. So how can you buy a bunch of fruits and vegetables without 180 yuan. I don't know how to save money, strive to buy a unit building as soon as possible, and get a marriage certificate with Qianqian. ”

The mother looked at Gu Ren and said angrily.

Gu Ren smiled again and did not explain. How easy is it to buy a house in Dong'an...... Even if you buy the lowest house price outside the Third Ring Road, one square meter is six or seven thousand, and one hundred square meters is six or seven hundred thousand, plus decoration appliances and furniture, don't even think about it if you don't have **100,000.

His monthly salary is four or five thousand, and the remaining three thousand after deducting rent, food, bus and telephone bills is the limit, three thousand a month, thirty-six thousand a year, and a down payment of 250,000 yuan alone will take seven or eight years. Seven or eight years later, house prices have already multiplied several times.

As for getting a marriage certificate with the woman named Qianqian, it was even more of a cold joke.

After experiencing this life and death, many things have been seen. Many people have also seen through it. He doesn't hate Fan Qianqian. If it weren't for her, how could he have woken up.

Tickets for houses, cars, and cars will be available to Lao Tzu! Including women, but not you Fan Qianqian!

Gu Ren gritted his teeth, and the purple qi on his fingers surrounded his fingertips.

"Mom, I'll discuss something with you. ”

Gu Ren put away his feelings.

"What's the matter, tell me. ”

The mother brushed up a strand of hair that had fallen from her forehead and put it behind.

"Mom, I want to quit my job and go home to start a business. ”

Gu Ren hesitated, but still spoke. Parents will find out about the resignation sooner or later.

"What?"

The mother's expression froze, and she almost let go of the hoe in her hand.

"Ah Ren, you ...... You're back, what should Qianqian do?"

"We broke up. ”

"Ahh......h

At this moment, the mother seemed to be a teenager old.

Half ringing.

Only then did he come back to his senses and looked at Gu Ren seriously.

"Ah Ren, you are older, you are no longer a child. Whatever the choice, be sure of it. As long as you don't regret it, Mom will always support you. ”

Mother's words were loud.

"Mom, don't worry. I will not let you down!"

Gu Ren said firmly.

That Fan Qianqian is not a good thing in the first place, I heard it on the phone with her, she doesn't know what love is, how can she be worthy of my brother with that kind of goods. ”

I don't know when, Yuyan was already standing behind Gu Ren, indignant.

"It's like you little kid can understand it. ”

Gu Ren and his mother sneered.

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