Chapter 48
After her grandmother died, Lin Hanmei got up every morning when her father got up and she followed her to help her father cook. My brother got up and folded the quilt. After dinner in the evening, Lin Hanmei also washed the dishes.
Lin Hanmei only helped her father light the fire. Daddy doesn't cook as fast as grandma. In the past, Lin Hanmei always went to wait for Song Jiaqing. Now often Song Jiaqing calls Lin Hanmei on the avenue to go to school after eating, but Lin Hanmei's family has not cooked yet. So Lin Hanmei had no choice but to go out and shout at her: "You go first, I haven't eaten yet." ”
Dad used to discuss everything with grandma, but now it has become a discussion with Lin Hanmei. Lin Hanmei has a feeling that she is regarded as an adult, and she is very proud in her heart.
Dad discussed with Lin Hanmei how much cabbage could be sold this year. Lin Hanmei and her father first went to the field to check how many cabbages there were, and estimated how many catties of cabbage there were. Then, according to the price of cabbage per catty this year, it is estimated that it can be sold for more than 600 yuan in total.
Lin Hanmei has a person in their village who collects cabbage. If you sell it to him, you don't have to cut it yourself. After negotiating the price, after he gave the money, he was also responsible for chopping the cabbage. Of course, it is to sell it to him to save trouble.
Dad called him to see the cabbage, and when he came to the field to see it, he said that he would give him five hundred yuan. Dad didn't sell it to him. After he left, his father said to Lin Hanmei: "It's too bad." ”
Later, my father cut down the cabbage and used the third uncle's carriage to pull it to a nearby town to sell it, and it was only sold for more than 400 yuan.
Lin Hanmei felt very remorseful. Dad listened to his own estimates, so he didn't sell the cabbage to that person. Cutting it down and selling it yourself not only saves less money, but also costs money.
After her grandmother's funeral, Lin Hanmei went to school again. After studying for a while, Mr. Dong wanted to go to the central primary school in the township to give an open Chinese class, so he led everyone to practice.
First, the text was read, and Lin Hanmei and a few other students each read a part of it. Then there was Mr. Dong's lecture. Then Mr. Dong asked questions and asked his classmates to answer. Teacher Dong asked everyone to memorize the answers to the questions, even if they didn't memorize them, they remembered them after practicing so many times. Teacher Dong also made arrangements in advance who would answer each question, and even who raised his hand for that question was arranged in advance.
After practicing for a long time, it was finally time for the open class. For a long time before, most of the day was spent practicing public classes.
When I arrived in the township, I soon arrived at Mr. Dong's open class. The open class was rehearsed before, and there was nothing wrong with it. After the open class, Mr. Dong relaxed, and the students also breathed a sigh of relief.
Because after Mr. Dong finished the lecture, he had to listen to the open classes of other teachers. So Lin Hanmei and her classmates didn't leave, and stayed in a class to wait for Teacher Dong.
I heard that this school is where Teacher Su works now.
After a while, Teacher Su actually came to see them. Lin Hanmei found that Mr. Su actually wore a pair of glasses, and he didn't wear glasses before. After Teacher Su came, he only talked to Song Jiaqing, Duan Licui, Wang Changyin and a few other classmates, but did not talk to Lin Hanmei. Lin Hanmei felt a little lost.
When she was threshing soybeans in the autumn of this year, her second aunt asked her second cousin and eldest cousin-in-law to help her father.
After school that day, Zhu Xiuhong came to Lin Hanmei's house to do her homework.
The eldest cousin-in-law heard that Lin Hanmei was studying very well, so he wanted to take the test for Lin Hanmei. He put 1+2+3 on the match and asked Lin Hanmei how to move a matchstick so that the result could be equal to 150, Lin Hanmei thought about it for a long time, Zhu Xiuhong was also thinking, and the second cousin also thought about it, asking from time to time.
Lin Hanmei thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with it, her father was cooking in the outhouse, and asked Lin Hanmei to go to the fire, so Lin Hanmei went. Dad asked Lin Hanmei if she had figured it out, and Lin Hanmei shook her head and said, "No." Dad looked disappointed.
After a while, Zhu Xiuhong came out of the house to go home, and her father asked her if she wanted to come out, and she said that she wanted to come out.
As soon as Lin Hanmei heard that someone wanted to come up with it, she went to the house to study it again. Because the second cousin knew the answer, he said to Lin Hanmei: "How much plus three can equal one hundred and fifteen?" Lin Hanmei came up with the idea of taking the match under "2" to the "+" on its left side, making it "147", and adding "3" is equal to 150. The eldest cousin-in-law said to the second cousin dissatisfiedly, "You just told her." Lin Hanmei didn't feel any joy when she made it, and she also felt that it was almost what her second cousin told her. Lin Hanmei thought: Zhu Xiuhong came up with it herself.
In fact, Lin Hanmei studied well, but she mastered some basic knowledge relatively well, and those novel questions were not Lin Hanmei's strengths.
Dad came in and asked Lin Hanmei if she had made it, and the second cousin said, "It's done." When the eldest cousin-in-law saw him say this, he also echoed and said that he had done it. When Dad heard that Lin Hanmei had made it, he was immediately very proud and laughed all of a sudden. Lin Hanmei felt a little guilty.
Daddy's hot soup noodles this night. The second cousin tasted it lightly. The second aunt's family is very good at eating salt. Her family's dishes are always made very salty and salty. The second cousin wants to eat soy sauce, but Lin Hanmei's family doesn't have soy sauce. Lin Hanmei's family usually doesn't eat soy sauce. The stew pot uses the sauce in the jar.
So her father gave Lin Hanmei money and asked Lin Hanmei to carry a plastic bucket to Gu Daqiu's house in the backyard to buy a pound of bulk soy sauce.
Lin Hanmei carried a plastic bucket to Gu Daqiu's house and said that it would be loaded with a pound of soy sauce. Soy sauce is two cents a pound. Lin Hanmei gave the money, and Gu Daqiu's mother filled the soy sauce.
There was a man from the village in Gu Daqiu's house chatting there, and when he saw Lin Hanmei, he said: "This time her milk died, her family is not doing well, right?" Gu Daqiu's mother said: "People are doing better." His tone was full of contempt. Meaning: Look, people still eat soy sauce.
Lin Hanmei thought angrily: What's wrong with eating soy sauce for two cents a pound? Eating soy sauce doesn't mean that you won't be given money. What does it have to do with you whether my family is doing well or not?
Gu Daqiu's mother is very good at laughing at others, and Lin Hanmei doesn't like her very much.
In the winter, Lin Hanmei and the others moved to the team headquarters to attend classes, and finally they no longer had to attend classes in the well room.
The Brigade Headquarters is right in front of the school. It was much warmer in the brigade headquarters than in the previous well house. The fly in the ointment is that only Lin Hanmei and their class are in class here, and there are no students from other classes after class, which is a little deserted. Lin Hanmei had few students in her class, some transferred, some stopped studying, and there were only twelve students left at this time.
Mr. Dong's daughter-in-law has no job and farms at home. In my spare time this winter, I bought some bread, twist and other snacks to sell in the school. Because of eating two meals in the countryside in winter, some students will be hungry.
Teacher Dong's daughter-in-law will also bring a basket full of snacks to the brigade headquarters when the school in the back is sold out. Standing outside Lin Hanmei's class, Lin Hanmei and they finished class, Teacher Dong's daughter-in-law stretched out her head to look in, and said to Teacher Dong: "It's just two people, then you put aside your hands and lead the teaching." Teacher Dong smiled and didn't speak.
After a period of time, for some reason, Mr. Dong's daughter-in-law had to divorce Mr. Dong.