Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 78 Graduation Season

When Lou Xiao'e returned to the entrance of the courtyard in the afternoon, she happened to see a lot of people gathered around the Zhang family's bamboo shed.

When she got closer, she stood on tiptoes and took a look, and saw a girl wearing a beautiful white dress with yellow flowers, turning around to show it off in the crowd.

The white collar of the skirt is petal-shaped, and the two short sleeves are bulging like small lanterns. There is a small white bow on each cuff. There is a three-finger-wide white belt on the waist that is tied into a bow rope buckle. The lower right side of the skirt Sewed three lifelike cloth butterflies.

Then, she saw a girl next to her. She was wearing a ruffle-collared three-quarter-sleeve top made of yellow floral fabric with a white background. The black pants she paired with it were not good-looking.

And the girl in the skirt didn’t look good with the black cloth shoes she wore.

"Close the stall! Let's go watch a movie!"

Zhang Heping shouted to his family to close the stall, ignoring the people around him who were so poor that they only had time to go to the steel rolling mill to watch a movie.

Although Xu Damao said he would help them occupy the front row seat, it seemed very bad to arrive late and sit in the front row in full view of everyone.

Walking out of the crowd, Zhang Heping found Lou Xiao'e standing aside and casually greeted his sister-in-law. He didn't care about how he had ignored the Lou family's father and daughter before. As long as he was shameless, others would be shameless.

"Oh, that's right!" Zhang Heping turned to look at Lou Xiao'e who was following the courtyard, "Sister-in-law, with your piece of cloth, we can make you some more clothes and skirts, but it's not okay to use cloth as payment. My cousin needs to make money. Life."

Lou Xiao'e remembered her father's advice and immediately entered business negotiation mode, "It was agreed before that we would use cloth as payment. How about I bring over another piece of cloth and settle the production cost of the second piece of cloth in money?"

"That's it..." Zhang Heping thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement. There was no need to fight against Qian and Bu. He didn't need to paint murals anyway, so there was no big problem.

The Zhang family went to the movies with six small bamboo stools and returned home after more than two hours.

After a while, Lou Xiao'e took her family's strong laborer Xu Damao, carried a piece of white cotton with red flowers to the east wing of the Zhang family, and asked them to continue making clothes.

Then, Zhang Heping and Lou Xiao'e agreed on the cost of making clothes, which was 1 yuan/piece for tops, 1 yuan and 5 cents/piece for skirts, and 2 yuan/set of pants.

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Time quietly came to the weekend of June 6rd, and it was time to pay wages.

Yesterday, under the guidance of Zhang Heping, my eldest cousin Ma Lili performed exceptionally well and completed two tops for Lou Xiaoe before 8pm.

After Zhang Heping delivered three tops and one skirt made of white cotton with yellow patterns to the Xu family in the backyard overnight, the remaining 3 feet of white cotton with yellow patterns became the fabric at the bottom of the Zhang family's box.

Today, when Zhang Heping was instructing his eldest cousin to make a short dress for Lou Xiaoe using another piece of red cotton with a white background, he was surprised to find that his uncle Zhang Cheng entered the courtyard silently carrying a large basket of things on his back.

Zhang Heping even walked to the entrance of the courtyard to take a look inside. Uncle Zhang Cheng went straight to the backyard.

During lunch, Zhang Heping carried his uncle's things into the courtyard. He told his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and the others that he did not say hello to his father, Zhang Bing, when he entered.

Finally, Zhang Heping complained to the silent Lao Zhang: "After a long time, your eldest brother knows that he can carry things into the city, but he was unwilling to carry things to our house before. Also, he came alone this time. hehe……"

After lunch, Zhang Heping checked the accounts with his mother, Ma Xiuzhen.

Lao Zhang only earned 25 yuan from mending shoes last month. I don't know how much he hid, but there have indeed been fewer people mending shoes recently.

The eldest cousin Ma Lili earns even less money from sewing, only 1 yuan; firstly, because needlework is a special skill of the aunt, and there is no need to send it to a sewing stall, unless she is a bachelor; secondly, because she has been working on Lou Xiao'e's clothes recently. No seam repair work.

Counting this month's salary and last month's balance, the family has a savings of 225 yuan.

The Zhang family used all their coarse grains last month to pay off their debts. They still owe the four comrades 4 kilograms of stick noodles and some coupons, and they can try to pay them back this month.

At present, his family still has more than 30 kilograms of flour, 595 kilograms of meal stamps, and 43 yuan of vegetable stamps left.

In the afternoon, people from the sub-district office came over and issued 5 kilograms and 99 taels of coarse grain stamps and 8 kilograms and 42 taels of fine grain coupons to his family of five.

In the evening, when Zhang Heping was asking his two sisters whether they were sure they would be admitted to a technical secondary school, Yan Jiefang came over to inform the whole hospital meeting about the fight between Zhang Cuishan and his son and the Liu family's father and son.

Zhang Heping asked his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, to hold Lao Zhang and prevent him from going out. Then, Zhang Heping ran to the middle courtyard alone. After listening to them chatting for a few words, he didn't want to talk to Zhang Cuishan anymore, so he picked up a bamboo stool and walked away.

The reason for their fight this time was that Zhang Cheng and Zhang Cuishan wanted to lay bricks to build a stove under the window of Liu Haizhong's house. The Liu family refused and even knocked down the newly laid bricks. Then they started quarreling with each other.

The superficial reason was that Zhang Cuishan wanted to set up a stove and start cooking.

The middle-level reason is that Zhang Cheng wants his eldest son Zhang Cuishan to stop eating in the canteen and start his own restaurant to save more money.

The underlying reasons involved Zhang Heping's refusal to weave bamboo furniture for the Liu family, Yi Zhonghai's desire to disgrace the Zhang family, many people being jealous of the Zhang family's two stalls, etc.

Back in the front yard, Zhang Heping called Yan Jiefang, gave him 3 cents, and asked him to ride his father's bicycle to the steel rolling mill to find security guards. He said that Zhang Cuishan from their security department had been beaten and asked them to care.

Not long after, two security guards from the steel rolling mill came and the general meeting of the Intermediate Court was dismissed. It was a big deal.

The next day, uncle Ma Zhiyi and uncle Liu Ting came to the city to visit Ma Lili, leaving 6 live pheasants. They went back on the third day with peace of mind.

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The time has turned to June 6, and the junior high school graduation entrance examination has begun.

On the 11th, there will be a politics test in the morning and a Chinese language test in the afternoon;

Mathematics in the morning and physics in the afternoon;

Chemistry in the morning on the third day.

In view of the news broadcast on the radio last month that universities and technical secondary schools have been reduced by about half, and teachers and students have been reduced by about 80, Zhang Heping set a tone for his two sisters that they are not allowed to choose normal technical secondary schools.

After the two sisters escaped from the hardship of tutoring, they stayed around their eldest cousin Ma Lili all day long, where the three sisters chattered and studied their tailoring skills.

Then, it was Zhang Heping’s turn to take the graduation exam from primary school to junior high school.

It is said that the admission rate from junior primary school to primary school does not exceed 30%; Liu Haizhong, the second uncle, is a junior high school student who did not succeed in admission.

However, the promotion rate from high school to junior high school does not exceed 15%, which is obviously very low and abnormally low!

Then the admission rate from junior high school to technical secondary school does not exceed 25%.

However, the progression rate from junior high school to high school is a bit high. Students who fail to pass the technical secondary school entrance examination have at least a 65% chance of going to high school.

6 month 25 number.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Heping sat in the classroom and looked at the Chinese test paper with some surprise. There was only one essay question on it: My three years!

This kind of question is naturally not for candidates to complain, let alone show off how many fish they caught on a certain day or how much they sold for.

A positive attitude and progressive thinking are the focus of this inspection.

If I were to write about Lao Zhang’s selfless help to his comrades’ families and his positive influence on his son Zhang Heping...it would be against my will to think about it, so forget it and change it to something else!

"My past three years have been fulfilling, three years that have affected my life..."

Zhang Heping followed the false and empty routine and fabricated how he studied medicine diligently in the past three years. Studying medicine is a contribution to the motherland and the people. He also added some traditional Chinese medicine terminology to support it, and it was easy to write a 500-word essay.

14:, math test... ugh! It's so easy, you can do it with just one hand.

Submit your papers in advance!

Early vacation!

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(End of this chapter)