Chapter 23: Busy Vacation
This scene reminded Xia Yu of his previous life, in his previous life, his sister and brother were simple, and they saw it first, but they were caught by their neighbor Uncle Zhang and taken home.
But the reborn Xia Yu is no longer the same, he took the bucket, came to the drainage ditch, and put several big fish into the bucket, not even the crabs. Then he took his younger brother Xia Jie along the direction of the culvert, and sure enough, he caught more fish and crabs at the foot of the mountain.
Xia Yu looked at these pure wild and delicious big fish, went home and said to Wang Xiuzhen: "Mom, look, it's thundering and raining, and we eat fish." ”
Wang Xiuzhen said with some embarrassment: "But I'm not good at cooking fish, and I don't know how to cook crabs?" ”
Xia Yu smiled and said, "I watched it on TV a few days ago, I know what to do?" You guys, wait for the whole fish feast. ”
Then Xia Yu began to cut the fish with an apron, and made dry pot fish and steamed crab at noon. Xia Yu, the other fish, was kept in his own water tank and slowly raised and eaten.
Wang Xiuzhen ate the fish pieces in the dry pot and felt that it was unusually tender and delicious, Xia Jie dipped in soy sauce and ate crab legs, Xia Jie said: "Sister, your cooking skills are so good, why don't you become a chef in the future." ”
Xia Yu shook his head: "Forget it, everything is inferior, only if you study high, I should be admitted to university first." ”
I'm just at the level of home-cooked food, so don't take it out and be embarrassed. Xia Yu doesn't want to work for others, it's okay to have money to open a private restaurant, but it also needs money and management. This is all in the future, Xia Yu's task now is to be admitted to a key high school as in his previous life.
Wang Xiuzhen, who was originally sad, looked at Xia Yu and Xia Jie so sensible and obedient, thinking that even if she was tired and tired, she would have to find money to pay for the children's tuition. If a man can't be trusted, he will rely on himself. I must send my children out, and don't let them stay in the countryside all their lives like I have with my back to the loess and the sky, living a life of poverty and misery.
A few days later, Xia Yu received a reply, and there were still two hundred yuan in the letter, and the editor said that you didn't send me the account now, so you can only put the money in the envelope. The editor hopes that Xia Yu will continue to submit articles every week, and at the same time sign some contract documents or something.
Xia Yu looked at the two red grandfathers Mao, and became more confident in his life in this life.
After the corn kernels were dried, Wang Xiuzhen, who had a sad face, took Xia Yu and Xia Jie's mother and son to carry the corn kernels to the grain station several times, sold half of the corn to the grain station, and got more than 700 yuan.
Then he asked the pig killer to come to his house, sold a hairy pig of more than 100 catties, and earned more than 900 yuan, and finally raised the tuition fees of the sister and brother.
Wang Xiuzhen has only earned less than 2,000 yuan from her work for most of the past six months, and she has earned money for oil and salt by selling steamed rice cakes by saving money. Wang Xiuzhen can barely pull a pair of children by herself.
After raising the tuition fees for her children, Wang Xiuzhen was relieved, and finally was able to show a smile, directly killed a duck, and made a braised potato duck with her own potatoes on a firewood stove, but it was fragrant, and served a bowl to Wu Chunhua, and the mother and son directly solved a pot of braised duck.
Although Wang Xiuzhen doesn't often buy fresh pork for Xia Yu and Xia Jie to eat, the chickens, ducks and chicken and duck eggs in this family are all specially designed to supplement the nutrition of the two children. Sometimes there is extra change, Wang Xiuzhen also goes to pick up one or two tube bones, and boils soup for Xia Jie and Xia Yu to supplement calcium.
Although Xia Yu's family is poor, Wang Xiuzhen has never let her children lack food by relying on her hard work, and the nutrition is very sufficient, so that the sisters and brothers can grow up healthy and strong.
After Xia Yu was reborn, especially when he had the experience of raising Xiaoyuan, he learned the kindness of his parents when raising his children, and he better understood and realized Wang Xiuzhen's hard work and greatness.
Xia Yu knew that Wang Xiuzhen would definitely be able to solve the problem, and he did not tell Wang Xiuzhen about his remuneration. Xia Yu decided to fill his small treasury from now on and keep it for the future just in case. Xia Yu also started sending manuscripts every week, although Xia Yu can't see the serialized novels he has written now.
After Xia Yu and Xia Jie helped their mother finish their farm work, they came to their grandmother's house according to the usual practice, and helped their elderly grandmother and grandfather harvest corn by the way.
Soon after, Xia Yu Xia Jie started school. Coming to the school, Xia Yu has a feeling of past and present life, and the content of the third year of junior high school is very simple for Xia Yu after being reborn. Xia Yu had no choice but to start over and continue his life in the third year of junior high school.
It's just that looking at my classmates, who are still immature, looking at the class president and the tablemates, I wonder why these two people who have no intersection at all got married? Xia Yu doesn't understand, and he doesn't plan to spoil their future plot in advance. Study hard obediently, go home on weekends to earn remuneration, and be a diligent and self-disciplined good student.
What surprised Xia Yu even more was that his aunt's cousin and his sister-in-law's cousin became left-behind children this year because their parents were all earning money outside, and they were temporarily entrusted to Wu Chunhua together. disrupted Wu Chunhua's carefree life and began to be busy taking care of his two grandsons.
Xia Yu looked at his somewhat clumsy and stupid cousin and his treacherous and cunning cousin, Xia Yu was very surprised how he could be so deaf in his previous life and only read sage books outside the window. Looking at his cousin and cousin, Xia Yu knew that even if he was reborn, he would still be a weak person with limited ability, even if he could stop what was about to happen, what would happen in the future, because of their family education and nature, it would still happen.
Xia Yu decided to do nothing, so he just watched from the sidelines. After all, she is not the Almighty Mother, and she can't control other people's affairs.
Xia Yu is still as serious as ever in school and continues to live a busy life in the third year of junior high school. Soon it was the golden autumn season, and every time the school meeting was held, Xia Yu always remembered that the host would say: "In the golden autumn season, the osmanthus is fragrant." ”
For Xia Yu and Xia Jie's sisters and brothers, and even the students in the entire countryside, the painful and pleasant autumn busy family began.
Some time ago, Wang Xiuzhen gave the money from selling pigs and corn to the sisters and brothers to pay the tuition and miscellaneous fees, and there were still a few hundred yuan left. When the sisters and brothers first started school, Wang Xiuzhen hired two middle-aged men to work and spent two days bringing back the rice in several farmlands of Xia Yu's family. Wang Xiuzhen was very reluctant to give a few hundred yuan, and then began to dry the rice at home.
The busy holiday means that Xia Jie and Xia Yu sisters and brothers have to help harvest sweet potatoes. Thinking of Wang Xiuzhen's promise, every time the sister and brother carry sweet potatoes to their cellar, they can get two cents for labor fees. Xia Jie was very excited. Xia Yu had no choice but to continue to help her mother work, after all, she only had one year at home, and she wouldn't be able to help Wang Xiuzhen much when she went to high school in the future.
In fact, long before the busy holiday, Xia Yu's family had already begun to harvest sweet potatoes. Xia Yu Xia Jie's house is very close to the school, and after school at noon and afternoon, the sisters and brothers took a detour to the sandy area of their house and went home with a basket of sweet potatoes on their backs. Therefore, when I was busy at home, most of the farm work at home had been completed.
Originally, the sister and brother were very happy to be busy at home, but because of the rain for several days, the enthusiasm of the sister and brother to wander around was broken, and Xia Jie had to watch TV at home obediently.
Xia Yu stayed alone, in the dilapidated house full of buckets and basins, and was about to collapse. In his previous life, Xia Yu had already summed it up that the study of junior high school, regardless of liberal arts and science, relied on memorization and recitation. Although Xia Yu's knowledge structure has far exceeded the scope of junior high school, the specific content still needs to be memorized. Xia Yu took out the strength to work harder than in his previous life and carried it back.
Wang Xiuzhen walked into the dim room and saw Xia Yu sitting next to the large wooden cabinet and endorsing a book. Wang Xiuzhen was very relieved, and said to Xia Yu: "Xiaoyu, my mother and your father have thought about it, let you live in this dilapidated house, looking at this wall supported by thick wood, I always feel at ease, you should move to the water tank and sleep in this room." This room is used to pile things. ”
Xia Yu nodded, quickly cleaned up the water tank, and regretted it after packing up the mosquito net and folding the quilt. This room is next to the pigsty, and I don't feel that I am usually busy, but now that I sleep, I can smell the strong smell of pigsty, pig feces and manure pits all night, Xia Yu is disgusted and wants to vomit. Hurry up and sleep at the end of the bed, so as to save your sense of smell that is about to strike. Looking at the half of the attic above his head, Xia Yu thought that when he was in elementary school, on a whim, he strongly asked to sleep on top of the small attic. Wang Xiuzhen had no choice but to agree, but she didn't expect that a month later, Xia Yu's whole body was covered with large bags and small bags bitten by fleas and other small insects.
Xia Yu, who was bullied by the insects above the attic, didn't dare to sleep on the top of the small attic anymore. Xia Yu felt the poor living and sanitary conditions now, and Xia Yu had to grit his teeth and insist. I persevered in my previous life, and I can do it in this life.
Xia Yu overfulfilled his homework, reviewed for a round, and previewed three classes in advance, and the rain finally stopped. It's been three days since the happy busy. As soon as the weather cleared, in order to cherish the time of the busy vacation, Wang Xiuzhen took Xia Yu Xia Jie to wear knee-length boots, stepped on the deep mud footprints in the ground, walked a step around the boots were all sticky mud, walked step by step, in the foggy early autumn morning, endured the dew wet sleeves, Wang Xiuzhen took a hoe to dig sweet potatoes, Xia Jie cut off the sweet potato stems and leaves, scraped off the clay attached to the sweet potatoes, and threw them into the back basket, Xia Yu stepped on the sticky mud boots and carried home step by step, passing through the bamboo forest behind his house, Go to the cellar and pour the sweet potatoes from the back basket into the cellar.
Xia Yu gasped, looked at the fog that slowly dispersed, and rested for a while. Suddenly, I heard some strange sounds from my grandmother's house, or rather, moaning and moaning. If it was still a simple Xia Yu in his previous life, he might not understand what this was, or think that his grandmother was watching a TV series, but this TV show can't be so blind and open, this is controlled.
Thinking of his previous life, the reborn Xia Yu has now determined that this is his cousin and cousin stealing the forbidden fruit, the cousin is now in the second year of junior high school, and the cousin is only in the first year of junior high school now. What needs to happen will still happen. In his previous life, Xia Yu only knew how to read, and he was not interested in or cared about this kind of thing at all, and Wang Xiuzhen quietly told Xia Yu many years later.