From Cultivator to Widow

The primary school principal heard the good news from her. Smile: "Okay, continue to work hard next year."

This situation is the best. Some people want to take this job because of their high education, but Su Hui's identity is naturally accepted by the villagers. She is the local daughter-in-law of their village. She is also a soldier's widow, and she is good at teaching, especially in the past six months, using newspapers to avoid those sensitive topics, which not only broadens the students' horizons, but also allows them to learn knowledge.

Su Hui saw that it was getting late, so she proposed to leave. At this time, few people would go to other people's houses to eat, and it was not easy for everyone, so they avoided the meal time.

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When Zhang Baoguo was writing, he had no idea what to write at the beginning. He was in the third grade this year, and he had never written a small composition, let alone a task of 600 words. Then, he thought of what his mother said. The diary, according to the beginning of the diary, began to write: on a certain day in a certain month, my mother and three younger brothers set out in the morning, and took the car from the town to the town. This is my first time...

According to the timeline, he wrote down what happened and what he experienced, and attached some thoughts when he wrote it down.

What is the feeling?

The feeling is:

Wontons are delicious.

The mall is huge and has everything.

The movies in the cinema are very good.

...

He used all the vocabulary he had learned and used everything he could, and picked out the details one by one, such as the wonton, how many in a bowl, whether there were onions in a bowl, etc. After 600 words, including those who returned to the village at the end, it exceeded a lot.

Looking at his achievements, Zhang Baoguo couldn't help but feel a little proud, he can!

When he was writing, Zhang Weiguo was also writing next to him. He was scratching his head and flipping through the dictionary. He was distressed. His beginning was different from that of his elder brother. He mentioned it when he heard the good news before:

My mother came back from the city today and told us some good news, saying that she would take us to go shopping in the city. I am very happy and look forward to that day...

At the beginning, he couldn't write a few words, so he had to stop and look for the dictionary, and then write it against it.

Recognizing characters is completely different from writing. Some characters can be recognized, but they do not know how to write, and it is easy to miss strokes.

He has always been able to say that the four-hundred-character requirement, he did the math, it wasn't difficult, he roughly counted it, and it exceeded it, but how should this word be written?

I knew earlier that when my mother and brother taught him to read, he wouldn't be lazy. Now it's so troublesome to find dictionaries one by one.

He wanted to ask the elder brother for help: "Brother..."

Zhang Baoguo wrote hard and pretended not to hear him. Zhang Weiguo looked at him sadly for a while, and continued to bury his head in the dictionary. When Zhang Baoguo finally finished writing, before he opened his mouth, Zhang Baoguo had already held Zhang Anguo: "Come on, say you How to write, you say, I will write."

Zhang Weiguo: "..."

He puffed out his mouth a little aggrieved, and continued to bury his head in the dictionary.

Zhang Anguo didn't have the same clear thinking as Zhang Baoguo. He said whatever came to his mind. Here's a sentence: "We saw a four-wheeled car, and it ran very fast."

Then the next sentence was "We went to the cinema, the movie was very good, and we saw guns and cannons in it..."

Unreal.

In the third grade, Zhang Baoguo also encountered unfamiliar words. When he wrote it, he would avoid it. Most of them were written by himself. When Zhang Anguo was here, there were many more words that he needed to find a dictionary by himself. , he found that the third brother wrote more space than him.

After he finished writing the sentence "We went to eat braised pork, the meat is very delicious, and I want to eat it again", and stopped writing: "You have exceeded the word count, enough."

Zhang Anguo blinked. He had no concept. Three hundred words should be a lot, right? It wasn't long after he said it. It's just: "I still have some things to say, big brother, I want to say, I want to write it down, my mother said the minimum is three hundred, but did not say the maximum."

"Oh, you're so smart." Awesome.

Zhang Baoguo looked at him blankly, Zhang Anguo looked at him in disappointment, Zhang Baoguo was silent for three seconds, and continued to pick up the pen in resignation: "You continue."

Most of the time, the third brother is very quiet, but sometimes, he will be very nagging. At this time, Zhang Baoguo can't wait for his words.

Seeing this, Zhang Weiguo looked at his elder brother sympathetically, the grievance just now was like a cloud blown away by a strong wind.

Brother, you have worked hard!

He secretly pulled the fourth brother: "When it's your turn, don't talk so much, look at how hard the eldest brother is."

Zhang Dingguo agreed and pulled him: "The second brother, please help me, I have a lot to say."

The expression on Zhang Weiguo's face froze, and he looked at his fourth brother and said, "I haven't finished writing it yet, and I still have a long time to go."

"Really." He emphasized: "I don't know when I'll finish it!"

He decided to go as slowly as he could. Anyway, he could just write it down and give it to his mother within three days. He learned the Dafa of procrastination without a teacher.

As for the big brother... I'm sorry, isn't there a saying, what is it called, what is it?

Su Hui picked a basket of tender corn from the mustard seed space, ten of them, two for each person. She didn't plan to cook that night. She took out a mixture of wheat flour and corn flour, made pancakes, added some chopped green onion and sesame seeds, and then Add your favorite sauce, spread a thin layer, roll it up and put it in your mouth, not to mention how delicious it is.

It is another wonderful treat to eat sweet tender corn after the fragrant pancakes.

Su An collected all their thoughts. Zhang Baoguo's was a normal one-page paper, written on the front and back, roughly six or seven hundred words, Zhang Weiguo's five hundred words, and the two small ones, Zhang Anguo That one was amazing, it was written on three pages, the one on the front and back. There are more than two thousand words.

Su An looked a little surprised.

Zhang Dingguo has fewer, but there are also seven or eight hundred.

No wonder I kept watching him write and write, Zhang Baoguo, the big brother, worked hard.

Su Hui put it away, first checked for typos, then checked grammar, checked bad sentences, and then let them take a closer look at what other brothers wrote.

Zhang Baoguo has made the greatest progress. After all, he has written so much, and Zhang Weiguo has also learned it. At least in the future, he will read more seriously and not be so careless.

He made too many typos, and his copying was soft.

Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo listened to eldest brother reciting theirs, and thought it sounded easy to understand without eldest brother, and heard him say that according to the time line, they decided to do the same next time. In mother's terms, it was organized.

Zhang Baoguo was a little helpless. He said the same thing when he wrote what they said. They just didn't listen. Is this automatically ignored...

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This year's new educated youth is a man and a woman. The man's name is Liu Yanxin, and the woman's name is Zhou Xiaoqing. Although they come from different places, they have one thing in common, that is, they are good looking and are above the horizontal line. They talked very much on the way to Li Village. It was obvious that he had a certain favorable impression of women.

Both of them have graduated from high school, and they can use it to respond to the policy of going to the mountains and the countryside after graduating from junior high school.

Their family members do not agree with those people who are brainwashed and think that going to the countryside is a grand plan. The elders in the family, especially those who have finally entered the city from the countryside, do not know what the countryside looks like. It is easy to go to the countryside, but it is difficult to come back later. , After so many years, how many people can come back after going to the countryside?

Talking and not listening, some words can't be said, so they can only delay their time to go to the countryside as much as possible.

At the beginning, when they came to Li Village, they really wanted to show off their grand plans, but after working in the fields for a few days, they couldn't bear it anymore. It turned out that this is the real appearance of the countryside.

Facing the loess and back to the sky.

They couldn't do anything, and the people here didn't welcome them so much. The captain here gave them to Chen Donghua without any hesitation, without entrusting them with the important tasks they imagined in their minds. Please ask for advice. They work under the scorching sun. They work hard all day. They earn less work points than other educated youths. It will also injure crops.

They have worked very hard, but they are really not as good as others, and it is untenable to protest.

This greatly affected their beliefs. After a period of confusion, Chen Dong breathed a sigh of relief. It doesn't matter, he will get used to it sooner or later. As long as he doesn't act like a demon, he can accept it.

Thinking of what happened at the educated youth point of a fellow next door, when a new educated youth comes, he must pray to the heaven in his heart, don't put those who are always on the line, who want to fight, and who have no evidence, but also actively seek and create The "activists" of the evidence are assigned to them!

Compared to doing farm work under the scorching sun, of course, helping to make tiles is more welcome.

Although the work there is not easy, whether it is stepping on the soil, setting the mold or burning the kiln, it is not easy to get anywhere, but it can work in the shade of a tree, and it can take ten centimeters!

The two of them also offered to help make tiles, but that hope was soon dashed.

The candidates are chosen by the captain, not the strong ones. As for women, there are no women at all. Liu Yanxin has just graduated and is only 18 years old. He is still a teenager with small arms and calves. prime of life.

There are only three people making tiles in the educated youth point. Xie Rui is the master, and no one will be missing him without him.

Lin Jingnan, he followed him from the beginning, relatively speaking, he is a little more proficient than others, and he is also Xie Rui's best friend in the educated youth point, not looking at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face.

Chen Donghua, he is also a strong worker, and he is also the person in charge of the educated youth point.

The rest are all young people in their 20s and 30s in the village.

His own son was younger and was not arranged to go in.

There are other positions that are easier in the village, such as scorers, accountants, warehouse clerks, etc. However, a radish and a pit have long been filled. In the educated youth spots, they are the youngest, and in terms of seniority, they are also the youngest. , A high school education, but half of the educated youth points are high school, and they have no right to speak.

They quickly came down, slowly and quietly accepting the reality.

Because only two of them came this time, it would be too troublesome to cook alone, and it would take a long time for this round to take a long time. According to the head count, Xie Rui and the four of them ate together, which was the least, so it was merged into them. In a group, everyone brought out the food together and took turns to cook. The women took turns to cook, and the men took turns to carry water and firewood.

More than a month has passed, and they have temporarily adapted to it.

Many places in the countryside are not as good as in the city, but there are also many places in the city that are incomparable to the village.

There are all kinds of game in the mountains. Even if there is no food, you can survive only by the things you can find in the mountains. All kinds of wild vegetables have their own flavors. In the city, you need to spend money to buy everything, and the table is the cheapest. The amount of vegetables also needs to be calculated, and here, wild vegetables are the least need to be calculated, especially at this time.

However, they will not waste it. They go to pick wild vegetables and return them. The excess is made into dried vegetables, and they are saved for winter.

Because they ate together, they naturally also saw four jars each of their predecessors. Each jar is different, but they have one thing in common, that is, ordinary sweet potato multigrain rice, which only looks like pure green wild vegetables. After adding the sauce, the appetite is doubled, the deliciousness is doubled, and the mouth is watering.

They endured it for three days, and then decided that they couldn't bear it anymore. After the stock they brought from home was eaten up, they couldn't bear it any longer, especially when they first came and gave them some free food for their first meal. Once you taste it, you will never forget it.

On the fourth day, Zhou Xiaoqing ate wild vegetables scalded in boiling water with little salt and tasteless: "Brother Xie, did you make these sauces yourself? Teach me, it's really delicious."

This thank you, brother, is full of sweetness, and it seems that little stars are shining in his eyes.

There are so many educated youths nearby. Liu Yan, who also earned the most, looked a little unhappy, but they didn't really have that relationship, so they could only be sullen.

"No, we exchanged this with a eldest sister in the village. She has a unique ability to do this."

"It turned out to be made by the villagers." Her delicate brows were slightly wrinkled. There is another major difference between the city and the countryside, and that is the sanitary conditions. The first time she went to the toilet here, her face was blue. , she has also seen how the kitchens of other villagers' homes are like, the sanitary conditions are really...

"What the villagers did..." Can you say anything? There was confusion on her face.

"Isn't it very unhygienic? I saw someone who didn't wash the dishes before, just wipe them with leaves and put them back."

"No, Sister Su is a person who loves cleanliness very much, and her home is also clean and tidy."

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoqing breathed a sigh of relief: "So, what did you exchange for it?"

Most of them use money, and a few use things.

But of course this cannot be said.

"I asked her to help me with my own materials. For example, for this soybean paste, I used soybeans, peanut butter, and peanuts. I also used mushrooms and meat to ask her for help. Everyone helped each other. In return, we would help her with her work. Or send something you have."

They do have soybeans and peanuts. Zhang Chengye usually distributes enough food rations to support each new educated youth when they arrive, and then deducts them according to their work points. Among them are soybeans and peanuts, but Not much.

Zhou Xiaoqing acted coquettishly at Xie Rui as a matter of course: "Then I will ask her to do it for me too. I still have some soybeans in my place. Where is her home?"

Lin Jingnan: "?"

This natural tone, seriously?

Sister Su will ignore it.

Seeing his surprised eyes, Zhou Xiaoqing quickly added: "When I help you, help me by the way, shouldn't it be a problem?"

This incidentally means that she provides the material, and the rest is not?

Xie Rui shook his head, thinking that we should wait and see first.

"I still have it here. I don't plan to ask her again in the near future. I'll talk about it next time."

Among the villagers, even if they ask someone to help hatch a chick, they have to give a few more eggs as a thank-you gift. How could it be possible for someone to help without giving anything. Of course, if they are really close, they don’t need to give anything. It is rusty to give.

They still have sauce in their hands, and no one will make new ones in the near future. Zhou Xiaoqing proposed to borrow some more and pay it back later.

Liu Yanxin agrees very much.

Eating this meal is really boring, especially when watching other people eat it with relish.

Some people give them half a bottle. There are not many. This thing also has an expiration date. Now that the weather is so hot, it cannot be stored for a long time. It would be a pity if it became moldy.

Just this half bottle, because they didn't know each other, they saved their food and survived for a while.

That is to say, Zhou Xiaoqing saw the package that Xie Rui received during this period of time, and she was completely concerned about it. Intentionally or unintentionally, she asked others what Xie Rui's family was doing? Who is at home? questions like where.

Everyone knows that others don't mind talking about it, but more carefully, I'm sorry, they don't know it themselves.

Then everyone's sauce bottomed out, and Xie Rui went to place an "order".

Su An: "How about it, getting along for a while, is the newcomer a troublemaker?"

A lot of people bought it with money, and if it was revealed, everyone would have nothing to eat.

Xie Rui didn't dare to make a ticket, and Su An understood: "Don't give me money, barter."

This is no problem for him. If he has money and tickets, he can buy meat and come back, but it is a little troublesome. It is not difficult for the other two to take it out.

Some of the other educated youths had already eaten up, so they could only exchange with other educated youths, or with the villagers.

It's easier to get money.

But no way.

Just be cautious.

Xie Rui was counting, Liu Yanxin and the others didn't know the specifics, but after a rough calculation, the amount added up was quite considerable. Liu Yanxin asked, intentionally or unintentionally, "Does this count as business? Business is just speculation. already."

Lin Jingnan quickly pushed him back: "This kind of mutual help is just business speculation? The captain gave you food in advance to support you first, and then use work points to pay for it. Is this also speculative? This is also Is it a business? Or is it just speculation that you exchange eggs with others?"

They can't stand the days when they don't have any oil, and they all exchange some eggs with the villagers. After returning, they start a small stove by themselves. Not many people don't know it, but this is normal, no one will talk too much. .

When he said this, Liu Yanxin blushed and apologized embarrassingly: "I just lost my brain, that's not what I meant."

He was one of them himself, if he didn't mention himself, his face showed annoyance.

Looking at his attitude, Lin Jingnan is not aggressive, and he speaks earnestly: "Some things can't be said nonsense."

Su An received a bag of materials and put them aside, not in a hurry, because now there is still the most important thing, making a cloth bag for Zhang Weiguo to hold the book.

School is about to start. She prepared books, books, and pens early in the morning, but she forgot the schoolbag to hold the books.

Fortunately, the schoolbags are simple at this time, and they can be woven into bags with cloth or rattan.

The fabric was not good. Zhang Baoguo’s was woven with rattan. Su Hui also made one for Zhang Weiguo the day before the school started.

Tomorrow, he will become a first-year freshman with Zhang Fenghua, and the teacher will be Su Hui.