Chapter 94 From the Countryside, Back to the Countryside
Zhou Xiaoli was a little embarrassed by Hang Jingshu's serious expression. She waved her hands repeatedly: "You're welcome, you're welcome."
Then she rolled her eyes and made another request: "If you really appreciate me, it's not impossible to lend it to me to help me copy my English homework when school starts."
"no!"
Hang Jingshu firmly disagreed.
Zhou Xiaoli's academic performance is pretty good, but she starts to feel dizzy whenever she encounters English. During this holiday, the English homework assigned by Teacher Cai is twice as much as that of other subjects. Zhou Xiaoli has been suffering for several days.
"Xiaohang~"
Zhou Xiaoli blinked her big eyes, with obvious pleading intent.
Not only does she get dizzy when she sees English, she also has her own theory: "We are Chinese, what's the point of learning English!"
After saying this, Zhou Xiaoli felt Teacher Cai’s special care when she attended the class again.
Even now she still gets a headache when she sees English compositions.
How come those crooked letters can have so many pronunciations, and there is no logic at all? It is simply more terrifying than classical Chinese.
Hang Jingshu also understood that this was Zhou Xiaoli's weakness. If she didn't practice hard now, her scores would definitely fall behind in the future.
But Zhou Xiaoli had just done him a big favor. Seeing her disappointed face, Hang Jingshu could only suggest another solution: "You can come to me tomorrow and we can work together."
Of course Zhou Xiaoli would not refuse: "Okay, then leave me your address!"
When the store on Jianguo Road opened a few years ago, Zhou Xiaoli brought people there to show her support.
Now that Hang Jingshu lives in the city, it is more convenient for him to travel.
Anyway, she was just hanging out with people with good grades, so Zhou Xiaoli still liked Hang Jingshu more than the overly flattering Qin Ziyu.
After agreeing on a time, the mother and daughter of the Hang family said goodbye to Zhou Xiaoli at the intersection. Seeing that her daughter was really resistant, Wang Silan did not mention the matter of getting her ears pierced.
The lady is right, learning is still the most important thing.
Today is the third day of the Chinese New Year. Tomorrow Wang Silan and Hang Renshan have to catch the train. The couple went their separate ways, Wang Silan went to Chouzhou to select new goods, and Hang Renshan went to Wenzhou to pick up his purse and wallet.
The styles of purses and wallets vary greatly, but the essence remains the same. Wang Silan had already negotiated the price with the boss, so all she had to do was go and order the goods.
There are not too many styles of wallets, and the basic models can be sold for a long time, so Wang Silan was very confident in letting Hang Renshan go.
People’s energy is limited, and you need to have a healthy butt to ride back and forth on this green train.
The minimum is 7 or 8 hours, and the maximum is a whole day on the train. The best solution is for the couple to divide the work and cooperate with each other.
There are sleeper berth tickets on the train, but you need money alone to buy them, and you need someone to buy them. Naturally, the Hang couple would not spend money on them.
The next morning, Hang Jingshu got up and prepared breakfast for his parents. He also prepared scallion cakes, alkaline steamed buns, halved chicken and tea eggs for them to eat on the road.
There are also homemade pickled red salted vegetables cut into fine strips, some chopped green onions, sesame seeds and sesame oil mixed well, and it is especially fragrant when put in the pancake.
At four o'clock in the morning on the fourth day of the New Year, Hang Jingshu got up and made dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork. Hang Renshan ate a large plate of them with a good appetite, and then sat on a bench to drink dumpling soup to help digest the food.
Wang Silan was busy telling her two children: "Guard the door and don't run around. Eat the meat at home every day. Occasionally, go to the store to check and make sure no one steals it."
These words have been repeated since yesterday. The brother and sister understand that their parents are worried about them, so even though they have heard them several times, they still nodded in agreement.
Hang Chenggang put his parents' luggage on his bike, then turned around and told Hang Jingshu, "Little sister, you stay at home. I'll ride my bike to take my parents home."
Wang Silan and her husband travelled light and took the bus to the train station, while Hang Chenggang rode a bicycle with his luggage to meet them at the train station.
Nowadays, besides keeping money close to you, you also have to be resourceful. Wang Silan has already started thinking about buying another bicycle.
I need to purchase and sell goods for my family, and I also need another one for my little girl to go to school!
Anyway, you will never lose money if you buy a bicycle.
Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer places that use tickets, and ordinary rural families will choose to buy a bicycle for convenient commuting.
The train passed over the rails with steam coming out, and time soon arrived at the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
It takes my parents nearly a week to restock the store each time. This time, all the goods in the store are sold out, and I guess they will need to restock even more.
With his third brother at home, Hang Jingshu felt relieved.
Anyway, we are close now, and if anything happens, Hang Jingshu will be there in a moment.
On the morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Hang Jingshu packed his things and prepared to leave, while Hang Chenggang pushed his bicycle to send his sister to the gate of the compound.
In early spring in February, although the branches on the road are still bare, the willow trees are slowly turning green, and the grass is beginning to show some green from the yellow.
On the way, the brother and sister still talked about the previous topic. Hang Chenggang asked, "Little sister, have you decided which university you want to apply to?"
Judging from Hang Jingshu's current grades, he should have no problem getting into undergraduate school.
However, today's exams are based on estimated scores and application forms. If you make a bad choice in the early stages, you will definitely miss out on your dream university.
So it is also important to determine your goals in advance.
After several days of careful consideration, Hang Jingshu had thought it through. She knew how difficult it was for children from the mountains to come out, as there might only be one college student in dozens of villages.
"Brother, I plan to apply to an agricultural university."
This decision surprised Hang Chenggang. He asked in confusion, "Why?"
According to my sister's scores, she could have chosen any undergraduate major, or even a popular major. Why did she have to study agriculture?
Children from the countryside don't want to go back, but Hang Jingshu was touched by what Xiao Jinbao said: "I want us to have green vegetables to eat in winter, so that our food production can be higher and higher, and we don't have to chew on chopstick ends in winter."
The scenery in the mountains is beautiful, but it is very difficult to get out.
The mountains are too poor.
Or we can say that farmers are too poor.
Every winter, people eat so much cabbage and radishes that they vomit. If they have the conditions at home, they can also grow some bean sprouts, buy some onions or some small miscellaneous fish and stew them.
If you don't have the conditions, there may only be cabbage and radishes at home. Either cabbage stewed with vermicelli or cabbage stewed with tofu, which will give you a headache when it's time to eat.
Even now, there are still many people who came from that era who don't want to eat corn cakes and stewed cabbage.
I'm really scared of eating it.
After listening to Xiao Jinbao's words that day, Hang Jingshu had a general idea in her mind, and it made her more determined in the past few days.
Come from the countryside and return to the countryside.
Hang Jingshu felt that using the knowledge he had learned to change something was what he wanted to do.
Hang Chenggang had never thought that his sister would have such an idea. He remained silent for a while, and the two of them just pushed the bicycle slowly.
After turning an intersection, I saw Qi Shaoming standing there.
This time Qin Ziyu was not with him. When he saw Hang Jingshu appear, he looked expectant and his eyes were fixed on Hang Jingshu.