At the end of August, the heat has not completely receded, and the weather is still annoyingly hot. In the river in Dahe Village, there are countless bare-bottomed children splashing every day.

Playing in the water is fun for a while, and after returning home, no matter how clean it is, the mother will scratch her nails on her thighs, and there will be a bright white mark, and there is no need to say anything.

"Let you go down the river, let you play in the water, look at the dogs next door, stay at home all day to study, you will definitely be admitted to university in the future, and go to the city to become a city person. When the time comes, people will eat meat and you will eat chaff , don’t come back and cry with your mother, I will give you everything to study.” The mother became more and more angry, and then slapped her skinny child twice with her backhand.

The child was so beaten that he howled loudly. With tears in his eyes, he saw his own father came back, and hurriedly asked him for help. Before he could say a word, his father had already strode over: "Did this bastard go to play in the water again? You Take a break, I'll come."

Child: "... woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo!"

The women's singles turned into mixed doubles. After the fight, the child went to read a book with his hands on his buttocks, leaving the parents who had just murdered him talking in the room.

"Our family is full of warehouses. The teacher said that he is smart, but he just can't make up his mind." The mother is full of melancholy, wishing to follow her son and watch him study all day long.

"Bastard, it's just that there are less beatings." The man has a rough personality, and he just wants to be beaten if he is disobedient, and he will be honest after a few more beatings.

"It's better to be a girl. You can learn it by yourself, so there's no need for us to work hard." The woman sighed, and such a sentence came out unexpectedly.You know, she had spent a lot of effort to give birth to this son, and there were three daughters before her. Except for the youngest daughter who was negotiating marriage, the other two were all married.

"Why are you talking about this?" The man frowned, obviously not wanting to hear this topic.

"Why can't you say it?" The woman became angry, "At the beginning, Sannier's academic performance was not bad, and she even won the school award. If your mother said that it is useless for a girl to go to school, she will ask for trouble, let us Sanni's work caused her to fall ill before the exam, can Sanni fail to pass the junior high school exam?"

"You said that, it's our mother, what's wrong with letting the baby do some work, it's as if the mother deliberately made Sanni sick." The man gave his wife a look, but felt a little guilty.

I can't tell what happened at the time, but the child was really dominated at that time, and several times he couldn't finish his homework and went to school wiping his tears.As a father, he also feels uncomfortable, but that's his mother, so what can he say.

The woman, however, was resented by the past, her eyes turned red and she was about to cry: "Did you know in your heart that she is also a woman, why do you torture your own granddaughter like this? Don't be filial to her?"

The woman couldn't help sobbing as she spoke: "You don't know, the former village head had wine at the house, and I brought the baby there, saying it was a full moon celebration for the great-grandson, but in fact, it was just for Chun Yanqing, the second roommate, to go to school? We Sanni and Chunyan were classmates at the beginning, and their grades were better than hers. Now that the girl is going to college, our baby stays in the village and says she will get married. Do you think she is not suffering? I feel uncomfortable as a mother .”

The man frowned even tighter. What his wife said was the truth. He had nothing to refute, but it was already like this now. His daughter came back to work in farming after finishing elementary school. Now she is eighteen, so she just wanted to say kiss Age, even if you regret it, you can't send her back to study.

The man buried his head and didn't speak, but the woman was even angrier when she saw it, and she covered her face and cried: "My poor girl, it's useless to be a mother..."

The man sighed, and the atmosphere in the room was so low that it was hard to breathe. At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open.

The woman was startled, thinking that her mother-in-law heard that she was crying and wanted to come over to scold her, and hurriedly wiped the tears from her face, but she heard an excited cry: "Mom, I have something to tell you!"

As soon as the woman looked up, she saw that it was her own daughter, and quickly pulled her in front of her: "Damn girl, you scared me, what are you going to say?"

Sanni looked at her father who was sitting on the side, and was a little hesitant. She wanted to tell her mother first, for fear that her father would not be happy.

But the words have already been spoken, and her father must know in the end, Sanni gritted her teeth and said loudly: "Father, mother, I don't want to talk about marriage anymore, I'm going to work in the city."

"What did you say?" Niang San felt that she had heard wrong, and Father Sanni raised her head in surprise.

Sanni repeated her words again, her mother raised her hand and patted her twice, and said bitterly: "What are you talking about, work, what kind of work, where do you live and eat when you go to the city? You abduct, I see what you do?!"

Sanni quickly pressed her mother's arm, and said in a good voice: "Mother, listen to me, this is what happened. I went to Sister Hehua's house with Chunyan today. Didn't Chunyan get admitted to a school in the capital? She just wanted to Go ask Sister Hehua what the school in the capital is like."

There was a bit of envy in Sanni's words, and her parents were also fascinated. They had never seen a school in the capital.

"I... I also went along, just want to hear about the outside world." Sanni continued: "Sister Hehua said that her school is as big as half of our village, but this is not a particularly good school .A good school is Shanzi, it’s Teacher Xiao Xu, the one that Principal Xu passed the exam, it’s said that it’s several times bigger than our village.”

"My God, how many classrooms do you have to build for such a big school!" Sanniniang didn't know much, so that's all she could think of.

"It's not all classrooms." Sanni can't wait to tell her parents what she heard: "There are libraries, laboratories, dormitories, cafeterias, etc., anyway, there are everything in there, it's good. They live in all the classrooms." It’s a building, there’s everything to eat in the cafeteria, and the school pays for living expenses, so I can eat and drink enough for myself, Sister Hehua said that she doesn’t eat much, and she can save money to buy other things.”

"That's great, isn't it good to give out money just for studying?" Sanniniang was completely stunned, she thought that it was a good thing for her village school to give rewards for school supplies.

"That's right, there's a lot of them, every month, about ten yuan." The envy in Sanni's words almost overflowed: "Chunyan used to worry about living problems, but now she's doing well, with so much money, what's the matter?" It's all over."

Sanni's parents nodded in succession. Sanni had envied her before, and remembered the business: "Later, Chunyan said that it was the first time for her to travel far away, and she was in a panic, and wanted to go with Sister Hehua. Sister Hehua told her that if something happened, You can go to Teacher Xiao Xu, Chunyan’s school is very close to Teacher Xiao Xu’s school, and Sister He Hua’s school is in another area, far away, and you have to take an hour’s bus ride there.”

"Sister Hehua also said that Teacher Xiao Xu is very kind. He has helped people from the village a lot, and even gave them food during the Chinese New Year."

"Xiao Teacher Xu and Principal Xu are both good people." Sanniniang sighed, "If it weren't for them, our village wouldn't be able to produce so many promising dolls."

Sanni nodded sharply, and took the opportunity to say: "I want to go to the city. It's not that I didn't make any plans. Sister Hehua told me that Principal Xu has a friend who opened a factory, making clothes, and recruiting swift workers. Outsiders also want food and lodging. I thought, I’ll go to Principal Xu and ask him if he can recruit me. I’m quick in my hands and feet, and I’m good at sewing..."

Sanni's father and mother looked at each other, and it took a long time for Sanni's father to speak: "Isn't the factory owned by the state? A private factory? Could it be a lie to you."

Sanni was anxious, and quickly said: "No, I won't go directly to other people's factories, I will go to Principal Xu first, he will not lie to me. And Sister Hehua said that now the national policy has changed, many Private shops and factories can also be run privately, all of which are legal.”

"You're already this old, I'll talk about kissing later..."

"I want to go out and see!" Sanni's eyes were red, and she looked at her parents pleadingly: "I am eighteen, and I went to the county with my mother once when I was a child, and I have forgotten what it was like. I want to go to the capital, Look at the place where Chunyan will study in the future, look at Tian'an, and look at the Great Wall."

"Father, mother, I will work hard. I don't spend a penny of my wages. I will send them all back to you for my brother to study. Just let me go."

At the end of Sanni's speech, she was sobbing, these words were held back in her heart for a long time.She is grateful to Teacher Xiao Xu and Principal Xu, because of them, she has the opportunity to read and know so many things outside.

Although she failed to pass the exam as she wished, she still wanted to go out and have a look. She didn't want to spend her whole life in this small village, which was only half the size of an ordinary school.

The room was silent for a long time, and Sanniang suddenly said, "Go! Why should my daughter stay in the village to farm, she must go! Her father, if your mother stops you this time, don't blame me for turning against me!"

"What are you talking about?" Father Sanni sighed, "Just go."

He looked at his daughter and knew that he owed her a lot, so he said softly: "Father will give you money, you go, if Principal Xu can help you, you can stay and work, if the person can't help, don't complain, Take a look in the capital, and then come back by car, stay outside with your own temper, if something happens, we are far away, and we can't help you."

Sanni burst into tears, she always thought that her father was patriarchal, except for her younger brother, she and her two elder sisters were irrelevant.Now she finally understands that her father still loves her.

The family made up their minds, and later Sanni's father tried every means to get a few yuan from his mother, and Sanniang also brought her the more than ten yuan she had secretly saved, and borrowed a few yuan from a close friend's house to give to her. Sanni made up thirty and asked her to take it away with her.

At the end of August, it was time for Chen Ruohan, Shanzi and Chunyan to go to school.Since the country resumed the college entrance examination, there have been a total of three exams so far. Except for the educated youth from outside Dahe Village, only three of them have passed the exam in the capital's school.

Sanni and Chen Ruohan walked together. The night before they left, Sanniang carefully sewed the money into her clothes, and told Sanni to follow the others closely.In the end, she hugged her daughter and started crying again, which made Sanni feel uncomfortable in her heart.

"Mother, don't cry, I will take you to the city to enjoy the blessings in the future." Sanni made bold words, and she knew that Mei Ziniang would also go with them this time.

Because of the situation at home, Meizi only came back during the winter vacation and stayed at school during the summer vacation. She listened to Xiang Chen's advice and gave supplementary lessons to other people's children. She could earn a lot of money during the summer vacation.

This time it was Mei Ziniang who received her letter, asking her to go to the capital with Shanzi, and then go to Teacher Xiaoxu, and listen to him for everything else.

There was nothing Mei Ziniang would not listen to, she had no worries, she would do whatever her daughter asked her to do, and when she went to the capital to meet familiar people, she was not panicked at all.

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