Winner in life

Seeing this sentence means that the purchase ratio is not enough. "These fruits are not very sweet because they are wild. Ahem, they are actually quite sour." Li Dashui touched the back of his head, "But it's not that this kind of orange is nutritious. My mother plans to make orange jam. Do you have white sugar at home? If you do, I will ask my mother how to make jam and then teach you."

"If there is sugar at home, then you can ask your aunt and then teach me. It's a pity not to eat so many fruits." Ruihe peeled an orange with a yellower peel. As soon as the peel was broken, a sour smell came to his nose. The orange was small, and he ate it all in one bite. As a result, the sourness twisted his eyes and nose into a ball, and he could hardly control his saliva.

"I told you it was very sour, and you still swallowed it in one bite." Li Dashui laughed, and felt that his friend was a little silly, so he hurriedly asked him to spit it out.

Ruihe hurriedly covered his mouth, bent down and swallowed the orange, and tears came out.

"It's delicious. I haven't eaten such fresh fruit for a long time." Ruihe finally recovered, his eyelashes soaked with tears, "It must be delicious when made into jam."

Li Dashui sighed: "It's just a waste of sugar, but my mother said that now I'm starting to make money, I don't feel bad about buying two more kilograms of sugar. Money is really a good thing."

"Money is really a good thing." If it weren't for the two dollars and a half tuition, Ruihe wouldn't be able to find a teacher to teach him. "The factory will start work in ten days, and I have found Mr. Xu Caiheng to teach me." Ruihe told Li Dashui about the matter, "I plan to study hard in these ten days. When the factory starts work, I won't have so much free time." Mr. Xu said he would come to teach him on weekends, but in fact, the bamboo factory does not necessarily have holidays every weekend. In fact, the holidays are uncertain. If there are large orders, there are no holidays at all. Therefore, these ten days are very important.

Li Dashui didn't expect Ruihe to be so motivated: "The money has been spent, so you really have to work hard." Two yuan and fifty cents, white sugar is seventy-eight cents per pound, his mother felt bad for using two pounds to make jam, but he didn't expect Xiaoshan to spend two yuan and fifty cents to find someone to tutor him without blinking, and he felt bad for the money just by listening to it.

"I will!" Ruihe nodded seriously.

Li Dashui: "..." He sighed and patted his friend's shoulder.

In his opinion, the two yuan and fifty cents were spent unjustly and not worth it. But on second thought, Xiaoshan is now the boss of the family, and he works very hard in the bamboo factory. He earns forty yuan a month, so spending a few yuan doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Li Dashui suddenly became ambitious. After the factory starts working after the New Year, he must work as hard as Xiaoshan, and make a lot of money to spend freely!

Ruihe didn't know that Li Dashui had set a great ambition to make a lot of money, and his mood was much more open. The depression and uneasiness that suddenly surged up after Xu Caiheng left were all gone, and he was full of expectations for tomorrow's class.

System 460 was also relieved. It seemed that although the host was young, he had good self-regulation ability. It was a little proud. This was the host it chose.

In the next ten days, Ruihe was studying all the time except for eating and sleeping. After class, Xu Caiheng left him and was still reviewing the course just now. Because of his cooperation and self-consciousness, Xu Caiheng praised him several times and said that he was "talented".

Ten days later, the factory started work. Ruihe had to go to work during the day, and Xu Caiheng also had to go to school. Therefore, according to the agreement, the class time was moved to Friday and Saturday nights. If Xu Caiheng was free on any night from Monday to Friday, he would also come to Ruihe's house.

After the New Year, it was 1973, and there were only four years to 1977. In order to catch up with the first exam after the resumption of the college entrance examination, Ruihe's study tasks were very tight. But the factory work could not be put aside. He had no one to rely on. He needed to support himself first. If he could really get into college in the future, it would be better if the college was free of tuition and there were subsidies, but he still had to have money on hand to feel at ease.

According to Zhang Xiaoshan's memory, after a few years, the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination spread to this ordinary small southern village. Who among the educated youth and other people in the village who wanted to take the exam did not study late at night? Work during the day and study at night? If others can do it, he can do it too.

"I started preparing earlier than them. Even if I have never learned it before, I believe I can learn it well." Ruihe set a goal of study ambitiously. Even if Xu Caiheng was not available, Ruihe would still study by himself until eleven o'clock at night.

The fulfilling days passed quickly. The spring plowing time came, and the school gave a week off for students to help with farm work. The bamboo factory happened to have no big orders for delivery, so it also gave a week off.

Ruihe put on a straw hat again and went to the fields, earning himself 57 more work points.

Soon, the year passed. At the end of the year, Ruihe used 34 yuan to approve a residential land in the production team, which was 75 square meters. Because the village had a rule that one household could only be approved for one residential land, and the maximum area was 75 square meters. Ruihe asked quietly, and Li Dashui asked his father. Although only one piece could be approved, you could buy any house you wanted, and the higher authorities didn't care how many houses you bought. But now Ruihe is not well-off enough to buy a house, so he put it aside for the time being.

Because he had basic food rations and the grain earned from work points accumulated during the four busy seasons of sowing and harvesting, Ruihe's grain expenses this year did not exceed 50 yuan. With other trivial expenses and medical expenses for two illnesses at the beginning and middle of the year, he saved 420 yuan this year. With the 20 yuan he got when the family was divided, he now has a small savings. But Ruihe was reluctant to buy a house with this money, and he always had to prepare it for emergencies.

After the factory shut down, Ruihe renovated his home. A typhoon in the summer made the earthen house even more dilapidated, and it always dripped when it rained. It took some repairs to make it easier to celebrate the Spring Festival. This year's Spring Festival, Ruihe refused Zhang Dashan's request to have New Year's Eve dinner together. Zhang Dashan's face didn't look good, but he still didn't say anything.

Rui He scratched his hair and looked at Zhang Dashan's back as he went out, then lowered his head and continued to pack his things. He has a good relationship with his co-workers Zhang Tianci and Zhang Cuipei in the factory. Ruihe usually works hard to make more money, which leads the two people to be very active. In addition, Rui He has a good temper, and he often does most of the work alone. The friendship of making money together makes the relationship between the three of them better and better. Maybe Zhang Tianci and his wife were dissatisfied with the extra work at some point, but when the wages were actually in their hands, all the hard work was no longer worth mentioning.

He packed up two large backpacks half as tall as a man, planning to give one to himself and one to Li Dashui, who would also go with them in the afternoon.

In order to stay in the factory, Li Dashui performed particularly well during the three-month trial period and was exceptionally recruited by the supervisor to join the factory and specialize in cutting bamboo slices. Later, Ruihe asked Li Dashui to join his group. There was no other way. They grouped three people to take turns cutting bamboo and cutting bamboo pieces for weaving. But Ruihe was much faster than the two of them. Whether it was weaving or preparing weaving materials, the whole process was The speed of the team was out of sync. Either there were not enough bamboo slices for him, or he cut too many bamboo slices for the team members to use.

After Li Dashui joined the group, Ruihe could concentrate on knitting, and the number of finished products increased significantly. When wages were settled at the end of the month, each person would earn an extra one yuan and forty cents. Since then, Zhang Tianci and the others have not spoken to each other.

This time we made an appointment to go shopping for New Year's goods together, which was also the result of the relationship between the four of us becoming more harmonious. At 12:30 noon, Li Dashui came to see Ruihe. The two of them carried a basket and went to the entrance of the village to meet Zhang Tianci. Then they met Zhang Cuibei at the entrance of the next village, and the four of them slowly walked toward the town.

"My mother made a list for me to buy. I brought out all my personal money." Li Dashui took out the list while walking and looked at it. "I have to buy all kinds of sweets, cakes and washbasins. Alas, I can't help it. I now He is also a man who makes money, so I will buy whatever my mother says." He complained about the trouble, but his eyes were filled with pride.

Zhang Tianci laughed: "Look at how successful you are as a villain."

"No matter how successful a villain is, he is obviously getting ahead~" Li Dashui shook his head and extended his orchid finger in a gesture, "I am also a rich man now."

"Come on, don't make me laugh." Zhang Tianci hammered Li Dashui's orchid finger off, and then sighed softly, "I didn't expect to earn so much after joining the factory. Now people listen to what I say at home. My dad, I My mother came to ask me for my opinion, and I really felt like I was in charge.”

Zhang Cuibei also nodded: "No, my mother always told me to get married early in the past. Now I make money and save it myself, and my younger brother doesn't dare to whisper to me anymore. It's better to make money by yourself. Once you make money, you will feel confident."

Rui He nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes."

Zhang Cuimei burst out laughing: "Little Shan, it's okay to carry such a big basket in the flood, but why are you doing the same? I remember you live alone."

"I want to buy some gifts for Mr. Xu." Rui He pursed his lips and smiled, "He has taught me seriously this year, and I am particularly grateful to him."

"I think you are too tired like this." They are all good friends. Zhang Cuibei couldn't help but give some advice, "Look, you have caught two colds this year, and both times you have high fever. The doctor said you are too tired. Always How can your body endure such hard work? "Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, without even a day off. In her opinion, there is really no need to study through gaps. Now working in factories, the piece-rate wages they earn are more than the wages of people in the city, and the wages of teachers are not much. She really doesn't understand why Zhang Xiaoshan is so stubborn.

Rui He didn't want to explain this problem because he had already explained it many times this year. After the news about Mr. Xu Caiheng helping him with tutoring spread out and more people knew about it, he would be asked questions by fellow villagers he met on the road. Later he realized clearly that everyone was just asking casually out of curiosity, so he stopped racking his brains to explain.

Sure enough, seeing Ruihe just lowering his eyes and smiling shyly, Zhang Cuibei stopped continuing the topic and turned to the things he wanted to buy today: "I heard that a batch of skirts came from the department store!" She lowered her voice mysteriously. , with a tone full of expectation, "I heard it looks good, but I haven't worn a skirt yet! No matter what, I must buy one to wear!"

Zhang Tianci frowned: "Skirt? I don't like it. Even if you buy it, it won't be easy to wear. Who in our village wears a skirt? It's not simple, not very solemn."

"Why is it not dignified to wear a skirt? People in the city wear it too! It's so long that it reaches the ankles! Don't worry, I plan to buy a dark one. The color must be simple." Zhang Cuibei strode forward with a dark face. Zhang Tianci smiled awkwardly at Ruihe and Li Dashui, and quickly caught up with them.

"Why do I feel like there's something wrong with the two of them?" Li Dashui touched his chin.

Rui He said "Huh?" in confusion: "There is nothing wrong, let's leave quickly!"

"Xiaoshan? Are you awake?" Zhang Dashan heard the noise and pushed the door open. He came up to touch his head and asked, "Why did you faint on the roadside? What's wrong with you?"

Rui He was anxious to find Li Dashui. He didn't know where Brother Yong's house was, and he didn't know what time it was now that it was so dark. So he quickly dealt with Zhang Dashan: "Brother, I'm fine. I'm going to find Dashui now. He must have been waiting for me for a long time."

Zhang Dashan smiled: "Don't worry, it was Dashui who found you fainted by the wall and sent you back."

"Then I'll go find him now." Ruihe felt a little relieved. No matter what, he had to be punctual for an appointment with others. It was good that Li Dashui knew he was fainted, and he would not wait for him to delay his work. "Brother, do you know where Yong's house is?" If Brother Zhang didn't know, Ruihe planned to go to Li's house to see, and if Li Dashui's family was still awake, he would ask them to help lead the way.

"Don't go, your sister-in-law has already gone to school." Brother Zhang said, "You fainted just now and I don't know what's wrong with you, so your sister-in-law went for you. I thought it wouldn't make any difference whether your sister-in-law goes or you go. After a few years, you can also do full work points, and your sister-in-law can also take a break."