Chapter 012
Chuxia raised her hand and rubbed her eyes.
The man sitting opposite her and Lin Xiaohan said, "No matter how much you say, it's all empty talk. No matter how much knowledge you learn, you can't eat or drink, and you can't ask the production team to give us an extra half pound of grain. Not only is studying useless, but you have to pay tuition fees, and the family will have one less person to work. No matter how you look at it, it's a losing business. If the family has extra money and the ability, it's a good thing to let the children go to school to learn some knowledge and have some fun. For families like ours, it's enough to not starve to death, why do we still need to go to school?"
Lin Xiaohan said: "Brother, you can't just look at the present, you have to look further ahead. Children go to school and learn to read. They have knowledge, culture and insights, so that they can have a promising future when they grow up."
The man laughed, "What can you achieve? Which of you city kids didn't go to school? Which of you has a low education? In the end, don't you all come to our countryside to farm? You city kids come to our countryside after you finish your education. Do you think our countryside kids can come to your city after you finish your education?"
This is the current social reality, and Lin Xiaohan and Chu Xia have nothing to refute.
Chu Xia blinked her rubbed eyes and said, "It is indeed like this now, but think about it, brother. The college entrance examination has been suspended for so many years, and the educated youth have been sent to the countryside for so many years. Everything cannot remain unchanged forever. Maybe in the near future, just like the resumption of classes in school, the college entrance examination will also be resumed? If the college entrance examination is resumed, everyone can go to college, and studying will be very useful. If you are admitted to a university, it means a stable job allocated by the state, which will bring honor to your family."
The man smiled so hard that his eyebrows narrowed. "Comrade Xiao Xia, you are really good at joking. It's like you are telling a story in your dream."
Chu Xia: “…”
She pursed her lips and subconsciously glanced at Lin Xiaohan.
Lin Xiaohan took over and continued, "Brother, let's not talk about something so far away, let's talk about something close, let's talk about our brigade. Our brigade is going to reopen the primary school now, and we need teachers. Are we looking for people like us who are knowledgeable and educated? Teachers get a fixed salary every month, and they can also work and earn work points during holidays. Doesn't this count as having a small future? Besides, the cadres in the brigade, from the secretary to the brigade leader to the accountant and then to the various directors, although they are not educated people and their education is not high, don't they know how to read more or less? If your child has a higher education, is knowledgeable and can take on responsibilities, and can lead the people to respond to the country's call and do more things, then can he also go to the brigade to be a part-time cadre? Think about it carefully, does what I said make sense?"
The man didn't refute immediately this time.
But after a moment, he shook his head and said, "Our child is not cut out to be a cadre."
***
Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan persuaded one family and then went to another.
Those who went there were all those whose families had children who could go to school, and the feedback they got when they tried to persuade them was similar - no family was willing to spend money to send their children to school.
The night is as dark as ink, with a crescent moon hanging in the sky and many stars shining.
When everyone blew out the lights and went to bed, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan came out of the yard of the last house and did not go to the next one.
Walking back to the dormitory under the moonlight.
Chu Xia took a breath and said, "There is still a lot of work to be done."
Lin Xiaohan didn't respond. He turned to look at her for a while and suddenly said, "I didn't realize you were so bold. If the college entrance examination is resumed, everyone can go to college?"
Chuxia said this once, but she didn't expect that he remembered it.
Chu Xia naturally did not show any nervousness. She turned to look at Lin Xiaohan and explained calmly, "I just said this to persuade them to go to school. I was really dreaming."
Lin Xiaohan was silent for a while and said, "Why do I feel that it is quite possible?"
Chu Xia was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Really? Then do you think I am quite far-sighted?"
Lin Xiaohan suddenly stopped.
Chuxia stopped too, and he looked at Chuxia with lowered eyebrows in the moonlight.
Chu Xia felt uncomfortable being stared at by him, so she took a step back and asked, "What are you doing?"
Lin Xiaohan smiled in a gloomy way, "I just find it very strange. It seems like your brain has suddenly changed in the past two days. Not only are you no longer stupid, but you also have many bold ideas."
Chu Xia looked up at him and said, "Have you ever heard of this saying?"
Lin Xiaohan: “What?”
Chu Xia: "Without a man in my heart, I will be a god when I draw my sword."
Lin Xiaohan: “…No.”
The original words of this sentence are - If there is no woman in your heart, you will be a god when you draw the sword.
It was used in the later part of the novel, when Han Ting cut off his children's personal affairs and concentrated on his career.
She has modified it now and finds it suitable for use.
She looked at Lin Xiaohan and continued, "I used to focus on Han Ting. I didn't care about anything else and didn't think about anything else, so I looked dumb and stupid. But now I've figured it out. I don't want to focus on Han Ting anymore, so of course I have time to think about other things. I'm not stupid. I said I won't hold you back, and I definitely won't hold you back."
Yes, it certainly didn’t hold him back.
Not only did he not fall behind, the two of them also had a tacit understanding when working together, 1+1>2.
Lin Xiaohan thought for a moment and continued walking forward, "Then let's have a happy cooperation."
Of course, if she ever did something stupid again, he would kick her away without hesitation.
***
Educated youth point.
The lights in both the men's and women's dormitories were turned off.
Everyone else in the boys' dormitory had fallen asleep, but Han Ting was not sleepy yet.
He lay on the bed, resting his arms on his head, blinking in a daze.
It’s so late, but I’m still worried about Chuxia.
He waited in a daze for a while, then he threw back the quilt, put on his shoes, grabbed his thick coat and put it on, then opened the door and went out.
He was preparing to go out to look for Chuxia.
Ran had just taken two steps out of the dormitory when he saw Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan entering the yard together.
After Chuxia entered the yard, she went straight to the girls' dormitory, while Lin Xiaohan came to the boys' dormitory.
Han Ting didn't go up to say hello, but turned around and went back to the dormitory to lie down.
Lin Xiaohan went into the dormitory, lit the oil lamp, poured water and washed up.
Han Ting was still lying in bed without feeling sleepy. He felt annoyed by the sound of splashing water, but he did not show his irritability.
Of course, he didn't just go to sleep as if nothing had happened.
When Lin Xiaohan finished showering and was about to go to bed, he couldn't help but ask, "Why did you take Chu Xia out tonight?"
Lin Xiaohan saw him when he entered the yard just now and knew that he was not asleep.
Lin Xiaohan blew out the lights and said without giving Han Ting face, "I don't think I have the obligation to report this to you."
Han Ting was trapped in the night, holding his breath.
He added: "I'm warning you, no matter what you take her out for, you just have to behave yourself. If you dare to plot against her or bully her, I will never let you go."
Lin Xiaohan sneered, "What? Can you beat me to death?"
Han Ting's voice became more ruthless, "You'll know if you try it."
Lin Xiaohan sneered and ignored him.
***
Girls dormitory.
Chuxia had already washed up and went to bed.
The bed was a little cold, so she wrapped the quilt tightly around herself.
Gu Yuzhu and the other four people beside her had already fallen asleep when she entered the dormitory, so Chuxia washed up and went to bed very quietly without making any noise.
After lying down, she didn't fall asleep immediately, but thought about enrollment again.
Thinking that I was sleepy, I yawned, closed my eyes, and soon fell asleep.
I always wake up earlier than the alarm clock every morning in early summer, and today is no exception.
What I do after getting up is the same: I get dressed, fold the quilt, comb my hair and tie it into a neat braid, wash up, and go to the kitchen to cook breakfast.
Lin Xiaohan got up a little earlier than Chuxia today.
He cleaned up and went into the kitchen, taking the steamed buns and putting them in the pot to steam.
When Chuxia entered the kitchen, he was sitting behind the stove, lighting a fire with a match.
Chu Xia smiled and greeted him: "Good morning!"
Lin Xiaohan stuffed the burning straw into the stove. From his expression, he didn't want to say hello, but he still replied nonchalantly, "Good morning."
After saying hello to him, Chu Xia didn't talk to him much.
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She went to the cupboard, opened her cupboard door, and prepared to take out two steamed buns to steam.
However, she raised her hand to the bamboo basket, but before she touched the steamed buns, she suddenly stopped.
Then, as her eyes darkened slightly, her brows furrowed.
The steamed buns in the bamboo basket are not hers.
Her steamed buns were black and yellow, not all black. And the buns she steamed were not as big as these. They were a little smaller than the ones in front of us.
Her steamed bun was replaced by someone!
When this conclusion popped into Chuxia's mind, she instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
But she did not explode immediately. Instead, she reached out for a steamed bun, gently broke off a small piece, put it in her mouth and chewed it twice. After just two chews, he tasted fine sand and gravel.
Chuxia frowned and spit out the steamed bun in her mouth, the breath she was holding in her heart almost bursting out of her body.
Lin Xiaohan was with her the whole day yesterday, it was impossible for him to get up in the middle of the night to do such a thing.
Moreover, he was very skilled in grinding flour and steaming buns, so there wouldn't be so much sand and gravel.
So there is no need to speculate any further, it must have been Han Ting and the others who did it.
Why do they bully her like this!
Chuxia put down the steamed bun in her hand and turned around to look for something in the kitchen.
Lin Xiaohan sat behind the stove and added firewood to the fire.
Seeing that Chuxia had an unusual expression and even more unusual behavior, he looked at her for a while longer.
Seeing Chu Xia find an empty enamel basin in the kitchen and a rolling pin, he teased Chu Xia, "Why? Are you going to improve Han Ting's meals so early in the morning?"
There was sarcasm in these words, but Chu Xia did not transfer her anger to Lin Xiaohan.
She held up her enamel basin and rolling pin and replied, "They ate all the buns I steamed and put all the inedible buns filled with stones in my bamboo basket."
After saying that, she left the kitchen without waiting for Lin Xiaohan to respond.
Taking the enamel basin and rolling pin, Chuxia walked to the yard, took a deep breath of the fresh morning air, gathered strength in his hands, and hit the bottom of the enamel basin with the rolling pin.
The shrill sound instantly exploded in the yard.
Most of the other people who were still sleeping were awakened and all frowned in their beds.
Chuxia didn't stop in the yard and continued to knock the second and third times.
When I knocked the fifth or sixth time, someone came out from the boys' dormitory.
The first one to come out was Chaozi, with a head of hair as messy as a chicken coop, and an unhappy look on his face for being woken up abruptly. He said angrily, "Chuxia, why are you here? What are you doing so early in the morning?"
After Chaozi said this, everyone else came out.
Chu Xia stared at Han Ting, holding her breath and knocking hard on the enamel basin.
The harsh and unpleasant sound is unbearable and makes people irritated.
Li Qiao and the others came out of the dormitory, covered their ears, and also looked sleepy. They said irritably, "It's not Chuxia, what are you doing so early in the morning?"
Chu Xia didn't say anything and stared at Han Ting for a while.
Then she suddenly turned and went into the kitchen.
My head is still dizzy.
Gu Yuzhu saw Chuxia enter the kitchen, frowned and complained in a low voice: "She must be crazy..."
As soon as she finished complaining, Chuxia came out of the kitchen again.
This time, what she held in her hands was no longer an enamel basin and a rolling pin, but a bamboo basket for steamed buns. The steamed buns in the bamboo basket were naturally the ones they had steamed last night.
Seeing the bamboo basket in Chuxia's hand and thinking of what happened last night, the sleepiness and irritability on Gu Yuzhu and the other girls' faces suddenly disappeared, and were replaced by clarity and guilt.
Chuxia carried a bamboo basket and walked directly to Han Ting.
She pushed the bamboo basket forward heavily, bumping into Han Ting's arms, staring at him with a face full of stubbornness and anger and asked: "Please tell me, what do you mean by this?!"
Han Ting had no idea what Chu Xia was doing so crazy so early in the morning.
This was also the first time he saw Chu Xia go crazy. The fierce girl in front of him with a violent face seemed to be a different person from his well-behaved and sensible sister Chu Xia.
He frowned and looked at Chu Xia and asked back: "What do you mean? What's wrong?"
Chu Xia looked at him and sneered, "Why are you pretending? You ate all my steamed buns and replaced them with steamed buns mixed with pebbles. Didn't you do that?!"
When Han Ting heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper and he turned to look at the pot lid next to him.
Guo Gai felt guilty and immediately lowered his head, burying it in his chest.
Looking at the four girls led by Li Qiao, they also had guilty looks on their faces.
Han Ting quickly figured out what was going on.
He raised his hand to take the bamboo basket, looked back at Chu Xia and said, "Let's go inside and talk."
Chu Xia knew that her making such a scene made Han Ting feel very embarrassed.
If she didn't listen to him, he would feel even more embarrassed and even angry.
But now Chuxia didn't want to consider his face, nor was she afraid of his anger.
She stood still and said, "I'm not going anywhere. Let's talk about this right here and solve it right here! You guys have done such shameless things, are you still afraid to tell it to the sky?!"
Han Ting's face turned ugly. "Chu Xia, who taught you to speak so harshly? In this country, we are all relatives and family. I am your brother! What can't we talk about calmly? Is it necessary for you to make such a fuss early in the morning because of such a small matter?"
"As for that!" Chu Xia raised her voice sharply, "You ate my steamed buns without asking me or getting my permission. To put it bluntly, you stole things from the production team before, and now you're stealing my things. Who wants to be a relative of such a morally corrupt person like you!"
It seems that Chu Xia doesn't give Han Ting any face at all.
Li Qiao suddenly spoke in a weak tone: "Chuxia, we lent you some steamed buns because we were in a hurry, and we returned them to you in time. If you don't want this basket, we will steam new ones and return them to you. We really didn't want to eat your food for free. It's just a few whole grain steamed buns. Isn't your reaction a bit too big? I wanted to tell you last night, but you came back too late and we all fell asleep, so I didn't tell you."
Chu Xia turned to look at Li Qiao, "Is it my fault?"
Li Qiao continued in a soft tone, "It's not your fault. It's just such a small matter. There's no need to make such a fuss. I just ate a few of your whole grain buns. It's not like I won't give them back to you. Why are you like this? Can't you just talk calmly?"
Chuxia couldn't help laughing, she laughed so hard that tears were about to come out.
Then she sniffed and stopped smiling, "I don't want to talk to you anymore. You will know how precious food is these days. Now, you stole my buns! I don't want you to give me back any buns. I don't eat anything you make. Return the food to me immediately. In addition to the food you ate, the time and effort I spent on grinding flour and steaming buns must all be taken into account. I will use the food to pay for it all! If you don't return it, I will go to the captain's house and find Captain Liang to sue you for theft!"
Han Ting couldn't help but speak out after hearing this: "Chu Xia, you have to be so fussy and make a fuss, right? It's just a few whole grain steamed buns, but you have to make such a fuss and tear your face off with everyone, right? Can you control your temper and talk it over nicely?"
"No!" Chu Xia looked at Han Ting again, her voice harder and higher: "You are right! I just didn't want to partner with you before, and wanted to keep a distance from you, but now I want to tear my face off with you and officially break up with you!"
Han Ting stared at her, his face as gloomy as if a heavy rain was about to fall.
Chu Xia met his gaze without fear and continued, "Han Ting, I was blind before, that's why I treated you so well, gave you everything good, and couldn't bear to see you suffer any grievance or hardship. Now I am not blind, I can see everything clearly, you are not worthy of my kindness to you! I won't be a fool anymore!
"You keep saying that you are my brother, my real brother, and you have to take care of me. But how have you ever taken care of me since I was a child? How did you take care of me after being in the countryside for so long?!
"Did you take it for granted that you eat and drink from me without saying a word of thanks? Did Gu Yuzhu use my mirror and didn't want to return it to me, and when I came back, you said I was petty? Or did the team ask me to be a school teacher, and you came to me to ask me to give the chance to Su Yun?!
“Are you still taking the lead in bullying me like you are now?!
"Is this how you take care of me?!
"It's not enough that you eat my food, drink my wine and order me around, but you also want to bring so many people to eat my food, drink my wine and order me around! Today it's a few whole grain buns, I don't care, but what will it be tomorrow?!
"Why I don't want to partner with you is because you are a bunch of lazy parasites who love to rest and do nothing! You can't do this or that, and you hide away when things go wrong. Who can you count on?
"You are just a bunch of bastards who take shamelessness, lack of morals and lack of ethics as your personality and sincerity! Scum!"
Han Ting stared at Chu Xia with a gloomy face the whole time.
After Chu Xia finished speaking, he didn't say anything. Li Qiao couldn't help but get angry and said, "Chu Xia, your words are too harsh and hurtful. Who wants to eat and drink from you and order you around? And Han Ting doesn't know anything about this. It's me..."
"Stop talking!" Han Ting interrupted Li Qiao before she could finish her words.
Then he called Chaozi with a dark face, looked at Chuxia and said in a strong voice: "Give her all the food she wants!"
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