When Wan Feng returned home, he did not write a letter home in order not to worry his parents. After all, it was no joke for a fourteen-year-old boy to travel more than three thousand miles alone.
Therefore, his appearance seemed very sudden.
Wan Feng's mother Zhu Min was in a trance when she saw her eldest son whom she had not seen for a year and a half, and she couldn't help pinching her arm hard with her hand.
There is pain, it's not a dream.
The next moment, Zhu Min threw away the hoe in his hand, staggered out of the vegetable garden, and grabbed Wan Feng's shoulders.
"Ah! Why are you back? You came back by yourself?"
"I came back just to take a look."
"You damn kid, how old are you and you came back by yourself? Do you want to scare your mother to death? What if you get lost?"
You see, the mother always thinks of the worst first. Why doesn’t she think of the good? She thinks the baby is lost first, so how could it be lost?
"Mom! I'm back safe and sound! Brother, find my sister."
Wan Jun ran out in a daze.
"Let's go inside first."
Wan Feng followed his mother into the house.
This house is unfamiliar but also not unfamiliar to Wan Feng. This is the first time he has entered this house in this life, but in his previous life he lived in this house until April 1986.
In my impression, this house is exactly the same as in my previous life, with no changes.
This house is a kind of house made of mud and boards. There are pillars erected around it, and wooden boards nailed on both sides of the pillars. The gaps between the wooden boards are filled with yellow mud mixed with grass, and then yellow mud is thrown on the outside to make walls.
One step into the house and to the right is the door leading to the inner room. Next to the door is the stove, and inside the stove there is a space of about six or seven square meters.
There is a bowl rack in this space now. In two years, a partition wall will be built next to the stove to separate a small space inside, where a small kang will be laid out. Wan Feng and his younger brother Wan Jun will sleep on this kang.
There is a large kang next to the wall of the kitchen in the inner room, which takes up more than half of the area of the room.
Now the whole family sleeps on this kang.
Wan Feng placed his backpack on the kang. As soon as he sat down, his mother couldn't wait to ask, "I didn't send you any money. Where did you get the money for the trip? Your grandma can't possibly have any money to give you."
The travel expenses alone, including car and train, would cost about thirty yuan. Zhu Min didn't think her parents would give Wan Feng so much money.
Doesn’t she know how her mother’s family lives?
"Mom, you don't know how things have changed in Wahou now. Last year, a laborer in Wahou could carry more than 200 yuan a year."
Zhu Min blinked in confusion. She knew roughly how much money the family earned in a year, so she used to send thirty or twenty yuan home every year.
But after the depression last year, the money was taken away?
"This year, a laborer in Wahou can conservatively take home 500 yuan. Do you think my grandma has any money?"
Wan Feng's estimate is still conservative. Each worker at the brick and tile factory can get at least 350 yuan this year. If the rubber shoe factory continues at this pace, even though it opened late, it will still be able to bring each worker an income that is no less than that of the brick and tile factory by the end of the year.
Even if the machinery factory does not make money from tractors, it can still generate some income by making seeders and threshers.
In fact, Wan Feng’s ideal is that each worker can get about 1,000 yuan this year, which will meet his ideal.
"Then your grandma won't give you money to come back on your own."
"Mom! You should change your perspective. Your son is no ordinary person now. He is very capable!"
"Bullshit! Are you still able to do it? Why don't I believe it?"
Just when Wan Feng was about to explain something more, Wan Jun came running back with his younger sister Wan Fang in his arms.
“Big Brother!”
Wan Fang is only eight years old this year. She has a round face and two dimples when she smiles. She is a little short and rolled in like a mole. When she saw Wan Feng, she called him "Big Brother" affectionately and her eyes turned into crescents with a smile.
Wan Feng opened his arms and picked up his sister, shaking her vigorously a few times: "How come you're still so tall? You haven't grown at all!"
"Xiaoqing is also this tall."
This also has a reference for comparison.
Xiaoqing is a girl from the neighborhood. She is about the same age as my sister and they both spent their first grade in a daze.
Wan Feng put his sister down, took off her shoes and got on the kang, then put the bag in front of him and unzipped it.
Wan Jun's attention was focused on the bag on the kang. He had been greedy since he was a child, and he probably was imagining some delicious food in his mind.
"Come, look at what I bought for you."
Wan Jun and Wan Fang stared at the bag with eager eyes.
The first things he took out were two bottles of wine and four packs of cigarettes.
This had little appeal to Wan Jun and Wan Fang, as they knew it wasn't for them.
The next thing that came out of the bag was several paper bags wrapped in wrapping paper.
"Then this is for you."
Wan Jun
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