Winner in life

Seeing this sentence means that the purchase ratio is not enough. "There is sugar at home, then you can ask auntie to teach me, it's a pity not to eat so many fruits." Ruihe peeled an orange with a yellow peel. As soon as the peel was broken, a sour smell came to his nose. The orange was small, so he ate it all in one bite. As a result, his eyes and nose were twisted into a ball due to the sourness, and his saliva could hardly be controlled.

"I told you it was very sour, and you still swallowed it in one bite." Li Dashui laughed, and felt that his friend was a little silly, so he hurriedly asked him to spit it out.

Ruihe hurriedly covered his mouth, bent down and swallowed the orange, and tears came out.

"It's delicious. I haven't eaten such fresh fruit for a long time." Ruihe finally recovered, his eyelashes were soaked with tears, "It must be delicious when made into jam."

Li Dashui sighed: "It's just a waste of sugar, but my mother said that now I have started to make money, and I don't feel bad about buying two more kilograms of sugar. Money is really a good thing."

"Money is really a good thing." If it weren't for the two dollars and fifty cents tuition, Ruihe would not be able to find a teacher to teach him. "The factory will start operation in ten days. I have found Mr. Xu Caiheng to teach me." Ruihe told Li Dashui about the matter. "I plan to study hard in these ten days. I won't have so much free time when the factory starts operation." Mr. Xu said he would teach him on weekends. In fact, the bamboo factory does not necessarily have holidays every weekend. In fact, the holidays are uncertain. If there are large orders, there are no holidays at all. Therefore, these ten days are very important.

Li Dashui did not expect Ruihe to be so proactive: "The money has been spent, so you really have to work hard." Two yuan and fifty cents, white sugar is seventy-eight cents per pound, and his mother felt sorry for using two pounds to make jam. Unexpectedly, Xiaoshan spent two yuan and fifty cents to find someone to tutor him without blinking an eye. He felt sorry for the money when he heard it.

"I will!" Ruihe nodded seriously.

Li Dashui: "..." He sighed and patted his friend's shoulder.

In his opinion, the two yuan and fifty cents were spent unjustly and not worth it. But then he thought about it again. Xiaoshan is now the boss of his own business and works very hard in the bamboo factory. He earns 40 yuan a month, so spending a few yuan doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Li Dashui suddenly became ambitious. After the factory starts working after the New Year, he must work as hard as Xiaoshan and make a lot of money to spend freely!

Ruihe didn't know about Li Dashui's ambition to make a lot of money. He felt much more open-minded. The depression and uneasiness that suddenly surged up after Xu Caiheng left all dissipated. He was full of expectations for tomorrow's class.

System 460 was also relieved. It seemed that although the host was young, his self-regulation ability was still good. It was a little proud. This was the host it chose.

In the next ten days, Ruihe really studied all the time except for eating and sleeping. After class, Xu Caiheng left him and he was still reviewing the previous course. Because of his cooperation and self-awareness, Xu Caiheng praised him several times and said that he was "talented."

Ten days later, the factory started operation. Ruihe had to go to work during the day, and Xu Caiheng also had to go to school. Therefore, the class time was moved to Friday and Saturday nights according to the agreement. If Xu Caiheng was free on any night between Monday and Friday, he would come to Ruihe's house.

After the New Year, it was 1973, and there were only four years left in 1977. In order to catch up with the first exam after the resumption of the college entrance examination, Ruihe's study tasks were very tight. But he couldn't give up his work in the factory. He had no one to rely on, and he needed to support himself first. If he could really get into college in the future, the university would be free of tuition and there would be subsidies, but he still had to have money in hand to feel at ease.

According to Zhang Xiaoshan's memory, a few years later, when the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination spread to this ordinary small southern village, those educated youth and other people in the village who wanted to take the exam were all studying late at night? Working during the day and studying at night? Others can do it, so can he.

"I started preparing earlier than them. Even if I haven't learned it before, I believe I can learn it well." Ruihe set a goal for learning ambitiously. Even if Xu Caiheng didn't have time to come, Ruihe would still study by himself until eleven o'clock at night.

The fulfilling days passed quickly. It was time for spring ploughing, and the school gave the students a week off to help with farm work. The bamboo factory happened to be delivering goods and had no big orders for the time being, so it also gave them a week off.

Ruihe put on his straw hat again and went to the fields, earning himself an extra 57 work points.

Soon, the year passed. At the end of the year, Ruihe used 34 yuan to approve a residential land in the production team, which was 75 square meters. Because the village had a rule that one household could only be approved for one residential land, and the maximum area was 75 square meters. Ruihe secretly inquired, and Li Dashui asked from his father that although only one house could be approved, the house could be bought at will, and the higher-ups didn't care how many houses you bought. But now Ruihe is not well-off enough to buy a house, so it is temporarily shelved.

Because of the basic food ration and the food earned from the work points accumulated during the four busy seasons of sowing and harvesting, Ruihe spent no more than 50 yuan on food this year. With other trivial expenses and medical expenses for two illnesses at the beginning and middle of the year, he saved 420 yuan this year. With the 20 yuan he got when the family was divided, he now has a small savings. But Ruihe was reluctant to buy a house with this money, and he always had to prepare it for emergencies.

After the factory stopped working, Ruihe renovated his home. A typhoon in the summer made the mud house even more dilapidated, and it would always drip when it rained. It was better to renovate it to celebrate the Spring Festival. This year, Ruihe refused Zhang Dashan's request to have a New Year's Eve dinner together. Zhang Dashan's face was not very good, but he still said nothing.

Rui He scratched his hair and looked at Zhang Dashan's back as he went out, then lowered his head and continued to pack his things. He has a good relationship with his co-workers Zhang Tianci and Zhang Cuipei in the factory. Ruihe usually works hard to make more money, which leads the two people to be very active. In addition, Rui He has a good temper, and he often does most of the work alone. The friendship of making money together makes the relationship between the three of them better and better. Maybe Zhang Tianci and his wife were dissatisfied with the extra work at some point, but when the wages were actually in their hands, all the hard work was no longer worth mentioning.

He packed up two large backpacks half as tall as a man, planning to give one to himself and one to Li Dashui, who would also go with them in the afternoon.

In order to stay in the factory, Li Dashui performed particularly well during the three-month trial period and was exceptionally recruited by the supervisor to join the factory and specialize in cutting bamboo slices. Later, Ruihe asked Li Dashui to join his group. There was no other way. They grouped three people to take turns cutting bamboo and cutting bamboo pieces for weaving. But Ruihe was much faster than the two of them. Whether it was weaving or preparing weaving materials, the whole process was The speed of the team was out of sync. Either there were not enough bamboo slices for him, or he cut too many bamboo slices for the team members to use.

After Li Dashui joined the group, Ruihe could concentrate on knitting, and the number of finished products increased significantly. When wages were settled at the end of the month, each person would earn an extra one yuan and forty cents. Since then, Zhang Tianci and the others have not spoken to each other.

This time we made an appointment to go shopping for New Year's goods together, which was also the result of the relationship between the four of us becoming more harmonious. At 12:30 noon, Li Dashui came to see Ruihe. The two of them carried a basket and went to the entrance of the village to meet Zhang Tianci. Then they met Zhang Cuibei at the entrance of the next village, and the four of them slowly walked toward the town.

"My mother made a list for me to buy. I brought out all my personal money." Li Dashui took out the list while walking and looked at it. "I have to buy all kinds of sweets, cakes and washbasins. Alas, I can't help it. I now He is also a man who makes money, so I will buy whatever my mother says." He complained about the trouble, but his eyes were filled with pride.

Zhang Tianci laughed: "Look at how successful you are as a villain."

"No matter how successful a villain is, he is obviously getting ahead~" Li Dashui shook his head and extended his orchid finger in a gesture, "I am also a rich man now."

"Come on, don't make me laugh." Zhang Tianci hammered Li Dashui's orchid finger off, and then sighed softly, "I didn't expect to earn so much after joining the factory. Now people listen to what I say at home. My dad, I My mother came to ask me for my opinion, and I really felt like I was in charge.”

Zhang Cuibei also nodded: "No, my mother always told me to get married early in the past. Now I make money and save it myself, and my younger brother doesn't dare to whisper to me anymore. It's better to make money by yourself. Once you make money, you will feel confident."

Rui He nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes."

Zhang Cuimei burst out laughing: "Little Shan, it's okay to carry such a big basket in the flood, but why are you doing the same? I remember you live alone."

"I want to buy some gifts for Mr. Xu." Rui He pursed his lips and smiled, "He has taught me seriously this year, and I am particularly grateful to him."

"I think you are too tired like this." They are all good friends. Zhang Cuibei couldn't help but give some advice, "Look, you have caught two colds this year, and both times you have high fever. The doctor said you are too tired. Always How can your body endure such hard work? "Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, without even a day off. In her opinion, there is really no need to study through gaps. Now working in factories, the piece-rate wages they earn are more than the wages of people in the city, and the wages of teachers are not much. She really doesn't understand why Zhang Xiaoshan is so stubborn.

Rui He didn't want to explain this problem because he had already explained it many times this year. After the news about Mr. Xu Caiheng helping him with tutoring spread out and more people knew about it, he would be asked questions by fellow villagers he met on the road. Later he realized clearly that everyone was just asking casually out of curiosity, so he stopped racking his brains to explain.

Sure enough, seeing Ruihe just lowering his eyes and smiling shyly, Zhang Cuibei stopped continuing the topic and turned to the things he wanted to buy today: "I heard that a batch of skirts came from the department store!" She lowered her voice mysteriously. , with a tone full of expectation, "I heard it looks good, but I haven't worn a skirt yet! No matter what, I must buy one to wear!"

Zhang Tianci frowned: "Skirt? I don't like it. Even if you buy it, it won't be easy to wear. Who in our village wears a skirt? It's not simple, not very solemn."

"Why is it not dignified to wear a skirt? People in the city wear it too! It's so long that it reaches the ankles! Don't worry, I plan to buy a dark one. The color must be simple." Zhang Cuibei strode forward with a dark face. Zhang Tianci smiled awkwardly at Ruihe and Li Dashui, and quickly caught up with them.

"Why do I feel like there's something wrong with the two of them?" Li Dashui touched his chin.

Rui He said "Huh?" in confusion: "There is nothing wrong, let's leave quickly!"

"Okay." Li Dashui muttered, "Actually, I think it's okay if you don't like her anymore. She's too pretty and popular. I heard that Yong Shu from the second team also likes her. It's not that I don't support you, brother, but Yongshu is indeed better than you, I think you can’t compete with him. It’s better to give up now to avoid being sad later…”

After listening to Li Dashui's words, Xu Ruihe felt warm in his heart and felt that Li Dashui was really a good person. He patted the good man on the shoulder and said, "Let's go home."

The two of them shook their wet hands and went home. Li Dashui asked on the way: "Why don't you like to talk anymore? I haven't heard you say a few words in the past two days. You are jumping every word when you speak, and your throat is not good." Is it comfortable?”

"Well, my throat feels uncomfortable." Ruihe carefully peeked at Li Dashui. Seeing that Li Dashui did not doubt him but looked at him worriedly, he could not help but smile. He sighed in his heart that he was really a simple and kind person.

After saying goodbye to the good man Li Dashui, Ruihe returned to his home. When he entered the door, he saw the original sister-in-law busy at the stove. He hurriedly greeted her: "Sister-in-law." The sister-in-law hummed and stirred the pot coldly. It smelled sweet potato porridge again. A few days ago, they dug sweet potatoes and their family was divided into three large bags. He weighed a bag of fifty or sixty kilograms, so the family has been eating sweet potatoes these days.