"If there's anything to find, just lose it. It's no big deal. Hurry up and eat. The food is already cold." Su Changmin was a little impatient.

"It's a thousand yuan. This is reserved for my son's tuition. How can I just throw it away? School is about to start. Without this money, how can I register my child and how can my child go to school?" Wang Chunlan was anxious.

Almost cried.

For a family that relies on digging food from the fields, one thousand yuan is equivalent to half a year's land income.

It’s not that Su Xing’s family doesn’t have land, but it’s three to four acres of land and it’s in a hilly area. It’s really difficult to make money from the land. The income throughout the year is only three to four thousand yuan. Plus food and clothing, there’s no savings at all.

No money.

Occasionally, when the price of grain increases, the price of chemical fertilizers will also increase, and pesticides will also be mixed in. Not to mention the hard work of farming, in fact, the income obtained is not much different from before the price increase.

Can you make money from land? You can indeed make money. But it is definitely not possible to do it in a small way. You have to have dozens or hundreds of acres of land and rely on mechanized operation to make money.

As for ordinary farmers who only have a few acres of land, farming is just to ensure that they don't starve to death. The income they get from a year of hard work may not be as much as what someone working outside earns in a month.

"Dad, did you take the money?" Su Xing looked at Su Changmin. Su Changmin's behavior today was a little different and abnormal. Su Xing had reason to suspect that he had taken the money.

Wang Chunlan seemed to have reacted and stared at Su Changmin: "Did you get the money?"

"Nonsense, what am I doing with the money?" Su Changmin refused.

"Did you get the money? One thousand yuan? What my son gave me was the money he earned from working hard fishing for lobsters and selling them to prepare to pay tuition. School is about to start. You

But you can't lie to people. If you hadn't taken it, there must have been a thief at home. I'm going to call the police and let the police come." Wang Chunlan said.

"This is a family matter. Why call the police? When the police come, won't everyone in the village know about it? How shameless." Su Changmin put down his chopsticks, a little impatient, "Isn't it just a thousand yuan? You have to do what I say.

Yes, just go to No. 2 Middle School, tuition and living expenses are all free, so why waste money."

"Did you really take the money?" Wang Chunlan could hear Su Changmin's embarrassment, "What did you do with the money? Where did you put the money?"

"Didn't I tell you last time that I went to my uncle's cousin's house to discuss the matter of waking up and studying in No. 2 Middle School? I couldn't go empty-handed, so I bought some cigarettes and alcohol and went there." Su Changmin said.

, “That’s where the money is spent.”

"The first time I came to the house was to buy some things, but what about the remaining money?" Wang Chunlan felt a little better when she heard that there was no thief in the house, and the money was indeed taken by Su Changmin.

"What's the money left? There's no money left. It's gone." Su Changmin waved his hand.

When Wang Chunlan heard this, she became anxious again: "You don't need a thousand yuan to buy cigarettes and alcohol. Don't lie to me."

"If you want to ask someone for something, you must pick up some good tobacco and alcohol when you come to their door. Besides, I'm not going to a house. I can't pick up something when I go to my uncle's house. I spent eight or nine hundred yuan and bought myself a bottle of wine.

"Don't you have to spend money to eat out? I even put dozens of dollars into it myself." Su Changmin said confidently.

Wang Chunlan covered her chest and didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, she said: "You will spend eight or nine hundred yuan to buy something. Don't you know what's going on at home? Just a little tobacco and alcohol can cost eight or nine hundred yuan."

Yuan, that’s all for my son’s tuition, why did you waste it like this?”

"How can you say it's a waste of what you said? This is basic etiquette. You are not allowed to bring things with you when asking for help. How can you go there empty-handed?" Su Changmin was also annoyed, and the two started quarreling.

Su Xing patted Su Ran, gave her some vegetables, and asked her to carry them into the house to eat.

"Has the matter been done? Besides, what are you asking him to do? Even if the child really goes to the No. 2 Middle School, the tuition fee reduction is not his decision. What does it have to do with him? You spent so much money to get it all.

Damn it, people might still call you a fool." Wang Chunlan said.

"I'm the head of the family. What's wrong with a little money? Am I still not able to be the head of this family? Then what else can I do to live as the head of the family?" Su Changmin took a sip of wine and said, "Isn't that right?"

Admit your mistake.

Seeing that the two of them were arguing more and more fiercely, Su Xing stood up and advised Wang Chunlan: "Mom, forget it, just take the money for gifts. Don't worry about the tuition. I still have money."

"It's a thousand yuan." Wang Chunlan was still angry, and her heart was in pain.

Wang Chunlan must have felt pain in her heart to spend the income she could get from farming for half a year just like this. It would have been the same for anyone else, but Su Changmin didn't care and still felt that he was losing face.

Is it possible to spend 800 or 900 yuan on tobacco and alcohol without losing face?

Su Xing persuaded her a few more times, and the two finally stopped arguing. Wang Chunlan went into the house and was sulking. Su Xing brought her some food, but when she went to bed at night, she found that the food had not been moved at all.

Su Xing sighed. If he had known this was the case, he would not have given Wang Chunlan the thousand yuan.

Su Xing didn't feel sorry for the thousand yuan that Su Changmin took to stick a green onion in a pig's nose, but felt that it was not worth the thousand yuan that Wang Chunlan was so angry that she couldn't even eat and hurt her body.

But there is no way to continue to advise on this matter. Only those who have been poor will know the heartache when money is wasted.

The atmosphere at home became tense. Wang Chunlan and Su Changmin stayed at home silently, feeling angry.

Su Xing took some time and when Su Changmin was alone, he said: "If you really want to give a gift, don't give it in vain. If you give something worth nearly a thousand yuan to someone, it's not to save face, it's to make them laugh."

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"The situation at home is like this. It's not like people don't know that my family is in a rural area. If I spend a thousand yuan as a gift, they won't think you are generous, they will just think you are pretending."

"I am from the city, but I was not allowed to get some decent things in the past. If I am not willing to invest, how can I get anything in return? It is to make people feel guilty in their hearts, so that they will take care of you. It is the same as the things given by others, and the relationship between relatives is

How can he remember being so far away and not moving around on weekdays?" Su Changmin had his own considerations, "Your mother is just reluctant to let go. How can you expect others to treat you well if you don't shed some blood?"

"People in the city are not as wealthy as you think, and the free tuition is also what you think. Don't do it in the future." Su Xing shook his head, "I know my own affairs well."

From the perspective of city people, rural people are unqualified and have low knowledge. In fact, many rural people have never traveled far away. They have been in the countryside all their lives and do not know the etiquette outside. That is why they make some mistakes that are very unqualified to urban people.

thing.

Su Changmin actually had a bit of a stubborn temper. When he was young, he had a quarrel with Wang Chunlan, but he never took action. He believed that gifts must be delivered well so that others will help. In fact, he had low self-esteem.

Su Xing understood that it was precisely because he understood his parents' thoughts that he turned a blind eye to many things.

In his previous life, Su Xing went to college, and the tuition, accommodation fees, and living expenses cost more than 10,000 yuan a year. Su Changmin, who had lumbar problems, no longer idled around. He caught snakes during the day and fetched birds at night. Once, he was killed by a snake.

I was bitten, and I couldn't bear to spend money to go to the hospital. I used earth medicine to treat it, and suffered a lot.

He was originally quite fair and even somewhat handsome, but after only half a year's work, when Su Changmin came back from the summer vacation, he found that the skin on the back of Su Changmin's neck had peeled off from the sun, and he was extremely dark. It was at that time that Su Changmin saw many things clearly.

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Su Xing returned the cart to Yu Lu.

"Can you lend me your junior high school textbook?" Yu Lu mustered up a lot of courage and asked Su Xing.

"Aren't you going to school soon? The school will give you your textbooks when they arrive. Why do you need my textbooks at this time?" Su Xing asked.

Yu Lu was in the second grade of junior high school. She learned this while fishing for lobsters. She was one year younger than Su Xing. The summer vacation was over. Even if she had to preview the textbooks in advance, there was no need to borrow them now.

Nowadays, junior high schools still charge tuition. It is 260 yuan per semester, plus 100 yuan for accommodation, the total is 360 yuan. At first glance, it does not seem to be a lot, but for rural families, 360 yuan occupies a family year.

The average income ratio is not too small either.

Su Xing still remembers that every time he paid tuition, he was very active, but Su Changmin always said wait a minute, wait a minute.

The school will distribute textbooks, and Su Xing doesn't know what Yu Lu wants his old textbooks for.

"Your exam scores are so good, you must have taken notes. I would like to borrow your book to take a look at the notes you took. If it doesn't work, forget it. The school will issue books anyway, so it doesn't matter." Yu Lu said a few words.

I got cold feet and didn't dare to borrow books from Su Xing any more.

"The book is at home. I'll give it to Mouse tonight, and I'll ask him to bring it to you tomorrow when he goes fishing for lobsters, okay?" Su Xing said.
Chapter completed!