Ma Xiaodong had just packed up his things, received a signal from his mother, and looked at Yan Yueyue, who was a little different from usual, in front of him, and responded with "uh-huh~" in his mouth.

Yan Yueyue retracted her fugue thoughts, and pulled out a smile at Zhou and Ma Xiaodong,

"Aunt Zhou, Brother Dongzi, I know, thank you!"

It was dark early in late autumn, and the Zhou family and Yan Yueyue finished dinner and went back to their own houses.

By the dim light, Yan Yueyue took out the ten yuan she had left behind, carefully wrapped it in a small handkerchief, and planned to go to bed early and go to the mountains early tomorrow morning to find the treasure.

"Knock knock", the door of the utility room where Yan Yueyue lived rang, Yan Yueyue hurriedly stuffed the money under the pillow, and got out of bed to open the door in confusion.

"Who?"

With the sound of "Kaji", a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl stood outside the dilapidated wooden door, thin and short, her face was pale as if she had been malnourished for a long time, her big eyes only dared to look at Yan Yueyue's clothes, and she spoke timidly,

"Sister, can I~ come in?"

Yan Yueyue saw her when she came back in the afternoon, and knew that she was Ma Xiaodong's sister named Ma Xiaoyun, she turned sideways and let Ma Xiaoyun into the house.

"Xiaoyun, do you have something to do with me?"

Seeing that Yan Yueyue agreed, Ma Xiaoyun entered the door sideways, and gently closed the door again, without making a sound.

"Sister Yueyue, I have something to ask you for help."

Yan Yueyue hurriedly let her sit on the edge of the bed, "Sister, what's the matter?" ”

A layer of blush appeared on Ma Xiaoyun's pale face, and after a pause, he finally mustered up his courage,

"Sister, can you take me with you when you go to the mountains tomorrow to find the baby?"

"Huh?? Why? Yan Yueyue looked at her, "But~ they said you were sick and had to rest in bed......"

Ma Xiaoyun nodded, "Yes, I'm sick, but I can't find out what the disease is, my whole body is weak, and my appetite is getting worse and worse, but...... I want to help my mother and my eldest brother......"

As he spoke, Ma Xiaoyun covered his face with his hands and whimpered, and a few tears ran down his fingertips.

Yan Yueyue couldn't hold back her red eyes in an instant, her nose was sore, and she hurriedly took a towel and handed it over,

"Don't cry, wipe it!"

Ma Xiaoyun raised his head, tears still on his face, "Sister Yueyue, do you agree?" ”

"I~" Yan Yueyue was stunned for a few seconds and shook her head, "No, I don't agree!" ”

"Huh? Sister...... You're okay, I'm really~ really just want to do something for the family~"

"No, I can't take you to the mountains, it's too dangerous. But ~ I can take you to catch the big set! Yan Yueyue held Ma Xiaoyun's shoulders and smiled.

Two lines of tears remained from Ma Xiaoyun's face, and she hugged Yan Yueyue's arm tightly and shook it in surprise and joy.

"Sister, sister, thank you! You're so good, it's just that I'm not in good health, so don't tell them about it! I'm afraid they're worried! ”

Yan Yueyue nodded heavily, and quickly explained, "But if you feel uncomfortable when we go out, you have to tell me in time, and we will come back as soon as possible, can you?" ”

"Mmmm, sister, I listen to you!" Ma Xiaoyun nodded sensibly and tiptoed back to his room.

On the other side of the fence wall, in the Yan family's hall, Yan Tiejun was hanging his head and listening to Chen Fengping's reprimand.

Chen Fengping's fingers were about to poke at Yan Tiejun's dark and shiny head.

"Yan Tiejun!! What's the matter with your niece? She ate and drank for nothing in my house for a few months, and now she doesn't know where she made money, but she took it all to honor the Zhou family next door?! Yes? Is there any more reason?! ”

Although Yan Tiejun himself was confused, he didn't dare to refute Chen Fengping, and he couldn't say why he was holding the corner of his clothes and bowing his head, "Uh-huh~".

Seeing that Yan Tiejun's three hammers couldn't make a fart, Chen Fengping became even more angry, and her voice rose a few degrees.

"Yan Tiejun, you got up early tomorrow morning to find the one who had no conscience for me, and asked for the living expenses of the past few months, did you hear that!?"

Although Yan Tiejun disagreed with his words in his heart, how embarrassed was his niece to eat something, but he looked down at his disabled leg, and no longer responded, so he had to respond to Chen Fengping's words,

"Okay, okay, I'll go early tomorrow morning~"

After listening to it for a long time, Yan Xinxin, who was sitting on the small bench on the side, couldn't stand it, since her father Yan Tiejun was injured at work in the coal mine and couldn't do heavy work and make money, Chen Fengping yelled at Yan Tiejun at home all day long, and this time she couldn't let her father go to her cousin Yan Yueyue to ask for this money.

"Mother, how can you ask for this money? Your cousin stayed in our house, and you agreed to it at the beginning! ”

Hearing what his daughter said, Yan Tiejun stretched his neck,

"Ahem, that's it, Feng Ping forget it, besides, this old house also has her parents' share!"

"No!! I used to have her parents' share, but in the past few months in our house, she has eaten and lived for nothing, and the year is poor, if I hadn't gone back to my parents' house to borrow ten catties of rice, you and your daughter would have starved to death!

Now she owes me the Chen family, you two eat things inside and outside, she lives in mine and eats mine, and she doesn't want me? ”

Yan Xinxin's brows furrowed tightly, she didn't expect her mother to be so stubborn and unreasonable, "But mother~"

Yan Tiejun hurriedly pulled the sleeve of her dress and motioned her to stop talking, "Okay girl, you go to sleep first, Dad will go tomorrow." ”

Before dawn the next morning, Yan Yueyue was woken up by a cold wind blowing in from the broken window, and hurriedly moved her fat body to get dressed and get out of bed, poured water from the hot water kettle and simply freshened up, and stepped out of the door of the Zhou family with the basket on her back.

Stepping on the heavy frost dew, Yan Yueyue walked along the path in her memory yesterday towards the mountain.

It rained overnight last night, the mountain road was wet and slippery, Yan Yueyue stumbled and finally came to the place where she picked up the fungus yesterday, and there were piles of big dirt bags bulging under a dense pine tree, Yan Yueyue's eyes lit up, and she stood on tiptoe excitedly, and gently pulled the pine hairs on the mound with her hands, and a cluster of black and shiny dried mushrooms appeared in front of her at once.

"Good thing...... Yan Yueyue said in her mouth, but she kept carefully putting all the dried mushrooms into her back basket, and then carefully covered the pine hairs that had just been shaved out, Yan Yueyue turned around the pine tree a few times, and made sure that there were no fungi around, so she went down the mountain with confidence.

This came and went, and when the sun hung high above Yan Yueyue's head, she had already stepped into the door of the Zhou family, and the girl with two pigtails yesterday was already standing at the door waiting for her.