Lao Xia threw down the gnawed bones, wiped his hands with a rag, took a sip of the wine cup, and said, "It's up to her, she can take the test if she wants, and she can go to work if she wants to, and you can't control it?" ”

Aunt Xia rolled her eyes and said, "It's not that you're used to it." ”

Lao Xia hehele said: "I'm not used to it, who is used to it? Besides, is Xiaoxiu not good at working or running a house? Just love to play, which child doesn't play? Her father can earn money, eat better and dress better, who is in the way?"

Stationmaster Wang picked up the wine cup and touched Lao Xia and said, "It's this reason." ”

Xiao Wei was silently gnawing on the bones, listening to the pair of daughters controlling the warp here.

After Lao Xia and Stationmaster Wang drank and ate well, Aunt Xia slept in the side room, and Xiaowei also took a few naps on the sofa.

Lao Xia shaved his teeth and sent Stationmaster Wang and Xiaowei out, and walked to the gate.

"You don't have to come over tomorrow morning, I'll go directly to your bureau to pick him up. Lao Xia spat and said to Stationmaster Wang.

Stationmaster Wang washed his face on the faucet at the entrance of the courtyard and said, "Okay." Go back and lie down for a while, let's go back. Come and drink from me one day. ”

The three broke up, Wang stationmaster drove Xiaowei through the county, until he came to the south of the county, the cement road stopped abruptly here, in front of him is the endless rice field, it is almost autumn, the rice field has begun to yellow, the wind blows, the rice gently swayed in the wind, forming a wave of waves.

After getting off the train, Stationmaster Wang stretched his waist towards the rice field, pointed to the side and said, "Look at that, do you look at it? That's where you go to work right away, there are six buildings in total." Over there, it turned out to be a winery, and it was going to build a building, and it was all done, and a new county party committee compound was built, and this work was all your Uncle Xia's. Follow others and work hard, don't expect you to get ahead, learn something steadily, and be able to support your family in the future. ”

Xiao Wei looked at the construction site in the distance and nodded, and said, "Don't worry, uncle, I understand." ”

……

Early the next morning, Xiaowei followed Stationmaster Wang to the Agricultural Machinery Bureau, Stationmaster Wang went to work, and Xiaowei sat in the guard room, chatting with the janitor.

Lao Liu Tou is retired from the Agricultural Machinery Bureau, and before he retired, he was the person in charge of the agricultural machinery point in the commune below, and he could barely be called a cadre internally.

The two of them are also familiar with each other, and the internal relationship, Uncle Liu has also become kind and smiling.

"Boy, it's not okay if you can't learn, you see that now, veterans are not very good, and they have to be high school students and college students, then they are cadres, there are levels, and they are promoted quickly. What can you dig out of digging in the soil? How old are you? Sixteen? Let Stationmaster Wang find a place to go to school, take a test, and be a fart when you go to build a building, you can't do a big job, and you will die of eight cents a day if you are tired of small workers, and it will be difficult to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

Xiaowei smiled and said: "I can't pass the exam, I've been throwing it away for many years, and I just know a few words, I have to take a lot of courses to get into high school and college, mathematics, politics, physics, chemistry, etc., I haven't seen any books, and I have to learn foreign languages, so I don't have to rush." I can build a building, I work hard, don't look at me thin, I have energy. ”

Uncle Liu patted his body with a fan, sighed, and said, "You still have to be in the city, we can't do it in the countryside." Just look at this school, you can see the gap, it is not easy for rural children. Go and look at it longer, listen more and talk less, don't do what you don't want to do, pay attention to safety, understand? ”

Xiaowei nodded and agreed: "Well, what my uncle told me, I remember." ”

A duke drove over and stopped at the gate, Lao Xia's head poked out of the window, looked at both sides, and shouted, "Xiaowei." ”

Xiaowei jumped up and ran out and promised: "Hey, Uncle Xia, I'm here." ”

Lao Xia nodded at Xiaowei and said, "Come, get in the car, I'll take you over." ”

Lao Liu Tou walked out with a pu fan and said, "Xiao Xia, you can arrange it, don't be tired." ”

Lao Xia said: "I don't care about my nephew, don't worry, Lao Liutou, has your son come back?" took a box of cigarettes from the car and stretched them out of the window and threw them to the old man. The old man took the cigarette and looked through it in his hand, and said, "No, there is still a year, and I will look for you when I come back." ”

Lao Xia said: "It's a fart to find me, you go directly to your director, you have to say in advance that you have to prepare in advance." ”

Lao Liu Tou shook his head, stuffed the cigarette into his trouser pocket and said: "You don't know, this newcomer is not the same as before, coming down from above, it is useless to find it without mercy, and I almost go home when I look at the gate." I'll have to help you boys when the time comes. ”

Lao Xia said: "Okay, your old Liu Tou doesn't like to coax us, when the time comes, you will squeak, it's a big deal to do it with me, don't say anything else, it's definitely no problem to support your family." Okay, then I'll go, let's have a drink together one day. With a wave of his hand, the duke glided silently and drove towards the south of the county.

Old Liu Tou watched the car go away, sighed, and went back to the guard room.

In the car, Lao Xia said to the driver: "There are a lot of people in the county who have come down from above this time, right? Agricultural machinery, courts, and traffic are all down from above, and it is not so easy to do anything in the future. ”

The driver nodded and said: "It's different now than before, now it's about money, and you can't do anything without money, society has changed a long time ago." ”

Lao Xia nodded, lit a cigarette and said: "Next year Lao Li is going to the city, where to go has not yet been decided, either enter the organization department, or get a deputy mayor, we have to keep up, prepare to prepare, step on it in advance, next year we will go into the city to build a building, isn't it just to make money, we don't shout this." ”

The driver said, "Cheng, I'll arrange for someone to come over." In fact, there is nothing in the city, I said a long time ago that you won't nod your head, there are more people in the city and our county, and a bunch of deputy mayors and directors can still make us suffer?"

Lao Xia thought for a while and said, "This favor, the more you use it, the thinner it gets, forget it, don't think about it, let's take one step at a time." ”

After a few words, the car arrived at the construction site, and the three people got out of the car and walked in along the gate of the iron pipe welding.

As soon as you enter the gate, there is a row of simple houses, and you can't see anything in the black ancient winter, and the driver shouted: "Little Five." With a promise, a person came out of it and greeted: "Brother Jianjun, ouch, boss, you are also here, can you come into the house and sit?"

Lao Xia said: "If you don't go in, how can you get in that stinky house?" Take a few hats, Jianjun and I will go in and take a look, is there anything going on during this time?"

Xiao Wu turned his head and walked to another room, and said while taking out the key: "It's nothing, the brick factory came over to ask for an account, let me block it back, we can still send them the three melons and two dates, I don't know what he is anxious about." "I opened the door and went in, came out with three hard hats, and locked the door again.