People have to have pressure and hope, there is the hope of being able to study again and Li Jiaming's strong deterrence, and he was severely pumped by rattan twice, Li Jiaren brothers were embarrassed to speak, could not do, and were not used to doing it, and finally learned to bargain with the peasant women who sold vegetables, pick dung buckets, chop wood, feed pigs, and grow vegetables.

Mao Ling and Su Ling helped for a week, and Li Jiaming and they finally sifted out dozens of squares of sand, which was enough for uncles and uncles to repaint a few mud houses, and even enough to cover all the sunning floors with cement.

It was another evening, and in the big river in front of the door, the four little guys were wearing colorful swimsuits and beautiful swimming rings, and they were fluttering vigorously under the protection of Dong Hao's brother and Li Jiaming. The aunts were washing vegetables by the river, talking about the short time of the family, and not far from them was the Li Jiaren brothers, who were also washing vegetables.

The boys are doing things with their heads stuffed and doing things quickly, and they are done with it, the two of them hesitated for a while after washing a load of vegetables, but they still came over to help the aunts wash, and they were stunned for a while, and the scene of talking and laughing was quiet.

"Brother, brother, look"

"What's wrong?"

Li Jiaming, who was protecting his sister to play in the waterhole, turned his head and saw that Li Jiaren's brothers were helping his aunts wash vegetables, and knew that this was taught by his uncle. His own uncle is very servile and will be opportunistic, otherwise he would not have risked his life at the beginning, and he would have to complete the tasks assigned by the leader. He must have seen that his brothers were beginning to become more prosperous, and everyone's relationship was slowing down, so he thought that he would let the eldest and second men curry favor in front of the elders, and everyone would help them improve their family situation in the future.

This is no problem, Li Jiaming is not a stingy person, although he has a bad heart and is a little ruthless in doing things, but he still has tendons when he breaks his bones.

A few days later, Uncle Chuan Mengbo came back on a motorcycle to paint the latex paint on the little sister's room, and told the aunts that when the vegetables sent to the site were only a few dozen catties on the site, Li Jiaming discussed with the second aunt: "Second aunt, Aunt Hongying, the vegetables will be collected by Da Yan and Erling, anyway, dozens of catties of vegetables will only earn a few yuan." ”

A few yuan was distributed among four people, it was really not much, and the second aunt, who was used to earning more than ten yuan a day, readily agreed to Li Jiaming's proposal, and after dinner, they entered the little sister's room and praised it all the time.

Xiaomei's room has just been painted with bright yellow latex paint today, with renovated and painted pale yellow paint doors, beds, wardrobes, as well as bright fluorescent lamps, delicate table lamps, wall lamps, and beautiful bright yellow curtains. It can be said that in addition to not being able to put the bathroom in, Li Jiaming has done everything he can do within his ability, but he has to work the construction site during the day and come back at night to do this free work.

Beautiful, this room is so beautiful, as beautiful as the house on TV, it really makes the aunts who have more money on hand covetous.

However, it really made them determined to do it, and they felt reluctant. They heard Dong Hao say that it cost more than 3,000 yuan to buy that car of materials in the provincial capital, and if you add the freight, it won't be as fast as 4,000? With so much money, why can't you do something? That is, Jiaming's pet sister is not like words, and if she were someone else, she would be willing to spend this unjust money?

Listening to the admiration of the aunts, Li Jiaming smiled.

The aunts' calculations are wrong, most of them are used in the bathroom of the room on the street, tiles and the like, this room actually didn't cost much, table lamps, ceilings, curtains, paint, ask an electrician to re-lay the dark wires and the like, a total of only a hundred yuan of cost. Of course, the premise is that labor can't be counted as money, otherwise it will be at least one thousand two or three.

"What?"

"So cheap?"

Not to mention the second aunt and Aunt Cha Ju, who have a wealthy family, even Aunt Hongying and the others are a little moved, less than a thousand yuan can make the room so good, it's so worth it. People have vanity, if you spend two or three thousand yuan, you can clean up your home so beautifully, it is a very face-saving thing among relatives and friends!

However, Li Jiaming, who also wanted to scrape melamine and paint latex paint for the aunts, was pulling a few excited little dots to prevent them from touching the dry wall with their hands. Scraping melamine and applying latex paint, even if it is another ten years, it will not be popularized in the countryside, not that the cost of melamine and latex paint is high, and those materials will be very cheap in the future, even if it is not expensive now, the key is the health problem of heating in winter. In winter, rural people are accustomed to baking fires for warmth, and no matter how beautiful the walls are burned down by smoke for a year or two, they will become scorched and black, and they will be ugly to death. Unless everyone uses an electric heater or air conditioner for heating, you can only spend money to buy a beautiful one for two years.

Besides, with the money saved by the aunts, Li Jiaming still wants to help everyone find a way to make money and make their lives richer again. In the past, there were often quarrels and sulking between aunts, just because everyone was too poor, forcing them to care.

"Hey, hey, I just want to decorate this room and the one in the countryside for Wenwen and her family, and the rest can only be brushed for nothing. ”

"Ahh

The aunts sighed regretfully, spending two or three thousand yuan can only guarantee it for a year or two, it is too worthless. Even if it's cold, they can go to a place where there is a fire to roast, and then wash and soak their feet and go to bed at night, and there is no need to make a fire in this room at all. When it comes to the Chinese New Year, which household has no guests, does it still let the guests sit in a cold house? Buy electric heaters and air conditioners? I dare not think about it, not to mention the high cost of death, and the daily electricity bill is so much, that is not something ordinary people can afford.

"Jiaming, you are too good to Sister Wen!"

The little sister heard the admiration of the aunts again, happily hugged Li Jiaming's waist, raised her white little face and asked regretfully, "Brother, isn't your room painted like this?"

"No", Li Jiaming pulled his little sister's pigtails and explained: "My brother will go to high school in three years, and the time at home will be less and less in the future, so it's not worth spending all this money." ”

"Oh", the little sister agreed regretfully, and said coquettishly: "Brother, can we sleep here at night? I promise not to touch the wall!"

That's not good, although Brother Hao bought high-grade latex paint, and Uncle Chuanzu also used soil paint to brush the door, but the room was still a little pungent, and the ghost knew if there was anything like formaldehyde in it.

The well-behaved little sister was a little lost but didn't squeak, but the delicate full sister didn't follow, shaking Li Jiaming's hand and wanted to stay here tonight. Usually, as long as you study carefully, the fifth brother loves them the most, and any request will be met.

The usual Li family clearly dotes on these younger sisters, and the full sister is coquettish and cheating with him, but he still smiling and reasoning.

"Okay, okay, this room is for you to live in, and in a few days the housing room will grow legs and run away by yourself? ”

"Oh, sister, we're going to do our homework, wait a minute, watch TV!"

When it comes to TV, the coquettish Manmei just gave up, if he didn't finish his homework, the fifth brother wouldn't let everyone watch TV. The recently aired "Desire" is simply a killing of men, women and children, and everyone shed tears for Liu Huifang and scolded the ungrateful Wang Husheng.

Li Jiaming is not interested in "Desire", and Dong Hao doesn't like it either, both of them feel that the plot is too fake. Half an hour later, everyone finished their homework and went to the hall of the eldest and second uncle's house to watch the fourth uncle's big color TV, and they sat in the sun-grained flat and chatted. Dong Hao likes to chat and brag with Li Jiaming, this little brother is not only a good listener, but also can often echo or comment in hindsight, and he is very reasonable.

However, today Dong Hao did not brag about his own business, but asked about Li Jiaming's proposal at the dinner table. Li Jiaming had such a fierce conflict with his eldest aunt, eldest brother, and second brother, even if his second uncle opened his mouth, he shouldn't take the initiative to help them? Although Dong Hao was born in a wealthy family, he also knew that the money in the mountains was not easy to earn, and he could earn seven or eight yuan a day, which was already quite considerable in ordinary people's homes.

The moonlight on the summer night was bright, and Li Jiaming saw a shadow next to him in the corner of his eyes, and said with a smile: "Brother Hao, that's not what I said, after all, everyone is a family, and the broken bones are still connected to the tendons." My fourth uncle and my aunt quarreled so much that they were about to fight, but I was still worried that if my eldest brother and second brother were admitted, they would not have the money to go to college.

Hey, hey, there's no good words to quarrel, can you still take your angry words seriously?

Don't you know, my fourth uncle is embarrassed to say soft words, and always praises my third brother and fourth brother in the letter for being kind-hearted, and also says how good my aunt was to him when she first got married. Didn't he just hint to me that if my uncle's family was in trouble, I would write to him so that I could send money back for a few cousins to study?"

The TV in the hall was very loud, Dong Hao was not as careful as Li Jiaming, he didn't find that there was someone behind him, and he didn't ask the fourth uncle, so he interrupted: "Ah Ming, I'm asking about you." ”

"Brother Hao, everything is prosperous in family and talent, and it is normal for a family to be noisy. If the family is polite, they will treat themselves as outsiders. You don't know, in fact, my aunt is very good, I remember that after I fell, I once wanted to climb a tree, and she used a small bamboo tip to scare me, and I was not allowed to climb a tree again. ”

"And you're still there?"

Dong Hao's right hand made a chopping posture, Li Jiaming hehe, no matter who was standing behind him, today can be regarded as a return to himself. After the second uncle said that, he figured it out, and it was really not interesting to be stiff like this with his aunt. As a person who has passed the age of 30, he still has the same knowledge as an ignorant village woman? Not to mention that he stabbed her and beat her son, how can he be considered to have taken advantage of others.

"Oh, that's what you're talking about. Actually, it's nothing, everyone's position is different. If from my aunt's point of view, my son was bullied and beaten like that by others, and it would be strange if he didn't get angry!

Brother Hao, our mountain people are no better than you city people, and we don't have so many twists and turns in our hearts. If you don't agree with each other, there are many fights with your sleeves, as long as you don't fight with your parents, parents-in-law. ”

"Jiaming, thank you."

Li Jiaming looked back, pretended to be startled, and said angrily: "Third brother, are you pretending to be a ghost and scary?"

"Hehe, my mom is embarrassed to come over, let me come over and thank you. ”

"It's okay, the family doesn't talk to each other. Now that your family is a little more difficult, you should take care of it more, and your family and everything will be prosperous. ”

Li Jiaming was very happy, and he was separated from his aunt and several cousins. This Liang Zi doesn't matter to him, but his father and stepmother will retire here in the future, so why plant a thorn between them and their uncle and aunt?

Besides, everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, and the family and everything are prosperous!

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