Li Dawei didn't come back until about nine o'clock this evening, with a briefcase under his arm, a flower pot in his arms, glasses on the bridge of his nose crooked, and his shoes and clothes covered with mud, as if he had rolled around in the field.

"Did you get into a fight or something?" Wang Xiaojuan asked in surprise, "How did you go home like this!" ”

Li Dawei grinned, and brought in the flower pot in his arms as if offering treasure, "I got a pot of orchids from a fellow villager's house, Director Jiang likes orchids the most, and I will send him a chance when I turn around, and he will be happy." ”

Li Manjun's sister and brother came up in all directions, and when they looked at the mud on their father's body and laughed, they knew that it was nothing serious.

"Dad, what's wrong with your glasses?" Li Jianjun asked with a smile, heartless.

Li Dawei waved his hand, "It's okay, I was chasing people in the countryside today, and I accidentally fell and broke the frame king." ”

Xiaojuan took the briefcase in his hand, opened the zipper and checked it, and only a few cents of the money left in it before, and her face suddenly looked ugly.

"How much did you buy this orchid?"

Li Dawei smiled and said that he didn't want money, he sent it to his fellow villagers, and it was everywhere in the mountains behind his house, and it was worthless.

"I'll leave the money to my parents." Li Dawei glanced at his wife and motioned for her to save some face for herself in front of her children.

Wang Xiaojuan took a deep breath, and then held back the questioning that came to her mouth.

Although twenty or thirty yuan is not much, as long as it is given to the parents-in-law in the countryside, it will definitely be transferred to the eldest brother's pocket.

This kind of thing, no matter how many times it has been experienced, can make Wang Xiaojuan angry every time.

"Why did you come back so late today?" Wang Xiaojuan asked, "I have no food, will I give you a bowl of noodles?" ”

Li Dawei nodded, as long as there is something to eat, he doesn't pick.

Li Lijun brought a handkerchief and asked her father to wipe her face quickly, complaining that he really didn't look like a cadre.

Li Dawei raised his hand to hit someone, but Li Lijun smiled and hurriedly ran away.

"It's not big, it's not too small." Li Dawei was not angry.

"You're not going to be beaten, are you?" Li Manjun asked tentatively.

In the past few years, all the people who went to the countryside to do work were warriors, and the countrymen only recognized death and did not reason with you at all, they only knew that you were coming for their unborn "son", and it was okay if you were not killed.

Li Dawei washed his face for a moment, hurriedly turned around and glanced at the kitchen, and saw that Wang Xiaojuan hadn't noticed, so he reminded Li Manjun not to shout.

If he hadn't been beaten up, but today was really thrilling, if he hadn't been a local, and the eldest brother and eldest sister would have brought people in time, he and the other two female comrades wouldn't have wanted to go home today.

Li Manjun hissed, and his eyes fell on the pot of orchids on the table, can this thing really be used?

Wang Xiaojuan cooked the noodles and brought them out, Li Lijun and Li Jianjun had already gone back to the room, the student party didn't stay up late, and they had to get up to class tomorrow morning.

There were three Li Manjun in the house, and Li Dawei was snoring and eating noodles, looking so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and Wang Xiaojuan was distressed.

She touched the slender leaves of the orchid and asked curiously, "What kind of orchid is this?" Haven't seen much of this breed. ”

Li Dawei shook his head, he didn't know, anyway, it was orchids, Director Jiang liked them, maybe as soon as he was happy, he wouldn't have to go to the countryside.

"Dad, be careful in the future, you are old, if you fall somewhere, our family will be finished." Li Manjun said uneasily.

Li Dawei responded and said that he knew, but he didn't dare to say more, for fear that he would be questioned by his wife.

After eating the noodles, Li Dawei said with a pity on his face: "Sister Da Niu is no longer going to school, and she is going to go south to work." ”

Wang Xiaojuan and Li Manjun were taken aback.

Li Dalong has four children, two boys and two girls, Li Daniu is the eldest son, and there are two younger sisters and a younger brother who is in elementary school.

The second sister didn't go to junior high school, and she got married at the age of sixteen.

There is still a third sister Li Lanfang, who studies very hard, has always been the first in the school in primary school, and later studied in junior high school in a town middle school closer to home, and her grades are also very good, and she is the first in her class every year.

Counting up, the third year of junior high school this year will soon be the critical moment of the high school entrance examination.

Every time Wang Xiaojuan says Li Jianjun, "Look at your cousin, people are the first every year, you are the first from the bottom every year, and you don't know how to learn from others!" ”

Everyone thinks that Li Lanfang can be admitted to a high school in the city and become the first person of Li Manjun's generation to go out.

However, now Li Dawei actually said that she was going south to work?

"Your eldest brother is confused, such a good girl is not allowed to go to school to work? What kind of work can she do as a little girl at the age of sixteen! ”

There was no need to ask carefully, Wang Xiaojuan had already guessed that it must be the eldest brother and sister-in-law who did a good thing.

Li Dawei sighed, he persuaded him, but Li Dalong asked him directly: "Then you plan to help your niece pay her tuition?" ”

"When I went to high school, where can a family like ours afford the tuition fee? What's the use of reading so many books for a girl, it's better to go to work early and earn more money to send back to build a new house for the family. ”

Li Dawei still wanted to persuade him, but the little girl Li Lanfang smiled bitterly at him, "Second uncle, I think it's good to work part-time." ”

made Li Dawei not a person inside and out.

Li Manjun really felt sorry for this cousin, and she had such a family.

"It's a good thing we don't live with them."

Wang Xiaojuan glanced at her, "Don't talk nonsense about adults and children." ”

Li Manjun was speechless, come on, she's a child who should go back to the room and sleep.

Before going to bed, I heard Li Dawei say that Li Lanfang was going to come to the house for one night in a few days, so that she could catch the morning shuttle bus into the city to take the train or something, so that Wang Xiaojuan could prepare.

Later, the couple said some more words, but Li Manjun couldn't hear it clearly, and fell asleep.

The next day, she got up early in the morning, followed Li Lijun and Li Jianjun, who went to school, went out at the same time, first went to meet Liu Yan's sister and brother, and the three of them collected the toothpaste skin in the town together, and were busy until more than eight o'clock, and sent the two to the countryside on the shuttle, and then went home alone.

Wang Xiaojuan is not at home, and it is estimated that she is chatting in the house next door.

Since being laid off, Wang Xiaojuan has not gone out to look for other jobs, but has stayed at home to cook for the two school-going children at home, and will make plans after Li Lijun has passed the high school entrance examination.

The kitchen stove was covered with leftovers, Li Manjun ordered himself a bowl of noodles, ate his stomach, and went back to the room to take out the bowl under the bed.

Afraid of being seen by the husband and wife at the toll station, Li Manjun packed it in a denim book again, and came to the bus stop sign on his back to wait for the car.

There was a shuttle into town at nine o'clock, and she was able to catch it.

Today is not a big gathering, and the people walking around the street are in twos and threes, and it is a bit deserted.

Before the shuttle bus came, Li Manjun stood under the stop sign, saw an unfamiliar blue-covered medium-sized truck across the street, leaned over curiously, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar tall figure walking out of the side of the body.