Cannon Fodder's Rebirth

On the kang in the house, Jiang Ma carefully collected the 4000 yuan that she had just sold the house.

The family area on the mine is a row of neat bungalows of the same size, with a courtyard in front and a garden in the back. It was built collectively by mine workers in the late 70s and is also owned by the collective.Because it is too unreasonable to encourage workers to fend for themselves without paying the owed wages, the mine leader finally decided to sell the house to the workers at a discounted wage and take back the IOUs in their hands.Villagers in some nearby villages are very optimistic about the neat and bright houses in the mining area, so they took advantage of this collective relocation like a big retreat to buy houses one after another.Jiang Ma bought her own house from the mine with 4000 yuan in Baitiao, and then sold the house at the original price to the villagers in exchange for 4000 yuan in cash.

Jiangxi has lived it once and already knows. Thanks to their family’s early sale, more and more people are selling houses in the later period. People who buy houses are holding down the price with the mentality of autumn wind. Many of the same houses are sold for more than 1000 , and I should be glad that I can sell it as soon as possible without delaying moving to make a living.Not to mention that this price is unimaginable in more than ten years, even in this poorly managed mining area where the monthly basic wages of four or five hundred yuan cannot be paid, it is almost the same as picking up for nothing.But there is no way, the mining area is located in a remote place, except for some nearby villagers, no one will take a fancy to it, so many villagers with a large number of families go back to "pick up" in two or three sets.

After paying the money, the new owner immediately took the keys. Jiang Xi stayed with his parents at his uncle's house for one night, and the next day he took a car to his uncle's house 170 kilometers away.

My uncle and Jiang Xi's parents are both employees of the agricultural reclamation system, but my uncle works in the field department.If we use a tree as a metaphor, my uncle is at the trunk of the tree, while Jiang’s father and mother are at the top of the tree. When nutrients are scarce, the branches must die first. The situation is not bad.

I stayed at my uncle's house for a very special Spring Festival. Although it was a festive day, it couldn't hide the sorrow of parting.The uncle is still as in Jiangxi's memory, taking the whole family to take pictures everywhere.

The winter in the Great Northern Wilderness is never short of natural snow scenes. Looking around, the overwhelming whiteness conceals the bitterness and helplessness of a nearly 40-year-old life that has to start all over again. Traces left on the black earth...

The natural tree hangs very beautifully, and it is a veritable Yushu Qionghua. My uncle took a few more photos for Jiang Xi and his parents under the tree.The family of three will be parting soon, in the words of my uncle, bring more photos for Jiang's father and Jiang's mother to think about.

Trying to smile, to some extent also brought some expectations for a new life, but Jiang Xi is already a 27-year-old adult in his heart, and it is difficult to smile heartlessly like he did back then.

Everyone regarded his reticence as the sorrow of being separated from his parents.Only Jiang Xi knew that if he didn't follow him to City B, the pressure of high tuition fees would be reduced, and the burden on his parents would be much less, so his heart was relatively peaceful.

When there was no one around, Jiang Xi pretended to be casual and said to his mother, let's chat more with my little aunt, it's rare that my sister-in-law has such a good relationship.Jiang Xi had two uncles, so naturally he also had two aunts. Jiang Ma's relationship with the two sister-in-laws was much better than that with her elder brother, and the family relationship was extremely harmonious.The reason why he specially asked his mother to talk to his little aunt more was because Jiang Xi knew that his little aunt died of breast cancer, and the parting of his sister-in-law this time would be the farewell of his mother and his little aunt forever.

In this way, the New Year of [-] passed with the "click" of my uncle's camera.

The morning when I sent my parents to the train station by long-distance bus was at the end of February, and the temperature was still freezing.Jiang Ma put her arms around him and kept telling him, all the white mist came out when she spoke.

"Mom, don't cry, your face should be chapped." He raised his hand to wipe Jiang Ma's tears, and Jiang Xi suddenly felt that his mother was still quite young at this time, at least her skin was much more tender than that after arriving in City B. After all, there is no wind now. Those who are exposed to the sun are fighting guerrillas with urban management on the street. "You and Dad take care of your health. Go to Uncle Yang when you settle down at your aunt's house in City B. Let him help Dad find a place where he can do carpentry work and settle down first." Uncle Yang helped Dad Jiang find it later. An old neighbor who works in a furniture factory, Jiang Xi can be regarded as a "prophet" at this moment.

"Okay, don't worry about these things. Go to school hard, listen to your uncle and aunt, and write letters to your aunt's house. Remember the address?"

"Well, I've written it all down." Jiangxi's grandfather had married two wives before liberation, and Jiangxi's biological grandmother was the continuation of his grandfather after his eldest wife died, and was more than 20 years younger than his grandfather.Master Jiang has nine children in total, Father Jiang is the youngest. The age difference between the brothers and sisters is quite large, and the reason for the distance is that they are also relatively alienated. In addition, the old man has passed away long ago, so the brothers and sisters do not move around much.Jiangxi's aunt in City B is Jiang's father's fourth sister, who is 19 years older than Jiang's father, and his uncle is even older. Had a good time.

In terms of relatives, this relationship can be considered quite close, after all, they are brothers and sisters of their first-milk compatriots.However, there is a Chinese saying that goes, "If you are poor, no one cares about you in the busy city, but if you are rich, you will have distant relatives in the mountains." What is common in this world is icing on the cake, but what is rare is sending charcoal in a timely manner.Jiang's father and Jiang's mother were originally thin-skinned and afraid of causing trouble to others, and no matter how hard it was, they would bear it by themselves.Compared with his aunts and uncles, Jiangxi's family background is very average, but his grandma, who was paralyzed from [-] until her death in [-], was taken care of by Jiang's father and Jiang's mother, who lived frugally.This time, Jiang Xi knew very well that after his parents went there, he had to rely on himself for everything.

"Mom, you take this, I don't need it." Behind his back, Jiang Xi stuffed the 500 yuan money in his hand into Jiang's mother's hand, and grabbed her mother's hand tightly to hold the money.

"Silly boy, your parents have traveled so far, and you live at a relative's house, can you leave some money for emergency?" Jiang Ma found out that it was money, and wanted to stuff it back.

"You said that the poor family has a rich road. It's such a long road. It doesn't hurt to take more self-defense." Having suffered with his parents once, Jiang Xi will never forget it even after being reborn ten times.No matter how inconvenient it is to be at a relative's house, it will not be like the first year in city B where the parents do what to pay for and the whole family eats steamed buns dipped in soy sauce.What's more, his mother's natal family treated him very well, and his uncle's family was not bad, and he was treated as his own son since he was a child, so he definitely can't lose him.

"No, you are so old, don't say it's inconvenient to buy a notebook and a pen if you don't have money, even if you buy a pair of underpants and a pair of socks, you have to spend money!"

"Didn't I keep a hundred? Besides, I will figure out a way." After all, I'm 27, right?Jiang Xi felt that even if he couldn't support himself, he should be able to find a way to earn some pocket money, right?What's more, this was the era when Dollhead's little snowman ice cream was only sold for [-] cents a piece.

"Nonsense!" Hearing what her son said, Jiang's mother immediately put on a serious face: "Xiaoxi, mother can tell you, just tell your uncle and aunt where the money is properly spent, and they will give it to you first, and then mother will return it to you." But dare not steal and rob in crooked ways, your father and I are only a son like you, and you are the only one who goes out to run, if you don't live up to it, what are your father and I doing?"

Knowing that his mother was thinking wrong, Jiang Xi kept his mouth shut, but he didn't give in on the money matter. In the end, Jiang Ma couldn't compete with him, and finally took three hundred.

"Dad, stop smoking, it's bad for your health."

Jiang's father was not good at talking, he just hugged his son before starting the car, there were some tears in the corners of his eyes, which were wiped away quickly when he pretended to turn his back and cough.

Looking at the exhaust gas of the bus mixed with the morning mist and could no longer see clearly, Jiang Xi's hand was held by his uncle, who led him home with his relatives.

When they walked to the busiest shopping street in the field, the eldest aunt deliberately sent the others away and took him directly into the store.

"Auntie, I don't want it, I have clothes." The auntie showed him a thick denim children's clothing, which is very windy and warm in this place, but it is difficult for Jiangxi to accept this kind of attitude calmly with his 27-year-old mentality. Love from elders.Just like when he caught a cold two days ago, his eldest cousin who graduated from nursing school took off his pants and gave him an injection, and his second cousin stood by the kang and told him stories, which made him feel ashamed.After all, he will never forget that his elder sisters who are 11 years older and six years older than him are not as old as his current psychological age.

But there is no way, the eldest sister lives in the unit for internship, and the second sister lives in the school of accounting and finance in a technical secondary school. Jiang Xi has become the only child of the uncle's family, and it is a fact that he is cared for.As for himself, he just wants to graduate from elementary school quickly so that he can live in middle school, so as to reduce the troubles for his family.

On March [-]st, Changbu Elementary School officially started. Because he was a transfer student who was about to graduate, Jiang Xi was only assigned to Class [-], Grade [-], which was a slow class.

Unexpectedly, I found an old classmate from the coal mining elementary school in the class. Her parents were in the same situation as his parents. They also went out to work and put her in foster care with relatives.But that was a girl, Jiangxi basically didn't talk to girls throughout his school days, unless it was necessary, such as hosting a party with the help of a girl.It's just that the girl felt very kind when she saw him, so she took the initiative to come and talk to him.Jiang Xi could understand the mentality of "meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country", so he tried his best to respond.However, the "Weird Shumai" who is nearly [-] years old can talk too little with an eleven or twelve-year-old "Little Lolita". He often suffers from headaches because he is invited to participate in games such as throwing sandbags and jumping rubber bands.

In primary schools, most of the girls have better academic performance, and more girls are assigned to the fast class. Because things are rare and expensive, girls are relatively more popular in the slow class.The transfer student like him, Zhou Xiaoyou, is an authentic little beauty, and he is much more popular than him in the class. Because he gets closer to him, he has become the public enemy of the boys in the class without knowing it. It is logical to be isolated.

But this is not a bad thing for Jiang Xi, if possible, he only hopes to have the opportunity to meet Zhong Yifan, and it is better not to disturb others.

It's a pity that he didn't get to know Zhong Yifan well enough to get to the bottom of his growth history, so apart from knowing that Zhong Yifan is a fellow villager who is two or three years older than himself, he doesn't know anything about it.

This kind of peaceful life soon continued until the elementary school graduation. There were nine classes in the sixth grade, and it was no surprise that Jiang Xi was admitted to Changbu Middle School with the first grade in the grade.This not only made the parents who were struggling to make a living in City B elated, but also made their voices louder when they chatted with the neighbors with their uncles and aunts.

The eldest sister sold him a new schoolbag when he came back from his internship, and the second sister gave him a new pen. Jiangxi went to junior high school amidst applause, and entered the first (first) class without any suspense. Only students with excellent grades can get it The advanced seed class.

Because of his entrance grades, he was designated as the class monitor as soon as the new semester started. Coincidentally, that old elementary school classmate Zhou Xiaoyou also entered the seed class and sat in front of him.

The teaching conditions here are much better than those in Jiangxi Elementary School. There are no deskmates anymore, and they are all alone.However, the children's bad habit of scribbling on their desks is similar to that of elementary school students. On the first day of school, Jiang Xi actually saw the name of the person he was looking for on his desk.

On the lower right corner of the table, six words were engraved crookedly: Zhong Yifan, I love you.

No matter how childish the "I love you" said by a teenage child, those three are really Jiangxi's own heartfelt voice!It was the first time since he was reborn that he was so excited. This shows that in the huge land reclamation system, if this Zhong Yifan does not have the same name and surname, then he is really destined to be in the same school as Zhong Yifan!