Chapter 010: That Little Thing in the Village
In the suitcase of my room, there was a wad of thick bills.
When I was in college, I often heard people in my class say that their family had several apartments in the city center, what kind of car they drove at home, and how awesome the configuration of the car was, which made my ears callous.
I only had 200,000 in my suitcase, and even though it wasn't worth mentioning to those people, I had never seen that much money.
I've heard too many people open their mouths and close their mouths to millions of millions, and even spare no effort to pour cold water on others when they want to buy five million in the lottery ticket, saying that five million is a fart in today's society, and it is not enough to buy a decent house in Shangbei, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
But those who say this always seem to like to ask others to borrow money, and other people's ten or eight dollars are regarded as their own, and they buy a fruit for themselves but hide it from others.
Therefore, it is better to have more money and less money.
With these 200,000 yuan, I can do anything at home, and I don't have to worry about food and housing when I go out to find a job.
But what pleases me the most is the physical change, because I am used to being poor in my small family, so I can't help but have some inferiority complex when I am in school, the clothes I wear are all washed white old clothes, and I am not as high-spirited as other students when I walk, plus with thick eyes, so the whole person looks a little unenergetic, even obscene.
And after I swallowed the beads last night, not only did my vision become extremely clear, but my body also underwent indescribable changes, and even my breathing was much smoother than before.
I looked at the 200,000 yuan in the box, I didn't dare to be careless about this unexpected wealth, after all, it involved the murder of Zhang Fugui's family of three, but I didn't feel guilty about this money, because Zhang Fugui's family has bullied me and my mother over the years, and my mother didn't know how much anger her family had to suffer when I was not in the village when I went to school.
Sooner or later, something would go wrong with such a pile of banknotes at home, and I couldn't tell my mother about it, so I left a note for her early in the morning, saying that my classmate had called me to go to the city to see if there was a suitable job.
I took my suitcase to the city, converted all the cash into WeChat balance, and then went on a revenge spending for two days, buying a bunch of things that I had never been willing to buy before, which was the first time I experienced how good it feels to be rich.
I wanted to continue to be chic for a few days, but on the morning of the third day, I suddenly received a call from my neighbor, Uncle Hagan, saying that my mother was hospitalized.
As soon as I heard this, I was anxious, and hurriedly took the car back to the village, and when I arrived at the health center in the town, I learned that my mother was a stomach problem, and her stomach began to hurt last night, but she was reluctant to see a doctor, thinking that she could endure it.
Uncle Hagen helped my mother pay for the registration fee and emergency fee for hospitalization, a total of more than 1,400 yuan, if it was before, I would definitely be shocked, because 1,400 yuan is enough for my living expenses for a few months, and I asked the attending doctor to know that my mother had a stomach ulcer attack, because the delay was too long, resulting in gastric perforation and gastric bleeding, and had to be operated.
I know that my mother must have eaten something bad last night, she was already thin, plus she has been saving money for many years, I have reminded her many times to eat less leftovers, leftovers to eat at most to the second meal, not overnight, otherwise it will be bad for her stomach, grandma was a stomach perforation caused by eating bad things, and finally the whole stomach was removed, and she died in a few days.
And this operation, it will cost more than 10,000.
I was very glad that I took Zhang Fugui's 200,000 yuan, otherwise I wouldn't be able to make up so much money even if I begged my grandfather to sue my grandmother, I knew that my mother was saving money for my marriage, but the bride price for marriage in our village was generally 6,000, not to mention that my mother was reluctant to take my marriage money for treatment, even if she took it out, it would not be enough for the cost of surgery.
After I paid all the fees, I asked the doctor to operate on my mother immediately, and my mother's operation was very successful, and then she had to be hospitalized for a few days, but my mother woke up and was noisy to be discharged, saying that our family could not afford to live in the hospital, and the money that I had saved all my life would be gone in a few days.
I comforted my mother and said that it didn't cost much, and the hospitalization and surgery fees totaled more than 800 yuan, and my mother was a little relieved, but she still insisted on being discharged from the hospital in two days.
Uncle Hagen paid back the money he had helped pay and told him not to tell my mother about the hospitalization expenses, and Uncle Hagen asked me where I got the money, and I had to lie and ask my classmates in the city to borrow it.
On the day I picked up my mother from the hospital, I rode a tricycle, and the mountain road from the town to Zhangjiagou was not easy to walk, and although I rode very slowly, my mother was still in a cold sweat.
After carrying my mother to the bed, I looked at the stinky food on the dining table, and threw it all away, and there was a big stinky fish on the plate, and my mother didn't know how to water, and she was reluctant to spend money on it, so I guess she picked up a dead fish on the edge of the reservoir.
As the saying goes, stinky fish and rotten shrimp are life-threatening, and it is precisely because my mother ate fish that I don't know where to come that I caused a stomach attack.
My father was a fisherman in the village when he was alive, and since he drowned, my mother rarely dared to go near the water's edge, and even put up with her love of fish.
My mother is not in good health now, there is no one to do the farm work at home, and my grandfather who is about to die needs to be taken care of, so I don't think about going out to find a job for the time being, at the moment I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in WeChat, and it takes a lot of money and energy to raise pigs, but if you contract a fish pond to raise fish, it will be much easier.
So I went to the production team in the afternoon to see if there was a fish pond in the village to contract externally, I remember digging a new irrigation canal in the downstream of the reservoir, when the whole village went to dig the river to beat the pile, about half an acre of area, a question really no one has contracted, and the contract for this fish pond is not expensive, only 4,000 yuan in three years.
After I paid a deposit of 500 yuan, I was going to sign a contract to contract the next day to contract the fish pond, and then a notice would be posted on the bulletin board of the production team announcing the ownership of the irrigation canal, but in the evening, three or five village gangsters came to my door and said that Brother Meng had something to talk to me.
The brother Meng in their mouths refers to the day Xu Banxian died before, and I am not used to mocking my yellow-haired young man from the sidelines, Zhang Meng.
Zhang Meng and I are the same age, and he fought with me when he was a child, although he can't beat me, but he loves to cause trouble, his family has money, and after a long time, he has been entangled with a group of little hooligans to follow him, and he dared to scold the village chief in front of everyone before He was an old thing, and he didn't pay attention to anyone.
The reason why Zhang Meng is so crazy is because his second uncle is the village party secretary of our village.
As I said before, there is a big reservoir in our village, which covers an area of dozens of acres of land, and has existed for hundreds of years, but after his second uncle became the village party secretary, this reservoir became Zhang Meng's family, and many people in our village used to make a living from fishing, but after the reservoir became Zhang Meng's family, his family did not let the villagers fish, and if they wanted to fish, they had to pay 800 yuan a year for fishing.
In fact, his family didn't scatter a single fish in this reservoir, and some villagers were not satisfied, and wanted to go to the top to complain, but only to know that the director of the police station was Zhang Meng's uncle, and the villagers could only admit it if they were poor and remote.
When Zhang Meng saw me, he still had a cigarette in his mouth, and he said, "Yo, college student, I heard that your mother has just undergone surgery, and you have the money to contract the fish pond, you are really rich." ”
"What are you looking for me?"
"What the did you say I was looking for you? Am I looking for you to eat, your face is so big. Zhang Meng's words caused a burst of laughter from several thugs next to him.
"If you're okay, I'll go first." I said with a blank face.
It's just that as soon as I turned around, I was pushed back by two of the thugs, Zhang Meng flicked the cigarette butt in his hand at me, and said: "I won't go around in circles with you, the fish pond you want to contract can't be given to you, the fish pond is downstream of my reservoir, and as soon as the water starts, the fish in the reservoir will rush into your fish pond, unless you can make up 1,000 yuan to me every year." ”
Zhang Meng patted me on the shoulder after speaking, and then left with a group of people talking and laughing.
Those who have raised fish should know that when two fish ponds are next to each other, people who are located upstream will not suffer, because once the water is generated, the upstream water flows downstream, and the big fish and small fish will scramble to swim upstream, which is the nature of the fish.
Zhang Meng's family is a bad breed, I used to choose a downstream fish pond because of this, I don't know if this Zhang Meng is really ignorant or deliberately trying to slander me, actually said such brainless words.
At night, I lay on the bed after taking a shower, looking out the silent window, and suddenly missed Xiaobai a little.
I haven't been in the village for a few days, so I haven't dreamed of Xiaobai anymore, I thought Xiaobai would come to me when I dreamed at night, but the strange thing is that she didn't come after sleeping until dawn all night.
The next morning, I got up early to the production team to pay the cost of contracting the fish pond, which was handed over to the village party secretary, the village party secretary was Zhang Meng's second uncle, he received the money and signed, the fish pond is mine, Zhang Meng stalked for two days without results, and should be able to retreat.
The so-called poor mountains and remote areas come out of the people, and if you want to do something in the countryside, you have to face this kind of person.
But I never expected that Zhang Meng didn't know what means, and found out that there was a 200,000 turnover in my bank card, and Zhang Fugui's 200,000 yuan that disappeared was turned out again.