The proprietress was stunned, and after understanding the meaning of her words, she laughed, with some emotion in her eyes, "Hey, it's not actually a lie." You're young, and you don't know what life was like in those days. If it weren't for your grandmother, I would have starved to death......"

She was born in four or six years, and she was the same year as the old lady's youngest son, Chu Mingguo. At the age of ten, she caught up with the great famine, and the food in the family was first provided to the man, and she could eat half a child's fist-sized nest, which was steamed out of bean flour mixed with sweet potato flour, so strong that she couldn't gnaw it, soaked in water, and poured it with water is a meal.

I can't eat enough for a long time, and I have to work hard, and people will faint if they can't stand it. If it weren't for the old lady of the Chu family who ran into her, poured some sugar water, and later asked her to come to the house for dinner, she might have died a long time ago......

"Child, if you have the ability, you will pass the test, and like your father, you will eat public food. If the year is not good in the future, you will not starve to death. She looked at Chu Xi gently, "No matter how our country reforms, this place in the countryside is a place to eat girls' blood." ”

"You have a culture and study well, but this year is just delayed, and you will definitely be able to pass the re-exam." The proprietress looked at her encouragingly, "You take the test again, and then apply for the same major as your father, maybe you can still share a unit with your father!" ”

Chu Xi: "...... Thank you. ”

Seeing that she lowered her head to eat, she seemed unwilling to say more, so the proprietress had no choice but to shut up, and only said seriously that she wanted to go to college before.

After eating, he insisted on paying, and Chu Xi took the change he found and went to the old man's stall that sold baked cakes.

At this time, it was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, and the people had collected the stall and were about to go back, when they turned their heads and saw Chu Xi, they were happy, and while taking a dime from her hand, they stuffed the melon into her hand, "I didn't wait for you for a while, this melon is cleaned, just take it and eat it." ”

His cotton field is seven or eight meters wide, fourteen or fifteen meters long, the land is not big, and there is no need to use pesticides.

The old man was thin, but he did things very neatly, and before Chu Xi's eyes could be taken away from the melon, he pushed the car with the oven and walked out a few meters away.

Holding a white-skinned melon slightly larger than an adult man's fist, Chu Xi looked up at the old man's back, and until the person was far away, he sat casually on the side of the street, staring at the melon for a long time, and then raised his fist and smashed it.

The green-skinned melon is different from the white-skinned melon, the green-skinned melon can be eaten, but the white-skinned melon is too hard to swallow......

Smash it, the melon didn't open.

smashed again, but it still didn't open.

The wrench on her body smashed the scum, and she didn't want to use it.

"You kid, bull temper!" Just when Chu Xi was about to bite down, a middle-aged woman on the opposite side came out with a knife, "Our far-reaching town, who doesn't know you?" You knock on a random house and say you want to cut a melon, can you use a knife? ”

The woman walked up to her, took the melon in her hand directly, and asked her, "How many pieces do you want to cut?" Is it okay to have six pieces? ”

Before Chu Xi could speak, the woman directly refused, "Forget it, let's cut eight pieces for you." We are adults, it's no problem to open our mouths and chew wide, but the little girl's family is better to be gentle. ”

She remembered that the old lady of the Chu family used to take care of the little girl so exquisitely.

As he spoke, he took the melon navel as the center, and quickly stroked it four times, and when he handed it to her, the melon was like a half-open lotus flower that split slightly to the surroundings, and inside was an orange melon pulp with a fragrant fragrance.

It's beautiful.

"Here, eat." The woman smiled and said, "Auntie will leave a door for you, and when you finish eating, come to my house to wash your hands." ”

And when he had said that, he went home.

This sweet thing is a good thing for the child, but how many grandchildren in her family are not good for people to enter the yard.

Chu Xi stared blankly at the melon in her hand, a little incredulous, in less than two hours, she was actually taken care of by three people without asking for anything in return?

Is it that the people of this era are too good, or are the people of her era too bad, and there is a ...... between people How big is the gap?

"Sister, my mother asked me to send you some mint grass, you put it on your body, there are no mosquito bites." Before Chu Xi could figure it out, there was a small handful of steaming mint in front of him.

When she looked up, she saw a little girl of eleven or twelve years old, looking at her with bright eyes, and her gaze was no different from that of the star chasers of later generations.

After a pause, she broke a piece of melon and handed it to the little girl.

"Sister, I don't eat, you can eat." After the little girl finished speaking, she did not leave, and saw that she was holding a melon in her hand, so she quickly pinned the mint leaf to her hair and shoes, and tied her with a mint leaf bracelet.

When it was over, Chu Xi could even hear the little girl's satisfied sigh of completion.

It's a really novel experience.

After a while, Chu Xi laughed out loud, and suddenly became a little happy.

She remembered the self-ridicule of later generations - if you want to live a good life, you must have a little green on your head.

Unisex!

Therefore, if Xiao Zongchen, the adopted son of the Shen family, never returns and finds a new daughter-in-law, she will also be considered to be in the right situation......

"Tell me, what do you want me to do?" After laughing, Chu Xi looked at the little girl in front of him and took the initiative to speak.

Little girl: "Me, I just started my first year of junior high school this year. ”

Chu Xi: "Yes. ”

"My mother said that if I study well, she will always provide for me to go to college, and if I don't study well, she will not give me college." The little girl said, "I am very good at math and Chinese, and I can understand it by myself if I have studied what the teacher has not said." It's ...... English."

English?

Chu Xi suddenly realized that English was 100% included in the total score of the college entrance examination in 83 years, and it was only four or five years since the full popularization of junior high school. Unlike later generations, three- and four-year-olds are already able to converse fluently in English.

"Bring me your textbook." Chu Xi broke a piece of melon and instructed lightly while gnawing on it.

She doesn't like to owe favors to others, so she will return the favor.

Only two minutes later, the little girl and the previous aunt came, the little girl with a book and a notebook pen, the aunt strung three stools on one arm, and a flashlight and a fan in her free hands.

The three of them sat on a stool, and the aunt held a flashlight in one hand to illuminate the two of them, and played a fan for Chu Xi in the other. While eating melons, Chu Xi quickly flipped through the English textbook of the first year of junior high school.

After a moment of silence, she put the melon down.

In the last life, when they were in middle and high school, they had been using the phonetic transcription of 1981, with a total of 44 vowels and 24 consonants. When I arrived at the university, I began to use a new version of the phonetic alphabet, which was the fifteenth edition in 1977, which was increased to 49 at that time, with 24 vowels and 25 consonants.

When I went to college, I came according to the fifteenth edition.

So, how is she supposed to teach those words?