Chapter 57： go to school

Chapter 57 Going to School

On Monday, Father Li took Li Xiaoyu to the village primary school to find the principal.

Li Xiaoyu passed the exam and became a fifth grade student.

From today, she and her third brother Li Chengyi have become classmates at the same table.

Li's father explained to Li Chengyi in detail and asked him to take his sister well before riding a bicycle to work.

Banzhulin Village Primary School was founded using the ancestral hall of the Li clan, and accepts children from four nearby villages to go to school.

The courtyard with blue brick and stone walls is the best building in several villages.

There is a 100-year-old yellow juniper tree outside the courtyard. It takes ten adults to enclose it, and the canopy can cover most of the primary school.

In summer, people who are close to each other like to enjoy the shade under the tree and talk like a commonplace.

Bazi has a size of 500 square meters and is paved with gravel.

Now it has become a playground, and there will be many students playing here between classes.

At this time, the villagers didn’t even have a basketball, and all they could play were homemade toys.

The boys play 'cockfighting', and the girls play 'picking stones' and 'hopscotch'.

When it's cold in winter, they will 'squeeze fried buns' against the wall to keep each other warm. Boys and girls lean against one side of the wall.

There are seven rooms in the courtyard, five for classrooms, one for office, and one for sundries.

The desks used by students are all stone desks, and you need to bring your own stools.

Li Xiaoyu came to school on her first day, but Li's father didn't prepare a stool for her. She sat with Li Chengyi in a crowd.

Li Chengyi was placed in the last row because he was taller than his classmates.

Li Xiaoyu was sitting on his stool, only showing a top of hair. The teacher on the podium saw her and snickered with her back to the students.

Li Xiaoyu was very angry at her shortness. She must bring a high stool.

See if you dare to laugh at her, don't think she didn't see it.

Li Xiaoyu got it as she wished, and the high stool brought back by Li's father was carried by the third brother to the school.

Time is coming, and the cold winter is here.

The toiled Ma Li had a chance to catch her breath in winter. She had time to make cotton coats and quilts for her family. After she had used them all, she remembered that she should go back to her parents' home.

Li Xiaoyu knew that Li Ma was going back to her grandmother's house and had already prepared gifts for her.

Two catties of white sugar and brown sugar, two pieces of coarse cloth, two pieces of muslin cloth, two chickens, twenty catties of cotton tires, ten catties of rapeseed oil, ten catties of pork, one hundred yuan.

(I knew in my previous life that my uncle was going to get married, but I couldn’t get a dowry, so I couldn’t get a daughter-in-law.)

Father Li prepared two bags of 50 catties of grain: wheat and millet.

At night, Ma Li turned the pancakes over and over, and then fell asleep after being 'cleaned up' by Father Li.

Get up early, Li Ma also wakes up Li's father and asks him to cook.

She herself dug out new clothes in the room and compared them back and forth, not knowing which clothes to wear.

Li's father couldn't help feeling sad when he saw her like that. After all these years of marriage, Li's mother had never bought a new dress.

Li Ma finally chose to wear a gray Lenin suit over the cotton coat.

Since she wears new clothes, she wears all new clothes. A Hengxin, Li Ma is finally willing to wear her new clothes.

"Brother Yan, does it look good?"

"Good-looking, you look good in anything you wear!"

Li Ma, who received the compliment, laughed from ear to ear. The couple explained their home well and went out with gifts.

Li's father, the "hairy-footed son-in-law", rode on a bicycle and accompanied Li's mother to the house with a cart full of gifts.

Li Ma returned to her parents' home beautifully, causing a sensation.

Before the    people arrived at Dujia Village, Grandma Du knew that the eldest daughter and the eldest son-in-law were coming.

The old lady was so excited that she shouted loudly: "Little brother, hurry up and pick up your eldest sister and brother-in-law.

Old man, you go to your eldest brother's house to borrow some eggs and come back, hurry up! "

Little Feet, Grandma Du had to lean against the wall when she walked, and she seldom went out.

Because I had bound feet since I was a child, it was really a three-inch golden lotus, and every step I took was painful.

When Ma Li saw Grandma Du, the old lady was leaning against the door, craned her neck and looked outside, her eyes full of hope.

"Mom, I'm back! Why did you come out? Your feet should hurt again at night."

Li Ma, with tears streaming down her face, helped her gray-haired mother into the room.

"Mom, where's my dad?"

"Your dad will be back in a while, come and sit, you're tired from walking all the way!"

Grandma Du touched her eldest daughter's cheek in pain.

Li Ma told Grandma Du with a smile that she came by bicycle and was not tired at all.

Li's mother forgot Li's father as soon as she returned to her parents' house. By the time she remembered it, people had already entered the house.

Father Li put out a gift, which shocked Grandma Du and the onlookers.

Such a thick gift, you have to move your house out, right?

"Uncle, it's not appropriate for you to bring so many things, do you want to live at home?" Grandma Du said anxiously.

"Mom, don't worry about it, I know the seriousness and I won't mess it up."

(end of this chapter)