The land on the mountain needs to be reclaimed. Xu Fuqiang and Wang Yanmei feel that they have contracted such a large land, and plan to buy a second-hand agricultural tractor for their own use.
Xu Fuqiang still has some money on hand, and Xu Qingzhi gives him the money he earns from selling vegetables every day, so buying a tractor is not a problem.
The whole family has become a community with a shared future, and Xu Fuqiang no longer holds back on why he cannot take his daughter's money.
Anyway, the goal is for the whole family to live a prosperous life.
However, with the current economic situation, we need to spend more money more urgently than before, and give priority to land reclamation.
Xu Zijun's final exam was over. Xu Fuqiang and Wang Yanmei went to the county town to pick up someone. They happened to take a look at a second-hand tractor and made a decision.
There was a special test for driving a tractor. On the way back to pick up Xu Zijun, the family had a heated discussion.
Xu Fuqiang said: "I can drive, so it shouldn't be a problem to drive a tractor. Driving a tractor should be a man's job."
Wang Yanmei was not convinced after hearing this, "What do you mean it's men's job? Why can't women drive tractors? Qingzhi is busy farming every day, you take care of those chickens, ducks and fruit trees. After Baoshan is built, I will be the only one in our family who has nothing to do."
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Xu Fuqiang softened his words: "I feel sorry for you. This tractor is not easy to learn. When our farm makes money, you can enjoy happiness every day."
Wang Yanmei: "I'm not used to eating soft food, and I have a higher IQ than you, so I will definitely have no problem learning to tractor."
Xu Fuqiang hesitated to speak and uttered: "I'm not stupid either."
Wang Yanmei added more and more: "I used to be the geography class representative in junior high school!"
Xu Fuqiang felt guilty: "I haven't even graduated from elementary school."
Wang Yanmei is confident: "I can also speak English."
As she said that, Wang Yanmei started singing: "Come and go, nod your head, shake your head, n."
Xu Fuqiang: "I know, I know, go ahead and learn, Yanmei, you will definitely be able to do it."
Xu Qingzhi listened to her parents talking about how they hurt each other in cross talk. She couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed out loud: "Okay, Mom, you go and learn. If you make money in the future, you will be the biggest contributor to our family."
It’s decided to learn how to use a tractor.
Xu Zijun, who had been silent all this time, said in confusion: "Mom and Dad, when did you build a mountain? Our family is going to build a farm?"
Wang Yanmei said earnestly and thoughtfully: "Zijun, just study, you don't have to worry about family matters."
Xu Fuqiang responded: "Your mother is right."
Xu Zijun looked confused, still thinking that his sister came back to farm and the cucumbers and bayberries at home were so delicious: "Okay."
He thought, he seemed to be the one with the most nothing to do in the family.
After dinner.
Xu Zijun said that he would go back to school next Sunday to get his report card, as well as pay tuition fees and parent-teacher conferences.
After the exam, he only had eight days off. He could stay at home for a week, and then he would have to go to class again next week to get his score report.
Although for so many years, the superiors have been strictly guarded and said that making up classes during holidays is not allowed, but it is about to be the senior year of high school, and which school does not make up classes.
As a sophomore in high school, there is no summer vacation!
Wang Yanmei asked: "How much is the tuition fee?"
Xu Zijun lowered his head subconsciously and said: "I want eight hundred."
"Okay, I'll let your dad give it to you when you go back to school." Wang Yanmei agreed and couldn't help nagging a few words: "Zijun, you have to study hard and get into a good university like your sister, so that you can have a future.
Even if your parents sell iron, they will provide for you to study, so don’t worry about money."
Xu Zijun's head dropped even lower, feeling deeply guilty in his heart. Growing up, he was embarrassed to ask his parents for money every time, even though his parents would never refuse to spend money on learning... p>
He still lowered his head and asked: "Mom, where is my mobile phone?"
Wang Yanmei took it out from her bag and handed it to him, "Have a rest at home and play less with your phone. Finish your homework first."
"I know." Xu Zijun went upstairs with his cell phone.
Xu Qingzhi glanced at his younger brother's back and said, "Mom, don't always say that you are selling iron to help him study. When he grows up, he will feel inferior after hearing these words."
Wang Yanmei disagreed: "In the past, when my family was poor, we just sold iron to help you and your brother study."
Xu Qingzhi: "That was the past, but now our family is not in that position, so don't say that."
"Just listen to Qingzhi, we won't say anything anymore," Xu Fuqiang said.
Wang Yanmei nodded, "Okay."
Xu Qingzhi went upstairs to wash up. Her hearing was so good that she could clearly hear the rustling of homework in the next room.
She took out her mobile phone, opened QQ, which she had not used for a long time, and sent a message.
"It's so late, go to bed early."
The sound of homework stopped.
Gentleman Yinuo: "Sister, I can't sleep. I usually have evening self-study at this time, and I'm going to suffer from jet lag."
Qingzhi: "Get up at seven o'clock tomorrow and help me build a structure in the field."
Gentleman Yinuo: "Okay."
I can fall asleep now.
Xu Qingzhi can often see his own reflection in his younger brother.
Likewise, you have to be strong, stubborn, and unwilling to admit defeat, but you also have low self-esteem.
He obviously got along very cheerfully with his classmates, but he remained silent in front of his relatives, who thought the child was introverted.
Even if someone stares at you for a few times, you will feel uncomfortable and quickly walk away with your head down.
Xu Qingzhi used to go to junior high school in the county town, and the girls in the same class were quite vain and loved to compare. She used soap that cost two and a half yuan, and others who used shower gel that cost tens of yuan a bottle would be looked down upon.
She had just arrived in the city from the countryside, and everything seemed out of place.
I have never seen a movie, and I don’t even know how to get movie tickets.
I don’t dare to take the bus. I have to take someone with me to take it once, and I force myself to remember the route before I dare to take it a second time.
The teacher in the junior high school English class asked, whrhavyutravld? (Where have you traveled?)
The teacher asked the students one by one.
Some students answered, Kyoto.
Some students answered, Hawaii.
Until a boy answered that he had never traveled.
The English teacher asked with surprise: "Have you never traveled before?
The boy nodded with shame.
The English teacher asked him to sit down and continued to click on the next person.
Xu Qingzhi was particularly afraid that the teacher would spot her because she had never traveled before. The farthest place she had traveled since she was born was to attend junior high school in the county town.
Fortunately, the English teacher did not call her out in the end, and her little self-esteem was preserved.
After growing up, Xu Qingzhi would often think back to this scene and try to return to that scene. If the teacher asked her this question, she would definitely answer somewhere as she pleased.
After all, it was just the teacher's attempt to improve everyone's awareness of the new vocabulary "travld" (travel).
The reason why I was so afraid to answer at that time was because of my low self-esteem. I felt so inferior that if I mentioned a random place, I would be lying. Because I had never even been out of the county town. If others found out that I had never traveled and lied, I would be shocked.
It would be even more embarrassing.
Because of her low self-esteem, she has always walked with her head down since junior high school and never raised her head.
Later, after she was admitted to college, she left Meicheng, a small county town, for the first time and went to a larger city.
I don’t know how to ride the subway, I don’t know how to take a taxi, I don’t know how to order takeout, I don’t know how to do anything.
Those things that ordinary people consider extremely common were all unknown fears to her at that time.
Afraid of showing that one knows nothing in front of outsiders, resulting in embarrassing mistakes.
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Xu Qingzhi discovered that after returning from the world of immortality, the longer he stayed, the more his character became like a normal person.
Maybe it’s been too long since I left Slaughter, and I often think of some memories from the past.
Now Xu Qingzhi naturally has a hard time dealing with "inferiority", but she doesn't want her brother to become the second version of herself.
She knows that her parents love her and her brother very much.
But people of my parents’ generation grew up in the village when they were young, and later got married, because their children never went out.
Who knows why you can't show off your poverty in front of your children, as it will make your children feel inferior?
They only feel that it is not easy for them to work hard to earn two dollars for their children to study. They also need to let their children know that studying is hard-won and they must study hard and spend less money on things other than studying.
Fortunately, her parents are not the kind of stubborn thinkers. When Xu Qingzhi says it, their parents can listen.
Some parents have deep-rooted ideas. If they hear their children being preached in this way, they will feel that their children are ignorant. They have worked so hard to support her in school, but they still feel upset after saying a few words.
As time goes by, the child's mind is that why should he be born if the family is so poor?