Return to 1981 and start from breaking off the engagement

Chapter 14 The Big Purchase

"Lao Wu, dad gave this to me last night. He said he wanted Xiaohua to pay the tuition. I don't know how to report to the school. Can you help me with this?"

The sister-in-law said holding two dollars.

"You can keep this money. I will pay for Xiaohua's tuition. I will take her to school tomorrow to report."

Yao Weijun waved his hand.

"No, no, no, dad has already given me the money, how can I still let you get the money? Listen to me, get this money quickly!"

The sister-in-law looked agitated and hesitated when speaking, so she insisted on putting the money into Yao Weijun's hands.

Yao Weijun couldn't bear to give in anymore, so he temporarily kept the two dollars.

Silent all night.

After breakfast the next day, Yao Weijun went out with Xiaohua who was full of excitement.

"What's wrong with Lao Wu today? Why did he take Xiao Hua away so early in the morning?"

At the door of the east room, the second sister-in-law, who was about to take Liwen and Liwu to school, looked at the backs of uncle and nephew Yao Weijun and frowned suspiciously.

"Hey, it's not like I don't know that Junzi likes to play and make trouble. I guess he took the little flowers to fish, catch shrimps and birds, etc. Hurry up and keep going. As soon as Lao Maitou's ox cart is gone, Li Wen and Li Wu should be late!"

The second brother Yao Weilin said casually.

"Why are you urging me so much! I've already taken care of everything about school. Do you think I'm just like you? I just eat and sleep stupidly, and I don't care about things at home at all!"

The second sister-in-law, Yan Suxia, gouged out his eyes and scolded him sharply.

"Okay, I'm too lazy to get angry with you this morning, so I'll go to the ground first!" The second brother Yao Weilin shook his head and left the door without saying a word.

"No! It's already the autumn harvest. There are no birds in season, and it's even less possible to catch fish and shrimps. It's autumn in the village, and Lao Wu dares to go down to the river to catch fish. If the village party secretary knows about it, he shouldn't be treated as a model and punished!"

The second sister-in-law Yan Suxia thought about it more and more, and the more something was wrong, she turned to the boss Li Wen and said:

"Today you take your brother to the entrance of the village to wait for Lao Maitou's oxcart. Mom won't see you off if something happens, so be careful on the road!"

"I understand, mom, let's go then!" Liwen was nine years old and had just entered the third grade. After agreeing, he pulled his younger brother Liwu and jumped out of the courtyard.

Currently, many villages in Daliu Commune do not have primary schools, and Jianchang Village is one of them.

Children in these villages all go to Xiangyang Primary School in the commune to study.

In order to make it easier for students to go to and from school, each village will assign a villager to drive an ox cart to pick them up.

Yan Suxia watched Li Wen and Li Wu run away, then returned to the yard and glanced at the dining shed. Her sister-in-law had just finished washing the family's dishes and was walking out of it.

"Are you done, sister-in-law?"

She went up to him and said hello with a smile.

"Yes." Sister-in-law Liu Zhaodi nodded.

"The fifth child in our family is quite diligent today. Did he take Xiao Hua to mow the grass early in the morning?"

Yan Suxia asked deliberately.

"No...um."

"Why, not to cut the grass? Then why did they go?"

"I...I asked Lao Wu to help take Xiaohua to register at school."

"Xiaohua wants to go to school? Humph, dad is really good. Now he doesn't tell anything about anything at home! Although the tuition fee is not much, the whole family earns work points, so they should have the right to know!"

"..."

……

Yao Weijun took Xiaohua instead of going to the village entrance to ride the ox cart. He sat in the threshing floor for a while and waited for Shunzi to ride his family's bicycle before he rushed to the commune with Xiaohua.

More than 20 minutes later, the two came to the streets of Daliu Commune. "Xiaohua, pick out a schoolbag you like. In addition, buy pencil cases, pencils, and erasers. You'll need them when you get to school."

In the cooperative, Yao Weijun smiled and gestured to Xiaohua.

"Yeah!" Xiaohua was overjoyed and quickly selected her school supplies.

After leaving the cooperative, Yao Weijun took her to Xiangyang Primary School.

After explaining the situation to the people in the communication room, Yu Xiunan ran out briskly after a while.

"Why are you here at this hour? I'm in class. You take Xiaohua and go inside. In the innermost room on the left side of the second row, just ask for Director Zhang. I'll go back to class first!"

Yu Xiunan finished speaking quickly and returned to the classroom in a hurry.

Yao Weijun followed her instructions and walked into the director's office with Xiaohua.

After explaining the situation and paying the tuition on the spot, Director Zhang registered Xiaohua’s student information and explained apologetically:
"It's like this. In view of the special situation of Yao Xiaohua, and our Xiangyang Primary School has been in school for half a month, the textbooks for the students have been distributed and there are no extra ones, so parents still have to find a way to communicate with the upper grades. I want to borrow it from my classmate, do you think that’s okay?”

"No problem, you can arrange a classroom for her first." Yao Weijun nodded in agreement.

Director Zhang stood up and motioned for Xiaohua to follow him, "I will take her to the classroom now. Parents can go back if nothing happens."

Yao Weijun said some kind words, watched Xiaohua follow Director Zhang away, and then walked out of the campus alone.

He did not leave immediately, but waited at the door for a while. When he heard the bell ringing in the campus, he asked the people in the communication room to help call out Yu Xiunan.

"Xiu Nan, do me a favor..."

Before the words were finished, Yu Xiunan interrupted with a smile: "Is it for me to help Xiaohua's first grade textbooks?
Don't worry, Xiaohua is assigned to my class. If you don't tell me about this kind of thing, I will help you! "

"That's good, my niece will be in charge of you from now on. If anything happens to her at school, you can just come to me directly."

Yao Weijun was originally worried that Xiaohua would not be able to adapt to the school environment, but now he felt more relieved after hearing what she said.

"Oh, by the way, I have one more thing to trouble you with. After school in the afternoon, help me tell Old Maitou who is coming to pick up the children from our village, and take Xiaohua back with him."

"Okay, you are busy with your business. I will take care of the little flower. It will be fine!" Yu Xiunan pointed to the campus behind her, "I also want to check the students' recitations during class, so I won't tell you more!"

"Okay, see you later!"

Yao Weijun waved his hand crisply, got on his bicycle and walked away.

"This guy doesn't seem to be as meaty as the villagers say..." Yu Xiunan looked at his back with a thoughtful look on her face...

Yao Weijun left Xiangyang Primary School, found someone to exchange some tickets, and then went to the cooperative to buy all the dried peanuts and raw melon seeds.

The cooperative's peanuts cost 370 cents a catty, not counting tickets, and the total is 94 jins. The melon seeds cost [-] cents a jin, and the cooperative only has [-] jins, totaling [-] yuan.

There are so many things, even if Shunzi's bicycle is a kind of bicycle commonly known as a big frame, it can't be carried at once.

Yao Weijun made an agreement with the cooperative and transported it back to the threshing floor of Jiachang Village in two batches.

During this period, I spent more than seven yuan to buy five kinds of condiments and more than 20 kilograms of coarse salt.

In the threshing floor of Jianchang Village, two adobe houses have become vacant.

Zhang Xiaobin, an educated youth, packed his backpack early in the morning and went to Xiheba Joint Venture Area on a tractor pulling bricks.

There, there is a bus that goes directly to the capital every day, which is more convenient than taking a bus to Shuyun County.

Before leaving, Zhang Xiaobin once told Yao Weijun alone that no matter what happens in the future, the two must never lose contact.

At this time, on the threshing floor, dried peanuts and melon seeds were spread out to dry. Five spices and coarse salt were placed in the iron pot in the rice shed, and everything was ready.

"The next job is to fry these hundreds of kilograms of peanuts and melon seeds before dark!"

Yao Weijun had an excited look on his face, and he was full of energy at this moment.

(End of this chapter)