Chapter 52 Why help?

Author: Riding an ant to the market

Chapter 52 Why help?

The predecessors of Yu Li and Han Xiaokang.

We have been classmates since our senior elementary school days.

In this era, grades 1 to 4 of elementary school were called "junior elementary schools"; upper elementary schools were grades 5 and 6.

It’s good for the children in the production team to finish elementary school, but only half of them can advance to upper elementary school.

Especially in production teams located in remote areas, few children will go to the district to complete high-level primary school.

There are very few people who can go to junior high school.

Generally speaking, people with a junior high school diploma have a great advantage in joining the army or recruiting in the district.

As for those who can go to high school, they are already very rare. If he can be admitted to a senior vocational school, he will actually be equivalent to a quasi-employee when he is in school.

Those vocational high school students with excellent academic performance will not only be exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees, but will also receive distribution after graduation.

As for Yu Li, she and her younger brother Yu Qiang, both of them persisted in studying even though their families were extremely poor.

Until the original versions of Yu Li and Han Xiaokang finished high school together.

Wait until she enters the first grade of junior high school.

Yu Li's family couldn't bear it anymore, so they had to drop out of school and go home to help with the household chores.

It is very difficult for these two siblings to go to school.

Yu Li, Yu Qiang and the others always put their shoes in their schoolbags when they go to school in the morning, no matter it is windy or rainy or the sky is clear.

The two siblings would put their tattered cloth shoes in their schoolbags, and then walk about 10 miles barefoot to go to the "Zhenxing Senior Elementary School" on the district street.

Only when they arrive at the school gate will they find a pond to wash their feet.

Then he took out his cloth shoes and put them on.

Not only that,

When these two siblings set out to go to school, they never bring food with them.

Her family can't even afford an enamel pot for steaming rice.

They would just hold a homemade bamboo tube and look for it on their way to school.

Sometimes, when the production team members along the way have finished digging the sweet potatoes, some of them are more or less rotten.

Or the sweet potatoes that didn’t grow in the soil and grew crookedly, the kind that were left out.

The two siblings just relied on the little sprouts coming out of the sweet potatoes, and then dug the soil along the way to find the sweet potatoes.

If you find sweet potatoes.

At noon, when they are in school, they can spend 1 cent to ask the cafeteria to help them steam it.

In this way, they would have lunch.

If you're unlucky and don't find any rotten sweet potatoes on your way to school.

The two siblings, Yu Li, would be hungry and study all day long.

If they really can't bear it any longer, they will go to the water tank in the cafeteria, scoop out a bamboo bucket of water, and drink cold water to satisfy their hunger.

But even in such a difficult environment, the two siblings gritted their teeth and persevered.

What's more important is: according to Han Xiaokang's inherited memories, on several occasions, Yu Li even gave half of the sweet potato she had worked so hard to find to herself, who was also full and hungry at the time!

This kind of love is a huge debt!

If a person has 1 yuan in his pocket, take out 2 cents to help others.

That is generous and kind.

But what if he only had 2 cents of life-saving money in his pocket, but all of it was given to others?

This is a state.

kind person,

You should be respected and get good rewards. Only then will the world become better and better.

This is why I was so reckless just now and intervened in the dispute between Wang Po and Yu Li.

no way.

My original self owed someone else's friendship, so I can't just say that now that I've changed my appearance, I won't accept the old debt, right?

If you haven’t seen it, then it’s just that you haven’t met it. There is no need to deliberately repay the friendship owed over the years.

But since the bullying of Yu Li's family is happening around him, he can't pretend not to have seen it.

On behalf of Yu Li and her two siblings, I temporarily put the "foreign hottie" in charge of Aunt Wang and the "hottie" in the production team under control.

It was completely dark at this time.

Fortunately, the Jade Rabbit is rising in the east, and the frogs are croaking.

Even if you walk in the dark, it doesn't matter.

So Han Xiaokang planned to walk back to his home at night, and it would take another 2 hours to get home.

It's just that Yu Li refuses to obey, and she insists on keeping Han Xiaokang at home as a guest.

Think about it.

Han Xiaokang thought it would be fine to stay: if he carried so many prey back, the custody would frighten his wife, who would be worried about gain and loss.

Han Zhang has never seen so much money in many years.

Now if she sees her son suddenly catching so many poisonous snakes and scorpions.

Keeping it scares her to the point of being helpless!

Exciting.

But if you put the prey in the cabinet and don't take it out.

In Han Zhang's heart, she might be disappointed again and feel a little bit lost.

——The house at home is about to collapse. Is it okay to not be in a hurry?

Therefore, Mrs. Han and Zhang must have been frightened and sad.

Why.

It's difficult both ways.

However, if you choose to stay.

Then early tomorrow morning,

You can just start from here and go to the area to sell all the prey for money.

When the time comes, it's time to buy something for my wife, and the initiative is completely in my own hands.

Anyway, she couldn't figure out how much money she had in her hand. Hehe.

Yu Li’s family is not big,

There are only 3 mud houses, and 2 side rooms made of bamboo fences and seed mud.

One of them is a pigsty and toilet, and the other is a kitchen.

The production team is not allowed to raise pigs, so now her pigsty is filled with firewood and farm tools.

The meal we eat in the evening is mixed rice made of 6 parts of corn flour, 3 parts of rice, and 1 part of red sweet potato starch.

The taste is very bad, with a smell of rotten sweet potatoes. This kind of rice not only fills your mouth, but also hurts your throat.

The dishes are boiled "Xueli Hong", which is called "Tianxiangqian" in Bashu, and boiled pumpkin vine tender tips.

There wasn't a drop of fat in these two bowls of food.

In addition, I steamed a small bowl of "Doubanjiang" made by Yu Li's family.

This kind of bean paste is not the red oil bean paste that is common in later generations.

Instead, dried broad beans are fermented, and after the mold develops, a large amount of salt is added, and then put into a jar for retting.

There is a lot of blackened soup in this homemade bean paste, which is equivalent to soy sauce.

As for the broad bean wedges inside, you can add some lard and steam them into vegetables. Unfortunately, Yu Li’s family doesn’t have lard.

Pure steamed watercress,

There is no other feeling except the word "salty" in your mouth.

Perhaps because she was a guest, Yu Li specially beat 2 eggs, mixed them with rice soup and steamed them.

Yu Li was still taking half of the steamed eggs to the back room to feed her paralyzed mother in bed.
To be continued...