"Xiaowei, have you eaten, are you going home to eat or eat in the cafeteria?" Wang Bing patted the dust on his pants with his gloves and walked over as he played.

Xiaowei sat on the hard hat, holding a cigarette in his hand, leaning against the wall to bask in the sun, when he heard Wang Bing speak, he turned his head and glanced at it, and said, "If you don't want to move, just eat in the cafeteria." ”

Wang Bing walked to Xiaowei and sat down, asked Xiaowei for a cigarette and lit it, and said, "Why do you love eating canteens so much? The things you cook are like pig food, and you never see a piece of meat." ”

Xiaowei smiled and said, "You have to eat, what do you want to eat? It turns out that what you eat before farming at home is not as good as this." At that time, I had two meals a day, and when I was hungry, I chewed a steamed bun, and I didn't even have pickles, so I didn't live well. Besides, I have to trouble my aunt to do it when I go back at noon, and she can deal with it herself if I don't go back. ”

Wang Bing turned his head to look at Xiaowei and squeezed his eyes, and said, "I feel sorry for my mother-in-law? By the way, do you really want to go to university? In the future, you will become a city person? Xiaowei, when the time comes...... , yes, you have to think about it. ”

Xiaowei smiled and said: "I definitely have to take the test, if she doesn't want to take the test, I have to let her take the test, if she can be admitted to the city, why do you want to mix in the county? I told her that I will provide for her when she goes to college, so that my uncle and aunt can save snacks." The one you said can't be, it turns out that I farm at home, people go to school in the county, my uncle is still a cadre, isn't he just as good to me, and he doesn't look down on me, Xiaohong is not that kind of person. Besides, that's the case, I admit it, it's better to go out than to nest here. ”

Wang Bing flicked the cigarette butt away, stood up on his knees, put his helmet in his hand and said, "Okay, you can do it yourself." Then I'll go home, I can't eat the food in the cafeteria. Let's go. He turned and went downstairs.

Xiaowei is already a big worker at this time, and he gets seven yuan a day, which is one more than his master Lao Liu, and he also has cigarettes.

In the past two years, from pushing mortar to moving bricks, and then to ash and soak white ash twisting knives, the work on the construction site has been done from scratch, and finally boiled out, and became a big worker, although it is inseparable from the care of Chen Gong, but it is mainly his own efforts.

The tenacity of the rural baby made him refuse to admit defeat in his bones, why can others do a good job of themselves?

Now he also has an apprentice, that is, Wang Bing, two years older than Xiaowei himself, and the family conditions are very good, Lao Tzu works in the county, and he didn't go to school after graduating from junior high school, and he has been mixing, and he Lao Tzu sent him to Lao Xia's construction site, ready to let him practice and learn some crafts. In this era, construction workers are quite popular, and it is a job that can earn money and save face.

The sun was setting in the west, and the afterglow of the sun stained this small county town red.

The electric bell rang on the construction site, and work began. The machine stopped roaring, the tools were put in place, the workers walked out unhurriedly while talking, Xiaowei walked with the crowd with a hard hat, and Wang Bing walked beside him with a cigarette.

"How much did you build today?" asked Lao Liu from behind.

Xiao Wei smiled and said, "Master." Not much, more than three meters, or master, hurry up. ”

Lao Liu shook his head and said, "You've only been doing it for a few days." Alas, it's better to be young, I don't have enough energy to keep up, and my physical strength can't keep up. Do a good job, definitely better than me. ”

I went to the shed to sign it, and the crowd poured out of the construction gate.

Xiao Wei rode a bicycle humming a tune that he didn't know what it was and pedaled to Stationmaster Wang's house.

Go downstairs and lock the car, take off your shirt and hold it in your hand, and go upstairs.

After entering the house, I took off my dirty clothes and folded them at the door, wore a sweater and pants to the kitchen and washed them, and began to help Aunt Wang, who was busy, cook.

When Wang Xiaohong, who came back at the latest, entered the house, the food was already on the table, the wine cup was full, and Stationmaster Wang had already drunk it with a smile.

Wang Xiaohong is about to take the college entrance examination, but her studies are not so tight, she gets out of school a lot earlier, and she doesn't have to stay up late to get up early, so the whole family is a lot easier.

Xiaowei helped Xiaohong serve the meal in front of her, and said, "Why are you so happy today?"

Xiaohong picked up the chopsticks and ate a mouthful of food, and said, "Today's quiz, I was third in the class, which surprised the old witch, haha, happy." ”

The old witch she said was her homeroom teacher, a strict female teacher, and her surname was Wu. Strict teachers have always been representatives of evil forces in the hearts of students, and it is too normal to have a nickname, but when students grow up, the ones who are most imprinted in their hearts and missed the most are often such teachers.

Stationmaster Wang glared at Xiaohong and said, "It's not in shape." Is it your job to give a teacher a nickname? Desser. ”

Xiaohong rolled her eyes at Wang Xiaochang and lowered her head to eat.

Aunt Wang gave Xiaowei a chopstick dish and asked Xiaohong: "Red, do you really want to take the exam?"

Wang Xiaohong glanced at her mother, nodded, and said: "If you can be admitted, I will definitely take the exam, I will have a town hukou when I go to college, and I am willing to be assigned to the city, when the time comes, I will come down to inspect or something, my father has to report to me, how interesting, hahaha, Comrade Wang, you have to come on." ”

Stationmaster Wang sighed and said to Aunt Wang, "I didn't make a mistake in the hospital, right? Why is this girl so heartless? What is like me?"

Wang Xiaohong stopped her chopsticks and thought about it, nodded, and said, "There is this possibility, I also think that I am not like you, you see, Dad, you look so ugly, I look so good-looking, how is it like?" Stationmaster Wang knocked on Wang Xiaohong's head with chopsticks.

Wang Xiaohong pursed her lips and said, "If one day I am recognized by a tycoon or a big cadre, I will definitely come back to you for revenge." ”

Aunt Wang glared at Xiaohong and asked, "Where do you want to take the test?" Then you have to go out to study, and it will be a few years to leave, do you really think about it?"

Wang Xiaohong stuffed a chopstick dish in his mouth, nodded while chewing and said: "If you think about it, I will read it in the province, and it is not too far away, and it will only take a day to take the car back and forth, and it is not how far it is." I have to work hard for the future, and I can't wait for you. ”

Stationmaster Wang thought for a while and said, "Go to the province, okay, it's good, there are a few schools in our province that are quite okay, it's really not far, just think about it." Which school are you going to apply to?"

Wang Xiaohong bit the head of her chopsticks and said, "I want to go to Northeast Institute of Technology, that's the best, but I'm afraid I won't be able to pass the exam." Fengtian University, Northeast Agriculture, Chemical Industry, University of Technology? Oh, why do you want to do so much, which one is considered if you are admitted. Eat and eat. ”

Stationmaster Wang couldn't help but laugh and said: "Silly boy, do you think you can do whatever you want? If you want to apply for volunteering yourself, you have to say where you want to take the exam, if you don't apply for this school, you won't be able to go even if you get enough points, and there are many people who want to go to college, how many will you recruit in a year?"

In the 80s, the university entrance examination was a pre-examination application, not a post-examination evaluation score application as in later generations, and the difference was simply the same as heaven and earth. Moreover, at this time, the university has not yet expanded its enrollment, and it has not become a money-making institution for later generations, and the competitive pressure to go to college is not a little greater than that of later generations.