After graduation, I went home to keep bees

Speaking of this quilt, Jiang Baichuan was quite embarrassed, it was his mother's last thought or obsession, but since the day he decided to give up getting married, this quilt has become a piece of As a hot potato, Jiang Baichuan didn't dare to face the quilt, just like he didn't dare to face his mother's abuse and accusations.

Back then, the conditions of Jiang Baichuan's family in the village were considered very good. In that war-torn era, his father made a fortune by chance. Although the years were turbulent after that, because his father was very low-key, this windfall has never been made. If someone found out, otherwise, it would be impossible for Jiang Baichuan to be able to afford to go to a teacher's college with his family background.

It's just that after his father passed away, the family was sitting on nothing. Even so, his mother still gritted her teeth and sold a pair of gold bracelets, and hired the best embroiderer in all directions to prepare him for the bride price and wedding gifts. I heard that it took the embroiderer more than half a year to embroider this pair of quilts embroidered by Langshan, and the materials used were the best satin fabrics available in the market at that time.

"Uncle, this can't be sold!" Jiang Xiaoman became anxious when he heard it. His uncle hadn't gotten married yet, so he sold the wedding prepared by the family. How unlucky would it be to say it?

They have a custom here. When the man gets married, it depends on whether the family values ​​the bride or not. It depends on what kind of quilt the family is willing to prepare for the bride. Perfunctory new daughter-in-law.Only like Jiang Baichuan's mother, who hired an embroiderer, bought old-fashioned satin fabrics, and spent more than half a year to make a quilt carefully, is the greatest respect for a bride in her husband's house.

Jiang Baichuan's mother is gone, if he sells this quilt, no one will be able to prepare a new one for him, what will happen when he gets married?What do you use to support the scene?

"Forget it, your uncle and I don't plan to get married in this life. I've been making this quilt for almost 20 years. If I don't sell it, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep it for a long time. If I keep it for moths, I'll ruin it. Why don't you sell it for some money?" Jiang Baichuan shook his head and smiled wryly.

Which man does not want to get married?He also thought about it, but with such a low salary, he is not good for business, he can't make a lot of money, and he has to help the poor students in the school from time to time. Where can he get the money to find a wife?

In fact, it is not impossible to get married.

I remember that when he first came back to be a teacher, I don’t know how many people from all over the world introduced him to a partner, and he also talked about one, but later when they heard that he lived in the school, the old house at home had no money to repair, and even more so. Even the bride price of 2 yuan is not available. The girl’s family also wants to marry their daughter to save a gift for their son.

Later, when he became the principal of a primary school, more and more people made love to him. After all, the principal is also an official, and he still has a solid job. After marrying, he will be able to rely on him for a lifetime.

But the problem is that Jiang Baichuan, the principal, not only doesn't make money, but also puts money into it.

The locals only need to inquire a little bit, and even relatives who have children who go to school don’t need to inquire. The headmaster don’t talk about making money for the family. Almost all of his salary goes to the school every year. I heard that this is not enough. , but also to take advantage of the winter and summer vacations to open up wasteland to grow yams, grow vegetables and raise pigs, and run a canteen for the school... Let's put it this way, if you marry another man, the most you have to serve are the elderly and children at home.But marrying Jiang Baichuan would be a free nanny for dozens of students in the school.

When rural girls marry, the idea is that the man can make money to support the family.No matter how nice the headmaster's name is, Jiang Baichuan can't take money from the family. Who would marry his daughter to such a family for the sake of a false name?

Perhaps, because he understood this point, since Jiang Baichuan took over as the principal and shouldered this burden, he never mentioned anything about marriage to his family.

After thinking about this point, Jiang Xiaoman felt very uncomfortable, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but his always clever brain turned around for a long time, but he still couldn't find anything to persuade him.

Advise Jiang Baichuan not to empty his savings for the school?Someone persuaded me to say this 20 years ago, and it was useless at all!

Advise him to find a companion for himself while he is still young?Let alone whether anyone is willing to marry, even if there is, with Jiang Baichuan's character, he probably doesn't want to drag other girls down.

No wonder he wanted to sell that happy quilt, it really hurts to keep it.

Jiang Baichuan insisted on selling it, but Zhang Jiahui had no choice but to promise him that he could go to the school to see it tomorrow.

After eating, Jiang Xiaoman and the others followed the truck back first.Only then did he understand why Tang Xinlan told him that "the truck can leave anytime", because they were riding in the truck from Zhangjiahui Factory!

When the driver heard that they belonged to Lang Shan, he was immediately delighted: "Then our ancestors may still be relatives! My grandma's surname is Lang! Don't you have a lot of Jiang and Lang?"

"Yes, my surname is Jiang. Our village is either Jiang or Lang. If we go further into the mountains, there are many people surnamed Shan. I heard from my father that our ancestors were all mountain people. You can say that If so, our ancestors are really relatives." Jiang Xiaoman was also happy.

The surname Lang is also a common surname in Langshan, but Jiang Xiaoman has been living in school since he was very young, so he is not very clear about the relatives at home. On the contrary, it is Jiang Baichuan, who gradually has a lively chat with the driver brother-he goes there every year. The students made home visits, and heard a lot of gossip about relatives, and the two chatted all the way without stopping.

Jiang Xiaoman felt uncomfortable sitting in the back row, so he simply lay down on his side and edited the video he took yesterday. No matter how busy he is now, he still maintains the habit of updating 1-2 videos every day. I don't pay much attention to the angle of light, tone, etc., almost all are from the first perspective, and the editing is also very fast.

It's not that no one complained that his video was too rough, but Jiang Xiaoman was so entangled that he forgot about it within two days.

Because he found that there are still some professional video shooters in the comment area, who are also "good teachers". Not seeing his "rotten wood can't be carved" appearance, he pays special attention to him, and almost every issue will come to give him hand-in-hand pointers. The shooting is not good, where the angle needs to be adjusted... I can't wait to teach him how to make the video look better through the screen.

In short, although Jiang Xiaoman is still a newcomer on the entrepreneurial road of short video shooting, he was lucky enough to grasp a "fan password", which is not perfect.

Just like his uncle always pays close attention to the students who are lagging behind in the class, netizens are also particularly prone to "hating iron but not steel" to inexperienced short video bloggers like Jiang Xiaoman, wishing to come and stare every day Has he improved.

Has "Country Xiaoman" made any progress in filming today?No?very good!Check back tomorrow!

Jiang Xiaoman thinks, this is probably the so-called "joy of cultivating the department", right?

It was past four o'clock in the afternoon after returning to school, and Jiang Xiaoman wanted to accompany the driver brother to Jiangwan Village to collect potatoes, so he dropped Jiang Baichuan off at the school gate.

Jiang Baichuan entered the door carrying a woven bag full, and saw two trainee teachers cheering up the basketball and football he brought in the yard.

Tomorrow their summer sports cram school will officially start. Although they don't have a plastic track, nor a regular basketball court or football field, nor a piano or a violin, they have professional physical education teachers and music teachers~ In township primary schools where the ratio of teachers for sports and sports is seriously insufficient, they have already won at the starting line!

Cough~ The two "starting line" teachers are about to starve to death.

Thanks to the dish of chives left by brother Xiaoman!The two of them finally got through their morning meal.At lunch, Fang Xingchen vowed that he had mastered the skills of cooking rice in a rural earthen stove, and was going to cook a pot of potato rice for the two of them, as well as a plate of small pickles and a plate of scrambled eggs with green peppers (the two of them had been scrambled by Jiang Xiaoman. Successfully brought it down, and started to harm the principal's eggs), it will be no problem to make do with enough food.

Facts have proved that what netizens say is the truth. This is the case at the initial stage of learning to cook. The eyes have learned it, but the hands tell you, dear, stop dreaming, okay?

The two cooked a good pot of potato stewed rice into sandwich rice. Later, Chu Mengluan came up with another idea, saying that since there is less water, why not add more water to cook porridge~ So they added half a pot of water to cook porridge. People ran to feed the pigs, and when they came back, because the lid of the pot was too tight, the rice soup in the pot overflowed, leaving sticky rice soup inside and outside the stove!It took more than half a day just to sweep and mop the floor and clean the stove. I didn't eat a single bite of the potato porridge, and I was so tired that I was half dead.

After cleaning the kitchen, the two intern teachers completely gave up the unrealistic fantasy of "cooking by themselves", ran to the small store in the village, bought two packs of instant noodles, a bag of ham sausage, and went to the vegetable garden to pull some Beat the chicken feathers, two eggs, and cook a pot of instant noodles for a meal.

It can only be said that fortunately small supermarkets in rural areas can now scan codes to pay. These two second-hand goods did not bring any cash with them when they came to support education in rural areas. If online payment is not so popular these days, I am afraid that they will not even be able to eat instant noodles. .

It was so hard to wait till Brother Xiaoman, who is an excellent cook, came back. Unexpectedly, only the principal came down alone!

Fang Xingchen tried his best to stretch his neck to look behind Jiang Baichuan, but he couldn't find Jiang Xiaoman's figure, so he was extremely disappointed.

"Principal, isn't Brother Xiaoman having dinner at our school tonight?" Chu Mengluan watched Jiang Xiaoman leave in a big truck, and his heart was filled with misery and despair.

I ate a bowl of instant noodles at noon, should I continue to eat the boiled vegetables and roasted potatoes made by the principal in the evening?

Jiang Baichuan glanced at the two young people speechlessly, seeing how pitiful they were, he sighed secretly: "Brother Xiaoman just took the driver to Jiangwan Village to collect yams, and you will come over for dinner at night."

"I also bought some stewed vegetables. I have worked hard for you during this time, and I will give you extra meals tonight!"

"Great! Principal, we bought two fish in the village just now, both of which are alive and kept in the pond. Can Brother Xiaoman help us cook some fish tonight?"

"Ask him about this, anyway, I can only cook boiled vegetables, hum~" Jiang Baichuan carried the woven bag into the kitchen.

There are braised vegetables, but also braised fish!Sure enough, he was led to ruin by that little bastard Jiang Xiaoman...

Jiang Xiaoman followed the car to Jiangwan Village, and the car navigated directly to the door of Mrs. Chen's house. The returned yams were packed in net bags, and the bags were neatly stacked on the side of the road.

"Have you found a stevedore?" The driver jumped out of the car, opened the rear compartment, and skillfully pulled down the loading and unloading ladder.

"It's just so much potatoes, why do we need to hire a stevedore? Let's pack them ourselves!" Mrs. Chen raised her arms and shouted, and a group of women's soldiers in old clothes began to load potatoes into the car bag by bag.

A bag of [-] catties of yams was left in the city. It would be a bit difficult for ordinary men to carry it up the stairs, but these sister-in-laws who are used to farm work are very familiar with it, and they even have a smile on their faces.After all, in the past, if they wanted to sell yams, they had to carry tens of catties of yams on their backs and walk a long way to the market. Now, Xiaoman helped them contact the owner of the yams, and the car drove directly to the village. In the car, the money can be settled on the spot.

Mrs. Chen called a total of five people to help load the car. Apart from her second sister Shan Qiaoqiao and Jiang Wumei from the village, the other two were relatively strong in the village. The two of them did not have the turn to sell yams this time. , but Mrs. Chen promised them that she would collect potatoes when she returned to Jiang Xiaoman next time, and sell them to their family first.But this time, they will not let them work for nothing. Carrying a bag of yams to the car costs two yuan, and they can earn 50 yuan for an hour of hard work. It is already very difficult to find odd jobs in rural areas.

"Xiao Man, take the driver brother to drink tea in the house! I made red bean cakes and fried peanuts." Aunt Chen beckoned them to the house to rest.

The driver master was not polite to her, and went in with a smile.It's not that he doesn't have a gentleman's demeanor, but that he knows that those who rush to load and unload all rely on the sacks of yams they carry to count their wages. If he helps carry a sack, they will lose a sack of wages. There are too few opportunities to make money at the door of the house, so it's not easy for him to rush up and make trouble.

Seeing that Jiang Xiaoman seemed a little depressed, the driver brother smiled, thinking that this kid is quite kind, just like when he was young, he always felt unbearable when he saw a woman carrying a bag, but there was nothing he could do about it.Many men in rural areas say that they go out to work, but in fact they don’t get much money back every year. How can a large family survive by farming alone?If women want to buy some delicious food and more books for their children, they have to find ways to earn money by themselves.

Five thousand catties of yams sounds like a lot, but in fact, it was loaded very quickly after being bagged. Jiang Xiaoman drank two cups of tea and ate a few pieces of red bean cakes with the driver brother, and then yelled that it was packed. Time, less than an hour.

Mrs. Chen was very polite, and repeatedly asked them to eat at home before leaving. The driver quickly waved his hand and refused, saying that their company has regulations. Unless they miss the meal, there are time rules for when to leave and when to return to the factory. Yes, this is also the meaning of preventing the driver from taking the public car with private goods on the road. After hearing this, Mrs. Chen had no choice but to give up. She went into the house and took a few clean plastic bags, and filled them with homemade red bean cakes and fried peanuts. Not a lot.

The driver had to rush back to the factory for the handover, so he put Jiang Xiaoman down at the school. Jiang Xiaoman entered the school with red bean cakes and fried peanuts, and saw three teachers in the yard with shovels and bamboo brooms, in full swing. Cleaning the school playground...