The heroine of Kuai Chuan Zhi's family only farms

Chapter 1366 [1365] Enlistment (5100)

In the end, the parents only found out the name of the little soldier. His name was Xiangyang. He was supposed to be born in Xiangyang, but he became a hero at a young age.

It’s not enough just to have a name, but also an address, so as to better repay others, but they were rejected, and they couldn’t ask anything until the troops withdrew. This seemed to be a problem for the father and brother.

In the end, it was the mother who advised them: "Forget it, maybe this is a family rule, but fortunately, after knowing the benefactor's name, let's set up a memorial tablet at home and worship it every year with our ancestors."

Dad opened his mouth, hesitated to speak, and mother said in time: "Don't worry, this tablet is in our hearts,"

Now is the critical period of punishing feudal superstition, and they will not be stupid to touch these things. Although Ding Wei has never seen this hero named Xiangyang, but he saved her brother, she naturally wants to keep this name firmly. Keep it firmly in your heart.

In October, the aftereffects of the flood gradually emerged. Although the water receded, the ground was still wet to the feet. The soil under the feet was not mud but mud. In this case, there was no way to sow seeds, even if they were planted in the ground. , I don’t know if it will germinate. How can I grow this winter wheat?
If the planting was late, and they were worried that it would not be able to germinate in the cold weather, the common people would worry badly. In the end, the wheat was planted reluctantly at the end of October.

The advantage is that the land is moist enough, but the disadvantage is that we do not know whether it can germinate smoothly, and the reduction in production is inevitable.

This year, due to the flood, not only one season of grain was lost, but even the vegetables were gone, not counting the losses of each household. At first, there were two meals, and when there was no work, they simply had one meal. His eyes were dim, and his face was disheveled.

Ding Wei, who has never suffered this kind of crime, is also too hungry to hold the baby, but this little girl still likes her and pesters her every day.

"My golden fingers, I miss them so much." But in this life, there is no room for not talking, and even good land can't be called out.

In order to make them full, my father also used all agricultural methods. Mom wanted to breastfeed, and she couldn't stop her food. Every time my mother said she wanted to wean, she refused to eat and let the children eat, and my father stopped her.

"Are you stupid? The child is only this big. If she doesn't breastfeed, which of the things she can eat, move and digest now?"

"I'm still a little bit capable now. Although what I get is either dried sweet potatoes or sorghum rice, at least I can hold my breath, so you can eat with peace of mind. I'm your man, and my responsibility is to ensure the safety of your mothers. If you come to save food for me, then what am I?"

I have to say, Mom, this husband is a good choice, he is indeed a man, and as he himself said, he is doing his best to ensure the food, clothing, and warmth of the few of them.

Before the frost came, the wheat finally germinated, grew green and grew taller safely. Although it didn’t look as energetic as last year, at least it germinated and grew taller, and everything was developing in a positive direction.

But because we couldn't plant radishes and cabbage this year, we didn't have food and vegetables stored throughout the winter. Although the production team tried their best to get some relief supplies from other places, compared with previous years, this year was the worst and most difficult. years.

Ding Wei didn't expect that in the past four years, she has become worse and worse, and even at the end of the year, she didn't even get a piece of meat.

Grandpa and grandma's house was not much better, but the condition of a few aunts was slightly better than theirs, and they even sent them dried and pickled vegetables.

She didn't know how to get through the past few months. Fortunately, because of the abundant rain in the first month, wild vegetables such as Artemisia annua and shepherd's purse grew very well, and it was also fortunate that there was no snow this year, otherwise they would have suffered even more.

When spring comes, people have hope. My elder brother has successfully passed the entrance examination to the junior high school in the county seat, and then he will start his boarding study career.

Junior high school tuition is relatively expensive, five yuan a semester, living expenses plus accommodation costs are also five yuan, and pickles and dry food must be brought. After all, it is impossible to buy every meal at school.

Ding Wei is five years old this year, and she is a big girl. Her mother originally wanted to send her to school, but she thought it was a waste of money. What's more, if she was sent to school, who would take care of her younger sister?
So she said: "My little brother is not going to school, he can teach me when he comes back, and I think that at my current level, the first and second grades are not too difficult for me."

This is really true. With Ding Wei's current level, everyone can see that her reaction ability is better than that of the fourth child. The fourth child seems to be teaching her, but I always feel that the elder sister sometimes looks at the younger brother's eyes full of excitement. Out of pity, it's a bit too much to say that you look at a fool, but in front of the eldest sister, what is the fourth child if he is not a fool?It's sad that even they feel that their IQ has been crushed.

After my parents’ study was suspended for half a year due to the flood, they started to repair the embankment again this winter. Even if they can’t keep up with their daily study, they have already reached the level of the upper grades of elementary school in terms of literacy and numeracy. The level, especially the progress of the mother, is even greater than that of the father, because she has more free time.

Moreover, parents often practice calligraphy with the tip of a pencil and the back of the book. They used to write crookedly, but now they practice like characters.

The current situation of their family is that two adults make money to support the family, four brothers go to school, five-year-old Ding Wei takes care of Ding Xiang at home, Ding Xiang can already walk, and her mother has also weaned her, and her father will find a way to get her some eggs to supplement Nutrition, while Ding Wei is responsible for stewing egg custard for her.

At first, my mother was worried, worried that she would not even be able to light a fire, and then took her to practice it several times to see what she did, so she was relieved, so she tentatively asked her to try it with her baby. She ran home worried halfway, and saw that not only did they do well, but they also took care of them well, and even the children's dirty clothes were soaked in the basin waiting to be washed.

Every time Zhao Qingqing saw this scene, she was so moved that she could not speak, Ding Wei comforted her.

"Don't worry, Mom, I will take my younger sister to school when she is three years old." At the age of three, she can go to the small class of Yuhong Class, and then her mother will be able to let go of her hands completely.

Ding Wei was three and a half years older than Ding Xiang, so when Ding Xiang was in Yuhong Class, she was almost seven years old, so it was just right for her to go to elementary school.

In order to save money, she plans to show her super ability to read from the very beginning, so that not only can she save more time, she can read well earlier, but she can also share some money for the family earlier.

It is said that time is the most ephemeral, and time has entered the summer vacation of [-]. This year, Ding Wei just passed her seventh birthday, and Ding Xiang was also three and a half years old. With Lilac, I watched their family's life gradually climb up after their father went to night school.

My elder brother also finished his third year of junior high school, and even got a place through his parents' relationship, successfully passed the medical examination and political examination, and will be enlisted in the army in the fall.

Because he is a junior high school graduate, he will be given preferential treatment if he joins the army. If he learns another skill in the future, he will have great potential for promotion.

The second brother is now a second-year junior high school student, and will graduate from junior high school next year. Since the college entrance examination was suspended, high school classes have also been suspended, so it is quite remarkable to be able to graduate from junior high school at this time.

Ding Wei planned to go to the fifth grade at the beginning of school. This decision stunned her family, but she calculated the time well, because the college entrance examination resumed in [-], and high school also resumed at that time. In four years, after graduating from junior high school, she went directly to high school. , the card is just right!As for age, that's not a problem. She can only be valued by the school if she is more talented.

It took my father two years to obtain the qualification to attend a mechanical night school. As long as he has this diploma and a letter of recommendation from the commune and school, he can go to the tractor factory in the county to try his job. good opportunity to work.

Because of her excellent performance, my mother was also rated as a model worker in their production team. This summer vacation is the last moment for their family to gather together. In autumn, my brother will enlist in the army. I heard that he will go all the way south, and he doesn't know which military region he will end up in.

Because being a soldier can reduce the burden on the family, and there will be a certificate of honor to support the army. After the elder brother passed the political review, the second brother was eager to join the army.

Mom was reluctant, but Dad took it very seriously: "Although he graduated from junior high school, we have no ability to help him find a good job. Instead of that, we might as well let him go to the army. If he does well, he can be promoted all the way. If it's not good, the professional army will arrange a job in the future, which is definitely the best place for a family like ours."

The two sons can study, got into junior high school, and their grades were not bad in the three years of junior high school, so they passed all the way and were easily asked to leave by the army.

Even the army came to visit their home and felt the atmosphere of their home, and they praised their parents for teaching their children.

The elder brother has no card here, and the second elder brother has the elder brother as a role model, so he will definitely not be bad. Children who grew up in the countryside are in good health and eat delicious food.

When the brothers seized the time to earn work points in the production team during the summer vacation, Ding Wei not only took care of her younger sister at home, but also learned a lot about the background of this era through the newspapers of the production team.

There is only one newspaper for the production team, and every time we have a meeting, we have to read the newspaper to everyone to convey the meaning of the above, so that everyone can learn about state affairs without leaving home.

After all, every household in the village is poor, there is no radio, and in the era when there was no radio, the only way to learn about major national events is by reading newspapers.

And often when these newspapers are distributed to the production team, there is a one-month lag. old news.

Even so, it is enough for Ding Wei to find the address information for soliciting manuscripts from above. She wants to submit manuscripts to earn some manuscript fees, but she can't think of a suitable method at present, because the remittance slip will be sent to the production team or school, which means that as long as As soon as she makes a move, it will be exposed. Who made her only seven years old now?

In particular, she is seven years old and hasn't gone to school yet, and the manuscripts solicited above are not something that elementary school students can write.

After thinking about it, Ding Wei felt that it was inappropriate. She can be high-profile, but the prerequisite is to go to school.

She was supposed to go to school last year, but her parents were too busy, and she couldn't bear to leave her younger sister to them. It happened that her eldest brother graduated and joined the army this year, so she thought it might as well be a year later.

Now under her guidance, my younger sister has already learned [-] or [-] Tang poems, and her tongue is very good. Not only can she sing ancient poems, she can even sing nursery rhymes very well. There are so many of them. Heard it, let alone rapped.

But the adults couldn't hear anything, they just thought that this girl could sing, and she sang pretty well?

In the past few years, both adults and children in their family have been studying and trying to improve themselves, but other young people in the village either dropped out of school early because of heavy family burdens, or tried to find young girls in the city to marry, or marry boys. youth.

Of course, those who can marry a young woman or a young man must be powerful and powerful in the production team, because only in this way can part of the labor be exempted.

In addition, there are some schemes to deceive these young women. One of them is very poor, very poor, but they can't stand the man who is very talkative and good-looking. He doesn't know how to deceive the young women back. The family, not only did not give a bride price, but also got a certificate with someone. The most terrifying thing is that this person looks like a person, but in fact he is not a person, and often beats young women.

But now that she has children, where else can she go? Even because she married a rural person, her parents didn't even come when she got married, and she even broke ties with her all these years. That's right, this person is none other than That Bai Jie.

Unexpectedly, she, who always had her eyes high above her head, was tricked back home by the laziest and poorest family in the village.

The current Bai Jie doesn't have the pride and confidence she had back then. From a distance, she is a rural woman, especially her first child was a girl. Not only her husband beat her, but her mother-in-law also yelled at her. I saw her secretly wiping tears.

Seeing this situation, I really don't know whether to say she deserved it or to pity her.

There are smart people too, but the girl's youth is only this year, and the one who can persist until now is probably because of the longing in her heart?

When they first came here, they were young people with dreams in their hearts, but now three or five years have passed, their teens have turned into their twenties, how many five years are left in their lives?

The young man married a rural girl and had a child.

When a young woman marries a rural guy, it's not all bad, most of them are not bad.

The cousin of her family who was enthusiastically pursuing young women before was not qualified in the end, and people looked down on him. Later, she found an older young woman from a neighboring village and got married. The marriage was not bad. It is still very important to the daughter-in-law.

On the day of enlisting in the army, banners with white characters on a red background were hung in the town, and there were promotional banners for joining the army everywhere, as well as red lanterns and colored paper, creating a strong sense of atmosphere.

The elder brother was wearing an army green military uniform with big red flowers on his chest and an army green bag on his back. He comforted his parents with a smile.

"Oh mom, I agreed not to cry. Why are you crying again? It's not that I won't come back. We have annual leave every year. Even if I just go and don't have time to come back, I will write to you. We have to go to Lu Province reported that it is not clear where it will be allocated in the future, but don't worry, your son will never embarrass you."

Mother held her brother's hand with a look of reluctance, while Ding Wei held Ding Xiang's hand, raised her head and stared at her brother vigorously, with a look of reluctance.

After Ding Jianguo comforted his mother, he walked up to Ding Wei, held her face in both hands, and gently wiped away the tears she didn't know when she shed.

"Good Weiwei, don't cry, I feel sorry for you. When I go to the army, I will write you a letter. I will also send you the allowance I earned. You and Xiangxiang can buy nice and comfortable clothes."

Ding Wei didn't hide her emotions anymore, she cried and said to Ding Jianguo: "Brother, you probably don't know how much your monthly allowance is, six yuan in the first year, you should save it for yourself to marry a wife? Unless One day you will become a cadre, otherwise your allowance will only increase by one yuan a year."

An 11-year veteran has a monthly allowance of 50 yuan, but a platoon-level cadre can reach the 23rd-level salary in a month, which is 52 yuan, which is enough to show that if you want to get ahead, you still have to be a cadre.

When Ding Wei said this, Ding Jianguo didn't bother to ask her how she knew, but he was worried that his sister would dislike her low allowance, but he rubbed her hair in a good-tempered manner.

"Hey, brother, work harder and try to make you a family member of a cadre. If brother can get along well, you and Xiangxiang can marry better in the future."

I thought it was just a joke, and even his parents didn't take it seriously, but Ding Jianguo took this matter to heart, and vowed to be a man in the army.

There were a lot of family members who were sent to the army, and there was a queue to taste it, but the eldest brother finally got on the army-green truck, and waved goodbye to them with a look of reluctance.

After sending off the elder brother, my mother was depressed for several days, often sitting in the yard and looking at the elder brother's room in a daze, fully responding to the old saying.

"My mother is worried when my son travels thousands of miles!" What's more, my brother who has never traveled far will go out of the province as soon as he leaves. How can my mother feel relieved?
Although the father's emotions were not as obvious as the mother's, he still comforted her: "Okay, the first time is the birth and the second time is the acquaintance, next year, you have to send the second child!"

It's true which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted. My mother couldn't hold back her tears and cried out.

"My Jianguo, he has never left me since he was born. He is the most sensible child who has contributed the most in these years. Why did he suddenly leave me today? Zhenlong, I am worried, I really Don't worry about him."

"If you don't worry about it, you have to let it go. Why, you still can't believe that the army will bring you a good baby? Where is the army? It's a place to cultivate talents. Why can't your son be so powerful? Why can't you get along? Wait for him to fight for our face, that's enough, don't be awkward here, don't make the two little ones cry anymore, you forgot what the old and the young were crying that day, and no one comforted them to stop crying."

Ding Xiang was half a beat slow in reacting, her brother hugged her for a while before he left, she didn't react when his brother got in the car and handed her to her father, and she didn't react until the car was far away, and she started crying, crying so badly, Mom had no choice but to buy her malt candy for five cents, so she was fooled.

Thinking of the crying skills of the youngest, the mother pinched the corners of her eyes with a headache.

"Forget it, I'd better go out and find out by the way, when will they arrive and when will they be able to write a reply,"

Where else can I go to find out?It must have been asked by the military mother who joined the army last year.

(End of this chapter)