Chapter 141141

In Jiang's father's heart, he can really be called a good father, and he is also one of the few people in the village who does not favor boys over girls. Although he is like a traditional man and prefers the eldest son, he treats his three children equally in daily life. If there is a difference, it is probably that the eldest son has been a troublemaker since he was a child, and they must be watched from time to time. I don't know if the two younger ones are all because of their grandfather's care, but they have been obedient and sensible since they were young.

When they were rushing to harvest rice, Jiang Song threw down his sickle and ran away before he had harvested for ten minutes, but the two younger ones worked hard in the fields to harvest rice and plant rice seedlings. Although they were also very dissatisfied that their eldest brother ran away and they didn't have to harvest rice and plant rice seedlings, they still felt sorry for their parents and continued to work.

If there is any difference, it is probably that the two younger ones have been beaten more since childhood, because Jiang Song can run. Before you hit him, he will run away. He has many friends in the village. You can't find him no matter which house you go to. Jiang's father and mother are exhausted after a day's work. They can't catch Jiang Song. When they see Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi, even if they are standing and breathing, Jiang's mother will catch them and vent their emotions.

Once or twice, Jiang's father would persuade and pull them, but many times, his words didn't work, and Jiang's mother would vent her anger on him. In addition, he was tired after a day's work and didn't want to move. Later, he stopped talking.

Anyway, every family is like this. Who didn't grow up being beaten like this? As the saying goes, a good son is born under the stick... But all the truths, when he saw his daughter's calm eyes, as if she saw through everything, were hidden in the deepest part of his heart, and the despicable him seemed to have nowhere to hide.

Is it really okay? It's just that the slap didn't fall on him. Jiang Ma didn't touch his interests, and the person she hit was not him, so he didn't feel any pain.

Now that his daughter has made progress, he will try to get close to her again, he...

Jiang Dad is not like Jiang Ma who has never read a book and is not a big word. Although he grew up in this small mountain village, he is not ignorant.

It's just that many times, he chooses to benefit himself.

Just like the countless sages and emperors in ancient times, don't they know how deep their persecution of women is and how severe their oppression of women is? Even if their mothers and children were among them, why didn't they change, why didn't they stop it, why did they become one of them?

Because it was in their interest.

The reason why Jiang's father had been watching Jiang's mother beat and scolded Jiang Qing was the same. The oppression and exploitation of women by women, the oppressed women of the previous generation, oppressed and disciplined the next generation of women, did not infringe on their interests, and was even in their interests.

It was just that Jiang's father, including every self-proclaimed gentleman in ancient times, knew it in their hearts, but they just didn't want to admit it.

Unwilling to admit that they were despicable in oppressing women, they used "Hasn't it always been like this since ancient times" to make excuses for themselves.

But as Xun Ge'er said, "It has always been this way, is it right?"

This beautiful little mountain village is still like a refining ground for worms. Generation after generation of women have fought in this refining ground for worms. Some of them are unwilling to become the worms that persecute their next generation. After they wake up, they protect their next generation. Some people use this kind of fighting and discipline on their daughters-in-law.

In the past, Jiang Xi was trapped in this "always like this" situation. Now, she has walked out of this situation and is unwilling to come back. She is unwilling to enter this situation that once bound her tightly and made her powerless to fight.

Jiang's father sat there alone with his head down for a long time.

Jiang's mother couldn't stand his behavior and couldn't help but say, "Okay, why are you acting like that? Why don't you quickly lay the foundation? Let's go to Shenzhen to sell lunch boxes and look for pine nuts."

Jiang's mother has restrained her temper a lot now. This year's crackdown has killed many people, especially in Shenzhen, which is the focus of the crackdown. She is very afraid that Jiang Song is also among them. She is very careful about what she says, fearing that she will be punished for her bad words.

Jiang's father raised his face and smiled at Jiang's mother, "Ailian, come and have a drink with me."

Jiang's mother said, "Drink, drink, drink, you only know how to drink!" She didn't say the next sentence, "Why don't you drink to death?", but brought rice wine to Jiang's father.

At Wucheng TV, the director called Principal Sun of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School and the principal of Wuzhong early in the morning to ask them whether Jiang Wu and Song Peifeng had returned from the winter camp.

As soon as they heard that the two had returned, they immediately called the reporter who had previously interviewed Jiang Wu and Song Peifeng and asked them to interview Jiang Wu as soon as possible.

The person they wanted to interview was of course Secretary Song, but Secretary Song did not accept the interview. They could interview Song Peifeng, but they could only do a simple interview on the campus of Wuzhong. Whether it was the Education Bureau, the county government, or the TV station, they all wanted to do an exclusive interview to promote it well.

Jiang Xi received a call in the store. When Grandpa Jiang heard that someone from the TV station was coming to interview him, he hurriedly pulled his clothes again and again to make sure they were neat and tidy and not embarrassing his granddaughter. Then he sat on the rocking chair happily and waited for the reporter to come.

The last time the reporter came to interview him, he praised his granddaughter a lot. He stayed in front of the TV every day and didn't even watch the reruns of his favorite "Justice Bao". He watched their county TV station every day, but he didn't see it for more than half a month.

Their county TV station is a small, 18th-tier TV station that not many people watch. It only shows news and sex, and there are no other programs. Who wants to watch this kind of TV station? They usually watch the provincial TV station and a few TV stations that broadcast popular dramas. For that interview, he watched the news and sex on the county TV station for more than half a month.

Because of the interview, Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng, who had not seen each other for a few days, got together again.

When the reporters and photographers saw them, their eyes lit up immediately. They were indeed students from these two key high schools. Not only did they have good grades, but they also looked so good. It must be said that this was also a big attraction for their program. Who doesn't want to watch young handsome men and beautiful women?

There were two people, one from Wuzhong and one from Yizhong. When the two were interviewed together, it was wrong to use Wuzhong as the background, and it was also wrong to use Yizhong as the background. Song Peifeng simply walked to the front of Jiangxi's store and interviewed with Jiangxi's store as the background.

The reporter looked back at the back of the store and saw Grandpa Jiang basking in the sun at the door. He asked the two people to introduce themselves first.

She raised the microphone to Song Peifeng's mouth and looked at him with bright eyes.

She was a young female reporter with a round face. In order to look photogenic, she also put on makeup, painted her face very white, but did not paint her neck and hands. It was a very obvious photogenic makeup.

A male photographer carrying a camera followed her.

Song Peifeng simply introduced herself and said, "My name is Song Peifeng, and I am a student in Class 10, Grade 2 of Wucheng Senior High School."

She handed the microphone to Jiang Xi, and looked at the tall, thin, fair-skinned girl in front of her with envy, and blinked.

Jiang Xi smiled, and her smile was warm and friendly: "My name is Jiang Xi, and I am a student in Class 3, Grade 2 of Wucheng No. 1 Senior High School."

The female reporter asked with a smile: "I heard that one of you was admitted to Tsinghua University in advance, and the other was admitted to Peking University. Is it true? How did you get admitted in advance? Can you share with us in detail? It will also help the students behind us, the younger students, to learn from the two talented students of our class and aim to get into Tsinghua and Peking University in the future!"

She stood beside Song Peifeng and naturally let Song Peifeng speak first.

They all knew Song Peifeng's family background, and they couldn't help but focus on Song Peifeng. Their eyes and attention were mainly on Song Peifeng. This is also human nature. Jiang Xi knew it in her heart, but she didn't care. In front of the camera, she smiled very gently and easy-going, and the whole person was generous.

Unfortunately, Song Peifeng didn't seem to cooperate and simply nodded: "It's true." He pointed to the banner on the gate of Wuzhong University opposite and said: "It's all written on it." The

female reporter was choked: ... The

female reporter smiled: "Yes, but as far as I know, you are both in the second year of high school, right? You were admitted to Tsinghua University in advance when you were in the second year of high school. Do you have any study tips?"

Song Peifeng glanced at her again and said: "We won the gold medal in the National Olympic Competition and were admitted in advance by the admissions teachers of Tsinghua University and Peking University in the winter camp."

Seeing that Song Peifeng did not cooperate with her at all, the female reporter smiled and nodded and said: "Then may I ask how you got into competitions? How do you balance competitions and school grades in school? I saw on the bulletin board of Wuzhong that Song not only won the gold medal in the National Olympic Games, but also got into Wuzhong with the highest score in the county during the high school entrance examination, right? "

Song Peifeng saw that she was only interviewing him and ignored Jiang Xi next to him. He smiled and turned around, slightly sideways to face Jiang Xi and said, "I am not the first in the county now. I have been surpassed by her a long time ago."

When he smiled, he was full of youthfulness, wearing the school uniform of Wuzhong. The school uniform of Wuzhong was navy blue and white. It was obviously not a very good-looking school uniform, but on him, it was as tall as a young white poplar.

The female reporter was slightly stunned, and then passed the microphone to Jiang Xi's mouth: "So this is our Wucheng's new county champion. No wonder he was admitted to Peking University in advance when he was in the second year of high school, just like this classmate Song. May I ask how you got on the road of competition?"

Jiang Xi cooperated very well and said with a smile: "The school needs me, Wucheng needs me, so I signed up."

The female reporter's eyes lit up slightly. She had just been frustrated in the interview with Song Peifeng. Now that she was with Jiang Xi, the rhythm was finally normal, and she asked hurriedly: " How did you balance the performance of the competition and the school exams? I saw your name on the bulletin board of No. 1 Middle School. I heard that your grades were not good when you first entered No. 1 Middle School. How did you manage to surpass Song, your classmate, and become the first in the county in less than two years? And you also won the gold medal in such a prestigious competition as the National Olympiad? "

The bulletin board was filmed when I came to No. 1 Middle School for an interview. I can just edit it when the time comes.

Jiang Xi smiled cooperatively and said, "Persist! Work hard! Persevere in your efforts!" After a pause, she continued, "At the same time, I also received help from many teachers in No. 1 Middle School, including my head teacher Mr. Wang Shengpeng, Director Zhang from the Academic Affairs Office, Mr. Ji Jianwei,... Ms. Xia Yunzhi, etc. They are all very serious and responsible teachers who have given me a lot of help. Among them, Ms. Xia Yunzhi is not my subject teacher. She once lent me a hand when I was in great difficulty. For me, if it weren't for her, I might not be who I am today. Ms. Xia may not remember me. After all, a gentle and good teacher like Ms. Xia may have helped many students inadvertently, but I still want to say to Ms. Xia: Mr. Xia, thank you!"

She bowed to the camera very seriously.

She and Teacher Xia have never met in this life, but she can't forget her mentor.

The cameraman's lens did not miss the tear in Jiang Xi's eyes.

Finally, the reporter asked them if they had anything to say to their juniors. Jiang Xi thought for a moment and said, "For people born in rural areas, studying may not be the only way, but it is the way for many girls to change their destiny. On this road, no matter what difficulties you encounter, stick to it!"

Believe me, I will show you!

After that, the reporter took Song Peifeng alone to take pictures at the gate of Wu Middle School for a while, and took Jiang Xi to the gate of No. 1 Middle School for a while, and also went to the campus to take pictures of their respective classes.

The interviews with the school, whether teachers or students, had already been filmed, so there was no need to film again. The remaining part was to complete the interview with Jiang Xi's family.

This is why they received calls from TV station leaders urging them during the New Year and New Year holidays.

Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng had not returned from the training team and wanted to go to Jiangjia Village for an interview, but there was no boat to go. They also learned from the teacher of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School that Jiang Xi's parents were working in other places and might not be able to come back until the end of the year.

They had a holiday at the end of the year and hadn't started work yet, but their leader urged them to go to Jiangjia Village for an interview: "Wait until after the holiday, when everyone will be gone!"

Nowadays, most people go out to work on the sixth day of the New Year and pack their bags and leave on the fifth day. The fourth day is their last chance. By the fifth day, Jiang's father and mother might have left again, and we won't be able to interview them again.

The school leaders of No. 1 Middle School had been waiting for Jiang's father and mother to come back and went to Jiang's home to announce the good news. However, from the phone call that Jiang's father made to the teachers of No. 1 Middle School, they knew that they would not come back until the end of the year. Secondly, Jiang was still in the winter camp and had not returned. Moreover, the admissions teacher of Beijing University had not contacted the school to find out the specific situation. Now that Jiang's father and mother had returned, the school took a lot of things they had prepared, such as big red flowers, certificates, scholarships, etc., and went to Jiang's store to invite Jiang and Grandpa Jiang to go to Jiangjia Village with the reporters.

Grandpa Jiang had wanted to go back a long time ago. He really had a lot of things to say and wanted to show off, but he couldn't go back. It was really like walking in the night in a gorgeous dress. He was so depressed!

This time, I can actually go back with the TV reporters and school leaders. It's a great return home!

Grandpa Jiang was very happy, but he still looked at Jiang Xiao. What

Jiang Xiao couldn't stand the most was Grandpa's cautious attitude. He has been so cautious all his life.

She packed her backpack immediately, supported Grandpa Jiang, and sat in the small van contracted by No. 1 Middle School to Shuibu Town.

But the school leaders of Wu Zhong were jealous.

Wu Zhong faced the same problem as the reporters, that is, they could promote Song Peifeng as a student, but they could not promote his father. Therefore, Wu Zhong could not do anything like giving out scholarships with great fanfare.

A reporter and a photographer carried their equipment and went to the Linhe Brigade with Principal Sun and Director Wang of No. 1 Middle School to interview.

Principal Sun might have gotten some inspiration from Director Zhang, but he wanted to keep a high profile and tie a big red flower to Jiang Xi so that she could go back. Jiang Xi refused.

Principal Sun was not angry at being rejected. When they arrived at Shuibu Town, he asked Teacher Wang to buy some fireworks and firecrackers, put them in a big red bag, and carried them to the car.

They went around the charcoal mountain, around the scale, around the township where Aunt Jiang lived, and then walked a very rugged and bumpy mountain road. It took them nearly three hours. There was a mountain stream in the middle, and the people had to wade through it.

In the middle of winter, they actually had to wade through the water.

The female reporter asked Jiang Xi, "Are you going to wade through the water in such a cold day?"

Jiang Xi said calmly, "I'm used to it."

She wanted to carry Grandpa Jiang on her back, but Grandpa Jiang refused and insisted on wading through the water by herself. Jiang Xi, who was already 1.6 meters tall, carried her on his back and held Grandpa Jiang's thin thighs, wading through the clear and icy mountain stream little by little.

Others who had never waded through water in winter were dumbfounded, especially the female reporter, who really didn't expect that the village where Jiang Xi lived was so remote.

Jiang Xi explained, "This is because the road is not open. When the road is built to our brigade, it will be much easier to travel. Now our brigade basically travels by boat. And this is winter, the water level has dropped and the rocks are exposed. The water in the mountain stream is shallow. Normally, the water is much deeper than this, about waist-high."

It is easy for them to take a boat, but they have no car or boat to go back. With so many people, they can't rest in Jiangjia Village!

This is also the reason why they chose to hire a van to come to Jiangjia Village.

A passer-by saw that they were facing a creek and did not dare to come over. He took out a shovel from home and called two people to help dig sand. He said: "Is this your first time here? You are inexperienced. You should put a shovel in the car, find a place with shallow water, throw a few stones in, and dig some sand over. Wouldn't the water level be a little higher?"

He dug for a while and saw that it was almost done. He instructed the van driver: "Okay, drive over."

The van driver looked at the water in the creek and then at his wheels. He was very careful, fearing that his car would be soaked and unable to start. In the end, he drove over.

Jiang Xi calmly wiped the water off his feet and legs with the towel in his bag, put on warm shoes on the boat, and continued to get in the car.

The photographers were filming from the beginning to the end.

The people who were helping to fill the gravel, seeing that they were carrying cameras and microphones, and the female reporter, who had painted herself a white face, came over curiously to ask where they were going.

When the female reporter saw these people asking, the male photographer carrying the camera also turned on the camera tacitly. The female reporter asked them: "Excuse me, do you know that our Wucheng has two top students from Tsinghua University and Peking University?"

Many people here have never left Shuibu Town in their lives, so how would they know about Wucheng? Upon hearing this,

they all shook their heads: "I don't know

." There were also people who didn't want to be interviewed, turned around and waved their hands facing the camera: "I don't know, I don't know."

There were young people who heard the excitement and ran over. They had just returned from working in other places. They just got up from the gambling table and saw a reporter. They stuck their heads in front of the camera and asked the reporter in his poor Mandarin: "Are you from our Shanjian Township?"

His Mandarin was laughed at by many of his companions on the boat, and his face turned red with laughter.

The locals have a very strange mentality. They don't speak Mandarin, and they look down on and even laugh at all outsiders who are not from Shuibu Town. Anyone who has a different accent from them and tries to speak Mandarin will be described by the locals using a local dialect, similar to the adjective "Southern barbarians and Northern 侉". For example, they say: "Tsk, you're still learning 侉!"

"Wa Zi!"

For people like Uncle Xiao Jiang's grandmother who can't change their original accent all their lives, many people in the village call Uncle Xiao Jiang's grandmother directly "Wa Zi." Sometimes when they call Uncle Xiao Jiang's grandfather, they will directly call him "Where is your wife Wa Zi?"

Wa Zi, Wa Zi, in the eyes of local people, is a very derogatory word for others. This has led to many people in rural areas who want to learn and speak Mandarin not daring to speak in their hometowns, for fear of being laughed at by others. On the contrary, when they go to work in other places, no one will laugh at them no matter how they speak Mandarin.

Of course, if they don't learn to speak Mandarin, they can't communicate with people in other places.

The female reporter smiled and said, "I'm from Shuibu Town."

In fact, the female reporter's Mandarin is not standard, she uses Wucheng Mandarin, and still has some Wucheng accent.

People from Wucheng usually speak Wucheng dialect. When these people saw them speaking Wucheng Mandarin, they thought they were from the city and kept asking if they were from the city and where they were going.

Soon, everyone in Shanjian Township knew that there was a girl in Linhe Brigade who was the top scorer in Wucheng County this term. She won the gold medal in the national competition and was admitted to Beijing University in advance. Shanjian Township is

located deeper in the mountains and unlike Linhe Brigade, there is a big river in front of it and it can be connected to the outside world by boat.

Because of its geographical location and other reasons, the people in this township are more feudal, more closed, and more patriarchal than those outside.

As far as Jiang Xi knew, it really existed. There were several cases where newborn girls were put into a wooden basin and washed directly down by the water from the mountain stream. When they were young, they often heard that someone from someone's family was picked up by her mother from the wooden basin in the mountain stream.

It was not later that everyone joked that you were given to me for free when I topped up my phone bill. It was just a joke.

At that time, if they said they were picked up from the mountain stream, then they really were picked up.

The names given to the daughters were also very simple and crude, such as Zhaodi, Daidi, Pandi, Laidi, Yindi, and Youdi.

When Jiang Xi was in primary school, she had never seen such names in her class. But after entering junior high school, she not only heard these names everywhere in her class, but also had the same name as others.

The families that she met in her junior high school class were all very good to girls. Most of the girls here did not even attend the nine-year compulsory education. Many only studied for the first or second grade and then went home to take care of their younger brothers and sisters. Family

planning? They hid in the mountains. Not only could the family planning office, but even Jiang Xi, who grew up in the mountains, not be able to find them.

The first reaction of the people in this village when they heard about this was: "Impossible! Did you hear it wrong? It was a boy who got into college, but you heard it was a girl? How can a girl go to college?"

"That's right! Why would a girl go to college? She will be over 20 years old when she passes the exam, how can she get married? If she is not married in her 20s, how can she get married in the future?"

Jiang Xi and his friends had already driven away, and the teachers in the car were silent.

Suddenly, Principal Sun said to Jiang Xi: "Jiang Xi, when we get to your team later, you will wear a red flower, and we will light firecrackers behind you and escort you all the way back, right?"

Principal Sun thought Jiang Xi would refuse, but when he saw Jiang Xi's smile, he readily agreed: "Okay!"

The car hadn't even reached Jiangjia Village, but had reached the area of ​​Linhe Brigade, when Jiang Xi and his group got off the car.

The female reporter and Teacher Wang carefully put the big red flower on Jiang Xi and tied it to his chest with a big red satin. The photographer also took pictures. After the big red flower was tied, the photographer hurriedly trotted to the front and turned on the camera. Jiang

Xi walked in front, supporting Grandpa Jiang. Behind him were Principal Sun, Director Wang, the female reporter, and the van driver. They ran to the side of the road and lit fireworks.

From Dingjia Village, through Shijia Village, they finally arrived at the big house in Jiangjia Village.

On the road, people were attracted by the sound of fireworks and firecrackers and stood by the roadside to watch the excitement. They looked at a girl wearing a red flower, walking in front, and two men behind her were holding a huge banner: [Congratulations to Jiang Xi, a student from Jiangjia Village, Linhe Brigade, for being admitted to Beijing University.]

Many young people who had nothing to do and went home for the New Year gathered at the gambling table. When they heard the excitement, they also came out to see what was going on.

So everyone who came to watch the excitement saw this banner.

There were not enough fireworks and firecrackers on the way. When they came across a small shop in Shijia Village, Principal Sun walked with his long legs and bought a bag of them. Firecrackers and fireworks seemed to be free, and they set them off as they walked.

They walked all the way to the brigade headquarters below Jiangjia Village. Behind them, there was already a large group of adults and children following them to watch the excitement.

Many people from Jiangjia Village came down to watch the excitement. The brigade secretary and others in the brigade headquarters also came out of the brigade headquarters and saw a girl wearing a big red silk flower surrounded by many people in the center of the crowd, with a banner held by two directors behind her.

Principal Sun saw them coming out of the brigade headquarters, with an air of a big boss, and walked up to the brigade secretary with long legs, shook his hand and said: "Hello, are you cadres from Linhe Brigade? I am the principal of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School, my last name is Sun, and we are here to congratulate our student Jiang Xi for being admitted to Beijing University. By the way."

He let go of the brigade secretary's hand, turned sideways and introduced the female reporter to him: "This is reporter Wu who came to interview Linhe Brigade and Jiang Xi's family."