From Cultivator to Widow

Chapter 37

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The primary school principal heard the good news from her. Smiled: "Alright, keep working hard next year."

This situation is the best. Some people want to take this job away because of their high academic qualifications, but Su Hui's identity is naturally more accepted by the villagers. She is a local daughter-in-law in their village. She is also a widow of a soldier, and she is good at teaching, especially in the past six months, using newspapers to avoid those sensitive topics, which not only broadens the horizons of students, but also allows them to acquire 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 homes for dinner. It was not easy for everyone, so they would avoid meals.

When Zhang Baoguo was writing, he was at a loss as to what to write at the beginning, he was in the third grade this year, and he hadn’t written a small composition, let alone a heavy 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 of the month, I set off with my mother and three younger brothers in the morning, and took a bus from the town to the town. This is the first time I...

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

What is the impression

The feeling is:

The 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 that he could use, and picked out the details one by one, such as the wonton, how many are there in a bowl, whether there are green onions, etc., he changed a few books, and finally got together Six hundred characters are enough, and those who return to the village with the ending are more than a lot.

Looking at his achievements, Zhang Baoguo couldn't help being a little proud, he could do it!

When he was writing, Zhang Weiguo was also writing next to him. He scratched his head and flipped through the dictionary, feeling very 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 a good news. She said that she would take us to the city for a stroll. I am very happy and look forward to that day...

At the beginning of this one, he couldn't write several characters. He had to stop and look for a dictionary, and then write it down.

Recognition and writing are completely different. Some characters can be recognized, but they don't know how to write, and it is easy to miss strokes.

He has always been able to say, he calculated the requirement of 400 characters, and it is actually not difficult. He roughly counted and exceeded it, but how to write this character

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

He wanted to ask his elder brother for help: "Elder brother..."

Zhang Baoguo wrote vigorously, pretending not to hear, Zhang Weiguo looked at him sadly for a while, then continued to dig through the dictionary, when Zhang Baoguo finally finished writing, before he could speak, Zhang Baoguo had already pulled Zhang Anguo back: "Come on, say you How to write, you tell, I will write."

Zhang Weiguo: "..."

He puffed his mouth a little aggrieved, and continued to look through the dictionary.

Zhang Anguo did not have a clear thinking like Zhang Baoguo, he said whatever came to his mind, here is a sentence: "We saw a car with four wheels, it runs very fast."

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

Unconstrained.

In the third grade of Zhang Baoguo, he would also encounter unfamiliar characters, and he would deliberately avoid them when he wrote them. Most of them were written by himself. When Zhang Anguo came here, there were many more people who needed to find a dictionary by themselves. , he found that the third brother wrote more pages than his.

After he finished writing the sentence "We went to eat braised pork, the meat was piece by piece, it was delicious, and I want to eat it again", he stopped writing: "You have exceeded the number of words, enough."

Zhang Anguo blinked his eyes, he had no idea, three hundred characters should be a lot, he didn't talk for a long time, finished? It's just: "I still have something to say, brother, I still want to say, I want to write it all down, my mother said the minimum is 300, and didn't say the maximum."

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

Zhang Baoguo looked at him expressionlessly, Zhang Anguo looked at him disappointedly, Zhang Baoguo was silent for three seconds, and continued to pick up the pen resignedly: "You continue."

Most of the time the third brother is very quiet, but sometimes, he would be very nagging. At this time, Zhang Baoguo wished for him to spend a lot of money.

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, you see how hard the elder brother is."

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

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

"Really." He emphasized: "I don't know when I will finish writing!"

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

As for the eldest brother... I'm sorry, isn't there a saying, what is it called "Immortality and Poverty?"

Su Hui picked a basket of tender corn from the mustard space, ten, two for each person, she didn't plan to cook tonight, 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, apply a thin layer, roll it up and send it to your mouth, not to mention how delicious it is.

After eating the savory pancakes, eating the sweet tender corn is another wonderful enjoyment.

Su Hui collected all of their thoughts. Zhang Baoguo's is a normal one-page paper, written on both sides, roughly six or seven hundred characters, Zhang Weiguo's is about five hundred characters, and the two small ones, Zhang Anguo's, are written on both sides. That copy was astonishing, it took three full pages, the front and back ones. There are more than two thousand words.

Su Hui looked at it in surprise.

Zhang Dingguo's is less, but there are seven or eight hundred.

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

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

Zhang Baoguo made the most progress. After all, he had written so much, and Zhang Weiguo had also learned it. At least in the future, he would be more serious about reading and not so sloppy.

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

Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo listened to their elder brother reading theirs, and felt that it was not as easy to understand as the older brother's. After hearing him say that according to the timeline, they decided to do the same next time. In mother's terms, it is organized.

Zhang Baoguo was a little helpless, he said the same thing when he wrote what they said, but they just didn't listen, did they automatically ignore it...

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The new educated youths this year are 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 above the horizontal line. They talked happily on the way to Li Village. The man It is obvious that he has a certain affection for women.

Both of them graduated from high school, and they can use it to respond to the policy of going to the countryside after graduating from junior high school. However, their family insisted, so they studied for two more years, and then went to the countryside after graduating from high school.

Their family members don’t agree with those people’s brainwashing, and think that going to the countryside is a great way to expand their ambitions. The elders in the family, especially those who came to the city from the countryside with great difficulty, don’t know what the countryside looks like. It’s easy to go to the countryside, but it’s 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 things can't be said, so I can only delay their time to go to the countryside as much as possible.

When they first came to Li Village, they really wanted to show their ambitions, but after a few days of working in the fields, they couldn't bear it anymore. It turned out that this is the real appearance of the countryside.

Facing the loess and back facing the sky.

They couldn't do anything, and the people here didn't welcome them that much. The captain here handed them over to Chen Donghua in a casual manner, without entrusting them with the important tasks they imagined in their minds. Ask for advice, they work under the scorching sun under the sun, and work hard all day, earning less work points than other educated youths, and the scorekeeper has a reason to say that they work too slowly, It will also accidentally damage the crops.

They have worked very hard, but they are indeed inferior to others, and even wanting to protest is untenable.

This greatly affected their beliefs. After a period of time in a daze, Chen Dong heaved 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 monster, he can accept it.

Thinking of what happened at the educated youth site of a fellow villager next door, when new educated youths come, they must pray to the heavens in their hearts, and don’t put those things on the line at every turn, who wants to fight, and actively seeks and creates without evidence. The "activists" of the evidence are assigned to them!

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

Although the work there is not easy, whether it is stepping on the soil, setting the mold or firing the kiln, it is not very easy, but it can be done in the shade of the trees anyway, and you can get ten centimeters!

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

The candidates are selected by the team leader, not because they are strong and labor-intensive. As for women, there are no women at all. Liu Yan has just graduated and is only 18 years old. She is still a teenager with small arms and legs. prime of life.

There are only three people making tiles in the educated youth spot. Xie Rui is the master, and if there is no one, there will be no lack of him.

Lin Jingnan, he followed from the beginning, relatively speaking, he was a little more proficient than the others, and he was also Xie Rui's best friend in the educated youth spot, he didn't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face.

Chen Donghua, he is also a strong labor force, and he is also the person in charge of the educated youth spot.

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

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

There are other positions that are easier in the village, such as scorekeeper, accountant, warehouse keeper, etc. However, there are already people in each radish and each hole. Among the educated youth spots, they are the youngest, and they are also the youngest in terms of seniority. , with a high school degree, but half of the educated youth spots are high school students, so they have no right to speak.

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

Because there were only two of them here this time, it would be too troublesome to cook by themselves, and it would take a long time to round like this. Calculated by head count, Xie Rui and the four of them ate together, which was the least, so they were merged into them. In a group, everyone takes food out together and cooks in turns. The women take turns cooking, and the men take turns carrying water and firewood. They divide and cooperate with each other.

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

There are many places in the countryside that are not as good as the cities, but there are also many cities that cannot be compared to the villages. For example, at this time, the countryside has the most food.

There are all kinds of wild game in the mountains. Even if there is no food, you can survive only by the things you find in the mountains. All kinds of wild vegetables have their own flavors. In the city, everything costs money, and the cheapest on the table Vegetables also need to be counted, and here, wild vegetables are the last thing to count, especially at this time.

But they don't want to waste it. They go to pick wild vegetables and come back, and make the excess into dried vegetables and save them for winter.

Because they ate together, they naturally also saw the jars of the four seniors. Each jar is different, but they have one thing in common, that is, the ordinary rice with sweet potatoes and mixed grains, which only looks like pure green wild vegetables. After adding the sauce, the appetite is doubled, the delicacy is doubled, and it makes the mouth water.

They endured it for three days before deciding not to bear it anymore. After eating all the stock they brought from home, they couldn’t bear it any longer, especially when they first arrived. They gave them some for free during their first meal. Once you taste it, you will never forget it.

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

This thank you, big brother, is full of sweetness, and the eyes seem to be shining with little stars.

There are so many educated youths next to me. Liu Yan, who also earns the most, has a new look of displeasure, but they don't really have that relationship, so they can only sulk.

"No, we exchanged this with a big sister in the village. She has a unique skill in doing this."

"So it was made by the villagers." Her delicate brows were slightly frowned. There is another major difference between the city and the countryside, and that is the sanitary conditions. When she went to the toilet here for the first time, her face was blue , She has also seen how the kitchens of other villagers' homes are. The sanitary conditions are really...

"It's made by the people in the village..." Can I say it? There was some confusion on her face.

"Will it be very unhygienic? I saw some people didn't wash the dishes before, and put them back after wiping them with a leaf."

"No, Sister Su is a very clean person, and the house is also clean and tidy."

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

Most of it is money, and a small part is used for things.

But of course that cannot be said.

"I asked her to help me with the ingredients. For example, for the soybean paste, I took the soybeans, and for the peanut butter, I took the peanuts. I also took the mushrooms and meat and asked her for help. We all help each other. In return, we will help her with the work. Or send something you have."

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

Zhou Xiaoqing acted like a baby to Xie Rui as a matter of course: "Then I'll ask her to make it for me too. I still have some soybeans with me. Where is her home?"

Lin Jingnan: "?"

This natural tone, seriously

Sister Su didn't even bother.

Seeing his surprised eyes, Zhou Xiaoqing hurriedly added: "Help me while I'm helping you guys, it shouldn't be a problem, right?"

By the way, this means that she will provide the materials, and the rest will not be released, right

Xie Rui shook his head, thinking he should wait and see.

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

Among the villagers, even if they ask someone to help hatch a chick, they have to give a few extra eggs as a thank-you gift. How can it be possible for people to help and not give 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, so Zhou Xiaoqing proposed to borrow some more and pay them back later.

Liu Yanxin agrees very much.

Eating this meal is really boring, especially when watching others eat with relish.

Someone gave them half a bottle, and there was no more. This thing also has a deadline. Now that the weather is so hot, it can't be kept for a long time. It would be a pity if it got moldy.

It's just half a bottle, because they don't know each other, they eat sparingly, and they survived for a while.

That is to say, during this period of time, Zhou Xiaoqing saw the package Xie Rui received, and she was completely worried about it. She intentionally or unintentionally asked others what Xie Rui's family did? Who is in the family? questions like where.

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

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

Su Hui: "How about it, get along for a while, is the newcomer someone who can make trouble?"

Quite a few people were bought with money, and if they were exposed, everyone would have no good fruit to eat.

Xie Rui didn't dare to make a promise, so Su Hui understood: "Don't give me money, just barter."

This is no problem for him, he has the money and tickets, so he can go to buy meat and come back, but it is a little troublesome, and it is not difficult for the other two people to take it out, and the soybeans and peanuts distributed are reserved for special use.

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

It was easier to get money before.

But there is no way.

Be cautious.

Xie Rui was counting, Liu Yanxin and the others didn't know the details, but they did a rough calculation and the amount added up was quite considerable. Liu Yanxin asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Is this considered to be a business? Doing business is just speculation. gone."

Lin Jingnan snapped back quickly: "This kind of mutual aid is just speculation in business? Then the captain gave you food in advance to support you first, and then use your work points to pay for it. Is this also considered speculation? This is also true. Is it a business? Or is it speculative when you exchange eggs with others?"

They couldn't stand the days when they were so vegetarian and there was no oily flowers. They all exchanged some eggs with the villagers, and after they came back, they started their own small stoves. Few of them didn't know about it, but it was normal, no one would talk too much. .

When he said this, Liu Yanxin blushed, and apologized a little embarrassingly: "I didn't have a brain just now, that's not what I mean."

He is also one of them, if it counts, he didn't mention himself, and his face showed annoyance.

Judging by his attitude, Lin Jingnan was not overbearing, and spoke earnestly: "Some things should not be said indiscriminately."

Su Hui received a bag of materials, put it aside, and was not in a hurry, because the most important thing was to make a cloth bag for Zhang Weiguo to hold books in.

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

Fortunately, schoolbags are simple at this time, and bags made of cloth or rattan can be used.

The fabric is not easy to come by, Zhang Baoguo's is woven with rattan, Su Hui also made one for Zhang Weiguo the day before school started.

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