Uncle Tan Wenlin's family is relatively wealthy in the village, and his eldest son, Tan Wenlin's cousin Tan Hao, works on the construction site outside, and I heard that he is a small contractor who can earn a lot of money a year.

Tan Wenlin's cousin Tan Zhen is married, and her cousin-in-law's family is also in Xinhe Village, her cousin-in-law works on the construction site with her cousin, and her cousin usually lives in her mother's house to take care of her uncle and aunt.

When Tan Wenlin arrived at the uncle's house, their family was eating, and when they saw Tan Wenlin coming in, the aunt didn't seem to see it, but just lowered her head and ate expressionlessly, and the uncle just asked lightly: "Have you eaten?" ”

Tan Wenlin replied: "Eat." ”

At this time, cousin Tan Zhen moved a chair for Tan Wenlin to sit, speaking of Tan Zhen, she was not bad to Tan Wenlin's family, and she took care of their family in her last life.

"Thank you, Sister Jane." Tan Wenlin thanked him, but did not sit down.

"I heard that you didn't pass the college entrance examination, do you plan to repeat your studies next year or find something to do?" Uncle continued.

The eldest aunt stopped chewing at this time and listened with her ears pricked up, because whether Tan Wenlin will repeat the study in the future is related to the purpose of his visit, if he repeats, given the current embarrassing situation of Tan Wenlin's family, he will definitely borrow money today.

In fact, the last thing Tan Wenlin wants is to go to the uncle's house, not to mention the anger of the aunt and the small family, guarding against people is like guarding against thieves, and the uncle always has a posture of teaching people, so he can't stand it.

"I'm not going to repeat it, I'm looking for something to do." Tan Wenlin replied.

"Well, it's a good thing not to repeat it, I have long persuaded Changqiang, what are you doing with reading! For example, although your cousin didn't read much, he was a contractor outside, and he didn't earn a lot of money, so it's good not to repeat his studies. , you give Wenlin a bag of rice to take back. When the uncle heard that Tan Wenlin was no longer reading, he nodded happily, turned his head and instructed the eldest aunt again.

The eldest aunt breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that Tan Wenlin would no longer repeat the reading, and then heard that the uncle asked her to take a bag of rice to Tan Wenlin, so she glared at the uncle angrily and said, "How can we have rice in our family?" It's all boiled at noon today, why don't I go to Aunt Zhang's house next door to borrow a bag of rice, and return it when I have rice in the future? ”

As soon as Tan Wenlin heard this, he couldn't sit still and treated me like a beggar for food!

"Thank you, uncle, aunt, I have rice at home, I just came to see you today." With that, Tan Wenlin got up and left in a hurry.

After going out, Tan Wenlin's eyebrows tightened, and he slammed his fist on a big tree on the side of the road, "I don't believe that I, Tan Wenlin, will be poor and cold for the rest of my life." ”

After venting, he was in a much better mood and was about to walk home, when he heard someone behind him shouting to him: "Wenlin." ”

Tan Wenlin looked back, but it was his cousin Tan Zhen.

"It's five hundred dollars, you can keep it." Tan Zhen took out five hundred yuan from his pocket and handed them to Tan Fan, "I know that you have strong self-esteem, and you won't come to the door until you have to, my cousin only has so many, I don't know if I can help you?" ”

Looking at Tan Zhen's kind face, Tan Wenlin suddenly stumbled, "Sister Zhen! ”

"Okay, okay, it's five hundred yuan, see what you are moved, go back quickly." Tan Zhen smiled slightly, patted Tan Wenlin's shoulder and went back.

Tan Wenlin didn't say anything more to thank him, but he remembered his cousin's affection.

Tan Wenlin carefully carried out the five hundred yuan, and walked back, thinking about his thoughts as he walked? He was walking with his head down, but he didn't want to bump into the oncoming person.

"The one who doesn't have long eyes? Dare to hit the old lady! Tan Wenlin looked up suddenly, and saw that the person he hit was Li Xiuxiu, the daughter-in-law of Hong Erniu in this village, don't look at the elegance of Li Xiuxiu's name, she is only in her thirties this year, but people are extremely spicy, and they have always been unforgiving.

Tan Wenlin hurriedly smiled and apologized: "It turns out that the second sister-in-law, I didn't see you for a while, I'm sorry!" ”

Li Xiuxiu patted herself on the shoulder, and when she saw that it was Tan Wenlin, she smiled and said: "It's Wenlin, I just happened to be looking for you for something, I didn't find it when I went to your house just now, so come with me." Without waiting for Tan Wenlin to ask the reason, he took him by the arm and dragged him to his house.

When he came to the house, Hong Erniu was also at home, he saw Tan Wenlin coming, and hurriedly gave up his seat to pour water, and explained the purpose of letting Tan Wenlin come here, it turned out that Li Xiuxiu and the others wanted to open a grocery store and wanted Tan Wenlin to write a couplet.

Tan Wenlin's calligraphy level is known to the whole village.

"So that's it, a small thing. Did you buy pen and ink? Tan Wenlin said with a smile.

"It's already ready." Li Xiuxiu spread out the paper with her hands and feet, and took out pen and ink.

Tan Wenlin wrote a couplet for the two, and Hong Erniu looked at the couplet and said with a smile: "If you are worthy of being a reader, the word Wenlin is good." ”

Li Xiuxiu glanced at Hong Erniu, "I seem to know calligraphy, where can you tell me?" ”

Hong Erniu scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's all good there." ”

When Li Xiuxiu heard this, she couldn't help but sneer.

Tan Wenlin saw that the couplet was written, and was about to get up to say goodbye, when he suddenly remembered one thing, he remembered that Hong Erniu and his wife did open a grocery store in their previous life, but then the grocery store caught fire, burning all the savings of the two of them, and the two of them almost hanged themselves for it!

"Second brother, second sister-in-law, you have to fire and burglar prevention when you open a grocery store, you can't be careless!" Tan Wenlin reminded the two.

"Well, thank you Wenlin." Li Xiuxiu said gratefully, "By the way, you came out of your uncle's house just now, right?" Is there anything to do with them? ”

When Tan Wenlin saw Li Xiuxiu asking, he sighed, told the situation encountered by the uncle's family, and said that Tan Zhen gave 500 yuan.

Hong Erniu and the others were angry with Tan Wenlin when they heard it.

"Your uncle is a soft-eared root, what the eldest aunt says, he listens to it, but Tan Zhen is good. How much money do you still owe, I still have savings at home, I can lend you some. Li Xiuxiu said generously.

Hong Erniu nodded in agreement on the side.

In fact, Tan Wenlin's family and Hong Erniu didn't have much contact, and when they saw the generosity of the two today, they couldn't help but be secretly surprised, but when they thought about it, as long as they got it done, let alone a thousand yuan, it would not be a problem to add dozens of times, and then they would pay it back to others immediately with interest.

"A thousand are owed." Tan Wenlin said.

When Li Xiuxiu heard this, she went to the back room and took out a thousand yuan and handed it to Tan Wenlin, Tan Wenlin was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly made an IOU, and then thanked the two and left.

Tan Wenlin didn't go home with 1,500 yuan, went directly to the village department, and signed a contract with the village in front of everyone in the village team, contracting the reeds for three years with a rent of 1,500 yuan.

When signing the contract, Tan Wenlin deliberately added a clause that during the contract, everything in the reed swing belonged to him. Zhang Degui and others have no objection to this, what can the broken reeds have? The village has not been able to get rid of it so far, and now that someone has contracted it, it is impossible to ask for it.

After signing the contract, Tan Wenlin carefully put away a contract that belonged to him, and walked home with excitement.

It didn't take long for Tan Wenlin to contract the reed swing to be known by the whole village, and suddenly words such as "nerd" and "stupid" kept coming to his ears.