Rebirth as an official

The horn rang many times, and such good news made the whole village lively again.

This is the custom in the village. Whenever there is a wedding or wedding at home, a big banquet is held. Then all the women in the village come to help cook if they have nothing to do. The men help chop wood and carry water, and the children play together. In short, it’s like It's a wild party.

Many people in the village will spontaneously bring some vegetables they grew themselves, but meat vegetables need to be bought by themselves. After all, the price of meat is high and the villagers are not rich.

Li An and Liu Renyu drove to the town and bought a lot of chicken, duck and fish. Li An also invited two cooks from the town to come back and cook.

At noon, the primary school playground was already very lively.

Li An sat on the threshold of the primary school classroom and smoked a cigarette, watching the men on the playground setting up a stove while the women were washing various ingredients at the mouth of the well. It was a joyful scene.

This feeling is like celebrating the New Year, everyone is smiling and laughing, and the most simple smiles are on the faces of these villagers.

At about four o'clock, the banquet officially started, and the village was also very particular about rules when it came to banquets.

First of all, the "host" who places the running water table invites the most respected old man in the village to arrange the seats.

Usually the old man will say: "Everyone who comes is a guest, and everyone should be courteous to each other."

This is an opening statement. After that, everyone starts to look for their own seats, that is, they sit according to their seniority. This rule cannot be messed with, otherwise they will be said to have no tutor.

When everyone is seated one by one, the real "banquet" can begin.

The dishes are the local rural traditional "eight cold and eight hot" dishes, including chicken, duck, fish, etc. This is considered a very high-end banquet.

At the banquet table in the farmhouse, there is a "wine commander" at each table. He distributes cigarettes one after another to everyone, pours wine one by one, and persuades the guests to drink to their heart's content.

At the banquet, everyone laughed loudly and gave each other food.They told each other about family affairs, interesting things in the countryside, and talked about happy places. Everyone laughed, so happy.

At the banquet, large plates and bowls were used to serve dishes, and the domestic chickens and ducks were cooked fragrantly.Add freshly picked green cabbage hearts from the garden, which taste delicious and fragrant.

The banquet lasted until the sun was about to set. Li An got very drunk and was carried back to the Qin family's residence by Lin Fuyin and Chen Shanhe.

The next day, Li An woke up with a severe headache. The room was brightly lit by the sun, which was very dazzling. Li An looked at the scene and it must be almost noon.

Li An got out of bed holding his extremely painful head. Yesterday he drank high-strength liquor and rice wine. Being drunk was the most uncomfortable thing.

When I saw a bowl of water and two boiled eggs placed on the stool beside the bed, I knew without even thinking that Qin Fangfang had put them here.

"It's good to have a caring and considerate girl." Li An sighed, picked up the bowl and took a sip.

So sweet!

It seems that there is no shortage of sugar.

After quickly eating two eggs and drinking all the sugar water, Li An changed his clothes that smelled of alcohol and walked out of the room.

But as soon as she reached the main room, she saw Qin Fangfang running out crying.

"Fangfang, what's going on?" Li An shouted quickly.

Qin Fangfang looked back at Li An, her beautiful big eyes were swollen from crying, which made people feel distressed just looking at them.

Qin Fangfang just glanced at it and ran away with a cry.

Li An originally wanted to catch up, but after a hangover, his body was really weak and he couldn't run at all, so he had to go to Mr. Qin's house to find out what was going on.

"Uncle Qin, what's going on?" As soon as Li An entered the room, he saw Mr. Qin sitting cross-legged on the bed and smoking a hookah silently.

"Here comes Mr. Li, let's smoke." When Mr. Qin saw Li An, he put the hookah aside, took out a pack of cigarettes from the bedside cabinet and handed it to Li An.

Li An waved his hand and said, "I'm still drunk, so I won't smoke."

"Uncle Qin, I saw Fangfang ran out crying. What happened?" Li An asked the reason.

"Hey~" Mr. Qin put down the cigarette he took out, picked up the hookah and started smoking without saying much.

"Uncle Qin, what's going on? Why don't you speak?" Li An was anxious. When eating dinner yesterday, Mr. Qin happily sang a local opera, but today he became gloomy.

"Hey~" Mr. Qin sighed again before saying.

"Cadre Li, thank you for making our Qin family proud yesterday. I have some respect for you, old man."

"Hey, what's the big deal? I've lived in your house for so long, and we're all my own family." Li An said nonchalantly.

"Cadre Li, here are 500 yuan, take it." Mr. Qin took out five crumpled bills from his coat pocket.

"Uncle Qin, what are you doing?" Li An took a step back.

"I can't let you pay for yesterday's banquet. You take the money." Mr. Qin stood up and was about to stuff the money into Li An's arms.

"How about this, Uncle Qin, if you do this again, I will move away." Li An said pretending to be angry.

After the two struggled for a while, Mr. Qin finally put the money back into his pocket.

Li An breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to ask: "Uncle Qin, you haven't said what happened to Fangfang."

"Hey~"

Li An knew that Mr. Qin was going to sigh, which became the prelude to the old man's words.

"Director Li, I don't plan to let Fangfang go to college."

"Ah, why is this? Didn't you agree before? You don't have to worry about tuition fees, I'll take care of that." Li An was a little surprised, why did the old man change his mind again about going to college.

Mr. Qin lowered his head, said nothing, and just smoked the hookah.

After a while, he finally said: "I'm not afraid of Mr. Li making fun of me. I'm short-sighted. What's the point of studying for a woman? She has to get married and have children. I've been in poor health in the past few years. This house always needs someone to take care of it, right?" .”

Mr. Qin took another puff of cigarette and continued: "A woman needs money to study abroad, and her brother also needs money to study. I can't make much money here. I want the woman not to go to school and find a job in the countryside." , can take care of his brother and help with the housekeeping."

After listening to Mr. Qin's words, Li An understood the meaning.

He was a little angry, angry because of Mr. Qin's selfishness.

Mr. Qin's meaning is very clear, that is, Qin Fangfang is a woman, and women must marry. If she marries someone, she will become someone else's daughter-in-law, which will not be helpful to the family. If she does not go to college, it will not mean much to the family.

If I didn't go to college, I could still help the family make money and take care of my younger brother during the years before I got married.

At this time, it can be said that Mr. Qin’s small farmer thoughts are fully reflected.

This is actually the current situation in the vast majority of rural areas - sons are preferred over daughters.

Almost most rural people believe that female babies belong to other people's families, and only male babies belong to their own family. Raising children can protect against old age. This concept can be said to be deeply ingrained.

Mr. Qin didn't speak, and Li An also fell silent. He picked up the cigarette placed on the bedside, lit one, and started smoking.

The two people in the room, an old man and a young man, just smoked in silence, and the atmosphere became extremely depressing.

Li An's mind was running rapidly, constantly sorting out the root cause of this matter.

The main problem now is actually not Qin Fangfang's tuition fee, but who will take care of the family and his younger brother after Qin Fangfang leaves. If this matter is not resolved, Qin Fangfang will not be able to go to college.

Of course, some people would say that they should just pay Qin Fangfang's tuition and let her go to college, and they would not care about Mr. Qin's life or death.

If you think so, then you underestimate the power of the traditional Chinese word "filial piety".

Think about how many "Fu Di Demons" there are today, are they really willing to help their younger brothers willingly and unconditionally?

In fact, in essence, she is infinitely filial to her parents. You can say that this type of person does not care about the life or death of her husband, but you have to admit that her filial piety to her parents is the purest.

Although Qin Fangfang cannot reach the level of "subduing the devil", if Mr. Qin firmly refuses to let her go to college, Qin Fangfang's character will only stay in the end. Ang Lee can 100% confirm this.

How to solve Mr. Qin's worries has become the biggest problem before Li An. This is no longer something that money can solve.

"Hey~" Li An sighed and felt his fingers burn. Then he realized that the cigarette had burned to the butt of the cigarette, so he quickly threw it on the ground and stamped it out.

Li An touched his sore fingers and walked out of the house. The fresh air outside refreshed his mind.

"What should I do?"

Watching Dahuang and Dahei playing with each other in the yard, I couldn't help but think that sometimes animals are better and carefree. .