Reborn to Strive

After Shi Zhen bought books in Changxi City, he went to buy a big bag of peanuts, and finally got on the bus with these things.

He originally wanted to ride a tricycle to Changxi City, but it would take three or four hours to go back and forth. Riding a tricycle was more tiring than riding a bicycle. Even if he was in good health, he couldn't stand it.

The bus drove unsteadily for forty minutes, and stopped at the Anshan Town bus station.Shi Zhen got out of the car and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw his tricycle parked there not far away.

Bicycles and tricycles are considered big items at this time, and there is no monitoring these days, so they are particularly easy to be stolen. There are even some people who specialize in stealing bicycles for a living.

Shi Zhen lived in the village this month, and met a bike thief who pushed a stolen bicycle to the village to sell.

Others bought a bicycle for a few hundred yuan, and after he stole it, he sold it for a hundred yuan, and he could sell it quickly.

At this time, the bicycle will have a license plate, and a serial number will be branded on the front handlebar, so that some people who have lost their bicycles can find them back.

But reality is always different from imagination.

Car thieves don’t sell their cars locally, they will sell them farther away. At this time, the traffic is inconvenient and people don’t go around... After the bicycles stolen in Changxi City were sold to their Anshan Town, the owner of Changxi City , It is basically impossible to see your bicycle again.

Shi Zhen's tricycles are more expensive than bicycles and more likely to attract thieves.He locks it in the house every night, and he is also very careful when he goes out to park it, at least two locks.

This time, it was parked near the bus station. There are staff coming and going here, so it is not easy to be stolen, but he is still a little worried. Fortunately, the car is fine.

By the time Shi Zhen came home on his tricycle, it was getting late and it was getting dark.

Shi Zhen stopped at the door of the house, and saw Guan Jinjin bouncing past the road in front of the door.

Seeing Shi Zhen suddenly, she was obviously startled, stopped abruptly, and patted on her clothes, looking very ladylike.

"Guan Jinjin." Shi Zhen called out.

"Hey! Brother Shi Zhen." Guan Jinjin smiled at Shi Zhen.

Guan Jinjin had been calling Shi Zhen "Guan Baiyu's brother" before, but today he finally called him by his normal name.

In the local area, the general relatives would call "Brother" directly, while cousins, cousins ​​and even other people in the village who had no relatives would call "Brother So-and-so" or "Brother So-and-so".

Guan Jinjin didn't call him that before... Shi Zhen suspected that Guan Jinjin didn't know his name back then.

"I bought you a book, take it back and read it." Shi Zhen took out the book on raising chickens.

When Guan Jinjin learned that Shi Zhen had bought a book for him, he was extremely surprised, and also a little surprised.

She didn't know Shi Zhen well, so she didn't expect Shi Zhen to give her books!

Is it a romance novel?Someone in her class had a romance novel borrowed from her sister. It was so beautiful that they even copied it down!

Hey, Shi Zhen suddenly gave her a book, could it be because he likes her?

Will there be love letters in the book?

It's a pity that Shi Zhen is a bit old...

Guan Jinjin's face was flushed, and her cheeks were hot, but it was hard to tell because of her dark skin.

At this time, she saw the title of the book Shi Zhen gave her——"Guidelines for Breeding Broilers".

On the earth green back cover of this book, there is a chubby white chicken on it.

Guan Jinjin: "..."

Shi Zhen said again: "If your father can understand, you can also show him directly."

Guan Jinjin took the book and said weakly, "Thank you..."

As soon as Guan Jinjin finished saying his thanks, Shi Zhen had already entered the house pushing his tricycle.

Going home with a book in his hands, Guan Jinjin saw his parents squatting on the ground, observing a sickly chicken.

Although it hasn't been long since raising chickens, her house already smells like chicken manure, which makes her not like to stay at home.

But although she doesn't care about raising chickens, she also knows what these chickens mean to her family.

The chick is fluffy, yellow, orange, and so cute... In the past few days, Guan Jinjin feels very sad every time he sees a chick die.

If you raise them well according to the book, won't the chicks die easily?

Guan Jinjin said: "Dad, Mom, brother Shi Zhen gave me a book about raising chickens."

Guan Jinjin showed his parents the unusually rustic green paper in his hand.

Although Zhang Xiumei is illiterate, she knows the chicken: "There is also a book on raising chickens? How much does this book cost?"

Guan Jinjin really didn't think about how much the book would cost before, so she turned the book to the end and looked at the price: "Two yuan and fifty cents."

"There is also a book that teaches how to raise chickens?" Guan Guangguo was also a little curious, "Hey, the chicken on the cover of this book seems to be the same breed as our family."

Guan Guangguo was literate, but when he took the book and opened it, he was dazed by the densely packed small characters on it.

Although he has read characters, it has been useless for many years, and he is about to return it to the teacher.

But even so, he didn't back down: "Jin Jin, I can't read all the words on it, please read it to me."

Guan Guangguo borrowed most of the capital to raise chickens this time.

So he was under a lot of pressure, especially afraid that he could not support himself well and lose money.

If something happens to these chickens... what will happen to his family?

The newly bought chickens are not easy to raise. In fact, it is normal to die a few chickens, but now he sees the chickens dying, and he feels uncomfortable and can't sleep all night.

This book... It is absolutely remarkable that it can be printed into a book. He must read it carefully.

Guan Jinjin immediately opened the book: "Dad, I'll read it to you right now."

"Wait a minute," Zhang Xiumei stopped Guan Jinjin, "I'll go get some fresh ginger, Jinjin, send it to Shi Zhen first."

The so-called foreign ginger is not the same thing as ginger at all. Just because it was introduced from abroad and looks like ginger, everyone calls it foreign ginger or foreign ginger.

The output of this thing is very high, but it is not delicious to eat directly, and it is not very hungry, so they usually pickle it and eat it as pickles.

What Zhang Xiumei gave Guan Jinjin was pickled foreign ginger. The foreign ginger is like a small potato, and there will be gaps in the middle when it is dried and marinated in a jar, so Zhang Xiumei will put it together with chopped pickles pickled.

She took a large bowl and dug out a bowl of ginger mixed with pickles from the jar.

After receiving the big bowl of foreign ginger, Guan Jinjin walked towards Guan Baiyu.

When Shi Zhen arrived home, he saw Guan Jinjin passing by at a glance, and at that time, Guan Baiyu in the house also heard the movement.

Guan Baiyu went to Xinhua Bookstore to read books as usual that day.

Xinhua Bookstore opened at [-]:[-] am and closed at [-]:[-] pm. He used to stay until [-]:[-] pm, but today Shi Zhen was going to Changxi City, and asked him to help with skewers, so he went home early to work.

He skewered all the fried skewers, and made dinner with Qian Qi, Shi Xinghuo and the others, but Shi Zhen never came back...

Guan Baiyu could be said to be listening to the movement outside with his ears up.

As soon as the sound of the tricycle appeared, he put down his work and went to the door.

It's just...he arrived at the door and saw Shi Zhen talking to Guan Jinjin.

Shi Zhen also gave Guan Jinjin a book.

Guan Baiyu wanted to call brother, but his voice was stuck in his throat and he couldn't yell out.

Inexplicable emotions filled his body, making him sour... He didn't even know that this was his fault.

His brother went to Changxi City today, probably to buy some goods, but when he came back...brought books for Guan Jinjin?

His brother knows Guan Jinjin so well?

Guan Baiyu knew that Guan Jinjin was very likable.

His parents liked Guan Jinjin very much. Although his grandmother disliked Guan Jinjin as a girl, when she was sick and bedridden, she wanted to see Guan Jinjin all day long, but she didn't like him.

His brother...does he also think Guan Jinjin is cute?

"Xiao Yu?" Shi Zhen pushed the car to the door and saw Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu's eyes were wet, and he looked at him intently... Shi Zhen's heart felt hot, and he stretched out his hand to touch Guan Baiyu's head, and then quickly let go of it.

Most boys of this age don't like being touched on the head.

"Xiao Yu, help me take the things in." Shi Zhen put his hands on the

Passed the things to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu helped him carry things silently, feeling depressed—is his head not clean or his hair not smooth enough?Why did his brother stop touching after touching it?

In order to make it easier to take the bus, Shi Zhen packed all his shopping in snakeskin bags, exactly two bags.

What he gave Guan Baiyu was the bag of peanuts, and he went in with the books and radio, put them on the table, and laughed: "Xiao Yu, come and see, see what I bought for you."

Guan Baiyu was a little gloomy at first, but when he heard Shi Zhen's words, he became happy—his brother also bought him something?

That way...he wouldn't be so uncomfortable.

Shi Zhen opened the snakeskin bag and carefully took out the radio and books inside.

He was afraid of bending the corners of those books, so he specially bought some old newspapers from the bookstore to wrap them, and tied them with plastic ropes, so they were neatly bundled together.

In fact, he was able to take out the book given to Guan Jinjin so quickly, mainly because the book was worthless and bought later, so he didn't pack it, and just threw it into the snakeskin bag.

"I bought you some English textbooks, the ones with tapes, an English dictionary and a tape recorder... If you don't go to make-up classes, you can learn by yourself with the tape recorder." Shi Zhen said.

Guan Baiyu stared at the tape recorder with his mouth wide open.

This tape recorder is not cheap!It costs several hundred yuan, which is more expensive than going to an English supplementary class!

And these books... Shi Zhenquan bought a total of six English textbooks in the three years of high school, plus a large English-Chinese dictionary... Guan Baiyu took a look at the price and gasped.

These books add up to over a hundred!

"Brother, can these be refunded? When I go to high school and listen to the teacher's lectures, I will be able to learn English well... I will memorize the whole book. I..." Guan Baiyu felt that his hand The things on it are too precious.

"Practice your pronunciation with the recording to be more accurate," Shi Zhen said, "Xiaoyu, don't just think about the exam when you learn English, talk more and practice oral English... so that you can take me abroad to play in the future."

The 90s was actually the time when the people of their country were least confident.

In 94, even in Beijing and Shanghai, the average salary was only [-], but now in Hong Kong, the monthly salary of ordinary employees is [-] to [-], and the income of people in some developed countries is even higher.

In addition, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., which are not popular in China, are already very, very daily necessities in developed countries at this time.

Since the 80s, many intellectuals in China have lost their self-confidence and fallen into self-doubt because they saw the outside world. Many of them went abroad, and those who stayed in China suffered a huge impact on their thinking—their country seemed to be ruled by fell.

In recent years, more and more people from big cities in China have gone abroad, and foreign countries are as beautiful as heaven in everyone's eyes.

That's right, if you earn hundreds of dollars a month in China, you can earn tens of thousands when you go abroad. Who doesn't want to go abroad?

For people in the 90s, going abroad is a huge temptation.

Shi Zhen didn't want to go abroad.

At this time in his previous life, he only wanted to fill his stomach and had no idea how vast the outside world was. He even thought that J City, a prefecture-level city, was already the best place.

As for this life... Having seen the world 30 or [-] years later, he has full confidence in his country and knows that this period of time is full of opportunities.

He has no education and is not a smart person. In his previous life, he took advantage of this wind to change his destiny.

However, Shi Zhen felt that a child like Guan Baiyu should be full of fantasies about foreign countries.

When he has money, he is willing to take Guan Baiyu out to see the world.

But in fact Guan Baiyu was a little confused. Children in big cities may have been exposed to many things introduced from abroad at this time, but to him, foreign countries are just certain nouns that the teacher said in class.

But Shi Zhen wants to go abroad?

Guan Baiyu said firmly: "Brother, I will study hard and take you abroad in the future."

"Yeah." Shi Zhen laughed and began to teach Guan Baiyu how to use the radio.

He only taught it briefly, and let Guan Baiyu figure it out on his own: "Xiao Yu, listen to English more, and you can also listen to the news on it... Some radio stations even read stories at night, and those stories are very good."

When he was on the construction site, he liked to hold the radio and listen to martial arts novels, which was recommended by Qian Qiqi.

Occasionally, people on their construction site would get together to listen to ghost stories at night.

At that time, their entertainment activities, except listening to the radio and playing poker, were really poor...

Some of the migrant workers in the village cannot understand Mandarin and want to hear stories, so they can only chase after others and have them tell them the stories and news on the radio in dialect.

But after listening too much, even though they can't speak Mandarin, they gradually understand it.

Speaking of it... Guan Baiyu's Mandarin is actually not standard, of course his Mandarin is not necessarily standard either.

These... In the future, Guan Baiyu will go to a good high school, and if he meets a classmate and teacher who is good at Mandarin, he should be able to change it.

After Shi Zhen finished speaking, he hurried to get some food to eat.

He came back a little late today, Qian got up and went home after dinner, and Shi Xinghuo was not there... Guan Baiyu is the best, waiting for him.

While Shi Zhen was eating, Guan Jinjin came and brought a bowl of pickled ginger.

Guan Baiyu went out to pick up the bowl of ginger and put it on the table, and suddenly asked: "Brother, I seem to have seen you give Guan Jinjin a book before, what is that?"

"Oh...it's a book about raising chickens," Shi Zhen stuffed a piece of ginger into his mouth, "I happened to see it when I was buying a book for you at Xinhua Bookstore, so I just bought it."

It turned out that it was just a book on raising chickens that I bought at random!

Guan Baiyu also took a piece of black ginger and ate it with a smile.

Sea ginger itself is sweet, but this time, it seems to be particularly sweet.

Guan Baiyu likes to eat ginger?Shi Zhen glanced at Guan Baiyu who was full of joy, took two mouthfuls of rice, and hurried out to set up a stall.

Before going out, he told Guan Baiyu: "Xiao Yu, if there is any work at home, you can ask Shi Xinghuo to do it, don't get tired."

In the beginning, Shi Zhen used half of Shi Xinghuo's salary.

It was very expensive for him and Shi Xinghuo to eat and rent a house. He didn't have any money at the time, so he had to use it.

But now he was earning a lot of money, so he saved all of Shi Xinghuo's salary for Shi Xinghuo.

Shi Xinghuo helped him with some chores, he provided food and lodging for Shi Xinghuo, and bought various daily necessities for Shi Xinghuo... For Shi Xinghuo, it must be a good deal.

Compared with the rural people at this time, his family's food is really good!

After Shi Zhen left, Guan Baiyu opened the textbook for the first year of high school and began to read the text along with the radio.

There is still a lot of work to be done at home, such as boiled and peeled eggs, and then put them in the pot to marinate... He read English to the radio while working.

In fact, their teacher also plays the recordings in class, but he only plays each text once or twice, and he can't remember it at all. Now that it's better, he can play it over and over again, and read it over and over again.

Some things that were mispronounced in the past can also be corrected.

As for Shi Xinghuo, he didn't call, he likes to be alone and doesn't want to be with Shi Xinghuo.

Of course, if he could stay with Shi Zhen...then he didn't like being alone.

When Shi Zhen came home at night, he saw the lights in the house were on again.

After entering the room, Guan Baiyu immediately brought a bowl of hot egg drop soup to fill his stomach.

Eating at night is not very good, but they do physical work like this, eating too little is even worse for the body.

The egg drop soup was boiling hot, Shi Zhen dug a spoonful of cold rice with a spoon, put it in and stirred it, and finished eating it.

After eating, I put a basin of warm water in the washbasin, took off my coat and trousers, put on my underwear and went outside to get some soap to rinse, then went home, wiped it clean and changed my trousers, washed the wet trousers out to dry, and I was done.

They used to be on the construction site, and they used to wash outside like this after the hot weather-the house can't be wet, right?

After washing, Shi Zhen went back to sleep.

He had already bought an alarm clock. Before, because he was not familiar with making rice balls, he got up at four o'clock to prepare.

When things are done and the speed is accelerated, it is changed to get up at five o'clock.

Shi Xinghuo usually went to bed earlier than him, and would wake up with him in the morning. As for Guan Baiyu, every time he went to Guan Baiyu's side and there was some movement, Guan Baiyu would get up to help.

It was the same the next day.

But today is slightly different from before—Guan Baiyu started to learn English tapes while helping with the work.

Shi Xinghuo was stunned when he heard English: "What is this?"

Shi Zhendao: "This is English, the language of foreigners."

"Foreigners speak so strangely... even stranger than the people here." Shi Xinghuo muttered.

Shi Zhen smiled, watching Guan Baiyu reciting English with the tape recorder while working, feeling happy in his heart.

Shi Xinghuo only cared about simple things like eating and sleeping, and didn't care about the radio at all, but when the money came in, he yelled, "This radio looks really good!"

"Not cheap, is it? I want one too!"

"Master, you are so kind to Guan Baiyu. You even bought a radio for him to learn from."

……

When Qian Qiqi said this, Guan Baiyu's eyes lit up, and his little face was full of complacency.

He couldn't help interjecting: "My brother also bought me high school textbooks and dictionaries!"

Guan Baiyu really wanted to show off to others, but unfortunately for Qian Qiqi, receiving the textbooks was not a good thing: "Then you are miserable, you are only in the third year of junior high school, why did the master let you study high school classes?"

Guan Baiyu didn't want to talk to Qian up.

When Qian got up, he kept talking. He also suggested that when Guan Baiyu went to Xinhua Bookstore to read books, the radio could be used for them, so that when they set up a stall, they could use the radio to listen to news and stories.

Guan Baiyu looked at Shi Zhen, Shi Zhen said: "Xiao Yu, I gave you the radio, you decide."

Guan Baiyu said: "You can listen to it during the day, I'm learning English, just learn it in the morning and learn it in the evening." It's fine when the money is up, his brother's stall is quite boring, he wants to listen to it for his brother.

"Then it's a deal!" Qian Qi was very happy.

In fact, his family has a radio. Many families in the village have bought radios, and his father bought one along with him.

But the radio in his house was so big that it didn't run on batteries, so he couldn't move to town to listen to it.

Now Guan Baiyu’s new model is very convenient to carry and he can also listen to the tapes. When he got money, he thought about buying a few tapes to listen to the music: “Master, some radio stations can read martial arts novels, they are really good to listen to!”

"I saw some people in the town listening to Hong Kong songs, let's go buy a tape too?"

"Master..."

Talking a lot when it comes to money... Guan Baiyu looked at Shi Zhen, and felt that his brother was the best.