A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 161 [161] Eight sons and one daughter of the Zhuo family (3000)

The uncle's mother is probably old. Even though the uncle came back for a month this year, he failed to conceive a child as he wished, which made Zhuo Lin very precious.

Apart from the tofu business, the family now has more than ten or twenty hens laying eggs. Most of them are taken away by my father and sold to subsidize my living expenses in the factory.

As the saying goes: When a duck lays an egg, it first removes the oil, then removes the fat, and finally scrapes the painstaking effort.It takes at least four months from birth to laying eggs, so it's still early!
They only catch them home in June, so it will be after the autumn harvest.

With the help of her growing grass, Niu Niu not only did not get sick, but also became stronger and stronger. Everyone said that the cow bought by their family was a good deal.

After killing a pig at the end of last year, Auntie and Auntie each caught four more piglets, and the remaining three piglets have grown quite fat. According to the wishes of the family, they planned to kill them after the cold weather , and then sold them through the streets, and the piglets caught after the year are all growing up day by day, which is equivalent to raising one after another. If it weren't for the hot summer and it was not easy to keep, they would have long wanted to satisfy their hunger.

However, the chickens at home are not less killed, the old and the new are alternated. Although the meat of the old hen is not easy to bite, the hen soup is amazing. Many families with pregnant women buy old hens. Sell ​​to colleagues in the factory, at least three, because chicken is 7 cents per catty, so a chicken can be sold for two or three yuan.

Pork can be sold at a consignment store for 7 cents a catty, and a pig weighing more than 200 catties can be sold for more than 130 yuan after being killed. This is sold at the wholesale price. If they retail by themselves, the price may be higher , at least [-] cents, and [-] cents is cheaper than the [-] cents in consignment stores, it's nothing more than troublesome.

This year, my brothers helped make tofu, sold tofu, caught cicada monkeys, picked up cicada shells, and from time to time drove cattle to the mountains on the other side of Shouyang Mountain to collect mushrooms and wild vegetables. Yes, she didn't cry tired, but she became the happiest person in the family.

After all, she didn't mention Liu Tieyong's matter to the adults at home, but she rarely goes to the alley there now. As for Wang Aihong, she was kicked out without the temptation of sugar, and she also hated that person. See As for Liu Tieyong, he only appeared in everyone's line of sight during the busy farming season, and then usually hid at home and didn't like to come out, which shows how hard he was hit.

Since the incident happened last time, the little uncle has not been home, but he has found a wife. It was introduced by a sister-in-law in the group. Now the two of them are talking, and they will probably bring them back to the family during the Chinese New Year. People look.

Grandpa and grandma seemed dissatisfied, mainly because they didn't know girls from other places and didn't understand the situation. Even if it was introduced by sister-in-law, who knows what kind of character it is?You can't go to other people's places to investigate and investigate. In fact, you were frightened by the Deng family and got sequelae.

Ever since her little uncle left, A Niang has been trying to find a wife for her younger brother. Who knows that he even talked to himself, and while he was happy, he worried about whether his little uncle, who was not very smart, would be cheated.

In September, not only Zhuo Jian was sent to the Yuhong class, but she and Tao Yi were also sent to elementary school, in A Niang's words.

"If you are not at home, your aunt and I will be able to calm down to earn money and work, and we have to serve you at home. Although you have grown up and can share the work at home, you can work for us when you come home from school." , just go to school!"

In September 1961, Zhuo Lin was six years old, Zhuo Jian was four years old, and Tao Yi was 9 years old. They were sent to school together. However, Tao Yi went directly to junior high school to take the entrance examination and passed immediately. Zhuo Lin didn’t want to stay in elementary school either, but Age is here, so where is it that she doesn't want to go?Reluctantly let her go to the third grade. Originally, she wanted to go to the fifth grade graduating class. The eldest brother and the second brother asked her to keep a low profile, don't be too public, and let her adapt to it in the first half of the year.

The eldest brother and the second brother have graduated from the fourth day of junior high school this year, and have been admitted to the high school in the county seat. They have already started school in September.

The third brother is in the second grade in the village this year, the fourth brother and Tao Yi are in the first grade, the fifth brother is in the fifth grade in the town, the sixth brother is in the fourth grade, Zhuo Lin is in the third grade, and Zhuojian Yuhong class.

Now the Zhuo family has the conditions to let the children not only go to school, but also do homework, because except for those who go to school in the county and the village, they need to live on campus and go home on weekends, like the fifth Zhuoran, the sixth Zhuoer, The four of Zhuo Lin and Zhuo Jian can still go back and forth to the town to eat and live at home. Naturally, they can also help the adults in the family to do some work within their capabilities, such as cutting pigweed after school, feeding chickens, and driving ducks back from the rice fields .

If it’s a weekend, the women in the family are basically Lafayette, and you don’t need them for cooking, making tofu, herding cattle, feeding pigs, feeding chickens, and ducks, and you don’t need them. After thinking about it, they decided that the reason for sending the children to school was because they had cows at home and had a day off on weekends, so they felt they could bear it, so they sent them to school without delaying their future.

Now there are two high school students in their family, the tuition fee is five yuan per semester, the food is brought from home, the vegetables are eaten at school, the processing fee for each semester, and the dormitory fee are five yuan in total, which adds up to ten yuan a semester. This requires 20 yuan.

There are three junior high school students, the third, the fourth, and Tao Yi. The tuition fee is 24 yuan. Food and lodging are provided by the school. The school manages pickles. Each student is [-] yuan per semester.

There are three primary school students, the fifth, the sixth, and Zhuo Lin. The tuition fee is three yuan. Like the brothers, they bring their own food for lunch, and the school manages the food. It is two yuan per semester, because they only eat one meal a day, but the food they eat It is better than junior high school and high school. One person is five yuan a semester, and three is 15 yuan.

The youngest, Zhuojian, costs five yuan a semester, and he is in the town. He has a meal at noon and sends a certain amount of food to the school. The Yuhong class supervisor eats and plays with him.

Therefore, after half a year, the tuition fees for the children alone will cost 64 yuan. If this is placed in an ordinary family, it is impossible to even think about it. They were all sent to the school, and while the villagers were envious, rumors spread.

After all, the cattle were bought in the first half of the year, and all the children were sent to school in the second half of the year. What kind of big family is this?
Some people were sour and said some nasty things, but there were also some people who had more positive views and just smiled and satirized.

"Sister-in-law, you are wrong to say that. Daqiang's sister-in-law's family has brother Daqiang serving as a soldier outside to earn allowances, and Dajun's sister-in-law's family has brother Dajun working as a worker in the factory to earn wages. They also raise cows, pigs, and chickens at home. He Ya, I go out every day to sell tofu hard, and I don’t see anyone doing less work in the fields. They earn hard money, and they have never stolen at all. If my Guzi brother is like the Zhuo family Work hard, and you can live a good life."

"It's not a big deal. These days are all lived, not envied. You only see other people living together. Why didn't you see the two sisters-in-law grinding beans to make tofu at midnight? Every day It’s a person who sells tofu alone, and a person is at home to entertain the livestock in the yard. Selling tofu and making tofu is not a good job. If you don’t feed pigs, cattle and chickens, they won’t grow meat. Don’t be ashamed to say that you have long hair and short knowledge , Take care of your family's affairs well, it's better than anything else."

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The two sisters-in-law have a fulfilling life every day, and their work is enough for them to be busy. How can there be time for the parents and the west? These gossips are all the women who came to buy tofu. I just laughed it off and made no comment. Instead of wasting my saliva arguing with these people, I might as well squat down and pick beans for a while.

The primary school in the town is not big, and there are still rough houses. There are only three classrooms in total, one for the first and second grades, one for the third and fourth grades, and the remaining one for the fifth grade, which is also the teacher's office. There were only three or four people, including the principal, the cook, and eight faculty members. It was really concentrated and purified. What made Zhuo Lin speechless was that the lectures were all in dialects.

Thanks to her being here for two years, she can understand more or less, but she still misses the time when the teachers gave lectures in Mandarin.

There are four rooms in the dormitory, all of which are very large. One room is for girls, one room is for boys, and the remaining two rooms are for school teachers. They are said to be teachers’ dormitories, but they are actually offices. Sometimes in fifth grade classrooms, there are The time is right where I live, which is worth the time.

Here, you have to go to the corner of the playground to go to the toilet. The time between classes is very arbitrary. Usually, the children see the uncle who is cooking and walks towards the iron clock with an iron bar. They know that it is time for class, and then rush to the classroom. .

There is no running water either. There is a well in the yard, and you have to turn the rope up to eat and fetch water. The place is usually locked, because there is a well, and it will only be opened when water is needed, so that young children may fall into it. .

But Zhuo Lin saw that the children in the first grade were much older than her, and some of them were in their teens before entering the first grade. The wellhead could accommodate a wooden barrel. She felt that it was unnecessary at all. The children may go to elementary school at the age of six and a half, but now there are children of all ages, uneven, and most parents think that going to elementary school, recognizing characters, and counting, should not be blind. .

Because of poverty, there are no homework books or books in the first and second grades. Everyone puts a sand table and a stick in front of them to practice on.

It was only in the third and fourth grades that students were encouraged to buy homework books, pencils, rubber pencil cases, etc. However, the entire classroom only had one textbook from the teacher, and the children did not have it.

It wasn't until Zhuo Lin left the village that she realized why so many people were jealous of their family. To be honest, if it was her, she might also feel unbalanced, because the gap between the rich and the poor is really too big...

(End of this chapter)