In order to determine whether she was dazzled and wrong, Pan Yang got up and went over and took a closer look, it was really her grandfather!

Yao Baozhong sat with his back to Pan Yang, but did not see her, but sat opposite Yao Baozhong, the little radish head Yao Qimei, and saw a strange man walking towards them, she reached out and pushed Yao Baozhong's arm, and said, "Ada, is that person you know?" ”

Yao Baozhong turned around at this time, was stunned for a moment, and then got up and said, "Big brother, you also came to the county seat?" Doing things or"

Pan Yang pointed to the donkey cart parked on the road outside the door, and said with a smile, "Come and buy fertilizer with the production captain, what about you, you are"

Pan Yang put his eyes on the radish head sitting opposite Yao Baozhong, with a thin and small body, a pair of big eyes on a swarthy face, a high nose bridge, and a small mouth, the more he looked, the more familiar he became, and the more he looked at it, the more intimate he became.

Pan Yang couldn't help grinning, this one in front of her was not her own mother.

I really want to hug her mother, I miss her so much

Yao Baozhong sighed, pointed to his daughter, and said to Pan Yang, "This is the little girl I mentioned to you last time, she has a rash and a fever that has not been cured at the township health station for several days. ”

Pan Yang noticed that her mother was not very energetic, her little lips were dry and cracked, and there was a bowl of noodles on the table, the chopsticks were in her mother's hands, and the noodles in the bowl barely moved.

Thinking of the embarrassment of her grandfather not bringing enough ticket money last time, Pan Yang somewhat understood that her grandfather's family was in difficulty at this time.

While the two were talking, Pan Shicong ordered a good dish and came over, patted Pan Yang on the shoulder, and asked, "Uncle Zhaoke, what is this?" ”

Pan Yang introduced him, "With our cooperative, Yao Baozhong from Yaojia Village, led his daughter to see a doctor. ”

When Pan Shicong heard that the other party was from a cooperative with them, he politely greeted Yao Baozhong, and said, "They are all fellow villagers, I order a lot of dishes, just eat some together." ”

Simply spent public funds, Pan Shicong was unequivocal when he ordered, and asked for a braised pork, a zucchini scrambled egg, a green pepper fried mung bean sprouts, and four white flour buns, two bowls of lard and green onion noodles.

When the dish is served, the fragrance is overflowing, and the hook person swallows his saliva.

Three men and a girl, four people sit at a table, Yao Baozhong is an adult anyway, he has strong willpower, and tries not to look at the dishes, but Yao Qimei can't, except for the New Year, she has never seen such delicious dishes, compared with these dishes, the bowl of noodles with clear soup and little water in front of her was instantly overshadowed.

Pan Yang noticed, and she picked a large piece of fat and thin meat and sandwiched it into her mother's bowl.

Yao Qimei stared at him wide-eyed and winked at him.

Pan Yang couldn't help but touch her thinning hair and said with a smile, "Eat quickly, eat whatever you want." ”

After speaking, he also broke half of the white flour bun in his hand and handed it to her.

Yao Qimei didn't dare to pick it up, but looked at her.

Yao Baozhong couldn't say a word to his daughter's longing eyes, he could not eat by himself, but he couldn't starve his daughter.

Yao Baozhong sighed almost inaudibly, and said to his daughter, "Eat it, kid, thank you uncle." ”

Yao Qimei took it over and raised a smile at Pan Yang, her voice timid, "Thank you, uncle." ”

Pan Yang sighed with a smile, and put a chopstick green pepper fried mung bean sprouts on her steamed bun, and then a chopstick zucchini scrambled egg on it, and rolled the steamed bun in her hand into a tube, and then said, "Eat it." ”

Yao Qimei is very happy, she likes to roll all kinds of vegetables into steamed buns to eat, take a bite, not only the fragrance of the vegetables, but also the strength of the steamed buns.

Pan Yang couldn't be more clear about her mother's preferences, she likes to put many kinds of vegetables together and stir-fry mixed vegetables, like to steam water pancakes, and then wrap them in mixed vegetables.

"Big brother, you eat yours, don't always clip it to the child." Meals that don't cost money, Yao Baozhong always feels uncomfortable.

Pan Shicong greeted politely, "Enough to eat, there are many dishes, just let go and eat." ”

Having said that, Yao Baozhong almost didn't eat a meal, but after eating the leftover noodles in his daughter's bowl, he drank the noodle soup cleanly, and he simply ate seven or eight points full.

After eating, they prepared to rush home.

Pan Yang asked, "Big brother, are you going to go back?" We drove the donkey cart over, and we got back together. ”

This is Yao Baozhong's unbelievable thing, in the morning to the county seat, their father and daughter have spent a piece of two cents to buy a ticket, go back Yao Baozhong is reluctant to spend another piece of two cents, he wanted to go back, his daughter can't walk, he will carry her back.

Now he can take a ride, which somewhat makes Yao Baozhong's originally gloomy mood better, and he hugged his daughter and got into Pan Yang's donkey cart.

Speaking from the heart, the donkey cart is not big, the body is a frame car with handles, the old donkey is bolted to the front, and the frame car is full of fertilizer, Yao Baozhong was going to hold his daughter in the tail of the car There is a place for the buttocks, they can put their legs under the drag on the bottom.

Unexpectedly, Pan Yang said to him, "Big brother, you and Shi Cong sit in front of the old donkey, and I will sit on the sack with your daughter." ”

Facing Yao Baozhong's puzzled gaze, Pan Yang smiled and said nonsense, "I don't like to smell the old donkey." ”

Pan Yang said this, Yao Baozhong knew it, his big brother was always a little embarrassed.

Pan Shicong and Yao Baozhong sat on the handlebars on the left and right, Pan Yang, a pseudo-girl, sat cross-legged on the sack, holding her mother in her arms, smelling her mother's taste, Pan Yang felt that his eyes were hot.

Alas, a child with a mother is a treasure.

Yao Qimei was a little overwhelmed by a strange man like this, although she knew that this uncle was very good to her, but she was still uncomfortable and twisted her body in Pan Yang's arms.

Pan Yang thought her mother was uncomfortable, raised her hand and touched her mother's forehead, fortunately there was no fever, Pan Yang sighed, lowered his head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yao Qimei looked up at the smiling uncle in front of her, hummed twice, and whispered, "I want to sit by myself." ”

"Nope." Pan Yang didn't think about it and said, "It's windy now, sit in my arms and I'll block the wind for you." ”

There is still a rash on the body, how can you blow the wind blindly.

Pan Yang hugged her mother into her arms again, for fear that she would feel cold and fever again.

Pan Yang was afraid that her mother would be too bored in the car, so she turned her head to look at the two men in front of her, chatting all over the world, and didn't pay attention to them, so she concentrated her thoughts, took out a few fruit candies from the space, stuffed them into her mother's hands, and said in a low voice, "It's all for you to eat." ”

Yao Qimei is so big, the number of times she eats sugar is very rare, she has a brother and a sister above, and there are two younger brothers below, and everything in the family is a little delicious, almost all of them are in their mouths, her mother is eccentric, she is already nine years old, she has not gone to school for a day, every day at home to help her mother beat pigweed and send it to the brigade to earn work, otherwise it is to go up the mountain to collect firewood

Now a strange uncle who had only met her gave her five candies, Yao Qimei lowered her head, staring at the candy in her palm, her eyes red.

"Eat one and see if it's delicious." Pan Yang tore one open for her and handed it to her mouth.

Yao Qimei opened her mouth and put the sugar in her mouth, and the rich fruity aroma instantly filled her mouth, a little sour and a little sweet, a taste she had never tasted.

She looked at the candy skin that had been torn, and she didn't recognize the words on it, but she recognized the strawberries on the candy skin, or her sister told her that this kind of thing was called strawberries, and it turned out that strawberries tasted like this, and she went back to tell her sister.

Although it was delicious, Yao Qimei stopped eating one after eating one, but put the sugar in her hand in her pocket, she wanted to keep it and eat it slowly, or if the two younger brothers were obedient, she would reward one to them, each person could only give one, and the remaining two were hers, and she could eat them secretly when she went up the mountain to collect firewood.

The two men in front of them started from their teens and twenties gnawing on the bark, recalling the difficult days that people of their age had experienced together, speaking of sadness, Pan Shicong took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, he handed one to Yao Baozhong, and asked, "Big brother smokes?" ”

Yao Baozhong smokes, but he can't afford to smoke cigarettes, so he smokes dry tobacco bags when he becomes addicted to cigarettes.

Pan Shicong handed him Wanli brand cigarettes, two cents a box, the tobacco flavor is strong, and the taste is spicier than other brands, most of the old smoking guns love this taste.

Yao Baozhong took it with both hands, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed, there was no fire on him, Pan Shicong wiped the fire and stretched it out in front of him.

Yao Baozhong covered the foreign fire with both hands to prevent it from being blown out by the wind, his mouth trembled a little, and he finally lit a cigarette in his mouth on Pan Shicong's foreign fire.

Pan Yang and her mother were sitting downwind, smelling second-hand smoke.

Pan Yang frowned, she just smelled it, her mother was still sick, and smelling too much was not good for her health.

Pan Yang said, "Look at you two, old smoking gun"

Pan Shicong laughed, took out the last cigarette from the cigarette case, and handed it to Pan Yangdao, "Uncle Zhaoke will also have one." ”

Pan Yang shook her head, she didn't want it.

Pan Yang's move made Pan Shicong laugh again, and he said to Yao Baozhong, "Our Uncle Zhaoke is good, he never smokes, you see that he is about the same age as us, which one doesn't smoke, it's good not to smoke, don't smoke saves money for cigarettes, and avoids being scolded by his mother-in-law at home." ”

After a burst of laughter, the conversation turned to their current life, Pan Shicong sighed and said to himself, "Now our rural people are still living so badly, some of them can't even fill their stomachs, but what should I do!" ”

Hearing this, Pan Yang couldn't help but answer, "In my opinion, everything above can be managed, but it's best not to stubbornly control the people in planting crops, don't give indicators above, this let the seeds, that ones are not allowed to plant, how many indicators must be reached this year, and how many indicators will be reached next year, it is time to let the people plant what they want, let go and let us do it, we will not be worse than now." ”

Pan Yang's words made the two men on the handlebar silent for a long time, and Pan Shicong said in a half-loud voice, "Uncle Zhaoke, you are a talent, but it's a pity that this kind of thing is not our turn to dictate, and we can only do what we are asked to do, we dare to say one no, that is, we do not support the dictatorship of the proletariat, that is a political issue, and it is a big deal." ”

Away from their cooperative, walking on this road where there are almost no people, the three men seem to have no scruples, nothing to do with politics, each expressing their opinions and dissatisfaction, until they enter the township, Pan Shicong has become the leader of his production team again, and his originally smiling face has been replaced with a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance.

At the gate of the township cooperative, Pan Shicong stopped the donkey cart, Yao Baozhong got out of the car with his sleeping daughter, and said goodbye to Pan Yang and Pan Shicong.

When he arrived in the township, Yaojia Village was close at hand, Yao Baozhong carried his daughter on his back, carried it all the way back, and after arriving home, according to the advice of the old Chinese medicine doctor, two bowls of water were fried into half a bowl for his daughter to drink, there was no one in the family, all went to work in the team to earn a share of the work, Yao Baozhong fed his daughter medicine, and took off his daughter's clothes, so that his daughter could sleep.

Yao Baozhong's movement of breaking his sleeves was a little big, and several things fell out of his daughter's cardigan.

Yao Baozhong picked it up, and his daughter had twenty yuan in her pocket and a few candies.

was discovered by Ada, Yao Qimei said timidly, "The candy was given by that uncle, I don't know the money, I really don't know where it came from." ”

Twenty yuan was stuffed into Yao Qimei's pocket by Pan Yang before getting out of the car, not for anything else, Pan Yang was reluctant to let her mother suffer, wanted her mother to have enough to eat, and wanted her grandfather to have money to give her mother medicine.

Pan Yang and Pan Shicong rushed back to the team, the sun did not set, and the team did not confiscate the team, so the two simply drove directly to the field, and before the sun set, they could sprinkle as much fertilizer as they could.

Urea can be sprinkled directly, and ammonium sulfate must be buried in the soil, otherwise it will be invalid.

Pan Shicong commanded on the ridge, a group of people sprinkled urea, a group of people buried ammonium sulfate, he pinched his waist with both hands, stood on the ridge and watched, as far as his eyes could see, they were all working slowly, lazy and lazy, and there was no one who was quick and active.

Pan Shicong suddenly thought of what Uncle Zhaoke said, it is time to change the policy, otherwise it will never be able to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people to work.

After half a month of continuous work, weeding and fertilizing were finished.

A few days later, the team notified them to go to the mountain to repair the terraced ridges.

This time Pan Yang didn't go anymore, he completely held the mentality that he would be pulled down if he earned two less work, and now the most important thing is to renovate the house first, whether Pan Shiyao can get married or not, he has to renovate it quickly, otherwise it will enter the rainy season, it will be heavy rain outside, and light rain will fall in the house, don't be too sad.

But the family can't always go without anyone to earn work, and after discussing unanimously, it was decided to let Zhang Xuelan repair the terraces.

As for the three men in the family, Pan Hengchun stayed at home to rub the hemp rope, while Pan Yang and Pan Shiyao went to cut reed poles on the river dam.

Pan Shiyao took the sickle to cut it first, and Pan Yang had to borrow a donkey cart from the production team before he went.

The conversation in the township from the county seat made the relationship between Pan Yang and Pan Shicong inexplicably closer, Pan Shicong looked at Pan Yang with more respect than before, as long as he met him, it was Uncle Zhaoke like this, so this donkey cart was borrowed smoothly, Pan Yang just explained his intention, Pan Shicong accepted it.

The three old donkeys in the breeding room have been Pan Lao Wu breeding, he heard that Pan Yang's family was going to renovate the house, first picked Pan Yang's old donkey to work well, and without saying a word, followed Pan Yang's house, helped Pan Hengchun rub the hemp rope, and when Pan Yang drove the donkey cart back a batch of reed poles, Pan Lao Wu was busy unloading, and took the hemp rope to tie the reed poles one by one.

The family is busy, and Pan Shiyun came back from school to cook the noon meal, Pan Shisong didn't go out with Pan Shixun to go crazy, but stayed at home to help his sister cook on the fire, in addition to washing vegetables and cutting vegetables, he also learned to make noodles.

The two radish heads cooked the meal, and Pan Yang came back with a reed pole, so he ate two bites at home, and then took Pan Shiyao's rice out and took it to the dam, and the father and son did not come back until it was dark.

cut for two days in a row, until Pan Hengchun said that it was almost enough, and the father and son gave up.

On this day, Pan Yang drove back from the dam in a donkey cart, passing through the fields of the Yaojia Village Brigade, Yao Baozhong saw Pan Yang from a distance and shouted Pan Yang's name twice.

Pan Yang saw that it was her grandfather, so he hurriedly stopped on the side of the road.

Yao Baozhong trotted over panting, rubbing his hands, not knowing where to start, "Big brother, the money you gave that day"

Pan Yang smiled, "I don't mean anything else, I just think that your daughter must be in a hurry to use the money for medical treatment, and you will definitely not accept it if you give it to the eldest brother, so I sneaked it into your daughter's pocket." ”

Pan Yang's twenty yuan really solved Yao Baozhong's urgent need, his daughter's rash had been old for a long time, and intermittent fever, after eating the traditional Chinese medicine caught from the county seat, Yao Baozhong took his daughter to the county seat twice, and took Chinese medicine and Western medicine together, which cured the disease.

Yao Baozhong, an old farmer, has been upright all his life, and does not take advantage of other people's money, but in the end, it is inevitable to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, compared with his daughter's illness and face, obviously the former is more important, Yao Baozhong used Pan Yang's money, but he couldn't afford to pay it back for a while.

Now that he sees Pan Yang, if he doesn't mention this matter, he can't help it, and he doesn't know when he will be able to return it.

Yao Baozhong was a little embarrassed, "Big brother, I will pay you back the money slowly, if you are in a hurry, I, I will borrow money again"

Pan Yang hurriedly said, "Don't be in a hurry, I'm not in a hurry to use it." ”

Pan Yang didn't say anything to ask Yao Baozhong not to pay it back, because she knew that according to Yao Baozhong's personality, what she said was in vain, and she could pay it back when he had the money in hand.

Hearing Pan Yang say that the money was not in a hurry, Yao Baozhong breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time thought in his heart that the small vegetables in the two points of his own land at home would be almost cooked, and when he could sell them, he would take them to the city to sell them

Yao Baozhong saw Pan Yang pull a donkey cart with reed poles, and asked, "Big brother, do you want to build a house at home?" ”

Pan Yang smiled, "I don't have enough money to build a new house, so cut some reed poles and renovate the old roof." ”

Yao Baozhong said, "That's good, is there enough people to renovate the house?" If it's not enough, I'll help you for two days, and I'll help you on the day of lifting, it's all heavy work, and the mother-in-law can't help much, and you have to be a man to make it hard. ”

Yao Baozhong is right, there are only two people in the family, she and Pan Shiyao, Pan Hengchun is old, he can't do the work of climbing up and down, even if Pan Lao Wu is here, Pan Lao Wu is not young, and he is worse in terms of strength.

Considering this, Pan Yang was not polite to her grandfather, and said with a smile, "Big brother can help me help, that's great, we are going to lift the roof the day after tomorrow, can big brother have time the day after tomorrow?" ”

Inheriting the kindness of others, Yao Baozhong always has to do something to help people in order to be happy, he said, "If you are free, why are you not free, I will definitely go the day after tomorrow." ”

The two agreed that Pan Yang would go to the donkey cart house.

Yao Baozhong came home from work in the team that day, and asked his woman Han Naiyun to go to Pan Yang's house to help, Han Naiyun heard Yao Baozhong mention the matter of the twenty yuan, but he didn't object to Yao Baozhong to help, but it was a pity.

"These two days are the time to earn work, if you work for a day, we will earn one less work."

Yao Baozhong knocked on the pole of the cigarette pouch on the ground and said, "If it collapses for a day, it will collapse for a day, and I should go to help it if it is reasonable." ”

When the two of them discussed this matter, Yao Qimei sat under the pot to light the fire for her mother, and heard her Adada say that she was going to the uncle's house to help, Yao Qimei said, "Ada, I also want to go with you." ”

Yao Baozhong said, "What can you do if you go with me?" ”

Don't look at Yao Qimei who hasn't gone to school for a day, but she knows the truth of the grace of dripping water, not to mention that the uncle is good to her, not to mention giving her money and giving her delicious food, she is nine years old, and she can cook and wash clothes.

Yao Qimei said, "I'll help light a fire to cook rice, carry water, mix noodles, chop vegetables and stir-fry vegetables, I can do everything." ”

Yao Baozhong smiled and responded, "Good girl, it's really good!" ”

The day after tomorrow, Yao Baozhong's father and daughter got up early in the morning and went to the Panxi Village Brigade together.

At this time, the Pan family was already busy, because there was no place to live, and they had to try to replace the broken reed poles and lay new ones in one day.

Last night, Zhang Xuelan had already packed all the big and small things in the house into the yard, as for the air-dried bacon and pig's trotters, they were all stored in the big clay tank in the kitchen, and the hatched chicks were shrouded in the cellar with chickens.

They started construction before dawn, and when Yao Baozhong's father and daughter arrived, half of the broken reed poles on the roof were removed by Pan Yang and his son.

In fact, Pan Yang is afraid of heights, but she can only climb up hard, and she can't let Pan Hengchun and Pan Lao Wu climb to the roof.

Pan Yang saw Yao Baozhong, and to her surprise and happiness, her mother actually came along!

"Big brother, I'm here." Pan Yang hurriedly stepped down the stairs from the roof.

Pan Yang walked up to her mother, couldn't help bending down and pinching her mother's squeaky nest, hugged her mother, saw her mother's little face was much more energetic, and smiled, "Okay?" ”

Yao Qimei was picked up, her legs hanging in the air, she kicked her legs, pursed her lips and smiled, "It's all right!" ”

Pan Yang grinned, threw her mother twice in a row before putting her mother down, rubbed the top of her mother's hair, and said, "Okay, okay!" ”

Zhang Xuelan heard her man say last night that a buddy was going to come over to help today, so Zhang Xuelan was very polite to the arrival of Yao Baozhong's father and daughter, and hurriedly dragged a broken chair for Yao Baozhong to sit on, and was busy pouring water for Yao Baozhong.

You must know that the old Pan family renovated the house, but no one in the second and third rooms came to ask if they wanted to help, and there was no heart for the person with the surname in front of him, can Zhang Xuelan not be grateful to Yao Baozhong.

Of course, while thanking Yao Baozhong, Zhang Xuelan also kept the people in the second and third rooms in mind, if you don't come to help, right, if there is anything in the second and third rooms next time, she won't go, not only will she not go, but her man and Pan Hengchun are not allowed to go, whoever goes will fight with whom!

Yao Baozhong took the enamel jar handed by Zhang Xuelan and said with a smile, "Big brother and daughter-in-law, you don't have to be busy, let's finish the work while it's early." ”

Yao Baozhong climbed up first without saying a word, and when Pan Yang saw this, he also climbed up.

Yao Qimei was looking down, looking up at the adults busy working, until Zhang Xuelan called her, Yao Qimei said to Zhang Xuelan, "Auntie, if there is anything to do, I will help you." ”

Zhang Xuelan praised her for being sensible, seeing that she was about the same age as her own Shisong, how could she let her do any work, and she was already very grateful that the father and daughter could come to help.

Zhang Xuelan remembered that there were still some children's cakes at home, so she took a few and stuffed them into Yao Qimei's hands and let her play by herself.

Yao Qimei came to help with the work, where would she run out to play by herself, so it was still early to make lunch, so she squatted on the ground to help Pan Hengchun arrange reed poles, put them together one by one, and waited for Pan Hengchun to bind them with hemp rope.

Originally, everything was going on in an orderly manner, but an accident happened when the roof was completely torn off.

Pan Yang didn't step on it steadily, and planted it from the roof.