Seeing a plate full of braised pork, Li Mingyun was stunned, "What day is it today, why did you still eat meat?"
"Today your daughter and son are both admitted to the third junior high school."
Mei Zhonghua put the braised pork on the table with a face full of spring breeze, as if announcing a major event, "Mingyun, starting from today, our family is going to have high-achieving students. I've decided that both children will go to junior high school. I I have to confess the two of them."
Li Mingyun was surprised and delighted: "The two children are really admitted to the junior high school? You will not fool me?"
You must know that she and Mei Zhonghua both graduated from elementary school, and her grades were not bad when she was in school, but the family conditions were not good, and she was the eldest, so there was really no way she could not continue studying. But she never gave up her desire to go to school. She did not expect that neither she nor Mei Zhonghua had gone to junior high school, but her two children were admitted on the basis of their own ability, which really made her gratified.
"Can this kind of thing lie to you? The school has announced the results. I don't believe you to read it yourself."
Li Mingyun smiled like a flower, moving to the county seat in the past two years, nothing has made her so happy.
Seeing the happy appearance of her parents, Mei Xiaoran was in a complicated mood, unable to tell whether she was moved or sad, and finally turned her face to Mei Xiaolei and said, "You see how happy our parents are. You have to work harder after entering junior high school. Don't let our parents down."
"Sister, I know. Can we have dinner now?"
Facing the fragrant braised pork, Mei Xiaolei had already salivated.
The whole family laughed and had a lively lunch.
After lunch, sister and brother Mei Xiaoran lay down and rested.
Taking advantage of the fine weather, Li Mingyun took out Mei Zhonghua's dirty shoes and shoes to wash them. This kind of day can be dried in one night, and it will not affect the next day.
"Zhonghua, how much do you think the tuition fees for the two children go to school, can we afford it?"
Mei Zhonghua shook his big pu fan, thinking about the tuition in his heart, "I asked about the tuition for the two students. I guessed it would cost 20 or 30 yuan."
At that time, there was no compulsory education. Although the country vigorously promoted the eradication of illiteracy, it was a fact that many children could not afford to go to school!
The average wage of ordinary workers is basically more than 20 yuan, the higher wages can be more than 30, and the lower wages are less than 20.
, The tuition fees of these two children together are higher than a month’s wages of ordinary workers, can it not make people worry? The Mei family is just a farmer who has just moved into the city. They barely live by dumping their stuff. They are not guaranteed to live like a worker, and a family of four has to eat!
"How much money does our family have now?"
Mei Zhonghua also took out the money for selling food today. Li Mingyun quickly calculated it, and the total wealth of the family is only seventy or eighty yuan. This seventy or eighty yuan also needs to be used for the cost of buying food... It is also Mei Er brother's. After taking care of it, Mei Zhonghua took the grain first, and then paid the money when it was sold out. It is said that the brothers clearly settle the accounts, and Mei Zhonghua is not knowing what is good or bad. Usually, the money is sent to the second brother when the grain is sold out.
"Tomorrow I have to send the food money back to my second brother."
Mei Zhonghua had the final say. Excluding the cost of buying food, all his household belongings add up to only 20 yuan, which is not even enough to pay the children's tuition.
Li Mingyun was anxious, "Send the food money back, do we still have money to pay the children's tuition?"
"Isn't there three or four days after leaving school? I will think of a way and I will definitely let the children go to school."
The next morning, at five shifts, Mei Zhonghua got up early and didn't even care about eating, so he went out with a shelf cart.
"Dad, wait a minute."
Mei Xiaoran ran out of the house, dressed neatly, "I will follow you today."
"You are a kid from home, what are you doing with your dad? Dad is not out to play."
Mei Zhonghua was reluctant to let her precious girl go out with him to suffer. Although it was at the end, it was still very hot... He also took advantage of the coolness to go out. If the sun comes out and the poisonous sun is basking, who wants to go out to buy things? ? It must be cool as soon as possible!
"I know, just let me go with you, anyway, it's cool right now."
As Mei Xiaoran said, she jumped onto the shelf car and smiled hippiely with Mei Zhonghua, "Dad, you take me away."
"I really can't help you."
Mei Zhonghua said this, but did not force Mei Xiaoran to get out of the car, so she had to take her to the countryside together.
The Mei family lives at the east end of the small street in the east of the city. In fact, it is on the edge of the moat, less than fifty meters away from the moat. Don’t underestimate the fifty meters, that is the boundary between the county seat and the village.
The inner side of the moat is considered the county seat. Outside the moat, the suburbs are connected to the barley field. Now it has a large population. There are many people living outside the moat. The size of the county seat is larger than before, but in the eyes of the old county people. , Still draw this line clearly!
Just like Mei Zhonghua’s hometown, it’s only five miles away from the county seat, which is also in the countryside. He also moved into the county seat because he married Li Mingyun, a girl from the city, and became a half-towner.
Pulling Mei Xiaoran out of the city, not far from his hometown, he was originally only five miles away, completely out of the county town, almost one mile away, only four miles away from his hometown, with Mei Zhonghua's footsteps. , I can get home in more than half an hour.
"Dad, you came home to find my second uncle, right?"
Mei Zhonghua frowned, and said unhappily, "Let's inquire less about adults and children."
"My dad, even if you don't tell me, I know that this is the way back to my hometown."
Isn’t it? I walked along the road from the county seat and turned north to reach Zhuangshang. It’s not that Mei Xiaoran never went back. I remember the road clearly.
Mei Zhonghua stopped talking.
"Dad, do you want to return the money to the second uncle, and then get some grain from the second uncle to sell it?"
"How do you know?"
Mei Zhonghua didn't conceal it, and told her daughter honestly, "Your dad relied on your second uncle's path to toss slowly. Without your second uncle's support, your dad wouldn't be able to get through now." No matter how you say it, He married a girl from the city, settled in the county seat, and got his registered permanent residence in the county seat. In the eyes of rural people, this is a sign of prosperity.
"Dad, have you ever thought about it. If you pay back the food you owe my second uncle now, you don't have much money in your hand. You can only pour out the money unless you sell the food upside down, but today is already August? It’s the 27th, and there is only one episode in the middle. Can you guarantee that you can sell them all?"
Mei Xiaoran settled the account for her dad in her heart. Even if her dad can sell all the food in the past two days, he won't make ten dollars. What's more, the family has to eat and drink, why not spend any money
It’s not that Mei Zhonghua has never thought about this. He has nothing to do, and he doesn’t want to open his mouth to borrow money from others... The eldest brother and the second elder brother both have children, and the children also have to go to school. .
(End of this chapter)