It was almost noon, the scorching sun was shining, and the villagers of Xinhe Village, who had been busy in the fields all morning, had finished their work and were ready to go home for dinner.

Looking at the lively scenes of other homes, Tan Wenlin stood at the door of his house, his hand in his pocket and tightly clutching the college entrance examination score.

Tan Wenlin is nineteen years old this year, but his eyebrows reveal a maturity and stability that does not match his actual age.

"Since I have been born again, I will never let my family suffer from poverty again, and I want them to live a prosperous life." Tan Wenlin looked at the dilapidated house in front of him, heard his mother's helpless sigh inside, and secretly made up his mind in his heart.

In fact, Tan Wenlin was originally an ordinary worker living in 2016, but an accident made him reborn in 1996, and it happened to be the score line issued after the college entrance examination today.

Twenty years ago today, when Tan Wenlin returned home happily with his undergraduate grades, he learned that his father was admitted to the hospital due to a car accident, and the driver who caused the accident fled.

So the whole family discussed whether to let Tan Wenlin continue to go to college, because going to college requires a lot of expenses, and the current situation in the family is that Tan Changqiang can't work, his mother Zhang Guifang is not in good health, and there is a younger sister Tan Ying who is in junior high school.

Sending Tan Wenlin to college meant it would be more difficult for the family.

The result of the discussion was that except for Tan Wenlin's reluctance to go to college, everyone else in the family strongly supported him to go to college, so Tan Changqiang and his wife persuaded Tan Wenlin with tears, and the little sister also sensibly said that she would no longer go to school, and from then on she helped the family work to support her brother to go to college.

In 1996, it was definitely a big deal for an ordinary rural family to have a college student, so the whole family tried their best to persuade Tan Wenlin to go to college.

Tan Wenlin had no choice but to stay away from home and start the road to university.

But the entire Tan family paid a heavy price for this, Tan Changqiang wanted to learn to raise crabs to improve the embarrassing situation of the family after Tan Wenlin left, but he never thought that he encountered an accident, and the crabs ran clean overnight, and the family was even worse after this catastrophe.

Zhang Guifang finally became a little dazed because of long-term fatigue, and her sister Tan Ying also took care of the family until she was in her thirties and did not marry until she was in her thirties.

These things later became an indelible pain in Tan Wenlin's heart, but fate is sometimes really indescribable, he didn't expect that he would face a second choice again, but this time Tan Wenlin didn't plan to let the tragedy happen again.

He took out the scoresheet, tore it to shreds without hesitation, and strode into the house.

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More than two months later, Tan Changqiang, whose legs and feet were already crippled, was discharged from the hospital, and when he heard that Tan Wenlin did not plan to repeat his studies, he couldn't help but sigh.

"I originally thought that if you were admitted to university, your family would have to provide for you no matter how difficult it was, but now ......." Tan Changqiang coughed, his face showing bitterness.

Tan Wenlin nodded emphatically, he was glad that he didn't tell his family his real college entrance examination results, in fact, he reached the undergraduate score line like twenty years ago, but this time he decided not to say it.

After lunch at home, Tan Wenlin said to go outside and left the house.

Xinhe Village belongs to Nantou Town, Hongjiang County, which was known as the land of fish and rice in ancient times, but with the development of the times, the reform is not in place, and now it has become a poor county in the country; Nantou Town is a poor town in Hongjiang County, but Xinhe Village is a drag oil bottle in Nantou Town.

Xinhe Village is more than 20 miles from the streets of Nantou Town, and there is only a potholed gravel road leading there.

The average income of the villagers in Xinhe Village is less than 1,000 a year, which is just over the food and clothing line, and Tan Wenlin's family is already in debt because of his father's medical expenses, which is even worse than other villagers' families.

He walked out of his house and came to a reed swing in the east of the village, which was only more than two miles in radius, and the sparse reeds in it fluttered in the wind.

"That happened in 1997, and it's only been a year since then, so there should be a problem." Tan Wenlin looked at the reeds, couldn't help but nodded, no longer lingering, he walked quickly towards the village.

In the village of Xinhe Village, there are three dilapidated tiled houses, standing alone at the south end of the village, some distance from other residents' houses.

When Tan Wenlin came, Zhang Degui, the village party secretary, and other village leaders were in a meeting.

Zhang Degui, the village party secretary, was in his fifties, and his temples were slightly gray, and when he saw Tan Wenlin coming in, he first politely asked Tan Changqiang about his recovery from his injury, and then asked Tan Wenlin if he had been admitted to university.

Tan Wenlin shook his head and said, "Uncle Degui, is the reed village at the east end of the village willing to let people contract?" ”

When Zhang Degui heard this, he said curiously: "That piece of reed dang is in the village, but because the reed market has not been good in recent years, no one has taken care of it, why do you ask these?" Want to contract? ”

"Yes, I want to contract that reed, I don't know how much money a year?" Tan Wenlin said the purpose of his visit, and looked at Zhang Degui.

Zhang Degui and the others looked at each other in surprise when they heard that Tan Wenlin really wanted to contract the reeds, this reeds have not been taken care of for many years, and now it is barren, and now the reed market is not good, and no one pays attention to it, they don't understand why Tan Wenlin contracted it? Could it be that I was stimulated because I didn't get into college?

"Ahem." Zhang Degui coughed, "Wenlin, your father and I are not outsiders, I have to advise you, there were people who wanted to contract Reedang before, but they all retreated due to difficulties, are you sure you want to contract?" ”

"yes." Tan Wenlin affirmed.

"Okay." Zhang Degui saw Tan Wenlin's insistence, so he didn't continue to persuade, "Although this reed swing is barren, after all, it belongs to the village, and the village can't contract it to you without collecting a penny, so let's do it, five hundred a year, how many years do you plan to contract?" ”

Tan Wenlin nodded when he heard this, this price is very fair, lower than he thought.

"Let's contract for three years."

"Well, since you are determined to contract, it just so happens that the village team is here, I think it's okay. You can send the contract fee later, and we will sign a contract. Zhang Degui said.

"Well, thank you, Uncle Degui." As soon as Tan Wenlin heard that Zhang Degui and others agreed to contract Lu Dang to him, his heart settled down, and he politely greeted everyone and left.

As soon as Tan Wenlin left the village, he thought about where to get the 1,500 yuan contract fee, but he couldn't get a penny from his own house, so it seemed that he only needed to borrow it from his uncle's house.

Tan Wenlin thought of this, so he went directly to his uncle's house.