It can be seen that she likes this teacher very much.
"Not bad, very good. I didn't expect that our family also has a talented girl. She is much better than me." Xu Erlong said.
Xu Xiaoling was even happier now, she was finally better than her second brother.
Xu Erlong teased her: "However, I heard that if you publish an article, you will get royalties, right? Since you have royalties, shouldn't you treat us to dinner? Why do you still want me to treat you to dinner?"
Xiaoling hesitated: "I...I have royalties, but I want to leave this royalties to our teacher Yu to buy things."
Hearing that the little girl had her own arrangements, Xu Erlong finally felt relieved. With the royalties, he also remembered to buy a gift for her teacher. This was finally a sign of affection.
"Okay, since you're doing so well, I'll treat you to dinner. Hey, does this count as all of us taking advantage of you?" Xu Erlong asked.
"Of course." Xiaoling said.
Zhang Jinfang watched the two brothers and sisters playing around, and the smile on his face never disappeared.
Does she consider her children to be successful? Are they people with great potential?
If he had not been divorced and had not come out of the countryside, Erlong would probably have gone to the brick kiln to move bricks, and Xiaoling would continue to stay at home, just like an ordinary country girl, cutting grass, feeding pigs, cooking, washing clothes...
She was grateful, grateful for Xu Erlong's resistance.
****
The drought continues.
The wells in the countryside have long bottomed out, and there is a long queue of buckets at the well. Everyone takes turns waiting at the well, waiting for some water to seep out, and then put it into the bucket.
It's even more difficult in the city. There is no water in the water pipes now.
The county organized water trucks to bring water from elsewhere.
Residents in the city, every household, carried basins and buckets to line up to receive water, and then cooked rice with the water they received.
This time, everyone has truly realized the practical benefits of saving water.
Xu Erlong also pulled on his slippers, carried a bucket, and joined the queue, waiting to fetch water to go home and cook.
When Xiong Yawei came to find him, he saw that he was still in the team, waiting patiently.
"Two dragons." Xiong Yawei shouted.
Xu Erlong saw him and raised his hand to say hello in response.
Xiong Yawei walked over and frowned when he saw so many people lining up in front of him.
I didn't expect that the drought in their county would be this bad.
An old man in front actually brought two big iron buckets and insisted on filling him with two buckets of water. He was refused and made a lot of noise there.
Finally it was Xu Erlong's turn. He filled the basin with water and the bucket with water.
Nowadays, no one is laughing at anyone. Everyone uses all the pots and buckets available at home.
However, the amount of water released is also rationed, so that every household can receive some to solve urgent needs such as food.
"Let's just eat noodles today." Xu Erlong said to Xiong Yawei with a smile: "Save some water."
Xiong Yawei frowned.
It's not that he doesn't mind eating noodles, he's just wondering, how long will this kind of life last?
"This situation will continue for a while." Xu Erlong said with a smile.
"Erlong, why don't you come to our place to play for a few days." Xiong Yawei said to Xu Erlong: "Look, your life here has been completely affected."
Xu Erlong also knew that this drought would continue for some time.
In the past two days, he has been planning to take his whole family to other places, just as a tourist, and to avoid such a drought here.
Upon hearing Xiong Yawei's invitation, Xu Erlong immediately agreed: "Okay, then we will go to your place to play for a few days."
I also stopped by to see if I could think of a way to avert Xiong Yawei's disaster.
"Okay, it's settled then." Xiong Yawei said, "I'll go back and wait for you first. You can come over after you pack your things."
He drives a truck and can leave at any time.
But Xu Erlong and his party of four had to go back to get some certificates and pack their luggage. They couldn't follow the truck and could only choose to travel by car.
He left his contact information and made a special appointment time so that he could pick him up at that time.
After sending Xiong Yawei away, Xu Erlong began to prepare for going out.
****
Xu Dongsheng and other villagers are diverting water to fight drought and provide disaster relief.
He alone cultivates the entire family's land and still hopes for a harvest. When there is a drought, he is more anxious than anyone else.
The water that was previously called for digging pits to store water has been used up, and the water diverted is limited. Xu Dongsheng even went to the river himself to try to carry water to water more land.
As a result, he actually stepped on something in the field.
He took it out and saw that it was a chain with something on it.
After washing it in a bucket, Xu Dongsheng recognized that it was a necklace with a longevity lock on it.
Although it looked a little dirty, Xu Dongsheng could still recognize that it was made of silver.
Xu Dongsheng looked around nervously to make sure no one was paying attention to him, and he quickly stuffed the thing into his pocket.
He didn't understand anything else, but he knew that gold and silver were valuable things.
He took it to the city and wanted to find some old people to help show how much this thing was worth.
"This looks like a longevity lock made of silver." The old man said, "It's not very valuable either."
Silver is actually worthless?
Xu Dongsheng felt that the other party was deceiving him.
One of them saw that Xu Dongsheng was a farmer and did not know the goods, so he said to him on the spot: "Brother, I bought it for ten yuan."
How could Xu Dongsheng agree so easily, ten yuan? What about sending it to beggars? If it really costs so little, he might as well keep it and leave it to the people as a family heirloom.
Xu Dongsheng carried his things and turned around to leave.
Everyone else just looked at the excitement and left.
There was only one old man who knew what he was doing. He followed Xu Dongsheng for a while and said to Xu Dongsheng: "Comrade, don't walk so fast. You don't know the stuff. It's useless to take it. Why don't you sell it to me?"
Already."
"How much do you pay?" Xu Dongsheng asked.
"Twenty." The old man stretched out two fingers and gestured seriously.
Xu Dongsheng shook his head. If the price was less, he would leave it to Damin as a family heirloom.
"Then how much do you plan to do?" the other party asked.
Xu Dongsheng also stretched out two fingers: "Two hundred."
His knowledge only allowed him to figure out a number like two hundred.
After all, many cultural relics are only worth so much these days.
In those years, many thieves stole and sold many cultural relics just for a few hundred dollars.
"The price you're asking for is too much. It's silver, not gold. It's not worth two hundred." The other party said, "Look, how much gold is there in the gold shop now."
Xu Dongsheng replied: "Then you buy gold, and I will treat this as a family heirloom."
With this in mind, Xu Dongsheng refused to give in. In the end, he actually sold this thing for two hundred yuan.
When Xu Dongsheng went home with two hundred yuan in his pocket, he was so excited that he wanted to yell.