Chapter 221 People eliminated by society
Xia Chan nodded and returned to the room with the hot water bottle. When she and Xiao Tiantian finished washing and came to the kitchen to prepare for breakfast, they saw that the sheets had been washed, wrung out and placed in a wooden basin. Cicada felt embarrassed for a moment. She carefully looked at the hands of Xiao Yunfan and Jin Pengyuan, and she couldn't tell which person was kind enough to wash them for her.
Xia Chan blushed with embarrassment and quickly took the sheets back to the house and put them on the bamboo poles. There was a kang in the house and the temperature was high. The sheets dried like this in a few days. If they were placed in the yard, they would not dry in the sun at all. Will freeze.
When Xia Bin and Jin Pengfei came back, everyone had breakfast together.
Breakfast is hot rice porridge, cornmeal pancakes, and pickled cucumbers in summer.
"Xia Chan, do you have another brother?" Xiao Yunfan asked curiously when he saw that the brother who was with Xia Chan in the cave was never seen.
"My second brother went into the mountains to hunt, and it will be some time before he comes back." Xia Chan scooped up a large spoonful of rice porridge and stuffed it into her mouth. It was steaming and filled with a rich aroma.
After breakfast, Xia Chan brought back three packs of cut pig's trotters from the ice jar. When they were packed before, one pack contained one pig's trotters, so three packs equaled three pig's trotters, which should be enough for the six of them. .
After that, he soaked a few kilograms of soybeans and told Jin Pengyuan that if they didn't come back at noon, they would just make soybean stewed pig's trotters. After that, Xia Chan went out with Xia Bin to hand over the pigs. Xia Chan went to the brigade leader's house to drive the tractor first. , wait until the task needs to be handed in The pig man carried all the pigs onto the tractor, and Xia Chan drove off on the tractor. She drove the tractor to the foot of the mountain, and waited for Xia Bin and Jin Pengfei to drive the pigs over, put them on the tractor, and let Jin Pengfei go home. She and Xia Bin went to hand in the task pig.
After everyone turned in the task pigs, they all received some compensation, such as cloth stamps, candy stamps, food stamps... Everyone's items were different. If necessary, you could exchange them with each other. Anyway, the pigs who turned in the tasks had no money.
However, after raising mission pigs, you can eat meat openly, which is quite cost-effective.
Anyway, Xia Chan is willing to continue raising it.
By the time everyone returned to the village after completing their tasks, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. By the time they got home, it was past three o'clock in the afternoon. It gets dark early in the winter, and it gets completely dark at four or five o'clock, so it was already dark by this time. It's almost evening.
Xiao Yunfan immediately served a bowl of hot soybean stewed pig's trotter soup to the two of them. The pig's trotters in Xia Chan's bowl had the tip of the hoof, without any trace of fat.
Xia Chan didn't expect Xiao Yunfan to be so polite. She smiled and hurriedly sat down to eat. She had been busy all day. She was really hungry and had no time to go to a state-owned restaurant to eat, so she had to come back hungry. .
Moreover, there are many people who turned in the task pig. She can't eat quietly and let everyone stare at her, so the end result is that she is hungry with everyone, but after turning in the task pig, nothing will happen next. , you can stay at home safely.
"Where's Tiantian?" There was no sound from Xiao Tiantian at home. Xia Chan asked curiously. Any place with Xiao Tiantian would be lively, but the house was very quiet.
"She went back to the dormitory." Xiao Yunfan said.
It's no wonder that the brothers seem to be in a particularly good mood today. It turns out that Xiao Tiantian has returned to the dormitory, so they can go back to live tonight instead of staying at Xia Qi's house.
Although there was no family leave for the educated youth in the first year when they went to the countryside, Yuan Bingbing's home was so close that she could go back every now and then, and no one else could say anything to her. After all, everyone also went to the town every now and then to the county seat, so why couldn't she? How about going to the county town every now and then? It's just that her home happens to be in the county seat. It's not impossible to go home and improve the food, take a good bath and tidy up. After all, you can only take a bath in a basin in the dormitory, and you have to do it quickly, otherwise you will really freeze yourself when the water gets cold.
Xia Chan and Xia Bin had a late lunch, which could be regarded as dinner, so they didn't need to eat dinner. However, there was still soybean stewed pig's trotters in the pot, so they didn't need to bother cooking in the evening and just made some staple food. That's it.
While they were preparing dinner, Xia Chan brought hot water to the house to wash up and soak her feet, then got on the kang to rest. She sat at the kang table, drinking hot tea and reading a book.
After the brothers finished cleaning up, they all went back to their rooms.
Xia Chan raised her head and asked, "Did Comrade Xiao Yunfan go over to rest?"
Jin Pengyuan nodded.
"Then let's come to class! You can delay other things, but you can't delay class. After all, we have to go to school for the exam in a few months. I hope that brothers can pass smoothly so that we can enter the next stage of study." Cicada turned around and took the textbook, turned to the content that was going to be taught today, and said to everyone.
Xia Bin exclaimed, "Do we have to continue class later?"
"Otherwise?" Xia Chan rolled her eyes, "I graduated from high school, and you all graduated from junior high school. Do you think that can be justified? You all have to follow me and work hard to learn high school knowledge, so that in the future when we go to the city Only in this way can we gain a firm foothold, understand? ”
There are still more than three years before she can take the college entrance examination. She has used more than three years to review by herself and led her brothers to complete all the high school courses, so she should be able to do so in time.
If her brothers don't study, she will be the only one who goes to college in the future.
"Now the academic requirement for recruiting workers in the city is to graduate from junior high school. In the future, as more and more people graduate from junior high school, the academic requirements will be raised. They have to graduate from high school, and then graduate from college. Do you guys want to be eliminated by society forever? Someone?" Xia Chan looked at her brothers and raised her eyebrows.
The three brothers all shook their heads quickly. Of course they knew that if you want to find a job in the city, you have academic requirements.
"And I'm not tired from studying. I just study for one to two hours every night and study in winter. Otherwise, how boring would it be to sit at home all day in winter?" Xia Chan said with a smile, "Don't talk nonsense. , then class begins. If you don’t want to be too far apart from me in the future, please give me a more correct attitude. You study and study not for me, but for your future family. If you want your wife and children to live a happy life, you can do it yourself. You have to have real ability.”
Xia Chan often encourages her brothers to increase their enthusiasm for learning and then study more seriously.
Although they can't see the benefits of learning now, when the benefits of learning become apparent in the future, they will understand Xia Chan's good intentions for them.
After breakfast the next morning, the brothers went up the mountain to cut firewood and look for wild products. Xiao Yunfan rented at their house, so they stopped hunting, fearing that Xiao Yunfan would notice the clues. After all, he was a soldier and had keen insight.