The two looked at each other in horror, not used to the sudden enthusiasm of the villagers.
"Auntie, what's going on? We are used to staying in school here. It's not like we just went to school." Tian Tian said in surprise.
"Oh! Tiantian, look at what you said. You said we are from the same team. Isn't it normal for me to care about you?" The aunt said with a smile.
The two of them smiled and waited for their aunt to leave. Then Tian Tian and Tian Yun looked at each other in confusion.
On the short walk from the team entrance to home, everyone they met on the road greeted them with a smile. The two people felt their hair stand on end, and they were confused.
Tian Tian returned home with a lot of questions in her mind. Old Mrs. Tian was alone at home, tidying up the few acres of land in front and behind the yard.
After Tian Tian put down her luggage, she went to help Old Lady Tian. While working, she asked her what had happened and why the people in the team were so strangely enthusiastic towards her.
"It's your dad. Didn't we agree to discuss the number of college places for workers, peasants and soldiers? Every spring planting season, your dad would tell everyone about it. We'd see who has performed better throughout the year and who has been cheating. Only those with the best performance in the team could go to college, no matter if they were from the countryside or the educated youth who went to the countryside." Old Mrs. Tian said.
As soon as the news got out, everyone in the brigade was very happy. If they compared academic qualifications, they would definitely not be able to compare with those educated youth from the city, but when it came to work, they alone could beat those educated youth by ten blocks.
Of course, some people were not satisfied with why the educated youth were also selected into the team competing for this spot, but Tian Lisong and his team’s selection method was already very fair, and they had nothing to say.
"Then why are they laughing at my weird jokes? I get goosebumps when I see them laughing." Tian Tian rubbed her arms, and now there is still some hair on her back.
"They were worried that you had a high degree and would compete with them for the spot. Later, your father told them that you would not be selected as a worker-peasant-soldier college student with them. Only then did they feel happy. Perhaps some of them thought that they could become a worker-peasant-soldier college student in the future and thought that it was useless for you to study in this high school. That's why they laughed."
Their worries were justified, after all, Tian Tian was the accountant's daughter.
Moreover, Tian Lisong and Tian Ligang are actually quite authoritative officials in the brigade, and they have good relations with the cadres in the commune. In addition, Tian Tian's grades are also very good. If the quota is really given to Tian Tian directly, there is actually nothing anyone can do.
But Tian Lisong announced that Tian Tian withdrew from the selection for this position, and everyone knew what was going on.
"By the way, grandma, my aunt asked me to bring you a lot of things this morning. You should go and take a look!" Tian Tian suddenly thought.
"Your aunt is so annoying. Didn't I tell her before that she didn't need to bring anything to my place? We have everything to eat at home. Why is this child so disobedient?" While complaining, Old Mrs. Tian rubbed the dirt on her hands on her apron and went into the house.
After entering the house, when Mrs. Tian saw Tian Tian bringing back so many large and small packages, she became even more resentful towards Tian Lijuan.
Every time something was taken out, Old Mrs. Tian would get a little angry. She felt that the person she owed the most in her life was her daughter.
When Tian Lijuan got married, her family's conditions were not very good. Old man Tian was still alive at that time, and she had to take medicine every day because all the subsidies she had were spent on buying medicine.
There were three children in the family, and the two sons also wanted to get married, so there was not much money at all. When Tian Lijuan got married, Mrs. Tian did not buy her any expensive things.
It is said that when Lin Meishuang's eldest daughter Wu Juan got married, her family had no money. At that time, the Tian family was actually not as good as the Wu family. At least Wu Juan had a pair of red pillowcases as a dowry. When Tian Lijuan got married, she had nothing in her hands.
Even her clothes were not new, but were altered from some of Old Mrs. Tian's clothes that were still decent enough. She married into the Fang family with nothing in her hands.
Although Tian Lijuan didn't say it when she came back, old lady Tian knew in her heart that Tian Lijuan's life would definitely not be easy after marrying into a family with much better conditions than theirs. But she couldn't help Tian Lijuan at that time, so she could only give Tian Lijuan some more vegetables grown in her own home when she left, hoping that Tian Lijuan would have a better life at her mother-in-law's house.
Later, the family's financial situation improved, Tian Lisong got married, and Old Man Tian passed away. The family no longer had to pay extra for medicine and could receive some subsidies every month. Old Mrs. Tian saved the money bit by bit, and their life became better.
As a result, famine broke out again not long after. At that time, we couldn't spend our money, and even if we had gold, we would still go hungry. It happened that Lin Meiyu was pregnant again at that time, and I spent half a bag of grain to buy Chen Guihua, my daughter-in-law. The family had another baby, and the already limited food became even less than enough.
Old Mrs. Tian was not in the mood to care about how Tian Lijuan was doing in the city. At that time, Tian Lijuan had already found a job in the city, her household registration had been transferred to a urban household registration, and she received a food ration every month.
Old Mrs. Tian was not worried about Tian Lijuan going hungry, and all her attention was focused on Tian Tian.
After that period of time, the family's situation gradually improved. Old Mrs. Tian would send some food and wild goods from the mountains to the county town when she had nothing to do. If there were any good things at home, she would think of leaving some for Tian Lijuan and sending them to the city.
Tian Lijuan looks glamorous on the outside and outsiders think she is living a good life, but Old Mrs. Tian also knows that Tian Lijuan's life is not easy and she feels sorry for her daughter.
Now the two sisters Fang Zhenzhen and Fang Zhizhi are looking for a partner again. The dowry for the marriage is a considerable amount of money. In addition, both the Fang family's grandfather and grandmother are sick and in poor health. There will be a lot of places to spend money in the future. Old Mrs. Tian doesn't want Tian Lijuan to be under so much pressure.
Old Mrs. Tian looked at the things on the kang and knew at a glance that Tian Lijuan had spent a lot of money again. She sighed helplessly, closed the door, and took out three cloth bags from under the kang.
One cloth bag was quite thick, it was wrapped in red cloth. The other cloth bag was not as thick as the red cloth one, it was wrapped in blue cloth. The other one was wrapped in a handkerchief, which was not as thick as the blue cloth one, but was not thin either.
Old Mrs. Tian collected the red and blue cloth bags and put them back in their original places.
The money in this bag was the money that Tian Tian earned from selling the ginseng she found in the mountains, so she couldn't give it to Tian Lijuan.
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