People from the Red Chamber in the Times

Jia Changfa left for six days before returning.It was still midnight when I came back.

Baoyu woke up in the morning and saw someone at the dinner table, and then she knew that her father had returned.

"Father, why are you so happy? You haven't closed your mouth since morning." Everyone can see that Jia Changfa is in a good mood, and the corners of his mouth have never dropped. Xi'er is the youngest in the family and has always been affected She is the only one who dares to talk to her father like that.

"Then can I tell you? Little girl, you want to know everything." Father Jia's mood is already good enough to tease his daughter.

"Mother..." Xi'er turned her head and acted like a baby to Xiao Baoniang.

"What's the matter! When your elder brother comes back tonight, you'll know." Xiao Baoniang said that there was nothing to do, but she was very appetizing, saying that she would know when Dabao came back at night, obviously there was still something to do!

"Don't talk about pulling it down." The little girl didn't get the information she wanted, she lowered her head and tried hard at the corn mush in the bowl.

Baoyu drank the corn mush, thinking to himself.It seems that not only the father is in a good mood, but the old lady is also in a good mood!Otherwise, how can you make corn mush.I stay at home in winter, so there is less work, and I completely say goodbye to dry food for two meals a day. I drink porridge from morning to night, sorghum rice porridge, big porridge, and small porridge. son's drink.Every meal is a pot of porridge and a plate of pickles.Jia Changfa loves to eat Chinese cabbage buns dipped in sauce. If he can get two cabbage buns and a green onion every other day or two, it will improve his life. This is only for him alone. Others I can only watch it!The corn paste is wasteful, and the fine corn noodles are used. The noodles used for one meal are enough to make two or three meals of big balls.In winter, Xiao Baoniang could easily be reluctant to make it for them.

Hey……

In these days, eating corn paste and pickles is a rare and good meal.

Baoyu sucked so much that she could hardly remember the days of rich clothes and fine food in her previous life.

Yes, that's all from the previous life!

When practicing calligraphy, Baoyu was thinking in a trance.

In the evening, Jia Dabao really came back.

"What?" Jia Dabao was so shocked that he dropped his chopsticks when his father said that he had decided on a wife.

"What's wrong? Didn't you say that there is no one you like? Wouldn't it be good for the old man to help you find one? I found it completely according to your standards. Where can I find such a good job?" Jia Changfa's voice suddenly changed Raised.

"No, Dad, where did you find it?" Jia Dabao hadn't calmed down yet.Not only was he shocked, but his two younger sisters and one younger brother sitting on the table were also shocked.So, what makes parents happy for a day is to make an appointment with the eldest daughter-in-law?

"It's just the old Wang's house with five rooms. Didn't I go to ask your Uncle Wang to pour out the grain? When we were drinking, we mentioned your marriage, and your Uncle Wang introduced his niece. The day before I came back, the girl came to the house to help pack the grain. I also met, she is a neat girl, and she looks good. I can trust you, Uncle Wang, and he will definitely not mention bad girls. Local girls are neat, and the Wang family is the root of filial piety Son, you look good too, doesn't it just meet your request?" Jia Changfa mentioned the reason for the marriage.

"Then dad, you can't just settle down. What time is this? Arranged marriages are out of the question! You have to let us meet, right? What if other girls don't like me?" Dabao still tried hard to win A look at marital autonomy.

"No one told you not to let you see! I have already agreed with the other side. On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, I will meet you at your Uncle Wang's house. On the sixth day of the lunar new year, we will come to make an engagement, put it aside for a year, and get married in the twelfth lunar month of the next year, just in time Son." Papa Jia didn't feel at all that he didn't do well.

Dabao: "..."

You have even set a date for your engagement, so it makes sense to see each other?

"Brother, you really listened to my father, and you got engaged to that girl from the Wang family?" Baoyu asked his brother in a low voice when the two brothers were lying on the Kang in the back at night.

"Then what can I do if I don't listen?" Dabao was also worried, it took only a while, and the bubbles in his mouth came out.

"But you have never met that girl, and you don't even know whether she is round or flat! Brother, arranged marriages are not allowed now. If you really don't want to, go to the commune?" Baoyu gave his brother advice.

"Bao'er! How can you think of this trick? You can go to the commune at will? Do you know what the world is like now? If things get involved in the commune, then our father will not only be the captain, maybe he won't be able to be the captain. You will be sentenced, is this the way you came up with?" Dabao's voice became cold.

"Ah?" Baoyu was taken aback when he heard the serious consequences, and mumbled, "I don't know..."

"Hey... okay, I'll talk to Teacher Zhang tomorrow and ask him to tell you about the current environment." Dabao was very worried, and his parents still took good care of Xiaobao so that he could let him go. He is so simple!

From the second day on, Teacher Zhang gave Baoyu extra lessons alone.It doesn’t take up other people’s time. From the beginning, every noon and night, after the meeting in the production team, it’s the time before going to bed. Later, I don’t know how Dabao told Jia Changfa. house live.Now it's all right, except for the class time, the two are almost inseparable, Teacher Zhang can teach him anytime.

Zhang Qingguo didn't explain any major principles to Baoyu, he just told him about history, especially modern history.He had already discovered that his student knew as much about the history before the Ming Dynasty as he did, and he also knew that it was Dabao who brought back the history books.But he knew almost nothing about the history after Ming Dynasty.Therefore, he began to talk about it from the end of Ming Dynasty.

The world that Baoyu lived in before was originally a world where the history of the Ming Dynasty was used to write about the Qing Dynasty. How could he have the opportunity to know the history of the Ming Dynasty?But the changes in the world in the past 300 years are more than the sum of the previous thousands of years.Baoyu has always been interested in new affairs.I especially like listening to stories.Listening to Mr. Zhang's history lectures every day, he really listened to it.

Zhang Qingguo never commented on the good or bad of the characters in the stories he told. Even when Baoyu asked, he only let Baoyu experience it for himself.

After talking about the Republic of China, when the predecessors expelled the Tartars and restored China, and fought against foreign humiliation, Baoyu's blood boiled with enthusiasm. The textbooks were only quotations, and these heroic stories had been deleted long ago.After hearing this, he felt more and more the greatness of the chairman.

Then, when he talked about the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Great Leap Forward, the three-year natural disaster, the Cultural Revolution, and the experiences of the heroes who were moved and shed tears for him, Baoyu again Depressed, followed by crying, followed by anger, followed by feeling sad.

After Jia Dabao finished chatting with Baoyu that day, he didn't return home until it was the twelfth lunar month, with the smile on his face as if he had picked up a gold ingot.

"Brother, did you find the money?" Jia Xier teased Dabao.

"Xi'er is talking nonsense, let me tell you, brother is so happy because he is getting engaged." Jia Yuan also joked on the sidelines.

"Hehe..." Dabao didn't refute, just smiled with a more smug expression.

"Huh?" Seeing Dabao's appearance, Baoyu wondered. Last month, this person was still depressed that his father Jia Changfa was too authoritarian and deprived him of his freedom of marriage. Why is he about to be pressured to get engaged at this moment? , is it such a happy look?

"Brother, are you really happy?" Baoyu asked his brother when it was time for the two brothers to lie down again at night.

"Hey..." Dabao couldn't do anything about his innocent younger brother. After thinking about it, it just so happened that he might as well take this opportunity to teach him. "Little Treasure, tell me, how can you get the best result for yourself when the situation is very unfavorable?"

"Uh... Naturally, I have resisted to the end." Baoyu's thinking is still stuck in the heroic plot of the martyrs who resisted the old society and the old system!

"Cough, cough, cough..." Dabao coughed as he was stimulated by Baoyu's impassioned tone. "Then according to what you mean, should I quarrel with our father? Or just run away from home? Ignore the possible disappointment and tears of my parents?"In Dabao's view, those "everyone" who run away from home to make a revolution, or leave their homes and careers to go to school and find younger and more beautiful girls when they become famous white-eyed wolf.

"Then you can't force yourself to marry a girl you don't know, can you?" Baoyu is very insistent on this matter. In two lifetimes, he has never recognized the orders of his parents and the words of matchmakers. He is very persistent in free love. , just like he had identified sister Lin a long time ago.When I think of Sister Lin, tears immediately come down. I will never see Sister Lin again. I wonder how she is doing?

"How is it possible? For such a long time, I can do nothing?" Dabao was very proud.

"Ah? Have you met your sister-in-law?" Baoyu wiped away the tears that kept flowing in the dark, but did not delay his curiosity about the story between Dabao and Miss Wang.

"Of course! The sewing factory was the busiest before the year. Of the [-] communes in the county, we are the only factory with embroidery machines. Chinese New Year is also the peak of weddings. They all point to the embroidered quilt covers of our factory! Last month I I went to Xinli Commune with the factory leaders to recruit workers, and the girl from the Wang family also came to sign up and met... Now, I am already a worker in the factory." Every winter, the sewing factory recruits new workers, all of whom are temporary workers. After the beginning of spring, they will return to the production team.It is not so easy to become a formal worker these days.

"Ah...brother, what will you do if you don't like it?" Baoyu knew as soon as he heard that, the two of them had worked in the same factory for almost a month, seeing each other every day, there was always a chance to talk, This is definitely a hit.He wondered what would Dabao do if he didn't like it?

"That's not easy to do? As long as I talk to someone casually, can the girl still insist on me? As long as the girl says she doesn't like it, who can force it?" Dabao originally planned like this.

"Then what if the girl takes a fancy to you and doesn't care what you think?" Baoyu asked.

"Then there is a way. Hurry up and find someone you like." Dabao thought for a while and replied.

"What if you don't find someone you like for a while?" Baoyu still didn't give up.

"Then I have to pollute myself..." Normal parents would not marry their daughters to people with flawed morals, but this trick will cause more troubles in the future, and it will be difficult to find a good girl in the future.

"Then what if the girl doesn't care and insists on marrying you?" Baoyu continued to ask.

"Then you really don't have to worry, our parents will definitely not want such a daughter-in-law." Dabao laughed.

"En." Baoyu felt that he seemed to understand something.

"Little Treasure, have you ever thought about how to live a better life in this world? Have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?" Dabao began to expand.

"I have made an appointment with the second son and Zhuzi, and I have to take the exam." Baoyu replied, feeling that he is also a male student with pursuit!As for what to do after the exam?They really haven't thought about it.I only know that as long as I go to college, I will be able to live a good life in the future.

"What about after the exam? What do you want to do? How can you live in peace and stability? You should know that those who are punished now are all educated, and the more talented and learned they are, the worse they will be punished." .” Dabao knew Baoyu’s learning progress.

"I don't harm anyone, I just do things honestly, will anyone come to harm me?" Baoyu said uncertainly.

"You don't even believe this, do you?" How many of those reformers have harmed others?

"Then what should I do, brother?" Baoyu was frightened, feeling that the world of adults is really scary, if only she could stay at home forever without growing up.Although his parents beat him all the time, as long as he studies obediently, doesn't go out to mess around, and works honestly, he will be fine.

"Bao'er, no matter what happens in this world, there are rules. As long as we master this rule and understand this rule, then we can know how to use the rules and how to get the greatest benefit within the scope of the rules. .” This is Dabao’s way of doing things, and it is also the way of doing things that he learned from his parents when he was young.

"Is it like brother, you don't want to disobey your parents, you don't want to disappoint them, and you don't want to marry a girl you don't know blindly, so you will first find a chance to meet that girl. In the midst of this, I just tried to mess up this marriage, so that you won’t be left alone, right?” Baoyu thought for a while, and then summed up an example in front of her.

"Uh..." Dabao was a little embarrassed to have his calculations exposed, but he had already explained his calculations to Baoyu so much, and Baoyu was able to say this, and finally his night's work was not in vain.

"Mr. Zhang has been telling you the history for so long, has Little Treasure discovered any patterns?" Da Treasure focused on his studies, so let's not get entangled in his marriage.

"I didn't think about it before. The elder brother just finished speaking, and he has a direction." Baoyu suddenly had an inspiration, and after thinking about it, he found that the stories Zhang Qingguo told him clearly had meaning everywhere.No wonder, usually when I asked him to comment on the characters in the story, he never said it!It turned out that my vision was too small, and I only focused on those few characters, but they focused on the development law of the entire history!

The more he thought about it, the more Baoyu felt that he understood more.I was so absorbed in thinking about it for a moment that I didn't even notice when Dabao fell asleep.Brainstorming last night, I didn't sleep much, and when I woke up in the morning, I still had two big dark circles under my eyes!

"Hey, Xiaobao is so envious of big brother that he can't sleep?" Jia Yuan couldn't help laughing when he saw Baoyu's two big dark circles.

"Brother Xiaobao, it's useless for you to be envious! If you want to marry a wife, you have to wait a few years!" Xi'er also booed from the sidelines.

Baoyu didn't bother to argue, he was used to being squeezed by his sisters, the girls in the mansion used to love to tease him, and now the sisters still do the same.

Dabao and Miss Wang have been working together for more than a month, so there is no need to meet each other. On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, we will get engaged directly!

Jia's family has deep roots in Sankeshu, and it is the first priority of the production team leader's family. Jia Dabao is a promising young man who eats public rations and has a promising future. Of course, the engagement banquet must be held lively.

Jia Changfa has been busy since the autumn harvest, and he didn't stay at home for a few days. Before the engagement banquet, he only rested for two days. Of course, his work was not in vain.Although the number of dishes on the table is still eight according to the trend, the content is quite different from that of cabbage, potatoes and radishes nowadays, and half of them are "hard dishes".Not only pork, but also fish, mutton, and chicken.The relatives of the Wang family who came to the engagement banquet were full of greasy mouths.They are all lamenting that Jia's life is going well!

The engagement banquet was well organized, and Jia Changfa and his wife had a lot of face.However, in such an era, it is okay for everyone to be poor together, and whoever lives well will really become a common enemy.I haven't waited until the Chinese New Year, no, the consequences will come.

The leader of the Hongqi Village brigade changed. Jia Changfa, who was originally considered by everyone, failed. Two days before the announcement, the commune leader called the old secretary over to talk, saying that Jia Changfa had a problem with his life style and was bourgeois. Captain, leading the majority of peasant brothers to work hard.

"What's going on?" After the results were announced, Jia Changhong immediately went to the house to ask Jia Chang what the problem was.

"During Dabao's engagement, someone filed a complaint." Jia Changfa's expression was calm, without any disappointment or depression.

"At that time I said, don't make such a good banquet, you two don't listen. Dabao is also, he is usually a shrewd child, why did he become confused about this matter?" Jia Changhong was so anxious that he picked up the The cigarette basket rolled up the cigarette and smoked heavily.Little Baoniang and Jia Yuan were putting shoe soles on the kang, while Baoyu and Xi'er were playing with throwing cloth bags on the kang in the west room, listening to the movement in the outer room with their ears pricked up.

Jia Changfa just laughed, "Brother, I don't want to be the captain of this team."

"Ah? Why don't you want to be an official?" Jia Changhong didn't understand, and some people despise officials who are too big?

"The way of making money that I developed before this year, I have to run it myself for two years. As the captain, how can there be any reason to make a fortune in silence? Besides, others can't let it! Let's talk about Hu Desheng, just his way Shit, why don't you just stare at our three trees? But if there is something a little different from the other eight production teams, you have to make trouble. How can I have so much time to deal with him? It's better than ourselves Live on and off." Jia Changfa explained to his brother why he had kept a low profile for half his life and had to make such a high profile when it was the last thing to be high profile.

"If you don't become the team leader, people won't stare at us? For other production teams, one work point is [-] cents for the good ones, and only [-] cents for the low ones. Our production team costs [-] cents per work point. You act like everyone else Don’t know? Outsiders call our village a savings association in private, which means that every family in our village has savings, and their lives are more comfortable than those of landlords and riches in the past. Now there are far fewer people who secretly sue us Maybe one day someone will come down to investigate us! If you were in position, you could still block it, but if you are not the captain, others will think that our old Jia family is easy to bully, and even more so. Huh?" Jia Changhong also had his own way.

"Investigate what? We are not afraid to investigate. We are not happy that we are united, and the production efficiency is high? We do not steal or rob, and live a good life. It is also because of the high production in Luna, all in exchange for grain! It's okay, brother, don't worry, no one will find out what's wrong with us." Jia Changfa is confident about this, as for the things he went out to waste for food, if others know a little bit of rumors, that is to say, it is impossible Get evidence.Everything on the surface is bought normally with a ticket, which is reasonable and legal.

"The little captain didn't give you a flick, did he?" Jia Changhong couldn't help it. Jia Changfa said that, what else could he say, the new padded jacket he was wearing just this year was made of the cotton that Jia Changfa just reclaimed!

"That's not enough." In fact, it's more worry-free to do it, but no one in Three Trees can afford to get such things for the big guy except him, and even if he doesn't want to do it, the members of the commune can't agree.

"Hey, that's fine. Just make up your mind." Jia Changhong didn't say anything more.

The absence of Jia Changfa's captain did not affect the mood of Jia's family, what should the family do or what should they do.At the beginning, the old lady didn't understand like Jia Changhong, and later she didn't know how Jia Changfa enlightened his old lady. Anyway, within two days, the old lady became like a normal person.

Baoyu felt that the behavior of his father and brother was not very consistent with what was advertised in the daily production team meetings.But he has already been beaten to learn to be smart. He knows that he can't stand up to his parents. If he doesn't understand, he will put it in his heart and watch it for a while before talking.

Zhang Qingguo also had a bumper year with the members at [-]TREES this year.Usually in the brigade, some of their educated youths go home to visit their relatives every year. Those who don't go home just get together to eat dumplings and count it as New Year's Eve.The brigade department is not like the production team of Three Trees, where coal, cotton, fish, and meat are all given points. These educated youths exchange work points for money, and their rations are uniform corn, and at most a few catties of millet and rhubarb Rice, and other food, you have to go to the supply and marketing agency to buy it yourself.

He asked Jia Changfa for a month's leave, and took the things that were distributed to him ten days in advance, and took Jia Chang's carriage to Lianhua Town Railway Station, saying that he was going to visit relatives. As for where to go, what kind of relatives? If he didn't say anything and Jia Changfa didn't ask, no one else would know.

Baoyu reckoned that Zhang Qingguo's background was not bad, and he could tell from the history he was told and the lessons he taught the children that he was of a certain level, and such a child could not be raised in an ordinary family. .Jia Changfa also said at home that Zhang Qingguo had a bad background.At this time, the so-called bad family background means that it is not from a capitalist family, but from a senior cadre family.Nothing else.

During the Chinese New Year, Xiao Baoniang also asked Jia Dabao to go to Wang's house to bring Miss Yufeng home for the festival. Before leaving, she brought two snacks, two cans and two bottles of wine as gifts, and she also took ten yuan.

After Jia Dabao sent the girl away, Baoyu still heard Xiao Baoniang talking about it, so he had to get married quickly, otherwise all those who celebrate the New Year would have to bring their wives back for the holidays, which would be too expensive.

After the new year, Jia Changfa didn't go out anymore, and started to prepare for spring plowing. Although it was still early in April, manure, plant ash, etc. had to be put down in advance, and the damaged farm tools used in the previous year had to be repaired. The work outside is quite busy anyway.

Zhang Qingguo didn't come back until the first lunar month.The mood is very low, it is estimated that the situation of the family members is not good.

Now that the teacher is back, the children have no reason to play like crazy every day, and they have to come back to class in a proper manner.In the evening, the production team held a meeting and resumed the link of studying documents.For half-grown children like Xiang Baoyu and the others, they have to follow them to participate in the study, and there are activities such as the loyalty dance after the meeting.

Little Baoniang is also busy, not only busy with farm work, but also has to prepare for Dabao's wedding.Making quilts, preparing furniture and so on, don’t look at the few things, it’s so serious that it takes a year to prepare.Those industrial coupons for cloth tickets are not always available.

At this time, marriage still pays attention to three turns and one ring.Bicycles, watches, sewing machines, and radios. When the Wang family got engaged, it was agreed that they would accompany them to send sewing machines. Xiaobao’s grandfather, Wang, accountant, old couple, and his uncles and aunts combined to give a radio.Brother and sister Jia Aunt Jia and Jia Changhong co-authored to buy watches.The old lady took out more than half of the food stamps and cloth stamps that the old lady had saved for several years.For the rest, Bicycle Dabao said he could get it, and Jia Changfa and his wife had to prepare the rest.

A few days after the start of class, the front room, which had been vacant before, finally had a new occupant.It was none other than Lao Qin who had been beaten by Baoyu before.I don't know how Jia Changfa arranged it. Anyway, the old Qin head was sent to Sankeshutun.After he came, some inspectors came, and he raised pigs, horses and sheep at the other end of the production team's livestock pen.When there was no inspection, two of the production team had been bachelors all their lives, one hunchback, and the other was born with a bad arm.The old man and Zhang Qingguo lead a class, and he leads the big class, teaching the children mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Jia Dabao bought the bicycle for his wedding in advance after Lao Qintou arrived, and it is not too far away every day, commuting more than 40 miles back and forth.He still lived in the south room, lit candles every night, and studied late with old Qin Tou.Zhang Qingguo would also go to listen to Baoyu when he was teaching Baoyu.Baoyu also listened to it. It was like listening to the scriptures, and he couldn't understand a word.Teacher Zhang told him that he was talking about some kind of mechanical course, and he could build airplanes and rockets after he learned it.

But no matter how good you feel, there is nothing you can do if you don’t understand.

The days passed like flowing water.

This year, farmers are allowed to raise chickens, ducks, and pigs at home, and the chickens, ducks, and geese raised by the production team have been distributed to each family.The pigs are not divided, they are still raised.After the green grass sprouted in spring, Baoyu had a new job, digging vegetables with his second son and Zhuzi.Last year's old scalper already ate meat during the Chinese New Year, and there were no ducks in the production team for them to release.It's all changed to dig vegetables for their own chickens, ducks and geese.

Every morning after class, I go out to work in the afternoon.Rest is impossible to rest.

Baoyu was so tired every day, and at night after dancing and returning home, he could fall asleep lying on the kang, and he had long forgotten to think about whether his father and brother were active before, which he was still confused about.

Just like that day after day, year after year.

Soon to seven or seven years, Baoyu.

Dabao's son and daughter are both born, and Dabao has been promoted from the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of Lianhua Town to the director of industry in Taiping County.Everyone knows that he is a promising young cadre.The family also moved to the dormitory assigned by the county six months ago.

Jia Yuan is 21 and still lives at home!Because she married Zhang Qingguo.

At the beginning, Jia Dabao told his old lady to watch over him, don't let the educated youth deceive his sister.But who would have thought that the educated youth didn't lie to his sister, but his parents fell in love with her, not only didn't watch, but also secretly created opportunities for the two to get along.How could it be possible that Jia Yuan's eldest daughter, who had a love affair with Dou Chukai, could not look down on a white and clean cultural person!No, after coming and going, the two of them became so interesting.Then Jia Chang's father and the old couple showed their black and white faces together.After Zhang Qingguo showed his bad background and confessed his family background and was not rejected, the young couple happily held their wedding.Zhang Qingguo's elder sister came to the Zhang family alone, leading a five or six-year-old child, who came from the Northwest and walked for 20 days on the road.After marriage, they still lived in the wing room.There is really no difference between Zhang Qingguo and his son-in-law.

In the second year after marriage, Jia Changfa got a quota for recommending college students. With Uncle Jia and Dabao behind his back, plus he himself can make a lot of troubles, and give gifts of white rice and fine noodles that never fall every year, just for the sake of Paving the way for the children, it is not surprising that they can get a place.Zhang Qingguo voluntarily gave up this opportunity.Because his grades are not good, even if he goes to college, he only needs to go to a junior college run by the county.

Baoyu was old enough at that time, but he hadn't graduated from high school yet, so he didn't have enough education.Even though he didn't go to elementary school, he skipped one grade in junior high school, and went directly to the second grade of junior high school.But it was too late, he was only in the first year of high school.He had no choice but to give the place to the second son who was older than him.The second son studied well and had a good grade, so he went to the best university in the capital.Baoyu had no choice but to continue reading and wait for the opportunity.

However, the opportunity did not wait for him!

Wait until he graduates from high school and can go to college.

The college entrance examination has resumed.

There is no chance to recommend you to go to college. If you want to go to college, you have to take the exam yourself.

However, he is biased!

In these years, he has never learned physics or chemistry.

Mathematics level is not satisfactory.History is okay.politics……

Ha ha……

So, go home!