Hard times have room

Chapter 12 The First Pot of Gold

"Dad, all the mushrooms and dried bamboo shoots are replaced by a pound of brown sugar." Paulin put another bag of brown sugar into the space when she went out, because the pound of mushrooms and bamboo shoots at home can only be exchanged for one bag of brown sugar at most.

Mushrooms are worth a bit of money, and bamboo shoots are available wherever there are bamboos. Most of them, they have never been sold at a high price, and they are basically useless.

Wang Jiandang didn't expect to change a pound of brown sugar. Originally, he thought that half a pound would be enough, but this aunt is a kind person.

"My daughter is capable. Put the brown sugar in your back basket, and when you get home, make brown sugar water for your mother and two." Wang Jiandang took the back basket and carried Baolin back, thinking about going back to the supply and marketing agency. Waiting for the captain to gather, this time I came out to buy fertilizer and lime, and now the mushroom shoots are replaced with brown sugar, so there is nothing to worry about.

After walking back only one street, Paulin thought for a while, she was not willing to go back like this and waited outside the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Dad, let's go to the junk station. I heard from my classmates that there are old books and old books in the junk station, which are very cheap. I want to go and look around to see if I can find dictionaries and textbooks."

The traditional characters of this time and space are different from the simplified characters of the original time and space. When Paulin was learning to read, she had to work hard before she changed her habit of writing without arms and legs.

However, the characters in the textbook are limited, and sometimes Pauline still doesn't know a new character. It would be much more convenient to have a dictionary.

But dictionaries are too expensive, 11 yuan a copy, which is almost half a year's income of Baolin's family. It is impossible for Baolin to buy a dictionary directly, and Baolin will not agree to use the family's hard-earned money for a year to buy a dictionary.

So at school, Pauline often borrows dictionaries from classmates, but it's not inconvenient for herself.

Wang Jiandang looked at Paulin and pursed his lips. After all, he didn't say anything. He only carefully held Paulin's hand and walked towards the waste station.

Baolin has been smart and sensible since she was a child, and she obviously went to school with Wenhui Wencan. Now Wenhui Wencan is still in the fourth grade of primary school, but she has skipped grades and has already entered the second year of junior high school. She will be able to enter high school soon.

He knew that Pauline studied hard, got a scholarship and a certificate, and it was for the sake of fighting for the two of them, and also to reduce the burden on the family.

It was the two of them who held her back. Thinking that the child only needs tuition fees throughout the year, and other things, such as notebooks, have always been bought with their own scholarships, and they have never asked for anything at home. Use, can't make money, can't support a family, even the old mother's cold treatment of her daughter-in-law and children at home is too filial to say anything because of filial piety.

Baolin felt her father's self-blame and loss. She understood what he was thinking, but Baolin never complained about her parents. Wang Jiandang and Su Hongying gave Baolin all their love and gave them the best they could. The best life, how can you complain.

She knew that the most important thing in Wang Jiandang's heart was her and her mother. Even her grandparents were only on the second step after so many years. That was enough. Their family of three were the most important people to each other.

She squeezed the big hand in the handshake and gave silent comfort: "Dad, you are the best."

Wang Jiandang turned sideways, met Baolin's eyes full of admiration, touched Baolin's little head with relief, smiled, and didn't think any more.

When I arrived at the junkyard, I saw a little old man sitting at the entrance of a small dilapidated yard. He was dressed in rags, but wearing glasses.

"Uncle, my child needs a lot of books to go to school. I want to come to you to find some old books and use them, practice calligraphy and do some math, please." Wang Jiandang said cautiously with a smile to please.

Bao Lin watched this scene, her eyes were suddenly a little sore, and her chest was swollen. This feeling has not been seen for a long time, which strengthened Bao Lin's determination to make her parents stand upright in the future.

The uncle raised his head from the newspaper, looked at Wang Jiandang and then at Pauline, without saying anything, he waved his hand and let himself read it.

"Thank you, thank you." Wang Jiandang took Paulin into the courtyard while thanking him.

Outside the yard are piles of furniture, wood, books or scrap copper and iron with missing arms and legs.

Pauline took her dad straight to the pile of books, and the two of them turned over together, picking out some of the relatively intact books first, and picked out the ones that were still in use.

In the end, after rummaging for half an hour, I really found a dictionary with tattered skin and some missing pages.

Pauline picked the selected books, and in the end, she left the dictionary and four half-useable books. She also found a lot of books for high school. , this can also save a fortune, just buy the missing books at that time,
The biggest gain of this trip is to find a high school Russian book and a dictionary of Russian-Chinese translation. I found it together, and it looks very new. I can't understand why such good books and dictionaries are in the junkyard.

Baolin's junior high school in the commune did not have a Russian teacher, so she hadn't learned Russian yet, but Baolin's junior high school teacher said that the county's junior high school had a Russian teacher. .

In the previous life, Paulin, who never knew Russian, is now a little behind the students in the county. Now that she has books and dictionaries, Paulin can learn it at home first, even if she can't read, but at least she has learned the words first. The gap is narrowed a little, and it will be time to catch up.

Pauline has been studying hard all her life because she knows that this is the only chance to change her destiny.

The experience of the past life can make her more open-minded and more determined than others. What's more, Baolin is not a stupid child in her past life and this life. It is relatively easy to skip a grade in the junior high school of Commune Primary School and get a scholarship, but high school is different. In the past life, Paulin only attended high school, and she is not a genius who can remember a little bit, not to mention the Russian language she is completely unfamiliar with. Paulin really doesn't have much confidence, but she does need a scholarship, even if it's not much. , that is all she can earn by herself now.

Cherishly flipping through the two Russian books and dictionaries, Pauline suddenly found that the pages behind the dictionary were a little different.

Pauline carefully flipped through the tome again, and found that there were three brand-new ten-yuan banknotes in the last few pages of the book. She closed the pages nervously and looked around in a panic. Fortunately, there was nothing but her dad here. There was no one else, and her father was concentrating on flipping through the stack of books.

Carefully touched the banknotes and put them into the space before I felt relieved.

Pauline won't give the money to her dad now, and besides, the two of them are still at the junkyard, for fear that he won't be able to hold back and will miss out.

Bao Lin, who had received a huge sum of money, had no intention of continuing, and shouted to Wang Jiandang, who was still trying to rummage ahead: "Dad, it's almost done, I found the dictionary, and I have also found a lot of books and books. , let's get on the scale and pay the money."

He raised his head, wiped his face with his sleeve, and looked at the sun, Wang Jiandang nodded: "Okay, I will carry the book and put it in my back basket."

The father and daughter piled up the ragged book boxes and the like, put the books on their backs, and went out.

(End of this chapter)