A stone road more than 100 meters long, seven or eight brick houses, a dozen or so yellow mud houses, and then fifty or sixty wooden shacks built along the road, selling miscellaneous department stores, eating, wearing, and using.

Li Jiaming, who was dressed in old clothes, followed behind the fourth brother, who was also dressed plainly, and bought a dollar of 'snow pine' candy, as well as twenty five-cent lattice books and arithmetic books for writing, and his body was empty. After looking at this simple and vibrant street for a while, Li Jiaming couldn't help but think about its prosperity in the future, and sighed that if the fourth uncle built a house here, instead of in Huangniping, how could he waste money renting a shop here in the future?

The fourth uncle and the fourth aunt are a little business-minded, but their vision is still a little worse!

Li Jiaming's strange appearance made the precocious fourth brother mistakenly think that this little cousin had less money, and said with a smile: "Do you want to buy anything? I still have two yuan here." ”

"No need", Li Jiaming's eyes stared at a small mountain goods store that bought honey for a while, and he wanted to ask the price, but finally gave up. I am really short of money, but I must give what I am going to give to my fourth uncle. When I have a holiday next week, I have to get the honeycomb, and I will send the bee candy to the fourth uncle, but I don't know if the mailing fee is expensive.

Children, they are always greedy, and this time they can take the first place in the township, and they should also be rewarded. The fourth brother, who was happy, thought that his little cousin wanted to eat honey, so he pulled him in, "Boss, how do you sell bee candy (honey)?"

Boss Zeng, who was wearing an old gray tunic, was greeting a well-dressed middle-aged man surrounded by several local middle-aged people, and he didn't even look back, and said casually: "Spring sugar is three yuan and one catty, and winter sugar (honey in winter has a high concentration and is semi-solid) four pieces." ”

"Buy half a catty", before the fourth brother finished speaking, Li Jiaming hurriedly said: "Fourth brother, I don't want it, I just wanted to ask him how to collect it." Mao Tong found a big honeycomb, hey, hey, we wanted to poke it down. ”

"Huh?"

Before the boss could speak, the middle-aged man who was surrounded by everyone immediately turned his head and looked at Li Jiaming for a while before he smiled and said, "Little friend, is there any stone honey (solid wild bee)?"

This middle-aged man was well-dressed, spoke Mandarin with a Cantonese accent, and looked at the careful appearance of the boss accompanying him, Li Jiaming guessed that he might be a big businessman who came to invest in Tonggu, and the people surrounding him were probably cadres from the county and township. It's just that Li Jiaming actually saw a kind of love and heartache that was well concealed in the eyes of this middle-aged man.

Maybe he was wrong, Li Jiaming was also stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled: "Uncle, I don't know, we just found a big honeycomb." ”

"Well, can you sell me those wild honeys? In this way, I will buy them at twice the price of winter sugar for 8 yuan a catty, and if there is stone honey, I will buy it for 50 yuan a catty, do you think it's okay?"

A middle-aged fat man accompanying him, when he saw his shy belly, he knew that he was an official, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wu, this price is too high, I'll tell them." The mountain guys are not sensible, if you pay fifty yuan a pound, they will fake it. ”

Li Jiaming was stunned, this is what the official word two mouths mean?, Lao Tzu asked you to fake, can you make it?

However, as soon as the middle-aged fat man turned around, he saw that Boss Wu's eyes were a little wrong, and a smile appeared on his face as if by magic, and his tone became kind.

Mr. Wu is our guest and is going to set up a factory in our county to help us develop the economy. Child, you are a sensible child. If you have stone honey, can you sell it to Mr. Wu at the market price of 15 yuan a catty?"

This price is indeed very fair, if the real stone honey is another twenty years, it can be sold for thousands of yuan a catty and there is no market, but now it is at most more than ten yuan a catty, but the words of the middle-aged man who accompanied him before and after made people very uncomfortable.

The fourth brother's brows furrowed, his brother's speech was not very good, these people were obviously unofficial or rich, Li Jiaming didn't want to cause trouble, and hurriedly said: "Uncle, I can't guarantee this, we just saw a big honeycomb, but I don't know if it's a honeycomb or a hornet's nest." ”

A man in the mountains, will he still not be able to distinguish between a hornet's nest and a honeycomb?

Li Jiaming's disguised refusal made the well-dressed middle-aged man frown slightly, walked over and touched his head, and said gently: "Little friend, my uncle's daughter is about the same age as you, and she has asthma." There was an old Chinese medicine doctor who helped my uncle prescribe a prescription, and the most difficult thing to buy was stone honey. If you have one, can you do my uncle a favor?"

The middle-aged man was so polite, and it was medicinal, Li Jiaming scratched his head embarrassedly, and said sincerely: "Uncle, there must be wild honey, but I don't dare to guarantee it." If you're not in a hurry, I'll ask your classmates to help you, but I can't guarantee that it's usually too hard to see. ”

"I know, I know".

The middle-aged man hurriedly took a delicate business card from the inner pocket of his coat, took out a pen and wrote a temporary phone number, handed it to Li Jiaming with both hands, and said warmly: "Little friend, my surname is Wu, Koutian Wu, Wu Jianguo, you can call me Uncle Wu." If you find Shi Mi, just call this temporary phone number you just wrote, and if you can't find me on this phone, call this printed phone number. ”

Mr. Wu gave Li Jiaming his personal phone number, and several middle-aged people next to him looked at the mountain man with envy, muttered his lips, and still didn't interject.

Yangcheng's phone?Wu Jianguo?

Li Jiaming immediately remembered who this middle-aged man was, and hurriedly and carefully put the business card into his schoolbag, revealing the writing book, arithmetic book, and a large handful of 'snow pine' candy inside.

This is a delicious mountain child, the middle-aged man smiled slightly, picked up a jar of snow-white winter honey from the side and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "Little friend, this is a gift from your uncle, after finding the stone honey, you have to tell your uncle." ”

Without merit, Li Jiaming didn't dare to accept this jar of winter honey. If you don't take other people's things, it doesn't matter if you find them, if you receive other people's things and can't find them, then you will be uneasy.

Li Jiaming stood on tiptoe, put a canned bottle of winter candy worth more than a dozen yuan back on the shelf, glanced at the sacks of mountain goods piled up behind the shelves, and bowed slightly to Wu Jianguo, who was extraordinary: "Uncle Wu, thank you for the gift, don't worry, I will try my best to help you find it." Uncle Wu, we're going back, goodbye!"

"Good boy", Wu Jianguo touched Li Jiaming's head again, no longer reluctant.

Li Jiade also smiled at Wu Jianguo, put his hand on Li Jiaming's shoulder, and led him out of the shop.

Back at school, before the fourth class, Li Jiade took Li Jiaming to the cafeteria. In the corner of the lobby, the students and teachers who came to participate in the competition from Murakami Elementary School were already sitting at three tables, waiting for Mr. Gao, who was still revising the papers, to open the table.

"Jiade, Jiaming, come over for dinner", Principal Lin, who was sitting in the middle of the chief, beckoned to Li Jiaming and his brothers from afar.

Li Jiade gently pushed his cousin forward, smiled and waved his hand at the principal, and walked towards the steaming square steamer that had been brought down from the cauldron.

"Classmate Jiade, let you come over, do you still want me to invite you?"

Li Jiade, who had already found his lunch box, had no choice but to put down the third brother's lunch box, walked over with his lunch box, and said with a smile: "Principal, I'm not a teacher. ”

"Yes, you are not a teacher, but together with Teacher Wang, you can teach a good brother! Sit, sit next to your brother!"

Li Jiade smiled again, and in the admiring gaze of a group of little radish heads, Shi Shiran sat beside Li Jiaming, and this calm bearing made Principal Lin nod slightly approvingly. Looking at Li Jiade again, Li Jiaming was swallowing saliva as he looked at the table full of dishes, and couldn't help but secretly shake his head in disappointment. Teacher Wang followed the principal's gaze and saw his student's unpromising look, his face was hot, and he couldn't wait to whip him twice.

Only Li Jiade knew his cousin best, and when the teachers stopped looking at the table, they stabbed Li Jiaming under the table with their hands, and whispered, "Is it interesting?"

Li Jiaming is sure that by studying hard, he will be admitted to a prestigious university in seven years, but no matter how hard he tries, he does not believe that he can be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University. Jiangxi Province is not a remote province with preferential policies for the college entrance examination, let alone the best capital in the world, even if the university expands after more than ten years, Tsinghua University and Peking University will not take the top five in the city, it is doomed to be useless!

More importantly, Li Jiaming has no intention of taking the path of the fourth brother, and the academic road is not something that his IQ and personality can take. Life in the world is nothing more than fame and fortune, so why do you have to take the most difficult road?

What's more, for the current Li Jiaming, the most important thing is to make the little sister become confident and independent, and the second is to repay the kindness of the second aunt and Aunt Cha Ju, so that the Manmei and Jin Mei can all pass the college entrance examination and jump out of this damn countryside with dignity, so that the two aunts can be as proud as the eldest aunt!

Everything is inferior, only reading is high. Although with the development of the times, people's concepts have begun to change, but being able to be admitted to a prestigious university and have a decent job is far from being comparable to the wealth of children for the second aunt, Aunt Cha Ju, and even the second uncle and father.

Even in the next twenty years, Li Jiaming, who is much richer than the third brother, is far from being able to compare with the third brother of the teacher, let alone the fourth brother, who has always been looked up to. Even Li Jiaming's own father didn't think that his son would make a lot of money, but felt that the third and fourth brothers were the heroes who really won glory for the family! Every time the fourth and third brothers returned to their hometown for the New Year, he would clean the room in advance, for fear of neglecting the two precious nephews who made his old face shine.

Li Jiaming's own son, don't even think about that kind of treatment, at most, after receiving the call, buy some good food in advance, and ask the uncle, second uncle, and fourth uncle to come over for dinner!