60s Splendid Life

"Brother is here, brother is making breakfast downstairs, we have meat buns to eat this morning, do you like it?" Lu Jin sat down on the bed, dug out the woke up child, and reached out to touch Shen Xing's child Little Curly asked, "You ran away when you heard Xiaobao's voice, didn't you?"

"I heard my brother crying." Shen Xing is also six years old and almost seven years old this year. His face is not as round as it was when he was young, but his eyes are still the same, and there is a little curly hair on his head, because his hair is too big. Long, fair and clean, looks a bit like a little girl.

Of course, his temperament is not at all like that of a little girl.

"Shen Xing is great, I will take my younger brother with me, thank you, can I reward you with two big buns later?" Lu Jin took the clothes hanging on the bedside chair for their children to wear. These clothes are better Grandma Shen gave it to them.Last year the kids wore slightly bigger clothes, but this year they are just right.

Fortunately, Shen Xing probably forgot that these clothes were worn by him when he was a child, so he didn't recognize his younger brother wearing his old clothes.

The little Bao'er who got up early put his arms around his brother's neck after his brother helped him get dressed and comforted him for a while, and was carried downstairs by his brother.

"You guys are playing here, my brother went into the kitchen to make breakfast." Lu Jin took the two children downstairs, and the three people downstairs had almost finished wrapping the buns, leaving the two children and a few adults outside , he went into the kitchen alone to work.

There is a small oven in the kitchen. He took it out in the morning and wiped it clean. He made egg tarts and baked them in it. At this moment, the egg tarts had been baked and they hadn’t been taken out yet.

After the water in the pot boiled, Lu Jin put the pulled noodles in and boiled them. After pouring cold water into them twice, he took out the boiled noodles, poured a little sesame oil in and mixed them to prevent the noodles from sticking. Let's go together, and cut a few side dishes and sauce. The sauce is already fried, put it back in the pot and heat it up, and the taste of the noodles will be more fragrant after a while.

So today their breakfast is very rich, with meat buns, noodles, porridge and egg tarts.

Things were brought out and laid out on the table outside, around which adults and children sat down to breakfast.

The freshly baked meat buns are big and white. Lu Jin specially made the buns with white flour. Xiao Baoer and Shen Xing hugged one each, and they refused to let go of it until it was so hot. be cheerful.

Shen Yu picked up a steamed stuffed bun with one chopstick, and half of it disappeared in one bite.

"Grandma, grandpa, drink some porridge to warm your stomach, and then eat other things." Lu Jin helped the two old people serve rice porridge. In the morning, he usually likes to cook some millet porridge, which is good for the stomach. Eat steamed buns and drink rice soup , and won't feel too dry.

"Hey, you can eat too. Grandma can just come by herself." Grandma Shen looked at the two grandsons who were eating happily. It had been a long time since she had seen her two grandsons eat so happily.

Yu Wenchang also reached out to take the bowl that his grandson handed him. The porridge that had just been cooked was still very hot, and he sipped it while breathing.

"Do you want noodles?" Lu Jin mixed a bowl of noodles for himself, and then asked the others if they wanted it.Little Shen Xing pushed his small bowl out very rudely, "Brother, I want noodles."

"Okay, I'll help you." Lu Jin took the bowl with a smile and filled a bowl of noodles for Shen Xing.Seeing that he was helping others and not helping him, their little Bao'er was upset again, pouted and looked at him until he helped the child to pick up a few noodles and mixed it, and the child's face changed again. smiled.

It must have been a long time since we saw each other. The children in their family have already forgotten the elder brother Shen Xing, but the elder brother Shen Xing still remembers him. He takes good care of his younger brother and likes to play with him very much.

The two children were arranged to have breakfast together, and Shen Xing would whisper a few words to his younger brother while eating, but the younger brother might not like someone to disturb him while eating, so he stretched out his hand and pushed him away.

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This breakfast is satisfying for adults and children alike.

After packing up his things, Lu Jin looked at Shen Xing who was still playing with his younger brother at home, and asked Shen Yu strangely, "Does Xing Xing not study now?" Shouldn't children of this age be sent to elementary school?

"The school here is closed, and it hasn't resumed yet." In fact, Shen Yu himself went to the university for less than a month, and the university was closed, and the luck of their children was even worse. When they started going to school, classes were suspended at the school, and they can't go to school now.

"Oh." Lu Jincai remembered what Shen Yu mentioned in his letter. He thought that the Shanghai stock market was not that serious, but now it seems that it is more serious than they are in the countryside.But when the school resumes, I don't know when it will be.

But Lu Jin knew that in the next ten years, the education in their country was basically stagnant. Many school teachers were arrested and criticized, and they were sent to the lower levels.It has to be said that this movement caused their country's education and economy to lag behind by at least 50 years.

"If you have time at home, you can teach him some basic knowledge." Lu Jin still suggested to Shen Yu.

"I have this. I'll let him play with Xiaobao for a while today, and I'll tell him to go upstairs to study later." When it comes to their child's study, Shen Yu also has a headache. This younger brother's brain is much stupider than his. Oh, what I learned the day before, and I forgot it the next day when I woke up after sleeping. Teaching this little brother exhausted his last bit of patience.

Of course, in front of Lu Jin now, he didn't expose that little fat man's shortcomings.

Lu Jin took out the steamed buns and put them on the table to dry. After a while, he put them in the refrigerator. Seeing that Shen Yu reached out to eat another bun, he couldn't help but smiled and said, "You Didn't you eat enough just now?" When he saw this person just now, he didn't eat less, he ate at least four or five buns, a large bowl of noodles, and a few egg tarts.

They ate all the twelve egg tarts baked in the morning, but the egg tarts were not too big, so they just ate two.

"I'm full, I just want to eat when I see it." Shen Yu was eating with a steamed bun in his mouth, and the steamed bun that he bit open contained meat and eggs. If it wasn't for the fact that there were too many delicious things today, he would One person can kill ten.

"Don't overeat all at once, if you want to eat, wait until noon to heat up a few more." Lu Jin was afraid that this person would be overwhelmed.The two went out from the kitchen. Their grandfather and grandma Shen were sitting in the living room talking, while Shen Xing and Xiao Baoer were playing together. He and Shen Yu were still sitting on the two chairs in front of the window, drinking milk tea. chat.

The milk tea is still made by Lu Jin, but it's a pity that the pearls are used up, otherwise I can make a pearl milk tea. Now there is only milk tea without pearls.Drinking warm and fragrant milk tea in winter is still very good.

The two children have a drink each, and the two old people don't want to drink these things if they don't like it, and then he and Shen Yu also have a drink each.

"Last year, a few educated youths came to our village, and there were also some other brigades, all of whom came from the city." Lu Jin talked about the fact that there were educated youths in the countryside, and asked Shen Yu if there were a large number of young people in the city who were going to leave. Township.

"Well, many students from our school have gone to the countryside." Compared to those young people who didn't understand anything but went to the countryside with enthusiasm, Shen Yu actually knew a little more than those people. When he lived with his parents in the poor mountainous areas, he knew that the life in those places was very difficult, and the life was not what his classmates who grew up in the city could imagine.

But now one is the national policy, and the other is that the units in the city cannot accept so many young people, and the rest can only go to the countryside to work, and many young people have to go.

If it weren't for his father's relationship in their family, he might have been sent to the countryside.Shen Yu was not afraid of the difficulties of life in the country, he was just worried that if he left, his grandma and brother would have no one to take care of them, and how they would live in the city.Now the situation of his father and mother is unknown. He hasn't received a call back from his parents for a long time, so he is also very anxious. This kind of anxiety can't be told to his grandma, and he doesn't know how to tell outsiders. speak.

The two chatted for a while about this matter, and then Lu Jin knew that Shen Yu had been admitted to university after returning, but was suspended because of sports, and there were tens of thousands of students like Shen Yu in the whole country. Became a victim of this era.

After another ten years, many people will be married and have children. It will be difficult for women to go back to school after they get married and have children. Men are better off, and can continue to pursue their studies and careers.

And children like Shen Xing who can't even go to elementary school are not in the minority. After this campaign is over, many of these children who did not go to school will not go back to school to study and receive education. Second-timers, who have no education and don’t know what to do, can only steal, rob, and cheat everywhere. This also caused social chaos in the 78s. In fact, a large number of people grew up in this era.Of course, not all people have become bums, and a large part of them are still working hard to create value for this society.

So Lu Jin said to Shen Yu: "If you have a chance, you must let Shen Xing go to school. Even if the school is not in session, you should hurry up and finish the elementary school content for him at home, so that when the school starts in the future, he You can go directly to junior high school."

"Well, I thought so too." It's just another matter whether that stupid kid can learn it.Shen Yu shook his head in his heart as he watched the little fat man who was no longer fat having fun with his younger brother.