Chapter 51: The Line of Life
With her reddened eyes open, the face of the little girl who has not yet grown is not a pear blossom with rain.
When Gao Qingzhen saw this scene, she also vaguely knew what was going on, sighed, and was also relieved.
Sigh is sad for her daughter, even if she is patriarchal, at least this is her own child, if she can pass the exam, if she does well, she can be ruthless for her to continue to go up, now it's fine.
Relieved because this result avoids the embarrassment of their family's life, providing for a high school student, and maybe continuing to college, which is not a light burden, which greatly delays her life planning, and her son has to get married and build a house a few years later, how long will it take to see her grandchildren......
Now it's okay, my daughter is playing abnormally, it's not that I'm stingy, it's that you didn't seize the opportunity, I said it in advance, if you can get to the point where the tuition fee is halved, it will be for you to continue to go to school, and now you haven't even been admitted to the town high school, so it's not good to blame her for being a mother!
"Since I didn't pass the exam, let's prepare well and think about what to do next!" Gao Qingzhen was not as sad as her daughter, but walked out of the kitchen a little briskly, "I'll go to the neighbor's house to borrow some soy sauce first, and use it for use!"
Sometimes between parents and children, the two generations have completely different ideas, at least Jiang Xiaoya is a strong girl, she longs for the outside world, but not as a working girl into the factory, but on the university campus, becoming an admirable figure.
College students are tall enough in their remote and poor town, admitted to a good high school, and then admitted to college, and even able to get a place to study abroad at public expense, see the lighthouse of the United States, those landscapes that only exist in her mind, this is what she has always wanted to achieve.
These are actually the words used to encourage them when a normal college student came to their school for an internship as Jiang Xiaoya's English teacher, and Jiang Xiaoya didn't know what the big city the teacher was talking about.
The largest town she had ever seen, which was like a county town, and the high-rise buildings, busy traffic, and people everywhere described by her English teacher were completely out of touch, not to mention the United States, which was far more developed than her home country across the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles away.
Even if she has not heard, seen, or seen a big city thousands of miles away, or the United States thousands of miles away, Jiang Xiaoya still holds ardent hopes and strives to walk out of her hometown and go to the most prosperous place in the world.
But now, what can she do? She is only fifteen years old, and what can she do, even if she goes out to work, it will take a few years to save up for tuition, and she will be able to continue her studies for a few years.
The only thing she can rely on is not only her hard work, but also the support of her family, recalling her eldest brother's letter and the exchange of going home......
"Erya, I let you watch the fire? The fire is about to be extinguished!" Gao Qingzhen took a small cup of soy sauce in a cup from the neighbor, which is the amount needed for this meal, and returned to the kitchen, only to find that her daughter didn't even know how to look at her face, and she went out by herself, and she didn't know how to continue to light the fire, "This girl!"
She quickly put a pair of tongs of hay into the stove, and fanned it with a fan, choking out the unburned smoke.
Jiang Xiaoya returned to her room, moved a small bench, took out her homework book, climbed on the bed, and wrote it stroke by stroke, this is the condition for her to study at home in the past.
Tearing up one after another, Jiang Xiaoya felt that the content of the letter was not very good, and she didn't know if she could persuade her brother to come back......
"Erya, what are you doing here? Write a letter to your eldest brother?" Gao Qingzhen walked into her daughter's small room, looked at the paper balls all over the floor, stepped forward, and pulled out her daughter's letter, she still recognized all the commonly used words.
"Girl, I didn't say you, if you do well in the exam, even if I am reluctant, I will pay, what is the situation now, it's not my problem! I want to open up, you see that some of you are in high school, and how many of them have gone to college? Help the family reduce the burden as soon as possible, your father and I will raise your grandparents, and your grandmother will also want me to help, how can you have so much money?"
Gao Qingzhen saw that her daughter didn't speak for a long time, and she didn't say much, "Clean up, come out to wash your hands and eat." ”
There is a line in life, and after this line, it is like a snowball, although there may not be so much snow, but life is at least thriving, and under this line, even if you work hard, it is only to slow down the arrival of a desperate situation.
There are many reasons for this, it can be illness, terminal illness, disability, constantly bleeding the family in which it is located, holding on for affection and a glimmer of hope.
But the vast majority of them are poor, working day after day, without the idea of breaking the status quo, planning for the calamities that may occur in the coming year, and for the future to continue, and the greatest hope is only to be fed and clothed, so that they will not be homeless and have no way out.
This is also why countless parents who still can't jump out of this line are so eagerly looking forward to their children being admitted to college like a dragon, going to the city, the city's hukou, the city's home, and a job that doesn't have to work hard.
But right now, although their family is in difficulty, all the mother thinks about is saving money for her son's bride price banquet and building a house, for her daughter, Gao Qingzhen can only say sorry, it's too far away, three years, even seven years, she doesn't want to wait, and she doesn't want to wait.
When Jiang Maoqiang came back and listened to his wife calmly mention his daughter's grades, he was stunned for a while, looked at his daughter's red crying eyes with unwillingness, and suddenly said, "That's it, it's a pity." ”
Then Jiang Maoqiang acted as if nothing had happened, no matter from which point of view, he had no reason to speak for his daughter, and there was nothing wrong with what his wife did.
And he didn't have those thoughts, it was that although the busy farming season had passed, and the family's land had been planted with seedlings, there was still a lot of work to do, and there was not so much energy for him to waste.
Country child, sturdy and not squeamish, the second girl cried and cried for a few days, knowing that it was useless and returning to normal, when the time comes, find her something suitable for the little girl to do, just do it!
At this time, the sun was scorching, Jiang Maoqiang finished lunch, lay on the mat a little tired, and took a nap.
Gao Qingzhen skillfully cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, did not disturb her daughter, let her think slowly, and figure out that she would be happy with whatever she wanted to do!
Jiang Xiaoya stayed in her room silently, this time she didn't hesitate to write, wrote something to say, and then looked at the piggy bank pig at the head of the bed......