It was early in the morning, about three o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Chu left Zhao's house and walked west.

According to what Zhao Mao'er said, she picked him up on the mountain road in Qifengling in the west a few days ago... Chen Chu went there to find something as soon as he regained his mobility.

Zhao Maoer stood in the courtyard thoughtfully.

"Sister, sister..." Zhao Hutou ran over with short legs and carefully took out something from his old purse.

"Sister, here you go." Hutou opened his clenched fists, and in his palm was a small, bright red thing.

"What is this? Where does it come from?" the cat asked curiously.

"These are watermelon candies, they are delicious..." Hu Tou turned around and looked at Chen Chu's back as he walked further and further away, saying: "He gave them to me. He gave me two, I secretly left one for you..."

While the two sisters were talking, a group of eight or nine-year-old children passed by outside the low fence.

When several people saw Sister Mao'er, they laughed and picked up the clods of soil on the ground and threw them into the courtyard...

"Broken shoes~"

"Zhao Hutou, your mother is a broken shoe, and you will be a broken shoe in the future... Hahaha."

The cat turned sideways to protect his sister, letting the clods of dirt hit his thin back, then picked up his sister and prepared to enter the house.

Hutou shrank into his sister's arms, as if he was very afraid. It wasn't until the urchins were far away that he muttered as an afterthought: "When I grow up, I will beat you idiots to death..."

Enter the house and close the door.

Widow Zhao walked out of the back room and glanced at the woodshed in the courtyard through the crack in the door: "Is that young man out?"

"Well, he said he was going to find some items." Zhao Maoer responded casually.

Widow Zhao pulled her to sit down, with an eager look on her face: "Mao'er, where did this young man come from? Is he a son of a wealthy family?"

At first, when her daughter picked up a strange man and came home, Widow Zhao was very opposed to it.

But then I took a closer look and found that although he was dressed strangely, the fabric was neither brocade nor silk, which was very rare.

And after wiping off the blood on his face, the young man's features were as delicate as a young lady's, and his face was as supple as that of a young lady from a rich family.

Judging from Widow Zhao's life experience, those who wear silk and satin may not necessarily be rich, but young men with tender faces and soft hands must be born into rich families. Because the latter means that they do not have to work for a living, and that they are pampered and well-off.

So these days, she did not stop her daughter from taking care of Chen Chu.

But after Zhao Maoer listened to his mother's words, he showed a hint of displeasure: "Where does he come from and what does it have to do with me, and what does it have to do with you? I will drive him away after he is healed."

"Silly girl!" Widow Zhao became anxious when she heard this. She grabbed Mao'er's arm and shook it: "If he really is a child of a rich family, you must not be ashamed! You must seize this opportunity to entangle him, even if you do

If you don't come to the main room, you can just be a child. No matter how bad it is, it's better to be an outside room than to suffer here!

This is the wealth that fell from the sky. My daughter deserves to enjoy it! If she can have good clothes and good food, chastity is worth nothing! Let Hutou sleep with me tonight, and let him go to your house..."

"Mom!" Zhao Mao'er blushed angrily as she listened to her mother's increasingly explicit words, and said angrily: "With my background, no serious person can take notice of me! Even if I don't have the shame to stick to it, I can only do it with others.

A plaything for several years!"

"...."

Widow Zhao got angry and wanted to have an attack, but she remembered something and sat down again.

What Mao'er said about "my background" is not referring to Widow Zhao's extremely humble job.

The mother and daughter were silent for a long time, and then Widow Zhao suddenly started crying.

"Hutou was still an infant when your short-lived father died, and you were only eight years old. The three of us fled here and were ostracized everywhere. If I hadn't watched you two starve to death, how could I have done this?

Insulting the livelihood of our ancestors..."

Widow Zhao cried more and more painfully, and Mao'er couldn't help but soften her heart: "Mom, please don't do it anymore...I have grown up now, and I go into the mountains several times a day to carry firewood to sell in the city, but it always doesn't work."

I can take care of our three mothers."

Widow Zhao opened her mouth to say something, but Mao'er knew at a glance that her mother still had no intention of giving up on Chen Chu, so she rushed to say, "That man is not the rich kid you thought..."

When Mao'er told Widow Zhao the truth about Chen Chu's coming from Dongsheng Shenzhou, the latter's shoulders immediately slumped.

I thought I rescued the young master who was injured in an accident, but unexpectedly he turned out to be a homeless man who was on the run.

The ups and downs of emotions made Widow Zhao feel even more depressed, and she recalled what her daughter had just said, ‘With my background, no serious person can respect me.’

The depressed Widow Zhao decided to show off her cards in advance...

She got up and walked into the bedroom. After a slight noise, she walked back to Zhao Maoer holding a wooden box.

"Cat, please open it and take a look." Widow Zhao's charming face showed a bit of pride.

"Well..." After the cat opened the box, he was dizzy for a moment.

In addition to a few silver hairpins and jade bracelets, there are some copper coins in the box.

At a rough glance, it is worth at least ten thousand to twenty thousand dollars.

"This is all saved for my mother over the past few years. She has thought about it. When you are sixteen next year, she will take you sisters to Dazhou in the south. The three of us will find a place where no one knows us and build a small room.

Fang... Let Hutou also go to school for two years, so that she will not be illiterate and blind like my mother and I...

Then I will tell you about your husband’s family, so that you can marry in a clean and graceful manner..."

When Widow Zhao said this, there was an extremely rare tenderness in her eyes.

Zhao Maoer was stunned after hearing this. She thought that she was born in this filthy and rotten world and would be unable to escape her bad fate sooner or later. She never thought that her mother had such a long-term plan.

Taking a closer look, the mother, who was just over 30 years old, already had silver threads on her temples, and Mao'er couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.

"Mother..." Zhao Mao'er called Ai Ai and reached out to hold her mother: "If you think so, why do you have to wait until next year? Let's pack up and leave tomorrow!"

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Widow Zhao cast a sidelong glance at her daughter and said angrily: "How can we leave before we have saved enough money? In the future, we will build a house, fix a tiger's head, or give you a dowry. How can you do it without money?"

"I don't need a dowry!" Zhao Maoer said firmly.

Suddenly knowing her mother's plan, the cat couldn't wait to get its wings and leave this place immediately.

"Then... let's wait until the weather warms up before setting off. The weather is still cold in the first month of the year, and Hutou's body may not be able to bear it." Widow Zhao thought for a while and gave a reason that Zhao Mao'er couldn't refuse.
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"Okay then. Mom, we have agreed, and we will hit the road as soon as the weather warms..."

"Okay... I'll follow you."

"Mom, how much money is in this box?"

"Mom is stupid and keeps losing count. You go and light the bowl lanterns, and we two can count them together?"

"Okay!"

......

‘Go out three miles west to Qifengling, then walk up Erli Mountain Road, that’s where I picked you up that day...’

Following Zhao Maoer's instructions, it took Chen Chu half an hour to find an unclear tire mark on the mountain road.

There were densely packed withered yellow shrubs under the cliff, which looked unrealistic from a distance, so Chen Chu simply climbed down.

At the bottom of the cliff with a depth of six to seven feet, the cargo was turned over on its side among the thorns.

After finally opening the deformed car door, Chen Chu got into the cab and found his schoolbag first.

The cell phone in the bag has run out of battery.

The rest include car chargers, charging cables, lighters, a ten-hole harmonica, a few boxes of medicines, a few pairs of socks, two pairs of Spongebob underwear, some toiletries, and a stack of plastic bags originally intended to be used to pack seeds.

......

In addition, Chen Chu also found a tool box in the cab, which contained a set of screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, etc. of various sizes.

Originally, he wanted to take it with him, but the boxy tool box was too conspicuous, so he took a cross-head screwdriver and stuck it in his waistband.

After everything was packed up, Chen Chu took out the list of seedlings donated by brother colleges and looked at it carefully...

‘Yunong High Gluten King Wheat Seed 10kgx1 bag

Northeast Nong Lin Kexin No. 15 seed potatoes 10kgx1 bag

Shannong Yanmi No. 1 sweet potato seed potato 10kgx1 bag

Jinong Jihua No. 8 peanut seeds 5kgx1 bag

Wannong Tianyu 58 corn seeds 5kgx1 bag

Northwest Nonglin Luofeng No. 3 Red Fuji annual seedlings x 20 plants

Zhe Nong Xiangyan No. 18 strawberry seeds 80gx5 bags

Sunong Sutian watermelon seeds 100gx5 bags

Xiangnong taste tomato seeds 50gx5 bags

Sichuan Nong Changfeng Erjingtiao pepper seeds 60gx5 bags, Hongzhen No. 11 millet spicy seeds 60gx5 bags...'

There are also pumpkin, eggplant, onion, cabbage, and more than a dozen kinds of grain, fruit, and vegetable crop seeds below.
To be continued...