As we all know, gossip is human nature. Especially during the Spring Festival, when many neighbors are not busy, their desire for gossip is almost at its peak. Every day, some people come to Zhao's house with their New Year's goods to chat. It seems like they are chatting about home affairs, but in fact they are staring at Huacui.
For no other reason, the Zhao family has been active in the gossip center during this period. Hua Cui is a top figure in Qingshan Village. Not long ago, she said she would adopt a child. Now she has returned from her parents' home in the provincial capital. I don't know how many people want to come and spy on the gossip. .
Aunt Chen is one of them: "Old Li, you are lucky. Look, it's hard to find a wife like an educated youth even with a lantern!"
Li Guifang chuckled twice, barely able to suppress the raised corners of her lips, and praised each other: "I still envy you! I can see that your son-in-law is a talented person, and he works hard. He is not like our Cuicui, who has a weak body." I can’t do any heavy work if I’m weak, so if I have a high level of education, I can only write and draw.”
Overtly derogatory and secretly praising.
Hua Cui pricked up her ears and listened silently. She thought that she was not weak. Every night, she could beat Xiao Ming into begging for mercy.
Aunt Chen on the other end kept blowing rainbow farts: "Oh, it's good to be educated, educated people! We just suffer the disadvantage of being uneducated. If we are educated, we can go to the city to get an iron rice bowl in the future!"
"Really, it's so easy for you to say it!" Li Guifang smiled, but actually she couldn't help but feel proud. She wanted to get Huacui to show off, so she turned around and asked, "Cui Cui, have you finished writing that couplet?"
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Of course it’s written! Hua Cui, who was cueed, didn't panic at all. She had sunken in countless postures under Aunt Chen's gaze, shaking the couplet: "It's not well written, it's embarrassing."
Although Aunt Chen is illiterate, she can tell that Huacui has a certain skill in writing the word Huacui, and beauty is beauty.
She praised sincerely: "Oh! This word is so beautiful, as handsome as a person!"
"Not at all~" Hua Cui felt that the calligraphy lessons she took when she was a child were not in vain, and she could still show them off in another time and place, "Do you like it, Aunt Chen? If you like it, I'll write it for you too!"
It costs nothing to write the couplets on red paper, and Hua Cui is happy to share the limelight.
"Oh, that's great. I really got a lot of glory today."
"It's okay, it's a trivial matter to me."
Hua Cui accepted the compliment straightforwardly, dipped in ink, and painted a few more couplets.
Aunt Chen really liked the couplets she wrote and couldn't help but praise: "It's so good, the calligraphy is so handsome, and the person is like a fairy."
Hua Cui: "Auntie, you have such good taste."
Aunt Chen stayed and chatted with Li Guifang for a while, and then went home happily holding the couplet. She was a big talker and couldn't hide things from her mouth. Soon almost everyone in the village knew that Huacui was good at calligraphy. The couplets are so well written!
In the afternoon, several little sisters who played well with Huacui came over holding red papers. They were asked by their parents to ask Huacui to help write couplets.
In the past, people in the village had to wait for people from the team next door to write couplets. There were no people in their village who could write couplets well. Therefore, the people from the team next door were full of airs and arrogance every time they came over!
It was just a simple task, Huacui did not refuse: "Okay."
The little sisters thanked each other one after another, and finally went home satisfied with the written couplets.
This group is amazing. People in the village who wanted to post couplets heard that Hua Cuifa was kind and willing to help write couplets, so they all came over. Of course, the villagers didn't come empty-handed. They each brought new year's goods and came to pay their respects.
Xiao Cui and Niu Niu were playing in the yard hand in hand. They looked at the people who came to ask for help in writing couplets and said in a sweet voice like little adults: "Queue up, get in line!"
"Hey, okay, line up, let's line up."
The people in the village were originally wondering why such a young couple would adopt someone else's child. Now looking at Xiao Cui's innocent and romantic appearance, they all understand. What a lovely child!
If it were them, they would raise it too!
Hua Cui looked at the long line of people and felt slightly ashamed. She was afraid that the whole village would come to watch her show her calligraphy.
The limelight was indeed out, but it was a bit hard for her to imagine.
In the end, Zhao Qiming, who was returning home in the evening, stood in front of Hua Cui. He looked at the noisy people in the yard, his eyebrows tightly knitted, and he just drove away those who were still queuing up behind him and didn't take their turn. He asked and just stopped writing. Come back tomorrow.
"I won't write anymore. I won't write anymore today. I'll come back tomorrow for the rest!"
Zhao Qiming had a dark face. They didn't feel sorry for her if she wasn't their daughter-in-law. With so many people, her hands should be sore from writing.
Fortunately, the villagers were not unreasonable people. They knew that Huacui was out of kindness and helping everyone write couplets. They didn't bother much and thanked each other and left. The remaining people who didn't take their turn also made an appointment to continue tomorrow.
Hua Cui's face felt like her kidneys had been hollowed out, and she lay on the table with a sigh: "I'm so tired, I feel like my brain cells have died."
Not only did she have to write, but she also had to compile the content of the couplets herself. Of course, she also earned the title of "a talented woman" from all over the country.
Zhao Qiming felt sorry for her: "Why don't you stop writing and let them find someone else. We won't write anymore."
"That won't work!" Huacui, who was half-dead just now, sat up and turned to glare at him, "Oh, you're so annoying. Why do you care about me? If you meddle in other people's business, I'll write about it!"
"Okay, then write." Zhao Qiming had no choice but to squeeze her shoulders and coax her to let her go. Anyway, her happiness was the most important thing.
At worst, he will strictly control the number of people who come, and there will be a limit of ten couplets a day, no more.
Hua Cui then smiled and hugged Zhao Qiming's arm sideways. His body temperature was high, and holding him in winter was like holding a big stove. "Stop squeezing, just hold me. Your hands will freeze."
Zhao Qiming subconsciously held her hand. It was fake. Although it was a little cold, it was far from freezing.
Without noticing, those cold hands had already lifted up the corners of his clothes with ease, and then put them into his clothes to warm his lower abdomen.
This is Hua Cui’s favorite thing to do in winter.
Zhao Qiming was trembling all over. He didn't know whether it was because he was suddenly cold or something else. His ears were red and he slowly waited for her to warm her hands, his heart beating wildly.
After all, his worries were outside. Although the rest of the family was huddled in the house in the winter, no one would come out. But if something happened, Zhao Qiming tried his best to ignore the random hands on him, watching all directions and listening in all directions, just to be on guard against anyone suddenly. Come out.
In the middle of winter, Zhao Qiming was so angry that he almost broke into a sweat. When the sun went down and the sky was half dark, light snow began to fall in the sky.
Glittering snowflakes fell one after another. This was the first snow Huacui had seen since time travel.
The snow was not heavy, and it melted quickly when it fell on the ground, and her wish to build a snowman came to nothing.
Hua Cui lay on the window sill admiring the snowy scenery. From a distance, she heard someone calling her name outside the yard: "Cui Cui! Cui Cui!" There was also a knock on the door.
Who would come to see her so late? Hua Cui opened the door in confusion, and there was Guan Yingying outside. It was snowing lightly, and she didn't even wear a straw hat.
"Sister Yingying, why are you here so late? We have already had dinner, and you are a step late."
Guan Yingying obviously ran all the way here. She looked at Huacui, and with all kinds of emotions surging in her heart, she couldn't speak for a while and could only breathe heavily.
"Hurry up and come in first, it's still snowing." Hua Cui saw a thin layer of snowflakes above her head, some of which had turned into small water droplets. "If we wait a little longer, we will be together."
Guan Yingying was amused by her words and followed her into the house. Zhao Qiming poured her a cup of hot water. She held the cup in her hand and waited until her mood calmed down slightly before saying with a choked voice: "Cui Cui, you, you know? You need to recover." , The college entrance examination has resumed.”
Zhao Qiming paused suddenly. He turned back stiffly and looked at Guan Yingying. Hua Cui was also stunned: "Huh?"
"It's true!" Guan Yingying still wants to cry when she thinks back to the scene when she heard the news. The resumption of the college entrance examination came too fast and suddenly. Many people were stunned by the bombshell news. "It was the county leaders who came to inform them personally. ! The captain is discussing specific matters with them, and the specific time will be announced in a few days! ”
"Really. I heard it with my own ears, and I really recovered." As she spoke, tears gathered in her eyes again.
When she heard the news, the first thing she thought of was Hua Cui, so she didn't care about anything else and rushed to inform her of the good news.
Hua Cui quickly patted her shoulder: "Okay, okay, I believe you, this is a good thing!"
She had known for a long time that such a day would come, so she didn't make too much of a mistake. She was just a little surprised at first that she was informed of the resumption of the college entrance examination so early.
She couldn't remember the time when the college entrance examination was resumed in the original work, and originally thought she would have to wait another month or so.
Guan Yingying took a sip of hot water and rubbed her eyes with some embarrassment. She was about to give up and even had the idea of settling down in Qingshan Village.
Unexpectedly, I suddenly saw the dawn of hope.
She clenched her fist: "The college entrance examination! It's an opportunity! As long as we pass it, we will have the opportunity to return to the city."
Hua Cui smiled and echoed her: "Yeah, yeah!"
The college entrance examination has suddenly become a new hope in the eyes of many educated youths, and no one wants to give up this opportunity.
The two of them were only focused on happiness and excitement, and no one noticed that Zhao Qiming next to them looked increasingly stiff.
Guan Yingying sighed, excited but also a little anxious and frightened: "If I had known, I shouldn't have given up studying. What do you think I would do if I didn't know the questions in the college entrance examination? I haven't touched a textbook in several years."
"Don't worry, there is still time. Take the time to review from now on. There is still time. This is the first year that the college entrance examination will be resumed. The questions will definitely not be too difficult."
"Really? That's great!" Guan Yingying raised a smile, "Cui Cui, you must take the college entrance examination! You are so studious and a person who truly loves knowledge. If you take the college entrance examination, you will definitely get good results. ”
"...Hmm." Hua Cui touched her nose guiltily. In fact, she didn't love knowledge, she just knew the plot in advance so she jumped ahead.
"By the way, if you encounter a question you don't know, you can ask me and I will help you with your homework!"
Hua Cui regards Guan Yingying as a true friend, and of course she hopes that she can go to college. Going to college means leaving the farmland and returning to the city, which is the dream of many educated youths.
Guan Yingying nodded excitedly: "Okay!"
More than half a year is enough for Hua Cui to study the textbooks thoroughly. She is smart and has mastered all the science knowledge. The remaining content that needs to be memorized in liberal arts is enough for her to memorize it. There is still some time before the college entrance examination.
Huacui is full of confidence. The question now is between top 1 and top 2. Which school should she choose?
(End of chapter)
The author said: The college entrance examination is slowly starting
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