Chapter 18: How Can I Go to School?
"Good...... Good!
You're such a good boy!
Meizi, come here, Tiezhu's dowry has been settled!"
After Wang Daniu was a little worried in his mind for a while, his worried mood was covered by joy.
The dark face and the corners of the smiling eyes and forehead are full of wrinkles, but they are extremely simple and natural.
While touching Wang Xin's head excitedly, he hurriedly called his wife to come over to see the surprise.
Liu Mei listened to Wang Daniu's greeting, and hurriedly walked to Wang Xin's room.
As soon as she entered the room, she could see that the bed board that had been lifted was full of sweet potatoes, and she opened her mouth wide in fright, and then quickly ran over and touched it twice, and after finding that it was not fake, she turned around and asked.
"What's going on? Where do all these sweet potatoes come from?"
Sure enough, at the beginning, I asked about the origin.
Wang Xin naturally repeated what he had said before.
"This ...... Wouldn't this be considered digging a corner of socialism?"
Liu Mei asked with some concern.
Since the beginning of the previous year, especially when there is not enough food to eat, many people will sneak into the ground to eat.
If you are caught, it will be a crime of digging into the corner of socialism, and you will have to be criticized for a few days, not to mention it.
It's just that because there are too many people digging up, and they are all from the villagers, they were not sent to it.
If it is sent to the top, it will be sentenced to one and a half years of labor re-education.
"If we don't talk about it, who knows!
Sanjin, don't you tell it too, you know?"
Although Wang Daniu has no money or food in his family now, he is sure that he was born in the landlord class, so he still has some knowledge.
In addition, it involves self-interest, so in any case, it is necessary to give more advice.
Wang Xin almost wanted to roll his eyes, he definitely knew more than all of them.
Moreover, he hadn't kept it a secret all the time before, how could he leak it?
If it weren't for the fact that his eldest brother, who was good to him, was single, and he really couldn't eat so many sweet potatoes himself, he wouldn't have taken it out like this.
You know, he also took a big risk by taking out these sweet potatoes.
For example, if his father asked how he brought in so many sweet potatoes without them, and so on, he couldn't explain it, or it wasn't very perfunctory.
But fortunately, his father is still in a state of excitement now, so he doesn't care about questioning it at all.
"Dad, put the bed down first, don't look back and be seen by others.
Let's go out and discuss!"
Liu Mei couldn't stop looking back at the door two or three times for a few minutes, and then thought that the door of his house was not closed, and anyone could come in at will, so she immediately urged.
Wang Daniu thought about it, and hurriedly put the bed board down again, and the mattress and quilt were also re-laid, and he pulled Liu Mei to prepare to go out to talk in detail.
Wang Xin thought about it, but still didn't follow.
It's nothing more than talking about how these sweet potatoes under my bedside are distributed, how they are not eye-catching, and there is no need to listen to them.
He is now hesitant to tangle with the question of how to tell his parents about going to school.
Wang Xin never thought that he would become an out-of-school child one day, and then he didn't know how to tell his parents.
No one in their village goes to school, except for one literacy class a few years ago.
It's his second aunt, and the children of the third aunt's family didn't go to school.
Because the school is so far away.
Let's put it this way, there is no private school in their Wangjia Village at all, and the literacy class that they ran before was only able to be run by sending two people to help from above.
When the literacy is over, they leave.
So, if they want to go to school, they have to go to the town, or to the largest village in the area, which is further away from them.
That's right, the name of the village is not wrong, that village is called Pig's Nest Village, and there is a small pig's nest village next to Pig's Nest Village, and there is also a sow nest village on the other side.
When Wang Xin knew about it at the time, he thought it was someone else's nickname, or deliberately slandered or something, but later he learned that the names of the three villages were called by that name, and the ghost knows what their village thought.
It is definitely not cost-effective to go to Pigwo Village to study, not only is it farther than the town to go to school, but the teaching environment should not be as good as the town.
However, even if the primary school in the town is relatively close, it would take two hours to walk there without bicycles or cows or horses.
The kind without stops, a round trip takes at least four hours.
Their family must not have the money to buy or rent a house in the town, so it is quite difficult.
Wang Xin was not able to endure hardships in the first place, he walked for four hours a day, a day or two days, and walked like this every day, it was really life-threatening.
This is the main reason why no one in the village sends their children to school.
Not to mention the tuition fees or anything, just two round-trips for four hours, not many people can afford it.
What's more, when there was the imperial examination, no one in the village studied, and now there is no imperial examination, what else do they go to study?
After the implementation of the return work division system, it is even more reluctant to let children go to school, and a child can be counted as half a work or half a centimeter.
If you don't go all year round, how much food will you have to lose?
Not only is there less money and food at the end of the year, but also messy expenses such as tuition fees have to be discounted.
That's all a family subsidy.
Moreover, Wang Xin didn't know if he brought it up, would his current parents be willing to let him go to school?
Because in his opinion, their family looks quite poor, and maybe they may not even be able to pay the tuition, let alone others.
So he was really embarrassed, and he didn't know whether he should say it or not.
If he doesn't say it, he won't be reconciled.
You know, it's only 61 years.
There are still nearly 20 years to go before the reform and opening up, and although he is not too old in 20 years, she doesn't really want to plant land here for 20 years.
If he can go to school, with his current knowledge reserves, he will definitely be no problem graduating from junior high school in five or six years.
He was fifteen or sixteen years old.
At the beginning of the Chinese year, I was able to go to work in a factory or something, and although I was definitely tired, it was obviously much easier to go to work in a factory than farming.
And then go to the class of more than ten years, and go to the sea after the reform and opening up, wouldn't it be a good life in the future?
This is the direction he has set for the future development after combing through the various materials he has consulted in the past few days.
The only difficulty now is how to go to school, or rather, how to move his parents to let him go to school.
That's the biggest dilemma at the moment.