"What kind of bottle is this, what are you doing with so many bottles?" Chunyang asked, looking at a dozen plastic bottles of similar size.

"It's for a cover room!" Guo Zhien shook an empty bottle and explained with a smile: "Fill it with sand and pile it up, and smear the outside with clay mixed with straw, and the wall will be built." ”

Chunyang has seen other people's houses build walls and build walls, but this is not the way to build them at all. But it is understandable, after all, the Guo family has this condition, and if they want to cover the ear room without asking for help, they can only think of some other way.

But......

"How many bottles do you need here, are there so many bottles in town for you to pick up?", Chunyang said worriedly.

Guo Zhien lowered his head slightly, and he didn't know what his expression was, but he only said very firmly: "I will definitely be able to pick up enough, don't worry." By the way, I told my mother and grandma about your schooling, and they meant that you can go if you want, and if you don't want to go, you can't go, whatever. ”

Chunyang unconsciously grabbed the old book in his hand, and said a little sullenly: "I don't want to go." My classmates must know about our two families, and I don't want to be told by them, so I'd better stay at home. ”

Guo Zhien didn't persuade her, just glanced at her and said: "It's all up to you, you can learn wherever you want, if you can't ask anything, you can ask anyone except Zhili at home." ”

Chunyang felt that he was bragging.

Isn't the Guo family educated about Guo Zhien's father Guo Houze, he died a few years ago, and he didn't have a good time in those years of life, can he have the heart to teach his family to read and write?

As if guessing what Chunyang was thinking, Guo Zhien patted her arm with a smile and said vaguely: "Don't believe it, you will know in the future whether I lied to you or not." ”

That night, Chunyang knew that Guo Zhien was not bragging at all.

The only one at the foot of the mountain, there is no electricity, and I am reluctant to waste too many candles and lamp oil, so I go to bed early at night. Tonight was quite special, Guo Zhien was holding an old newspaper by the candle and reading it to the family.

Grandma, they don't just listen to the excitement, the country has a new policy or something, they will come up with it to discuss and analyze, saying that Lao Duo Chunyang can't understand things at all.

After reading several major newspapers, Cao Peiyu frowned and sighed and said: "These newspapers have mentioned family planning in several issues in a row, and it seems that the wind is going to blow stronger and stronger." 'If family planning is good, the country will provide for the elderly', and the country will provide for our old age, so this family planning is definitely not a joke. Yunyun, what are you going to do?"

Cao Yun picked up a newspaper that Guo Zhien had just read and looked at it a few times, and said with a smile: "Grandma, Mom, don't worry about it, I have a plan in my heart." ”

These words did not appease Grandma and Cao Peiyu.

"What's the use of your calculations, you have to say something. If you can't give birth to a son, what should you do if your in-laws have an opinion?"

They were talking about Cao Yun, but Chunyang thought of her eldest sister Li Dongmei.

After getting married, the eldest sister gave birth to a daughter, and her in-laws, who were already bad to her, treated her even worse, and now not only her in-laws, but even her mother's family are urging her to have a son, as if she is a big sinner of the two families if she doesn't give birth to a son.

If, if it is really impossible to have as many children as she wants, then what should the eldest sister do? How can she live in her in-law's house without a son, and she must not be bullied to death?

The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I became, and I couldn't help but sigh and attract the attention of the family.

"What's wrong Chunyang?" asked Grandma.

Chunyang said what he thought in his heart, and at the end he sniffed and choked up: "The eldest sister in the family is the best to me, she is honest and capable, and whoever bullies her can endure it, my parents don't feel sorry for her, I feel sorry for her." ”

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the Guo family's scriptures have not been read clearly, of course, they can't manage the affairs of the Li family, so they can only say a few comforting words to make Chunyang feel better.

As if they had discussed it, the village chief and the women's director came over the next day near noon and talked about family planning.

Chunyang and the children were all kicked out, and only the adults stayed in the house to talk.

The more mysterious they became, the more curious the child became, so Zhien took Chunyang and Zhili to hide under the backyard window and secretly listen to the adults.

The village chief heard that Cao Yun and Li Yonggang were going to get married, so they came over to publicize family planning for her, and asked her to respond to the country's call not to have more children, focusing on what serious consequences would be if they said that they would have more children.

The cadres in the village are good to the Guo family, no matter what Cao Yun and them think in their hearts, anyway, they have a good attitude in front of others, and they listen to what they say.

After talking about serious things, the village chief went out of the house first, and the women's director mysteriously stuffed Cao Yun with a booklet and instructed: "This is issued by the county family planning department, Yunyun, you can take it." It's okay if you don't know how to read, there are pictures in it, but don't feel embarrassed not to look at it, it's good to look at it before getting married. ”

The two of them went out of the yard and saw that they were going to go away, Chunyang gritted his teeth and chased after him.

She stopped in front of the village chief and the women's director and boldly asked, "Are you going to my house?"

Chunyang was afraid that they would not go to the Li family.

She hopes that the village chief and the women's director can do a good job of publicizing family planning for the Li family, so that parents will not force the eldest sister to have children in the future!

The village chief and the women's director all knew her and knew why she was in the Guo family, sympathy was on their faces, and they spoke very kindly.

The women's director replied with a smile: "I only take care of women's affairs, and you won't go to your house." ”

Chunyang looked at the village chief, and the village chief also said with a smile: "What I want to advertise above is to have a child, just talk to this head, you don't have to go to your house." ”

It was a woman who gave birth to a child, so I only told Cao Yun about this, not Li Yonggang.

Chunyang always felt that the village chief's statement was wrong, and was thinking about what was wrong, Zhien pulled Zhili over and asked: "Second uncle, this child can't be born alone, why only tell one person?

The village chief froze, probably feeling that it was very shameless to be asked by a half-sized child, so he cleared his throat and replied: "Don't interfere with the affairs of adults, you children, what should you do." ”

"We really can't control such a big thing, we just think we shouldn't just tell my family, we have to go to Li's house to publicize it, you see who has a child in the village is not what the in-laws' family says, and the mother's family who can't give birth can't control it." Zhi'en softened and said with a smile.

This kind of attitude of speaking is acceptable to the village chief, and his tone softened, and he smiled: "That's okay, go back and go to Li's house to say." You should hurry home, don't go to the big river to play if you have nothing to do, the river is only frozen and easy to have accidents. ”

The two of them walked a long way before the three of them went home, grandma and Cao Peiyu were making insoles, and Cao Yun was burning kang in the outhouse.

Chunyang and the three of them came to Cao Yun and asked her what kind of book the women's director gave her before leaving, Cao Yun's face turned red, and she asked the children not to ask nonsense.

Children are just curious, and the more they don't let them know, the more they want to know.