Three days later, almost half of the people in Zhangjia Village went to Huo Ran's house.

Of course, since last night, some relatives began to spontaneously carry their own bowls and stools and send them over; Seven or eight hard-working women helped wash the vegetables, make dumplings, and prepare the next day's meal.

In this era, the sense of clan is still very strong, and the business of one family is the business of the whole family.

Home-brewed water and wine, meals prepared by neighbors, and lively big pot rice, half of the street is shrouded in laughter.

said that it was to celebrate Huo Ran's happy event, but in fact, it was more of a bumper harvest year, all the work in the fields was cleared, and the big guy took the opportunity to relax and relax.

Huo Ran followed behind Zhang Shi, toasting table by table.

The sentences of "the future is immeasurable", "amazing", and "I will depend on you in the future" did not dazzle Huo Ran's mind, he knew very well that he was not much smarter than others.

"How's it going?" Xiufen, who was tired after a day's work, rubbed her sore waist and sat down beside Zhang Shi.

Zhang Shi had a wad of scattered money in his hand. He sorted out the money according to the size of the money, and then said to Xiufen: "The tuition fee for aiding North Korea is enough." ”

Xiufen held Zhang Shi's rough hand: "Write it down, let's pay it back slowly in the future, we can't be bitter now." ”

"Thank you for your hard work." Zhang Shi looked at his wife's eyes, which were no longer clear, and suddenly said such a sentence.

Xiufen was stunned, her man was wooden and didn't like to talk, she thought that she would never hear a warm word from his mouth for the rest of her life - "What are you talking about?" Aren't you the same? Pack up, sleep, Ming'er still has to calculate what is missing, and the days of the start of school in aid to the DPRK are not long. ”

"Poof-" Zhang Shi waited for Xiufen to hide the money, and took off his shoes before blowing out the oil lamp.

Even though it was dark in the room, Zhang Shi touched the bed accurately and lay down.

Xiufen automatically adjusted a seat, and the old couple snuggled and fell asleep.

Sun-dried sweet potatoes, peeled peanuts, crisp jujubes, and pickled vegetables at home, when Huo Ran was about to leave home, he was stuffed with a bag by Xiufen.

"You kid hasn't been out before, you must talk less and see more when you get outside, you know?" Xiufen couldn't help Huo Ran tidy up her sleeves, tears couldn't help but come out, and she quickly turned her head to wipe it.

Xiufen stuffed the three pairs of shoes she had recently received to Huo Ran: "Aid the DPRK, don't be afraid of wearing out the shoes, my sister will send them to you when they are ready." ”

"Be an honest person and do things in a down-to-earth manner." Zhang Shi only said a word, and went out to help Huo Ran pack up the bedding.

"Second brother, I will definitely miss you in the future!" After Huo Ran's summer vacation of "devil tutoring", Zhang Hongwei suddenly felt that the teachers at school were so gentle!

"Dad, mother, I'll go with my second brother first." Zhang Jianguo put the quilt on his shoulder and patted Huo Ran's shoulder: "Let's go!" ”

"Daddy, I will study hard and serve the country, you pay attention to your body. There is also the matter of the third sister, don't rush her; Sister, you wait for me; Hongwei, when I come back, your grades are not good, I will continue to tutor you. After Huo Ran finished speaking, he bowed to Zhang Shi and Xiufen, and resolutely turned around and left.

"Yours give your food to your classmates!" Xiufen shouted and instructed, only to see Huo Ran and Zhang Jianguo, waving their hands, and not looking back.

Zhang Jianguo originally thought that he was taking care of his younger brother, but he didn't expect to get out of the car, and the two of them completely reversed.

Bicycles that are rare in my hometown can be seen everywhere in the city, and cars that are only used by township leaders are not uncommon.

Dressed in fashionable handsome men and women on the road, exaggerated perms, and flowing bell bottoms, everything was so unfamiliar, making Zhang Jianguo think that he had fallen into another world.

"Redneck, huh?"

"Sure, with a quilt on your back! Hee-hee" The two student girls quietly pointed at Huo Ran and discussed with Zhang Jianguo in a low voice.

"The big one, with several patches on it!" A sentence came into Zhang Jianguo's ears, his ears were red, and he shrunk his clothes, he had never felt his poverty like now, Zhang Jianguo felt as if he had embarrassed his younger brother.

"What are you talking about?" Huo Ran turned his head and stared at the two students who were still pointing: "If you want to say something, you can say it out loud." ”

The two didn't expect that they would be heard saying bad things behind their backs, but they still knew that they were not doing well, so they held hands and ran away.

Huo Ran's eyes swept around with a cold look, in fact, except for a few, most of them took a look and went their own way.

"Let's go, big brother." Huo Ran smiled at Zhang Jianguo: "We'll be there soon-it seems that they are here to pick us up." ”

Zhang Jianguo suppressed the shame in his heart, and looked in the direction pointed by Huo Ran, several young boys and girls stood at the station and held signs: Kyoto Daiichi University Freshman Office.

Huo Ran took Zhang Jianguo through the crowd and walked over.

"Hello, I'm Zhang Yuanchao, an 80-level mechanical major." Huo Ran took out the admission letter from the burden behind him.

The student who led the team glanced at Huo Ran in surprise.

He has been here for a few days, and he has received a lot of people from the countryside, basically they will be a little shy, Huo Ran is the first to be so generous and frank and confident.

"Classmate, welcome, I'm Wang Haiyang of civil engineering." Wang Haiyang, the leader of the team, shook hands with Huo Ran enthusiastically, and commanded the classmates on the side: "Come and help our junior brother." ”

"No, I'll just come." Zhang Jianguo dodged the hands of the two students who wanted to help. The two students shrugged their shoulders and stood aside.

"Brother, I'll come!" Huo Ran walked over and, with the help of another classmate, put his luggage in the car.

Huo Ran took Zhang Jianguo's wrist and sat on the small bench that had been prepared a long time ago.

"Here, try the peanuts I brought." Huo Ran grabbed two large handfuls of peanuts from his bag.

"Huh-I have eaten all the peanuts of my life in a few days, why do you rural people like to invite people to eat peanuts?" A snarky voice suddenly reached everyone's ears.

Huo Ran casually glanced at the students around him, basically all of them looked displeased, and then looked at the person who spoke, with a melon seed face, hanging eyes, obviously good looks, but because of the arrogance in his eyes, he lost five points, and he was waving a red handkerchief and fanning his face.

"If you don't like it, you can't eat it." Huo Ran said calmly: "No one asks you to eat." ”

"You-" Zhou Hongmei originally thought that this country bun didn't dare to say anything, but she didn't expect to dare to say this!

"Poof" Looking at Zhou Hongmei's blue and white face, some people couldn't help laughing, in fact, they couldn't get used to Zhou Hongmei for a long time.

came to welcome the new year, it was originally voluntary, but Zhou Hongmei's purpose was not pure, in order to pursue a man's name, but I didn't expect that the man had something to do temporarily, and he couldn't participate, Zhou Hongmei was worried that she would leave a bad impression if she quit immediately, so she reluctantly waited here.

It's just that she has high eyes and a bad mouth, and several students from the countryside were red-faced by her, and everyone didn't want to accuse her in person for the sake of face, but she didn't expect to be scolded back by Huo Ran now.

"Come on, everybody come and try it." Wang Haiyang, who led the team, was also unhappy in his heart, and deliberately greeted loudly: "It's really delicious!" ”

"Girl, come and taste it too, my peanuts are delicious, my mother specially asked my brother to bring them over for you to eat." Zhang Jianguo was worried that his younger brother would offend people on the first day, so he grabbed a handful of peanuts and held them in front of Zhou Hongmei.

"Smack!" Zhou Hongmei slapped Zhang Jianguo angrily, Zhang Jianguo couldn't dodge, and the peanuts were scattered all over the ground.

"Who's going to eat your stuff? It's dirty, it's stinky, stay away from me! Zhou Hongmei covered her nose with a handkerchief and took two steps back.

Huo Ran's face suddenly turned cold, and he walked over directly regardless of Wang Haiyang's eyes, and stood beside Zhang Jianguo: "Apologize!" ”

Zhou Hongmei was frightened by Huo Ran's cold tone, and said stiffly: "I, why should I apologize?" ”

"You can not eat peanuts, you can laugh at our old clothes, but you can't insult my brother!" Huo Ran held Zhang Jianguo's arm: "My brother has been supporting his family since he was fifteen years old, he is a real man, we rely on our own skills, we don't steal, rob or beg, we are equal to you in personality, you are not qualified to look down on anyone." ”

"Zhou Hongmei, you were wrong, hurry up and apologize." Wang Haiyang also stood beside Huo Ran and said to Zhou Hongmei.

Zhou Hongmei watched the people she was familiar with slowly come over, but instead of helping herself to blame the countryman, she looked at herself coldly, feeling very aggrieved.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I don't apologize! Zhou Hongmei held back her tears and stomped her feet and ran away.

"I'm sorry, senior, I embarrassed you just when we met." Huo Ran said apologetically: "However, no matter who it is, you can't insult my eldest brother." ”

Wang Haiyang smiled heartily: "No, we can't see this eldest lady for a long time." ”

Zhang Jianguo, who was on the side, saw that the other students were also smiling and comforting together, and the worries in his heart were put down.

After a small turmoil, the relationship between several people has become much closer.

Huo Ran and Wang Haiyang started chatting while waiting to pick up people, there are people in the school, the style of the professors, and so on.

But after a while, twenty new students came, Huo Ran said goodbye to Wang Haiyang and the others he was familiar with just now, got in the car and began to walk towards the school.

"It's huge!" Zhang Jianguo got out of the car and couldn't help but sigh when he saw the gate more than ten meters wide.

Students passing by around gave a good-natured smile.

After getting off the bus, Huo Ran and Zhang Jianguo, with the help of an enthusiastic student, registered, paid fees, and went through accommodation procedures.

"Brother, let's eat!" Huo Ran made up the bed and said to Zhang Jianguo.

Zhang Jianguo hurriedly shook his head: "Don't go, I still have steamed buns for you, deal with a meal, you can keep the money and eat better." ”

Huo Ran forcibly dragged Zhang Jianguo away: "It's not bad for this meal, let's go, brother, if you don't wait to go home, those uncles and uncles ask how the food is, you said that the steamed buns you eat, how bad it is." You can tell people that you've eaten Kyoto Daiichi University dinner!"

"You!" Zhang Jianguo couldn't screw Huo Ran, in fact, he was also very curious, and followed Huo Ran to the cafeteria.

ordered three dishes, and the two of them devoured them quickly.

Huo Ran took Zhang Jianguo around the school.

The tall teaching building, the quiet lake, and the = students with confident smiles on their faces all make Zhang Jianguo so unfamiliar.

He listened to his younger brother introduce to him that this was once the place where the master studied, and which sage had mentioned words, all of which he had never imagined.

That's the benefit of reading?

"Brother, in the future, Hongwei, as well as your nephews and nieces, will all study!" Zhang Jianguo said firmly.

Huo Ran was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Of course it's good." “”

The two brothers walked around and finally returned to the dormitory, but fortunately, no one else had arrived in this four-person room, and Zhang Jianguo could live in the school.

"Don't worry about family matters, just study hard. Aid Korea, today I can see clearly, reading is a good way out! Zhang Jianguo thought of everything he had experienced today, and he was very emotional.

"Brother, there are all kinds of people in the world, don't take it to heart. Let's live on our own after that. Huo Ran understood what Zhang Jianguo was thinking, and he was still a little angry about Zhou Hongmei's words during the day.

Zhang Jianguo turned over: "It's not that girl's business, just say you, if you weren't admitted here, how could you have a chance to get out of the village?" ”

Huo Ran smiled in the dark, maybe in a few years, the eldest brother won't think like this after the rise of the work-related boom!

"Let my father and mother discipline Hongwei well, he is very smart, but he refuses to study hard; There is also the matter of the third sister, don't let your father and mother interfere. Huo Ran was still relieved to ask again.

"I don't understand, aid the DPRK, what a good person Zhou Cheng is, you and Brother Nian, we can't look down on others?" Zhang Jianguo didn't understand.

"This is not something that cannot be looked down on, or the third sister is willing to do it herself." Huo Ran knew Zhang Jianguo's incomprehension, I am afraid that Zhang Shixiufen didn't understand it either, in their hearts, feelings and things will naturally come after getting along for a long time, who will not live with them for a lifetime.

"You scholars, you just think too much." Zhang Jianguo thought that his father and mother had agreed, and he had no position to oppose it, so he muttered a sentence and quickly fell asleep.

Bidding farewell to the worried Zhang Jianguo, Huo Ran returned to his bedroom.

"Hello, I'm patriotic, Kang patriotic." As soon as he entered the door, Huo Ran was hugged by a man with a golden retriever.

Huo Ran struggled to break free, and only then did he see clearly that this golden retriever man was not very old, wearing a fashionable T-shirt, and the smile on his face was idiotic and bright.

"I am an overseas Chinese, my grandfather went to the United States when he was young, then married my grandmother, gave birth to my father, and then my father also married a Chinese and gave birth to me." As soon as the golden retriever man met, he said his life experience: "Grandpa and grandma have never forgotten to go home all their lives, but unfortunately they are no longer there, so my parents let me come back." ”

"Nice to meet you," Huo Ran shook hands with Kang Aiguo.

"I've heard you're from the poorest villages, right? Is there only one set of clothes for a family in the countryside, and who goes out to wear for whom? Kang Aiguo's eyes were full of curiosity.