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After a week of cold war with his father, Liu Jun, who failed the college entrance examination, finished his dinner with a lot of worries. He withdrew from the table and stood in front of his father Liu Dekui. He said timidly, "Dad, I still don't want to repeat my studies."

Liu Dekui picked up a peanut, drank a small cup of rice brewed in the countryside, clicked his tongue, squinted at Liu Jun and said, "Then what do you want to do?"

In fact, Liu Jun didn't think about what to do, he just wanted to go to the city, made up a reason casually, and said with a firm attitude, "You can give me any money, and I can go to the provincial capital to work or set up a stall to do whatever I want. Here generations have turned their faces to the loess and their backs to the sky.”

Without raising his head, Liu Dekui took out the jug to fill up the small cup, poured the wine and said, "No, as long as you repeat the reading, it doesn't matter how much money you have. If you don't read, you don't have a dime."

Liu Jun knew that his father had a strange temper and that the things he decided would not be easily changed. He felt sad in his heart. He understood his father's good intentions to hope that his son would become a dragon, but his father did not understand his difficulties.

My father, who had never read a book, didn't know that reading is a talent. How many college students can be admitted in a year in a poor village with underdeveloped education?Which poor student is not studying hard at school, and who doesn't dream of a carp jumping over the dragon's gate one day?

But Liu Jun knew that he was weak, and he had already worked hard. He failed the first and second exams, and even if he paid for the third or junior college at his own expense, it was meaningless, and his family couldn’t afford the tuition fees. It's a waste of youth.

Besides, the times are different. In the era of trying to get a father, now there is no distribution for the university admission, and rural children have to go where they can’t find a job. It's not that there are people who go to work and live on the streets, but these Liu Jun can't explain it clearly to his father, this is the generation gap.

My father also had his face swollen to pretend to be fat. As long as father and son depend on each other, the family can survive on an acre of three-tenths of an acre. If Liu Jun is really required to repeat his studies, his father may have to sell another pig to pay his tuition.

Liu Jun tried to persuade his father, played the family card, and whispered: "Dad, I will go out to earn money after I go to college. You see, I go to the city to find a job first, which can save a few years of tuition fees. It's okay." Earn extra money a few years in advance, and buy you better wine to drink, just buy the national wine Moutai that is advertised every day in the news broadcast.”

Liu Dekui raised his eyebrows when he heard this, as if seeing his filial son Liu Jun presenting the national wine Moutai in front of him, his eyes lit up.

Liu Jun thought he had moved his father, and he was complacent, but he saw his father sighed, with a very serious expression, and his face was full of vicissitudes: "Ah Jun, your mother died of illness early, your elder brother didn't learn how to kill people to eat With a gun, our Liu family has been an official and eaten the imperial food for several generations. If you don’t study, how can you be successful? If you are not promising, our Liu family will go down.”

Father poured out the bitter family history of blood and tears again. Liu Jun listened to it many times, and every time he listened to it, he felt uncomfortable.He didn't want to disobey his father, but he wanted to go to the city earlier to make a living. Fortunately, he didn't get into college. If he did, where would the huge tuition fees come from? Could it be that his father was forced to sell pigs and houses and kowtow to others? Can't get into debt?

"Dad, it's fine if you don't have money. I won't read any more books. After the busy farming season, I'll go to the south of the Yangtze River to find work with my aunt." The big porcelain bowl of rice sat in front of his father angrily, and then he went back to the room without saying a word, lying on the bed full of thoughts.

There are tens of millions of roads in the world, not just reading. There is a famous saying that "all roads lead to Rome". It must be useless to deal with loess all day long in this poor country. There are many young people in the village Did you go to work in the city?As long as his hands and feet are diligent and his mind is flexible, Liu Jun doesn't believe that he can't stand out in the city, and sooner or later he will let his father live a good life.

Knowing a son is like a father, and Liu Dekui also knows his son's temper. Liu Jun is like him, very stubborn, and eight cows can't pull back the decision. The father and son have not said a word for more than a week because of the matter of not repeating reading. Everyone has their own ambitions. , The son doesn't want to study, it's useless to force him to death.

Liu Dekui tilted his neck, poured the wine into his mouth, and shook the small wine cup in mid-air, there was not a drop of wine left, and he was quite satisfied when he picked up the rice filled by his son.

The son is not good at reading, but he is a good person. He is hardworking, filial, tall and fair, with a natural face. He doesn't look like a child in the countryside at all.

I don’t know which gust of wind has blown out, saying that Liu Jun will not read again, and matchmakers from several villages come to find out one after another. Zhang San’s daughter is handsome, Li Si’s daughter is good at tailoring, and Wang Ermazi’s The daughter can accompany the dowry of two cows.

Liu Dekui is very happy to think of those matchmakers who smile like chrysanthemums and stick out their tongues. Even if the family is poor, even if the son has not been admitted to college, there is still a market for the son in this village and outside the village. However, as Lao Tzu He wouldn't be tempted by the matchmaker to let his son go to these country girls. People go to high places. Liu Jun had better find a daughter-in-law in the city, that would be a face to the ancestors of the Liu family.

Thinking that my son might be able to find a wife in the city in the future, let him go to the city to have a look. What the son said is not unreasonable. If he does not study, the child will have to come out to earn money sooner or later. Liu Dekui said After thinking about it, I was still a little inexplicably excited. After eating, I took out a shovel from the corner of the main room and deliberately made a noise, and shouted to Liu Jun's room: "Ah Jun, pack up, I'll go to the field to release water. "

Except for the few days when the rice is harvested, it is usually inseparable from the water. It is common for farmers to water the rice in the field at night. Liu Jun naturally does not think about it. I picked up the aluminum basin with the bowls and chopsticks and went to the pressurized well behind the house to wash it.

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Liu Dekui went out, did not go to the field, but hummed a ditty, and happily went to the village committee at the east end of the village with a shovel on his shoulder.

The higher-level financial department allocated funds to build a new two-story office building for the village committee of Longshang Village. Tian Xiuhua, the wife of the village head, "rented" a large office room on the first floor, and divided it into several small rooms for small shops and small warehouses. Daily necessities such as toothpaste, toothbrush, toilet paper, snacks, cigarettes and drinks for the villagers, and the only agricultural telephone in the village that can make long-distance calls is in the canteen.

"Hey, Brother Dekui, are you going to drain the water at night?" Tian Xiuhua was bored watching TV in the canteen, and when she saw Liu Dekui coming over with a shovel, she felt itchy in her heart. The buttocks were stuck up.

Liu Dekui shrank back, looked around for a while, and said, "Sister-in-law Xiuhua, I'll make a long-distance call."

Tian Xiuhua moved the landline, used a small key on the small hole on the back of the phone to activate the long distance, went out and looked around, and was sure that there was no one, so she went back to the room and hugged Liu Dekui. His back was rubbed hard, and his voice was panting: "Brother De Kui, his father and the Minister of Armed Forces from his hometown went on a field trip, and his son and daughter also rushed to school to make up lessons. There is no one these days."

What Tian Xiuhua said about her father was her husband Xiao Fugui. Xiao Fugui is the head of Longshang Village. He is the head of nearly 4000 people. He didn't expect his wife to put a cuckold on him behind his back.

It is not without reason that Tian Xiuhua and Liu Dekui have a secret relationship. The village chief’s husband smokes, drinks, and plays with women too much. Naturally, he can’t do that at night. A woman who is thirty like a wolf and forty like a tiger is not satisfied. The flowers rolled together are the most imaginable.

"Oh, oh, let me make a call." Liu Dekui shook his neck and shook Tian Xiuhua away, feeling nervous and blushing.

Tian Xiu happily took out a new mat from the shelf and went to the back room to get ready.

Liu Dekui dialed the phone number of his younger sister Hu Lanping, who is married to Jiangnan City, the capital of Pohu Province, and straight to the point talked about Liu Jun: "Pingping, Ah Jun doesn't want to repeat his studies. He asked me for money and wanted to work in the provincial capital. I didn't give it to him. Money. There is still a month of busy farming, and he is going to settle down with you, do you think you can help him find something to do in your factory?"

Hu Lanping is Liu Jun's aunt and Liu Dekui's adoptive sister. According to rural customs, she is assigned to be Liu Dekui's child bride-in-law.Due to the premature death of Liu Dekui's parents, this unwritten marriage was ruined, but the relationship between the brother and sister has always been very good.

Later, Hu Lanping married an honest, ordinary worker at the Jiangnan City Machinery Factory in the provincial capital, and she was considered a married man in the city. Liu Dekui rushed to the small shop at the east end of the village to call Hu Lanping tonight because he wanted his sister to help Ah Jun. , It's not exactly for Aida Hideka.

Hu Lanping sighed on the phone, and said: "Ah Jun is my nephew, of course I want to help him, alas, it's just a pity that Ah Jun doesn't study."

"I also want Ah Jun to repeat his studies, but it's useless to force him to death. I don't give him money just to let him know that it is difficult to get along in society without education. Maybe he will change his mind after realizing the difficulty."

"Ah Jun doesn't talk very much, but he has a bad temper. I think he won't want to go back to repeat his studies after he comes to the city. I'll ask the factory tomorrow if there is any plan to recruit temporary workers? I heard that temporary workers Those who work in our factory for three to five years may be transferred to formal contract workers."

"If you can transfer to a regular job, that's good. Just pay attention to Pingping. Also, if it's not a last resort, don't give money to Ah Jun. He is almost 20 years old, and it's time to learn to be independent."

"Brother, don't worry, I have a measure."

"Okay, please."

After Liu Dekui made the phone call, he let go of his worries and looked at Tian Xiuhua who was wiping the bamboo mat on the ground with a damp cloth in the back room, wondering if he should leave the canteen.

All these years, Liu Dekui made an appointment with Tian Xiuhua when the village head was not at home, rolled up a straw mat in the middle of the night and pretended to go to the field to watch the night to release water, and then sneaked to the bamboo forest behind the hill to have some fun.

It's a little early tonight, if it's openly in the canteen with Tian Xiuhua, what if there are villagers like him who make long-distance calls or buy things urgently?Liu Dekui's heart pounded, no matter how daring he was, he didn't dare to take this risk.

Just when Liu Dekui could not make up his mind, he saw Tian Xiuhua come out from the back room, wrapped 1000 yuan in a striped handkerchief, and handed it to Liu Dekui, smiling, and said with great concern: "Brother Dekui, that son of ah Jun is a pain in the ass. No matter how hard it is, you can’t suffer the child, this 1000 yuan, let’s take it first.”

Liu Dekui was thinking about whether to accept Tian Xiuhua's money, but Tian Xiuhua rushed to the village committee door to look around, closed the door, went back to the canteen and lowered the curtains, turned off the lights, and hurriedly embraced Liu Dekui. into the back room.