There were several heavy snowfalls before and after the Spring Festival, although the snow thickness is good for spring sowing, but it makes it impossible for livestock to find something to eat. In the autumn of last year, Cheng Shaojie took Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui to lay forage, which became a hot commodity at this time. Farmers in the village and in the mountains came to buy forage, Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui kept coming to buy forage when they were in Linshui Village during the winter vacation, and the two young men helped the people who came to buy forage to load the forage, helped the grandfather collect money, and really felt the fruits of their labor made Li Haoyu very excited.

I was also very happy and said to Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui: "There are many ways to make money, do you think this is the best way to bring benefits to yourself and others through your own labor?" When you were asked to work in a brick factory, you said that you wouldn't be able to eat with your strength, but you see, it's not good to eat with your strength."

Li Haoyu said to me with a smile: "Mom, can you not educate us at every turn, give us political and ideological lessons anytime and anywhere, we are not children anymore, we are now men who can earn money, and in the future, we don't have to worry about earning money to go to school, you don't have to talk about us."

The mother-in-law said with a smile on the side: "These two children are still tender-faced, and some people who come to buy forage don't even say anything about buying and taking them, if anyone shouts that this year's forage is expensive, and raising livestock will lose money, etc., Li Haoyu will quickly help people pretend to be a little more, and I can't wait to give them away for nothing, Li Haoyu's heart is too soft, and he will suffer in society in the future."

I smiled and said half-jokingly: "It's okay, I have the talent to give it away, if I don't have it, he can't send it if he wants to, you see those begging people only reach out to others all day long, the rich have the money to do charity to give things to people, maybe our family Li Haoyu will be a rich man in the future and give things to people every day."

Cheng Shaojie, who was on the side, pursed his lips and sneered: "The takeaway also delivers things to people every day!" You literate people educate children like this? In today's society, people will be bullied if they are honest, and if their hearts are too soft, they will suffer, and a big man who is too kind and too soft will not be able to achieve great things! ”

"Then you mean that people can only succeed when they are ruthless and evil? Then give each of them a knife to the street and rob it, what kind of school are they going to? What kind of education? I don't want my child to succeed by sacrificing others and benefiting himself," I didn't like him talking in front of him. Don't I know what society is like, when they go into society, someone will teach them to know the other side of society, but we parents should leave some good nature in their hearts when they first educate them, I have seen a lot of outlaws who do things absolutely and take their own paths, I don't want my children to pursue success by relying on evil, I would rather them live an ordinary life because of their kindness."

Cheng Shaojie said dissatisfiedly: "I didn't mean that, don't deliberately distort my meaning, don't you want them to get ahead and make them succeed by catching them all day long."

I said: "We have spent so much effort to cultivate and educate them, that is, we want them to learn something, have the ability and knowledge, and we have no intention of letting them gain a foothold in society by being ruthless and evil. ”。

Cheng Jiahui said disdainfully on the side: "The richest man in the world is Bill•Gates, the business he does is beneficial to all mankind, and the most profitable business is the most beneficial to people and the things that people need most, and in the future we can do many successful things without harming people."

Cheng Jiahui's ability to draw inferences from one point is really convincing. Although I spoke to Cheng Shaojie. But listening to him speak to Cheng Shaojie like this made me uncomfortable, especially the contemptuous tone in his tone, after all, Cheng Shaojie was his father.

Because of Cheng Jiahui's-for-tat refutation, Cheng Shaojie immediately stopped talking, he was always short of breath in front of his son, and the atmosphere was a little embarrassing. The mother-in-law said to Li Haoyu with a smile: "If you don't say it, you can't make sense, your mother is a literate person, and the same thing makes your mother very reasonable" The mother-in-law said this in front of Li Haoyu, but it was obviously a little flattering to me and Cheng Jiahui.

As soon as the college entrance examination was over, Jiang Xinya took Zhang Keer to the United States. Although she knew that she was just going to see Ke'er, she was still a little empty at the thought of her going so far.

Li Qiutong asked me: "Don't you plan to let Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui study abroad?" With your family's current economic strength, it's not impossible! ”

I said indifferently: "After they are admitted to the university, they will choose by themselves, we are not in a hurry to study abroad at this time and a half, it is better to have an early morning, a late evening, and no hurry."

Li Qiutong smiled and said: "You are not in a hurry, now parents all over China are mindful of the sentence 'can't let their children lose at the starting line', you are still basking in the sun here slowly, and you still plan to let the two of them go to the countryside to work on this leave?" ”

"I don't have this plan yet, I'm going to take the college entrance examination next year, I want them to spend more time on studying, it's Li Haoyu who is anxious to return to Linshui Village, and he is anxious to go out to spread wild after a semester of classes."

Li Qiutong said with a smile: "Although Li Haoyu has grown a lot, he has a poor foundation, so he has to work harder this year."

I smiled and said, "I don't have to worry about it, Cheng Jiahui looked at him very tightly, and he himself said that he would be admitted to a place with Cheng Jiahui to go to college."

Li Qiutong slapped me and said, "As long as your heart is big, that's your son, who cares if you don't worry about it?" Li Jiaming also called me to ask about Li Haoyu's situation."

My eyes swept over Li Qiutong's face, turned my head to look at the treetops in the distance, and said, "He has always felt that I don't take Li Haoyu to heart."

Li Qiutong said: "Don't take it to heart, how can they understand your mind."

I chuckled and looked at Li Qiutong and shook my head: "You understand? ”

"I don't quite understand, I sometimes don't know what you do, but now I see that it's effective. Do you think Jiang Xinya will not come back after sending Ke'er to the United States? Li Qiutong suddenly changed the topic and asked.

It's not that I haven't thought about this question, but Jiang Xinya has never mentioned in front of me that she wants to go abroad, even if I have questions in my heart, it's not good to ask her, or I don't want to ask her, I'm afraid that she will have a positive answer, we have been dating for nearly 20 years, I don't want her to leave us so far, but I have the same doubts as Li Qiutong.

So when Jiang Xinya came back, we were all very happy, I put my arm around her shoulders and said, "I thought you wouldn't return!" How was it in the U.S.? Is Ke'er adapting there? ”

Jiang Xinya smiled: "It's very good, it's a pity that I don't have you as a companion, and I stay there alone like a fool." There is not so much pressure to study there, and Ke'er feels pretty good."

"You're going to run over there a lot from now on, don't you want to go with you?" I asked tentatively.

Jiang Xinya smiled and said nothing, and only said after a while: "You have the opportunity to go and have a look, the environment there is very good."

There is an inlet when the Yuxi River flows through Linshui Village, the water slows down here, as if it is stationary, the water surface is warmed by the scorching sun for a day, there are small shrimp and small fish in the water and touch and tickle on the legs, I stand at the water's edge and hold a screen net to catch small river shrimp, each net can only catch a dozen, at first Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui are also fishing, and then they are impatient and play in the inlet.

Mei Duo stood by the river and didn't go into the water, just put the shrimp we caught in the pot, Cheng Shaojie saw that we had only fished half a bowl when he came, so he smiled and took the gauze from my hand to catch it myself, I happened to feel tired, so I handed him the gauze net, and went ashore to sit on the mat under the tree, Mei Duo walked to me, handed me the water cup and sat beside me.

"Why don't you go into the water and play with them? I asked"

Mei Duo was a little shy and said, "I don't dare to go into the water? Besides, I'm afraid that Li Haoyu and they will pour water on me, they wear so little, they are ashamed."

I laughed and said, "Haven't you been in the water before?" ”

Mei Duo smiled and said, "There was no river where we used to live, and we ate water from the cellar, how good it is here, there are mountains and water."

I looked sideways at Mei Duo's quiet expression and asked, "Mei Duo, don't you want to go to the city to find something to do?" ”

"I think it's already good here, I don't want to go anywhere else," Meadow said quietly.

The kind of affirmation in her tone made me feel that she had a kind of attachment in her heart that was not appropriate for her age, and I liked her quietness, but I also wondered about her quietness.

The sunset sprinkled all over the courtyard, there was curling smoke rising in the courtyard of every house, and there was an indescribable pleasure in the heart of leisurely cooking under the breeze.

Father-in-law, Cheng Shaojie, Cheng Jiahui and Li Haoyu all sat at the table to eat. My mother-in-law added a stick of wood to the stove and stood by watching me concentrate on spreading the bread, and then brought it to the table in the courtyard. Fried shredded chili peppers with river shrimp and rolled pancakes to make Li Haoyu eat again and again, my mother-in-law came back with a smile and said to me: "You can also go to eat, I will get the rest."

I smiled softly, "No need, I'll eat it later, let them eat first."

The mother-in-law looked at the four men sitting at the table and smiled: "In the past, women were not allowed to eat at the table, but now although there is no such exquisiteness, women still have to wait for men."

I don't know how many layers my mother-in-law has in this, and I don't want to care about it, so I chuckled: "What waits and doesn't wait, it's just that men and women have different divisions of labor at home, since we are responsible for cooking, we naturally have to cook well, and we cook for them to wait for them, so who are they waiting for when they work in the field to earn money?" Let each man do what he has to do."