Chapter 4 Rhubarb
Half an hour later, Wang Qiang came to Ah Niu's house, a burly young man with five big and three thick just walked out of the house, looked up and saw Wang Qiang, and was instantly overjoyed:
"Ah Qiang, are you back, when did you come back? Don't ask my brother to go over to talk about it!"
"Hehe! I just came back yesterday, no, I came to see you early this morning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Wang Qiang was also very happy to see his childhood friend, and rushed over to punch Ah Niu in the chest.
"Ah, Ah Qiang, when did you get so strong? This punch is really strong!"
was punched by Wang Qiang, and Ah Niu stared at Wang Qiang with a pair of bull's eyes in great surprise.
"Do I have a lot of strength......?
Wang Qiang thought of something instantly, and in ecstasy, he was a little frightened: it was probably the effect of the magical spring water, but it was really too scary!
"Hehe, I've been out for two years, I've grown up two years old, of course my strength is much greater, otherwise it's abnormal......"
After a haha, Ah Niu was fooled, and the two began to talk happily.
This Ah Niu has a name that makes people extremely speechless, called: Niu Rile. I don't know how talented his parents have to be to come up with such a strange name.
Ah Niu's family is different from Wang Qiang's family, their family mainly raises livestock for a living.
The livestock raised on the mountain are pulled down the mountain, and the traders below the mountain will keep the prices very low, but because there is no other way to obtain money, they can only sell the livestock to local traders, and they can use the only money they get to buy some oil, salt, rice and noodles, which is also worthy of living.
Moreover, because the mountain road is so rugged and difficult to walk, they can't carry large things at all, they can only carry thirty or forty catties at a time, and almost all of their annual rations are corn and potatoes.
After the death of his father, Wang Qiang also wanted to call his hair to go out to work together, with Ah Niu's naturally strong physique, and some strength, he didn't have to worry about finding something to do wherever he wanted to go.
However, Ah Niu's father and mother are two dead-eyed people, and they don't want their only son to leave home, so the two haven't seen each other for two years since they separated.
Niu also has a younger sister, who is only about thirteen years old now, has just entered junior high school, usually lives in a distant school, and only comes back once a week.
Going to school is undoubtedly a dream for most of the children here, and it is a blessing for those who can go to school.
But in addition to living in junior high school and high school, those children who go to elementary school have to set off from home at 5 o'clock every morning and trek for nearly three hours to ensure that they are not late for school.
They almost all wore slippers and military rubber shoes, which were a kind of luck on rugged mountain roads.
Compared to the tattered shoes, the ragged clothes are not enough to help them withstand the cold wind like knives on the mountain. It may be an exaggeration to say that you are not clothed, but the ragged clothes can accurately describe all this.
The school was too far away and there were no roads to go to, so the children crossed the wooden bridges one by one and climbed the mountains to go to school every day. The wooden bridges look like they're many years old, and although they've fallen into disrepair, they don't know how many generations of students have been carrying.
Education is the only shortcut to change poverty, but the heavy workload of local teachers, coupled with low salaries and inconvenient transportation, Liangshan Prefecture loses nearly 200 teachers every year, and it is difficult to recruit excellent teachers.
Whether in the county or in the countryside, most girls do not go to school. Ah Niu's sister is in school, but Ah Niu tried his best to dissuade his father and mother, gritted his teeth and persevered.
He deeply knew that he was not a piece of study material, so he dropped out of junior high school and pinned all his expectations on his sister.
Therefore, the change of Daliangshan is not a matter of a few years, but a matter of several generations.
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"Ah Niu, this is a solar-powered English reader I brought back to your sister, in which I downloaded most of the English courses from elementary school to high school, hoping that our little genius will be admitted to a better university in the future. ”
Wang Qiang handed the gift he was holding to Ah Niu and explained to him.
Ah Niu's sister Niu Shanshan is a veritable little genius, since the first grade of primary school, she is the first place to be the best, in the same school, no one can surpass her, Ah Niu loves her to the core.
"Hahaha! Okay! Ah Qiang, you are so kind, thank you, brother!"
Ah Niu may not care about the gift to himself, but he is overjoyed for his baby sister, and he thanked him repeatedly.
This English learning machine, which was bought for nearly 1,000 yuan, is definitely a big deal for Wang Qiang, who only has a deposit of about 10,000 yuan.
"By the way, Ah Niu, is my old cow still there? If it's there, I want to take it back, I'll come back this time, stay for a while, see what's going on, and don't go out for the time being." ”
Wang Qiang said his intention and didn't want to wait for a moment.
"Oh, it's still there, but maybe it's because I'm too old, and I'm in bad spirits now, I'm afraid ......"
Ah Niu knows the meaning of the old cow to Wang Qiang, and has always been carefully raised, but after all, the old cow is too old, and it seems that the limit has reached recently, and he eats very little, and he is losing weight day by day.
"Ah......" Wang Qiang suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly said, "Take me to see it!"
The two hurriedly entered the earthen house of Ah Niu's house, and came to the front of a cowshed on the side of the backyard, only to see a skinny old cow lying listlessly on the ground, and suddenly saw Wang Qiang, who stood up with some trembling, and called out "moo", and there was some crystal in his huge eyes.
"Rhubarb!"
Wang Qiang took three steps and made two steps, rushed into the cowshed, hugged the big head of "Rhubarb", and the tears could no longer be suppressed, and they flowed down.
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"Let's go, rhubarb, let's go home. ”
After a while, Wang Qiang patted the head of his old scalper and whispered in his ear.
If Wang Qiang hadn't gotten the Super QQ Farm, this "rhubarb" would probably have been exhausted, but now after tasting the miraculous spring water, Wang Qiang has enough confidence in its recovery.
Even if the spring water is not so magical, doesn't it still have ten experience points? Strengthening a zero-level livestock and poultry only costs three experience points.
No matter what the price is, Wang Qiang must save this old scalper.