In the evening, Li Zhan paced back and forth on the bank of the canal, watching the sunset, watching the people walking in groups on the bank, holding on to the guardrail and looking at the canal water flowing straight from north to south, blowing the slightly hot summer breeze.
, I feel a little better.
He was wearing a casual suit, bought by his elder sister, but he had a different kind of handsomeness. He had a military temperament there. He stood as straight as a pine tree, and his slightly raised chin occasionally showed a domineering look overlooking the time.
It is considered an occupational disease among pilots.
After arriving home, he was scolded by his parents and made an appointment with the girl's house for the two families to have dinner together at noon. However, Li Zhan did not arrive home on time and his cell phone was turned off. This made Li Zhan panic. Did his parents meet so soon?
Only after scolding by my parents did I find out that the person I was going on a blind date with was the daughter of a classmate who was a neighbor of my mother's former co-worker village. The aunt, my mother's co-worker, was very proactive and made an appointment directly to have lunch at Li Zhan's house.
Door.
In fact, Li Zhan knew that this was because the other party's parents wanted to inspect your family environment on the spot. According to my mother, the other party was a little disappointed after seeing the environment at home. After learning that the family bought a house in Xiangjiang Garden, he suddenly became enthusiastic, and then
After I knew that I was buying a large apartment worth 150 yuan, I just had to call my in-laws directly.
What about military pilots? It’s not easy to find a wife without anything tangible.
Li Zhan couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to follow his mother's instructions, put on new clothes bought by his sister, dress up like an adult, and arrived at the appointment half an hour early.
I contacted her on the phone and she is already on the way and will arrive on time.
Thinking of the timid voice on the phone, Li Zhan felt guilty. He sounded like a young girl.
"Hey, is it you?"
"you?"
When the two met, they were standing only three meters apart from each other, and they were both stunned.
In an instant, Li Zhan completely understood the reason and said directly, "I will go home with you and I will persuade your parents."
"No, don't." Ying Wanjun shook her head, lowering her head and playing with the hem of her clothes.
She was probably wearing her best clothes, which were just ordinary trousers and a short-sleeved shirt worn by Nangang. Her body was obviously underdeveloped, and her complexion was not very good-looking.
The blind date turned out to be Ying Wanjun, a girl from a teahouse whom we had met once before, who was admitted to the No. 3 Middle School of Xi'an Jiaotong University.
"Sit down and talk." Li Zhan walked to the stone bench in the pavilion over there and sat down.
Ying Wanjun came over with a blushing face and sat down one meter away from Li Zhan. She was no longer as naughty as last time, but rather shy and embarrassed.
She has a difficult family, a very difficult, very difficult family.
She is eighteen years old this year and is the second eldest child in her family. She has an older brother who was not good at studying. He repeated the studies for two years and took the college entrance examination with her and was admitted to university. It is a second-tier B category, which is a self-financed undergraduate.
Category A students have national tuition subsidies, so the tuition fee per academic year is only four to five thousand, while category B students are expensive, ranging from more than ten thousand to twenty thousand. Of course, the academic qualifications are the same.
There are two younger brothers, one is preparing to enter the first year of high school and the other is preparing to enter the second year of junior high school.
The couple could no longer afford it with just a few acres of thin farmland and the three to four thousand yuan a month that her father earned from working outside.
With three sons and one daughter, their family chose to sacrifice their daughter without any suspense. It can be said that 90% of families in the Xixian area would make the same choice, even if their daughter was admitted to a dual engineering program that ranked highly in the country.
Key universities.
In their concept, a daughter has to be married off, and sooner or later she will be someone else's. A son is one of their own, and is the basis for the continuation of the incense, even if it is a bad son. To be fair, Li Zhan knows that Ying Wanjun is by no means patriarchal.
The worst victim of thought will never be the last victim.
Li Zhan has even heard of such a family: four daughters make money to support the family, and the only son is a drunkard and drug addict. Even so, the parents still favor the son and use family affection as a weapon to force the four daughters to continue to support the family.
He was thankful for his sister that his parents didn't have such strong patriarchal views and supported him until he couldn't get into college. But relatively speaking, he still had a clear bias. Even if he could drive a plane to ten times the speed of sound, he would still be able to do it.
It cannot influence traditional concepts that have lasted for thousands of years.
"Have you told your family about the significance of being admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University?" Li Zhan asked.
Ying Wanjun lowered her head and nodded, "They don't understand what I said. Anyway, they just say it's a waste of money for girls to read so many books."
This is another concept that can be seen everywhere you look.
Li Zhan said, "But you are only eighteen years old. It is illegal to force you to get married now."
"They don't care. They just want to get engaged and get married when they are old enough." Ying Wanjun whispered, hesitating.
"It's too feudal." Li Zhan felt extremely uncomfortable. Ying Wanjun was embarrassed to say it, but he had guessed it. He would get some gift money from the engagement and pay for the tuition fees of his three sons, thus solving the biggest difficulty at hand. The cost
Well, my daughter’s lifelong happiness.
If you meet other people who have no sense of social responsibility, this matter can really be settled, and Ying Wanjun has no ability to resist.
Li Zhan asked, "What do you think?"
"I want to study. I worked so hard to get into the exam." Ying Wanjun lowered her head and rubbed her hands vigorously. Those eighteen-year-old hands should have been pink and tender, and should have been touched like other girls of the same age.
It was for iPhone cosmetics and manicure, but her hands were as rough as old tree bark, and her finger joints were calloused.
Tears fell down and hit the discolored gray trousers she was wearing.
Doing farm work, cooking, feeding chickens and pigs, walking on the ridges of the fields carrying a load of 100 kilograms, studying at night, getting up at dawn and lighting a fire to cook, so busy getting ready that you may not even have time for breakfast
I have to rush to school to eat. Day after day, all year round.
She had another path, like most girls.
After graduating from junior high school, I went out to work and went to a factory in the Pearl River Delta. I worked on the assembly line for twelve hours a day. The more I worked, the more I earned a piece rate. If I didn't take a break, I might be able to earn 4,000 yuan a month, and my own food expenses would be more than 300 yuan.
, I plan to charge 50 yuan a month for phone bills and send at least 3,500 yuan to my family every month. Make as few phone calls as possible, and only send messages, and the number cannot exceed the number of free ones. I buy clothes once a year, before the Spring Festival.
, I mainly buy them for my parents and my brothers. When I have the remaining money, I can buy myself a set of clothes that I have been eyeing for a long time and have been out of season for a long time. It takes several months or even months of heartache to buy a more fashionable coat.
Maybe I will bring it up at the annual sister gathering, just to gain some relief, which makes it even more worthy of expressing my feelings in QQ space.
After three or five years of this, it's time to think about marriage. It seems to be okay, so she gets married and gives the gift to the family. She has fulfilled her responsibilities to the family, and this is how it will be for the rest of her life.
.If you are lucky, the couple will work together through thick and thin to create a good life. If you are not lucky, they will be in trouble.
She was unwilling to take this path. She found herself in knowledge and knew clearly that she could create greater value in her limited life, prove herself better, and make her parents live a better life.
So she fought, said no to fate, and wanted to control her own life. She shouted to God: My destiny is up to me, not God!
But she couldn't study regardless of everything. She was born to cook, do housework, and do farm work, while her brothers could play around.
How much pressure did she bear?
Ying Wanjun wiped her eyes randomly and turned her head to the side, "I'm going back."
She stood up and walked quickly, stumbling, not daring to look at Li Zhan again.
Looking blankly at Ying Wanjun's back getting further and further away, Li Zhan suddenly felt that the sunset was dazzling, and that was the direction Ying Wanjun left.