The Xishan Quarry, which has been excavated with tools and blasted with explosives for generations, has been losing money since three years ago. At first, he said that he would not be allowed to blast without permits, but then there was news that the price of stones had fallen, and then the number of people who went into the mountains to buy stones gradually decreased by nearly seven or eighty percent. The old accountant didn't say it, and the boss bald man also knew in his heart: usually less in and more out, the account is not enough to maintain, and the peak season earns a little bit into the wages of more than 20 workers. The bald man wanted to transfer the mess to the next family, but no one wanted to take over, and the corners of his mouth bubbled with fire, and he saw that the top of his head was brighter than before.

Coincidentally, after the clearing of the yin, a few middle-aged men driving private cars came to the village to point and point next to the quarry for a long time. Seeing this, the bald man immediately stepped forward to talk, and he vigorously encouraged the men in sportswear to contract the quarry. The men looked at the bald man carefully for a while, shook his head and did not answer, only a tall and thin man flicked the cigarette ash neatly, smacked his lips, stretched out an open slap and shook it in front of the bald man's eyes, and then shook it in front of his eyes with the back of his hand with his backhand.

"Five...... Fifty thousand? The bald man's face was full of surprise: "Deal!" The owner is refreshing! ”

The man shook his head and said in a thick dialect, "Who told you it was 'fifty thousand'?" ”

"You mean 'five thousand'?" The bald man asked him, "Boss, you're not kidding, are you?" I spent a full 60,000 yuan on the transfer of the quarry! The bald man raised his hand and made a "six" gesture.

"Humph!" The other party didn't answer, turned around and continued to smoke.

"Boss, add a little more, increase the price......"

"A slap of five thousand, and a backhand slap is also five thousand, he said ten thousand!" The man next to him patted the bald man on the shoulder, "If you don't agree, forget it, we don't have time to waste time with you!" After the man finished speaking, he didn't look at the bald man much.

"Yes, I don't have that idle time, if we have time, we have to continue the incense!" The tall, thin man threw away the half-cut cigarette that was clipped in his hand.

Several men laughed together, and the bald man didn't hide what they were laughing at.

The bald man bit his lip and waited for a few puffs of cigarettes, "Okay, I want cash for 10,000 yuan!" ”

Several people let out another violent laugh.

The morning rooster crowed, and a steady stream of machine roars came from the side of the West Mountain. The woman laid out the steamed buns and porridge, as well as the pickles left over from yesterday, and the bald man and her little girl sat at the table.

"Bald, listen to this machine that runs from morning to night without pause, I said that people can make the quarry in full swing, why is it a loss-making deal in your hands?" For the bald man, he felt harsh when he heard the rumbling sound, but hearing the mother-in-law's complaint made him even more piercing.

"Mom, why do you always quarrel with my dad?" The bald little girl couldn't stand it.

"You just have to eat and study, and in the future, you will go to the city to study like your sister, and it is better to marry a city person." The mother-in-law's eyes swept over the pretty face of the little girl, and instantly became gentle. It's just that when she turned to the man, her face immediately changed: "It's also a man, why don't you have that ability?" Are you missing an arm, or are you missing a foot? The mother-in-law was still chattering, "What's the use of 10,000 yuan?" I don't think it will take a year and a half, and there will be nothing left. I want you to beg someone, ask for a job, but you don't listen......"

"Enough is enough!" The bald man couldn't bear it, "The store also had your idea at the beginning, what did you say at the beginning?" Now the tone has changed again, who has front and back eyes? The bald man threw half a bowl of porridge on the table, picked up the hoe that was leaning against the wall and went to the ground.

"Plowing, plowing, you know how to plow, I see that you have nothing but plowing!" The mother-in-law chased out the door, but still refused.

"Phew! You are all the ones who eat people and don't spit out bones! The bald man sighed and spat at the place where the sound came from to the west.

At noon, the bald girl came back from the school in the city, and the mother-in-law rushed to kill chicken and stew, and was busy with all the work. After dinner, the girl discussed with her parents, saying that she would graduate from secondary school soon, and she could not find a suitable job in the city, and she planned to go back to the countryside to find a job.

The bald man and his mother-in-law laughed openly when they heard this, "There is no work in the city, how can we have work in this mountain col?" ”

"That Xishan quarry is recruiting clerks, with a salary of three thousand a month!" The girl's face was filled with a smug look.

"How do you know?" The mother-in-law stared at the eldest daughter's fair and round cheeks suspiciously.

"I saw it online!"

"Three thousand! Three thousand will catch up with our half-year harvest! Is this worth it? The mother then asked, "What do clerks do?" ”

"All they want is to sort out the paperwork and pay the salary."

"Just payroll? Can you earn 3,000 a month? The bald man lit a cigarette and took a few puffs.

"Yes, don't believe it, I'll get the ticket back for you to see."

"I don't know if the ticket is not, I don't agree anyway, no one knows what the quarry owner is, and he is not kind enough." The bald man whispered in his mother-in-law's ear: "He told me that he was from Zhejiang, and he didn't say anything else." As soon as he took over the quarry from me, he turned his face and drove away all the workers over there, and replaced it with a new group of outsiders, what do you say? ”

The mother-in-law waved at him: "Oh, people bring people to work by themselves, what do you hillbillies want to do?" What's more, people are using machines now, and it's not like you know hammers and smashes all day long, what do you want so many people to do? ”

The bald man wanted to argue about something, but he felt that he had nothing to say, so he sighed softly: "Anyway, I don't agree." ”

The mother-in-law ignored this stubble, and said earnestly to her daughter: "Girl, it's no problem for you to do a job, but you must marry in the city in the future, don't be like me in this life, you can only spend in the poor ravine every day." ”

The bald man felt uncomfortable, and he walked out of the house again with a hoe.

In the autumn of this year, the bald girl really went in and out of the quarry gate every day, and for the first time, she really took out a brand new ticket of 3,000 yuan from her pocket.

The bald man felt faintly uneasy, but the mother-in-law was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. In the second month, the girl brought back a bonus of 1,000 yuan in addition to the salary of 3,000 yuan, and the mother-in-law was so happy that she danced happily, and she boasted that her daughter had made a lot of money.

The bald man becomes more and more uneasy, and eventually it happens on a stormy night.

It was close to eight o'clock in the evening, and lightning and thunder were roaring all around, but his daughter was still nowhere to be seen.

He and his mother-in-law stumbled to the entrance of the quarry, the heavy iron door had already been closed and locked, and he tried to knock on the door, and several wolf-dogs barked from inside. Helpless, they had to go home and wait until dawn.

The next day, the eldest daughter came back early and was hesitant to question her parents. The bald man's heart sank to the bottom, and what he feared finally happened.

"Don't go to the quarry again!" The bald man slapped the table.

"I'm going to go, I'm going to marry a boss!"

"What do you know about people?"

"I don't care! I'm going to marry him! ”

The girl began to stay up all night, and the bald man went to look for her a few times, but he didn't even see her face. The bald man sulked all day, but there was no good way.

At noon one day in the autumn of the second year, the bald man had just entered the house, and the mother-in-law happily held a brand-new mobile phone and dangled in front of the bald man.

"This mobile phone was given to me by my eldest daughter, she is about to give birth to a baby, and I am ...... to take care of the confinement child."

"What do you say? Girl girl has a baby? The bald man overturned the square table, "No one is allowed to go!" I don't have this girl! ”

The mother-in-law had never seen a bald man so angry, and she did not dare to say anything at the time, but behind her back, she quietly assigned the little girl to go to the quarry to take care of her sister.

Within a few days, the little girl also stayed in the quarry all night. The bald man was so angry that he rushed into the quarry to ask for someone.

I saw the quarry owner, respectfully handing 50,000 yuan to the bald man: "First, you take 50,000 yuan; Second, you take away your two daughters; Third, we take a long-term view and discuss the quantity. ”

The bald man pushed away the banknotes, and he walked up to his daughters and said that he was going to take them away, but neither of them listened to the slightest advice.

"Girl, even if I beg you......" After saying that, he covered his mouth and shook his shoulders violently.

The two girls glanced at each other, as if they were on a bar, and neither of them would move half a step.

"Slap" The bald man slapped himself hard, turned around and left the quarry, and after a few steps, he collapsed at the gate without taking a breath, and everyone wiped his chest and patted his back, and it took him a while to wake up.

That night, a heart-rending cry came from the bald man's house, and the mother-in-law said that the bald man had secretly drunk pesticides while she was not paying attention.

A few days later, the bald girl gave birth and gave birth to a white and chubby male baby. As soon as the child is full moon, the eldest daughter is about to take a ride into the city. Before leaving, she said goodbye to her mother.

"Mom, I'm going to the city!"

"Yes, you must go to the city, you have to remember, you must marry a man in the city in the future, don't learn from me, and only stay in the ravine for the rest of your life."

The mother didn't keep it, she took out her mobile phone from her pocket: "You go to the city, remember to call me......"

A minibus at the entrance of the village carried the eldest girl into the city, and for a moment, the mother felt as if her heart and liver had been cut.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, a black luxury car carries the mother-in-law's little daughter and a bunch of gifts to the village.

"My mother, I'm here to accompany you for the holidays!" The youngest daughter barely managed to squeeze out a smile, and her mother nodded, expressionless, and did not speak.

The car was gone, but the mother still stood motionless. After a long time, the mother seemed to react: "Where is the baby?" ”

"The baby stayed in the quarry, and he said he would pick me up in the evening!"

"Oh, yes, yes......" Mother went to the kitchen to prepare for the fire.

The sun was sinking in the west, and the mother couldn't wait for the black car, so the little girl hurriedly dialed the man's mobile phone, but the other party's mobile phone suddenly became empty. She hurried all the way to the quarry, but the man and the child were nowhere to be found. No one, including the quarry workers, knew exactly where the man and child had gone.

"Mom, I'm going to Zhejiang to find him and find the baby!"

"Zhejiang is so big, how can you find it?"

"He told me before that he had a mother-in-law in Zhejiang, but he couldn't have a baby, so he wanted to divorce his mother-in-law and marry a new mother-in-law."

"Now that he has a baby, he will definitely not divorce his mother-in-law again, I advise you not to go!"

"I must go! Death is going too! ”

The mother took out her mobile phone from her pocket: "When you go to Zhejiang, you must call me......"

The little girl, like the eldest girl, also took a minibus at the entrance of the village and disappeared. This time, my mother felt like she had been cramped, and she was soft and wilting all day long.

The phone was carried in her mother's pocket, and she always looked forward to the day when her daughter would call, and although the phone had not rang for three years, her heart was still full of endless anticipation.