Mother's taste is always the most cordial taste, a simple mackerel stewed eggplant, fragrant Wang Shaodong ate two big steamed buns before he was reluctant to put down the chopsticks in his hand.

After dinner, Wang Shaodong's mother brushed the dishes and chopsticks, while Wang Shaodong followed his father to the warehouse to grind corn.

Corn is 5 cents a catty, and chicken feed is 1 yuan 2, in order to save feed costs, Wang Fumin mixed corn and chicken feed together to feed chickens in a ratio of one to one.

Because there is no breeding experience, the average three catties of feed can grow one catty of chicken in Wang's shed, which is much worse than the 1.8 catties to 2.4 catties of feed of experienced farmers and one catty of chicken.

However, corn grains are larger than chicken feed, and if corn grains are mixed directly with feed, chickens will eat the better-tasting feed and leave the corn kernels behind. In order to avoid this situation, Wang Fumin spent 2,000 yuan to buy a small electric mill, which was used to grind corn kernels into corn flour and then mix them with chicken feed, and the effect was much better.

As soon as the electric switch was pulled, the electric mill buzzed and turned, and Wang Shaodong's father used a shovel to send the corn kernels to the inlet, while Wang Shaodong held the mouth of the woven bag and continued the ground corn at the outlet.

The fire in July, although it was at night, but not long after laboring, Wang Shaodong felt like a layer of glued to his body, sweat dripped down his cheeks, and his clothes were close to his body.

Wang Fumin raised his hand to wipe his sweat, and simply took off his shirt directly, revealing his strong tendons.

My father is now forty-three years old, which is not young.

In the memory of his previous life, after the age of fifty-five, the muscles in his father's body began to relax, and he lost the demeanor of his previous youth.

The male laborers in the ravine are all fit, fat and thin, with strong biceps femoris and well-developed pectoralis major muscles, which are the result of years of working in the fields as adults.

Industrious people are rarely out of shape, and laborers are the most beautiful, which seems to be really reasonable.

Seeing his father take off his shirt, Wang Shaodong simply took off his shirt. However, his figure is much thinner than that of his father.

The father and son didn't speak like this, and they cooperated with each other tacitly, and they were busy for an hour and a half from eight o'clock in the evening to grind a total of 500 catties of corn kernels into corn flour. These 500 catties of corn flour can be used for two and a half days, and then by the night after tomorrow, Wang Shaodong and his son will need to do this work again.

Now, those 2,000 chickens have to eat 400 catties of feed a day, so the cost of feed for the Wang family alone is about 350 yuan a day.

The work of grinding corn seems monotonous, but Wang Shaodong works hard.

He's been out of this job for eleven years, and looking back, he really feels a little nostalgic.

Most of the work in the mountain village is monotonous manual labor, and in his previous life, Wang Shaodong once thought that these jobs were painful and helpless. It took eleven years of working as a medical device salesman in the city to realize that the repetition of monotonous mental work is much more painful than the repetition of physical work. Physical work can at least exercise the body and have a healthy body, while the repetition of mental work can make people collapse.

Every day is a report! report! report! performance! performance!

Wang Shaodong, who was tortured after these jobs, couldn't sleep well at night, and he always used alcohol paralysis to sleep.

Although the manual labor was hard, but after grinding the corn, the father and son went to the Muwen River in the north of the village to take a bath, and when they went home, they fell asleep, not to mention how comfortable it was.

Moreover, the work in the countryside is busy for a while, and then it is leisurely.

After feeding the chickens, there is a lot of time to make tea and make water; after grinding the corn, you can also go to the river full of smooth pebbles to bathe; and after the winter, there are countless leisure, watching the moon and counting the stars, listening to the stories told by the old horses in the village, and watching the village Aunt Zhao dance the gods, all of which are quite interesting and interesting things.

Anyway, Wang Shaodong made up his mind in his heart, since God let him choose again, then he will take root in this ravine in this life.

On the second night after he was reborn, Wang Shaodong slept very soundly, much better than last night's insomnia due to excitement and deep thought.

On the morning of July 9, when Wang Shaodong opened his eyes, the sun outside was already high.

Breakfast was poached egg noodles, and Wang Shaodong ate a big bowl.

After breakfast, Wang Shaodong asked his mother for 20 yuan, saying that he wanted to check something in the county Internet café, and then went to his neighbor Ma Lili's house.

It is estimated that Ma Lili had told her father Ma Zhentang yesterday that she would go to the Internet café in the county with Wang Shaodong today to check the matter of volunteering, so when she saw Wang Shaodong coming, she called out Ma Lili with a smile.

The two of them walked the Sanli Mountain Road, crossed the mountain south of the Taohua Mountains, came to Qingquanling, and got on the bus that started from Qingquanling and led to the bus station in Luzhong City.

Ma Lili is full of yearning for university life, and she hopes to apply for a normal college and return to Luzhong No. 4 Middle School as a teacher after graduation.

Wang Shaodong remembers very well that Ma Lili's college entrance examination score that year was 592 points, and the admission score line of Qilu Normal University that year was 586 points, and she was lucky to be admitted to the School of Communication of Qilu Normal University, majoring in educational technology.

Later, at the end of her four-year college life, Ma Lili returned to Luzhong No. 4 Middle School as she wished and became an information technology teacher.

The two got off at the intersection of Zipo in Beicheng, Gangcheng County, crossed the road, and the west of Yongxing Street was 50 meters away from the intersection and was Huaxing Internet Café, one of the three Internet cafes in Gangcheng County in 2002.

The café existed until 2016, but it is said that the owner changed several times.

In 2002, it was still very profitable to open an Internet café.

For two yuan an hour of Internet access, you can see at least a profit of five yuan in the Internet café.

When Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili arrived at the Internet café, there were no spare seats, and as soon as they entered the Internet café, their classmates Wu Zhe and Sun Lin greeted them.

The two of them were also waiting for the machine, and then Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili walked over with a smile.

"Lao Wu, you two are also coming to the Internet?"

Wu Zhe is a simple fat man, Wang Shaodong remembered that he later studied at Quancheng Transportation College, and then entered the China Road and Bridge Corporation, found a daughter-in-law with a Beijing household registration, and became a project manager, with an annual salary of more than one million, which is very good.

Sun Lin was very thin, and later went to Quancheng Institute of Light Industry, and after graduation, he went to work in a paper mill in Island City, but then he had less contact with everyone, and he did not attend several class reunions.

Luzhong No. 4 Middle School has only five high school graduating classes this year, three science classes, one liberal arts class, and one repeat class.

There are about 40 students in each of the three science classes, 64 in the liberal arts class, and 70 in the repeat class, for a total of about 250 students. This scale, compared with the number of graduates from the fourth middle school in the future, who often have thousands of people, is obviously pitiful.

Later, in the first year of the second class, 7 undergraduates and 6 junior colleges were admitted, and then in the second year, 8 more people were admitted to undergraduates, 4 people were admitted to junior colleges, a total of 25 people received university education.

At that time, university enrollment expansion was already very proliferating.

In fact, when Ma Lili graduated in 2006, she was lucky to catch up with the expansion of Luzhong No. 4 Middle School to need teachers, and then successfully entered her alma mater as a teacher. After 2008, the high school was saturated, and then for another six or seven years, not a single new teacher was recruited in the fourth middle school.

In 2006, in Class 2 of Level 31 of their No. 4 Middle School alone, three students entered Luzhong No. 4 Middle School as teachers, namely Ma Lili, Han Xiaoxia and Zhang Ming.

The four of them told a few jokes, and when they saw a legend, they yawned and stood up to get off the plane, and then Sun Lin, who was quick-eyed, hurriedly ran over and occupied the machine.

There are more than a dozen people waiting for the machine in the Internet café, and if you start slowly, the machine will become someone else's.