Chapter 161 [161] The eight sons and one daughter of the Zhuo family (3000)

The uncle is probably old. Even if he comes back for a month this year, he has not been able to get pregnant as he wishes. This makes Zhuo Lin extremely precious.

Now, except for the tofu business, the family can’t finish the eggs laid by 10 or 20 hens, and most of them are taken away by their father to sell them to subsidize their living expenses in the factory.

As the saying goes: When a duck lays eggs, it first removes oil and then fat, and finally takes hard work. From birth to laying eggs, it takes at least four months, so it's still early!

They were caught in June and they would have to be harvested after the autumn harvest.

With the help of her stimulating grass, Niu Niu not only has never been sick, but has become stronger and stronger. Everyone says that the cow they bought is worthwhile.

After killing a pig at the end of last year, my grandmother and my uncle each caught four piglets, and the remaining three pigs were already quite fat. According to the family's wishes, they planned to kill them after the cold weather and sell them from street to street. The piglets caught after the New Year are now growing day by day, which is equivalent to raising one after another. If it weren't for the hot summer and it would be difficult to preserve them, they would have wanted to satisfy their cravings.

However, there are many chickens in the family, and the old and new are alternating. Although the meat of the old hen is not easy to bite, the hen soup produced is amazing. Many families with pregnant women in the family specialize in buying old hens, so my father sells them to colleagues in the factory, at least three. Because the chicken is 70 cents per catty, a chicken can be sold for about two or three yuan.

When pork is sold at the agency store, it can be sold for 7 cents per kilogram. A pig with more than 200 kilograms can be sold for about 130 yuan after being killed. This is sold at the wholesale price. If they sell it themselves, the price may be higher, at least 80 cents. Eight cents are also cheaper than the 80 cents in the agency store, which is nothing more than a little troublesome.

This year, my brothers helped make tofu, sell tofu, catch cicada monkeys, pick up cicada shells, and occasionally drove cattle to the mountains on the other side of Shouyang Mountain to collect mushrooms and dig wild vegetables. They were as dry as if they were drying every day, and they never complained about being tired. Instead, she became the most enjoyable person in the family.

After all, she didn't mention Liu Tieyong's affairs to the adults at home, but she rarely goes to the alleys there now. As for Wang Aihong, she was driven out without the temptation of candy, and she held a grudge against that person. She took a detour when she saw him. As for Liu Tieyong, she only appeared within everyone's sight during the busy farming period, and then she usually hid at home and didn't like to come out, which shows how she suffered a blow.

Since the last incident happened, my uncle has not returned home, but he has found a wife. It was introduced by a sister-in-law in the group. Now the two are talking and will probably bring it back to see the family during the Chinese New Year.

Grandpa and grandma seem to be unsatisfied, mainly because they don’t understand the situation of girls from other places. Even if they were introduced by their sister-in-law, who knows what kind of character is? You can’t go to someone else’s local area to investigate. In fact, they were still scared by the Deng family and had sequelae.

Since his uncle left, his mother has been doing a lot of work to find a wife for his younger brother. Who knew that he had actually had a chat with himself. While he was happy, he was worried that his uncle, who was not very smart, would be deceived.

In September, not only Zhuo Jian was sent to Yuhong Class, but she and Tao Yi were also sent to elementary school, in Ah Niang's words.

"If you are not at home, your uncle and I can calm down and earn money to work. We have to serve you at home. Although you have grown up and can share the work at home, you will not delay working for us when you come home from school. Let's just go to school!"

In September 1961, Zhuo Lin was six years old, Zhuo saw four years old, Tao Yi was eleven years old, and was sent to school together. However, Tao Yi went directly to junior high school to take the entrance examination and passed it immediately. Zhuo Lin didn't want to stay in elementary school, but her age was here, so she just didn't want to go? She reluctantly asked her to go to the third grade. She originally wanted to go to the fifth grade graduating class, but her eldest and second brothers asked her to keep a low profile and not be too ostentatious. First, the first half of the year, adapt and adapt.

My eldest brother, my second brother has graduated from the fourth grade of junior high school this year and has been admitted to a high school in the county town. He has already gone to school in September.

The third brother is in the second grade of junior high school in the village this year, the fourth brother and Tao Yi are in the first grade of junior high school, the fifth brother is in the town for the fifth grade of elementary school, the sixth brother is in the fourth grade of elementary school, Zhuo Lin is in the third grade, and Zhuo Jian Yuhong class.

Now the Zhuo family has the conditions to let the children go to school and do the work at home, because in addition to those who go to school in the county and townships, they need to live in the school, and go home on weekends, such as Lao Wu Zhuoran, Lao Liu Zhuor, Zhuolin, and Zhuo Jian, who can still go back and forth to go home for dinner. When they go home, they can naturally help the adults at home do some work within their ability, such as cutting pig grass after school, feeding chickens, and rushing ducks back from the rice fields.

If it happens to weekends, the women in the family are basically Lafayette. They don’t need to cook, make tofu, herd cattle, feed pigs, feed chickens, and ducks. They don’t need them. The men almost took care of them. This is probably why they thought about it and let the children go to school for education. Because they have cows at home and can rest for a day on weekends, they feel that they can bear it. In an attitude of not delaying their future, they are all sent to school.

Now there are two high school students in their family. The tuition fee is five yuan per semester. The food is brought from home and the vegetables are eaten at school. The processing fee for eating and dormitory fee for living in each semester is five yuan. The total amount is ten yuan per semester, which costs twenty yuan.

There are three junior high school students, the third and fourth brothers and Tao Yi. The tuition is four yuan, food and accommodation are provided by their own food, pickles are managed by the school. Each person costs four yuan per semester, which is eight yuan in total, and a total of twenty-four yuan.

The three primary school students, the fifth and sixth and Zhuo Lin, the tuition fee is three yuan. Like the brothers, they bring their own food for lunch. The school manages the dishes, which costs two yuan per semester because they only eat one meal a day, but the dishes eaten are better than those in junior high school and high school. One person costs five yuan per semester, and three are fifteen yuan.

The youngest Zhuojian costs five yuan a semester, and he is in the town, having a lunch, giving the school a certain amount of food, and the Yuhong class is responsible for eating and playing with him.

Therefore, after half a year, the children's tuition alone would have to bear 64 yuan. If this is placed in an ordinary family, it would be great to go to each family. The nine children of their family were sent to school. While the villagers envied them, rumors also spread.

After all, I bought a cow in the first half of the year, and all the children were sent to the school in the second half of the year. What kind of wealthy family is this?

Some people are so sad and say something unpleasant, but some people have a positive outlook and directly smile and ironize the past.

"Sister-in-law, it's wrong for you to say that. Daqiang's sister-in-law has Daqiang's brother who works as a soldier outside to earn allowances. Dajun's sister-in-law has Dajun's brother who works as a worker in the factory to earn wages. He also raises cattle, pigs, chickens and ducks. He goes out to sell tofu hard every day. He doesn't see anyone doing less work in the fields. He earns hard money and has never stolen any laziness. If my brother Guzi is as diligent as the Zhuo family, you can live a good life."

"It's not that. These days are all made, not envious. You only see that people's family have been living, but why don't you see that sister-in-law grind beans and make tofu? Every day, they sell tofu alone, and they greet the livestock in the yard alone. Selling tofu is not a good job. If you don't feed pigs, cows and chickens, you won't grow meat. Don't let your hair grow short and say it embarrassingly. Take good care of your family's affairs. It's better than anything else."

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The sister-in-law's life is fulfilling every day, and they are busy enough to work. Where can they have time? These gossips are all about women who come to buy tofu. If they learn from them, my mother usually laughs it off and does not comment. Instead of wasting her saliva and slutching them with these people, it is better to squat down and pick up the beans for a while.

The primary schools in the town are not big, and they are all unfinished houses. There are only three classrooms in total, one in grades one in grades one in grades one in grades one in grades three in grades one in grades one in grades one in the teacher’s office, with only three or four teachers, plus the principal and the cooking staff, there are only eight teachers. It is really condensed and purified. What makes Zhuo Lin speechless is that he always teaches in dialects.

Fortunately, she has been here for two years and can understand it, but she still misses the time when the teachers teach in Mandarin.

There are four dormitories in total, all of which are very large, one for girls and one for boys. The remaining two are separated by teachers and men and women in school. They are said to be teachers' dormitories, but they are actually offices. Sometimes they are in the fifth grade classroom, and sometimes they live in their own places, which scores time.

When you go to the toilet here, you have to run to the corner of the playground. The time during class is very casual. Usually, the children see the cook who walks towards the iron bell with an iron stick, and they know that it is time to go to class, and then they quickly run to the classroom.

There is no running water, there is a well in the yard. When you eat and get water, you have to turn the rope to shake it up. The place is usually locked because there is a well and it will only be opened when water is needed, for fear that young children will fall down.

But Zhuo Lin saw that the first grade children were much older than her. Some of them were in their teens and had just arrived in the first grade and could accommodate a wooden barrel at the wellhead. She felt that it was unnecessary. In the past, children might have gone to elementary school at the age of six and a half, but now there are children of all ages, which are not even equal. Most parents think that when they go to elementary school, they can just recognize words and count numbers, and just open their eyes and blindly.

Because of poverty, there are no homework books or books in the first and second grades. Everyone puts a sand table and a stick in front of them to practice.

It was only in the third and fourth grade that I encouraged me to buy homework books, pencils and erasers pencil cases, etc., but the entire classroom was just the teacher who had a textbook, which the children didn’t have.

Zhuo Lin only realized why so many people were jealous of their family. To be honest, if it were her, she might feel unbalanced because the gap between the rich and the poor is too big...

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