Lin He thought of this and asked the Huang family, "Mother, how did we spend this winter, seeing that the weather is going to turn cold, how did we spend the past year?"

Huang knew from Sanya that Lin He couldn't remember some things clearly when he woke up, and he didn't feel anything, but he felt that this eldest daughter seemed to be more sensible today than before, and he didn't think much about it.

Huang said, "I still have to live, my father and mother take advantage of the fact that it is not yet winter, get more food and put it at home, and my mother will do more embroidery work at night and sell it for money, and after a while, your brother can come back from the town and bring back some big money." ”

Huang's expression was a little helpless, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and the eldest son was only ten years old, so he could only be sent out as an apprentice.

said to be an apprentice, in fact, it is to do chores for others, eat at the end, do the most work, and can't earn a few dollars a month, but the family really can't support so many children.

Although the ten-year-old eldest son is young, he loves his younger brothers and sisters very much, and seeing that the family really can't raise so many children, he ran to do an apprenticeship, just to reduce some of the burden on the family, at least one less person to eat, and he can get some money to go home a month, although it is very little, but as the saying goes, "no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat." ”

Thinking of this, the Huang family is really guilty, it is because the two of them have no ability, and the family has made it like this, Lin He saw the guilt in the Huang family's eyes, and quickly diverted the conversation,

"Mother, don't worry, didn't we all come over in previous years, just wait for this winter, I'm a year older, I'm an adult, and my family will be fine next year."

Lin He deliberately learned the child's tone, and his crisp voice deliberately opened his eyes and said to the Huang family, the Huang family saw her like this, laughed, and brought her over, fortunately, this eldest daughter has always been a sensible child. Since the eldest son went out, the family still relies on this daughter.

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than half a month since Lin He arrived in this world, and when he got up that day, he saw that his family seemed to be much happier than usual, the family had a smile on their faces, Sanya and Xiaobao also got up early, Lin He saw that they often glanced at the gate of the courtyard from time to time, so he asked them what was going on.

Huang touched her head and said, "Your brother comes back at this time every month, and he can stay at home for two days today and tomorrow." "Oh, that's it, Lin He understood, and she was also looking forward to this brother's return, so she also sat with them and waited for her brother to come back.

After waiting for about half an hour, I heard the cheers of Xiaobao and Sanya, and then a child wearing a blue coarse cloth coat walked in, and he was still holding a small bag, presumably his brother.

When Huang saw his eldest son coming over, he immediately stood up, took the burden in his hand, and asked, "Dabao, have you had breakfast?"

Lin He also stood up and shouted, "Brother." ”

Dabao touched Lin He's head and said, "I've eaten it." ”

Walking into the Huang family's house, Dabao opened the burden and handed Huang a hundred big money, Lin He looked at the money and looked at this brother with pity, she knew that Dabao was an apprentice for a month for this hundred big money, and a ten-year-old child had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family in this era.

Lin He looked at the big money and looked at this brother distressedly. What can you buy with this hundred dollars, Lin He has been here for more than half a month to know the conversion of silver money here, the white flour here is 15 wen a catty, the brown rice is 4 wen a catty, the black flour is 7 wen a catty, the cornmeal is 12 wen a catty, and the pork is 25 wen a catty, their family can't afford to eat white noodles, they eat brown rice, not to mention pork, she has been here for so long, she has never seen it at all.

Dabao then took out two red head ropes from the baggage and gave them to Erya and Lin He, and also took a wooden spinning top to Xiaobao, and Xiaobao happily immediately took it to the courtyard to play.

Lin He looked at this brother. He said, "Big brother, don't buy us anything in the future, you can buy more delicious food yourself." ”

Lin He tried his best to imitate a seven-year-old girl to speak, but he didn't expect it to be quite difficult, it was really awkward. Dabao smiled and said, "Big brother eats a full meal at every meal, I'm fine there, don't worry." ”

Lin He knew that he didn't want his family to worry about it, how could he be so thin when he was well-fed, the ten-year-old boy looked less than nine years old, and Lin He's nose was sour. Huang had long since turned away and was wiping his tears. Alas, what a sad death.

Although Dabao said that he had eaten, he still had a laughing and laughing breakfast with the whole family, and Lin He said to Dabao, "Big brother, let's go to the town to have a look, I haven't been there for a long time." ”

Huang also continued, "Yes, Dabao, you can take your younger brothers and sisters, my father and mother usually have to go to the field and don't have time to take them there, and when the food at home is finished, I have to buy some." ”

Dabao nodded, Lin He wanted to go to the town to see if there was any way to make money, I am afraid it is impossible to make a lot of money in the short term, but it should still be possible to improve my life.

Lin He and Dabao walked with their younger brothers and sisters for a long time, about ten miles, and finally came to a small town closest to Linjia Village, this town is called Huayu Town, today is just the day of the market, there are many people in the town, and there are many people selling things.

Lin He looked around and found that there were many people selling things, but there were few kinds of pitiful, for example, fruits came and went are those kinds of pears, apples, oranges and other common fruits, and there are basically no other types of fruits.

Dabao took them to the place where they sold grain, bought ten catties of brown rice, three catties of black noodles, and used up more than half of the money in their hands.

Lin He also saw that there was rice for sale, and that rice was a little different from now, a bit like broken rice, a very small grain, but it was not broken, just a very small one. It is not as full as the grains of rice in the previous life, and the color is not as crystal clear as the rice. But the price of this rice is very expensive, and one or two pieces of silver can only buy a few catties, and ordinary people can't afford to eat it, let alone poor people like Lin He's family.

After buying the food, he kept moving forward, Xiaobao looked at the place in front of him that sold steamed buns, stood there and refused to leave, looking at people's big buns, the buns at this time cost two pennies a piece, and steamed buns cost a penny a penny.

Dabao looked at his younger brother standing there and refused to leave, sighed, let Lin He and Sanya stand under a tree, put the food they bought there, and went to bring his younger brother back, Lin He stood there, looked around, there was a stall selling meat in front of him, in his previous life, in order to lose weight Lin He had eaten out for a while, and often picked out the meat and threw it away in the end.

Now I want to go crazy when I want to eat meat, especially when I see the white and tender fat and pink lean meat hanging there, it reminds people of the taste of meat Lin He began to secrete saliva.

Lin He stood there and watched for a while, and saw that the meat seller put the pig offal in an old wooden basin, and the people who came to buy the meat did not ask about the offal, could it be that people in this era do not eat pig offal? Lin He thought of this, and said to Sanya, "Sanya, you are guarding here, I'll go over there to have a look" Sanya nodded. ”

Lin He walked to the meat stall, and the owner of the meat stall saw her coming, and asked her with a smile, "Little girl, what do you want, it's cheaper for you." ”

Lin He pointed to the pot of pig offal and said, "Boss, how do you sell this?" ”

The boss said, "You mean the pigs are in the water, these pigs are not for sale, they can't be eaten, and I will throw them away when I finish selling the meat." ”

It turned out that they called this pig into the water, and Lin He said, "Boss, you sell it to me, my brother has money." ”