Five sat on the chair and rested her head on the table. She held her chin and stuffed a pen into her mouth. She was listless. She always felt that nothing was more boring than reading.
She looked at Li He gloomily. Every year, she looked forward to his return. When he came back, there would be delicious food, fun, and beautiful clothes and shoes. But at the same time, it meant that her good days had come to an end. There was someone controlling everything she did, and it was very strict.
Once Li He came back, it would be an extravagant hope for her to go out and play.
She thought angrily. One day, she would let him know that he, Old Li, was not the only one who had the final say in this family!
He, Old Li, could not cover the sky with one hand!
But Old Li also said, we will talk about it when you are sixteen. When you are sixteen, I can't be bothered to care about you even if you want me to! I don't want to care about you!
She counted with her fingers. There were still three years before she was sixteen!
How could she endure it!
It was too hard!
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that life was meaningless. Her head drooped onto the table and she didn't even want to pretend to read.
"Read properly. Do you really not want to study anymore?" Li He couldn't bear to see her like this.
"Study! What's the use of studying! " Five weakly responded with her head tilted.
"It's good that you don't miss it. It saves money. You don't have to go to school in spring."
"Really?" Five said happily. She didn't expect happiness to come so quickly. It caught her off guard.
"Of course it's true. Since you don't want to study anymore, you can go to the fields with your third brother. Let's see if studying or farming is more tiring." Li He didn't want to farm at first, so he decided to study. In his opinion, studying was much easier than farming. If you don't study well, farming is called farming. If you study well, farming is called farming.
"I'm going to plow the fields tomorrow. Come with me. Just treat it as training in advance." Li Long, who was stacking bricks on the side, interrupted.
When he heard that he was going to farm, Five sighed heavily. "I'll just study."
Li He didn't know what to do with Five. She wasn't far from the third year of middle school. He couldn't really let her drop out of middle school. But could she get into high school with her grades?
Unless the sun rose from the west!
He could use his connections to send Five to high school, but what about university after high school?
If he thought too much, he wouldn't be able to do as he wished.
Liu Four brought over two plates of pig head meat. Wang Yulan said a few polite words on the surface, but in the end, she still accepted it. Her thoughts were very clear. Without her two sons, Liu Four would not be who he was today. He was an old bachelor, but now, not only did he have a family and a career, he even had a wife.
Li He said, "Let's go and take a walk around the river. I'm getting moldy from staying at home."
"It definitely won't be as lively as the city."
The two of them went up the river slope. Li He pointed into the distance and asked, "The shacks on both sides have been torn down?"
There used to be a lot of shacks built by the people on the boat or by the people who had fled from the disaster. Now, he realized that many of them were no longer there.
"A lot of them have been torn down. We need to rebuild the river embankment. A lot of people have moved down and their children have to go to school." Liu Four smiled and said, "In the past, there were teachers who were willing to board the boat, but now most of the teachers are unwilling. The children on the boat have to go ashore."
"How's business?"
"It's alright. I've always been embarrassed." Ever since Liu Four's financial situation had improved, his back was straight when he spoke. Moreover, he had a wife, so his dressing was completely different from before.
Li He said, "I've said it before. This kind of business can't be done in partnership. It's good to split up. Besides, they're the ones who took advantage of you. What's there to be embarrassed about? "
"In any case, I'm not that happy in my heart. I never thought that I would be able to survive until now. At this age, I'm still able to find a wife, and she's even pregnant. Now, I don't have any resentment even when I close my eyes," Liu Four said sincerely.
Li He said, "Every carrot has its own pit. Even if I didn't clean up your trash collection, this wife would have fallen into your hands. Why are you so emotional?"
Liu Four said seriously, "In any case, I still have to thank you."
"You're too polite." Li He didn't know how much the environment could affect a person. The Liu Four in front of him could no longer be compared to the Liu Four who was cowering and trembling in the winter in his memory.
Liu Four expressed his desire to do something big. "Our county is still too small. How much scrap metal can there be? I want to go to the provincial capital. What do you think?"
"You've been to the provincial capital?"
"I've been there. It's much better than the county."
Li He smiled and said, "If you want to go, go to the coast. Pu River or Shenzhen is fine. There's not much development in the provincial capital."
Li He didn't have the strength to complain about a provincial capital that had no sense of existence. Other than a few decent universities, there didn't seem to be any decent ones.
The provincial capital of the Netherlands was also a pair of brothers who were in the same boat. Both of them were useless. Both of them had no sense of existence in the central agricultural province with a large population …
"But I haven't been to such a far place," Liu Four said worriedly.
Li He said, "It's okay. Think about it yourself. If you want to go, then go in two years."
At least in terms of economic level and geographical location, going out to do business was better than staying in his hometown.
He sent Liu Four away and strolled along the embankment in boredom.
A motorcycle sped past him like a gust of wind. The motorcycle didn't go far before it stopped again. The rear wheels were in the air, and the front wheels were still on the ground. The motorcycle swung around and came to a stop right in front of him.
"You're back," the person on the motorcycle said in surprise.
"I was wondering who it was. You're a girl, do you need to ride a motorcycle so hard?"
Who else could it be but He Zhaodi? She was wearing a black jacket with the same style and color as Li He's. She had a leather kneepad on her trousers to protect her from the wind.
"It's okay, I'm used to it. I'm in a hurry."
"Where did you get so much mud?" Li He saw that her body was covered in mud. There wasn't a single clean spot on the bike, and the wheel hubs were filled with mud.
He Zhaodi smiled and said, "Someone let the road in front of us go, so the road is wet. Didn't you force your way through? Why don't you try my bike? It's so fun. I just bought it. "
Li He smiled and said, "No, I won't try it."
"It's easy to learn. It's just like riding a bike. I can teach you."
Li He said, "I know how to ride. There's no need to learn. I have my own motorcycle."
"Oh." He Zhaodi couldn't hide her disappointment, but she continued, "You don't have one in your hometown, do you? If you want to use the bike, you can ride it. I'll occasionally go to the county to buy some rope. I don't usually use it. "
Li He saw that there was a big bundle of green rope tied to the back seat of his bike. "Okay, I'll tell you if you need it."
"Then I'll leave first? I'm going to change shifts with my sister. "
Li He said, "Then go do what you need to do."
Looking at He Zhaodi's gradually disappearing figure, he thought about the motorcycle that was spinning crazily in front of his house and in Li Zhuang.
A lot of things had already deviated from the track he had planned. During the Spring Festival of 1987, he should have brought Zhang Wanting back and then followed her to meet her parents after the Spring Festival.
At that time, they should have been married for half a year.
The mountains were high and the rivers were far, the transportation was inconvenient, they were busy with work, and they were short of money. How could they meet their parents openly before marriage?
Like most young people who were far away from home, they simply sent a telegram to their parents: I'm getting married.
Wang Yulan had sent two new cotton quilts, but her father-in-law hadn't replied to her at all.
Zhang Wanting was a little hesitant. At this time, the old lady from the union said, "You're 25 and he's 27, how can you drag it out any longer!"
Only then did they simply get their marriage certificate and hastily invited two tables to a banquet.
He remembered the day of the banquet very clearly. It was 1986's National Day. After his son was born, he wanted to name his son National Day as a commemoration, but he was opposed by Zhang Wanting. Zhang Wanting said, "You're a scholar, how can you meet people with such a tacky name? If you shout this name on the street, one out of ten people will definitely turn around."
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