Ye Cheng

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan were probably exhausted. They didn't get up until the sun was high the next day. They slept with the door closed. Naturally, the people in the village didn't know that Ye Cheng had returned, so what should everyone do.

Ye Cheng originally planned to go to see his grandmother, but after thinking about it, he decided to go to Qian Xingliang's house first. Cai Jinzhi said that Qian Xingliang was sick, so he planned to go to see the situation, and Qian Xingliang and Wang Guihua were doing well. Maybe they will stay for dinner.Speaking of Cai Jinzhi, to be honest, Ye Cheng is quite afraid of his uncle.

When we arrived at Qian Xingliang's house, only Wang Guihua was there, and she said, "Ye Cheng is back, hey, he has grown taller, and your Uncle Qian just took Zhigao Zhiyuan to the town to buy stationery. He must be happy to know that you are back. , this time you are going back to the first grade, right?"

Ye Cheng nodded, and Wang Guihua said again: "That's just right, you won't leave this time, Huizi can be taken back to raise him, and he will kiss you. When you are not around, he often runs back, right there Squatting at the gate of the yard, alas, it’s heartbreaking to see.”

Ye Cheng nodded again, and patted Huizi's head. This Huizi had a very good memory. Ye Cheng had been out for almost two years this time, and he didn't have anything to do with him at all.Later, Wang Guihua didn't say anything, and without asking Lu Mingyuan who was following behind, Ye Cheng took Huizi and Lu Mingyuan out of her yard.

The autumn sun was shining so brightly that people's eyes were sore, and Ye Cheng momo's eyes felt a little sad. When he met villagers on the road, everyone said, oh, Ye Cheng is back, when did he come back, Ye Cheng just responded indiscriminately, He was very hungry now, and there was nothing to eat in his yard, so he had to take Lu Mingyuan to the first grocery store in the village.

The grocery store in the village didn't sell many things, just pancakes and candies. Ye Cheng bought two grape-filled breads and two packs of instant noodles, and returned to his small courtyard with Lu Mingyuan.

Fortunately, there was still some firewood in the yard. Ye Cheng boiled some water and soaked two packs of instant noodles. At this moment, Lu Mingyuan was also very hungry, so the two of them squatted in the yard, eating instant noodles with sea bowls in their hands. Eat bread.Huizi has a good appetite, and he can eat everything without being picky. Ye Cheng fed it a few mouthfuls of instant noodles and a few pieces of bread. He didn't have enough food at the moment, so he didn't feed it more.

Cai Jinzhi came over after a while, and yelled as soon as he entered the yard: "Hey, you silly boy, why didn't you say anything when you came back?"

"I arrived very late yesterday." Ye Cheng was also very happy to see his grandmother, finished the instant noodles in two or three bites, and talked to Cai Jinzhi.

"How is it? I heard that you just went to your Uncle Qian's house?" Cai Jinzhi closed the door, walked up to Ye Cheng and asked in a low voice.

"Yeah." Speaking of this, Ye Cheng's voice became softer.

"Hey, it's okay, they can't turn the corner right now, it will be fine in a while, and you don't always go to their house in the future, ah?" Cai Jinzhi saw that Ye Cheng was not in a good mood, so he comforted him After a while, she noticed Lu Mingyuan again: "Why did this child come back with you?"

"He's with me." Ye Cheng obviously didn't realize the seriousness of this matter in the eyes of adults.

"No, I said, didn't Qian Xingliang say that he got lost with his parents? Why haven't they been found yet?" The more Cai Jinzhi thought about it, the more he felt that this was wrong.

"It's just that I didn't find it." If I didn't find it, I didn't find it. Why didn't I find it? Who knows?

"Then what are your plans in the future? Are you supporting this child?" Cai Jinzhi was anxious.

"Yeah." Ye Cheng thought for a while, since he brought it back, he must be fed.

"Hey you child! You can't even support yourself, do you know that? Can you bear it? Can you support others?" Cai Jinzhi's tone was a little offended. If there was only one Ye Cheng, she and Qian Shouwan's family would subsidize him. The subsidy was barely raised by him, but this child actually dragged them back with a doll, you say it is annoying or not!

Ye Cheng fell silent. He knew that Cai Jinzhi didn't like Lu Mingyuan, but he didn't expect her to be so angry. But no matter what, he made up his mind to let Lu Mingyuan live in this small courtyard.

Cai Jinzhi said something later, but Ye Cheng just kept silent. The boy Lu Mingyuan stood at the door of the room and stared at her fiercely. She had also experienced the child's stubborn temper, so she didn't like it even more. up.Later, she was so angry that she couldn't help it, so she shook her hands and walked out of the yard.

Ye Cheng thought that grandma was really angry with him this time, so she didn't plan to talk to him anymore, and when he thought of Wang Guihua's attitude when he went to Qian Xingliang's house today, he felt very depressed.

"What's the matter with you?" Lu Mingyuan came over and pushed Ye Cheng, speaking in a stiff manner, without any consideration for Ye Cheng's current mood.

"It's nothing." Ye Cheng was feeling uncomfortable right now.

"What's wrong?" Looking at him like that, it doesn't seem like nothing is wrong.

"It's nothing." Ye Cheng said.

"Then what shall we eat tonight?" Seeing Cai Jinzhi's angry look just now, he probably won't bring them dinner. A pack of instant noodles and a bread, Lu Mingyuan only ate half full.

Ye Cheng looked at Lu Mingyuan, then at Huizi who was sitting on the ground staring at him, and finally pulled himself together and went out.The food in the canteen can’t be eaten, and it’s also expensive, so it’s not worthwhile to eat it all the time. He has to buy some rice at home. Cai Jinzhi helped him arrange these things in the past, but this time Cai Jinzhi was angry and ignored him. He's gone, so he has no choice but to come out and look for it by himself.

The two of them wandered around the village with a dog, and they didn't know where to start buying food. After all, the countryside is not like a city, and there are vegetable markets and stores.When they wandered to the entrance of the village, they saw a middle-aged man washing sweet potatoes by the creek. Those who washed the sweet potatoes at the moment probably planned to crush the potato powder for washing.

Ye Cheng hesitated for a moment, but went forward and asked, "Can you sell these sweet potatoes?"

"Whose kid is this?" The man smiled, as if he finally remembered: "Is it Ye Cheng, do you want to eat sweet potatoes? Come, take it yourself, this thing is worthless."

"I want to buy more." Ye Cheng said seriously.

"Buy too much? Then don't buy the washed ones. I will go up the mountain later and send them home later. How much do you want?" Although the other party is still a child, considering his family's situation, The man probably thought it was understandable for Ye Cheng to buy sweet potatoes.

"Fifty catties." The year before last, Cai Jinzhi sent thirty catties to his yard, and he and Lu Mingyuan ate them all. This time, if we stay for a long time, we should buy more.

"Hey, you two can't finish eating so much, and they will all be rotten by then. Listen to uncle, buy [-] catties and eat it first. After eating, uncle's house has more. They dug an earthen kiln. Put the sweet potatoes in the oven." It won't be bad until next year."

That afternoon, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan were in the yard playing with the shoe repair machine old man Wu bought for them. The uncle brought over sweet potatoes, twenty catties, which was only half a basket, and he found some old ones in Ye Cheng's house. Put a wooden board with stones under it, put the sweet potatoes on the wooden board, and put it in a cool place.

"This sweet potato can't be placed directly on the ground, it's not easy to rot on a wooden board." While talking, he helped the two children arrange the sweet potatoes.

"How much does it cost?" Seeing that he had put all the sweet potatoes away, Ye Cheng took money out of his satchel.

"Give me three yuan." Hearing what the man said, Ye Cheng was taken aback for a moment. He often went to the vegetable market when he was in the city, and he was very familiar with the prices, and a bowl of noodles cost one yuan. These twenty catties of sweet potatoes are not worth the money of three bowls of noodles.

"Hey, uncle can still make you money? Just accept a little bit of interest." This person probably didn't intend to tell Ye Cheng this, but he didn't expect that a child could know the price of goods, so he laughed immediately.

"What's going on in your yard?" The man took three yuan from Ye Cheng and was about to leave when he saw the shoe-repairing machine in their yard. This thing back?

"Shoe repair machine." Ye Cheng replied.

"It's for shoe repairing. Are you two planning to learn shoe repairing?" The dolls who have been to the city are different, they have more ideas than the adults in the mountains.

"I've already learned it." Lu Mingyuan probably thought that this uncle was not bad, so he also said something.

"Have you learned it? Come on, fix this pair of uncle's shoes." As soon as the man heard this, he took off his shoes on the spot.

This is a pair of Jiefang shoes. It has to be said that they are already quite worn out. When Ye Cheng and the others repaired shoes in the city, most of them were caused by the edge and sole of the shoes. There are few people who repair the uppers, and most of them are good for repairing. A little shoe.As for the pair of Jiefang shoes in front of me, there are several openings on the side of the shoe, the sole is extremely thin, and the upper is almost worn out. In some places, the cloth surface has been worn down to silk.

If these shoes were sent to old man Wu's shop, he would definitely have someone throw them away and repair them.But after all, Ye Cheng just accepted his kindness. He only charged three yuan for twenty catties of sweet potatoes and delivered them to his door. He felt that this person was very nice, and because he had just returned, someone asked him to repair his shoes. , I was also very happy, so I started working on this pair of shoes.

Although the shoes were worn out, the uncle probably took good care of them at ordinary times. He must have not worn them when he first went to the ground. He must have been working barefoot, so the shoes were broken, so they were not considered dirty.Lu Mingyuan first used glue to glue the openings of the shoes, while Ye Cheng went into the house to find a pair of old long johns that he wore when he was a child, and cut them to make the bottom of the shoes.

Put cotton thread on the shoe repair machine, then put the cut cloth base inside the shoe upper, shake the machine with your right hand, move the shoe with your left hand, step on the thread round and round on the shoe upper, and after a while, both shoes are repaired .

"The soles are almost worn out, but there are no materials now, so I'll fix them for you another day." After all, Lu Mingyuan has worked under the hands of old man Wu for so long, and he speaks like a shoe repairer.

"Well, what material should the sole be made of?" the man asked.

"The inner tube of the car will do." These things used to be the materials that old man Wu always kept in his house. They don't have any at the moment, and it seems that they will have to collect them slowly in the future.

"There are inner tubes, just wait, I'll look for them." The children in the village like to pick up those broken things and play with them. Inner tubes and the like are cut into thin strips and used as rubber bands to make slingshots.

After a while, the man came over with an old bicycle inner tube, which was black and intact, with no obvious damage.

Lu Mingyuan took the pair of shoes over again, cleaned the soles again, polished the soles with a file until it became fluffy, and then took the inner tube of the bicycle that Ye Cheng had cut and continued to polish it. The shoe and the sole cut from the inner tube are glued on.

When the glue on the soles of the shoes was almost dry, Ye Cheng stepped on the shoe crutches, put the shoes on his head, and took a small hammer to bang and bang until the glued parts of the soles were firmly tapped.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Daqiang, why are you here too?" Cai Jinzhi was working in the yard, and Cai Jinzhi came back again. She was angry, but she could really let go and go back After thinking about it, she didn't think about how to tell her son about this matter.

"It's repairing shoes." Seeing his grandmother coming again, Ye Cheng was immediately happy, and he had a nice smile on his face.

"Just learned the craft from that old Wu?" Cai Jinzhi knew through letters with old man Wu that he was a craftsman who repaired shoes.

"Yeah." Ye Cheng nodded, just as they had repaired the pair of cracked shoes, they clapped their hands and stood up to take the things in Cai Jinzhi's hand, a small bag of white rice, and some miscellaneous oil and salt.

"Aunt Jin Zhi, your nephew is amazing, look at this shoe he repaired for me, hey, it's a refurbished old shoe." The man laughed half-truthfully.

"Can it really be repaired? Let me see." Hearing what he said, Cai Jinzhi didn't think it was dirty. He took the shoes from Daqiang's hand and looked at them over and over again. The edge of the shoe turned out to be very smooth everywhere, and it was not at all obvious that it was made by two seven or eight-year-old children.

"This job is really good. I don't think the masters in that city can compare with those in our small place." The man boasted vigorously.

"That's right, it seems that I won't be hungry to death from now on." Cai Jinzhi also smiled, she was still angry at the moment, but she couldn't be unhappy seeing her nephew grow up.