When he was a young student, Yuan Qiuhua heard that "it is better to have a good father than to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well". There is no shortage of workers' and cadres' children among the students, who are well nourished, fashionably dressed, form their own circles, play games, and talk about things that are different from those of peasant children. The superiority of living conditions directly ensures their sense of superiority, makes them look down on the children of the peasants, ridicule and contempt become commonplace, and they are "hillbillies", "mud-legged boys", and "cloth shoe babies", which occasionally cause conditioned reflexes, and disgust and disgust become daily attitudes, and they will put forward opinions in public at every turn, asking for a change to the same table, on the grounds that "the body is sweaty", "shoes and socks smell", "hair lice", "clothes crawling bed bugs".

Their leader is Wang Zi'an, the young master of the town mayor, and when he was in the sixth grade of primary school, he used to be at the same table as Yuan Qiuhua. Because he was the first from the bottom in the total examination of his academic performance, and Yuan Qiuhua was the first in the total examination, the head teacher arranged for the two to sit together according to the practice of advanced students helping junior students. Students should focus on learning cultural knowledge, and should be judged by the quality of academic performance, Wang Zi'an relied on his official position, but everywhere expressed his dissatisfaction, complained about the teacher's arrangement, and openly engaged in personal attacks against his peers.

Yuan Qiuhua's father was first a temporary worker, and then a contract worker, so he only had a temporary house in the town government, temporarily sheltered, ate in the canteen, and could not bring his family, Yuan Qiuhua's brothers and sisters still lived in the countryside with their mother (not Yaoshan Island, there was no school on Daoshan, and they lived in their grandmother's house), and they were still day students.

There is no boarding system in the town centre school. She walked five miles in the morning to school, ran five miles at noon, went home for dinner, ran five miles again, went back to school, and walked five miles home after school in the afternoon. How can a rural day student who is in a situation similar to her own not have the smell of shoes and socks without the smell of it? Moreover, the children of the poor are in charge of the house at an early age, and the rural children do not have the conditions to eat idle meals; after school, while taking care of their younger siblings, they also have to do housework, or go up the mountain to chop wood, or climb the slope to collect pigweed, and if they fail to complete their tasks, they will be beaten, punished, and not allowed to eat. The previous clothes were "three years new, three years old, and another three years of sewing and mending", and "the eldest wore the second one, and the third and fourth ones continued to pass down". Although life is a little harder, the family still loves each other and is harmonious, but it is also happy. The big ones look down on the small, and they have the responsibility of taking responsibility for their parents, and the small ones respect the elders, and they always have admiration and envy in their hearts. Growing day by day, years and months have been like this, even if it is in the wind and rain, the whole family is always a lively scene of reunion and dinner.

As the saying goes, half the size of the child, eat the poor old man. Make mistakes, adults are not allowed to eat, children will not be obediently hungry, not allowed to eat cooked food openly, we secretly eat raw food, cucumbers, sweet potatoes and radishes on the edge of the field, as well as lotus roots, plows, peaches, plums, persimmons, touch a few to eat. On Sunday holidays, in the gap between blowing firewood, a few people have to build a stove with stones, pick up branches and make a fire, roast corn, roast sweet potatoes, roast fish and shrimp, and even roast called flower chicken, roast mud and duck. Eating is the top priority, being scolded and beaten is a big fart, I clearly know that stealing chickens and ducks, and I will be beaten when the incident happens, but I still have to roast and eat, eat it first, and then talk about it, and it is worth it to hurt my skin and flesh afterwards. It is the time to grow the body, it is the time to eat and sleep, and the instinct will naturally take care of eating enough, sleeping enough, and then taking care of personal hygiene. Besides, the living environment and living habits of the countryside have not been completely eradicated from adults, so how can children do it alone?

Wang Zi'an's father is a prince from the county government, sent to the township, his home is a single-door courtyard with three bedrooms and a living room, with a kitchen and bathroom, and a front and back yard outside, and the family hired a nanny, as well as a messenger who can be called by the orderly, anytime and anywhere to provide logistics support for his family, and timely service.

In the years of junior high school, the local agricultural specialty ramie tendon, which is the raw material used in the city's hemp spinning factory, suddenly became very valuable, and the door-to-door purchase price rose from a few cents a pound to more than a dozen yuan suddenly. After school, Yuan Qiuhua had to go to the ground to cut ramie stalks, peel ramie slices, soak ramie slices on the river beach, and then pick up the soaked ramie slices wet and go home wet, put them on a high bench, use an iron spatula to quickly scrape off the ramie skin one by one, and finally hang the peeled ramie tendons on the penny to dry, or dry. She is like an adult, often busy until midnight, but the next day she has to get up early to ensure that she goes to school normally, and is responsible for being at the top of the list.

The pampered Wang Zi'an couldn't figure it out, Yuan Qiuhua didn't even have time to do homework and review homework, so why he could still get the first place in the exam? What made him even more incomprehensible was why the teacher always used Yuan Qiuhua as his role model for learning? She was eager to study and loved to read, even if she was like Lao Tzu, she could write radio scripts, be an announcer, compile blackboard newspapers, and draw illustrations. Although the movement is over, the college entrance examination has resumed, even if the children of workers are named Sun Shan, they can also take over their parents' classes as workers, and the children of cadres are no exception. Although the college entrance examination has been resumed, there are advantages and disadvantages to everything, and it is impossible for the children of peasants to be recommended as "workers, peasants, and soldiers college students" and enter the cities and towns because of their positive labor performance and the concerted efforts of their own villages and families, as they did in previous years. In the face of the objective fact that thousands of troops are crowding the single-plank bridge, apart from the fact that the children of peasants are admitted to universities, assigned graduation packages, become cadres or workers, or enlist in the army, transfer cadres with outstanding performance, or be demobilized as workers, and receive very special meritorious service awards and are hired exceptionally, more people can only continue to be peasants and take root in the poor villages for the rest of their lives.

When it was time for the exam, Wang Zi'an wanted to copy the answer sheet, so he knocked Yuan Qiuhua: In terms of study, you are better than me, you can take care of me, but in terms of social status, my Lao Tzu is stronger than your Lao Tzu, and my Lao Tzu can take care of your Lao Tzu.

Yuan Qiuhua said: My father earns food and eats based on his ability, and concentrates on doing things and working. Before you came to work, you had already worked in the government, but fortunately, this society in general recognizes ability, not only limited to relationships, so that it has not been buried. As for whether you take care of Lao Tzu or not, it is not in our consideration, we only do our own thing, do not ask for grace from others, and do not ask others for charity.

Wang Zi'an said: You are better than me in school, not necessarily better than me in the future, as long as you go out of school, I am more capable than you, I live better than you, in many aspects, you can't do it, I can do it!

Yuan Qiuhua said: Life is a wordless book, learning makes people warm, and reality makes people cold. What you say is true. But no matter how strong your ability to persuade is, no matter how heavy the punishment of social lessons is, I will not be able to take care of you.

Wang Zi'an said: But I saw with my own eyes that many people nodded their heads and bowed their knees, and were willing to do anything for the care of my son, including doing homework for me, sending snacks, giving pocket money, and stuffing red envelopes.

Yuan Qiuhua said: I can understand all the practices of everyone, and I can also understand that you take it for granted, but I can't tolerate others thinking that I will do the same, let alone you see me as this kind of person.

Wang Zi'an said: Many people do this, whether they do it or look at it, they think it is normal. If you don't do it, it's not normal.

Yuan Qiuhua said: Everyone has their own example, everyone has their own pursuit, I ask you to understand me, but I am born with a wooden fish braincase, and it will never be easy to get the hang of it.

Wang Zi'an said: This is just a layer of window paper, you are making enemies, committing taboos.

Yuan Qiuhua said: What do you want to do, this is your business, and it has nothing to do with me. If I am better than you in my studies, if I take care of you and make you as good as me in my test scores, what kind of faith do you want me to live?

Wang Zi'an said: There are some things that I have to do. If you don't help me, someone will naturally help, but the ranking is second to you.

Yuan Qiuhua said: You must know that our two different family backgrounds and living backgrounds can't get rid of it even if we change our lives and skin and cramps. Once I help you, not only will I lose morality, my accomplices will consider me a traitor and will turn around against me, and your accomplices will take the opportunity to squeeze me when I am a spy, and I will make enemies at both ends, and I will be a traitor.

Wang Zi'an said: Both are the same. I really underestimated you before, so I'm waiting for you to make mistakes.

Yuan Qiuhua said: I don't read the book very well, but the kung fu outside the book is quite deep, and there are a lot of crooked tricks.

Wang Zi'an said: Just wait for you to enter the right line, take the right path, and do a great career. Speaking of classmates, everyone's faces are also bright.

Yuan Qiuhua said: It's good to meet your opponent in chess, and I just wait for your next step. Winning or losing, winning or losing is not in winning or losing, winning or losing is a common thing in soldiers, I don't admit defeat in my life, you can't win in your life.

Wang Zi'an said: You are a girl, why do you want to be a man?

Yuan Qiuhua said: You are a man, why do you want to bully girls?

Wang Zi'an said: I thought before, as long as you cry in front of me, be coquettish, show weakness, and marry you when you grow up, the two families have this kind of relationship, they can help each other learn from each other, communicate with each other, and take care of each other.

Yuan Qiuhua said: You say that bullying is pampering? When I am an idiot, how far away, how far away.

Wang Zi'an said: You use manly thinking to treat this pampering as bullying, and we will start here, relative to bullying. To tell you the truth, if you want to marry a wife in the future, you will never look for a big woman who will point fingers at me, roll her eyes at me, and be too lazy to take care of me, but must find a petite and delicate, lively and cute, smiling, coquettish, crying, and asking for help.

Yuan Qiuhua said: Thank God, I am grateful to you and wish you all the best.

Wang Zi'an said: I am Chinese, I don't learn foreign languages, I don't understand ABC, and I also do revolution!

Yuan Qiuhua went to the town government office and told his father about Wang Zi'an's words.

Yuan Huanxuan said: Society is advocating "relationship", and it is necessary to go to court, not to find a lawyer first, but to find a relationship first; when a child is looking for a job, it is not to help him plan his career together, but to find a relationship first.

Xie Qingxi said: A society that excessively advocates relationships naturally gives birth to "network determinism", and I am disgusted by network determinism, because it is constantly explicit and implied: for personal development, network is more important than ability.

Yuan Huanxuan said: When people blindly pursue connections, they are actually crazy in pursuit of shortcuts. Borrowing strength from others is a shortcut they have found, so that they can take the elevator and climb the ladder without having to climb the stairs themselves.

Xie Qingxi said: But in the matter of connections, you can't take a shortcut. Connections to play a role require ability and strength to lay the foundation, trying to skip the accumulation of their own ability, it is difficult to climb to the sky with only connections.

Yuan Qiuhua said: I believe that only with the ability can the network play a role.

Xie Qingxi said: Little girl, you have a lot of wisdom. Let's assume a best-case scenario, where people who can help you generously give you opportunities, resources, and platforms. But if your own ability is not good, can you seize the opportunity? Give you an enviable position, can you be competent? Provide a profitable business opportunity, do you have the funds to join the gang? Give you a task that is a training person, but it is very stressful, can you resist?

Yuan Huanxuan said: If you repeatedly disappoint people, will the opportunity knock on the door again?

Yuan Qiuhua said: Thank you Uncle for your teachings! I understand that only by learning cultural knowledge can we have superpowers.