Chapter 504

"Come back, four girls, it's hard for you..." as soon as Mao fourth got off the tractor, he saw more than a dozen men, women, young and old standing at the intersection of the bumpy dirt road and the path up the mountain.

There are several baskets around the fire pond in the thatched pavilion without walls built next to it for passers-by to shelter from the rain.

The old stooped and looked like he would die the next moment. The young even had half the children who should have gone to school in school.

The idea is that nine-year compulsory education has not been popularized, and primary schools have to pay hundreds of tuition and miscellaneous fees in a semester, which is nothing for ordinary families. However, for those people in the mountains who still adhere to the teaching of many people and great strength, in order to strengthen the family strength and have children, three or five are few, and six or seven are barely passable, so, It's hard for all the children at home to carry their schoolbags to school.

Even many families don't even have money to buy salt, let alone spend hundreds of dollars to send their children to school.

"Why is everyone here? Grandpa three, why are you here? " Mao fourth doubted that these eager young and old had been waiting for themselves outside the bus station in the countryside.

"Frost girl said you have to come back these two days. I'm afraid it's too late when you come back. So we waited for you here yesterday. These young children have nothing to do. They came here today and said they came to pick up their fourth aunt..." the old man called the Third Master by fourth Mao knocked his cigarette pot on the bottom of his cloth shoes and said calmly to fourth Mao.

"Grandpa three, if I come back two days late, don't you have to wait until I come back?" Mao Laosi didn't expect that the relatives of these frost girls would pay so much attention to themselves.

"Aunt four, that's for sure, but aunt said, after you come back this time, our road can start..." a half year old child said excitedly.

To get rich, build roads first.

These mountain people are far more eager to build roads than anywhere else.

However, it is not a problem that can be solved by manpower to build roads that can be accessed by cars in the mountains!

Moreover, road construction is a big project. Although there are a lot of strong labor in the mountain, it is impossible to build a mountain road hundreds of miles by hand without money and materials.

Building a road inside the mountain so that nijiazhai, with a population of hundreds, can connect with the earth road leading to the countryside, was considered by the Kangshan township government in the 1980s. However, due to all the mountain roads, the road construction is too difficult and lack of funds. It has been delayed for seven or eight years, and the construction has not started yet.

"Grandpa three, this..." Mao Yadong didn't know what to say. She was just an errand runner.

But unexpectedly, Ni Lishuang's third grandpa personally took a group of young students waiting for him on the way up the mountain.

"Aunt Si, you are now our God of wealth. We have nothing to do in the stockade anyway. Being idle is also idle..." before Ni Sanye spoke, the boy around him scrambled and said.

"Wulengzi, you don't want to go to school. Do you find an excuse to sneak out? Look, I won't tell your aunt to go back... "Mao Yadong didn't know how to deal with such a heavy gift. He could only tease the boy who spoke.

"Grandpa three, it's getting late. Let's go..." if his mother wasn't here, Mao four didn't want to come back here at all.

After getting off the train, taking a day's car, and then taking a half day's tractor, she still has to walk more than a day's mountain road to reach Ni Jiazhai. For her urban girl who has suffered a lot since she was a child, but has not walked so many mountain roads, this is fatal.

"Yes, it's getting late. If you don't go, you won't be able to arrive tomorrow after dark. Four girls, please get on the sliding rod... "Two middle-aged people took a sliding rod made of two wooden chairs tied on both sides from the shelter and put it at the feet of old Mao four. Master Ni said to old Mao four.

The mountain road is difficult to travel. There are only two kinds of people who can enjoy these sliding poles. One is the bride, and the other is the person who has to go to the hospital because of a serious illness. In half a year here, old Mao four has only seen it twice, once the cousin of Uncle Ni Lishuang's family married, and once a woman in the stronghold had difficulty giving birth

Now, the man of Ni's stronghold actually uses this to carry her back to the stronghold. How can she not be moved?

"Grandpa three, how can I afford it..." Mao fourth always wanted to sit, but knowing the significance of the slide rod, she stayed in the mountain for a long time, and she didn't care to take more mountain roads.

"Four girls, this is what the patriarch ordered..." the wrinkled Third Master Ni said to fourth Mao with a smile.

In these marginal strongholds, the patriarch has more power than government officials.

You know, when she first saw this thing that only existed before liberation, she wanted to sit on it, but no matter what she said, Ni Lishuang's grandfather, the head of Ni Jiazhai village, didn't agree to it.

Now they go back to raise money for road construction. They actually use such a big gift!

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"Frost girl, tell Grandpa the truth. Can the fourth girl really bring back the money for road repair this time?" Ni Fulai asked the only daughter of his boss's family, who was fiddling with potatoes on the edge of the fire pond.

Potatoes account for a large proportion of people's food in the mountains of Southern Yunnan.

There are many mountains in southern Yunnan. There are few terraces in the mountains where rice can be grown. The staple food in many places is high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn. Of course, there are miscellaneous grains that urban people don't want to eat, such as sorghum.

Potatoes are not only a staple food, but also a snack for children in southern Yunnan.

"Grandpa, don't worry. She will be able to bring the money back. When the road is through, repair the school in the stockade. As long as the road is through, there will be teachers willing to come. At that time, we will give more money to those teachers and they can stay." Back in southern Yunnan, where she had never been, Ni Lishuang gained a lot of weight.

"Frost girl, aren't you entertaining us? The money for road construction is not a small amount. Otherwise, the township government would have repaired it long ago. It would cost hundreds of thousands! " Ni Weifu, the third uncle of Ni Lishuang, took the old man's hookah, took the child in his arms and smoked it.

"Third uncle, don't worry!" Third uncle is the successor of the village. How can she not understand that she is eager to change the poverty situation in the village!

"Sister Shuanger, can you tell us what a big city looks like? In our stockade, grandpa has only been to the county several times. The most knowledgeable person is the uncle who goes to school. Unfortunately... "Zhang Hongmei, the new daughter-in-law married by the youngest son of Ni Lishuang's second uncle's family after the new year, yearns for the world outside the mountain. She has rarely been to the countryside, let alone a big city.

"Hongmei, shut up!" Zhou Xiuying, Ni Lishuang's second aunt who was taking over the soles of her shoes, suddenly changed her face and scolded her new daughter-in-law.

After Ni Lizhuang came back, the old man had a family meeting. No one can mention her father in front of Ni Lizhuang.

The girl had no parents when she was born. Because their relatives were too far away and didn't want to ruin Ni Lishuang's life, the old man stopped thinking of taking her back to raise her.

These days, there is an insurmountable gap between rural people and urban people.

Ordinary rural people want to get urban hukou, in addition to being a soldier, they only have to study.

For so many years, I haven't encountered recruitment in the whole stockade. I haven't seen recruitment in other places at all. The only thing left is reading.

Since liberation, only Ni Lishuang's father got a place when he recommended to go to college, not even to junior high school

"Aunt, it's all right. Although I didn't have parents since childhood, my adoptive parents treated me very well at home! There's nothing you can't say. Sister Hongmei, when the road is repaired, I'll take you to Chengdu. If you want to stay in Chengdu at that time, I'll let my brother Yunfei arrange a job for you. " Ni Lishuang is full of sympathy for the girl who married at the age of 16.

"Really? I haven't read any books. I don't even know many words! " Zhang Hongmei was excited when Ni Lishuang said she would take her to a big city and arrange work.

"Frost girl, don't coax her to play, or she won't work hard all day..." Zhou Xiuying heard Ni Lishuang say that she wants to arrange work for her own daughter-in-law. Although she is also looking forward to it, it's not easy to think of it. She's worried that the new daughter-in-law is wild and can't be managed in the future.

"Second aunt, I'm not really coaxing her. My brother Yunfei's factory has been recruiting people all the time!" There are several factories under Yunfei. Even if she has no culture, it is not difficult for her to arrange several posts.

Yunfei doesn't object to putting some relatives inside. As long as he doesn't put people in the management and technology departments, and the people who put them in obey the management, there will be no problem.

"Frost girl, I've been listening to the fourth girl of the Mao family say your brother Yun Fei. What on earth does he do?" The old man didn't go to bed and get up as early as other old people. After Ni Lishuang came back, he changed his habit of not chatting at the fire pond for a long time.

Soon after Ni Li Shuang came back, Qing yu'e came to Ni Li Shuang with her daughter, which made the whole family very happy. How can they not be happy that this girl without parents can receive such attention?

Moreover, they didn't know that Ni Lishuang ran away from home.