No matter how worried the fifth aunt was, Su Ru didn't have time to care about other people's affairs now.

After teasing the well-behaved little cousin for a while, when the mother and the others finished cleaning up the kitchen, it was almost dark outside.

Dongxiang has no electricity yet, and at night it can only be lit by kerosene lamps.

That's it, and you have to save it.

If anyone lights up a few minutes more kerosene lamps at night, they can hear gossip about that loser the next day.

For the countrymen, working at sunrise and resting at sunset is a habit that has not changed for thousands of years.

The conditions of the Su family are much better than those of other people in the township, and they are also reluctant to waste kerosene lamps for lighting.

Summer has just passed, and the temperature at night is not high, but cool.

Zhang Xinghua took Su Ru's hand and walked into the house, and saw that Su Jianwu had already lit the kerosene lamp, while her eldest son and second son were sitting at the table with serious faces, and the younger son was lying on the bed, obviously asleep a long time ago.

"What's wrong with you? Why did you light the kerosene lamp?"

Zhang Xinghua looked strange, led Su Ru to the side of the bed and squatted down to take off her shoes.

"Mom, I'll just do it myself. Su Ru hurriedly said, she is not a real nine-year-old doll, how can she let her mother continue to give her slippers?

"Okay, Yaya is sensible. Zhang Xinghua said with a smile and made her bed again.

Their family of seven is crammed into this mud room of more than 30 square meters.

Although the beds are very basic, there are only two beds.

On weekdays, Su Ru and the four siblings squeeze into the big bunk together, while her parents sleep in another small bed.

This kind of simple bed can make a creaking sound when you turn over, and it is not comfortable to sleep, and your whole body hurts.

"Mom, school is out of class right now. ”

Su Wenfei looked at the smile on his mother's face and suddenly spoke.

"Why can't you go to class?"

Zhang Xinghua was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously put away her smile.

"It's not those little red soldiers who made trouble, our principal was arrested, and the teacher was also scolded as a 'stinky old nine', and now the school is chaotic, and there is no way to study with peace of mind. ”

Su Wenxiang complained.

"Teacher Lin also left, and when he left, he told me that this situation is expected to continue for several years, and it will be even more chaotic in the future. ”

Su Wenfei sighed.

The brothers' grades are not bad, and they naturally want to rely on the road of studying to develop in the city.

In the past few years, the world has been unstable, and in recent years it has been even more chaotic.

Many teachers have been put on high hats and pushed to the other side of the students' hostility, and some have been taken away directly, and now basically no one dares to care about the class, and if you don't pay attention, you will be reported.

Although Su Wenfei is only sixteen this year, the children in the countryside are precocious, and they can see that it is a waste of time to continue to stay in school.

"What should I do? I won't read this book?"

Zhang Xinghua is worried, she has always insisted that several children in her family go to school, even if she was opposed by the old lady, she borrowed money to let the children go to school under pressure, but now that this book can't be read, isn't her insistence like a joke?

Her heart was suddenly in a mess, and she looked like she was about to cry.

Su Ru hurriedly hugged her waist, "Mom...... Don't cry, don't cry. ”

Zhang Xinghua showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, she was an ordinary peasant woman, and she really didn't know what to do.

"Mom, I'm old enough, and I plan to sign up when I recruit this year. ”

Su Wenfei sighed lightly, but his tone was irrefutable.

"No!" Zhang Xinghua objected without thinking about it, "If you can't study, you can farm at home, it's so dangerous to be a soldier, you forgot how it was when Ergou died?"

The men of the Su family have been trained by the old man since they were children, and all of them are good seedlings to be soldiers.

In addition to their family, Dongxiang also has a few other men who went to be soldiers, and the second dog who lived in the township went to be a soldier when he was a lively child, but before two years, this person was gone to the battlefield, when the army came to give a pension, the second dog's family was a crying father and a mother, but he couldn't get married and stay behind!

Zhang Xinghua used to think that there were people in the Su family who were soldiers in the army, and she didn't think it was too dangerous.

But the matter of the second dog made her realize that she was too naïve.

This battlefield has no eyes, even if the allowance can be returned every month?

When a person dies, is there nothing left?

Seeing that the eldest son was going to continue, Zhang Xinghua didn't want to think about it, "You don't have to read this book, but it's definitely not okay to be a soldier, boss, don't even think about it, just stay at home and farm with your father!"

"Mom!" Su Wenfei was anxious, "But I've already signed up." ”

"What?" Zhang Xinghua glared, and the brush in her eyes fell, "Why are you such a bear!

Su Wenfei quietly glanced at his father and said nothing.

Su Ru opened her eyes on the side, but she didn't expect that her mother did not agree to the matter of her eldest brother going to be a soldier.

Thanks to the fact that the eldest brother died many years later than his mother in his previous life, otherwise his mother would have hurt his body if he sent a white-haired person to a black-haired person.

"Ahem, Xinghua, don't worry, the boss is so smart, even if he goes to the army, he will be fine. Su Jianwu saw that his daughter-in-law was crying very sadly, and hurriedly came over to hold the person in his arms and comforted him, "The old man also said, there will be no big war in the past few years, our boss is such an excellent child, if he is like me and will be left in the crop field for the rest of his life, this will not delay the child's future!"

"Okay, Su Jianwu, you will hide it from me for a long time!" Zhang Xinghua glared at him with red eyes, "Don't talk about this, even if I sign up, I don't agree! Who can say for sure whether this war will be fought or not, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, if something happens to the boss, I will die!"

"Mom......" Su Wenfei's face was full of embarrassment, "You just let me go, I promise that I won't let anything happen to me!"

"It's up to you to decide if this happens?" Zhang Xinghua snorted with a straight face, "There's nothing to talk about, go to sleep, go to sleep." ”

After speaking, she took off her shoes and went to the Chase shop, and lay on the bed with Su Ru in her arms and her back to the father and son.

It looks like he doesn't want to continue listening to their nonsense.

Su Wenfei smiled bitterly, "Mom, I really want to be a soldier, I don't want to rely on God for food all my life, I know you're worried about me, but there is no absolute in everything, I really won't let myself have an accident." ”

Zhang Xinghua closed her eyes and didn't speak, but tears still flowed down the corners of her eyes.

She hugged Su Ru tightly in her arms, like grasping the last straw, so she didn't jump up and scold her son.

The kerosene lamp emitted a faint light, and only the sound of a mother's small whimper could be heard.

Su Jianwu's father and son were also uncomfortable, sighed, and extinguished the kerosene lamp on the table.