Chen Guihua listened and got angry. "What's so good about our countryside? We have to work all year round. We plant crops in the spring, carry water to irrigate the fields in the summer, go up the mountain to collect firewood, and harvest the fields in the fall. There is no work in the fields in the winter, and we have to stir-fry mats at home. Look at how much money we earn after working hard for a year, fifteen yuan? How much do workers in the city earn in a month? They have food to eat and various coupons."
"No, we still have to let Tian Mu study hard in the future. Didn't Tiantian say that before? If you get the first place in the county in the high school entrance examination, you can go to a technical secondary school. It's so good to go to a technical secondary school. You can get a salary after entering the school, and you are guaranteed a job. That means you are a real worker. Since our child is doing well in his studies now and has this hope, why don't we let him try his best over there? Should we let him stay under the sun and do farm work like us every day?" Chen Guihua said.
The more Chen Guihua thought about it, the more she felt that her suggestion was a good one. Tian Mu was not without the ability. Since he didn't study, just played every day, and helped them with work, he could still get such good scores in the exam, so he should study a little more. If he could take out an extra ten or twenty minutes a day to study, he would be much better than he is now.
"Do you think it's so easy to get the first place in the county? How many people are there in the whole county? How many of them got the first place? How many rural people really got into technical secondary school? In my opinion, you shouldn't put so much pressure on our children. When they really finish primary school in the future, find them a job in our brigade. You see, our eldest brother can work as an accountant in the brigade for a month, isn't it? It's not bad. He can earn a little more money every month. Isn't that good?" Tian Lilin said.
"You said that during the years since you got married, you may have lived a life worse than the city people. Well, I can eat meat every meal, as well as rice, flour and other things, but my family has not treated you unfairly, nor did we ask you to work in the fields on an empty stomach like other wives. Look at other wives who are like ours. When you get pregnant, you can stay at home until the baby is born, and you can have a full confinement period, with eggs every day."
"That's different." Chen Guihua retorted, "I am enjoying a good life in your house, but Tianmu is different. He is a man, and he will definitely earn money to support the family in the future. You say that we are so tired in the brigade all year round, and you may not even make much money. He can easily earn a lot of money in the city every month, and can save 100 or 200 yuan a year. This is not like our family digging for food in the fields, and then worrying every day that the master will not give us a way to make a living, and it will rain heavily or less rain a few times, so that the harvest this year will be less, and we can't even have enough food. Isn't this better than ours?"
Tian Lilin was silent for a while. "It's not that I don't want him to study. He has to study. But he has to learn to do the housework. He is not a child anymore. He is already ten years old. In a few years, he will have to do the housework. You said he should take the technical secondary school entrance examination, but it is not easy to pass the technical secondary school entrance examination. What if he fails? What about the farm work? He can't do the farm work. He didn't finish his studies and can't do the housework. Who would want to marry their child to such a man?"
"Then I didn't say that he shouldn't do any work at all. Didn't I say that he should learn 10 or 8 points a day? What does he want to do with the rest? I won't stop him, no matter if he wants to go out to play, climb a tree to rob a bird's nest, or go to the river to catch fish. When did I say anything to him?" Chen Guihua became more and more angry as she spoke. She was doing this for the good of the child, but how could Tian Lilin say this, as if she was a bad mother.
"Shut up and stop talking. The more you talk, the angrier I get." Chen Guihua said unhappily.
As expected, Tian Lilin shut up and stopped talking.
Chen Guihua turned her back, crawled into the bed and covered herself with the quilt, not wanting to look at Tian Lilin's face.
Tian Lilin didn't know what to say. After sitting on the kang for a while, he quietly went into bed and fell asleep.
Tian Tian didn’t know what they discussed after dinner, she just felt that everyone’s mood seemed to have improved, especially that of Old Mrs. Tian and her mother.
Tian Tian asked Lin Meiyu curiously, but Lin Meiyu didn't think it was a big deal. She didn't hide it from Tian Tian at all and told her everything.
Tian Tian heard that the matter had been resolved, and I didn't ask any more questions. After dinner, Tian Tian asked Lin Meiyu if she had any work to do today. After Lin Meiyu said no, Tian Tian happily went to find Tian Yun to see if there was any fish caught in the glass bottle yesterday.
After the two of them went down to the river, Tian Tian found two fish in her glass bottle, but Tian Yun's bottle had none.
She gave Tian Yun a fish from her bottle. The fish was not big, only the size of a finger. And they didn't catch fish for food, but there were only a few entertainment activities nowadays. They went down to the river to catch some fish to play with, just to kill time.
Tian Yun asked Tian Tian if she had anything to do today, and then happily took Tian Tian home. Tian Shenggen knew Tian Tian was coming home in the morning, but he was afraid that Old Lady Tian would catch him to study, so he sneaked out to play after breakfast.
Tian Tian stayed at Tian Yun's house for the whole morning. When it was almost time for lunch, she went home to help Old Mrs. Tian cook. She did not go there in the afternoon.
Two more days passed and Shen Lingling still hadn't come back, but there was a light rain in the sky. Everyone was very happy to see the rain. Now it was the season, and the rain meant that the mushrooms in the mountains were coming out again.
Tian Tian was also very happy. She found that if you pick mushrooms for the first time, you will have a second time. She was anxious if there were mushrooms on the mountain and she didn't pick them. In addition, she had made an appointment with Tian Yun in advance. Before dawn the next morning, she got dressed and took the small basket to find Tian Yun.
Fortunately, everyone got up very early to pick mushrooms, so Tian Tian was not afraid of disturbing them if she went there at this time, because everyone got up at this time to pick mushrooms.
It can also be said that since the rain, all the people in the village have gone out to pick mushrooms.
Now that Tian Tian and Tian Yun have grown up, Old Lady Tian is no longer worried that they will get lost if they go up the mountain alone, so she lets them go without worries.
There are big mountains and small hills here. Although the small hills are easy to climb, the vegetation on them is mostly short, so there are not many mushrooms growing on them.
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