Chapter 9 Walking the River
A few days later, Zhang Yunfeng decided to go to Jiangchuan.
During this period, he has been busy taking care of all the big and small affairs of the family before going out.
When he goes out, the family will have half of Zhang's mother's labor, and he will definitely not be able to cope with it, so the main flue-cured tobacco in the family is not going to be planted, and the family's several acres of tobacco fields are all rented to his neighbor Zhang Haijun.
For the rest of the Yamada, Zhang's mother wants to grow some melons, fruits and vegetables, and she also eats them on weekdays. Zhang Yunfeng relied on Zhang's mother, and in the past few days, he has been busy turning over the soil and seedlings, weeding and fattening, and wants to finish all the spring ploughing farm work before he leaves.
On the afternoon of the day when he left home, when Zhang Yunfeng was fiddling with crops in the soil at the foot of Jiangjunling Mountain, he happened to meet Zhang Guorui.
Although Zhang Guorui is the secretary of Yunxi Village, the secretary is also a farmer, and like thousands of ordinary farmers, he must also cultivate in a timely manner according to the season.
Perhaps it is precisely because he is a farmer, especially an old farmer who has gone through many vicissitudes of life from the old society, that he has deeply experienced the hardships and hardships of being a farmer, so he is so strongly opposed to his daughter and Zhang Yunfeng's goodness, he does not want to see his daughter suffer from his own suffering, and just wants her to find a city person to live a life of public dinner.
At the head of the village, his family was the richest.
As early as when Zhang Xiaonan was very young, Zhang Yunfeng even ate corn and sweet potatoes, and her family had no worries about food and clothing, and now, most of her family's land has been rented out, and her three children, including her, also persuaded their father Zhang Guorui not to farm anymore, but Zhang Guorui was reluctant to let the family's land be barren.
Isn't this a joke in the countryside at that time, and besides, planting some melons, fruits, and vegetables would not only be enough for his own food, but also for the sons and daughters of the city to bring some to him. However, it is not easy for him to cultivate this land alone.
In other people's homes, two people work together, one ploughs and the other scatters dung seeds in the back, but he, the secretary of Yunxi Village, can only do the work of two people by himself.
The three dolls in the family are out to work, the family is now only his old two, his wife is sick, he can't get off the ground, he has come up in age, useless, and has severe knee arthritis, sitting on weekdays will be faint pain, a long time to work, the pain will spread, spread to the entire thigh, straight to the heart, tortured him straight to the cold air, and finally can only stop to take a breath.
Just worked all the way to rest and stop, most of the day's work, seeing that the people working in the mountains were about to finish their work and go home, but Zhang Guorui's land had not even finished planting, he couldn't help but be impatient, he knew that Zhang Yunfeng was working on it, and it was estimated that he was about to finish his work and pass through here.
In the old society, Zhang Guorui worked on the landlord's door, working day and night without taking a breath, he was a well-known worker, even if he was now old and useless, he was not willing to let the young descendants see his jokes, and he was not willing to call Zhang Yunfeng, a clay leg who coveted his daughter, to see his own jokes!
After resting for a while, Zhang Guorui, who was holding a breath in his chest, held his knees with a faint pain, struggled to stand up, pulled the old cow, and continued to plow the soil to the other end.
Just when he gasped and turned around, he was surprised to see Zhang Yunfeng holding his dung bucket, along the furrow he had just plowed, scattering dung seeds step by step, and walking over.
He stood in place, never expecting Zhang Yunfeng to come to help him.
Zhang Yunfeng had already sown seeds in front of him, and said: "When you get older, you can do less, you can do less, there is no one around to support you, and it is not easy to farm......"
Zhang Guorui looked at Zhang Yunfeng speechless.
At last, without saying anything, he wiped his sweat and shouted to the old ox to continue plowing forward.
In less than a few pots of smoke, the two of them planted this little bit of land. Zhang Guorui watched Zhang Yunfeng put his dung bucket and Lao Yi neatly on the ridge, his heart was mixed, he grinned embarrassedly, and said, "I'll get these, it's not too early, Yunfeng, you go back!"
Zhang Yunfeng nodded.
Under Zhang Guorui's gaze, he went down the mountain with a pickaxe on his back.
The day before leaving for the city, Zhang Yunfeng went to Longwan Town Middle School. Before leaving, he also wanted to explain some things to his sister Chunlan.
Walking to Longwan Town Middle School, Zhang Yunfeng waited at the door of Chunlan's classroom until the bell rang for the end of class, and then beckoned to Chunlan, who was lying on the desk and studying seriously.
Chunlan heard the voice, turned her head and saw her eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng, she was immediately overjoyed, ran out of the classroom and came to him and said, "Big brother, why are you here?"
Zhang Yunfeng touched his sister's head affectionately with his hand: "Come and see you, I'm going to the city tomorrow." ”
Chunlan had heard the eldest brother and the second brother discuss this matter a few years ago, and she had already prepared in her heart, but now that the eldest brother is really going to the city, she still can't adapt to it a little, and said a little sadly: "Have you thought about what to do in the city?"
Zhang Yunfeng said with a smile: "There are thousands of roads, are you still worried that you can't find something to do?" Don't worry about this, I'm out doing things, my mother and Xiaoxiao are at home, you have to take care of this family, if there is anything, call your eldest sister, she will inform me. ”
Hearing these words, Chunlan couldn't help but feel sad and said, "Big brother, don't worry, I know how to do it." ”
Zhang Yunfeng took out 100 yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into her hand, and said: "You are sensible and well-behaved when you are young, I can rest assured, but in the past, the family was poor, so you had to pick up waste while going to school to save tuition, hey, it's just that my brother has no ability! But now there is no shortage of your living expenses at home, and you are about to take the high school entrance examination, you have to concentrate on studying, don't be too stressed, buy some delicious and nutritious supplements for your brain, and also, don't care about your mother's living expenses in the future, I will send it to you regularly on the 1st of every month, and I will ask someone to send it to you if I don't have time." ”
Chunlan listened to these deep and loving words of her eldest brother, and suddenly her nose was sore, and her eyes turned red.
Zhang Yunfeng patted her head with his calloused palm, and said: "What are you crying for! If you want to fight for our family, you must read the book like one! I ran home from school at the age of thirteen to work, just to work with my father for you and your second brother to go to school, now that your second brother has a chance, you are also awake, and you will definitely be able to seek great development in the future, so you must take your second brother as an example, study hard, strive for the top prize in Fengyang County, and go to study in the best city No. 1 middle school, and then all our family will live in the city!"
Chunlan nodded vigorously.
She whispered in her heart: "Big brother, don't worry! I will definitely not disgrace our family......
After Zhang Yunfeng left, Zhang Chunlan packed up her emotions and devoted herself to the intense study before the high school entrance examination.
She is a girl with perseverance, she has her own ambitions in her heart, and Zhang Yunqi in her previous life, she is really playing hard to learn, she never participates in any activities in school, and she doesn't like to play, she holds books from morning to night, and as long as she has time, she drills into the office of the teacher of various subjects and asks for all kinds of difficult topics.
These teachers also like this highly talented female student who occupies the first place in the school all the year round, and they all know that she is Zhang Yunqi's own sister, Zhang Yunqi is the first county high school entrance examination champion who walked out of Longwan Town Middle School, and in this middle school, he is a legendary existence.
Learning is genetic.
Zhang Chunlan's teachers can see that with the current talent and academic performance of this girl, it is very likely to create the myth of the top prize in the high school entrance examination in a few months.
After visiting Chunlan, Zhang Yunfeng slept at home for one night.
Early the next morning, after the first car from Longwan Town to Fengyang County came, Zhang's mother and the fifth child, who were seeing off Zhang Yunfeng on the side of the dirt road, raised their arms to stop the car.
As soon as the car stopped, Zhang Yunfeng squeezed up with a roll of luggage that had already been bundled, he looked at his mother crowded on the dirt road and Zhang Xiaoxiao who jumped and waved to him, and waved goodbye.
More than an hour later, the car arrived in Fengyang County.
Zhang Yunfeng changed to a bus to Jiangchuan City, and when he arrived in the city, it was still after 10 o'clock in the morning, so he took a bus directly to the city's No. 1 Middle School.
Coming to this place, Zhang Yunfeng felt an inexplicable nervousness and expectation in his heart, because he would always unconsciously think of Xiaonan teaching here, but today he came to find his younger brother Yunqi, but he had never been to the city No. 1 Middle School, he only knew Yunqi's class number, walking in the huge campus of the city No. 1 Middle School, looking at the tall buildings in the green shade, he couldn't even figure out the direction, let alone find his younger brother Yunqi's classroom.
Zhang Yunfeng left his luggage on the side of the road, rolled a dry tobacco stick and stuffed it into his mouth and took two puffs, and was about to find a student to find out where the classroom of Class 168 was, when he heard someone behind him call him: "You are... Brother Zhang Yunfeng?"
Zhang Yunfeng turned his head and saw a good-looking girl.