Chapter 141: Stealing Sweet Potatoes in the Middle of the Night
Most of the young people in the village have gone out to work. They can only go home for a visit during the Chinese New Year or other major festivals. It is rare to come back at ordinary times, so it is only after eight o'clock. The lights have been turned off in the village, and it is quiet and busy.
The hard-working villagers went to bed early after a day's work. Tomorrow, they have to go out to work in the early morning light.
After returning home, Zeng Jun's parents were busy running around again. Zeng's father was busy feeding the cows. Zeng's mother didn't even have time to feed the chickens. She was busy talking about giving ice blue hot water a bath.
There is no water heater in Jun's house, so the two elders usually use a pot to boil hot water for bathing.
After Zeng Jun arranged for Binglan to sit down in the living room, he walked into the kitchen and asked: "Mom, didn't I wire you a sum of money last time and ask you to install a water heater?"
The wrinkles on Zeng’s mother’s face relaxed and she replied with a smile: “I asked your dad to ask. The cheapest one to install a water heater costs more than 700, and you have to pay the electricity bill every month. How can you pay for it?
, the money you gave us was all hard earned by you outside. I asked your father to save it for you to buy a house and marry a wife in the future. I asked Wanghua from your uncle's house next door, and he said it was from Guangzhou.
The cheapest house now is more than 20,000 yuan. How can you save enough for one person? We will save what we can. If we can’t afford it in Guangzhou in the future, we will go back to Liuzhou to buy it. Your uncle said that Liuzhou’s current development is also very good.
, the house price is only over 4,000, which is cheaper than some county towns.”
Zeng Jun's voice was choked with sobs: "Mom, you are all old. It's time to enjoy happiness at home. You don't need to worry about my affairs. I can handle it myself."
Binglan didn't know when she was standing behind Zeng Jun, and said: "Auntie, yes, you don't have to worry about Zeng Jun's affairs. You can rest assured that you can use the money he sent you. If you don't use it, you can use it again."
Ask him for it, don't worry. The salary I will give him in one year will be more than enough to buy you a villa in Guangzhou, not to mention a house. When he stabilizes and buys a house, I will ask him to take you to Guangzhou to enjoy your life."
Mother Zeng's eyes widened: "The salary is so high, what does your company do? The little girl has never seen much of the world and doesn't know what kind of business can be so profitable now, but we can't do anything illegal."
An enchanting smile suddenly appeared on Binglan's face, and she flew over from behind Zeng Jun to help light the fire. As a result, she choked on the smoke and coughed violently, "Auntie, cough?? Look?? Cough cough, do I look like a bad guy?
?Cough?? Our company is engaged in network engineering. If you don’t know what network engineering is, just ask Wanghua next door. In short, it is very profitable. Didn’t Zeng Jun study computers in university? This is just the right thing to do. He is now
He is the backbone of our department, so besides me, he makes the most money."
Zeng’s mother was dubious: “How can you make money by learning computers? Then why did Junjun go to the construction site to move bricks when he said he couldn’t find a job?”
"You don't know this yet? Your son wouldn't even tell you when he went to the interview honestly, and other people with skills don't know. If he hadn't met me, this kid might still be carrying bricks at that construction site and would be too embarrassed to come back."
"Oh, thank you, manager. You come in and sit down. I can come here. You don't know how to cook this kind of stove. It makes you choke in tears. What about Xiaojun? Hurry up and ask your manager to come in and sit down."
Tea."
Zeng Jun had no choice but to pull Binglan out. After thinking about it, he felt that doing nothing would be a bad idea, so he arranged for Binglan to sit down and then wanted to feed the chickens. However, after searching for a long time, he didn’t know where the rice bran was. He asked Zeng’s mother what she got.
The answer is that you don’t need to feed me, just treat your manager well. It’s not easy for people to come all the way to our small ravine.
Finally, I finally found rice bran. When I went to the backyard with a flashlight to pick vegetables, I was dumbfounded again. Those thriving little green cabbage leaves looked so cute. They were better than the so-called useless ones I bought in the city for a few dollars a pound.
The polluted vegetables are still looking juicy, and even if I shine a flashlight for a long time, I can't see a single vegetable leaf that looks like it's used to feed chickens.
"You've been out for a long time. How can you do this? I'll do it. I'll do it." It was Zeng's father's voice. He picked a few vegetables and raised his head and said to Zeng Jun, "Let's go."
After taking it back, Binglan stared at the green vegetables and said, "Uncle, do you usually feed this to the chickens?"
"Yes, the country people are reluctant to spend money to buy feed, so they feed them with vegetable leaves and rice bran."
"Good guys, your chickens taste better than ours."
"The manager was joking."
"I mean seriously, ask Zeng Jun where you can get such good vegetables in the city."
??At night, Binglan was arranged to sleep in the room next to Zeng Jun. This house was built by Zeng’s father when he went out to work to earn money when he was young. After the house was built, he was introduced to Zeng’s mother by relatives. Not long after, Zeng’s mother was
Got through the door.
Lying on the bed, Zeng Jun stared at the ceiling for a long time and couldn't fall asleep. His grandmother's back was bent parallel, his parents' hands as rough as dead branches and their weathered faces, and their already slightly stooped bodies were constantly in front of him.
Living a life like a movie. They have worked hard all their lives, but now they have to worry about themselves. Think about when they were studying, they used their parents’ hard-earned living expenses and went out for petty corruption from time to time. The more I think about it, the more I feel that I am really special, isn’t it?
people.
After lying in bed for two or three hours and still unable to fall asleep, Zeng Jun simply got up, put on a piece of clothing and went to the balcony to enjoy the breeze. There was a beautiful figure standing on the balcony, staring at the stars in the sky in a daze.
"can not fall asleep?"
"No, get up and take a breath of fresh air, listen to the chirping of insects, look at the stars, etc. You can't breathe such high-quality air in Guangzhou, nor can you have such a peaceful and tranquil night scene."
"Yes, the sky in Guangzhou is covered with smoke and dust. It's a ghost if you can see the stars."
"I'm hungry, let's get something to eat."
"Damn, didn't you say you were very full at the banquet?"
"Where is it? I ate two pieces of pork belly as soon as I came here. I got tired of it immediately and couldn't eat any delicacies from the mountains and seas. I only drank half a bowl of vegetable soup. But the pork belly was really delicious. I have never eaten it before.
Such delicious meat, compared to the stuff in those high-end hotels in Guangzhou, it’s just rubbish.”
"Don't even think about it, those pigs were fed green organic food."
"Migrant worker, I want to eat kiln sweet potatoes." Bing Lan had a wicked smile on his face.
Zeng Jun was shocked: "You... how do you know there is such a thing?
"Before I went to bed, I called an employee of our company. He is also from your side. He seems to be from the county next door. He told me that when you were young, you all knew that you had stolen other people's property when you went to herd cattle.
Come to the kiln to eat the sweet potatoes."
"Okay, I was defeated by you." Zeng Jun showed a wry smile.
A few minutes later, the two of them tiptoed downstairs, secretly opened the door, and walked to the vegetable garden in the backyard with flashlights.
"We don't have any sweet potatoes at home," Zeng Jun said after looking for them.
"What do you see there?" Binglan asked, shining a flashlight on a lush sweet potato leaf in the vegetable garden of Uncle Zeng Jun's sixth uncle's house next door.
"Damn, you even know sweet potato leaves."
"Do you think I'm an alien? How about we go over and steal some?"
"No, to be honest, stealing things is not a good boy."
"You have never been a good boy. Grandma said you were very naughty when you were a child. You don't know how many sneaky things you did in the village."
"Okay, don't expose my privacy, why don't I risk it all?"
Binglan made a victory gesture.
The two men went into the vegetable garden next door and secretly dug up a few sweet potatoes. Then they went directly to the scene of the crime and found some dirt to build a small kiln. They went home and brought some dry firewood to light a fire in the kiln to cook the sweet potatoes.
Bing Lan had never done such a thing before. He was in a state of excitement from beginning to end. From time to time, he wiped the sweat from his face with his dirty hands, making his delicate face look as dirty as a little cat. Zeng Jun used
The cell phone used the flashlight to take pictures and show them to her, which made Binglan want to laugh, but she was afraid that the laughter would wake others and "expose her crime", so she covered her mouth and tried her best to endure it.
After the sweet potato kiln was ready, Binglan only ate half of it before saying she was full. The rest was passed on to Zeng Jun. Zeng Jun had eaten a lot of delicious food at his grandma's house in the evening. How could he eat so much? The two bold young men finally
He actually took the remaining "stolen items" home and planned to keep them for breakfast the next day.
??"Which naughty little devil??" Early in the morning, Liu Auntie discovered that her vegetable plot had been ravaged. Before she finished her sentence, she looked up and saw Zeng Jun standing on the balcony of her house stretching, "Junjun is back.
, when did you get home?”
"Oh, good morning, auntie. I didn't arrive until almost eight o'clock last night."
"Oh, no wonder your uncle said he saw a small car parked in your yard. He is so promising that he even bought a small car just a few months after graduation. You see, our Wanghua family has been working for several years and is still poor. I just
They said it would be better to study, but they didn’t believe it.”
Zeng Jun could only smile bitterly. The so-called educated youth cultivated by this education system are just migrant workers in the new era. But how should these things be explained to these honest uncles and aunts?
Originally, Zeng Jun planned to have breakfast early in the morning and hit the road, but at Binglan's request, he stayed an extra day and accompanied Binglan to graze cattle for a long time, and also went to the elementary school where he studied when he was a child.
, we had a lot of fun at the lake, at the foot of the mountain, etc. Zeng Jun was able to relive his childhood here, and Binglan experienced the pastoral scenery of the countryside so truly for the first time.
The people in the village are hard-working and went to work in the fields early. I met few people in the village and avoided a lot of embarrassment.
Early on the third day, as they were preparing to return to Guangzhou, Zeng's mother caught two chickens and packed dozens of eggs for Binglan to take back. The two of them were trying to give in to each other, when Zeng Jun's sixth wife came over and brought some eggs.
The basket of sweet potatoes that had just been dug out of the vegetable patch and washed and still dripping with water came over and said before entering the door: "Junjun, I have to go back to work now and I won't stay for two more days. We don't have anything good at home. You like to eat it?"
I dug some of this for you to take back."
Suddenly he caught a glimpse of Binglan beside him and was shocked: "Where did such a beautiful girl come from? She looks just like the stars on TV. Even the stars are not so beautiful. She is your girlfriend. When will she come back to get married?"
"Ah?? Oh, this??"
"Auntie is so kind. When your old man saw that we stole your things, he not only didn't blame you but also gave us these things. Well, soon, Auntie will give you a big red envelope." Binglan suddenly left Zeng behind.
Jun's mother came over and took Zeng Jun's arm with one arm to pick up the basket of sweet potatoes.
