sent his younger brother to the kitchen to cook on the fire, and Wang Haoran went to the vegetable garden in the back yard of the house to pick some vegetables, and waited for his parents to come back to cook.

It's not that I don't want to cook, but I'm really worried that I can't do it, I haven't made this kind of rural big pot rice for more than ten years, Wang Haoran has long forgotten how much water to put and how much fire to burn. I don't remember much about cooking, but it's much more complicated than rice cookers and gas stoves, and it's easy to cook if you accidentally have too much water or can't get enough heat.

Wang Haoran doesn't have any opinions, anyway, he usually does it often, and he has learned to cook with his mother since he got the stove in the third grade of primary school, and he has never complained. It's just that no matter how young and ignorant I am, I will be willing to do something to help share when I see my mother coming back from working in the farmland, tired and exhausted, and she has to do laundry and cook for the family.

When she goes to the field to do farm work, Xia Qirong usually comes back a little earlier than her husband, and after finishing the rest of the housework for her two precious sons, she waits for her husband to come back and eat together.

The sharp-eyed Wang Haojie saw that his mother was back,Hurriedly fetched some water and brought it to his mother。

"Xiaojie is so good, what about your brother?"

"Brother is in the room, Mom, I caught an old turtle in the morning, such a big one. "Show off what should be shown.

"It's amazing, I burned it for your brothers at noon. "He who deserves praise should be praised.

"Mom, it's good if you kill it, hurry up and wait for Dad to come back, Dad is not as delicious as you make. "The sycophants that should be filmed should be shot.

This is the sweetness between Xia Qirong and her youngest son.

In fact, the dishes made by Wang Guoqin in this family taste the best, because he is willing to put seasonings. In fact, the so-called farmhouse dishes taste much worse when cooked, and Xia Qirong often makes very light flavors to save seasonings, which is not quite the right taste for Wang Haoran and the brothers.

Wang Haojie's selling made Xia Qirong decide to cook well today,Show her son his true craftsmanship。

"Your dad won't be back for a while, mom will show you a good hand today, and I promise to taste better than usual,"

"Good. ”

The old soft-shelled turtle, which is generally referred to as the old soft-shelled turtle in rural areas, is actually the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, also called soft-shelled turtle. This thing is generally not eaten very often in rural areas, not because it is not delicious, but because it is reluctant.

Usually caught will basically stay in the town to catch the market and sell, one can only be sold for about twenty yuan, which is also a good income, at least four or five catties of fresh pork, only when people hold a banquet can be seen.

However, the two sons have just been on summer vacation, and they are also growing up, and now it is the time when the farm is busy, so they don't have much time to go to the town to catch the market, so they just killed the two precious sons to replenish their bodies. Xia Qirong, who had rested for a while, didn't care about looking at her youngest son beside her.

Cooked this old turtle cleanly, not to mention, it's really quite big, almost two catties.

The summer noon sun shone on his face hotly, Wang Guoqin wiped the sweat on his face, packed up the farm tools and threw them on the edge of the ridge, and he didn't have to take them home, he had to work in the afternoon, and he didn't have to worry about being stolen.

Although there are still a few days before the time to go to school to get the notice, Wang Guoqin is not too worried that his eldest son will not be admitted to high school, and few people in ten miles and eight villages do not know how good their son's academic performance is, and he is obedient and sensible. Although there are neighbors who usually don't look at each other very envy and jealousy, no one will say to their face that their son is inferior to anyone.

The eldest son is his pride, and he has never seen a teacher who has ever mentioned worrying about his son's academic performance, but it is a good thing to be admitted to high school, but the tuition fee makes him a little nerve-wracking, and he has a heavy workload in high school, and the eldest son should not be able to continue to study like this, after all, it will take at least more than an hour to go back and forth from the village to the town.

As soon as the school starts, I heard that the tuition and accommodation fees add up to 800 yuan, and how much money Wang Guoqin has in the family is clear to single digits, and the tuition fee is enough, but there is not a few dollars left, and the tuition fee for the youngest son is not small, and the tuition fee for the first semester of junior high school is also more than 500 yuan.

At this time in 1999, the state has not exempted the tuition and miscellaneous fees of the nine-year compulsory education system, and it seems that it will not be until 2006 that the state will exempt the tuition and miscellaneous fees of primary and junior high schools, which is why the tuition fees of junior high schools are not much cheaper than those of high schools. If the family is far away and can no longer go to school, the cost of a child's school for a year can overwhelm a family.

The tuition fees for the two brothers to start school basically have to drain all the family's savings, in the past few years, God has not given food, the first two years of the flood flood, as the saying goes, there must be a big drought after the flood, in the early spring of this year, the rain is insufficient, the rice in the fields are more or less damaged, the harvest is definitely not as good as in previous years, and the degree of food and clothing has to be more economical than in previous years.

In fact, the burden of the family has always been on Wang Guoqin, but Wang Guoqin knows that if he doesn't want to be knocked down by life, he can only grit his teeth and face it with a smile.

Although life is hard, Wang Guoqin still feels happy.

The wife married herself from her mother's house two thousand kilometers away, and she never regretted it, two sons, the eldest son was obedient and sensible since he was a child, with excellent grades, and the surrounding neighbors said that the eldest son would definitely be able to get ahead in college, and the envy in his words Wang Guoqin could be heard.

The youngest son is a happy baby, although the grades are particularly poor, but it's nothing, if the two brothers are particularly good grades, then it's really embarrassing.

Last time, Li Dazhu from the same village said that the brick factory in the town was short of people, and he invited Li Dazhu to drink wine in two days to see if he could introduce himself in, and I heard that it was almost 1,000 yuan a month. No matter how hard the husband and wife work, they can always afford their two sons to study, and their lives will go on.

Although the six-year-old Wang Guoqin is an authentic farmer Chinese New Year's Eve today, he has not actually been far away, otherwise his wife's hometown is not far from Rongcheng, which is 2,000 kilometers away, and Wang Guoqin, who was only eighteen years old at the time, followed five or six partners in the same village to Rongcheng to collect more than 3,000 kilograms of oranges with a boss in the county for a salary of 10 yuan a day. After staying in Rongcheng for more than a month, I met my wife Xia Qirong by chance and fell in love quickly, and finally my wife married herself despite the opposition of her family and followed her back to this poorer countryside.

Wang Guoqin, who has seen the world, also wanted to go south to break through, but there are always such and such reasons, so that he can't get out of it, when he first got married, Wang Guoqin's parents disagreed, and at that time, he couldn't be the master without separating the family. The second year I had an eldest son,I can't leave my wife and children for a while,After the birth of the youngest son in two years,My parents left their family of four in a foreign country,The youngest son Wang Haojie doesn't even know how to walk,At this time, it's even more inseparable from home,Orphans and widows left behind can't even eat,Let alone farm work in the fields。

At that time, although it was an era of wealth and a golden age of opportunities everywhere, it was not that many people could not seize the opportunity, but in real life, there would always be some helplessness of one kind or another, so that people could only live step by step.

The reasons that prevent you from getting rich are not something that everyone can ignore, otherwise how can it be called an opportunity.