Jiang Xinyu didn't know about the Wuliqiao Brigade yet, so she set off with Song Guifang and Luo Yuan to the Miaoxi Brigade early in the morning.

Yesterday, Chen Yi left her the bicycle, so the three of them rode two bicycles, much faster than walking.

The Miaoxi Brigade is more than 20 kilometers away from the Wuliqiao Brigade, and it is very far away from the commune like the Shijinggou Brigade, and it is not easy to walk on the road, and Jiang Xinyu, who is on the dirt road and gravel road, can't sit still.

On the way, Luo Yuan's bicycle chain fell off twice, and he got a hand of oil when he repaired it.

After more than two hours of pedaling to the Miaoxi Brigade, Song Guifang said, "Go to my house to drink some water first." ”

Song Guifang has not returned to her parents' home for several months.

There was a ring of reeds growing along the fence wall of her mother's house, and most of her mother's family would be in the field, but there were children playing in the mud at the door.

The child was very surprised to see Song Guifang and shouted "Auntie" loudly.

After Song Guifang's house was repaired, the three of them went to the three students' homes before and after, but there was no one at home, so they should have gone to work, so the three of them went to the field again.

The land of the Miaoxi Brigade has a lot of slopes, the yield is not very high, and there is no small river or anything, and there is a pond in the south.

This look is compared, the river through which the Wuliqiao Brigade flows is the key to the bumper harvest of the members, and the river has also been dug out of a few small ferns, when it is not raining, it is still somewhat convenient for the members to water the fields.

In the era of relying on the sky for food, the geographical environment can really determine the wealth and poverty of a place.

Many people in the Miaoxi Brigade knew Song Guifang, and an enthusiastic aunt asked the three of them what they were doing and gave them directions.

"Zhang Lixia, why didn't you report this semester? Who is this kid for? ”

It was Song Guifang who asked the question, this is the brigade where her mother's family is located, she was born and raised, and it is most appropriate for her to take the lead and open her mouth to ask.

Luo Yuan felt that it was for nothing at all, but anyone who could go to school would continue to go to school, and these teachers couldn't help them with money, and they couldn't give them any help.

Zhang Lixia was still holding a baby with a cloth pocket in her arms, and the baby was still working with it hanging on her body.

Zhang Lixia's face was dark, her hair was still unkempt, she hung her head slightly and said: "This is my little nephew, my sister-in-law gave birth to a child with heavy bleeding, no one is gone, no one to take the child, Teacher Song, I will not go to school in the future." ”

Song Guifang was speechless, "Your sister-in-law gave birth at home?" Didn't go to the health team and didn't let the village doctor see it? ”

Zhang Lixia nodded, "The health team is too far away, and I didn't have time to send it, and my sister-in-law had a stomachache when she went to work..."

After Zhang Lixia finished speaking, his brother answered: "It's so delicate, it's not all born in the village, what kind of health team does she go to, she is just unlucky." ”

Jiang Xinyu was very shocked in her heart, women in this era are really walking in the ghost gate when they give birth, according to what this classmate Zhang and his brother said, her sister-in-law was almost born on the ground.

Zhang Lixia and her parents came to the front with tools, the faces of the three people were blackened by the sun, beads of sweat hung on their faces, their hands were calloused, their skin was extremely rough, and the clothes on their bodies were made of homespun cloth, which were tattered and tattered, as if they were torn apart.

"Guifang, it's not that we don't want Lixia to go to school, no one is watching the dolls at home, and this year's harvest is not good, so I really can't afford it." Zhang Lixia said bitterly.

There are many girls in the village who will graduate from primary school at most, and it is not easy for them to send Zhang Lixia to junior high school, and they also want Zhang Lixia to graduate from junior high school, hasn't something happened? So what else can be done?

It's not that I can't get a few dollars for school, the main thing is that no one looks at this milk doll, except for this doll, there are four and a half children on it. If you leave someone to watch the children at home, you will earn even less work.

Song Guifang: "Don't let such a young child get sunburned in the ground. ”

Zhang Lixia and his brother said: "She will take the child to work for a while, go back at noon, and come back in the afternoon, it won't be in the way." ”

Jiang Xinyu had nothing to say about such a thing, and the three of them with slightly frowning brows went to find the next one.

The remaining two students, the female student's family didn't have anything wrong, but the sister-in-law who just entered the door looked scathing, and didn't let the sister-in-law go to school again to waste money, so that her words said that she could read and write, and she could earn money when she went home to work for a few years.

Compared with Zhang Lixia's classmate, Jiang Xinyu and the three of them agreed that the family who persuaded the lesbian to let her go to school had hope.

"Uncle, aunt, if you let your children come back to work early, then they can only dig in the field to eat, but they can't change their lives, my family is also poor, I am also a girl, my mother let me go to high school to graduate, and I will now become a teacher in the commune school."

has the subsidy of Chen Xiuyun's mother's family, and the family is still secretly doing a small business, Jiang Xinyu's family is actually not poor, and it is considered to be a good life in the Wuliqiao Brigade, but now persuade people, of course, you have to say so.

"What's the use of going to school, after going to school, I'm also a member of someone else's family?"

It was the schoolgirl's sister-in-law who spoke.

Jiang Xinyu has taken this woman, and the schoolgirl's parents didn't speak, she was the happiest, "What, you are digging in the field by yourself, and you can't see your sister-in-law go to school, right?" ”

"What does my family's business matter to you, if you have the ability, you can give her money and food, otherwise don't be here and delay our work. It's good that she can read a few words, but I still can't read big words, what can I do when I go to school, and can I still go to the city? If everyone who goes to school can go to the city, the big guys will send their children to school. ”

Jiang Xinyu was scolded back like this.

In her old days, she didn't believe anyone would have said such a thing.

Jiang Xinyu squatted silently and got angry, and Luo Yuan was talking to the parents of the lesbians.

"Sister Song, there are not many people in your village who go to school in the commune, how did you graduate from high school?"

Jiang Xinyu asked this out of pure curiosity, and didn't want to offend Song Guifang.

Song Guifang also squatted next to her and said: "There is no primary school in our village, if you want to go to primary school, you have to go to the central primary school next door, when I finished primary school, my father married one, and I was not allowed to continue to go to school, but my eldest brother is a soldier, and the letter sent home indicated that if I don't continue to go to school, the allowance sent home will be reduced by half, so that I can continue to go to school." After graduating from high school, it was also the school that my brother found for me to get into. ”

Because her stepmother is not good to her, she rarely goes home after work, at most she sends half of her salary back every month, and after getting married, her mother-in-law does not like her to go back to her parents' house often for fear that she will give her mother's money or any subsidies, except for the New Year's holidays, she comes back less.

Jiang Xinyu didn't complain in her heart after arriving in this era, the difficult Mrs. Li, the disgusting Zhang Fengmei, these best are really disgusting.

But Comrade Chen Xiuyun's mother she really has nothing to say, she let her three daughters go to high school, she is very good to all three girls, her thinking is really open-minded compared with most of the women comrades here, at this time she is sincerely glad to have such a mother.

While the two were talking, Luo Yuan wasted his saliva for a long time and returned home.

That lesbian's sister-in-law is really not easy to mess with, people have their own set of logic, and they are convinced, they look very powerful in her mother-in-law's house, she speaks, and her in-laws don't refute it.

Luo Yuan spread his hands after wiping his sweat, and said speechlessly: "No rut, don't eat soft and hard, let's go, go find the last one." ”