After graduation, I went home to keep bees

"You guys are busy with your work, haven't you cooked yet? I'll cook!" Seeing that the three of them were all disheartened, Jiang Xiaoman pursed his lips and hurried to the kitchen to get ready to cook.

Langshan Primary School was built earlier. At that time, it is said that if you want to get some sand and cement, you have to approve it from above, not to mention the fake lawn and plastic track now. The playground of the whole school is a large open space. At that time, the children stepped on it and there was no grass. After a summer vacation, the ground was covered with weeds and pits.Every year when school starts, weeds must be cleared first, then some soil will be picked to fill the hole, and finally sweeping will be done again, year after year, since Jiang Xiaoman was a child.

Carrying a basket on his back, he walked across the newly leveled large playground, entered the kitchen, and found that the rice had already been cooked, Jiang Xiaoman lifted the lid of the pot, and his face was filled with black lines: Sure enough!As long as his uncle comes back, they will never want to eat pure rice!

Today's dinner is still stewed potato with red bean which is the favorite of health experts o(╥﹏╥)o

"The principal said that the little red beans harvested last year would be full of worms, so he soaked a big pot! He said to eat red bean stewed rice tonight, and make red bean porridge tomorrow morning." Fang Xingchen told Jiang Xiaoman with a disheveled face.

In fact, when he first heard the headmaster talk about eating red bean rice, he thought it was similar to the sweet and thick red bean porridge cooked at home. Now it seems that he is so stupid and naive!Why can't the red beans planted by Principal Jiang be sold and can only be kept for himself?That must be because it is not delicious!

This old variety of red beans that the rural people keep by themselves is small in size, not much meat, almost all skin, no matter how soaked it is difficult to boil, it always feels like it is raw and not cooked, and what's more terrible is , eat too much of this kind of red bean rice, they can't poop o(╥﹏╥)o

"Pfft~ That's your principal, he can't do it! This kind of red bean needs to be soaked overnight, and the skin will be soaked before it can be boiled. Forget it, I brought red bean cake..."

"What? Made of red beans again?" Fang Xingchen turned pale with shock.

"Don't worry, this is red bean paste stuffing made from boiled and peeled red beans. Have you ever eaten mooncakes with red bean paste? It's that kind of stuffing!"

"Oh~ eat as long as you can move!" After Fang Xingchen said this, he was stunned.

Not long ago, he was a pampered young master, and he was very tired of the imported butter biscuits made by his mother, but now he even started to cherish a piece of ordinary red bean paste mooncake?

The child is too poor!

Jiang Xiaoman tricked people here, so it's not easy to let people follow Jiang Baichuan to gnaw raw red beans, right?After looking at the stock in the kitchen, he decided to cook something delicious for his juniors.

Before it was dark, I took a kitchen knife and a bamboo basket and went to the vegetable garden. The leeks that I cut off before grew back, and I cut two handfuls.I chopped a cabbage, picked some green peppers, and saw that the eggplants were growing. I ran over to lift the leaves of the eggplants and searched carefully. Sure enough, I found four large eggplants hidden underneath!

With eggplant, Jiang Xiaoman didn't want to pick red amaranth and water spinach anymore, he was about to throw up after eating these two vegetables.But in this season in the countryside, these kinds of vegetables are turned over and over in the vegetable garden. The habit of the villagers is that if they have vegetables at home, they will never go out to buy them. As usual, his father has planted a lot of amaranth this year, especially the red amaranth. , I ate too much, the pupas I pulled out were all red...

I can't think about it anymore, let's make something delicious!

There was still a large piece of salted wild pork he brought last time. Cut it off and cut it into thin slices to make fried cabbage with bacon and add two peppers, which is similar to the dry pot cabbage sold in restaurants.Eggplant is at its tenderest, cut into cubes and roasted with bacon, tender and fragrant!He changed the method of leeks this time, chopped the leeks, beat in the eggs, added salt and chopped green peppers, and the fried leek omelets were beautiful and delicious.

Finally, I took out some seaweed and made a seaweed egg drop soup, plus the red bean cake brought back, it was enough for four people.

"Woooooo~ Brother Xiaoman, your cooking is really delicious!" Chu Mengluan picked up a piece of leek omelette and took a bite, tears almost falling down.

"I didn't expect eggplant to be cut into pieces and roasted with bacon. It's so delicious! My aunt seems to cook eggplant in oil." Fang Xingchen especially likes to eat eggplant, so he kept eating eggplant with chopsticks.

"Hmph~ put so much meat, let alone eggplant, even burnt shoe soles are delicious!" Jiang Baichuan snorted, but didn't say much after all.

After all, Jiang Xiaoman brought this piece of bacon for them to eat.If conditions permit, doesn't he want the two trainee teachers to eat better?Is it because of lack of money?After the summer vacation, the school will start, and the parents of the few children in the school who were abandoned by their parents in their hometown, let alone new schoolbags and stationery, are not even willing to pay for books and tuition fees of less than 200 yuan a semester.

In fact, the village head also persuaded him in private, saying that those parents just relied on him as the principal to help their children, so they simply left the children in their hometown. Subsidizing tuition and miscellaneous fees, are their parents really ashamed to let their children drop out of school before finishing elementary school?

It's nothing more than bullying Jiang Baichuan, who is soft-hearted and easy to bully.

But if Jiang Baichuan could leave those children alone and watch them drop out of school, he would not be the Jiang Baichuan he is now.

Because he had to save money to help those children whose parents were unreliable, even though he had a little more money during this period of time, Jiang Baichuan couldn't help digging and searching. After all, raising children is not just about feeding them, children We sometimes have a headache and a cold, and the old man is reluctant to buy medicine, so he asks the child to carry it by himself.

But Jiang Baichuan couldn't stand it. Even if the school had no money to eat, the regular medicine in the medicine box would never be out of stock. If a child had a cold or cough, he would go to Jiang Baichuan to get medicine. Where did Jiang Baichuan get the medicine from? ?Of course, I saved money to buy it from between my teeth.

After eating, the four of them tidied up the kitchen together, washed up, and didn't go to rest. Jiang Baichuan didn't buy suitable clothes in the town today, so tonight they had to collect the size and quantity of the children who needed to buy seasonal clothes. After sorting it out, Jiang Xiaoman took over the job of purchasing.

"Principal, don't the parents of these children...don't buy them clothes?" Chu Mengluan couldn't help asking.

"It's not that I don't want to buy it, it's just that I can make do with it." Jiang Baichuan sighed, "You have followed me to home visits these days and you have seen that we are too poor here, and some parents are also shameless, taking the poverty allowance of the whole family , I eat and drink by myself, and I don’t care whether my wife and children live or die!"

"Those who are willing to stay in the village to go to school are either because their families are too poor or their parents don't care about them at all and want them to go out to work. Not to mention changing clothes for the season, I have seen people who don't even pay for books. , Leng let the children go to the mountains to chop bamboo shoots in exchange for money to buy books."

"How can there be such parents in the world?" Chu Mengluan was suddenly angry.

"Not all of them are like this. There are still some who are really poor. There is no way. The family is either disabled or old and weak, women and children. There is no labor force, and they have to work hard to give birth to children. They rely on the yams and corn corn that the whole family grows every year, plus the country's money. Poverty subsidies can only be said to guarantee that the whole family will not starve to death, and if you can’t get a little savings out, where can you still have money to buy clothes for your children?”

"Look at the clothes they are wearing now, some of them don't fit well, and the color doesn't look like what children wear, right? Xiaoman helped us collect donations from the school for these clothes!"

"Otherwise, do you think, why do I pick and search every day after dinner? It's just in case the students have something urgent." Jiang Baichuan sighed, "If you don't wear warm clothes in winter, you will easily get sick, and seeing a doctor is very expensive. Now that the weather is hot, if you are still wearing long johns and have prickly heat, and you need to spend money to buy prickly heat powder and toilet water, you might as well save the money and buy two sets of seasonal clothes for the children.”

Both Fang Xingchen and Chu Mengluan were stunned.

"Well, principal, didn't our country declare that it was completely eradicated from poverty a few years ago?" Fang Xingchen asked blankly after a while.

"You don't understand! Of course the country wants the common people to live a good life, and it has been making great efforts to bring poverty-stricken mountainous areas out of poverty and become rich, but there are some people in this world who have a broken spine! They don't want to stand up!" Jiang When Baichuan said this, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

"A few years ago, a group of poverty alleviation cadres came here. They said that our environment is good, and some Chinese medicinal materials such as honeysuckle can be planted, which can not only raise bees and harvest honey, but also pick them and dry them for money. thing!"

"The result? People have mobilized party members and cadres to plant honeysuckle seedlings. After a few months, look, good guy! More than half of them are barren! The rest bloomed and no one picked them, just leave them there! The honeysuckle flower buds have no medicinal value when they bloom, and they can only be used cheaply by the wild bees all over the mountain!"

"There is also our yam here. It is said that this variety has won some awards. The experts have spent a lot of effort to promote planting, and even their lives are on our side. But now you look! The experts sacrificed, and the yams all over the mountain , I gave them to feed the pigs! The hawkers rushing to the market also lowered the price, the good potatoes, the cheap ones are not as good as wild vegetables!"

"Then, is there nothing you can do? Principal, how much is your salary for a year? How long can you subsidize it?" Chu Mengluan felt extremely uncomfortable, and finally understood why Jiang Baichuan saw them eat a few cents more. The eggs are all distressed.

Because, the money was all saved by him, and he kept it for the children in the mountains for emergency use.

Thinking of this, Chu Mengluan couldn't help biting her lips. She has 2000 yuan a month for living expenses, and it happens that she is teaching in the mountains this month and has no place to spend money. She decided to advance the pocket money for two months of summer vacation in advance. It should be enough to buy seasonal clothes for the children.

"What can I do? There are only two teachers left in the school. Sister Caiyun has gone back to give birth. Uncle Baichuan has to teach so many students by himself, cook for the children, and correct homework. Even if he If you want to make money, you don't have time." Jiang Xiaoman sighed.

Several people were silent.

After a while, Fang Xingchen took out his mobile phone, opened Jiang Xiaoman's profile picture without saying a word, and transferred 3000 yuan to him.

"Brother Xiaoman, I usually spend a lot of money, and I haven't saved much money. The 3000 yuan is my mother's living expenses for my internship. Anyway, I eat and drink at school now. I save this money to buy two for my children. A change of season clothes."

"I also have more than 2000 yuan here. Brother Xiaoman, I will transfer it to you. I will buy some meat for the children later." Chu Mengluan also took out her mobile phone and started transferring money.

Jiang Xiaoman: "..."

"No, why did you transfer the money to me? I'm not the school's accountant! If you want to transfer it, you should transfer it to Principal Jiang?" Jiang Xiaoman was speechless.

"Aren't you the school's cook?" The two trainee teachers were also stunned.

"I'm not!!!" Jiang Xiaoman collapsed.

"Pfft~" Jiang Baichuan almost died laughing at these three live treasures.

"Forget it, just give it to me. Anyway, I will go shopping, not so much. I did the math just now. According to your statistics, each person has two sets of summer clothes, plus underwear and shoes and socks. It shouldn't be too much." More than 3000 yuan can be settled." Jiang Xiaoman sighed resignedly, took out his phone, clicked on the calculator that came with the phone, sent a screenshot of the approximate purchase budget to the group of several people, and explained it to them— —

"Summer clothes don't need to be very good. I went to the wholesale website and saw a few T-shirts and mosquito-proof pants that we often sell in the market. A set is less than 20 yuan. There are also summer shoes. I recommend buying these. A kind of clearance caterpillar shoes, which are soft-soled, breathable, and can also be used as sneakers. For socks and underwear, just order a big bag and return them. Calculated in this way, it is about 2000 yuan."

After a pause, Jiang Xiaoman glanced at his uncle cautiously: "Well, uncle, if you still have a lot of budget, can you add another sun hat for the children? I think the children in the city..."

"What sun visor? A straw hat that costs [-] cents a piece is not good for the market? Don't let it go to waste!" Jiang Baichuan roared angrily.

This was another reason why he didn't get married or have children. If he gave birth to a prodigal son like Jiang Xiaoman, he would stop living.

The budget of 2000 yuan, not to mention using the balance of the school account, even the income from the video account during this period is enough, the school staff are all here, so Principal Jiang asked the trainee teacher to help write an approval form and sign it on the spot For approval, Jiang Xiaoman picked up his mobile phone to place an order, and the whole process was completed in less than an hour.

"Forget that your eggs are not in vain! From now on, I will leave the school purchases to you." Jiang Baichuan glanced at his nephew with satisfaction.

Although my nephew is very good at spending money, he is also very good at saving money. You can educate him in the future and strive to only save money and not spend money!

"It's not a fat job, it's as if I took advantage of it, and I have to pay for the shipping fee..." Jiang Xiaoman muttered a few words, and silently accepted the online purchase of bulk (special price) items for the school task.

After all, as a man who lived in the last century, his Uncle Baichuan didn't even have a certain treasure account.