Jianbao Lingyan

In rural areas, sons are treasures, even if there is more than one son in the family, as long as they are sons, they are more popular than daughters.

Sons are used to carry on the family line, and they have to stay at home to provide for themselves.As for the daughter, when she grows up, she will become someone else's family.

The saying that the daughter was the little lover of the father in the previous life does not apply here at all.

But there are exceptions, such as Xu Yanbin's family in the east of Maoer Village.

Xu Yanbin is the accountant in the village, and the village head Xu Dongliang is Xu Yanbin's second uncle.

Xu Yanbin is the only child in his family. Both his parents passed away when he was a teenager.

However, the couple were very good at living, and left Xu Yanbin a two-story green brick house with a yard, a cow, and ten acres of high-quality paddy fields.In addition, Xu Dongliang and his brother depended on each other and had a deep relationship since childhood. Therefore, since the death of his brother and sister-in-law, he has been taking good care of Xu Yanbin, letting Xu Yanbin eat and live in his own home, and go to school with his two sons.

When Xu Yanbin graduated from junior high school, just in time for the country to call for educated youth to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, the young girls and boys from the city at that time were fine at first, and they actively participated in the vast team of farmers, sweating enthusiastically.

But gradually, due to the difficult conditions and difficult life, many of them are living very badly. In order to live better, many girls try their best to go back.And some who felt that they could not go back simply planned to find someone to marry in the village.So 20-year-old Xu Yanbin successfully married a girl from the city, a girl from Shanghai called Gu Pan.

It's just that the good times don't last long. Since the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination seems to have grown wings and flew to every part of the country, the pairing between the city girl and the country boy has begun to break down.

Gu Pan walked into the examination room of the college entrance examination in the third month after giving birth to his son. After receiving the admission notice, he chose to leave without hesitation.

"Xiaoer, hurry up and feed the pigs and cook the meal. Your father will be back in a while."

Liu Yunhua rubbed her hands on the dark blue floral apron, then sat on the stool in the main room, and instructed Xu Er to do this and that with peace of mind.

Xu You scratched his head with his right hand, tilted his head to look at the big sun in the sky, and then at the clock at home, it was clearly only 02:30, what are you doing for such an early meal?

In Mao'er Village in August, it's the beginning of the year's heat, cooking so early, when Xu Yanbin comes back from the town, maybe it will smell bad.

If it was half a year ago, Xu Wei would only agree, and then go into the kitchen to cook hard, so that he would not think about whether it is too early to cook.

Only in the last two or three months, Xu You slowly began to think about these issues.

Three months ago, Xu Wei was a very simple and honest child. To say simple and honest is a good thing. In fact, everyone in the village knows that the eldest son of Xu Yanbin's family is half-stupid. Although he can go to school, he believes everything he says. , Let him do whatever he wants.The children in the village like to bully him, because even if the bullying is serious, he will not go home and complain.

In fact, even if he did, no one would stand up for Xu Wei.

Xu Yanbin doesn't like him, because Xu Yanbin will feel aggrieved when he sees his son who looks like his ex-wife. All along, Xu Yanbin has adopted the policy of out of sight, out of mind, towards Xu You.

And Xu You's stepmother, Liu Yunhua, used Xu You as half of the family's livestock.If it wasn't for Xu Er's homework being okay at school, and Xu Yanbin would let the children in the family go to school, Liu Yunhua would never let Xu Er leave the house for half a step, unless it was to go to the field to take care of the crops.

But three months ago, Xu You and a group of half-grown children in the village went up to the mountain to collect mountain goods. One of them, Xu Shengwu, was Xu You's cousin. They fell from the tree, Xu Wei was under the tree at the time, and grabbed a handful, but the force was too strong, and the road was slippery on the mountain, both of them rolled down the mountain.

Xu Shengwu was alright, but he rolled down the mountain and got bumped on his calf, and after lying on the bed for a few days, he became alive and well.Only Xu You was more unlucky. When he was rolling down the mountain with Xu Shengwu in his arms, he was cut by a sharp stone and had four stitches.However, due to bumping his head, the results of the college entrance examination were very unsatisfactory. In fact, Xu Wei's grades were not good in the first place, and his chances of being admitted to university might not be high. Simply, Xu Yanbin let his son go home to do farm work.

Although they can't go to school, in Maoer Village, graduating from high school is considered a relatively high degree of education, and there are no more than twenty in total.In fact, so far, no more than five people from Maoer Village have actually been admitted to university.

One of them is Xu You's uncle, Xu Yanming. In the first year of resuming the college entrance examination, he was admitted to the university in the same batch as Xu You's biological mother, but one of them was admitted to a military academy, while the other studied literature.

Xu Wei also has a third uncle, although he is not a student, but he has a quick mind since he was a child. He went to Shanghai to work when he was a teenager, and now he is doing some small business in Shanghai. It was Xu Dongliang, the head of Maoer Village, who brought a cart of food.

Although Xu Er was wondering why he was cooking now, he still fetched some water to wash his hands, and then went to the kitchen to cook.

Not long after Xu You entered the kitchen, Liu Yunhua's sister-in-law arrived at Xu's house with a box of snacks.

"His aunt, what are you thinking about what I told you last time? Let me tell you, this kind of thing doesn't happen very often, but he will go back in a few days." Second sister-in-law Liu sat next to Liu Yunhua's little girl. On the stool, he took out a piece of cold cake from the dessert box, and while eating, he looked at his sister-in-law, and at the same time, from the corner of his eyes, he looked at the furnishings in the room from time to time.

"Second sister-in-law, wait for me for a few days. My man will not be here these two days. I can't make up my mind about such a big matter." Liu Yunhua sat beside her, picking up a small pink flower decoration The upper opening of the yellow clothes was carefully sewn up with a needle and thread.

"Let me tell you, your family is really weird. From top to bottom, they all care about daughters. You are too. Both Nini and Xiaohu were born by you, so I didn't see you making more clothes for Xiaohu." The second sister-in-law looked at My sister-in-law didn't let go, so I had to talk about something else. This old Xu family is good at everything, but this is weird. Counting from the three generations of my sister-in-law's father-in-law, there are seven or eight families in Maoer Village, but almost all of them are born son.

My sister-in-law gave birth to a girl in the second year of her marriage to Xu's family. As a result, not only the whole family became treasures, but even the village head's family often gave Nini a lot of delicious and fun things alone.

"They are all seventeen-year-old girls. If you don't hurry up, you will have no chance in the future." Liu Yunhua's family had two older brothers and one older sister last year, and two younger sisters and a younger brother.The family is a typical rural family with serious patriarchy.

When Liu Yunhua was at home, she and her sisters not only did all the farm work for the family, but also did some needlework to supplement the family during the winter break. When the family was at home, they only had a box of old clothes with them.

Liu Yunhua wanted to be strong since she was a child, and she liked to go to school very much, but her parents always regarded her as a loser, and only let her go home to work after going to elementary school.

Not going to school is Liu Yunhua's biggest regret. She feels a little bit resentful towards her parents. She swore since she was a child that when she has a daughter in the future, she must treat her well.And that's why Liu Yunhua didn't try very hard to stop Xu You from going to school.

Therefore, after the birth of daughter Xu Ni, everything that is good should be taken care of by her daughter first. New clothes are made every year, and new schoolbags, new shoes and new shoes, as long as they are owned by others, Xu Ni will have them; No, as long as Liu Yunhua has the ability, she will get it for her daughter.

"That's 10 yuan. Your house has been built for many years. Now that you have money, who doesn't approve a few pieces of homestead and build a small western-style building. Nini is studying well, and she is about to go to college. , life in the city is so good now, if you find a son-in-law from the city, you will not have to accompany him with a dowry. Your Xiaohu is almost fifteen, and he should marry a wife in a few years. Now the gift money No one will pay you 2000 yuan, and no one will look at you at all." Second sister-in-law Liu paused, her eyes stopped and her hands looked at her sister-in-law. Yuan, this is a lot, the rest of the money is more than enough for our daughter to marry a wife. Besides, I heard from my son that the teachers in the county high school said that Nini played the piano well, so what kind of piano should I buy? Well, if you want to learn the piano in the city, you need money. This time, you can work together. When the time comes, you can just give up your little brother for a reason, and the remaining money will be enough for the two of you to lie down comfortably. Been at home all my life."

"This……"

"What's this, isn't your man coming back today? You have to chat with him, and I'll tell you there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Hurry up, your brother said, the big boss is staying here for a week, It's half over."

Seeing Aunt Liu's coming, Xu Er thought about boiling a pot of water to make some tea and brought them over. When she walked to the door, she heard Aunt Liu urging Liu Yunhua to buy the family house and divide herself out.If it was before, Xu Er would only feel that she was useless, and hid in a corner and cried secretly.

But now, Xu You still has a temper that won't resist, but Xu You won't cry, because Xu You feels that, as a stepmother, Liu Yunhua has treated her very well. She can go to school and eat and drink.

It's just that if the family house is really sold, Xu Wei is really reluctant, after all, it is the place where he has lived since he was a child, so he is very affectionate no matter what.

But thinking about it, it is impossible for him to be a farmer who will spend his whole life at home. Xu Wei vaguely feels that he cannot stay in the countryside for a lifetime, because he wants to improve the city.

As for what to do after entering the city, Xu Wei has not thought of it yet, but as long as he has hands and feet, he will not starve to death.

Maybe the family will give me some travel expenses, Xu Wei thought uncertainly, then quietly retreated, ran to her room in the front yard, lay on the bed, not knowing what to think.