"Then I haven't been back to my hometown for several years, I'm homesick, you give me the ticket money, I'll leave right now."

"Want ticket money? has the ability to gild the edges of the eyes, and give birth to a big fat boy. I am unlucky and have no ability to give birth to a boy, and I still want to ask for compensation? You have thought of all the good things in the world, and you have taken advantage of all the advantages. Why? Do you deserve it too? Besides, since I bought you, don't you want to leave, the married girl spilled the water and want to go back to her parents' house? Hehe......"

She heard the cold air coming from her back, and she didn't say anything again.

Erxi no longer bothered.

She was homesick and wanted to buy a ticket home, just to earn enough money for a ticket.

In the blink of an eye, at the turn of spring and summer, the little swallow on the eaves of Erxi's house didn't come to the nest for some reason. In the countryside, there is a saying among the locals that the swallow does not live in the house. In short, it's time for the old swallow to lead the new swallow to learn to hunt, but the swallow's nest is still empty.

The old woman is still burning incense and chanting Buddha all day long, giving birth to a boy all day long, and actually offering a pomegranate that represents the meaning of many sons and grandchildren. She closed her eyes and kept muttering, "If you don't give birth to a male baby, it will be a thousand cuts." "Just like my grandmother, I knelt down and said the same thing every day.

this day.

The weather is hot, and the wheat in the field is almost ripe, and the ears of wheat are heavy, and most of them have faded to green, and they are about to turn golden yellow, and they are about to be harvested.

The sun is shining, and Mengyao wakes up early.

She wore a shabby coat thrown down by her mother-in-law, and pushed a 28 large iron donkey cart with a white wooden box on it. The box was inked for a long time, Aunt Miao, begging someone to help beat it. This box of goods was also from the village store - old Beijing popsicles.

While pushing the box, while bending my waist, I felt that my stomach was not very comfortable in the past two days, but now I have to fight for a breath and feel uncomfortable. Blowing up the gallant cart to the crowded place, everyone was picking cucumbers on the ground.

"How much is one?"

"5 Mao, authentic old Beijing popsicles."

Someone asks before you even shout, and that's a good start. A little girl jumped up, shoved her crumpled 5 cents, ran back into the cucumber rack with a popsicle and disappeared.

Meng Yao took the 5 cents that were sweating in the palm of her hand, unfolded it and smoothed it, and then stuffed it into the deepest part of her trouser pocket, which was her first labor. The popsicle was a dime a piece, but this time it was earned.

"Selling popsicles, old Beijing popsicles, 5 cents a piece."

She continued to shout.

There was a group of women passing by with hoes on their shoulders, "Hey, old Beijing popsicles? Ha, let's buy some, it's too hot when I'm thirsty. ”

"Okay."

A straightforward woman treated, 5 old Beijing popsicles, and in the blink of an eye, Mengyao harvested 2 pieces of 5.

Meng Yao was even more excited, so he walked back and forth, shouting old Beijing popsicles.

I am walking in the fields.

Suddenly, I saw a group of children playing, and suddenly I saw a very clean little girl with dark skin, her facial features were extremely generous and thoughtful, especially the two eyebrows, which were particularly powerful. Isn't this the eldest daughter of the third uncle's family, the English teacher's child?

"Early Sun?" She called out her name.

The little girl, who was only a few years old, looked up and smiled, but she didn't know the tall woman who sold popsicles.

"Here, give you popsicles."

Meng Yao generously opened the white cabinet door, looked up and counted again, and then each person was given one for free.

Zaoyang didn't know why he was rewarded, so he could only hold it firmly and say "thank you" first, and licked the cold air and ate it. The seductive sweet fragrance penetrates the throat and is very enjoyable. She wanted to go home and ask her mother who would be kind enough to give her a popsicle for free, and because of her, each of her playmates had one of their hair.

Mengyao looked at Zaoyang and said, "I'm from the lotus pond, and I know it as soon as I talk to my mother." ”

Zaoyang licked the popsicle and nodded, turned around and ran home.

"Don't be too fast." Afraid that the child would fall, Mengyao was anxious to instruct. After all, Zaoyang is about the same age as Shan Shan, and when she sees her, she can naturally think of her daughter.

Mengyao pushed the cart in the opposite direction and looked at the worn-out watch, it was noon. She didn't have lunch and didn't want to go back, but now that she has 10 yuan in her pocket, it can be said that today is her happiest day. In the end, there were still a dozen popsicles in the box, but gradually there was no one in the vegetable field, maybe it was all lunch break, and she had to push the cart home.

When she arrived at home, the old woman moved her half-big foot and had a black face, "Where did you die?" Didn't get home at noon? ”

"I'm selling popsicles, doing some small business."

"Where's the money?"

The old woman stretched out her withered hands.

Meng Yao was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, "I didn't sell it, only this." ”

Fortunately, she put the money into the two pockets, she took out a few crumpled gross tickets, a total of about 2 yuan, "Only this?" ”

The old woman had a dark face as deep as a washboard, and snorted bitterly and disdainfully.

"You look like you're unproductive, and you still want to make a lot of money? Phew! Why can't you eat and be blind, if you didn't count on my son, you would have gone to drink the northwest wind and starved to death, and now it is your turn to be a powerful and good fortune on my one-third of an acre? ”

Meng Yao was silent, took out the remaining 4 popsicles, and put them in the basin, and the smell of fruit candy suddenly overflowed.

Afraid of melting, Meng Yao sat there and ate one.

But there were too many, the old woman didn't even look at it, and she didn't take it to eat, but just said, "I'm not afraid of freezing you to death." ”

I also ran over and ate a few sticks.

At night, Erxi, who had never come to Westinghouse to rest, suddenly slipped in, lying on Mengyao's body, and after a violent vent, he didn't forget to pick up Mengyao's pants and flip them over before leaving. Meng Yao closed his eyes, secretly glad that the 10 yuan had already changed the location.

After Erxi checked to no avail, he turned around and left, and went back to the east room to rest.

In fact, Meng Yao had hidden the money in the wall cabinet and stuffed it into the red boots he wore when he got married. The boots haven't been worn a few times since pregnancy, and they're still shiny as new. There was a sock in the shoe pit, and the 10 yuan was stuffed in the sock, and she firmly believed that Erxi would not find out for a while. She still had a few yuan left, that is, the money for tomorrow's delivery, which had already been carefully pressed under the tea tray in the wallcupboard.

The next day.

After Meng Yao drank the porridge, he pushed the big iron donkey and set off under the scorching sun.

No more, no less than 30 popsicles, and finally the store gave 3 more. So just like yesterday, under the vicious sun, he was not afraid of exposure, shuttling in the fields, and his voice became louder and louder, "Popsicles, popsicles of old Beijing!" ”

After a while, more than 20 were sold, and it was not yet 12 noon, and Mengyao was secretly happy.

At this time, a strong man came out of the bean field, "Oh, sell popsicles." Come to 5 sticks on credit first, and if you come here again tomorrow, I promise to give you money in place, okay? ”

Meng Yao saw him sweating like rain, with a dark back, a loyal and honest face, and a smile full of kindness and simplicity, so he nodded.

The strong man quickly took the popsicle, and then disappeared.

There were also a few popsicles in the box, and they were all sold after a turn. When I got home, I put away most of them today as I did yesterday, and finally pressed 3 yuan under the tea tray, and I was silent.

"Is it okay today?" The tone of the second hi interrogation.

"No," Meng Yao took out a few gross tickets.

"That's all?"

Erxi took it, "Hmph! You stinky waste dim sum, the unproductive virtue, the poor brain. ”

Meng Yao lowered his head nervously, picked his palms and rubbed his fingers. She didn't dare to raise her head, because Erxi's face was old and ugly, and her heart was still bad.

"Then I heard that you got at least 30 old popsicles, but the money and the rest of the goods don't match, how do you explain it?" The second joy is not reluctant.

She has nightmares about her father's serious illness every day, and it is extremely sad to think about her deep humiliation, after so many years, Erxi has not given a penny, what can she do? So Mengyao was silent.

"Say, what about the money?" Erxi attacked.

"There is a person who did not give money on credit today, and said that he will give it tomorrow." Yume Yao tried to divert his attention.

"Give it tomorrow? Do you know people? ”

"Huh? I don't know, I said that I would go to the same place tomorrow to give money. ”

"You don't recognize it, why should you give you money?" After Erxi finished speaking, he took off a shoe and knocked it a few times, and after putting it on, he continued to interrogate, "People said that they didn't buy it or eat it, and besides, he won't come tomorrow, or change his clothes and skin, so do you still know him?" You stinky idiot! ”

Meng Yao listened to Erxi's angry tone, blinked his eyes, and frowned, "Is people's hearts so bad?" Isn't the folk here simple?"

After speaking, he bit his lower lip and lowered his head and remained silent.

"You, I'm waiting for you to earn some money for Lao Tzu to spend, but I didn't expect that you would be eating all over the place, you poor hands who eat inside and out. I'm going to kill you, I'll kill you. ”

A mouthful of evil phlegm hung on the hair at Mengyao's temples, and the sticky silk hung and swayed from side to side.

With the shudder of Mengyao.

The piece of sputum, sticky back and forth, swayed elastically, and accompanied by a strange smell of fishy cheeks and cigarette pouch grease stains, billowing to the nose.

Erxi turned around and returned to the East House.

"How much?"

"2 yuan, this stinky bitch actually said that she gave credit to outsiders, and asked him what his surname was, but she didn't know at all." Erxi and the old woman sued.

"Hmph, just after drinking sheep soup for a few days in Tianjin, she learned to lie and get a poor hand, who knows what kind of heart and conspiracy she and our mother are fighting?"

"This foreign goods are just unreliable, hum! If you turn the hair upside down, it will turn the sky upside down, give her a little bit of power sooner or later! Let's let it go first, if we want to catch it, and see how much of a splash I can make. There are also Miao Qing and Wang Dazhuang's dead girls from other places, who are not good birds, and they dare to tear down my platform and dig my corner. ”

The old woman nodded frequently when she heard this.

added: "I also heard Aunt Dong in the east of the village say that the village doctor that day was called by those two outsiders. If you don't give some color, this foreign goods will be bullied on the top of our locals' heads. Yo roar, I don't know who has eaten a few catties and taels of dry rice with my surname, and I am arrogant and drop a horse, it's simple! ”

Erxi blinked.

Listening to the old mother's angry curses and reminders, he smoked and thought.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning, Mengyao had enough goods under the bright sun, pushing the freezer boxes and still running in the fields.

After a day, the strong man didn't come.

The second day, and even the third ...... The dark-skinned strong man still didn't come. Suddenly, I thought I was standing in the wrong place, and from time to time I looked around repeatedly to make sure that it was still that place, and there was nothing wrong at all. It wasn't until 20 days had passed that Meng Yao faintly felt that he had indeed been deceived, and he was speechless.

Another few days passed.

Mengyao is still busy with the ticket back to his hometown, and he has to set aside money for his parents' filial piety. But I saw autumn, and I couldn't sell popsicles in the fields, what should I do?

While Erxi was not at home, she secretly counted the money in the wall cabinet, no more, no less, a full 230 yuan.

That's the harvest of a busy summer.

She is both satisfied and dissatisfied in her heart, because this is far from enough money to be filial to her parents, after all, she has to prepare enough round-trip tickets, and it is easy to go back to her parents' house for so many years, she can't leave in three days and two mornings, how can she stay for months. Thinking about my mother and my father who was sick on the kang, my heart was really bottomless, and my nose was sour.

However, we must not shed tears in front of this family.

Because, she doesn't need sympathy, and maybe they don't at all. If she was sympathetic, she wouldn't rely on herself to generate this little hard money. After marrying for a long time, don't you still use your own oil and fry your own fritters?

At the end of the day, no one can count on it.

Recently, I found that Erxi always looks around coldly, and often sneaks into the West House, lifts the lid of the wallboard, and pretends to rummage clothes. It is estimated that he may be looking for the money he has hidden.

Meng Yao looked at it in his eyes, a little nervous,