Chapter 3 New Second Village
"Mom!" Zhang Heng only felt that all kinds of thoughts came to his heart, and in the end he only turned into a shout!
"Son, let my mother take a good look, yes, I've grown taller, I'm also handsome, better than your father's talent, it's just a little thinner, but it doesn't matter, in the future, my mother will roast meat for you to eat, and you will be more handsome when you are strong in the future." The mother said with some nagging, but her eyes were full of joy.
Zhang Heng sighed in his heart, his father has been running away for ten years, but his mother still loves his father deeply, and his heart hardened again in an instant, if he can see his father in the future, he must let his father kneel in front of his mother and confess his mistakes!
"Mom, I'm hungry, how far is it to get home?" Zhang Heng said a little coquettishly.
"You have to transfer two buses when you get home, and my mother will take you to the front restaurant to eat first." Mother said fondly.
Although Zhang Heng has never been in the city, he has heard many times that people will "rip off customers" near the station, and hurriedly said: "If you don't go, I love to eat my mother's cooking!" ”
"Okay, when I get home, my mother will make you braised pork to eat." The corners of his eyes widened, and then she took his hand and walked to the bus stop in front of her.
Zhang Heng actually felt sorry for his sister from the heart, because both his mother and grandmother liked him more, and he thought of him first when he was eight years old, and he never went to school, and when he was ten years old, he went to the city to help his mother, Zhang Heng swore more than once in his mind that he must let his sister live a princess-like life and protect his sister for a lifetime!
Waiting for the car, Zhang Heng couldn't help but ask, "Mom, sister, have you grown taller?" ”
"Xiaoyi is guarding the shop, as capable as your ancestors." Mother said happily.
Zhang Heng nodded, didn't ask more, and waited until his sister said that ten years ago, his mother went to the city with the women in the village to work, because she had no education and no skills, so she went to work in a chicken farm in the suburbs, and she worked for three years.
Later, seeing that I couldn't make a lot of money by helping people raise chickens, I also got acquainted with a woman who collected chickens at that time, and after the exhibition, fortunately, with the help of the woman, my mother found a small shop of three square meters in a vegetable market and bought and slaughtered and sold chicken from the chicken farm.
After making some money later, he put down a big shop, said that it was a shop, but it was just a big slate, which could cover the rain, only six square meters, after the mother changed the business to sell beef, it happened to be a few pork diseases in the early years, Zhang Heng didn't know, it seemed to be a swine flu or something, which led to a beef fire, which made a lot of money, and has been selling beef in recent years, and my sister entered the city two years ago and began to sell pork again.
Successively came down, and almost paid back the hundreds of thousands of dollars that his father owed outside, this is the money that his father owed at the gambling table, only a small part of it was borrowed cash, but they all gave IOUs, after his father ran away, those creditors did not often come to the door to collect the debt, only at the end of the year will come to ask, but I am not embarrassed to charge interest, otherwise the price of ten years ago and now there is no way to compare, and it is not to repay the hundreds of thousands can be solved, Zhang Heng has no hatred for these creditors, at least he did not come to persecute their mother and son, He and his sister's childhood was also complete and happy, but he just hated gambling, so he never gambled, and he didn't even look at it.
"Mom, are you and your sister tired in the shop?" Zhang Heng couldn't help but ask again.
Mother smiled: "I'm tired, I've been used to it for a long time!" ”
Mother said lightly, but Zhang Heng knew that his mother got up at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night, and then rushed to the shop to collect the meat, and when the meat was almost shaved, the day was also bright, and she had to stay in the shop until dark to finish work, and she had to go to bed early as soon as she went home and ate, otherwise she would not be able to get up in the middle of the night, which was too long.
Zhan transferred two buses, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Heng followed his mother into an old vegetable market, the reason why it is old is because the market is surrounded by some high-rise buildings, although it dazzles his eyes, but it makes him have more goals, he must buy a house more beautiful than this in the future.
"Son, I'll take it to the shop first, and call your sister back together, it is estimated that the meat is almost sold at this time, and only half of the pork is ordered today." Mother spoke up.
Zhang Heng nodded, while following his mother, while looking at the situation in the market, I had seen it at the door just now, this place is called "New Second Village", although I wonder why there is still a "village" in the big city, but I am not in a hurry to ask, it is estimated that this "New Second Village" will be his home for a long time in the future, unless he can make a lot of money in a short time!
This is said to be a vegetable market, but Zhang Heng feels that the layout is very strange, it is more dilapidated than the vegetable market in his hometown, these small shops are all built on the side of the alley, there is no shop at all, it is very simple, but the territory is quite large, it has been walking for more than ten minutes and has not come to the end, there is everything to sell as far as the eye can see, many fruits and vegetables he has never seen.
And there are a lot of people who buy, not only those who are dressed modestly, but also some people from the city who are fashionably dressed.
"It's just ahead, just around the corner." The mother was afraid that he would be impatient, so she explained out loud.
Zhang Heng was very interested, and he also carefully wrote down the road he walked, there were too many small alleys here, and he was not sure if he could find the way he came in just now.
After turning the corner and walking for another seven or eight minutes, he didn't need to be reminded by his mother, and he had already seen his sister in a stall in front of him, weighing pork for a customer.
Zhang Heng endured the excitement and did not shout, and when he approached, the customer also left, and saw that the pork on the hook was almost sold, but a large piece was placed on the board next to it.
"Xiaoyi!" Zhang Heng couldn't help it at this time, and shouted excitedly, his sister was only twelve years old, but at this time she seemed to be much more mature, and the apron in front of her was full of greasy, obviously this job of selling pork and beef is not easy, especially for girls who love cleanliness.
"Brother!" When my sister heard the shout, she turned around and ran out excitedly when she saw him, and when she got closer, she found that her apron was all greasy and raw.
Where can Zhang Heng hold back, and hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his sister into his arms, his sister is a little taller than two years ago, and her face is more ruddy, but the guilt in his heart for his sister has not diminished at all, if he can come out to work earlier, then his sister can stay in the village and go to study hard.
The mother secretly wiped her tears on the side, and when the two siblings calmed down, she said happily: "Xiaoyi, you take your brother back first, cook the rice, and Mom will go sell some side dishes and go home." ”
"Well, I'll take my brother home." Xiao Yi said that, and left his arms, and then quickly cleaned up, and put the rest of the meat into the small back basket.
Zhang Heng didn't go up to help, mainly because he didn't know where to start, everything was waiting to settle down, and then he and his sister went on the road, turning around and going out of the market, but he didn't think that it was getting more and more remote, Zhang Heng was more and more surprised, because he actually saw farmland and land in this big city, and his mother and sister lived in a small farm yard here.
"Xiaoyi, this is here?" Zhang Heng pointed to the farmland and asked, there are still vegetables grown in this soil.
My sister answered: "I heard from the landlord and aunt that this side was originally planned to be built into a park, because there is a river in front, and it was not planned before, so it is not good to use it to build a building, this place has more than 20 acres of land, and there are more than a dozen local families, but the locals generally do not live here, the houses are all rented out, and only some old people are still farming and selling vegetables." ”
After a pause, he said: "The rent here is much cheaper than in the building outside, and it is close to the vegetable market. ”
Zhang Heng suddenly remembered a report he had read on TV, as if this situation was called: "Urban village! ”