Winner in life

$4.04 Traveling through 1972

After returning home, Ruihe immediately told the family about this matter, intending to get support from his family and move some sweet potatoes from home to pay for tuition. In Ruihe's view, learning skills is the most important thing and cannot be saved. His mother wanted to send him to school before, but unfortunately she couldn't go. Therefore, he didn't want to take advantage of Li Dashui. Brother Yong only collected tuition for one student, so how could he teach two students?

Li Dashui kindly asked him to go together, but he couldn't really take advantage of the other party. There was no such reason.

What if Brother Ming got angry? Besides, people work in the factory all day, how tired they are when they go home at night, they can't let them work in vain.

Unexpectedly, his family didn't support him going to the factory to apply for recruitment. Zhang Dashan said: "You are sixteen years old, and you have also received eight work points this year. How many capable young men like you are in the village? In two years, I will talk to the team leader and let him give you full marks. There is no need to go to the factory, it's a waste."

Ruihe told Zhang Dashan about his plan, but he didn't expect to get a roll of the eyes from Zhang Dashan's wife. "Where are we going to buy it?"

"Market, market?"

"Hey, Xiaoshan, have you been fooled by the sun?" Mrs. Zhang laughed exaggeratedly, "You dare to buy it at the market, but people don't dare to sell it at the market. Where is the market now?"

Ruihe was shocked and wondered if there was no market in this place? Why did Brother Zhang and his wife look strange when they heard that he was going to buy rice? He said cautiously: "Then we have money, but we can't buy rice with money?"

"You are really stupid. You need food coupons to buy food. Do you have it or your family has it?"

Food, food coupons?

What is that?

In order to find out what food coupons are, Ruihe had to inquire carefully, and he found out from Li Dashui the next day. Li Dashui was depressed and said that his mother scolded him last night and said that he was stupid.

Last night, Li Dashui's mother Xiu'e pressed Li Dashui's forehead and said, "I know you have a good relationship with Xiaoshan, but our family is different from theirs! There are only three people in their family, and only Zhang Dashan gets full work points. How much food do two strong guys have to eat in a year? If you let Xiaoshan go to the factory, what will they eat? Buy food with wages? What if Xiaoshan doesn't do a lot and his monthly wages are too little to buy food?" "I'm sorry, Xiaoshan." Ruihe waved his hand quickly: "Don't say that, you are also doing it for my own good." Then he hinted at the matter of food coupons, "My brother and sister-in-law don't want me to go either, saying that it's useless to have money, and you can't buy food without food coupons. Food coupons are really annoying, and my family doesn't have them." Unexpectedly, Li Dashui rolled his eyes: "Who are your brother and sister-in-law trying to fool?" He moved closer to Ruihe and lowered his voice, "Although the higher-ups don't allow people to buy privately, you have to take food coupons to the grain station to buy , but where can we rural households get food coupons? What if some families don't have enough food? Some people just let the food rot? Everyone exchanges secretly. If we really want to trade, we must find a way! "

Rui He was so nervous: "How, how can we do it?"

"You are stupid, you can exchange with people in our village! For example, Zhang Xiaocao's family often secretly sends food to the city to exchange tickets with those city people. Her brother is studying at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. He also needs tickets to eat outside. Her family is short of food coupons. If you give her money, her family should be willing to sell it to you." Li Dashui curled his lips, "Then the city people don't have enough food, sometimes they will secretly exchange with us rural people. This happens a lot behind the scenes. Just be careful not to get caught! How come you even forgot this?"

"I didn't forget, I just thought about it for a while." Rui He quickly evaded the question and kept what Li Dashui said in mind. He still wanted to work in the factory. If he worked harder and earned one yuan a day, he would have thirty yuan a month. With this money, he could secretly buy food, and save 20 yuan a month. He still believed Li Dashui's words more. If he bought secretly, there must be someone who dared to sell secretly.

But this world is really strange. You need a "ticket" to buy things. Is it difficult to buy things with money? He didn't dare to ask more details, for fear that Li Dashui would see the clues.

After returning home, he and Zhang Dashan mentioned the matter of entering the factory again. Zhang Dasao said: "Who doesn't want to enter the factory? Now there is no place to make money, but our brigade has only one bamboo factory, a heavy factory on the mine, and a sugar factory on the other side of the mine road. The heavy factory is fine, how difficult is it to enter the bamboo factory and the sugar factory? Our family has no connections. This time you said that the bamboo factory is going to expand enrollment. Can you guarantee that you will be selected if you go? If you can't enter the factory when the things are put out, you will lose a lot!"

But how can you sit at home and get a pie in the sky?

Ruihe didn't understand the truth. He only knew that if he wanted something, he had to do it. If he wanted to make money, he had to endure hardships. If he wanted to enter the factory, he had to learn how to make bamboo baskets first.

He insisted on going, and Zhang Dashan had to speak up: "Xiaoshan, stop making trouble. The requirements for recruiting people in the bamboo factory are very high. You will definitely not be able to enter. How much can you learn in just a few days? Besides, how can Mingyong really teach you? Anyone who doesn't hide his skills tightly is a liar."

Ruihe felt powerless. He didn't actually know how the original owner got along with his brother and sister-in-law before, but he had been here for two months. This was the first time he made a request, but Zhang Dashan and his wife couldn't persuade him at all. They looked as if he was making trouble for no reason.

Maybe he was really making trouble for no reason. He was a little discouraged and couldn't sleep at all during his nap. After tossing and turning on the hard bed more than a dozen times, he sat up and felt a fire burning in his heart.

He wanted to go, he had to go.

He will definitely regret if he misses this time. What are you afraid of? This is not the second year of the Republic of China, and he is not a servant who was sold into Li's house. Life or death is not up to him.

No one can kill him, he is free!

He has arms and legs and a strong body.

"Maybe I've become greedy." Ruihe had to admit that his heart had grown bigger. When he first arrived here, what he thought most about was not to be discovered by others that he was possessed by a lonely ghost, how to learn to speak the local language as soon as possible, and how to work well, whether it was carrying a hoe to shovel the ground, carrying a manure bucket to pour fertilizer, or going to work He learned and did everything from cutting pig grass to cleaning pig pens. After getting two more sweet potatoes for each meal, he was even more satisfied.

But after Li Dashui said that now there was an opportunity for him to make money, he was no longer satisfied with the life of working in the fields day after day.

He wants to work in a factory, make money, and eat meat.

There is a better life in front of him, and he must try to seize it. There is nothing to regret if he can't catch it, and he won't lose his life because of it.

After thinking about it, Ruihe put forward his opinion again when Zhang Dashan and his wife got up from their nap. Zhang Dashan still disagreed and even became a little angry. Rui He seriously proposed a solution: "If I can't enter the factory in the end, then the ten kilograms of sweet potatoes taken out will be mine. The sweet potatoes distributed this time are divided into parts. Our family took ninety-six kilograms, and there were thirty kilograms in them." Two kilograms are mine. From now on, I will eat the thirty-two kilograms. But I have eaten almost half of the sweet potatoes, so I will divide them again. I still have sixteen kilograms." He glanced at Sister-in-law Zhang and said, "Sister-in-law, take it back to your parents' house. I don’t care about the ten pounds.”

The last sentence made Mrs. Zhang so angry that she almost jumped up! All of a sudden, he pointed at Ruihe and started scolding him, "Why are my wings stiff? I'm a debtor." He was so angry that he could think of whatever he wanted to scold.

At noon, after the sound of the gong, everyone in the village got up and got ready to go to the fields. When they heard the noise in the Zhang family, the neighbors all looked around. The neighbor next door even asked loudly: "Song Li, what are you doing?" What about singing?”

Sister-in-law Zhang's scolding stopped abruptly. She combed the broken hair at her temples and replied loudly: "Yes, I'm opening my voice! I'll sing to you another day!" Then she lowered her voice and stared at Ruihe, "What on earth did you say? What's the matter? My brother and sister-in-law feel sorry for you so much. Now come and figure it out with me, what do you want to do?"

When Ruihe said those words, he felt his heart beating wildly on his face, as if he had suddenly become a "bad guy". But he pursed his lips and insisted: "I just want to go."

"Dashan! It's better to leave now!"

Someone was greeting Zhang Dashan outside, and the next second Li Dashui was also calling Zhang Xiaoshan's name outside the door. It was too embarrassing for outsiders to see the quarrel at home. Zhang Dashan was not happy to see such an embarrassing scene. Seeing that his brother still insisted, he angrily responded: "Go ahead!"

"I also need a ticket, any sugar ticket, soap ticket or cloth ticket will do!" Rui He quickly added that he had asked Li Dashui that Mingyong was getting married and had been saving up tickets recently.

"Okay, okay, I'll give it to you tonight!"

Families like theirs are among the poorer ones in the village. They don't have any money left at home. Usually, many of the tickets issued by the team cannot be used up and are piled in the corner gathering dust and expired.

After burning the ashes in the afternoon, Ruihe's work was finished. When he got home, he said about it: "I'm going tonight, there are only four days left."

Unexpectedly, Sister-in-law Zhang suddenly changed her mind and was unwilling to pay for the tuition, leaving Ruihe to go empty-handed. She pointed at Rui He's head: "Why are you so stubborn! Just go if Da Shui asks you to go, why do you have to pay for tuition? Ten pounds of sweet potatoes will teach you two to have leftovers in five days! There are also candies, candy stamps How valuable is it? If I give it to you, our family won’t need any candy, let alone a cloth ticket!”

Ruihe doesn't want to. He was very grateful to Dashui for being kind to him, but he understood the truth and couldn't let Brother Yong be angry with Dashui. So she insisted on taking it. Sister-in-law Zhang continued to say it, but Zhang Dashan stopped her: "Okay, don't read it anymore, go to Xiaoshan quickly. It's getting dark, and you won't be able to study for much longer." He made the decision and gave Ruihe a Sugar Tickets. In fact, their family rarely uses candy stamps. They usually exchange them for rice and noodles for other people. Their bosses have no control over these private transactions.

"Why."

Ruihe happily agreed, and Mrs. Zhang finally added: "If you can work in the factory and get paid, don't spend it randomly. Give it to your elder brother and let him keep it for you. You can buy food and cloth in the future."

He hesitated and nodded. The eldest brother is the head of the family and should be in charge of the family. The money earned should be given to the eldest brother.

Rui He went out to Li Dashui's house with Sweet Potato in his arms. Suddenly he heard someone calling him. When he opened his eyes, he saw a red lantern slowly approaching him. When he got closer, Rui He saw clearly that it was not a red lantern but a red lantern. A fluffy red ball? He thought he was asleep and was about to reach out and touch it, but he didn't expect the red ball to pop out of his mouth and start speaking: "Hello host, I am System 460."

Ruihe... Ruihe almost cried in fear.

He thought he had met a monster!

A talking red ball of light in the dark night. Its tone of voice was flat and without any fluctuations. It was very strange. It sounded like a young child's voice, but also like a female voice or a male voice?

Oh my God! Dad, help me, there is a monster!

After all, he was only thirteen years old before his death. Although he came from a poor family and experienced all kinds of things in the world, the place he lived in was not a good place. He only worked hard every day, and his knowledge was really limited.

This, this red fur ball can move, have a mouth, and can talk! He has really never seen it before! He picked up from the ghost stories he had heard and felt that this must be a monster! A man-eating monster!

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