The college entrance examination is coming as scheduled, the questions of the college entrance examination are much more difficult than imagined, Yang Qianfeng feels that he is not very good on the spot, but he has done the questions that he will do, and some of them don't know if they are right, and there is no bottom at all about the results, and he is waiting for the results of the college entrance examination while working at home with a worried heart.

If you can't pass the exam, you won't go to school, Yang Qianfeng suddenly feels very lost, sometimes his heart feels like he has been hollowed out, sometimes his heart is blocked, he doesn't eat well, he sleeps insomnia, sometimes he gets up in the middle of the night, stands at the door and looks at the mountains in a daze, he doesn't know how to live in the future, and he doesn't know where the direction of life is. Sometimes when I think about it, I resent myself for not working hard enough, whenever I resent myself, Yang Qianfeng gritted his teeth with hatred, and one day he blurted out: Looking at the sky from afar, I was resentful, and I gritted my teeth in anger when I was angry.

Yang Qianfeng's father found out about this problem, and said to him after dinner one day while smoking a dry tobacco pouch: No matter how well you do in the exam, don't be discouraged, eat when you should eat, drink when you should drink, sleep when you should sleep, the sky can't fall, you are the son of a farmer, are the vast majority of people in China not farmers? Farming is still alive and well, I read more, I know more things, and my thoughts are different, but don't be ambitious, I didn't take the exam this year, and I will take the exam again next year. I work in the commune's film factory, and I also get some salary to subsidize my family, and you brothers are not lazy, and I believe that our family is still having a good time.

Dad knocked the dry tobacco bag on the ground, loaded the tobacco shreds, blew the coal fire, put it on the tobacco pouch and took two puffs, spit out the cigarette and said: The key to our family is that there is too little dry land, and it is certainly not enough to rely on the production team to divide a little dry land in the next step, and now there are more barren mountains that have not been reclaimed. In the future, when the family is divided, everyone can also share a little more.

Dad took a few more puffs of cigarette and then said: "The root of a peasant is to have land, and a peasant who has no paddy fields and dry land here is like a woman without rice to cook." Of course, you can't lose the book, you can read the book on rainy days and at night, if the time is not enough, just stop the farm work and read at home wholeheartedly, I am a father who is not able to help you, do not put pressure on you, your road depends on your own walking, don't regret it if you work hard, even if you work hard or fail.

Dad's words were very simple, objective, and realistic, pulling Yang Qianfeng back from the floating exercises, thinking that the reality was already like this, or do something really and read some books in a down-to-earth manner.

The eldest brother Yang Yongfeng is very busy, not only to participate in the labor of the production team, but also to worry about the farm work at home, after getting married, especially after he and his sister-in-law have their first daughter, they are even busier, in fact, the eldest brother has already chosen a few pieces of barren mountains that are closer to home, relatively good ones are ready to be reclaimed, Dad has to go to work, the second Yang Ganfeng is learning carpenter, eating and living in the master's house, basically not coming back, he is too busy, and he can't bear to call the third child who has just left school - Yang Qianfeng to do this hard work, so he has not done it, He was also worried that the place he chose would be robbed by others.

It just so happened that Dad said that the third child was also willing, and early the next morning, Yang Yongfeng took Yang Qianfeng to see a few places he chose, Yang Qianfeng didn't understand very well, but he felt that the places chosen by the eldest brother were very good.

Yang Yongfeng put one hand on Yang Qianfeng's shoulder and said with concern: You have done a lot of farm work with me since you were a child, and you have also participated in the double robbery of the production team every summer vacation since you were in junior high school, and you have also mastered basic farm work such as hoeing, cutting rice, transplanting rice, plowing the field, raking the field and pulling the ridge, I know that you are willing to learn and are not afraid of hardship, as a farmer, I believe that you will soon be a qualified farmer, but your sister-in-law and I still hope that you will jump out of the farm, and your parents also think so.

Big brother, don't worry, I will review while working. Yang Qianfeng said gratefully.

Of course, don't put too much pressure on yourself, you can't pass the exam if you work hard, we will face the loess with our backs to the sky together, anyway, our brothers still have a care for each other together. Yang Yongfeng saw that Yang Qianfeng was in much better spirits today, and looked at him with great satisfaction, and he chose a few places and said: Just cut down the messy things on the surface, and put the cut things in place, and I will burn them after drying, you just came out of school, cut slowly, don't be too tired, as long as you cut it out, others will be embarrassed to come and rob us, and these places will become our family's own land in the future.

It's a bit like a rodeo! Yang Qianfeng listened to his brother's words.

What the? Rodeo movement. Yang Yongfeng only studied in primary school for three years, and of course he didn't know what the enclosure movement was.

Yang Qianfeng briefly explained and said: It's not like it.

It's a lot like. Yang Yongfeng laughed and said: Or dad has a foresight, our production team does not have many paddy fields, the rice planted can only be eaten, and the dry land is less, and the family will not be able to share a little bit, our family used to follow the rules, and did not dare to engage in a lot of self-reserved land, but now it is different, the policy on self-reserved land has been relaxed, and there will be no place if you don't start early.

You're as visionary as your dad. Yang Qianfeng said with confidence: I will strive to reclaim these places as soon as possible.

Don't worry, cut it out first. Yang Yongfeng pointed to a few places and said: These places are not very steep, and the soil will not be washed away by the mountains and rivers after opening, but there are more grassroots bamboo roots, and it is relatively difficult to dig up.

With such a large area, what can be planted with all the reclamation? Yang Qianfeng asked.

Yang Yongfeng pointed to the opposite Dongshan and said: In the places on the Dongshan, the fir trees are planted on the mountain, the sandalwood trees are planted on the mountainside, and the large mulberry trees are planted at the bottom of the mountain, so that it is more convenient to raise silkworms and pick mulberry leaves. He also pointed to a few places in front of the mountain and said: "I am going to plant tea leaves, there are many stones on the mountain, all of them are planted with sandalwood trees, and the soil quality of these places below the mountainside is relatively good, which is very suitable for planting all kinds of vegetables and other crops.

Big brother, you're amazing, it's all planned. Yang Qianfeng looked at the eldest brother with admiration and said.

The production team is going to work separately, of course, I have to think about it, with these dry lands, in a few years, our family will have our own fir forest, and the family will have ready-made timber for building a new house and making furniture; Sandalwood is the material for making rice paper, the economic value must be good, cut every three years, I want to serial for three years, and there will be a cut every year after that, plus a few silkworm seeds every year, so that there is a stable economic income. Mom and Dad like to drink tea, and after that tea leaves get up, it is enough for the family to drink.

Yang Qianfeng was infected by the words of the eldest brother, he couldn't imagine that the eldest brother was so far-sighted, and he admired this brother who didn't have much culture from the bottom of his heart.

After going home for breakfast, Yang Qianfeng filled a tube of boiled water in a small bucket made of large bamboo, and went up the mountain with a knife and a book that needed to be reviewed.

It's easy to say, it's really not easy to do, the weeds, weeds, weeds, bamboos and all kinds of thorny plants on the barren mountains are crisscrossed, and after a while, Yang Qianfeng's whole clothes are soaked, and his hands are also cut by sharp grass, and the slightest carelessness pierces into the palms of his hands, and at the end of the day, the hand holding the knife has blisters, he knows that this is a process, this is a process from a student to a farmer, and the current farmers must practice a pair of calloused shoulders and a pair of calloused hands.

I got up early and cut it for ten days, and finally cut all the places that my eldest brother chose. When the weeds, trees, and bamboos that had begun to be cut down were dried, they were burned with a fire, and they began to go into battle shirtless to open up the barren mountains.

From the first day of cutting down the wasteland, Yang Qianfeng would read a book for a while or read some basic knowledge or one or two quiz questions and then continue to work, memorizing what he had just learned while working, so that he could do both labor and learning.

Yang Qianfeng was indeed very tired, his body was sunburned off a layer of skin, and there were blisters on his hands first, after the blisters burst, the tender flesh inside turned from red to brown, and there were small cracks. Sure enough, after more than 20 days, I grew calluses, and although my back hurts every day, and I can fall asleep when I fall into bed, I feel very fulfilled and fulfilled when I see the fruits of my labor.

Mom and Dad were very distressed to see Yang Qianfeng like this, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law also persuaded him many times not to be too tired of himself, but Yang Qianfeng, as always, said that he would not give up until he drove it all.

Every morning, my father went up the mountain to dig for two hours before going to work, the eldest brother and sister-in-law dug for two hours before going to work on the production team, the fourth Yang Jinfeng dug for two hours before going to school, and the second Yang Ganfeng went home to help once he was free. In the evening, after getting off work, finishing work and returning home from school, they continued to go up the mountain to cultivate, and the family wore the stars and the moon, and the progress of reclaiming the barren mountain progressed by leaps and bounds.

The results of the college entrance examination finally came down, and one student in the entire liberal arts class exceeded the admission score line, three students in the science class exceeded the score line, and Yang Qianfeng did not reach the score line by one point.

The teachers were very happy because they had achieved their expected goal - the liberal arts and science classes did not take the scoop (they couldn't pass the exam in one class, so they weighed the scoop), and the three people in the science class reached the line beyond their imagination.

The head teacher, Mr. Hong, felt sorry for Yang Qianfeng, but he encouraged: Don't be discouraged, review well for a year, and you will definitely be able to be admitted. Don't lose your books, you must study systematically, it is best to go back to school to repeat a year or go to a review class in the county to tutor for a year.

The teacher's words are not unreasonable, Yang Qianfeng also wants to repeat a year, or go to the county review class to tutor, but he knows that the conditions at home are not good, and spending money to repeat the study is undoubtedly a burden on the back of the family, and he is more worried about what to do if he can't pass the exam after spending money, so he decided to review at home and take the exam again next year.

After the results of the college entrance examination came out, Yang Qianfeng was no longer nervous, thinking that he could not be defeated by failure, he should cheer up his spirits and continue to work hard, first, he should initially realize the economic forest plan of his father and brother to reclaim barren mountains and plant trees, planting mulberry and sandalwood tea, etc. within one year; Second, we should study while working and complete the study plan we have determined.