Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

"Xiaohua, what about you? How did you do in the exam?" Deng Shirong looked at the fourth child and asked.

Deng Yunhua didn't dare to raise his head. He looked at his toes and said, "Dad, I might have failed in the exam."

Deng Shirong did not scold him, but encouraged him: "You are only in the fourth grade. It doesn't matter if your grades are a little bit worse now. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will naturally make progress. Anyway, if you can't endure the hardship of study now, you will have to endure the hardship of life in the future." . For example, your eldest brother now goes to work in the tile factory at dawn and doesn’t come back until the sun sets. This is the result of not studying hard in the past. You brothers should learn from it. "

Deng Yunhua nodded and said: "I know, Dad!"

Deng Shirong didn't know if he heard it, but he was neither a psychologist nor an educator. The reason why he could say such words was the result of reading a lot of Chicken Soup for the Soul on the Internet in his previous life.

Anyway, it is the most ideal thing for the sons to be admitted to college. It doesn't matter if they fail. Anyway, with him as a father, the lives of the sons in this life will definitely be the same. The only difference is that they can go. Just how high.

…

Two days later, the results of the midterm exam came out.

As expected, both Deng Yunsong and Deng Yunhua's average score was less than 90 points. Only Deng Yunheng's score met the standard, with an average score of 92 points.

Deng Shirong also fulfilled his previous promise, took out seven yuan and handed it to his youngest son, saying: "Xiao Heng, this is your reward. You must continue to work hard and strive to get more rewards from me in the final exam."

"Dad, I know, I will continue to work hard." Deng Yunheng took the huge sum of seven yuan and smiled so much that his two front teeth were exposed. This is the biggest sum he has ever received in his life. Even the red envelopes I received during the Chinese New Year are far less than that. I really made a fortune!

Next to him, Deng Yunhua was really envious. Fortunately, he was smart enough to use a slingshot to reach an agreement with his younger brother in advance. Otherwise, he would really have to watch his younger brother run to the supply and marketing department of the brigade every day, buying and eating whatever he wanted.

Not to mention Deng Yunhua, even the 12-year-old Deng Yunsong was coveting the huge sum of seven yuan in his little brother's hand.

Although Deng Shirong now has more than 5,000 yuan in cash, he has made an agreement with his sons before. Naturally, he will not give them pocket money for no reason. If he wants money, he can exchange it with his grades. As long as he works hard and gets good grades, he will not give them pocket money for no reason. , naturally there is endless pocket money.

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After the mid-term exam, the entire Bangjie brigade began to cut crops one after another, and the students also ushered in their busy farming vacation.

Students in this era did not have as many holidays as later generations. For example, there were no holidays for the traditional Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Even Guangxi, which was envied by people all over the country in later generations, did not have a holiday on March 3rd. However, students in rural areas had a special holiday. Holidays are busy farming days.

As the name suggests, this farm holiday is a holiday for students during the summer and autumn harvests every year, so that they can come back to help with the work.

Therefore, this busy farming holiday is not a holiday on a fixed date, but is determined based on the local harvest situation. For example, this year due to the impact of the production team's distribution of fields to households, the harvesting will be later than in previous years, and the busy farming holiday will naturally be postponed accordingly.

Seeing that everyone was busy harvesting rice, Deng Shirong gave the seven orchard workers and relatives in the village a holiday.

As for Zhang Jiefang and other carpenters, since Deng Shirong's new house has already set a date for the fire, in order to complete the task within the specified time, they cannot go back on vacation to help harvest the rice. They can only let the family harvest slowly. .

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Agongtang is a place name. Many fields in Naye Village are located here, including the fields of Deng Changping's family.

It was already noon. Deng Changping, his wife Chen Xiaohua, and his parents were harvesting rice together. Although the sun in October was not as "poisonous" as in June and July, it was still very uncomfortable to work under the sun all the time. .

But as the saying goes, people are in high spirits during happy events. Seeing that their family has a bumper rice harvest this year, even though they are sweating under the sun, Deng Changping and his wife always have a smile on their lips.

Similarly, Changping’s father and Changping’s mother’s faces were also full of joy.

Although their four sons have separated and each has his own small family, as parents, they all hope that their sons can live a good life.

They didn't have to worry about the eldest brother and the second child. When the family was divided, because the house in the old house was not enough, they helped the eldest brother and the second child to build new houses and move out.

The third and fourth sons were left to live in the old house with them. The living conditions were indeed much worse, but there was nothing that could be done about it. At that time, the four sons were divided into families. The couple's ability was limited and they had to support the eldest and second son in building a house. We have already tried our best to build a new house, and there is no way we can fund the third and fourth sons to build new houses in a short period of time.

Of course, this is not because they favor the eldest son and the second eldest child. When they funded the construction of a new house, the second elder brother made it clear in front of their four sons and daughter-in-law. From then on, the second elder brother will continue to help the third and fourth sons until They can also build a house and move out until they can live there.

Therefore, when harvesting crops, Changping's father and Changping's mother did not go to help the elder's family and the second's family. Instead, they came directly to help the third's family, and then went to help the fourth's family after helping the third's.

"Dad, Mom, it's getting late, let's take a break and eat first!" Deng Changping wiped his sweat with the towel around his neck and said.

Changping's father nodded and said, "Well, I'm hungry too, so let's eat first."

Changping Ma and Chen Xiaohua also put down their sickles after hearing this.

The four of them went to the nearby ditch to wash their hands, and then started eating the lunch they had brought on the field ridge.

In this era, when farming was busy, people would bring lunch with them when harvesting fields a little further away. Then they would not have to walk back to eat at noon, which could save a lot of time.

For lunch, they had rice with fried eggs and pork belly stewed with sauerkraut. This simple meal was a rare delicacy in Deng Changping’s family. It was difficult to cut crops, so he was willing to eat it like this.

After eating and taking a short rest, Chen Xiaohua said hello to her parents-in-law and her husband, and then hurried home with a load of grain. She wanted to go back to get food for the two older children, and also I need to feed that little one.

Deng Changping and his parents went to the fields to continue cutting crops. After harvesting all the crops, they took them home one load at a time.

This is not only the case with Deng Changping's family, other families also operate in this way. Everyone is busy harvesting rice. When the fields are not distributed to each household, some members of the commune are working as foreigners while harvesting. Now the fields are their own. , everyone’s enthusiasm was mobilized.

In the autumn of 1980, the sky above the entire Bangjie brigade was filled with the joy of a good harvest.