Dressed as the uncle of farming culture

Xiao Mo glanced at Secretary Mo, who was full of confusion, and then said slowly: "Secretary Mo, in fact, there was a wooden bridge in our village, but it was demolished when I was sensible."

Secretary Mo was even more puzzled when he heard the words, "Since there is a bridge, why didn't everyone keep it and demolish it instead? Now the road to the town can save a lot of time if you take the river side."

"Oh," Xiao Le came back at some point, his fair face was clean at this time, he sat down beside Secretary Mo, looked sideways at him and said, "Because someone committed suicide on that bridge , and not just one person."

Xiao Mo nodded, Secretary Mo was shocked.

"Little comrade, please explain in detail."

"Didn't the captain tell you?"

Xiao Le asked.

Secretary Mo shook his head, "The captain went to the town for a meeting these few days, and we haven't seen each other for several days."

Although the captain lived in the captain's house, the captain didn't come back, so naturally he couldn't speak, and there was a vice captain, the captain was not in the production team, and the vice captain was also very busy.

"Actually, it's quite simple to say at the moment, but Mo Shu remembers to understand that this countryman doesn't read much, and he's no more knowledgeable than city people..."

It turned out that 20 years ago, there were three suicides in the village.

And these three are still a family.

"The daughter of that family who jumped into the river first, I call her Sister Hua," Xiao Mo recalled, "Sister Hua was born with a black birthmark on her face, so the children in the village are afraid of her, and some adults gossip about her." In the middle, call Sister Hua an evil spirit."

"But Sister Hua is actually very kind," Xiao Mo sighed, "I don't really remember what happened back then, Xiao Le, please come over and talk to Secretary Mo."

Xiao's mother came over soon. After listening to Secretary Mo's question, she sighed like Xiao Mo, and then said: "Actually, Xiao Mo shouldn't be called sister, but aunt."

Xiao Mo blushed, "But at that time I was called Sister Hua."

"It's because you are young, and you are not as afraid of her as other children, so you can call her whatever you want," Xiao's mother said with a light smile, "She was insulted and bullied by the children in the village when she was young, and after she grew up, it was hard for her to call her." She made an engagement, but her fiancé died unexpectedly before she even got through the door."

"Hua'er was accused and scolded by her fiancé's family, saying that it was because of the birthmark on her face that she was a bastard who killed her fiancé. This broke Hua'er's heart..."

The fiancé really liked Hua'er, not the skin, and it was precisely because of this that Hua'er could not accept the death of the other party, and also listened to the words that she was a broom star.

On the night of her fiancé's death in the second year, Hua'er secretly burned the yellow paper on the bridge. The next day, when the villagers across the river passed the small bridge to work here, they found Hua'er's body.

"She cut her wrist with a sharp stone and her blood was all over the bridge."

Mama Xiao said in a low voice.

"Hua'er's parents went crazy and brought the corpse home, but on the second day, Hua'er's mother didn't know how to do it, and hanged herself under the bridge. On the third day, Hua'er's father took the two bodies The corpses were all brought to the bridge, and they were given rat poison in full view of the public, and they were not able to save them after everyone controlled them."

Seeing that Secretary Mo was frowning, Mother Xiao didn't know what he was thinking, "Papa Hua'er was already crazy at that time, he held a machete in his hand, and he didn't allow anyone to approach, and the old captain and the others were hoarse But Hua'er's father, who is heartbroken and just wants to reunite with his family, can't listen to it."

"Everyone didn't dare to go forward, because once they took a step forward, Hua'er's father would put a scimitar on his neck, and finally persuaded the other party to throw away the scimitar. Who would have thought that he would keep the rat poison ?”

Three consecutive lives were lost in just a few days, and there were still three members of the family. The old people in the village said that bridge was the Suoming Bridge. When someone crossed the bridge at night, they always felt that several pairs of eyes were staring at them. It's blinding to see blood on the bridge...

Later, the small bridge was demolished, and everyone would rather take a detour than build another small bridge.

The atmosphere in the fire room was tense for a moment.

Xiao Le pursed his pale lips, "Everyone is unwilling to build a bridge. Except for those who feel guilty and feel that they didn't save people, the rest are probably the people who bullied Aunt Hua more or less back then. Bar."

In the past 20 years, those people have grown up.

The bigger one was about the same size as Xiao's mother.

After all, when Hua'er committed suicide, she was not a few years younger than Xiao's mother.

Xiao's mother nodded, "Secretary Mo, don't even think about building the bridge. It's something that everyone has been reluctant to do for so many years, and you can't persuade it with just a few words."

"More importantly, if the bridge is built, some people who can't think about it deliberately commit suicide there, or accidentally have an accident on the bridge, the bridge may not be able to be saved when the bridge is built." This is the truth.

The country people have little culture, but they are very persistent, and they can't change their minds with a few words.

"Actually, someone came to visit yesterday." Seeing that Secretary Mo was still frowning, Xiao Le said softly, "That person told Mom that since she knew you wanted to build a bridge, she hasn't slept well for a few days. will wake up."

"That's because she has a good relationship with Hua'er," Xiao's mother answered, "but other people may be similar to her. Secretary Mo, take a detour. Everyone would rather take a detour than build a bridge."

What does it mean to build a bridge?

In fact, Xiao Le knew as soon as he guessed that they were afraid that those who died on the bridge would come back because the bridge was rebuilt.

This is a superstition, but it is also a psychological effect, especially for those who bullied and insulted that family back then.

Xiao Ma and Xiao Mo went to the kitchen to get busy, Xiao Le and Secretary Mo sat in front of the fire, neither of them said anything.

The fire was burning brightly, and the room was very warm, but Secretary Mo was in a heavy heart, "It was rumors that killed them."

"Yes," Xiao Lepa pulled out a burnt sweet potato, puffed out his cheeks and blew the ashes on it, and then put the warm sweet potato in Secretary Mo's palm.

It was so hot that Secretary Mo quickly put it aside.

"Little comrade, do you want to burn me to death while I'm not paying attention?"

Seeing that he finally stopped worrying about the previous incident, Xiao Le looked at him with a smile, "Secretary Mo, it's actually very simple. Your purpose of building the bridge is nothing more than to make people on both sides of the river faster." Get to where you want to go on the other side.”

"Yes."

Secretary Mo nodded.

"But they don't want to, so let's build the road. You and the team leader can hold a meeting and let them choose whether to build a bridge or build a road. If they choose to build a road, then they will work hard and work. It's them who are tired." Chosen."

Xiao Le spread his hands, "If this bridge is forced to be built, there will be many troubles, and it is the same as what my mother said, even if the bridge is there, no one will be willing to cross the bridge. It will take time and effort, so why bother?"

Secretary Mo looked at him fixedly, Xiao Le touched his face, "Do you think I'm handsome?"

"Well, the little comrade looks very handsome."

Secretary Mo smiled, making Xiao Le's face flush slightly, "Secretary Mo is even more handsome."

"Cough cough."

Secretary Mo's ears were slightly red, and he pretended to pick up the sweet potato, which was still hot to the touch, and peeled off the skin carefully, revealing the golden potato flesh. After taking a bite, he felt sweet, soft and glutinous, very delicious.

"Is it delicious? There are five or six more in here," Xiao Le also pulled out a small sweet potato for himself, and sat down with Secretary Mo to eat.

Secretary Mo was left to eat. He had eaten two sweet potatoes before, but he didn't eat much during this meal.

A few days later, there was a meeting in the village. Because it was cold and snowing again, it was enough for each household to send one person to the meeting.

Xiao Mo went to Xiao Le's house. Originally, Xiao Mo asked Xiao Le to go. After all, he didn't have much time at home all year round, so Xiao Le had to support him. But Xiao Le shivered from the cold when he went out, and he didn't go out of the yard. , just crying for father and mother.

It is very embarrassing.

Xiao's mother gritted her teeth, grabbed someone's ear and entered the fire room, telling Xiao Mo to go to a meeting.

"Tell me, you are such a young man, why are you more delicate than Shufen?"

"Mom! I'm so squeamish!"

Xiao Shufen was dissatisfied.

Yang Xiuxiu, who was knitting a sweater at the side, laughed, "Uncle, I haven't seen you so afraid of the cold in previous years. I don't think this year's weather is as cold as last year. Why are you so afraid?"

Xiao Le held his face in his hands, and focused his eyes on the thread in Yang's embroidered bamboo basket, "I don't know why, ever since I was stung by a bee, I'm afraid it will be very cold."

There are many lies, but I just don't want to go out.

But the rest believed it!

Xiao's mother frowned, "Why don't you go to the hospital? Don't leave the root cause of the disease, why will you marry a wife in the future."

"When brother Mo comes back, let him take my uncle to the county seat."

"Second brother, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Seeing that it was really moving, Xiao Le quickly waved his hands, "It's just a little afraid of the cold, and it doesn't affect my life. Maybe it's because I haven't recovered this year, but next year it might be better. Really, I don't feel uncomfortable."

Seeing his reassurance, and his ruddy complexion that there was nothing wrong with it, Mama Xiao skipped this topic.

"Hey, they're all in the fire room," a familiar voice came from outside the door, Xiao Le opened the door of the fire room to see, and two aunts came outside, "Hello third aunt, hello fourth aunt."

Xiao Le invited the two into the fire room.

Xiao's mother glanced at the two of them sideways, "Is there nothing to keep you busy at home? Come to me every now and then."

The two aunts were not angry when they heard this, and the third aunt sat down carelessly, "The old man at home babbled so much that he got tired of hearing it, so I might as well come to you for some air."

"Are you talking about his youngest son?"

"Isn't it? It's almost New Year's Eve, and I'm thinking about it very much, but I'm comfortable being a door-to-door son-in-law in the county town, so why go back to our old mountain forest?"

Xiao's mother shook her head when she heard the words, and then looked at the silent fourth aunt, "What's wrong with you?"

Xiao Le looked over.

The fourth aunt's eyes turned red and she began to choke. Everyone has long been accustomed to her way of speaking, so the people in the fire room listened to her non-stop complaints for half an hour.

Complaining that the husband is not caring, complaining that the son is not sensible, complaining that the daughter-in-law is caring about her mother's family and not caring about her husband's family.

Xiao Le dozed off listening to it, but looking at his sister-in-law and younger sister, they listened with great interest, and asked a few questions from time to time.

As we talked, we talked about Secretary Mo again.

"Secretary Mo really has nothing to do. What kind of bridge is he building?"

The third aunt frowned, "I'm too embarrassed to tell people what happened back then, after all, it belongs to our village..."

It can't be called an ugly thing, but the old captain... just because of this incident, he was not the captain for a long time.

"Third Aunt, Secretary Mo just didn't know what happened back then, so he only focused on solving the problem of avoiding detours on the banks of the two rivers. He really thinks about us."

Xiao Le said something in defense.

"Of course, Secretary Mo is too nice to talk about," the third aunt sighed, "It's just building bridges... I really don't want to."

"Don't build a bridge, build a road around the road," Xiao Mo opened the fire room, hung the bamboo hat on the wall, and laughed to everyone.

"Really?"

The third aunt was overjoyed, and the fourth aunt also smiled.

"Really, three aunts and four aunts, Secretary Mo asked everyone to raise their hands to choose, and they all chose to detour and build roads, but after the spring, everyone had to catch both sides, the fields must not be lost, and the roads had to be repaired .”

"Oh, what's the matter?" The third and fourth aunts left with smiles.

"Xiao Le, your sister-in-law said you are afraid of the cold?" After eating, Xiao Mo walked into Xiao Le's room and asked his younger brother who buried himself under the blanket.

Xiao Le, who was already in a drowsy sleep, poked his head out from under the quilt, "It's okay, it's okay, there's nothing to worry about, big brother."

How could Xiao Mo not be worried, "I didn't know that after being stung, I would have this kind of problem. If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me."

"I'm sure," Xiao Le waved his hand, "Brother, you go out, remember to close the door, I want to sleep."

Anyway, I don’t have to go to work, and it’s snowing and it’s too cold, so it’s better to sleep.

Xiao Mo had no choice but to leave.

"Mom, uncle is not young anymore, we can talk about marriage."

Yang Xiuxiu mentioned this matter in the fire room, and Xiao Mo heard it as soon as he entered the door. Before he sat down and said nothing, Xiao's mother refused.

"If his problems are not eradicated, I won't let him get married for a day! Don't hurt other girls."

"But these days, my uncle is fine."

Yang Xiuxiu thought about Xiao Le's behavior carefully, and said softly.

"Anyway, in three to five years, he shouldn't think about it," Xiao's mother was still worried, she was afraid that Xiao Le would harm a girl, causing that girl to live a miserable life like herself for most of her life.

"Listen to me," Xiao Mo looked at his wife with a smile, "With Xiao Le's temperament, I think he still treats himself as a child. If he really wants to get married, this temperament may not be settled."

"That's right."

Yang Xiuxiu nodded.

"Besides," Xiao Mo laughed again, "he has to meet the girl he likes."

These words made Yang Xiuxiu blush a little, but she has always been generous, "That's right, it's like me and you..."

"Sister-in-law, pay attention, I'm here."

Xiao Shufen couldn't bear it.

Mama Xiao chuckled.

Now everyone in the fire room laughed.

"I haven't seen Secretary Mo for a long time," Xiao Le said suddenly when the new year was approaching.

"You don't know? Secretary Mo went home for the New Year," Xiao Mo said, "I've been away for several days."

Xiao Le: ...

That's right, they are not from their village, so they have to go home when the Chinese New Year is coming, can't they celebrate the Chinese New Year at the captain's house?

On the day before New Year's Eve, Chen Jianjun sent over some food, which are all the little things that the little girls like now.

Xiao Shufen accepted it graciously, and when she was about to go back to her room with her things in her arms, Xiao Le followed her, "You took things from others, do you know what he's thinking?"

"Of course I know, second brother, do you know?"

"what?"

Xiao Le looked at her blankly.

Xiao Shufen raised her hand to fiddle with the broken hair next to her ear, and said shyly, "Jianjun and I are dating."

"... When did it happen!"

"It's been a long time, mom and they all know."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Shufen entered the room and shut Xiao Le out. Xiao Le hurriedly went to Xiao's mother to ask, and Xiao's mother looked at him suspiciously, "You don't know?"

"I don't know! You didn't tell me!"

Xiao Le was extremely wronged.

Seeing this, Yang Xiuxiu hurriedly said, "You and Chen Jianjun were together every day, we thought he told you!"

"He didn't even fart!"

Xiao Le was so angry that he wasn't afraid of the cold anymore. Before he could question Chen Jianjun when he went to Chen's house, he was dragged into the fire room by Chen's family. Then he ate roasted sweet potatoes and fried chestnuts, which made Xiao Le's belly so round. Said, and went back with a large bag of fried chestnuts.

"belch……"

Xiao Le, who gave the fried chestnuts to his family, burped.

The corners of Xiao's mother's mouth twitched slightly, "Not only did you bring back so much, but you're also full?"

"It's hard to be kind but hiccup..."

Xiao Le's hiccups haven't been hiccupping since he came back, he was still hiccupping when he was sleeping, and he was still hiccupping the next morning.

Xiao Mo felt that something was wrong, so he dragged Xiao Le to the village doctor. The village doctor touched his swollen stomach and smiled, "It's because I'm full. Those chestnuts are not easy to digest."

"belch……"

Just as Xiao Le was about to speak, there was a big hiccup as soon as he opened his mouth.

Xiao Mo was angry and funny, took the medicine and paid for it, and immediately let Xiao Le take it, "It's New Year's Eve, you still take medicine!"

Xiao Le, who knew he was wrong, obediently took the medicine. The village doctor smiled and said, "I can't eat too much these two days. It's best not to eat if you're not hungry."

So it was a good New Year's Eve, and finally had fish, meat and delicious cooked rice, but because Xiao Le was not hungry at all, he finally drank a small bowl of chicken soup.

After watching Sui all night, Xiao Le was finally hungry the next morning, and he didn't dare to eat more, so he ate a few dumplings and stopped.

Seeing Xiao Mo felt distressed and annoyed.

Want to scold someone, but then think about the first day of the new year, this scolding, Xiao Le will be scolded for a whole year?

Let alone fight, that would be unlucky.

So Xiao Le passed the first year of junior high school steadily, and was nagged by his family in the second year of junior high school.

After all, my elder brother and sister-in-law have gone to her mother's house, and Xiao Le and Xiao Shufen are going to visit her uncle's house to celebrate the new year.

"Ugh……"

On the way, Xiao Le sighed. Those who didn't understand the matter thought what happened to his house.

"Second brother, can you stop moaning, don't you just go to pay New Year's greetings?"

"Isn't it just to pay New Year's greetings? Don't you know that aunt? I don't like her the least!"

Xiao Le kicked the snow under his feet.

"We'll go home after lunch."

Xiao Shufen didn't like it either, but what should I do?That's their aunt.

My aunt is snobbish and doesn't like to entertain guests.

When Xiao Le and the others went over with the New Year's gift, the lunch turned out to be steamed bread with pickles.

But Xiao Le and Xiao Shufen clearly saw oil on the corners of their cousins' mouths, and it looked like they had eaten in the kitchen, and they had these when they came.

Uncle's expression was not good, but because his aunt was too strong, he didn't dare to say a word.

"Xiao Le, I haven't seen you for a long time," my aunt looked at Xiao Le with a smile, "Hurry up, you're welcome, there's still some in the pot."

"Auntie is just being polite." Xiao Le was in a bad mood, and didn't want to beep with her at all. "The kitchen smells like bacon, and my brothers and sisters didn't clean their mouths with oil, so they saved it for us. Two outsiders, and a few outsider cousins ​​to eat, it's really polite."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the uncle's family became embarrassed.

Xiao Le pretended not to see it, but sincerely looked at the cousins ​​with slightly red eyes, "Sisters-in-law, eat, if others don't love you, don't you love yourself?"

Just as aunt and uncle were about to speak, Xiao Le said again, "Just wait, the days are still to come, they will always get old, and when they get old hehehe..."

Uncle and aunt were shocked, Xiao Shufen coughed, and said to everyone, "My second brother was injured a few days ago, his mind is not very clear, and he always talks nonsense, uncle and aunt, don't mind, second brother, eat quickly , let’s go home after eating.”

"What to eat!" Xiao Le snorted coldly, got up, picked up the New Year gift and dragged Xiao Shufen away, "They treat us like autumn wind, why don't we be a little self-aware?"

After finishing speaking, the two brothers and sisters disappeared, and not long after that, several aunts came in to visit.

"Oh, that one crying while walking is your relative?"

"My God, how do you eat this during the Chinese New Year? The buns are so rotten! Do you treat guests with this?"

"Didn't you still drink and eat meat yesterday?"

This made the uncle's family hard to speak.

Soon, the news that their relatives were treated with rotten steamed buns and pickled vegetables spread in the production team, and the family had a turmoil all of a sudden.

Several unmarried younger brothers quarreled, because no one wanted to marry someone like them, which meant that they were likely to be bachelors.

This made my uncle's family very worried. My aunt hated Xiao Le to death, but because she was dragged by the incident, she couldn't come to make trouble at all. She thought that Xiao's mother would come over on the fifteenth day and they would talk about Xiao Le's brothers and sisters.

As a result, it was already spring, and Mother Xiao didn't go there either.

Xiao Ma heard what the Xiao Le brothers and sisters said when they came back, and watched them gobble up their meals, and felt sad in her heart, "Your uncle is a soft-hearted person, forget it, it's the same thing when this relative leaves. , it’s the same thing if you don’t leave.”

They are the past every year, but what about others?never came.

Xiao's mother had already taken a lot of things lightly, and breaking off a kiss was even more important in her eyes.

After the beginning of spring, everyone was busy going to work. Xiao Shufen went to the county to study in the first year of high school. Xiao's mother cooked at home and cleaned up the housework. Xiao Le and Yang Xiuxiu went to work. Xiao Mo had been away for five or six days.

As soon as Xiao Mo left, he asked Xiao Le to borrow this in private, and there were many people who borrowed that.

"Xiao Le, it's only two catties of grain, and I'll return it to you in a few days."

Xiao Le sighed, "Uncle, you borrowed three catties of cornmeal from me last year, and you haven't returned it yet. I heard that your son is going to get married soon? Then please return it as soon as possible, or I will pay you for the new daughter-in-law. I can't get over my face."

"Ah? This..."

That uncle's face is not very good-looking.

"Xiao Le, why have you changed?" The other uncle frowned immediately when he heard this, "You don't help with such a small matter? We really misunderstood you."

Xiao Le's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly pulled the uncle who had borrowed grain from him to the uncle, "Oh, Uncle Wang! How did I forget you! Uncle! Isn't it just two catties of grain? Uncle Wang can lend you twenty catty!"

Wang Sanbo stared wide-eyed, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"No, no! Uncle Wang, you can't even lend twenty catties of grain to uncle, can you?"

Xiao Le's loud voice not only attracted the attention of people who were resting not far away, but also attracted the attention of Secretary Mo who had just arrived.

"Everyone knows it! When Uncle Wang's fifth uncle fell into the water, it was Uncle Zhao who rescued him! What kind of grace is this?"

The bystanders scratched their heads, "A lifesaver?"

Xiao Le was afraid of being slapped, "That's right! Uncle Zhao saved the life of Uncle Wang's son! Now that Uncle Zhao's family is in trouble, how can Uncle Wang refuse to save him? Wouldn't he be an ungrateful beast?"

His voice as if singing a big show made Uncle Wang very ashamed. Uncle Zhao, who was receiving the grain, immediately climbed up the pole and waved his hands with a long sigh.

"It's not easy for Sanbo's house. Since you don't want to borrow... then forget it."

As he spoke, he wiped the corners of his eyes, as if he was crying.

All of a sudden, no matter whether they were working or not, they all came over.

"Wang Sanbo, you can't do this. If it weren't for Uncle Zhao, your son would have survived to this day?"

"Yes, Lao Zhao was still a child at that time. I remember that Uncle Wang didn't seem to send anything to thank..."

Seeing that the events of the year were about to be reversed, Wang Sanbo, who did not send anything but thanked him verbally, hurriedly grabbed Uncle Zhao who was being comforted, "I'll borrow it! I'll borrow it!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Uncle Zhao showed joy, Xiao Le said coolly, "Tsk, lifesaver, please borrow some food."

"..."

Wang Sanbo's face was so dark that he gritted his teeth in full view, "I'll send it!"

"San Bo, Gao Yi! San Bo is the most grateful person in the production team! Do you think so!"

"Yes!"

After the crowd dispersed, Xiao Le held Uncle Zhao calmly, "I've settled the food issue for you, when will I pay it back?"

"I don't have cornmeal, how about I give you five catties of this grain?"

Originally, he wanted to borrow two catties of grain, but now he got twenty catties for nothing, so what if he returned five catties to Xiao Le?I still gained fifteen catties!

"That's great uncle, I'll help you next time."

Xiao Le talked to Uncle Zhao with a smile, and Secretary Mo, the original owner, laughed when he saw it.

This little comrade...

It was the first time in nearly 20 years that Wang Sanbo expressed his gratitude to Uncle Zhao for saving his son, and it quickly spread to several production teams.

His wife was sitting on the ground cursing and crying, "Twenty catties of grain! You can give it away if you want! There are so many people in our family, what should we do!"

"okay!"

Wang Sanbo scolded with a dark face, "It's not shameful to be ashamed!"

"Shame is shame! Shame is better than starvation!"

At this moment, Uncle Wang, one of the "participants", said helplessly, "Mom, it's already like this. If we don't give it, what will outsiders say? I'm not married yet..."

These words made his mother stop crying immediately, and rushed out of the courtyard to visit several houses, all talking about how difficult it was for their own family, but even so, they still had to give food to the Zhao family.

The Zhao family refused to give in, and told people everywhere that it took 20 years to get such a small amount of grain, and that twenty catties of grain could be worth the life of Wang Laowu?Of course it can!And it can pay a lot!

When the two families were fighting in the arena, Xiao Le smiled and gave Yang Xiuxiu the five catties of grain that Uncle Zhao had delivered to his door, and turned to look at Mama Xiao, "Mama is not rich enough to eat at night."

"What is broad or not?"

Mother Xiao imitated his tone and asked back.

"Is it possible to eat dry rice?"

"Only five catties of grain, do you still want to eat dry rice?"

Mama Xiao raised her eyebrows.

After Xiao Le pondered for a while, when he was resting from work in the afternoon, he would sit next to this uncle for a while, stand in front of that uncle for a while, and talk to his aunt from time to time. A small stool sat at the gate of the courtyard.

When Mama Xiao and Yang Xiuxiu were puzzled, one after another people who came to pay back the food in the dark startled their eyes.

Soon Xiao Le closed the courtyard door, went back to the main room and looked at the returned food on the table with a smile.

There are many types and many quantities.

"Mom! I want to eat rice!"

Xiao Le, who got his wish and ate a dry meal at night, was very beautiful.

Yang Xiuxiu asked curiously, "Uncle, how did you get these things back?"

Xiao Le chuckled, "This year's life is good, especially in the first half of the year. These several companies will hold wedding events. If they don't return my food, I will let them not hold wedding events."

"It's that simple?"

Yang Xiuxiu exclaimed.

"Of course, after all, it's not easy for many people to marry a wife now," Xiao Le gulped down a big mouthful of rice, and said to them happily, "Right now, the Liu family still owes us a little bit of food, and the rest I paid last year and this year I'm coming back soon, mom, sister-in-law, praise me quickly."

Who knew that Xiao Ma and Yang Xiuxiu seemed to have not heard the words, and lowered their heads to eat.

Xiao Le yelled, and Xiao's mother said, "You are ashamed to ask us to praise you, didn't you send it out yourself?"

"...today's rice is delicious! Mom, I want to eat it tomorrow!"

Xiao Le quickly changed the subject.

Soon the work in the field was almost busy, and the team selected many young and middle-aged men to build roads. Xiao Le volunteered to sign up, and he worked with a group of men in full swing.

Secretary Mo led them to work together, and Xiao Le sat with him to rest, looking at the neat and wide dirt road, Xiao Le frowned, "I believe that in the near future, the roads in our village will also become roads in the city. cement road!"

"Of course," Secretary Mo nodded, "As the country develops and society progresses, everything will get better and better."

"Yes," Xiao Le nodded.

While talking, someone exclaimed, "Wu Zhiqing fainted!"

Secretary Mo and Xiao Le hurried over, only to see that Wu Zhiqing was pale and sweating, and his body was still trembling!

Secretary Mo opened his eyelids, felt his pulse again, took out a few candies from his pocket, and stuffed them into Wu Zhiqing's mouth.

"It's hungry."

In other words, hypoglycemia.

But everyone doesn't quite understand the meaning of hypoglycemia, but they understand what it means to be hungry.

Secretary Mo asked them to continue working, and returned to the Educated Youth Center with Wu Zhiqing on his back.

"Thank you, Secretary Mo."

Educated youth Wu woke up early on the road. He wanted Secretary Mo to let him down, but Secretary Mo insisted on sending him to the Educated Youth Center.

"Your work points can completely guarantee your food, how can you be so hungry? And you were not so thin before the Chinese New Year."

Secretary Mo frowned and looked at him.

Wu Zhiqing sighed, "Secretary Mo, you don't know. During the Chinese New Year, a letter from my family said that my elder brother had an accident and was gone. Only my widowed mother and younger sister were at home, so I sent more than half of the food back..."

He lived frugally, and the road construction workers were paid enough, and he was thinking about his family, so he signed up to earn more work points.

Secretary Mo patted him on the shoulder when he heard the words, "No matter what, I can't lose myself like this. If something happens to you, my aunt will really not be able to hold on."

There are only two sons, one is gone, and the other is gone, how painful it is.

"Thank you, Secretary Mo, for causing you trouble."

"Don't say such things," Secretary Mo took out a few food stamps and ten yuan on the table, "I'll lend you."

"Thank you! Thank you, Secretary Mo!"

Wu Zhiqing's eyes were red and her voice was trembling.

As soon as Xiao Le came home, Yang Xiuxiu gave him a small bowl of honey, "Mom said that the educated youth Wu helped our family once, so you send this honey to him to make up for his health. This is the most precious thing in the family right now." .”

"Okay," Xiao Le drank some water and went to the Educated Youth Office.

Wu Zhiqing didn't expect that he would come to see her, and he also brought honey.

Wu Zhiqing, who knew that Xiao Le had been swollen for several days because of this thing, was so moved that his eyes turned red again.

After Xiao Le left, the rest of the people gathered around Zhiqing Wu.

"It is said that Xiao's father and son are good people, and today they are really true."

"Yes, Wu Zhiqing has contacts with them?"

Wu Zhiqing shook her head, "I haven't, even if I seldom talk."

The rest praised the Xiao family even more.

"Mom, what did Wu Zhiqing do for our family?"

Xiao Le who went home to cook was puzzled.

Xiao's mother laughed, "I almost rolled down the mountain with pigweed on my back, but he grabbed the basket, otherwise I might have died."

"Mom! When did this happen? Why didn't you tell me!"

Yang Xiuxiu said eagerly.

"Yes, Mom, you..."

"It's been two years," Xiao's mother waved her hand, "I ate and ate, and nothing happened at that time. If there is anything else to say, there will be more."

She glanced at Xiao Le.

Xiao Le giggled, pretending to be stupid.

"You were very angry at that time, what else do I have the heart to say?"

"My fault! It's all my fault!"

Xiao Le made a face that I was wrong, that was my mistake, which made the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law laugh.

"Mom, at the beginning of next month, I will send food stamps to Shufen."

"Are you going alone?"

"I remember that Secretary Mo seemed to go home every month. I asked him when he would go, and I would be a companion with him."

Secretary Mo's home is in the county seat.

"That's a good idea, but you can't trouble people with stone lions."

"Don't worry Mom."

Secretary Mo was indeed going back to the county seat, and it was still the beginning of the month.

So on this day, Xiao Le and Secretary Mo set off early in the morning.

After rushing to the town, Secretary Mo took Xiao Le to the gate of the county seat in an ox cart. There was no other way. There was no shuttle bus, so it would be nice to have an ox cart. If he was not lucky, he would have to walk.

It takes three hours to walk from the town to the county seat!

"It's getting late, why don't you come home with me for dinner?"

Secretary Mo looked at the sky and said to Xiao Le.

"This is not good," Xiao Le scratched his head.

"What's the matter, my grandpa, brother and sister-in-law are the only ones at home."

Yay, so few family members?

Xiao Le was a little surprised.

Secretary Mo thought he was surprised why his parents were not here, so he replied, "My father and mother died of work, and it has been many years."

Xiao Le's face was full of solemnity.

At his insistence, Secretary Mo had no choice but to accompany him to buy some fruit before taking him home.

After arriving at Mo's house, Xiao Le knew how Secretary Mo's medical skills came from. It turned out that Grandpa Mo was a Chinese medicine practitioner, Sister Mo was a doctor at the county hospital, and Brother Mo was a cadre.

The two have been married for several years and have no plans to have children yet.

When they returned home, brother and sister-in-law had gone to work, and only Grandpa Mo was there.

Grandpa Mo liked the sweet-mouthed and good-looking Xiao Le very much. While Secretary Mo was cooking, he even told Xiao Le about Secretary Mo's childhood.

"He fights with his elder brother all the time, ouch, I can't even hold him back."

"Who's winning?"

"you guess."

"Secretary Mo!"

Grandpa Mo looked at him in surprise, "Why?"

Xiao Le chuckled, "No matter how big brother Mo is, he is still a big brother. He won't be cruel to Secretary Mo, and he will let him."

"That's right!" It was not Grandpa Mo who said this, but Brother Mo who had just opened the door. Grandpa Mo saw Secretary Mo and the others coming back, and asked the children from the next door to report to Brother Mo who was off work. Brother Mo Just came back so early.

After all, he is busy with work, his brother and sister-in-law eat at work, and Grandpa Mo is in good health, so he eats by himself or goes out to eat with old friends.

Today, sister-in-law Mo had two surgeries and she was too busy, so Grandpa Mo didn't let anyone tell her.

"He thought he was so powerful, but he didn't know that I let him."

Big Brother Mo sat down with a smile on his face, "Little brother, I am Mo Cheng's big brother, if you don't mind, just call me big brother."

"How could I dislike it!" Xiao Le called his elder brother openly.

Only Secretary Mo, who looked like a poor little boy, served the meal by himself after finishing the meal, and then greeted everyone to eat.

"didn't eat