It has been four years since Shi Zhen came to Anshan Town in his last life. The Anshan Town at that time was very different from the current Anshan Town.
Shi Zhen looked at this town, which was somewhat unfamiliar to him, and there were also people looking at him.
Eighteen-year-olds wear clothes that were only common ten years ago, their skin is tanned, and their overly long hair falls in a mess.
But even so, the face is still attractive.
His eyebrows are dark and thick, and the eyebrows are tall and naturally uninhibited. The straight bridge of the nose and the tough facial lines are indescribably harmonious.
What attracts the most attention is his deep eyes, which are like the eternal lake in the deep mountains, and there is no bottom.
Such a handsome person, people who come and go, can't help but take a few glances.
Shi Zhen didn't care about the eyes of these people, he looked around, chose a direction, and walked forward.
Guan Baiyu is three years younger than him, only fifteen this year.
His biological father died early, his mother was unwilling to support him, and his adoptive parents did not like him either. He had no money, and although he was admitted to high school, he dropped out of school after only one year. After that, he began to work around to support himself, and took the test by himself.
Right now... fifteen-year-old Guan Baiyu should be in the third year of junior high.
Anshan Town is a big and affluent town, with the top three elementary and junior high schools in Changxi City, and even a high school.
But Guan Baiyu did not study in the town, he studied in the countryside.
The quality of primary and junior high school education in towns is very good, but the quality of education in rural schools is very poor.
In this day and age, there is a shortage of teachers everywhere. When he was in school, the teachers couldn't even speak Mandarin well, and they often taught them wrong. Although J City is relatively wealthy, the schools in the rural areas are still not very good.
So even if Guan Baiyu got good grades in school, he ended up only getting into an ordinary high school.
At this time in Anshan Town, there were no buses leading to the countryside, but there were many tricycles carrying passengers.
There are many people in the town who make a living by riding tricycles.
It's not expensive to ride this kind of tricycle, and it's enough to spend a few yuan to go where he wants to go.
But Shi Zhen only had seventy-one yuan and fifty cents left at the moment, and he was reluctant to spend more.
He took Shi Xinghuo to the village where Guan Baiyu lived.
Guan Baiyu's village is not far from Anshan Town. It only takes 40 minutes to walk there from the bus station.
In a previous life, around 2008, Guan Baiyu's village was demolished.
Shi Zhen went all the way west.
After leaving Anshan Town, the road becomes much smaller. The concrete road is only a little over one meter, and it is basically impossible to pass a car.
There are not many families who own cars now, and it is good to have a motorcycle.
This cement road is built along the river, and there is a river on the south side of the road, and there are a few wild mulberry trees sparsely stretched on the slope of the river.
On the north side of the river, there are small yards surrounded by fences, full of vegetables. To the north of the small yard is a concrete drying yard, and further north are two-story buildings.
The small buildings with white walls and black tiles all look the same. Occasionally, there are a few buildings that have mosaics on the walls, or some rhombus patterns with fragments of green glass bottles, which are already very different.
There are a lot of people in Anshan Town, and there are also many people in the countryside. There are many old people and children of a few years old, chatting and talking on the drying field of each house.
Shi Zhen came here with Guan Baiyu in his previous life. Although the scene at that time was very different from now, the roads were similar, and he still knew the way.
Shi Zhen stopped when he walked all the way to a small house.
Along the way, it is basically a brick house, but the walls of this house are made of rammed soil, and there is only one floor. Looking at this appearance, it has been built for decades.
This house is not even in a row with those small buildings, it stands alone next to the concrete road.
This is Guan Baiyu's residence.
Guan Baiyu's life experience is also pitiful.
His biological parents were originally from the town.
In the early years, when a child was born in the town, and there were no elderly people at home, they would send it to the country and find a wet nurse to carry it for some money.
Guan Baiyu's biological father was sent to the countryside by his father in the 1950s and raised by Guan Baiyu's foster grandmother.
Guan Baiyu's own grandmother died in childbirth, and his own grandfather married another wife not long after, and Guan's father was almost forgotten in the countryside, and was not picked up until he was a teenager.
After being picked up, Guan's father was not used to the days at his father's house, and ran to his nanny's house in the countryside from time to time. Later, his father got annoyed and simply sent him to the engineering team and asked him to follow the engineering team everywhere to repair roads and bridges.
Guan's father lived like this until he was almost 30 years old. He fell from the water tower and died when he was repairing the water tower.
As soon as he died, his wife ran away, leaving only a child to be fed, which his own father did not want to raise.
It was 1979. Guan’s father’s family had already moved to Changxi City. For the Guan family who lived in the countryside of Anshan Town, it was very, very far away. After traveling thousands of miles, he picked up the child who no one wanted, named the child Guan Baiyu, and registered with the Guan family.
Mrs. Guan's own son is one year older than Guan's father, but she has no children since the marriage.
The old lady Guan brought Guan Baiyu back, just to let her son have a queen.
But Mrs. Guan's son didn't want it, especially not long after Guan Baiyu came to Guan's house, his wife became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter.
Some people prefer sons to daughters, and treat their adopted sons better than their daughters, but Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents are not, they like their own flesh and blood, and they are too lazy to pay attention to Guan Baiyu.
Guan Baiyu was raised by Mrs. Guan. Although he called Guan's parents and parents, he was not close to the Guan family and his wife. The Guan family and his wife were always very poor. They had no money and no extra kindness to give to Guan Baiyu. I haven't had a good time, and I dropped out of high school.
In the past two years, Guan Baiyu's adoptive father borrowed money to raise chickens and wanted to make some money. As a result, those chickens died of illness and lost all the money.
He himself tightened his belt and lived, who would take care of Guan Baiyu
Guan Baiyu lived in a small house, and behind the old house of 60 to 70 square meters, there was a small two-story building where Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents lived.
The small building is made of bricks, but it covers an area of about 80 square meters. There are two rooms on the ground floor and two rooms in the front. The second floor even has only two rooms in the front. No money to cover it, only a platform was wiped.
Two rooms upstairs, Guan Baiyu, his adoptive parents and his daughter live in one each, and the four downstairs, the front two rooms are used for eating and raising silkworms and piling grain, and the back two rooms can not live in people because the platform is not a tile, and the water leaks. Raised pigs.
In this way, there is absolutely no place for Guan Baiyu to live.
Guan Baiyu had been living with Mrs. Guan before in that mud-walled hut. Mrs. Guan died two years ago, and he still lived there alone.
These are things Shi Zhen knew a long, long time ago, and when he thinks about them now, he still remembers them fresh.
The door of the mud house was closed, and there seemed to be no one at home. Shi Zhen sat down on a large stone by the roadside, feeling a little dazed.
He was at the station before and asked the date today, whether it was Arbor Day or Saturday.
He didn't have to go to school on Saturday, so he hurried over just to see Guan Baiyu.
But he forgot that he had to go to school for half a day on Saturday, and it was about eleven o'clock in the afternoon. Guan Baiyu was afraid that he had not finished school yet.
At eleven o'clock at noon, Xiaqiu Township.
Xiaqiu Township is a township below Anshan Township. The township has a primary school, a junior high school, and a large health clinic.
A few years ago, the children born in the nearby villages came to the township health center. This year, there was a rule that they must go to the town hospital to give birth.
There is a street in Xiaqiu Township. There are various shops on the street. Whether you want to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, or buy various groceries, or fish, shrimp and pork, you can buy it here.
The Xiaqiu Junior High School and Xiaqiu Elementary School are at the end of the street.
The primary school was over now, and a large group of children rushed out of the school with schoolbags on their backs.
A small number of students are picked up by their parents, and the rest of the students go home by themselves, some ride bicycles, and some walk home together in twos and threes.
The junior high school next door hasn't finished school yet, and it will take another 20 minutes.
The third class.
Twenty years later, in Xiaqiu Junior High School, although most of the students will not be admitted to ordinary high schools, they will go to a vocational high school after graduating from junior high school, and many will go on to a junior college.
But at this time, 90% of the students in Xiaqiu Junior High School would not continue to study. Even in the third year of junior high school, many people have stopped coming to school and are working in factories outside.
The school also divides into fast and slow classes. The fast class is for those who are ready to continue reading after finishing the third year of junior high school. The teacher will pay close attention to their studies. Students in the slow class will not continue to study after finishing junior high school, and the teacher will not care.
Those students also don't want the teacher to take care of them.
The first class is the fast class. Although it is a fast class, the students in the class can't sit still anymore. They have already secretly packed their schoolbags. When the get out of class bell rang and the teacher left, some people rushed out.
Guan Baiyu also stood up with the crowd. At this moment, his tablemate suddenly stepped on his stool with a schoolbag on his back, followed by stepping on his table, jumped off the table, and left with a sneer.
There was still a textbook on his desk that was confiscated, and a large footprint was printed on it at this time.
The desks in the classroom have been replaced, from the previous two to one for each person, and they are arranged in four rows next to each other in the classroom.
The first and fourth columns are placed against the wall.
That is to say, the two people at the same table, the one who is against the wall goes in and out, and the one outside wants to let go.
Every week, the tables and chairs will be moved one column to the left, and the fourth column will be moved to the first column, which means that everyone will sit against the wall and need to give way to the same table.
This book is nothing, but just to give a place, but Yan Jiangtao, Guan Baiyu's tablemate, doesn't like him very much.
When Guan Baiyu was sitting against the wall, he wanted to go to the toilet after class, but Yan Jiangtao sat on the outside and didn't move, so he wouldn't let Guan Baiyu go out.
When Yan Jiangtao was sitting against the wall, he wanted to get in and out but he was not allowed to let Guan Baiyu slow down, otherwise he would kick Guan Baiyu's stool, or simply step on Guan Baiyu's table to go out.
"Yan Jiangtao is like this!" The girl sitting behind Yan Jiangtao muttered dissatisfiedly. When Yan Jiangtao was sitting outside, he would not let Guan Baiyu go to the toilet after class. Guan Baiyu went out.
Guan Baiyu smiled at her, wiped the book with a rag, put it in his bag and left.
Behind him, some people feel bad for him, some people don't take it seriously, and some people don't like him.