When I got home, it was already late at night.
Usually at this time, the parents would go to bed early, and the wife would take their children to sleep together.
But today, when Queenie and Eddie walked into the house, they were all awake, the son was being held by the grandmother, and the daughter was dozing off in his wife's arms, obviously waiting for him.
Seeing Queenie spitting out Eddie, the Uighur old man took a deep puff on the old pipe, looked at his son with a look of hatred, and asked in a deep voice, "How is it? How much did you lose?"
The old man didn't seem to expect anything from his son's answer. He turned his head and waved to the old woman, motioning for her to take out a wad of money wrapped in a handkerchief, and said, "This is a little money you and I saved, Papa and I." , I thought it would be used for funerals in the future, but now...cough, you can take it, pay back as much as you can, the most important thing is to keep the house, we can’t let our family have no place to live.”
Queenie put the stack of money on the table, and Eddie's mother said to her son, "Take it. If you lose, you lose. It doesn't matter. I will listen to people's persuasion and earn the money back."
Queenie stunned Eddie for a moment, looking at her father, mother, and the stack of banknotes with different denominations in disbelief, tears streaming down her face again.
These days, his parents have been scolding and complaining to him, and they have never given him a good face. It is not that he is not suffocated in his heart, but when this time comes, he suddenly realizes that he is willing to take out his own coffin and give it to him. , but still two old...
"Ata, Apa..."
Queenie Eddy was not a thoughtful person since he was a child. His straightforwardness came from his mother, and his stubbornness came from his father. At this moment, he was so choked up that he couldn't even speak.
Or his wife was more thoughtful than him, wiped away tears, and pushed her husband: "What are you still doing in a daze? Please apologize to Atta and Appa, you are like a stubborn donkey these days, Ah Ta and Appa are so scared of you that they can't even sleep well."
"Ata, Apa, I'm sorry, it's my fault, let you... let you worry..."
Queenie vomited to Eddie and quickly wiped away her tears, apologizing to her parents in a crying voice.
"Okay, okay, hurry up and take the money away, go back and rest. Go to the credit union early tomorrow morning and ask if they can pay back some of it first, and pay the rest slowly later, so don't charge us." house and land."
The old man couldn't see his son crying, he was so grown up, crying was worse than a child, he just felt distressed, how much anger he had before disappeared at this moment.
Queenie said to Eddie: "Ata, no way, our house and land will not be confiscated, this... you can take the money back, it's unnecessary."
"Um?"
The Uighur old man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, and looked at his son with a pale face: "Could it be... Is it all gone? Nothing left?"
Queenie and Eddie shook his head: "No."
"What is that, tell me quickly!"
The old Uighur man got anxious, knocked on his pipe and stared at his son.
"There is nothing wrong with our saplings."
"What?"
The old Uighur man had question marks on his face.
"What does nothing mean?"
There was a question mark on the mother's face.
"How is it possible? Is this true?"
Question marks on the wife's face.
…
The next day, when everyone in Shamon Township was complaining, Queenie continued to do her own thing as usual.
He keeps quiet, hides when he sees other people complaining, and ambiguously when other people ask him about his loss... Anyway, he tries to minimize his sense of existence and doesn't talk too much to others My own business.
Queenie told Eddie to do it all because of his father.
The night before, after listening to Queenie and Eddie talk about the situation in the woodland, the old Uyghur man immediately took his son to the woodland. After confirming that what his son said was true, the whole family was completely surprised. drowsiness.
For this matter, they talked for most of the night. The old Uighur man was worried that he would make other people jealous, so he specifically asked his son to keep quiet and try not to attract attention. Everything will be discussed after the limelight passes.
It went on for several days, and the people in the village didn't pay much attention to the "big fool" Queenie Tuai, but the paper couldn't contain the fire after all. On this day, a fellow villager passed by Queenie Tuai Di's woodland, and found that not only were the saplings in the woodland not damaged by the sandstorm, but they were also growing very well, which directly shocked the fellow villager so much that his jaw dropped.
Then, within a short period of time, the news that "Quinto Eddie's woodland is intact" spread throughout Shamon Township. At the same time, only the woodland where Queenie threw Eddie was completely intact, which was a miracle.
"You said he usually looks stupid, but why is he so lucky?"
"Is this luck? No matter how lucky you are, it's impossible for nothing to happen. I think he's good at planting trees."
"How did he plant this tree? How can he go through such a sandstorm without any problems?"
"How do I know? If I knew, would the forest at home still be like this?"
"Well, a while ago he mortgaged his house and land to the credit union for loans to buy seedlings. Many people even laughed at him as a fool. Now it seems that he is not stupid at all."
"Who says it's not..."
…
Queenie and Eddie are walking in the countryside now, and everyone is staring at him.
At the beginning, he was still a little unaccustomed to it. He felt that people always looked at him in a weird way, which made him very uneasy.
But gradually he got used to it, because more and more people greeted him in the village and in the village. You must know that many people who didn't like to talk to him before, now they are polite when they see him, which makes him feel I was taken seriously.
When he got home, he told his old man about these things, and the Uyghur old man smiled and explained to him: "Silly boy, their forest has suffered a disaster, but you didn't, so you are this..." He gave his son a thumbs up , He went on to say: "Now everyone in Shamon Township knows that you can plant trees. This is your skill. They want to learn the skill, so shouldn't they respect you?"
Queenie and Eddie immediately understood, it turned out that this is what it's like to be respected, he hadn't felt it for so many years, and now he felt it for a while... Well, this feeling is really good.