It's seven o'clock, and before dawn opens, the streets of the town are already lively.

Jiang Xue stood at the door of the Internet café, letting the cold wind blow her face.

She left while her brother was chatting with the soul under the moon, and the matter of the alliance had already been discovered anyway, so she continued to stay inside, just to scold.

Actually, the QX in the password is what Qiao and Xue mean, but just now in front of Jiang Qiao, I don't know why, I just don't want to speak.

All she thinks about now is the scene of someone putting a scarf on herself. She couldn't remember the last time he was so gentle.......

In front of the Internet café, there is also a rickshaw parked. There were several white plastic buckets side by side on the car, and the buckets were filled with large black fish of more than four catties.

Actually, Jiang Xue came to the town today to sell fish in a hurry, and the reason why she delayed the list of the soul under the moon was because she was too tired to catch fish in the field these days, and she overslept as soon as she rested at night.

And because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to receive an order after releasing his pigeons, I hurriedly wanted to contact him in the Internet café.

Jiang Xue learned to fish and sell fish when she was very young, especially after her brother went to high school, she often shouted and sold on the street with her mother. The little girl is innocent and cute, with a sweet mouth, and her own fish always sells better than others.

When my mother was there, there was still a façade at home, and after I went to the No. 1 Middle School, I was sent out by my brother.

But Jiang Xueke's ability to fish and sell fish has not fallen behind at all, and during the winter and summer vacations, she will still take a few days to sell fish on the field. Especially during the Chinese New Year, the price of native black fish is extremely high, and you can make a lot of money.

It's just that she never told Jiang Qiao about selling fish.

There are only two or three sellers in the fish market, and the rest are all retail fish sellers who carry them from all over the town.

Jiang Xue looked around, and there was only one red-clothed aunt in her forties who sold black fish, so she pushed the car to her side.

"Auntie, how long have you been here, is this year's black fish selling well?"

"It's been half an hour, and it hasn't opened yet. The market is changing every year, and I don't know how to do it. ”

"Not really, right?" Jiang Xue was a little surprised, "Didn't everyone else rush to ask for it last year?" ”

"Little sister, it also depends on luck. What do you think, blackfish is so expensive, how many people in the town will buy it? The people who buy it are basically going back to their hometowns to visit relatives, bosses and salarymen who like to eat black fish, if they don't come back, who do you sell them to? ”

Jiang Xue nodded, she didn't expect that layer at all, indeed, when selling black fish last year, it was close to the Spring Festival, and now it is half a month away from Chinese New Year's Eve.

"By the way, little sister, you're not alone, are you? It's so small, it's so cold, what about your parents? ”

"My parents...... They're busy. I just come out to exercise and exercise myself, and I have nothing to do at home anyway. ”

"Ouch, you're really sensible, unlike that girl in my family, who is too lazy to die." The red-clothed aunt walked to the three wheels as she spoke, and reached into the bucket to scoop up the fish head to examine it carefully.

"Little sister, you black fish is good. The back is black and shiny, and the size is big, so it will definitely sell for a good price! ”

Jiang Xue was a little embarrassed, but she was also very proud, these black fish were all stocked by her. In order to catch them, they spent three days in the fields.

"Auntie, how did you sell your black fish?"

"Ahem...... aunt in red coughed twice, and said softly: "Little sister, you see that there are only two of us who sell black fish now, and someone will buy it later, we will all bite forty to death, and don't let them bargain!" ”

"Okay."

After listening to the aunt in red, Jiang Xue was very happy, the price of black fish this year is five yuan more expensive than last year, there are more than ten black fish in the car, forty or fifty catties, if you sell them all, you can earn more than a thousand yuan!

After a while, a middle-aged man walked towards the red-clothed aunt.

"Eldest sister, how did you sell this black fish?"

"Forty."

"Didn't you pay back thirty-five last year?"

"Hehe, you said it yourself, it was last year."

"Forty is too expensive, at most thirty-seven, how about the eldest sister, less?"

"Less? Okay. Then you go next door and don't get in the way of my business. ”

The middle-aged man was very unhappy with his aunt's words, and turned his head to Jiang Xue, "What kind of attitude?" A fish seller, when he sells cut cakes himself? ”

"Who are you? What's wrong with my attitude? You have to bargain for a few dollars, and that's all you can do. I don't have any money to buy fish, so I put on a ball. ”

"You ......"

"Damn, it's really a poor mountain and bad water out of the people."

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The middle-aged man was angry enough, but obviously he couldn't scare his aunt, so he only muttered a word.

"Yo, little girl, your black fish is really big, unlike some people's fish, dry and thin, and they are all over the price."

As soon as Jiang Xue heard this, she felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Uncle, now it's all at this price, forty, don't bargain." ”

"it...... I really took a few broken fish for gold! ”

The middle-aged man spat out, turned his head and left.

"Little sister, what a job!"

Seeing this, the red-clothed aunt gave Jiang Xue a thumbs up again and again.

Jiang Xue also turned her head to signal, she understood that the reason why the aunt was so arrogant was just that she didn't want people to bargain.

Soon, an hour passed.

Although there were many people who came to inquire about buying fish, none of them were willing to go out to forty.

The weather was getting colder, and Jiang Xue's hands and feet were numb from the cold, and she couldn't help but start worrying. At this time last year, I had already packed up and gone home, but now, I can't sell any of them.

"Auntie, I don't think the market is good this year. Why don't we lower the price? ”

"How can this be?" The aunt in red was not happy when she heard this, "Silly girl, such a good black fish, there are only a few in the field in a year, how can it be sold cheaply?" It's worth the price! ”

Jiang Xue didn't say anything more. She understands the hard work of farmers to make money, not to mention the difference in the price of a piece, and there will be many people who work hard to bargain for a dime in and out of the vegetable market.

It's just that more than an hour has passed, and few people still care.

Seeing several fish sellers closing their stalls and going home, Jiang Xue was a little anxious.

If you can't sell it anymore, all the fish will have to be pulled back intact!

You know, I started at four o'clock in the morning, turned on the flashlight, and pushed the three wheels all the way to the town. In the winter, I don't dare to ride at all, not only the road is slippery and unsafe, but the speed goes up slightly, and the hands, face, neck and ears, none of them can stand it.

On the cement road, even if it was pushed for an extra hour, it was nothing, but when she thought of the last section of the gravel road from home, Jiang Xue felt stunned in her heart.

"Auntie, let's drop it, or sell it for thirty-eight."

"Hey, wait a little longer. The black fish is not a cabbage, and even if it is lowered, it will have to lose a lot. The aunt in red was a little hesitant, but she still insisted.

"But just now a few fish buyers said that they only sold for thirty-seven yesterday, and when they ended, there were all those below thirty-five!"

Thirty-seven?

The red-clothed aunt was stunned for a few seconds, and quickly said:

"Ouch my silly girl, that's someone who bluffed you, bullied you for your young age. Listen to Auntie, can Auntie still fix you? Didn't I sell one too? ”

"But I ......."

"But what, you're still young and inexperienced. Wait, it'll be sold in a while. There are a few fish farms in the town, and there are many black fish eaters at night, so maybe you will be lucky enough to have a boss, and you will have them all! ”

Jiang Xue compromised again.

Soon, noon had passed, and the streets were becoming more and more sparse. Most of the people who sold grass carp, crucian carp, and eel packed up their things and left, only Jiang Xue and the aunt in red still haven't sold one.

Several times, she wanted to sell thirty-seven or thirty-eight, but when she made up her mind to reduce the price alone, she couldn't even sell thirty-five.

Even, for the next two hours, not even a single person came to ask for the price.

"Hey, how so? The big black fish in previous years are very easy to sell, why ...... this year"

The red-clothed aunt was already a little depressed, and she was embarrassed to look at Jiang Xue. I was talking and chatting before, but for a long time, I didn't say a word again. She put the bucket in her back basket and prepared to leave.

But at this time, a middle-aged uncle wearing a chef's uniform walked up to Jiang Xue. Jiang Xue's eyes lit up and she regained her spirits.

"Little sister, how did you sell this black fish?"

"Uncle, thirty-seven."

"Thirty-seven??? Oops the price...... Little girl, I want more, can you see if you can have less? ”

"And how much do you want?"

"Twenty pounds up!"

"Then I'll count you thirty-six."

"Thirty-six? Yesterday there were still people selling for less than thirty-five, and you are too expensive. ”

"You can't miss uncles, it's all hard-earned money. I've been growing in the fields for two years. ”

"Ouch little girl, who earns money is not hard money, you can't just rely on you to sell black fish, just ask for a price......"

"Who said she was the only one who sold it!"

At this time, the red-clothed aunt hurriedly put down the basket and interrupted the middle-aged uncle's words, "Boss, you can also come to me to have a look, my black fish is cheaper than her." ”

"Auntie, you ......"

Jiang Xue froze instantly, like a cold lightning bolt, and the whole person collapsed.

She wanted to say something to keep the middle-aged uncle, but at this time, except for lowering the price, there was no possibility for him to turn back.

"Eldest sister, how do you sell this black fish?"

"Thirty ..... Thirty-Five ......"

"You're only twenty pounds of fish. Thirty-three, I want them all! ”

"Thirty-three? That's too little, isn't it...... Add more?"

"Okay, it's not easy to see how old you are, thirty-four, you hurry up."

"Thirty-four? Okay, good, thirty-four is thirty-four. Wait, I'll weigh you right away. ”

The red-clothed aunt secretly glanced at Jiang Xue a few times while weighing, her gaze like pine needles and goose down, I don't know if she was apologizing or begging.

"Auntie......"

Jiang Xue muttered on the side, like a frozen piece of wood, stunned as her aunt happily weighed the fish, her face, if it wasn't for the years plated with a layer of dark rust, maybe she could see a trace of shame, but in the end, she was still drowned in the joy of earning six or seven hundred yuan.

Jiang Xue didn't speak, and she didn't lower the price until the last moment. Although she knew that if she missed this middle-aged uncle, basically no one would come to buy fish again.

She silently packed up everything and left the town.

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When the car was pushed onto the gravel road, Jiang Xue stopped. When I saw the muddy pits and raised stones on the road, I suddenly felt like crying.

She can forget the words she learned in a semester, she can forget the taste of the best food she has eaten, but she will not forget the hardships of pushing the car through this gravel road in the morning for ten or twenty years.

She was tired and hungry.

From four o'clock in the morning until now, she has only eaten a few buns.

After a while, Jiang Xue sat on the edge of the car, wrapped in a scarf and curled into a ball. But the winter wind is always so unkind. As long as there is a crack that can be drilled, it will be drilled into it with all its might.

She felt more and more cold, but suddenly, she remembered Jiang Qiao inexplicably.

When I was a child, whenever I was unhappy, my brother would take me for a ride on a tricycle, and he would go to potholes, saying that he would shake his ass.

will often hide from his mother, take himself everywhere to fish for yellow eels on hot days, he explores the way on the ridges, finds holes, and hooks, and he is just a fart with a bamboo basket.

At that time, the brothers and sisters were full of sweet potatoes on the hillside;

will block the bird hole to catch kingfishers, and will hold a fire target to burn a hornet's nest;

will dig pits on the hillside to build stoves and cook some strange things;

can make his own sword, be a peerless swordsman, and chop the vegetables in the field to shreds....... but all of this has become a luxury in memory with the passage of time.......

Not far away, Jiang Qiao stood upright in the cold wind like a tree stump.

When he found Jiang Xue, he wanted to scold her, scolding her for being willful and ignorant; scolded her for secretly playing games and going to Internet cafes to mess around; scolded her for not studying hard, and the final exam dropped by three or forty points;

scolded her for slipping away without saying hello, causing herself to run back and forth between her hometown and the town a few times......

However, when he saw his sister burying her head in her lap like a frostbitten squirrel, he couldn't stop feeling distressed.

He slowly approached Jiang Xue, took off his down jacket, and gently covered her.

"Idiot, just like you are now, can you earn a few dollars, and you don't know if you want me if you lack money......."

Elder brother......

Jiang Xue raised her head, and the moment she saw Jiang Qiao, for some reason, her eyes turned red all of a sudden. She threw herself into Jiang Qiao's arms, sobbed and said:

"Brother, I'm hungry, I'm hungry....."

Jiang Qiao was a little caught off guard, how could her sister, who has always been strong, cry when she said she cried? But at this moment, he seemed to feel something.

"What's wrong? Wronged? I'm not...... Didn't scold you yet? ”

"Jiang Qiao, I'm not wronged, not wronged at all, but why should you wronged yourself?"

"Am I wronged? I don't have anything to complain about, huh? ”

"Then why do you want to compete with your mother and choose a major that you don't like? Why not do what you want to do? ”

"When my mother was here, she didn't understand anything, and she didn't allow you to drop out of school and pursue a career, but when your mother left, why did you hide from me to drop out?"

"How do you know that I will be looked down upon by others if I take the condolence money from the village committee? How do you know that I will feel inferior when I apply for poverty assistance at school? ”

"Every decision you make, why don't you ask me? How do you know what I'm thinking, and how can you represent me? ”

"Brother, I don't need you to sacrifice for me, I don't need you to wronged yourself for me."

"I just want to see you laugh and see you happy. I want to see you coax me again and make braised eel for me again. ”

"I want to give you a special birthday. I want to take you on a trip to Shanghai to see the game of the King team. I also want to tell my classmates that my brother is a very good professional player, which is my pride. ”

"But why don't you always give me a good face? Do you think I don't understand anything? ”

"If you can't do the finale, you will scold me, if your grades drop a little, you will lose your temper, and if you have a better relationship with boys, you will beat someone."

"Brother, I'm your own sister, not your punching bag, a golden stick as thick as your fingers, don't you feel distressed when you hit me......"

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Jiang Qiao was silent and couldn't say a word.

He only now realizes that after dropping out of school, he hasn't really cared about his sister for too long in order to earn money. Especially when I heard the words that hit her, my heart was even more sour.

Because some things have long become an eternal regret.

In his sophomore year of high school, Jiang Qiao had the opportunity to play professionally, but because of his good grades and poor family conditions, his mother and teachers were resolutely opposed.

During that time, watching several game friends enter the secondary league one after another, and lead the team all the way forward, Jiang Qiao's heart was very unbalanced.

Coupled with youth rebellion, he also had a lot of resentment towards his mother and teachers, so that he was not as motivated in his studies as before, and his grades were not as good as once.

was originally a seedling of a top 30 university, but in the end, the college entrance examination just stepped on a line.

Jiang Qiao originally thought that after the age of eighteen, he would casually apply for a university far away from home, and then secretly try to play a career, but in the summer of that year, his mother fell ill.

At that time, his mother said to him earnestly: "Jiang Qiao, my mother knows that you really want to fight that profession." But can you guarantee that you will be able to achieve results if you go? Mom is sick and can't earn money to take care of you anymore, if you can't get results in your career, then what will you do in the future? What to do with light snow?

Can you afford this risk?

But going to college is different, even if you only go to an ordinary university, your future is probably uncertain. Mom just makes the safest choice for you.

Even if you can make a name for yourself, is there a comparison between those years of happiness and a lifetime of stability and happiness?

You have grown up, but your sister is still young, no matter what choices you make in the future, don't let Xiaoxue bear the risks and costs with your decisions.

Mom hopes that you and Xiaoxue can finish college safely......"

At this moment, Jiang Qiao's eyes couldn't help but blur.

Perhaps, when I beat my sister, in addition to hating iron and steel, there was also a trace of resentment. But now, everything is in the past.

"Finished?"

"Hmm."

Jiang Xue got up and jumped out of the car. After crying, my mood is much better. She originally thought that Jiang Qiao would be very moved and would express something to herself, but she never expected that after being silent for a long time, she would say "It's over".

"Brother......

"Don't talk, go to the back and push the cart. When I don't have enough strength, you move. ”

Jiang Qiao controlled the faucet in front of him, and it took a lot of effort to finally push the car.

"It's really an idiot, catching so many fish, this road is still so bad, how can you push it?"

"But that's how I pushed it in the morning."

"You still dare to talk back?"

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"By the way, what you just said was told to you by Qinghu?"

"Well, it's Brother Qinghu."

"That guy! I knew it. ”

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"Also, your booster list, I'll help you fight tomorrow. Do not pick it up again in the future. ”

"Well, got it.".

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