At lunchtime, while eating, Riki told his parents about it, and deliberately said that the family background of Dashengnan's family was very bad, in order to get his mother to agree to hire a nominal bodyguard. At the same time, he told her that hiring this big man would make it much safer for herself and Lu Wei to go to and from school, and that she would not have to be bullied in the fifth grade.

Giving 1,500 yuan to others every month makes Li Xiuli feel distressed, and she gives it every month! It was a lot more than she expected. But considering that Limu is like a little bean sprout in the fifth grade, it is good to spend money to hire a "companion", and when he was hesitating to persuade Limu to lower the price, a rough voice came from downstairs.

It was the voice of the Great Victory Man.

According to the agreement on the way out of school, Da Shengnan talked to her mother about being hired, and after discussing it, he would come to him no matter what the outcome was.

Riki didn't give her mother much time to think, so she put down her chopsticks and walked downstairs, warning her parents not to follow. Money is your own money, and this matter should be decided by yourself. I'm afraid that after they come, they will find that the actual situation of Dashengnan's family is not so miserable, and stop this hire, who will help them carry this curse of mystery at that time?

The news that Da Shengnan brought was that her mother did not say yes, nor did she say no, and she had to ask about the specific situation herself.

So Limu and Da Shengnan walked along the village road into the back village.

Standing in front of her house and seeing the low house made of bluestone bricks, Li Mu felt a relative.

He had guessed what kind of house they lived in, and according to Katsuo's father's previous work on the construction site, stealing a few red bricks every day, Dajie could still afford to build a red brick house. Unexpectedly, they actually lived in a house of fifty or sixty square meters, with walls only about two meters high, and made of old blue bricks instead of red bricks. Coupled with the roofed with green tiles, the house is only three meters high, and the wooden beams inside can be seen from the door.

There is also a small room of four or five square meters outside the wall of the house, and judging by the chimney on the small house, the small room next to the house should be a demolition or kitchen.

This structure, to be honest, is the structure of the pear pigsty. In order not to disturb the life in the pigsty, the pigs in the pigsty are steamed and heated in the small room.

Although the house of Dasheng Man's family is a bit retro, it is much "richer" than those who don't know if there are still lonely old people living in mud tile houses.

When Limu walked into the room, he felt a chill coming in, I don't know if it was caused by the structure of the ancient building or the unique surname of the blue bricks. The house was entirely made of wood, and on a long table against the wall was an old radio, which and a 40-watt light bulb hanging from the beams were perhaps the family's only two appliances.

There is a queen bed and a small bed in the room. I don't know how the eldest father arranged it before his death, but it can be inferred from the scene in front of him that Katsuo and his two younger sisters slept in a large bed at night, and her mother slept in a small bed. Because now there is a woman curled in the cot, with long thin hair, covered with a quilt on a hot day.

Her two daughters lay on the big bed and stared at the outsiders in a daze, with a flipped "goose goose" language book in front of them, apparently the 10-year-old sister was teaching pinyin to her younger sister, who was about to enter elementary school.

Their dresses were not patched, but they looked a little old—no, the patches were cleverly disguised.

The white dress worn on the second daughter was recognized by Riki. It was the dress that Lu Wei had worn before, because the white was easy to turn yellow and old, and the corner of the skirt was hooked by the easel, so Limu never saw her wear this dress again. Now that I think about it, maybe the skirt was picked up by someone in Katsuo's family after it was thrown away.

The corners of the skirt are inlaid with plum blossoms, and in order not to be obtrusive, the same plum blossom decoration is also inlaid elsewhere, and it is difficult for people who do not know this skirt to see that the plum blossoms are patches.

――This flower is also supposed to be leftovers cut from other skirts......

There are school uniforms hanging on the walls of the house, and in order to keep the school uniforms fresh, they will try to wear school uniforms as little as possible at home, what kind of spirit is this!?

…… In contemplation.

A cough broke the muffled sound in the room.

"Ahem"

Turning his attention to the woman who was helped up by the big victory man, Riki felt that the scene in front of him was so familiar - she was the woman who had appeared at the door of the fourth class of the fifth year when she registered, with a sneaky and trembling appearance!

"Hello, I'm Katsuo's classmate, are you sick, Auntie?"

As soon as these words came out, Riki felt that it was a little redundant, and he should have asked, "Auntie, what is your illness?" However, it seems a little rude to directly ask about other people's bodies. Riki didn't mean to help her treat her illness, it would definitely take a lot of money to treat the sick Lao Zi into an ordinary person, and Riki's own heart disease had not yet been resolved.

"Huh? Alas. The eldest mother saw that the person who came was a child younger than her second daughter, and she showed a slightly disappointed expression.

"I'm Riki of the Kuri family in Maemura, please don't worry."

Limu took out a wad of cash, although it was not 1,500 yuan, but it was an old man's head. For two little girls who had never seen such large denominations, this pile of bills was exaggerated enough.

"I'm sorry, but you'...... You invite Ah Nan, and you have to spend a lot of time ......"

"Don't mind, wasn't it me who proposed to meet, you are not in good health, it is right for me to come over."

"Ah Nan, fill a glass of water for the guests."

"No, I've just finished eating and I'm full."

"That, actually, the matter of Ah Nan ......"

"You let them out first, and I'll tell you."

"Uh-huh, Ah Nan, Ah Han, Ah Child, you go out first."

The three children were obedient, and at their mother's orders, they quickly went out and disappeared around the corner. The eldest mother coughed twice on the bed, her actual age should be relatively young, her face was like that of an old lady in her fifties and sixties, and she looked at Limu again with a withered face.

"First of all, do you know me? Ever heard of my name? In order to verify his guess, Riki asked the eldest mother.

"Huh? You are? ”

"Riki."

"I ......"

"Okay, I probably know, it seems that I was self-inflicted." Riki finally affirmed one thing.

Since there have been many big disturbances in Limu, in Pingnan Village, except for the outsiders in the rental house, they don't care much about the affairs of the village. Whether it is the front village or the back village, even if you have not seen Limu herself, there are very few villagers in the Pingnan group who have not heard of Limu's name. Recently, even the aunt who Riki didn't know was able to call Riki's real name when she greeted him.

- Obviously, there is a lack of communication between the four women and the people in the village.

Coming to this conclusion, Riki continued to ask:

"Secondly, I would like to know what you think of Katsuo, agree or disagree."

"I ...... Not very much in favor of it. The eldest mother hesitated slightly.

"Oh. I think that's probably the case, but how to say it. It's not that your family is pedantic, but you don't have to hide it when it comes to this point. ”

"Secret, huh." The eldest mother lowered her gaze and nodded slowly.

"I don't know much about your family. I don't understand how you ended up in this field, I'm just analyzing the pros and cons with you now, and then you decide the rest. Just say to Katsuo, and she'll do what you say, right? Riki knew that the decisive condition for hiring Katsuo was her mother.

Without waiting for the eldest mother to answer "yes" or "no", Riki began to say to herself:

"As you can see, I'm a little younger than your second daughter, but I'm in the same class as your eldest daughter, so my learning ability is definitely fine. Last time I had a heat stroke and was sent home by your eldest daughter, I was grateful, and I learned something about it after meeting again. I was relatively small in the fifth grade, and I was a lazy person, such as on duty, Friday cleaning, and moving chairs at school assemblies...... I'm hoping to find someone to do it for me.

"Don't worry, I'm not a target to make a lot of money and be easily hijacked, at most I just let your daughter stand by my side and intimidate other fifth grade classmates who come to provoke me, but I haven't been provoked since I started school, and I don't need your daughter to do anything if anything happens. I believe that in today's society, language is better used than violence to solve problems.

"If your daughter has a monthly income of 1,500 yuan, your family can solve a lot of problems. You see, you have three daughters to raise, and your eldest daughter has gigantism. If you let it develop and don't eat something to supplement your brain, it will definitely be difficult to survive in society when you grow up. Your two little daughters will have to take care of her and will be reviled if you don't take care of her......

"Isn't Katsuo and their tuition fees unsettled? Now Katsuo can work and attend classes at the same time, which is the mutual benefit I seek. In the last year of primary school, including winter and summer vacations, she can earn more than 10,000 yuan for the family, and this money is enough for your two daughters to finish primary school and junior high school, right? Don't you want your eldest daughter to get her junior high school diploma......"

A barrage of questions left her speechless.

She doesn't want her daughter to go to school, at least she wants her eldest daughter to finish primary school and get her graduation certificate. But now the family lives on the 600 yuan earned by the eldest daughter, plus a small vegetable plot at home to barely make ends meet. Last month, because the money for registration was not enough, only 200 yuan was given to the school, which was not enough to go to school, but fortunately, the strange teacher Li Qihua helped pay for Shengnan's books and tuition and miscellaneous fees.

Shengnan took a year off from school, and Teacher Li Qihua can be said to be her new teacher, and also helped her pay her tuition in advance.

But Katsuo neither went to class nor picked up the book, she continued to run to the construction site to make money, and did not receive her salary until the end of the month yesterday, and went to school this morning to repay Teacher Li.

There are many reasons for declining an offer from an elementary school student in front of you.

One of the most important is that the eldest daughter actually doesn't want to go to school anymore, and she said this in the early winter of last year.

The daughter said that no one in the class paid attention to her, no one talked to her, and no one liked her. Of course, wearing a compact and old school uniform, and a figure more terrifying than that of a physical education teacher, she always stared at a pair of big eyes and looked fierce, so naturally no student would be willing to approach her. And the daughter feels that the knowledge she learned in school is useless, Chinese and English are not helpful for moving bricks on the construction site, and the learning is also floating in the bottom one or two in the class, so it is better to save more money for the two smarter little sisters to study.

…… They are not big, they can't move bricks, and they won't be able to live if they don't study.

This thought lasted for more than half a year, and the family subtly agreed with her point of view, and the reason why she was suddenly willing to go to school to accompany her was entirely to earn money from her classmates.

Another reason for refusal is that although the employer, although the daughter's classmate employer can come up with a wad of money, is the money his? Does he have the right to control that much money? Will it be taken back after his parents find out? If you don't ask these questions to the parents of the children in person, how can you definitely agree to them?

Moreover, he is the pear family in the village, and his daughter is hired by the same village, can our family afford to lose this face?