The middle-aged man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, he carefully handed the orange to everyone's hand, saw that Yao Mengqi's seat was empty, and deliberately put an orange on the dining table in front. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"You taste it, is it delicious?" After the middle-aged man handed out the oranges, he was still standing next to them, as if waiting for these people to taste them.

Under the graciousness, Lin Zifeng had no choice but to take the lead in peeling off the orange in his hand, breaking it from the inside and putting it in his mouth, and just took a bite and exclaimed, "It's really good, uncle, you planted these oranges yourself?"

In fact, Lin Zifeng didn't feel anything special when he ate it in his mouth, and it was even a little worse than the taste of oranges bought on the market, but he had to praise it against his will under the expectant gaze of the other party. Lin Zifeng took the initiative to shift the topic to planting oranges, hoping that the middle-aged man would not stuff more oranges into his hands.

The man grinned, and many folds appeared on his face, "Yes, there are ten orange trees planted in my yard, and this year's harvest is not bad, and the oranges that come out are big and sweet, and I know that they are no worse than those grown by people in the city." ”

Lin Zifeng and Yang Wei looked at each other and didn't say anything. At this time, Yao Mengqi also came back from the dining car, and she saw that there were more oranges in front of her seat, so she asked, "Did anyone buy oranges?"

Yang Wei pointed to the middle-aged man next to him and said, "This uncle gave us food." ”

Yao Mengqi looked up at the other party unexpectedly, and still squeezed out a smile on her face and said, "Thank you, uncle." ”

The man looked at the five young people sitting together and sighed sincerely, "Your city babies are just good-looking, and each one is smarter than the other." ”

Lin Zifeng glanced meaningfully at the three girls sitting in front of him, one of these three girls is the class flower of the third (11th) class of high school, the other is the school flower known as the princess of the iceberg, and the other is a little demon girl who does not play cards according to common sense, the three of them are eye-catching no matter where they are placed, not to mention in the eyes of this rural uncle who rarely goes to the city.

"Not all the people in the city look like this," Lin Zifeng said teasingly.

The middle-aged man smiled, and then sighed, "It's better for you to be from the city, your family is well-off, and after you are admitted to college..."

It seems that after the exchange of two boxed lunches and a few oranges, the middle-aged man is no longer as restrained as before, he opened the conversation box in front of Lin Zifeng and a few people, and talked about his daughter's experience of finally being admitted to college.

It turned out that the girl's name was Liu Cuicui, and she was the only one of the young people in their village who was admitted to university. When they received the admission letter, the village chief came to their house to celebrate. The father was also very happy at first, and after the village chief compared being admitted to university to flying on a branch and becoming a phoenix, he smiled from ear to ear and did not sleep well for several days and nights.

But the good times didn't last long, and it didn't take long for Liu Cuicui to come back from the boarding school, and she read the notice and the attached precautions inside and out, before telling her father, who couldn't read, that the name of the university she was admitted to was Capital Agricultural College, and it was written that the tuition fee for a year would be 5,080.

The middle-aged man didn't know what kind of university the Capital Agricultural College was, he only felt that it was good to study agriculture, he himself was an authentic farmer, and he felt very down-to-earth when his daughter went to college to learn agricultural knowledge. But the tuition fee of 5,008 really shocked him, he didn't expect that the tuition gap between middle school and university was so big, his daughter went to high school in the town, and the tuition fee was only a few hundred yuan a year, and she could board for free, while the college tuition fee was actually several thousand.

After learning of this situation, the middle-aged man was restless for a long time, and he went to the high school in the town to ask the teacher who taught there, wondering if the tuition fee written on the notice was an extra zero. But the teacher told him that the tuition fees of universities are basically like this, and the tuition fees of some art colleges are even higher, which costs tens of thousands of dollars a year, and the tuition fees of 5,008 are considered normal.

The middle-aged man was distressed, he pondered for a few days, and then called his eldest daughter Liu Cuicui to his side one night, telling her that he really couldn't afford the tuition fee of 5,000 and 8, and that he could save up to 1,000 yuan a year by doing farm work, and now all the family's savings were less than 5,000 yuan.

In addition to Liu Cuicui, this family also has two children, a second daughter and a younger son. They are all still in junior high school, and they are not yet ready to spend money. The middle-aged man told Liu Cuicui that none of the other girls in the village had gone to college, and that many of them went out to work after graduating from junior high school or married a bachelor from the village when they reached the age of eighteen.

He felt that since he was a girl, he didn't need to learn so much cultural knowledge, and it was already very good to provide Liu Cuicui to high school, according to their family background, they could only support one child to go to college at most, and this child could only be the youngest son.

Liu Cuicui had red eyes and tears after listening to her father's words, her father didn't know how much effort he had put in to get admitted to college, he had always been a top student in the class and in the whole grade, and after the college entrance examination results were announced, she was also one of the few in that school that could be admitted to the undergraduate.

But after working hard, she received an admission letter from the university, but her father asked her to give up her studies and choose to work or simply get married, which made Liu Cuicui feel very sad.

In rural areas that are not very open, parents generally have a patriarchal concept, and this is especially true in Liu Cuicui's family. Liu Cuicui has always understood in her heart that her parents have to give birth to a third child after giving birth to two daughters one after another, just to have a son. When they got their wish and ushered in the birth of their youngest son, all the love of the family was gathered on this younger brother.

Of course, Liu Cuicui also likes this cute brother very much, he is five years younger than herself, he likes to cling to her in everything, and sometimes he seems even closer to his parents. But when her parents only bought beautiful new clothes and delicious snacks for her younger brother during the New Year's holiday, Liu Cuicui always felt a little uncomfortable.

Later, Liu Cuicui also figured out that she could not have new clothes or snacks, even if these things were given to her, they would not change anything, but now her father actually wanted to deprive her of the right to go to college.