Chapter 51: Mid-Autumn Festival (I)
Katsuo is only a fifth-grade student, and she certainly won't be a qualified bodyguard, and of course she doesn't need to do any bodyguard duties.
To be honest, Riki had been in elementary school for six years before, and he really hadn't encountered any robbery or extortion. Probably because he has a better relationship with the teacher, hitting or being beaten is basically insulated from him. If you say that there is any big villain in the school for no reason, it is pure nonsense.
Being kind and not resentful is his way of life.
In this way, is it really just to repay the favor by spending money to invite Katsuo? Except for Riki himself, no one knows his true intentions.
October 5, 1998 is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is later than in previous years, and it has been postponed to October, which is the Mid-Autumn Festival in mid-September, when the heat of the midsummer night has not subsided, but the skin can already feel the dry autumn breeze.
"Mom, sister, happy Mid-Autumn Festival." Katsuo bent down and walked in the door, put an iron box on the dining table, and took off his newly purchased school uniform and folded it neatly.
"What is this?" The eldest mother sat up from the bed.
The tin box is a red lacquered package, with the word Mingyuan written on it, which is the most famous mooncake brand in Pingnan. It is not only a well-known brand in Pingnan, but also a moon cake in an iron box, and you don't have to think about it to know that it is more expensive than the Ming Garden in a carton.
"Limu sent it, he said that there are only four moon cakes, which is just enough for one of us."
"How can this be ......?"
There were only four mooncakes in this box, and there was no trace of even opening the package, so I knew that I had bought them at a glance. Obviously, Limu said polite words to the eldest daughter, but the eldest daughter really thought that there were too few mooncakes, so she took them back home.
"Send it back? Riki said he had a barbecue downstairs and I could go at any time. β
"Alas, no need, they all started eating, work hard in the future, remember to thank people."
While talking, the eldest mother found that the two younger daughters had opened the mooncake box together, and it was impossible to send it back after the seal was torn off. Thinking that the family has not eaten moon cakes in the past few years, the eldest mother feels that she is really ashamed of her three daughters, if there is no turnaround......
"Thank you."
"Then thank you again."
A few days ago, I may not know the name of Limu, but after deliberately inquiring in the past few days, I found out that everyone in the village knew that child! said that he was a unicorn in the village, and he jumped to the fifth grade at the age of **, and he will definitely be able to go to Tsinghua University and Peking University in the future, and his future is limitless! If his daughter can always follow him to do things, she will definitely not worry about food and clothing in the future.
"Remember, don't forget to listen to him, serve him well, and help him do things well."
"Oh-"
"It's not that you want to thank you now, people are celebrating the reunion festival, and every family is celebrating ......" Seeing that her daughter was about to go out after speaking, the eldest mother hurriedly stopped and gave her a new common sense surname education.
"Sister, let's eat mooncakes together."
The two youngest daughters each took out a mooncake from the mooncake box and gave it to their mother on the hospital bed and the pillar of the family.
"Okay." Da Shengnan took the moon cake and ate it in a big gulp.
"Well, there's meat!" Katsuo found that the mooncakes with barbecued pork stuffing tasted more fragrant, and when he ate the meat filling in the middle, he chewed it slowly in small bites.
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The eldest mother thought that the pear family was reunited in the family at night.
Actually, Riki didn't have too much of an impression of spending the Mid-Autumn Festival with his family.
Pear father Li Jiahui is a person who is not at home, and even the Mid-Autumn Festival is mixed in the casino. Li's mother Li Xiuli had conflicts with Limu's grandmother in her early years, and the two parties complained about each other and did not get along with each other. The Mid-Autumn Festival is only a small festival in the pear family, and the reunion dinner is based on the parents and children, and only the New Year's Day and the festival of worshipping the ancestors will eat the reunion dinner.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Limu is actually a "loose body", parasitic on the pig friends and dog friends invited by his uncle, and occasionally goes upstairs to accompany his lone mother.
Because it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone is having a reunion dinner, and the guests are only on fire before the meal, and the taxi will be available at ten o'clock in the middle of the night. Before that, even if someone finished the reunion dinner, they planned to go out with their families and go home while taking a walk and admiring the moon. And the moon is shining, watching other people's families reunite, and it is difficult for the taxi driver to say that he is in the mood to go out to pick up passengers, so Riki's mother eats raisins and watches TV alone at home.
Riki was very entangled in this when he was a child, after all, he wanted to go to his uncle's barbecue, and he wanted to find his mother to accompany or accompany his mother. In the end, I could only hesitate between barbecue and my mother, and I chose one of them, but I couldn't be happy.
β¦β¦ When someone else is happy at the barbecue, will want the mother.
β¦β¦ When I am with my mother, I envy the happy barbecue of others.
Such a contradictory feeling is really hard to say, choosing one but missing the other, the mood of being in Cao Ying's heart and Han often hit him hard. But he doesn't bother anymore now, he's had enough of the party, and he's even a little bored with it. At this time, I went to my uncle's barbecue party, all to get a hand of skewered beef and come back to my mother.
"How did you come back?" Li Xiuli, who was sitting at the fruit table, asked.
"I'll get you something to eat, and I'll go down and get it when I'm done." Riki took off her shoes at the door.
In the past, he may have been a modest, and he did not dare to take it, but now he is blatantly implementing the idea of taking it. As soon as the uncle burned it, he took a bunch, and he didn't directly say that it was for his mother to eat, but he put it into his cyst anyway.
"What's so delicious about barbecue, it's so hot, remember to take cold medicine after eating it today."
The good medicine that Li Xiuli said is the all-purpose medicine - Banlan root and bezoar detoxification tablets, these two medicines are essential anti-"fire" weapons at home. Basically, every time Riki eats food with a little bit of hot poison, his mother will let him eat the corresponding amount of medicine according to the amount he eats. After the popularization of various "scientific speeches" in later generations, my mother accepted the concept that eating too much barbecue will cause cancer, and Limu would be preached every time she brought barbecue fried food.
"I know, but Mom, it doesn't matter if you eat once or twice once in a while. Half of you, half of me, how about we get them done? β
Even though her mother was not stubborn to that extent, Riki still wanted her to enjoy the deliciousness, and now her perception of barbecue food is limited to "hot" and "unhygienic".
"I'll eat three skewers, you can eat the rest, and next time you want to take some flat vegetables, it's not so hot." Li Xiuli agreed.
ps: Flat cabbage is also called leek, because its leaf stem is flattened, so it is commonly known as flat cabbage in Pingnan.
"What do you meanβ" Riki made a look that she knew this was the case, and after taking off her shoes, she turned her head to pick up a bag of barbecue.
The bag, which was initially hidden under the threshold behind him, was quite rich in contents, containing grilled mussels, dried squid, fat beef, tofu skin, and a bunch of flat vegetables. In fact, you can have as many ingredients as you want in Pingnan Village, and there are many of them in the vegetable field of the pear family. Mussels are freshly mined on stones on the banks of the Green River, and they are often attached to large rocks at low tide.
Limu took out a plate from the cupboard, put the plastic bag on the plate and spread it out, revealing the handles of the sticks. Fruit tables and wooden benches are placed by the window, and you can see the moon from the chairs. Thinking that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother has to go out of the car at night. Needless to say, the beauty sleep at 10:00~2:00 a.m. is easy to get into a car accident and be robbed when you go out at night.
Riki frowned.
My mother had never had any accidents before, but my little butterfly has been flapping its wings for three and a half months, and theoretically the butterfly effect can make two American hurricanes, who can guarantee that my mother will be safe when she goes out of the car at night?
The inexplicable worry seems to be a little superfluous, but Riki still doesn't want her mother to take the risk.
"Mom, since I can make money, you don't have to work so hard at night, you can contract the car to someone else in the evening, okay to stay at home with me tonight?" If I can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by drawing comics in the coming year, you won't drive a car, you can ask me for as much money as you want, and if you have any ideals, you can pursue them directly. As long as I am here, whether you are 30 or 40 years old, you can work hard for your dreams. Riki said what she thought.
In the past, Queen Bee often asked Limu play, what is the easiest profession in the world?
Riki gave a lot of answers after thinking about it very seriously. In the end, Queen Bee revealed the mystery, and the easiest occupation in the world is the "rich second generation".
Of course, the rich second generation is not a profession, but it is indeed very easy. You don't have to worry about money, you can sleep until you wake up naturally, you can ask your parents if you don't have money, you can start a business if you want to, and you can have a lot of time to do your own thing.
Limu wants to pursue his own ideals, and at the same time, he also wants his parents to experience a rich second generation - let them pursue their own ideals, instead of being bound by life all their lives.
"Little ghost, is it so easy to make money, it's so easy to say." The child's words are aimed at going out at night, and it is not difficult for Li Xiuli to hear her son's concern.
Taxis are easy targets for robbery, and female drivers are undoubtedly the easiest targets for robbers. The process of taxi robbery is very simple, just trick the taxi driver into the suburbs and put a knife against the driver's neck when paying the money. In exchange for a life and a car with the money earned in a day, taxis often pay for them without much resistance, which makes taxi robbery even more rampant.
So as long as it is a route away from the city center, Li Xiuli generally refuses directly, and making money at night can be described as fearful, and some drug addicts even dare to rob taxis in the city.
"It's not very difficult, according to my current workload, I earn more than 5,000 a month and 60,000 or 70,000 a year. This is only a temporary algorithm, and you will definitely be able to earn more in the future. Riki calculated her mother's current income to prove that she was right.
He wants to skip grades faster, liberate himself earlier, pursue his ideals and make more money at the same time, so that his parents can also pursue their dreams.