"Are you going back to the Northeast?" Lin Yutong took out the money from his trouser pocket. There are more than ten yuan together. It will definitely be enough to go back to Kaoshantun. "Take it. It's enough to buy food on the road."
Tang Tang whispered: "Lend me a hundred, and I will pay you back double in the future. I want to go to the south."
South?
"Visiting relatives?" Lin Yutong took back the money, "You have also seen the situation in my family. We haven't gone to work yet? Besides, we still have three children to raise, where is the money? I can collect 100 yuan for you, really.
It's very difficult. If there's something urgent over there, can I lend you some emergency help?"
"I...I won't lie to you..." Tang Tang glanced outside and saw no one outside, so he whispered: "My sister is jumping in line at the south...she wants to go out...over the sea...my aunt and
My uncle is all over there. I really can't bear it anymore. I will go crazy if I stay in Kaoshan Village any longer. I can't hide my affairs from anyone, and no one in Kaoshan Village doesn't know about it. Even if I go back to the city, I will be exposed.
I know. I have to leave here and find a place where no one knows me... I have to start over... I know you don't like me. You all look down on me. But I can't help it. If I don't cut off the relationship with my parents, they
Holding my head and stuffing it into the water... My mother begged me to sever ties with her... She couldn't stand us sisters... being bullied... You know the composition of our family... We also have overseas connections... My father died last spring
I'm gone... Mom too... My sister is waiting for me... Please..." As she said that, she knelt down, "No one is willing to help me... This is my only chance..."
"Even if you have money, you can't go to the south. Do you have a letter of introduction?" Lin Yutong asked.
"Yes!" Tang Tang seemed to be willing to fight for it, "I have it! As long as I'm willing to fight for it, there's nothing I can't do."
"Now wait for me at the gate of the family home. This is not a small amount. I have to discuss it with my family." Lin Yutong said in a low voice.
Tang Tang quickly picked up the bag and walked out.
Lin Yutong went to find the fourth master and whispered to him, "...Her situation is not easy. Money is a trivial matter. What if something happens to her over there and involves us? What should we do? She makes such a big show of it.
Come here, if we don’t send her away now, with her temper, I’m afraid it will be endless. The whole family will not be able to live if it is disturbed.”
The fourth master smiled and said, "Give it to her, but you can't give it all to her! Life and death are determined by fate and wealth. It depends on her destiny. Anyway, what we know is that her sister is seriously ill and needs money for treatment. What we are giving is life-saving money. No matter what
Just pretend you never knew what she said."
Lin Yutong responded and simply left with Fourth Master, preparing to go home.
The second sister came back with half a basin of white flour, "Why don't you eat at home? I bought this specially."
"No. You can eat. The child is still at home." Lin Yutong said and walked out.
The second sister shouted from behind, "You should have time to bring the child over to identify the door."
Lin Yutong responded.
When they arrived at the gate of the family home, Lin Yutong handed her the fifty yuan scattered, "I can't take out any more than this."
Tang Tang was stunned for a long time before nodding, "I'll give you an IOU." She said and opened the bag.
Lin Yutong didn't stop him either.
Tang Tang searched for a long time before he found a pen. Without paper, he wrote on a one-cent note and handed it to Lin Yutong.
Lin Yutong took it and said, "Okay!" Although she didn't expect her to pay back the money, she still accepted the IOU.
Fifty yuan today is not a small amount of money.
But it's better than being stuck with this dog-skin plaster and making it difficult for the Lin family to live in trouble. In addition, the impact of people coming and going is not good.
Lin Yutong watched her get on the bus.
I wonder what her fate will be like when she leaves? I'm afraid she will never see her again in her life.
"Okay! Spend money to buy purity." Fourth Master comforted her, "It doesn't seem like she is lying. There is indeed such a trend in the south, and there are such channels. No matter when, you can't completely suppress the other party.
In such a situation, don't push the other person into a blind corner. She has no way out and is crazy. She can do anything. To deal with such a mad dog, what's the harm in giving it a bone?"
"What if it comes back after eating?" Lin Yutong asked. She was a little afraid that the woman would waste her money and come back to pester her. She no longer had any shame, so she would make trouble regardless of whether it was justified or not.
What a scary thing to say.
I heard Fourth Master say: "Then give her another meat bone. When she is complacent, beat her to death with a stick."
The dates on July 15th are red circles, and the dates on August 15th fall off the pole.
The maroon circled, and some began to fall.
They were all over the yard. The old man took his three children to pick up the fallen dates in the yard, and he found a small pot every day. The dates that were eaten raw were afraid of making the children upset. Wash them, steam them in a pot or put them in a pot.
It's boiled. After it's cooked, let it cool down, and it's sweet. Children also eat it. Yinwei doesn't mind the trouble. She removes the skin and core of the dates, presses them into puree, mixes them with honey, and gives them to the children.
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Around August 15th, the jujubes all over the tree have turned red. Use bamboo poles to knock them down and dry the intact jujubes. Put them away until they can be put down. This year, there are only two or three jujubes in this jujube tree.
One hundred pounds.
I heard from people nearby that this jujube tree has not been bearing much fruit in recent years. It is really thick and thin.
After hearing this, the old man became more and more happy. He thought this was a good sign.
That's not a good sign.
On this year's Double Ninth Festival, Lin Yutong was steaming jujube cakes for her children in the kitchen.
In the yard, a voice came from the old man's radio: "...the college entrance examination has been resumed...the admission targets are workers and farmers, educated young people who have gone to the mountains and countryside or returned to their hometowns, demobilized soldiers, cadres and fresh high school graduates. The meeting also decided to admit students
At that time, priority will be given to key colleges, medical schools, normal colleges and agricultural colleges, and students will be uniformly allocated by the state after graduation."
Lin Yutong felt that this day must be remembered.
The Double Ninth Festival, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 1977, is also the twenty-first day of the tenth month of the solar calendar.
Even in the small kitchen of this courtyard house, she seemed to be able to hear the cheers, cheers, and voices of the educated youth running around telling each other.
I can hear them crying and hear them laughing.
Hear their wildly beating heartbeats when they see the dawn, and the sound of their blood boiling all over their bodies.
She knew the result, but she still couldn't stop crying.
Yinwei ran in and pulled Lin Yutong, "The wait is here, the wait is finally here." She has graduated and will not take the college entrance examination again. But she is still happy and excited. That is what many people expect.
"Tongtong, pack up the books and send them to the company and the backing village." Fourth Master shouted in the yard.
Lin Yutong took off her apron and gave it to Yin Wei, "Yes! Hurry! Hurry!"
She went to college! But she never knew that college would have such a temptation once again.
Lin Yutong had collected several copies of all the books he needed.
They were not in a hurry, but some people were. The Xinhua Bookstore was packed to the brim. Parents were rushing to buy books and send them to their children going to the countryside.
The Fourth Master sent a telegram to both the company and Kaoshan Village, informing them that the book had been sent. Be sure to check for it.
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-Study Series, this book is very old. It is not one book, it is a set of seventeen volumes.
It was bought by the fourth master in the old warehouse of Xinhua Bookstore. It is complete, but it has been damp and insect-eaten for a long time, so it doesn't look very good.
Lin Yutong and Fourth Master have written these books twice.
Once you have learned mathematics, physics and chemistry, it is not difficult to pick it up again.
The old man didn't ask anyone to disturb Lin Yutong and Fourth Master's study. The three children always poked their heads into the room to look into the room. The one-year-old child can run around, speak simply, and express himself.
The two of them will still find time to spend time with their children, and nothing is more important than them.
Lin Yutong still chose science. She didn't dare to write because of liberal arts. This time the exam was still very political. For example, if you evaluated historical figures, you accidentally stepped on a landmine. After all, her thoughts were related to the Cultural Revolution.
People who have tried it once are different. So, she didn't dare to try it.
This time, the liberal arts examination subjects are: Politics, Chinese, Mathematics, History and Geography. The science examination subjects are: Politics, Chinese, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and the additional foreign language test for foreign language majors. Questions are drawn up by provinces, cities, and autonomous regions, and unified by counties (districts).
Organize exams.
Therefore, if you don’t take the foreign language major, you don’t need to learn English.
Half of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry are junior high school content. It is really not difficult for someone who has taken the college entrance examination in later generations.
Language and politics are what worries people the most.
Fourth Master said: "You must remember not to be too radical. Because most of the teachers who grade the papers have not changed their minds yet. Do you understand?"
Lin Yutong nodded. Politics is a required subject and no one can escape it.
Therefore, during this period of time, she has been reciting current affairs and politics. And the People's Daily within a year has to be read carefully.
It's getting cold and it snowed twice.
"It doesn't matter if you don't pass the exam, don't be afraid." Fourth Master first comforted Lin Yutong. Then he said: "For a long time in the future, academic qualifications will still be very important. If you don't go out to work, others will gossip. To you, to you.
The children are not good. But if you want to work, without an education, you can only do manual labor. So, I don’t have to force you. As long as you have an education, even if you don’t work in the future, others will not say anything. This is called awe. It proves that you are not
You can’t work, understand? So, you have to try your best first. If it still doesn’t work, try again next year. Okay?”
Lin Yutong snorted in his heart, looking down on people!
We were once the people who crossed the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and were admitted to a key first-class university!