Wu Cuimei said: "Do you think everyone is willing to kill chickens. Although chicken is not as expensive as pork now, it costs more than ten yuan per pound. Look at the people working in the village now, how many people can earn more than one hundred yuan a day?"

"That's not." Liu Yuanhe continued, "If you don't talk about others, just say Agui's family. For example, he relies on his mother to support his two siblings alone, and he also has to send them to school. Not to mention eating chicken, he doesn't eat even a few dollars a pound of fish."

"Yes." Speaking of this family, Wu Cuimei couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, Agui's mother is really hard-working. Not only does it mean to raise a baby, she also has to raise a few cows."

"The cows can make money." Liu Yuanhe said with a smile, "The cows have a calf every year. There are many cattle in his family, and there are two cows alone. Even if two cows can be sold every year, a cow costs several thousand yuan, then there will be tens of thousands of yuan."

"It's really easy to say." Wu Cuimei curled her lips, "It's not expensive to raise two children? Moreover, like Agui, you have to cut cattle grass in the morning before you can go to school. On Sundays, you have to raise cattle separately with your sister. How hard it is."

"Haha, but even so, the two siblings' studies are good." Liu Yuanhe said, "I heard that Agui gets first in the exam every year."

"Oh, so awesome?" Wu Cuimei said in surprise, "I thought he was like Qingshan who wanted to sleep whenever he saw the test paper."

"Of course not. I heard that he not only won the first place in the school exam, but also won the first place in the math competition. Anyway, Agui is just a material for studying. But..." Liu Yuanhe paused and said, "Some people in the village always say that he was stupid."

"Hey, those people are just slutty." Wu Cuimei said disdainfully, "They must have seen that their children are not as good as Agui, so they said such words."

"Well, it should be, but no matter what, it is a good thing for the child to be willing to study. Even if he is a little stupid, he shouldn't say such things."

Agui doesn't care much about these things.

When he went out in the morning, his mother told him that when he saw the uncles and aunts in the village, he must greet people with a smile on his face, and must not lose his manners.

However, he didn't want to do that.

Because he really couldn't tell which uncle should be called uncle or uncle, which aunt should be called aunt or mother-in-law. Sometimes he really felt that it was even more difficult to distinguish the people in this big village by seniority than the most difficult math problems.

Mathematics problems are always different from each other, but people's appearance and clothing are the same every day. Sometimes when there are too many people, they forget the name and call it wrong, and they are still unhappy.

Last time, I met a man in the village. He really couldn't remember whether he wanted to call him the eldest uncle, second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle, fifth uncle, or uncle, second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle, fifth uncle, or eldest uncle, second uncle, third uncle, third uncle, third uncle, third uncle, third uncle, third uncle, third uncle...

When he couldn't remember it, he smiled and said hello: "Where are you going? Have you had a meal?"

I thought to myself, this is the most common and ordinary greeting, and no matter what, there will be no mistakes.

However, the man had a stern face and snorted heavily with his nose, without responding to his greeting.

He asked in confusion: "I'll say hello to you, why do you ignore me?"

The popular accused and scolded, "I don't know who you are talking to, no name, do I know who you are talking to?"

The conscience of heaven and earth. At that time, the only two of them were within a radius of 100 meters, and they met each other in front of each other. They were not saying hello to him, who were they saying hello to?

Since then, Agui has not liked to say hello to others. Sometimes when he sees the villagers, he will take a detour away from the distance.

It is also because of this that some people in the village say that he is stupid in his mind.

It doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter.

I went to school and started my day of study and life. In the evening, I walked back to the village.

He had no friends, so he walked back to the several kilometers of mountain roads outside Xishan Village from the village committee's Hope Primary School, and he was walking alone.

He doesn't like to form cliques and doesn't say anything flattering. In addition, he has a problem, so other children don't like to play with him very much.

His fault is that he likes to recite texts or ancient poems while walking.

The point is that even so, this guy's footwork is very fast. The other friends stopped and stopped and took more than an hour to get home, but he was half-way and half-run, and returned home in less than half an hour, leaving the other friends far behind.

In this way, some children who come back late will inevitably be scolded by their families: "Look at Agui, he returned home at 5 o'clock after school at 4:30. What are you doing? Why did you come home so late?"

In this way, Agui is naturally even less popular.

However, Agui doesn't care about these things.

When he walked into the doorstep with his brisk steps, he happened to see his mother killing fish in the yard.

The fish was not a big fish, but a small fish. The largest one was only half the size of his palm, and the small one was only the size of a finger.

However, he ran over happily and asked his mother with an excited look on his face, "Mom, do we have fish tonight?"

Agui's mother is already in her forties, and her years of hard work make her look similar to a fifty-year-old woman.

She was very thin, so thin that she had no extra flesh on her body, and even her eyes were deeply sunken.

However, when I saw my son coming back, I still smiled and squeezed out the folds on my face and replied: "Yes, today is February 2nd, after all, it's a festival. Mom just went to the river to catch some fish, not a lot, but I can make you a bowl of fish soup."

"I like fish soup the most." Agui squatted aside, preparing to reach out and grab a small fish, wanting to help his mother squeeze out the fish intestines in the fish's belly.

But my mother stopped her and said, "Agui, don't move."

She looked at the sky and asked, "What time is it now?"

Agui hurried to the main hall, looked at the old gossip clock hanging on the wall without a glass mirror, and replied loudly: "Mom, it's just five o'clock."

"Oh, it's still early, Agui, there is a hundred yuan on the table in my mother's room, you can take it out."

"Ah?" Agui didn't understand very well, but he still went to get the money.

In my mother's small and mixed room, I saw a pile of scattered banknotes on a table with red paint in the corner of Aguiyu. He counted it and it was exactly one hundred yuan.

After taking the money, I returned to the yard and handed it to my mother: "Mom, are these?"

Agui's mother glanced at her and nodded, "Well, yes, Agui, you send this money to Brother Qingshan. This is the money sold by your brother Qingshan yesterday. My mother took it to the town for sale this morning, and it sold it for about 100 yuan. Mom was greedy and left a ten-yuan labor fee. You send this hundred yuan to Brother Qingshan. Remember to tell him that it was originally 110 yuan, but my mother took it for ten yuan to take the bus."

"Yeah, I got it."

"And." Agui was about to leave, but his mother called him and said, "Agui, we can't take other people's money in vain. Ten dollars is also money. There are a few fish here. If you send it to Brother Qingshan, it will be worth the ten dollars."

Agui took the plastic bag handed over by his mother and looked in.

There were several big fish inside. Although this big fish was not really big, it was the largest fish caught by my mother, as big as half of his palm.

He looked at his mother hesitantly, and said reluctantly: "Mom, today is the second day of the second month, today is the festival..."

Mom smiled and said, "Yes, so, I'm going to make fish soup for you."

Agui looked at the small fish in the white porcelain bowl on the ground and said a little aggrievedly: "But those fish are not enough for us to eat."

The fish in the bowl is so small, more than half smaller than the fish in the bag.

If I give the fish in the bag to Brother Qingshan, then tonight, my mother will definitely say that she had eaten something good at lunch. She was a little overeating, so she didn't want to eat meat anymore.

Today is the second day of the second month. Today is a festival. How can my mother eat without meat?

He said calmly with tears in his eyes: "Mom, why don't you give fish to Brother Qingshan? I'll go and catch more fish for him on Sunday."

"Oh, the meaning is different." Mom looked at Agui patiently and taught, "Agui, Mom took ten dollars, and you can buy a big fish for ten dollars. Let's give Brother Qingshan a few small fish, and we have taken advantage of him. You said, if Mom didn't get ten dollars, Mom would have to take out the money from her own money as a fare. In this way, it would be equivalent to Mom making ten dollars less today."

"Ten dollars, when the weather gets hotter, you can buy a pair of slippers for you and your sister alone. Do you think so?"

Agui wiped his eyes hard and nodded: "Well, I'll send it right away."

"Be careful, don't fall."

"I understand." Agui nodded, holding the money, covering his pocket with one hand and carrying the bag with the other, and running towards the old village like a rabbit.

The old village is not far away.

For a child like Agui who trots home from school every day, the few kilometers of mountain road from the outside village to the old village is not far away.

Moreover, he didn't carry his schoolbag now, and he felt much lighter. When he ran, he was like a gust of wind.

He was a little excited, his eyes looked at the Hongyun in the west from time to time, and his cheeks were also rosy.

The reason I was excited may be because I thought of the new slippers my mother mentioned.

He needed a new pair of slippers, and he didn't want to wait until summer came, and he was still wearing his sister's pink slippers and was laughed at by other friends. Although he didn't care about these things, it would be a very happy thing to have a pair of slippers of his own.

The reason why he was excited was that he could give money to Brother Qingshan. In this way, the matter of eating Brother Qingshan's tea in his family could reduce some of the burden in his heart.

Although Brother Qingshan said he would not blame him, all the natures he inherited from his mother made him feel guilty naturally.

However, yesterday, he helped Brother Qingshan pick bamboo leaves, and today he helped him sell bamboo shoots to send money. As a result, the stone in his heart became lighter and the person became lighter. When he ran, his pace became faster and faster.

When he ran to Brother Qingshan's house, before he could enter the door of his house, his stomach started to roar because he smelled a strong fragrance.

Oh, this damn belly, I won’t shout early or late, but I just shouted at this time.

How embarrassing it would be if it would be awkward if it would be in front of uncle and brother.

He stood in the yard, trying to take a rest first, and waited until the fragrance drifted away and his stomach stopped screaming before walking in.

However, for some reason, the tempting fragrance not only did not float away, but also became more and more intense, making his stomach scream more and more cheerful, just like a war.

He hated, hated. He harshly hit his stomach. As a result, his stomach resisted him with a louder voice.

"Agui?" A voice sounded in front of him.

Agui looked up in panic and happened to meet Liu Qingshan's puzzled eyes.

Liu Qingshan looked at Agui who suddenly appeared in the yard in confusion and asked, "Agui, aren't you going to school today? Why are you here?"

"I'm off school." Agui covered his croaking stomach embarrassedly and replied, "I'll give you something."

"What?" Liu Qingshan looked at Agui, and saw that the child's forehead was covered with sweat and his face was flushed, and he thought that he must have run in.

What exactly is worth it?

Agui first took out the money in his pocket and handed it to Brother Qingshan: "Brother Qingshan, this is the money you gave me yesterday to sell the bamboo shoots. This morning, my mother went to the town to sell the bamboo shoots, and sold the bamboo shoots you gave me, and sold them for 110 yuan. Then, my mother said that she had received a labor fee of ten yuan, so here is one hundred yuan."

His bright eyes reflected the clouds of the West Mountain, like two pink pearls, which looked extremely precious.

Liu Qingshan stared blankly at the colorful scattered banknotes held on Agui's dark little hand, and was speechless.
To be continued...