Because people reach middle age, there seems to be only one responsibility left in life, and with the gradual decline of physical health, the surging passion gradually decreases, and loneliness and emptiness become a norm.

A thirty-year-old woman feels the confusion of the passing of youth, while a forty-year-old man feels not only the loss of youth, but the loss of vitality.

Lao Liu couldn't help but look back at his wife and children again, the rare weekend vacation, the two of them were able to be at home, and there was nothing to do, they were having fun together.

Alone in the study!

But it's no wonder that although his daughter-in-law doesn't have any special abilities, she is also a college student!

As a college student from the depths of the grassland, a small village called Wudaogou, he was able to marry such a daughter-in-law, everyone thought that he had burned high incense!

Not only is his family better than him, but she is also a big city girl, and she is even about the same height as him.

Just like the cram school teacher described it to them back then.

"What are you studying for?"

"Studying is to leave this barren land, you can't plant anything, you rely on the sky to eat, and you are lucky if you don't die of hunger!"

"How do you live without it?"

"Go to college, study and chase girls, white and clean city girls! Don't look at the girls around you every day who can't even wash your face every day, your future is in the big city and metropolis!"

(Water is scarce in many parts of the grassland)

"Hehe......"

"Laugh at it! ”

"Read good books, go to the city, chase girls!"

"Okay, let's concentrate on studying!"

……

In his memory, the cram school for graduating from high school was the most difficult day for him, and his family was poor! His sisters were all married, and he was the eldest of the boys in the family, and his father was an old qualified private teacher.

If it weren't for the bad grades of his two younger brothers, he barely finished elementary school, how could it be his turn to study?

That's it, his insistence on going to cram school is also a choice that he has worked hard to earn.

After the first college entrance examination, when he felt that he had no hope, he began to plan early!

In the early 80s, there was nothing to earn money and work in the whole society, let alone in that small county with a total of less than 100,000 people, even the county seat was just a few streets and alleys, and the most famous boundary was the county government and the county hospital, and even his high school was a scene in the county.

Don't say whether the scenery is good or not, at least there are a lot of people!

Fortunately, it has been a few years of reform and opening up, most people can basically eat enough, and even a few families have a certain amount of accumulation, many people have more children in their families, and they have begun to grow up gradually, and building a house has become one of people's most important goals!

And instead of becoming a house-builder, he became a brick worker in the so-called brick factory.

The brick factory here is not a mechanized factory, all the bricks are done manually, but still piecework, as long as you want, except for the time to eat, you can keep working!

No one will urge you, and no one will praise you, if you do more, you will naturally earn more money, and if you do less, you will not even be able to support yourself, and you will naturally be eliminated.

He spent three months working hard to earn enough money for cram school and even saved a little money for living expenses.

After eight months of tutoring, he took the college entrance examination again!

Eighty-four years! The Gate of Destiny!

I once thought that all my dreams had gone with the wind, because his math test was so bad!

It can be said that for two hours in the examination room, he didn't know how much he had written and what he had written!

Thanks to his average age candidate, he has been tutoring for three years!

Of course, there are quite a few senior high school students, but "high school sixth" candidates like him can be said to be as rare as a rarity! Living a life that is far inferior to dogs, all adolescents either work hard to earn money, or hand over their hard-earned money to school, continue to study hard, and once again desperately rush through the most important and most difficult hurdle in life -- the college entrance examination!

"Husband, you really only scored 18 points in mathematics in the college entrance examination that year, so you can still be admitted to university?"

I used to have nothing to do with my wife, and when the two of them chatted privately, she asked so incredulously.

He's a little funny, but it's more of pride, after all, as long as he succeeds, all the shortcomings of the past can become pride!

"What do you think? 18 points in math, but 110 points in my language!"

(120 out of 120)

"You engineering student think it's a bit fake, hehe......"

Looking at his daughter-in-law's disgusted smile, he understood!

Because she is a math teacher, the math of the college entrance examination is 112 points! (the full score is 120) Although the Chinese is not very good, but after all, this is the normal state of science students!

In fact, he didn't tell her why he had to study engineering back then, in fact, he went for the high stipend!

Eighteen yuan a month!

It's twice as much money as his father, who has been a private teacher in his hometown for decades!

In the four years of college life, he did not go home once, and all the holidays were spent in the coal mine near the university, working with his two younger brothers!

This is still the opportunity to make money that his college teacher found through the back door!

The eldest brother is a little better, he knows that he must endure hardships and stand hard work to earn money, and he must work hard to save money!

The little brother can only be said to be hard-working, full of complaints, and occasionally tired and panicked, that is, he works while scolding, but what can he do?

If you don't bring them out of the ravine, they will be digging in that barren land for the rest of their lives, and if they go down with a hundred catties of seeds, they can harvest more than two hundred catties of grain at most!

The patches on the clothes are covered with patches, the adobe house where I live is full of air leaks, and the food is not a little oily and watery!

Or is it like a certain "rich" person in the village? raising 180 sheep, every day when it's okay, the eldest wife complains, and by the way, makes children?

Generations after generation?

Most of the people in his small village of less than 200 people are like this, and most of them are relatives who are not far apart, and they are all descendants of an old couple more than 100 years ago!

Occasionally his parents would send a letter, and he would even call home!

My father didn't say much, but my mother was very dissatisfied with her not leading her younger brothers to live a good life!

"Big ghost, you have survived, you have a daughter-in-law and a job, and your brothers still have nothing!"

He was really speechless when he said this!

One of his two younger brothers is two years younger than him, the other is four years younger than him, and he is older than his daughter-in-law!

It is said that I took them out for a few years and earned some money!

But what did they do? When they had money, they drank wine and ate meat, and when they talked about them, they immediately refuted it.

"After suffering for so many years, why can't you let yourself eat and drink better when you have money?"

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that. After all, these two brothers both graduated from elementary school, and they have no education, let alone any thoughts!

He could only be speechless.

Six years after graduating from college, when he was already thirty years old, he took his daughter-in-law back to his hometown for the first time - Wudaogou!

He wants his parents and relatives to see his daughter-in-law in the city, the daughter-in-law of college students!

If you don't return to your hometown, who won't be uncomfortable!

In addition to his daughter-in-law's temper is not too good!

At the age of 1.65, he went home for the first time with his daughter-in-law of 1.62 meters!

"The big ghost is back with his daughter-in-law!"

"The big ghost came back with his daughter-in-law......"

……

The village was lively as if a star had come, and her daughter-in-law was moved a little happy and happy, because she didn't know how uncomfortable she would be in the next ten days!