Another few days passed.

Estimating that the money had been remitted, Tang Hai looked at the time and called his family.

The phone is from the neighbor of Tang Hai's house, and the people outside call back, and they will charge 5 cents for answering the phone.

The village is poor, and now only one family has a telephone. Some people who go out to work have mobile phones, but there is a signal in the mountains for a short time every day, and it is not regular, so it is definitely not possible to call mobile phones.

Tanghai's village is located in a mountainous forest in southwest China, but unfortunately it has no resources, unlike Shangri-La, which built small buildings everywhere after discovering matsutake mushrooms.

When Tang Hai was in elementary school, he drank two mouthfuls of porridge early, took a little porridge in a bottle of mineral water for lunch, and then went to school happily with a group of children.

Because I had to go home early, I had a class in the afternoon, and then a group of children came back together.

In this way, Tang Hai spent six years of primary school, because he was quite diligent. His grades in primary school were good, and he was the first in his grade. At that time, the village rewarded him with 10 yuan, and he was divided into 5 yuan by the head teacher on the grounds of 'meritorious counseling', damn, he will remember this until he dies......

The road he had to walk to school was not dangerous, he didn't have to hang a tightrope, he didn't have to swim, he didn't have to cross a cliff, but the way he had to go was still too far. Walking consumes energy, eats more, and reads consumes labor, and about two out of ten people who study with Tang Hai go to junior high school.

Later, when I had heavy academic tasks in junior high school, I lived in the school.

Even if Tang Hai followed everyone to grow vegetables near the school, it would not be enough to eat.

In the evening, Tang Hai still has kerosene lamps to read books, but some of the poorer ones are gone, and for no reason, they have a few hours less to study a day than the children in the city. In addition, when you are hungry, you can't see things at all, and it is really difficult to learn well.

Tang Hai is smarter, he sleeps when he is too hungry, gets up in the early morning, drinks two sips of water, reads a book, and then sleeps again......

In the end, Tang Hai still couldn't study for too long every day because of malnutrition, his talent was not good, and his high school entrance examination results were average.

When I got home, I overheard my parents saying that they were going to sell serum, and then Tang Hai said that he wouldn't read it.

"It's good that there is also a middle school student in the family." The thin Tang father sat on the threshold smoking a cigarette and said, not knowing whether this was sincere or self-comforting.

The old smokers in the countryside are different from those in the cities, and the old smokers in the cities are really addicted to smoking, and the old smokers in the very poor rural areas generally smoke to quench hunger and fatigue. A small pot of cigarettes goes down, and you don't have to eat much for dinner. But energy can't fool people, and those who don't eat dinner must be very thin.

Even in my hometown now, people have the concept that they can make money by working in a big city.

Tang Hai is bold and smart, Xiao Li's family next door went out to work a few years ago, and later came back with a motorcycle, and then the house was renovated and a phone was installed.

Tang Hai saw that he didn't smoke, he didn't drink, and he didn't make friends, the most important thing was that he ate well, was strong, and could kick himself five times with one kick, so Tang Hai asked him if he could go to the city to work with him......

Tang Hai still remembers that when passing through the center of the provincial capital, Xiao Li smiled and patted him in a daze, and asked, "Are you scared to death?" ”

Don't look at Tang Hai's later work in the United States as either a small worker or a garbage picker, in the eyes of the villagers, Tang Hai is a 'big man' who can go abroad, every time Tang Hai sends money home, he calls to ask, his parents are very happy, saying that the family has chickens and ducks again......

Of course, Tang Hai would not tell his family that he was so miserable, he was all picky.

Tang Hai knew that his parents' biggest regret was that he only finished junior high school and stopped studying.

So he sent it back as soon as he had money, not for anything else, just so that his younger brother could continue to study, and it was best to be admitted to a prestigious college student.

This is actually Tang Hai's biggest regret, so in order not to let his younger brother suffer the same trouble as himself, he sent it back if he had money, and he wanted his younger brother to eat well to study, his younger brother is smarter than himself, more sensible than himself, and more diligent than himself, as long as he eats enough, he will definitely be admitted to a good university!

The old couple used to receive money from Tang Hai, each time it was $1,000, and it would happen every few months......

This time it's $30,000 directly! The two elders were directly frightened!

"Baby, you're not going to do anything illegal, are you?"

Tang Hai couldn't cry or laugh: "My thin body, what can I do illegally!" People don't want me to fight! I changed jobs, and now I help the big boss raise fish, and the people who help watch the fish farming here are all very large fishing farms, and the salary I give is a few thousand a month, or I still pay dollars. I told my boss that I received three months' worth of money first, and I went to do something else to make some money, and sent it all back. You let your brother take the exam well, don't think about the lack of money at home! ”

Tang's mother was silent there for a long time before she said, "My son has a good ......."

Then he changed Tang's father to bombard Tang Hai's information, basically telling him not to be a traitor.

In the end, he changed back to Tang's mother, so that Tang Hai could also eat well, and don't save money and send it home.

It is very cheap to call back to China in the United States, and Tang Hai is called back with a special card, a $17 card, and you can play China for 1,400 minutes. However, the two elders still felt that the money was very expensive, and told Tang Hai about some things in the village, so they hung up the phone first. Tang Hai looked at the call time, and it was only 20 minutes.

Someone knocked on the door halfway through the phone, opened the door and saw that it was Rose, Tang Hai didn't say hello, and then called directly.

Chinese men are like this, they are more casual to people who are particularly close to them, and they are not too formal.

Rose obviously knows a lot about this, and she doesn't think there's anything wrong with it, so she opens the DVD herself and watches it at the lowest level.

It wasn't until Tang Hai finished calling that she asked, "Call your parents?" ”

Tang Hai shrugged.

The average American can not understand the family attitude of Chinese, parents will reduce food and clothing to support their children to live and study, and children will strive to return to the family when they grow up, and the family is happy, and three or four generations live together. In the United States, children will go out to live as soon as they become adults, and the relationship between parents and children is more like intimate friends at this stage.

However, Rose is a quarter of Chinese ancestry, and when she heard Tang Hai being told on the phone, she smiled heartily.

Feeding the big pike and the big snapping turtle together, and then aBcD also came over to beg for food, Rose saw that these six little guys didn't fight, and was stunned for a moment......

Tang Hai knew that the silver carp must be about to give birth, and they instinctively knew that they could come to Tang Hai to replenish their nutrition, so they specially swam more than ten miles to beg for food.

Rose finally managed to touch the head of the giant snapping turtle today, and this time the latter did not show hostility towards her, but ate on her own.

Rose was very happy, but Tang Hai was keenly aware that she had something on her mind today.

I ate a little bit for lunch, and the dishwashing is done by two people, so that it is faster, and you can also chat about washing dishes together.

"Don, my mom is well." Rose said coldly.

"That's a good thing."

Rose was silent for a moment, then said, "Dad asked me when I would go to Seattle again to get a job......

The movements in Tang Hai's hands suddenly stopped!

It's easy to fish here, but unless you can catch trout, it's just that little money, and Seattle can earn a lot more than that!

But if Rose goes to Seattle to work......

"I found out that there was a lot less stuff at home."

"Hmm." Tang Hai frowned, he asked someone to transport some things to the fishing ground by the sea.

But Rose apparently wouldn't think so.

Seeing Tang Hai frowning, she smiled, turned to look at Tang Hai, pressed Tang Hai's eyebrows with her water-stained fingers, and gently smoothed those eyebrows.

"No matter what the dilemma is, it will definitely pass, right?"

Tang Hai saw her with a bright smile, a pair of cute little tiger teeth, and a slight baby fat, for some reason, a throbbing was uncontrollable.

……

Last night, I got a computer at one o'clock, and I drank two glasses of wine to sleep. The alarm clock was set at 9 o'clock, and I woke up to find that it was 14 o'clock! Slept for so long! Ah, three more tomorrow!