Wu Yi slept until dawn, heard the sound of firecrackers outside, and then opened his eyes with a blank mind, and then remembered that today is the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The sound of firecrackers comes and goes, the firecracker paper jumps everywhere, even the tiles occasionally have a slight sound, and the smoke rises with the wind, pervasive, non-stop and endless, and it must make the people in the house smell the festive smell.

Wu Yi lay down in a daze for a long time, and then smelled the oil fragrance mixed with the smell of firecrackers - the shop is not open today, and Wu's mother is not idle for a moment, first kneeling on two legs and scrubbing all over the yard, and then busy in the kitchen with two legs.

A long roar came out of his stomach, urging him to get up and get dressed and go out.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw that the clouds opened and the fog dispersed, the snow passed and the sky was clear, a round of red sun poured out of the sky, the golden light was blooming, the cold wind was warm, the aquatic pattern was brilliant, and it was extraordinarily beautiful.

The sky and the crackling firecrackers outside complement each other, very festive, Wu Yi's heart is bitter and sour, but also diluted a lot.

There were a lot of clothes drying in the yard, Wu's father sat on the BMX, kept flattening the corners of his clothes, and when he saw Wu Yi coming out, he said with a calm face: "Today is the New Year, I don't care about you, go and call your brother for breakfast." ”

Wu Yi's heart suddenly relaxed, and he decided that Wu Jin had cleared himself last night, and took these debts on his body alone.

From childhood to adulthood, my brother has always been like this, everything he can carry on his shoulder, more than 10,000 yuan, my brother must have thought of a way - Cheng Sanye and Miss Mo are very rich, and the gold collar worn by Miss Mo around her neck is said to be solid.

Wu Jin didn't need him to call, he opened the door and came out: "Dad, I'll push you." ”

He pushed his father to the main compartment, pulled out a chair, carried Wu's father up, and went to the kitchen to help serve breakfast.

Wu Yi followed closely behind him, whispered "brother", hung his head to help, Wu's mother didn't know how much silver Wu Yi owed, looking at his cautious appearance, guessing that there was at least a few dozen taels, hating the itchy teeth, but it was the New Year, it was inconvenient to do it, so he could only stare at him twice and let him eat first.

The breakfast was hearty, and the leg of mutton sent by Cheng Ting was frozen until today, and Wu's mother was willing to cut it, stewed a pot of mutton soup early in the morning, steamed steamed buns, and boiled haggis.

A family of four even ate and drank, after breakfast, Wu Jin saw that the sun was good, and there was no strong wind, so he pushed Wu's father out to bask in the sun, and Wu's mother washed a whole pair of donkey intestines with vinegar water at the kitchen door, and when it was washed and scraped, it was made to make braised donkey plate intestines.

Wu Yi still followed Wu Jin closely, Wu Jin was reading in the sun, he also went to move a stool, and before his ass sat down, there was a mountain sound outside the door.

As soon as the door rang, Wu Yi's heart jumped "bang", the corners of his mouth twitched, and then looked at Wu Jin, Wu Jin had already gotten up to open the door.

Outside the door were two servants of the Liu family, working together to carry a half-person-high camphor wooden box, and when they saw the door open, they lifted the box again and put it directly in the yard.

One of the servants bowed his hand to Wu Jin: "Wu Jieyuan, this is the bill sent by my uncle, the account room has calculated carefully, and it is 11,861 taels of silver, the uncle said, please calculate it carefully, if there is a slight discrepancy, wait for the New Year, you will go to our house to calculate." ”

He bowed his hand to Wu Yi again: "Uncle also explained, there is still a rubbing book at home, even if it is burned, it doesn't matter." ”

After that, he led the other servant to say goodbye and go out, Wu Jinfu closed the door, and when he turned around, he saw Wu's mother standing by the box with her hands drenched, dumbfounded, and Wu's father looked at Wu Yi in disbelief.

Mother Wu was especially afraid that she had misheard, and asked tremblingly: "Is this a debt owed by the second child?" More than 10,000 taels? ”

Wu Yi knew that his father and mother didn't know.

He looked at Wu Jin in horror, and Wu Jin nodded: "Yes, but the number is not necessarily right, I have to check them one by one to know how many there are." ”

Wu's mother had a "bang" in her brain, all her qi and blood were blocked and stagnant, a dry face turned dead gray in an instant, and one hand hurriedly propped up to Wu's father's BMX, so that she didn't faint, but her two legs couldn't stand anymore, and they went straight down.

Wu Jin hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and saw that her father was also stunned, the melon seeds and peanuts in his hand fell to the ground, and his two hands were clenched tightly on the armrest of the BMX.

The two of them crawled out of the bitter water, but they had never heard of such a huge number, and even their spirits became cold, and they were blank and empty in front of and behind them.

Wu's mother broke free of Wu Jin's hand and walked to Wu Yi's side as if struggling for her life: "You borrowed this?" ”

Wu Yi shook his head: "A-Niang, I didn't borrow money, it was all Liu Bowen who tricked me, he took the bill and asked me to sign, saying that everyone who went had to sign."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Mu had already raised her hand and tried her best to slap him in the face: "Beast! ”

Wu Yi's head was tilted to the side, his ears were buzzing, a red fingerprint appeared on his face, and hot blood poured into his face.

"You brute!" Wu Mu stepped forward and dragged him, took his arm and asked him to kneel, Wu Yi fell to his knees, the tamped loess under his knees has become soft and wet after many days of snow, and the clothes on his knees were soaked instantly, and the wetness was still spreading, from the feet, knees, and directly into the thighs, waist, lower abdomen, and heart.

He lowered his face and looked at the loess, and Wu's mother's slap hit his head and face, he was in pain and remorse, and couldn't help whimpering.

"A-Niang," Wu Jin stepped forward to support Wu's mother, "Don't worry, there is always a way to do everything." ”

Tears flowed from Wu's mother's sunken eyes, turned to look at Wu Jin, endured for a moment, couldn't hold back anymore, grabbed Wu Jin's arm with both hands, "ah", and cried: "Boss, more than 10,000 taels!" ”

She cried so much that she suddenly couldn't get up in one breath and fainted.

"Auntie!" Wu Jin hurriedly hugged Wu's mother, caressed her heart with one hand, and pinched her again, "Auntie! ”

"it!" Father Wu burst into tears, hurriedly stretched out his hand, completely forgetting that he had no legs, and threw himself on the ground.

Wu Yi knelt on the ground, watching Wu Jin pick up Wu's mother into the house, then turned around to hug Wu's father, and went to the kitchen to pour hot water into it, feeling strange in his heart, as if there was no longer him in this home.

There were firecrackers outside, and thousands of households were full of laughter, but the Wu family was silent.

Wu's mother slowly woke up, facing Wu Jin, tears rained down, but Wu Jin said: "Auntie, I want to reconcile the bill, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it is all thanks to you, let the second elder kneel in, the outside is wet and cold, knees have been kneeling for a long time, and the root of the disease has fallen all his life." ”

Mother Wu's heart was terribly infarcted: "That brute, whatever he does, let him die." ”

Wu Jin said to Wu's father again: "Dad, there are too many bills, you know the name of the second child, you do me a favor, don't pick out those who don't have the name of the second child, you can't say what people say, we have to know it ourselves." ”

Wu's father and mother were arranged, and gradually stopped their tears, and forced themselves to endure their grief and get busy.

There are too many bills, and they are very trivial, Rao has the help of Wu's father, and he is very slow, and after eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in a heavy atmosphere, Wu Jin continued to settle the accounts, until three more in the middle of the night, before he understood.

Excluding bills from unknown sources, there are still 8,970 taels.