On Sunday, when the sky was still bright, Yan Jiecheng knocked on the door of Jiang Che’s house.

"Brother Jie Cheng, it's only a little after 5 o'clock and you're up now." Jiang Che rubbed his eyes and yawned.

"It's getting late. Yesterday I borrowed a bicycle from my dad, but he didn't want to lend it to me even though he said he was going fishing. We had to go and take the bus with our legs." Yan Jiecheng saw that Jiang Che was still dazed, so he filled a basin of cold water and picked up a towel.

Greeting him in the face.

Seeing Yan Jiecheng's anxious look, Jiang Che didn't waste any more time. He changed his clothes in a few seconds. He brushed his teeth and washed his face. He picked up two bags of things to bring to his uncle and went out with Yan Jiecheng.

We didn't arrive at Shahe Village until after 11 o'clock. Shahe Village was originally called Dujiazhuang. The whole village was originally owned by a landlord named Du. The whole family packed up gold and silver and ran away on the eve of liberation.

After liberation, when the land was divided, the village name could no longer be called Dujiazhuang. Since there was a river at the east end of the village called Shahe, the name of the village was changed to Shahe Village.

Now there are more than 100 households living in the village, and more than 1,000 people are all named Jiang. The Jiang family used to be tenant farmers of this village for generations. Those isolated families were either servants or nursing homes of the landlords. They followed the landlords when they fled.

Ran away.

"Uncle, fourth uncle. I'm back." Jiang Che stood in front of the door and shouted happily.

"Shuanzi is back, my eldest nephew, come in quickly." Before the uncle and fourth uncle could respond, aunt Liu Ying and aunt Gao Hongmei, who were cooking in the woodshed, hurriedly put down their things and came out.

"You kid, I've told you so many times. Just come and don't bring anything. Your family is fine and you don't need anything." The uncle Jiang Dashan looked worried when he saw Jiang Che coming with two more bags of things.

said.

"You said that your child, your younger brothers and sisters are all growing up. You will also get married in two years. Save more money so that you don't take advantage of it when you can." Fourth uncle Jiang Dahe also scolded Jiang Che.

"Hey, I didn't buy anything." In front of the elders, Jiang Che could only pick his scalp.

Jiang Weimin, Jiang Weiguo, Jiang Weiqiang, Jiang Weisheng and Jiang Hehua who were in the house all came out. The four sisters-in-law and their children also came out of the house to talk to Jiang Che.

Although the elders said that Jiang Che did not need such help, neither the adults nor the children in the family wore clothes with patches.

If I remember correctly, the clothes that the youngest nephew wears were made by a tailor for the eldest nephew when Jiang Che’s father was still alive. It has been seven or eight years. If a piece of clothing is worn by the older brother and worn by the younger brother, if it breaks, he will find a piece of cloth to repair it.

After patching up, continue to wear smaller ones.

Seeing a few nephews, Jiang Che opened his handbag and took out a handful of White Rabbit toffees, and one child shared a few. The little ones happily gathered around Jiang Che and said loudly: "Hello, Uncle Five."
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Jiang Che is the fifth among the men in the Jiang family, so the children and nephews in the family call him the fifth uncle.

Several children were happily eating toffee one second, and the next second their mothers confiscated the toffee in their hands. They didn't dare to put it in their hands. No matter how much candy they had, they wouldn't be able to keep it for the second time.

days.

After distributing candies to the children, Jiang Che took out the beef, mutton, milk powder, cigarettes, unlabeled powder and some snacks that he had put in in the morning from his pocket.

It is said that the white liquor was poured in by Jiang Che from the warehouse. The packaging on the cigarettes in the warehouse cannot be replaced, otherwise Jiang Che would not buy such a large-scale product that costs 8 cents a pack.
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I was scolded again by uncles, uncles, and aunts.

After introducing each other to his family and Yan Jiecheng, Jiang Che talked about the purpose of coming today.

"Uncle, do you know if there are any carpenters with better skills in our village or nearby?"

"Carpenter?!"

"Haha..."

"Haha..."

Everyone in the yard, including the four sisters-in-law and the unmarried Sister Hehua, seemed to have heard the joke and laughed so hard that they held their stomachs.

"..." Jiang Che's face was full of black lines, thinking that he had said the wrong thing.

"You silly boy, everyone in our Lao Jiang family is a carpenter." After everyone calmed down, the uncle talked about the reason.

"I have lived in our village for some years, why didn't I know?" Jiang Che was confused. Didn't he say that he had been a tenant farmer for generations, but in the blink of an eye he became a carpenter?

"When you lived in the village, it had just been a few years after liberation. Everyone was vying to work in the fields and transform the mountains and forests."

"We were all so poor back then that no one would ask us to build furniture. And when people invited us to go there, we would eat and live in the host's house. We wouldn't come back until the furniture was ready. Of course you wouldn't be able to see it." The uncle smoked.

Jiang Che smiled as he brought the cigarettes.

It’s true that you can’t find anything without wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

"The food is ready, everyone, please serve." Jiang Che was about to speak when his aunt and aunt prepared the food and urged them to serve it.

"Uncle, brother Xie Cheng is going to get married soon and wants to buy some furniture."

"What do you think these regulations are?" Jiang Che asked straight to the point.

"Contract work and materials or just deliver work?"

"Contract work and materials." This time it was Yan Jiecheng who answered by himself. Jiang Che had finished the matter of finding people for help. Jiang Che would never say anything about wages and materials.

After asking Yan Jiecheng about the furniture and the specific dimensions, the uncle and his fourth uncle added up and quoted a price of 380 yuan. They also told Yan Jiecheng that this price was given for the sake of neighbors who live in the same courtyard as his nephew.

To build so much furniture, the labor and materials cost at least 450 yuan.

Yan Jiecheng was so happy when he heard that the price was so low that he couldn't even see it. He kept saying yes and took out 50 yuan as a deposit. The matter was settled.

On the way to drink, Jiang Che pulled his fourth uncle to go to the toilet, but in fact he wanted to ask his fourth uncle whether the price was acceptable and not to have to pay for it again because of himself.

Fourth Uncle and the others had to go to work in the afternoon and did not drink too much. They told Jiang Che 380 that they still made a lot of money. The trees on the mountain were planted after that special period. They are all fast-growing trees. There is no need to buy wood from others. The woodworking craft village

All men can do it. When the time comes, whoever goes home will share some of the wages, and the rest will go into the public accounts of the production brigade.

Considering that the uncle and the fourth uncle had to go to work in the afternoon, Jiang Che and Yan Jiecheng did not stay long. They agreed that the village would send someone to bring the wood tomorrow. Before leaving, Jiang Che secretly gave the aunt and the fourth aunt to each house.

I left dozens of yuan and some coupons for grain, oil, rice and noodles, and ran away like the wind.

The elders in the family were left with red eyes and kept saying: "This child has not forgotten his roots." "We, the children of the Jiang family, all have a conscience."

Even after walking a long way, we can still see the elders standing in front of the door.

Jiang Che also felt uncomfortable in his heart. The poverty here reminded him of his hometown in his previous life. The high-rise buildings outside changed every day. The poor mountain den in his hometown never changed day after day, year after year.

On the way back, Jiang Che's mood was not very high, and Yan Jiecheng's Coke was broken. I originally thought it would cost about 500 yuan to make, but I didn't expect that I would save so much by going back to my hometown with Jiang Che, which would cost half a year's salary.Chapter completed!