"We can't go without fine grains all the time, it's not good for our health. Let's just eat some white noodles once in a while! Mom, we're just two of us, so we don't have to be so frugal. "I thought in my heart that if I could find this job, my mother and I would have a problem of eating, and the two of us wouldn't need much food anyway, so that we could save enough money to move to the city sooner.

Mom couldn't persuade me, so she could only nod.

I also bought some large white paper, which I was going to cut in the future, and used it to wrap the tortillas, so that people would look clean and I was ready to make a living in the future.

When we had bought all our things, put them in our bags and wrapped them tightly, and then we got on the carriage back to the village and went home, and when we arrived in the village, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already dark early in winter.

Passing by the uncle's house, there was faint laughter and the sound of men drinking and guessing boxing, and it seemed that the food was quite lively. The smell of food is in the air.

Mom smiled, "Nizi, are you hungry?" I'll scramble you an egg when you get home! ”

I hurriedly said, "No need! There are only a few eggs at home, so let's keep them and sell them in the city. ”

At this moment a figure came out of the courtyard, so fast that he almost hit us, and we hurried back.

The man hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry! ”

Take a closer look, it turned out that the person was Du Sanzhuang, he was originally smiling, but when he saw us, his eyes immediately became very cold, it was estimated that He Xiang said something bad to him, he snorted and walked around us.

Mom and I didn't talk to him and kept walking.

Mom sighed: "There's no way to get along with your uncle's family now." ”

"Wouldn't that be better? I wish everyone had never been in touch. ”

I was thinking in my heart, now in addition to the money to buy things, I have ten yuan from Director Chen, plus my own, nearly twenty yuan, but the house in the city also needs at least twenty yuan of rent a month, and I have to pay half a year at a time, so the money is not enough now, so I have to refuel.

When I got home, my mother first turned on the stove and boiled some water to drink to warm her body.

I sat on the kang, pulled up the cotton pants, and asked my mother to get a piece of plaster and burn it under the oil lamp, and put it on the injured area, and my tears came down from the pain.

She hurriedly said, "What's the matter, Nizi, are you in pain?" ”

I waved my hand: "I'm fine." "Hopefully tomorrow morning it won't delay my walk.

The whole room smells of medicine, but it smells good.

I asked my mom to put all the food in the cupboard: "You remember to lock it!" Otherwise, if the uncle's family comes, he must snatch it, and he usually keeps all the good things for himself to eat, and we are worried about what we get. ”

"I see." Mom smiled.

I was too lazy to move, my leg hurt a lot, so I sat on the kang and asked my mother to get me potatoes to peel over there.

Mom said with a smile in that room: "Nizi, do you say that Du Ruoruo likes Director Chen Jian?" ”

I leaned against the kang and rubbed my legs: "It seems to be!" The two of them don't seem to be in the same place, they probably just met. ”

"Well, this Director Chen is good at first glance. Now if this little girl has a formal job in the city, she can indeed make people look high, Du Ruoruo is not as good-looking as you, but she can find an official like Director Chen. ”

I smiled, thinking about my current conditions, I am afraid that no one in the village with a slightly flat head and a straight face will find me with such a family background, no father, no job, no education, no land, no mother's family, and it is a burden to marry. Therefore, most people will not come to discuss relatives.

"Niko. You will be seventeen after the New Year, and when the time comes, let the osmanthus sister-in-law introduce a good object. ”

I smiled and said, "I'm not in a hurry, when I make money, I also want to find a good one." ”

"Okay! Nizi is also looking for a good family. Mom smiled casually, in fact, she didn't believe me.

We were talking when there was a knock on the door.

Mom was scared, and I was a little nervous.

She said, "Is it your uncle's family who came to us to settle accounts?" ”

"I don't know, I'll see." I have a leg injury right now, and this combat effectiveness must not work!

I hurriedly climbed into the kang and looked out through the glass: "Don't worry, Mom, it's not the uncle's family, it's the village chief who is here." ”

It was dark early in winter, and now it was dark, Zheng Shusheng took a flashlight, walked quickly to the yard, his waist was very straight, and he greeted him warmly after coming in.

I saw him carrying a net bag in his right hand with a dozen small cakes and a bottle of canned food.

Although he has no culture, and he is also very treacherous and selfish, but because his father is an old revolutionary and was injured during the Anti-Japanese War, the people in the township also looked up to him, and he successfully became the village head.

I have already told Zheng Sisi not to let Zheng Shu be born, but he still came, but he did not come with several village cadres and neighbors like in his previous life.

He smiled, "I saw the lights on in your house, and I knew you were back." ”

Mom hurriedly greeted him: "Village chief, are you here?" What's wrong? ”

"yes, there's something to say." Zheng Shusheng smiled at me and looked at our package: "Went to town?" ”

"Well, I'm going to see Nizi, she didn't fall into the river."

The village chief asked about the condition with concern, and then looked at me with a smile: "Nizi, you have grown into a big girl now!" A lot of sensible. ”

I knew what he was going to do, and I was disgusted, so I just smiled and didn't speak.

"Where! I know that I quarrel with others, and I don't know anything. "My mom took the kettle and poured hot water for him.

"There is no tea at home, you can drink it."

Zheng Shusheng didn't drink it, and looked at me with a smile: "Nizi, you thought about my family before, but you were wronged. Falling into an ice cave is not fun, but you have to take a good look at it, and it's not good to do something wrong. ”

Mom said, "The doctor said that if you take care of it, you'll be fine." You can rest assured. ”

"It's okay, I heard that it was a young man who saved her!"

"Yes, it's Liao Qiang from the neighboring village." Mom doesn't have any city government, so she said it directly.

Zheng Shusheng said: "He's not married yet, so he picked up the girl like this?" ”

Mom's face changed, and I smiled; "Thank you for the village chief's concern, Zheng Sisi is my good sister, she wants to eat river fish, she keeps asking for it again and again, I don't go to her and hug me and cry, I also think that she is a few months younger than me, just like my own sister, I must pay for her." If you want to talk about Liao Qiang and me, I'll talk hard about you girl.

Zheng Shusheng's brows furrowed and he looked at me in surprise.

I continued to purse my lips and smile: "I heard my mother say, in the two days I was in a coma, Liao Qiang and Sisi took care of me together, not to mention how good the relationship between the two is, they often eat together at my house, isn't it, Mom?" ”

My mother smiled and said, "Yes, one is your benefactor, the other is your friend, and I kept it for a few meals." ”

"Oh yes! Just now in the town, I saw her and Liao Qiang buying scarves together,...... Yes! No, Sisi said, the two of them happened to meet in the town, look at my mouth, how can I talk nonsense. Don't take it to heart! ”

I can't pretend to see Zheng Shusheng's shock, he can't hold back anymore.

Your daughter went out to buy a scarf with a man she had just met? If anyone sees it, it's over!

I continued to smile and said, "Finally, the matter between me and Liao Qiang is nothing. Sisi is my good friend, even if one day in the future, because of Sisi, I fell into the river, had a skin-to-skin relationship with other men, and was ruined, I don't resent her! ”

If you dare to spread the word about me and Liao Qiang, I will drag your girl into the water, she instigated me to go down, and if I don't go, I will keep making trouble, and your girl and Liao Qiang are also close, don't keep dragging me to talk.

Mom said, "Nizi, don't talk nonsense. Sisi is your good friend, how can you resent her? ”

"That's what it was! If it weren't for me, it would be Sisi who fell in. I almost died inside, and I was told that a man had hugged me. Isn't this burying people? How could I be so unlucky! I don't want to mind other people's business in the future! I grabbed my mother and complained like a coquette.