The moonlight is like water, the mountain breeze blows away the scorching heat of the day, and the five mud houses and a small brick western-style building in Huangniping look shadowy under the moonlight. If it weren't for the noise coming from one of the mud houses with white walls and blue tiles, this would be a quiet moonlight map of the mountain country.

"Fifth brother, you are cheating! You said that we can spend the money we make ourselves, and we can spend it however we want! ”

"That's right, brother, you're cheating, talking doesn't count!"

Li Jiaming, who had just finished settling accounts for his younger sisters, was happy, and he happily gave two hundred and forty-seven yuan, but he didn't agree to take them to the county seat to buy skates, so it didn't count?

"Hey, it's okay to be reasonable, you can all make your own money, of course, you have to pay for the fare. It doesn't make sense, you made so much money from me, and you want me to pay extra money to buy a ticket, right? ”

The little faces of the full sister and the little sister were entangled, if they paid for the bus by themselves, it would be twenty yuan for two people to go back and forth, and they couldn't buy skates. Ice skating is fun, last time in the county seat, Sister Sasha took them to play, put on those shoes with wheels and squatted on the ground, and she pulled them to run like driving. If you learn it, it's even more fun, and you can run fast with a light slide!

It's almost, and if you tease it again, you'll have to play tricks, don't let them get prickly heat on such a hot day. Li Jiaming just wanted to agree to their request, when a sound of footsteps came, and Da Mao Ling and Sister Lan went upstairs, and the two youngest sisters immediately asked the lobby sister for help and justice.

"Well, it's just that Jiaming is unreasonable, he is an elder brother, so he should take you to buy it!"

But after listening to the more sensible Jin Mei next to her, she couldn't help but be startled, a pair of skates costs two hundred and forty yuan? Ming Yan also spoils them too much, that's two hundred and forty yuan, and buying rice is enough for them to eat for more than half a year!

"Okay, okay, I'll give you a choice, do you want a pair or two?"

The two little guys who were still indignant just now immediately pounced on them, hugging their brother's neck and coquettishly, Li Xiaolan hurriedly said: "Jiaming, it's too expensive!" ”

It's really too expensive, two pairs are four hundred and eight, not to mention Li Xiaolan, who is used to saving, even the big hairy man who can earn more money is discouraged, but Li Jiaming still smiled and said: "It's okay, you want two pairs, right?" ”

"Hmmm! Two pairs! Sister Jin, do you want to buy it, buy a pair for 120 yuan. ”

Two pairs are more than one pair, and they are not illiterate, so they immediately asked for two pairs, Li Jiaming, who is an elder brother, has a pretty good reputation in their eyes. With half a year's hard work to buy a pair of skates, Jin Mei hesitated for a while but shook her head resolutely.

"Brother, Sister Jin doesn't want it, will we go tomorrow?"

Li Jiaming shook his head and said, "No, send the money to the eldest sister and let her buy it for you." ”

"Huh? Won't that take a long time? ”

Li Jiaming pulled the two hot little head melon seeds from his neck and quipped: "Then it's up to you, we sell two hundred and four things in the county, and they must only cost a hundred yuan on their side." Got it figured, a pair or two? Tsk, it's not interesting for two people to play a pair, but it's different for two pairs, and you can play whenever you want. ”

Jin Mei, who was one or two years older, lit up her eyes, and immediately pulled her two younger sisters to the corner, and the three little heads muttered together for a while, and soon reached a unanimous opinion. There is no need to eavesdrop, Li Jiaming knows what they are planning, and they must want to buy three pairs with two hundred and four. As for the eldest sister's generous temperament, the younger sisters can read, and the family doesn't want her to send money to support the family, isn't it a reward for one person, and if the money is not enough, she will post it herself?

"Okay, write the letter yourself, and let Mao Yan send the money and the letter for you."

Coaxed away the three little guys who wanted to buy skates, Li Jiaming got up and poured a cup of herbal tea for Da Maoling, and the transfer was a guest, which was the etiquette of the mountain people.

"Da Mao, why are you not looking for my aunt, why are you running to me?"

"Hairy and thin dogs go out! Hehe, Jiaming, my cousin has something to do with you. ”

Don't look at Mao Yan is a head taller than Da Mao Ling, and he is much thicker, but there is a Li Xiaolan standing next to him, so he doesn't dare not listen to his future brother-in-law, and hurriedly goes downstairs with the fine dog who wants to listen to gossip. However, these two guys must have sneaked up after going downstairs and hid on the hanging tower to listen to the movement.

After listening to the troubles of his future brother-in-law and sister, Li Jiaming couldn't help but laugh, and said funny: "Sister Lan, I'm a son, how can I understand your women's affairs?" ”

When Li Jiaming's cousin doesn't speak, she also has a bit of color, and she can be regarded as a girl in the mountains, but if she has a temperament, she is a poisonous shrew. In her heart, since she is a cousin, her cousin should help herself, but now that she sees him shirking, her eyebrows are raised and she speaks unpleasantly.

"Ming Yan, if you don't come to this set, you are the smartest and most capable in the house, who are you looking for if I don't come to look for you? Mingya, let me tell you, in the future, you and Wenwen will definitely work in the big city, and when Uncle Lin is old, don't you expect our nephews and nieces in front of us to serve tea and water? If you don't help me today, you won't blame me for spreading the news about Uncle Lin in the future! ”

I feel angry when I hear this, but I can't help but say that people's words are rough or not, just my father's idle temperament, it is a sure thing to retire in Huangniping in the future, and I really have to rely on my cousins and cousins at home to take care of them from time to time.

"Sister Lan, your words are really ugly, and you can stand you thanks to Da Maoling."

"Don't be nosy, just give me a way! I know that your brain is easy to use, these things are difficult for us, and it is difficult for you to live? ”

It is indeed not difficult, it is common for children to divide their families and trees to divide their branches. The difficult thing is that the parents of the Da Mao family do not agree to divide the family, and the spitting stars in the countryside can kill people, and Sister Lan and Da Mao Ling don't want to be unfilial, so they want to find a way to have the best of both worlds. To put it mildly, Da Mao's family is reluctant to split up, and has said so many reasons and truths, but it is actually a conflict of interests, but this kind of conflict of interests is entangled with family affection, which makes it impossible for people to deal with it neatly.

Da Mao's business is doing well, and he can earn more than 1,000 yuan a month, which is a lot of money in the countryside. Sister Lan and Da Mao Ling must have promised in front of his parents, but what does it do? There are more brothers fighting for money and rice in the countryside, how can people believe your empty promises?

Parents and sisters, of course, think that capable sons (brothers) help incapable sons (brothers) start a family, and the money in their hands can help Mao Ling, who is still young and has no ability to make money, if it is all in the hands of his daughter-in-law, then it depends on people's faces.

If you really talk about it, several sisters and aunts of the Wang family are really a little bit of a heart, and they are sure that the Li family's small surname values their reputation and the word filial piety, so they use this matter to force Sister Lan.

After weighing it for a long time, Li Jiaming said helplessly: "Sister Lan, if I say that let Da Mao pay half of the money to the house before Mao Ling gets married, you will definitely not want to make a house on the street; But if they don't agree to their cousin's conditions, they don't feel at ease, there is really no way to have both worlds. ”

This is said very tactfully, and it also speaks to the careful thinking of the lobby sister, and she must do her best to help her brother, she doesn't even have a decent house, how can there be a reason to pay half of the money? Besides, it is the responsibility of parents to help their son start a family in the countryside, how can it all be pushed to the elder brother?

Of course, this may not be the unspeakable mind of Da Mao Ling, people are not sages, how can they not have a little abacus? No matter how good the brother's relationship is, he has to settle the account, it makes no sense that his parents are in the prime of life, and he wants to be the elder brother to start a family.

After being silent for a while, Li Xiaolan's pungent temperament came up, and regardless of what her cousin said, she said domineeringly: "Ming Yan, I don't care so much, you and I have a way to come out!" ”

If someone else says this, Li Jiaming can leave it alone, but the lobby sister just said that when his father is old, he has to rely on the nephews and nieces in front of them to take care of him, so he has to suffer from this nest.