The Story of Qingfeng Village

Chapter 9 Qingfeng Village in Memories III
Li Ying: "This is Accountant Wang in the village. He is in charge of the consignment store, and he is good at dancing. He is very easy to eat. He is a very rich man in the village. Even though my father is the party secretary, I have to always act according to his face. Okay. In his house and ours, there is still a little relationship, but there is no conflict."

Liu Jianguo heard from Li Ying more than once that their Qingfeng Village is a poor place. In order to get rid of poverty, the only way out is to study and leave the farm, or to join the army.

But because of poverty, many families don't send their children to study, at most they just finish the village primary school, and it is enough to be able to read and count.Especially girls, sooner or later the ones who will marry are from other people's families.

The only reason she was able to go all the way to university was because she had a good grandfather and father.

When Li Ying's grandfather was young, he followed another villager named Zhu Qingyu out of Qingfeng Village to venture into the world. According to him, he and Zhu Qingyu met recruiters in the county town, and both of them signed up to join the army.

The people in the village don't believe his bragging?
Just like you, you still sign up to join the army?People's troops don't want you.

Grandpa Li Ying swears to the sky: "I really signed up, and the army has taken a fancy to it."

The villagers laughed and said, "If that's the case, why did you come back? Didn't you stay in the army as a high-ranking official?"

Grandpa Li Ying stopped talking. Can he say that he didn't want to go so far, so he ran back?

The army is going to liberate XZ. He heard that the climate in XZ is harsh, the mountains are high into the clouds, there is no road, and roads are built while walking. Few lives will not be survived, so he retreated. He also heard that land reform and subdivision The fields, let's go home to farm and take a wife to live a happy life.If you come back late, I'm afraid the land will not be allocated.

As a result, he had a wife and son, and he could only stay in the countryside farming for the rest of his life. By going out, he gained some knowledge, and later he reluctantly became a production team leader.

And that Zhu Qingyu joined the army with the army, and later became a cadre. When he returned home, he bought something specially to see Grandpa Li Ying.

Grandpa Li Ying was very depressed for a long time, and he was more angry than others.

If he didn't think about his wife and son's hot kang, but followed Zhu Qingyu, he would have gone to the city as a cadre a long time ago. Even if he wasn't in the city, he would also be a cadre in the town and country.

There is no medicine for regret in the world, and money is hard to buy, and I knew it earlier.

After having a son later, he pinned his hopes on his son.I didn't become a soldier, so I let my son go.Let the son be promising and have a good future.

Li Ying's father, Li Fumin, served in the army for several years, but unfortunately his education level was low and he was not promoted, so he had to leave the army and return to his hometown.

But in Qingfeng Village, he can be regarded as a person who has gone out and seen the world. He has far-sightedness than others and has no patriarchal thoughts. Moreover, Li Ying is the first child in the family, so he is a rare baby.Leave some good things at home to her first.When it was time to go to school, he was sent to the village primary school to study. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was pampered.

Because her mother didn't give birth to her for many years, and her younger brother Li Qiang was not born until Li Ying was ten years old.

Even with a younger brother, Li Ying's status has not changed.

Unlike other children, if they are the eldest in the family, besides helping their parents with work, they also help to take care of their younger siblings.

Li Ying, on the other hand, has never done any other farm work except helping her parents with housework during busy farming seasons and holidays, cutting some hogweed to feed the pigs, and cooking.

Because Li Ying studied hard and got the top grades in the class, the teacher praised her as a material for studying and asked Li Ying's father to support her well.

Even Zhu Qingyu, the son of an intellectual who was sent back to his hometown to work, praised Li Ying for being smarter than his own daughter.

Grandpa Li Ying and Li Fumin were very proud and happy, seeing that the old Li family was about to produce a talent.

Grandfather said: "Our family's ancestral grave is about to smoke, and the curved cypress tree at the top of the grave has grown straight, and a golden phoenix is ​​about to fly out."

Li Fumin: "As long as she can read it, I will pay for it even if I sell everything."

The old man suffered the loss of cowardice, and he himself suffered the loss of ignorance. In Li Ying's generation, they are all advocating that knowledge can change destiny.

"I don't believe it anymore. With the hard work of three generations of our family, we still can't change our destiny?"

Li Ying fought hard, passed the college entrance examination once, and was admitted to Nancheng Normal University.

This is well-known in ten miles and eight townships. After receiving the admission notice, grandpa’s waist was straight, and he walked around the village countless times with the notice. It's just that the hard-working people showed off for a while, and when they went to the village and town fairs, they took Li Ying to the villages and towns, and said to everyone: "My eldest daughter has passed the university entrance exam, come here to help her." She buys things for school."

Hearing everyone's congratulations and flattery, Grandpa Li's pride was beyond words, and he was happier than he himself became an official.

For this reason, a pig was killed, and the villagers were invited to eat it for three days, which was a good time.

The villagers took advantage of Li Ying's favor and had a good tooth sacrifice.

Being able to jump out of the farm is not only the goal of Li Ying, but also the goal of the whole family. Now that it is all right, Li Ying can be regarded as lifted out of poverty.

The two of them walked past the consignment store and the big yellow fruit tree while they were talking.

I saw a dirt road extending up the slope.

Li Ying: "There is a small school on the slope, where I studied in primary school, and I will take you up to visit later. Our house is behind the slope, and it is a place where most people in the village are concentrated.

Turning around the slope for half a circle, I saw a big weir pond. The lotus leaves in the weir pond had withered long ago, and the residual lotus in the pond added a sense of desolation.

Li Ying: "It's so beautiful when the lotus is in full bloom in summer. You can come and see it during summer vacation."

Liu Jianguo looked at the Yantang and then at the surrounding paddy fields, and said, "Looking at the moonlight in the lotus pond and hearing the sound of frogs...that must be a beautiful scene. Living in such a quiet mountain village feels very poetic and picturesque."

Li Ying: "Everything will become very beautiful in your mouth. I used to watch it often, and I don't think it's strange anymore. I just remember picking lotus root and lotus rice to eat and digging lotus root. It's as lively as a festival, and you can catch a lot of fish. People in the village can go back to the tooth festival. Hehe, don’t laugh, in the eyes of poor people, they only want to eat and wear warm clothes, so there is no leisure and poetry.

Qingfeng Village has a nice name, but there are neither high mountains nor green rivers.

Some are rolling hills and paddy fields and dry fields under the hillsides.

People in the village live by planting bracts and sweet potatoes on the slopes, and rape and rice on the slopes. There is not much land, which can barely meet food and clothing. If the weather is dry and the harvest is not good, it is normal to be hungry. "

Liu Jianguo: Are there still hungry people?
(End of this chapter)