These days, Zhang Yunfeng's life is not easy.

As a farmer, he is not a sentimental person, the pressure of life and the never-ending farm work do not make him sentimental, but every time in the dead of night, lying in bed, Zhang Guorui's cold words will always echo in his mind, coupled with his mother's nagging, the villagers in the countryside have been kind enough to introduce him to the object on weekdays, which makes him extremely distressed in his heart.

Sometimes he also thinks, just forget it, listen to the verdict of life, find a peasant woman like himself to marry, you Zhang Yunfeng is not too young! You have long passed the age of being crazy about love, you are just a mud-legged handle digging in the soil, and Xiaonan is a teacher in the city's No. 1 Middle School, and her father, Zhang Guorui, who covered the sky with one hand in Yunxi Village, is eyeing at the side, you and Xiaonan are one in the sky and one in the ground, there is no possibility at all, so what is there to hope for.

However, as soon as he thought of what his younger brother Yunqi said to him years ago, Zhang Yunfeng would brush away these chaotic and decadent thoughts in his mind, and once again strengthened his heart that was unwilling to be at the mercy of fate.

Yes, the words of his younger brother Yunqi a few years ago opened another new window for his pessimistic and gloomy life, and triggered a huge awakening of a rural youth's self-reliance consciousness.

In fact, he also understands that from the people's commune system of "one big and two publics" and "integration of government and society" before the reform, to today's responsibility system based on household production contracting, the country's policy is now getting better and better, and life is getting more and more vigorous.

Over the past few years, he has also personally felt the great changes brought by the national policy to the lives of farmers, more and more people do not have to worry about food and clothing, and it is not a luxury to have meat for meals.

Making a fortune has always been the theme of life for thousands of ordinary Chinese peasants. As long as you have food, clothing, money to spend, and good health, what else can you ask for?

However, who made himself fall in love with Zhang Guorui's daughter Zhang Xiaonan?

These days, when he was working and resting alone in the mountains, he lay on the ground with his head resting on his back and his arms, looking at the high blue sky and the white clouds flying for a long time, his eyes would be inexplicably filled with tears, and the mountains were silent, and he could even hear the blood vessels of his sideburns beating.

At times like these, the sails of his memories will sail back into the past.

He remembered the bits and pieces with Xiao Nan, the happy days when he went to school with Xiao Nan, and the words that Xiao Nan said on his shoulder on the night he left Yunxi Village: "Brother Yun Feng, whether my father agrees or not, I want to be good to you in this life!"

Thinking about it, Zhang Yunfeng's heart was broken.

But after the broken hearts are reglued together, they seem to be more tenacious, and the idea of going to the city to work hard is also more firm!

He no longer wants to be a farmer who keeps to himself, he knows that if he wants to change his situation, wants to be with Xiaonan, and goes to the city to work hard, this is the best way out, this is a good time to start a family!

After making up his mind to go out, during those days, Zhang Yunfeng did not go out to run a tractor to pull goods, but worked in the fields in the mountains all day long.

After I went to the city, these farm jobs will all fall on my mother alone, I am still young, I can't do anything, Chunlan is a good hand at farming, but now she is studying in the third year of junior high school in Longwan Town, and she will take the high school entrance examination in two months.

However, my mother is not in good health and can't endure hardship. He wanted to do as much farm work as possible before leaving, so that his mother could do less.

Spring ploughing has begun, Zhang Yunfeng loosened all the land near his home, planted cowpeas and corn, as for a few acres of tobacco fields, after plowing, there was no more tobacco seedlings, has been delayed there, the pigs at home have been killed during the New Year, Zhang's mother urged him several times, but he found an excuse to delay not going to the town to buy young pig seedlings.

After handling the affairs of the family, Zhang Yunfeng decided to talk to his mother about going to the city.

After dinner that day, Zhang's mother sat under the TV to collect the soles of her shoes, although now the family is not short of money to buy clothes and shoes, but she still likes to knit sweaters and shoes for her children, because she makes warm and durable, and she is very deep, the road is sparse and dense, and it looks like a pattern carefully designed by a craftsman from a distance.

Zhang Yunfeng rolled up a dry tobacco stick, and after smoking it silently, he turned down the sound of the TV, and plucked up the courage to say to Zhang's mother: "Mom, I have something I want to tell you." ”

Mother Zhang lowered her head and said in a calm tone, "It's a matter of going to the city, right?"

Zhang Yunfeng was a little surprised, and after a while, he asked sneeringly, "How do you know?"

Zhang's mother sighed, put the woolen basket on the table and said: "Chunlan told me, she heard about you discussing going to the city with Yunqi a few years ago, so she secretly told me to listen, and I have also felt it recently, you are ambitious, you are big, and you are not happy to farm at home, but I won't stop you, you are not small, so you can do it yourself." ”

Zhang Yunfeng felt a sense of shame in his heart, and said for a long time: "Mom, don't worry, Yunqi has already bought a big house in the city, and when I settle down there and have a way, I will take you and my sisters to live in the city!"

Zhang's mother was surprised: "Yunqi bought a house in the city, where did he get so much money?"

Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered that Yunqi was selling handheld computers while reading, and now Qiulan is also doing it with Yunqi, she has more or less probed some words, and it is not clear how much money she makes, but it must be a lot, it cost nearly 10,000 yuan to buy those household appliances and New Year's goods during the Chinese New Year, but she never dreamed that her youngest son, who is only seventeen years old, has the ability to buy a house in the city.

For a while, she was both relieved and sad.

I am glad that the children are competitive and sensible.

The sad thing is that the children are all older, they already have their own ideas, and they are going to go out to work alone, and as a mother, in addition to silently blessing them in their hearts, they can't help them for half a point.

Zhang's mother couldn't help but feel a little sad, and said: "Your brother is young, but it can be seen that he has a good brain and has more ideas, you have passed, you have to listen to his opinions more, do things in a down-to-earth manner, you don't have to worry about it at home, with me, hey... It's just that you go out to work hard, and you don't know when you will be able to get married, seeing that you are going to be 24, your younger brothers and sisters are sensible and well-behaved, and your mother has nothing to talk about now, so I think every day that you can start a family earlier. ”

Under the dim light, Zhang Yunfeng silently looked at his mother's wrinkled face, for a while, his throat was blocked in panic, unable to speak, and his heart was full of speechless touch, and the shame of being the eldest son.