"Pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and leisurely see the Nanshan Mountain."
In the past few days, after Liu Hai sold his orchids, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to his family's rice planting business. Following his father Liu Qinglin, he would get up when he heard the chickens and return at sunset. He worked hard all day long, struggling with rice transplanting in the paddy fields, and was busy up and down.
It took two days for the father and his son to sow one-and-a-half acres of their two acres of paddy field. The remaining five-quarters of the field had to be left uncultivated because of the lack of seedlings. After some time, they would find a way to plant some.
other crops.
Although Liu Hai's family has been working very hard these past two days, the situation in their hearts is very different from before. With the 30,000 yuan from the flower seller and the 2,000 yuan from Liu Hai's scholarship, the family's wallet is finally a little bigger.
The economic situation has greatly improved! Moreover, Liu Hai is going to college. With hope, there is joy in life. Although the family of four is tired from work, they are even busier and happier!
"The debts I have owed over the years are all here."
On the night after he was busy planting the second-season rice, Liu Qinglin took out a "notebook". This notebook has two functions at Liu Hai's house!
One is the "Human Relationship Book". The human relations between the family, relatives, friends, fellow villagers and neighbors are all recorded in this old notebook. Every time Liu Hai's mother Xiao Yun takes out this notebook, she always has this sentence on her lips.
As the saying goes - "You always have to pay back what others have given you." This means that if your family does something this time, and your relatives and friends take a share of the money, and they support you, the next time the other party does something, you will definitely want to pay for it.
To support others, and they can only pay as much as they want! This is the most basic "humanity and sophistication" in rural areas.
In addition to being a "favor book" for Liu Hai's family, this notebook also has another depressing title - "debt book". Over the years, the debts owed by the family are all recorded in this historical notebook.
on the notebook.
Liu Hai took the yellowed notebook from his father's hand, and his hand suddenly felt heavy! This is not only the debt that his family owes to others, but also the debt that he owes to his parents! Liu Hai opened these weathered papers and looked at them.
I remember the debts above clearly. The latest one is:
"On the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2002, I lent the child to his uncle Xiao Qiang for 2,600 yuan."
The two thousand six hundred yuan was used for the tuition fees for myself and my sister last semester!
Liu Hai continued to read, and he felt more and more confused about what it was like. Every item recorded above was basically for himself and his sister! It was rarely for other things! Although my mother was weak and often suffered from minor illnesses,
She would endure it as long as she could, and would never go to the doctor or take medicine easily!
Liu Hai calculated all the debts over the years.
"Dad, the total is twelve thousand seven hundred and thirty yuan."
The bangs sound a little hoarse.
"Pay it back - well, many of these are old debts!"
Liu Qinglin's eyes were a little dazed. His family had been in trouble these past years, and some of these debts were even borrowed five or six years ago. These debts represent a lot of heavy favors!
His blurred eyes kept flashing back to the scene when he owed this debt, but he didn't know what it felt like.
Seeing that his father was very sad, Liu Hai quickly glanced at the little girl on the side.
"Dad - let's be happy. Now that my brother can make money, our family's life will definitely get better and better. The day when I eat chicken drumsticks for every meal is not far away! Hehe -"
Liu Chen's naughty and exaggerated appearance made the whole family laugh. Liu Qinglin smiled, and Xiao Yun pointed at her little nose angrily and called her a "delicious ghost".
After a while, Liu Qinglin called the two brothers and sisters to him and said to them very solemnly: "Although our family can now afford to pay off these debts, you must pay for the favors in each debt."
I remember! You must never forget your roots and live up to your own conscience!"
Liu Hai's brother and sister quickly said yes and nodded in agreement.
Early the next morning, Liu Qinglin took Liu Hai's family to pay off the debts one by one. There were more than a dozen debts recorded in the ledger, and most of them were neighbors in the village, except for relatives of Xiao Yun's family.
It was not until noon that the two of them paid off all the debts owed by the village. In the end, the creditor with the largest debt was left - Liu Hai's uncle, Xiao Yun's brother Xiao Qiang.
In the afternoon, father and son brought a bottle of wine to Xiao Qiang's house.
Xiao Qiang's family was very happy with the arrival of Liu Hai and his son.
"Qinglin, why did you bring wine today? Haha - Xiaohai, are you excited about going to college?"
"It must be exciting. When I was in college, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep even in the middle of the night!"
Xiao Qiang and his son talked a lot today. Liu Hai's cousin Xiao Lu was just at home during the summer vacation a few days ago.
Auntie served the cold watermelon with a smile and joked: "You think Xiaohai is like you and has no future. Xiaohai is the number one scholar in the entire county!" In her words, she was quite proud, without any jealousy among relatives.
I can only be truly happy for it.
Several people chatted animatedly for a while, and soon the subject of selling orchids came up.
"Qinglin, this is not what my brother said about you. You didn't let me know about this, and you made thirty thousand yuan without saying anything. That's fine! It's still an old habit of letting others know about your achievements. Back then
The same goes for pursuing my sister, quietly, tsk tsk—"
Xiao Qiang patted Liu Qinglin on the shoulder and joked.
"Haha - I am also lucky, lucky. I would not dare to mess with those flowers even if I thought about it. Growing vegetables is my main occupation." Liu Qinglin looked at Liu Hai who was chatting with Xiao Lu next to him and gave a wry smile. Liu Hai was there.
The family made an agreement with him that everything about planting flowers would be assigned to him. They just said that he accidentally picked up a packet of seeds and tried to plant them. Unexpectedly, he actually planted them and became famous. He is a good person.
He was notoriously honest. Except for the village chief Liu San, who knew some of the truth, although the others lamented Liu Qinglin's bad luck, they still cursed and believed it.
With that said, Liu Qinglin took out a stack of money wrapped in paper from his bag and placed it on the table.
"Brother, I have been taken care of by you and my sister-in-law these past few years. Our family owes you these more than nine thousand yuan. Please click on it and see if it is correct."
When Xiao Qiang saw this, his face became stern, and he did not reach out to take the money. He said to Liu Qinglin with a straight face: "Emotions, you and your son are here today to pay back the money? Why, just a few dollars -"
"Xiao Qiang, what are you doing?" My aunt interrupted Xiao Qiang who was about to get angry.
"Brother-in-law, you are thinking of our kindness, and you will pay us back as soon as you have the money. What are you going to do? You always have a straight face, that's a bad habit!" Then he turned around and smiled apologetically at Liu Qinglin: "Your brother is such a bad person.
Don't take offense to Qinglin's fault."
"Well, did I, Xiao, force him to pay back the money? Ah?! I don't know how much money he had to go to my sister's medical treatment, pay back the money, pay back the money. I think he must have paid off all the family's debts, and finally ended up with me.
Come! Humph! Why are you so anxious for a little fame?! Isn’t he just afraid that people will say behind his back that he has money and doesn’t pay back his debts?!”
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