In this era, rural students in the north did not have summer vacations, and some of their holidays were winter vacation, wheat vacation, and autumn vacation, and the latter two holidays were mainly for the convenience of rural students to help their families work during the busy agricultural season.

Recently, it happened to be the longest autumn break.

Early in the morning, Jiang Fanyue lay on the bed to catch up on sleep, and Yao Rong was busy.

She's going to make a Luban lock today.

Also known as the Kong Ming lock, this toy is based on the principle of ensuring that the concave and convex structure of each piece of wood can be cleverly fitted without the use of any nails, and finally form a stable shape. In fact, it is the mortise and tenon structure that is most commonly used in ancient buildings.

When others make Luban locks, they may need to draw a design drawing in advance, and then cut the wood according to the design drawing, but Yao Rong completely omitted this step, and directly conceived it in his mind, and began to cut it in an orderly manner.

This undoubtedly shortens the time by a lot.

Before Jiang Fanyue woke up, Yao Rong completed the first Luban lock.

She used the finest carving knife to carve a line of words on the most conspicuous wood, and then spliced it into shape and placed it next to Jiang Fanyue's pillow.

Half an hour later, Jiang Fanyue opened her eyes in a daze.

She rubbed her eyes with one hand, and tried to prop up her body with the other, but she happened to touch Luban's lock.

The sleepiness in her eyes dissipated suddenly, and Jiang Fanyue hurriedly sat up, holding the Luban lock and putting it in front of her.

- Gift month. 12

This line of words fell into Jiang Fanyue's eyes for the first time.

Jiang Fanyue jumped out of bed, washed and ate in the shortest time, sat down beside Yao Rong with the Lu Ban lock that belonged to her, and asked Yao Rong if there was anything she could help with.

Yao Rong said that there is no one for the time being, let her play with the Luban lock for a while, and by the way, carefully introduce the principle of the Luban lock to her.

Jiang Fanyue opened the Luban lock while listening, and began to try to reassemble it.

The Luban lock that Yao Rong made for her was more complicated, and Jiang Fanyue tried to fiddle with it for a while but she couldn't figure it out, but she didn't have any impatience on her face, she just lowered her eyes and thought about what Yao Rong had just told her.

After a while, she seemed to have figured out something, and acted again, and in one go, she successfully restored the Luban lock back to the prototype.

"It's done." Jiang Fanyue said to Yao Rong.

Yao Rong was surprised, for those who came into contact with Luban lock for the first time, this speed was very fast. She gave Jiang Fanyue a thumbs up: "It's amazing." ”

Jiang Fanyue was a little embarrassed, squatted down beside Yao Rong, and asked again if there was anything she could help with.

It looks like you can't stop if you don't find something to do.

Yao Rong said: "Then you can help polish it." However, you need to rest for a while after throwing three pieces of wood, and your wrist strength is small, and if you use too much force at once, it is easy to hurt your wrists and fingers. ”

She didn't want to be tired of the child, but Jiang Fanyue felt sorry for her and offered to help, and she didn't have to refuse all the time.

It is a way for children to show love to their parents.

Jiang Fanyue nodded: "I know." A combination of work and rest can do more work. "If she hurts herself today, she won't be able to work tomorrow, so she doesn't want to fish for three days and dry her nets for two days.

Yao Rong took out the polished leather and briefly demonstrated how to do it with the most effort, and Jiang Fanyue polished each surface smooth and flat enough according to what she taught.

After making four Luban locks of different shapes in a row, Yao Rong changed to other toys. According to the consumption level of Jixiang Town, if you make too many toys of the same kind, it is likely that there will be unsalable in the end.

In a few days, Yao Rong made a total of more than 30 toys.

There are four of them, all of which are gifts for Jiang Fanyue.

Every day when she opens her eyes, Jiang Fanyue will habitually look at the pillow, and then she can always see different toys.

Bamboo dragonflies.

The wooden stick is engraved: Give the moon and the moon. 13

Castle building blocks.

The roof of the castle is inscribed: Give the moon and the moon. 14

Wooden cars.

Engraved on the roof of the car: Give the moon and the moon. 15

Wooden beckoning cat.

The cat's paw is engraved: Give the moon and the moon. 16

Jiang Fanyue is like receiving a blind box of gifts that drops every morning, not only looking forward to what kind of toys she will receive, but also looking forward to the new day.

Early that morning, Jiang Fanyue received a special gift engraved with time.

It is a pen holder made from cans and waste newspapers.

It's exquisitely done.

The newspaper fits perfectly with the can, as if it were born on it.

Jiang Fanyue walked to the yard with this pen holder in her hand and found that Yao Rong was rummaging for something in the pile of waste products.

"Yueyue, are you awake?" Yao Rong pointed to the kitchen, "The sweet potato porridge is warm on the stove, you can go and drink it." ”

Jiang Fanyue obediently went to serve sweet potato porridge, the entrance was slightly sweet, and there should be a lot of sugar in it: "Mom, what are you doing?" ”

"I originally wanted to haul all these waste items to the town and sell them today, but when I was cleaning up, I suddenly thought that I could use them to make some gadgets."

"Like a pen holder?"

Yao Rong said: "You can also use newspapers to wrap book covers, make sandbags, and make shuttlecock...... Would you like to come and play? ”

"Play?"

This word made Jiang Fanyue's heart move.

Litter...... Can you also play with it?

Yao Rong stretched out his hand and gently pushed Jiang Fanyue in front of the messy pile of waste products: "As long as your imagination is big enough, you can use these materials in front of you to piece together and design anything." You've helped me a lot in the past few days, so let's have a good rest and have fun today. ”

Jiang Fanyue looked at the pen holder in her hand, and finally nodded.

But...... What to do?

Jiang Fanyue carefully looked at the waste products, and her eyes fell on a glass bottle with a slender mouth. She picked up the glass bottle, cleaned it inside and out with her hands, and asked Yao Rong if she could directly cut off the entire bottom of the glass bottle.

"No problem." Yao Rong didn't ask her what she wanted to do, took the glass bottle, used a tool to cut the bottom completely, and used some means to deal with the cut part, even if Jiang Fanyue accidentally touched it, it would not cut her hand.

Jiang Fanyue found a slender iron chain, passed it directly through the glass bottle, and then grinded a round iron piece into a heart shape and strung it at the end of the chain.

A glass bottle wind chime is ready.

Jiang Fanyue stepped on the chair and hung it under the porch where almost no one walked through.

Sunlight shines through the glass bottle, reflecting a rainbow of light.

The wind blew slowly under the porch, and the iron sheet drove the iron chain to shake slightly, hitting the glass bottle, making a crisp and pleasant sound.

The humble wind chimes are unusually beautiful at this moment.

Jiang Fanyue suddenly came to her senses, and ran to make two wind chimes of the same style, hanging them side by side.

As if he was completely inspired by this wind chime, Jiang Fanyue began to make a lot of storage boxes with large and small boxes, and even thought of putting dozens of plastic bottles flat together, firmly gluing them with a large roll of transparent glue, and padding a circle of plastic on the outer layer, and finally sewing the washed waste curtain cloth on the outermost, which made a suitable soft and hard stool.

In addition, vases, pen holders, paper wrapped in book covers, sandbags...... Jiang Fanyue played it all.

Yao Rong also taught her how to make fake flowers out of waste cloth.

played until the evening, and Jiang Fanyue was a little unsatisfied.

"Well, that's enough." Yao Rong said to Jiang Fanyue with a smile.

Jiang Fanyue nodded vigorously, and scratched her head with some distress: "What if I have too many things and I can't use them at all." ”

"Give it away?"

"No, no, no, these are made of waste products, and it's not good to give them away."

"Why, look at the sandbags you make, they are no different from the sandbags sold outside. The gift is the heart, if someone looks down on your gift because of its value, then you don't have to be sad, you should thank you for recognizing this person. ”

"But, but ......" Jiang Fanyue lowered her head gloomily, maybe because she had been too happy recently, maybe because her emotions suddenly came to her heart, she admitted her badness to Yao Rong for the first time, "Mom, I don't have friends who can give gifts to each other. ”

Only friends, or loved ones, will give gifts to each other.

And she was a friendless child.

Yao Rong squatted down, tilted his face slightly and looked at Jiang Fanyue: "Yueyue, it's not right to say that." Do you still remember that every time Grandma Zhang sees you at the entrance of the village, she will stuff you with a piece of sugar, and the onions and garlic in Granny Chen's field are all at your disposal, and Grandpa Huang's pears at the door of his house are ripe, and he will send you a few to try them. These are all gifts from them, if you don't return the gift, they won't say anything, but if you return the gift, they will definitely think that you are a good boy who knows how to be polite and grateful. ”

Maybe there are many ignorant children in the village who are crowding out Jiang Fanyue and are unwilling to be friends with Jiang Fanyue.

But for so many years, their orphans and widows have been able to live in the village safely and securely, and they are inseparable from the care of the villagers.

Jiang Fanyue was stunned, and then recalled these things from the depths of her memory.

Oh, yes......

These are actually gifts.

It's not that she's not surrounded by kindness, it's just that it's so taken for granted that she always ignores it.

"Then I'll send a stool to Grandma Zhang, a vase with fake flowers to Granny Chen, and a ...... for Grandpa Huang Got a storage box for pipes? ”

"Absolutely."

Hearing Yao Rong's affirmation, the hesitation in Jiang Fanyue's heart instantly vanished: "Then while it's not dark yet, I'll hurry up and give them a gift." After speaking, Jiang Fanyue first ran out of the village with the largest stool.

Yao Rong stood in place, watching Jiang Fanyue's figure go away little by little.

She suddenly wanted to let Jiang Fanyue play with waste products today, because she hoped that when Jiang Fanyue recalled the years of picking up garbage in the future, she could not only recall the tiredness and bitterness, but also recall today's happiness and fulfillment.

In the garbage heap, the seeds of fairy tales can also be born.

Jiang Fanyue wore her new clothes, hugged a stool and ran towards the entrance of the village, her short ear-length hair swaying gently with her running, revealing a fresh youthful beauty.

At this point, many people in the village were busy with the work in the field, carrying farm tools in the direction of home, and seeing Jiang Fanyue from a distance, some people didn't recognize her for the first time: "Whose child is this, why haven't you seen it before?" ”

"What are you talking nonsense, this is Yao Rong's child, Fanyue."

"It's actually a moon. I really didn't recognize it. Don't say it, this kid has changed into new clothes, cut his hair short, and looks much more standard. ”

"Looking at the way I run, I feel a lot more lively than before."

"Kids, you should be lively. It's good to be lively. ”

Jiang Fanyue didn't hear the adults' discussions, she was now standing at the door of Grandma Zhang, telling Grandma Zhang who came to open the door.

Finally, she was a little nervous about how the cloth stool was made.

But Grandma Zhang did not dislike it at all, but praised Jiang Fanyue's creativity.

"Yueyue, you kid is so smart. This is the first time I've ever known that this stool can do that. Oops, I've always hated that the bench is too hard, and every time I make a bench, I have to put something on it, and now this stool you gave me is sent to my heart. Grandma Zhang loves this gift so much, thank you Yueyue. ”

Jiang Fanyue blushed with praise, and said excitedly: "Grandma Zhang, it's good if you like it." ”

Grandma Zhang took the stool and felt a little emotion in her heart.

Grandma Zhang's son, daughter-in-law and grandson were all out of town, and she was the only one left in the village.

Her son and daughter-in-law did not treat her badly, and they would send money back every month, plus the subsidies issued by the government, her life was quite passable.

She likes to buy a bunch of candy to put at home, and then always put the candy in her pocket, and when she sees a child, she gives candy to a child, so there are always children who are attracted by her candy and come to her house to play, and Grandma Zhang is also very welcoming to them.

She was so lonely.

But with so much candy scattered, this was the first time she had received a gift from a child.

Grandma Zhang took out all the candy in her pocket and stuffed it into Jiang Fanyue's hand: "This is a memory for Yueyue, thank you Yueyue, if you are free in the future, remember to come to Grandma Zhang's house often." ”

Jiang Fanyue held the candy and was a little embarrassed, but Grandma Zhang had already emphasized that this was a return gift, and Jiang Fanyue was not easy to refuse: "Thank you, Grandma Zhang, goodbye, I'm going home." ”

"Say goodbye to the moon. By the way, Grandma Zhang forgot to say just now, Yueyue's dress is really spiritual. ”

Jiang Fanyue returned home briskly, and went to give gifts to Granny Chen and Grandpa Huang, and also received compliments and return gifts from them.

But there are so many people in the village, not only these three people have helped Jiang Fanyue.

Jiang Fanyue was busy from morning to night today, but she became more and more energetic, she took the pen holder and sandbag she made, ran to the village chief's grandfather's house, and knocked on the neighbor's door with the shuttlecock and paper wrapped in the book cover she made......

These things are useless to the village chief, but they can use them for their grandchildren.

Anyway, the gift was given to the village chief and grandfather, and it didn't matter who they wanted to use it.

It wasn't until the candles in the village went out one by one and the village fell into a deep sleep that Jiang Fanyue was tired and lay on the chair.

Yao Rong urged: "The hot water is boiled, go take a bath, I'll rub some medicinal wine for you in a while, don't your legs may be sore tomorrow." ”

Jiang Fanyue replied indiscriminately.

Twenty minutes later, she lay on the bed and told Yao Rong with great interest which grandfather gave her fruit, and which grandmother touched her head and praised her......

After saying it all, Jiang Fanyue covered her cheeks with both hands, and her voice was crisp.

"Mom, I'm really, really happy today."

"I didn't think of this before."

Jiang Fanyue even felt a little regretful.

"I knew that when I used to pick up garbage, I could also pick up beautiful but useless items so that I could make more and better gifts."

Yao Rong couldn't cry or laugh: "Okay, hurry up and lie down and sleep, I have to be busy tomorrow." ”

Jiang Fanyue obediently lay down, pulled the quilt over her stomach, listened to the wind chimes under the corridor, and fell into a deep sleep after a while, and had a sweet dream.

In the dream, the baby elephant Yiyi came to a place called the garbage kingdom.

The people of the garbage kingdom did not like their country and ran away.

This saddened the king.

So the king offered a reward, hoping that there would be brave and resourceful animals on the steppe to help the garbage kingdom survive this difficulty.

Thinking about it, I thought of a good way-

It made all kinds of gifts from the garbage and gave them to the people of the kingdom and every animal that visited the kingdom.

Later, all the animals no longer called this the Kingdom of Garbage, but the Kingdom of Gifts.

Every animal is proud to travel to the Kingdom of Gifts.

And Yiyi also became a guest of honor in the kingdom of gifts, and gained the king's sincere friendship.

……

Jiang Fanyue turned over, and a sweet smile unconsciously appeared on her face.

The next day, Yao Rong pushed a cart and carried waste products to the town's garbage recycling station.

In terms of relationship, the owner of the garbage recycling station in the town is Yao Rong's distant cousin.

He counted the scraps and asked casually, "I haven't seen you here for a while." ”

Yao Rong told the boss about changing careers: "In the future, our village will trouble you to drive to collect it yourself." ”

The boss smiled: "It's good to change careers." "settled the money for Yao Rong, and gave Yao Rong two catties of citrus, "The guest sent it, your sister-in-law doesn't like to eat it, you take it back to Yueyue." ”

After saying so, Yao Rong was not polite, took it with a smile, thanked him, and pushed the cart back to the village to pick up Jiang Fanyue.

Jiang Fanyue couldn't wait, she put all the wooden toys on the cart, and also put the pen holder and sandbag she made on it, when Yao Rong asked, Jiang Fanyue said: "These can be used as additives." Although this is not a lot of money, if you have a boost, the guests will definitely be more happy to pay. ”

Yao Rongle was happy and asked Jiang Fanyue where he heard this.

Jiang Fanyue said: "I figured it out myself." ”

"At a young age, with a belly of business experience, I will definitely be able to make a lot of money in the future." Yao Rong teased her.

Jiang Fanyue was praised very proudly.

She liked it when her mother complimented her so much.

"Do you want to get on the cart? These toys are not heavy, plus you don't weigh either. ”

"Don't, I can go on my own."

Yao Rong didn't force it, pushed the cart, and rushed to the town with Jiang Fanyue.

Today happens to be the town's five-day market day, and in those streets near the vegetable market, as long as you pay two cents to set up a stall, you can occupy a place to set up a stall.

Yao Rong picked a place closer to the bookstore, spread a cloth on the ground, and laid out the toys he made and the toys made by Jiang Fanyue one by one.

There is also a board next to it, on which the word "toy" is written.

While waiting for the guests to come, Yao Rong took out the citrus given by the owner of the recycling station and let Jiang Fanyue eat it.

Jiang Fanyue peeled off the skin and divided half of Yao Rong.

The two were eating fruit, and an old grandmother walked out of the bookstore with her grandson.

The child is only five or six years old, and he looks a little tiger-headed, whether it is a strap-on jeans on his body or shoes that will shine under his feet, it does not look like the clothes that local children in Jixiang Town will wear.

It is true that he is not a native of Jixiang Town.

Sun Taotao grew up in the imperial capital with his parents since he was a child, but his grandparents and uncle lived in Jixiang Town together, the temperature turned cold these days, Sun Taotao's grandfather had an illness, and Sun Taotao's mother took him back to visit his grandfather.

Because he came back in a hurry, Sun Taotao only brought some fairy tale books, and no toys were brought over, today he followed his grandmother out to buy vegetables, and wanted to buy some toys or fairy tale books to pass the time.

But......

Whether it is the toys sold in the bookstore or the storybooks sold in the bookstore, they are too ordinary for Sun Taotao.

He picked for a long time, and finally reluctantly bought two storybooks, and his immature little face was full of disappointment.

After walking for a while with his head down, Sun Taotao caught a glimpse of the word "toy".

swept the situation, and he saw Yao Rong's stall.

Originally, Sun Taotao didn't care too much, but when his eyes saw the amusement park blocks, his eyes immediately lit up.

"Grandma, there and there, look at it." Sun Taotao shouted while jumping.

Grandma looked in the direction Sun Taotao pointed out and said "Huh".

She's been here many times, but it's the first time she's seen a stall selling toys. But these wooden toys are really new to see.

Grandma Sun led Sun Taotao to the stall.

Yao Rong had already seen them, and said with a smile unhurriedly: "These toys are all made by me, you can see if there is anything you like." ”

"Is this a building block?" Sun Taotao walked in front of the amusement park building blocks and sighed a little, "I have only seen plastic building blocks in shopping malls, and I rarely see building blocks made of wood." ”

He subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch the blocks, but his good upbringing made him withdraw his hand: "May I touch it?" ”

"Absolutely." Jiang Fanyue responded.

Sun Taotao reached out and touched the building block: "It feels so slippery, much more slippery than plastic." ”

Yao Rong smiled: "My daughter polishes it very well. ”

Grandma Sun was even more surprised now: "This is your family's own doing?" ”

Yao Rong was very modest: "Yes, we are also trying it for the first time, thinking that if someone likes it, it can be regarded as a new means of making a living." ”

"Well done." Grandma Sun is not an uninformed person.

To be honest, there are so many toys here, and the shape is not repeated at all.

That alone is a rarity.

Sun Taotao looked at Jiang Fanyue's eyes as if they were shining.

Oh, my God.

This young lady is not much older than him, and she can actually make toys.

"Grandma, can I buy this?" Sun Taotao pointed to the amusement park blocks.

Grandma Sun didn't respond immediately, but asked about the price.

Yao Rongbao's price is very fair, and it can even be said that it is so cheap that Grandma Sun imagined.

"Taotao, do you have anything else to like?" Grandma Sun thought that the stall owner was kind, so she thought about buying more, which could not only help the business, but also make her grandson have fun.

Sun Taotao was a little entangled, looking east and west, this toy car looked so cool, the beckoning cat looked so cute, and there was another set of castle building blocks that looked very fun......

"How many toys can I buy?" Sun Taotao asked his grandmother solemnly.

Knowing that he could only buy up to three, Sun Taotao chose a toy car and a beckoning cat.

When paying, Jiang Fanyue was a little nervous and handed the sandbag and shuttlecock she made to Sun Taotao: "This is what I did, you are the first business of today, and I will give you a gift." ”

Sun Taotao took it in surprise and looked at Jiang Fanyue with more and more admiration: "Sister, you are so amazing, I used to make sandbags and shuttlecocks with my parents in kindergarten, but I failed many times, especially sandbags always leak sand." ”

It was the first time that Jiang Fanyue was praised by someone younger than herself, and she stuffed a storage box into Sun Taotao's hand: "Then this is also for you, you can use it to hold the building blocks that have not been put together, so that you don't have to worry about the building blocks being accidentally lost." ”

"Did you do this too?" Sun Taotao asked.

Jiang Fanyue nodded.

Sun Taotao thanked him politely, and asked Jiang Fanyue if he would come here to set up a stall in the future.

Jiang Fanyue looked at Yao Rong, and Yao Rong said, "We will all come over on the market day." ”

Grandma Sun took Sun Taotao home.

Sun Taotao asked as he walked: "Grandma, can you bring me here again on the next market day?" I want to bring my fairy tale book to share with this sister. ”