What Li Jiaming was worried about didn't happen in the end, the fourth uncle got off the table halfway through drinking, rode his new motorcycle with his eldest sister, and went to the countryside to buy vegetables together.

At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when the two of them appeared on the road outside the valley ping, they looked at the more than a dozen catties of pork on the motorcycle, two grass carp of three or four catties, some miscellaneous vegetables, and two cardboard boxes with eggs printed on the back of the car.

"Let's go, find a place where no one is around, dry these things, don't let my eldest sister see it." ”

"Hey"

Li Jiaming waited for Mao Tong to sneak away with a large handful of pyrethrum that he had just stolen, and the fourth uncle rode to the door, laughing and shouting loudly: "Fourth uncle, eldest sister, are you so fast?"

"If it weren't for your eldest sister buying eggs, we'd be back a long time ago. ”

The second aunt, who was sitting at the kitchen door and peeling chestnuts with the fourth aunt, looked up, her face was not good-looking, and she scolded in a low voice: "Fourth, are you nervous?"

"What's wrong with me?"

"Are you really confused, or are you pretending to be confused?"

The aunt who came to help came out of the kitchen with a handful of leeks, saw all kinds of meat dishes on the motorcycle, her face was happy, and she joked: "The third uncle is distressed today." ”

The fourth uncle didn't want to see the eldest aunt, but he rarely came to her like the second aunt, and laughed twice: "Sister-in-law, are you still my sister-in-law? I don't know my birthday today?"

Isn't it going to be the seventeenth day of the lunar month?

The second aunt was stunned for a moment, and was gagged by the fourth uncle just as she wanted to speak, "Second aunt, today is my birthday, and I met Jiaming who can study, so I will pay for the third brother's treat." I haven't had a birthday at home in a few years, so it's rare to be happy. ”

"Well, your third brother didn't hurt you once in vain!"

The second aunt also said with a smile, and continued to bow her head to peel the chestnuts, and the aunt who reacted listened to the nonsense of the two uncles and sisters-in-law, and her face was a little dark just now. This time, I prepared a make-up fee for the eldest and second sisters-in-law, and I borrowed 200 yuan after talking to the fourth sister-in-law for a long time, which was not enough to buy these vegetables and eggs.

The fourth uncle, who was sweating profusely, asked the eldest sister to take the vegetables into the kitchen, carried two boxes of eggs upstairs into the house, and put them into the room where Li Jiaming slept, and said with a smile: "Jiaming, your brother is a good one, and the fourth uncle will award you two boxes of eggs!"

'Hey, hey, hey', the smirking Li Jiaming guessed from seeing the two boxes of eggs that it must be the eldest sister who asked the fourth uncle for it. The weather is about to cool down, and there is no frog meat, how can I add food to my little sister and full sister?

"Hey, hey, hey, fart! Twelve-year-old man, if my eldest sister hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known you had done so many things!

'Hey, hey, hey', Li Jiaming hurriedly brought a handful of raw chestnuts from the next room for the fourth uncle to eat. I am a guy whose mental age is older than the fourth uncle, how can I laugh if I don't smirk?

"Huh?"

The fourth uncle took the chestnut and bit it open, went to the next room to take a look, saw the chestnut covering the floor of half of the room, and said with a smile: "You went to Shijiqu?"

"Fourth uncle, how do you know?"

The fourth uncle kicked Li Jiaming on the buttocks, and scolded with a smile: "How old are you, what you know, I don't know? ”

"Hey", Li Jiaming agreed, thinking about waiting for the weather to cool down, and then go get some wild honey to come back, preferably those uncommon stone honey. With these eggs, those wild honey will not come in handy, it is better to give the fourth uncle a favor. Relying on your parents at home and relying on your friends when you go out, it's good anywhere.

The fourth uncle flipped through the first year mathematics textbooks and test papers that Li Jiaming took from his eldest sister on the small square table, ate a few raw chestnuts, patted his nephew's head with satisfaction, and promised: "Jiaming, study hard, don't think too much about other things." What is lacking or missing, just tell the fourth uncle, if the rural boy wants to grow up and not work in the field, he can only study hard, do you know?"

Two boxes of eggs are 720 yuan, and it costs more than 100 yuan to sell them in the store, even if the fourth uncle and his wife work in Guangdong, this is a lot of money. If it's to help out, or borrow tuition money, it's reasonable, but I just don't want to be distracted by adding nutrition to Wen Mei and Man Mei!

Li Jiaming's heart was warm, and he hurriedly agreed: "Hey, when the fourth aunt gives birth to a younger brother and sister in the future, I will let Sister Man and Sister Wen tutor them, and I will also go to college in the future!"

These words sounded comfortable, but the fourth uncle's eyes widened, and he frightened: "Little conscienceless, what about you?"

"Fourth uncle, I must have gone to high school and college at that time, and I was at home for a few days a year? Fourth uncle, rest assured, when I graduate from college and find a job, I will take all my younger siblings with me. ”

"Hahaha, the third brother gave birth to a good cub!"

The fourth uncle laughed and went downstairs, not disturbing Li Jiaming to read. Or his little nephew has a conscience, and the eldest brother's family can study and have a fart, in addition to family morality and family morality, the family is not bad, and the two big ones are two white-eyed wolves. It's still a good family, and the person is only a little higher than the Eight Immortals table, so I know that I will help my uncle bring my younger brothers and sisters in the future!

Reading the book and seeing that it was almost four o'clock, Li Jiaming got up with the little bamboo top, went to call back the Jin Mei, the Man Mei, and the little sister who were playing, and went to the kitchen to put three bowls of chestnut stewed chicken for the three of them to eat. The three little ones finished eating with a smile, and the eldest sister added them again, and ate until they couldn't eat anymore, and then went to continue playing.

When the three little girls left, the eldest aunt whispered strangely: "Jiaming, is it easy for your second aunt to raise a few chickens? Jin Mei is not our own sister, you help her tutor every day, and you are already very worthy of her." ”

The second aunt, fourth aunt, second sister, and third sister who were busy in the kitchen this time didn't squeak, and they didn't want to go against the aunt. The mountain people are generous, but there is no reason to take care of outsiders every day, although everyone is a cousin of a princess, but after all, they have separated their families, and their own families are not very rich.

The eldest sister dared to scold the eldest aunt, but Li Jiaming didn't dare, smiled and explained: "Auntie, Uncle Chuanzu and Aunt Cha Ju are very good to us, usually I and Sister Wen have a few chopsticks for me and Sister Wen to stir-fry meat at home, I don't treat Sister Jin better, my conscience can't get by." ”

The aunt stopped talking, and she remembered that Uncle Chuanzu and Jiaming's father were the same Geng (the same year), and they played with bare butts together until they grew up.

The second aunt whispered to the eldest sister, and the eldest sister hurriedly opened the stove, filled a bowl full of chestnut stewed chicken and two small rice bowls of chicken soup, twisted Li Jiaming's ears and sat at the dining table, and scolded with a smile: "Speaking like an adult, how old do you think you are? Hurry up and eat, wait and send it to Sanyan and Jiade." Second sister, third sister, you two also come over to eat. Don't blame the eldest sister for being eccentric, Jiade, Jiaming, and Sanyan will read, and eat more good food to supplement their brains. ”

"Hey", the second and third sisters who were still greedy just now immediately smiled, and they were not jealous of the completely different treatment at all.

The local chicken stew with chestnuts is so fragrant and sweet that Li Jiaming almost swallowed his tongue when he ate it. After eating a full bowl of vegetables, the eldest sister wanted to add it again, Li Jiaming hurriedly covered the bowl with his hand, and smirked: "Hey, hey, eldest sister, in fact, I also wanted to eat just now, but I was afraid that if I ate another bowl, it would not be enough to eat at night." ”

Li Jiaming's ears were twisted again, and the person who twisted him this time was the second aunt.

"This chicken was originally killed for a few of you who are studying, and adults don't study, what kind of chicken do you eat? In the future, if you let Manmei study a small secondary school, your aunt will kill chickens for you every day!"

What kind of junior secondary school do you study? My sister has to go to college anyway, right?

However, Li Jiaming thought so in his heart, and he didn't dare to say this, in the early 90s, in rural middle schools, the students who could be admitted to primary secondary schools were the best, and the second-class students would go to key high schools. Only teachers like the fourth brother and the third brother have made a package ticket, and the parents are also confident, will let them go to key high schools and universities.

Li Jiaming smirked a few times, and ate a bowl honestly, and then went to the uncle's house with a small half-full stove with a full stomach. As soon as he arrived under the kitchen eaves of the uncle's house, Li Jiaming heard the uncle and his father talking in a whisper, and he didn't know whether to leave or listen for a while.

"Third child, do you think I'm willing to open my mouth? You also know the situation at home, if the eldest and second children can't pass the exam next year, and the tuition will cost more than 1,000 yuan, where can I borrow it?"

Is there a time to repay the money borrowed by the eldest brother? Only one of his debts have been paid off, and there are four more families behind him, and after paying off the debts, they will have to provide for their children to study. No matter how loyal Li Chuanlin is, it is impossible to value his nephew's future more than his own son and daughter.

After being silent for a while, Li Chuanlin hummed and said, "Big brother, the second brother and the fourth brother won't care." ”

The uncle in the kitchen is also a face-saving person, but the child's future is enough for him to pull down his face and beg for help, begging: "Hey, third brother, if the eldest brother has a way, he will come to ask you for help from a step-by-step brother?"

The second child is going to make a house next year, and the fourth child is going to make a house soon, how can they have the money to borrow?

The third child, Jiaming will go to college after tomorrow, and there will be six and a half years from now. At that time, the eldest and second men both graduated from college, and the eldest brother could afford it!"

Although Li Chuanlin is honest and loyal, he will still settle the account, and he was silent for a while and said in a sullen voice: "Big brother, I will talk about it later, at least I have to wait for the eldest and second men to be admitted, and I can find a way to help you." ”

Li Jiaming, who was eavesdropping outside the door, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and lightly took the stove to the attic where the third and fourth brothers lived. Father is not stupid after all, the uncle borrowing money has always been a tiger borrowing a pig, how much has he borrowed from the second uncle and the fourth uncle over the years, and how much has he repaid?

Even if he will repay it in the future, will the money in seven or eight years be compared with the current one? Why do those cousins who lent money to their family come to ask at the end of the year? Everyone is not stupid, the money is becoming less and less valuable, even if you know that you will repay it in the future, the money you repay and the money you lend out are no longer of the same value!