Chapter 4 Childhood Sweethearts
"Brother Zhicheng, what are you thinking about alone?"
A girl about his age walked up to him smiling, holding a large hoe in her hand. This is Zhang Yuxiu, who grew up with him.
Zhicheng turned his head to look, forced out a smile and said, "Oh, Xiu, why did you take such a big hoe?" ”
"Hee-hee, hoe! Brother Zhicheng, what are you doing here? I heard my aunt say that you have been admitted to the market, which is the pride of our village! She said and sat down with him.
Zhicheng sighed a little sadly and said, "Xiu, I took the second list, and we can't afford to be on it at all." Hey, the test is also in vain......" He glanced at Yuxiu helplessly and twisted a handful of grass fiercely.
"How can you take the test in vain, let's think of a way! I finally got in. In fact, what is the first list and the second list, it's not that the school is thinking about the way to collect money indiscriminately! I heard my brother say! Now people from all walks of life out there know about money. There is no human touch at all, you are ruthless for money, and you are your father when you have money. If you don't have money, you can't be a grandson! ”
She smiled at Zhicheng, wrapped a blade of grass back and forth on the index finger of her left hand, wrapped it, let it go, wrapped it again, and put it again......
Zhicheng followed her words and asked, "Xiu, which city is the rich brother in now?" Are the conditions and treatment over there good? ”
Dafu is Yuxiu's brother, who went out to work before graduating from junior high school three years ago.
"Hmph, he's been running around, like Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Suzhou, he's been to all of these places. I've worked as a builder, worked as a security guard, brushed dishes and washed dishes, but I don't have a decent job. Now he has moved from Guangzhou to Shenzhen to work as an apprentice in a garment factory. I don't think the treatment is any better! What do you think a poor worker can do except work that suffers hardships and suffers? My brother doesn't have much culture, and he can only earn two dollars by working hard for others! My mom and dad told him to come back, but he just wouldn't come back. How can the money outside be so easy to earn, it is good to be at home for a thousand days, but it is difficult to go out for a while. My brother told me that I went to so many cities, but only Shenzhen was not xenophobic. Because everyone is out of town, there is no discrimination. So my brother thinks Shenzhen is very kind, and he praised Shenzhen as a flower after only a month of visiting. Nowadays, many cities don't even allow us rural people to enter the toilet. This matter has been specially reported in the news, saying that it is suspected that our migrant workers are unhygienic. Hmph, no matter how clean and hygienic your city is, your ass/eyes are. Yuxiu's excited face turned red.
Zhicheng was amused by her, and looked at her with an extremely admiring look; "Xiu, your little mouth is quite powerful! Yes! Farmers are always looked down upon wherever they go. So now everyone doesn't want to be a farmer. Families want their children to get out of the house, away from the crops. ”
"That's right, being a pig, a dog, and a donkey dung is much better than being a farmer these days, and no one can afford to suffer hardships and sins. Hmph, you will bully us farmers at every turn. My brother did a small business in Miaoqian Street, Songjiang, Shanghai the year before last to sell some fruits, and he just got up early and sold it with a burden, not to mention the calluses on his shoulders, and the most headache was that he was frightened by the city management every day. Later, I finally saved some money and bought an electric tricycle with 2,800 yuan, but I was detained by the traffic police on Yushu Road after just five or six days of riding. said that there was no driver's license and no license plate, and he lost 2,800 yuan at once. People have acquaintances looking for relationships and can come back, but my brother is not familiar with the place, so the tricycle will not be given directly. Finding the Shanghai Songjiang District People's Government for reconsideration did not solve the problem. It's really wronged, if you really don't let you ride, you have to control it from the source. Why don't you care about the manufacturer and the sales department, but focus on the final consumer, especially for the people at the bottom? Besides, how much of a crime can be committed by riding a small electric three-wheeler, and it is not a big passenger without a license. Fuck his grandmother, where can he be reasonable, it's not even as good as a fucking bandit, it's obviously just a hard job of your stuff. ”
Yuxiu continued indignantly: "There are also those Wang Ba calves who owe farmers wages, they have worked hard for them for more than half a year, and they just can't get their wages back. You say it's not annoying. My brother had been working as a migrant worker in the construction industry for six months when he first entered the city, and according to my brother, he once caught a cold and went to work in the morning without eating, and he almost didn't fall off his head on the fifteen or sixteen-story building. But in the end, he was given 500 yuan. The rest of the salary is delayed today for tomorrow, tomorrow for the day after tomorrow, and indefinitely until your patience is exhausted, and the salary is yellow. In the end, my brother smashed the glass of the building, and as a result, he squatted in the detention center for a month before he came out. Hmph, where to reason! Is there a fucking place for reason in China? Who will help us farmers say a fair word! Last winter, when the farm was slack, my father and a few laborers from our village went to the provincial capital to do small labor, and at the beginning the boss in charge said very well, 80 yuan a day, and when I went home for the New Year, I paid off all the money. He usually supervises the work every day, but when the Spring Festival is approaching, he can't find his figure. Kicking the ball by passing the buck to each other when settling wages, they just don't pay you a salary anyway. counted nine cold days, worked for two or three months, and couldn't even get the money to go home for the New Year, who doesn't have a wife and children at home! Is it easy for those who have left their homes to work for them? In the end, you beg your grandfather to sue your grandmother, and even kowtow, but he won't give you a penny of wages. What's the solution? You can only squat on the construction site and guard a pile of cold reinforced concrete for Chinese New Year's Eve, leaving your wife and children unable to reunite, you say what it feels like in your heart. This is a common phenomenon in all of China! In the political textbooks, it is always said that foreign capitalists extract the surplus value of workers. Hum! Phew! We, the Chinese capitalists, do not extract the surplus value of the workers, but extract the full value of the workers. Therefore, which country's enterprises are more reasonable than Chinese enterprises, we Chinese are the most unreasonable! The most conscienceless! It's not a thing! One by one, one in front of the other, one behind the other, all yin. Talking about people doesn't do anything. If I want to be the leader of the country and play like these scum, I will destroy the nine clans. Hmph, I don't even feel sorry when I dig up his ancestral grave for him. ”
Yuxiu spoke a little incoherently because of her excitement, and her indignant appearance made Zhicheng admire.
This is really a girl who loves and hates clearly, has blood and justice, and speaks without compromise, speaking thoroughly, and acting resolutely.
"......" Zhicheng was amused by her words and laughed speechlessly, even the irritability in his heart was mostly lost, and at the same time he reached out and pinched her face and said, "Xiu, you can't talk nonsense outside." ”
"Hmph, I'm afraid of a fart, I can't kill people on the ground. How do you say that, you are willing to cut your body and dare to pull the emperor off the horse......"
Zhicheng sighed happily and leaned his head against the tree, recalling their carefree childhood. At that time, the two families lived relatively close and had a very good relationship. He and Yuxiu played together all day long, and she was two years younger than him. From the moment she can remember, she called him brother, no different from her own brother, and even closer than her own brother.
Now as I get older, it's a little unnatural. I remember that when I was in elementary school, their relationship was quite close, and she was one level lower than him at that time, and the two of them went to school and went home together every day. Doing homework also comes together, and the relationship is very good. So much so that many students of the same age call them "little couples". At that time, Yuxiu called him his brother closer than Dafu, because Dafu loved to play with boys of the same age, rarely took care of his sister, and sometimes loved to bully her. But Zhicheng always protects her, like a sister, so Yuxiu is also very close to him.
I remember once Yuxiu took the double hundred exam, and her mother gave her two pieces of toffee. On the way to school, the rich gluttonous drooling always grabbed it with her sister, but she cried and made a fuss and didn't give him a piece. Later, when she entered the school gate, she quietly stuffed a piece of toffee into Zhicheng's pocket, and then ran away with a smile. Although this piece of toffee was snatched away by the sharp-eyed rich man later, whenever he recalls this incident, Zhicheng's heart is always sweet. But you know how precious a piece of toffee was in the eyes of children at that time!
There are many, many more intimate things like this, and most of them have been forgotten. Nowadays, as I get older, there are fewer opportunities to play around together, and occasionally we are not as unrestrained as before. Although it looks more and more unnatural, each other's hearts are still very close, and the affection for each other is always inadvertently revealed. After all, the childhood friendship of childhood sweethearts is the most nostalgic. Zhicheng came back to his senses and found that Yuxiu was staring at him, so he smiled at her embarrassedly.
"Hee-hee-......" she also let out a series of laughs, and then said as if remembering something: "By the way, Brother Zhicheng, my brother also asked me to say hello to you on his behalf, and he also said that he misses you very much." ”
She smiled slightly, and looked intently at this Zhicheng brother who grew up with her childhood sweetheart.
"Really? Xiu, then you can also say hello to your brother on my behalf. In addition, let the rich brother pay attention to his body, it is indeed not easy to go out, unlike in our own fields, those who do not earn money make money, take care of themselves and ......"
"Well, I know. People are not together! It's a kiss, in fact, he always bullied you when he was young. She bit her thin lip.
Zhicheng smiled and reminisced about the past, and said with emotion: "It's all the same, don't think about it together, and fight again when you get together." Even he laughed when he said that. Zhicheng couldn't help but say: "I also want to go outside for two years like the rich brother." ”
Yuxiu covered her mouth with her hand and smiled and said, "You think it's so easy to break into outside!" Hmph, there is no such thing as a free meal in the world. My brother doesn't know how many foreign sins he has suffered, so yes! Brother Zhicheng, don't think about anything else, let's go to your school well! How comfortable it is to wait for college, find a good job, and sit in the office and drink tea every day! You don't have to ask others, they have to ask you if they have something. ”
A wry smile appeared on the corner of Zhicheng's mouth and said, "Why don't I want to go to school!" Hey, where are we going! I paid two thousand seven at the beginning of school, is this talking about fun! ”
"What? Two thousand seven! That's what you have to pay! Yuxiu couldn't help but worry about her Zhicheng brother.
"Hey, if you can't afford it, you won't be able to do it! There are eight or nine hundred million peasants in the world, and not all of them are living well! That's right, show! When school starts in the summer, you should be in the third year of junior high school, right? You can use those textbooks from my third year of junior high school! Idle is idle anyway, and I don't need it anymore, although it's a little old, but the content is the same, so you don't have to spend money to buy books. ”
She lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers, and said, "Brother Zhicheng, in fact, I don't plan to read it." ”
"Don't read? Why? You haven't graduated yet! ”
"What can you do if you don't graduate? Anyway, I can't go to college, my mother said that what is the use of a girl going to so much school, just know two words! Sooner or later, you won't have to ...... Hey. She smiled and pursed her lips to look at him, maybe shy! Now she is no longer a little girl, and the development of her body and the changes in her physiology have made her shy.