Ruan Changgui was talking to Sun Xiaohui when they suddenly heard a voice from outside: "Second brother, come out for a moment."
It was Ruan Zhigao who asked Ruan Changgui to go out. Ruan Changgui did not dare to pretend not to hear and hurriedly got up and went out.
Walking in front of Ruan Zhigao, he called out, "Dad."
Ruan Zhigao didn't beat around the bush and said straight to the point, "I don't want to say anything more about what your wife did today, but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion on it! You should know better than me what she's thinking. This time it's over, but if it happens again, you take your wife and get out of here!"
Ruan Changgui didn't dare to say anything else, just nodded, "I've just taught her a lesson, she also realized her mistake and promised to correct it. She will listen to me in everything in the future, and there will definitely not be a next time."
Ruan Zhigao didn't look happy, "It's better."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to the side room.
After dinner, Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie, Ruan Zhigao, Liu Xinghua, and Ruan Changsheng's family of five chatted privately. Liu Xinghua was still furious when she mentioned what happened today, and said to Sun Xiaohui: "If someone hadn't stopped me today, I would have beaten her to death."
In fact, if they really fought, Liu Xinghua couldn't beat Sun Xiaohui, after all, she was older. Today, she just attacked first and knocked Sun Xiaohui unconscious when she was not prepared.
Another point is that Sun Xiaohui hated her as a mother-in-law from the bottom of her heart.
But no matter whether she could beat her or not, she must not lose in momentum and words!
If she wasn't severely punished, she would probably not remember what price she had to pay for being mean.
Ruan Zhigao smoked a pipe and said after a while: "This matter is hard to prevent. We can't control what others say or do, but we can control ourselves. So we must be careful in what we say and do, and don't let the villain catch us."
Then he looked at Ruan Changsheng: "It's mainly you."
Ruan Changsheng said: "I have been well behaved recently. I go to work obediently every day."
Ruan Changsheng has been performing very well recently. He works all day at the construction site, so Ruan Zhigao didn't continue to talk about him.
As for Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, the girls are very simple-minded, so he is not really worried.
Ruan Xi herself is not worried either. She is sure of her words and deeds, and Sun Xiaohui has made a big mistake on her this time and suffered a big loss. She is upset enough for a while, so she should not bother her again.
Only Ruan Jie was alone, she said nothing, her eyes were empty.
At night, after washing up and lying down to sleep, Ruan Jie spoke, saying to Ruan Xi: "I must have done something wrong in my last life, so I have such a mother in this life. It's really too heartbreaking and too shameful."
Hearing her words, Ruan Xi suddenly thought of "her" mother, the woman who abandoned her original self in the countryside when she was three years old. She didn't feel anything, after all, she was not her biological mother, so she just thought about it.
She came back to her senses and comforted Ruan Jie: "We have no choice about our birth and parents, so accept the reality and move forward. The most important thing is to live a good life."
Ruan Jie took a deep breath, "How can we live a good life? In a few years, we will be of marriageable age, which means we will find a man to marry or live like this, staying in the mountains for the rest of our lives." Ruan Xi
did not expect Ruan Jie to have such deep thoughts. She turned sideways, faced Ruan Jie, looked at her through the night and asked: "Don't you want to live this kind of life? Do you want to get out of the mountains and see the world outside?"
Ruan Jie tilted her head in response, "Of course I do, what about you, sister?"
Ruan Xi held her hand, "Then let's work hard together to get out."
Ruan Jie was inspired by Ruan Xi, but lost his temper after a moment, and sighed, "We can't marry outside, and it's not easy to marry into the town. Third aunt was lucky at that time, so she married into the town."
As she spoke, she thought of something, "No, sister, you and I are different. Uncle will take you to the military district. When you get to the military district, uncle and aunt should find you a cadre's son, and you can marry into a cadre family."
Ruan Jie was not very interested in marrying into a cadre family. He just held Ruan Jie's hand and said, "Trust me, I will take you out. We don't rely on getting married to change our destiny, we rely on hard work to change our destiny, how about it?"
Rely on hard work to change destiny?
This sounds very inspiring, but it is too unrealistic.
They have no direction to work towards, nor any possibility of changing their fate through hard work.
Ruan Jie couldn't imagine such a thing at all, and asked hesitantly: "Is it okay?"
Ruan Xi said: "Just believe me."
Ruan Jie thought about it, if she believed, there would still be an unrealistic hope, if she didn't believe, then there would be no hope at all, so she nodded twice and said to Ruan Xi: "Sister, I believe you!"
There were few people on the mountain road in the early morning. The girl with two braids and a pink and white floral short-sleeved shirt was humming a song with her schoolbag on her back, adding a touch of liveliness and agility to the mountains together with the birds in the early morning.
Walking to the gate of the tailor's yard, Ruan Xi knocked on the door twice and pushed it open.
Seeing the old tailor sitting in front of the sewing machine in the main room, she walked to the door of the main room, greeted him, and raised her feet to go in. Walking to the old tailor, she saw him drawing on brown recycled paper with a pencil.
Seeing him drawing the style of clothes, Ruan Xi was a little surprised - she didn't expect her master to be quite fashionable, and he would draw the style before making clothes for others, instead of just following a fixed style.
The old tailor didn't look up at her, and said while drawing: "Just draw this today, you watch from the side, and learn as much as you can. If you are interested, find some paper and learn to draw."
Ruan Xi stood by the sewing machine, slightly bent over and nodded, "Okay."
The old tailor drew very quickly, mainly just drawing a rough style, so even if he had to draw three sets of clothes, it only took most of the day.
But today, Ruan Xi was still thinking about other things in her mind. After seeing the old tailor finish drawing, she said hello and left the tailor shop first.
After leaving the tailor shop, she still did not go home. She went to look for Ling Yao on the hillside where he often grazed pigs and sheep. After finding him on a hillside, she ran over and asked him, "Do you have any books at home?"
In the entire Fengyan Brigade, the first person she thought of who could lend her books was Ling Yao.
She said last night that she wanted to take Ruan Jie out of the mountains, but it was not as easy as she said. She knew in her heart that if they did not rely on getting married, there was only one way for them to change their fate, and that was to take the college entrance examination.
She had not thought about this before, after all, it was only 1973, and it was still a long time before the college entrance examination was resumed.
She had received intensive learning training in a modern school and had attended high school and college, so she was not in a hurry to review. But for someone like Ruan Jie who had almost no foundation, more than four years was obviously not a long time.
She had the memory of her original body and knew that the little learning they had received before was almost equivalent to no education, and the words they knew were only very simple ones, about the level of second or third grade in elementary school.
Ling Yao answered all her questions and asked, "What books?"
Ruan Xi said, "Just study books, textbooks and teaching materials."
Ling Yao thought for a while and said, "I'll take you to look for them."
So he went home early today and took Ruan Xi back to the stilt house where he lived.
Ruan Xi was naturally familiar with this place. She followed Ling Yao into the house and watched him take out a suitcase from under the bed. This suitcase was obviously often rummaged through. The zipper was not zipped up, and there was no dust on it.
Ling Yao opened the suitcase, looked up at Ruan Xi and said, "The books are all here."
This was what his father had brought up with all his might. When he was exhausted, he thought about throwing away the luggage, but he didn't want to throw away the books in this suitcase. But he didn't look through it much after bringing it up. Usually, Ling Yao would look for books in it.
Ruan Xi came over and looked through it with him, and found that most of the books in it were physics. Many of them were so profound that she couldn't understand them. The remaining two books that she could understand a little bit were mathematics and physics textbooks for junior high and high school.
Ruan Xi flipped through the book and asked Ling Yao: "What did your father do before he went to the mountains?"
Ling Yao was now very frank with her and told her everything: "University professor, teaching physics."
Ruan Xi was stunned for a moment - no wonder, Ling Yao was able to understand such a difficult physics book at such a young age, it turned out that he was influenced by his father and learned from an early age. Of course, talent should not be underestimated.
Ruan Xi flipped through the book and asked again: "Have you studied abroad?"
Ling Yao nodded: "Yes."
"Then your family should be very rich?"
Being rich was not a good thing in those days, Ling Yao did not respond.
Ruan Xi raised her head to see his expression, and did not continue to ask. She flipped through all the books in the box, and none of them were books that ordinary people could read to learn literacy, so she sorted out the books and closed the box.
Ling Yao watched her close the box and asked, "Is there nothing you want?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Your books are too difficult, I'll go find someone else."
Ling Yao was a little regretful, "I'm sorry, I can't help you."
Ruan Xi smiled at him, thought for a moment and said, "Then can you help me with something else?"
Ling Yao didn't ask what he wanted him to help with, and nodded directly, "Sure."
Ruan Xi was stunned by him, and then laughed again and said, "My sister and I want to learn, can you teach us? I'll find the textbooks, and you can teach us from the simplest, okay?"
Ling Yao nodded decisively again, "Yes, sure." Ruan
Xi smiled at him and felt that he was an angel sent by God.
In Ling Yao's heart, she was the angel sent by God.
Coming out of the stilt house, it was almost evening. Ruan Xi thought and hesitated for ten minutes on the way home, and finally decided to go all out and go directly to her former teacher's house.
In this isolated mountain, she really couldn't think of anyone else who had books. In the past, when they went to school, they actually didn't have textbooks. They just followed the teacher and looked at the blackboard to learn as much as they could.
This teacher used to be the only teacher here, but because of his bad background, he was criticized during the revolution. After that, there was no teacher here, and all the children became wild children.
Searching for fragments related to this teacher in her memory, Ruan Xi felt worried, wondering what the teacher's current state was like, and whether he still remembered her, the student who had once joined in the fun and thrown pebbles at him.
Ruan Xi found his home and happened to meet the teacher coming back from work.
He was completely different from the one she remembered, much older and more mature.
Ruan Xi went up to him and said hello: "Teacher Jin."
Teacher Jin didn't even look at her and said: "I'm not a teacher anymore."
Ruan Xi followed him and said, "You will always be my teacher."
Teacher Jin put down the backpack on his shoulders at the corner of the wall and turned to look at Ruan Xi, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Ruan Xi didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "Do you have any books for study? Textbooks and so on, I want to study."
Teacher Jin stood and looked at her for a moment, without saying a word, turned around and went into the house.
Ruan Xi stood outside, waiting anxiously. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Mr. Jin's wife cooking in the house. His two children were leaning on the door frame, staring at her as if she were some strange creature.
A few minutes later, Mr. Jin came out with a pile of books in his hands.
He walked up to Ruan Xi, looked at her and said, "There are only Chinese and math books for grades one to five. There are no other books. If you want to learn, you can take them and read them yourself, but you have to return them to me after you finish learning."
This mountain lacks everything, but the most lacking thing is books.
Ruan Xi breathed a sigh of relief and was immediately grateful. She quickly reached out to take the book and bowed to Teacher Jin, saying, "Thank you."
Teacher Jin had no expression on her face. She turned around and went back into the house, saying to her, "Take good care of them."
Ruan Xi stood there and responded, "I will."
Carrying a pile of books back home, Ruan Xi took a deep breath again and again, as if she was holding the most worthless, most despised, yet most precious thing in the world.
After returning home, she called Ruan Jie into the room, put the book in front of her, and said to her: "I borrowed this from Teacher Jin's house. It is just right for us to study. If you want to change your destiny, you have to start from here." She
lowered her voice and said, "Knowledge changes destiny!"
After hearing her words, Ruan Jie was not excited. There was confusion in her eyes. She just felt that Ruan Xi was teasing her.
After a long moment, she said, "Sister, are you serious?" Why does it feel like she is talking nonsense?
Knowledge can change destiny? Knowledge obviously brings people into pits and into the mountains. For example, the Ling Yao family in the stilt house is a family of highly educated people, and the educated youth who were settled in other villages.
For example, Mr. Jin, whom Ruan Xi just mentioned.
Ruan Xi stared into Ruan Jie's eyes and said nothing else, only asking: "Do you believe me or not?"
Ruan Jie held her breath and hesitated, looking into Ruan Xi's eyes for a long time, and finally confirmed that Ruan Xi was not teasing her. She took a breath and nodded.
"Believe it!"
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