Chapter 408: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5
Chapter 408: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5
It was dark when we got home.
When my parents got home from get off work, dinner was ready and they were waiting for Gu Li to come back.
Gu Xilin was sitting on a small stool outside the house smoking a cigarette, and the clanging sound of bicycles could be heard from the small dam.
"Is Xiaoli back?"
"It's me, Dad!" Gu Li, who was exhausted from riding her bike, shouted, causing the dog next door to bark.
Comrade Zhang Yuhua came back from the house and said, "Oh, I was worried that you would not be able to find your way back after following your father."
Gu Li had already stepped on the accelerator and reached the door of her house. "That's exactly what you want. You don't have to pay for my studies anymore."
Gu Li was slapped on the back and almost threw her bicycle away.
"If I had to throw you away, I should have done it when you were just born. It would be so unfair for me to throw you away after working so hard to raise you to this age!"
Gu Li:-----
"I'm glad you're back. It's so late now. Were you delayed on the way?"
Gu Li parked the bike, took off her schoolbag and walked towards the kitchen. "No, I inherited my ability to recognize roads from my dad, not my mom. It's just that my butt hurts if I ride too fast."
Gu Xilin took the last puff of his cigarette, and the sparks burned the cigarette holder. He threw it on the ground and stomped on it, "You must be hungry. Come and eat. Your mother made braised pork today!"
Comrade Zhang Yuhua rushed ahead of the father and daughter, cursing and going to serve porridge and dishes.
When Gu Yubo came to Gu Li's house, Gu Li was sitting at the square table in the main room doing homework. Gu Yubo curiously sat down next to Gu Li and picked up a physics book to read.
"There's so much homework in high school. It's rare to see you sit down and do your homework so early in the morning!"
Indeed, in the past, Gu Li had to wait until Sunday afternoon, when there was no alternative but to finish her homework before the lights were turned on.
It was different now, but she didn't go into detail.
"How did you come?"
"Why can't I come? I have a weekend off too!" Gu Yubo flipped through Gu Li's physics notes and put them down silently. "We don't have classes on Friday afternoon. As soon as the morning class ended, I took the bus back."
"You are so lucky. It takes me more than two hours to ride my bike home. My butt is going to get ripped off. Otherwise, I would have come to play with you a long time ago."
"How could your parents let you ride your bike to school alone? The paths are just in the fields and in the villages."
Gu Li curled her lips. It was because Comrade Zhang Yuhua was reluctant to let her spend the money for the bus fare.
"There is no direct bus to the school. If you take the bus, you have to transfer to another bus, and then walk a distance after getting off the bus." This is also true. It takes two hours to get there after taking many detours.
"Well, we will have fewer and fewer opportunities to meet in the future. I will basically only be able to go home once a month. This time it's because the school just started, and the school deliberately gave us a half-day holiday in advance so that students from other places can rush home."
Gu Yubo was right. Although their families would still live in the same village, it would be difficult for them to get together for various reasons.
Gu Yinfeng quarreled with her mother for several days and even resorted to hunger strike, but in the end she failed to convince her mother to let her continue to go to school.
"Yinfeng originally wanted to go to the teahouse to work with Gu Min, but her mother disagreed and found someone to find a leather shoe factory to let her work there."
"Why don't you agree?"
"It seems that her mother is worried that Yin Feng's heart is wild and out of control. Isn't the teahouse in the city? Her mother is worried that she will rent a house in the city like Gu Min and never come back. Then who will do the housework for her?
The shoe factory is in town, and it only takes half an hour to ride a bike, so she can come back every day. "Gu Yubo said with some disdain, "I heard from my mother that Yinfeng's mother went to the factory and told the foreman that the salary could only be paid after she came to collect it."
Gu Li looked at the gradually warming sun outside and said nonchalantly, "Yinfeng is a very thoughtful person. Her mother can't control her for too long."
After Gu Dandan went to the city to repeat her studies, she rarely returned to the village. Her father originally had a job in the city, and now her mother also found a job as a waitress in the city. The family of three has settled down in the city.
Gu Yun did not repeat her senior year, but like Gu Yubo, she went to a technical secondary school.
However, her family did not have the strong connections like Uncle Gu Yubo, so she could not get into a good technical secondary school and could only go to the medical school in the town.
You can get in as long as you pay the tuition.
"By the way, I met Gu Min last night. She was wearing lipstick and a dress, and looked very fashionable."
Gu Li simply put down her pen and said, "I haven't seen her for a long time. The last time I saw her, I felt that she was different."
Gu Yubo held his chin with both hands and looked at the award certificates on the mottled wall. "Perhaps, we will be more and more different in the future."
Gu Li didn't say anything. When Gu Yubo asked her if she wanted to go to her house to play, she picked up the ballpoint pen again and said, "No, I still have a lot of homework to do!"
Her path was destined to be different from theirs. Gu Yubo and the others only needed to study for another three years before they could graduate and find a job, but Gu Li still had four years to go after three years.
An investment that does not see any immediate returns.
Gu Li can only give back to her family as much as possible with her excellent grades.
Gu Li suddenly didn’t want to stay at home anymore. She wanted to go back to school as soon as possible.
Comrade Zhang Yuhua's brief yearning for her only lasted until Saturday noon. When they met again, they were disgusted with each other. "After a few days of school, you can't even do housework? Collect the clothes and go pull the weeds in the vegetable garden at the back door. Tomorrow, pick a densely populated plot, pick a basket of vegetables, and take some eggs to your eldest sister's house."
"Also, when did you buy the new shorts? Where's the rubber band on your old shorts? The rubber band on my waistband is broken and can't be used anymore. Please change it for me. And where did you get the money to buy the pants?"
Gu Li's head was buzzing from the noise, but she didn't want to argue with Comrade Zhang Yuhua as she did in the past, so she said in a neutral tone: "Money is not earned by hard work like you do. Increase income and reduce expenditure. The most important thing is to increase income!"
Comrade Zhang Yuhua raised his eyebrows and rushed towards Gu Li with the water scoop in his hand.
Gu Li:-----
I can't even tell the truth.
I was idle at home for less than half a day when my mother despised me so much that she wanted to kick me out of the house immediately. Why is her mother so different from other mothers?
Gu Li endured another day under Comrade Zhang Yuhua's command. On Sunday noon, after lunch, she took a short rest and then rode her bicycle back to school.
This cycle repeated several times, and a month passed. The monthly test results were announced on Sunday evening self-study, and the head teacher could not wait to post them on the wall next to the blackboard and handed out the test papers.
After the first evening self-study get out of class, the students rushed up.
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