Chapter 283 It’s time to smoke when you get home. This time, his wife is fully prepared for cigarettes.
It turns out that this boy is actually the reform pioneer who is hanging on the propaganda wall of their county high school?
and!
Their classmate Qin Xiaolian is her cousin.
In other words, Qin Xiaolian's relative in Yanjing is her cousin, a pioneer in reform?
Watching Cheng Xuemin leave on his bicycle, followed by the two girls who came over to watch the fun, his eyes really shouldn't be too worshipful.
Two admission notices from Yenching University, plus his brother-in-law's admission notice from Yenching Normal University, were all collected by Cheng Xuemin from the bald director.
Whistling and riding his bicycle on the loess road back to the commune, Cheng Xuemin was not in a good mood.
Everything went as expected. My sister and brother-in-law finally jumped out and jumped over the dragon gate.
From now on, we don’t have to suffer on high loess slopes, facing the loess and back to the sky.
It usually takes more than an hour to get from the county to the commune by driving a tractor. It took Cheng Xuemin more than two hours by bicycle to return to their Guanzhuang commune before the sun set.
Along the way, the villagers were harvesting wheat in the fields, and it was a scene of good harvest.
I didn't go into the commune to find my uncle. Knowing this time, my uncle must be busy in the fields harvesting wheat grains, and he would definitely not be on duty in the commune.
So I went straight to my home team, Chengjiawan, and returned home as quickly as possible.
Arriving in this area, Cheng Xuemin began to meet acquaintances on the road, and they all greeted him enthusiastically as a reform pioneer and great talent who had returned from Yanjing.
"Xuemin is back!?"
"Xuemin, you're back! Are you coming back to pick up your sister and brother-in-law to go to university in Yanjing?"
"Yes! Xuemin, I heard someone from the commune came over today and said that both your sister and cousin were admitted to Yenching University, right?"
"Even your brother-in-law, Mr. Wang, was admitted to Yenching Normal University. Is it true?"
"How can this be false? Today in the commune, everyone used loudspeakers to promote and praise us."
Listening to the villagers' enthusiastic inquiries, Cheng Xuemin nodded and told them that yes, yes, his sister and brother-in-law had indeed been admitted to college.
And he brought the admission notice back from the county high school along the way.
Cheng Xuemin didn't even need to ask his uncle and brother-in-law, who were from the same village, to help carry the message back, he just said that he was back and even got the admission notice.
Look!
It won't be long before uncle Cheng Xuemin, sister and brother-in-law, will definitely rush over after hearing the news.
"Uncle, are you busy harvesting wheat?"
The avenue leading outside Chengjiawan happens to pass through the threshing floor of the village.
Before Cheng Xuemin entered the village, he saw the brigade secretary's uncle and several elders in the village busy harvesting wheat in the threshing floor.
"Huh? It's Xuemin, you're back?"
"Okay, okay, why are magpies flying over our heads one after another? My feelings are Xuemin, you are back!"
The uncle listened to the sound and looked towards the roadside, and saw that the pioneer of their brigade who had gone out was back!
I couldn't help but my eyes lit up, and I didn't want to shout overjoyed.
"I'm back! I just went out on a business trip and passed by our provincial capital. I just took a detour to come back and have a look!"
Cheng Xuemin parked his bicycle, then stepped forward to hand the cigarettes to the uncle, and then said hello to the elders who were collecting wheat grains to disperse the cigarettes.
Cheng Xuemin doesn't usually smoke much, but there is a big smoker named Xie Jin next to him, so he always carries cigarettes with him, and he can smoke with the gay men on the set when he has nothing to do.
As they were not finished, Cheng Xuemin took them back to the village. In fact, he still had a whole pair in his bag.
"I know, I know!"
"Um, I heard your sister Wen Xiu said, Xuemin, you went to the outside world to shoot that movie, right?"
"Your sister Wenxiu also said that when Xuemin finishes filming the movie and goes on business, she will come back home!"
"Your sister has already told us, I've been thinking about it for the past two days, it's time for you to come back!"
The uncle took the cigarette from Cheng Xuemin, don't be too flattering, and then nodded again and again and said.
"Congratulations to Xuemin! I heard your sister Wenxiu also said that your aunt, a college student, gave birth to a big fat boy for you?"
"Xuemin, you don't know that when your mother heard about it, the entire team was handing out wedding candies!"
Several uncles nearby also came to congratulate Cheng Xuemin.
"Yes, yes, Uncle Youli, I just turned one month old last month! I originally planned to take the two of them back for a visit during the summer vacation!"
"But the weather is too dry. I'm afraid that my mother and I won't get used to the weather and suffer from heatstroke. I want to wait until the weather gets cooler, or wait until the end of the year to come back for the Chinese New Year!"
"It's time to come back and recognize your ancestors and start the family tree!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded to his uncle and the others and explained something along the way.
"I want to come back to recognize my ancestors and start the family tree!"
"The weather is indeed very hot. It's not easy to take a full-term baby out for a long trip. You are right, Xuemin!"
"Ahem!"
The brigade secretary kept nodding his head after hearing this, choked on his cigarette as he spoke, coughed repeatedly and said: "Xuemin, your cigarette is good, your cigarette is good!"
They usually smoke dry cigarettes, but they are really not used to it when they suddenly smoke this handful of cigarettes.
"Really? I don't usually smoke, and I don't know much about this!"
"Then uncle, take it and give it to your uncle and them to scatter!"
Cheng Xuemin saw that the uncle and the others loved cigarettes, so he simply put the unfinished half of the pack into the uncle's hand and said.
"This can't be done, this can't be done. Xuemin, you can keep it here to receive guests, so it won't be wasted by you guys!"
Seeing this, the uncle tried to evade, but was forced to pass by Cheng Xuemin.
Cheng Xuemin still had it in his bag. Before he got on the train to Northwest China this time, his wife Feng Jiayou had prepared four cartons of cigarettes for Cheng Xuemin in his bag.
During the filming of Yanhe Literature and Northwest China, Cheng Xuemin's polite manners were gone.
However, only five or six packs were scattered, and two more packs were quietly given to Xie Jin on the train, while the remaining three intact items were still in the pack.
This was brought back by my daughter-in-law, Feng Jiayou, to honor her father-in-law.
Then there was the indispensable mention of Cheng Xuemin's sister, brother-in-law, and cousin who were admitted to Yenching University.
The news was also sent to the brigade by someone sent by the commune today. Although the uncle who is the brigade secretary is not the first one in the brigade to know, the good news will definitely be conveyed to him as the secretary.
Such great news, I had originally arranged for her sister or brother-in-law to go to the county to get the admission notice this afternoon.
However, the brigade was really busy with farming, and there might be heavy rain tomorrow, so we had to rush to harvest wheat grains from the fields, so we didn't go.
"Uncle, I got the admission notice for my sisters and them all!"
"Look, this is my sister's acceptance letter from Yenching University!"
"This one belongs to my cousin, who also belongs to Yenching University!"
"And this one belongs to my brother-in-law. He took the Normal University exam at Yanjing Normal University, which is also a very good and prestigious university."
When it came to the admission notices from his sister and the others, Cheng Xuemin happened to have brought them all back, so he took the notices out of his bag and showed them to his uncle and uncle. "Yenjing University!?"
"Is it the same as the exam your wife took last year?"
The uncle wiped his hands hard with his clothes until there was no trace of sweat or dirt. Then he took the admission notice with trembling hands and asked questions.
"That's right, that's right, my family was admitted to Yenching University last year!" Cheng Xuemin nodded and said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, it's really Yenching University! Okay, okay! Xuemin, you two siblings, you have jumped out of this poor mountain and loess and jumped to the dragon's gate!"
"Xuemin is back?!"
"Xuemin, you are back!"
Not long after, after hearing the news, the villagers who were farming in the fields simply tidied up and rushed back to the threshing floor. When they saw that Wenquxing from the Youben family had returned, they all came forward to say hello enthusiastically.
Cheng Xuemin nodded again and greeted everyone politely.
Gotta keep smoking!
"Be careful when you smoke, don't throw cigarette butts around, and don't light the stack of wheat!"
The brigade secretary's uncle, I feel heartbroken when I see Cheng Xuemin, my great grandson, scattering cigarettes one after another as if they were free of charge!
Seeing that a few old guys who had just started smoking had finished smoking and were still throwing cigarette butts around, and some had even lit the scattered straw, they quickly stepped forward to crush them and reminded them loudly.
"Yes, yes, the uncle is right. Uncles, please be careful. The threshing floor is full of straw. If you are not careful, it will all be eaten!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded repeatedly when he heard this. He must be more careful when smoking on the threshing floor where straw is piled everywhere.
Otherwise, Cheng Xuemin had good intentions when he dispersed the cigarettes, but don't do bad things with good intentions and set fire to the threshing floor!
The entire brigade's harvest for most of the year will be completely burned down.
"Sister-in-law Guilan, sister-in-law Guilan, your scholar-min is back! Your scholar-min has brought back all the college admission notices for your daughter and son-in-law!"
At this time, Cheng's mother Qin Guilan came back from the field and was wondering why everyone was gathered around the threshing floor.
Alone, she came closer to this side, and from afar she saw someone from the beneficial family shouting towards her.
The great scholar Xuemin is back?
Qin Guilan was overjoyed when she heard this and ran over here as fast as she could.
"Xuemin, when did you come back?"
"mom!"
Cheng Xuemin heard Aunt Ximei calling his mother, so he looked in that direction and found that it was indeed his mother coming back from farming in the fields and heading this way.
He quickly rushed over and shouted.
Then he replied to his mother and said: "Mom, I just arrived! I haven't even entered the village yet. I saw the uncle and the others at the threshing floor, and I was talking to the uncle and the others."
"Just came back!"
"Are you tired? You kid, go home and drink some water!"
"Let's go, go home with mom, go home with mom!"
Qin Guilan felt distressed when she heard that her eldest son said that he had just come back and he didn't even enter the house and didn't drink a sip of water. He quickly pulled his eldest son and walked home.
"Okay, okay!"
"Mom, where is he?"
Cheng Xuemin glanced in the direction of their fields. He didn't see anyone there, so he asked.
"After noon, you go to your brother-in-law's house to help harvest wheat!"
"It's not like you don't know that your brother-in-law, Xuemin, is a pen-handler like you and is not very efficient at farming."
"In addition, I heard that your sister and brother-in-law have both been admitted to the university in Yanjing. You are thinking that you will be back in the next two days, and you will definitely take your sister and your brother-in-law to Yanjing!"
"So I asked for leave from the team, thinking that I would collect the wheat from your brother-in-law's house first, so that your sister and brother-in-law can go to Yanjing to attend college in peace of mind."
Qin Guilan explained in a low voice to her eldest son Cheng Xuemin.
Cheng Xuemin nodded after hearing this, knowing that his father still felt sorry for his sister and brother-in-law, and they were not meant for farm work.
So every year he would take time to go to his sister's place to help with the harvest.
Of course, the land he was helping to harvest here was his brother-in-law's private land, which looked like more than two acres, which wasn't a lot.
What is private land?
Isn’t it true that the land has not been divided into households yet, and everyone earns work points collectively?
When Cheng Xuemin first came here, he actually had some misunderstandings about this, but he only understood it later!
In fact, most of the rural fields in this era were owned by collective brigades. Village members basically ate from the big pot, earned collective work points, and waited for the grain and meat to be divided according to work points at the end of the year.
But not all fields are owned by collective brigades.
As early as the founding of the People's Republic of China, farmers have always had their own private land, which is more or less three or four acres, or a few cents.
But most of them have their own land.
What is grown and harvested on the private land belongs to the farmers themselves and does not need to be confiscated by the brigade. They only need to pay agricultural taxes.
For example, Cheng Xuemin's brother-in-law's family used to be large farmers, so they had a little more private land, nearly three acres.
On the other hand, the last three generations of Cheng Xuemin's family were poor farmers, and the land they inherited was less than one acre.
Therefore, in previous years, we mainly focused on earning work from the brigade.
Today, Cheng Xuemin and his father took leave to help his brother-in-law and sister's family harvest crops. He obviously gave up his day's work and was busy helping his daughter and son-in-law harvest crops, so that they could go north to college in peace.
"It's almost getting dark, so hurry up and collect the wheat so it doesn't get rained on at night!"
Seeing that Cheng Xuemin was being dragged back by his mother, the old man who was the secretary of the brigade quickly asked the villagers who were watching the excitement to start harvesting wheat grains.
But he himself took the admission notice in his hand and went back with Cheng Xuemin, mother and son.
"Hey, Xuemin, where did you get your bicycle?"
Qin Guilan asked in surprise when she saw that she was so big and pushing a brand new bicycle back.
"Mom, I bought it for dad!" Cheng Xuemin replied.
"Why did I buy you such an expensive bicycle? Doesn't the brigade already have one?"
Qin Guilan said with concern for the money after hearing that her elder brother had bought him a new bicycle.
"Yes, Xuemin, the team already has one, why are you spending this wasted money?"
The uncle who followed also nodded and said something to Cheng Xuemin.
These words directly made Cheng Xuemin roll his eyes. The bicycle on the brigade was looked at like a baby by you.
If you don't have anything urgent to do, don't even think about riding a bicycle. They're all driving cattle carts, right?
Why, now uncle, you will be happy when the time comes!
"Actually, I didn't catch the bus back to the commune this afternoon, so I was thinking about buying a bicycle from the county supply and marketing cooperative and riding it back!"
"It happened that my dad also needed one at home, so he bought it!"
…
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)