The old horse leaned back and did not speak.

Seeing that the old man didn't react, Gui Ying continued: "Why do I pay attention to that post, because if I was born ten years late, then there is no way out - it is my life pattern." Big, don't believe it, now young people with no education, no technology, no capital and no brains are a hundred times more difficult to get into the city than we were back then! When Gui Ying said a hundred times, the two mouths became rectangular.

He Zhiyuan saw the old man's solemn expression, so he said: "The main thing is that the times have changed!" When Yingying and I first got married, there were not many college students at that time, and there were still a lot of job opportunities reserved for junior college students and high school students, and now there are so many college students that even undergraduates, graduate and doctoral students in unpopular majors can't find jobs, let alone high school students who haven't gone to college yet! ”

Gui Ying saw Tsai Tsai's questioning face, and said to her son: "Tsai'er, the three of us adults are talking about the social situation, don't think you are scaring you or have nothing to do with you." The more developed the society is, the more stable the class structure is, and there is no shortcut to go up, only to study! ”

"Didn't my dad just say that the doctor couldn't find a job yet?" Tsai picks thorns.

"Yes, but I'm talking about unpopular majors! Those who graduated from history and archaeology majors either go to the front-line archaeology or enter colleges and universities to become teachers, and there are other paths, but they are generally very narrow. I'm talking about obscure liberal arts majors like archaeology, and some science and engineering majors that are particularly lagging behind. Maybe these highly educated people in unpopular majors can enter the school to become teachers, but the threshold for becoming a teacher is very high. Zhiyuan asked his son.

"I know that all of them are bachelor's and master's degrees from Peking University and Tsinghua University, as well as graduate students from several first-class foreign universities."

"Village chief, you see, the teachers in one of their high schools are all masters and doctors from first-class universities! The annual salary is very high, and there are winter and summer vacations! But think about it, how many years can a rural baby be able to read at home? I remember it as if it was ...... The average age of doctoral graduates is 33 years old, and the average age of master's graduates is 27 years old. Think about which family in our village can support the baby to study until she is twenty-seven or even thirty-three years old! Therefore, there will only be fewer and fewer highly educated talents in rural areas! Urban people are not at the bottom, almost every family attaches importance to education, and cultivates talents at any cost! Cultivated from kindergarten! After Gui Ying finished speaking, she pointed to He Yiyang, who was napping - eating cantaloupe with her eyes closed, and her confused expression and shaking her head made the four of them smile slightly.

Tsai Tsai was puzzled and asked his mother: "Mom, why do you say, 'Anyone who is not at the bottom', don't people at the bottom pay attention to education?" ”

Gui Ying asked her son: "When you were a child, you lived in your aunt's market, which child in the farmer's market did you see take training classes as soon as they were on vacation?" The annual extracurricular training of your primary school and junior high school is evenly divided into 123,000, which is still the lowest among your classmates! The children in the farmer's market follow every day to do business, work and sell goods, and their parents are scolding, not to mention spending money to enter the training class! A large number of young people from the countryside have poured into the cities, and the vast majority of them are at the bottom, either going to work or doing small businesses. Most of them have not made much progress, and everyone is just the same. How much do you think these people are paying attention to and being generous to their children's education when they go to the city? ”

"You're also from the countryside, so why are you different?" Tsai asked, pointing at his mother.

"Me? It's not because of your dad! Our family is not rich and is also at the bottom, but there is such a scholar as your father! The consciousness of cultural people is really higher than that of non-reading! Besides, your mother and I are in contact with various companies and major managers outside all day long, and I will understand it when I see more! You study hard, reading may not be 100% successful, but not reading - 100% will not work. ”

"Got it! I've been working hard, okay! Tsai dragged his cheeks and pouted.

"It's not easy to be a rural baby! Xiaoxiao from our village saved money for seven or eight years after getting married and was ready to buy a house, but her father suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage when he was working in the field, and all the money was taken to see a doctor, and 190,000 yuan was gone all of a sudden! The old horse said and lit a pot of cigarettes.

Gui Ying slapped the table and grabbed the words: "Village Chief Ma, look, this is the tragedy of the rural baby!" The parents of the children in the city worked hard to sponsor him to go to school and teach him how to behave in the world. As for the rural baby, the parents on the top do not have the slightest help, and in turn they want the babies to support the elderly, and the pension is a matter of course, but the current pension is different from thirty years ago! As soon as you send it to the hospital, how much money you pay depends on whether you have savings and filial piety! To cure or not to cure - it's hard! ”

Lao Ma smoked in a sullen voice, and Zhiyuan took over the conversation and said: "Actually, even if a rural child is admitted to university, it is difficult!" It is said that looking for a job after going to university requires a lot of hidden investment from students to people in society—clothing, training, transportation expenses for interviews, and living expenses during the transition period...... How can the villagers know so much, thinking that the child is finished after graduation! I still want to ask for some living expenses from my children as soon as possible! I didn't know that in the two or three years after my child graduated from college, he also had to invest a lot. Those who took the bar exam, graduate school, and civil service examination after graduating from the bachelor's degree did not have continuous financial support, they would have worked to make ends meet, how could they have the heart to further their studies! There are so many examples of this among my classmates, colleagues, and students I teach! ”

"Hey, I used to have a client who was working and taking the postgraduate examination, and there was no result in the exam for three years, which is pitiful and a pity! That girl has a lot of energy, but she has no money, she has stopped working, has no living expenses, and has no time to review and prepare for the exam without working! There is always a lingering gap between the future and the present, between the future and the living. Realizing the most ordinary dreams also requires high costs! There's certainly nothing wrong with effort, but efforts without a plan and direction can end up in vain. In the past five or seven years, housing prices have soared, subverting how many people's values and worldview! Gui Ying sighed softly in her arms.

"What? Is the rural baby destined to be unproductive? The old horse asked angrily.

"It's not that it's predestined, it's that it's difficult. Just like a person is ugly, he can marry if he is ugly, but it is very difficult to marry; You can live if you are poor, but it is just difficult to live. Why did I just say pitiful? The previous generation did not help, this generation is slow to civilize, and the third generation is still poor and backward, you say sad! If the poor can't get out, and the rich are smart and still working hard and unwilling to fall, then the big skeleton of this society is rigid and immobile! Gui Ying sighed again.

"If rural parents pay attention to education, there is still hope, but unfortunately many parents are very doting now, feeling that the only child cannot endure hardships and poverty, and the result is to harm the child! I used to teach and receive a lot of new students as big as Zai Zai, as long as they are from the countryside, not all of them, most of them have a lot of problems, and they are a few years later than the children in the city! Zhiyuan looked at Zai Zai and said.

Tsai Zai clasped his fingernails and said slowly: "There are a few new transfers in our class this semester, and one of them sells fruit from his family. That classmate is super eloquent, and we feel that he is a bit empty! It's also bold to go out and play very generously, but I'm afraid the poorest person in the class is him, because most of his classmates buy houses, but his family doesn't. Mom, why do you think his family is not rich but he has a lot of pocket money? It's a lot, and our classmates calculated that he has two or three thousand pocket money a month! Tsai asked his mother puzzled.

"Dote on! Face! The old problem of the Chinese - the poorer the better, the better the face, feeling that no face will be looked down upon, this is a remnant of the previous generation. But almost all children in the countryside must go through such an irrational stage. I have also had your mother, two or three hundred meals a month, and six or seven hundred for a dress! You have to understand his irrationality, but you can't underestimate his irrationality, because he is still a child and his character has not yet been formed. If a person is still like this at the age of thirty, spending 5,000 on things a month and getting 4,000 in salary, it is destined not to last long! ”

Tsai Tsai took a piece of melon and asked, "Is that person's character formed at the age of thirty?" ”

Zhiyuan replied: "Not necessarily! The city children are a little early, and they are very rational in their early twenties, and the children in the countryside are a little later, and your mother said that she suddenly woke up in her twenty-four or five. There are also some village children who are not civilized until they are 30 years old because their parents are absent or their parents are ignorant! Roughly speaking, when a person reaches the age of thirty, his personality is basically formed. ”

"Then you say that rural children are not necessarily good at college, so what kind of university are they going to?" The old horse moved the cigarette holder and asked Zhiyuan.

Zhiyuan replied: "Rural children will be 100% promoted and grow when they go to college, but they still have a long way to go after graduation. The first transition period for them to leave the countryside and enter the university campus is the second transition period they face after graduation. The children in the city grew up in the city, and the city is the real society, and they are familiar with it with ease! But after leaving the university, the rural children have to go through such a long way - at least one or two years, more than seven or eight years, which is the inevitable 'socialization' of entering social work, and the process of socialization is not free. ”

"Listening to you say this, I now feel that it is not easy for the children in the countryside to go to school in the city!" Tsai Tsai holds his chin in one hand and cantaloupe in the other.

"Of course!" Gui Ying nodded, and after chewing the melon pulp in her mouth, she said to her son: "The gap on the surface of people is easy to make up, but the gap in habits, concepts, and minds is difficult to make up!" After graduating from college, a group of people behind her are giving them advice and paving the way. What about rural babies? It's okay if no one paves the way, at most make less money, but this problem has to consume them! Blind comparison, narrow-mindedness, good face, inferiority and conceit, autism and paranoia, laziness and hypocrisy...... These character shortcomings set limits for them everywhere after they enter society! Spiritual success that can cross the past; No matter how high you jump over, you will one day be planted in your own hands! Over the years, I have seen all kinds of presidents, vice presidents, Mr. Li, and Mr. Wang in the workplace, and there are countless things that have slapped themselves in the face! ”

"It doesn't have to be that rural people have this problem, who doesn't have a problem?" Lao Ma looked at Gui Ying and shook his hookah.

Zhiyuan rushed to speak: "Dad, you are right, but there are some common concepts or habits in rural people that restrict their development, which leads to the fact that after rural people come out, there are very few who enter the middle class or are rich and noble—very rare!" Wisdom, like wealth, needs to be accumulated by the family! As far as the students I have observed, most of the second- and third-generation children in the city are calm and calm, and they are of sound mind. ”

Gui Ying continued: "It doesn't matter if you are poor, the most terrible thing is ignorance and paranoia - people like Xinghua! This kind of person does not have a sense of crisis in life, only a sense of crisis after being compared; There is no self-worth exploration, only the brainwashed value of others. The key is that this kind of person is extremely high-spirited, helpless to find a way, every day thinking about getting rich and getting ahead, there is no long-term plan for life, maybe a house in the city is the pinnacle of their life! ”

Lao Ma puffed out smoke and said: "Our generation still believes in the land, and feels that there are a few acres of land in our hearts, and the days are running, and no one in your generation can expect to make a living from the land, let alone in the generation of Tsai, all of them run to the city, and they can run as far as they can." ”

"It's normal to go out for a run! In this day and age, if you don't go out for a run, you can't open your eyes. The pace of the countryside is slow, and in winter, the sun is basking every day, and the time is like stopping! Do you let a young man in his twenties live with the old man and wife in the village every day? He doesn't make money to get married? He doesn't send his children to school? In the past, the countryside was rural and the city was urban, but now the gap between urban and rural areas is getting smaller and wider! My brother said that there are more than a dozen pieces of meat per pound in the countryside, what is the difference between that and the city! But you said that the concepts, customs, and mental state of rural people have not changed much from 20 years ago! ”

"I think the prices in our county and city are not much different from those in the village!"

"Great, I'm often scared now, do you know why?" Gui Ying pressed her hand to her temple.

The old horse raised his eyelids and asked, "Why?" ”

"I am very fortunate that I got married first, had children and bought a house, so I understood the unfairness of this society to rural children; If I knew in advance that this society was so unfair to me as a rural baby, then I didn't know how I should live? Gui Ying stared at the old horse with wide eyes and nodded frequently.

"Then now everyone can check on the Internet, if a rural baby as big as me knows that he can't be famous outside, then what do you say he does?" Tsai asked the three adults innocently.

Zhiyuan tilted his head and licked his lower lip with his tongue. The old horse lowered his head and silently poked the end of the cigarette with a toothpick. Gui Ying hugged Yangyang in one hand and ate a piece of cantaloupe in the other.

Tsai Tsai looked around the eyes of the three adults again, trying to find answers.

"What to do? Do you think your Aunt Xinghua is so stupid that she doesn't know that she is doing a pyramid scheme and cheating money? After Gui Ying finished speaking, she put down the melon skin and hugged the sleeping Yangyang back to the room. Zhiyuan stood up to clean up the garbage on the table, and the old horse patted his ass and left the table with a cane.

"What do you mean? What does it mean! Tsai Tsai turned his head to ask, but no one answered.

Poverty and backwardness have always been twin brothers, and even if they enter the city, the two are inseparable. Are rural people from the city city people from the city? I'm afraid that I'm still a "rural person" in the city! In the previous country, the peasants were the people at the bottom; In the countries of the future, urban people who have lost their rural land and still barely survive on labor are the new type of people at the bottom. I heard that in the future, rural development will move in the direction of mechanization and intensification, and I am afraid that even old farmers like myself who have orchards at home will not be able to make a living.

Rural life is in the land of the countryside, the roots are in the countryside, and if you mix well in the city, you will have broken roots, and if you don't mix well, you will become a wandering hooligan. The old horse lay on the bed in a heavy mood and couldn't sleep for a long time. The old village chief is not worried about himself, after all, he has not many years to live, he is worried about the future of Majiatun, and he is worried about the future of Majiatun.