Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

After listening to Jia Zhang's analysis, Qin Huairu's insistence on letting her two daughters continue to go to school began to waver.

The sentence that moved Qin Huairu the most was: When Xiaodang and Kuihua go to the countryside in the future, she will have to use her own pocket money to support them, otherwise the two girls will starve to death in the countryside.

Qin Huairu knew that what Jia Zhang said was not an exaggeration.

Although Banggeng did not go to the countryside, many young people from the surrounding courtyards did so as educated youth.

I thought that after arriving in the countryside I could earn work points in exchange for food to support myself, but the actual situation was quite different.

The young people who went to the countryside were only in their teens and had never done farm work. Even if they worked hard in the countryside, they could only earn the minimum work points.

The local people could only earn full work points to keep their families from going hungry, and the young people who went to the countryside could only get half of their work points. At a time when they were in the prime of their life, they were eating and growing, and the little food they could get from their work points was barely enough to fill their stomachs.

In order to prevent their children from going hungry, almost every household sent money and food coupons to the educated youth who went to the countryside to prevent them from having accidents due to hunger in the countryside.

Xiaodang and Kuihua are both girls, and have never done farm work. When they go to the countryside in the future, they will really need me, their mother, to send them money and food coupons.

Then all the private money that I had saved with great difficulty would be gone.

Perhaps because of the saying "Birds of a feather flock together", Xiaodang and Kuihua are both very selfish and extremely sensitive about money.

They heard that they could keep part of the money they earned from making matchboxes at home. They also heard at school how hard life was in the countryside and that they could not move a single step without money and tickets.

Especially girls.

If you don’t have family support and want to survive in the countryside, the only option is to marry a local.

Xiaodang and Kuihua think that they are superior city people and they will definitely marry city people in the future. They look down on country people from the bottom of their hearts and they are unwilling to marry country people just because they cannot survive while they are in the countryside.

They looked at each other and made a decision.

At the same time, Lao Zhang and Qin Huairu said: "Mom..."

“We think grandma is right.”

"Whether you study or not, you will end up in the countryside in the future. Instead of wasting time in school, you might as well go home and make money by making matchboxes."

"Besides, schools are in such a mess right now, and you can't learn anything at school."

Although Qin Huairu was persuaded by Jia Zhang to keep her two daughters at home to earn money, as a mother, it was not easy for her to make decisions for them directly.

Seeing that the two girls took the initiative to not go to school, she was very happy, but she still pretended to be concerned and asked back: "Have you thought about it..."

“Once you drop out of school, it’s hard to go back to school.”

Xiaodang and Kuihua nodded: "We have thought about it."

"Stay home and earn some money. When you move to the countryside, you won't have to marry a local."

Qin Huairu nodded: "Okay..."

"Since you two have made up your mind, I will go to school with you tomorrow to withdraw from school. We will not read this book anymore."

If Wang Dong were here, he would definitely exclaim in surprise. He didn't expect that after he traveled through time, the life trajectories of Xiaodang and Kuihua would also be changed.

In the original play.

Thanks to He Yuzhu, the bloodsucker, and the help of Yi Zhonghai, the eighth-level fitter, the Jia family has never been short of money. Even when Xiaodang and Kuihua went to the countryside as educated youth, He Yuzhu often sent them money and tickets.

So Xiaodang and Kuihua never dropped out of school. After the college entrance examination was resumed, they hoped that someone would be admitted to university.

Now, the two have dropped out of school before even entering junior high school. In a few years, they will have to go to the countryside to become educated youth. When the college entrance examination is resumed in the future, no matter how capable they are, it will be impossible for them to be admitted to university with only primary school education.

Of course, these are all later stories. …………

While a few people were talking, the footsteps of Bang Geng and Yi Zhonghai were finally heard at the door.

Jia Zhang hurried out to greet him, fearing that her beloved grandson might get into an accident if he got off work too late.

As a result, when I went out, I saw Banggeng's tired figure, with a frown, a pale face, and no energy at all.

Yi Zhonghai next to him also looked tired, frowned, and looked unhappy.

Jia Zhang was frightened and rushed to Bang Geng, asking anxiously.

"Good grandson..."

"What's wrong with you? Why did you come back so late today and look like this?"

After saying this, without waiting for Banggeng to explain, he turned his gaze to Yi Zhonghai and asked in a questioning tone: "Old Yi..."

"I leave my dear grandson to you, and this is how you take care of him."

"How come you become like this after just one day of not seeing each other? How can you be a stepfather?"

Qin Huairu, who was sitting at the dinner table, also heard Jia Zhang's exclamation. She thought something had happened to Banggeng, so she quickly ran out with Xiaodang and Kuihua.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai standing at the door with a tired face, pale and without any energy, Qin Huairu thought that something big had happened to the two of them on their way home from get off work, and hurried to meet him.

"Lao Yi... Bang Geng, how did you get into this state? Did something happen?"

"Xiaodang..."

"What are you still doing here? Hurry up and help your brother in..."

After saying that, he took Yi Zhonghai's arm and walked towards home.

Sitting on the chairs and looking at the food on the table, the two people, who had been growling with hunger for a long time, suddenly turned into two hungry wolves.

He picked up the steamed bun made of two grains of flour and the bowl and chopsticks and started stuffing the food into his mouth, wolfing it down as if he hadn't eaten for days, not even bothering Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi who were stunned.

Soon, the big pot of pork stewed with potatoes was eaten up by the two of them. Jia Zhang looked very painful, but did not say anything.

Yi Zhonghai and Banggeng are the main earners in the family, so food and drinks must be given to them first.

Even if she herself was hungry, she couldn't let Banggeng and Yi Zhonghai go hungry.

Otherwise, if I make them both angry, they will ignore me or send me back to the countryside to earn work points to support myself, which would be too tragic.

Compared with earning work points in the countryside, eating less meat is obviously nothing.

The two of them ate 50% more steamed buns than usual before stopping. Their pale faces became rosy and the tired expressions on their faces dissipated a lot. However, the tense expression on Qin Huairu's face did not relax. Instead, there was a hint of worry on her face.

The two people were fine when they went out in the morning, but became like this after a day. Something must have happened in between that they didn't know about.

I quickly asked: "Lao Yi... Bang Geng..."

"What's wrong with you? Why are you so hungry? Didn't you have lunch in the canteen of the steel mill?"

"I feel like you guys are so tired. I remember there wasn't much hard work in the locksmith shop. Why do you feel like you're more tired than Liu Zhonghai in the backyard who's been swinging a big hammer in the forging shop all day?"

"Did something happen?"

(End of this chapter)