Let's say that in late June of this year, the dog baby was admitted to the town high school. When I came back in the first week after school started in the fall, the dog baby said, "Mom, I'll fry a big bottle of pickles every week in the future." "What's the matter, dare you think the school food is light?"

"Everyone brings pickles, and the dishes in the cafeteria are too expensive. "How much is a serving?" "There are five cents, there are also one cents, and the most expensive ones are five cents and five miles." "What kind of dish is Qi?" "There are stir-fried tofu with spinach, roasted carrots with cabbage, and stewed kelp with winter melon." "Oh. ”

"For a meal, buy two steamed buns in the cafeteria and make a bowl of noodle soup. If you bring a bottle of pickles, you can eat them for three or four days. "Oh. "Sensei boiling, we have a lot of pickles in the house." Apricot interjected. "When you finish eating pickles, you buy vegetables to eat, don't dare to save too much, study is heavy, and your body is important. "Hmm. ”

"Some of my classmates still eat the pickles when they are hairy. "It's hairy, so how do you eat it?" Ergou asked. "Take boiling water. The dog replied. "It's hot, and when it's broken, it falls, but you can eat so much. "Hmm. ”

"What should be saved should be saved, and what should not be saved should also be saved. "Hmm. "Is the cafeteria food delicious?" "It's okay, it's just that there is a lot of water." "There are a lot of baby families, and the stir-fry in the canteen will not be dry like in our house." ”

"The buns in the cafeteria are delicious. "There are so many dolls in the school, dare to pinch buns?" "Well, eat it once a week." Oh, by the way, take two buns and try them. "I thought I had a bun. Ergou said a little disappointed. "Buns, Wednesday is not rancid now?"

While talking, Xing'er broke a bun and ate it with Ergou. "Is it delicious?" asked Yezi. "You take a bite. Apricot broke a small piece and handed it to her mother. "Well, it's still steamed. People are soft-faced. Ye Zi said as he ate.

"It's delicious, but it's not delicious. "If the noodles are soft and chewy, they won't be fragrant when you eat them." The noodles are soft, and the noodles are less laborious when mixing. ”

"Mom, I won't be back next week. "Well, if you don't come back, you won't come back, study hard. "Well, I want a lamp. "Isn't there an electric light in the school, and what do you need a kerosene lamp for?"

"The lights in the classroom go out at 10 o'clock, and everyone lights up the lights and studies until 11 o'clock. "Brother, don't you know how to do it, I'll find you a bottle." Apricot said. "Everybody's a hood lamp. ”

"Oh, that's a lot more demanding. Apricot said on the side. "He's afraid of people's jokes. Ergou also interjected. "Hehe, then you can buy one tomorrow. Ye Zi said with a smile. "Hmm. ”

The dog baby went to Qingxi Middle School. The high school in this town is much larger than the seven-system school in Yunling, first there is a large playground, there are basketball courts on both sides of the playground, and there are parallel bars, horizontal bars, sand pits and climbing poles in the southeast corner of the playground.

Beyond the playground, there is a large road to the north, and on both sides of the road are thick paulownia trees and rows of classrooms or dormitories made of bricks.

Student dormitory, 20 people in a room, more than 20 square meters. Pushing open the two narrow wooden doors, there is a large solid earthen kang coiled on each side, and on the narrow walkway in the middle, near the window of the back eaves wall, there is a stove coiled for heating in winter.

There was no ceiling in the room, and when you looked up, the rafters were clear, and even through the cracks in the pores above the windows, you could see the grass whiskers peeking out of the bird's nest.

As for eating, the students had to first pull grain and a few catties of cottonseed oil from their homes to the grain station in the town according to the ratio of 30 percent wheat and 70 percent corn, and then go to the school's general affairs department with the documents issued by the grain station to exchange them for meal tickets according to the ratio of 80 catties of flour for every 100 catties of grain.

The school directly brings wheat flour, cornmeal and cooking oil from the grain station to the canteen in a certain proportion and cooks for the students. If you have to pay for a food ticket, you have to go to the school's general affairs department to buy it. Meals are improved every Wednesday in the school.

This improves the food, that is, eating white bread. Each person can only buy three buns to eat with a small red ticket. The stuffing of the bun is usually a mixture of shredded radish, vermicelli and meat oil.

Every time it is time to eat steamed buns, the masters often wrap dozens of more steamed buns. This extra bun is not bought with a small red ticket, but by luck and strength.

At this time, the dining window of the cafeteria is crowded with students, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a "mountain of people". Some are in front, some are behind, some are above, some are down, some are holding the window, some are climbing up the windowsill. The one caught in the middle was squeezed into a "whoop" scream.

In the frolic, you push your forehead, squeeze you, and you compete for your forehead, which is very lively. Most of the people who can grab the buns are either tall, small, or clever. While laughing, I gulped down the squeezed buns while walking, and I really didn't know how fragrant it was.

At this time, Qingxi Middle School only had cable broadcasting, no television, and no video recording. In fact, there is not a single movie theater in the entire town of Qingxi. The students are all from rural areas, and the price is sky-high in addition to studying and studying.

Forty or fifty students in a classroom, the teacher spoke with emotion, and the students listened with relish. There is no need to mobilize, there is no need to discipline, everyone is very conscious of self-study.

The teacher is also very responsible, in addition to lecturing and going to the classroom to answer students' questions in the evening, students are also allowed to come to the office (and dormitory) at any time.

The school attaches great importance to students' physical exercise, there is no shortage of physical education classes, and every morning the teacher takes the students to run outside the school walls. If you don't participate, you can't run if you don't want to run halfway through the run, because you have to come back, and if you run slowly, you won't be able to keep up with the class.

Perhaps because of this, although the students' learning tasks are very heavy, most of the students have good eyesight, and only in the third year of high school do they have a few glasses, and the prescription is also limited, just more than 200 degrees.

The dog baby likes math and physics, and is the representative of the physics class in the class. The teacher said that if you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you will not be afraid to go all over the world. Perhaps out of vanity, the dog baby soaks in the laboratory from time to time to do experiments, but in fact, there are not many models and instruments in the physics laboratory of the town high school.

But when it came time to divide the liberal arts and sciences class in the second year of high school, the dog baby unexpectedly chose liberal arts, and he planned to do economic management in the future.

In this regard, his physics teacher had quite an opinion, saying that he did not choose a good science subject, but chose what liberal arts he chose, and what could he do if he studied liberal arts. There are too many artificial elements in the liberal arts, and even referring to the deer as a horse, which is inevitably at the mercy of others. Isn't there a saying that if you can't do it, you can't do it, and if you can't do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, you can't do it.

Of course, the teacher's words, the dog baby did not hear, the teacher was talking to those students who studied science to relieve their boredom. Of course, this is all gossip.

By this time, it had been a few years since the production was delivered to the households, and the economic situation of both the Ye family and other Zhuang households had improved significantly. Zhuanghu people eat white buns all year round, and it is not only the Spring Festival or weddings and funerals that can eat meat, and gradually new tiled houses have appeared.

Gradually, small factories such as glass knife factories, spring factories, and date factories appeared in the persimmon bay area, and there were also construction teams that were almost adults.

Moreover, with the continuous improvement of rural economic conditions and the emergence of industrial diversification, the children of rural households who have just graduated from junior high school and high school are no longer willing to simply farm at home, and either go to learn crafts, carpenters, lacquer makers, bricklayers, or go to small factories to work, go to the city to "walk" (work), or go out to do small business.

Apricot is two years younger than Gouwa, because Gouwa had dropped out of school for a year, so when Gouwa went to high school, Apricot was also in the third grade of junior high school. Every time the dog baby comes home from the town, she asks Xing'er about her studies and tutors her from time to time.

As for Ergou, I know that Ergou doesn't like to study, as long as Ergou doesn't ask, the dog baby doesn't take the initiative to care about his learning. In fact, Ergou never mentions studying at home, and even if he does his homework, he always pushes it again and again, and he can't push it off before he fools it out.

The children are all in school, and Ye Zi is alone at home during the day, feeling a little lonely. However, my mother-in-law occasionally came to Yunling to stay for a few days. On this day, Xing'er and Ergou came back from school and were very happy to see their grandmother coming.

"Grandma, is there anything to eat?" Ergou asked. "You just know how to eat. Apricot chimed in. "Hehe, they're all in the fifth grade, and they still look like little babies. What are you looking at here, hey, really, what are you? Grandma smiled and took out a handful of red fruits from her small burden and said.

"Hawthorn. "Sour. "That hawthorn is appetizing to eat. "Grandma, why do you remember?" "Come as you want, why don't you like it?" "Why don't you like it." ”

"How's the book?" "It's fifth grade. "But you have to study hard, and in the future, you will be admitted to college like your brother Haihai." Grandma said to Ergou. "I can't pass the test. "If you study hard, you can get in." "When I think of studying, my forehead hurts. "Hey, hey, ghost. "That's it. ”

"Oh, then you don't study well, what can you do when you grow up?" "I don't know. "I don't know, if you don't have the ability, if you marry a daughter-in-law in the future, how can you support others?" "Hehe, it's still small. ”

"It's getting older every day, and it's too late when it's older. "Then I'll learn the trade." "Learn a craft?" "Hmm. "Carpenter or bricklayer?" "That's too tiring, I don't want to learn." ”

"Hey, grandma, Ergou likes to draw. "Then let your mother learn to be a lacquer maker for you, and it's also brisk." "Mom, grandma said to let the lacquer master go. "Wait until you're done in junior high school." When the time comes, find a master and learn from others. "Really?" "Hmm. ”

After dinner, the family chatted, and Xing'er and Ergou went to sleep in Xixia. Ye Zi and her mother lay on the Beixia kang and chatted for a while. "Three children, the dog baby is the most worry-free, and the apricot doesn't have to worry about it, just these two dogs are the most tired. ”

"The boy's family is like this, it's still a small mile. "I don't want to study, and I'm naughty. "It's also as good as that, just like his uncle, who likes to fix things. "Ah, I like to draw too. "That's what I said, Ming'er learned to be a lacquer maker from others. "Ah, I'll talk about that later. ”

"Alas, when it's my turn to live in someone's second house, I don't want to go. Ye Zi's mother said. "Hey, hey. "I don't like to listen to that Dandan squeak. "The baby just can't speak on the outside, but she has a lot of eyes." ”

"Well, we haven't been here in a few generations, so what's the matter. "It's out there, and it can't be done. "It's not the price, in the past, when people were looking for their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, they had to look at the generations. ”

"How many generations?" "No, I'm afraid I'm going to get down this dumb, deaf, blind or something." "Oh. ”

In this way, the mother and daughter lay on the kang and fell asleep while talking.

It's just that in the middle of the night, the old lady heard Ye Zi laughing in a daze, so she touched her daughter and asked, "You don't sleep, what are you laughing at?" Ye Zi woke up and realized that she was dreaming, and she dreamed that her goddaughter had written a letter.

Of course, she didn't tell her mother the truth.