Reborn in 1987: The Story of an Abandoned Girl

Chapter 35 return to Ping shan town

Not long after dawn the next day, everyone got up one after another and ordered a bowl of noodles in the breakfast shop next door. After breakfast, the Lin family brothers and sisters, under Li Haitang's repeated instructions, went home with a large sum of money.

It was not that she was deliberately nagging, but that as the new year approached, some unscrupulous thugs and thieves rushed to "Make money" at this time. In the past half a month, she had seen many cases of stealing and robbing in the city. Fortunately, she was more careful every time she went out. Plus, she was dressed as a student. Others might think that she had no money, so they didn't think of her.

After the Lin family brothers and sisters left, Li Haitang closed the store door and checked it again and again. Carrying two bags and a heavy backpack, he walked straight to the bus station.

It snowed heavily all night last night, and there was ten centimeters of snow on the road. It was inconvenient for the car to travel. She gave up the bus and walked to the station on her own two legs.

Today, she was wearing a thick sky blue cotton jacket, dark gloves on her hands, a yellow scarf around her neck, a floral woolen cap on her head, and a pair of fluffy little leather shoes on her feet.

"Creak... Creak..." The sound of stepping on the snow was especially clear on the quiet road. Most of the shops on both sides of the road had been closed, and occasionally a few breakfast shops would have white mist coming out, which was comparable to the hot air she had.

It took nearly 20 minutes to reach the outside of the bus station. She looked up and snow began to fall again. The falling snowflakes were deposited on the eaves one by one, and the more they accumulated, the longer the eaves were, and the longer the tentacles extended. From a distance, there seemed to be countless white swans on top of the eaves that were about to spread their wings and fly.

It was almost the end of the year, and most of the people who wanted to go home for the new year had already gone back. The waiting room at the bus station was relatively deserted. After buying the tickets, Li Haitang took his luggage and went straight to the bus.

The cold wind howled outside the car. After she put her luggage away, she wrapped her cotton-padded clothes tightly, rubbed her red cheeks and took a deep breath towards the window.

Fortunately, the departure time was not delayed because of the weather, but it slowed down a lot, and it took three hours to reach the county bus station.

After lunch in the county, he got on the 1: 50 bus and took another hour to get back to Ping shan town.

Li Haitang rubbed his sore arm, stood up, picked up his luggage and got out of the car from the back door. As soon as he stood up, he saw the three of them striding towards him.

"Haitang! You're finally back!" Wang lifeng, who was dressed in red cotton, rushed up and gave her a warm hug.

"Haha, Wang Li, I'm finally back. It's too hard to catch a bus in this weather." Li Haitang also gave her a hug, then turned to look at the two armed men following behind him and said happily, "Dad, Li Tao, why are you here too?"

Li Jianguo smiled and reached for her luggage, "I met Wang Li in town yesterday and she told me you were back today."

"Well, you didn't tell us before you came back today. Dad has been nagging at home for days." Li Tao looked away proudly. He would never admit that he was nagging at home.

Li Haitang took off his gloves, stretched out his long fingers and pinched his face, smiling until his eyes were bent, "I told you in the letter that you would be back in the next few days."

"Hmph, get your paws off me." Li Tao turned his head away from her and tried to keep rubbing his claws.

"Haha, just like my brother, he's still a child who hasn't grown up." Wang Li laughed and teased the little brat. She hugged Li Haitang's arm and reminded him, "Uncle, it's cold outside. Haitang must be tired after sitting in the car all day. Let's go to our house and roast."

"Okay."

Usually, the grocery factory was very busy. Wang Yao and Duan Meifang bought a house in the town and moved to the town two months ago. Wang Li's parents lived in Wang jia village with their grandson and youngest son. The old couple were both hardworking people, and every day after finishing their work at home, they had to make time to come to town to help.

Today, when they learned that Li Haitang would be back, the wang family gathered in the new house in the town. Mother of Wangli and Duan Meifang went to the market early in the morning to buy a lot of meat dishes and started working in the kitchen ahead of time.

The house that the wang family bought was right across from the town high school. This building was newly built, with a total of three floors. Their house bought the second floor, with an area of 130 square meters, with three rooms and two halls.

As soon as they reached the entrance of the corridor, Wang Tiao opened the door and poked his head out to shout, "Sister haitang, you're back."

"Yes, Wang Tiao. I haven't seen you in half a year. You've grown taller again." Li Haitang smiled and patted him on the shoulder. He grew so fast that he reached the tip of her nose.

Li Tao, who followed her, muttered softly, "I've grown taller too. Why didn't you tell me?"

Li Haitang, of course, heard it. He turned around and pinched his ear. "You did grow a little taller, but it's not obvious. It's two centimeters at most." But Wang Tiao is different. He's at least four centimeters taller."

Li Tao curled his mouth and snorted, "I can definitely grow four centimeters next year." Every time he ate two more bowls of rice, he would not believe that he was not tall.

Wang Yao, who heard the noise in the room, shouted, "Wang Tiao, why are you blocking the door? Let everyone in. It's cold outside."

"Oh, oh, uncle, sister haitang, come in and bake." Wang Tiao immediately stepped aside.

Hearing the noise outside, the rest of the wang family came out of the kitchen. Li Haitang walked into the room and called out with a smile, "Uncle, aunt, Brother yao, sister-in-law, long time no see. How are you?"

Mother of Wangli smiled kindly and said, "Okay, we're all fine. Haitang, it's hard to get in the car. It's cold outside. You and your father and brother should sit for a while. Auntie will go and get you a cup of hot tea to warm you up."

"Okay, thank you, auntie." Li Haitang thanked him.

"You're welcome. Just treat this place as your own home. Have a seat." Mother of Wangli immediately went back to the kitchen to make tea.

Wang Li put Li Haitang's luggage on the chair next to him and told them to sit down at the table. "Uncle, haitang, Li Tao, there's a coal stove under the table. You can warm it up to keep the cold away."

"Okay."

Wang Li's father also came to sit down and smiled, "Haitang has grown a lot in the past six months. Now she is a big girl."

"Haitang has indeed grown a lot. I have grown a lot in the past six months, but only her ears are tall. It seems that the food of your Tam city 1 middle school is very good." Wang li pouted and complained. This height is really a hard injury. The girl doesn't grow much at the age of fifteen or sixteen. She has a headache when she thinks about it.

Li Haitang took off his scarf and gloves and said, "Forget about the food at school. I barely managed to eat in the first month, but in the next few months, eating was a torment, and every meal was just a few random bites to fill my stomach. When I was at school, I missed Mrs. Mei fang's braised sugar and meat very much. When I thought that it was another day away from home, I had to eat again."

"Haha... Haha... Do you want to exaggerate? Even worse than me. Our school has half a month off. Once it's over, I'll go out to eat. Maybe I'll go to my in-laws' house to get some food." Wang li laughed so hard that the flowers trembled.

Li Haitang reached out to take the hot tea that Mother of Wangli had brought over and said with a smile, "Our school is on a monthly leave, but there are a lot of part-time students, not completely closed, you can go out to eat, but our homework is too heavy, the head teacher keeps an eye on us.

One time, I thought of buying some food outside the school. Before I could get to the school gate, the head teacher walked up to me and asked, "Can you score full marks in physics?" Did you know how to solve all your chemistry problems? Did you understand all three solutions to math and arithmetic today?

Oh my god, I was so confused that I turned around and walked back to the classroom decisively. As you can imagine, I didn't walk out of the school for three months in a row. As soon as I thought of going out, the head teacher appeared in front of me like a ghost. "

Wang Li: ... "Your class teacher is a devil!"

"Pretty much. During my first month of school, I wrote to you and the newspaper to urge me to write. There were many letters and the head teacher called me into the office to have a deep talk. It's a good thing my grades didn't drop. Otherwise, tsk tsk, the consequences would be unimaginable." There were several students in the class whose grades were not stable, but the head teacher was pressuring them to study every day.

"No wonder your Tam city 1 middle school is so famous. You were forced out by your teachers." Wang Li sighed.

"Not exactly. The other classes are not as crazy as ours. Our class is the only priority class, and the priority class is naturally the priority class. This really hurts us." Li Haitang lamented that in her previous life, she was not a major student, and her studies were not that heavy.

Wang Li stared at her with his round eyes and lifted his lips, "Haitang, tell me honestly, what's your real score on the monthly exam?"

"First place, of course. Four monthly exams this semester, and I got four first places. How was it? Is it tough?" Li Haitang raised his eyebrows and his eyes could not stop trembling.

"Hiss..." There was a series of gasps in the room.

"God, I want to strangle you to death." Wang Li beat her chest and stomped her feet. She also got into the County one middle school key class, but she was always hovering in the top 20 or 30. What an injustice!

"Haha... Haha... You're like my new deskmate. The first thing she says to herself every morning is, Li Haitang, I want to strangle you. Then, he glared at me and plunged into the pile of books." Li Haitang felt that Wang Li and Lin Peipei were two people with the same personality. They were serious and never gave up.

Wang Li said angrily, "She shouldn't be the only one in your class who wants to strangle you. I'm 100 % sure everyone else wants to strangle you. Who told you to take the first place?"

"Hehe, I want to make way, but the head teacher won't agree. If I make way, I'll probably be invited to tea by the head teacher this semester." Li Haitang joked that although Teacher Zhou was very open-minded, the school was famous for its strict teachers.

"Even if I wanted to be invited to tea by the class teacher, I didn't have a chance. The teacher only saw the person with the best grades. People like us who can't do better have always been treated calmly." Wang Li couldn't help but complain. This was a common problem in the school, and it was not a teacher's personal behavior, so when they were treated like this, they were very calm.

Wang Li's father peeled a sunflower seed and suggested, "Lier, there is still half a month before your school starts. Find haitang for your weak subject."

"I already told haitang on the phone. After I leave my relatives in the new year, I will go to haitang to study." Wang Li's results in science were not very good, especially in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

"I thought it would be easier to get into high school. I didn't expect high school to be harder than middle school." Wang Tiao is now in the second year of junior high school, and his homework is obviously heavier than the first day of junior high school. When he thought of how miserable high school was, he felt a little nervous.

"High school is the most tiring and tiring. It's not at the same level as junior high school. Of course, you don't have to read. No one is forcing you." Wang Li said lightly.

Wang Tiao glanced at her angrily and turned to Li Haitang, "Aren't their Tam city 1 middle school teachers forced in disguise?"

"This means that this teacher is extremely responsible. Irresponsible teachers don't care so much. Whether you like to read or not has nothing to do with him." There were a few such teachers in the County one middle school, and Wang Li was glad that he did not meet such a class teacher.

Li Jianguo had been listening to their chit-chat in silence and interrupted, "Haitang, why do you still have time to open a shop when you have such a heavy workload?"

Li Haitang smiled and said, "My deskmate wants to make some money, and I want to save more myself. After all, going to college may cost a lot of money in the future. Her relatives and family had a ready-made shop to rent, and the students in our dormitory loved to eat these crisps, so there was no place to buy them, so we decided to open a small shop to earn some living expenses. Although the shop was open, we didn't manage it ourselves and hired a capable elder sister to look after it. Business was good during the winter break, so we went over to help."

"Oh, it's fine to have someone look after the store." Li Jianguo gave her a look of relief. The foster daughter was so outstanding that he felt dazed.

"Your shop has been open for less than two months, and you have more goods than my sister-in-law's." Duan Meifang really admired this little girl Li Haitang, but she had heard about her own experience of going to the store to sell herself.

"The city is big, there are many shops, and there are many rich people, so business will be good." Li Haitang concluded.

Wang yao smiled and said, "That's the truth. I am also very familiar with master wu who came to deliver the goods. I heard about some things in the city. There are more state-owned factories, and the wages and benefits of the workers in the factories are not bad. With the distribution of units and houses, the children of the workers can also go to the children's schools in the factories. They are really much better than our rural areas."

"Yes, my deskmate's parents are working in a state-owned factory. Their days at home are much better than those in the countryside, but they are also average in the city. The three children in the family are studying and living a tight life, so she wants to help the family earn some free money." Nowadays, many state-owned factories are becoming more and more inefficient. Soon, a group of people will be laid off, and their days will be very difficult.

"Many of our classmates are like this at home. They used to look down on us students from the countryside, especially those who do business. Later on, I saw that I had more pocket money than them, and they were all envious of me. I said a lot of sour things behind my back. I didn't even bother to argue with them." Wang Li really couldn't figure it out. What's wrong with doing business? He also earned it with his own hands. Why should he be discriminated against by them?

Li Haitang consoled, "What do you want to do so much? They can't eat grapes and say they're sour. Over the years, all the educated young intellectuals have flocked to the state organs and units. In their hearts, they have always felt that the people who do business are inferior to others, but they have never considered one thing. Now that the country is in a peaceful period, developing the economy is the top priority.

There was no room for so many people in government agencies and state-owned enterprises. Sooner or later, these people would be forced to leave this so-called iron rice bowl and go into business. So we are at the forefront of the times, and one day these people will envy us for seizing the opportunity. "

After that, he glanced at the extremely serious Wang Yao, "Brother yao's experience is a good example."

Her words seemed to wake them up with a bang. Wang yao smiled and said, "Haitang is right. In fact, many people with iron rice bowls have already noticed the change, but they can't save face, so they are still holding on."

"Everyone has their own choices. We don't interfere in other people's affairs. We just have to seize our own opportunities." Li Haitang said with a faint smile, this is an era full of opportunities, as long as one of them is seized, and persevere in bravery, the future is infinitely good.

For children, reading is really the best way out. Walking to the city not only broadens their horizons, but also gives them a lot of insight. Haitang has only been out for half a year, and this state of mind is far from what we can compare. Wang Tiao, Li Tao, you must study hard and go out to see the world. Don't stay in our mountain and work all your life." Wang Li's father gave them some pointers.

They seemed to understand what everyone was talking about, but they still nodded seriously.