Road to Rebirth

Chapter 2 Can't Compromise
Gu Xiaoqing picked up the corn in the yard quickly with his hands and feet. He has done these farm work for decades. You must know that when he was at home, he also went to the field to do farm work at a young age.

Married to Fu Guoqiang, that person doesn't care about anything, everything is her own, in the field and at home, she is alone, Fu Guoqiang is a person who won't help the oil bottle even if it is poured, so Gu Xiaoqing But a very capable person.

This bit of corn can't stump her.

I looked at the sky, it was already cloudy.

Looks like it's raining today.

Gu Xiaoqing took a look at his three-bay mud room, sighed, and took out the plastic sheet from the cabinet on the wall next to the stove, which should be the only one.

The last plastic sheet has been borrowed by the second uncle.

The rest was lent to Uncle Wang Zhiguo who lived next door earlier, so he survived.

Now it was [-], people's life was not easy, but compared with before, it was still good.

At least it’s okay to eat enough. There are people like my family who have such a difficult life, but not many. At least they can eat white flour steamed buns.

I still eat black steamed buns mixed with corn flour and sorghum flour.

It can only be said that my parents are really kind, and my grandparents told me that my third uncle’s food in the town is public food, which is rationed and distributed according to the age of the population. My family is the boss and should help some brothers, so every year The third uncle will take it for granted that he will come to take all the flour by himself after the autumn harvest.

Because the yield of wheat planting here is not high, and no one has much land, so in addition to wheat, some other high-yield crops must be planted, otherwise these people will not be able to make ends meet.

Wheat is not all planted, so the output is also limited, but every year is like this, the third uncle never said anything, and every year he came back from the town, he didn't bring anything for his family, not Gu Xiaoqingtu's third uncle Gu It's like a river, but human affection is the minimum.

Also, my third uncle, Gu Ruhe, nagged me every year, saying that the flour was not ground fine enough, it was too coarse, and it was too dark.

Gu Xiaoqing really wanted to say that we haven't eaten anything that thick.

Otherwise, try those black-faced steamed buns and see if your throat still hiccups.

None of us disliked it. People eat the best rations in our family and criticize our family. My parents are still honestly taught.

Thinking about this, Gu Xiaoqing felt ashamed to death.

Why do you have to give rations to the third uncle's family every time, and the second uncle's family never gives out. The population of the family is smaller than theirs, but the land is more than ten mu more than theirs.

Even if you are raising a college student, every year the harvest from your grandparents’ fields is posted to Gu Xiaocheng’s second uncle’s family. The village also gives subsidies. It has been years, and there has always been a loan without repayment.

It's not that Gu Xiaoqing doesn't know what's on his father's mind. He thinks that he is a family, so he can't help but help when he sees difficulties, but his father, Gu Ruhai, doesn't want to think about why Gu Xiaocheng from his second uncle's family has gone to college. How old is it.

As the elder brother, it was the younger brother who got married first, started the family business, and gave birth to a child early.

But as for his father, Gu Ruhai, he was already in his thirties, so he rushed to find his mother and said that he was a matchmaker.

For so many years, I have been working hard for the family. In addition to farming, I have to do odd jobs to subsidize the family. Is it because there is a younger brother who is studying in the family, and there is a younger brother who has a family and wants to raise children.

But the second uncle and the third uncle didn't remember Gu Ruhai's love, they took it for granted, as if this is how they should live their lives, and Gu Ruhai should pay like this.

And the grandparents also kept protecting the second uncle and the third uncle, and they kept instilling in Gu Ruhai that brothers should not be so clearly distinguished. As a big brother, of course you have to help your younger brothers. The elder brother is like a father, so you It's nothing to suffer a little.

So the days passed like this day by day.

Gu Xiaoqing erected the wooden ladder placed horizontally in the yard to the roof next to the wall. Hurry up before it rains, otherwise the house will be unbearable for a while.

Holding the plastic sheet in his hand, he climbed up, and the entire piece of plastic sheet was spread on the roof. Fortunately, this piece of plastic sheet was a gift from his uncle's family, and the area was large enough to cover the entire roof.

Gu Xiaoqing carefully stepped on the strong keel of the roof, and pressed the corners of the four sides firmly with tiles, so that if the wind blows for a while, one piece will be blown up.

Looking at the completed roof, Gu Xiaoqing was finally relieved.

Get off the ground and put away the ladder.

Gu Xiaoqing hurried into the kitchen.

There are three rooms in Gu Ruhai's house, one is a kitchen and utility room, and the other is a room for two sisters, Gu Xiaoqing and Gu Xiaoying.

And because Gu Xiaojie is still young, only five years old, he still sleeps in the big house with his parents.

The place is narrow and there is only so much room.

But this is the home that Gu Xiaoqing has been familiar with for 18 years.

Scooped two bowls of cornmeal from the cabinet and added another bowl of sorghum noodles, and waited for a while to steam the steamed buns.

I pulled out a white radish from the vegetable field near the wall in the yard, cut it into thin strips, and fried it with chili for a while, and it was the evening dish.

Of course, don’t think about meat. Their family can’t afford meat if it’s not a holiday. Even if it’s a holiday, after killing a pig, the least amount of meat can fall into their mouths. Most of them are eaten by grandma and second Uncle changed his ways and wanted to leave.

Carrying a bundle of firewood from the yard, Gu Xiaoqing swiftly opened the stove, lit the fire, boiled some water in the cauldron, and when the water boiled, Gu Xiaoqing spread the cage cloth with a grate, and put the firewood that had been burned earlier. Steam the kneaded black-faced steamed buns.

Covering the pot, Gu Xiaoqing boiled the cornmeal paste in the boiling water of the small pot at the other end, and put some chopped white radish leaves in it. People in the village ate it like this.

After all, it is still in the [-]s, and it is not yet the time to be rich.

Gu Xiaoqing sat in front of the stove, filling the stove with firewood, thinking in her heart that she was 12 years old when she came back, which was the year she graduated from elementary school, because her grandparents told Gu Ruhai that she was a girl, how many people did she recognize? Just a word is enough, it is better not to go to school earlier, to help the family with housework.

It can also be used as a laborer, and it can save some money and reduce the burden on the family, so Gu Ruhai thought twice and let Gu Xiaoqing not go to school.

Even though this year's graduation results, Gu Xiaoqing was No. 1 in the village primary school, but she failed to continue her studies and officially became a female village girl.

This time, Gu Xiaoqing decided that she would never listen to her grandparents, and must study. After working outside for many years, Gu Xiaoqing knew that knowledge and culture determine a person's destiny.

If you want to change your destiny, you cannot compromise first.

Since God let me come back, then my fate is up to me.

(End of this chapter)