Ye Cheng

After a while, a tall and thin boy came in and shouted, "Mom, is the meal ready?"

"The starving ghost reincarnated. Your dad just went shopping again. There are guests at home today, so you should do your homework first." Ye Qiulan got up as she spoke, and there were still a lot of unwashed dishes in the kitchen.

"Mom, who is this?" The boy didn't seem to plan to do his homework, so he searched here and there in the house, probably because he was very hungry and wanted to find something to eat.

"Your cousin is Ye Cheng. I told you about it." Just as Ye Qiulan finished speaking, she heard a ping, bang, bang, bang, bang outside. "Tan Xiaosong, what are you rummaging around outside? If you don't do your homework, take your younger siblings out to play."

"Success." The boy took out the money pot at home familiarly, reached out and grabbed a handful of change from it without counting. "Pingping, my brother will take you to buy food." As soon as the order came out, Ye Ping quickly followed.

"Hey, Ye Cheng, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and leave." Tan Xiaosong walked a few steps, seeing Ye Cheng not following, he turned around and called him.Ye Cheng looked at Cai Jinzhi, saw her wave her hand, and then stepped over the threshold.

This was when Tan Xiaosong was having fun. He first took Ye Cheng and Ye Ping to a small shop to buy some snacks and a few boxes of matchsticks, and then a few of them went to play by the small river behind the house. The river was still clear at that time. A lot of people were washing clothes in it, and a few children were lighting cannons by the river, and the women in the river didn't even raise their heads, it seemed that they had been used to it for a long time.

Ye Ping was also courageous, she took a box of matches, lit one and threw one away, the chicken paw was gone just now, and Tan Xiaosong didn't think it was dirty, so he gnawed on it.This Tan Xiaosong was a child by nature, and Ye Cheng got to know him after playing with him for a while. He and Ye Ping were very affectionate with each other.

"Xiaosong, bring your younger siblings back for dinner." Ye Qiulan shouted, and Tan Xiaosong ran faster than anything else, so he didn't care about his younger siblings.

When Ye Cheng and Ye Ping entered the room, the bowls and chopsticks were already set. Tan Xiaosong took the rice from his father and ate a few mouthfuls without food. When Cai Jinzhi and Ye Cheng were all on the table, he He stretched out his chopsticks on the table.

After all, Ye Qiulan lives in the town, and the standard of food is different from that in the village. There are vegetables, meat, and seafood. Cai Jinzhi is polite and doesn’t eat too much. Ye Qiulan and his man are also considered gentle, and there are only three children. eat a lot.

After dinner, Tan Xiaosong went to school with his schoolbag, and Ye Qiulan asked Ye Cheng to play with his sister, while she sat in the front room with Cai Jinzhi and talked, looking at the stalls.Ye Cheng and Ye Ping were getting to know each other just now, and the two children went to the river to set off match cannons for a while, and then Ye Ping ran away with a neighbor child, and Ye Cheng told his grandmother that he was going back.

"Hey, you child, it's rare for you to come to my aunt's house. You'll have to stay for a few more days. Besides, why are you going back alone? Don't go back. This time, I will be at my aunt's house for the New Year." Ye Qiulan refused to let her go. Ye Cheng left.

"Yes, Ye Cheng, you can spend the New Year at your aunt's house. Grandma will go back first and pick you up in a few days." Cai Jinzhi also persuaded.

"No, there's Lu Mingyuan." From Ye Cheng's point of view, he was not the only one in his family.

"Who is Lu Mingyuan?" Ye Qiulan asked.

"Qian Xingliang brought a child back from the city. He said he was lost with his parents. The older one had nowhere to go, so he brought him back. Now he is with Ye Cheng."

"Isn't there still your grandma, and Uncle Qian? Ye Cheng is obedient, so he will stay at his aunt's house for the new year..."

Several people talked about it, but Ye Cheng didn't agree to stay in the end, so Ye Qiulan packed a lot of dried bean rolls and the like for Ye Cheng and the others, saying that they were not valuable things, and if they couldn't finish them, they would share them with the village.

Before leaving, Ye Cheng went to the small shop diagonally opposite and bought two boxes of match cannons, intending to take them back and share them with Lu Mingyuan.

By the time they returned to the town by car, it was already late, and a tractor happened to be heading towards their village. Cai Jinzhi and Ye Cheng were both tired this day, so they didn't save the money. They went back to the village by car. .

It was almost dark when we returned to the village. Cai Jinzhi didn’t go into Ye Cheng’s yard, but went directly to Qian Shouwan’s side. The 5000 yuan was also kept by Cai Jinzhi. Now Ye Cheng’s money was deposited with her. After paying off the debt, go to the town to deposit the remaining money. Since Ye Qiulan did not accept the 5000 yuan, Ye Cheng now has a total of 800 yuan. They have to rush to deposit the money before the post office is on holiday, otherwise the family With so much cash in their heads, everyone feels uneasy.

Ye Cheng happily returned to the yard, and was about to show off to Lu Mingyuan the match cannon he just bought today, but when he went in, he found that Lu Mingyuan was not there, so he thought he was eating at Qian Xingliang's place. Xingliang didn't find anyone there either.

Huizi was very happy to see Ye Cheng, and ran around in circles beside him. Ye Cheng took Huizi to find him in the village, but he searched all over the village, but he didn't see Lu Mingyuan. figure.

Then Ye Cheng went to the hill where they parted ways today. When Ye Cheng arrived, Lu Mingyuan was digging a hole there, holding a flat and sharp stone in his hand, and dug out a washbasin on the grass. It's a big hole, and I don't know what he intends to use it for.

"Why don't you go home?" Ye Cheng asked loudly.

"Why are you coming back now?" Lu Mingyuan threw the stone and shouted louder than him.

"I came back by car with my grandma." Who knew that Lu Mingyuan would wait here foolishly?

"Oh." Lu Mingyuan patted his butt and stood up, as if planning to go back to their courtyard.

"What do you think I bought?" Ye Cheng fawningly took out two boxes of match cannons from his pocket.

"Match cannon!" Lu Mingyuan was excited.

The two of them were not in a hurry to go back, so they landed on the hole dug by Lu Mingyuan, lit the two boxes of match cannons, and worked together to fill the hole before going back. Sometimes things are weirder.

Many years later, they recalled it again and asked why the two of them had to fill in that hole. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan couldn't tell, but they thought it should be filled anyway, and then they did.

In the next few days, Ye Cheng and the others didn't have much to do. Qian Xingliang's clothes were sold out, and they didn't have to go to town every day. Ye Cheng's money was also saved by his grandmother, and the passbook was kept in his cabinet. Cai Jinzhi also sewed a satchel for him, saying that in the future all important things should be put in the bag, and people can take it with them wherever they go, so don't lose it.

There was no entertainment in the village. At that time, many people in the city had already bought TV sets, but Ye Cheng and his village still had no one to buy them. It was quiet at night and they all went to bed early.

When Ye Cheng was free, he took Lu Mingyuan up the mountain to collect firewood, mainly some pine cones and dry branches.When he came back this winter, Cai Jinzhi didn't come to cook in his small courtyard very often. Instead, he prepared food directly at his uncle's house, and sometimes Qian Xingliang's daughter-in-law Wang Guihua would also send some food over.

But they didn't come all the time. When they didn't come, Ye Cheng would make food by himself. There was still rice in his rice jar, and all the firewood and so on.The last time I went to my aunt's house to bring back dried bean curd and bean rolls, Cai Jinzhi stewed them in a big pot, and the neighbors shared some. Ye Cheng still has a big pot here, which is placed on the dining table in the house. The two children are fine. When it's time to eat, you have to grab two pieces and chew it.

A while ago, Luo Yueling also sent sweet potatoes in half a woven bag. When Ye Cheng didn't want to eat, he and Lu Mingyuan would roast sweet potatoes in the yard to eat. Huizi also likes sweet potatoes, so they have to bake several to eat every time. .

And Qian Xingliang's side is naturally much more lively than Ye Cheng's yard. After this time, everyone thinks that Qian Xingliang is a capable person. Those who bring children to the city to beg for food, like Luo Chengfu who came back this time, have this idea.

"Your own baby, are you willing to let him beg for food?" Qian Xingliang said.

"Why don't you give up, children, just go out and see the world." Luo Chengfu didn't know a lot of Chinese characters, and he couldn't even ride a car when he went out to work, so he had to stay in the village and farm, but he hoped that he Son can go out.

"You don't know. Ye Cheng's situation was different back then. I had a heavy responsibility to take the child out." If something bad happened to the child, would Qian Xingliang still have the face to go back to the village?

"Then Ye Cheng is also fine, my baby is obedient and nothing can happen."

"No, if you want him to go out too, then you can take him out by yourself, I won't do it." Qian Xingliang still evaded.

"Xingliang, in our village, there are only a few people who can read, right? You can be regarded as capable in the village, and you don't know the suffering of being illiterate... I don't have anything to ask for. I just beg my son to be able to read books in the future, and to be able to walk out of our ravines, fellow villagers, just help me this time..."

It's not just one or two people begging for door-to-door like this. Qian Xingliang could barely push him at the beginning, but the later he went, the more embarrassing he became.After all, they are all from the same village, and many of them grew up naked together. Now that they beg you in a low voice, can you just ignore them?

But Qian Xingliang is really unwilling to take this responsibility. Although, if every child can have Ye Cheng's income, he can make a lot of money from it, but the money is not so easy to earn after all.

In the end, there was really no other way. Qian Xingliang said that he would not take the children out, but he could take the adults if they wanted to.Having said that, they decided to go out with Qian Xingliang in the end. There were only two families, one was a husband and wife walking together, the other was a father taking his son out, and the wife was farming at home.

Time passed quickly, and it was the New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. On this day, many people in the village sent food to Ye Cheng's yard. There were quite a lot of peanuts and melon seeds anyway, as well as chicken and duck. Someone even gave them food. I bought a few apples, and the ones from Uncle Ye Cheng's family and Qian Xingliang and the others made the table full.

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan didn't finish eating this big table of hundreds of meals until the fifth day. When they finished eating, Qian Xingliang also bought train tickets for everyone, and they were about to go out on the seventh day.