In the evening, the village notified a meeting, and Hongbin said: "I have been busy with Liu Ju's affairs in the past few days, and I have stayed up for two nights. "Sitting cross-legged around the kang, let's flatten my cheeks and smoke the polished shiny dry tobacco pouch. After a few puffs of cigarette, he said: "Go ahead, listen, the village chief, that bastard, is about to be forced to collect the retention money again, thinking that Fa'er washes his own pig face with the sweat of the people, and the dog can't spit out elephants in his mouth, how can he spit out ivory?" He tilted his head, yawned with his legs, fell on the quilt, closed his eyes, and opened his mouth to snore.

"You get me up, sleeping ghost?" The third saint Yuxia held the sole of her shoe in one hand and tore Hongbin's ear with the other hand to wake up. "It's still early to go, and it's going to be a little bit longer before they drag on for a meeting. I'll tell you, we Sansheng can't learn anything in school, elm pimple brain, I see - it's better to come back and do farm work together, there are so many mouths at home, you alone can exhaust you to death? ”

"What do you say? Are you still the mother of the Three Saints? The baby is growing up, let the baby come back to do the hard work? Hongbin folded up suddenly, sat up, tilted his head and squinted at Yuxia. Can you think of such a bad idea? ”

"Dani, Erni and Wuniu, as well as the elderly father and mother, the mouth of a family of eight people, just rely on the two of us to work in the field? Now the retention money is being collected more and more every year. Yuxia turned around sharply, raised her sleeve and wiped her tears. How are you going to live this day? ”

"Hey—what's the solution?" Hongbin threw the cigarette pouch and pot on the broken table next to the bed, and pinched the short stubble on his chin with his hand. "Why can't this baby of the Three Sages learn anything? You see that Mao Mao, Ru Ru and Gao Gao are so smart, as if they haven't drunk ecstasy soup, our three saints and Han Han are bright, and their brains are not open. ”

"It's nonsense, Liang Liang can compare with our three saints, and Liang Liang is a simple and a fool." Yuxia angrily threw the soles of her shoes on the ground and said angrily: "Who dares to say a word of Hanhan in our three saints, whoever tries it, is a hundred times stronger than him Liangliang." ”

"Okay, okay, don't ramble, let's go to the meeting." Hongbin grabbed the dry tobacco pouch on the table again, puffed it in his mouth and said, "Go ahead, don't quarrel with others, see what the villagers say, follow the crowd." ”

"You're a wreck, without a bit of rigidity, a soft nose."

"Put my ragged coat on and go out in the cold."

"Mother-" The three saints heard the door ringing, and hurriedly ran out of the wing room, and shouted when they saw that it was their mother: "Where are you going?" I'm going too. ”

The venue was opened under the old locust tree, and the captain Zhu Mancang brought his own horse lantern and hung it on the small forked branches on the locust tree.

"You dead ghost, you'll show off, three cents a lamp oil." The captain's wife, Chunhua, twisted the captain's ass viciously, the captain staggered, and saw that everyone smiled and didn't squeak, and Chunhua continued: "You always make money?" ”

"Villagers, don't make noise, quiet-quiet-" Liang Laojiu, the bald head of the village cadre, shouted loudly: "I came tonight to talk about the payment of retention fees, and there are regulations above that the retention funds have risen by ...... again this year." ”

"The villagers can't carry it."

"How can this make people live?"

"The father of the seven or eight-year-old child is dying, and he is forced to go out to shovel soaphorn thorns."

"Don't panic, everyone, wait until I'm done, this year-" Liang Laojiu waved his hand holding a paper cigarette and continued to shout: "This year, while I am idle in winter, the brigade will apply to the commune to repair the road, that is, from the commune all the way to our brigade headquarters, and each person will have to pay forty yuan ......." ”

"Forty?"

"Oh my god - forty bucks?"

"Sell all the babies and count the balls."

"However, those who have labor can pay for the road construction with labor force." Liang Laojiu took two puffs of cigarette fiercely, and then said: "According to the head of the work, men and women are the same. As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads—"

“……。” The venue was quiet.

"What about the lack of labor?" Ru Ru Niang Ningzi asked, and the smell of gunpowder choked people when she opened her mouth. "What to do? Let the children of the school come back to build the top centimeter of the road? ”

"Mother-don't let me go to school?" Ru Ru Lala's shirt asked, "I want to go to school." ”

"Go——, I'm not so stupid, and I still expect you to take the primary secondary school exam and earn a lot of money for your wife." Ru Ru listened to her mother whispering this into her ear, and jumped happily and clapped her hands.

"Don't mess around, you can make food if you have less labor—"

"Now every family has just eaten to make ends meet, and the grain is boiled, so that we can drink the northwest wind?" Ning Zi asked Liang Laojiu unrelentingly:

"Take Liu Ju's family as an example, the two adults are disabled, and Liu Ju is also limping at work, and now he is about to die, his wife is blind and can't see, Liu Maomao doesn't go to school and goes out with the three babies to shovel soaphorn thorns, what should I do in this situation? This situation can't be reflected upwards? ”

"This is not stipulated by Village Chief Liang himself, this matter was decided by the above through research." Zhu Mancang said softly and leaning closer to the village cadres.

"Isn't that a good thing? If you sell the soaphorn thorns, won't you pay for it? Liang Laojiu avoided the important and light, and said in a half-earthy official tone: "Think of a way, there are always more ways than difficulties——"

"Aren't you afraid to flash your waist when you speak?"

“……。” Liang Laojiu's mouth opened a few times, but he still held it back, in fact, he already knew that the girls in this village were all "Yang Men female generals" who were not easy to mess with, but they didn't want to cause trouble.

"Let the three saints come back to work and earn the money for the work." The third saint said angrily: "My family didn't pay some money to you. ”

"Mother-I don't want to come back to work, I want to learn erhu from Teacher Zhao." When the three saints heard their mother's words, they panicked and hurriedly begged for their mother. "Ahh

"I can't learn anything, so I let you stay up at school, so it's better to come back early and give your father a hand."

"Mother-"

Everyone began to discuss:

"Sold my family's half-sized pig."

"Yes, you still have a little yak egg at home, and your family doesn't have to worry."

"Will you be willing to sell the cow baby? Raising can make a lot of money. ”

"What's the solution?"

"When the pit is all farmers, and the pit is the common people, cough cough ......." Uncle Gao didn't know when he quietly carried a lantern and stood behind the crowd with a cane, although he was old, he was still worried about the vitality of the villagers, and he continued helplessly: "Hey, I still have to persuade the children to go to school!" Don't dare to be impulsive and ruin the children's lives, or there is a way out for school, cough cough ....... ”

"Uncle Gao, why are you here too?"

"Let's go home on such a cold day."

"Xiu'e - hurry up and take my uncle home."

"Let's adjourn—"

That night, Sansheng couldn't sleep well while lying in the bed, and he thought: If you don't go to school, how can you learn to play erhu with Teacher Zhao? Teacher Zhao said that I have musical talent, and also said that he taught me to read music, what is music? Can you learn it?