"Little Er, did you remember what your mother told you last night?" Outside the town, a middle-aged man patted a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy on the shoulder, and his tone was full of reluctance.

"Dad, don't worry, I will definitely work hard and not cause trouble. You and your mother should take care of your health, and wait for the child to make money for you and your younger brothers and sisters to take to the city. The boy's voice trembled, his eyes moistened, and his gaze at his father gradually blurred.

"Child, it doesn't matter if our family doesn't enter the city or not, your eldest brother and I can farm and chop firewood every year, and we can also ensure the basic living of the family. It's really your father and I can't make up the money for you to study, so I can only scrape together some money and drag some connections to send you to this Tianxiang Tavern, where working is more profitable than farming in our house. Xiao Er, you do a good job, it would be best if you could marry a girl from the city. "The middle-aged man haha, which can be regarded as relieving a little sadness.

As he was talking, an old man from the town who walked with the wind and looked very capable and powerful walked straight towards the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man looked at the old man who came and hurriedly shouted, "Uncle Zhang, over here"

The old man walked over, looked at the middle-aged man, and said to him: "The eldest nephew of the Li family, this is the second son you said."

The middle-aged man hurriedly replied yes. patted his son again and said to his son, "Don't hurry up and say hello to Grandpa Zhang." ”

The boy wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, bowed to the old man and said, "Hello Grandpa Zhang"

The old man smiled and said yes, then looked at the young man's body and bones, and said yes again. After saying it twice in a row, the old man spoke to the middle-aged man again.

"The child is working with you, look at this small body, it's quite sturdy. Okay, I will go home for the elderly in half a year, and let your second son work with me for half a year to get used to it. After half a year, I took over my post, and I asked him to sign a formal work contract with the restaurant. You can rest assured that this month's salary is worth two months of farming at home. If you do a good job, there will be a reward. The old man said as he pulled the child from the middle-aged man's side.

When the middle-aged man heard the old man say this, he was relieved, after all, it cost a lot of money to send his second son to this Tianxiang Restaurant. I heard that my son can earn a lot here, and he must be very happy to be a father.

When the young man heard Grandpa Zhang say this, he was also very happy, and he was finally able to make money.

The old man then said: "Before the official signing of the work contract, there is not much money, you had better leave more for him, there are many places in this town where money is used, especially children, go to a market, look at new things and may want to buy." ”

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said to the old man: "Uncle Zhang, you don't know, it's good to be able to send this little cub over, how can there be so much money for him to spend." ”

The young man knew the situation at home, and was busy arguing with the old man that he didn't spend money, but he could save it.

The old man looked at the young man, and said to the man with a smile: "Haha, okay, when you need it, I'll help him, it's not too early, you go back to the village quickly." ”

The middle-aged man bowed to the old man and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Zhang."

smiled at the young man and said, "In this area, listen to your grandfather Zhang's words, little second son, if you let me hear it, if you are disobedient, see if I beat you or not."

"Dad, don't worry, I will be obedient. Make money and marry a city daughter-in-law. ”

The old man next to him couldn't help but smile happily when he heard this, thinking that he was still young. Said to this man, you go, we have to go back to the restaurant.

The man turned and walked into the distance.

"Let's go, boy, don't look at it"

"Okay, Grandpa Zhang"

"This is a grandfather, it's so comfortable to call Grandpa Zhang, what's your name, boy?"

"Grandpa Zhang, my name is Li Tian, I heard my mother say that it was my father who said that our farmers rely on the sky to eat, so he gave me this name"

"Good name, Li Tian Li Tian soared into the sky, work hard, and your family will rely on you to eat in the future." Haha" Li Tian saw that Grandpa Zhang often laughed, and felt that Grandpa Zhang was really good.

In fact, what Li Tian didn't know was that Grandpa Zhang was happy, on the one hand, because he would go home for the elderly in half a year, and he would receive a lot of pension money from the restaurant. On the other hand, in order to let Li Tianneng come to work in the restaurant, the man of the Li family did give him a lot of money.

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Speaking of which, this is the first time Li Tian has come to the town, and before, his father and eldest brother have come to sell firewood. If there is no man in the family, it is not okay, so Li Tian is not allowed to come, every time Li Tian and his mother are at home.

Li Tian, who entered the town for the first time, was indeed like Grandpa Zhang said at the beginning, everything was very fresh. The steamed bun seller, the candy man, the small kites woven by the street vendors, the colorful cloth dyed in the big cloth mill, and the little knick-knacks played by children he had never seen before, really made him very excited. There was still a bit of copper plate given by his mother in the small bag, but this could not be easily spent, and his mother told him that it was emergency money and let him keep it.

After walking for a while, he arrived at Tianxiang Restaurant, and it was the first time for Li Tian to see such a magnificent house. The plaque with the four big characters of Tianxiang Restaurant written on it can be worth a wall of their house.

"Boy, look dumbfounded, there's so much more you haven't seen. We still have to go forward, this is not the door we can go to, let's go to the back door. Grandpa Zhang stunned Li Tian and walked towards the back door of the tavern.

When he came to the back door of Tianxiang Restaurant, Grandpa Zhang dragged a round iron bolt on the door, turned him half a circle in the opposite direction, and then pushed hard, with a creak, the back door of Tianxiang Restaurant was pushed open. It turns out that this back door is not locked during the day, and it is also for the convenience of buying vegetables, pouring swill, and chopping wood in and out.

It's not time to eat yet, and the backyard isn't very busy. As soon as I entered the door, I saw an uncle who didn't know what to do, and his clothes were oily, and he was just about to go to the house.

The man saw someone come in and looked back. smiled and said to Grandpa Zhang, "I'm back, Lao Zhang." After saying this, without waiting for Grandpa Zhang's reply, he turned around and entered the room, not knowing what to do.

"Oh my God, this person just now, don't look at him calling me Lao Zhang, like he is the same generation as me, but you don't have to call him grandpa, you call him Uncle Wang, he chopped meat in our restaurant, sometimes the chef is too busy to do it, and he also went over to do it." Grandpa Zhang pointed to the uncle who had just entered the house and said to Li Tian.

"Okay, call him Uncle Wang, I know Grandpa Zhang," Li Tian nodded as he spoke.

Grandpa Zhang took advantage of it and couldn't help laughing. Then he took Li Tian to a side room.

Li Tian couldn't help but be surprised when he went in and looked. I saw a house full of firewood. sighed in my heart, good guy, a lot of firewood, how much does this have to sell!

"Chopping firewood, you will be responsible for it in half a year," Grandpa Zhang said to him while patting Li Tian on the shoulder.