Chapter 20: Honesty
"I think, but ......"
Jiang Yizhou waved his hand and turned his head, suppressing his sister's worries, "It's nothing, you want to go to school and continue to study, what's wrong!" ”
Imagining the way those elders told the younger generations about the truth of life, he patted Xiaoya on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Brother works outside, I feel that I am really a disadvantage if I have no education, with a diploma, it is really much better than working to move bricks, you must go to school and study hard in the future, otherwise you will stay in the countryside for the rest of your life, and there will be no ......."
When he was finished, he sighed and pretended to be an image of leaving his hometown, entering a big city, seeing the market, and feeling the importance of knowledge.
"Hmmm! Thank you, brother, I will definitely work hard! An inexplicable light flashed in Jiang Xiaoya's eyes, she knew that if her eldest brother supported her to go to school, he himself would be dragged down for a few years.
Jiang Yizhou felt that the effect had been achieved, and went back with a bucket of water with satisfaction, walked a few steps, and suddenly remembered that there was still the letter, turned back to Xiaoya and said, "Erya, in fact, I originally wrote you a letter to let you rest assured that you will be admitted to high school, but I have something to come back, now I will talk to you, it is estimated that it will arrive in a few days, don't feel strange!" ”
Now that he was much more relieved, Jiang Yizhou lifted the bucket on the ground again, poured it into the water tank, and then turned back to the well.
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Jiang Maoqiang works in a nearby village, building a house for a family with several people, because he does not want to be too far away from home, and this kind of work is one of Jiang's main sources of additional income in addition to farming.
The main thing to build a house is before the spring farming, after all, it is pushed to the reconstruction on the original foundation of the house, and it is difficult to solve the problem of accommodation for the family if it drags on for too long.
"Stop it, everyone, it's time for lunch!" With the owner's words, several people put away the materials at hand and walked towards the small shed built with the common plastic film for the vegetable greenhouse.
The owner's unused and unimportant things were kept in the shed, and there was an adobe house next to it, which was full of two beds and all kinds of furniture, and it was a temporary residence for the family.
Jiang Maoqiang was about to move his chopsticks, but Gao Qingzhen walked out of the back path with a bag of eggs, and walked quickly to him when he saw him, "Maoqiang, our son is back, hurry up!" ”
Gao Qingzhen speaks, more like Mandarin with some dialect flavor, which she learned from listening to the host on the radio.
Jiang Maoqiang didn't feel that it was fake, and apologized to the man in the family, "I'm sorry, I have something at home, so I won't come in the afternoon!" ”
The man was also very generous, "It's okay, it's okay, whoever has a child when he comes home can't talk about it, celebrate and celebrate, big brother, you can go home with confidence!" ”
Half a day's work alone can't delay anything, if there is really a shortage of people, you can go up and work for half a day.
After the couple left, the man who was holding the rice bowl next to him, pulling the rice grains into his mouth, and then handed the empty bowl to the hostess said, "I remember that his eldest son didn't just go out to work after the New Year?" I remember it clearly! ”
"Who knows? Homesick, or can't stand the pain and come back? "When the farmers in the countryside are not working, they love these gossip and talk about it.
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The early spring is still cold, especially in the countryside, they can only rely on their own heating, at least they don't have a coal stove at home, but they can sit behind the stove to warm up.
The hall is empty, there is a table on the upper edge, there is an incense burner, there is no incense, there is no statue, photo, but there is a tea plate on the side, above is a kettle and enamel jar, below is all kinds of sundries, the adobe house is not large, the space has to be used effectively.
An old wooden table was set up in the middle, and her mother Gao Qingzhen brought the last temporary egg custard to the table, picked up the spoon and put it in Jiang Yizhou's bowl, "Come on, come on, I remember that you like egg custard the most, don't be polite to your mother!" ”
"Mom~~" Jiang Yizhou could only lengthen his voice and express his opinion on his mother from the side, but he still stretched out the bowl and let his mother keep putting egg custard in his bowl.
Accompanied by fragrant rice, Jiang Yizhou had a great appetite, and he didn't eat three meals, but just ate two ham sausages to fill his stomach, and he was indeed a little hungry.
"Son, it's still the eggs at home, right? Those sold in the market are all raised on chicken farms, which is much worse than this free-range one! Gao Qingzhen kept talking, and when she saw her son eating in a big gulp, she nodded, and she was in a better mood.
This is also a few rare pride as a rural person, no haze, green mountains and green water, pure natural pollution-free vegetables, in addition to being watered with manure, if you are used to this, it is really nostalgic.
Most of the big and small things in the family are managed by his mother, and as for the other three, his father is honest and optimistic, and he used to be honest.
Xiaoya is on the verge of being neglected, if it weren't for the fact that she couldn't do any work in the sixth grade of primary school, and there was nothing to lose in junior high school, maybe she wouldn't even be able to go to junior high school.
"By the way, son, what are you coming back for? It can't be something going on over there, right? Gao Qingzhen asked the question she wanted to ask the most.
"Mom, I actually want some money when I come back......"
Before he finished speaking, Gao Qingzhen looked completely disbelieving, stretched out his hand and pinched Jiang Yizhou's face, and then tugged his ears again, as if he was wearing a human skin mask on his face.
"Mom, what are you doing? What do you think of me? Jiang Yizhou put down the chopsticks and bowls, pushed his mother's hand away, and complained, it hurts to pinch!
"I'll see if you're still not my son," Gao Qingzhen asked Jiang Yizhou exaggeratedly, "Son, have you been deceived, or have you been tricked, or have you been blinded by the world of flowers outside?" I remember my son wasn't such a spender, huh? ”
Jiang Yizhou suddenly felt that it was quite easy to deceive his mother, and explained, "Mom, I'm used to do business, you don't know," he pretended to be afraid that the wall had ears, looked at the door, and lowered his voice, "I found a good business in the capital, and after I borrowed 3,000 yuan from my uncle and invested it, Mom, guess how much you earned?" ”
"Five hundred, to say the least!" Before his parents could recover their strength, he told the result, "This is still earned in a month!" ”
His mother also deviated from his low voice, and then whispered, "Son, you can't be crooked, right?" This must not be touched! ”
Boom~~
"Isn't it hard for the two of you to talk loudly? It's like a thief! Jiang Maoqiang patted the table and reminded the two of them that this was at the dinner table.
Gao Qingzhen glanced at her husband, "Son, what kind of business are you doing?" ”
Jiang Yizhou muttered, "Anyway, it's not crooked, it's fine, Mom, can't you trust me?" Have I ever done anything bad since I was a child? ”
He looked at his mother with wide eyes with a simple face......