Yao Yuan's impression of Yao Chong still stayed before the third grade. At that time, Yao Chong was called a child prodigy. He learned multiplication and division in preschool. After entering elementary school, he ranked first in every exam and ranked first in every semester exam.
First, in the third grade, I won the first prize in the county primary school student composition competition, and won the first prize in the county mathematics competition...
Primary schools in this era did not have English courses. Otherwise, Yao Yuan even doubted that Yao Chong would be the first in the English class.
In the eyes of his classmates, parents and teachers, Yao Chong has countless auras.
When parents educate their children, they will say that if you look at Yao Chong and then look at you, it would be better for me to raise you than to raise a pig, which will ruin the food supply!
Normally, a person like this would continue on this trajectory, go to junior high school, high school, or college, even if he goes to technical secondary school or junior college, that would be a future for him to leave the countryside and become a national cadre and become a city dweller.
However, things are unpredictable. Yao Chong, like Yao Hu, stopped studying after graduating from junior high school. The reason is very simple - poverty.
Like Yao Hu, he returned home and took over the sledge.
Like Yao Hu, he married a girl of the same age from another village according to family arrangements...
Putting away his thoughts, Yao Yuan looked at the scenery outside the car window and then remembered to ask Lin Wei. He turned around and looked at Lin Wei sitting in the back seat, "Fei Wei, what's going on with you? Why did you come to me if you don't stay at home?"
Lin Wei avoided Yao Yuan's gaze and said, pretending to be relaxed, "It's nothing. It's boring to stay at home. You won't let me come over to eat at your banquet. No, I won't come to you until you finish the banquet."
There must have been another quarrel with the family, Yao Yuan could guess it without asking.
Yao Yuan simply stopped asking, and couldn't get anything out of the question. Lin Wei's family is a typical native family. Parents and children may be able to make a good thing happy just because of their status.
It turned into a heated argument.
Lin Weihui believed that the reason why his parents always treated him as a child was because he had no future. However, when he became a financial manager with tens of billions of assets and the richest man in China, he was frustrated to find that the situation had not changed.
This is the inevitable result that the growth of emotional intelligence is far slower than the growth rate of career.
The real situation is far more complicated than others imagine, and it may not change in a lifetime.
Yao Yuan signaled Yu Tieli to turn left and drove into Yaojiashang Village.
Yaojia Village, Yaojiashang Village, Yaojiaxia Village, Xinyao Village... those with the character Yao all moved from Yaojia Village. Yaojia Village is also called the old village and the big village by the locals.
Yao Yuan had never been to Yao Chong's house, so he asked around and finally found the three-room house built with yellow mud and straw at the end of the village.
The Pajero parked in front of the door naturally attracted the attention of the neighbors. The news spread quickly, and adults and children came to watch the fun. Except for the 212 jeep and truck driven by the family planning office, there had never been such a domineering presence in the village.
The off-road vehicle is very fresh.
Yao Chong was squatting there cutting pigweed with a large guillotine, while a woman who was already pregnant was sitting in front of a pile of sweet potatoes, picking out the borers or too small sweet potatoes and throwing them into the dustpan. These could not be sold at a high price and were not delicious.
Defective products will be boiled and mashed in a large pot, then mixed with pigweed and fed to the pigs.
Just to the side of the three rooms, there are three pigs weighing more than 100 pounds sleeping soundly in a semi-open pigsty.
Hearing the noise, Yao Chong turned his head to look out, and watched in surprise as an off-road vehicle that exuded the aura of "I am very expensive" stopped, and then saw several people getting out of the car.
When he was wondering, one of the young men with a well-proportioned figure and wearing sportswear smiled and greeted him, "Yao Chong? Is that you? I am Yao Yuan, I am A Yuan!"
Yao Chong was stunned, stood up slowly, stared at Yao Yuan, and finally remembered his timid friend in his childhood. He pointed at Yao Yuan, looked at Pajero involuntarily, and then turned back to fall on Yao Yuan's face, "
You, are you Ayuan? Ayuan from Omura?"
"It's me."
Yao Yuan strode over, looked at Yao Chong carefully, then looked at his home, and finally his eyes fell on the pale face of the pregnant woman, and his mood became heavier and heavier.
Before meeting, Yao Yuan could not imagine that such a young couple of twenty years old could actually look like forty years old. The pressure of life and all the difficulties can be seen on their faces.
With his strong limbs and sunken eye sockets, Yao Chong's condition was worse than that of Yao Hu.
Yao Yuan approached the pregnant woman and stretched out his hand, "You are Liang Xiaohui, I am Yao Yuan, from Dacun, Yao Chong's elementary school classmate."
The pregnant woman stood up quickly, wiped her hands on the hem of her clothes several times, and held Yao Yuan's hand tremblingly, not knowing what to do, "Hello, hello."
"Hello, sister-in-law." Yao Yuan nodded and turned back to Yao Chong, "Old classmate, don't be stunned, start cooking and entertain me. I brought wine."
Yao Chong suddenly came to his senses, quickly moved the dining table and stools out of the room, then took out the thermos bottle, took a few bowls, poured water, "Ayuan, you and your friends sit down first, I will cook right away.
"
Liang Xiaohui said, "You talk to your classmates, I'll cook."
Yao Chong thought for a while, then walked out and said, "Ayuan, you guys sit down first, I'll buy some food and I'll be back soon."
"How are you going?" Yao Yuan asked.
Yao Chong pointed to his neighbor's house and said, "Borrow a bicycle and we'll be back in half an hour."
Yao Yuan stopped him and pointed at Yu Tieli who was walking over with something, "I've brought everything, both raw and cooked. Let Xiaohui rest and you can cook me a meal yourself, okay?"
"I'll do it." Yu Tieli said with a smile.
Everyone laughed.
But she still couldn't resist Liang Xiaohui. She quickly took the things and went into the kitchen to start working. Yu Tieli went in and insisted on helping.
Yao Chong invited everyone to sit down. Yao Yuan pointed to Lin Wei and Jiang Yong and introduced, "Ah Wei, Brother Yong, and Brother Tie Li who helps in the kitchen are all my colleagues."
"Ayuan, Brother Tieli is the driver. It's not appropriate to ask him to help in the kitchen. It's really inappropriate." Yao Chong scratched his head and said, about to pull him out.
In this era, the social status of drivers is very high. When people earn more than 1,000 yuan a month, the monthly salary of state-owned enterprise employees and government cadres is only 200 to 300 yuan. If you drive for the leader in the unit, you will be even more awesome, than the second-in-command.
All majestic.
Yao Chong's reaction is reasonable.
Yao Yuan grabbed him and said with a smile, "Anyone who can come to your home with me is an outsider. Besides, Brother Tieli really has a way of cooking. You will know after you taste it."
Regarding Yao Yuan's situation, Yao Hu did not tell Yao Chong much. He only told Yao Yuan that he had donated funds to build a new campus, build roads, toilets, and ancestral halls in the village, etc.
"Do you still remember that in the first semester of the third grade, a few of us dug a dozen sweet potatoes from the sweet potato field planted by the class teacher, and then built an urn behind the school toilet, and there were more than a dozen sweet potatoes.
Half of the sweet potatoes were burnt, and they all had diarrhea that night." Yao Yuan couldn't help laughing as he talked about the past.
Yao Chong smiled and said, "Remember, we didn't go to class the next day. The head teacher thought something had happened, so he came over one by one. After knowing the situation, he went to the brigade to look for medicine."
"Yes, I remember that was the first time I missed class." Yao Yuan said.
"Yes, I have been studying for nine years, and that was the only time I missed class." Yao Chong's smile was a little bitter.
"Our head teacher, Teacher Chen Huichao, really treats us as his own children. He saved all the money he had given us and spent it all on us." Yao Yuan said with emotion.
After a moment of silence, Yao Yuan waved his hand and said with a smile, "Let's not talk about this anymore. By the way, I came back to see my class teacher after I was admitted to college. In July last year, I heard that she was transferred to the county."
Yao Chong's smile gradually disappeared and his expression darkened, "The head teacher, she, she passed away shortly after the Spring Festival and was seriously ill."
Like a heavy punch hitting his heart, Yao Yuan felt pain in his heart. Teacher Chen Huichao's voice and smile appeared in front of his eyes. That short "little old woman" was actually only in her thirties. However, for the students of Yao's primary school,
She taught while clearing wasteland and farming. In order to raise tuition fees and buy stationery for her students, she lived like a little old woman...
She is no longer here.
Looking at Yao Chong, Yao Yuan felt ashamed.
His mentor passed away, and he thought he had far more resources than most people in this era, but he didn't realize it. Yao Chong, who had to give up his studies and go home to farm, was regarded by most people as
A loser never forgets his mentor.
Yao Chong whispered, "The head teacher was not transferred to the county, but went to the county for treatment, but the delay was too long..."
Yao Yuan wiped away his tears, took a long breath, and once again thought about the meaning of life.
"It's all over, Ayuan. Before leaving, the head teacher mentioned you and said that you are the pride of Yao's primary school. After so many years of school establishment, you are the only one who has been admitted to a prestigious university." Yao Chong wiped his eyes and forced a smile.
Yao Yuan whispered, "I am ashamed of my teacher."
"Really, I didn't lie to you." Yao Chong said.
At this time, Liang Xiaohui came out with the dishes and said, "You guys can eat the dishes cooked by Brother Tieli first. There will be a few more that will be ready soon."
"Sister-in-law, you also sit down and eat." Yao Yuan said.
How could Liang Xiaohui agree? She quickly returned to the kitchen, waving her hands and saying, "You guys eat, you guys eat."
There is a rule in the local countryside that makes Yao Yuan very unhappy, that is, when there are guests, women are not allowed to eat at the table. Before liberation, there was no place for women at the dinner table at any time, and women could only make up for a few bites in the kitchen.
Yao Yuan signaled Lin Wei to open the wine and said, "We'll eat when everyone is here."
"No need to wait for her, let's eat ours." Yao Chong said.
"Ah Chong, you are also a new generation of young people who want to work hard for the construction of the four modernizations. How can you have such feudal ideas as favoring boys over girls?" Yao Yuan scolded rudely, "Your wife is pregnant.
Woolen cloth."
Yao Chong was helpless, "Then just wait, we are all our own people anyway, Brother Wei, Brother Yong, don't mind."
Lin Wei quickly said, "Just call me Awei. Ayuan and I are also classmates, so we are classmates."
Yao Yuan thought of something, "By the way, where is your daughter?"
This home obviously does not have the atmosphere of a child living in it.
Yao Chong forced a smile and said, "At home, my father-in-law and mother-in-law are taking care of me."
After a pause, he subconsciously looked around and said in a low voice, "The second daughter lives with my parents at the other end of the village."
Yao Yuan was dumbfounded. In the same situation as Yao Hu, plus the one he was pregnant with, there were three...