Time flies, time flies. Well, this is a sentence that was commonly used in previous writing essays.

In short, the big weekend of January has finally arrived, all high school students have a day and a half off, and junior high school has two full days, and Chen Mingliang also decided to take advantage of this trip home.

As a student of Yunyang No. 1 Middle School, if you don't go home to show off, it's like a night walk in brocade.

I am the only two Yunyang No. 1 middle school students in the village, except for the distant aunt of the family, I am the only one left, because Chen Xiuchun will only have a holiday at noon, Chen Mingliang said hello to her in advance, and went home first.

I borrowed a bicycle from Mr. Fenghua, yes, it's still a mountain bike. Then I took some toys I bought for my brother earlier, carried them on my back, and went home.

It takes an hour and a half to ride a bicycle from the county seat to home 40 miles.

The overall road condition is okay, most of them are provincial roads, and only a small part of the fast arrival in Chenzhuang is a bumpy dirt road.

The scenery along the way is also not bad, the wheat seedlings in the field have begun to rise and enter the stage of rapid growth; The surroundings have also changed from dusky dead branches to a green world. Only the smell is a little unpleasant, and a lot of farmhouse manure is applied to the fields, and from time to time it exudes a smell of warmth, rancidity.

That's what spring tastes like.

I left school at 9 a.m. and arrived home before noon.

Mother Zhang Chunhua was cooking pork belly at home, and it was a full pot, which she bought from her uncle's slaughterhouse.

She didn't go to the field to farm.

Because Chen Mingliang doesn't have much land in his own family, only a vegetable field remains.

After the death of my father, there was a shortage of laborers in the family, so the land that had been allocated was contracted out.

It was rented to an uncle's house in this lane, and there was no rent, but it was enough to pay the public grain on time.

Later, after the state exempted the agricultural tax, the land was not returned, and the two families were still a little unhappy at that time.

Life in the countryside is really hard at this time. Every summer's public grain and autumn's three mentions and five unifications can collect more than half of the peasants' income from farming, grain prices are cheap, and local governments are insatiable in collecting taxes, and the peasants' lives are really miserable.

The living conditions of Chen Mingming's family are not bad. Nowadays, everyone likes to eat pork, pork belly, tenderloin, front leg meat, hind leg meat, not only these meats are delicious, but mainly easy to make, whether it is stir-fried or dumplings, they are all suitable.

But the offal is less to eat, mainly because I don't know how to do it, Dongshan doesn't eat chili, and if the offal is not done well, it will stink, which will affect the perception, so I simply don't buy it.

Therefore, the purchase price of offal is very low, but the price after making it is similar to that of cooked meat, and the taste is much better than eating only meat.

Zhang Chunhua has good craftsmanship, the things are delicious, people are very diligent, not afraid of hardship, go to the market every day, should be able to make a lot of money.

But she didn't save money, she was a little bad, she was too generous to her uncle and aunt.

Obviously, a widow guarding her two sons has lived a hard life, but it is not easy to make money to subsidize her mother's family throughout the process.

Gratitude has not yet been attained.

The matter of subsidizing his mother's family will not be completely exposed until his younger brother Chen Mingliang is in college.

At that time, my younger brother was admitted to Higashiyama University, a famous local school, and the family was very happy. But when it was time to pay the tuition, I was dumbfounded, and the family had no extra money to pay the tuition!

Chen Mingliang was very angry, and Chen Mingming was also asking where the money went tomorrow.

At that time, Chen Mingliang had been working in the provincial capital for ten years, and the money he gave to his family alone was not counted as the New Year's holiday, but was given daily, not less than 500 a month at the beginning, and then increased to 1,000 per month. Roughly calculated, there are always 780,000 to 100,000 less.

Chen Mingming is still young, and when he has not grown up enough to spend too much money, it is impossible for his family to not even be able to pay 8,400 yuan for tuition in the end.

At that time, if Chen Mingliang didn't give tuition, his family really had no money!

And Chen Mingliang's initial idea was to give his younger brother a red envelope of 5,000 yuan to celebrate. The notice came down and gave 5,000 yuan to his younger brother, and his younger brother Chen was happy to accept the money tomorrow.

At that time, Zhang Chunhua began to say that the family's money had been saved for the death period, and it was not time to withdraw it yet, so you should take the money to your younger brother first.

Chen Mingliang said, I just took 5,000 yuan for tomorrow, my monthly salary is more than 2,000, 1,000 per month to the family, and I usually have to spend, this 5,000 is my savings for more than two years, and now I have no money.

Then the matter finally came to light, and there was not a penny of savings at home!

In the end, of course, it was Chen Mingliang who managed to pay the tuition fees, including the tuition fees and living expenses for the remaining three years of Chen Mingming.

Where does the money go? subsidized my grandmother's house, three uncles, took turns to build a house to get a daughter-in-law, all relying on the eldest sister to help alone, no one ever thought about repaying the money, saying that the money owed was borrowed by my grandparents and grandmothers, and who asked you to borrow it has nothing to do with them.

Zhang Chunhua is stubborn and willful, and no one can persuade her.

Chen Mingliang knows that now his mother has begun to subsidize his grandfather and their family, otherwise his grandparents would not have such a big opinion, after all, there is no impermeable wall in the world.

This thing needs to be stopped, and we must do what we can.

Last weekend, Chen Dongfang sent Chen Mingliang the things he left behind in Chen Po, and his mother already knew that Chen Mingliang went to Yunyang No. 1 Middle School to study.

It is a really good thing to be able to read Yunyang No. 1 Middle School, Zhang Chunhua is also very happy, and she often shows off outside.

It seems that this is also a son!

Now, my brother is back from vacation, and my younger brother Chen is also very excited tomorrow:

"Brother, brother, how about the first middle school, I will also take the first middle school in the future."

"No. 1 Middle School is not bad, it's better than Chen Po Middle School", said Chen Mingliang and took out a toy from his schoolbag, this is a revolver! Chen Mingke was overjoyed.

Chen Mingliang looked at his hard-working mother, he had a lot to say, and he felt that he couldn't be silent.

Her mother hadn't read much, but she was capable and neat since she was a child.

He is a person who is willing to endure hardships silently and show strength on the outside.

It's a bit too good-looking.

However, her concept still needs to be changed, otherwise she will go to the old path of her previous life, and after her father is gone, no one will be able to be her master.

"Bright is back! , Come here, help me make a fire, I boiled this pot today, and now that the New Year is over, the business is starting to do well again, take advantage of your uncle's good business in their slaughterhouse, make more cooked food and sell it. ”

"Okay."

Chen Mingliang squatted in front of the stove and began to help light the fire.

Seeing Chen Mingming's new sportswear, Zhang Chunhua was a little unhappy.

"This is your new clothes?! I spent a lot of money again, our family is not rich, as long as we have clothes to wear, don't be blind with two dollars!. ”

"But when I went to middle school, I couldn't wear it too cold, I was so old, I also wanted to save face, and my previous pants couldn't cover my ankles."

"Children from poor families, what kind of face do you want, face can be eaten, in this situation of our family, don't compare with others, just wear it and don't freeze to death, what's the use of wearing it so well, in the end it's not worn out!"

"What's wrong with our family's conditions, I think the conditions at home are okay?"

"You don't know the hardships at home, you think life is so easy."

"It's been six or seven years since my father died, and now that I'm older, I want to know how much money my family has in store now." The topic changed very abruptly, but it was indeed what Chen Mingliang wanted to ask.

"You know what this is for?!。

"I don't want to do anything, I often said before I died, I have enough money to build a house, to build a house of 'bright three dark five corner seven', according to the price at the time, how can it cost forty or fifty thousand yuan for the whole set."

"I've been studying for so many years, and the annual tuition fee is less than 200, I pick up all the clothes and everything, and the annual food and clothing expenses should be at most one or two hundred. I started killing pigs at the age of 11, and I killed 30 not 50 a year, but also 30 heads, a pig can bring at least 50 to 100 yuan to the family, and the cash I collect from castration and pig killing, I get it to the family a year, and there are one or two thousand. In this way, there is a net profit of 3000-5000 a year. The money earned is more than enough for our family's expenses. ”

"If you go out to buy cooked food all year round, you can earn at least 8 yuan for a pork belly. How many can you sell in a year? Enemas and pig's head meat are not counted, our family conditions should be good. ”

"What are you doing with this!?"

"I don't mean to say anything else, I'm also grown up, and I also have the right to know the situation of my family, you haven't paid me tuition since the first year of junior high school, and I haven't given a penny for living expenses, and I have to pay money every month. I'm not trying to argue with my brother about anything, if I don't go to school now, shouldn't my family build me a house and marry a daughter-in-law? ”

"How old are you to think about this!"

"I don't want to think about this, I don't want to fight for this, the money left over from my great death, as well as the money that my family has saved over the years, is given to my younger brother, and I have no opinion. My younger brother is still young and still has to study, so I should be my elder brother and take care of my younger brother. What I want to know now is how much savings my family has now. ”

"Also, my uncle started the house last year and married my aunt this year, where the money came from, I also want to know."

"What do you want to say! You fart! ”

"Bang!"

Zhang Chunhua was annoyed and threw the bowl on the ground.

"I've looked at my family's passbook, and there is no regular deposit certificate, only a passbook.

From 94 to the present, when opening the card, 30,000 was deposited first, and then 4,000; After three months, the deposit was fifteen thousand, and then eight thousand and two five thousand. Then about 1,000 money was deposited every month. However, it is recorded in the book that at the end of 94, I went to withdraw 30,000 at once, and then took another 10,000, then 7,000, and 6,000. ”

Now there are more than 10,000 left. The timing of withdrawing money coincides with the timing of my uncle's use of money. ”

The mother was even angrier. Gritting his teeth, he roared:

"What are you doing with so many! , my brother is also your own uncle, and he should borrow money, and it is not your turn to take care of this family."

"Is there an IOU, and when will it be repaid?"

"You don't have to worry about the affairs of the family!"

"Then you are so fierce in deducting my money, are you going to let us drink the northwest wind in the future?"

"Get out, you get out of here, never come back."

Chen Mingliang got out, the two parted unhappily, and returned to school that day.