Winner in life

《Life Winner [Quick Wear]》

Seeing this sentence means that the purchase ratio is not enough. The two of them found a place with few people and started fishing. The shade of the trees above was not hot. This was the first time Ruihe had fished since he came to this world, and he felt very fresh. When the sun was setting, Ruihe caught three African crucian carps, and Li Dashui caught four, one of which weighed two kilograms. The two came with excitement and returned with satisfaction.

After returning home, Ruihe drew water from the well to raise the fish, and often changed the water to raise them until New Year's Eve. Because Zhang Dashan said that he wanted to have a New Year's Eve dinner together, Ruihe thought about it and agreed to it, and even asked Zhang Dashan what he bought.

This year, the family had money coming in, and the New Year's Eve dinner was much more abundant than in previous years. Zhang Dasao bought two kilograms of pork belly from a pig farmer in the village, and made braised pork after refining the oil. He slaughtered a chicken he raised at home and bought a duck from a villager. He killed and plucked all the feathers, cooked them, and stewed them with star anise and soy sauce until they were very fragrant. He also bought ginkgo, lotus seeds, and water chestnuts to make sweet soup, and taro and sweet potatoes to make double-colored reflux.

In Zhang Xiaoshan's memory, the New Year's Eve dinner has never been so sumptuous. Last year, he killed a chicken he raised at home and fried two dishes. He also caught fish in the river to make fish soup and dug taro from his own plot to make sweet soup. Even so, these dishes were made with extreme efforts.

Since he already had chicken, duck, and pork, Ruihe didn't buy any. He sent the two fish to Zhang Dashan to make "Year after Year of Abundance", and he also went shopping and bought tofu, bean curd, spring vegetables, black sesame, peanuts, etc.

Tofu stewed with fish soup, spring vegetables fried with bean curd. As for black sesame and peanuts, they are used to make dumplings.

Local people like sweetness in festival dishes, which means they hope for a sweet life. However, sugar requires sugar coupons, which is not usually used. For example, taro and sweet potato are expensive and require a lot of oil and sugar, so people usually don't want to make them. Ruihe brought all the sugar she had just bought to help make dumplings.

By the way, the dumplings here are also sweet. Chop the peanuts and mix them with white sugar and black sesame. Roll out the dumpling skin and wrap them up and fry them. After the outside is fried golden and crispy, pick them up and let them air dry for a while. The outside is crispy and the filling inside is rich in taste. The white sugar mixed with black sesame and peanuts is very fragrant after being fried. It is sweet and fragrant. Ruihe was fascinated after just one taste.

"Delicious!" He immediately picked up another one. Sister Zhang urged him: "Let it air dry again! Be careful of getting blisters in your mouth!" She was unhappy at first, but when she saw that her brother-in-law had a look and didn't come empty-handed, her dissatisfaction disappeared. The New Year's Eve dinner is better, and she will have face if she tells others about it! Go out and see other people's homes. How many families still fry sugar dumplings now? It wasted oil and sugar. She had only eaten fried sugar dumplings once in the five years since she married into the Zhang family.

"Got it."

They started working at three in the afternoon, and the New Year's Eve dinner was almost ready by six o'clock. There were eight dishes, both sweet and meat. Ruihe's stomach kept growling at the smell. He had never seen such good dishes in half a year since he came here. Usually, he was so greedy that he just secretly scooped half a spoonful of white sugar and soaked it in water.

"Let's have a drink!" Zhang Dashan raised his glass, "Our family is better this year, and Xiaoshan has grown up. Even if we split up, we are still a family. We can't be estranged. Let's make a fortune together next year! Have a good life! Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!"

Ruihe took a sip. He felt the mulberry wine was so strong that his eyebrows were squeezed into a ball. After swallowing it, he felt a strange taste in his throat and mouth. Zhang Dashan laughed: "You have grown up, you have to learn to drink. This is mulberry wine, not a proper wine!"

"Yeah." Ruihe responded embarrassedly.

"Okay, eat, eat, eat, everyone, pick up your chopsticks."

Ruihe tasted several meat dishes one after another, and then took a piece of taro, the sweetness was sweet to the heart. Then scooped a spoonful of ginkgo sweet soup, and drank it even sweeter. Ruihe didn't think it was too sweet at all. It was really because he didn't have enough oil in his stomach, so he was satisfied with the sweet and meaty dishes.

After eating, it was already nine o'clock. Ruihe refused Zhang Dashan's suggestion to sit and watch at his house. He helped wash the dishes and then went out.

He came to the riverside where no one was, sat with his knees hugged and watched the moon. There were sporadic firecrackers in his ears, and children were laughing and running back and forth. Occasionally, there was a tremor on the water surface, and it was lively everywhere. After sitting for a while, he felt cold, so Ruihe went back to sleep.

He was suddenly awakened by the sound of firecrackers while sleeping. He listened to the noise outside and realized that it was already past twelve o'clock.

"The new year has arrived."

From the third to the fifth day of the New Year, the production brigade performed a play for three days. The stage was set up in the sugarcane drying field on Kuangshan Road. The play was called "The Red Detachment of Women". Ruihe went to see it once and enjoyed it very much. This play is very famous in the local area. It was compiled by the locals based on the real local events during the war. Although only this one play was performed for three days, everyone's enthusiasm did not diminish at all.

The New Year is a rare time for the villagers who have been busy and hard for a year to relax. There is no farm work at this time, and there are lively crowds everywhere. After watching the big play of their own production brigade, they went to other production brigades to watch.

Ruihe never went to the theater again after watching it once. For several days in a row, he went to visit relatives with Zhang Dashan and his wife. After all the relatives had visited, he seldom went out. Even when Li Dashui asked him to go out to set off firecrackers and watch a movie, he refused to go. When asked what he was doing at home, he just replied, "Reading." Li Dashui couldn't understand it, but he couldn't pull or drag him away, so he had to go find someone else to play with.

Reading is really not an excuse. After Rui He had money at his disposal, he went out to read books because he had a bigger goal: he wanted to study and get into college in the future.

Yuan Shen had studied before, and only went to the second grade of elementary school. In order to help with farm work on the family plot, he dropped out of school like many children.

During those few months in the factory, Ruihe was always thinking about how to be considered a "winner in life."

Rui He thought that at least he would get the wealth that he did not have in his previous life for Zhang Xiaoshan. Later he thought that staying in the factory was not a long-term solution. Zhang Xiaoshan's memory told him again that there was no future in working as a coolie in the factory. State-owned factories are now a golden job, with allocated housing and good benefits, and everyone is vying to get in. However, after the reform and opening up, many state-owned factories and enterprises will be wiped out by the wave of rapid development.

Shangmei Village Bamboo Ware Factory is just a small factory in the countryside, an outsourced factory affiliated with the Bamboo Ware Factory on South Road in Chengyang City. Therefore, after the main factory in Chengyang City closed down, this small factory in Shangmei Village disappeared with it. The sugar factory on Mining Road survived for two more years, and it will have to be restructured in seven years, with a large number of workers laid off.

Ruihe cannot wait until that time to find a new way out. He set his sights on the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, which was the most important way for educated youth who went to the countryside to realize their dream of returning to their hometowns. It was also a good time for people with rural registered permanent residence to move to the city. Zhang Xiaoshan's memory did not actually leave many useful things for Ruihe. He lived a closed and silent life, not paying attention to national affairs. He knew about stocks but could not trade in them. He knew that there would be mobile phones and laptops with new functions in the future, but he did not I have used it, let alone know the core technology.

Zhang Xiaoshan is hardworking and immersed in hard work. This booming economy and society seem to have nothing to do with him.

After much thought, studying and going to university is the best way out at the moment.

He planned to take the normal university entrance examination because Zhang Xiaoshan remembered a distant relative who was admitted to the normal university after the college entrance examination was resumed. After graduation, he was assigned a job package and was assigned to be a teacher in a high school in the city. The salary was high and decent. At that time, he was the envy of the villagers. Awesome.

To pass the college entrance examination, he must have a high school diploma. Time is too tight. He needs to get a primary school diploma in these five years, and then go to middle school. Middle school includes junior high school and high school for a total of four years. The tight and breathless schedule made Ruihe very nervous, so he started reading at night before the annual vacation.

The Bamboo Factory was on holiday during the New Year, and he finally had a lot of time to read. Two games of the New Year excitement were enough. Setting off firecrackers, watching a show, and strolling around the county town were not as tempting to him as reading.

The books Ruihe is reading now are textbooks from the first to fifth grade of elementary school. The original owner and Zhang Dashan used to study with the same set of textbooks, but Zhang Dashan only studied one grade more than the original owner, so the old books at home only ranged from first to third grade. Ruihe bought textbooks for the fourth and fifth grade textbooks from other people's homes in the village for less than 30 cents.

It's great to read during the day, much more comfortable than reading under an oil lamp at night. However, after he reviewed the first and second grade knowledge that the original owner had read several times, he was at a loss to deal with those problems and confusions. He asked the system for help again, but to his surprise, System 460 said: "Host, asking for help related to the progress of the task is against the rules, and I cannot provide help."

Ruihe had no choice but to give up.

When Li Dashui came to see him again, he saw Rui He with a bitter face and asked in surprise: "What's wrong with you? Are you in a bad mood?" Rui He then talked about the difficulties he encountered in study: "I used to study I didn’t take it seriously when I was a kid. I just did farm work as soon as I got home. Now I can’t remember much of what I learned back then.”

"Why do you suddenly want to study? What's the use of studying now? Just recognize a few words and write your own name." Li Dashui was puzzled. Their brothers and sisters had not gone to class since they reached the third or fourth grade. His little sister likes reading very much, but he doesn't think going to school is very important.

Ruihe had explained it many times before, but Li Dashui couldn't listen. He sincerely regarded the kind-hearted Li Dashui as a friend, and hoped that he would also have a good future. After much thought, he gritted his teeth and whispered: "If the college entrance examination resumes in the future, we can go to college. It is easy for college students to find jobs. We don’t have to spend our whole lives in the fields and in the factories.”

"College entrance examination?" Li Dashui shook his head, "Don't say whether the college entrance examination will be resumed. Even if it is resumed, I will not study. Reading is too taxing on my brain and I can't learn."

Rui He originally wanted to persuade Li Dashui to make money while squeezing in time to study like him, but after hearing Li Dashui's words, he had to stop trying to persuade him again after hearing Li Dashui's words.

"Don't hide it from me! I still know who she is? As your neighbor, who doesn't know that she is mean? She looks very virtuous, but who doesn't know that she gave your mother porridge and water that year? , not even a grain of rice? Another time you threw away your mother’s bowl? Xiaoshan, don’t be like my aunt and endure it until you starve yourself!”

It was the first time I heard about the original mother, but I didn’t expect to have such a relationship with the original sister-in-law? Porridge water? He tentatively said, "My mother didn't leave because of this."

Li Dashui snorted, "It must be related. Have you forgotten how thin your aunt was when she passed away? Her skin was sticking to her bones. Yes! I know! You are going to say that there was really nothing to eat due to the drought that year, and you don't believe that your sister-in-law swept your mother's bowl and didn't let her eat. I am your friend, not your family. In fact, your sister-in-law can't bully me no matter what. Xiaoshan, I still remember that when I was six years old, you kept pulling me, otherwise I would have drowned. I just said a few words like this. If you listen, you listen. If you don't listen, I can't do anything." He patted Ruihe's shoulder, "Come to my house after dinner tonight. I'll leave you roasted sweet potatoes."

Ruihe listened to a lot of old stories, and he really couldn't connect Li Dashui's words with his sister-in-law. Although his sister-in-law... did give him a little face, but he didn't scold him or beat him, so he thought she was a good person. Alas, it's useless to think so much. She is Zhang Xiaoshan's sister-in-law, and he is Xu Ruihe.