Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

The house that Mr. Zhou lives in is not small. After all, it contains the whole village's farm tools and other sundries. It is too small to fit in it. However, the tools and sundries used to be piled up randomly. A little arrangement can free up a lot of space.

In addition to various farm tools, the most abundant thing in the house is books, which occupy almost one-third of the entire farm house. In front of the pile of books is a small bed with a quilt that seems a bit thin, and further forward are various sundries.

Since the production team stopped eating in large pots, a simple kitchen was built with wood and thatch at the door of the farm tool room. A pot with a cracked edge was placed on a few pieces of adobe. This is where Mr. Zhou usually eats.

"Brother, let's go." A childish voice sounded from the large but crowded farm tool room.

Mr. Zhou, who was looking down at the book and struggling with the thick bricks, raised his head and looked at the sound, and two children came into his eyes.

As soon as he entered the place, Yang Dongxu was shocked by the piles of books, especially those thread-bound books that looked a little older at first sight. He instantly thought of antiques and almost drooled.

The extreme silence made Dandan, who was only three years old, obviously a little scared, so after standing for a while and finding that his brother was not moving, he couldn't help but pull him to break the silence.

"Go out and play. There is nothing fun here. If you cause trouble here, be careful your uncle will spank you." Zhou Yiren looked up at Yang Dongxu and waved his hands to let the two children leave.

Zhou Renyi is very tall, more than 1.8 meters tall. He is obviously tall now. After several years of hard life, especially mental pressure, his hair has turned gray and his waist has become thinner.

Somewhat rickety.

"Can I read those books?" Yang Dongxu obviously would not leave because of Zhou Yiren's words. Instead, he pointed at the pile of books behind Zhou Yiren and said.

"Brother, let's go." Before Zhou Yiren could say anything, the little Budian beside him pulled Yang Dongxu again, and tears had already begun to roll in her eyes.

Obviously, Dandan, who was only three years old, had never seen Zhou Yiren before. She was strong enough not to be scared to tears when such a big man looked at her. But no matter how strong she was, she didn't want to stay in this place.

"Do you want to read?" Zhou Yiren glanced at Yang Dongxu, then took off the reading glasses that were missing a temple on the bridge of his nose, used a rope as a temple to put the reading glasses on his ears, and wiped them with his clothes.

"That... let's talk about it next time." Yang Dongxu smiled apologetically, turned around and took Dandan's little hand. He couldn't hold it, so he could only half-hold it. As he walked, he coaxed: "No.

Cry, don’t cry, brother will find you some candy later.”

Although the relationship with Zhou Yiren is very important, the younger sister is even more important. In the previous life, Yang Dongxu owed a lot to his younger sister. The elder sister later worked part-time and met her brother-in-law who was far away in SC and married him out of town.

As an old bachelor in his forties, he rarely goes home. Even for the Spring Festival, he only goes back every few years. His parents are almost always taken care of by his younger sister. Now Yang Dongxu feels less guilty about his parents than he does about this younger sister in front of him.

Much. It is a big deal to see my sister cry, so any attempts to build relationships and seek help should be put on the back burner.

Seeing Yang Dongxu coaxing Dandan to leave, Zhou Yiren couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Although his eyesight was a little difficult after taking off his glasses, Yang Dongxu was not far away and his expression could still be seen clearly.

Therefore, Yang Dongxu's forced smile just now, his helpless, but unable to conceal doting expression was noticed by Zhou Yiren. These expressions that should obviously not appear on the face of the child who is less than six years old were vividly displayed in an instant.

It was like an adult doting on his daughter, which made Zhou Yiren feel that he was dazzled for a moment. He hurriedly put on his glasses and what Yang Dongxu left behind was only his back and the words he often used to comfort children in the countryside.

Shaking his head to clear his dazed mind, Zhou Yiren continued to read with his head down, but Yang Dongxu's appearance left an impression in his mind.

Tang Yang Dongxu obviously didn’t have any at home. In this era of planned economy, all kinds of materials were in short supply. Except for the fact that the grandfather, as a cadre, received better wages and benefits, and occasionally a few pieces of rock candy would appear in his pocket, he searched every home in the village to find them.

Less than a few pieces of candy.

After coming out of the farm tool house, follow Daliang and those little kids, running from the east to the west of the threshing floor, from the north to the south, chasing each other and you don't know what they are playing, but they are having fun anyway.

Yang Dongxu, who was holding his sister Dandan, was also grinning, but he was obviously not as happy as the little kids around him. The reason why he ran along was not because he wanted to relive his childhood. But because his small body was a little weak, it was just for exercise.

When the older children who went to school at noon came back, the threshing floor became more lively. One of them bumped into another, and the other beat him to tears. But before the tears dried, they started to go crazy together again.

Afraid that his sister would cry because she was small, Yang Dongxu took her home after the older children got involved.

When I got home, Yang Dongxu's sister was cooking a pot. There weren't many homeworks in primary school these days, because there were only two books on Chinese and mathematics. As for English, ideological and moral issues, those were textbooks only for junior high schools, and they are not available in primary schools now.

So particular.

I don’t even know much English, so how do you say that: I am Chinese, I don’t learn foreign languages, I don’t know ABC, so I am still the successor...

Therefore, the older girls in the family basically help with housework or take care of younger brothers and sisters after returning home. It is normal for the older girls to work in the fields. Yang Dongxu's father returned home after the meeting when the meal was half done.

"What did you say?" Yang's mother asked hurriedly.

"Tell me to wait and see what happens over there. I don't know that the bastard island brought the matter to the brigade (several natural village superiors) about the fish sharing. Last night, he was called to the brigade by that brigade captain.

I just came back this morning."

"Dad, are you okay?" Yang's mother's expression changed.

"It's okay. How could something happen? The hundreds of families in our Yangjia Village are not easy to mess with. If they dared to lock up the eldest father, the third uncle and the others would have gathered people to break up the brigade. They said they were staying at the brigade leader's house.

I don’t know what we talked about all night long.” Father Yang waved his hand.

Nowadays, the power of families in rural areas is much stronger than that of people from the same village with the same surname. Basically, if something happens to a villager, a group of villagers will rush over. Even the little brats who go to school know how to call the senior people in the same village for help when they have a fight at school, let alone

Grandpa is the village chief.

Imprisoning the grandpa would be like a slap in the face of Yangjia Village. In this era when face is more important than anything else, the demolition brigade is very light on the places where people are imprisoned. If not, the captain of the brigade will be beaten.

"Mom, I want to go to grandpa's house?" Yang Dongxu shouted while eating.

"What are you going to do? Just stay at home." Mother Yang hit her son on the head with her chopsticks.

Visiting relatives at this time can be said to be a burden. It’s not that the distance is too long. It’s that the relatives’ homes don’t have much to eat. If you go there, you must entertain them to save face. Doesn’t this cause trouble for the relatives?

After the beating, Ma Yang put down her chopsticks and said, "How about you go to my father's place tomorrow and ask?"

Yang Dongxu's grandfather lived in Ranyoufang, seven or eight miles away. Although Yang Dongxu didn't know where the oil factory was since he was a child, the village was called that.

Compared with Yangjiacun, Ranyoufang is smaller, with only about fifty households. However, there is a primary school in the village, and it is very close to Ranmiao, where the township government and government are located. Yang Dongxu's grandfather is the village chief, and his family is in

Everywhere in the country is very famous.

When his mother married his father, it was regarded as a lower marriage. Yang Dongxu's father was considered a high-ranking man. Occasionally, when the couple quarreled, Yang Dongxu's mother always liked to use this matter to pressure his father.

"Okay, I'll ask tomorrow." Father Yang nodded.

While Grandpa Yang Dongxu could only talk to the brigade leader, Yang Dongxu's grandfather was the one who could talk to the township cadres. The township was obviously more senior than the brigade, so the information was naturally better.

Two cabbages and one carp, don’t be too little. This is already a big gift. During the Chinese New Year, the gifts are only two packs of fruit (not fruits, sealed packs of Dajing fruit and other gifts), two packs of sugar. Four packs of fruit for wealthy people, four

Wrapped in sugar, and no matter how rich you are, you can add some thin noodles and you will already be a respectable person.

As for the big fish, no matter how rich you are, you won't give it away because there are no fish at home. The fish is almost becoming sperm in the water, but you just can't eat it.

Looking at the carp, Yang Dongxu felt that the chopsticks he took yesterday were in vain. Because the carp is now alive and kicking, it is obviously not just caught from the trench of the house, but the big carp given to their family. Yang Dongxu's father did not kill it at all.

Instead of cleaning it, I put it in a water tank and kept it.

Why keep it? Of course, my mother had planned to give it to my grandpa's house a long time ago. Even if Yang Dongxu didn't take a bite during dinner yesterday, he would still go to his grandpa's house in the next two days.

These days, you can only walk to visit relatives. Although there are bullock carts in the village, they are collective property and cannot be taken advantage of by private individuals.

Yang Dongxu's mother was holding her sister Dandan, and her father was carrying a basket of cabbage and carp, which was covered with a piece of cloth. Although such a gift bucket is more suitable to be carried on a pole to show off.

But Yang Dongxu's father obviously didn't want to cause trouble for his uncle. After all, it was others who knew, so it would be wrong if you were showing off.

I went to the back house and said hello to the uncle, and asked my sister Hongying to come back at noon to have lunch at their house before going to school. Yang Dongxu had no one to hold him and could only run behind him.

Yang Dongxu, who was out of breath after walking for a while, got what he wanted and sat on his father's neck. But before he could hold the basket in one hand and hold his father's neck for comfort for a while, the little girl in his mother's arms started to cry.

Yang Dongxu had no choice but to get down and let his mother carry him on his back. His younger sister Dandan sat happily on her father's neck. She held her father's ears tightly with her little hands, and with her mother's encouragement, her father grinned.

The seven or eight mile journey is not very far even on foot, and there are many sloping paths in the fields at this time, which saves distance. Looking at the sun, we set out at about ten o'clock, and we arrived at about eleven o'clock.

Grandpa's house.

As soon as he arrived at his grandpa's house, Yang Dongxu cheered and ran to the west of the village, where the young master lived. This was the purpose of Yang Dongxu's coming to his grandpa's house.