Liang Rong and Li Wenxiu became interested when they heard this, "Your sister?"
"Yeah! She's in the first year of high school now."
"Your sister is older than you, why is she still in the first year of high school?" Liang Rong asked puzzledly.
She is the only child in her family and goes to school according to the regular schedule.
Li Wenxiu didn't quite understand either. She had an older brother, but he went to school before her and she followed him. She also didn't know why Tian Tian was younger than her sister but in a higher grade than her sister.
In fact, there are people of different ages in the same class. Some start primary school at the age of eleven or twelve, while others start first grade at the age of five or six, so it is understandable that there is a big difference in grades.
But they don’t understand why, although they are sisters from the same family, the younger one goes to school first and the older one goes to school later.
"It's normal! She is my cousin, and we are not biological sisters." Tian Tian said as a matter of course.
"Besides, not many people in our rural area have studied to this day. Most of them only study for one or two semesters and learn to read their own characters. So it is very rare for people like me and my sister to study until high school."
Not to mention their brigade, there are only a handful of rural people studying in high school in their school.
There were no more than ten girls from rural areas in their school in all three grades.
Not to mention girls, in fact there are very few boys who go all the way to high school in rural areas, because the annual tuition fee is really not something a family can afford. Moreover, there are often several children in rural areas, and if they were to support everyone, there wouldn't be enough money.
Most of the people in the school are still from the city.
After hearing what Tian Tian said, Liang Rong still hadn't gotten rid of her curiosity about Tian Tian's sister, and asked Tian Tian with great interest if she could meet her cousin. She also wanted to see what Tian Tian's cousin looked like.
"Why are you in such a hurry? We are in the same school anyway, we will see each other sooner or later. When it's time to eat tonight, I will definitely go to the cafeteria with my sister. Then you can see who is my sister when they see me walking together." Tian Tian wiped all the tables, chairs and benches with a rag and said slowly.
Liang Rong and Li Wenxiu also seemed a little expectant.
Tian Tian thought for a moment, then quietly leaned over to their ears and asked, "I see the streets are in chaos again today, and I don't think I've seen those two people before. Do you know what's going on?"
Liang Rong and Li Wenxiu looked at each other, and Liang Rong imitated Tian Tian and whispered in her ear: "I know this. Those two people seem to be the governor and his wife of our province. But they say that the governor's wife has a poor family background and is the eldest daughter of a capitalist family. Someone in her family is studying abroad, so they treat them like this."
Liang Rong also saw the situation on the street when he went to school today. Because the county town has been quite chaotic recently, Liang Rong's father sent him to school today.
Her father felt very sorry when he saw the two people in the crowd.
Liang Rong wanted to find out what was going on with those two people, but her father didn't say a word to her. It was not until Liang Rong entered school and heard other people talking about those two people that she found out.
Now that Tian Tian asked her, she told Tian Tian everything she knew.
"The eldest daughter of a capitalist?" Tian Tian thought back to the two people she saw today. They didn't look like them. "If I were the governor and the governor's wife, I wouldn't be too old now, at most in my 40s or 50s. I felt that the two people today were in their 70s or 80s."
The two people on the street today had gray hair, wrinkled faces, and walked with a hunched back. They looked very old.
Tian Tian had seen people like them being forced to march in the streets before, like Gu Xingshu and Song Zhengang. They had also suffered a lot, but they were not as old as them.
"They both have been sent down for a long time, almost ten years, it seems, and they have not been living well. I heard from them that the woman was pregnant when she was arrested. She was only in her thirties at that time. Later, because they were too rough, they kicked and beat the governor's wife, and the child was lost, and the governor's wife almost lost her life." Li Wenxiu also whispered to Tian Tian.
Tian Tian gasped after hearing this, "They are so pitiful."
Li Wenxiu quickly covered Tian Tian's mouth, "Don't say that. If others hear it, you'll be in trouble. How can they be pitiful? They are all the result of capitalists exploiting the workers' sweat and blood. They wear gold and silver and eat delicacies from land and sea. Isn't it all because of oppression?"
As Li Wenxiu spoke, she kept winking at Tian Tian, telling her to shut up and be more careful with her words.
"Yes!" Tian Tian also realized what she had said and immediately echoed Li Wenxiu, "Yes, you are right. We are workers and peasants, and we must unite to fight against those capitalists."
Li Wenxiu then breathed a sigh of relief and released her hand that was covering Tian Tian's mouth.
But he was still worried and reminded Tian Tian: "You should be more careful with your words in the future. Fortunately, it was the two of us who heard what you said today. If it was someone else, you would have been dragged out long ago, just like those two people on the street."
Tian Tian nodded with lingering fear. Tian knew that what Li Wenxiu said was right. She knew very well what the consequences would be if she spoke carelessly at this time, but maybe because she had always lived in the countryside, she rarely came into contact with such things, and she got along with everyone in the village in a relatively kind manner. The only thing she had done was a few times with Grandma Lin and the others, and she was not at all aware of such things, so her vigilance was much less than that of Li Wenxiu and the others.
"Don't worry, I will definitely control my mouth in the future and never talk nonsense again." Tian Tian made a zipper gesture with her mouth and said that she would definitely control her mouth in the future and would never talk nonsense and cause trouble.
Li Wenxiu then glared at Tian Tian in anger, "No matter how pitiful they are, it's none of our business. You must stay away from them in the future and don't get yourself involved."
In fact, nowadays, anyone with normal thinking knows which side is right and which side is wrong, but as the saying goes, if it does not concern you, just stay out of it. In a situation where it is obvious that helping to speak up will involve yourself, everyone will control their words and will never show sympathy without permission.
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