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053: The kindness repaid by the fountain

"It's nothing much. I was just talking to you. Didn't I add too much without paying attention? I'll charge you 1 catty. You can take it back and eat it."

"How can this be done? If you open your business, my old lady can't take advantage of you."

"Grandma, look at what you said. If you are willing to buy oil from me, that is my blessing. How can I say that you are taking advantage of me? When I was a child, I was always naughty and would not leave your house. Every time you did

You asked me to eat the good food. Have you forgotten? I have not."

"You kid, how many meals are worth how much money you have? You still remember it in my heart, but I have forgotten it long ago."

"Don't you forget? There are so many children who come to your house to eat and drink, but you can't remember me. Hahaha, just accept it, don't be polite anymore, I still have to do business, you

If you ask me to keep talking to you, I won't be able to do business."

The shop owner deliberately pretended to be unhappy, but in fact he was smiling.

"Okay, then I'll take it. Come on, I'll get you some money."

Just as grandma was about to get money, Zhao Peng quickly took out a 10 yuan note from his pocket and handed it to the shop owner.

The shop owner looked at Zhao Peng curiously and asked his grandmother: "This child is..."

"This is my Yali's eldest son, his name is Peng'er."

"Ah, this is Yaligu's child. He has grown so tall. Your mother... ugh!" The shop owner wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing. He took three yuan and gave Zhao Peng seven yuan.

Yuan.

Just as Zhao Peng was about to collect the money, he suddenly thought of something and ran around the store to get some softer pastries and two bags of soy milk powder. He came over and asked the store owner to recalculate the money.

The store owner was even more surprised, but he calculated the money again and found a total of sixteen yuan.

Zhao Peng gave the money, said thank you, and helped his grandmother out the door.

The store owner was left surprised, but also a little relieved.

"You can be considered a sensible child, not bad."

Zhao Peng took his grandmother out and ran to a nearby place to buy snacks. He bought some soft cakes for her and weighed some oranges for her.

Grandma has bad teeth, but she also likes to eat sweet things. Among fruits, she likes oranges the most.

Finally, I weighed half a catty of tea for my grandma. Grandma couldn’t live without tea for a day. In his previous life, Zhao Peng would bring tea to grandma every time he came home. Grandma had no money, so she would drink tea for two yuan a day.

The tea was very bitter, but she drank it happily.

Zhao Peng originally wanted to give his grandmother a lot of things, but as he was shopping, he discovered a problem. The things he hung on the front of the car already weighed more than ten kilograms. How could his grandmother, an old lady with small feet, carry such a heavy thing back?

After thinking about it, I decided to take my grandma home by bike.

At the worst possible outcome, I would just drop my grandma down at the door and not enter my uncle's house.

He found a torn snakeskin bag, wrapped the things in it, then put it on the beam of the car, raised the support of the car, helped his grandmother sit in the back seat, then slowly got into the car, and rode steadily towards Zhangjiazhuang.

Grandma's village is called Zhangjiazhuang, which is seven or eight miles away from Zhao Peng's home, but only about three miles from the street. It only took ten minutes to get back to my grandmother's house.

Zhao Peng stopped the car, carefully helped his grandmother down, put her things on the ground, and prepared to leave quickly to avoid running into her aunt.

As luck would have it, my aunt suddenly opened the door and walked out carrying a broom.

When he saw Zhao Peng, he was stunned for a moment, then without saying anything, he came to hit Zhao Peng with a broom.

When Zhao Peng saw that the situation was not good, he ran away on his bicycle.

"You little bastard, Sangmen Xing, what are you doing here at our house? It's bad luck!" My aunt chased her for a while before stopping.

When Zhao Peng saw that she had stopped chasing her, he also stopped the car. From a distance, he saw his aunt with one hand on her waist and one hand pointing at her grandmother, almost poking her face with her finger.

He felt doubly sad, but there was nothing he could do about it.

After what happened today, he suddenly thought of something. Since his uncle has not been sentenced yet, can he pay compensation and avoid going to jail?

Because the uncle's injuries were minor and basically did not cause any substantial harm to Uncle Liu, it seemed that he would be released after paying compensation of 5,000 yuan in his previous life. However, my uncle's family was too honest and felt that they were being reasonable and did not hit anyone. They firmly refused to agree to the compensation, and finally insisted on it.

Sentenced to one year.

The main reason was also because they were poor and their family simply could not afford so much money at that time.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea. Instead of riding home, he turned around and rode towards his aunt's house.

Among all the relatives, my uncle is the only one who has seen the world and has some connections in society. I can only discuss such matters with him.

It was seven or eight miles from my aunt's house to my grandma's house. Zhao Peng was so anxious that he rode very fast all the way and arrived at his aunt's house in more than 20 minutes.

My uncle's family is working in the tobacco field.

They have a lot of land and grow flue-cured tobacco every year. If the tobacco is good, they can sell it for 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year. After excluding the cost and the cost of hiring people to do the work, they will make at least 10,000 yuan.

So my aunt's family is in the best situation among the relatives on my grandma's side.

Zhao Peng's aunt is warm and generous to others. Among all her relatives, she helps one family after another and sacrifices a lot for the whole family. She is also Zhao Peng's favorite person among his relatives.

In his previous life, Zhao Peng had almost no contact with his grandmother's relatives for a long time. He still maintained a relationship with his aunt's family, so he was very familiar with her family and had no psychological burden.

Throwing the bicycle at the gate of the yard, he went directly to the field.

The aunt and uncle were carrying ripe tobacco leaves. When they saw him coming, they didn't say hello in particular, so they just asked him with a smile.

Zhao Peng then worked with them, just like returning to his own home.

In the 1990s, flue-cured tobacco was still the main cash crop for farmers in Qingcheng. At this time, as in later generations, if farmers only grew grain in the fields, they would not be able to make ends meet, so they might as well not grow it at all.

Therefore, some cash crops began to become popular, such as some growing radishes and bell peppers, some growing day lilies, and some growing green onions.

Among all cash crops, flue-cured tobacco is undoubtedly the most profitable. If the year is better, you can earn at least 1,500 yuan per acre of land.

The northwest is vast and sparsely populated. Except for the special case of Zhao Peng's family, most families have more than ten acres of land. In a year, a good family can even earn 20,000 yuan.

Because Zhao Peng's family has no land and no one works, they have never grown flue-cured tobacco.

Because the aunt and uncle are strong and strong, both children in the family can work. Moreover, because the aunt often helps other relatives, and the uncle has many connections, whenever the farming is busy, there are always many people coming to help, and there are more than ten acres of land.

It's totally doable.

Therefore, their family grows at least seven to eight acres of flue-cured tobacco every year.

Every summer, Zhao Peng would come over to help. He was hard-working and worked hard when he was a child. He was much more obedient than the two children in his aunt's family, so his aunt and uncle liked him very much.

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