The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 5

Li Xiaohong wanted to finish elementary school as soon as possible, so she told her mother that she wanted to borrow some second-grade books from her concubine's house. Zhang Meiying supported her in every possible way when she heard her daughter said that she wanted to study.

I brought a bag of sugar and some eggs to her concubine's house and just sat down when Zhang Jialin came back.

When I entered the room, I said, "Auntie, you are here." Then his eyes stretched out to Baitang as if they had hooks.

Li Xiaohong is secretly happy, this guy, even if he always looks like a mountain avalanche before he grows up, now he is just a kid who craves delicious food.Fortunately, he didn't lose his composure, took a bowl, scooped a bowl of water from the big vat in the yard, and drank it.

"Stinky boy, you see that your sister knows that she needs to learn the knowledge of the second grade in advance, so you know how to play like crazy."

"No, Mom, there are only so many things that need to be learned in advance. I don't need to study now, and I will definitely pass the No. 1 exam by then." Li Jialin glared at Li Xiaohong and complained to her mother.

"Yes, concubine, you can see that brother Jialin is so smart, it must be fine."

Usually, the two competed fiercely for favor. My mother even joked with my aunt that there were two boys in my family and two girls in my aunt's family, and the Li family should give them a girl to raise.

Zhang Jialin looked at her suspiciously, as if wondering why his cousin didn't hit him this time, and even spoke for him.

Li Xiaohong smiled at him, and said unhurriedly: "In the future, Brother Jialin and I will learn together. Brother Jialin learns quickly, so I can ask him if I don't know it."

Zhang Jialin said anxiously: "No, Mom——, I have made an appointment with Tie Dan and the others to play together during the summer vacation."

Here Li Xiaohong almost spit out a mouthful of water, the man said he can't do it?Suddenly, I feel that my thoughts are too obscene. Who knows that there are new usages of this word in this day and age.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhang Meiying patted her on the back.

"No...cough cough...it's okay, I accidentally choked on the water."

"You child, be careful."

Here, Wang Cui made a final decision: "Okay, then it's settled. Linlin, if you study well, I'll let your dad buy you the comic book set of "General Yang" that you've always wanted."

"Then I want a new one, I can't use my brother and use the rest."

"no problem."

Li Xiaohong secretly gave her thumbs up.Less than a year later in the previous life, my grandma and Jinzi's family moved to P city where my uncle worked.At that time, Li Jialin had just finished the third grade, but after moving, because he was afraid that he would not be able to keep up with the progress in the city, he repeated the third grade again.

After that, the two families had little contact every year, but it is conceivable that this must be a big blow to Li Jialin, who has always regarded himself very highly.The concubine was probably already prepared by now, so she held onto her son tightly.

For her own goals, Li Jiahong feels that this summer vacation is probably the busiest one she has ever been in memory.

She asked her concubine to ask a person in the village who could write well in big characters to teach her to practice calligraphy. In order not to be surpassed by her cousin, Zhang Jialin also followed suit.Li Jiahong didn't set too high a goal for herself, she just wanted to master the structure of the characters after practicing big characters, and then write characters that don't look like those written by elementary school students.

Therefore, it is usually hot at noon, and people go there every two or three days when they are not busy with farm work.For the rest of the time, the calligraphy teacher wrote a few words for them to follow.

Because of the additional homework, Li Xiaohong was often stared at by Zhang Jialin.

But for a six-year-old child, isn't Li Xiaohong easy to grasp?Under her strategy of telling stories and adding sweets, Zhang Jialin quickly succumbed, and again in situations such as
Under the praise of "Brother Jialin, you are awesome, you can solve such a difficult problem" and false worship, Zhang Jialin thinks that this sister is really good, at least much more interesting than Tiedan.

Soon, the relationship between the two developed rapidly and became very harmonious. Zhang Jialin would say what happened to his sister at every turn.

My sister said that you should wash your hands before meals, and my sister said that the teachers in other cities speak a kind of Mandarin, just like the ones on the radio and TV.Therefore, Zhang Jialin and Zhang Jialin competed to imitate and practice speaking Mandarin.

Children learn things quickly, and with Li Xiaohong's guidance, after a holiday, Zhang Jialin can speak Mandarin well.

Seeing the obviously changed son, Wang Cui felt that the decision to let his son study with Li Xiaohong was really correct, and of course he himself was very wise to make this decision.

During the period, some children came to her to play, and Li Xiaohong, a pseudo-child, was naturally not interested in those children's things, so she rejected them in the name of learning.

Let the children study with her. How can real children have that kind of perseverance and self-control?If she hadn't been born again and had an urgent desire to change her family, she wouldn't be able to persist.Gradually, none of the children wanted to come to her to play.

Only Wei Lijun, probably what she said has worked, she also wants to work hard and go to the outside world, just like her father.She has always insisted on coming to Li Xiaohong to study with her, and she will not stop for a day.

Li Xiaohong teaches her ten words every day, and children have relatively strong concentration, so she can learn them seriously.

It is worth mentioning that Li Xiaolu, seeing them studying and not playing with her, often reads along with her.

Therefore, Li Xiaohong made word cards out of cardboard, starting with the simplest characters, mouth, and hands, and played with her as a game. When she got it right, she would kiss her and give her a bite of steamed egg custard.

Egg custard is filled with chopped green onion and green vegetables, and dripped with sesame oil. It is fragrant and tender. It is a rare delicacy in rural areas at this time.

Somehow, the two sisters from the same family have very different personalities and hobbies, and even have different food preferences.Just like Li Xiaohong doesn't like to eat eggs, and Li Xiaolu couldn't turn his eyes away when he saw eggs when he was a child.

With the temptation of eggs and stories, Li Xiaolu was very happy to play this game, and gradually learned hundreds of characters.

Zhang Meiying was overjoyed. Although she had no sons, her two daughters were both great. When she was happy outside, she accidentally said something wrong.

Whether the children around are poor or rich, whose family didn't throw them to school after they were seven or eight years old?
A child as young as two years old can read and write, and the villagers were amazed when they found out.Some people often point to the couplets at the door of the house, and the slogans on the wall, etc. for Li Xiaolu to recognize.

After Li Xiaolu recognized it, everyone praised him, which greatly increased Li Xiaolu's enthusiasm for learning.

Everyone chattered: "Mei Ying, your two daughters are smart enough. The older one is good at studying, and the younger one is even better. They can know so many words at such a young age. I think they will be like her in the future." Uncle became a college student like that.”

Many villagers can't read a few words, and they still respect the learned people.

At that time, college students were not as flooded as in later generations.In Li Xiaohong's previous life, she was the first college student in her village, and her sister was the second.

At that time, the brigade where their village was located, that is, the village where my grandmother's family was located, even showed a movie, and the whole village was as lively as Chinese New Year.

Li Xiaohong remembers very clearly that the film showed the popular "Painted Skin" at that time.When she saw the ghost peeling off his face, she was too scared to look.

"Then Xiaohong and Xiaolu will become urbanites. They don't have to work hard in the fields every day like us, exhausting themselves."

"Yes, sister-in-law Meiying, just wait to enjoy the blessing of your daughter."

"How can they be as good as everyone said, they are still children, who knows what will happen in the future." Although Zhang Meiying said modestly, she was quite proud in her heart.

Li Li next to her couldn't see that Zhang Meiying was praised so much by everyone, so she said sourly: "No matter how good the daughter is, she belongs to others. Sister-in-law, the son is still reliable. Otherwise, no one will fall into the basin when she dies, and she will become extinct."

After finishing speaking, he laughed smugly, "Haha!"

When people say such things to their face, I have seen people without brains, and I have never seen such people without brains.

The other villagers thought so, but no one paid any attention to her, only she laughed a few times and then stopped.

Next to her, her husband Shui Gen pulled her and said in a low voice, "Stop saying that again!"

"Hmph, I want you to take care of it!" Li Li elbowed him, and Shuigen didn't dare to speak.

There is no way, the family is poor, and even after getting together with a wife, they dare not speak harshly.That's it, I still say that I want to leave home.

Li Xiaohong knew that Li Li was a person who was reluctant to eat the vegetables grown by her own family, and always went to other people's vegetable fields to secretly pick vegetables.Not to mention stealing vegetables, in order to save pig food, she also let her pigs out and gnawed everywhere.

Once, the vegetable plot of Li Xiaohong's family was ruined beyond recognition.Zhang Meiying was so angry that she didn't know that it was her pig who ran in and cursed several times on the streets of the village, and the two became enmity.

As the saying goes, you don't slap someone in the face when you hit someone, and you don't expose your shortcomings when you scold someone. Li Li is all stabbing Zhang Meiying in the heart.

"Then Aunt Li, you have to educate your son well first, and don't let him treat other people's land as his own."

Everyone knew Li Li's bad habits, and they all laughed.

There are many people who are dissatisfied with Li Li's behavior. Besides, Zhang Meiying has always been generous and courteous in the village, warm to people, and has a much better popularity than her.

At that time, someone replied and blocked her: "Speaking of which, now is a new society, women can hold up half the sky, and they don't have to rely on their sons like the old society. Besides, what's the use of a son who doesn't live up to expectations, just build him a big house and say Maybe you won’t even be able to marry a daughter-in-law.”

"That's right, the worst thing is building a house and marrying a wife. You won't have a share in the new house, and you won't even be allowed to live in it!"

There are also neutral diversions: "Speaking of which, family planning is really strictly controlled now, and people have to go for physical examinations every year. I'm afraid people will steal their lives."

"Yes, I heard..."

The topic changed slowly, and no one paid any attention to Li Li. She was bored by herself, patted her buttocks, stood up and left with Shuigen.

The fulfilling life passed quickly. In addition to practicing calligraphy, Li Xiaohong, like every child in the village, also had to do a lot of work at home: turning sweet potatoes, cutting tobacco leaves, catching insects, cutting grass to feed sheep, and feeding pigs. feed.

This year, because of her sensibility, she also increased the work of classifying the tobacco leaves, that is, dividing the cured tobacco leaves into different grades according to the degree of yellowness.The color is golden, and the tobacco leaves are relatively large and plump, which is the best, and the tobacco leaves that are roasted to black are naturally the lowest.The price difference between the two can be ten times.

Tobacco leaves have a complete set of procedures from raising seedlings to packing up and selling to the tobacco station in the town.Generally, children as old as her are doing the job of untying the tobacco leaves, which is to untie the tobacco leaves bundled on the bamboo poles and then wrap them in plastic film to wait for the adults. Classify and bundle when you have time.

Although busy, Li Xiaohong's goals were achieved one by one.

She went through all the textbooks for the second grade, and found that the content was relatively simple, not much different from that of the first grade.

Li Xiaohong's preparations are quite sufficient.She read through the textbook, and prepared an exercise book, and copied all the new words after class in the order of the textbook.In addition, she marked the polyphonic characters related to this new character, and the characters with similar radicals.For the words in the textbook, corresponding words with opposite meanings and similar meanings are also written on it one by one.

If these contents only surprised Wang Cui at Li Xiaohong's steady study, then the latter contents shocked her.

Behind the words, there are some famous quotes related to learning, morality, etc. Of course, they are relatively simple, such as "knowledge is the source of power", "genius is 99% sweat, plus 1% inspiration" and so on. of.

In the back, there are some allegorical sayings and sayings related to the text. For example, when it comes to football, there will be "playing football in the bed - can't open it", if it is about watermelon, there will be "watermelon in the oil tank - It's round and smooth."

Then, it is to classify the related words, some are classified according to the different scenery of spring, summer, autumn and winter, some are classified according to AABB type words, some are classified according to ABAB type words, and some are classified according to the appearance and demeanor of characters.All of these are full of two exercise books.At that time, it had only been a few years since the resumption of the college entrance examination, and there were still very few textbooks and tutorials. Li Xiaohong believed that this was definitely more detailed than the complete explanation of textbooks at that time.

Li Xiaohong works so hard, one is to let the adults know her thoughts and methods, so that she can give herself more autonomy in the future, and the other is to give her sister a reference, so that she can learn from it in teaching to help her improve, and don’t go to P City in the future A teacher whose views are far inferior to others.The third is that she simply regards these as practicing calligraphy, anyway, what is writing is not writing.

"Xiaohong, why do you want to write so much?"

"I saw these in the newspaper and thought they were very useful, but I was afraid that I would forget them, so I simply wrote them down in my notebook and put them together. I remembered them faster, and it was much easier to remember than just memorizing one."

"Can you show my sister a good look."

"No problem, niece, you see, just give it to me when I start school."

"Xiaohong is awesome, you have helped Jinzi a lot." Jinzi smiled and patted her head.

"Then sister-in-law, please do me a favor."

(End of this chapter)