My 1979

He understands his mother's mentality. She would rather endure the hardship and be hungry for one or two more meals than to wrong her son, who is the treasure in the palm of his hand.

People who live a hard life often encounter the same worry that humans and other animals have, that is, hunger.

People like Wang Yulan have spent their entire lives in famine. They are poor and poor. They are used to being poor and are no longer afraid of hardship. They have no strength to resist, but for the sake of their children and grandchildren, they are not willing to give in easily.

However, now that the conditions are better, it does not mean that they are willing to change their past living habits. Just like old man Qin always hides a bag of rice under the bed, Wang Yulan also has the same idea when saving money, and always has such a strong sense of worry.

For Li He, what he could do was very limited. He could not change the ideas in their minds, nor could he try to change their living environment. Wang Yulan's greatest pleasure now is to get some simple flattery and comfort from her parents' quarrels. If she is separated from this environment, she will feel uncomfortable and unhappy.

Therefore, Li He was not willing to help them change the familiar environment easily. If the family was suddenly different, he could guarantee that his mother would have no friends for a long time, and she would simply be alienated from the people of Lizhuang.

That's called doing bad things with good intentions. The happiness he wants to give his parents is definitely not the happiness his parents require.

Only with the changes in society as a whole can personal concepts adapt. When the time comes, there will be two-story buildings in and outside the village. Needless to say, Wang Yulan will build two-story buildings for the sake of her own family even if she gives up her job. Face can never be any worse.

Li He returned to the house, drank a cup of tea, lay on the bed and fell asleep effortlessly.

Before I woke up in the morning, I heard a mess of shouting.

He got up out of curiosity.

It turned out that it was his third uncle Li Zhaohui who was chasing his cousin Li Kuo all over the wheat field with wicker sticks.

Wang Yulan, his third aunt and others tried to dissuade him from behind.

When Li Kuo saw Li He coming out, he ran over happily and hid behind Li He, "Brother, brother, please help me."

"Third uncle, what's going on? It's early in the morning." Li He stopped Li Zhaohui who was about to continue chasing Li Kuo.

Li Zhaohui swallowed, pointed at Li Kuo and said, "Ask yourself what this little bastard has in mind!"

Li He cast a questioning look at Li Kuo behind him. Li Kuo rubbed his neck and said confidently, "Didn't I just say that I didn't want to study? Who knew his reaction would be so big."

"Don't want to study?" Li He frowned, immediately pulled him out from behind, and cursed angrily, "If you don't study, you want to become an immortal!"

How dare such a half-grown child be so wild! He won't get used to it.

You must know that his sister Li Yan wanted to study, but she still had to ask Li Zhaohui for help. However, when it was this boy's turn, he failed to live up to expectations.

"Your brother is right, you want to become an immortal if you don't study!" Li Zhaohui was very happy that his nephew could stand on the same line as him. In the past, he would have just accepted the child's refusal to go to school. Anyway, according to convention, children in rural areas usually graduated from junior high school, so it was enough not to go blind.

Besides, if a child sincerely doesn’t want to learn, it’s useless to fight.

However, things are different now. There are two children from his eldest brother Li Zhaokun’s family as examples. Oh dear, there are two college students in the family! He even married a daughter-in-law who is also a college student! There is nothing unclear within a ten-mile radius!

His eldest brother is now acting like a dog! When I go out, I look like a character.

What made him even more dissatisfied was that Li Dong, his second brother Li Zhaoming's family, who was once an unlucky boy, was now doing well!

So he concluded a few points. The first point is that the feng shui of his old Li family is definitely not bad. Two college students came out of the old man's house, and a cadre came out of the second son's house. Even her sister Li Zhaoyun's son Huang Hao was once a stock-level cadre. !

The second point is that his Lao Li family members are not stupid. They have one mother and four brothers and sisters. How can there be any difference?

The third point is that he sees hope in his daughter Li Yan. This girl's grades in school are not bad. Her teacher also said that if you work hard, there is hope for college. He now has expectations for his daughter, and he won't let her work when he comes back. He always supports her to study. Only when his child passes the exam will his face be bright.

His daughter is not bad, and his son cannot be bad either, so he has greater expectations for his son.

He was in high spirits, and when his son told him this morning that he didn't want to study, he almost burst out of his lungs! Must fight! Isn't that how Li Dong from the second family came here? Even in the movie about Li Qin’s little girl, Li He also beat her up!

If you don't fight, you won't be successful!

He firmly believes that the ancestors of Lao Li's family must be fair and just! I can’t let my brothers and sisters enjoy their family glory! When it was his turn, he was so dumb!

Why!

"He doesn't want to study anymore. It's useless if you beat him to death." Only the third aunt was not so happy. She just accepted his man beating her son. When her nephew came out to point fingers, she was not happy at all.

"Brush your teeth and wash your face." Wang Yulan was really unhappy. The dog bit Lu Dongbin, and she didn't know a kind heart, so she urged Li He to go back to the house, "The porridge is cold on the stove, go and drink some."

Li Zhaohui rolled his eyes at his woman, then handed a cigarette to Li He and said, "You are his brother, please give him a few words of advice, otherwise I can't control this child."

Li He looked at the stern-faced old lady and Li Zhaokun who was gloating about his misfortune, and then looked at Li Zhaohui with a bitter look on his face and felt quite helpless.

He asked Li Kuo, "If you don't study, what do you want to do?"

After all, he was still his cousin, so he had reason to care more.

Li Kuo said with a smile, "Brother, I heard that you are doing business. Let me do business with you."

Li Zhaohui kicked his son angrily, "You can't carry it on your shoulders or lift it with your hands. Your brother wants you to be a burden!"

Li Kuo said unconvinced, "My brother is the big boss, I will just follow him as the little boss and take care of people."

Li Zhaohui was a little moved when he heard it. He didn't know how prestigious his nephew had become, but he certainly couldn't be any worse. If he could take Li Lei with him, it might not be any better than studying.

Li He is preparing to use words to evade. On the one hand, he can show his difficulties, and on the other hand, he will not hurt Li Zhaohui's face.

Before Li He could think of how to speak, Comrade Li Zhaokun had already fired, "Manage people? Who should you care for? Go and see if your second brother wants to take care of people. It would also be good to collect rags."

When it comes to major interests, he must be consistent with his son, and his brothers cannot come and take advantage.

"You fucking want good things, but you don't care about your moral character." Li Zhaohui slapped Li Kuo on the head angrily. Yes, he just now figured out that his father and brothers were still lying around at home and collecting rags, so how could they take the turn of his cousins.

Li He affirmatively said to Li Zhaohui, "Let him follow me for a few days and work for a few days, so that he can know whether he is more comfortable working or studying."

Li Kuo was anxious, "Brother, I didn't provoke you!"

It’s weird to be able to feel comfortable on the ground!

Li Zhaohui said to Li Kuo cruelly, "Go to the fields with me to cut wheat tomorrow."

Li Kuo wanted to quit, but after looking at his father's wicker, he could only settle down.

Not to mention that Li Kuo had to go to the ground, Li He also had to go to the ground.

"The mang seeds are busy, and the wheat comes on stage."

The dry and hot southwest wind blew hard, turning the apricots on the branches and the wheat in the fields yellow. Farmers who had rested all winter and spring were about to enter the tense and tiring three summers of harvesting. The sickle that had been resting for a year was found, replaced, wedged, and sharpened.

The golden waves of wheat look magnificent on both sides of the Huaihe River, which is known as the "Ten Billion Granary of Jianghuai River".

Every day before dawn, Li He would get up with Li Long, sharpen the sickle before eating breakfast, and finally grab two bites of breakfast before hurriedly going to the ground. Faced with the unpredictable weather in the Jianghuai region, all work must be done quickly, harvesting, stripping, drying, and warehousing. Otherwise, when it rains, the wheat will become moldy.

He picked up the dense wheat with one hand and held the sickle in the other hand, cutting them one by one from right to left.

At eight or nine o'clock, the sun climbed high above his head, and the hot sunshine shone on him, like a ball of fire surrounding his body. His legs were swollen and his waist was sore, and sweat soaked into his arms that were pricked by the wheat. The ground hurts.

Although each person only cut two ridges of wheat, in the blink of an eye he was far behind Li Long, his wife and my mother, and was dragged behind the team.

He really wasn't made for working, but he had to do it because he really couldn't bear the thought of his brother working hard in the fields alone.

He is not as shameless as Li Zhaokun!

Of course, this does not mean that Li Zhaokun is useless. Li Zhaokun not only has to take on the task of cooking at home, but also arranges the livestock at home every day, feeding chickens, ducks and pigs, and letting goose go.

Occasionally, when I feel happy, I will drive a walking tractor to help pull back the bundles of wheat and pile them neatly on the wheat field.

Li He got tired of doing it, so he would rest while working. If nothing happened, he would go to the field ridge to take out a cigarette and take a few deep puffs to relieve his fatigue.

He was embarrassed to mention hiring people to harvest this crop. Not only others would laugh at him, but Li Zhaokun would also laugh at him, because the family had so little land, and if he really hired people and paid the public food, it wouldn't be enough.

He smoked a cigarette again and lay on the field ridge not wanting to move.

Wang Yulan said to her eldest son, "You are not even as good as Xiaolan's mother. The work she can do alone is better than three of you."

She couldn't bear to see her son's laziness. She thought about when her eldest daughter-in-law came back last year, the work in the fields was better than that of ordinary bankers. She could be miserable and tired, and she never saw a single word of frustration.

That was a compliment from everyone, and everyone said that she had married two capable wives, and she was still proud of her for a long time.

But now she is having a hard time comparing her son with her daughter-in-law.

Hey, looking at Li Zhaokun who was picking wheat ears with his children in the field, she could only sigh. Maybe all the women in the old Li family had this fate.