Winner in life

Seeing this sentence means that the purchase ratio is not enough. "Okay." Li Dashui muttered, "Actually, I think it's okay if you don't like her. She's too pretty and popular. I heard that Yongshu from the second team also likes her. It's not that I don't support you, brother, but Yongshu is indeed stronger than you, I think you can’t compete with him. It’s better to give up now to avoid being sad later…”

After listening to Li Dashui's words, Xu Ruihe felt warm in his heart and felt that Li Dashui was really a good person. He patted the good man on the shoulder and said, "Let's go home."

The two of them shook their wet hands and went home. Li Dashui asked on the way: "Why don't you like to talk anymore? I haven't heard you say more than a few words in the past two days. You are jumping every word, and your throat is not good." Is it comfortable?”

"Well, my throat feels uncomfortable." Rui He carefully peeked at Li Dashui. Seeing that Li Dashui was not suspicious, but looked at him worriedly, he couldn't help but smile, and sighed in his heart again that this is such a simple and good man.

After saying goodbye to the good man Li Dashui, Ruihe returned to his home. When he entered the door, he saw his old sister-in-law working on the stove. He quickly said hello: "Sister-in-law." The sister-in-law hummed and stirred the pot indifferently. The smell was like sweet potato porridge again. I was digging sweet potatoes a few days ago, and my family received three big bags. He weighed one bag weighing fifty or sixty pounds, so my family has been eating sweet potatoes these days.

Seeing that he couldn't have lunch yet, he picked up the broom at the door and swept the floor. After a while, Brother Zhang called him: "Come in and eat!"

"Come on!"

Slippery——

At the dinner table, Rui He looked up at the opposite side. Zhang Xiaoshan's eldest brother Zhang Dashan was drinking porridge while his sister-in-law was nibbling steamed red sweet potatoes. He walked around the two people's rice bowls, lowered his eyes and continued to drink porridge. There was also a small bamboo strip on the table with four freshly steamed sweet potatoes on it, but he didn't dare to take one more, otherwise his sister-in-law would glare at him. This was the experience he had gained in the past few days.

After washing the dishes and returning to his room, Rui He touched his stomach and felt that all the water in his stomach was sloshing around.

He didn't eat enough.

But he didn't dare to say anything yet. He didn't have Zhang Xiaoshan's memory, so he didn't know what the situation at home was like. The original person is young, he must be sixteen or seventeen years old, right? The original eldest brother, Zhang Dashan, looks like he is in his early twenties. He has strong muscles and looks very good at work. Moreover, he did not see any elderly people at home. Then the eldest brother is the head of the family and has to support the family! The eldest brother eats better than him. It is normal for the sweet potato porridge that the sister-in-law serves to the eldest brother to be thicker. This was also the case in his previous home. Good things should be given to dad first, so that he has the strength to work.

Ruihe licked his lips and slowly fell asleep. Just as I fell asleep, the gong sounded again, and the afternoon work began again.

The rice transplanting was extremely busy. At 4:30 in the morning, Zhang Tiansheng, the captain of the No. 11 Production Team of Meicun, beat the gong and called out everyone. He was lazy on weekdays, but for the sake of his fellow villagers, Zhang Tiansheng didn't care. Anyway, the work points were recorded and he didn't do enough. There is no full work credit. Not now! The eleven production teams of Shangmei Village are now competing vigorously! If you really end up in last place, you will be so embarrassed! Therefore, we must race against time now, and no laziness is allowed. Therefore, at 1:30 in the afternoon, when the sun is at its strongest, the gong rings early.

"I'll tell you the truth! The commune will hold a summary meeting after the rice planting. Our performance will be seen by the production team. If we don't perform well, people from the team will go to the meeting and criticize our team. , Are you ashamed? Are you ashamed? Take it seriously! Let me see who is slacking. Not only will I not record your work points, I will also write them down and report them to the commune meeting! Once..."

Every time Ruihe listened to the captain's lecture, he felt a little nervous. He was so anxious that he was afraid of being criticized! His father had taught him before that it didn't matter if he wasn't smart, but he had to be diligent. Diligence can make up for his weakness! You should listen more to smart and wise people and realize your own shortcomings and so on. In his opinion, the captain said it very well! Hard work can never be wrong. He must work hard to earn work points and food to support himself.

The pressure of hunger and survival made Ruihe suppress his longing for his sister and fear of this strange place, and worked hard in silence. He was fortunate that everyone around him was busy. By the final stage of transplanting, even the talkative Li Dashui was too tired to speak much. No one had the time or energy to pay attention to him. During this busy season, he carefully integrated into the environment. By the time the farming was over, he had learned the local dialect and figured out more about his original identity.

information.

After the rice transplanting, the production team organized a celebration meeting. On a summer night, they made a big circle around the grain drying field. The captains of each production team came out to perform. Ruihe listened to the captains singing with wide eyes and felt weird. It sounds good, and the lyrics are pretty good, even he can understand it. It seems to be praising a particularly great person and a particularly great party, who brought everyone's good days. As Ruihe listened, pride surged in his heart. In the light of the fire, he looked at the smiling faces and the haystacks in the distance, and felt that this place was so nice that he almost wanted to cry.

Here, as long as you work hard, you will be rewarded with work points and food to eat, so much more. Rui He has never read a book and can only use the word "good" to describe it. He sincerely thinks that this place is good. Secretly, he is still thinking that it would be great if his sister was here too. No one would beat them here. They are brother and sister. They are all used to working, and they will definitely live a good life.

But he didn't know where this place was, let alone where to find his sister. After being disappointed for a while, Ruihe was attracted by the new program on the field.

"Come on, let's invite the educated youth from Shangmei Village to give a program, a poetry recitation!"

Rui He's eyes widened and his mouth grew unconsciously. Li Dashui bumped his shoulder and asked mischievously: "Aren't you pretty?"

"Yeah!" He nodded heavily, his eyes full of appreciation and yearning for beautiful things. I saw five young girls standing up in the crowd. Their hair was neatly combed and their fair faces were exposed. Although they were wearing ordinary trousers and shirts, they stood in a row with their heads held high and their chests high. They were indescribably youthful and beautiful. Lu Peiyin was also inside, standing in the middle, and she spoke: "Qinyuanchun, Changsha."

The four female educated youths around me read together: "In the cold autumn of independence, go north to the Xiangjiang River, to the head of Orange Island."

The tone was so passionate and emotional that Ruihe's eyes almost glowed. It turns out that educated youth are such literate people. He had heard Li Dashui say before that the educated youth came from "the city", and when they came from the city to the countryside, there was a huge difference between heaven and earth. Before that, Ruihe was still thinking in private: Did these young educated youths make any mistakes? Why is it so similar to the exile in the play? Now that he saw that these educated youths were so good at reading poetry, and their temperament was different from others, he thought that his original guess must be wrong.

It was the first time he heard such grand words and the first time he heard such a tone of voice. It was completely different from the local dialect he had just learned. It seemed that these female educated youths suddenly became unattainable.

"Are you looking straight?"

Faced with Li Dashui's teasing, Ruihe felt a little embarrassed, so he lowered his head and touched the tip of his nose with the back of his hand, and asked in a low voice: "What they read is really nice. Did they write it?"

"It's definitely not the case. This was written by the old chairman, and it's already famous!"

"Oh." Although it was not written by a female educated youth, Rui He still felt that these educated youths were amazing.

"Don't be tempted by Lu Peiyin anymore. You haven't seen many men around her during the busy farming period, helping with this and that, so she doesn't have to work too hard. She's so popular, if you It will definitely be difficult if you continue to chase her, so it’s better to find another one. In fact, the girls in our village are pretty good..."

"Stop talking, I know it all. I'm still young and won't say it for now. Brother Dashui, don't mention it again in the future."

The party ended soon, and it was "eight o'clock" based on the time here. Ruihe lay on the bed and heard his stomach growling again. However, he had long been accustomed to being hungry, so he didn't take it seriously. He skillfully slowed down his breathing and diverted his attention by thinking of other things.

He was still at the party tonight, and the scene of those educated youth standing there lingered in his mind. "It's so beautiful." He whispered.

With a straight back and a poem that cannot be understood but feels very beautiful, this is what a scholar is. Rui He was extremely envious. He had never read a book, but he always had a sense of awe and yearning for reading. How nice. He turned over again and slowly fell asleep. In the dream, he was sitting in the school, with white and fragrant books on the table. Looking to the left, his sister Ruizhu was smiling at him, showing her missing front teeth.

very nice.

When he woke up the next day, Ruihe still had some beauty in his heart. He felt that such a beautiful dream made him happier than filling his stomach. He hoped to have such a dream every day.

Lower your head to put on your shoes, tears dripping down your face

In the dirt, he wiped his eyes vigorously, lowered his head and hugged his knees.

It wasn't until the gong sounded outside that he raised his head and pursed his lips and went to the yard to fetch water to wash his face. The towel was made from old clothes. It was so tattered that the original color could not be seen. He seemed to have hit his face to the floor, fiercely They wiped the floor a few times and then quickly hurried outside to gather.

The busy life leaves Ruihe with little time to think. What he has to do now is to do the work assigned by the captain and earn enough work points so that he can get more food during the autumn harvest.

He was very hungry and wanted to have a full meal.

Rui He was very embarrassed: "Maybe I'm growing taller and I get hungry quickly."

Li Dashui frowned and asked, "Did your sister-in-law bully you?"

Ruihe's heart skipped a beat after hearing Li Dashui's words, and he asked cautiously: "Why do you say that? My sister-in-law... didn't bully me."

"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 my aunt was when she left? The skin is close to the bones, yes! I know! You also want to say that there was really nothing to eat during the drought that year. I don’t believe that your sister-in-law swept your mother’s bowl to prevent her from eating. I am your friend and not from your family. In fact, your sister-in-law can’t bully me in any way. Xiaoshan, I still remember that time when I was six years old. It was you who kept dragging me, otherwise I would have drowned. I just said a few words like this. If you can listen, you can listen. If you can't, I can't help you." He patted Ruihe on the shoulder, "Tonight. Come to my house after dinner and I’ll leave you some roasted sweet potatoes.”

Ruihe listened to a lot of old stories, and he couldn't connect Li Dashui's words with his sister-in-law. Although his sister-in-law... did give him a little cold face, but she didn't scold him or hit him, so he felt that 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.

He said to Li Dashui gratefully: "No, don't worry, there is food at home, and we will definitely have enough tonight."

Li Dashui didn't believe it very much. Finally, he sighed and advised earnestly: "Don't always think that you are eating for free. You are sixteen! We are young, and the team leader only counts eight work points for us at most. You also work six or seven points every day. There was once an eight-point work before. The food you earn is enough for you to eat. When my aunt was still there, there were also work points. How can it be eating for free? Now you eat the food you earn yourself. If your sister-in-law says anything about you, just fight back. Don't give her too much face."