After having a cold war with his father for a week, Liu Jun, who had failed the college entrance examination, finished his dinner with a heavy heart, left the table and stood in front of his father Liu Dekui, and said timidly: "Dad, I still don't want to repeat the exam."
Liu Dekui picked up some peanuts, drank a small cup of rice braised in the countryside, clicked his tongue, and squinted at Liu Jun: "Then what do you want to do?"
In fact, Liu Jun didn't think about what to do. He just wanted to go to the city. He made up a reason casually and said firmly, "Just give me some money. I will go to the provincial capital to work. I can do anything by setting up a stall. I don't want to stay here."
Here, generations have faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky.”
Without even raising his head, Liu Dekui took out a wine flask and filled a small cup. While pouring the wine, he said, "No, as long as you repeat the course, it doesn't matter how much it costs. If you don't read it, you won't get a penny."
Liu Jun knew that his father had a weird temper and would not change his decisions easily, so he felt sad in his heart. He understood his father's good intentions of hoping that his son would succeed, but his father did not understand his difficulties.
The father who has never read a book does not know that reading requires talent. How many college students can be admitted in a year in a poor village with underdeveloped education? Which poor student does not study hard at school, and who does not dream of one day
Carp jumping over dragon gate?
But Liu Jun knew his own disadvantages. He had already worked hard and failed to pass the first and second textbooks. Even if he studied at a self-funded third or junior college, it would be meaningless. His family could not afford the tuition. There was no point in repeating another year. It was simply pointless.
It's just a waste of youth.
Besides, times have changed. What about the era of Pindad? Nowadays, getting into university does not include allocation. Rural children who can’t find a job have to come and go. What’s more, what if they get into university? Talented students from Tsinghua University and Peking University can’t find jobs after graduation.
There are many people who live on the streets when they work, but Liu Jun cannot explain these to his father clearly. This is the generation gap.
His father also pretended to be fat. As father and son depended on each other, it would be good if the family could survive on one-third of an acre. If Liu Jun really wanted to repeat his studies, I'm afraid his father would have to sell him another pig to pay for his tuition.
Liu Jun tried to persuade his father, playing the family card, and whispered: "Dad, after I go to college, I have to make money. You see, if I go to the city to find a job first, I can save a few years of tuition. That's okay."
I can make a few more years of money in advance to buy you better wine, just buy the national liquor Moutai that is advertised every day on Xinwen Network."
Liu Dekui raised his eyebrows after hearing this, as if he saw his filial son Liu Jun had presented the national wine Maotai in front of him, and his eyes lit up.
Liu Jun thought he had persuaded his father, and was a little complacent when he saw his father sigh, with a very serious expression, full of vicissitudes of life: "Ah Jun, your mother got sick and died early, your eldest brother didn't learn how to kill people to eat.
If you are shot, our Liu family has held official positions and received royal food for several generations. If you don’t study, how can you make a difference? If you don’t make a difference, our Liu family will be in decline."
His father once again told the bitter family history of blood and tears. Liu Jun listened to it many times, and every time he heard it, he felt bad. He didn't want to disobey his father, but he wanted to go to the city to make a living as soon as possible. Fortunately, he didn't go to college.
, if I pass the exam, where will the huge tuition fees come from? Will my father be forced to sell pigs and houses, kowtow and kneel down, and borrow money everywhere?
"Dad, forget it if you don't have money. I won't read any more books. After the busy farm work, I will go to Jiangnan to find work for my aunt." Liu Jun said nothing and turned back to the kitchen to fill his father's cup.
A large porcelain bowl of rice was placed angrily in front of his father, and then he returned to the room without saying a word, lying on the bed with many thoughts.
There are thousands of roads in the world, and studying is not the only one. There is a famous saying that "all roads lead to Rome." It is definitely useless to stay in this remote country and deal with loess all day long. There are not many young people in the village.
Have you gone to work in the city? As long as your hands and feet are diligent and your mind is flexible, Liu Jun doesn't believe that he can't get ahead in the city. Sooner or later, he will make his father live a good life.
There is no better son than a father, and Liu Dekui also knows his son's temper. Liu Jun is like him, very stubborn, and he can't get back what he has decided. The father and son have not said a word for more than a week because they want to stop studying. Everyone has his own ambitions.
, If my son doesn’t want to study, it’s useless to force him to death.
Liu Dekui raised his neck, poured the wine into his mouth, and shook the small wine cup in the air. There was no wine left, and he felt quite satisfied when he picked up the rice served by his son.
Although my son is not good at studying, he is a good person. He is diligent, responsible and filial. He is tall and fair, with a naturally pretty face. He does not look like a child from the countryside at all. As his name suggests, he looks quite handsome.
I don't know which gust of wind blew out, saying that Liu Jun would no longer study. One after another, matchmakers from several villages came to check on the situation. The daughter of Zhang San's family was pretty, the daughter of Li Si's family was good at tailoring, and Wang Er's daughter was from Mazi's family.
The daughter can accompany the dowry of two cows.
Liu Dekui was very happy when he thought of those matchmakers who smiled like chrysanthemums and spoke like lotuses. Even if his family was very poor and his son had not been admitted to college, his son was still very marketable in the countryside and outside the country. However, I
He would not be tempted by the matchmaker to let his son find these country girls. If he goes to higher ground, it would be better for Liu Jun to find a daughter-in-law from the city. That would make the ancestors of the Liu family look good.
Thinking that his son may not be able to find a wife in the city in the future, let him go to the city to have a try. What his son said is not unreasonable. Whether he can study or not, he will have to make money sooner or later. Liu Dekui is so
I figured it out as soon as I thought about it, and I felt a little inexplicably excited. After eating, I took out the shovel from the corner of the main room and deliberately made noise, and shouted to Liu Jun's room: "Ajun, clean up, I'll go to the field to drain water."
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Except for the days when the harvest is good, rice is usually inseparable from water. It is common for farmers to water the rice fields at night. Liu Jun naturally doesn't think much about it. When his father goes out, he walks out of the room to clean up the table and bowls, wipes the table, and carries it.
I took the aluminum basin with the dishes and chopsticks in them and went to the pressurized water well behind the house to wash them.
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Liu Dekui went out and did not go to the fields. Instead, he hummed a tune and carried a shovel to the Langshang Village Committee at the east end of the village.
The higher-level financial department allocated funds to build a new two-story Langshang Village Village Committee Office Building. Tian Xiuhua, the wife of the village chief, "rented" a large office room on the first floor, and divided it into several small rooms for canteens and small warehouses to facilitate the sale of some items.
The villagers' toothpaste, toothbrushes, toilet paper and snacks, cigarettes, drinks and other daily necessities are provided, and the canteen has the only farm phone in the village that can make long-distance calls.
"Hey, Brother Dekui, are you going to put some water in the evening?" Tian Xiuhua was watching TV boredly in the canteen. When she saw Liu Dekui coming over with a shovel, she felt itchy in her heart, shaking her plump breasts.
The buttocks were pressed up high.
Liu Dekui shrank back, looked around for a while, and said, "Sister-in-law Xiuhua, I'm making a long-distance call."
Tian Xiuhua moved the landline, used a small key to open the long distance connection through the small hole on the back of the phone, went out and looked around again, and made sure that no one was there. She hugged Liu Dekui in the transfer room, and her big breasts were on Liu Dekui's side.
He rubbed his back vigorously and said in a breathy voice: "Brother Dekui, his father, the Minister of Armed Forces from the same hometown, went on an inspection trip. His son and daughter also went to school to make up for classes. There is no one here these days."
The father Tian Xiuhua mentioned was her husband Xiao Fugui. Xiao Fugui is the head of Langshang Village, a village with a population of nearly 4,000. He has hooked up with the slightly more attractive left-behind women in the village by no less than double digits.
He never expected that his wife would cuckold him secretly.
It was not without reason that Tian Xiuhua secretly had a good relationship with Liu Dekui. The village elder spent a lot of time smoking, drinking, and playing with women, so naturally he couldn't do that at night. A woman who looked like a wolf in her thirties and a tiger in her forties was not satisfied, and Liu Dekui was a widowed man, and Tian Xiu
You can imagine the flowers rolling together.
"Oh, oh, let me make a call." Liu Dekui shook his neck and shook Tian Xiuhua away. He felt nervous and his face flushed.
Tian Xiuhua happily took out a new mat from the shelf and went to the back room to prepare it.
Liu Dekui called his sister Hu Lanping, who was married to Jiangnan City, the capital of Pohu Province, and got straight to the point and talked about Liu Jun: "Pingping, Ajun doesn't want to repeat his studies. He asked me for money and wanted to work in the provincial capital, but I didn't give it to him.
Money. He still has a few months to work on the farm, so he will go to your place to settle down. Do you think you can help him find something to do in your factory?"
Hu Lanping is Liu Jun's aunt and Liu Dekui's adopted sister. According to rural customs, she is the child bride assigned to Liu Dekui. Due to the premature death of Liu Dekui's parents, this unwritten marriage ended, but the relationship between the brother and sister has always been very good.
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Later, Hu Lanping married an honest and friendly ordinary worker from the Jiangnan City Machinery Factory in the provincial capital, and she was considered to be married to the city. Liu Dekui rushed to the canteen at the east end of the village tonight and called Hu Lanping because he wanted his sister to help Ajun.
, not exactly coming to Aida Hideka.
Hu Lanping sighed on the phone and said: "Ajun is my nephew, of course I have to help him. Alas, it's just a pity that Ajun doesn't study."
"I also want Ajun to repeat his studies, but it's useless to force him to death. I don't give him money because I want him to know that it's difficult to get along in society without education. Maybe he will change his mind after seeing the difficulties."
"Ajun doesn't talk much, but he has a good temper. I guess he won't want to go back to study again after he comes to the city. I'll ask the factory tomorrow if there are any plans to recruit temporary workers? I heard that temporary workers
Those who work in our factory for three to five years may be transferred to formal contract workers."
"It's great if you can become a regular worker, Pingping, please pay attention. Also, if it's not absolutely necessary, don't give money to Ajun. He's almost twenty years old and it's time for him to learn to be independent."
"Brother, don't worry, I'm measured."
"Okay, please."
After making the call, Liu Dekui put aside his worries and glanced at Tian Xiuhua who was wiping the bamboo mat on the ground with a wet cloth in the back room, feeling anxious about whether to leave the canteen.
Over the years, Liu Dekui had made an appointment with Tian Xiuhua when the village chief was not at home, rolled up a straw mat and carried it to the fields to keep watch and release water in the middle of the night, and then secretly went to the bamboo forest behind the hill to have a good time.
It's a bit early in the evening today. If you are like Tian Xiuhua in the canteen, what if there are villagers like him who make long distance calls or buy things urgently? Liu Dekui is beating the drum in his heart, no matter how cowardly he is.
God, I don't dare to take this risk.
Just when Liu Dekui couldn't make up his mind, Tian Xiuhua came out of the back room, wrapped a thousand yuan in a floral handkerchief, handed it to Liu Dekui, smiled and said with great concern: "Brother Dekui, Arjun is so annoying.
No matter how hard it is for the children, let’s take this thousand yuan first.”
Liu Dekui was wondering whether he should accept Tian Xiuhua's money, but he saw Tian Xiuhua hurriedly ran to the village committee door, had a look, closed the door, returned to the canteen, lowered the curtains, turned off the lights, and rushed to Liu Dekui.