"Okay, let's help you ask in the next few days to see if your method can work. If it can work, it would be best if the children enter a factory or work unit and at least the harvest will be guaranteed during droughts and floods. They will have an iron rice bowl, which is better than farming," several people said

They all nodded.

After chatting for a while, Lao Wang and Lao Chen saw that everything was fine and said goodbye, and everyone got up to see them off.

"Why didn't Ah Quan come today? My aunt Li Xiulan asked?"

"I sprained my ankle while working today, so I asked you to rest at home," the second uncle prevaricates. Everyone in the Li family did not want to make the fight known to everyone, so they had discussed it in advance and not told the eldest aunt for fear of worrying them.

Everyone sat in the living room and chatted about the past two days, and by the way, they talked about how to sell fish in the future.

"That's it, eldest sister, brother-in-law, you guys should go to bed early. We'll go back first, and we'll come back in two days."

Hey! Boss, don't leave in a hurry, take your things with you. Yesterday's receipt has been exchanged for you today, so take it back quickly.

"Hey! Sister, I got it back so quickly. Then, the second child will be carried on Awu's back."

There were two flour bags on the ground each containing thirty-five kilograms of cornmeal, and a small jar of cooking oil.

Li Deyou and Li Wen hurriedly left the house of his aunt Li Xiulan.

The stop at my aunt's house today was relatively short, and it was just three o'clock when I got home. A lot of things happened today. Li Wen was already exhausted, so he lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly.

Dong Dong Dong! There was a knock on the door, and Awen got up.

Li Wen rubbed his sticky eyelids and walked out of the room, went to the yard to wash up under the apricot tree.

The situation at home has been a little better recently, and breakfast has become half-cooked, with only two buns per person.

After dinner, Li Wen was about to go to work, but his mother Wang Chunmei stopped him.

"Awen, you don't have to go to work today. Your mother-in-law gave me and your second aunt fifteen pounds each of the cornmeal we brought back last night as a favor."

"Alas! Last week I went to your grandpa's house to see how the farmers were busy. Your uncle's house was almost out of food. Several of your cousins ​​were so hungry that they were so hungry that they ate wild vegetables all day long. Our family was also in difficulty at that time, so I gave him some food.

I gave your uncle a dollar, and now our family is a little better off. You can send these fifteen kilograms of cornmeal to your grandpa’s house. The farm work has been too heavy these days. Your grandpa and grandma are getting older. Mom is afraid that they won’t be able to hold on. She said

Wiped away tears."

Mom, why are you crying? It just so happens that I haven’t been to my grandpa’s house for a while. I will send cornmeal to my grandpa’s house soon. Then I will secretly catch a few fish on the road and bring it to them. Li Wen looked at

Mother said with a smile and red eyes."

"Well, your grandparents did not love you in vain when you were a child. Your mother, Wang Chunmei, smiled when she heard this."

At this time, grandma Guo Xiuyun came out of the kitchen, looked at Li Wen and said with a smile: "Awen, there are ten kilograms of cornmeal here. Your second aunt's house is in the same village as your grandpa. You can bring it with you when the time comes. Thanks to you this time."

I am a good grandson, and everyone will enjoy the blessings."

"And today is the big meeting of Commune No. 6. After delivering the things, you can go and walk around," the old lady said with a smile.

Li Wen's eyes lit up. "Daji" is right. There are six major jigsaws in the commune. You can go to the big jiji to see what business opportunities there are.

Li Wen picked up the basket on his back and put half a basket of pigweed on it to block his view. In fact, the cornmeal had already been put into the space warehouse.

The commune is ten miles away from Sanxing Village. Grandpa and my aunt live in the village where the commune is located. It only takes half an hour to walk to the commune during the day. It is only six o'clock now, which is still early.

Li Wen walked along the reservoir path towards the commune, stopping along the way. After walking for more than 20 minutes, he had passed several village boundaries. Li Wen came to a very remote river and slipped down quietly.

Li Wen took out a string of net cages from the space, sprinkled the bait on them and threw them into the river. Then he took out the fishing gear and started fishing while spreading the bait. The temperature was low in the summer morning, but it was relatively stuffy, and the fish came up to take a breath.

Food.

The fork of this river was relatively shallow, and the fish caught were few. In more than two hours, I caught seven or eight fish, totaling twenty or thirty kilograms. They were also small, with the largest weighing only seven or eight kilograms. He put away the fishing rod, and Li Wen looked to the side.

The fish cage goes away.

Dragging the fish cage slowly out of the river, I saw that I had caught a lot of fish, including thirty fish, but most of them were small fish, many weighing less than one or two, and there were only six big fish, weighing almost twenty kilograms.

Forget it, don’t force it, it’s pretty good. Li Wen comforted himself, then put the cage back, and then threw the fish into the small fish pond in space.

After crawling out of the ditch, Li Wen hurried towards the commune. It was already past nine o'clock in the morning when he arrived at the commune.

At this time, various stalls set up by farmers in the market were scattered in every corner of the market, and people kept selling. From time to time, patrolmen with red sleeves passed by to prevent speculation from happening.

Grandpa Li Wen's house was in the commune village. Li Wen wanted to deliver something first, so he didn't stop and hurried through the market.

"Cousin Wenzi, cousin Wenzi, is that you?"

Li Wen was walking when a voice came from behind. Li Wen turned around and looked behind him, only to see an eight or nine-year-old girl calling him.

This little girl wore a patched gray gown on her upper body and a pair of army green knee-length shorts on her lower body, but they were a bit white from the wash. She wore a pair of straw sandals on her feet. If she hadn't been washed clean, she would be no different from a beggar.

The little girl is Wang Xiaohua, the child of Uncle Li Wen's family.

Although the Li Wen family also patched their clothes, they could only wear two or three pieces of clothing at most. Everyone in the family also had a pair of old cloth shoes. Although the cloth shoes were occasionally patched, they were at least a good pair of shoes, which shows that grandpa's family was living well.

Not good.

"Xiaohua, what are you doing at the market?" Li Wen recognized the little girl and said with a smile. "

"There was nothing to eat at home, so I was picking up chicken feathers and vegetable leaves in the market. The child lowered his head and looked at the bamboo basket in his hand and said embarrassedly.

"You can eat vegetable leaves, but why do you need chicken feathers?" Li Wen asked out of curiosity.

"If you save enough, you can make feather dusters and sell them for money," the little girl whispered.

"Oh! Xiaohua, you are so smart, Li Wen praised."

"Here, cousin treats you to some candies. Li Wen stuffed a few candies into the little guy's pocket.

"Wow! It's so sweet. The little guy took out one and stuffed it into his mouth and exclaimed."

"Walking home, my cousin brought you something good today," Li Wen said as he pulled the bouncing Wang Xiaohua away, making the little girl giggle along the way.

"Mom, cousin Wenzi is coming to our house," the little guy from far away shouted while running, and hurriedly opened the door.

Grandpa's family has three sons and two daughters. Li Wen's mother is the eldest and the three sons are the youngest. However, grandpa's family has been divided, and the old couple and the eldest son live in the old house.

Li Wen stepped over the threshold and looked carefully. The grandfather's house was a mud house. It looked very old. It was probably built at least 20 or 30 years ago. The whole yard was laid out in a three-sided form, with houses built on the front, back, and west sides.

The east courtyard wall was empty, but two apricot trees were planted. The apricots were already ripe at this time, and there were no more apricots in the circle under the tree. It seemed that they had been picked, and only the top ones were left out of reach, and they continued to hang for the time being. ωωw.

.net

At this time, the straw curtain of the backyard door was opened, and an old lady who looked to be in her seventies and looked thin walked out slowly. This person was Li Wen's grandmother, Zhang Wang. This year the old lady

However, in his early sixties, he already looked so old. Li Wen's eyes turned red instantly.

"Grandma, Li Wen saw the old lady tremblingly walking out and immediately went to greet her."

"Awen, you are here. I haven't been to my grandma's house for half a year. She has grown taller. The old lady touched Li Wen's head and smiled."

"We haven't seen you for just half a year. What's wrong with you?" Li Wen asked worriedly.

My mother-in-law just drinks some wild vegetables and eats nothing all day long. She refuses to listen to us no matter what we say. She is just hungry, Wang Xiaohua said in a low voice.

"Grandma, you can't do this. You have so many children and grandchildren. Li Wen burst into tears immediately."

"It's okay, it's okay. I eat less as I get older. Come in, come in, grandma will give you delicious food," she said, pulling Li Wen into the room.

"Come Awen, you are lucky today," the old lady brought out a plate with several fist-sized peaches on it.

"These are the early-ripening peaches given by the captain yesterday. They are a new variety and are already ripe at the end of June. Eat them quickly. The old lady took out the largest and reddest one, rubbed it and handed it to Li Wen."

Li Wen saw the little girl standing aside swallowing her saliva. She must have never eaten it before, and it was difficult to refuse the old lady. He picked up the peach and took a few bites. It was indeed very sweet. At this time, the fruit was covered with farm manure, so the output was small.

, small in size but great in taste.

Then he took out a peach and handed it to the little girl, and said with a smile: "Xiaohua, you go out and play, I will talk to grandma." The little girl was already so greedy that she picked up the peach and ran out immediately.

The old lady looked at Xiaohua who ran out and raised her hand, but finally said nothing.

Li Wen pushed aside the pigweed in the backpack and took out the contents. On the way, he also took a canned fruit and a pack of glutinous rice sticks from the space and put them in the backpack.

"Grandma, here are fifteen pounds of cornmeal, here are four big fishes, here are canned fruits," Li Wen said and put the things on the table one by one."

"Here, what's going on? In these days, your family is not rich. How come you, a kid, have so many things?" the old lady said with her mouth wide open.

"Grandma, my mother asked me to bring these. Our family's situation has improved recently, and we have been busy with farming these days, so my mother asked me to send some to you and grandpa."

"These are all the fish I caught from the river, so don't worry, grandma, but it's okay for you and grandpa to know and don't tell your uncle and others anymore. After all, there are so many people with so many mouths."

Li Wen then told the old lady about his fishing process, and the old lady was so happy that she laughed at her grandson's failure.

"Grandma, please try this can," Li Wen said, opening the huge 1.5-liter orange can. Li Wen was afraid that the old lady would be reluctant to eat it to entertain guests or let her grandchildren eat, so Li Wen simply opened it and looked at the old man.

eat.

"You kid, my old lady won't waste this food. She has never seen such a rare canned orange in her life. It's too expensive. The old lady hurriedly dissuaded her."

"That won't work. You are only in your early sixties and you are already looking like this." As he said this, Li Wen took out a small bowl from the table and poured a bowl for the old lady and handed it over.

The old lady felt warm in her heart while eating the canned oranges, and the sweet canned oranges in her mouth also made her smile. Originally, during this period of time, the house had been unable to open the pot, and she did not want to burden her children. She wanted to save some food for them, but the big

The filial piety of her daughter and grandson Li Wen gave her another sigh of relief and revived her dying heart.

"That's right. Grandma, you need to take a good rest so that we won't worry. My mother cried when she talked about you and grandpa this morning. You don't dare to do this again in the future. We will cover your and grandpa's food rations from now on."

, Li Wen comforted the old man."

"Well, with a filial grandson like me, my old lady will live a few more years. The old lady thought about it and said with a smile after listening to Li Wen's consolation."

"Is this good? This is fifteen kilograms of good cornmeal and more than ten kilograms of big fish. It will be enough for you and grandpa to eat for a while. I will give it to you after a while. Your grandson is very powerful now.

Li Wen smiled."

"Grandma, where is my grandpa? Li Wen saw the old lady alone in the house and asked?"

"It's a market today, and this old guy went to sell straw sandals at the market. The old lady laughed and scolded him."

Hey, why didn’t I see my grandpa when I passed by the market just after I came here? Li Wen scratched his head!

After chatting with the old lady for a while, Li Wen stood up and left!

"You kid, it's almost ten o'clock. Why don't you sit down and have lunch? The old lady saw that Li Wen had left early and hurriedly tried to dissuade you."

"Grandma, I have to go to my aunt's house and send them some cornmeal. There are many children in her family, so it must be difficult recently," Li Wen said with a smile.

It was too difficult at his grandpa's house, and Li Wen was really embarrassed to stay at his grandma's house.
Chapter completed!