A child can receive more than 100 copper dollars, which is often very enviable.

I was one of them, because there were so many relatives in my family.

But the difference is that some children are able to spend that part of their own money, and they can often go to familiar stores that are finally willing to buy some more expensive goods, buy a cool gun, a box of building toys, or a few big boxes of torpedoes, or try all kinds of small explosions.

For example, pressing a firecracker torpedo with rubble, or burying it in the soil and watching the soil blow up, will make people feel very excited and even cheer.

Others will go to the pond and fry it, listening to the dull but quite shocking sound, which makes people feel very happy, and sometimes they can even fry the fish to their stomachs, so that they can find a long-rod fishing net to catch the fish and take it home to eat.

However, because there is no contract fish farming in the pond, and in the summer we all swim in the water and even touch the fish, so even in the winter, there are not many big fish in it, and it is very surprising that we can blow up a fish the size of a palm.

But you still have to pay attention, some children accidentally blew themselves up, very miserable, look very terrible, and later in the village doctor's stitches and bazaar, attracted a lot of people to see the excitement, I heard that they also entered the hospital.

It was also after that incident that the other children in the village were more careful when playing with firecrackers and torpedoes, and nothing like that happened again.

My uncle's house was in the second year of junior high school, and all the relatives on my grandfather's side would basically gather at my grandfather's house that day.

This also means that basically all the children on Grandpa's side will gather here.

The cousins, who always had no money to buy snacks on weekdays, finally got rich, they bought all kinds of toys, and even learned from the adults to start gambling, I heard that the cousin of the uncle's family always won money, and then returned to the village to win the money of the children in the village, and many adults said that he hated being shrewd.

But in my opinion, he is chubby, very similar to his uncle, not very shrewd, in my impression, but the cousin of the second uncle's family looks shrewd.

Later, I learned that sometimes there are many meanings of shrewdness.

Most of my youthful days have passed in the blink of an eye, and I am about to graduate from elementary school.

I thought that the days would pass slowly, but if it really passed like still water, I don't think I would have so many memories of my childhood, because the same experience will gradually be forgotten.

But suddenly something happened that turned my life upside down.

My mother, the one from the big city, married my father because of love, and eventually because she was tired of it...... She left.

I don't know why, her departure didn't affect me much, I wasn't even too sad, and I was faintly happy. I think maybe she was too short-tempered and often beat and scolded me.

Maybe she chatters all day long, dissatisfied with the status quo, and vents her anger on the whole family.

It didn't matter if she left, but she let the neighbors point fingers at our house, and the jokes behind it never stopped.

The grandfather, who was physically strong, frowned all day long, and finally became seriously ill in bed.

The family didn't have any savings at all, and my grandfather insisted on going home after not staying in the hospital for two days.

At this moment, a great event fell from heaven.

That day, my grandfather was calmly explaining what was going on after his death, and my father squatted in front of the bed and cried bitterly, saying that he was useless.

Suddenly, a voice came from outside the door.

"Anyone, is this Fang Xiaojun's home?"

Grandpa struggled to sit up and shouted to his father, "Help me up, who is the person outside?" ”

The father hurriedly said, "Just lie down and I'll take a look." ”

With that, he walked out.

I was about to follow, but my father hurriedly pressed my shoulder and said, "Take care of grandpa here." ”

Although I was curious about who the people outside were, I nodded obediently.

After a polite exchange between the two outside, they came in.

The person who came was an old lady dressed in colorful clothes with a smile on her face.

She first greeted her grandfather warmly, and then said with a smile: "I learned about your family's situation, so I came to help you." ”

Grandpa coughed twice and smiled, "Ahem... Cough...... How are you going to help us? I remember that you are a famous matchmaker in Shili and Eight Villages, could it be that I heard that my Xiaojun has no wife, so I came to introduce you? ”

The matchmaker nodded with a smile on her face, squeezed her eyebrows and said, "Yes." I chose a lot to find this woman who is very good in all aspects, especially for your boy. ”

Grandpa laughed embarrassedly twice: "Yes." Ha ha...... But let's not hide it, my family's current situation is really not good, let's not talk about this matter for now, Xiaojun, what do you say? ”

The father nodded, turned his head and said to the matchmaker with an apologetic face, "Thank you for your kindness." But I haven't divorced my family yet, so it's impossible to marry another one, which is a crime of bigamy. ”

The matchmaker was surprised, her eyes widened: "What! So you're not divorced yet! Then why is there rumors about your family in and outside the village, saying that your wife ran away. ”

The father was embarrassed: "Although she ran away, we didn't go through the divorce procedures." ”

The matchmaker was stuck now, she was also a little embarrassed, and she got up and smiled: "It turns out that I misunderstood." In that case, I will not bother any more. ”

She got up and said some polite words, probably wishing the old man a speedy health or something.

Then he left in a hurry.

"Alas! It's all my fault for dragging you down. If it weren't for my illness, you would ......"

Grandpa let out a long sigh.

The father hurriedly said: "It's not your fault, it's all because I didn't work hard enough and didn't make a profit......"

The two of them took responsibility for each other, and kept blaming themselves, and my heart was sullen when I heard it, and my head was big, so I sneaked out and stayed at the door to play with stones.

I can't go far these days because I have to take care of my grandfather when my father goes to work in the fields.

It wasn't long before my father went to work, and I still played around the old house with mud and rocks to have fun.

I had a hasty meal at noon.

Alas! I don't know what's going on these days, but there are only one or two greens a day, and I, a person who doesn't like meat, start to miss meat very much.

After lunch, I still had nothing to do around the old house, and a few friends came to see that I couldn't leave, and after playing here for a while, I got bored and left again.

I also want to go a little further and play, I'm almost depressed to death when I stay here all day.

I even wish this summer vacation had passed early so I could go to school......

But I also know that if I go to school, my grandfather will have no one to take care of me, which is really distressing!

When he was bored, a somewhat colorful figure appeared on the ridge in the distance.

I recognized it at a glance as the matchmaker who had come in the morning.

What is she doing here? I thought to myself.

This morning I already understood that she was a matchmaker and wanted to find me a new mother, that is, a stepmother.

It scared me a lot.

Because there are few good stepmothers on TV, I heard that there are also a few stepmothers in other villages, who are very good to their biological sons, but very bad to those who are not biological.

I don't want a bad stepmother.

So when she came to me this time, I didn't give her a good face, I looked at her with hostility, and said angrily: "Don't go in, I don't want a stepmother in my house!" ”

After hearing this, the matchmaker laughed a few times, and the voice was like a rooster with a broken throat, very harsh.