A pair of gold earrings completely shocked Luo Xiaomei. Not only did they not cause trouble, but they could still smile when they saw Xu Le and Cao Fei, and even helped out on New Year's Day.The old lady didn't break her promise, she tried on the clothes on the same day, and it was strangely suitable. She got on her body on the first day of the new year, and she even wore new clothes to meet the guests who came to pay New Year's greetings. Although she didn't boast in front of outsiders, Luo Xiaomei's enthusiasm was obviously mobilized It was quite high, and bought a bunch of things for the old lady, but the old lady accepted them all without saying anything.

After the new year, Cao Yuwen went to the northeast first.After all, he is his classmate, so it is inappropriate for Du Xiaowei to be a striker.Originally, Cao Yuwen wanted to take Xu Le to visit Xu Xinmin's grave, but time was not allowed. Xu Le went to school on the fifteenth day, but the train from Shandong to Northeast took several days and nights, and he couldn't make it back at all.

Xu Le was a little depressed because of this, and he was listless when practicing calligraphy. In fact, he didn't think about Xu Xinmin that way on weekdays.How should I put it, Xu Xinmin seems to be wrapped up in the most important thing in his heart. It seems a bit shelved because of more than 30 years, but when he suddenly takes it out, the memory rushes back. He lived with his father before the age of seven. Little by little, he recovered completely.

Xu Le remembers things very early, so he remembers a lot.For example, the big persimmon tree in the yard at home. He was smaller than other children since he was a child, but he was very active, so his father climbed up to play with him on his back.There is also the big yellow cat raised at home, which is fat and big, obviously has a resentful face and is very proud, Jiantian doesn't like to play with him.At that time, he was always in a hurry, chasing after the cat's buttocks and calling it "meow meow meow". Every time, his father helped him coax the cat down, took his hand, and touched it gently.

Of course, he still remembered his father's grave, which was in the village cemetery, where the village head and godfather invited people to bury him. Such a big bumpkin sealed his father inside. It’s been more than 30 years, and he still remembers that day. It was cold in the northeast of September, and the wind was blowing. He twisted his body and tried to escape from the adult’s arms to find his father, but he failed. Then just watched him stay there alone.

These memories were opened, but they couldn't be taken back, Xu Le was depressed for a long time because of this.Seeing the child like that, Cao Yuwen felt distressed, hugged him and promised him that he must visit the village and visit his father's grave.Xu Le knew that he must have worried his godfather and black girl, so he could only calm down and nod obediently.

After breaking five, Cao Yuwen set out on the road with a deposit certificate of 3000 yuan.After seeing him off, the black girl was busy with Du Xiaowei's business while going to work, and the whole house was vacated.Xu Le got up by himself in the morning, ate the rice left by Heimei, practiced calligraphy, filled up the kettle by the way, fried cabbage or stewed tofu at noon, waited for Heimei to come home, and then did winter vacation homework in the afternoon. It's also pretty fast.

In this way for three to five days, the sadness brought about by his past life memories slowly calmed down, and he looked the same as before.Only then did he realize that he hadn't gone out for a long time.This day, the two cans of malted milk that the black girl asked someone to bring arrived, and she left one can for Xu Le, and ordered him to send the other can to Cao Fei before leaving in the morning.

After Xu Le finished his meal, he took malted milk, dug two large pieces of spicy cabbage from his own jar and put them in a plastic bag before heading to Lao Cao's house.The two families are not too close now. Xu Le's family now lives in a village in the city, and there are several family homes in the middle. If you walk on Xu Le's short legs, it will take at least half an hour.

He wasn't in a hurry, he walked around and looked at the street scene at the same time.It was not yet New Year's Eve at this time, and the streets were full of crazy kids, the boys played five thousand rings, and each of them held a single-point gun in their hands without fear, and there was a bang from time to time on the street, and sometimes Occasionally, pedestrians would yell.The girls were all wearing new clothes, playing rubber bands on the street in groups of three and four, what Malan was blooming, and their voices were neat and immature.

Then, he saw Cao Fei pushing Cao Yuan.Cao Yuan’s small cart is very recognizable. It was used by Cao Fei when he was a child. It was originally made of iron pipes and painted with green paint everywhere, but it has rusted over time and looks very mottled.When Cao Fei was born, something happened at home, so no one cleaned it up, but it has been used until now.

When Xu Le saw him, he was standing in front of the gate of a residential area. Five meters away was the trash can of the residential area. Because everyone's living standards improved during the Chinese New Year, the inside was piled full of rotten vegetable leaves. Not to mention, there are still a lot of miscellaneous things.Cao Fei stood there as if he was walking away, looking back at Cao Yuan from time to time, and then staring at the trash can.

Before Xu Le yelled out, he saw Cao Fei quickly pull out a liquor bottle from the trash, and then quickly stuffed it into the back of the trolley. Only then did Xu Le see that there was a cloth bag hanging there , has been filled to the brim.After finishing this matter, Cao Fei pushed Cao Yuan around to the other side, and looked up.The smell there might not be pleasant, Cao Yuan yelled for a long time, Xu Le heard a bad word.

The kind of anger accompanied by distress came out.Xu Le ran up with his things, and grabbed Cao Fei who was staring at a homework book and was about to make a move.Cao Fei was taken aback, he shook his hand violently, turned his head while talking about someone, and was stunned when he saw it was Xu Le.His reddened face was a little stunned, then he lowered his head, pretending not to care, and said, "It's you!"

Xu Le didn't speak, and reached out to take Cao Yuan's small cart, and pushed it forward.Cao Fei hurriedly followed behind, calling in a low voice, "What are you doing, give me Xiaoyuan. Give it to me quickly." After saying that, he started to run, not daring to compete with Xu Le, so he could only follow the little car. , keeping his eyes on Cao Yuan, who didn't know what happened, and was happy because the car was moving quickly.

Cao Fei said while running, "Lele, Lele, listen to me, don't push, don't scare Xiaoyuan."

Xu Le parked the car in a sheltered place, and then turned to look at him, "Are you picking up trash to make money?"

Cao Fei didn't deny it, he was quite reasonable when he said this, "I have to save some money. Grandma's retirement salary is so much, and Xiaoyuan's milk powder is only a dozen yuan a month, and my tuition and miscellaneous fees, as well as living expenses , a month’s money is tight. My dad looks easy to talk to now, but with his salary and my 30 yuan, he refuses to pay for anything. Now that Xiaoyuan is old, he needs to wear shoes and play with toys in the future. He has to have what others have, and I can’t give it to grandma, I have to save money.”

"How much can this thing earn?" Xu Le pointed to the cloth bag and asked, "Didn't I give you a hundred?"

"Wine bottles are two cents a piece, and paper is two cents a catty. In the past two days of Chinese New Year, there are many things and few people. I can sell eight cents a day. I am thinking about waiting for school in the future. I will come out at night when I am free. Pick it up, and you can get fifty cents." Cao Fei's temper improved a lot, and he didn't quarrel, but explained to Xu Le little by little.After finishing speaking, he reached out and grabbed the small cart, and said to Xu Le, "Thank you for the money, I will keep it for emergencies. I will pay you back."

As he said that, he wanted to push Cao Yuan away.Ke Xule held on tightly, not letting go at all.With a tense face, he said to Cao Fei, "Eight cents a day is a lot, but have you ever thought that Cao Yuan can stand such a cold day? You think it's enough to wrap two more quilts, That trash can is so dirty, there might be a lot of bacteria, I heard Xiao Yuan yelling from all the way, so you are not afraid of Xiao Yuan getting sick?"

Where did Cao Fei think of this, he became anxious as soon as he heard it, and went to see Cao Yuan.Fortunately, although Cao Yuan was born prematurely, his family raised him carefully, and now he is much bigger and fatter than his peers. At this time, the child didn't know how worried his brother was. Seeing Cao Fei suddenly stretch out For his size, he thought he was playing with him, so he spit out a mouthful of saliva happily with a wow, and gave his brother a face.

Cao Fei didn't care, he took his sleeve and wiped it hard.Look left and right to see it's all right, so I'm relieved.He said to Xu Le, "I'll put him in the house for grandma to watch, and I won't take him out." He thought for a while and said, "I told you to practice calligraphy, don't talk to grandma Say yes?"

Obviously, Cao Fei didn't want to give up the business.Xu Le sighed, and he could only ask him, "Aren't you afraid of getting sick? It's so cold that your iron body can't bear it." He reached out and grabbed Cao Fei's hand. He grabbed and pulled off the woolen glove on his hand. Sure enough, this kind of glove didn't work at all in the twelfth lunar month. The back of Cao Fei's hand was covered with bruises, and frostbite had formed on several places on his fingers.

Xu Le felt a little uncomfortable looking at it, which reminded him of himself in his previous life, who was so lonely and helpless, struggling for his life, just for the humblest to survive.He asked him coldly, "Don't you hurt? If you don't hurt, you won't be afraid of grandma seeing and being distressed by grandma?"

Cao Fei fell silent now. He retracted his hands, put on the gloves again, and said after a long time, "It hurts, but it's nothing. In the past, things would freeze like this when playing snowball fights outside. I'll forget it, If I go on like this, I can have at least 15 yuan a month, grandma is happy to buy clothes wearing Luo Xiaomei for the past two days, and I can also buy one for grandma, and Xiaoyuan will not be short of things."

He waved his hand and shrugged nonchalantly, "I'll just hide it, don't tell the family." As he spoke, he lowered his head and took the jar and pickles from Xu Le's hand, and put the jar in the car for Cao Yuan to hug Then, the pickles were hung on the car, "Okay, you are here to deliver something. Just pretend you didn't see it. I remember that you hated me at first and wanted to stay away from me. What's the matter? In the past six months The more you meddle, the more you meddle in other people's business, be careful I will still cut you. Come on, come back with me, grandma told me to order dumplings at noon, we just happen to eat together."

After grinning and threatening, he walked back.Xu Le stood on the spot and thought about it. He also thought about it and pretended not to see it. In his previous life, he also picked up garbage for food. It was just suffering from the cold in winter and the smelly summer. He endured it and grew up. Cao Fei was stronger than him. , more pungent than him, sure.But after thinking about it, he didn't know why, but he couldn't bear it. He thought about how arrogant he was when he first saw this child, but how could he be so sensible now?

He felt that he must be bewildered, and he felt pitiful for anyone who became sensible.But he couldn't help it, he ran up all of a sudden, rushed over and grabbed Cao Fei's arm, and said fiercely to him, "You're so cold that you still want to cut me? You have that ability!" I have work for you, if you dare not do it, I can't cut you to death!"

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