The first day back home.

Xu Jiajia and a few other children walked around the village.

Haven't been back for several years.

I found that the village has changed a lot.

All the old adobe houses have been replaced with brick houses.

Such a large village has only a few ramshackle houses.

It’s not that these families have no money, but their young people have seen too much of the colorful world outside and have been fascinated by it, and have long forgotten that they still have elderly people to support at home.

Whenever there were villagers passing by, Xu Jiajia would greet them politely and sometimes even chat with them for a few words. She was very friendly and had no airs at all.

Yiyi has high emotional intelligence and is a social expert. After she went around the village, she became friends with all the other kids.

Shen Dazhu wanted to find out something, so he secretly came to see Yiyi.

Seeing Yiyi, a tall and graceful girl, he was delighted: "Yiyi, do you know me?"

Yiyi naturally knew Shen Dazhu, but the two of them seldom met each other, so she said: "Grandpa——"

Although there is no affection between the grandfather and grandson.

But the proper title should still be given.

When Shen Dazhu heard the word "Grandpa", his eyes instantly turned red. He took out two hundred yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into Yiyi's hand: "Grandpa knows you don't lack money, but this is a token of my love. You can use it to buy some candy."

Yiyi didn't want it: "I don't want your money."

Shen Dazhu looked very uncomfortable: "Take it, I'm sorry to your father, I don't expect his forgiveness, but he is him, and you are you.

No matter what, you are all descendants of the Shen family, and this is an unchangeable fact."

After that, he took out a sum of money from another pocket and handed it to Yiyi: "This is for your brother and younger brother, two hundred each, you divide it among them."

Two pieces, two hundred each, is one hundred and twenty.

For rural areas, this number is considered a lot.

"It's so much, I don't want it." Yiyi refused to take Shen Dazhu's money.

Shen Dazhu thought about what he had done to Shen Yuebai before, and suddenly he regretted it. He burst into tears and said, "I, I know I'm sorry for your father, but I haven't let you down.

I am old, who knows how many years I have left to live, so won’t this satisfy me for a while?

Yiyi, do you want me to die with regrets?"

Although it was a bit of a moral kidnapping, Yiyi didn't have to pay anything, so she felt that she could still accept it. She took the money from Shen Dazhu and said openly, "Okay, I'll take it on behalf of my brother, but that's all. Don't expect me to speak well of you in front of my dad."

Yiyi said this, paused, and continued: "Although I have never understood what you said, but the fact that my father disowned you shows that you did something that he could not forgive.

As a daughter, I will not hold my father back."

Shen Dazhu knew what Yiyi meant, and he raised his hand to assure her, "Don't worry, I won't let you pass on the message. I was wrong before, so I don't want to continue this mistake. I want to be good to you. I have no other purpose, I just simply want to be good to you.

rest assured.

Your second uncle and younger uncle send us money every month. I have money."

Early eighties.

Shen Zhou and Shen Xingzhi gave them ten yuan every month.

As prices soared, they went from making ten dollars a month to two hundred dollars now.

The vegetables that the two old people eat are all grown by themselves, and they only buy some meat and the like.

In a month, you don't need much money, so you can save more than a dollar in a year.

So many years.

The two old people have saved a considerable amount of savings.

Yiyi thought about accepting the money, and after returning to Beijing, she would give him some supplies of the same price as the post. "Okay, then I'll take it. I'm here to thank you on behalf of my brother and younger brother."

When Shen Dazhu saw that she accepted it, he was delighted and said, "Yiyi, how are your second and third uncles doing in Kyoto?

For so many years, they only sent money and never came back to visit, as if this was not their home. "

Yiyi actually heard her uncle talk about his hometown, but she knew there were some things she couldn't say: "They are busy, especially my second uncle, who stays in the laboratory all day. It's hard for me to see him."

What Shen Dazhu is most concerned about is their marriage: "Are they looking for a partner?"

Yiyi hesitated for a moment and said, "Second uncle doesn't have any, but as for Third uncle, he keeps changing his targets.

He is good-looking and eloquent, and many people like him, but I always feel that he just wants to play, doesn't want to get married, and likes playing games. "

Shen Dazhu was stunned: "He, he is like this, isn't he afraid of being criticized?"

Yiyi looked puzzled: "Ah, why do you have to be criticized? Just because you talk too much?

These days, unlike before when arranged marriages were common, free love is encouraged.

Appropriate talk.

Inappropriate division.

How normal!

Don't impose your own ideas on others, otherwise you will only push your two uncles further away.

Whether they want to get married or not is their business. If they don't want to, no matter how much you worry about it, it's useless. In the end, there will still be a gap between father and son, and the loss will outweigh the gain!

Anyway, my mother said that as long as I didn't do anything illegal, she would do whatever I wanted.

I can get married if I want to, and not if I don’t want to. No one will force me.”

Shen Dazhu was quite old and it was the first time he heard such remarks. He was shocked: "You, is this what your mother taught you?"

Yiyi raised her eyebrows and said with displeasure: "Didn't my mother teach us well? We are all excellent, and my eldest and second brothers were admitted to Qinghua University.

Not true.

My eldest brother entered Qinghua with the achievement of being the top scholar in the country.

He studied for three consecutive years without paying a penny for tuition. The school covered his living expenses, and this time the school also gave him a bonus.

Just ask?

Which parent could raise such a great son?

I tell you.

Except my mother, there is no other one."

If someone else gives birth to one, they will be overjoyed.

There are always two young people in their family.

When they take the college entrance examination, their results will not be bad.

snort.

Her mother knows how to teach.

It means being able to empathize and think from other people’s perspectives.

Unlike some parents, when their children's grades are poor, they will expose their faults.

Shen Dazhu had to admit that Yiyi was right. After hearing this, he couldn't help but start to reflect on himself. Was it because they pushed too hard that the second and third sons were unwilling to get married?

Looks like I should mind my own business less in the future.

Yiyi returned home and distributed the money given to her by Shen Dazhu to the other five people: "This is what Grandpa gave us, 200 each."

Chenchen looked surprised: "Why did he give us money?"

Yiyi shrugged: "Shameless, but I think the possibility of wanting to get closer to us is relatively high.

I didn't want it, but he forced it on me.

Seeing how pitiful he looked, I felt bad, so I took the money.

I plan to buy him some supplements and send them back when the time comes.”

Chenchen is the boss. When he speaks, the others all listen: "Okay."

The boss had no objection, so naturally the others had no objection either: "Okay——"

…

Zhao Chunlan learned that Shen Dazhu gave Shen Yuebai a child of one and a half yuan, and her chest was heaving with anger. She pointed at Shen Dazhu's trembling hand and said, "That, that is one and a half yuan, not one hundred and twenty yuan. You actually gave it to me just like that!

This home is not only yours, it also belongs to me.

Did you give them so much money without my approval?"

Shen Dazhu glanced at her calmly and said slowly, "I've already given it to you. It's useless to be angry. You can't go and ask Yiyi and the others for it, right?

If you really do this, the second and third brothers will not recognize you."

Zhao Chunlan was afraid of this, so she resisted the urge to take it back: "You, you are trying to piss me off to death!"

Shen Dazhu glanced at her and said, "Chenchen is the top scorer in the national college entrance examination this time. You should prepare 500 yuan and go to the buffet later."

Zhao Chunlan stared at him: "I only gave you 100 yuan, why do you want to give me 500 yuan? Do you think I'm a bank? I can give you as much as you want!"

Shen Dazhu didn't care: "If you give them 500, the second and third brothers will be happy if they know about it. Maybe they will send us more later."

This made Zhao Chunlan's heart beat shamefully, and her anger subsided a lot: "Will they really send us more money?"

Shen Dazhu didn't know, but he believed that the two were happy to see them get close to Shen Yuebai's family: "Probably. If we keep alienating the eldest brother's family, the second and third brothers will definitely have opinions."

Zhao Chunlan's son was her weak spot. After Shen Dazhu said this, she compromised: "Okay, give him 500 yuan. I'll call the second son in two days and tell him that I'll give them two envelopes of 500 yuan each."

Shen Dazhu corrected him: "It's not five hundred in total, it's five hundred in total."

Zhao Chunlan was so angry that she almost fainted: "How can we have so much money!

No, two for five hundred is about right."

Shen Dazhu said calmly, "We still have money in our passbook. Take one out and we still have five."

Zhao Chunlan glared at Shen Dazhu fiercely: "That's our coffin money, we don't need that money."

Shen Dazhu shook his head: "We don't need that much money for the coffin. Besides, the second and third brothers give us money every month, so we are not short of money.

Old woman.

This is my wish.

You don't stop me.

Otherwise, when I die one day, I will leave with regrets."

Shen Dazhu said so, Zhao Chunlan had no choice but to do as he said. She gritted her teeth and uttered a few words: "For your sake, I agree, isn't it okay?"

…

The second day after Xu Jiajia returned to her hometown.

She and Xiaoyao went up the mountain to pick wild fruits.

Look around for two.

What have you not found?

Xu Xiaoyao wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked up at the sun blocked by the leaves below: "It's too hot, how about we go down the mountain?"

Xu Jiajia asked Guagua to start a scan to see if there was anything good nearby.

[Host, there is nothing around, you can go into the mountains and take a look.]

In the past few years, Xu Jiajia has been focusing on experiments and seldom exercising. His skills have deteriorated and he dares not go into the mountains.

"Let's go down the mountain."

Wait for A Yue to come back before going into the mountains.

On the way down the mountain, they saw a middle-aged man carrying a snakeskin bag.

When passing by.

Xu Jiajia saw the snakeskin bag move, her face froze, and she grabbed the snakeskin bag, just grabbing one hand, and she instantly understood what it meant.

She looked at the man sharply: "What's inside?"