Fu Dabai was sitting on a stool wiping his feet when he saw the fruit. He took it without hesitation and ate it clean in two or three bites. Then he said to his daughter who was looking at him eagerly:

"If your father knew how to make money, how could the family be so poor?"

Yuan: ...That’s right!

"Then give me back the fruit!"

Thinking of the mushroom incident, Yuan, who felt that he had been fooled again, immediately turned hostile.

Fu Dabai sighed:

"You unlucky child, your own father ate your fruit and you're still asking for it back. You're really taking revenge on me. It's really your mother's fault."

Li turned over on the kang and looked over here, rolling her eyes at him:

"Have some shame! You can do whatever is good and I can do whatever is bad, right?"

Fu Dabai glanced at her with downcast eyes:

"Tsk, you're still awake. I thought you were asleep."

Li was too lazy to pay attention to him, but she called her daughter:

"Yuan, do you want me to hold you?"

Yuan hesitated for a moment, thought about the mushroom issue and the hug, and said decisively:

"want!"

As he said this, he was about to reconcile with his mother, and he got on the kang and threw himself into her arms.

Fu Dabai quickly grabbed her and said: Come back, you and your mother have reconciled, what should I do!

Now Yuan was really angry and looked at him angrily:

"What are you doing? I want to go to bed!"

Li had just reconciled with her daughter, and it was time to show her motherly love. She immediately helped Yuan and said:

"Why are you always poking her and not letting the child sleep at night!"

Fu Dabai thought for a moment and said casually, "Tsk, why are you in such a hurry? I'm helping her.

You, what did you ask just now? How to make money, right? "

Your father doesn’t know either, Fu Dabai muttered in his heart.

But Yuan had already looked over with sparkling eyes. In order to reconcile with his daughter, Fu Dabai was stalling for time while thinking:

"Tell me first, what do you want to do with the money?"

A Yuan is honest:

"Make money! Buy eggs! Eat egg custard with grandma and mom!"

After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Yes, I'll give you and Grandpa a share, and that includes Rabbit, Apricot, and Cowboy!"

There are also the third brother, the fourth brother, the third uncle, the third aunt, the fourth uncle, the fourth aunt... the eldest brother, the second brother..."

A Yuan picked up his fingers and counted until he included the whole family, even Fubao was included.

Fu Dabai, who was just thinking about just giving her some money, said:... Let's not talk about the fact that you counted me and your grandfather among the others, let's just talk about why you are such a spendthrift. This idea of ​​yours has cost at least twenty eggs...

Fu Dabai folded his hands, pondered for a long time, and came up with a bad idea:

"How about you steal two bunches of mushrooms from your grandma's drying tomorrow when she's not paying attention? Daddy will help you sell them, and you'll have the money then."

Li half leaned forward and asked him speechlessly: "Then why don't you just take her to the market and let her grab a basket of eggs directly? You don't have to go through the trouble twice!"

Ah Yuan put his hands on his waist and said angrily:

"Grandma said! Stealing is wrong!"

Fu Dabai was bullied by a large and a small group, and he argued with a drooping face:

"Well, that can't be considered stealing! Didn't you pick those mushrooms?"

Yuan was not fooled at all:

"Rabbit, you've picked apricots too! Third brother, fourth brother has picked them too! Cowboy has picked them too!

The mushrooms belong to our family! They are not mine! You can’t take them!”

Fu Dabai tried to change his image, but Yuan angrily clenched his fist and stamped his feet and said:

"If you mention mushrooms again, I'll tell grandma on you! I'll let grandma beat you up!"

At this moment, Fu Dabai suddenly thought the same thing as Xiao Yang, who had experienced Yuan complaining: If you don't like it, then don't like it! What are you complaining about?

"Tsk! This kid, what does he think of your father as?

Your father is testing you, do you know that? "

Fu Dabai speaks righteously, his face is full of justice and integrity!

Yuan was quite skeptical: "You're lying! Grandma said that you were a bad person when you were a kid. You did all kinds of things, including stealing and cheating."

Fu Dabai: ...How can I live like this! My own mother betrayed me!

"Don't mention that. Just tell me whether you want to make money or not?" Fu Dabai said angrily.

Yuan thought about it, but couldn't resist the temptation of the egg custard, so he added:

"Don't let me do anything sneaky, or I'll tell my grandma and let her beat you up!"

Fu Dabai: ...You are truly my dearest daughter, there is not a day that you are not secretive!

"Dad will teach you something serious!" Fu Dabai raised his chin and said seriously:

"When your father was young, he also thought about making money, so your grandfather gave me a tip."

Yuan asked curiously, "What trick?"

Fu Dabai said: "Go up the mountain and pick mushrooms!"

Ah Yuan heard the mushroom, nodded, turned around and shouted: "Grandma..."

Fu Dabai quickly covered her mouth and said, "Poor child, listen to me! I didn't let you steal it!"

Yuan: ???

Fu Dabai looked at his daughter's confused expression and knew that she didn't understand. He smiled proudly and explained to her:

“This is the trick your grandfather gave me back then, letting me work with my brothers every day and finish the work.

The rest of the time is spent going up the mountain to pick mushrooms, wood ears, hazelnuts, and wild fruits.

After you finish your housework, whatever you pick is yours. When you sell it in the county, the money is yours too."

Yuan seemed to be thinking about something, and said hesitantly, "But the mushrooms and other things have almost been picked up."

Fu Dabai sighed and said, "There are more things on the mountain than just those things. You can also pick mugwort, wild chrysanthemums, dandelions, wheel grass, and purslane."

A Yuan was at a loss: "Dandelion, wheel grass, purslane? Aren't those all wild vegetables? Who wants them?"

"The pharmacy wants it, but you can grab a handful of it and it won't cost you much. But if you save up a little, you can get enough money for the egg custard. Get up early and pick it, and if everything goes well, you can eat it in a month!"

A Yuan thought for a moment and asked his father, "Did you go after my grandfather said that?"

Fu Dabai said happily without feeling ashamed: "If I could bear that suffering, you wouldn't have to worry about the egg custard now.

When your great grandfather talked to your grandfather about it, he didn't go. This way of making money was passed down by your great grandfather's father."

After Fu Dabai finished speaking, he yawned lazily, turned off the lights and went to bed.

Otherwise, they always say that sometimes there is a reason for being poor! Being poor at home is definitely due to laziness!

A Yuan climbed onto the bed with an expressionless face, staring with worried eyes for half an hour.

Deep down, I feel lazy at one moment and greedy the next, as if there are two little men fighting in my heart, and both claim that they are the most important.

The next day, just after dawn, Yuan woke up and whispered in his father's ear:

"Come on, Dad, accompany me up the mountain!"

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