Chapter 1: Back in Time
The unbelievable bizarre thing of crossing rebirth actually happened to him, an honest man, which is really bizarre in the bizarre, weird in the weird.
In this regard, Chen Shi had no other way but to accept it silently.
The hometown is still a memory of three small earthen houses, thatched roofs, rats rampant at night, people can't sleep, he still remembers not long ago after the family had a cat, the situation only slightly improved.
The parents who are not yet old and are just middle-aged are still in good health, not hunched over, not gray-haired, not deaf and blind.
The sister who is not married is at a young age, although she is a little malnourished and thin, but her indomitable heart has not changed, and she is very assertive in everything, soft on the outside and strong on the inside.
The younger siblings who have just entered junior high school are in the ignorant season, carefree, although they usually eat and dress poorly, but they are not hungry, not frozen, have not grown knowledge, and have not grown a sense of responsibility, so they do not have a personal feeling for the word "four walls of the family", so the whole family, there are only two of them left with a smile on their faces.
Both parents were peasants, they couldn't read a single word, and they had no way to make a living except for digging in the fields. In this small ravine at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest, they used their industrious hands to dig out grain in the loess and provide for the four Chen Shi sisters. My sister and he have graduated from high school, and my younger siblings have just entered junior high school, and their grades are not bad.
That's the great thing about being a farmer parent.
This year is June 2000, and the college entrance examination has just ended. Her sister Chen Jing was admitted to a junior college, but Chen Shi failed to make the list, so the family held the first family meeting to discuss Chen Shi's future.
It was at this critical moment that Chen Shi was reborn in an unbelievable way.
His father, Chen Dazhong, was smoking a pipe and a cigarette from the leaves he had grown, and the dim room was filled with the smell of smoke, but everyone had long been used to it, so no one had any objections to it.
Mother Wang Ping carried a pot of water on the stove, folded a square towel on her head and wrapped it in a triangle, rolled up her sleeves and prepared to wash the dishes, but she nagged to her father: "Are the cows fed? ”
The father didn't speak, but the younger sister Chen Ying replied while looking at the book: "I have been locked up in the circle a long time ago, and I was locked in with my father." ”
"Xiao Ying'er is sensible, unlike Xiaodong, who plays around outside all day long, doesn't go home when it's dark, like a little madman. Mother Wang Ping chattered, younger brother Chen Dong bowed his head and was silent, and his sister got up to help her mother wash the dishes together.
In less than ten minutes, my mother and sister washed the dishes and chopsticks, and then everyone sat around to prepare for the first family meeting.
At home, his mother's words are more authoritative than his father's, his father Chen Zhongren is as his name suggests, loyal and honest, and his genes have also been passed on to Chen Shi, but now the reborn Chen Shi is also honest, but he is a person who has seen the world, has a heart age in his thirties, and has a lot of opinions.
"What are you going to do in the future?" said the mother, in a serious, completely family-headed tone. The stone is Chen Shi's nickname, and his parents never call them by their scientific names, but they always call them by their nicknames, which is very cordial.
Before Chen Shi could speak, his sister interjected: "Let's repeat it! At the very least, I have to take the junior college exam, and I can be a teacher in the future." ”
The mother glanced at Chen Shi, then looked at Chen Jing and said, "What do you read?" You don't have to read it if he repeats it, the family doesn't have so much money, are you willing to do it?"
In the eyes of the parents, there is no patriarchal thinking, and they are completely equal, and the girls of other people's families will marry at most when they are in junior high school, but my sister has been studying until high school, and she will be admitted to a junior college, and she will be assigned a job in the future, at least as a teacher.
This is an underdeveloped area, the economy is very backward, the transportation is very inconvenient, and the school teachers are scarce, therefore, the best choice for students is to study in normal schools, some are secondary schools, some are junior colleges, but whether they are secondary schools or junior colleges, they are completely distributed, and they are very practical to eat public meals. However, Chen Shi knows that this situation will soon change, and after entering the new century, there will be a large number of college students, and the system of this special era will be completely eliminated.
My sister caught the last train, and she was admitted to a junior college normal school, and after graduation, she will definitely be assigned to the school as a teacher, and if she wants to give up her studies at this time, of course, it is equivalent to wiping out her future.
Chen Shi hurriedly shook his head and said: "I won't repeat my studies, I can't study well, instead of wasting time and money on me, it is better to let my sister go to study as a teacher, and in the future, she will be able to subsidize the family after she is assigned a job." ”
In the previous life, the conditions in the family were changed after my sister worked.
Chen Jing lowered her head, her mouth cocked, the unspeakable grievances in her heart, she wanted to continue studying, and she also wanted her brother to repeat it, if there was a way to get the best of both worlds, then she would definitely give her full support.
My father, who had not spoken much, snuffed out Ye Ziyan and said: "I'll go to your aunt's house to borrow some money, as long as you can be admitted to college, even if you smash pots and sell iron, blood and kidneys, I will provide for you to finish, I'm afraid that you won't be able to pass the exam yourself, wasting time and money." ”
Chen Shi didn't speak, he thought silently, wasn't the biggest regret in his previous life that he didn't study hard? If he could take the entrance examination to a university, he would not only be able to improve his family's conditions, but also have a stable job, wouldn't this be his dream of working outside for more than ten years?
Chen Shi was a little confused, how can a farmer's son change his fate? After thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination, the fate of life has changed, if you can jump over the dragon gate, you can get rid of the identity of the peasant, if you fall to the ground and fall off the list again, then you will repeat the road of the previous life of the worker, life is just a small An Xiaofu, hungry and frozen, ordinary and ordinary, simple.
I am unwilling, but I am helpless. Repeating, he may not be able to be admitted to a university, and he understands very clearly how many pounds and taels he has. But it's a pity not to gamble once.
Seeing that Chen Shi didn't speak, his father Chen Dazhong said again: "You think it out yourself, if you want to continue studying, I will borrow money tomorrow, if you don't study, then follow me to farm or go out to work, and when you save some money, you will take a daughter-in-law, you are not young, you are eighteen years old, think about your own affairs, don't regret it in the future." ”
Since Chen Shi hesitated and couldn't make up his mind, this family meeting ended here.
This night, Chen Shi hardly fell asleep, his mind was messy, thinking about the future for a while, and thinking about the past for a while. Reborn once, although he is a little confused about the future, he is very confident, because he has advanced insight, and it should not be too difficult to make a small fortune.
But what should the wife who met him in the previous life in adversity, love each other, and love each other in the rivers and lakes?
It wasn't until late at night that Chen Shi hadn't figured out what to do, and he barely fell asleep in a daze when it was almost dawn. When I woke up the next day, my younger siblings had already gone to school, and my parents were busy with the men in their hands, my father fed the pigs and cows, my mother cooked and washed clothes, and my sister helped by the side.
"Mom, what do you eat in the morning?" Chen Shi was hungry and asked his mother while washing.
"Stir-fried potatoes. ”
Artichoke, also known as potatoes, or potatoes, can almost be said to be a specialty here, because it belongs to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, less water, more dry land, and the cultivation is mainly drought-resistant, such as corn, potatoes, etc. Therefore, the staple food here is corn and potatoes, corn is mainly ground into flour for cooking, potatoes are used as vegetables, and there are countless kinds of meals.
Baked potatoes, boiled potatoes, fried potatoes, and potato soup are eaten in different ways, and the most eaten in his memory is potatoes, and he eats too many potatoes, and he looks like a potato, although one hundred and seventy-three centimeters is not too short, but compared to northerners, he is considered a small man.
A small pot of fried potato chips, a pot of sauerkraut bean and rice soup, and a bowl of corn rice each. This is the breakfast of Chen Shi's family, compared with the seventies and eighties, this can be regarded as a happy life. My parents are people from that era, and they know what it's like to not be full, but now at least they can't be hungry.
There were three mud houses in the family, one of which was used as a kitchen by the parents, and one was divided into three rooms for the four sisters, one for the elder sister and the younger sister, a small room for him and his younger brother, and the other half was a miscellaneous room, and one was a hall house, which was also a living room.
Such a simple family condition is absolutely appropriate to describe it as "a family with four walls".
"Tell your dad to eat. Mother Wang Ping said to Chen Shi while stir-frying.
When Chen Shi went to call his father, the two little pigs raised by the family were running around, and he and his father chased after him, and it took a long time to bring them to the pen and lock them up, and the family began to eat after washing their hands.
It's been a long time since he's eaten such coarse cornmeal, and he's used to the tender and delicious rice, and then he eats coarse grains, which are a little hard to swallow, so he has to eat them soaked in soup.
As he ate, his chest was uncomfortably blocked, and the question he had been thinking about all night suddenly had an answer: whether he continued to study or went out to work, wasn't it all about making his parents live a good life? Wasn't it all about having a wealthy family?
In his previous life, he went out to work and did not return home all the year round, and his parents lived a hard and poor life at home, until his sister graduated and the conditions gradually improved, and his parents ate rice.
In this life, will he have to repeat the mistakes of the past? However, not only will studying not immediately improve the family's conditions, but will also aggravate the family's difficulties, so he must not repeat it.
There is more than one way to change his fate, he has secretly made up his mind to change his fate and improve the conditions at home, he must not let his parents suffer anymore, and he must not let his tragedy continue to repeat itself in his younger brothers and sisters, and he wants them to study in peace, he has grown up and should shoulder the burden of the family.