Aunt Zhang's son Qin Ming and Aunt Wang's tiger son, the two children don't know which evil they have fallen into; Many children from families with male laborers have come back after graduating from elementary school and junior high school, but the two of them have always wanted to go to high school, and they really don't know the times. In these years, even if you finish high school, don't you still go home to farm? In such a big commune, tens of thousands of people, it may not be possible to recommend a person to go to university for three or five years, and the children of cadres are all waiting in line, in terms of seniority, not to mention the children of two widows who have no social connections at all? It's really a plane to blow the horn - want (sound) high, the toad wants to eat swan meat - delusional!

Everyone has their own ambitions, and it is difficult to force them. Aunt Zhang and Aunt Wang also recognized the money for this pot of wine. The two children don't say they can't say it, and they don't say they can't let the children go no matter how hard they are tired. Although the two children live in difficult conditions, they bring some dried red taro from home to steam and eat in the canteen every week, gnawing on the shiny black nest head, and they also hold books all day and night to read, do homework, and sometimes ask the teacher some difficult and strange questions, which is really incredible! There is a golden house in the book, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, the era of reading to be an official, and making a fortune by reading is gone, it is really a ghost. Not to mention that the neighbors think that the two of them have been poor early, even some teachers think that such students are full of bookishness, and they are incompatible with Zhang Tiesheng, who is popular all over the land of China, and the calloused characters in "Break", and their ideological consciousness cannot keep up with the times. In fact, Qin Ming was in elementary school when he first learned to write narrative essays, because the strict teacher read his own composition, not only was he criticized for being strict, but he almost lost the opportunity to go to school, what else could he hope for? Don't you just want to learn a little more book knowledge with Huzi, and go home after graduation to make your own contribution to the team's production? At the end of 1975, they completed their studies, and with enthusiasm and a hope of changing the backward appearance of Daqinzhuang as soon as possible, they returned to the production team, to the old lady and the villagers who gave birth to him and raised him.

"Why did you bring back the quilt and the broken mat?" Aunt Zhang asked her son.

"Mother, I've graduated, go home to help you work, you don't have to work so hard for me to go to school all night and night!" Qin Ming said to his mother.

"That's it all over here? Can't go any further? Aunt Zhang asked her son.

"Mother, you don't understand, there are universities, graduate students or something, there are many! That's not what we went to, but I can go to high school, and I thank you very much in my heart! From the time I went to school to the present, how much you and your sister have suffered for me, how tired you have suffered, can I not know in my heart?! Don't worry, mother, from now on, you should also have a good rest! Qin Ming explained to his mother, expressing his heart.

"You can still go up, if you don't go on, the above learning will not be in vain, and I didn't say that I won't let you go up! As long as you can get out, your mother is happy to be tired! Aunt Zhang continued to ask her son.

Qin Ming didn't understand his mother, so he said bluntly: "University is not something that anyone can go to if they want to, then they have to work and train for two years to see their performance, and only after being recommended by the cadres of the squad, brigade, and commune can they go to university, and we are not the children of cadre families, who recommended me to go to college?" Don't even think about it, just do farm work with peace of mind! ”

"Well, it's really useless! Can you make a difference by working? The croppers have been working for generations, and they haven't seen anyone get rich? When will our team be able to eat, thank God! If you can't go up, just work at home. Aunt Zhang said to her son.

Chen Yonggui, secretary of the Party branch of the Dazhai Brigade in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, took the members to do it, three battles in the wolf's nest, and four into Hutou Mountain, so that the members lived in a standard house, ate white bread three times a day, and became the vice premier of the State Council and a big cadre of the country? Guo Hongjie of the Guozhuang Brigade in Xiao County, our province, led the members to pull silt and treat alkali, and became the advanced of Xuedazhai, didn't he also become a cadre in the province? Anyway, learning Dazhai is to do a lot of work, and a big job can promote a big change! Qin Ming said to his mother, and consciously or unconsciously said some slogans of Xuedazhai at that time.

"Well, in the end, I went to school, my mother won't say these words, but I've heard others say that Dazhai and Xiaozhai are in that place, and that place is reborn by oneself (strength), and it is hard (hard) to forge ahead (fight) to do it, it's really not easy! It is difficult to open the ground in the cracks of the stones and build a ladder field one step at a time! Why do people grow crops so much in that land, and we can't grow good crops in our black soil? Aunt Zhang asked her son puzzled.

"That's called 'self-reliance, hard work', not 'self-regeneration, hard work', it's a big village, there is no small village." Qin Ming corrected the wrong words his mother said. "Mother is right this time, Dazhai is not where the soil is particularly long crops, that is the result of people's hard work, is the result of people believing in science, more fertilizers, choosing good seeds, and farming according to the 'agricultural eight-character constitution'." Qin Ming took the trouble to explain to his mother what the 'eight-character constitution of agriculture' was."

"Forget it, don't have an eight-character constitution, a nine-character constitution, I only heard people say that our country only has a law of the fairy family and a law of marriage, who knows that farming is still governed by the law?" Aunt Zhang said, "Hurry up and drink two bowls of noodles in the pot and sleep, and go to work tomorrow!" I don't think it's much useful to go to school now, it's just a lot of tricks. After Aunt Zhang finished speaking, she got up and walked out.

"It's not okay to be illiterate, and many problems are not explained clearly." Qin Ming's mood was not fully understood by his mother, and he felt unhappy, so he ate a bowl of noodles and fell asleep.

The second morning after Qin Ming graduated and returned to the team, he got up early to brush his teeth, washed his face, got ready, listened to the captain's greeting to do what work, and began to work with other members, learning some undone farm work while doing it, so as to adapt as soon as possible, but the captain Qin Dahai brought a bottle of ink, a pen and a few pieces of red paper and walked in.

"I heard that you and Huzi have graduated, work hard, if you have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely recommend you to study at May 7 University?" Qin Dahai put down the few things in his hand and said, "I want to ask you to help me copy the 'party's basic line' and use it when I have a meeting in the morning to study." ”

"Uncle Dahai, your wall writing is very good, do you still need to say the brush words, don't you be embarrassed for me, do I dare to get an axe?" Qin Ming excused himself and said.

"Good! And what is humble with me, I have heard that you can write a good hand, Yan, willow body, I just came, although I drove ducks on the shelves in those years to write a few years of slogans or something, that is just artistic words with a row of pens, really use a soft and crooked brush, really not good to write. Qin Dahai complimented Qin Ming and said modestly.

"Since your Uncle Dahai said that it's not a job that can't be done, just write it quickly, and you have to use it urgently for the morning meeting!" Aunt Zhang was talking about her son on the side.

"Write, I'll give you half a day's work when I'm done." Qin Dahai said and left.

Qin Ming also practiced calligraphy for a few years from imitation to pro post from elementary school to junior high school, but he didn't practice much in the second year of high school, but sometimes the class published a column or something to help copy a few pages. He first poured ink to moisten the pen, practiced on the waste paper for a while, then spread out the paper and folded out the grid, calculated the number of words, drew up the arrangement plan, and then neatly copied the 'party's basic line' and contents, and after drying, the pen and ink were returned to the captain, which was naturally another praise and praise.