Chapter 5 Sending my brother to school
My brother only tells everyone two chapters of the book every day, and before he finishes it, he waits until school starts......
The eldest sister is in the third year of junior high school, and the second sister is already in the first year of junior high school, and both of them went to school in advance with the third sister.
She and her brother, mother, and grandfather were left at home, and her mother was packing some clothes for her brother.
My brother had already seen something about "Journey to the West", so he put on a whole set of books and asked his mother to put them on for him. He also said to her seriously:
"Lele, when my brother is on vacation, I will finish reading "Journey to the West", and I will continue to tell you the story of Sun Monkey when I come back!"
"Well, my brother has to take a closer look, right? When you come back from vacation, Lele will listen to your story! ”
Since the next day was the market, my mother decided to take her with her to the market. But she was so happy, this was the first time she went to the township to catch a market after she was reborn. In her previous life, she was only able to go to the countryside with her mother a few times after she was six years old.
Although their family is much better off than when they first separated, it is still a lot of money for so many children to study. When my mother sent my sisters to school, the whole village was saying that my mother paid money to other people's families to support her daughter-in-law, and my mother ignored what others said. When she is of school age, she will borrow money, and she will find a way to let her sisters go to school!
Lying alone in the bed I slept with my sisters at night, thinking: My mother in my previous life was too tired when I was young, and I fell into a problem when I was old! She didn't know if she could change the situation of their family in this life so that her mother would not be so tired? Tomorrow I will go to the market just in time to see if there are any opportunities that their family can do.
It's all because she didn't work hard in her previous life, didn't talk about it, and didn't care about her livelihood, she just lived in a daze, so that now she can't do anything, and she can't imagine what she can do to change the status quo of their family. She regrets it! Since the memories of her previous life can't help their family, she can only live more seriously, watch more, and learn more......
In a daze, she didn't know how long she had been asleep, when she heard the rooster crow, and her mother had already gotten up to cook breakfast. In her room, which was not very far from the kitchen, she smelled the smell of rice porridge, so she quickly got up, put on the clothes and pants left by her sister, put on her shoes and ran to the kitchen.
"Mommy morning!"
"Lele is early, hurry up to brush your teeth and wash your face, and we will leave after breakfast in a while."
"Good!"
Today's toothbrushes are so hard that with a little force, your gums will bleed! She could only brush her teeth lightly and lightly, thinking that she didn't take care of her teeth in her previous life, and before she was thirty years old, she had to pull out two decayed big teeth, alas! Keep brushing...... After finally brushing my teeth and washing my face, I went to breakfast......
It's finally time to go! Lele and his brother were sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, and her mother tied the small package to the front of the car, took the two of them and went to the village.
Along the way, there were people who greeted my mother warmly. Because at that time, it was a five-day market, and there were still a lot of people rushing to the market. In these ten miles and eight villages, my mother is afraid that she will go to see a doctor for these villagers.
When they got to the big steep slope, they all got out of the car and followed their mother to push the cart up. The passers-by I met on the road were very enthusiastic and said that they wanted to carry her uphill, but she politely refused. Because she always remembered what her mother often said:
"I don't need help from others to get things done on my own. You can only learn more if you don't ask for others! ”
At this time, she was very glad that she usually followed her brother everywhere every day, otherwise how could she climb such a long slope?
When they reached the top of the slope, everyone ran to the shade of the tree and sat down to rest their feet before walking. After going up the steep slope, there is a downward slope of nearly 90 degrees, although it is only more than 40 meters long, because it is too steep, even if there is a car, everyone pushes the cart down and then rides. There are already enough souls down this slope! No one wants to be one of them.
Some motor vehicles such as walk-behind tractors, no matter how good the technology is, do not dare to be careless here. Because the careless ones have become the souls of the big deep ditch on the slope side!
Finally arrived at the market, my mother took them to the village government's father's dormitory, put away the car and my brother's clothes, and then went to the school to register my brother.
Today's children are studying, and if the family does not have enough money to pay the tuition, they can use part of the rice instead of the tuition. There are many children in their family, and in her previous life, until she was studying, she was still a name for six catties of rice and twelve yuan.
After signing up for my brother, my mother took them to the street to buy vegetables to cook for lunch, and my sister and they had already gone to school, so in order to save money, they went home to eat lunch and dinner, and then went to school to live in the evening.
On the street, I saw the sugar hawthorn, peanut candy, sesame candy, maltose, rice candy, and ginger candy that I liked to eat in my previous life...... Although these mothers have done it at home, they can eat it once or twice a year. Can you keep them from drooling? If it was me in the previous life, I was afraid that I would roll around at this time, and I would ask my mother to buy it for us to eat. Now that she is an old child in her thirties, how can she do that kind of cheating thing again?
Although she and her brother were sensible and didn't ask their mother to buy it, in the end, their mother still bought two catties of hawthorn and half a catty of candy back. They know that mothers can't see their children greedily but don't say anything.
I kept thinking about sugar hawthorn, so she forgot the purpose of the market, and she had already returned to her father's dormitory. I saw that the third sister was at home, in fact, it was not a home, and a room of about 30 square meters was divided into two rooms, one of which had two beds facing each other, which used to be lived by the three sisters; There was also a big bed outside, which my father slept in. The middle is separated by a large wooden bookcase, the top two layers of the bookcase are placed by Dad's books, and there is a large and thick "Cihai" inside, the middle two layers are the old books of the sisters, and the bottom two layers are put some waste paper such as unnecessary old homework. In her previous life, this large bookcase was her favorite place in the home.
Because my father has already got married, he also assigned a small kitchen, which can be used as a bath room when the door is closed. Compared with those who are single, do not have a kitchen, and have to take a bath in a collective bath, their home is already much better.
While her mother was cooking, she and her brother volunteered to take the hawthorn downstairs to wash the hawthorn with free tap water. After going to school in her previous life, her brother always took her downstairs to wash her clothes, and it was her brother who taught her how to wash her clothes at that time.
When we washed the hawthorn, put it in a sieve, put it in the sun and dried it, the third sister took a knife and slice each hawthorn, and after cutting it, it was still the whole hawthorn, but there were more cut marks. Then boil the hawthorn with water, which can boil off the astringency of the hawthorn, and the sugar juice is easier to taste.
Mom cooked the meal, and the eldest sister and second sister hadn't come back from school yet. Then wash the wok, start to add water to boil the white sugar juice, when it is boiled into a pulp, pour the hawthorn that has been cut into the pot and cook it together for a while, and see the sugar taste dissolved into the hawthorn, you can scoop it up and eat. Everything else that hasn't been eaten will continue to drown in the syrup, and you will want to eat it and then fish it out.
The sweet and sour sugar hawthorn can not only be used as a snack for them, but also as an appetizer.
When the sisters came back from school, after having lunch together, my mother explained to the sisters and asked them to take their brothers well. I told my brother again, saying that I would come to see him at the next market.
My mother also used pork belly to stew a pot of pickled cabbage for my brothers and sisters, so that my sister and her sisters only need to put a small bowl of pickled vegetables in the rice and steam them when they are cooking.
Seeing that the time was almost up, I took Lele to ride a bicycle to the village. Originally, her mother wanted to pack a few hawthorns for her to go home, but she refused. Let's let my brothers and sisters eat more, she has eggs to eat every day when she comes home.
When she returned home, she remembered that their village would have electricity in a little more than a year, and that the fields would be distributed to each family on a per capita basis.
When many families did not dare to install electricity, they installed a 100-watt light bulb in the yard, which was installed by the mother for the convenience of medical treatment. At that time, people who had no electricity in the village would go to their house at night to talk and gossip, and sit until late before reluctantly going back.
That year, my mother and aunt raised money to buy the first machine in their village, which was to make rice noodles and flour. It's just that the aunt didn't even look at it, so she sat at home and her mother sent her the money. When the money was divided, the aunt said that the money given by her mother was too little, and she had a quarrel. Grandma came over to scold my mother at that time. In desperation, my mother had to borrow money from others and return the money from her aunt to her, so as to calm their shameless demands. In this life, she will never let such a thing happen again!
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