“That’s not the same thing,” Zhang Yufeng said angrily. “I may not be able to control others, but surely I can’t control my own daughter?”
"Why...why do you have to control her?" Wang Tianxiao gently advised, "Mother, Xiaolan is already twenty-one years old, she's an adult. She has her own thoughts and principles. She no longer needs you to make decisions for her in everything; she can decide her own life."
Zhang Yufeng was slightly taken aback when she heard Wang Tianxiao say this. Perhaps something in her heart had been touched. She stared at Wang Tianxiao blankly and fell silent for a moment.
“Mother, I’m just talking to you today. You still have to figure it out yourself. Besides, Xiaolan’s stubbornness is inherited from you, isn’t it? Let her stay at my place for now. Anyway, she has nowhere to stay when she comes back. If you want to see her, just tell Tianxin and I’ll send her back.”
"I don't want to see her at all; she'd better never come back."
Although Zhang Yufeng was still insisting verbally, her tone had softened considerably.
What used to be a cold winter day has now become more like the cold winds blowing in autumn.
Wang Tianxiao didn't expect to solve the problem in one go. He felt that the time was right, so he stopped arguing.
After chatting casually with his mother for a while, he left the pit-dwelling courtyard.
When I went out, I saw Hongwei still playing in the dirt on the ground. Thinking of my own Wang Fang, I suddenly felt sorry for the child.
He has done what he needed to do; the rest is up to fate and destiny.
If nothing changes, then it's just that he was born into such a family.
As I always say, it's all fate.
Just like Wang Tianxiao in his previous life, he suffered endless hardships. If he hadn't lived long enough, he might not have been able to live to see the day when his suffering finally came to an end.
He saw Wang Tianren and his wife staring at him warily with malicious eyes, and he immediately felt that the two of them were both hateful and pitiful, and that they would suffer in the future.
As he was about to return to the station after climbing into the pit courtyard, he saw Captain Zhao Dabao coming out of the neighbor Cao's house with a worried look on his face, sighing and shaking his head as he walked.
Just as he was about to crash into Wang Tianxiao's motorcycle, he suddenly came to his senses. Seeing that it was Wang Tianxiao, he forced a smile and said, "Ah, it's Tianxiao. You've come back to see your mother?"
"Yes, I came back to take a look."
Wang Tianxiao offered Zhao Dabao a cigarette. "Brother Dabao, you look really down. Is something wrong?"
"Isn't it all for the sake of getting electricity?"
Zhao Dabao's lighter was a bit malfunctioning; it took him many tries to light his cigarette. He took a deep drag, exhaled a long puff of smoke, and then said, "Well, the village held a meeting a while ago, and they said they were going to do some kind of electricity installation program. Once the higher-ups say it, we locals have to run ourselves ragged."
"This is a good thing, why do you seem unhappy?"
"It's certainly a good thing, but you don't know how difficult it is to deal with the old stubborn guys in this team. I've worn my lips out, but there are still very few families willing to help."
"That's ridiculous! It shouldn't be like this. Did you not explain it clearly to everyone? Electricity is definitely better than kerosene. Besides, how are we supposed to watch TV without electricity...?"
"television?"
"Oh. It's a kind of thing that needs electricity to work, like in a movie," Wang Tianxiao explained, then added, "Speaking of which, why does everyone disagree?"
"It's all because we're poor."
Zhao Dabao rolled up his trousers and squatted down on the nearby mound of earth, saying helplessly, "Actually, you can't entirely blame the villagers for this. I heard from the village and the power supply station that to get electricity, you first have to lay power lines. And those lines have to be run from the town, which isn't a simple matter. You have to put up a cement pole every hundred meters or so, and you have to slowly bring the line to the entrance of our village..."
“I know that,” Wang Tianxiao nodded. “To use electricity, you definitely need power lines.”
"That makes sense, but here's the problem. The power company said they would cover part of the cost, and they said it would be the bulk of it, but we don't know if they were lying. Anyway, after we went there, each household had to pay another fifty yuan before the power line could be brought into the village."
"Fifty yuan, that's not a small amount."
Wang Tianxiao roughly estimated the purchasing power of fifty yuan.
Although he is not yet extremely wealthy, he is currently quite well-off thanks to Zhang Wenyuan, whom he has found a powerful patron.
As a result, his concept of money was somewhat vague.
Every time I hear a monetary amount, I subconsciously calculate the price level, consider the average income of people today, and then judge what level this amount of money belongs to.
Fifty yuan is nothing to Wang Tianxiao.
But for these ordinary villagers, it's already a considerable sum.
Few families can come up with so much cash at once.
It's no wonder that ordinary people are unwilling to use their entire family's assets to do something uncertain.
It's really not cost-effective.
“There are three main power lines in our village. One of them runs from the transformer on the east side of our team all the way to Mijia Village. The problem now is that if this line is blocked, then Mijia Village and Xia Liu Village will not be able to use electricity, which will definitely cause a lot of trouble.”
Wang Tianxiao frowned upon hearing this.
If an ordinary villager heard this information, they probably wouldn't care. They can't even take care of their own affairs, let alone care about other villages.
But Wang Tianxiao was different.
He was still hoping to get the station powered up.
If electricity can't even reach Wangjia Village, how can it possibly reach Xialiu Village?
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