In the evening, Li Zhan paced back and forth on the bank of the canal, watching the sunset, watching the people walking on the embankment, holding on to the guardrail and looking at the canal water flowing straight from north to south, blowing a slightly hot summer breeze, and feeling better.

He wore a casual suit, which was purchased by the elder sister, but there was another kind of handsomeness. The temperament of a soldier is there, standing like a pine, straight and straight, and the slightly raised chin occasionally reveals the domineering spirit of overlooking the time, which can be regarded as a pilot's occupational disease.

After arriving home, I was criticized by my parents and made an appointment with the girl's family to have dinner together at noon, but Li Zhan didn't arrive home on time, and his mobile phone was turned off. This made Li Zhan's heart tremble - did the parents meet so soon?

After the number of parents fell, I learned that the blind date was the daughter of a relative of a neighbor in my mother's former worker's village, and my mother's worker's aunt was very active, so she directly made an appointment to go to Li Zhan's house for lunch, which was considered a visit.

In fact, Li Zhan knows that this is the other party's parents who want to visit your family environment on the spot. According to my mother, the other party was a little disappointed after seeing the home environment, and knew that the family had bought a house in Xiangjiang Garden, and then knew that it was a large house of 15 yuan, so he almost called his in-laws.

What about the pilots of the troops, there is nothing to see and touch, and it is not easy to get a wife.

Li Zhan couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to follow what his mother said, change into the new clothes that his sister bought, dress up as an adult, and arrive here half an hour early.

I contacted her on the phone, and she was already on the way and could arrive on time.

Thinking of the timid voice on the phone, Li Zhan felt guilty in his heart, and he felt quite young when he heard the voice.

"Huh, it's you?"

"You?"

When the two met, they stood opposite each other and were only three meters apart, and they were both stunned.

In an instant, Li Zhan completely understood the reason, and said directly, "I'll go home with you, and I'll persuade your parents." ”

"No, don't." Ying Wanjun shook her head and lowered her head to play with the corners of her clothes.

She was probably wearing her best clothes, but it was just a very ordinary long-sleeved trouser and short-sleeved shirt running Nangang, her body was obviously stunted, and her face was not very good-looking.

The blind date object turned out to be a teahouse girl who had a one-sided relationship, and Ying Wanjun, a middle school girl who was admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University.

"Sit down." Li Zhan walked to the stone bench in the pavilion over there and sat down.

Ying Wanjun came over with a red face and sat down one meter away from Li Zhan, no longer being naughty last time, some were shy and embarrassed.

She has a difficult family, a very difficult family.

At the age of eighteen this year, she is the second oldest in the family, and she has an older brother who is not good at studying, and she repeats her studies for two years, and the college entrance examination she took with her was also admitted to the university, and the second-tier B category is a self-financed undergraduate. Category A students are subsidized by the state, so the tuition fee per academic year is only four or five thousand, and the price of category B is high, ranging from more than 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, of course, the academic qualifications are the same.

There are two younger brothers, one is preparing to go to the first year of high school, and the other is preparing to go to the second year of junior high school.

With only a few acres of thin fields and her father's part-time job, the three or four thousand yuan a month could not afford it anyway.

With three sons and a daughter, their family chose to sacrifice their daughter without any suspense. It can be said that in the West County area, 90% of families will make the same choice, even if their daughter is admitted to the top double-engineering key university in the country.

In their concept, the daughter is to be married, sooner or later it will be someone else's person, and the son is their own person, and it is the foundation of the continuation of the incense, even if it is a rotten son. In all fairness, Li Zhan knew that Ying Wanjun was by no means the worst victim of patriarchal thinking, and would never be the last victim.

Li Zhan has even heard of such a family: four daughters earn money to support the family, and the only son spends all his time drinking and taking drugs.

He was glad for his elder sister that his parents' patriarchal concept was not so important, and he continued to provide for the elder sister to be unable to enter the university, but relatively speaking, there was still an obvious bias. Even if he can fly an airplane to ten times the speed of sound, he can't influence the traditional concept that has lasted for thousands of years.

"Did you tell your family about the significance of being admitted to Xi'an Jiao Tong University?" Li Zhan asked.

Ying Wanjun lowered her head and nodded, "I said it, they don't understand it, anyway, it means that girls are a waste of money to read so many books." ”

It's a concept that can be seen everywhere.

Li Zhan said, "But you are only eighteen years old, and it is illegal to force you to get married now." ”

"They don't care, they just want to get married, and when they are old enough to get married." Ying Wanjun whispered, hesitating.

"It's too feudal." Li Zhan's heart was very uncomfortable, and Ying Wanjun was embarrassed to say it, but he also guessed it. Get some gift money to settle the tuition fees of the three sons and solve the biggest difficulty in front of them. What about the price, the daughter's lifelong happiness.

If you meet other people who don't have a sense of social responsibility, this matter can really be settled, and Ying Wanjun has no ability to resist at all.

Li Zhan asked, "What do you think?" ”

"I want to study, and I worked so hard to get in." Ying Wanjun's head lowered and rubbed her hands vigorously, the eighteen-year-old hands should have been pink and tender, and they should have been in contact with Apple mobile phone cosmetics and nail art like other girls of the same age, but her hands were as rough as old bark, and her finger joints were calloused.

Tears were falling from her eyes and smashing against the somewhat discolored gray trousers she was wearing.

Doing farm work, cooking and cooking, feeding chickens and pigs, picking a hundred and ten pounds of burden to walk on the ridge, insisting on studying homework at night, getting up at dawn to make a fire to cook, busy preparation, may not even have time to eat breakfast to hurry to school. All year round, day after day.

She had another way, like most girls.

After graduating from junior high school, I went out to work, went to the factory in the Pearl River Delta, and worked 12 hours a day on the assembly line, and if I didn't rest, I might be able to do 4,000 yuan a month, and my own food expenses would go to more than 300 yuan, and I calculated that I would charge 50 yuan a month for phone bills, and send at least 3,005 yuan back to my family every month. Try to call as little as possible, send messages and messages, and don't exceed the number of free messages. Clothes are bought once a year, before the Spring Festival, mainly for parents to buy for brothers and brothers, and when you have the remaining money, you can buy yourself a set of clothes that have been in season for a long time, and you will feel distressed for several months to buy a fashionable coat, and you may even take it out at the annual sister party, just to win a little relief, and it is even more worth expressing your feelings in QQ space.

After three or five years, twenty-four or five, it's time to think about marriage. Seeing that it was okay, she married herself, and gave the gift money to the family, she fulfilled her responsibilities to the family, and the rest of her life was like this. If you are lucky, the husband and wife will work together to create a good life, and if you are unlucky, you will have chicken feathers.

She was reluctant to take this path, she found herself in knowledge, and clearly knew that she could create greater value in her limited life, better prove herself, and make her parents live a better life.

So she fought and said no to fate, she wanted to control her life. She shouted to God: My life is up to me!

But she couldn't study at all costs, she was born to cook, cook, do housework, and farm work, while her older brothers and brothers could play around.

How much pressure she's under.

Ying Wanjun wiped her eyes wildly, and twisted her head to the side, "I'll go back." ”

She got up and stumbled along, not daring to look at Li Zhan again.

Looking at Ying Wanjun's back farther and farther away, Li Zhan suddenly felt that the sunset was very dazzling, and that was the direction in which Ying Wanjun left.

It was a cold day in July 2009.