The life of acacia flowers is very short, and after two or three days, they wither one after another, and even if they do not wither, they are too old to eat.

In the past few days, Qi Shufang has changed her ways to make acacia food, and she feels that her skills have made great progress, and this night she quietly sent Professor Jin and others a locust cake and a two-fold noodle wotou mixed with acacia steaming, which is the last acacia flower rice of the year.

Ma Tianlong especially likes to eat the crispy acacia cake on the outside and tender on the inside, and is full of praise, "Girl, the locust cake you baked is so delicious, I can't wait to swallow my tongue." That's really ...... What is this? How to describe the Huaihua cake as particularly delicious?" Ma Tianlong, who has no learning and no skills, racked his brains and couldn't come up with a suitable idiom.

Chen Sanchuan and Professor Jin ignored him, because they found that Qi Shufang's brows kept tugging, and they seemed to have encountered a problem, one of them was He Jianguo's teacher, and the other was very grateful for Qi Shufang's help, so they couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know how to do a lot of problems when I encounter them. "The high school course began to be understood, and the further she went, the more difficult Qi Shufang felt.

Wait a minute!

Qi Shufang looked at the two professors in front of her with sparkling eyes, isn't this the best teacher? Whether it is Professor Chen Sanchuan Chen or Professor Jin Zhenxingjin, she can ask for advice.

Qi Shufang hurriedly spoke out about her predicament and asked for advice.

Chen Sanchuan and Professor Jin were very happy to hear this, and immediately asked Qi Shufang to directly list the questions they didn't understand next time, and they answered them for her in the shortest time.

They are all a bit of literati, and they are professors in universities, and they used to be full of peach and plum all over the world, and they are happy that Qi Shufang attaches great importance to learning, and they have not given up studying because the country has closed the door to the university. Knowledge is power, but unfortunately now knowledge has become the least important thing, and those who have no knowledge despise those who have knowledge.

Qi Shufang delivered food after nightfall the next day and brought a textbook, on which she had already circled the topics that she had never understood.

She has strong mental power, although she does not have the ability to remember, but her memory is very good, and she can quickly remember what she memorizes, and she is not good at mathematics, physics and chemistry, and there are many problems.

In the faint light of the kerosene lamp in the cowshed, Chen Sanchuan and Professor Jin took turns to explain to Qi Shufang, that is, when Professor Jin explained to Qi Shufang, Chen Sanchuan ate, and vice versa, only Ma Tianlong only cared about eating and drinking, and when he was full of food and drink, Qi Shufang's study was almost over.

"It's really better to hear your words than to read a book for ten years. "Many of the questions were answered perfectly, and the self-study was far from effective.

Chen Sanchuan looked proud, but Professor Jin smiled slightly: "It's not like this." Your foundation is very solid, and you can understand many topics after explaining them once, but it's a pity. ”

Everyone knows what the two words refer to, Chen Sanchuan could only smile bitterly, Ma Tianlong stretched his waist, and casually lay down on the straw pile, "Girl, it's useless to study now, why are you still learning these mathematics, physics and chemistry?" He looked at the textbook that Qi Shufang had packed up, and felt dizzy with dense handwriting.

Qi Shufang said with a smile: "The country needs talents, and culture will eventually recover in an all-round way. Even if you can't wait for that day, just like Professor Chen and his teacher said, knowledge is power, and learning is beneficial and harmless. ”

Ma Tianlong was puzzled: "Are you so sure?"

"It won't be long. Qi Shufang replied thoughtlessly, and did not say that she was somewhat sure, no matter what era, sports related to culture would not last long, and there would always be a ray of light, "If you really don't pay attention to learning, the current elementary school, junior high school and high school will be suspended." ”

Chen Sanchuan and Professor Jin were full of excitement, Ma Tianlong looked indifferent, the university was not closed before, and his situation was not much better, but it was just a little worse in the past few years.

"Shufang, would you like to learn a foreign language with me? I know several foreign languages, English, Japanese and Russian. ”

Before Professor Jin's question fell, Qi Shufang hurriedly said, "Willing! Willing to learn!"

Although he is proud of his country's culture, the diplomatic language is not the square word of his country, and the status of foreign languages is very important.

Chen Sanchuan is also proficient in two foreign languages, and he also wants to teach Qi Shufang, Qi Shufang agreed, made a study plan with the two old men, did not stay for too long, and soon left quietly with textbooks and food utensils.

She didn't come every day, but every once in a while to deliver food to them, and then learn from the two old people, specially brought paper and pen to the two old people, and let the two old people write down foreign language related knowledge, the reason why she didn't dare to come frequently was that she was worried that someone would find a trace if she didn't pay attention, but fortunately the cowshed was very close to her home, and her mental power was very powerful.

On this day, Ma Tianlong said that the toon had already sprouted, and he wanted to eat cold toon buds, but it would not taste good in the season, Qi Shufang was pinching the toon buds at the door, Wang Chunling was gossiping next door, and after listening to her complaints, Qi Shufang was stunned.

It's mostly about money.

Third Uncle He came to Old Man He and He Jiandang to borrow money today, the loan was not much, but it was not too little, thirty-four yuan and five cents, saying that the money to buy a daughter-in-law for his second egg was not enough, and the people asked for a hundred, and his family was short of thirty-four yuan and five cents.

These two eggs are not the other two eggs, and every household will use them to call their children, the eldest is called the big egg, and the second is called the second egg.

Qi Shufang almost couldn't grasp the toon buds in her hand, and looked surprised: "Buy a daughter-in-law? Sister-in-law, what do you mean by this? The third uncle's family wants to buy a daughter-in-law? How to buy it? Now that it is a new society and new customs have been established, how can there still be human trafficking? The state strictly prohibits human trafficking. ”

There are good and bad in every era, women's rights in this era are unprecedentedly high, the slogan of equality between men and women is shouted extremely loudly, the leader also said that women can hold up half the sky, this is the era of the highest status of women, and it is also the era when women are truly emancipated, although it is inevitable that there are still many women dependent on men to survive, but the number of independent women is much higher than before liberation, and many bad habits in the feudal era are really broken, including a prohibition on human trafficking.

Wang Chunling disagreed: "What's all the fuss about? We have a lot of young men and few girls in our ten miles and eight towns, and if we don't buy a daughter-in-law, will we be like Shen Lao Er for the rest of our lives? Who can bear to be a father and mother! The brothers and sisters above the third uncle's family and the younger brothers and sisters below are all married, and he is the only one left, who is short, not good-looking, and has no strength to work, who is willing to marry his daughter to him? I have to buy a woman from other places to be his wife. ”

"How did you buy it? Our father borrowed money?" Qi Shufang couldn't imagine that there were still people who wanted to do this in the era of breaking the four olds.

She remembered in a trance that it was recorded in the historical miscellaneous records that the towns seemed to be better, and the more remote the mountain villages, even after a few decades and a hundred or ten years, the more common the buying and selling of human beings became, and the objects of the sale were women and children.

"How can our father have money? In the end, I asked your eldest brother to borrow it, and I don't know when their family will be able to pay it back. "Some time ago, He Jianguo and Qi Shufang went to Shanghai, and their family spent more than 70 yuan, fortunately, He Jiandang is the secretary of the brigade, and he has a salary every month, Wang Chunling sighed, and then said the origin of the object of He Jianxia.

It's a Sichuan woman, and it was Qi Mazi from the Zaoergou Brigade who brought it from other places, and she was from Qi Shufang's mother's house.

When Qi Shufang crossed over, the Qiji Brigade was still called the Zaoergou Brigade, and it was changed to the Qiji Brigade in the New Year, and other production teams were divided under the Qiji Brigade, and now the Qiji Brigade has twelve production teams. Qi Shufang and He Jianguo went back to their parents' house, the specific situation is not clear, but when someone mentions the Qiji Brigade in life, he often says that it is the Zaoergou Brigade.

Qi Mazi, as the name suggests, had smallpox when he was a child, and he had a full face of pockmarks, his nickname is Qi Mazi, and he has been running outside for many years, Qi Shufang doesn't know his name, only knows that he has to call him uncle!

Qi Mazi came back from outside this time and brought three women back to the village, two from Sichuan and one from Guizhou, two of them have masters, the woman from Guizhou is not a yellow flower girl, it seems that she already had a child before she came, and she sold it to Qi Laosan in the Qiji brigade for fifty yuan. The remaining one is seventeen years old this year, surnamed Zhong, and called Zhong Cuifang.

Before Uncle He, there was a buyer who liked Zhong Cuifang and was willing to pay a hundred yuan, but ......

Wang Chunling told Qi Shufang: "That person is a lame man, he has had polio, he is a little more lame than Zhou Fugui of the Jiuya family, and he has to walk with crutches, Zhong Cuifang, a little Sichuan barbarian, is unwilling to look for death and life, Qi Mazi is afraid that she will not be able to get anything if she dies, so she looks for the next family, I don't know how to let the third uncle know, and I want to buy it to be my wife for Erdan." ”

Qi Shufang frowned: "Why did I listen to my sister-in-law, they came voluntarily?"

Wang Chunling smiled: "Of course it's voluntary, if it's not voluntary, why don't you honestly come over with Qi Mazi? Who doesn't know that there are poor people in Guizhou in Sichuan, and there are also those in Yunnan, and their lives are far worse than ours! Women over there are willing to come to live with us." However, this little barbarian has seen Erdan, although Erdan is a little shorter, not handsome, and has no strength to work, but it is not disabled, it is much stronger than the previous lame, and this little barbarian is also willing to follow Erdan. ”

Qi Shufang's most hated criminal in her life is human traffickers, sometimes listening to the tragedy of women and children being abducted and trafficked, she wants to cut human traffickers with a thousand knives, but she didn't expect things to happen to her.

Zhong Cuifang willingly?

Could it be voluntary? That Guizhou woman still had children before she came, and she was willing to abandon her children to come here? Could it be forced? Could it be abducted and trafficked?

Qi Shufang didn't see a woman in Guizhou, but first saw Zhong Cuifang bought by Uncle He's family.

When she saw her, Qi Shufang believed Wang Chunling's words a little.

The women in Guizhou, Sichuan are generally beautiful, and the seventeen-year-old Zhong Cuifang has fair skin, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, one head taller than the second egg of the famous He Jianxia, with fine skin and tender meat, and a slender figure, although she is not a big beauty, she is much better looking than most of the women in the He Lou brigade who are facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and she stands side by side with He Jianxia with a smile, without a trace of reluctance.