bonanza

chapter 26

"Fifth Grandfather?"

The visitor was none other than Yang Wu, the village party secretary and director of the village committee.

"Fifth Grandpa, drink water."

Yang Wu took the tea bowl, looked around Yang Dongsheng's house and said, "Your house is not bad, Dongsheng!"

"Fifth Grandpa, don't make fun of me. My small shabby house is no match for the big boss's mansion."

"Now that I'm here, I have to ask you something. Dongsheng, I heard that you are digging people from the mine in Yangshan?"

"No, who did you listen to?" Yang Dongsheng pretended to be stupid.

"Then why did Yang Shan come to me to complain, saying that all the people in his mine went to your mine?"

"What are you talking about! It's really not the person I took the initiative to dig, but they wanted to come here on their own initiative, and I stopped them all, and didn't want any of them."

"Then how did they come to your mine? I see that many of the people in your mine are from the original Yangshan Mine."

"What are you talking about! I don't know who came up with the bad idea. Seeing that I didn't accept them, they ran to join the old tricks under my hands. Some people didn't even do the original tricks. If you want to come over, when I find out that the number of people in the mine is wrong, it will already be like this."

"If that's the case, then I really can't blame you, it's because someone has too many ghost ideas." Yang Wu patiently listened to Yang Dongsheng's nonsense, and said sarcastically.

"The matter has come to this point, and I don't dare to take the initiative to chase people away. If someone like Yang San appears again, I can't bear it with my wealth."

"Dong Sheng, I won't say more. It was Yang Shan who did something wrong in the first place. You should take revenge on him. But now the people in the Yang Shan Mine have been dug out by you. You should relieve your anger." right?"

Yang Dongsheng didn't expect Yang Wu to talk so far. What kind of benefits did Yang Shan do to Yang Wu?

Although Yang Dongsheng was unwilling, but Yang Wu, the village party secretary and director of the village committee, was not something he could offend now, "Fifth Grandpa, since you have spoken, I will not accept anyone from the Yangshan Mine in the future." That's it."

"With your words, I feel relieved!"

"I bought eggplants, eggs, tomatoes, spinach and fish, do you think it's okay?" At this time, a man was riding a bicycle and stopped at the door of Yang Dongsheng's house, talking while taking a bunch of things from the bicycle, until he walked in Only then did I see Yang Wu in the room, "Uncle Fifth?"

"I don't know how to cook, so I hired Zhou Ying to wash my clothes and cook for me." Yang Dongsheng explained quickly.

But Yang Wu seemed to know it already, "Xiaoying, I'm here to talk to Dongsheng, I've finished talking, you guys should be busy."

"Uncle Wu, go slowly."

"Okay!" Yang Wu waved his hand and walked away.

"This is leftover from grocery shopping!" Zhou Ying handed over a bunch of scattered receipts to Yang Dongsheng.

Yang Dongsheng took the change, looked at Zhou Ying, then at Yang Wu, why is he a generation below Zhou Ying?
The sun went down and the day was finally over.

"Brother, are we really going to stop poaching people from Yangshan?"

"Yang Wu has come forward, he has an unusual relationship with Yang Shan."

"This fifth old man, if he shows up a few days later, I will be able to dig out all the people in the Yangshan Mine." Yang Jiayun stomped his feet resentfully.

"Go and tell the rest of the miners that Yang Shan came to Yang Wu, and Yang Wu put pressure on us, so we had no choice but to reject them. It's not that we didn't want them on our own initiative." Yang Dongsheng didn't take the blame.

"Okay, let me tell you, I will definitely blame them for the scapegoat."

"Okay, let's go." Yang Dongsheng couldn't help looking in the direction of the house—at noon, Zhou Ying made scrambled eggs with tomatoes and scrambled eggs with spinach, and he didn't know what he was going to have for dinner.

Before returning to the house, Yang Dongsheng saw that the front and back of the house were covered with clothes to dry.

Zhou Ying seemed to have washed all of Yang Dongsheng's clothes.

A slender figure stood in front of the house, and saw Yang Dongsheng rushing into the kitchen from afar.

"It would be nice to have soup for dinner." Zhou Ying's voice came from the direction of the kitchen.

This voice suddenly gave Yang Dongsheng the feeling of being at home. Yang Dongsheng had only seen this kind of situation before when he was watching TV. He had never felt this way in that so-called home.

"Not in a hurry!"

After a while, Zhou Ying walked in with a big bowl.

Zhou Ying made fried shredded eggplant, steamed fish, and a tomato and egg soup.

The two sat opposite each other, and no one spoke except for the sound of bowls and chopsticks hitting each other.

Until Yang Dongsheng found out that Zhou Ying only ate shredded eggplant, "Zhou Ying, don't you like fish?"

"..." Zhou Ying shook her head.

"Then you eat fish!"

"Oh!" Zhou Ying only picked up a small piece of fish, and continued to eat eggplant.

"It's agreed that I will eat what you will eat, are you trying to make me break the contract?" Yang Dongsheng directly put the whole fish tail into Zhou Ying's bowl.

Zhou Ying washed the dishes, cleaned the pot, and brought Yang Dongsheng a basin of steaming water for washing his feet, "If it rains at night, remember to collect your clothes."

"it is good!"

Zhou Ying looked at Yang Dongsheng again, "Then I'm leaving?"

Yang Dongsheng looked at the sky, "Wait a minute!"

"What else?" Zhou Ying looked at Yang Dongsheng warily like a frightened kitten.

Yang Dongsheng walked into the house and came out again, "Bring your flashlight, it's been raining these days and the road is slippery."

"Oh!" Zhou Ying took the flashlight, "Hurry up and wash your feet, it will be cold if you don't wash them."

"it is good!"

Yang Dongsheng glanced into the room, and then turned his face. Zhou Ying had already gone a long way, as if he was running away.

"Am I so scary?" Yang Dongsheng touched his face.

After closing the door and soaking his feet, Yang Dongsheng lay on the bed, unable to sleep for a while.

Thinking about it, the next time I go to the city, I should buy a TV and come back.

"Boom!" Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Did you forget to bring something?" Yang Dongsheng opened the door.

It was not Zhou Ying outside the door, but a thin and small boy, "Yang Huai? Come in and sit down!"

Yang Huai followed Yang Dongsheng into the house, carrying a black plastic bag in his hand.

"Come on, drink some water!" Yang Dongsheng observed Yang Huai while pouring water.

I didn't expect to see Yang Huai in this life, and it was whole and alive.

"Here, this." Yang Huai opened his mouth with difficulty.His mouth was stiff, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

"You came here right away, what else do you want to take?" This is the truth. With Yang Huai's current situation, what can he take, can't he just steal something?That fault was all Yang Dongsheng's fault.

Yang Dongsheng opened the plastic bag, glanced at it, and yelled, "Oh, my God!"

I saw wild nightshade fruit in the plastic pocket, which is called Hei Tiantian in their local language.All of them were cooked black and bright, only the size of a bean grain, and even filled more than half of a plastic bag.

Although this kind of thing is not a rare thing in the countryside, it is available in the fields, but to pick so many, it takes an unknowingly many miles to walk and dig through many weeds to pick it. It is more precious than any fruit.

Yang Dongsheng lifted up Yang Huai's sleeves and trouser legs, and sure enough, he saw that they were covered with scratches and bruises from falls, which made his heart ache, "How many places did you go to pick them?"

"No, how many places."

"Don't do that next time."

"Oh!"

"It's getting cold now, and it will be winter in two months. Do you brothers and sisters have winter clothes?"

"Have!"

"By the way, the village restaurant is too dark. The meals I sent you recently are all made by Aunt Jiayun. They may not be as delicious as those made by the restaurant. Are you still used to them?"

"Eat, get used to it!"

"It's my turn to deliver meals to you next month. The mine is busy, and I may not be able to make it through most of the time. I will ask Zhou Ying to deliver it to you. You know Zhou Ying, right? The most beautiful one in the village."

"know!"

"Did you come here today for something?" Yang Dongsheng looked at Yang Huai.

Yang Huai lowered his head and held back for a long time before finally raising his face and saying, "I want to work in the mine."

"Well, self-reliance is better than anything! Come tomorrow, we start working at dawn, remember to get up early."

"But I'm not old enough."

"How much worse." There is an unwritten rule in the village that only men who are at least 16 years old can work in the mine.

"Two, months." Yang Huai stretched out his index and middle fingers.

"Two months is nothing!" Yang Dongsheng waved his hand, but immediately took another look at Yang Huai's body.

Yang Huai is a little too thin, but he can't be blamed for that. There is a tradition of reporting older age in the countryside, so Yang Huai is still two months away from turning 16.

"In this way, I will arrange a job for you to drive a tractor. Our mines are all tractors with steering wheels. It is very simple to drive. You can learn it in two days without much effort."

"I know how to drive a tractor! My father taught me."

"That would be even better." Yang Dongsheng thought for a while, touched his pocket, "I gave you the 100 yuan in advance, and Jiayun and I won't send you meals in the future. Take your sister and have a good time. The more others don't want us to be good, the more we have to live our lives to show them!"

"I..." Yang Huai took the money, tears streaming down like broken beads.

"Why cry! Your father is gone, you are the only man in your family, don't cry!"

(End of this chapter)