For the first time, Hao Jiali took the snails from the fish pond to the market and sold them for more than five yuan at once.

Hao Jiali hurriedly took the money and bought ten catties of rice for a dime and three cents a catty.

I bought salt, soap, kerosene.

Eight cents a pound of pork also bought half a catty.

For five cents a popsicle, Hao Jiali bought another one for her younger brother.

Hao Jiaming took the popsicle in his hand in his mouth and licked it, and Hao Jiaming was reluctant to let the sugar water melted by the popsicle when it was hot, so he kept catching it with his hand and then licking it clean.

"Obviously! Don't add your hands, you see your hands are sloppy and black like cat's paws, it's too unhygienic. Hao Jiali took away the hand that Hao Jiaming was adding to her mouth again and again.

But Hao Jiali's blocking was useless, and after a while, Hao Jiaming licked a few fingers of the popsicle to snow white.

"Sister! This melted popsicle water is also from sugar, and it's a pity that it fell off. Hao Jiaming said to Hao Jiali seriously.

"Alas!" Hao Jiali sighed and no longer stopped her brother's unsightly behavior.

Hao Jiali calculated that the family had not bought sugar for several months, and her younger brother Hao Jiaming finally satisfied his cravings, and this sugar water was naturally cherished.

So Hao Jiali bought popsicles for her younger brother, and deliberately spent three cents to buy a pound of sugar.

This is because every morning, the people in Hao Jiali's hometown like to melt the sugar in the hot rice soup and stir the dried sweet potato flour to eat, this thing tastes sticky, sweet, more refreshing than sesame paste, and people who love to eat can't get tired of eating a few rice bowls in a morning.

Hao Jiali's family is no exception, this is also Chen Feng's favorite, although Chen Feng did excessive things such as burning Hao Jiali's textbooks to Hao Jiali, but Chen Feng was also forced to helpless.

Hao Jiali always enlightened herself like this, her mother is unfortunate, she is her mother's child, and she should bear the brunt of her mother's troubles and sorrows, and other things have already passed in the past, after all, she was born by her mother's hard work in ten months of pregnancy.

Hao Jiali had never seen the appearance and scene of the dead people in the village.

Hao Jiali has seen the appearance and scene of women in the village giving birth.

Hao Jiali heard the heart-rending screams and cries of the mother when she gave birth, which simply penetrated from the head of the village to the end of the village.

Hao Jiali thought that her mother must have been so painful when she gave birth to her, and now she can use the money she earned to buy catties of sugar and go back to let her mother eat her favorite food again, first, she is filial to her mother, and second, she also relieves her mother's mood of being crushed by the despair that has almost been on the verge of despair these days.

As long as Chen Feng no longer scolds and no longer worries that his family is so poor that there is no rice to cook, Hao Jiali can read by herself, and Hao Jiali will not care about these small things.

Then, after Hao Jiali bought these things in the bazaar, she still had more than two yuan of money left in her pocket.

Hao Jiali didn't dare to use the money anymore.

Hao Jiali thought about it.

She herself goes down to the fish pond every day to pick the snails, and the snails will one day be finished for her, even if there are still some snail cubs, but the snail cubs are taken out to the market and no one buys them, and it takes a lot of time for these cubs to grow up.

Therefore, while the money is coming now, Hao Jiali restrains herself from saving as much as she can, saving the money, and when she has stored enough, she can use it in winter or next spring.

Because in winter, not to mention winter, that is, since the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the weather in Hunan has become colder and colder.

At this time, don't talk about going into the water to pick snails, walking on the road, wearing less clothes, and the whistling cold wind blowing makes people shrink their hands and feet and necks, at this time they can only eat at home.

There will also be a few months of freezing weather in the spring of next year, and there will be no water at that time, and if the money is squandered now, the life at home will be difficult again in winter and spring.

In addition, Hao Jiali also considered that her mother's leg could not be lame all the time.

The noble uncle in the family who understands herbal medicine can't cure Chen Feng's leg with herbs, Hao Jiali thought about it, saved the remaining money, and when she saved more, and then drew some out, Hao Jiali decided to take her mother to the commune's health center for treatment.

Just as Chen Feng said with Western medicine, Hao Jiali hopes that her mother's leg can be cured as soon as possible, and if her mother's leg can be cured, the burden of the family will not fall on Hao Jiali alone.

At that time, Chen Feng's legs were healthy, Chen Feng could go to the production team to work and earn work, and Chen Feng's mood would not be so bad.

At that time, Hao Jiali can also settle down to study, Hao Jiali thinks that it doesn't matter if her father doesn't care about the family, her mother's work and Hao Jiali's money from selling snails, the family is finally out of the predicament.

With this plan, in order for Chen Feng's legs to use Western medicine as soon as possible, Hao Jiali then threw herself into the fish pond and creek, and Hao Jiali hurried into the water in the summer when the sun was shining in the summer.

Not only that, Hao Jiali also quit the work of earning work in the pig farm of the production team, and asked the head teacher for half a day off every afternoon.

Hao Jiali's school has no Chinese classes and mathematics classes in the afternoon, and the afternoon classes are nature, geography, history, and politics, and Hao Jiali thinks that as long as the whole article is memorized one by one, because geography coexists with the earth, history cannot be violated, natural science is researched by scientists, and politics is the hottest in the current society. Even thinking questions are inseparable from the content of the article.

Unlike Chinese and mathematics, you can go beyond the example questions in the book and draw inferences, and Hao Jiali just memorizes the whole article even the punctuation marks at the end of the sentence as a period, comma, or ellipsis It doesn't work. Because the formation of sentences and compositions in Chinese can be imagined and fabricated, and a mathematical formula in mathematics can produce several or even dozens of example problems.

As long as Hao Jiali masters this, she is not afraid of not getting a good score in the exam.

The homeroom teacher couldn't do anything about Hao Jiali's family situation, saying that as long as Hao Jiali could get good grades in the midterm and final exams.

Hao Jiali's leave of absence was approved by the head teacher without saying a word, and with the afternoon, Hao Jiali and her younger brother Hao Jiaming rolled in the fish pond and the village stream.

At this time, Chen Qing also helped Hao Jiali go to the captain of the production team next door to contact the fish pond of the production team next door to make Hao Jiali more money.

In this way, Hao Jiali got more and more snails from the fish pond day by day, so much that later, due to the commune's half-month break in the market, Hao Jiali picked too many snails ashore to sell out, even if they were raised with well water, a few snails would die and stink.

Hao Jiali had no choice but to weigh these snails, and then asked Uncle Gui, who was carrying the burden of herbs everywhere to rush to the market to sell herbs, to take care of selling snails, and then give Uncle Gui some wages after selling, so that Hao Jiali could sell these snails when they were fresh.

and Cao Juying also helped at this time, Cao Juying picked up the snails that Hao Jiali got with two baskets, and used the time after the production team finished work to sell them door to door.

After three months, when there was no water in September, Hao Jiali sold snails for almost 40 yuan in total, and Hao Jiali finally earned money to support her family and her mother's legs.

However, at this time, Hao Jiali fell ill.

Hao Jiali's hands, feet, face, and body were all swollen like a bicycle inner tube, so swollen that Hao Jiali's eyes couldn't open their eyes, and the back of Hao Jiali's hands and feet were swollen like combed powder and fermented steamed buns, and Hao Jiali went to the toilet to pee one drop at a time, which was slower than the eaves dripping.

The doctor diagnosed that Hao Jiali was suffering from acute nephritis.