Starting from selling lunch boxes at the construction site

Chapter 1 Drowning
"Gudong, gudong."

Where is this, I can't breathe, I can't move my hands and feet, it's so uncomfortable.

Shouts, footsteps, and arguments accompanied by the sound of falling into the water.

Xu An clearly felt someone holding his arm, the darkness in front of him gradually dissipated, and the light became brighter and brighter.

The man who was kneeling on both sides of Xu An's body and doing heart compressions was suddenly overturned by a huge force under him, and before he could react, he heard the cheers of the surrounding crowd.

"Wake up, wake up, rescued, alive."

After a burst of vomiting so violent that it seemed as if he was going to spit out his heart and lungs, Xu An slowly focused his attention and found that he was holding a fish with his right hand, a fish so bloody and bloody that he couldn't tell it was a fish.

The moment Xu An saw this fish, he subconsciously carried it into his arms.The subconscious told him that this fish was very important to him.

This weird movement startled the people around, and several people who wanted to step forward to help him slowly returned to the crowd.

An old woman shouted at Xu An with some hesitation: "Xu family boy, Xu family boy?"

Xu An looked up at the speaker. The old woman was about seventy years old, her silver hair was neatly arranged, and she had a kind smile on her face. She was holding clothes full of foam in her hands. She was supposed to be doing laundry just now.

Isn't this the third grandma in the village? But didn't she pass away three years ago? Why did she appear here alive, and the people around her didn't show any abnormalities.

A severe headache hit, and a large number of memories appeared in Xu An's mind.

Xu An remembered when the scene in front of him happened.

This was 15 years ago. Grandma fell down the stairs and broke her right leg. After being treated in the hospital, she returned home to recuperate.In order to supplement nutrition for grandma, I went to the river to catch fish, but encountered leg cramps and drowned, and was rescued.

Another picture appeared in Xu An's mind at the same time. He was standing on the reef by the sea, the waves rolled up one after another, and a huge wave swept him into the sea who was waiting for rescue.

Xu An looked at his body. He was wearing a bulky, worn-out striped T-shirt with patches, and under the coarse shorts were two legs that looked like bamboo poles, with two vegetable leaves hanging from his feet.

This was his favorite set of clothes when he went out to work. It was not until the end of the summer vacation of the third year of high school that he was caught by a branch when he went to cut firewood. Beloved clothes.

Is this going back to 15 years ago, the summer vacation after the college entrance examination?

"Buddha said that there are many things, and there are too many loves in a lifetime; love and hate drag back and forth, frowning and frowning."

The phone rang suddenly, and the man took the phone out of his pocket.Xu An saw the date on the screen, June 2012, 6.

March 2012, 6!
At this time, the younger brothers and sisters have not been sent to the sister-in-law's house!
Xu An jumped up, and thanked the enthusiastic villagers around him in a chaotic manner, then let go of his feet and ran home.

Pushing open the courtyard door at home, Xu An saw his younger siblings washing vegetable leaves in the courtyard, and Xu An hugged the two of them into his arms.

The younger brother's name is Xu Kang, and the younger sister's name is Xu Le. They are twins.On June 6th, she was sent to the home of my sister-in-law who had been married for seven years and had no children. She was registered on the household registration of my sister-in-law, and became Xu An's cousin from a brother and sister.

"Brother, you strangled me so hard." The two pushed Xu An hard, trying to push him away, but they were small and weak, and Xu An remained motionless.

Hearing that Xu An woke up from the memory, he quickly let go of his hand, and squeezed the delicate faces of the two of them.

Xu Le got out of Xu An's arms, looked behind Xu An, but didn't see the familiar fish basket, and asked with some disappointment: "Brother, where is Yuyu, brother, didn't you catch fish? Didn't you catch any fish?" Fish?"

Xu An rubbed Xu Le's head, looked at the yellow and thin faces of the two, and said apologetically, "Brother didn't catch Yuyu, so I don't eat Yuyu today, can I eat meat instead?"

Hearing Xu An's words, the two little people's faces were full of disbelief, and they looked at Xu An with wide eyes: "Brother, do you really eat meat? Is it the meat from pigs?"

Xu An looked at the expectant eyes of the two, smiled and nodded their little noses, and said firmly: "Yes, today I will eat the meat of the pig."

"Whoa, eat meat, eat meat, eat pork!"

The two of them circled around Xu An excitedly, talking about meat while running.

In 2012, most families lived a life full of meat.But in Xu's family, it is still only during the New Year's Eve that a small meal of meat can be luxuriously eaten.

Xu's mother died of bleeding when she gave birth to Xu Kang and Xu Le. Xu's father was working on the construction site. In order to earn more money, he took the initiative to do some more dangerous work. He slipped and fell from upstairs to his death. 3 yuan.

Since then, Grandma Xu is the only family member left in the Xu family. Luckily, Grandma Xu is in good health. She grows a vegetable garden full of vegetables and sells them in the market every day. She can earn some living expenses and live a decent life. .

But grandma Xu broke her leg a week ago while repairing the house. The money for the treatment was paid out of the 1 yuan in compensation, which cost more than [-] yuan, making the already poor family worse.

"Anzi, is Anzi back?"

Grandma Xu seemed to hear the movement from outside the house, and the weak voice came out through the window.

Stopping the two people who were playing around, locked the courtyard door, and Xu An walked into the house.

Stepping into the living room, what you see is a long table with three red plastic incense burners on it, and three black and white photos hanging on the wall above the incense burners.

From left to right are Grandpa Xu, Dad Xu and Mom Xu.

There is a bulky solid wood square table against the wall on the left side of the living room. The red paint on the table is mottled, revealing the original wood color.

A plate of pickles was placed on the square table, and next to the pickles were two shriveled apples, covered with a red fly-proof cover.

Turning to the left is grandma's room. In the center of the empty room is a simple wooden bed made of stools and wooden boards of different lengths.

A shriveled piece of bamboo was tied to the four corners of the wooden bed, and a somewhat yellowish mosquito net was hung.

There are several dark jars piled up in the corner of the room, tightly covered with wooden boards. These are pickle jars that have been passed down by the Xu family for four or fifty years.

Grandma Xu was half leaning against the wall, her body was covered with a thin navy blue quilt, and her silver hair was tied in a mess on the back of her head. When she saw Xu An coming in, she asked with concern: "Anzi, what did you do this early in the morning?" Where did you go out?"

Hearing grandma's concern suddenly, Xu An's nose turned sore, tears rolled down his face, he suppressed his emotions after a long time, pretending to be normal, and said: "There are a lot of vegetables in the field that will grow old if you don't pick them, go pick them early in the morning The vegetables were picked and sold in the market."

Grandma Xu looked at Xu An's performance and knew that he was not telling the truth.But now that his legs and feet were bad, and he couldn't even get out of bed, Xu An didn't want to tell him that there was nothing he could do, so he didn't press on and changed the subject.

"I picked those vegetables, how much did I buy?"

Xu An took out a handful of wet banknotes from his pocket, quickly counted the total of 51 yuan and [-] cents, and began to make up according to this total.

"I picked five catties of green beans, three yuan and fifty one catty; picked four bitter gourds for three catties, three yuan one catty; picked nearly ten catties of tomatoes, two yuan and fifty one catty; a total of 51 yuan and fifty cents were sold."

Grandma Xu looked at the wet banknotes in Xu An's hand and didn't answer, she was so quiet that Xu An felt a little terrified.

"It will take a long time for my leg to heal. You can collect the money from selling vegetables, and use it when you need money on weekdays."

After finishing speaking, Grandma Xu pulled up the quilt and lay down on her side, with her back to Xu An.

Xu An smoothed out the creases on the banknotes, folded them one by one, put them back in his pocket, and looked back at the door.

It wasn't until this moment that Xu An realized that he was wet from top to bottom, leaving wet footprints wherever he walked.

(End of this chapter)