Seeing the whole freshly slaughtered lamb, braving the heat and bleeding, being carried by the farmer into the trunk of his brother's new car that hadn't been driven for half a month, Mu Nan didn't know what to do. these immature sheep or feeling sorry for his brother's new car.
This lamb is not cheap, it's almost a thousand, and his brother bought five. Although they have space, the space has been tested repeatedly, and it is confirmed that there is no time velocity in it, that is, the space is constant. These freshly killed lambs The meat is still fresh no matter how long it takes to take it out, but buying five at a time is just too much.
There were also trucks coming by, and they bought a lot at one time, but Mu Nan listened quietly, and it was a joint venture bought by some acquaintances. Mu Nan couldn't remember
where the severe bird flu broke out in the past two years. Anyway, it wasn't here, but their side was also affected. All traditional vegetable markets canceled the sale of live poultry, and all meat You must pass a quarantine certificate before you can enter the vegetable market.
Some people feel that the meat does not know how long it has been stored, and they are not willing to buy it, so many people drive together to this kind of suburban farm to buy fresh live chickens and ducks. Some people who have a wide range of channels can know what The farm has local pigs, and now they are whole lambs. Some people in the city drive all the way to buy several and then go back to share with relatives and friends. Even his brother uses this reason.
The family is really carve up, and their family is monopolized.
After handing over the goods and clearing the final payment, the car drove on the road, Mu Nan turned over to the back, and put all the lambs in the trunk into the space as soon as he reached out, then put down the window, scattered the things in the car. A bloody smell: "Fortunately, I don't get dizzy, otherwise I really can't take it in. Brother, why do we buy so much? Is there anything special about this lamb? It's so delicious? Five sheep, what do we want to eat? "Sometimes, I have to do it myself, so I have to cut it myself when I get home, it's a bit troublesome when I think about it."
Qin Huai: "I bought a cutting machine, so I don't have to work hard to cut it myself."
Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai inexplicably: "Do you want to open a restaurant so you can practice in advance? By the way, if we open a restaurant in the future, we should be able to make money. We can collect a lot of cheap food materials and stock them up, and they won't spoil anyway, so the cost of raw materials will be much less."
Qin Huai smiled while driving: "Is that you driving or me?"
Mu Nan thought After thinking about it, I dismissed this unconstrained idea: "Forget it, it's not worth it. Now that you haven't graduated from high school, you can work part-time to make money and even buy a car. When you graduate from college, you will only earn more money. , unless the restaurant is opened into a chain, it will not be as profitable as your part-time job at the moment, but you buy so much, when will we eat it? " "Eat slowly, I will make it for you when I get
home Grilled lamb chops, roasted lamb, hand-picked rice, Nan Nan, do you know how much this lamb cost three years ago?"
Mu Nan had never bought it before , how did he know, Qin Huai said: "You can buy it for six hundred yuan. One."
Mu Nan immediately wowed: "We bought more than 900 today!"
Qin Huai: "Yes, look back a few years ago, what was the price at that time, what is the price now, and the things It's getting worse and worse. Pork used to be pork. You've heard that pork is filled with water, so some things gradually changed. After a few years, maybe you want to eat naturally grown pigs and cows again. Sheep are difficult." "You may not
feel the obvious meat, just say watermelon, is the watermelon you ate when you were a child different from the watermelon you eat now?"
Mu Nan nodded sharply: "Big!"
The watermelon you ate when you were young That's so sweet, sweet and refreshing. The current watermelon can only be said to taste like watermelon.
Qin Huai: "So, it's like this now, and in the future, all kinds of greenhouses and various off-season fruits and vegetables, those things that don't grow in accordance with the natural environment, do you think they will be delicious Now we can reserve more things if we have the conditions Stockpile, in another ten years, people will eat pork that has been born, and you will eat pork that grows naturally. The goods you stock up today will be your advantage in the future "
Mu Nan immediately felt that it made sense, not to mention anything else, milk powder used to be real Milk powder, what are milk powders now? Not only are they synthetic, but they are also poisonous. How scary. Moreover, various food problems have been exposed in recent years, which is really out of date.
Mu Nan, who was successfully brainwashed by Qin Huai's words, no longer doubted Qin Huai's behavior of hoarding goods. When he followed Qin Huai to buy, buy, buy, he was still worried about buying less, and even gradually felt the joy of hoarding. goods.
For this reason, Qinhuai also specially customized a lot of shelves and stalls. There are still several years before the natural disaster that will happen in the future. If you want to hide your actions, you can't buy a lot of things at once. Anyway, they still have time to stock up bit by bit, so those who buy It is best to store the belongings in different categories, and it is also convenient for Mu Nan to take them.
This year's Chinese New Year is a bit late, almost at the end of February. On Valentine's Day, the final exams have not yet started, so Mu Nan's desk hole is full. Of course, the full stuff is not for him. It was for his brother, because many of the gifts were not signed, and there was only a small card to hand over to Qin Huai. Mu Nan didn't know who to return it to, so he had to borrow a small trailer to bring all the gifts to Qin Huai.
Seeing the person who put down a cart of presents, rolled his eyes and turned away, Qin Huai hilariously pulled him back, stuffed a piece of chocolate into his mouth, and put a bottle of hot milk tea in his hand. Cai said: " Just now I agreed with the class teacher that I don't need to start school early in the winter vacation, so we have a month, do you want to go to Saipan or the Maldives?" Mu Nan quickly stretched out two fingers:
" Can we go to both? "
Qin Huai didn't refuse either: "Then go to the Maldives first. If it's fun, we can play for a few more days . If it's
not fun, then go to Saipan. Anyway, these two places can get visas on arrival, which is also convenient."
Mu Nan cheered, just at this time When the class bell rang, I happily ran to my classroom with milk tea.
Sitting in front of Qin Huai, Jiang Xuan kept his head down reading the book without turning his head from the beginning to the end, but he listened to their conversation.
He felt that his problems during this time were really big, so big that he couldn't help but start to reflect on when did he start this overly distorted mentality.
After thinking for a long time, he remembered that when he noticed Mu Nan for the first time, he was in the third grade of elementary school, and Mu Nan was just in the first grade. At that time, Qin Huai was already the favorite student of many teachers. He was good-looking and had good grades. He is young but has a stable personality, which is completely different from those little kids who go crazy together after class. Jiang Xuan has always wanted to be friends
with Qin Huai , but Qin Huai doesn't talk to anyone in class. Although he will respond to others talking to him, the feeling is still different. He didn't understand it when he was a child, but he understands it when he grows up. That is alienation, alienation that no one cares about.
He thought Qin Huai was like this to everyone, until he happened to bump into Qin Huai in the small flower bed downstairs coaxing a junior student with a bruised knee during class break. A child like a white dumping sat on the flower bed and cried
till he was sobbing. Qin Huai squatted on the ground and carefully cleaned up his seemingly minor scratches. Tears, and hugged to comfort.
At that time, he didn't know that the boy Jing was not Qin Huai's younger brother. one family at that time, there were also two families, but the envy had been there since then.
Later, he began to imitate Qin Huai and imitate him in every word and deed. He also wanted to become an excellent person like Qin Huai. Special, gradually turning from envy to jealousy, especially after knowing that Mu Nan has no relationship with Qin Huai at all, this kind of jealousy became more and more out of control.
The root cause should be that Mu Nan's parents would often come to pick Mu Nan up from school together, his father carried Mu Nan on his shoulders, and his mother hugged Qin. Huai, even if his grades improved even a little, one would want to have a big meal to celebrate, but his grades regressed He still has to eat a big meal to comfort him, what he sees is always all kinds of laughter
. of happiness was something he had never felt before.
Mu Nan's parents never seem to put any pressure on them, which is completely different from most parents of their age. In his own family, his father leaves early and returns late, and Silence only asks his mother if he has finished his homework. you say you want to go out to eat on your birthday, the response you get is always a refusal that you can buy a week's worth of food at home if you eat out. What's more, his grades are obviously good. When he was
in elementary school, he often got double percentiles in the exams. When relatives and friends asked him, his father never praised him. He just told him not to be proud and keep working hard. He often told relatives and friends that he was not good enough and denied his words.
Now he understands that this is the humility of an adult, but when he was a child, all he felt was negation, negation, negation of all his efforts.
The grades in elementary school are not very obvious, things are very simple, although there are rankings, but there are often quite a few wells ranked first. It wasn't until junior high school that the grades began to widen the gap. There were so many subjects studied that it was difficult to get full marks. It was at this time that Qin Huai's excellence became more conscious.
It's just that such an excellent person gave all his preferences and specialties to Mu Nan, who has no specialties except crying and being clingy.
He really wants to be favored by others. He really wants someone to tell him that you don't have to work hard, just be happy, but he can't. No one favors him. His family can't accept not working hard . His.
This longing for too long, too deep obsession, year after year, made him change from jealousy to a stubborn desire to completely replace it. Originally,
this kind of thought could still be suppressed by reason. After Mu Nan lost his parents , life can be said to be much worse than before. Although Qin Huai treats him better and better, his conditions are limited.
Sometimes when he was at their house, he would see Qin Huai tutoring Mu Nan in his homework, wishing to explain one equation to him in detail, but changing the numbers would not be stupid at all, so he felt vaguely refreshed, one day sooner or later , Qin Huai can fly very high, but Mu Nan, who can't even grow wings, will always be left behind.
But before that day came, he saw Qin Huai who had already grown wings, and he carried Mu Nan on his body to fly without getting too tired. Mu Nan didn't need to grow wings by himself, he could laugh when he was on Qin Huai's body very happy. So he lost his mind and his mentality was disturbed. Why do some people
work so hard but still can't get what they want, while some people can easily get what others desire most without doing anything.
If such a strong contrast is far away, he will not even be envious, because he knows that people in this world are inherently unequal, but the distance is too close, right in front of us, the same living environment, the same starting line , but such a huge gap.
It wasn't until Qin Huai pushed his shoulder that Jiang Xuan recovered from the distorted resentment. When he saw the water-based pen that had pierced the exercise set, he quickly relaxed his strength and turned around: "What's wrong?" Qin Huai said: "I'm asking
you , is there any gift you want, I will take Nannan to the Maldives for the winter vacation."
Jiang Xuan shook his head, he had never been out of the province, he didn't know where the Maldives was, and it was the first time he heard the word Maldives Saipan, so even if Qin Huai asked, he didn't know What do you want: "I can do anything, just bring a sauce."
Qin Huai said yes, then opened the exercise book and prepared to brush up the questions.
Jiang Xuan turned around and looked at him: "Aren't you celebrating the New Year here?"
Qin Huai hummed without raising his head: "It's too cold here, Nan Nan is afraid of the cold, and she always catches a cold
every winter. He went to a warm place to see if he would catch a cold. Anyway, there are only two of us in our family, and we don 't need to visit relatives. It would be nice to go to the beach to swim in the sea and bask in the sun." After a while, Jiang Xuan asked again: "Where is the Maldives? Huh?
"
Qin Huai raised his head: "It's an island country in the Indian Ocean, in a tropical area, so winter will be very comfortable." Jiang
Xuan: "You guys are going abroad again, I see you often take Mu Nan out to play recently."
Qin Huai Smiled: "Take him out to practice oral English, before you go abroad to study, go out and see more, and you won't be so uncomfortable when you go abroad. Anyway, don't worry about my grades, and don't worry about his grades. If you have time, take advantage of your energy to walk more." After
Qin Huai finished speaking, he said, "The final exam is coming soon, how are you preparing?
" Ups and downs, by the time of the mid-term exam, she had completely dropped out of the top 100 list.
Jiang Xuan asked Qin Huai to borrow notes before. Qin Huai didn't really need notes in class, but he has always had the habit of taking notes. He didn't need it himself, but he did it without hesitation . are not very good, so Xueshen is already planning to take his younger brother to go abroad when the time comes. If he doesn't take the domestic college entrance examination, he doesn't care about the grades." "Envy, the college entrance examination is coming next semester, and I'm already having nightmares . " "If you don't get good grades, go abroad. If you go abroad, you probably won't learn much. Just get a good-looking diploma . "
But unexpectedly, when he asked Qin Huai to borrow the notes, Qin Huai said that he had given away the notes, because he had already decided to take Mu Nan to go abroad and not need to take the college entrance examination in China, so those things would not be needed, and Afterwards, Qin Huai really didn't take any more notes, and he couldn't even organize his studies properly.
Now that the final exam is coming soon, Jiang Xuan's mood even becomes more and more resistant to the exam. The kind of resistance that comes from his heart makes him irritable and scared.
When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Qin Huai was packing his schoolbag. Hearing the familiar sound of running, the corners of his mouth curled up before turning his head.
Sure enough, after a while, someone knocked on the window where he was. Qin Huai looked up and saw Mu Nan standing outside waving to him, so he opened the window. Mu Nan hurriedly poked his head in: "Brother, can you
leave too? We got out of school early today, cleaned up in the afternoon, and had a final exam on Monday, so we can leave today without going to evening self-study." Qin Huai said: "You can go Now, it's
rare that you don't have to study at night, and you don't have to go to class on weekends. Do you want to go to the hot spring? Go today and come back on Sunday night."
Mu Nan was so happy that he wanted to jump up outside the window: "Go, go, I'm going." He also said He has never been in a hot spring, because he has watched a lot of anime, and he has always wanted to try it.
The first year of senior high school could not go to evening self-study before the final exam, but the third year of high school was not allowed, but Qin Huai had an amnesty, so under the envious eyes of everyone, he carried his schoolbag and took his brother out of school.
Someone whispered with emotion: "The god of learning is the god of learning. I will not go back to review after the final exam, but go to the hot spring. I am tired of saying the word envy." Some people may not know Qin Huai very well, so they asked curiously:
"How is his younger brother's grades? In the freshman year of high school, he will have the final exam on the same day as us."
, I heard that the painting is very good, and I will go out to study art in the future. Maybe I can hold art exhibitions after I return from my studies. Anyway, I think it is better to have a direction that is good at and specialized in, which is better than going to college like us in the future. The department doesn't even know how much better it is." Listening
to other people's discussions, what kind of god of learning is worthy of being a god of learning, and if you don't stick to domestic exam-oriented education, maybe you can really train a painter in the future, why don't you use mountains of schoolwork to kill future students? The spirituality of the painter or something.
The more I listened, the more deep scratches there were on Jiang Xuan's exercise set.
Hot springs are for bathing. Qin Huai deliberately chose a resort with complete facilities, including private soup pools and public baths. Although he doesn't have any obsession with cleanliness, he doesn't really want to soak in a pool with a group of people he doesn't know. Mu Nan likes to go outside He came to take a dip in the hot spring, and Mu Nan came to swim, but the water in the pool was not too deep, so it was not easy to swim.
In addition to the hot springs, there is also an orchard here, the orchard is mainly oranges, Qin Huai and Mu Nan saw that orchard when they had dinner and strolled in the evening, bought a catty and tasted it, it was very sweet, and every one of them tasted delicious. very sweet.
When Qin Huai asked Mu Nan if he wanted it, Mu Nan nodded repeatedly. He was most afraid of eating sour oranges. He bought such sweet oranges by accident, so he had to stock up on them. So Qin Huai negotiated with the farm
the next day, but the ones that could be picked were not too many. Anyway, Qin Huai wanted them all, more than a dozen boxes, which filled the back seat and trunk of the entire car. Feeling the joy of hoarding, Mu Nan
looked at the piled up piles at the back, and sighed: "We should buy a truck, this car is not enough." Seeing
Mu Nan so easily accept the brainwashing statement that he started hoarding, Qin Huai couldn't help laughing, as expected, it's better to keep it by his side, some people's brains are more suitable for keeping them intact.