Time flies quickly, a few months after Brother Rundong's marriage, early in the morning of this day, I went out to go up the mountain to practice as usual, and just walked to the corner of my house, just in time to see Brother Rundong driving his carriage past in front of my house.

"Brother Rundong is going out!" I greeted with a smile.

Now that Brother Rundong has become a family, he has been regarded as an adult in the village, so he often goes outside the village to help Runyuan do some business things, and he often goes out of the village.

When Brother Rundong saw me, his face showed a rare happy look, and he hurriedly greeted me and shouted: "Ling Feng, do you want to go to the town, I'll take you with me!"

"To town?"

I thought about it, since I went to the town once three years ago, I haven't been there, I feel closed when I think about it, I just have a chance today, it's better to go to the town again to play, it's equivalent to giving myself a vacation, and taking a day off for three years is not considered lazy, thinking of this, I immediately shouted to Brother Rundong: "Wait for me to tell my mother, I won't come back for lunch today." ”

After saying that, I ran home, and after telling my family, I jumped into Rundong's car and went to town.

All the way was happy, there were only me and Brother Rundong in the car, which seemed to be extra free.

This time is different from the last time, the last time I came to the town happened to meet the disaster year, all I saw along the way were bleak and dilapidated, this year's year is good, the road is full of green, occasionally passing by the village, the crops I see are also growing gratifying, the year is good, the people are stable, I believe we will not encounter those chaos last time when we go to the town.

"Brother Rundong now has a daughter-in-law, are you having a good time!"

"Humph!"

When Rundong heard me talk about this topic, he first snorted heavily and then said with a cold face: "I didn't even touch that woman." ”

"Gah!"

I was extremely surprised, it has been a few months since Brother Rundong got married, but Brother Rundong hasn't touched his wife yet, I see Brother Rundong's stubborn head and know that Brother Rundong is not cheating, and he is still very proud, at this moment I even doubt that Brother Rundong is not 14 years old and has not developed well, but thinking about the fact that Rundong's family is not short of food and clothing, it should not encounter developmental problems, so I had to persuade Brother Rundong in a child's tone: " Brother Rundong, that girl has been married into the door by you, if you don't recognize her as a wife, will she be sad?"

"I'm not going to touch that woman anyway. ”

Rundong stubbornly raised his head again, and said with a hint of anger in his words: "That woman is a rope that my parents want to tie me to in this village forever, so that I will not be tied like a cow for the rest of my life and be led by others." ”

It can be heard that Brother Rundong saw his daughter-in-law at his father's mother's hand, and his anger was not with the woman, but with his parents' arrangement. And I also heard another meaning of Brother Rundong, he was still thinking about leaving the village, he didn't want others to dominate his life, so I asked tentatively: "Brother Rundong just wants to leave this village so much? I heard that the outside world is also very chaotic." ”

"A good man should be ambitious in all directions, the more chaotic the world, the more someone needs to save the country, and it is even more of a duty to be a hot-blooded man. Brother Rundong said solemnly.

As far as I know, the more poor and remote mountain villagers, the more they dare to say such a big thing, the more they dare to say such a big topic, saving the country, this topic is scared to death, but I guess Brother Rundong has read too many books, and he is just saying it out of righteous indignation.

Yes, in the fields, in places where there is no government to manage, I don't know how many peasant brothers will express some feelings of saving the country and the people when they are chatting, anyway, the government people can't hear it, so I don't take it seriously, and the yam eggs in the village often say some big things! How many people in the world can regard such a big thing as a career to pursue all their lives? I dare to say such feelings, what is there! Anyway, no official person can manage here.

But I just don't say it!

The car was quiet for a while, and I really couldn't think of how to continue such a big topic as Brother Rundong.

At this time, Brother Rundong didn't seem to want to talk about this topic anymore, so he asked me again: "Have you read all the books I gave you?"

I knew that this was Brother Rundong playing the role of a teacher again, and he was concerned about my studies, so I hurriedly said: "I've seen it, I've seen it all." ”

"Well, okay. ”

Brother Rundong nodded with satisfaction, and then he asked me something I didn't understand, and helped me answer, and I also asked some questions symbolically, anyway, it's okay to be idle in the car, just chat. The car moved forward for a distance, and then Brother Rundong seemed to remember something again, patted his head and said: "By the way, I still have to go to the village in front to collect a pig, that pig my father has already paid, we can leave with the pig, soon." ”

I readily agreed, anyway, it has already come out, and it is good to follow Brother Rundong to collect pigs, experience the life of rich peasants, and see more of the excitement.

So our car turned the corner at the fork in the road and headed for a village next to the road.

Entering the small village, Brother Rundong drove the car in the village and walked in, obviously he followed Runyuanwai to this place, he was already familiar with this area, otherwise Runyuanwai would not let Rundongge do such an important thing alone.

On the other side of the village, Rundong parked the carriage in front of a farmer's house.

I took a closer look at the house.

It was a low thatched house, two rooms, the walls were made of adobe, and it was very simple, and the walls had been washed away by the rain for a long time, revealing deep scars on the road, as if they were going to collapse at any time, and there was a simple pigsty in the dilapidated yard.

In the countryside, the general farmer in the good year, the forage for feeding the pigs is very good, so many farmers will raise one or two pigs at the beginning of the year, if the family is in a better situation, they will keep the pig to the end of the year to enjoy their own enjoyment, and the family situation is not good, they expect the pig to be sold for some money to supplement the family.

It can be seen that the family in front of you definitely belongs to the latter.

"Is Uncle Zhang at home?"

Brother Rundong shouted loudly in front of the door, at this moment he didn't look like a scholar, like a pig collector.

After a long while, the dilapidated door of the house was slowly pushed open, and out of the room came a scrawny old man, who had so many patches on his clothes that he could barely see the original color of the clothes, and could not tell where the patches were on his body and where the original material of the clothes was.

"Rundong is here!" the old man said in a trembling voice, sickly and with a tangled look on his face.

Brother Rundong smiled at the old man and said, "Uncle Zhang, I came to pick up the pig today, and my father said that he had already paid for the pig." ”

Speaking of this, Brother Rundong walked to the pig barn and looked at the pigs inside.

I also walked over, I just came to see the excitement, of course I had to look around, but I saw that the pig in the barn was not too big, nor fat, and it seemed that in this family, this pig's life was not very good.

But the old man stood there without moving, still with a tangled expression.

This made me and Brother Rundong very puzzled, I didn't know what this old man meant, Rundong hurriedly asked, "Uncle Zhang, what's the matter? Isn't the money my father gave you wrong?"

"No, no!"

The old man shook his head busily, then thought about it again and again, and finally said as if he had finally made up his mind: "Young Master Run, I can't hide it, since the Runren gave me the fixed money for this pig ten days ago, the price of this pig has skyrocketed, just in the past ten days, the pork has risen by forty percent, if it is sold at the previous price, I will lose a lot." ”

At this moment, Brother Rundong and I have already understood what the old man meant, he doesn't want to sell it!

For a poor person, such a price difference is not a small amount of money, but the old man regrets it at this time, it seems that it is not enough, and the difference is what the other party originally earned, and the other party regretted it at this time.

However, I admire the shrewdness of Runyuanwai in my heart, he must have known from some source that the price of pork was going to rise, so he set the pig in advance, no wonder Runyuanwai's family has become rich so quickly in recent years, and this is what he earns.

The old man also knew that what he was doing was inappropriate, and he explained with an embarrassed face: "Actually, if I am in good health, I don't want to regret it at this time, but in the past few days, my old problem has been committed again, and I have no money to take medicine, and now I can't do anything, I just hope to rely on this pig to help me survive this time." ”

I stood silently as a spectator, the old man looked quite pitiful, but his actions were obviously not in accordance with the rules, so the matter did not seem to be easy to solve.

"Uncle Zhang, what do you want me to do?"

Brother Rundong was also a little hesitant, the current situation was obviously not something he encountered often, and this was probably the first time he had to make such a big decision at the age of 14.

The old man sighed, and then said with a slight tremble: "I will pull down this old face and beg you once, the price of this pig has risen by forty percent, can you add another twenty percent of the money to me, as long as you give me more money for medicine, let me see a doctor, I will be satisfied." ”

Standing there, Brother Rundong was thinking with his eyebrows locked, obviously this decision was not good.

I can't help, this matter is Brother Rundong's family matter, I can't participate, let's leave this nerve-wracking problem to Brother Rundong, and see how he solves it.

After a while, Brother Rundong seemed to have made up his mind, looked up and said to the old man: "Uncle Zhang, I don't have any extra money in my hand now, and I can't add 20% of the money to you, so you can return the deposit that my father gave you to me, and then you can sell this pig to others." ”

"What? This ......"

The old man obviously didn't expect Rundong to say this, this is equivalent to returning the forty percent profit of the pork to the old man, he was nervous and couldn't believe it, and said with cloudy eyes: "This, how is this good? This, how do you treat Runren diplomatically?"

I didn't expect Rundong to do this, he really couldn't treat Rundong diplomatically, and it didn't seem to be a good deal