Lin Hualei knew that Shannanm was going to apply for a master's degree in engineering at the University of Michigan, so she was also in full swing to prepare.

She didn't want to apply for a master's degree in engineering, because she wasn't very passionate about technology, and it was still too difficult for her. She wanted to see if she could apply for a master's degree in business, but the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan was not easy to apply. Haicheng Normal University is not very famous, and her TOEFL score is not high enough, her confidence is also insufficient, and she needs to put in some effort, so she can only let her father pay for it and enter a cram school to tutor well, and she will try harder.

But she had to urge her dad and ask her dad to find someone quickly and go through all the procedures for her.

Yun Feng has her own pride in her heart, and she also has an air of refusal to admit defeat. She is very supportive and understanding of Shannan's progress, but she herself does not allow herself to have the slightest dependence, and she is also building her own future.

In the third year of college, Shannan and Yun Feng did not live up to each other's expectations, nor did they live up to their own expectations, let alone live up to this preciousness like gold. Lin Hualei is also gradually moving towards her goal in her hard work.

In the summer vacation of his junior year, Shannan did not come back until September because there were still classes in July and August. Yun Feng went home.

Except for the father, mother, grandparents, and other relatives in the family who are older and taller, there is not much change in the others.

Yun Feng returned to his grandmother's house, harvesting rice during the summer vacation, still wielding a sickle and bending over his back from sunrise to sunset. The only thing is that after the harvest, when the fields are about to be turned over, some families start to use tractors instead of oxen and plows.

"Uncle, are you tired?"

Yun Feng asked the second and third uncles who were sitting opposite the coffee table in the living room of the second uncle's house.

July is the busy farming season. Aunt Yunxiu knew that her mother's brother had a lot of work, and she also settled down at home, so she came over to help. My sister-in-law Yunxiu is still working in Shenzhen, and she is busy in the factory, so she hasn't come back. The fields of the second, third and younger uncles are all gathered together to harvest, so that there are many people who can do more work.

Yun Feng and his aunt, second aunt, and third aunt cut the rice all morning, while the second and third uncles stepped on the rice machine all morning, and the little uncle and cousin cut them and put them neatly in a small stack of rice and held them for the second uncle and the third uncle to turn over the threshing grain on the machine. The three cousins were picking ears of rice in the fields. Grandpa got a job in the city as a gatekeeper, and he would come back to help dry the rice on the threshing floor, and Grandma was no doubt doing a lot of housework.

At noon, everyone gathered at the second uncle's house for lunch. The second aunt and eldest aunt were cooking in the kitchen, and the grandmother was washing clothes by the well with her two cousins. Grandpa just turned over the rice from the threshing floor and went back to the living room of the second uncle's house to sit down, the second uncle and the third uncle were the hardest in the field, they had to step on the machine to beat the rice, and they had to pick the rice from the field to the barn in the backyard of the house.

Yun Feng bent her waist all morning to cut rice, not to mention that her face was flushed with sunburn, this waist alone was like it was about to break, which made her secretly cry out in pain, and she came back from the field and said a few words to her grandmother before running back to sit in the living room to rest.

"Mr. Reading, do you say you're tired?"

The third uncle replied to Yun Feng with a smile.

"Tired is tired, but Uncle is still young, this bit of bitterness is much better than in previous years."

The second uncle smiled innocently and replied to his niece.

"There are still so many fields in the village, but there are many young people who are no longer in the village, like your generation, in the early 80s, they have all grown up to the same, studying, working, doing small business, and our generation is still working hard with one foot in the mud."

The second uncle took a sip of tea and said.

"Oh."

Yun Feng was not familiar with farming, so he didn't know what to say when he answered. In my heart, I wondered if I should go to Li Yunfeng and ask him.

"Some villages in the town have also begun to engage in scientific and technological farming, but the land in our village is not connected together, and everyone has some old ones left, and the fields cannot be concentrated, and the personnel cannot be distributed, so they cannot be moved, and many people's fields have begun to be barren."

The second uncle told his niece about the current situation in the village.

"Yes, the fate of your uncle's generation is here, and you and your younger siblings can't do that."

The third uncle took a cigarette in his mouth, crossed Erlang's legs and said with a smile.

"No, back then, my family was poor, I lacked labor, I couldn't read, and now I can't even plow the fields, which is also something I can't do."

The second uncle added.

The second uncle is a very smart person, if he hadn't dropped out of school after graduating from high school, it would definitely not be what he is now. The third uncle is also a smart person, but his temperament is bolder and more arrogant than that of the second uncle.

Both uncles were born in the late sixties and grew up in rural families, and indeed in this life, like many of their rural peers, they were given to this field.

Yun Feng couldn't help but block his heart, lamenting that life is equal, but life is not absolutely fair.

In the final analysis, in the development of society, regional imbalances will inevitably bring about different fates of people. Compared with the past in their hometown, the uncles are much better than their elders, at least they can eat and clothe, and there is surplus, although it is harder, but at least the children have encountered nine years of compulsory education and can go to school. If one generation is better than the next, what is not satisfied?

As long as there is no horizontal comparison, but a vertical comparison between the previous and future generations, Yun Feng's heart is slightly more comfortable. But she looked at the little uncle who was sitting in the corner of the living room, silent, and her heart began to feel bad again. Because the little uncle couldn't speak clearly, and then he had epilepsy, she was suddenly very worried, and she didn't know if the little uncle could recover his health, if not, how should he spend his life?

Yun Feng didn't talk about the family with her school classmates, including Li Yunfeng and Shanantong, of course, she didn't mention the matter of her little uncle Yun Yi, she was not afraid of being looked down upon by them or have any other ideas, but she was very sad in her heart, and she didn't want to use her little uncle's illness as a talking point.

But she has always been in her heart to see how she can find a way to help her little uncle. It's just that she is also really confused and struggling. Since she was a child, she has been well protected by her family, and she has hardly touched the real problems in life, so when she encounters such practical problems, she wants to contribute, but her brain is at a loss, and she doesn't know how to focus on it.

Of course, she didn't mention it to her uncles and aunts, and she didn't even say it to her grandparents, because she didn't know what to do, and naturally she didn't know how to say it.

"Eat! Let's eat! ”

The second aunt started to serve the food from the kitchen, and Yun Feng was also busy helping to serve the food, and asked the little uncle to call the grandmother, the third aunt and the cousins to eat.

A large family, as before the separation, had a hot lunch. Yun Feng also followed everyone, eating in a steaming mood.

The things in Yun Feng's heart about Shanantong's application for studying abroad suddenly seemed to be diluted a lot on the dinner table of the savages in this village.