In mid-July, the school was closed for summer vacation, and the children caught fish, shrimps, cicadas, and sparrows. Except for meal time, they couldn't even find a person at any other time.
This morning, while the sun was not poisonous, Dong Jiahui squatted in a wooden basin with a straw hat and went down to the river to pick water chestnuts. The water chestnuts are sweet and refreshing when eaten raw, and soft and delicate when cooked. They can also be used for cooking or soup. A model of eating.
Dong Jiahui had just picked half a basin of water chestnuts and went ashore, and was worrying about how to transport the water chestnuts and wooden basins home together, when Zhao Donglin's bicycle stopped in front of her.
"Secretary Zhao?"
The last time I met him in the town, Dong Jiahui had a deep impression of Zhao Donglin, a village party secretary with a firm face and a tall figure wearing a green military uniform.
"You have something to do in our village."
Dong Jiahui is wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt today, and the lower body is simple black trousers. This kind of dress is common in rural areas, but the style of clothes Dong Jiahui wears is made by herself, combined with her own aesthetics, and worn on her body It's hard to say what's different, anyway, it has a unique temperament.
Being bored at home for several months and not having to go to work in the field, Dong Jiahui insisted on washing her face with rice washing water every day, and cut half a cucumber to apply to her face before going to bed at night. It can't be called fair and translucent, but it is quite white in the countryside.
The blue clothes lined her up clean and fresh, Zhao Donglin looked at her, feeling like a clear spring flowing through the mountains in his heart, jingling and jumping for joy.
"I went to the town today and brought some materials to Secretary Dong."
In fact, he didn't have to bring this material, but when Secretary Zhong casually mentioned Dayu Village, Zhao Donglin took the initiative to ask Ying to deliver it along the way.
Zhao Donglin took the documents and left, and Secretary Clock only realized that Dayu Village and Shanghe Village were one in the east and the other in the south. From the geographical point of view, it seems that there is no way to talk about it.
This idea flashed in Secretary Zhong's mind, but it was only for a short time. Since it was not a big deal, Secretary Zhong quickly dropped it.
"Well, brother Haotian lives across the river."
Dong Jiahui smiled and pointed to a family across the river, hidden behind a bamboo forest.
Zhao Donglin glanced at Dong Jiahui's hand, then quickly turned his head and cast his eyes on Dong Jiahui.
"This is too heavy for you to move it, let me help you."
When she raised her hand just now, Zhao Donglin had already noticed that her arms were slender, and her wrists were not as thick as sugarcane. With such a large pot of water chestnuts, it would take some effort to move it back by herself.
When I came here today, I was thinking about running into her by chance, but I didn't expect to be so lucky that I met her as soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village.
If Zhao Donglin asked "Do you need help", Dong Jiahui might have to be more polite, but if he omitted this sentence and started directly, Dong Jiahui would not say no so pretentiously.
Zhao Donglin gave the bicycle to Dong Jiahui, and followed Dong Jiahui into Dong's house with the tub in his hand.
"Secretary Zhao, thank you so much, please sit down and drink a glass of water."
At this time, the rest of the Dong family went to work. It was hot in summer, and the team changed the working time. It used to be from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, but now it is from 6:00 am to 9:00 am, and the time for work in the afternoon It was also delayed to avoid the hottest period of the sun.
Zhao Donglin looked at Dong’s yard. The common adobe houses in the countryside were neatly tidied up. There were chicken coops and vegetable fields in the corners, piles of thatch and dry branches, a simple swing frame tied to the fruit trees, and a board made of nylon. Hanging on the rope, it should be played by the children at home.
Almost all rural yards are like this, but Dong's yard still looks neater.
"Gu, we've finished our homework, can we go out and play?"
Hearing the movement in the yard, several nephews who were detained by Dong Jiahui to do their homework at home opened the curtain and came out.
Seeing a stranger in the yard, the three looked at Zhao Donglin curiously.
"Children should be polite, and when they see elders, they should take the initiative to say hello and call them uncle."
"uncle."
The three shouted in unison, Zhao Donglin touched his pocket, it was empty, not even a piece of candy.
"Uncle didn't bring any sugar today, I'll make it up next time we meet."
"Secretary Zhao, it's okay. How can I see everyone eating candy?"
Dong Jiahui thought that what Zhao Donglin said was kind words, there is indeed a kind of person who is more refined in his actions, and he would be embarrassed to see the juniors without bringing something out.
"Gu, I haven't seen this uncle before."
Hammer is not afraid of life. Although Zhao Donglin looks heroic, he looks quite friendly with a smile on his face.
Dong Jiahui reached out and patted Hammer's head, "Haven't you seen something abnormal? Maybe everyone in the world needs you to know it."
Dong Jiahui spread her palms and motioned for her nephew to show her the homework.
"Let me tell you that the homework is completed only if you pass the test. If you fail to pass the test, you have to rewrite it."
"Oh my aunt, we can just write it. Look who in our village does homework at home. You are the only one who forces us to do homework every day."
Others didn't speak, just hammered too much, Dong Jiahui ignored him, lowered her head and carefully checked their homework.
Huzi is in the fourth grade, Hammer is in the second grade, and Liangzi has just entered the first grade. After the inspection, Huzi barely passed the homework. Liangzi's homework is the simplest, and he made two calculation mistakes. hammer.
"I don't need to say that you know it yourself, right? Who are you dealing with when you make your homework like this?"
Hammer is obviously not convinced. Of course, Hammer is not entirely to blame for this. Nowadays, most parents in rural areas think that it doesn’t matter whether their children study well or not. Anyway, after learning more and less, they will go home to farm. Illiteracy will do.
But Dong Jiahui, as a time traveler, knows that the country will open the college entrance examination in a few years. Only by studying and passing the college entrance examination can children in rural areas realize their self-worth and change their original social class.
Academic qualifications are the key to success. It is never wrong to study well and learn more.
Hammer is a smart child, more than clever, but not calm, such a child will definitely become a master if he is properly guided.
"I take care of your studies for your own good. It was authorized by your parents. Think about it, if you are the first in the class or even the first in the grade every time you take the exam, even if you are more playful, the teacher will come often. Shall we visit home?"
In the few months Dong Jiahui has been here, Hammer’s teacher has visited home three times. Some of them had poor grades in exams, some fought with male students, and once they caught a tortoise to scare the female students in the class, and beat the few in the class to death. A girl cried in fright.
"It's not that you are not allowed to play, but just that you spend one-third of your playing time on learning, 'If you are young and don't work hard, the boss will be sad'. Do you know what this means? It means that you don't study hard when you are young. My children regret it when they grow up, you can only eat wild vegetables when others eat meat."
Dong Jiahui didn't expect to be able to tell Hammer to study hard right away, but Hammer didn't talk back this time, and took back her homework and went back to the room to rewrite it obediently.
"Okay, you two are doing well today, you can go out to play, but you are not allowed to go down the river or up the mountain, if you want to go, you have to be accompanied by an adult. Huzi, you are an older brother, watch over your younger brother."
Huzi nodded hurriedly, and ran out of the yard with Liangzi.
Zhao Donglin sat and watched Dong Jiahui show the homework to the nephews, carefully explaining to them what the nephews did wrong, especially what she said to the hammer, which really made his eyes shine.