After Zhang Min came back from the toilet, he saw that Chen Yun was still eating.

So I took a few steps and sat back down.

The next period of time was more about talking about the trivial things of life.

Sometimes Zhang Min would suddenly talk about a novel joke in his previous life, which made Chen Yun and Qin Yun laugh, and everyone was very happy.

Good times always go by quickly.

By the time they all finished eating, it was already past 7 o'clock in the evening, but judging from the expressions of Chen Yun and his wife, it was obvious that they had a pleasant dinner.

10 minutes after the end of dinner.

Zhang Min was already sitting in the back of the mayor's No. 2 car, and it was the mayor's driver Chen Bin who was driving.

Because it was too late, and Zhang Min's family was still in the countryside, Mayor Chen Yun specially instructed Chen Bin to drive Zhang Min back.

Zhang Min in the car is actually quite sober-minded, and he is still very satisfied with his performance tonight.

It can be seen that the mayor and the mayor's wife are impressed with themselves and praised.

"And, of course, that cute little Xin." Zhang Min thought in his heart

"Huh!"

"Zhang Xiaoxi!"

Zhang Minmin slapped his forehead with his hand, "How did I forget this." ”

……

A few days ago, Zhang Min saw his sister Xiaoxi, and he was looking at it with a little girl wrapped in powder makeup and delicately dressed in powder makeup, holding a beautiful doll in her hand.

Obviously like it.

So he said to his sister with a little pity: "Xiaoxin, brother, buy you that doll, okay?"

Chen Xin was overjoyed when she heard her brother's words, but then she seemed to think of something.

Then he reluctantly turned his head and said, "Brother, I don't want it, Xixi doesn't like that doll!"

My sister has been very sensible since she was a child, because both sisters are very competitive, and they were admitted to SH's Jiaotong University and BJ's Renmin University respectively."

But for a family like Zhang Min, both parents are farming in the countryside, and although they do odd jobs in their spare time, they only add up to more than 2,000 yuan per month.

This amount of money is really a drop in the bucket for the annual tuition fees of two college students and one high school student in the family.

However, the good news is that all children can be considerate of their parents' difficulties, and the older children are working at school to reduce the burden on the family.

The 6-year-old sister often helps the family with some housework, usually gets up at 6 o'clock in the morning, and then goes to the river with her mother to cut some pigweed, comes back to chop and cook it, and then holds a small wooden spoon to feed the pigs.

Usually the neighbor's children are crying and asking for something to eat, but Zhang Min rarely hears Xiaoxi open her mouth to buy something.

But every time I look at my sister looking at the toys in the hands of other children, her longing eyes, I know that she actually wants to be like other children.

However, at a young age, she understands that her home is different from other children's families, and even if she speaks, some things can only make her parents sad and troubled.

"Like that doll!"

Brother Chen, can you stop at the Zifeng Mansion in front of me, I promised to buy a doll for my sister, but because of that incident today, I haven't had a chance.

Chen Bin, who had been driving the car, agreed after listening to Zhang Min's words.

After a while, the car slowly stopped on the side of a road near the Zifeng Building. At this time, it was still quite early, because everyone had basically just eaten and was ready to go for a walk outside, especially in shopping malls like Zifeng Building, which were now crowded and crowded.

Zhang Min walked into the mall with the noise outside, and as soon as he entered, he felt a cool feeling, compared to the outdoor stove-like environment, this place is simply a paradise.

After entering the store, Zhang Min asked the staff of the supermarket, and then walked towards the west corner of the supermarket on the second floor, and soon came to an area full of toys, Ultraman, Snow White, The Lion King Simba, Sheriff Black Cat, Gourd Baby... These familiar cartoon characters are being packaged in exquisite gift boxes of different sizes.

Zhang Min paced slowly through the various shelves where the cartoon characters were placed, glancing at the white label under the toy to mark the price

“358，”

“270，”

“780，”

“1100，”

......

It's so expensive! Zhang Min said silently in his mind, if he didn't have the 20,000 yuan he took out after winning the lottery in his pocket, he wouldn't be able to afford one with the money in Zhang Min's hand!

Walking to a shelf in the corner, I finally found the doll I wanted to buy, the doll was large and small, all wrapped in a delicate lace gift box.

The big one is more than 20 centimeters, and it can reach the calf so high that the gift box, it looks like this is more delicate than the small one, but the number is certainly not cheap, the label on it is priced at 270 yuan, and the small one is only 120 yuan.

For her sister, Zhang Min certainly wants to give her the best.

"Hello sir, a total of 270 yuan." Zhang Min took out 3 red hairy grandfathers and handed them to the female cashier.

The female cashier took it and looked at it carefully, and then put it in the cash register, and then said: "Mr. charges you 300 yuan, this is 30 yuan to find you, welcome to come next time."

After Zhang Min took the money recovered by the female cashier, he went out and returned to the car after walking a distance.

"Brother Chen, you can go, thank you today."

Zhang Min thanked Chen Bin in front of him.

Chen Bin glanced at Zhang Min from the inner rearview mirror and said, "It's okay."

So the car continued to start in the middle of the words.

Zhang Min, who was sitting in the car, looked out the window in the night.

The vast galaxy in the sky is surrounded by a full moon, and the bright moonlight is swaying on the mountains, bamboo forests, streams, rice fields, and the newly built cement pavement, surrounded by dense bamboo and unknown trees, the river is flowing loudly, and the continuous sound of frogs in the surrounding farmland is one after another.

From time to time, there was a "boom" sound left by the driving of cars on the road that was a little white.

In the direction of the car, the houses are in front of the view, and the village lights shine in the quiet summer night.

In the center of the village, a pergola supported by four stout logs, with two beams on top, on top of which was a large plastic sheet, covered with messy straw and some worn-out fine bamboo, so that it was simply built as a place to enjoy the shade.

On summer nights, the people of Qinghe Village always like to cool off in this simple bamboo shed.

And at this moment, as usual, the shed was already full of villagers: "There are old men sitting on long wooden chairs and fanning the wind with bamboo round fans, there are young men with Erlang's legs crossed in the mountains, and there are also young mothers who are listening to other people's speeches with sleeping babies in their arms."

Older children play hide-and-seek games in groups next to the bamboo huts, and the sound of children's play and laughter is spread from time to time.

And not far from the farmland, a middle-aged man is gradually emerging.

He was dressed in a white dress with a few holes, a hoe on his shoulder, and a pair of slippers with cracks under his feet mixed with dirt.

As he passed through the shed, he glanced a few times, and then dragged his tired body back towards the back of the village.

When the middle-aged man passed by, there were eyes in the shed from time to time, but then everyone turned their eyes back as usual.

And this middle-aged man is Zhang Min's father, Zhang Houbo.

Because of the problem of children's tuition, the Zhang family has owed tens of thousands of yuan, although the borrowers understand the difficulty of Zhang Houbo's family and do not go to the house to collect debts, but Zhang Houbo wants to pay off these debts as soon as possible.

And today it happened that the village was going to repair a water pipeline, and it was necessary to find someone to dig a pit, 70 yuan per person per day, so Zhang Houbo went, and after being busy at 6 o'clock in the evening, he remembered that there were still some things in his field that had not been done, and he didn't even rest for long, so he went out with a hoe again.

When Zhang Houbo, who was carrying a hoe, returned home, some sounds gradually sounded in the shed.

A middle-aged woman sitting in the bamboo shed munching melon seeds said to the others with a mocking expression after seeing that Zhang Houbo had walked away.

"Look at what kind of life Zhang Houbo is living now, fighting so hard for the cost of his two daughters going to college, but what's the use of girls reading so many books, it's not dragging the whole family down."

"It's better that my daughter just graduated from junior high school and found a good family to marry, not only gave a large dowry, but also often came over to help my son-in-law."

"No, the new house was built last year, it's like their house, and now they live in a dilapidated mud house from the 80s, and I can hear the sound of soil falling at night, I really don't know when it will fall."

Seeing that the eyes of the people next to her shifted to her, she said even more proudly.

"You said that if it weren't for his two daughters going to college, I'm afraid they would have built a house a long time ago, so what kind of college did the girl's family go to, it's really a drag on the family."

And the person who spoke was the famous "poisonous tongue" in Zhang Min Village, whose name was Tao Yan and his nickname was "Peach Blossom".

The white-haired old man next to him obviously disagreed with her statement, shook his head and retorted.

"Peach Blossom, it's not what you say, the two sisters Zhang Man and Zhang Lei have grown up with me since they were children, and the two girls have been smart since they were children."

"Now it is a great thing that one can be admitted to SH Jiaotong University and one can be admitted to BJ University of BJ."

"And these two universities are both prestigious schools in big cities, since they have been admitted. Why don't you let people read it? ”

After a pause, he said.

"If my Xiaoying is also admitted, even if the family is bankrupt, our family will also provide for her."

The middle-aged woman looked gloomy after hearing this, obviously not agreeing with the old man's point of view.

However, the old man used to be a teacher in the village, and the village respected him more, and his eldest son worked in the town government.

So she didn't want to be offended, although she was dissatisfied, she only muttered a few words softly on her lips, and didn't dare to refute it directly.

The young mother next to her, who was holding the baby, also said approvingly.

"Aunt, I also think what Teacher Zeng said is right, you see that Zhang Man and I used to be junior high school classmates, she was admitted to college later, and I got married after graduating from high school, but you see that after Zhang Man came back, her temperament was different, and she went to the big city to be well-informed... Then he said with a gloomy expression, "Look at me... The young mother sighed!

The middle-aged woman didn't dare to refute Teacher Zeng, but she saw a little girl next to her who also came to refute me.

Yin and Yang said angrily.

"Li Mei, you just have a good relationship with Zhang Min and their family! Help them speak. ”

"What's the use of being well-informed.

A few more examples are given.

"How many books does my daughter read? But you see that she has now opened a small shop in the town and bought a car worth tens of thousands, can Zhang Man and her family? If you look at what kind of house my daughter lives in now, it cost more than 100,000 yuan to build it just last year, and there is a fence around the house, so you are looking at their house, a dilapidated mud house, a car, and a house are not comparable to their family, what can be better. ”

Li Mei was powerless to fight back after listening to it, indeed

What Tao Yan is talking about is the truth, there is indeed too much gap between the two families.

Tao Yan saw that Li Mei was speechless by her, and she had a smug look on her face.

I saw a man in his thirties, who had a good relationship with Tao Yan on the bench with Erlang's legs crossed, also said.

"This Zhang Houbo works so hard every day to go out early and return late and doesn't tidy up the mess at home, but is getting poorer and poorer, it's better for me to drive a van every day, pull some guests, you can rest if you don't want to, and the new building at home will be built, what's the use of him being busy working, people just want to live and understand.

A dazzling light shone through, and the horses of the people in the shed swept by.

The man in his 30s who spoke just now was obviously a person who knew cars, and he looked at the car with envy and said, "Huh." Audi A6, it's a good car.

After thinking for a while, he continued.

I remember that this car is now hundreds of thousands, I don't know which one. ”

When hearing that a car is going to be so expensive is.

A group of exclamations immediately came from the bamboo shed.

And Teacher Zeng obviously knew more, and said with a mysterious face.

"Hundreds of thousands can't buy this car, this is the mayor's car."

"The mayor's car!?"

How do you know, several people asked together.

Didn't you see the license plate just now, Jiang B00002, everyone was enlightened.

I don't know where the mayor is going!

Before the man could finish speaking, the car drove in a distance and then slowly stopped.

"Well, why did the car stop at the door of Zhang Min's house.