20 years of spring breeze

Chapter 13 Two Years Later

"Xiaowei, have you eaten yet? Are you eating at home or in the cafeteria?" Wang Bing patted the ashes on his pants with his gloves and walked over while beating them.

Xiaowei was sitting on a hard hat, holding a cigarette in his hand, leaning against the wall to bask in the sun, when he heard Wang Bing speak, he turned his head and glanced, and said, "If you don't want to move, let's eat in the cafeteria."

Wang Bing walked up to Xiaowei and sat down, asked Xiaowei for a cigarette and lit it, and said, "Why do you love canteens so much? The food is like pig food, and you never see a piece of meat."

Xiaowei smiled and said: "You have to eat, what else do you want? It turned out that the food before farming at home was not as good as this. At that time, there were two meals a day, and when I was hungry, I just chewed a steamed bun. I didn't even have pickles. It's a good job. Besides, I have to ask my aunt to do it when I go back at noon, and she can handle it by herself if I don't go back."

Wang Bing turned his head to look at Xiaowei, squeezed his eyes, and said, "I love my mother-in-law? You are really filial. By the way, you really want to go to college? Then in the future, you will become a city dweller? Xiaowei, when the time comes..., right, you have to think about it."

Xiaowei smiled and said: "It must be taken. If she doesn't want to take the test, I have to let her take the test. If she can pass the test and go out, why do she have to hang out in the county? I made an agreement with her. If she goes to college, I will pay for it. Uncle and aunt save some snacks. What you said can't be done. So I farm at home and people go to school in the county. My uncle is still a cadre. He treats me the same way and doesn't look down on me. Xiaohong is not that kind of person. Besides Yes, that’s how I admit it, being able to go out is better than staying here.”

Wang Bing flicked the cigarette butt, stood up on his knees, held his helmet in his hand and said, "All right, you can make up your own mind. Then I'm going home. I can't eat the food in the cafeteria. Let's go." .” Turned around and went downstairs.

Xiaowei is already a big worker now, and he gets seven yuan a day, which is one yuan more than his master Liu, and he also has cigarettes.

In the past two years, from pushing mortar to moving bricks, to mixing ash, soaking white ash and twisting hemp knives, the work on the construction site has been done from scratch, and finally survived and became a big worker. Although it is inseparable from Chen Gong's care Open, but mainly his own efforts.

The tenacity of the rural child made him refuse to admit defeat in his bones, so why should he be able to do a good job himself?Watching carefully, working hard, coupled with the master Liu's not hiding his secrets, he finally made it through.

Now he also has an apprentice, Wang Bing, who is two years older than Xiaowei himself, and his family conditions are quite good. My father works in the county. He didn’t go to school after graduating from junior high school. Xia's construction site came up, ready for him to practice and learn some skills.In this era, construction workers are quite popular, and it is a job that can earn money and save face.

The setting sun shines in the west, and the afterglow of the sun dyes this small county red.

The electric bell rang on the construction site, and work was over.The machine stopped roaring, the tools were put away according to their positions, and the workers walked out while talking unhurriedly. Xiaowei walked with the crowd with his helmet in his hand, and Wang Bing walked beside him with a cigarette in his mouth.

"How much did you build today?" Lao Liu followed up from behind and asked.

Xiaowei smiled and said, "Master. It's not much, it's more than three meters. You should hurry up, Master."

Lao Liu shook his head and said, "You've only been able to do it for a few days. Well, it's better to be young. I don't have the energy to spare, and my physical strength can't keep up. Work hard, you must be better than me."

Go to the work shed to sign, and the crowd poured out of the gate of the construction site.

Xiaowei rode his bicycle to Stationmaster Wang's house humming an unknown tune.

Go downstairs and lock the car, take off your coat, hold it in your hand, and go upstairs.

After entering the house, he took off the dirty clothes and folded them at the door, went to the kitchen to wash them in sweaters and trousers, and started to help Aunt Wang who was busy cooking.

When Wang Xiaohong, who came back at the latest, entered the room, the food was already on the table, the wine cup was already full, and the stationmaster Wang had already drunk it with a smile.

Wang Xiaohong is going to take the college entrance examination soon, so her studies are not so tight, and she gets out of school a lot earlier. She doesn't have to stay up late and get up early, and the whole family feels a lot more relaxed.

Xiaowei helped Xiaohong put rice in front of her, and said, "Why are you so happy today?"

Xiaohong picked up the chopsticks and ate a mouthful of food, and said: "Today's test, I was third in the class, I surprised the old hag, haha, happy."

The old witch she was talking about was her class teacher, a strict female teacher named Wu.A strict teacher has always been a representative of evil forces in the hearts of students. It is normal to have a nickname, but when students grow up, it is often such a teacher who impresses and misses the most in their hearts.

Stationmaster Wang glared at Xiaohong, and said, "No one in shape. Calling the teacher a nickname is what you should do? You don't look like a girl. It's a shame."

Xiao Hong rolled her eyes at Wang Xiaochang and lowered her head to eat.

Aunt Wang picked up some food with chopsticks for Xiaowei, and asked Xiaohong, "Are you red? Are you really going to take the entrance exam?"

Wang Xiaohong glanced at her mother, nodded, and said: "If I can pass the exam, I will definitely pass the exam. After I go to university, I will have an urban hukou, and I may be assigned to the city. When the time comes to inspect and so on, my dad will have to report to the city." Let me report, how interesting, hahaha, Comrade Wang, you have to work hard."

Stationmaster Wang sighed, and said to Aunt Wang, "Isn't it wrong to be in the hospital? Why is this girl so heartless? How is she like me?"

Wang Xiaohong stopped her chopsticks and thought for a while, nodded, and said: "It's possible, I also don't think I'm like you, look, Dad, you look so ugly, I look so good-looking, how can I look like you? Oh, my. Stationmaster Wang tapped Wang Xiaohong on the head with his chopsticks.

Wang Xiaohong pursed her lips and said, "If someday I am recognized by a rich man or a big cadre, I will definitely come back to seek revenge on you."

Aunt Wang glared at Xiaohong, and asked, "Where have you decided to take the exam? Then you have to go out to study. It will be several years before you leave. Do you really think about it?"

Wang Xiaohong stuffed a chopstick dish into his mouth, nodded while chewing, and said, "I've thought about it, I'll read it in the province, it's not too far away, and it only takes a day to go back and forth by car, and it's not too far away. Let’s work hard in the future, we can’t just rely on you for everything.”

Stationmaster Wang thought for a while, and said, "Go to the province, okay, that's good. There are a few schools in our province that are quite good, and they are not far away. Just think about it. Which school are you going to apply for?"

Wang Xiaohong bit the tip of her chopsticks and said, "I want to go to Northeast Institute of Technology, which is the best, but I'm afraid I won't be able to pass the exam. Fengtian University? Northeast Agriculture? Chemical Industry? University of Technology? Oh, why do you think so much? Whichever you get in is the one that counts." .Eat and eat."

Stationmaster Wang said dumbfoundedly: "Silly boy, do you think you can do whatever you want? If you want to apply for your own volunteer application, you have to say where you want to take the exam. If you don't apply for this school, you can go even if you have enough points." No, there are so many people who want to go to university, how many people are recruited in a year?"

In the 80s, the college entrance examination was a volunteer application before the exam, rather than a post-test assessment score report like later generations. This difference is simply the same as heaven and earth.Moreover, at this time, the university has not yet expanded its enrollment, and has not become a money-making institution for future generations. The competitive pressure of going to college is not even a little bit greater than that of future generations.

(End of this chapter)