The word of selling hazelnut mushrooms soon spread throughout Mao'er Village, and it was already in an uproar before there was a fixed number.

Amy didn't pay attention to it, she was tired before, and she just wanted a good rest for a few days.

On this day, she came back from work and went to the cowshed and gave Mingke a large bag of potatoes.

"It's not easy for you to make food for you, and it's not good for someone else to find out, so I'll take something that is convenient to eat."

Sweet potatoes and potatoes are roasted and eaten, and they don't emit any smoke and are generally not noticed.

"Why did you send me something again, are you showing favor?"

Mingke looked at her with a smile, full of amusement.

Amy's ears were red and she spat him uncomfortably.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not here to thank you for clearing the wasteland? You don't know, I've got a lot of work this time, and I'll be able to get a lot of food by then. ”

Amy wouldn't have gone hungry without them, but it didn't feel the same.

Since the start of the wasteland reclamation mission, many people in the village have been waiting to see her jokes, and this time it can be regarded as a slap in the face of those people, which made her raise her eyebrows and breathe a sigh.

Mingke sat to Amy's left, and her soft side face could be seen with a slight tilt of her head.

At this time, there was a smile on his face that was brighter than the sun, and the corners of his mouth were uncontrollably curved.

"I thought you wouldn't care about that."

"How can I not care, no matter how powerful I am, I am a little girl, of course I will feel sad to be pointed at by so many people and say bad things."

Amy had never told anyone about this, but she didn't have any psychological burden in front of Mingke, so she said it casually.

Mingke was slightly stunned, then lowered his head and laughed softly.

Amy has always been strong enough to act like she can easily solve whatever comes her way.

It's been so long that he sometimes forgets that Amy is actually a little girl.

Smiling and smiling, the corners of Mingke's mouth were a little bitter.

There is helplessness and distress in it.

At this time, Amy suddenly asked, "If one day the policy changes and you can leave Mao'er Village, where do you want to go?" ”

She knew that day was coming soon.

Obviously, this is a good thing, and it is a good thing for the people of the whole country, but there is a trace of reluctance in her heart at this time.

Although she has endured a lot of hardships in Mao'er Village, whether it is Grandma Wang or Niuniu, as well as Aunt Li and Aunt Zhou who helped her, they all gave her the most pure and simple touch.

On top of that, she also met Mingke here.

Amy didn't have many friends before, so she could only hold back many words in her heart, and she could only swallow them in her stomach if she was wronged.

But Mingke appeared, and when she opened up the wasteland, she broke the palm of her hand, and she was able to complain to him that she felt hard and painful.

This seems to be a very simple thing, but for Amy, for so many years, she has only said this to Mingke alone, about her feelings in her heart, about her unhappiness and grievances.

Now, Amy is pretty sure that Minke is a very important friend in her heart.

And Mingke subconsciously wanted to laugh when he heard this question.

In his opinion, he could only spend his life in this cowshed.

But seeing Amy's serious appearance, he finally swallowed this sentence back and thought about it.

"If I could really leave, I would probably continue to study. Of course, if you can read a book. ”

When Mingke said these words, his other hand rubbed lightly on the physical data next to him, and his eyes flashed with a brilliance that he didn't usually have.

Amy saw all of this in her eyes and asked, "You like physics very much?" ”

Mingke blinked, and her long eyelashes cast a faint shadow on her eyelids, which looked particularly good.

"Like it? Probably, I just think these things are very real, like if you give it a force, it will respond to you with a force, simple and pure, much cleaner than people's hearts. ”

Mingke's face showed a deep sadness, and Amy sat beside her, not speaking to comfort her.

She had known Mingke for so long, and knew that he was a very assertive and self-respecting boy.

At this time, the most important thing she should do is not to ask anything, not to say anything, just stay by his side like this.

The two of them bathed in the warm spring sun, and the whole person stretched out.

The spring sunshine gently makes people can't bear to have a bad temper.

Under such daylight, Mingke's expression gradually relaxed.

"By the way, do you know that your village is going to sell hazelnut mushrooms?"

Amy nodded perfunctorily.

"Yes, but what does this have to do with me? If I could, I just want to rest now, it's too tiring to run back and forth. ”

Mingke raised his hand and laughed softly.

"What a lazy little cat."

Amy gritted her teeth and glanced at him, "That's right, it's all the team's stuff anyway, and it has nothing to do with me if I sell it, and if I can't sell it, it will all depend on my head, who wants to do such a thankless job." ”

She really made the attitude of the villagers so bad that they didn't want to care about anything.

Mingke shook his head.

"Call you stupid, you don't suffer anything, say you're smart, but at this time you're stupid."

Amy blinked in confusion, "What does this mean, do you think I should take this thing down?" But why? ”

"Because the supply and marketing cooperatives in the small county will never accept hazel mushrooms, the county is too small, too close to the village, and every household has hazel mushrooms, and no one has thought of going to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy them."

Mingke leaned back slightly, and his tone was relaxed, which made Amy feel as if everything was under his control.

"But in that case, shouldn't I go even more? When the time comes, I won't be able to sell it, and the people in the village won't scold me to death? ”

Although Amy now also feels the warmth given by the villagers, the warmth is a minority after all, and most of them are still unreasonable.

Mingke turned his head slightly and looked at her condescendingly, his eyebrows gentle.

"So, they're going to fail, and when you take it and sell it, everybody will be grateful to you and they'll look up to you."

Amy nodded, then shook her head again.

"I know that, but I don't need them to look up to me, as long as they don't come and trouble me."

After she arrived here, what she wanted most was to live her idyllic life quietly.

"Where there are many people, there are many things, if you want to be quiet, you have to make them respect you, just like respecting the old branch secretary.

If they find that you can do what they can't do and do it better than them, they'll pick you up.

Not only that, but it can't be sold in the county, so you might be able to go where you want to go. ”

Amy had been listening carefully to his analysis, and when she heard the last sentence, her eyelids jumped fiercely.

"Where do I want to go? I just want to be here. ”

The smile on Mingke's face was even stronger, and he reached out to Amy's eyes, touching the corner of her eye lightly.

"No, you don't want to stay here, or you won't have light in your eyes. From the very beginning, you aspired to a wider world. ”

"Xiaomi, you can fool everyone, but you can't fool me, you don't belong to Mao'er Village, you should go to a bigger place."

Before Mingke was beaten into the cowshed, he was now a group of petty bourgeoisie by these people.

His parents both studied in college, so the things, visions, and thoughts he had seen since he was a child were different from those of the people here.

This is also the reason why he later contacted Amy and was willing to help Amy.

Because from the first time Mingke saw her, he knew that they were the same kind of people.

I am not willing to be bound, I want to be free, I want a bigger and more wonderful world.

Amy was stunned, and for a moment she forgot to dodge, so she let his hand be in the corner of her eye.

She didn't know that although she didn't show it deliberately, because she grew up in a more tolerant and open world, she carried the beauty of that world with her.

And this thing that seems to be ordinary in her world, in the eyes of people in this era, is the light of hope.

The two looked at each other through the floating dust, and after a long time, they were pulled back to reality by a rooster crow.

Mingke withdrew his fingers, feeling that it was very hot.

Amy couldn't help but turn around and raise her hand to touch the corner of her eye.

Silence spread between the two, and the atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

Amy wasn't used to the feeling and simply pulled two potatoes out of the bag.

"I'm hungry and want to eat."

Mingke bent his eyebrows and took the potato.

"Okay, I'll do it for you."

After hiding in the grass next to the cowshed, the two lit a fire and began to roast potatoes.

Amy has always felt that potatoes are an amazing food that tastes good no matter how you cook them.

For example, now, the two of them can eat delicious and satisfying baked potatoes without any seasoning.

After eating two bites, Mingke suddenly said, "This time, you go out and have a good look." Mao'er Village is too remote, and if you go to a larger city, you may see something different. ”

"If you really think that the policy will change, then it will definitely be more obvious in the big cities."

Amy thought for a moment and nodded vigorously.

"Don't worry, I'll find a way to get this opportunity when the time comes, and no one should rush to do this kind of thankless work, at least no one will do it after they fail."

The two talked about each other, but at the village party secretary of Shanxia, the villagers were anxious to sell hazelnut mushrooms, and they were unwilling to hand over this matter to the educated youth.

"These things belong to our brigade, why let outsiders do it, I don't agree anyway."

The village party secretary's brows were twisted, and after taking two puffs of cigarette, he said: "Wang Er, how many times have I said that the villagers and the educated youth are one family, why can't you remember it?" If this is for other people to hear, will there be a lot of jokes for us? ”

Wang Er, who had pockmarks on his face, held his mouth unconvinced.

"I don't care if it's a joke or not, anyway, this benefit can't be won by those educated youths, so we can only go to our village by ourselves."