Chapter Forty-Nine: Just like a tiger lying on a barren hill
"Hello uncle, I'm Guan Xiaojun!"
Looking at Guan Yunpeng, who was standing next to him with a lonely face, Guan Xiaojun walked up to him with a smile, raised his little face, and said curiously: "What should I call you?"
Guan Yunpeng looked at the crowd at the scene, and was in a daze.
He was born withdrawn, always a little out of place with his friends, and he couldn't play with the children in the village since he was a child. Later, reading and reading and literacy, I found a new world, and since then, I have been reading for pleasure, and the whole person is like a sponge, hungry and thirsty to learn all the knowledge related to words.
When he was a child, the state subsidized him, and he could eat white flour steamed buns once a week, and when he went to high school, he would carry dried sweet potatoes and a little wheat to school from his own field, which was the ration for his students.
The high school in Hongs County is set up in the county seat, more than 30 miles away from Xiaoguan Village, and their family does not have a bicycle, so they rely on walking to school.
Because of his schooling, there was one less laborer in the family, and the work in the field naturally had to be shared among his elder brothers, so several elder brothers complained about him.
Although the current rural areas have a little awe of the students who go to school, and they have also fantasized that their children can be admitted to the secondary school and be assigned to work and eat national food, most people know that this is just a luxury, because many children are not reading materials, spend money for them to go to school, and in the end there are not too many people who are even admitted to the secondary school, so many parents are a little disappointed.
Although Guan Yunpeng's academic performance is top-notch, whenever he goes to the college entrance examination room that is related to fate, he always has such and such problems.
He has always kept in mind what a young friend said to him, "Yunpeng, if rural people want to change their destiny, they must study more, if you want to leave the countryside, then you must study hard, take the university entrance examination, and jump out of the rural land, you will find out how wonderful the world is!"
The educated youth is a person who came down from the capital, and now he has returned to the capital, but the two have always maintained correspondence, that is, the support of the educated youth, and he has established his determination to take the college entrance examination. But now that he has failed the college entrance examination twice, he is finally a little discouraged. During this year's winter vacation, he didn't go out for several days, and he was always thinking about how he should go in the future.
If it weren't for the fact that he was greeting Guan Hongda and his party today, he wouldn't have walked out of the house, because the ridicule and white eyes of the villagers made him feel a deep sense of shame.
He looked at the Wuling tractor driven by Guan Yunshan, with an envious look in his eyes, if there was such a machine, their family would definitely liberate a lot of labor, and his father and mother would not work so hard.
It's a pity that they don't have so much money at home, one or twenty thousand yuan of things, and they can only fantasize about it at this time, but in reality, they can't even make up one or twenty yuan at home.
When he was in his trance, he heard Guan Xiaojun shouting, and after coming back to his senses, he looked down curiously at the little boy in front of him in new clothes, and said with a smile: "I'm Guan Yunpeng!"
"Then I'll call you Uncle Yunpeng!"
Guan Xiaojun said with a smile: "You and my dad are the same generation, I see that you are not as old as my father, so I will call you uncle!"
He took out a few candy cubes from his pocket, "Uncle Yunpeng, you eat sugar!"
Guan Yunpeng's heart warmed, although Guan Xiaojun was young, he felt a trace of warmth that others couldn't give, and smiled at the moment: "Uncle doesn't eat, you should eat!"
Guan Xiaojun didn't wait for him to refuse, and had already stuffed the candy cube into his hand, "You taste it, it's very sweet!"
Guan Yunpeng raised his hand and looked at the sugar cube in his palm, his face showed a very complicated expression, and he glanced at Guan Xiaojun, "Your name is Xiaojun, right? Good boy, my uncle will invite you to eat yam beans in a while!"
Yam bean is a kind of granular small bean-shaped bead bud attached to yam, at this time the rural people like to collect it, cook it and bring it to guests, it is a small snack, and melon seeds, sugar cubes, and peanuts are often put together for people to grab and eat.
Guan Xiaojun smiled: "Okay, I'll exchange my sugar cubes for your yam beans!"
Guan Yunpeng smiled, Guan Xiaojun's form of transaction took care of his face.
He tore open the candy wrapper and stuffed a slightly transparent amber sugar cube into his mouth, feeling the sweetness spread from his mouth, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.
Because of his poor family background, he rarely ate small snacks since he was a child, at most he ate some roasted sweet potatoes, boiled corn, and peanuts may be eaten a few times, but melon seeds, sugar cubes and other things rarely enter his mouth.
A great sense of shame rose from his heart, and at the same time, there was a hint of grievance, "I've been working hard, why doesn't anyone understand me? Now even the candy bar is given by a child! When will I get rid of this kind of life!"
The words that his young friend had told him at the beginning rang in his ears at this time, "Study! Only by reading can I change my fate! I will definitely take this year's college entrance examination!"
Guan Xiaojun naturally didn't know his piece of candy at this time, which made Guan Yunpeng think of so many things, and he didn't see the corners of Guan Yunpeng's faintly red eyes.
He had now looked back at his car.
At this time, Guan Yunshan, Guan Hongda and others were handing things down from the car bucket.
At this time, it is popular to use a fence bucket to carry a dozen white flour steamed buns, and if you put some fried food or canned malt milk essence into the bucket, it is already an extremely luxurious gift!
And Guan Hongda came to Xiaoguan Village this time, but he brought half a fat pig, and the fat and white can attract people to drool.
In addition, there are some kelp, hairtail and other things, which can be called extravagant to the extreme.
Yunze area, located inland, the lack of seafood to the extreme, kelp at this time, is a very rare thing, who does a funeral, this kelp is a single bowl of big dishes.
When more than a dozen people walked to the village carrying buckets, pork, kelp and fish, it caused a burst of amazement among the onlookers.
At this time, the mottled streets of Xiaoguan Village were full of people watching the excitement, and some old people were lying in the grass on the street with their hands in the sun, and some people were leaning on the earthen wall, not thinking that the earthen wall was dirty.
On the outside of their black cloth jackets, a hay rope was tied to form an outer waist, and the fat jackets were bulging up.
Every winter, these old people run out of their homes to bask in the sun and chat on the street, and eat on the street with dishes and chopsticks when eating, which has become a scenery in the countryside, and it has not changed until decades later.
Now seeing the Guan family coming, a group of warm old men are muttering to each other.
"The family of this Guan family is very arrogant!
"I know that person named Guan Hongda, he is a capable person! The old Guan family is so prosperous!"
In the midst of these discussions, Guan Xiaojun and Guan Yunpeng had sugar cubes in their mouths and walked towards an old mansion with a group of people.
At this time, the old mansion was already full of tables, and a group of people entered the courtyard and sat down one after another.
These tables are for feasting.
Eating out in the winter is the most criticized place for outsiders in the local area.
Guan Xiaojun once had a friend from the Northeast who came to Guan's house as a guest during the Chinese New Year, and when everyone ate, although they didn't eat in the courtyard, the door was wide open.
After eating a meal, the buddy in the northeast pulled it for three days, and then he couldn't bear it, and he never went to Guan Xiaojun's hometown again during the Chinese New Year.
But the people in Guan Xiaojun's hometown are accustomed to it and don't find it unbearable.
Now that the family of Guandi Temple Village is coming to visit, this banquet will naturally be held in the courtyard.
When Guan Yunpeng led Guan Xiaojun into his seat, a young man next to him stopped Guan Yunpeng, "Yunpeng, where can you sit here?"
Guan Yunpeng was furious, his face turned red, and he said in his heart, You can all sit, why can't I sit?
Just as he was about to argue with this young man, he heard Guan Xiaojun say a sentence softly, "It's just like a tiger lying on a barren hill, lurking minions to endure!" Uncle Yunpeng, what does this sentence mean?"