The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 4

The door curtain in front of the kang house is made of cotton. Li Xiaohong had never been in a kang house in her previous life. When she was a child, she was young and lacked strength.After I grew up, I took the exam and left my hometown, and I only saw it at the door once before.

The people watching the kang had already lit the coals for curing the tobacco leaves. She lifted the curtain, and a wave of heat came oncoming.

From the top to the top of the kang house, bamboo poles with tobacco leaves are densely packed, but the tobacco leaves are obviously different, some are darker green, some are lighter green, and the darker leaves are larger, almost larger than the light ones. The one-third larger.

Seeing the tobacco leaves, Li Xiaohong thought that one year the tobacco leaves in her house grew thick and strong, like cattail leaf fans, the leaves were green and shiny, and the tobacco leaves roasted in the back
They are all relatively black. The land where the tobacco leaves were originally planted requires thinner land, so that the tobacco leaves grow yellow-green, and the tobacco leaves that are roasted are easier to turn yellow.

She deliberately asked Zhang Meiying: "Mom, it's very strange. How come the tobacco leaves in Uncle Changshan's house grow so small?"

"You don't know, his family is just lazy and doesn't fertilize the tobacco leaves, so the crops naturally don't grow well."

"However, looking at the tobacco leaves roasted by their family, they are all orange-yellow, but our tobacco leaves, although they are big, are mostly like black charcoal. Doesn't it mean that the yellow tobacco leaves are of high grade and sell for more money? ? It would be nice if our tobacco leaves were as yellow as Uncle Changshan’s.”

"Yeah, like the tobacco leaves from your Uncle Changshan's house, one pole is worth a lot of our family's."

Speaking of this, Zhang Meiying thought about it. Seeing that there are many yellow tobacco leaves roasted by others, most of them are not too big. Before roasting, they are light green. Plant some vegetables with a relatively fast production period in the field, and use up the fertilizer in the field. Maybe it is better to grow tobacco leaves.

Seeing that her mother was thinking, Li Xiaohong stopped continuing this topic. Sometimes people have a fixed mindset, and others may wake up with a word.

He just said: "Mom, you guys set up a pit so early, is it hot in the pit room?"

"Why isn't it hot? But it's still better than when the pit was unloaded. It's like a steamer. It's so hot that the fat will come out."

"Ah, it's so hot, how many degrees is it in the pit house?"

"I don't know, maybe fifty or sixty degrees."

"The last time I went to the health center with a fever, the temperature on the thermometer was only 29 degrees, and I felt unbearably hot."

"That's right, so we all unloaded the pit in the morning and waited for the fire to go out overnight before going in, and we were all wearing thick clothes for fear of burning our skin."

"It would be nice to have a thermometer in our kang house, then you can go in when the temperature is the lowest."

"Aren't you whimsical?" Zhang Meiying said casually.

Suddenly, she hugged Li Xiaohong up, hugged her tightly, and said excitedly: "My dear girl, you really woke up mom. It would be nice to install a thermometer in the pit room, so that when you increase the fire, you will be able to It’s easy to control. Don’t be afraid that the tobacco leaves will be cloudy and unable to sweat if the fire is low, or it will be roasted black when the fire is too high.”

"No, I have to discuss it with them." Zhang Meiying said, put down Li Xiaohong and ran out all the way.

Li Xiaohong secretly laughed at the side, and later the pit houses were equipped with thermometers, so that the matter of relying on experience for big fires and small fires has become history.In this way, the probability of producing good tobacco leaves is much greater.

After my mother came back to have breakfast, someone asked at the door, "Is Xiaohong at home?"

"Yes, it's Lijun, come in quickly." Zhang Meiying called out while enthusiastically letting people into the yard: "Hong, Lijun asked you to play, it's hot, don't stay in the house, go with your friends Go out and play."

Li Xiaohong came out, and Wei Lijun just walked into the courtyard.

She is two years older than Li Xiaohong. Li Xiaohong started school early because no one was taking her with her. Both of them are in the first grade.

Maybe the food at home can keep up. Li Xiaohong is taller than ordinary children. When they walk together, others can't tell that she is young.

Wei Lijun's father works in Lanzhou. She lived in Lanzhou for a while when she was a child. She didn't come back to her hometown until it was time to go to school. Therefore, she has a Mandarin accent. At school, the teacher often asked her to read the text aloud.

"What do you think I brought?" Wei Lijun stretched out his hand, and put a piece of crispy candy in the palm of his hand.

I don't know how long she held it, the candy wrapper on it was dripping with sweat.

"My father brought it back from Lanzhou. It's delicious. My mother won't let me take it outside. I secretly saved this piece for you. Have you ever eaten it?"

There was a little pride and anticipation in his expression, as if to say that you are about to say that you have never eaten.

Also, these days, let alone halva, a piece of ordinary fruit candy is a delicacy that people can linger on for days.

Li Xiaohong felt a little dirty, but she lived up to Wei Lijun's expectations and said, "I haven't seen this kind of candy before, and it looks delicious. But I'm not willing to eat it, so let's keep it for my sister."

Wei Lijun was very happy, touched her nose with her hand, and said hesitantly: "I still have some at home, why don't I bring you another one later."

"No, keep those for yourself to eat. Your dad brought them back for you from so far away."

I thought to myself, Wei Lijun still has the same habit of touching her nose when hesitating, such a cute and pretty girl, it's a pity that her future will end.

Wei Lijun was the only person in the village in her previous life who went to high school like Li Xiaohong.But her grades are mediocre, and she doesn't love learning very much, unlike Li Xiaohong who managed to get into a third-rate university, and Wei Lijun who dropped out of school after graduating from high school.

Because she went to school a few years more than ordinary rural children, and she was not able to find a partner at a high level. I heard that she married a family who started a small business.Although her family is good, her husband often beats her.Later, the pearl also turned into a fish-eye pearl, and Li Xiaohong didn't go back often, and never heard from her again.

Today, those eyes have not been stained with weather, and they are childish and cute. Li Xiaohong can't help but sigh for her, hoping that she can have a good life in this life.

He took the candy and put it in a box.Li Xiaohong asked her: "Have you finished your summer homework yet?"

"Well, no, it's still early anyway."

"Then you have to write carefully. Think about it, because your father has the ability to work in Lanzhou. If you study well, you can go to your father when you grow up, and you can eat this delicious food every day. It's halva."

In the countryside, the only way out at that time seemed to be to pass the exam.In any case, it is right to learn more knowledge, so that you can see a wider world and have more possible development paths in the future.

Therefore, facing a child, Li Xiaohong began to fool around.

Wei Lijun started to touch her nose again: "You know a lot, Xiaohong, but you are right, my father told me to study hard."

Then he got closer and said quietly: "I'm telling you something, you can't tell others."

Seeing Li Xiaohong's serious agreement, she lowered her voice and said, "I overheard my father telling others that my younger brother will take over from him in the future, but I just don't know what will happen to me."

After finishing speaking, he sighed like an adult, "I miss Dad too, and I want to be with Dad. There are all buildings there, and there are many things we don't have here."

"In this way, you should be better than your brother. If you do better than your brother, maybe you can stay there."

"Okay, I will definitely study hard."

Wei Lijun clenched her fists and asked, "Xiaohong, have you finished your summer homework yet? There is a question I don't know how to solve, please tell me."

Li Xiaohong came back from rebirth, and she hasn't had time to check her things. Who knows if she has finished her summer homework?But with her original personality, she doesn't seem to be the one who will finish writing.

I just thought about it and said: "You don't know that I have to take care of my sister and help my mother with things, so I don't have much time to do my homework. But if you have any questions, I will take a look with you."

I found my summer homework and turned to the page that Wei Lijun didn't know.

Of course, Li Xiaohong thought the first-grade questions were extremely simple. After explaining them to Wei Lijun, she made up a few similar questions for Wei Lijun to answer together, until she completely mastered these kinds of questions.

Wei Lijun said in amazement: "Xiaohong, you are really amazing. I think your explanation is clearer than the teacher's."

Li Xiaohong was half absorbed in listening to Wei Lijun's words, and half in thoughts.

Hearing what Wei Lijun said, I thought to myself, what you said is not wrong, anyway, I am a person who has gone to college, and I have more exposure to teaching methods of later generations.And none of the teachers in their elementary school are officially editing, they all belong to the teachers of the agricultural office, and the best teachers have not even graduated from high school.Although very serious, but seeing less, some methods can not think of.

Thinking about how pitiful the elementary school in their village is, few people who graduated from this elementary school even went to junior high school in the town, and even rarer were admitted to university.

Thinking about it this way, under such simple conditions, I could be admitted to a regular college, not to mention that the university had not expanded its enrollment at that time, so it was considered pretty good.

To be honest, in my previous life, I only went to school according to my mother's request.At that time, the chance of being admitted to school was so low, and I was not particularly smart, so I really couldn't see it.

Where is the hope for the future, learning is not active at all, living in chaos every day,
However, this time is different. I know how to go in the future, I know the splendor and richness of the outside world, I know how to use my strength to get the biggest harvest, how can I still live in a daze like before, enduring The monotonous and dull life, just muddle along every day.

Moreover, since I am young, my parents probably will not pay attention to and give positive reactions to whatever I say, but there is one thing that I can do and my mother will agree with it very much, and that is my own study.

How much others value you depends largely on what you have accomplished.At the beginning, Jack Ma looked for people to invest in and couldn't find any, and he thought his idea was a madman's idea.But after he succeeds, others will think that he has a unique vision and that persistence is the most important thing.

Given the importance mother attaches to learning, if she has finished her studies and then makes suggestions, it is said that it is from the book, and the chances of persuading mother to change her lifestyle will be much greater.

Thinking of this, she hugged Wei Lijun: "Thank you, Lijun."

"Why did you thank me for giving me a lecture? By the way, you are thanking me for the candy, so you don't have to thank me. Why did you think of this after half a day?" Wei Lijun said embarrassedly.

"By the way, I have something to go to my grandma's house. Shall we play next time?"

"Well, when it comes to your grandma's family, you have to be careful of your cousin Zhang Jialin. He is necrotic. Look at the scar on my nose. He beat him with a slingshot. There was a lot of blood at the time, and it will remain after it heals." India."

Li Xiaohong took a look, and there was a small sunken scar. She didn't expect her cousin to dare to do this.

The concubine is a teacher and has always been strict with her son. Her cousin is very nice in front of her, but she never expected to be so naughty behind her back.

"Okay, I will tell my sister-in-law and let her teach her son a lesson!"

At this time, Wei Lijun didn't know what close relationship meant, so she naturally replied, "Okay."

After leaving the house, Li Xiaohong called out: "Mom! Mom!"

"What's wrong?" Zhang Meiying replied from outside the wall.

"I want to go to my grandma's house."

(End of this chapter)