Looking at the two big tortoises in the bucket, Tian Xiaohai smiled happily and snapped his fingers: "Sister, we are rich. These tortoises can probably be sold for four to five thousand yuan! Plus two bags of pine milk mushrooms.
, it is estimated that the total can be sold for more than fifteen thousand, and your tuition is covered. With the remaining money, I will buy some delicious food for our family, and then buy you clothes and shoes."
He hadn't bought clothes or shoes for his sister for a long time, and he couldn't help feeling a little guilty.
"Brother, there is no need for clothes and shoes. I still have to wear them. Our family is still in debt!" Xiaolan replied sensibly. When she said this, her little feet unconsciously shrank back, for fear of being caught by Tian Xiaohai.
Saw it.
Seeing his sister step back, Tian Xiaohai was surprised, so he lowered his head and glanced down, and soon saw that his sister's white and tender feet were covered with soil.
He couldn't help being surprised: "Sister, what's wrong with you? Where are your shoes?"
"I'm at home! I'm not wearing anything!" Xiaolan replied in a low voice.
"Why don't you wear it? There are grass and thorns on this mountain. What if it pricks your foot?" Tian Xiaohai cursed angrily: "Don't do such stupid things in the future."
"Brother, how stupid am I!" Xiaolan's eyes were red, and she bit her lip and said, "I... I'm not afraid of wearing out my shoes! I'm going to wear them to school in the second half of the year!"
Seeing his sister's aggrieved yet sensible look, Tian Xiaohai's heart almost broke.
He knew that it was not his sister who was stupid, but that he knew that his family was poor and was afraid of wearing out his shoes, so he saved a few. This way, they would not break easily, and he could continue to wear old sandals to school in the second half of the year.
"Sister, I wrongly blamed you." Tian Xiaohai put his hands on his sister Xiaolan's shoulders.
"Brother, you are right! I know you feel sorry for me." Xiaolan said "嘤咛" and couldn't help crying.
"Okay, okay! Don't cry, sister. Come back, brother will buy you new sandals." Tian Xiaohai patted Xiaolan's shoulder gently.
"No need! I can still wear my sandals." Xiaolan wiped her eyes with her white and tender hands, smiled and said to Tian Xiaohai: "Mom said, you will marry a wife in the next few years, and there will be a lot of money to spend!
"
"Silly girl, no matter how much money you spend on marrying a wife, you can't save it by saving a pair of sandals." Tian Xiaohai wiped away the tears from the corners of his sister's eyes with his hands, and then stroked her earlobes for crying.
With her hair messed up, she smiled and consoled her: "I can earn more than 10,000 yuan this time. I don't miss this little money. I will buy you clothes and shoes after selling the tortoise and pine milk mushroom."
"Brother, you are so kind! You are my biological brother!" Xiaolan smiled and hugged Tian Xiaohai, then pouted playfully and said: "Okay! I agree that you can use 100 yuan to help me buy clothes.
and shoes. However, they have to be sold for 15,000 yuan."
"It will definitely sell for 15,000." Tian Xiaohai replied confidently: "Brother, I will go to the market early tomorrow morning and ask."
"Brother, the matter of clothes and shoes is not urgent. The pine milk mushrooms are easy to damage. We can't delay it for a long time. We have to take action as soon as possible. Let's sell these two things first." Xiaolan frowned and thought for a while and said: "By the way, brother
, why don't you call cousin Akai? Isn't he working as a chef in a restaurant? He must be marketable. "
"What are you asking him for?" Tian Xiaohai shook his head and said: "Now their family doesn't come to our house to pay New Year's greetings. Besides, my parents were in a car accident before and asked their family to borrow money, but they didn't borrow a penny. This is definitely the case.
They won’t help us either. Forget it!”
"Brother, give it a try! Last month I saw cousin Akai and a middle-aged fat man going to the Yangcun next door to collect dried bamboo shoots! Maybe their restaurant just needs mountain products! If you don't ask him to borrow money, I'm afraid
What!" Xiaolan urged.
"Okay, I'll try calling now." Tian Xiaohai took out his cell phone on the spot and dialed his cousin Akai's number.
"Hey! Who are you?" The other party's tone was a bit unpleasant. Obviously, he didn't have Tian Xiaohai's number at all.
"Cousin Akai, it's me, Xiaohai!" Tian Xiaohai replied with a smile.
"Xiaohai, why are you calling me?" Akai on the phone was extremely shocked, and quickly explained: "Don't ask me to borrow money! I spent this month's salary early, so I can spend it."
I still owe money! By the way, if you have no money, you can borrow it from Huabei!"
Hearing this, Tian Xiaohai sighed secretly: After all, this cousin still looks down on him.
"I won't ask you to borrow money!" He smiled bitterly and shook his head, preparing to hang up the phone.
At this time, my sister Xiaolan shouted loudly at the other end of the phone: "Cousin Akai, my brother wants to ask you, do you accept tortoises and pine milk mushrooms over there?"
"What? There are tortoises and pine milk mushrooms? Take them, take them, of course!" Akai excitedly said to Tian Xiaohai: "Xiaohai, are you sure there are tortoises and pine milk mushrooms? If there are, hurry up and bring them. I'll take them today.
Say hello to our manager tonight. Our hotel is in short supply of this!"
Seeing that his cousin was so eager, Tian Xiaohai didn't want to worry about it anymore, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll come after dinner. I'll get to the county seat before eight-thirty. By the way, which hotel are you at?"
"Me! I'm at the most awesome hotel in our county, the Grand Hyatt. When you get there, call me and I'll tell the security guard and they'll let you in." Akai replied with a sense of superiority.
"Grand Hyatt Hotel?" Tian Xiaohai was slightly startled. He remembered that Tang Lingling told him in the afternoon that she and Yang Fang would hold a birthday dinner in a private room of the Grand Hyatt Hotel the day after tomorrow.
"What's wrong? Xiaohai, you've never been to the Grand Hyatt Hotel?" Akai asked curiously.
"No, I have never been to such a high-end place." Tian Xiaohai replied sheepishly.
"Just in time, let you see what high-end atmosphere and class are." Akai replied very proudly: "Xiaohai is not my cousin, I'm telling you, you are already in your twenties this year, and you haven't even been to a place like this.
Yes, it was a wasted life. However, if you come tonight, it is not in vain. Haha! Okay, no more words, just come after you have dinner! I'll wait for you!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Tian Xiaohai didn't like his cousin's attitude, but he still tolerated it.
He put away his cell phone and shouted to his sister: "Let's go! I'll go to the river to catch two fish first."
After saying that, Tian Xiaotian took the bucket and ran quickly towards the river bank.
He opened his eyes and glanced around. He soon saw two grass carps weighing three to four kilograms among the water plants on the river bank, eating the water plants in the river.
Tian Xiaohai put down the bucket and walked over lightly.
When he was two meters away from the edge of the river, he suddenly jumped into the water, stretched out his hand to fish in the river, and put two grass carp weighing three to four kilograms into the net bag.
"Let's go home. I'll feed one to my parents and you, and I'll take the other to Sister Xiuyun's house." Tian Xiaohai smiled and poured one of the grass carp into the bucket, and put the other one in a net bag.
Ten minutes later, the two brothers and sister came back home.
Tian Xiaohai changed her clothes and asked her sister to make dinner.
After explaining the affairs at home, he carried the grass carp and walked to Sister Xiuyun's house.
Arriving at the backyard of Sister Xiuyun's house, Tian Xiaohai smelled a strong smell of chicken from afar.
He stretched his neck and was about to take a look inside, when he saw the wooden door creak open.
"Xiaohai, you're finally here. Come on, come in!"
Gao Xiuyun's face was like a spring breeze, slightly red.
She grabbed Tian Xiaohai's hand and walked into the yard.