Xi Shunhai said with a bitter look on his face: "My daughter goes to junior high school on the street and needs one yuan a day for living expenses. She grows the vegetables at home when she comes back on Sunday."
"Normally, when I don't have money to give her, she carries these vegetables to the street and sells them for living expenses." Xi Shunhai said with a look of remorse.
Zheng Bajin was stunned. This was a vegetable grown by a student to earn living expenses, and she bought it all at once. How could she live?
"Don't worry, I don't drink or smoke, and I won't misuse the money from selling vegetables. All of it will be left to my daughter Xi Chengfang for living expenses." Xi Shunhai seemed to see Zheng Bajin's worry and hurriedly expressed his stance, "I just can't bear to see her, a twelve-year-old girl, walking such a long way carrying vegetables. It's very hard."
Then he must be a prostitute? Zheng Bajin looked at him, as if he was lying, and decided to help him. He nodded and said, "Okay, after finishing the work here, go and have a look. I will accept as much as you can. I hope what you said is true." Really, we have already suffered the loss of not having Wenhua, so we can no longer let our children be like us, we must let them study hard and use knowledge to change their destiny."
Xi Shunhai was very happy when he saw Zheng Bajin agreeing. He didn't say how much he would sell it for per pound, but went to work.
He picked up the hoe and loosened the soil on the potato field where the seeds had been sprinkled. He thought of his daughter again in his mind.
She is only twelve years old now and is in her first year of junior high school in a middle school on the street twenty kilometers away from home. Studying is very good, but my family is too poor. Even if I only need 45 cents a day for food and a pound of rice, it is difficult to provide.
Fortunately, this child is very sensible and has been hard-working since he was a child. He brought his own pot and went to the cafeteria to cook for himself after school. Said this can save half of the living expenses.
When I come back on weekends, I never play like other children. Instead, I am busy planting and preparing vegetables. I get up before dawn on Monday, make some corn rice and eat it, and then go to school carrying vegetables and schoolbags.
When get out of class was over, I took part of the vegetables and sold them on the street to buy rice and stationery.
She doesn’t know how many times she will be ridiculed by her classmates or rolled her eyes by the cafeteria aunt in a day?
However, when the child returned home, she never mentioned that no matter how much suffering she suffered, she had to bear it alone, and she still had to think of ways to save money to buy medicine for her mother who was paralyzed in bed.
The people in the field didn't speak anymore, and Zheng Bajin was also silent. Seeing that everyone was planting vegetables meticulously according to his intention, he went to help Zhang Xiaoe cook with peace of mind.
On the fire, white rice was already cooking, and Zhang Xiaoe was cutting meat.
Zheng Bajin kept watch over the fire, lifted the pot that was almost dry, and put a pot of water on the fire.
After a few minutes, remove the water, put the rice on the fire, and slowly turn it to roast.
This process seems simple, but it is actually very difficult to master. If you bake it too quickly, it will easily burn, but if you bake it too slowly, the middle of the pot will be watery, and the taste will be poor.
However, Zheng Bajin had no problem, he had the timing right.
The aroma of rice in the pot wafted far into people's nostrils, and people couldn't help but be moved.
In this place, there is no rice, only corn and potatoes, and occasionally buckwheat is grown. It is difficult for people to afford rice.
Now, smelling the aroma of this fine cooked rice is simply a fatal temptation. They really have no regrets and feel that helping others this time is worth it.
After a while, Zhang Xiao'e had cut the meat and the rice was almost ready. She put the meat in the pot, poured some water on it, and started to simmer it.
The aroma is even stronger, making people drool uncontrollably.
Finally, when it was time to eat, Zheng Bajin shouted, and people quickly dropped their hoes, sat around the fire, and started eating.
There was only one person in the room, who didn't eat meat, but was in a daze holding a bowl.
Zheng Bajin gave him a strange look, knowing that he was reluctant to eat and wanted to save some for his daughter.
It's hard to say anything. It's not that I'm too hard-hearted, but that once I make the move at this time and ask him to take some back to his daughter, everyone will do it. If anyone doesn't have a relative, then my ham is simply not enough. .
Thinking of this, Zheng Bajin calmly picked up a piece of meat and put it in Xi Shunhai's bowl, saying, "Eat quickly. Only when you have eaten well will you have the strength to work."
"Oh, boss, this meat is too lean. It would be better if it was fatter." Xi Shunhai also noticed his gaffe and was busy covering it up.
"There is no fat left at home, only ham. Next year, if there is another opportunity like this, I will prepare some fat." Zheng Bajin said.
People stopped talking. Suddenly, Xi Shunjin started crying, which made people confused.
