Lu Xiancheng saw that there was a net in the river or that kind of purse seine net, that is, the kind with a pole inserted in the water, and a large area was enclosed under the river, and Lu Xiancheng also knew a thing or two about the depth of the water on the side of the small bridge.

"Oh my God, why are there so many!" Lu Xiancheng held the small pillar at the head of the bridge with both hands and muttered.

Hua Wanli heard it on the side, looked at another basket of river mussels being poured into the water, and said, "Who would have thought that this thing would actually rot here."

Not to mention a few people eating these river mussels, even if ten people eat them every day, they will have to eat them for two or three weeks.

"If you collect river mussels, will you collect them tomorrow? If we want to collect it, we will step on it tomorrow" At this time, several more people were riding a car, and there was a large basket on each side of the back seat of the car, and there was not a single child in this team, all of them were adults, and most of them belonged to middle-aged women in their forties and fifties.

Zhou Guangyong immediately waved his hand and said: "Don't accept it, don't accept it, don't collect it tomorrow, even if you close it today!" ”。

"Alas! It's a pity, there are still a lot of ponds four or five miles away," said the woman who walked in front as she propped up the cart, untied the basket behind the cart, and then dumped the mussels in the basket directly to the ground.

"My mussel is bigger, bigger than everyone else's, is it a few cents for us, shopkeeper" The woman reached out and picked up a mussel and said to Zhou Guangyong.

Don't mention that the mussels in this woman's basket are indeed very large, and it seems that each one is about 30 centimeters, which is indeed much larger than usual.

However, Zhou Guangyong is a little dizzy when he sees the river mussel now, and he is still interested in adding a few cents to others. If they don't sell it, it will be to his liking.

"It's twice as big as that!" Zhou Guangyong said directly.

"Aren't we at a loss? How much you can add a little, one or two cents can be done, it's really not okay to pay a few cents" The woman in the back immediately muttered a sentence when she heard this, but she put down the river mussel basket on the seat of her car very neatly.

Zhou Guangyong glanced at the woman and said, "Loss? You've been back and forth two or three times! Today, I made a hundred to say the least."

When the woman heard Zhou Guangyong say this, she grinned directly: "How can there be a hundred." Even this time, it was more than 90 yuan, and the news that I only learned in the afternoon rushed over so much."

Since someone came, Hua Wanli went over to help, and the two began to count the mussels, and then exchanged money for others.

Lu Xiancheng walked over and took a hand, helping the two of them put the river mussel back in their hands. Waiting for the people to leave, the three of them stretched out their heads together and looked at the river mussels in such a big stall of Shui Ke.

"What are you going to do?" Lu Xiancheng took out a cigar from his pocket and shared one for each person, Zhou Guangyong and Hua Wanli didn't mention anything to smoke this time, each touched one, and the three of them began to smoke a depressed cigarette against a bunch of river mussels.

"Why don't we give it away?" Hua Wanli suddenly had an idea: "We can send these river mussels to the construction site of several of them in batches, and Du Guohao and Ye Yihong will send a batch of them, which is our mind."

When Zhou Guangyong heard this, he immediately felt that this idea was feasible: "This idea is good, let's give it some each, it is indeed a good way to solve the problem."

How can these things be considered personal favors or something. Although it cost one or two hundred thousand, it was really worth it when it was used on Du Guohao and these people to leave a good impression on others.

"Lao Lu picks some big ones here and throws them in the pond to raise, and we can still eat them when we come next time," Hua Wanli continued.

Thinking that this was a good idea, Zhou Guangyong asked Lu Xiancheng: "By the way, when will your cart come back, and you will send the river mussels to their construction site later!" ”。

"I guess there will be more than an hour, don't send it today, seeing that it's getting dark," Lu Xiancheng looked at the watch in his hand and said.

Just as Zhou Guangyong was about to say something, he suddenly heard an angry roar in the distance. Everyone looked in the direction from which the sound came from, and found that an adult was chasing two and a half small babies with a stick. The little baby is eleven or twelve years old, and the little one looks like he is eight or nine years old.

"Puppy day, you guys stop me!" The adult shouted from behind.

As soon as he heard this, Lu Xiancheng couldn't help but laugh directly. Lu Xiancheng, both big and small, knew each other. are all from You Jiawa, surnamed Shen, the eldest is the third uncle of Shen Da Mao'er, and the two younger ones are his children, and the son of this puppy day didn't scold anything. But he made a full hole of himself, and the two sons were puppy days, so don't they scold themselves for being puppies.

"Laughing at what?" Hua Wanli asked.

"Sir! Grandpa! Lu Xiancheng said.

"Poof!" Hua Wanli and Zhou Guangyong listened to the constant scolding of the puppy day, and they were all immediately happy.

The three of them were happy to do their work, and the two babies saw that there were still servants standing at the bridge, and immediately ran over to this side in the direction and turn, waiting to run closer, and found that Lu Xiancheng was standing at the bridge, and suddenly there was a burst of joy, and he shouted while running: "Uncle Xiancheng, Uncle Xiancheng, my dad wants to blackmail us for selling mussels!" ”。

Before Lu Xiancheng could speak, he heard a woman's voice again: "Master, don't chase it, I found the place where the two little bastards were hiding, and they all asked me to turn it out!" ”。

You don't need to ask this voice, you know that it is the mother of the two children.

Seeing Lu Xiancheng standing at the bridge, the man was a little embarrassed, and the stick in his hand was no longer raised, but just held it in his hand, and walked to the bridgehead to greet Lu Xiancheng.

"Sixth Brother Shen, what kind of trouble are you making" Lu Xiancheng reached out and touched a small brain hidden behind him, and looked at the panting sixth child of the Shen family.

"It's okay, it's just joking, have you eaten it yet?" Shen Lao Liu was a little embarrassed here, and beckoned to the two sons who were hiding in Lu Xiancheng.

Who knew that the two children didn't give face, and they didn't come out, even if they were their own Lao Tzu's stealing glare, they were still behind Lu Xiancheng.

"Sixth sister-in-law!" Lu Xiancheng smiled at Shen Liu's sister-in-law who came over with a trot.

As a woman, Shen Liu's wife was not so particular, and walked directly to Lu Xiancheng's hand, and took out the two sons with one hand and one ear.

"The two children were disobedient. Today, I sold river mussels for more than 100 yuan, and I asked them to keep three yuan each, and I helped them collect the whole money, but these two boys hid the money...... "Shen Liu's wife walked back with her son and the two children who were grinning their teeth.

As soon as he heard this, Lu Xiancheng understood that it was nothing more than that the child had earned too much from the two fools next to him today, and the adults in the family wanted to collect it to subsidize the family. The child is reluctant.

Although the child is small, he is not really stupid, knowing that if the money is handed over, it will not be anything to do with himself, either he has 'paid the tuition' or 'paid for the other'. Once the brothers earned more than 100 yuan, and now each person only keeps three yuan, who can bear this gap, not to mention that the two children know, once this money is in the hands of their parents, it is estimated that their brothers will never want to see this more than 100 yuan in their lives, where would they be so willing to give the money to their parents.

For You Jiawa's family, the average cost of two or three yuan per day is the place where the family uses the money. One hundred yuan is also a lot of income. Not to mention these two, it is estimated that all the children who have made money in You Jiawa tonight will not be able to escape the fate of being collected, and those who can keep ten or eight yuan in their hands are the lucky ones.

Shen Liu watched his sons being dragged back by his daughter-in-law, and said politely to Lu Xiancheng with a smile: "Brother Xiancheng, you have time to sit at home!" ”。

Seeing Lu Xiancheng politely with himself, he turned around and walked towards the village.

When he walked to the bridge, he suddenly remembered something, turned his head to Zhou Guangyong and Hua Wanli and asked, "Will the two shopkeepers receive it tomorrow?" If you want to collect it, I will go down to the river to step on the mussels tomorrow! ”。

As soon as they heard the word stepping on the mussel, the faces of Hua Wanli and Zhou Guangyong suddenly turned green. Hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't accept it, don't accept it!" ”。

Listen to what the two of them have to say. Shen Liu sighed: "Alas, it's a pity! It would be nice if you collected it for a long time, no one in the town wanted it."

Zhou Guangyong and Hua Wanli who said this suddenly felt speechless.

Seeing that the sky was darkening, Zhou Guangyong and Hua Wanli took this unlucky stall.

"What about this mussel? Wait for the cart to come back and find someone to transport it back to your pond? Hua Wanli asked.

Lu Xiancheng said: "Forget it, wait for tomorrow morning when you come to transport it yourself, and you can rest assured if you throw it here today." No one is going to steal this! ”。

Zhou Guangyong remembered something, walked to the river, stretched out his hand and took out the last few big river mussels that were poured in: "Let's eat river mussel porridge tonight!" ”。

Hua Wanli looked at so many river mussels in the river and sighed and said, "Eat, eat, eat and vomit!" ”。

Back at home, Zhou Guangyong and Hua Wanli began to wash mussels. Lu Xiancheng drove the two away after looking at them for a while, because these two goods didn't even know how to cut the mud sausages, so they just threw them into the pot to cook. Lu Xiancheng really couldn't stand it, so he drove the two away, rolled up his sleeves and got busy.

Waiting for the porridge to be ready, the three of them and one dog took Erha directly to the terrace with a small pot, drinking fragrant river mussel porridge while blowing the breeze in the valley, and then they could hear the slight chirping of small insects in their ears.

"What sound?" Hua Wanli heard a faint voice.

Lu Xiancheng pricked up his ears and listened for a while, knowing that the village was starting to make trouble, and said with a smile: "It is estimated that every family in the village is collecting money from the baby!" ”。

Don't look at everyone farther away, the countryside is quiet for a few miles, and most of the movements can be transmitted, not to mention that the chickens and dogs in the village are so noisy today.

"It's a farce!" The baby in the city who spent thousands of miles has no deep feelings about this matter, and is a little speechless for adults to collect money from the baby, and I don't know that the New Year's money is a big expense for some families every year.

For example, Zhou Guangyong's family, each person is given ten yuan, and there are almost twenty children of all ages who move around the family every year, which is two hundred yuan, and the two hundred yuan at that time was a month's salary for a family and a half, and no one was charged to pay it! Generally, it is passed from the hands of the child, and the amount of money is repaid, which is just a meaning.

Zhou Guangyong listened with a smile when he heard the words and said: "It's very kind, these children are the same as when I was a child, every year during the Spring Festival, the family goes to relatives, this hand is collected from other people's hands and the money is taken back by my mother in a blink of an eye, so every day I don't like to go to relatives, and the ones who can earn the New Year's money are grandparents, grandparents, and uncles, as for what aunts and uncles, they can't receive ......."

Hua Wanli listened to it and said, "I didn't expect your childhood to be quite bitter" After making fun of Zhou Guangyong, he asked Lu Xiancheng: "Brother Lu, what about you?" When I was a child, did I collect New Year's money? ”。

Without waiting for Lu Xiancheng to answer, Zhou Guangyong said: "He doesn't accept it, and their family gives more, I remember that he was fifty when I was ten yuan and twenty, or why do you think I liked to play with him when I was a child, he can spend two or three months on New Year's money, and there is always something to eat with him." And their uncles and aunts liked me, and they had good food as soon as I arrived at their house, so I liked to stay at their house more than I liked home when I was a child."

After speaking, Zhou Guangyong himself laughed first.

Lu Xiancheng smiled: "You are not this virtue yet!" I'm not honest at home now, it's only been two days since I came back, how long have you been at home? ”。

"Alas! Don't dare to stay," Zhou Guangyong glanced at Lu Xiancheng and said.

Hua Wanli said: "This is true, good guy, I went to their house to sit for a while, as if it was a meeting, and people left and came."

"There are a lot of people looking for investment on this pole! Now there are cars and horses in front of the door," Lu Xiancheng said with a smile.

Zhou Guangyong shook his head: "This time I'm going to take my parents to Shicheng to hide!" In the past, when I didn't have money, I didn't see a few relatives leaving, but now my relatives who can't hit the eight poles have come to the door, and they are either here to borrow money or to ask me to arrange a job. In short, it's annoying......".

"The poor are making trouble and no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and it is too normal to be red and white," Lu Xiancheng said.

Not only Zhou Guangyong's family, but now the Lu family is the same, in the past, Dad Lu went out to ask the original factory to borrow a car, and someone gave him a face, but now the door of the house is not full of traffic, but every day someone comes to the door, and Director Lu should bear it.

The three of them sat on the terrace, chatting quietly and drinking porridge.

For everyone's changes, it is estimated that Zhou Guangyong is the one who feels the deepest, anyway, everyone is squatting to enjoy the coolness at this time, and his bitter water is poured the most. But complaining is revenge, and in this humane society in China, Zhou Guangyong also knows that this thing is really normal, and it can't be normal anymore. (To be continued.) )