Six-year-old Yu Mingyan, whose thin legs flew on the ridge of less than a foot, ran dozens of meters in less than a minute, and came to the slope of the small river and said happily: "Xiaoyue"

When Yu Mingyue heard this, she turned around quickly, and hurriedly booed her cousin, who was still a few meters away.

When Yu Mingyan quickly covered her mouth, Kong Xinggang's roar had already sounded.

"Xiaoyan, don't be surprised, okay?"

Kong Xing just turned his head and roared, and when he turned back again, he didn't even notice the shadow of the fish that had slipped away just now. In a fit of rage, he waded ashore on the water with a handful of baskets and sat on the grass.

Yu Mingyue glanced at her brother-in-law, and after sticking out her tongue, she hurriedly waved to her cousin who was frightened in place.

"Uncle, don't be angry, my sister Xiaoyan has been anxious since she was a child, haven't we all gotten used to it all these years?" Yu Mingyue said as she rushed and jogged to Yu Mingyan with a look.

Yu Mingyan stretched out her little tongue and licked her lower lip, stood next to her honestly and said, "Little cousin, don't be angry, I'll pay attention next time." ”

As soon as Kong Xinggang heard her say this again, he turned his head to the other side.

Yu Mingyan just wanted to look sideways at her cousin, but suddenly her little face was happy, she turned to the other side of Kong Xinggang in a few steps, and stretched out her little hand holding the fruit candy: "Look, the fruit candy that my grandfather brought us, one by one." ”

Fruit candy? Kong Xinggang raised his eyes and looked.

At this time, Yu Mingyan's phoenix eyes with big double eyelids instantly narrowed into a slit, the corners of her small mouth turned up, and she squeezed out a big smile in seconds: "Well, it's the one my aunt bought back when my grandfather died on March 15." ”

Yu Mingyue giggled and ran over in a few steps, and directly took two pieces of candy from the thin little hand and smiled: "Hehe, grandpa has brought candy again, and my uncle is also going to eat it, it's delicious." Bending down, he stuffed one into Kong Xinggang's hand, and when he looked up, he winked at Yu Mingyan next to him.

Looking at the fruit candy stuffed by his niece in his hand, Kong Xinggang swallowed his saliva, but secretly thought in his heart: How many months has this been hidden in the old cellar? Hearing what Xiaoyue said, Yu Zhifen bought a pound of candy, but he has eaten it more than a dozen times in the past few months.

Although Kong Xinggang was stunned for a moment, he looked up and saw that the two children were still holding the candy and looking at him with a smile, he lowered his head and smiled lightly, and said while unscrewing the candy wrapper: "You guys should eat it quickly, save this sugar to attract ants." With that, he threw the candy cube into his mouth, sipped it tightly, and then took it in his mouth.

Yu Mingyue's eyes were sharp, and she had been paying attention to Kong Xinggang, and she had seen her brother-in-law's twitching cheek muscles just now. Her little face twitched a few times, and only then did she follow Kong Xinggang's example, threw the candy in her small mouth, and sucked it.

At this time, Yu Mingyue turned her head to look at her cousin again, and the two children who were both sugary and had bulging cheeks looked at each other and smiled, and the identical cherry mouth was getting higher and higher at the same time.

When fifteen-year-old Kong Xinggang was catching fish in the water ditch and river, Yu Mingyuetang and the two sisters were not idle.

"Sister Xiaoyan, don't pull out so many trees at once, we are still young, where do we have so much strength. You watch, follow me, you know? And you have to remember that you can only pull out the purple flowers, otherwise others will not accept them. Yu Mingyue said, grabbing the lower part of two of the clumps of motherwort (motherwort), pulling them up, and then looking at her cousin next to her.

Yu Mingyan was also obedient, and tried it according to the method she had learned again, and really pulled up two trees at once, squinting at the big phoenix and grinning.

"Yo, Sister Xiaoyan, you are really amazing, you can learn it at once." After grinning, he said while pulling the mother grass of this month: "We will come out to pull it every day in the future, so that it won't be long before the adults can take us to the street buying station to sell." ”

"Hee-hee, when we sell the money, I will definitely buy two sorbets at a time." Yu Mingyan, who looked greedy, said this, her little brows furrowed, and she turned her head to look at Yu Mingyue, who was busy next to her, and asked, "Xiaoyue, then let's not go to the field to pull the old mulch film and sell it?" How can it be three cents a pound? ”

"It's July now, and how much old mulch can be pulled in the field." After pulling up two more trees, Yu Mingyue said again: "Besides, the one we pulled out can make money compared to pulling mulch." I'll tell you, every day you pull four or five catties of motherwort, which is enough for you to buy three sorbets."

After Yu Mingyue finished speaking, she bent down again.

And Yu Mingyan, who was two or three meters away next to her, quickly bent down after hearing this, and the movements in her hands became even sharper.

The cousins didn't say anything for a while, but they were just as busy as Sai.

After Yu Mingyan pulled out three trees again, she held the moon mother grass and said proudly: "Xiaoyue, look, I am bigger than you, and my strength is greater than yours, but I can always pull out three trees." ”

She waited until she was praised again before she smiled and squinted and got busy again.

Yu Mingyue, who also kept her subordinates, was happy when she saw her cousin so energetic, but she remembered the plan in her heart.

This month, after the mother grass is dried, the township purchasing station on the street is to collect it. Although the price is only one dime and five catties, the two of them can pluck at least one or twenty catties a day, and they can be sunburned into about four or five catties, which is also six or seven cents. Today's vegetables can only be grown for a few cents or a pound or two.

Thinking that he could earn six or seven cents a day, and he could earn at least a dozen yuan in a month, the corners of Yu Mingyue's originally upturned mouth were getting higher and higher.

When she looked sideways at her busy cousin, the past of her 'previous life' instantly came to her mind.

It was 1990 that the cousins began to pluck the two cents a pound and sell them for money, and then saved together to buy pencils, small print books, and math books.

Her heart was sad at the same time, but it was mixed with a warm current. Coming back to his senses and bending down, the little man was even more busy with his hands.

At this time, Kong Xinggang had already walked up from the river with a bucket of water and a string of seven or eight loaches.

He stood on the edge of a ridge and saw that the little faces of the two children were red by the sun were covered with sweat, the corners of his mouth were curved, and his dark brows were furrowed again.

"Xiaoyue, don't pull it out, even if you're so big, do you want to make money from this?"

Yu Mingyue raised her head, looked at her uncle and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't look down on us, although our strength is not comparable to that of adults, but we pull it out from morning to night every day, but we may not be less than adults." ”

"That's right, little cousin. Xiaoyue said that we have to learn how to make money from a young age, she said, this is to earn money from the baby, otherwise we will not be able to live a good life of eating meat every day in the future. Yu Mingyan said crisply, took a breath, and bent her waist down again.

Kong Xinggang's brows couldn't help jumping, and when he glared and wanted to speak, he was stunned when he saw two piles of moongrass with a total of more than a dozen catties on the ridge.

After nearly a minute, he swallowed his saliva and grinned again: "Okay, it's noon at this time, and if we don't go back, the adults will have to come out and call us." ”

After finishing speaking, seeing that the two children obediently stopped and raised their bodies, Kong Xinggang curled the corners of his mouth, raised the string of seven or eight loaches in his hand, and said to Yu Mingyan: "Xiaoyan, my little cousin caught a lot of loaches just now, this is for you." ”

Yu Mingyan ran up happily, and after taking it, she greeted Yu Mingyue with a look of surprise, and looked at the loach that was strung with a dog's tail.

Kong Xinggang looked at the two children in front of him, and he also smiled, but Yu Tianxiang's thin appearance immediately appeared in his heart, and he admonished: "Xiaoyan, you can't eat this loach alone, remember to eat one or two for your grandfather when the time comes." ”