At four o'clock the next morning, the alarm clock was turned off as soon as it rang, Xu An quietly turned his head to look at the side, the two villains were sleeping soundly, and they didn't look like they were being noisy at all.

I got up from the bed lightly, washed up in the yard, heard the movement of turning over in my grandmother's room, and went in to see that my grandmother had woken up.

"Milk, turn on the light when you wake up, one kilowatt-hour of electricity is enough to turn on this light bulb for a whole day."

Xu An reached out and pulled the rope at the head of the bed, and the light bulb emitted a soft yellow light.

"This moonlight is so bright, you can see it clearly, don't waste electricity." Grandma Xu raised her hand and pulled the rope, and the light went out.

Since grandma didn't want to turn on the lights, Xu An didn't force her, and helped her grandmother up and sat against the wall by the moonlight.

"I'll go to the garden and pick some vegetables to sell at the market, and I'll not come back until eight or nine o'clock. Yesterday afternoon they went to bed and had nightmares saying I don't want them anymore, I'm afraid they won't see me when they wake up and I'm going to cry again. ”

"I don't know why, the two children are getting more and more clingy to you these days." Grandma Xu had a smile on her face: "You may know that you are about to go to college, and it will take half a year to go to college, and you will have to cry when the time comes." ”

The action of wringing water on the towel in his hand paused, and then he squeezed the water out of the towel violently, and handed the wrung out towel to Grandma Xu.

Grandma Xu took the towel and carefully wiped her face and neck.

Xu An looked at the rippling water lines in the basin in a daze.

If you go to school by yourself, you will be left with an elderly person with limited mobility and two four-year-old children who are not able to walk.

It would be good if you were reborn and went back to before the college entrance examination, and you don't remember anything, and the scores you get out of the exam are sure that you can't go to college, so you can not go to college openly.

Grandma Xu handed the towel to Xu An several times, but Xu An didn't take it, and when she turned her head, she saw that Xu An was in a daze, thinking that Xu An was worried about the tuition fee.

"I asked the families in the village who were admitted to the university, and the tuition fee of a public university is several thousand yuan a year, although our family is a little poor, and I have spent a lot of money on this leg, but this tuition fee can still be afforded."

"I don't have to worry about tuition fees, the state has student loans, and there are poverty subsidies."

"Loans? This is borrowing money from the state. ”

"Yes, there is no interest, wait until you graduate to pay it back, and you can repay as much as you borrow."

"That's a good policy."

After Grandma Xu finished washing, Xu An came out of the room with a basin, poured water into the courtyard, and looked at the moon reflected in the water stains, feeling that the world was a bit fucked.

If you choose to go to college, even if you don't agree, your younger siblings will most likely be taken away by your sister-in-law; If you choose not to go to college, grandma will not have a good time, and she will definitely feel that she and her younger siblings are dragging her down, and she may send her younger siblings away without telling herself.

After all, for grandma, no matter how bitter and mean my sister-in-law is, she is still a relative with the same blood. When the two children arrived at their sister-in-law's house, they didn't say that they would have a good life, at least they could eat and dress warmly.

Xu An rubbed his face fiercely.

I don't want to think about it, so I will leave my younger siblings at home first and not be taken away by my sister-in-law, and then think about the rest of it.

Before going to bed last night, Xu An prepared the things he was going to use this morning, two baskets and a flat pole, and there was also a knife, a flashlight, a small wooden stool and some odds and ends in the basket.

A basket is tied to the front and back of the pole on the left shoulder, the left hand is on the pole to keep balance, and the right hand turns on the flashlight and walks in the direction of the vegetable garden.

Xu An wants to catch up with the morning market in the town, which starts at half past five and closes the stall at about half past seven. After eight o'clock, the chengguan will come to inspect, and if you want to continue to put it up, you have to pay a booth fee of five yuan.

In order to save the five yuan stall fee, people like Xu An who set up stalls to sell home-grown vegetables will rush to this morning market.

Along the way, I could see people picking vegetables with flashlights in several vegetable gardens, and I looked up to say hello when I saw Xu An.

Xu An quickened his pace and entered the vegetable garden to work hard.

Today's yield in the vegetable garden is good, the highest yield is tomatoes, there are more than 20 picked, conservatively estimated at seven or eight catties; followed by green chili peppers, about five catties; Two bitter gourds and three eggplants. The remaining corners are planted with leafy greens that are only enough for home.

When I walked to the market, it was already dark, and there were already more than a dozen small stalls in the open space in front of the market.

When Xu An was looking for a vacant seat, someone waved at Xu An and signaled him to come over, it was Xu Guoqiang, and he had to call the second uncle according to the seniority in the village.

"It's a little late today, and if it's any later, you won't have a place but to find a place where no one can see."

"I delayed a bit when I picked vegetables, but fortunately, you also came to the market today."

"This just happened to grow together with cabbage and green beans, and I didn't finish eating it at home, and I would be old after two days, so I simply picked it up at the market."

Saying that, Xu Guoqiang picked up a cabbage and handed it to Xu An, and said shyly: "How is it, Shui Ling?" ”

There is one in Xujia Village, all of them are good at farming, and the vegetables grown are three points better than those in other villages, and the taste is better.

"Yes, this cabbage looks good at it, and it's absolutely delicious."

Hearing Xu An's praise, Xu Guoqiang put the cabbage back on the stall with satisfaction, picked up the watering can he carried and sprayed it on the dish, and the luster of the cabbage became even more attractive.

Xu An took out the cleaned red, white and blue from the basket and spread it on the ground, and stacked the vegetables neatly on the red, white and blue. After cleaning up, take out the watering can and spray it on the dish, the red tomatoes, purple eggplants, and green peppers and bitter gourds are all hung with dense droplets.

In the summer, the sky is relatively early, and it is not yet six o'clock, and there are many more people in the market, shouting and quarreling and bargaining.

In addition to the old people who can't sleep and get up early, housewives who want to buy fresh food, there are also workers who have to rush to work on the construction site.

In recent years, the economy has developed rapidly, and many projects of all sizes have been opened in the city. If there are more workers, there will be no more work, and the wages will be higher, attracting many men and women in the town who have the strength to work on the construction site.

The salary of knowing technology is high, and it can be two or three hundred a day. Those who don't understand technology but have the strength to do it are low, but there are also one or two hundred. If you don't know technology and don't have much strength, you can also find a master as an apprentice, and you can earn eighty yuan.

The town is not far from the construction site, basically more than half an hour to arrive. No matter how good the accommodation and food on the construction site are, it is better than at home, as long as they can go home, everyone chooses to go home and cook and eat by themselves.

These people would rush to the morning market to buy vegetables and put them at home, and then go home to cook and eat after work in the evening.

"Your eggplant looks fresh, it can't be a pesticide." A sturdy eldest sister wearing a dirty hard hat squatted in front of Xu An's stall, stretched out a thick finger and scratched on several piles of vegetables: "How much is a catty?" ”

"There are two eggplant tomatoes, two green peppers, and three bitter gourds, all of which are grown and eaten at home, and many of them are sold in the market. You happened to come across it today, and it will be gone in a few days when this batch is finished. ”

Xu An understood that this person didn't say this because he didn't dislike the food, but just a means of bargaining.

To do business to make money peacefully, there is no need to open your mouth to scare people, and I reported the price of the dish in a few words and explained it again.

In order to reassure the eldest sister, Xu An picked up a smaller tomato, wiped it on his clothes and put it in his mouth, and the juice overflowed in one bite, and some of the juice dripped down his arm to the ground.

"You look at the tomato, the water is so sweet and sweet, do you smell the smell of authentic tomatoes? This is the tomato grown in the field, which is different from the big and beautiful tomatoes in the supermarket, but they don't taste at all. You're out of this episode, and it's not easy to buy a tomato like this again. ”

The eldest sister of the hard hat wanted to find something wrong to suppress the price, but she was confused by Xu An's series of words, and then looked at the tomato in Xu An's hand, which did exude a strong aroma, and she was a little moved at the moment.

Xu An continued to sell other vegetables to the hard hat sister.

"Look at this eggplant, the flowers at the bottom are not finished, and they are very tender. Yesterday I made a meat foam eggplant with this eggplant, and two four-year-old children ate two big bowls of rice with this dish. ”

"Eggplant with minced meat?"

Hearing the question of the eldest sister of the hard hat, Xu An couldn't help but pat his head.

Stir-frying eggplant is more oil-intensive, and the eggplant here is steamed more and less fried. Oil-gumming dishes like eggplant with minced meat are usually only seen in restaurants, and ordinary people don't know about it and don't know how to cook it.

Xu An immediately enthusiastically told the eldest sister of the helmet about the method of eggplant with meat foam, and attracted several listeners, nodding their heads while listening, obviously listening.

After Xu An finished speaking, a person behind the eldest sister of the hard hat reached out and took an eggplant, and then took a few green peppers, and at first glance, he wanted to try the method of the eggplant with meat foam that Xu An said.

There are only three eggplants on the stall, and many people behind him are thinking about buying them.

The eldest sister of the helmet calculated in her heart, the price is not expensive, the boss has even arranged the method, and it is not suitable if she doesn't buy it.

Before the others stretched out their hands, the eldest sister of the hard hat picked up the remaining two eggplants and handed them to Xu An to signal him to weigh them, and said unforgivingly: "If this method is not delicious, I will ask you to return the money tomorrow." ”

Xu An was happy when he heard it, and said with a smile: "If it's delicious, I'll buy more next time I meet." ”

These three or five people got together and attracted other people to come over, and when they saw that someone bought it, the others saw that the vegetable was good and they needed it, so they also bought it here in Xu An.

Xu An's mouth can speak well, the eldest sister of the hard hat originally only wanted to buy an eggplant, but now she not only bought two eggplants, but also brought a pound of green peppers and two pounds of tomatoes.

A pound of tomatoes is used to scramble eggs, and a pound of tomatoes is used as a fruit to eat.

The eldest sister alone bought one-third of the vegetables, and the rest was sold out directly after one person took some of them.

Xu Guoqiang watched from the side and was dumbfounded, this Xu An had just been emptied in less than twenty minutes, this kid was really good.

After listening to Xu An's method of eggplant, the two people standing at the back also wanted to buy some. didn't think about dividing five by two, and the things on the stall were sold out, so I planned to take a look elsewhere, but as soon as I turned my head, I was stopped by Xu An.

"This is the second uncle of my own family, recognized as a good farmer in the village, do you want to see if his vegetables are very smart?"

Under Xu An's strong promotion, the two people who wanted to leave took a bag of cabbage and other vegetables from Xu Guoqiang's stall.

After the two people who bought vegetables left, Xu Guoqiang thanked Xu An, and Xu An waved his hand again and again.

"It's a good thing, what is this, everyone in the village is not a small help to me."

Saying that, Xu An put the red, white and blue rolls into the basket: "Second uncle, I want to go to the market, you help me take a look at this basket, and I will come back in a while." ”

"Okay, let's go."

Xu Angang helped him recruit guests, and it was nothing to help look at the basket, so Xu Guoqiang immediately agreed.