Chapter 135: The Girl Grows Up and Can't Be Kept
Among the younger generation, Qingyu was the only one who was a little bit out of line. Of course, the book also mentioned Gu's second sister's youngest son, a member of the Red Army. At first, she thought that it was because Gu's second sister and her husband favored boys over girls and were accustomed to their son, so they did not educate him well.
Now I think that’s not the case. The Red Army is the type of people who have a bad temper. They would rather fight than argue. But if they go too far, they will go straight to prison.
In fact, there are many such people. When she was a child, a neighbor had a fight and someone’s head was split open. Fortunately, the person was fine and only had a few stitches.
There was also Xiangyang Village, where people were fighting in the fields and beating others with hoes.
It happens a few times every year.
Either this family is quarreling, or that family is quarreling.
The year before last, or the year before that, some villagers had a quarrel and reported it to the police. It was Gu Jianhua who came.
"That girl Chunqing doesn't want to study anymore."
After talking about the eldest sister Gu’s daughter, the second sister Gu talked about her own daughter.
Gu's second sister's three daughters were not young anymore. When Su He just married Gu Jianhua, the eldest daughter Mingyue was only 12 years old, the second daughter Chunqing was 10 years old, and the third daughter Xiaomei was 7 years old.
Now Mingyue and Chunqing are both grown-up girls. Mingyue is 20 years old and Chunqing is 18 years old.
If it were any other girl, she would have been married and had two children long ago.
I just stayed at my second sister's house and continued to study.
But they all graduated this year, Mingyue graduated from high school and Chunqing graduated from junior high school.
Su He: "Then don't read it."
Chunqing is different from Mingyue. Mingyue hated studying in elementary school, probably because of her teacher, but Chunqing really doesn't like studying.
Sister Gu nodded and said, "Do you think Mingyue can go to Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University?"
Now there are no universities anymore, only workers, peasants and soldiers universities, which rely on public recommendation, and the prerequisite for recommendation is that students have two to three years of practical work experience.
If you were a worker, you would work in a factory for two to three years; if you were a farmer, you would work in the fields harvesting corn for a few years.
Only then will I let you go.
Su He, "It should be no problem. There are not many children who have graduated from high school in our commune."
"The red star counts as one, and the bright moon counts as one."
As for the educated youth, they don't count. They are not from this village. How could the commune leaders recommend them to go to school? Once they go to university, they will not come back here.
Every year the commune recommends six to twelve students to go to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.
Excluding the places for the children of leaders, there are only a few places left each year.
Gu Erjie, "I hope I can."
She didn't let her children study more so that they could go home and dig the ground.
As an ordinary citizen, Second Sister Gu didn't understand why the college entrance examination was cancelled. If it hadn't been cancelled, she was sure that with the grades of her eldest and younger daughters, they would have been able to get into university.
Now I have to rely on recommendations to go to school, which makes me feel very uncertain.
I used to rely on myself, but now I rely on others.
In the third year of junior high school, Third Sister Gu and Team Leader Wang moved back to the city. Mother Gu gave Third Sister Gu a red envelope of 100 yuan.
Sister Gu showed it to Team Leader Wang and said, "Mom, don't want it. Give it to me again."
Team leader Wang looked at it and said, "No need for money, let's just buy some food."
Third sister Gu's family moved away, and there was suddenly one less person in the house. Mother Gu was not used to it yet, but without the noisy children, the house was indeed quiet.
Especially on March 1st when school starts, after the two babies go to school, her son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren don’t come back at noon, leaving her and her old man alone at home.
Hongxing went back to the city with his parents and would come back in the spring when the land thawed and they could work in the fields.
After finishing the housework, Gu's father and mother would stroll around with their radio, and Gu's mother would mainly go to chat with the women in the village.
She wasn't that into stories on the radio.
I still like to listen to village gossip.
It is impossible to keep a girl when she grows up. Since the two daughters of Gu's second sister are at home, many people in the village have asked Gu's mother about marriage.
Mother Gu said, "How can I make the decision? You have to ask the parents."
"You are a grandmother, so help me explain it."
Mother Gu shook her head and said, "I can't tell you. I tried to tell you before, but my little brother sprayed me with his dick."
This is of course nonsense.
However, her second daughter-in-law has two children. The eldest, Mingyue, is going to study at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University in the future, so she definitely cannot look for a man from the village.
As for the second child, he is only eighteen years old this year, so why rush?
After school started, Su He took some time to visit Tang Zeyan's home in Datang, to sell pork, of course, and he sold 100 kilograms of pork a month without fail.
The second son, Tang Zexu, graduated last year. It is not easy to find a job nowadays as all walks of life are in a saturated state.
Just stay at home and sell pork. Fortunately, there are only three people in their family, one goes to work and the other goes to school. If there were two more people who didn't go to school or work, one of them would have to go to the countryside.
But even so, Tang Zexu also wanted to go to the countryside. Others went to the countryside out of necessity, but he went to the countryside... for unspeakable reasons.
His elder brother Tang Zeyan was puzzled, "Why do you want to go to the countryside?" It was impossible for his brother to respond to the country's call and go to the countryside to receive re-education from the middle peasants.
His brother's ideas are not so noble.
And their family situation does not necessarily require one person to go to the countryside.
Tang Zexu, "Yeah...that's it...that's it."
Tang Zeyan, "If you have something to say, please say it quickly."
Tang Zexu, "I fell in love with a girl. Her family is from Xiangyang Village. Now that I have graduated, I can't see her anymore."
Before he graduated, he could still walk around the school gate and take a look. Now that he has graduated, he doesn’t know where to look.
Tang Zeyan said, "You like a girl from Xiangyang Village, so you want to go to Xiangyang Village to meet her, right?"
Tang Zexu nodded, "Yes."
This way, not only can we see each other every day, but we also have the opportunity to get closer to each other.
After hearing this, Tang Zeyan was stunned for a few seconds. Yes, his brother is not young anymore, he is already twenty years old, it is normal for him to have a girl he likes.
"What if they don't like you? Wouldn't your trip to the countryside be in vain?" he asked.
Tang Zexu shook his head, "No, every time I meet her, she smiles at me."
"And I, your brother, am not ugly, am I?" He's even handsome.
If Su He were here at this time, he would definitely say, you are not better looking than your elder brother.
The two brothers actually look pretty good, but the elder brother Tang Zeyan has a very special temperament and looks very deep, which may be because he has been working to support his family since he was young.
My younger brother looks a bit like a silly boy and has dark skin.
"Besides, brother, I'm going to Xiangyang Village, which is very close to our county. It only takes half an hour by bike, and I can come back anytime."
"Otherwise, I would stay at home without a proper job, and it would be difficult to tell the girl."
Tang Zeyan thought about it and it made sense. He was the only one working in their family, and the fewer people knew about their business, the better.
He said, "Okay, you can do it yourself. You won't be back for a while anyway."
"You know the answer."
You can't keep a girl when she grows up, and you can't keep a boy when he grows up. He's only twenty years old and he's already clamoring to find a wife.
Tang Zeyan thought that he was already 24 years old and had never thought about finding a wife.