My 1991

Chapter 22, 320 yuan

Health preservation is not popular these days, so pork liver is a popular item. If you don't order it in advance, it will be sold out as soon as it goes on the chopping board.

Of course, pork liver and intestines are his favorites.

Lu An lost her voice for the third time, and her heart was moved.

To be honest, since he came back from rebirth, he has been thinking about making money, thinking about reading, thinking about painting, and thinking about which outlet in the future can he show off his talents?

I was thinking all the time, my mind was so confused that I didn't care that today was my birthday.

There are three dishes for dinner, pork liver, chili edamame, and preserved egg with roasted chili. This is a meal that the old Lu family only eats once every few months. It is extremely rich.

After dinner, the eldest sister started to earn money, cutting fabrics with scissors and making clothes for neighbor children.

Song Jia didn't rest. As soon as the dishes and chopsticks were washed, she was busy chopping pigweed again. She didn't have the pig food for tomorrow morning, so she had to cook a pot tonight.

There are also three big fat pigs at home, which are the treasures of the family. The three brothers and sisters rely on them for all their expenses for the year.

Lu An walked over and said to Song Jia: "You go read a book and I will do it for you."

Song Jia looked at him with a strange look and said to the eldest sister: "Sister, the sun is shining in the west today, and I'm not lazy anymore."

Lu Yan, who was immersed in cutting cloth, laughed out loud: "How about you make room for him, it's rare for his conscience to find out."

Lu An's face darkened. He was a bit lazy in the past, but that was only relative.

Compared to other families and compared to other people of the same age in the village, he is extremely diligent.

He wanted to be strong, but he hadn't done such rough work in decades, and his hands were so raw that he almost chopped off his finger. He was so frightened that Song Jia next to him never dared to touch the kitchen knife again.

Song Jia teased him: "Brother, you are not made to be a farmer. You should go to see calligraphy. In the future, you will get into a good university and marry a city wife. That is called western style."

Lu Yan answered the words seriously: "If Xiao An can eat national food and marry a city wife, I will have an explanation for my parents when I see them a hundred years later."

Unable to listen to these words, unable to hear someone talking about a hundred years at a young age, Lu An went into the room to read again at the urging of the two sisters.

However, he was not being pretentious. Thinking of the confusion faced by the three examination papers of politics, history and geography this afternoon, he felt that time was tight, so he picked up a political book and started reviewing.

He made a plan for himself. Before the Chinese New Year, mathematics must regain its previous 80% success rate, and all politics, history and geography must be memorized.

Grandma is such a badass, she can no longer let people in the examination room laugh at her.

That night, Lu An lit a kerosene lamp, read politics first, then geography, and didn't sleep until after four in the morning.

Before going to bed, my mind was filled with book knowledge, and I felt that I had gained a lot. It was worth staying up this night.

When I woke up the next day, it was already past 8 o'clock.

The weather is good today. It is a southerly day. Small gusts of monsoon wind are blowing in the mountains, and the sun is not so hot.

Lu An simply washed up and found no trace of his elder sister and younger sister, but he saw the food left on the dining table.

There was pork liver and intestines that I had not finished last night, and there was a newly fried baby cabbage, and there was a note next to it.

It seems that the handwriting was left by my younger sister.

Content of the note: Brother, the eldest sister has gone to the tailor shop in the town. Jingjing and I are going to pick tea leaves. Don’t worry about it.

Jingjing is the daughter of Butcher Yan and the younger sister’s friend since childhood.

Putting away the note, Lu An filled a bowl of rice with a vegetable bowl, covered it with some vegetables, and squatted on the threshold to eat.

Now is the autumn harvest season, and people in the village are very busy.

Busy harvesting rice, busy harvesting beans, busy carrying grass, busy picking tea tree seeds and tung seeds, some of them are busy quarreling, busy having a field battle with their lover in the haystack or in the cemetery, anyway They were running up and down the fields and dirt, going crazy.

After dinner, Lu An first went to the tea mountain, hoping to help pick some tea leaves to support the family.

But he found that he couldn't do it. He was severely degenerated and couldn't keep up with his hands at all. He slowly picked a tea leaf, and the others were three or four pieces, which made the little girl and the others laugh for a while.

I walked around the reservoir in the afternoon and found that everyone else was too busy to pay attention to him. It was boring.

Then I went home and continued reading and doing questions.

It was like this for two days in a row.

At noon on the third day, he went to see Zeng Lingbo, who was eating sweet potatoes in the yard with his trousers rolled up. When he saw Zeng Lingbo come in, he picked out a favorite and threw it over:

"Try it. I just dug it out of the soil. It's quite sweet."

Lu An looked around: "Why don't you go to the fields and help thresh the crops?"

Zeng Lingbo twisted his lips: "My father, a peasant, has never touched the spring water with his hands. How can I, a scholar and a husband, work on the crops?"

Zeng's father is a professional gambler. He is a very nice person in the village and is friendly to everyone. But once he leaves the village, he becomes a formidable and fierce character who often gathers a group of people to collect wages and debts.

The reason why Zeng Lingbo was not expelled from the school after he fell out of the class of his female classmate was because his father secretly forced him to do something ruthless at knifepoint, and of course he also used money.

Lu An asked: "Has your dad won money again recently?"

Zeng Lingbo nodded like a chicken: "Probably, last night I gave my mother 1,000 and asked her to call people to harvest rice, and then left in style."

After eating a cold potato, Zeng Lingbo asked: "You don't read anymore? Are you looking for something from me?"

Lu An said: "I plan to go back to school today, do you want to come with me?"

Zeng Lingbo raised his head: "Leaving today?"

Luan said, "I'm going to the hospital tomorrow morning."

Hearing this, Zeng Lingbo got up, patted his butt and said, "Let's go then. I don't want to stay in this damn place anymore. It's lifeless at home alone."

After returning home, Lu An stuffed 20 yuan into Song Jia's schoolbag, walked a few steps and thought about it, then turned around and took out a 10 yuan note and stuffed it in.

And left a note: Brother won the scholarship, don't worry, you can use it to improve the food.

Then he set aside 16 yuan for fares and pocket money, rolled up the remaining 320 yuan and went to a tailor shop in the town.

The tailor shop was not big, with three walls covered with cloth of various colors. There were four sewing machines running smoothly inside. Lu An and Zeng Lingbo stood aside for a while and found that these people were too tired to care about them.

Lu An walked up to the eldest sister and asked: "Sister, how much does a sewing machine like this cost?"

Lu Yan said: "This is a Butterfly brand sewing machine. New ones are very expensive, but second-hand ones cost three to four hundred."

Lu An once heard that her wish was to buy a second-hand sewing machine that was 70% new.

He asked: "If you have money, can you buy it yourself?"

Lu Yan stepped on the line with her hands and feet: "I can't do it, but the boss lady has connections. She is a very nice person."

Lu An felt confident and put the roll of money in her hand into the pocket of her eldest sister's clothes.

Then he said: "Sister, I still have something to do at school, so I will go back to school first. You can take good care of yourself at home."

The second brother returned to school one day early, not once or twice. Lu Yan was not surprised and just told him: "I know, pay attention to safety on the road."

"Eh!"

Lu An exclaimed and stayed for another minute before leaving.

Two minutes later, Lu Yan finished what she was doing and put her right hand into her pocket. She remembered that Xiao An seemed to have stuffed something in his pocket just now.

Five minutes later, Lu Yan ran out of breath to the old town bus station, only to find that she was still a step late, and the shuttle bus drove away precariously in sight.

Looking at the white spots getting further and further away, Lu Yan stood blankly on the side of the road, put her hand into her pocket, and squeezed the roll of money tightly.

Suddenly, her nose felt sore and her eyes were blurred by tears.

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