Xu Xuecheng looked at Wang Meilan's darkened face, and said with a wry smile, "Mom, I didn't steal it, I earned it!"

"What do you earn?

Xu Xuecheng's face was full of black lines, is this really his own mother, is there a mistake in the point, what is moving bricks, can your son only take the test to move bricks when he earns money? Besides, what the hell is it that no one accepts the bricks? The bamboo pole is not his own pot, and if he eats sweet potato rice every day, he will probably be able to grow fat for pigs.

"Really, Mom, don't we still have a lot of winter mushrooms in our house, last time you stewed a few pigs, but they were fragrant, so I took the rest to the county and sold them, and went with Brother Dede, took his cousin's tractor, and after buying these things, there were eleven more pieces of eight, oh, all here!"

Xu Xuecheng took out those gross tickets, scattered the table!

"Really?" Wang Meilan still couldn't believe it.

"If you don't believe it, if you ask your cousin, he drives a tractor in the commune, and you will know it as soon as you ask!" Xu Xuecheng swore and promised.

Wang Meilan let him go and shouted, "Eat first, and then talk after eating!"

Xu Xuecheng also knows that the meal has to be eaten in one bite, the road has to be walked step by step, and the family has a "prodigy" This kind of thing can only be slowly used to, and it is inevitable that there will be some nervousness and urgency at the beginning.

That night, Wang Meilan boiled the pork leg, a full pot, there was a layer of greasy fat floating on the soup, the old man held a sea bowl, held a bone hammer to gnaw, his mouth was full of fat, and the rice was also poured with broth, the oil was moist, floating with an amazing aroma, this year is the New Year, and it may not be possible to eat fresh pork legs!

Xu Xuecheng estimated that Wang Meilan would go to ask her cousin in the afternoon, and she was relieved when she got the exact news, but then she began to blame Xu Xuecheng again, "You kid, don't tell me about such a big thing, buy such a big pork leg, what if it breaks down in summer, pickle the rest and eat it slowly!"

Xu Xuewei thought that Wang Meilan wanted to show her concern for him and tell him to pay attention to safety and something like that, but he didn't expect that the pork leg was more concerned, and the heart of a hot pillow was cool and cool!

After the meal, Xu Xuecheng sat on the bluestone steps of the threshold as usual to enjoy the coolness, there was no fan or air conditioning in these years, and the only way to relieve the heat was to take a beautiful cold shower, and then sit on the bluestone slab to blow the wind.

The old man was busy working on the stove, and the seven-and-a-half-year-old girl couldn't reach the stove, so she put a small bench at her feet, supported her hand like a bamboo pole, and brushed the stove with a bamboo brush. Xu Xuecheng saw his mother counting the money, saliva, counted it three times, and finally hid all the gross tickets in an iron box and buried them at the bottom of the rice tank.

"That's right, Mom, after giving it to Brother Dede, there are still 11 yuan left, and I don't have any left!" Xu Xuede saw his mother come out of the room, and hurriedly jumped over to offer his courtesy.

"You kid, will your mother still doubt you, but it's good to be generous to your friends, Brother Dede accompanied you on a trip, and also made some efforts, it's good to divide him two yuan, but 10 yuan is too much, and the strong labor in the village is only eight cents!"

"I know Mom!" Xu Xuecheng didn't refute, this can't be blamed on Mom, the limitations of the times determine people's horizons, and it takes time to slowly broaden their horizons!

"By the way, Mom, I have something to discuss with you, can you tell the people in the village that I harvest winter mushrooms, two hairs that are dry, one hair that is wet, how much I collect. Collect 500 pounds first!"

"What? Do you still want to collect it? Who doesn't have one or two hundred pounds from door to door, and someone still buys that thing?"

Wang Meilan was very surprised, the countryside is full of things, who has the spare money to buy that!

"This is a lot, but he doesn't have it in the county, people in the city love to eat these, did I sell it for a lot of money not long last time, I saw it, I was hidden by you!" Xu Xuecheng smiled slyly, he had lived for fifty or sixty years in his two lives combined, and in front of his mother, he could still really show this kind of smile.

"Well, you don't have to take it first, we still have seventy or eighty pounds here, and your two aunts estimate that there are also three hundred pounds, and then take your grandmother's one, it's almost 500 pounds, you go sell it first, and it doesn't cost money if you lose, at most, everyone complains, and next year the mountain will grow crazy!"

Wang Meilan always thinks things so thoughtfully, and she would rather bear the responsibility on herself than on Xu Xuecheng's shoulders, Xu Xuecheng clearly remembers the night before leaving home in the previous life, he once asked his mother, "Don't you have a dream in your life, don't you want to go out and see?

She replied, "My dream is you."

At that time, I was blinded by lard, and I felt that this was really hopeless, how could a person not even have his own dreams, and now I think back to my mother's hoarse appearance at that time, it was really the most pitiful face in the world, and he was also the most hateful son in the world, if there was any punishment for punishing this kind of child, it was probably similar to Ling Chi's torture.

Early the next morning, Xu Xuede rushed over, just in time for breakfast, and sat down together to drink sweet potato porridge.

After taking a few sips of "Sulu Sulu", Xu Xuede pulled Xu Xuecheng aside, "That's done!"

"What's the matter?

"It's the car, my cousin is going to the county to pull fertilizer this Sunday, and the empty car will go!" Xu Xuede's face was excited, Xu Xuecheng saw that his eyes were shining, "Hey, this kid, it's all the goods that are messed with gross tickets!"

"I know, I know, isn't there still two days, why are you in such a hurry?" Xu Xuecheng waved his hand with disgust, this little thing, in a hurry?

Xu Xuede scratched his head, "Didn't I tell you earlier, by the way, you will bring me next time, my mother took my ten yuan, and the sugar was hidden for me, so she left me two cents!"

Speaking of which, Xu Xuecheng can be regarded as understanding, you are the pocket money that has been collected, come to me to eat! Yes, brother, I can't treat you badly, right? The two of them wandered all the way to the village commissary, and one of them came to a red bean popsicle, tore the wrapping paper wrapped in it, and began to suck it up.

The days of summer vacation always go by quickly, and the old pendulum is faster than usual. In the past two days, Xu Xuede didn't do anything else every day, just followed Xu Xuecheng's buttocks, and he couldn't get rid of it, fortunately, it was this era, if it was another twenty or thirty years, Xu Xuecheng estimated that he would have to be named "Chrysanthemum Terrace"!

Early in the morning of Sunday, Xu Xuede came again, this time he also brought someone, his younger brother Xu Xueyou, hey, don't think this name is heavy, this year is still arranged according to the word, their generation, as long as it is a male baby, they all start with "Xu Xue", as for the girl, no one cares what your name is, as long as your parents are willing, the boy is different, that is to go to the clan genealogy!

This time the commune's tractor was empty, Xu Xuecheng's family started early in the morning, the five hundred pounds of winter mushrooms moved several times, and finally moved before the cousin arrived, Xu Xueyou didn't look young, count him diligently, but Xu Xuecheng himself, I don't know if it was the problem caused by the neglect of exercise in his previous life, or he was so lazy since he was a child, resisted a back and forth, and relied on the tractor to stay.

"Puff puff~" The walk-behind tractor spit black smoke and slowly marched along the mud road towards the county seat.