"Your grandfather in the house?"

"Hmm"

"What about your parents?"

"Oh, you guys buy grasshoppers and leave, what kind of nonsense, my father died, my mother ran away, and now at home, just me and my grandfather, okay! It's really wordy. ”

The little girl seemed a little irritable.

"Well, how do you sell your grasshoppers?"

"They come to collect three cents a piece."

"Okay, we'll pay three cents a piece, but I don't have anything to take, you have to find me a bag to get it."

"Ah, it's so troublesome, how about using a fertilizer bag for you, this fertilizer bag, you have to give me two cents."

"Okay, no problem." The little girl was very happy when she made the deal, so she went to the yard to find a fertilizer bag.

Lu Renbing took Rui Xiaodan, who had been silent since they entered here, pushed open the broken wooden door of the West House and walked in. Near the north wall of the west house is an earthen kang, and on the side of the earthen kang against the west wall are piled up eight or nine woven bags, which seem to be filled with grain. On the grain side, the rest of the place is where people sleep.

Kang's face was covered with a black-lit reed mat with a plaid sheet on top of it. The sheets were clean. It looked like it was often washed, and on the sheets lay a thin old man, with his head facing inward, wearing a big black trousers, shirtless, and a brick on his pillow. The windows were open, and the sashes were covered with thick plastic sheeting. There was a bit of wind in the room, but it wasn't so stuffy.

When the old man saw Lu Renbing and the others, he sat up with his body propped up. Lu Renbing looked at his gray hair and thin body, and he didn't know what to say.

"You're here to collect grasshoppers? Why isn't it Liu San from Weicun. "There are only two or three old man's teeth left, and he speaks a little out of style.

"We're new here, so we'll leave after this wave."

"Oh," there was no place to stay in the house, and Lu Renbing and the three of them didn't sit down, so they chatted with the old man for a few words. The old man is seventy-six years old this year, and his surname is Feng. The wife is long gone, he has three sons, and this yard belongs to him and his youngest son Feng San. Feng San married his wife and gave birth to a son and a daughter, the daughter is Feng Yan, who is busy outside, eleven this year, and his son is six years old this year.

Feng Sanwu went to the mine to dig coal and was smashed under the mine, and the mine lost 40,000 yuan.

Feng San's wife took the compensation money and ran away with her youngest son in her arms, which is said to have remarried. Feng Laohan's other two sons went to his wife's house to look for someone, but they were beaten back.

As a result, Feng Yan was left to follow Feng Laohan, guarding the family's four acres of land, and relying on each other for their lives. A few years ago, Feng Laohan was still able to do it, and the situation at home was a little better.

Last year, the old man had a stroke, and although he recovered well, his body collapsed and he couldn't do heavy work. The work in the field was entrusted to the two sons, and the grain was collected, the public grain was paid, and a few hundred catties were sent over, so that the two could eat and drink. Nothing else can be done.

The two eldest sons also have a lot of wives and children, so how can they take care of Feng Yan.

Fortunately, Feng Yan is a child who is very competitive and has good grades in school, and she usually goes up the mountain to pick mushrooms and fungus, feed pigweed to pigs, and herd sheep to earn some money.

This eleven-year-old girl doesn't seem to care about the hardships of life, she takes on the responsibility of taking care of her grandfather alone. The vegetables grown in the yard were all grown under the guidance of her grandfather. Every morning she wakes up early, cooks, feeds the pigs, feeds the sheep. In the evening, after school in the evening, she had to go up the mountain to herd sheep and pigweed.

After the summer of this year, someone in the village came to buy this kind of grasshopper. At the beginning, Feng Yan didn't know and missed the market a few times. Until the day before yesterday, she touched more than a dozen of them, and she really got money.

Then this stubborn girl, last night, was like crazy, touching the grasshoppers all over the mountains, and it was not until the second half of the night that there were more than 200 grasshoppers in the three pots in front of Lu Renbing.

After listening to Feng Laohan's story, Rui Xiaodan and Ouyang Xue felt pity for Feng Yan in their hearts. It's not easy to think this kid. I want to help her.

At this time, Feng Yan ran in and took a clean urea bag, which looked like it was still dripping.

Feng Yan said embarrassedly, "This bag was filled with pigweed before, and it was a little dirty, so I took it to the river and washed it." Don't be dirty. ”

"It's okay, it's not dirty." Rui Xiaodan hurriedly said.

Then Feng Yan counted the grasshoppers in front of the three of them and fished them out of the water and put them into a woven bag, and in the end it was 242. Then Feng Yan took out a wooden stick and listed the equation on the ground, calculated for a long time, and came up with a total, seven pieces, two cents and six.

Lu Renbing gave her ten yuan and said that she didn't want to look for it. However, Feng Yan still insisted on finding them for three yuan, seven cents and four cents. Well, what a sincere child.

When the three of them were about to leave, Feng Yan asked them if they would come tomorrow to collect the grasshoppers. Although it was very uncomfortable, Lu Renbing and they couldn't deceive people, so they could only regretfully tell Feng Yan that they would not come.

It was Ouyang Xue who gave Feng Yan a business card and told the little girl that if she encountered any difficulties, she could call her.

Lu Renbing carried the grasshopper, led the two girls back to the village committee, got into the car, and left this small mountain village.

The three of them are not children who are ignorant of the world, they have seen more tragic things than Feng Yan's family. But Feng Yan's strength still made the two women sentimental.

"Great poet, can we think of a way to help Feng Yan, or help children like Feng Yan. They are still so young, they should not suffer so much. ”

"If you want to help, you can donate money to her for her to go to school, wouldn't it be good?" Lu Renbing said. There are many such things in the countryside, and if you help, you can only help one. If you want to help everyone, it's unrealistic, and it's basically impossible.

Now that the country's hope project is being rolled out, children like Feng Yan can only hope that this kind of large-scale project of the state can be partially solved.

Rui Xiaodan actually didn't think about how to fundamentally solve the problem, and this kind of thing is not something that she can solve as a small criminal policeman. If it weren't for the fact that her parents were rich, if she only lived on that salary, she probably would have to need relief herself.

This society is like this, and you should never expect to be fair. Some people just have the ability to easily earn money that others can't earn in a lifetime, and then for inexplicable reasons, find a small city to pretend to be a master and be free. And some people can only struggle at the bottom of society, working hard for ten or eight yuan of living expenses.

"Couldn't there be a better way? There should be! ”

"Perhaps, but not for me, I'm just a businessman who will take advantage of the fire and steal some meat from other people's mouths."

Rui Xiaodan was a little depressed, she always felt that Lu Renbing had a way, but he was unwilling to do it, or he was unwilling to do it for her.

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