"Ah, good, good. Tang Xiang walked by.

This aroused Luo Xiaoyu's suspicions even more, and Tang Xiangxiang also frowned.

In the evening, Luo Xiaoyu took her two younger sisters to the welfare house and vacated the outhouse for her uncle, and the brothers and sisters sat at the table and talked at night.

"What's going on at home?" Tang Xiangxiang asked worriedly.

"No, that's good. Tang Xiangman said.

"Then you still have to go to Africa to export labor? I heard my father say that it is very difficult to build a railway there. Tang Xiangxiang said.

"I want to see ......"

"Don't go, if you have any difficulties, tell my sister, you took care of me when I was a child, and now let my sister help you~" Tang Xiangxiang thought of the hard days when she was a child, and her voice choked.

She asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Tang Xiangman sighed helplessly and said: "Garland suddenly got sick this year, she was in pain, she went to the hospital to check rheumatism, and it was recommended not to do heavy work, and now she even asked her to do less housework, before she also followed my unit to do odd jobs to earn some money, sometimes more than me, now, alas!"

Tang Xiangxiang let go of her heart when she heard that it was not a serious illness, she comforted her younger brother and said, "Maybe it can be cured if you see it early, don't worry, let's figure it out together." ”

Tang Xiangman originally wanted to come to see his sister this time and borrow some money by the way, but now he really can't open his mouth, and his sister's family is not easy, the old and the young, how can there be extra money?

The next night, the adults were all outside to enjoy the shade, and the children were not afraid to stay in the house to watch TV, Tang Xiangxiang fanned Luo Xiaoyu with mosquitoes and began to talk about Tang Xiangman.

The siblings and their mother went to Chenchang with their stepfather, and in the 60s, life was difficult, and the coal supplied in the coal book was not enough in winter.

Tang Xiangman couldn't pick it up at all, and once he was in a hurry to grab the cinders that had just been unloaded by the locomotive, but he was caught by the guard's 'handful of hairs' and confiscated the coal basket.

Tang Xiangman blocked the door to prevent the 'handful of hair' from coming out, and the "handful of hair" could only return the basket to him, but poured out the coal beard picked up in the basket, Tang Xiang was full of anger, just a steam locomotive was unloading a pile of cinders, ran over and loaded a few very hot cinders into the basket, and then ran away, only to find that the basket was burned a hole, everyone said that the gains outweighed the losses, Tang Xiangman could only find another way.

Chen Chang has a cave, when the army of water conservancy was stationed there, Tang Xiangman accidentally found that there was a big pile of garbage next to the cave cooking, there were a lot of unburned cinders, he was excited to load a few baskets and quietly transport them home, and he could pick up a basket full of coal for many days until the army of water conservancy repaired moved away.

During the summer vacation, Tang Xiangman took the basket to a far away farmland, looked for mouse holes in the field where peanuts and soybeans were planted, and dug up a lot of peanuts and soybeans by digging the mouse holes.

All the heavy work in the family is Tang Xiangman to do, although he is a younger brother, he is like an elder brother, distressed that his sister is small and has no strength, once Tang Xiangxiang's classmates in the countryside quietly told her that the production team dug sweet potatoes today, and asked her to go in the afternoon to quietly leave a few for her, Tang Xiangman did not let her sister go, but he ran away from school, the sweet potatoes have been dug up, he found those few secretly, and dug out more than 20 sweet potatoes.

After graduating from junior high school, his mother died, he didn't want to go to school anymore, and asked to go to the countryside to plant soybeans in the production team.

After a heavy rain, they went to dig it up again, and it was full of sprouted soybean sprouts, and they took them out to stir-fry and beat their teeth, which was really fragrant.

The educated youth live a miserable life, there is no meat to eat, and there is no gun to shoot rabbits, so they fill the rabbit holes with water, but many of them are rats......

Recruiting workers returned to his stepfather's unit to learn bricklayers, stepmother Li Yuehua asked him to pay money every month, at that time there was only 18 yuan of salary, he had to pay 5 yuan, and then 36 yuan to pay 20 yuan, so he also saved pocket money for his sister, and later did not want to see his stepmother's face began to learn drill with crane (crane), went to other provinces, and started a family in other provinces.

Tang Xiangxiang said to Luo Xiaoyu sadly: "The last time I saw your uncle in Chen Chang, he took his newly pregnant aunt, I gave your grandmother's tweed coat to your aunt, and quietly put 20 yuan in the pocket, and then your aunt wrote to say that thanks to the 20 yuan I gave them, they ran out of money when they transferred trains halfway, and found that there was money in the coat pocket, and they ate happily, saying that there was a feeling of loss and recovery. ”

Luo Xiaoyu has a complicated mood, she knows more about these than her mother, and she knows more than her mother, her aunt is injured and sick at home, her uncle is desperate to make money, and finally she is tired and vomits blood, and then the company is dismounted, he is laid off, and the hard life is still to come, my uncle has sold scrap iron to raise pigs, chickens, rabbits, and worked hard to pull two children to grow up, and before he has enjoyed happiness, he has Alzheimer's disease......

I remembered that my uncle didn't know anyone at that time, but when I received the call from my sister, I could call out my sister, and then I didn't speak and shed tears vigorously......

Luo Xiaoyu's eyes were sour, and she said firmly to her mother: "Uncle still has us, I want to go south with my uncle to see the market, and then do business with my uncle." ”

Tang Xiangxiang was relieved, she thought the same way, but she didn't expect her eldest daughter to go south to investigate in person, so it was okay to take advantage of the summer vacation to go out for a walk and see the outside world.

In the next few days, Tang Xiangxiang took his younger brother to Kongming Temple for leave, went to Hanshui City, bought gifts for his nephews and nieces, and bought special products here.

Tang Xiangxiang was worried about the safety of her eldest daughter coming back alone from the south, but now that the gallic son was busy collecting no extra people, Luo Jingquan couldn't think of a way to find Long Dingwen, and Long Dingwen raised this question after returning home.

Long Jianbing was the first to react, and felt uncomfortable for a while, Luo Xiaoyu went to the south during the summer vacation, what should he do if he went for more than a month? Seeing that everyone was thinking, he closed his mouth tightly.

The next day, he ran to the signal building where his father worked, and as soon as he showed up, Long Dingwen sighed and said, "You also want to go to the south?"

"Uh-huh!" Long Jianbing said with excited eyes.

"But......" Long Dingwen said two words, and there was no follow-up.

Long Jianbing was anxious, but he couldn't be too eager, so that his father would see the clues, he clenched his fists, and waited patiently for his father's decision, Long Dingwen wanted to let his second son go out to have a look, but there were only two people, Luo Xiaoyu and the second son, this is a bit bad, what does Luo Jingquan think at that time? He is a little undecided. [.]