Chapter 31: Dongmei's Worries

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Since Taotao went to school, Dongmei's worries have been everywhere, she was first worried that the naughty Taotao would skip class and skip class, and she was worried that he would not listen carefully in class and would not be able to learn, and she was also worried that he would not write his homework......

On this day, the preschool distributed new books, and Dongmei sewed a big lace schoolbag for Taotao with old flower cloth, and packed the only two new books into the big lace schoolbag.

There is only one simple primary school in the village, and because of the limited classrooms at the school, the preschool can only be placed in a dilapidated temple not far from the school.

A dilapidated door panel was painted with black paint, that is, a blackboard, there were no desks, chairs and benches, so they used bricks to support a pile on one side of the classroom, and then dug an old tree, sawed a rectangular thin board with a saw, and put it on top of it is the desk, and the chairs can only be brought by the children themselves from home, and the forty or so children in the class sit in rows in this simple desk, and the simple classroom.

Dongmei entered the classroom and handed over the bag of grain she had brought to the teacher (at that time, in rural schools, except for a part of the cash, the rest of the money was paid for with grain, because the farmer had no income except for the income of those few acres of thin fields), and then inquired about Taotao's study.

The teacher told Dongmei that before the new books were distributed, she simply handed over some Arabic numerals to the children, and then the other classes started after the new books were distributed.

When Dongmei said to the teacher seriously, Tao Tao is naughty this child, he loves to be mischievous in class, if he is not well-behaved, you will fight, the teacher looked at this Dongmei differently, and said puzzledly, Tao Tao is a relatively well-behaved child, not crying or making trouble, when he is in class, he can not only listen carefully, but also raise his hand to answer questions.

Dongmei's round eyes widened, looked at the teacher, and thought to herself that she must have taken more food than other parents, otherwise how could the teacher praise Taotao like this, what her children are like at home, she doesn't know yet.

Dongmei is very envious of Wei Wei, the child of the Xueying family in the east of the village, and Shaojun, the child of the Huixia family, who basically married into this village with Dongmei and gave birth to a boy together, but the children of other people are obedient and cute, and their children are not only naughty but also love to mess around.

After the official start of class, every day when the sky was bright, Dongmei asked Taotao to get up, she was an anxious child, and would rather Taotao go to school early to wait than let Taotao be late.

But to his surprise, since going to school, Tao Tao woke up after only one call, and obediently put on his schoolbag to go to school.

Every day when I come home from school, I have to finish the homework assigned by the teacher before I go out to play.

Dongmei was very puzzled, thinking that such a mushy child loved learning so much, she summed up for a long time, and felt that Taotao was not because she loved learning, but because she was afraid of corporal punishment by the teacher.

In fact, what Dongmei herself didn't know was that before Tao Tao went to school, she told Tao Tao a lot of stories, intentionally or unintentionally, these stories are nothing more than whose doll in the west of the village studied hard and was admitted to the university, and whose doll in the east of the village did not study well, and the repetition became an old fritter and so on.

For a six-year-old child, he can't understand the specifics, but he more or less has an awareness in his heart that learning in class is very important.

A few days later, Xueying and Huixia ran over to visit the door, and saw Dongdong lying on the stone pier in the yard doing his homework seriously, and complained to Dongmei that his children either don't go to school in the morning, or they don't write their homework when they come back.

Dongmei smiled awkwardly.

In fact, she didn't hit the child, nor did she scold the child, all of this was conscious.

Since then, Tao Tao has shouldered an important task, that is, every morning after getting up, go to Xue Ying's house to call Weiwei, and then go to Huixia's house to call Shaojun, three children go to school together, after school in the afternoon, the three children take turns to concentrate on each family to write homework together, so that one learns one by one, and can also create a learning environment.

Spring goes to autumn, autumn goes to winter.

The weather is getting colder, although the children in the classroom are wearing old cotton jackets, but in the face of the dilapidated and leaky classroom, 30 of the 40 children have long noses, most of the children have frostbite on their hands, and some children also have frostbite on their faces.

Due to poor hygiene and without any precautions, one child with a cold can often be transmitted to several children.

On this day, Wei Guo, who had worked for a whole year, came back from the Longdong unit, and compared with the bumps on the road of seven days and seven nights before, it only took two days to arrive at home this time.

Due to the end of the battle, the unit withdrew and moved from Xinjiang to Longdong, which made Wei Guo feel a little comforted, after all, he was born in Qinchuan, eight hundred miles, and every time he was closer to the place where he was born and raised, Wei Guo's heart will feel less lonely away from home.

However, he was only 23 years old when he went to Xinjiang, and now he is 33 years old, due to hair loss, the original black brain has also been taken off into a shiny brain, in Wei Guo's own words, he was a child when he went to Xinjiang, and he has become an old man when he comes back.

In the past ten years of work, Wei Guo has hardly spent a penny, he is frugal, and with the salary he has accumulated in the past ten years, he has built a brick house for his family, and then he has also saved a small amount of money, and he handed over this small amount of money to his mother, because this money is intended for the little brother-in-law to marry his daughter-in-law.

At night, after sitting on the earthen kang in the back room and coaxing the two children to sleep, Dongmei and Wei Guo quarreled over a trivial matter.

Wei Guo took off his clothes and got into the warm earthen kang to get ready to sleep, but found that Dongmei was still sitting in the corner of the kang, and after a while, she began to sob.

Wei Guo is an honest person, he can't understand that Dongmei can cry so sadly about a small thing.

However, what Wei Guo didn't know was that since Dongmei married him, in seven years, Wei Guo gave all the wages he earned to his mother, and he didn't give Dongmei much money, and today he even gave his mother some of the money he saved at the end.

Dongmei looked at the two movie pictorials pasted on the earthen wall, Zhang Yu of Lushan Love and Takakura Ken who was chasing, and couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

Since he married into this family, he has worked hard and worked like a cow and a horse.

Every time I am busy with farming, ploughing and sowing, watering and fertilizing, cutting wheat and twisting the field, other people's families are men doing heavy work, women doing light work, and their own men work outside, and their parents-in-law are old, and a woman does all the heavy physical work, and sometimes she is tired and suddenly loses consciousness.

After finishing the farm work, when she came home, she had to clean up the housework, cook, serve her in-laws, and take care of two children, she never complained, because she remembered what her mother told herself, every rural woman comes over like this, and a woman's life is like this, this is fate.

However, every summer, the watermelons sold at the door, the persimmons sold at the door in winter, I and the children drool, but I don't have a penny to buy, the child pesters the mother to ask, Dongmei can only go to the mother-in-law to ask, the mother-in-law is in a good mood, give a few cents, but only enough for the child to eat, if the mood is bad, she will be scolded, disgusted that she eats this and that, too loser.

In the past seven years, all the income of the farmer was from his parents-in-law, and all of Weiguo's wages were given to his mother-in-law, and his own money never exceeded one dollar.

At this time, Dongmei suddenly thought, why didn't she go out to earn money, but when she turned her head and thought about it, she dispelled this idea again, in that era, especially in the remote northwest countryside, all the women in the village stayed at home obediently, living a life of serving her in-laws and taking care of her children, her ideas were too advanced, and she had broken the rules.

After the New Year, it was warm and cold, and the day of going to work in the country was approaching.

While packing up the burden for Weiguo, Dongmei silently thought, when will this kind of separation between the two places and the miserable days come to an end?

She looked at Wei Guo, who was emaciated with her back to herself, and said, "You have transferred from Xinjiang to Longdong, when will you be able to transfer to us?"

Wei Guo put down the work in his hand and said with a smile: "In the future, I may take root in Longdong." ”

Dongmei sighed and said, "You said the same thing when you were in Xinjiang, and now you have also left." ”

Wei Guo smiled and said: "That's because the conditions in Xinjiang are too difficult. ”

Dongmei asked curiously: "Then the conditions are much better now." ”

Wei Guo said: "Now it is much better, I used to live in a nest, now I live in a building, I used to defecate on the Gobi Desert, now I have a fixed toilet, I used to pay more than 50 yuan a month, but now I am more than 80 yuan a month, I am satisfied." ”

After speaking, Wei Guo "giggled".

Dongmei became interested and continued to ask, "Is there a school there?"

Wei Guo nodded and said: "Of course there is, there is a huge base, so many employees, how can there be no children's school." ”

Dongmei asked, "Is the school good and what are the conditions?"

Wei Guo gave a thumbs up and said, "The school is good, it's three stories high, there is a big playground, and the classrooms are heated, which can be warm." ”

When Dongmei heard the word heating, she thought of Taotao who was suffering from the wind and cold in the classroom, and she asked, "How is the teacher's teaching?"

Wei Guo said: "The teacher's profession is to teach, and if he can't teach the students well, he will directly deduct his salary, unlike our teachers here, who want to work for the family, where do they have the heart to teach the doll well." Moreover, the children's school only has summer and winter vacations, and there is no busy vacation and autumn vacation, and the students spend longer in school than in our village. ”

When Dongmei heard this, she suddenly had a strong desire in her heart, she thought about Taotao, who was already studying, and Nana, who had not yet studied, she felt that for children, receiving education in the countryside and in the city would completely affect the fate and future of children.

So, she boldly asked Wei Guodao: "Can you take me and the children with you when you go to work this time?"

Hearing that he was going to bring his wife and children, Wei Guo's face that was smiling just now suddenly sank.

The careful Dongmei saw the change in Wei Guo's face, and she thought to herself that Wei Guo must have thought that she couldn't see her mother-in-law, so she had to leave here.

However, Wei Guo doesn't want to take his wife and children to the city to enjoy happiness, why don't he want to give his children a good education and give his wife a better life, but what is in front of him is that the house in the living area of the unit is extremely tight, although he is still a cadre (technician), but because he is too honest and will not tie up with his boss, he has no house at all, even if it is a tin house, he does not take his wife and children to the unit so rashly, in addition to living in the guest house of the unit, he is sleeping on the street.

Wei Guo raised his head and looked at Dongmei's longing eyes, but three words were squeezed out between his teeth: "Let's go." ”

When Dongmei heard this, she tried to suppress the tears in the corners of her eyes.

The day of departure is fast approaching.