Plus, he was so willful that he came here to take care of his grandfather, so his mother had even more people to worry about.
He sent all the money and tickets back to his mother. The food he earned from hunting game, plus the food he earned from his work points, was enough for the three of them to eat.
He also planned to see if he could find a fellow in the team this year, like a scorer. If he could persuade the team leader to set up a literacy class, he could also be a teacher in the class.
Life will always get better and better.
Gu Zhao opened the question written by Tian Tian. The handwriting was not very good, but it was neat and pleasing to the eye.
He had attended high school and his grandfather was a professor. In addition, the questions Tian Tian asked were relatively typical and basic, which were not too difficult for him. He finished all the questions quickly.
He knew that Tian Tian had never been to high school, so he wrote the steps for solving the problem in great detail so that people could understand them at a glance. He also sorted out all the formulas needed for the problem and wrote them next to the question. He was very careful.
After finishing, he put the notebook away carefully and started to fiddle with the sweet potatoes placed next to the brazier. He also bought these sweet potatoes on the black market. There were not many of them and they were not big, but they were sweet and could satisfy hunger.
Gu Zhao pinched the sweet potatoes and found that two of them had almost finished the test, so he gave one to Gu Xingshu and Song Zhenwei respectively.
Song Zhenwei didn't bother to be polite with Gu Zhao and started eating a sweet potato. At first, he felt embarrassed to eat the food that Gu Zhao had worked so hard to get, but later, he really couldn't refuse Gu Zhao's kindness, so he simply took on all the work in the cowshed and didn't let Gu Xingshu do any work at all. After that, he was not as restrained about eating as before.
"Was that notebook given to you by the little girl from the Tian family?" asked Gu Xingshu.
He had heard Tian Yuan ask Gu Zhao to give his sister extra lessons before. When he saw the little notebook that Gu Zhao brought back today, he thought it must be Tian Tian's.
"Yes!" Gu Zhao did not hide it from his grandfather and nodded in agreement.
"Can you bring the notebook here for me to see?" Gu Xingshu stretched out his hand and took the notebook that Gu Zhao handed over.
When he opened it, he found that it contained only high school knowledge. "Didn't this girl graduate from junior high school? Did she teach herself high school knowledge at home?"
"I heard from her brother that she plans to go to high school in the county town this fall," said Gu Zhao.
"She's good at studying! She still needs to study and read. This girl grew up in the countryside, but she has a positive mind and knows how to plan for the future. She has her own ideas."
After hearing this, Gu Xingshu had a particularly good impression of Tian Tian. Not to mention that Tian Tian had brought him medicine before, he was also amazed at how she could still insist on studying in a rural environment where learning and reading were not valued.
All kinds of foresight are what Gu Xingshu likes.
"Since she likes to study and loves to learn, you should teach her well."
In today's environment, there are very few people who still think that studying is useful, let alone a girl.
"Don't worry, sir. Based on my friendship with Tian Yuan, I will definitely teach his sister well." Gu Zhao said with a smile.
Tian Yuan also helped him a lot this winter. He had just arrived and had no idea who to go to in exchange for food after buying the mountain products. It was Tian Yuan who took him to find someone.
Only then did he slowly figure out the inside story of exchanging food in the city.
Before Gu Zhao had time to give the finished questions to Tian Tian, something big happened in their team.
It all started when Tian Li had just gotten up that morning, filled a basin of warm water and went outside to wash his face, when he heard a faint sound outside the door.
When he went over and opened the door, he saw a chubby white baby lying outside. The baby was only wrapped in a thin layer of swaddling clothes. He had no idea how long the baby had been outside, and his two exposed arms were red.
The baby saw Tian Ligang and gave him a toothless smile.
Tian Ligang picked up the child and looked around, but did not see the child's parents.
He had no choice but to carry the child back to the house and ask his mother Li Dahua to make some rice porridge for the child. He then prepared to go to the radio room after dinner to ask if any child was lost.
After all, many people are pregnant in the middle of winter.
Although he thought so in his heart, Tian Ligang had no hope of finding the child's parents. After all, leaving the child with him meant that the parents really didn't want the child anymore.
As expected, after Tian Ligang broadcast the incident, he went home and waited, but no one came to pick up the child all morning.
There was no other way. The child could not always be raised by Tian Ligang, so he had to go to the radio room again and said that there would be a meeting at the threshing ground at two o'clock in the afternoon.
After dinner in the afternoon, everyone packed up and prepared to go to the threshing mill. Tian Tian also wanted to go. She was very curious about whose child this was.
When going out, Tian Tian actually saw Zhang Lanru and Aunt Huang following out.
"Aunt Huang! Aunt Zhang!" Tian Tian greeted them both.
After saying hello, she looked at Zhang Lanru with a little curiosity.
It has been a little over a month since Zhang Lanru's son passed away.
The death of her son and her husband's betrayal changed Zhang Lanru a lot.
When the incident happened, many people in the village were talking about their family affairs, especially Zhang Lanru.
Some bachelors would even make dirty jokes to Zhang Lanru when they saw her on the street. After a long time, Zhang Lanru became less willing to go out and talk less.
Except for spring planting and autumn harvest, Zhang Lanru basically stays at home, and it is Aunt Huang who goes to meetings.
Tian Tian didn’t know how she got along with Huang Kangri at home, but now except for working, Tian Tian simply ignored Huang Kangri.
This time, Zhang Lanru rarely came out of her house and prepared to go to the threshing ground for a meeting, which surprised Tian Tian very much.
Tian Tian looked at Zhang Lanru's slightly excited expression and always felt it was a little strange.
When we arrived at the threshing ground, quite a few people were already there, including many women with big bellies.
Tian Tian looked at those bellies. She couldn't tell how many months pregnant she was, but she knew it was almost March. If she couldn't give birth to the baby in March, she would probably have to work in the fields with a big belly.
Everyone knows that Tian Ligang picked up a child, and now everyone is discussing the matter.
"Who is so cruel? They threw away a good child. Isn't this a sin?"
"That's right! After all, she was born after ten months of pregnancy. Who would have the heart to do that?"
"But whose child is this? There are many pregnant women in our brigade this winter. Is there any family that gave birth to the baby?"
"I haven't heard of this either! The brigade is so small. How could anyone not know when a baby is born?"
"That's right! Could it be that the baby was from another brigade and they didn't want the baby anymore, so they dumped it in our brigade?"
"I don't think so. He must be from our team. Otherwise, why would he respond so well? And he just happened to drop it at the doorstep of our team leader's house? He must be from our team. He must know whose family is the best."
Everyone was talking about this matter, speculating who gave birth to the child and who dumped the child here.
"Okay! Stop arguing!" Tian Ligang came on stage holding his child and stopped the discussion below the stage.
"I heard what happened on the radio this morning. Does anyone know who has had a baby recently? Or who the baby belongs to? Please tell me."
"How should we know, Captain? If someone's wife gives birth to a child, won't the men treat the child as the apple of their eye? How could they throw the child at your doorstep? It's not like we can't afford to raise the child. Each of us can raise the child by squeezing out a little from our teeth!" someone shouted from below.
Regardless of whether they are male or female, although they may be a little biased, they all love their children very much and rarely abandon their children.
Even during the three-year Great Famine, when people were so hungry that they ate tree bark and grass roots, no one abandoned their children.
Everyone's conditions are pretty good now, so we don't have to starve to death like we did back then, and it's even more impossible for us to abandon our children.
"That's right, Captain. We all know who has a baby. After all, we all live next door to each other. It's hard to hide it from the neighbors. I've never heard of anyone giving birth and then throwing the baby away."
No one knew where the child outside Tian Ligang's house came from, and Tian Ligang was no exception.
Since he dared to abandon the child at his doorstep, he must have known that the people in the team couldn't find him.
However, Tian Ligang did not call people to the meeting mainly for this matter.
Tian Ligang sighed and held the child in his arms. The child was wrapped in a thick swaddling cloth and lay quietly in Tian Ligang's arms.
"Since no one has acknowledged this child, we won't force it. But it's not a solution for the child to stay like this. I want to ask if anyone wants to adopt this child. If no one wants to, I'll keep this child in my home."
There are several couples in their brigade who have been married for a long time but still have no children. Tian Ligang doesn't know whether they want to raise the child. If they don't want to, then the child can only be raised in his home. They can't just leave such a young child outside and ignore him. Isn't this the child's only way out?
But Tian Ligang was a little worried. The cost of having two children was not small, and there was also food for one more person. It was not like he could just give him something to eat and ignore him. He had to send the child to school anyway, and that cost a lot.
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