Take Arada back to the past

Chapter 71, Big sister goes to school

It was past nap time.

Wang Qiuju has already gone to work in the fields.

Yang Xiaole walked in Zhuangzi, watching the few remaining laborers of Zhuangzi put trees there.

This is ready for firewood, and is used in the same way as pulled coal.

When he came to the field, Yang Qingwen was looking carefully at the rice field, pointing to the rice field from time to time to direct.

"This one is fine. The seedlings are quite strong and have a lot of knots. Come on, dig this one up."

Following his instructions, the woman behind him stepped forward and went to dig the seedlings. They were careful not to hurt the seedlings.

(Let me explain here. Many people think that rice is not grown in Kyoto. At that time, during the period of unified purchase and marketing, there were only so many types of grain collected at the grain station. In order to ensure the food in the city, the nearby paddy fields were required to grow rice. Many people saw that it was not Planting rice should be a matter of later opening.)
Yang Xiaole just watched it for a while and didn't care about it anymore.

He walked straight forward, and after a while, he came near the sweet potato field.

The fertile paddy fields of the production team are all used to grow wheat, rice and corn, and the barren land to grow sweet potatoes is used as the rations of rural people.

At this time, the sweet potato vines have obvious signs of being turned over.

This is to turn the sweet potato seedlings.

When they came to the place, without affecting the future growth of sweet potatoes, they began to pinch some relatively vigorous sweet potato vines sporadically and put them directly into the space.

Walking along the way, I felt that it was almost done, so I stopped.

Back home, I quietly entered the space, cut the sweet potato vine into a small piece with a knife, and put it there for later use.

Then the land was made ridge by ridge.

The cut sweet potato vines were laid on the ridge and buried, watered some more, and the work was over.

After finishing it, I looked at the pork rib soup in the pot, filled a bowl and ate it.

He can't always take things out, this thing can only be eaten by himself.

As for the family, we can only get some later when we have a chance.

After eating a bowl of pork rib soup, he threw the extra sweet potato vines into the pigsty, and went out of the room seeing nothing else.

After coming out, he walked towards home, just in time to meet Zhang Liuer walking from the brigade.

Walking closer, Zhang Liu'er smiled at him and said, "I'm afraid you'll go to bed at noon, I'll come here later."

"It's okay! Come in!"

We need to hunt pigweed in the afternoon, and the eldest sister has already taken the two little guys to hunt pigweed.

Back home, I started tutoring her with homework.

……

In the next few days, things went on in an orderly manner in Zhuangzi, and the stationery that Yang Qingwen mentioned hadn't been finished yet.

The class can only be temporarily put on hold.

Time is slowly coming to the day of school.

This morning, before dawn, Wang Qiuju hurriedly urged Yang Xiaole to get up.

Because today I have to send my eldest sister to the middle school in the district to go through the formalities, so I have to hurry up.

The eldest sister has already put on the old clothes given by Hua Yourong, and is happily waiting to report to the new school today.

It is 17 kilometers to the district, and it takes three to four hours to walk. In order not to delay the registration, Wang Qiuju got up early in the morning.

Yang Xiaole was also speechless for a while.

Because the old lady didn't know the time, she went to bed early last night, and now she wakes up before three o'clock.

Can only get up from the bed.

As for him signing up with Xizi and Xiaoli, I will leave it to Zhang Liuer to help with it tomorrow.

I got up and went outside to get some tooth powder and brushed my teeth. Under Wang Qiuju's urging, I just washed my face and rushed outside.

Wang Qiuju carried the packed quilt on her back, and led her two children towards the district.

The eldest sister still has a lot of things hanging on her body.

A wooden face plate, the only thermos bottle in the house, and pickles in the cloth bag.

Walking on the road, Yang Xiaole thought of some rumors during the disaster period.

Still explaining to Yang Xiaomei: "Sister, I have an important matter for you. When you come back on the weekend, remember to take the car going to the commune in the district. Don't walk back, do you hear me?"

This time Wang Qiuju didn't object, after all, she was a big girl.

After thinking for a while, he still said: "Then don't come back, come back after the holiday. I don't worry about running back and forth, and I will ask your elder brother to send you some pickles and sauce. It's cold, and I will send you clothes. .”

The eldest sister nodded after thinking about it.

Whatever the old lady said, she just listened.

When I came to the commune, even the breakfast shop had just opened, so you can imagine how early it is.

All the way to the road that pulls coal to the imperial capital, instead of going to the city, I went in the opposite direction to the mine.

This is still the route he found out.

The three of them were still carrying luggage, so they couldn't sit on the coal truck.

From dark to dawn, I arrived at the city where the district is located (equivalent to the county seat) after [-] o'clock in the morning.

Along the way, Wang Qiuju felt uneasy for a while.

After fleeing and coming here, the farthest place I have been to is the commune, which is the former township.

I was worried on the road. When I encountered a car pulling coal, I would stop it and ask for directions.

When I came to the place, it was actually similar to the houses in the commune, basically brick houses and earthen houses intertwined.

Occasionally there are individual concrete houses, and they are all large units in the district.

Yang Xiaole's feet hurt from walking, and she was too tired. Seeing the early food on the side of the road, she wanted to buy something to eat.

But seeing that Wang Qiuju didn't even look at it, he gave up.

Buy breakfast to eat, think too much.

After inquiring around, I finally arrived at the district middle school around eight o'clock.

The gate is quite new, but after entering, there are some dilapidated big tile-roofed houses inside, with a big playground in the middle.

At this time, many people came in at the school gate, all of them came to report.

The freshman admissions office is still easy to find.

A teaching building, or a room is more appropriate.

There is a long banner at the door, with slogans welcoming new students.

Two men in gray Zhongshan suits were sitting in front of a desk, registering there.

There were two people in front of them, they didn't bring anything, they looked like they were from the district.

After waiting for a while, when it was their turn, Wang Qiuju hurriedly dragged the eldest daughter over: "Hello teacher, I brought my daughter to sign up."

"Hello comrade, what's the name of the student, where is he from?"

"Oh, from Hongqi Township Primary School, oh, now it's Hongqi Commune, Yang Xiaomei."

Yang Xiaomei hurriedly took it and said something.

Hearing this, the man turned the list to the last few pages and found her name inside.

"Well, there is this person, what is the proof? Give it to me, and I will register it for you."

Wang Qiuju hurriedly took out the certificate and handed it to the other party.

One is jointly opened by the school and the commune, and the other is opened by the production team.

There is no notice of admission to higher education, and there are registrations and reports in the school. As for whether to go to school, that is your own business.

The man took a look at the certificate, confirmed that there was no problem and nodded: "Well, it's okay, student Yang Xiaomei, you have been assigned to Class C, Grade One, take this note to Mrs. Chen Jing and Chen."

After speaking, Jiang filled out the information on a note and handed it to Wang Qiuju.

"Okay, let's go! Go forward, the third room is there."

"Hey, thank you teacher! Thank you teacher!"

Wang Qiuju thanked her and walked forward with her eldest daughter.

When I came to Class C of the first grade of junior high school, Wang Qiuju stood at the door and looked inside carefully.

In the dim tile-roofed house, a middle-aged female teacher was talking to a parent.

The other party has short hair and is wearing a plaid shirt.

Seeing the three standing at the door, the teacher greeted with a smile: "Are you new students, come in!"

"Hey, hey, come in quickly, Xiaomei."

Urged by Wang Qiuju, the three of them went in.

"Hey, that, teacher, I brought my daughter to sign up, what to do next, I don't understand."

Looking at Wang Qiuju's polite face and the backpack on his back.

Chen Jing knew it was from the countryside.

"Give me the note, let the child find a place to sit down."

She was quite surprised. It's not that there are no children from the countryside. There are seven or eight in her class, but there are only four girls in the whole school.

When she received the notice, she thought she would never come.

Unexpectedly, one of them came to my class.

"Hey, Xiaomei, listen to the teacher, go and sit down."

Wang Qiuju urged her daughter, and then asked the teacher: "That teacher, we live on campus, how do we arrange this!"

Yang Xiaomei obediently found the last seat and sat down.

Chen Jing took a look at the class and shouted to the bottom: "Students, the teacher will take this classmate to the dormitory first. You wait for a while. If a new classmate comes over, tell him that the teacher will be here soon."

The students naturally agreed one after another.

Before Yang Xiaomei's bench was warm, she was called up again and walked outside.

Bypass the teaching building and come to several newly built brick houses behind.

He came to the door and took people in.

There is no one in the room, only 8 wooden bunk beds, which can sleep 16 people, and there are only a few dilapidated desks in a small space in the middle.

There are several bunk beds with quilts already made.

Chen Jing looked at several people and said with a smile: "The dormitory for girls in the school is limited. This is a dormitory for three age groups. Let's live here first. If there is any change in the future, we will talk about it later."

"Hey, good teacher, how do we pay the tuition and money, no one takes our money!"

Wang Qiuju hurriedly said to her.

Chen Jing looked at the things she was carrying on her back, and asked her: "Oh, you give the money to the child first. After a while, all the students in the class will be collected. The tuition fee is 5 yuan, and the accommodation fee is 2 yuan per semester. It’s 7 yuan in total, didn’t you bring any food? Are you going to eat it at school?”

"Well, I heard that you can buy food, so let's pay for it. By the way, teacher, is the food in the cafeteria expensive?"

When Chen Jing heard this, she was surprised for a while.

It is rare to hear that rural people do not carry grain to buy food.

But she still explained: "Yes, the girl has a grain quota of 29 catties, 9 catties of fine grains and 20 catties of coarse grains. Just buy a meal ticket for as much as you need. There are 2 cents for food in the cafeteria, and there are other things. , according to your needs. Occasionally eat meat, but you have to register in advance and the canteen will eat meat on a certain day. For meat, there are chicken, duck and fish, which are more expensive. It depends on your ability to accept."

"Oh, then I'll give you the money!"

After Wang Qiuju finished speaking, she was about to pay for it.

Chen Jing hurriedly stopped her and said: "Don't worry, just give the money to the child, and it will be collected together at that time, and the child will be handed over to us, so you can rest assured, see what the child still lacks, and buy it for her. You can go home, I still have something to do over there, so go back first. Just let the children come to the classroom to find me directly."

"Hey, okay, thank you teacher, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"You're welcome."

The other party said hello and left the dormitory.

After the people left, Wang Qiuju sat down on an empty bed.

I took money out of my pocket, and while I was taking out money, I muttered: "Mother will not deduct you, the food for a meal is 2 cents for you plus 2 cents for vegetables, and you can't really eat sauce every day. Two meals a day is 2 cents. Penny, 8 days a week, that’s 6 cents and 4 cents, and I’ll give you 8 cents. You save it.”

Including the accommodation fee of 2 yuan and the tuition fee of 5 yuan, a total of 8 yuan was given to him.

"It's fifty cents too much, you buy things for study."

Yang Xiaomei took the money quietly, it's not bad to be able to eat every meal.

After all, it’s not like the private land at home does not require money.

After giving the money, Wang Qiuju felt distressed again: "5 cents a week, 2 yuan a month, and 18 yuan a year without holidays."

This calculation feels like cutting her flesh.

He stared at the money in his daughter's hand, wondering if it was too much.

Sighed, still did not want to come back.

I have already decided in my heart, it will be fine to give 3 cents next week.

"Okay, hurry up and pack your things, you still have to go to the teacher's place, see if there is anything else you want to buy, I will buy it for you. Where do you sleep? Sleep on the lower bunk,"

As he spoke, he packed up his daughter's burden.

Get something out of the bag.

Quilts, clothes, wooden washbasin, bamboo shell thermos, a jar of miso, a jar of pickles, towels...

While doing it, Wang Qiuju was still muttering: "You said you, the production team is full now, so you have to come here to suffer this crime. If you go to work in the city in the future, don't earn enough for me, don't I want to find my in-laws."

Yang Xiaole and Yang Xiaomei glanced at each other and secretly laughed there.

"Eldest sister, you are not used to sleeping on the upper bunk at first, but it will be fine once you get used to it, otherwise people will step on your quilt after washing their feet."

He has experience with this.

Wang Qiuju took a look: "Will it fall!"

"No, there are railings here! Just get used to it, don't sleep by the window, it's very cold in winter. Put it here!"

Yang Xiaole found a corner seat for her.

Yang Xiaomei thought for a while, but still agreed.

Wang Qiuju started to make a bed for her, and threw everything on the bed except the tub.

After finishing it, she clapped her hands: "Okay, it's going to be autumn soon, don't buy mosquito nets, just bear with it for a few days. Only a lunch box is missing. I have to buy a lunch box."

The primary school is in the commune, and I have never bought a lunch box when I walk back after eating.

Yang Xiaole glanced at his old lady, and said to her: "Mother, go buy it, I'll stay with my sister here!"

Wang Qiuju thought about it for a while, and decided to go and see for herself.

"Okay, don't run around, do you hear me?"

After explaining, he left the dormitory and walked outside.

Yang Xiaole stood at the door and took a look. After seeing the person walking away, he hurried back.

Take something out of your pocket.

"Sister, you must keep the 5 yuan. Don't listen to your mother. You must eat enough food and meat. You buy what you need to buy and keep the rest of the money. Also, this It’s 3 catties of food stamps, and here’s a bag of cream. Put it away quickly.”

Didn't give too much either.

This money is enough for her to live well here.

And it's a long walk here, but when he has time in the future, it will only take him more than an hour to ride here.

Seeing that he took out so many things, Yang Xiaomei quickly covered her mouth!
"Third, how do you have so much money?"

"Don't worry about it, but there's one thing, don't betray me, or you'll just wait to eat corned buns and miso every day in the future! I won't care about you anymore."

Yang Xiaole stuffed the things under her quilt with a single brain.

He handed her a salt water bottle that he carried with him: "This is brown sugar water, remember to drink it in the morning, there is not a lot of brown sugar at home, so don't give it to others, did you hear me?"

Well water is not yet known for other uses.

But just by drinking it to keep you in good spirits and not dozing off in class, you can have an advantage over others.

When I come back on weekends, I will tutor her myself, and my grades will not be bad.

Yang Xiaomei naturally knew that it was brown sugar water, so she thought he was taking it for medicine!
Carefully put away the salt water bottle.

There is a lot of sugar in it!

After finishing it, Yang Xiaomei asked: "Third brother, where did you get so much money? Give it to your parents and let them keep it for you!"

Yang Xiaole sighed.

He does.

If my father and mother are the kind of people who are willing to spend money, he will give as much as they have, as long as they don't freak out.

But if you don't want to use it at all, then you still have to hand in a fart!

Then I explained to Yang Xiaomei again: "Say it again, don't tell the truth, or I won't care about you in the future. Don't worry, the family has money, and my mother has a lot of money in her pocket! Tell me when you run out, and I will give you money again." I'll give you some. Just don't spend it indiscriminately."

Yang Xiaomei was also moved for a while, "I see, I will save money for you to marry a wife when I go to work."

"Come on, just take care of yourself."

Yang Xiaole pouted.

While thinking, a girl came in at the door, with a scrawny figure, a head taller than the elder sister.

A head of loose hair, only a little tie in the middle, not completely dry, as if it was washed in the morning.

When the girl came in, she was only taken aback when she saw the two of them.

He nodded slightly with a smile on his face, and without speaking, he came to the bed and took out the things in the cloth bag.

Yang Xiaomei and Yang Xiaole just nodded when they saw each other, didn't speak, and just smiled as a greeting.

Yang Xiaole looked at the other party, and subconsciously took a few more glances.

The other party is very thin, and already has a little beauty.

What attracted him was mainly her temperament.

The first reaction is the feeling of Lin Daiyu in the TV series, but it has that kind of tranquility, but not that kind of sickness.

I looked twice for a while

(End of this chapter)