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Since they wanted to do good deeds, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin felt that they should do it more thoroughly. At least they had to go there and do a field trip to understand the basic situation of their local area.And how much money can be given each month to help them tide over the difficulties without making themselves a victim, this also needs to be carefully measured.

For this matter, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin decided to take a long trip. Chen Guanshi and others are watching the affairs of Niuwangzhuang, so there is no need to worry too much, just explain to Namao Chengbian Dajun and them, let them When you have nothing to do, patrol the rice fields more, don't let the crabs in it run away, and on the other side of the reservoir, people are also arranged to spread some feed every day.

The work of selling vegetables in the store is temporarily handed over to Boss Xiao and old man Luo Liu Chunlan. Aunt Ayun is still on a rush and cannot go to help.Luo Meng asked Chen Jianhua to arrange for people to transport the melons, fruits and vegetables to be sold to the store in the town every morning, and let a few old people watch and sell them.

This time, the family that Zheng Bolun introduced to Luo Meng was named Xie, and they lived in a small mountain village called Xiejia Village in the southwestern mountain area. The traffic there was quite inconvenient. Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin checked on the Internet. It took four or five turns to get there, and the two of them decided to drive by themselves and bring some packing by the way.

Although weaving baskets with packing tape is not a great craft, as long as it can bring even a little income to the villagers who have no means of income every month, it can improve their lives to some extent. For the long term.

On the day of departure, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin went out early in the morning. They took turns driving and did not enter the province where the family was located until noon the next day.In the past, Romon thought that his hometown, Buffalo Town, was already a very remote mountainous area. After entering this mountain, he realized that their place was completely outside the mountain.

"Look at the road opposite, how long will it take us to drive over?" Romon held the steering wheel and said to Xiao Shulin beside him.

Xiao Shulin looked at the road on the other side of the mountain, frowned and thought for a while: "At least half an hour."

"Remember that crooked-neck tree over there, let's have a look." At this time, Luo Meng happened to see a very special crooked-necked tree growing by the side of the road on the other side of the mountain, so he told Xiao Shulin that way.

As a result, half an hour later, they were still wandering in the deep mountains, without passing the crooked neck tree they saw just now, and they thought that the road had nothing to do with the one they were driving now. After more than an hour, he suddenly saw the crooked neck tree by the side of the road. Romon stopped the car and looked at the other side of the mountain, which was also a winding road. They had already arrived there more than an hour ago.

"Let me take the meeting instead." Xiao Shulin patted Romon's shoulder, opened the car door and jumped out of the passenger seat.

"Let's rest for a while." Luo Meng also got out of the car, and took down the water bottle by the way. This water bottle was prepared by Luo Meng before departure, and it was filled with spiritual spring water. Drinking a sip would refresh you. , better than Red Bull.

"You said in this place, the traffic is so difficult, it's no wonder it's not poor." Luo Meng poured Xiao Shulin a glass of spiritual spring water with the lid of the cup.

"The soil is also very thin." Xiao Shulin took the lid of the cup, drank the water in it in one gulp, looked at the nearby mountains, and shook his head.

"Are you hungry? I don't know when I will be able to come to their town." Luo Meng took the lid of the cup handed back by Xiao Shulin, and poured himself a glass of spiritual spring water.

"Gulululu..." He was answered by a series of loud and long voices.

"Would you like to eat some biscuits first?" Romon smiled unkindly.

"No need, let's go." Xiao Shulin reached out his hand to touch a few short hairs on his temples, and climbed into the driver's seat as if nothing had happened. When Romon also got into the seat next to him, he stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out.

The two of them managed to reach the nearby county town that evening, and found a restaurant that looked clean, had a hot meal, then stayed in a simple hotel for one night, and opened three times the next day. After more than an hour's drive, they finally arrived at the town where the family lived.

It is said to be a small town, but in fact it is just a row of brick houses by the side of the road, and there are a few flat farmlands nearby, where some farmers live here and there.

I heard that the car can only drive half way from the town to Xiejia Village, so Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin had to put the pickup truck in the yard of a farmer in the town, and gave 50 yuan, which was regarded as parking fee, and by the way Asking them to help look at the point means that they say that there are troublesome people in poor mountains and bad waters. When they first come here, it is always right to be careful, and they dare not park their cars casually on the side of the road.

Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin sorted out the colorful packing belts and some wires they brought, put them into a large black backpack, called two motorcycles in the town, and went to Xiejia Village. The drivers of the motorcycles were also local. Farmers, one of them is the male owner of the farm where Romon and the others parked.

The fare is very generous. It takes nearly an hour to drive from the town to the village, and one person only charges 12 yuan.

"Collect free-range eggs! Whoever has free-range eggs, hurry up and take them out!" the two men driving motorcycles yelled as soon as they entered the village.

"How much is it?" asked the country woman with a strong local accent.

"Six hairs."

"It was eighty cents a while ago, why is it only sixty cents now?"

"It was a while ago. It's hot recently, and the dealers in the county don't come as often. If they don't come, I have to eat the eggs I took back." The two men driving the motorcycle said with a smile. Bargain with the people in the village.

"We mentioned the town ourselves, and we can still sell it for a dollar."

"How many eggs can your family have? Is it worth a trip by yourself? In this way, I will add ten cents, seventy cents, nothing more."

"Seven cents is seven cents, oh, why don't you come here recently?" These people in the village seem to have dealt with hawkers for a long time, and they know that it is useless to talk about it. Today, the eggs can only be sold for seven cents.

"The weather is hot, and things are not easy to sell. Besides, no one comes to your village by car."

"Where did these two foreigners come from?" At this moment, someone noticed Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin.

After entering the village, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin have been observing the village for a while. It is a small mountain village located in a ravine. In the flat area of ​​the ravine, there are some fields scattered. Most of the fields are rice. , The slopes not far away were also planted with crops, probably some corn and sweet potatoes.

The houses in the village are basically wooden houses, probably because the local soil is thin and does not produce good wood. Most people here also have houses made of thin wooden strips. Such houses are fine in summer, but difficult in winter.

There are also a few families who have built houses with red bricks and black tiles. Most of them have only one floor, and there are only three or five two-story buildings. When Romon and the others came by motorcycle just now, they saw a In the meantime, the house looked like it had just been repaired in the past two years. The doors and windows hadn't been done yet, and all of them were nailed up with wooden strips, plastic films, woven bags and other sundries, which could also serve as a shelter from wind and rain.

"Oh, they said they were looking for Xie Yingjie's family." A man driving a motorcycle said.

"Ying Jie, he went up to the mountain with his old sister to dig out the ears." A village woman said.

"Then is his mother at home?" Romon asked.

"Osmanthus fragrans? I saw her just now. Go home and get eggs. I'll be here in a while." A toothless old man also came over to watch the excitement with a grin. Usually, there were very few foreigners in their village. It is not easy for people to go out, so it is rare to encounter such a lively time.

"Osmanthus fragrans! These two strangers said they are looking for Yingjie from your family." After a while, a dark and thin country woman walked up the path on the other side of the venue. Really good floral shirt.

"Are you looking for Yingjie from our family? You're not at home right now, so let's go to our house first." Su Guihua squinted her slightly swollen eyes, seeing that she was not in a good state of mind, but to Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin Still very enthusiastic: "Oh, are you volunteers?"

"Not volunteers, we are friends of Zheng Bolun." Luo Meng smiled.

"It's Mr. Zheng's friend." The villagers seem to know Zheng Bolun. This guy didn't know how to do it, and even gave himself the name of Mr. Zheng. When they heard that Luo Meng and the others were Zheng Bolun's friends, they all looked like He became more enthusiastic, and with a smile on his face, he wanted to pull Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin to his house, but in the end Luo Meng and the others went to Su Guihua's house.

"Come and sit at our house first, it's very sunny outside." Su Guihua stopped selling her eggs and took Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin to her home with a basket in her hand. As soon as she entered the yard, she shouted: "Father, at home! There are guests here, go dig some taro in the field and come back."

"Who's here?" A thin old man in the yard was tying a broom. He was quite old, and he seemed to be in good spirits, and his body looked tough.

"Mr. Zheng's friend." Su Guihua said.

"Understood." The old man Xie Guangfu snorted like an old buffalo that had just plowed the ground, took a hoe from a corner of the yard and carried it on his shoulders, and went out. When he passed by Romon and the others, he said in a low voice He said, "Sit down first."

"My father is like this." Su Guihua smiled cautiously, quickly moved the stool to a shaded place in the yard, called Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin to sit first, carried the basket into the house, and made two bowls in a short while Poached eggs in sugar water came out.

While eating the poached eggs, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin also talked to Su Guihua, mainly asking her about her health, what sources of income the family has now, whether the two children are doing well, and so on.

Su Guihua happily told Luo Meng and the others that her son was No. 1 in the class in the final exam this year, and that he is a doll, and that he will repay their good-hearted people in the future. She also said that her daughter will start elementary school next year, and Mr. They asked someone to pledge, and their family was very grateful. As for other things in the family, they didn't talk much about it.

After Xie Guangfu dug the taro from the ground and came back, Su Guihua washed the taro, sprinkled some salt flowers and boiled it in a big pot. After cooking, put it on a clean basket and let it cool down. Xiao Shulin ate taro, the taro grown by the farmer himself was floury and glutinous, both Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin ate a lot.

"This broom sticks well." Xiao Shulin talked to the old man Xie Guangfu.

"Someone bought it during the town market on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year." Xie Guangfu smiled, apparently he had a good impression of Xiao Shulin.

"How much does one sell?" Xiao Shulin asked him.

"Three yuan and five." Xie Guangfu replied.

"Are you still going to the market on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year?" Romon also interjected.

"Yeah, when you came here today, the town was deserted, right? It will be much more lively in time for the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year." Xie Guangfu talked to these two young people from other places while arranging the bamboo branches. Slowly, at first The uneasiness faded away.

"That's just right. My friend knows how to weave baskets. You can learn from him. Next time you go to the market, you can take it to the town to try it out and see if it sells well." Romon said and picked up the big black backpack beside him. come over.

"What kind of basket?" The old man became interested.

"I've brought all the materials, let him weave one for you to see." Luo Meng smiled and opened the backpack, took out the packing belt and wire from inside and handed it to Xiao Shulin.

"Use this to weave it? I've seen it in the town before." When the old man saw the packing tape, he understood a little bit.

"Don't people look good nowadays? Ours is brightly colored, maybe many people will buy it." Romon said.

"This color is really good." The old man looked at the packing tapes in Xiao Shulin's hands, and how he started to weave them. Xiao Shulin didn't like to talk when he started working, and the old man looked at it seriously. Naturally, Meng stopped making fun of himself, and sat on the side peeling the taro to eat.

"It's so fast, this one is ready." When Xiao Shulin put away the basket in his hand, the old man couldn't help but sighed.

"This basket is so beautifully woven! How much does this one cost?" All women like beautiful things, and Su Guihua is no exception.

"Our side sells more than a dozen or twenty. For your side, just look at the sale." Xiao Shulin said.

"You guys specially taught us to weave baskets this time?" The old man held the basket that Xiao Shulin had just woven in his hand, looking over and over again.

"Not all of them, the main reason is to come here to understand the situation." Romon said.

"Hey, this is good, it's better than giving money." The old man seemed to like the skill that Xiao Shulin was going to teach him next.

This afternoon was spent in the process of weaving baskets. During this afternoon, other people from the village also came over. If anyone wanted to learn, Xiao Shulin would teach them together. Romon also told them, It doesn't have to be sold in the market, it's better to sell it in the county, where there are many people.

This afternoon, Xiejia Village was very lively, many people gathered around the yard of Xie Guangfu's house, and people often brought over some of their own corn cobs, taro potatoes and the like.

When the sun was about to go down, two black and thin children came in outside the yard. I think they were Xie Yingjie and his sister Xie Dongyan. These two children had been digging outside for a day, and their bodies were covered with sweat and dirt. When outsiders came, they also seemed very shy.

After an afternoon of study, Su Guihua can basically weave baskets. Now she happily enters the house to boil water to bathe the two children, and kills a chicken to make a table. The sumptuous farm meals are served by other people's homes, and the table is full of all kinds of food.

At night, sleeping on a strange bed made Luo Meng feel a little uncomfortable. Just like Zheng Bolun said, this village is poor, and there is no way out, so it can only continue to be poor.

"Go back tomorrow?" Romon asked Xiao Shulin beside him.

"En." Xiao Shulin replied, weaving baskets out of packing tape is not difficult at all, and the people in this village are very handy, so they learned a lot about his baskets in one afternoon, and I will give them to them tomorrow morning. Once they talk about it, they can basically become teachers.

"Where are you going?" After a while, seeing Xiao Shulin getting up from the bed and walking outside, Romon asked hastily.

"Go to the toilet." Xiao Shulin replied.

"I'll go with you." This man in the deep mountains and old forests is unfamiliar, probably because he has watched too many horror movies and TV shows, Romon always felt his heart was creepy, and he quickly put on his clothes and got off the bed Get up.

"Why don't you go to sleep?" They saw Xie Guangfu sitting in the hall as soon as they left the yard, lighting a dim light bulb and rubbing something in their hands.

"Go to the bathroom, uncle, why are you still up so late?" Romon also asked him.

"Hey, people lose their memory when they get old. I just woke up in the middle of the night and just remembered that when I went to the market last time, someone ordered dozens of pairs of straw sandals for me, and I almost forgot about them." Xie Guangfu muttered.

"Does anyone still wear straw sandals now?" Romon didn't know why.

"No one usually wears it anymore, and it can be used for funerals, so why don't we have to wear sackcloth and filial piety and straw sandals?" Xie Guangfu said.

"..." Romon touched the goosebumps on his arms. It was really embarrassing for an old man to sit in a dark hall in the middle of the night, talking about wearing sackcloth and filial piety.

"How did you weave these straw sandals?" Xiao Shulin said before entering the hall...

A few days later, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin returned to Niuwangzhuang. There were still a batch of bamboo and linen straw sandals in the back of the pickup truck. The style was a bit different from traditional straw sandals. Made of a few pieces of earthen cloth bought from outside after a whole day’s driving, flip-flops and flip-flops, simple soles and bright red and green uppers, the soil is very earthy, and the foreign is also very foreign. Overall, it's pretty stylish.

"Slippers are distributed! Benefits are distributed! First come, first served!" When Luo Meng and the others drove into the courtyard, the lunch break had just ended, and everyone was about to go out to work. The people in the courtyard were pretty neat.

"What the hell?" Bu Yigua, who was talking to the old man of the Ma family, poked his head out to have a look.

"Slippers! Made of pure natural materials, you won't get athlete's foot if you wear them." Romon jumped out of the car with a grin, and then climbed into the back of their pickup truck, planning to distribute shoes on it, not to mention, those old men in Xiejia Village The old lady's combat effectiveness is really strong, and it took only a few days to weave such a large pile of slippers for them.

"Tsk, it's just a straw sandal." Bu Yigua said disapprovingly to the old man of the Ma family.

"Go and see." The old man of the Ma family is getting old, and he also likes to watch the excitement.

"Yo! Xiao Liu's clothes and trousers match well today. I'll give you a pair of slippers later. I'll take a picture with you." Luo Meng's eyes were sharp, and he caught sight of Liu Ruhua, who was nearly [-] years old and still youthful in the corner of the yard.

"Will you pay the model fees?" It's no good not to take photos.

"If the photos taken are selected, one watermelon per photo." Romon offered a price.

"Wait! I'll go upstairs and change into a skirt!" Liu Ruhua was about to make a big fuss.

"Hey, can this old man wear slippers too?" The old man of the Ma family also joined in the fun.

"Yes, old man, you have such a temperament, the photos you take will definitely attract customers." Luo Meng said and passed a pair of navy blue flip-flops to the old man of the Ma family.

"What about me? I won't attract customers anymore?" Bu Yigua who came together said.

"Here, I'll give you a pair of purple ones, which are extravagant."

"Hehehe, don't say it, the workmanship is quite exquisite, and the style is not bad."

"Old Zhou! Do you want a young and beautiful boy?" The kids upstairs shouted, they also wanted to earn watermelon.

"Yes, beautiful girls also want it!" Romon stood in the car happily handing out slippers, and said while sending them back: "You take the background and take the photos yourself. I just check and accept them, and they will eventually be used in the online shop." Give me a watermelon for each photo!"

"Don't worry, Lao Zhou! It's all right! All age groups and all kinds of customer groups can't escape our palm!" I don't know who is talking nonsense.

"Where's Zheng Bolun? Where's Luo Zhifang? Where's Lin Kuo? They're all called out to take pictures! Brother Na Maocheng, come and take a picture too! Hey, and Lin Chunyu, you come down too, the urban white-collar route is up to you , By the way, we have to reserve a pair for Yan Yunkai later, that kid is good-looking and recruiting."

Romon happily worked on his little abacus, and posted photos of these handsome men, women, men, women, and children in different styles on the Internet. It really needs style, style, and style, and their slippers don't have to worry about selling.

"Where's mine?" Xiao Shulin leaned against the side of the pickup truck, looked at Romon with a half-smile and asked.

"Then what, we don't have to do it ourselves, right?" Luo Meng would rather do it by himself than ask Xiao Shulin to play such a thing as betraying his appearance.