Chapter 255

"What's the use of reading for a girl? In the end, she has to get married? I'm not saying that Xu Jing of your family is 20 years old. If you take the exam for another year, you'd better not get married, just be an old girl. " The local accent, with its earthy flavor, floated out of the courtyard wall, like a nail, and fell into Xu Jing's ear.

Xu Jing's father is a good man in the village. Because he has no brother in the village, he is bullied. He always speaks in a low voice: "she has learned well this year. She has been given a scholarship. Maybe she will be admitted."

"It's no use getting in. If you really go to other places to study, and are cheated by the men outside, you can't receive any betrothal gifts. What will happen then? It's not sure where to allocate it when you study in a college or secondary school. You want to allocate it to Pingjiang city. Who doesn't want to allocate it to Pingjiang city? When you graduate, it's all decided by the leaders of other people's schools. Is there no official in your old Xu family? No? "

"No Xu Jing's father was also honest, so he nodded his head according to the other party's words.

"Yes. There is no official in eight lives. Who will give you a good place. Students without help are sent to the frontier. Do you know the frontier? New * Xinjiang, West * Tibet, cloud * south, and treasure island... "This is watching the news, learning politics, and telling all about treasure island.

However, Xu Jing didn't want to laugh at all. She could hear the meaning of the people inside. She knew that although her father was a good man, he was so soft that he was easily talked about.

But for that, she would not be able to repeat it for three years.

It was Xu's father who provided for her to go to school with his teeth clenched. No one of his peers, including the boys in the neighboring village, had studied in junior high school and senior high school like her. After finishing senior high school, he went back to school.

No matter how much other girls ask for their father, they don't have the chance to go back to school for three years. Xu Jing can make it through. The family's efforts are unknown.

Xu Jing also thought that if she failed to enter the University, she would have to marry herself out. It's just that I'm not willing to try my best.

"Xiaojing did very well in the exam. They said that Xiaojing was able to enter the University. This year, she volunteered to enter the University, not college or technical secondary school." Xu Jing's mother's voice projected from the courtyard wall, showing helplessness.

"I know that Xu Jing has some ability to study. If she doesn't have this ability, I won't go to your home. However, it's too difficult for you to enter the University. It's useless for you to sign up. Finally, you have to apply for college and technical secondary school. That's what I think. Two years ago, your Xu Jing didn't also apply, didn't she fail?"

Xu Jing gently opened the door and saw her mother standing in front of the Chaifang with her head down. Besides her father, she also had relatives at home. Standing opposite her was a man I didn't know. He was wearing a towel around his neck, a shawl, and a pair of muddy shoes under his feet. The heel and side of the shoes were covered with loess, but the front was only covered with a thin layer of lime soil.

Xu Jing's mother didn't know whether she understood each other's words, but when he finished, she said, "it's not a college or a technical secondary school. I remember we applied for an undergraduate course, it's an undergraduate university."

"Undergraduate?" The man in leather shoes laughed and said, "do you know how many people in our village have been admitted to the undergraduate course? None of them, undergraduate? Is undergraduate course that easy? I'll tell you that the son of county magistrate Wang also reviewed for college entrance examination. When I saw him last time, I said, uncle Qiu asked you, which school are you going to test for? What do people say? I'm so happy to be a junior college student in Pingjiang... "

"The son of the county magistrate can't get into the undergraduate course. Why can't I get into the undergraduate course?" When Xu Jing heard this, she couldn't help it any more. She came out and smashed the piggy back basket heavily on the ground.

Uncle Qiu, who was wearing leather shoes, was startled by Xu Jing, who had a big arm and a round waist. He immediately laughed and said, "is this Xu Jing? Well, I haven't seen you for a long time. I'm still so strong. "

"Do you know me?" Xu Jing's voice is rough.

Uncle Qiu said with a smile: "I've seen it from afar before. Oh, your body is really good. It's good to study. My son is in our rural primary school, and you a class, thinner, Xiaolei, qiulei, do you remember

Under the gaze of a group of people, Xu Jing silently raised the basket, thought for a while, and said, "I don't remember."

"It doesn't matter if you don't remember. In a word, Xiaolei is 20 years old this year, and he is a classmate with you again. I thought, we can get closer and make you two friends everywhere..."

"This is an arranged marriage." Xu Jingqi's smoke, and I don't know how to resist, there are relatives and friends around looking at it.

"No, no, it's not arranged marriage, it's introduction. If you're in a good position, it's good. If you're not in a good position, it doesn't matter, right, Xu Jing's mother." Uncle Qiu's eyes turned to the other side.

Xu Jing's mother bowed her head and said nothing.

Xu Jingqi looked at him, said: "I am not good, can you go now?""Well, you're a child with a big temper. It's OK to have a big temper." Uncle Qiu looks at Xu Jing and thinks that his ass is big and he is strong and good at work. When he goes up to the terrace, he may even save the cattle. Nowadays, it costs a lot of money to raise a cow. When farming is busy, there is no place to borrow it. When my son marries such a wife to go home, he does not save any money.

What's more, it's good for the next generation. Qiu Lei has been weak since he was a child. He is thin and small. He is less than 1.5 meters tall. It's the opposite of Xu Jing. If you balance it, at least your grandchildren will be able to do something. Maybe Xu Jing can teach him something.

Uncle Qiu prepared a betrothal gift of 300 yuan for this. In taqian village, this is a first-class high price.

Of course, the aesthetics of the 1980s also helped Xu Jing. In the past few decades, when publicizing the image of women in Chinese society, the slogan "who says women are not as good as men" has been widely used. The heroines like Hua Mulan are well known. The women on the posters are also men from railway, oil and other fronts. When they grow up to be strong women like Xu Jing, they don't suffer when they get married.

Xu Jing's father is still a good man's performance. Seeing uncle Qiu sighing, he worried and pulled Xu Jing's clothes and said, "talk to Uncle Qiu well. You go back to the house first. There's nothing for you here."

"Dad, I don't marry." Xu Jing's tone is a bit like coquetry, but her action is like a bear, but her color is not like a panda, and the peddler is like a door seller.

"You go inside." Xu Fu said again.

Other relatives are also persuading.

Under the siege of a group of people, Xu Jing didn't retreat. She was about to retreat into the room. She was afraid and cried out, "Dad, I'm sure I'll be admitted to university this year! Dad

In the yard, there was a moment of silence.

In a moment, bursts of laughter rang out.

Even Xu's father hung his head, sighed and said, "this child is hysterical about reading."

"Dad, I can really pass the exam." Xu Jing's tears ran down her face.

"I know, I know." Xu's father touched his daughter's braid and said, "Dad is also for your own good. College and secondary school assign jobs, but you have to go to school for three more years. By that time, you will be 24..."

In the final analysis, he thinks that even if Xu Jing can be admitted, she will be admitted to a college or technical secondary school.

In fact, this is not surprising, because there are only a few people in the county who can be admitted to junior college and undergraduate every year, and these students can get the front rank of the county when they take the senior high school entrance examination. Xu Jing didn't take the first middle school entrance examination in the County, and then took the college entrance examination. Originally, she went to college and technical secondary school.

In fact, the allocation of jobs in Colleges and secondary schools is equivalent to the civil service examination. In an era when there is no private enterprise and even household registration restriction, the temptation of this kind of examination is stronger than that of later civil service examinations.

Xu Jing burst into tears.

Xu Jing's mother said: "less than twenty-four, that is twenty-three!"

"I'm twenty-three years old. How can I find your mother-in-law. You know someone in Uncle Qiu's family. If you marry him, he'll find a way to get you a job. It's not three years' time saved. " Xu Fu did weigh the pros and cons. As like as two peas, the other two are now the same as the high school, and the education level is quite similar. Therefore, if the family can find a way to find a job, no one will go to college.

Xu Jing was persuaded by her father to tears, sobbing: "I don't marry, I want to go to school."

"You have to think about it for your dad, don't you? You read for three years, your father, your mother and your family have to endure for another three years... "Uncle Qiu said with a smile, but his tone was a little impatient.

Xu Jing cried: "I don't need the money from my family. Yang Rui said that Ruixue group gave me scholarships and the school gave me living expenses..."

"Can this group support you all your life? Girl, don't be stubborn. Listen to my uncle, get married early, have a baby early, have a baby early, have a good life early, and have a little life early, huh

"Bah, you can cheat my father, you can't cheat me. If you have a way to find a job for others, how can your son still be a farmer? If your son has a job, will you come to our family to propose marriage? " Xu Jing and Yang Rui have been staying for a long time. The logic of speaking is next to next.

Uncle Qiu was asked, but he had no words to refute, but he had a lot of ways.

After listening to Uncle Qiu's slapping, Qiao said angrily, "it's no fun for you to say that. To tell you the truth, I didn't find a job for Xiaolei. That's because Xiaolei didn't get his junior high school diploma. If you want to say that I have no ability to find a job for others, my uncle Qiu put his face here. Who wants to find a job? Come to me at night, and I'll run for him for nothing. Lao Xu, there's no way to talk about this marriage. Let's go back to each family. "

His words are half true and half false, but in the latter part, they light up many people's eyes.In the eyes of the villagers in front of the pagoda, uncle Qiu, who wears leather shoes, is a first-class capable man. If he is really willing to run errands and find a job for everyone, no one is indifferent.

It's a good thing to work for the country, but it's a good thing to keep a stable and decent income from drought and flood. There are more villagers who can't worship the temple gate with pig's head.

Xu's father was moved by Uncle Qiu's retreat. He looked back at Xu Jing, who was five big and three rough. Thinking of her frustration in the previous two college entrance examinations, he ordered, "Xu Jing, go to the inner room and stay."

Xu's father called two women to persuade Xu Jing to enter.

Xu Jing didn't go, and the women tugged hard, but they didn't move.

Two people increased to four, four to six. Finally, eight women carried Xiong Zhuang's Xu Jing into the house with their hands and feet.

"Drink water, drink water." Father Xu's voice came from behind.

Xu Jing was locked up in the house for a day, and the next day he was not released. Instead, he smelled the smell of oil.

That's Xu Mu's fried steamed bread for uncle Qiu.

Two steamed buns, cut into slices, fried in shallow oil, sprinkled with a little salt, fragrant and crisp.

However, the Xu family has not been so extravagant for a long time. Since... Since Xu Jing went to high school, she has been more frugal than her neighbors.

Xu Jing's sense of smell brings surging memories - her mother bent down, her father weeding with his waist, her brother picking elm money to satisfy his hunger

Yes, my brother is in junior high school.

Xu Jing thought and cried. Her face was covered with tears, and she couldn't wipe it off.

In the yard, uncle Qiu was sitting on a bench, eating fried steamed bread. He looked up at the sky 45 degrees and said, "don't look at our little Lei's poor health. He is very flexible. He can do some carpentry work. It's easy to change oil. When I get married, I'll find him a job in the township government, and then I'll find a job for Xu Jing of your family, and I'll have a big fat boy again. It'll be a hot day for me.... "

Xu Jing's parents eat steamed white buns and laugh on both sides.

After a while, the relatives who came yesterday rushed to the yard one after another and began to discuss more details.

Xu Jing's mother came into the room and tried to persuade her.

Xu Jing sat on the bed, his eyes blank, neither talking nor moving.

Xu's mother is not a person who can speak. After two words of advice, she doesn't know what to say, so she has to ask relatives and women to come in and help.

As a result, the room was soon filled with women's voices: "how nice this is..."

Outside the room was also full of Uncle Qiu's voice: "I'll tell you..."

The chaos continued until noon.

Just when the people in the room were tired to death, and the sound outside the room broke through, the big trumpet in the village sounded twice unexpectedly.

"Hello, hello..."

"Hello, your mother!" The frightened villagers laughed and scolded.

Xu Jing is like a strong ghost, difficult to stand up.

"My village head Xu Sanba, let me know something. Xu Jing, your letter is coming..."

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