Feng family.
Xiao Li rolled up his sleeves and directed everyone.
"The flowers and plants in the yard are all very delicate, please everyone be careful!"
Goudan's father teased Xiao Li: "Li, we know better than you how precious our old lady Feng's family is!"
Xiao Li didn't get angry, and said with a smile: "I know, I know! I'm just reminding you!"
In front of Old Lady Feng's house stood a row of brand-new, large tiled houses, newly built by a few old men from the provincial capital. However, the newly built houses were damp, so the old men still lived at Lin Zhongxiao's house, bragging and bickering with great pleasure every day.
Old Lady Feng was the first one in Wangjia Village to rebuild a new house. When the villagers learned that Lotus's wedding was approaching, they unanimously decided to build Old Lady Feng's house first and then build the houses of others later!
In the Feng family's courtyard, the peach blossoms were past their prime, and the branches were now laden with small, fuzzy, green peaches. The roses that surrounded the fence were now in full bloom, their pink petals crammed together, vying to burst forth with smiles.
The backyard is full of fruits and vegetables. It is the best time of the year and the yard is thriving.
Old Lady Feng wanted to keep the fence and the front yard as is, but she wanted to expand the house a bit and demolish the three side rooms and rebuild them to create a new home for Lianhua and Xiao Li.
Amidst the bustle, only one person had a forced smile.
Shuixiu looked at the demolished house and sighed softly.
Jiaojiao came running in from outside, holding a wild fruit in her hand and stuffed it into Shuixiu's mouth.
On her white and tender wrist was a silver bracelet with a few small bells hanging on it, which jingled as she moved.
This is the New Year gift that Xiao Li gave to Jiaojiao, and there is also a necklace.
Shuixiu's slightly frowned brows relaxed slightly.
Jiaojiao sat next to her and asked, "Mom, are you unhappy?"
Shuixiu was stunned when she heard that. Seeing Jiaojiao's big black and white eyes staring at her, she fell silent for a moment.
"It's not that I'm unhappy..."
She looked out the window and sighed.
"Just... thinking of you... Dad."
Oh! By the way! I also have a dad!
Jiaojiao shook her little feet and looked at Shuixiu again.
I can't see anything!
"Earlier, the wedding room your father and I lived in was in those two side rooms. Later, your father disappeared, and I didn't dare sleep there by myself, so I moved in and slept with your aunt."
Later on, the new house gradually became a place to store miscellaneous items.
The side house had been uninhabited for years, and now she was suddenly told it was going to be demolished and rebuilt. She felt a little reluctant, but more of a sense of melancholy!
After getting married, Lianhua naturally had to move there. While other people went out in pairs, she was the only one who hadn't seen her husband, alive or dead. She was worried about him, and she couldn't let him go for even a moment.
Jiaojiao didn't know how to comfort her mother, so she could only put her little hands on her mother's back and pat her gently.
Shuixiu couldn't help but chuckle at her action.
She held Jiaojiao in her arms and kissed her: "I'm so glad you're here!"
Strength lies in numbers. The Feng family's three side buildings were quickly rebuilt. On the day of completion, the Feng family paid out of their own pockets to treat the entire team to a sumptuous dinner.
The old men from the city also joined in the fun, insisting that the chefs in the cafeteria cook the delicacies they brought.
Wang Guifen, who had the best skills, learned it by herself. Although she had never cooked abalone before, she still cooked several pots of abalone braised pork based on her talent.
The abalone is top-grade dried abalone, and the pork is from the large white pigs raised in Wangjia Village. With Wang Guifen's superb cooking skills, the braised abalone and pork are so delicious that they make your eyebrows drop! Everyone exclaimed that it was delicious!
The whole group drank several bowls of rice just from the abalone and braised pork broth. Wang Guifen said that she couldn't cook it again next time, otherwise how could she make so much rice for them!
After the people in Wangjia Village had eaten and drunk their fill, the children went to the stadium to play games, and the young people went to the activity center to play cards and chat. However, before they could even sit down, they were driven away by the team leader and a group of elderly people.
"This is the senior activity center! You young people should go to the stadium!"
The young people could only watch their elders, the second uncles in the village, and the old men from the provincial capital take out their cards and play enthusiastically.
The women gathered together, some were sewing shoe soles, some were sewing clothes, and some were twisting cotton thread... The men were responsible for the hard work, and the women were responsible for the manual work. The division of labor was clear and the efficiency was high!
Wang Guifen washed some wild hawthorns picked from the mountains and asked Goudan and a few other children to take them to the activity center.
Goudan was so scared that he ran away.
"You good-for-nothing! What can your teacher do to you? Is he going to eat you? You can't find a teacher like you anywhere else!"
Wang Guifen put her hands on her hips and scolded Goudan.
She turned around and saw Jiaojiao, and immediately smiled: "Jiaojiao, how about you help me deliver it?"
Other children are afraid of the teacher, but Jiaojiao is not.
Except for a male teacher assigned from above, all other subjects in Wangjia Village are taught by a few old men from the provincial capital!
Although these people may seem unremarkable, their backgrounds are quite impressive! With the exception of Second Uncle Lin, who followed his family's trade since childhood, the others all received a good education. Although some of them later chose to pursue careers related to their professions, they instead returned home to inherit the family business.
The knowledgeable and erudite old men not only teach children Chinese, mathematics, history and geography, but also English!
It’s just that most of the children in Wangjia Village used to live a lazy life, except for Haiyang, the captain’s son, who had good academic performance.
Another person who was highly praised by the teachers was Jiaojiao.
Of course, Jiaojiao secretly thought that such a comparison was somewhat unfair. But there was nothing she could do, since she had a childish face.
What gives kids the most headaches? Of course, it's English, the babble that sounds like bird talk!
Goudan refused to learn English. What the hell was that? He argued, "I don't even know what English is. Why should I learn it? I've been in Daqingshan all day and never even been to the county town! If I want to learn, I have to learn to speak like the people in the county town first!"
Even Goudan's parents playing doubles cannot change his determination to refuse to learn English!
Even Jiaojiao was overwhelmed! She had never been exposed to English before, and like the other children, she was starting from scratch! But she was an adult after all, and she knew these old men must have their own reasons for teaching English, so she had to grit her teeth and learn.
Fortunately, Wangjia Village had electricity when the cannery opened. Seeing the students' resistance to learning English, English teacher Liang Yucai asked Lin Qiusheng, a former physics student, to connect electricity to the classroom. He also brought in a phonograph from the provincial capital and played English music for the children every day.
This phonograph is a rare thing. Even if the children don’t want to learn English, the phonograph alone is enough to keep them here!
The children from the nearby brigades were jealous and went home to make a fuss with others, wanting to study at Wangjiacun Primary School.
The threshold of the brigade headquarters is almost broken down recently!
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