Jiang Xinyu didn't know anything about the Wuliqiao brigade yet, so she set off to the Miaoxi brigade with Song Guifang and Luo Yuan early in the morning.
Yesterday, Chen Yi left his bicycle with her, so the three of them rode two bicycles, which was much faster than walking.
The Miaoxi brigade is more than 20 kilometers away from the Wuliqiao brigade. Like the Shijinggou brigade, it is far away from the commune. The road is not easy to walk. Jiang Xinyu can't sit still on the dirt road and the gravel road.
Luo Yuan's bicycle chain fell off twice on the way, and he had to use some oil while repairing it.
After pedaling for more than two hours to reach the Miaoxi brigade, Song Guifang said: "Go to my house to drink some water first."
Song Guifang has not returned to her parents' home for several months.
There was a circle of reeds growing beside the fence of her parents' house. Most of her parents' family were in the fields at the moment, but there were children playing in the mud at the door.
The child was very surprised to see Song Guifang and called "Auntie" loudly.
After finishing repairs at Song Guifang's house, the three of them went to the homes of the three students. No one was at home, so they must have gone to work, so the three of them went to the fields again.
The land in the Miaoxi brigade is more sloping, the yield is not very high, and there is no creek or anything like that. There is only a pond in the south.
This comparison shows that the river flowing through the Wuliqiao Brigade is the key to a good harvest for the commune members. Several small vines have been dug out of that river. When it doesn't rain, the commune members water the fields.
It's still somewhat convenient.
In an era where people depended on the weather, the geographical environment could really determine the poverty and wealth of a place.
Many people in the Miaoxi brigade knew Song Guifang. The enthusiastic aunt asked the three of them what they were doing and then gave them directions.
"Zhang Lixia, why don't you report this semester? Whose child is this?"
The person asking the question was Song Guifang. This was the brigade where her mother-in-law was from and where she was born and raised. It was most appropriate for her to take the lead and ask.
Luo Yuan simply felt that coming here was in vain. As long as he could go to school, he would continue to go to school. The teachers could not help them with money or give them any help. How could they persuade these people just by talking.
Zhang Lixia also held a baby in her arms, hanging on her body and still working.
Zhang Lixia had a dark face and disheveled hair. She lowered her head slightly and said, "This is my little nephew. My sister-in-law had a massive hemorrhage after giving birth. She died and there was no one to take care of the child. Teacher Song, I will never do it again."
Went to school."
Song Guifang was speechless for a while, "Your sister-in-law gave birth at home? Didn't you let the village doctor take a look without going to the health team?"
Zhang Lixia nodded, "The health team is too far away and there was no time to send them there. My sister-in-law had a stomachache when she went to work..."
After Zhang Lixia finished speaking, his brother answered: "She is so delicate. She was born in the village. She is not lucky enough to join the health team."
Jiang Xinyu was very shocked. Women in this era had to go through hell when giving birth. According to what classmate Zhang and his brother said, her sister-in-law almost gave birth to a child.
Zhang Lixia and her parents came close with tools. The faces of the three of them were red and black from the sun, beads of sweat hung on their faces, their hands were covered with calluses, their skin was extremely rough, and their clothes were all made of homespun cloth.
, tattered, as if it would break into pieces when pulled.
"Guifang, it's not that we don't want Lixia to go to school. There is no one to look after the baby at home, and the harvest this year is not good. We really can't afford it." Zhang Lixia's mother said bitterly.
Many girls in the village can only graduate from elementary school. It is not easy for them to send Zhang Lixia to junior high school. They also want Zhang Lixia to graduate from junior high school, but something unexpected happened? What else can they do?
It’s not that I can’t even get a few bucks for schooling. The main reason is that no one is looking at this baby doll. In addition to this baby, there are four and a half-year-old children on it. If one person is left at home to look after the children, the work points earned will be
Less.
Song Guifang: "Don't let such a young child get sunburned in the ground."
Zhang Lixia's brother said: "She will take the child and work for a while longer. She will go back in the middle of the afternoon and come back in the middle of the afternoon. It won't be a problem."
Jiang Xinyu had nothing to say about such a thing, and the three of them frowned slightly and went to find the next person.
The remaining two students, the female student, didn't have anything happen to her family. It's just that the new sister-in-law is very mean and doesn't want her to go to school anymore and waste money. She just needs to say that she can read and reply.
If you work at home and help for a few years, you can make money.
Compared with the classmate Zhang Lixia, Jiang Xinyu and the other three agreed that the family member who persuaded the lesbian had hope of letting her go to school.
"Uncle, aunt, if you let your children come back to work early, they will have to dig food in the fields in the future, but it will not change their lives. My family is also poor, and I am also a girl. My mother asked me to go to high school until I graduate. I am now
He became a teacher in the commune school."
With subsidies from Chen Xiuyun's natal family, who also secretly runs a small business, Jiang Xinyu's family is actually not poor, and they are living a good life in the Wuliqiao Brigade. But now, if you want to persuade people, of course you have to say so.
"What are you going to school for? After you go to school, you become a member of someone else's family. What's the use of going to school?"
The one who spoke was the female student’s sister-in-law.
Jiang Xinyu was so impressed by this woman that the schoolgirl's parents didn't even say a word. She was the one who jumped up and down the most, "Well, you're digging in the fields by yourself, and you don't want to see your sister-in-law go to school, right?"
"My family's affairs are none of your business. If you have the ability, you can provide her with money and food. Otherwise, don't act like this and it will delay our work. It's good if she can read a few words. I can't read even big characters. I'm going to get married."
What’s the point of studying? Can you still go to the city? If everyone who went to school could go to the city, everyone would send their children to school.”
Jiang Xinyu was beaten back like this.
If this were placed in the era she lived in before, she didn't believe that anyone could say such a thing with confidence.
Jiang Xinyu squatted and got angry silently while Luo Yuan talked to the lesbian's parents.
"Sister Song, there are not many people in your village who go to commune school, how did you go to high school and graduate?"
Jiang Xinyu asked this out of sheer curiosity and did not want to offend Song Guifang.
Song Guifang also squatted next to her and said: "There is no primary school in our village. If you want to go to primary school, you have to go to the central primary school next door. When I finished primary school, my father married someone. I was not allowed to continue to go to school. But my eldest brother
I am a soldier, and the letter sent home stated that if I was not allowed to continue going to school, the allowance sent home would be reduced by half, so I could continue to go to school. After I graduated from high school, my brother found a connection for me and allowed me to go to school.
School."
Because her stepmother didn't treat her well, she rarely went home after work. At most, she sent back half of her salary every month. After she got married, her husband's family didn't like her to go back to her parents' house often, for fear that she would give her parents money or something.
Subsidy, except for holidays, she came back even less.
Jiang Xinyu has not complained in her heart since she reached this age. The difficult old lady Li and the disgusting Zhang Fengmei are really disgusting.
But Comrade Chen Xiuyun, the mother, really has nothing to say. She sent her three daughters to high school and treated them well. Compared with most of the female comrades here, her thoughts are really open-minded.
, at this time she was sincerely grateful to have such a mother.
The two of them were talking, Luo Yuan spent a long time talking, and then returned in vain.
That lesbian sister-in-law is really not someone to be trifled with. She has her own logic and believes in it. She looks very powerful in her husband's family. Her parents-in-law don't even refute what she says.
Luo Yuan wiped his sweat, spread his hands, and said speechlessly: "It's no longer possible. I won't take hard or soft advice. Let's go and find the last one."