Reborn to Strive

The high school entrance examination lasted for two days, and because of the distance, all students of Xiaqiu Junior High School who registered with the teacher in advance and paid for it could have lunch in the high school cafeteria.

Guan Baiyu didn't sign up, but Shi Zhen said he would take him home to eat and have a rest at home.

The senior high school entrance examination lasted for two days. This morning, I took the Chinese language test. At ten o'clock, the exam was over.

The teacher of Xiaqiu Junior High School was afraid that it would be too ugly for the students in their school to hand in the papers in advance one by one, so they repeatedly emphasized before the exam that they could not hand in the papers in advance, saying that they could not hand in the papers in advance even if they could not write and sleep on the table, so everyone, leave the classroom at the same time.

All the students in the school were disrupted in this exam, and there were students from other schools taking the exam with them. Guan Baiyu was not in the same exam room as Yan Jiangtao.

After handing in the test paper, he quickly ran to the door.

His brother is waiting at the door!

It's good for him to run faster so that his brother can save a few seconds!

Yan Jiangtao made up his mind to trouble Guan Baiyu during lunch.

He signed up to eat at school. If Guan Baiyu also eats at school, he can teach him a lesson at school. If Guan Baiyu goes out to eat...he can also go out to eat.

But Yan Jiangtao never expected that after he handed in the paper and left the examination room, he saw Guan Baiyu running away in a hurry.

It was the first time he knew that Guan Baiyu, who had always been slow to react, could run so fast.

Yan Jiangtao ran after him.

Then he saw Guan Baiyu running to talk to a tall and burly man, and even got on his tricycle.

Yan Jiangtao: "..." If Guan Baiyu was alone, he would dare to trouble Guan Baiyu, but if there were parents around... Yan Jiangtao could only stop and go back to eat.

Then I lost my temper because the food in this high school was not good.

Other students: "..." Braised chicken drumsticks don't taste good?Is Yan Jiangtao sick? !

Shi Zhen did not take Guan Baiyu back to the village.

The village is a little far away, and maybe someone from the village will come and ask this and that... He took Guan Baiyu to the house in the town that he had just rented.

Going back to the village from high school, it took at least 15 minutes on a tricycle, and it took less than 5 minutes to get here. They didn't need to ride a tricycle anymore, he just walked to the exam with Guan Baiyu.

These days, Shi Zhen moved the things used for setting up stalls here one after another, so there are naturally things that can be used for cooking here.

Since there was no rice cooker, Shi Zhen simply made noodles.

He cut a piece of sausage, shredded meat, shredded carrot, and shredded wild rice stem, fried them all and put them in cooked noodles. He made two servings of fried noodles, one serving for himself and Guan Baiyu.

These are the things that Guan Baiyu usually likes to eat and often eat, he dare not cook something that Guan Baiyu has never eaten before on this kind of day - if Guan Baiyu accidentally eats the wrong thing and has diarrhea, it will be terrible!

After Guan Baiyu finished eating, Shi Zhen let him sleep for a while.

Guan Baiyu couldn't fall asleep, and talked to Shi Zhen excitedly: "Brother, I think this exam is very easy. I have been doing the questions for the past two months, and it is still very useful!"

In the bookstore, he always picks questions that he doesn't know how to do, and does them in his notebook. After finishing, he checks the answers.

This greatly improved his grades.

"Of course, your foundation is still good, but you lack experience in answering questions." Shi Zhen said.

Guan Baiyu basically knows everything in the books, but it’s just like mathematics. For those who have only done example problems in books, it is too difficult to get a high score in the exam!

Guan Baiyu studied the questions for more than two months, and it is normal for his grades to improve.

After hearing what Shi Zhen said, Guan Baiyu looked forward to the next exam.

Guan Baiyu couldn't fall asleep, so he just lay down and rested for a while. When the exam was about to start in the afternoon, Shi Zhen sent him to school.

The afternoon was long and there were two exams, mathematics and English. Guan Baiyu had the same feeling as in the morning, and felt that it was much easier than before.

After the exam was over, he still ran out non-stop.

Yan Jiangtao: "Grass!"

The two-day exam is over soon.

During the exam, Guan Baiyu has been very careful, trying to avoid Yan Jiangtao.

In addition, Shi Zhen has been waiting at the door...Although he met Yan Jiangtao several times, it was always before the exam, and Yan Jiangtao couldn't do anything other than say a few words to him.

The senior high school entrance examination was finally over, Guan Baiyu felt relieved, but at the same time felt a little dazed.

He just finished his junior high school.

Many of Guan Baiyu's classmates were completely relieved after the exam and went to work with peace of mind. There were also some who hadn't found a job before, and now they are looking for a job after the exam.

A new chemical fiber factory opened nearby, which needed a lot of female workers. Many girls signed up together in the third grade of junior high school. It was more difficult for boys to find a job in the factory, but there were also some jobs that only they could do, such as moving cement to the cement factory.

However, boys who have just graduated from junior high school are generally not allowed to do this at home.

In the end, regardless of gender, there are some people who are unemployed after graduation, and the number of boys is more.

After graduating from junior high school and looking for a job, some families began to think about finding a partner for their children's engagement.

This summer vacation, most of Guan Baiyu's classmates who no longer go to school will grow up quickly under the encouragement of the people around them.

Of course, these are things for the future.

Shi Zhen set foot on the way home on the first day after Guan Baiyu finished the exam, intending to pick up his family members from the mountains.

The bus from Changxi City to the provincial capital would pass by the bus station in Anshan Town. Shi Zhen bought a ticket to go to the provincial capital first, and then bought a ticket in the provincial capital to go to the city where his hometown is located.

In the [-]s, there were especially many petty thefts, and there were many criminal cases.

A small place like Anshan Town is actually quite peaceful. In some big cities... the aborigines in big cities have always lived in their familiar circles. The environment is of course safe, but the bottom working people in big cities have to face many problems. matter.

People who come out to work these days don't have mobile phones, and they don't have close contact with their families. Some villains are more daring to attack people who are alone.

Men are better off, but it is not uncommon for women to lose contact with their families after going out to work.

Or they haven't broken contact, but they have been bullied outside... If they are not careful, they will be ineffective every day.

Let’s just talk about Guangzhou. In [-], there were still car robberies and arm-cutting incidents on the streets.

This is why Shi Zhen decided to resettle his family in Anshan Town.

Compared to other places, Anshan Town is relatively peaceful, at least there are no rampant criminal gangs.

This time when he returned home, Shi Zhen changed into the ragged clothes he wore from home. The clothes were long-sleeved and a little hot, so he rolled up his sleeves to reveal his muscular arms.

These days, he does all kinds of work every day, and the food is not bad. Even if he doesn't practice deliberately, he has grown muscles, and his skin is tanned by setting up stalls all day long.

In short, he looked a little fierce, very difficult to provoke.

Shi Zhen noticed that some people who looked at him randomly looked away quickly when they saw him.

Although Shi Zhen's appearance made those thieves afraid to do anything to him, he was still very careful and always very vigilant.

When he came to the city where his hometown was located, he took a car to the county below.It was getting late, Shi Zhen stayed in the county town for one night, followed a tractor to the town near his home the next day, and then asked someone to drive him to the village near his home.

It was already past five in the evening.

When Shi Zhen left Anshan Town, he brought some rice balls and eggs. The rice balls had already been eaten, and there were three eggs left.

He ate the remaining eggs and walked to the village.

Ten years later, when I went to their village, there was a winding road, but now I can only walk on two legs or drive a motorcycle.

But he couldn't find anyone in the town willing to take him to the village on a motorcycle.

Shi Zhen walked for more than two hours before arriving at the village where he lived since he was a child.

By this time it was already dark.

In fact, everything along the way was very unfamiliar to Shi Zhen, and he even felt that he would get lost for a while.

Of course, he didn't get lost in the end. There was only one road when he came here, and there were no forks. He came up... When he really got here, he realized that he was very familiar with this place.

That sense of familiarity is imprinted in his bones and blood, even if it has been decades, he will never forget it.

There are many lights in Anshan Town at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and he even sold fried skewers in the town at that time.

But at this time, there was no light in their village.

Shi Zhen found his own house and knocked on the door.

He always thought that Guan Baiyu's house was broken, but in fact his house was just as broken.

Their home is a one-story house with four rooms in total, all of which are small.

In this house, his parents live in one room, his three sisters live in one room, and one of the remaining two rooms is used as a warehouse, and he lives in the other room to cook and eat.

At that time, before he got up, his stepmother would come to make breakfast with him, and there was really no privacy at all.

Shi Zhen knocked on the door and heard his stepmother's voice: "Who is it?"

When Shi Zhengang was reborn, he could barely speak the dialect of his hometown.

He later settled in Changxi City, and he spoke more Changxi dialects and Mandarin, and in the last few years, he almost only spoke Mandarin.

The children of his older sister and younger sister can only speak Mandarin, and only his elder sister's children can understand and speak a few words in the dialect.

However, after chatting with Shi Xinghuo a lot these days, he remembered all his dialects.

"Aunt Zhao, it's me." Shi Zhen said.

He was eight years old when his mother died.

His mother was very kind to him, so after his father married his stepmother, he didn't change his name to "Mom", but kept calling his stepmother "Aunt Zhao".

Although he didn't call his mother, he had no hostility towards his stepmother, and most people would not be hypocritical when they couldn't get enough to eat.

His stepmother married his father, not for love or anything else, just to have a place to live and something to eat.

"Shi Zhen, you're back?" The sound of the door bolt being pulled out was accompanied by the voice of Shi Zhen's stepmother, "Dalin, Shi Zhen is back!"

Shi Zhen's father was Shi Dalin. Hearing his wife's voice, he hurriedly got up from the bed and turned on the dim light bulb at home.

Their village does not have running water, but it has electricity, but even so, many people do not install electric lights, so as not to spend electricity.

At that time, Shi Dalin considered that Shi Zhenda was getting older, and that he was about to say goodbye, and that the electric lights at home seemed to be in better condition, so he settled it.

In the past few years, Shi Dalin, no matter whether he went to work in the fields or went to the mountains to find wild goods, he would pick up any broken stones and take them home. He even cut down a few trees and put them behind his house. He built a house for Shi Zhen.

As a result, before his house was built, Shi Zhen went out to work.

After Shi Zhen left for a few months, even though he received the letter, Shi Dalin was still worried. Now that Shi Zhen was fine, he was relieved.

Shi Dalin walked around the room, and finally poured Shi Zhen a bowl of water.

Shi Zhen took the water and drank it in one gulp before looking at his father.

His father is 45 this year, not too old, but he looks very old, and he doesn't even have a few teeth in his mouth.

If he walked out like this in the last ten years, everyone would think he was in his [-]s or [-]s.

As for his stepmother Zhao Meiyun, she was also dark and skinny and looked quite old...

Zhao Meiyun looked at Shi Zhen in a daze, and asked, "Shi Zhen, have you eaten yet? Do you want me to make some for you?"

"I haven't eaten yet, thank you Aunt Zhao." Shi Zhen said, the three eggs he ate before had already been digested, and he was very hungry right now.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Meiyun immediately went to light a fire to cook.

Shi Zhen knocked on the door of Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun's house, but the noise could be heard from the room next door. When Shi Zhen turned around, he saw his step-sister Zhao Qiujuan and step-sister Zhao Dongjuan walking out.

Before Zhao Meiyun married Shi Dalin, she was married once. During that marriage, she gave birth to four daughters one after another.

Her youngest daughter, Zhao Dongjuan, is Shi Zhen's step-sister, who is a few months younger than Shi Zhen.

Zhao Dongjuan and Shi Zhen were born in the same year, when Zhao Meiyun was 31 years old.

After giving birth to Zhao Dongjuan, Zhao Meiyun got pregnant a few more times, but she couldn't get pregnant every time, and then she couldn't get pregnant directly. The husband's family in front of her was from a good family, and she wanted a son, so she drove Zhao Meiyun away. The two were younger I don't want my daughter anymore.

Zhao Meiyun's natal family was poor, so it was impossible to keep her at home, so she went around looking for a home for her, just as Shi Dalin wanted to find someone to take care of the children at home, so the two got together.

Zhao Meiyun cherishes this marriage very much. She is very kind to Shi Dalin, and she is also good to Shi Zhen and Shi Zhen's younger sister Shi Ting. Of course, she did not lose her two daughters. She has something in private, so she must be close to her daughter first. .

Both Zhao Qiujuan and Zhao Dongjuan have average looks, but they are young and not ugly.

Zhao Qiujuan doesn't like to talk. She was not the eldest daughter, but she had to become the eldest daughter who can grasp everything when she came to this family. When Shi Ting was young, she basically took care of her.

Seeing Shi Zhen now, she smiled at Shi Zhen and went to help her mother light the fire.

Zhao Dongjuan's personality is completely opposite to her sister's. She glanced at Shi Zhen with complicated eyes: "Why did you come back so soon? It's not easy to mess around outside?"

Among the three sisters, which one Shi Zhen dislikes the most...is definitely Zhao Dongjuan.

Shi Ting makes trouble, spends money, spends money, at least she sincerely treats him as a brother. During the years when Guan Baiyu was in a bad mood without him, Shi Ting was very quiet, not only did not ask him for money, but also carefully coaxed him He eats a few more mouthfuls of rice.

Later, during the holidays or his birthday, Shi Ting also thought about him, and gave him this and that, just for fear that he would be lonely.

Shi Zhen could tell that she was sincerely treating him well.

She's... she just has an empty head and can't control her shopping hands. When she sees something good, she can't help but want it.

In contrast, her children, probably because the times have changed, are full of utilitarianism.

Thinking of his own sister's virtue of believing everything others say, and of wanting to buy everything she sees online, Shi Zhen felt tired.

But his sister looks like his mother, which is really pretty, even if she is a straw bag, she is covered with a beautifully embroidered pillowcase.

Regardless of how his two brother-in-laws are, they both really like his sister, Shi Zhen is sure of this.

This kind of beautiful and coaxable silly woman is liked by most men, but it's easy not to cherish it after coaxing her.

But Zhao Dongjuan is different, this person is very scheming, and he also has a deep hostility towards him.

He came out of the mountains to work hard and finally made a fortune. His educational background is not enough to meet the evaluation standards of later generations of Phoenix men, but there are actually some similarities.

For example, he always wanted to give the villagers a hand, and he was very saving face.

Therefore, although he didn't like Zhao Dongjuan very much since he was a child, he still helped this person at first.

It's a pity that this person not only didn't appreciate it, but also said in front of his father and others that he was partial, and then he didn't bother to talk to this person.

He gave a bit of his inheritance to both the elder sister and the younger sister, but he didn't give any to this person.

However, his state of mind in his [-]s doesn't mean he would care about a little girl who is still a few months away from becoming an adult.