Packing up his mood, Wang Haoran got up with the gloves on the black T-shirt next to the bed, the style of the slippers under the bed was a little old, a little deformed, and it didn't feel very comfortable to wear.

Wang Haoran stood outside the gate, taking a deep breath, and the fresh and unpolluted air was inhaled into his lungs, as if he could hear the cheers of his body.

Wang Haoran looked back at his current home. A row of five red brick houses with obvious Jiangnan characteristics, the outer rooms on the left and right sides are shorter than the middle three, the first room on the left is the kitchen with a long chimney, and the second room is the parents' room.

The third room is the hall house, this name may not be known to the city people what it means, there is another common saying, in fact, it is the living room, but most of the countryside is still called the hall house.

The fourth room is the room of Wang Haoran and his younger brother Wang Haojie,The brothers share a room。

The chicken house on the far right is a chicken coop, and ducks are called duck houses.

In the previous life, until the first semester of his sophomore year of high school, Wang Haoran had his own independent room. That year, my parents worked hard to save some money to buy land in the town and build a two-story house by themselves. After moving to a town more than ten kilometers away,I never came back in my memory,But Wang Haojie has come back many times to get together with his childhood friends in the village。

Wang Haoran walked to the left, and there was a well in front of the kitchen that had been specially built by someone.

In the countryside at this time, there was basically a water well for each family, whether it was washing and cooking or people eating and chewing, it was all groundwater, and it would take several years for water dispensers and water purifiers to enter the countryside.

Even the town has only just had access to running water, and most people are still not happy to use it unless they are particularly particular.

Because of the money, ten yuan and eight yuan a month is not cheap, and few people are willing to accumulate it over the years. In the first few years of moving to the town, the family did not need running water, and paid for someone to dig a well.

In the countryside at this time, you can see big words written on the walls and roadside telephone poles everywhere: "Dig wells, build houses, telephones... ”。

When ordinary people see these advertisements, their first reaction is not disgust and hatred, but envy, which is not an exaggeration at all.

The well water that just came up with a hint of coolness, flowing on the face is indescribably comfortable, wiped his face, felt a little thirsty, Wang Haoran used a bowl of water, drank it clean, cold to the bottom of the heart with a trace of sweetness, very refreshing.

It is a rare thing for a child born in the countryside to never drink raw water.

Turning around and entering the kitchen, Wang Haoran wanted to heat up the breakfast that had no heat, but looking at the most primitive kitchen, Wang Haoran was a little blind.

There are no gas stoves, rice cookers, or anything, and you don't even have a microwave oven.

The old pot made of red bricks burns firewood or wheat straw, and Wang Haoran has long forgotten how to use it.

If you're not careful, the first thing you do when you come back from rebirth is to burn down your home with a fire, and you will laugh off your big teeth.

Looking at the egg fried rice in the bowl, Wang Haoran poured boiling water from the kettle and soaked the rice to eat.

It is not surprising why dry rice such as egg fried rice is eaten early in the morning, people living in rural areas basically know that unless there is no farm work, most of the time families eat dry rice in the morning.

No, because I am hungry and have enough to eat, I have the strength to work.

Early in the morning, I went to work in the fields before dawn and came back at noon, and there were more than five or six hours in between.

Therefore, in the morning and at noon, you should try to eat as much as possible, and only cook some porridge in the evening, and eat all kinds of pickles pickled by your own mothers.

After the trivial matter was over, Wang Haoran, who was idle, sat on the ground like this, looking at the wide and flat rice field in front of him.

A big rooster with a fiery red body like a triumphant general, proudly leading a group of spouses and a group of children who are not their own children walked leisurely in front of Wang Haoran's eyes, pecking as they went.

The big rooster glanced up at Wang Haoran from time to time, and the chicken couldn't figure out how to show off its successful chicken winner to the single dog owner in front of him.

Wang Haoran's boring thinking made him dumbfounded for a while.

No matter how confident you are in the future, no matter how high you can reach in the future, the most important thing in front of you is to make this impoverished family gradually rich, even if it is to be able to eat a delicious meal.

How poor this family is, Wang Haoran knows very well.

Until now, Wang Haoran has been the kind of child who belongs to someone else's family. Smart and clever to study well, junior high school grades have always been the first in the age, just graduated from the past high school entrance examination results have not changed, should be the first in the town, the third in the county, far beyond the town's middle school admission score line, in a few days as soon as the results of the county No. 1 middle school and the city No. 1 middle school leaders will come to the house to talk about Wang Haoran's transfer problem.

has excellent learning and a calm and sensible personality, which makes my parents trust Wang Haoran very much.

Wang Haoran has a key to the drawer where the money is placed at home, and Xia Qirong has a safekeeping.

This key was handed over to Wang Haoran by his father Wang Guoqin for safekeeping, and in order to facilitate himself, it was returned to Wang Haoran from the second year of junior high school. In school, there are some miscellaneous fees to be paid, so Wang Haoran can take it from the drawer, and then tell his parents.

Inserting the key at his fingertip into the keyhole, in the middle of the drawer are his parents' household registration book and ID card, next to which is a black money bag.

Pulling open the slat, he poured the money inside on the table, and the few bills were red and green.

You can calculate it at a glance, a total of 1175 yuan!

There were a few coins in the drawer, which added up to all the family's savings! At this time, there was still no passbook at home, let alone a bank card.

It wasn't until the end of this year that my father, Wang Guoqin, went to work in the town's brick factory, and then got a passbook.

Why are you so poor? Some people want to say that they are too lazy, and it has nothing to do with industriousness and laziness, because the peasants at this time were so poor.

As far as Wang Haoran knows, there may be one or two families in Yongxiang Village where Wang Haoran is located with 10,000 yuan, even if they are very rich people.

For example, Wang Haoran's family, a family of four, the village divided ten acres of land, Yongxiang Village at this time is divided into two acres of land according to one population and two acres of land, plus the two acres obtained by Wang Guoqin at the beginning of the family is exactly ten acres of land, two seasons a year, one season of rice and one season of rape.

Seedlings, transplanting, sowing, fertilizing, watering, spraying, autumn harvest, winter and the whole field, saying that they are busy all year round, and only some days in winter are considered slack.

Even if it is the most industrious person, how much can this ten acres of land earn, at this time the rice is about 1.2 yuan a kilogram, that is, six cents a catty, so ten acres of land a year is about 10,000 yuan of income.

It's just gross income, not pure income!

Don't forget, at this time in 99, the agricultural tax has not been canceled, let alone the village retention, township co-ordination funds, I don't know how to pay at this time in other provinces, anyway, these three things seem to be more than 3,000 yuan a year in Wang Haoran's memory, and then count what fertilizer, diesel fees, etc., you can imagine what the annual net income of ordinary farmers' families is at this time.

Counting family expenses, school fees, etc., it is not a joke that the annual net income of farmers is zero.

Therefore, at that time, there was a popular saying in the countryside: "The countryside is really poor, the farmers are really hard, and agriculture is really dangerous".

It was precisely because of this that the state later abolished the agricultural tax and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so that the peasants were willing to continue farming and live a good life.

The income is low, the price is not high, and the pork is only five yuan a pound at this time, but it still can't change the difficulty of most farmers' living difficulties.

Few families are willing to buy meat to eat often, Wang Haoran's family has two boys, and his parents are rarely willing to spend money.

There are no old people at home to help pull them, and Wang Guoqin and his wife have a harder life than ordinary people.

Wang Guoqin's father Wang Decai was born before the founding of the People's Republic of China, has three sons and one daughter, Wang Guoqin is the third, eight years ago when Wang Haoran was in the first grade of primary school, Wang Decai sold the current three houses for 1,500 yuan to his own son Wang Guoqin, and then took all his belongings to Guangdong Province more than 1,000 kilometers away.

Her mother, Xia Qirong, is a daughter-in-law from other places who married from Rongcheng, Sichuan Province.

In this era, the rural transportation is inconvenient, and the village brigade headquarters has not installed telephones at present, and Xia Qirong has only gone back two or three times in the more than ten years since she left her mother's house.

The conditions of her mother's family are much better than those of her husband, but the woman marries her husband, and Xia Qirong has never asked her mother's family to help her.

So the parents could only rely on themselves to pull Wang Haoran and the brothers up little by little.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is hard.