Chapter 6 Arranged Marriages
"How's it going?"
Song Haowen was communicating with Wang Bing, and he was slapped on the shoulder unexpectedly. turned his head to look, but saw Zhou Lei standing next to him with a smile, asking him questions, and he also handed in the file in advance.
Song Haowen also smiled and said, "Look at your jubilant, it seems that you did well in the exam." ”
Zhou Lei said with a smile: "I didn't do well in the exam, but I just felt that I had a burden down." What should I do? What about you? ”
Song Haowen put his hands behind his back, pretended to be deep, and said, "It's okay." The rolls are relatively simple. ”
Zhou Lei glared at Song Haowen, he knew that the other party's usual Chinese test results were not as good as him, shook his head and said: "Chinese is often easy to look at, but it is difficult to get a high score." You say that, and I know how well you did in the exam. ”
Song Haowen asked curiously, "What do you know?" ”
Zhou Lei said angrily: "I know, you didn't do well in the exam!" ”
Song Haowen laughed and said, "You guessed right, it's very right." ”
At this time, the head teacher heard the sound and walked towards them, and asked as he walked, "Did you do well in the exam?" So happy! ”
Wang Bing, who had not interjected, saw that the exam was over and more and more people gathered around, so he quietly greeted Song Haowen and left quickly.
When everyone returned to the dormitory at noon, they found that Wang Bing had really given up the college entrance examination and went home early. Of course, everyone will not give up easily, and will take the exam seriously, but after all, there are very few people who are admitted. According to the number of admissions last year, even the junior college is added together, and there are only thirty or forty people in the county, and most of them are studying with the prince and doing useless work.
In the afternoon, I took physics, which is a tough bone for many candidates. After this exam, many people's faces were obviously wrong, and their feelings of loss were overflowing. However, for Song Haowen, who graduated from the Department of Physics, this homework is a piece of cake for doing this kind of paper, and it is difficult to get a full score.
In the next two days and four exams, Song Haowen also had no effort. Song Haowen is not complacent because of this, he thinks that rebirth is cheating by God, and it is worth boasting about.
After three days of college entrance examination, Song Haowen followed the tractor that picked up the teacher and returned to Zhaosheng Middle School. After picking up the luggage and saying goodbye to the teachers and classmates, I carried my bags on my back, walked alone, and went home to wait for news.
The college entrance examination is a major opportunity for every candidate, at any time. Song Haowen knows that before the rebirth, the enrollment was expanded, and a county could even be admitted to thousands of colleges and universities, and now the acceptance rate of the college entrance examination is too low, even if there are children at home to take the college entrance examination, they will not take it too seriously, and always think that going to college is a very distant and strange thing, let the children watch and do it themselves, if they want to take the test, then participate, if they don't want to take the test, they will go home immediately after graduation. Rural students go to work in production teams to earn wages, while urban students find people to arrange jobs for wages.
Therefore, students either travel alone before and after the exam, or travel with their classmates, without seeing the bustling army of exams and exams before rebirth, which will not cause road traffic jams at all. After the exam, parents generally only ask "how did you do in the exam", and as for the sentence "do you have any hope of getting in", they often don't bother to ask, because they don't have hope.
Song Haowen's home is three or four kilometers away from the school, because the luggage is too heavy, it took nearly two hours to walk and rest, even if the days are long in summer, it is a little dark when he arrives home.
The family was a little overjoyed when they saw Song Haowen coming home. They didn't know about the food poisoning in middle school, and they didn't know when the college entrance examination would end and when he could go home, otherwise, his father Song Huaisheng would definitely have to help with his luggage and pick him up.
In the evening, the family got together rarely, lit kerosene lamps, and had a reunion dinner.
Of the five children in the family, Song Haowen is the third in the family. The eldest brother Song Haojun did not come back in the army.
This is the first time Song Haowen has gone home after being reborn, and he was worried about having a strangeness with his family, but who knew that everyone hit it off at first sight, and the fifth sister Song Huifang held his hand and didn't let go. In his memory, his younger sister was very close to him before he was reborn.
Coincidentally, in the afternoon, Song Haowen's father released water from the rice field in his own field, and suddenly a big carp weighing three or five catties jumped out of the pond and was hugged by him.
After the fish was taken home, a whole pot was boiled, and I was about to eat it in the evening, but I didn't expect Song Haowen to come back, and everyone laughed at Song Haowen for being so blessed.
Song Huaisheng's mother Li Ying is even happier. "People often say, 'carp leaps over the dragon gate', today your father caught such a big carp, it must be a good omen, indicating that the third son has great hope for this year's college entrance examination!"
The second brother Song Huihua nodded and said, "The third brother will definitely be admitted, and he can go to a good school." ”
The younger sister Song Huifang glared at Song Haowen with a pair of big eyes and said, "Second brother, will you be rich if you are admitted to college?" Don't forget to buy me something to eat then. ”
The fourth Song Haomin sarcastically said: "My sister is a delicious ghost!" ”
Song Huifang was not convinced, and sneered: "What am I good to eat?" You're not tasty? You used to steal the cookies that your big brother brought back......"
Song Haomin didn't wait for his sister to finish speaking, and denied it with a red face: "You are talking nonsense, you stole it." ”
The mother knocked on the table with chopsticks and reproached: "The fourth son and the old man are together, and the two of them are going to quarrel before they say a word, it's too annoying." ”
Song Haowen laughed and said, "If you quarrel again, we will eat all the dishes." ”
Dad usually doesn't talk much, and his status in the family is not as good as his wife Li Ying. He consulted Li Ying for his opinion and took out a plastic bottle from the kitchen cupboard, which contained more than a pound of bulk barnyard wine.
Song Haowen knew that this wine was made by the commune barnyard distillery, using weeds and barnyard seeds in the rice fields. At that time, there was a shortage of food, and I was reluctant to use grain to make wine, so I thought of this alternative method to turn waste into treasure.
The alcohol is around 42 degrees, the quality and taste are good, and the most important thing is that the price is low, and it is very popular with the local people. However, ordinary people are usually reluctant to drink this wine, and only take it out to drink during the New Year's holidays and important guests at home.
Unfortunately, the longevity of barnyard wine was not long, and with the liberalization of grain and the increase in the cost of collecting barnyard seeds, this wine was no longer seen on the market.
Dad said excitedly: "It's rare to pick up such a big fish today, plus the third son graduated from high school, and there is another labor force in the family, which is worth celebrating." Sanzi, it's okay to drink some wine. As he spoke, he took an empty teacup and poured wine for Song Haowen.
Before the wine was added, Song Haomin snatched the wine glass from his father's hand and tasted a big sip, and was immediately choked and coughed with tears. Song Huifang clapped her hands while gloatingly squinting at Song Haomin, gritting her teeth with hatred.
In order to celebrate Song Haowen's graduation, his mother specially made scrambled eggs with leeks and a few fried vegetarian dishes. The eggs are laid by the hens in the house, and the vegetables are grown in the family, so this table does not cost much money.
After dinner, when only Song Haowen and his mother were left in the living room, her mother glanced at Song Huihua, who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, and whispered to Song Haowen: "Third son, Ming'er has time to help my mother persuade your second sister." She is not young, she is nineteen years old this year, and it is time to think about marriage. She has a few female classmates, and the children can run off the ground. ”
"A few days ago, someone introduced Zheng Yishui, the son of Captain Zheng Donghe, to your second sister. Your father and I looked at that young man quite well, he was very energetic, the two were the same age, and the conditions of the other party's family were not bad. But your second sister didn't agree. ”
After listening to his mother's words, Song Haowen suddenly remembered the situation of his second sister Song Huihua before he was reborn.
In his previous life, the second sister got along with him best, and she was willing to tell him a lot of things in her heart. When he was seven years old and in the first grade of elementary school, his second sister was in the third grade of primary school. It was a double entry class, where grades 1 to 3 were combined in one classroom, one year at a time. He stayed in the same classroom with his second sister for a year.
He remembered that when Zheng Yishui was introduced to the second sister by the matchmaker, the second sister also resolutely disagreed at first.
The second sister once fell in love with Jiang Sen, an educated youth of the team, and had an alliance. But since Jiang Sen returned to the capital the year before last, the second sister has lost all the news of Jiang Rensen. The family was convinced that Jiang Sen had changed his mind, and persuaded the second sister to stop wishing for wishful thinking, even if Jiang Sen was willing to continue to get along, his parents would not agree, after all, the gap between them was not ordinarily big.
Later, after many persuasions from the whole family (including Song Haowen), the second sister agreed to get along with Zheng Yishui and finally married him.
Who knows, the second sister's married life is not happy. As soon as the honeymoon period is over, the two often quarrel over some trivial matters. In addition, Zheng Yishui's original form was revealed after marriage, with all five poisons, and five years later, the marriage of the two came to an end. The second sister won the right to support her daughter, left the countryside with her daughter, and opened a fashion store in Linshan County to make a living. Her daughter was very competitive, first admitted to a 985 school, then went to graduate school, and finally became a university teacher. It's just that the second sister never fell in love and got married again.
Thinking of these consequences, Song Haowen no longer wants to follow his mother's wishes like he did before his rebirth, he wants to stop this bad fate and let the second sister choose her life again.
So, Song Haowen asked with a smile: "Mom, are you in a hurry to get rid of the second sister?" Isn't it good to have her at home to help? She's still young. There are many girls in the city who are married around the age of 30. ”
"Nonsense! Can a rural girl compare with a girl in the city? A woman's flowering season is not long, and it will pass after a delay. Mom said dissatisfied.
What age is it now, if you want to talk about it, let the second sister talk about it herself. Song Haowen persuaded: "It's a new era, you can't arrange a marriage." ”
At this time, Song Huihua came over from the kitchen, and when she heard the content of their conversation, her face sank, and she said, "Worry about it!" He went back to his room and rested.
[Through the writing of this book, I found that many people, like me, really made too many mistakes in the past and wasted too many opportunities. 】