Xue Ke ran home quickly and hid in her room. She sat in front of the window and stared at her fingers in a daze. The scene of hooking up with Lin Shaoqiu was like a movie, playing over and over again in her mind.

.His big shining eyes and magnetic voice also hit her heart again and again. Her heart beat a little faster, her thoughts were messy again, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Her mother walked in quietly following the laughter and stood behind her, but she didn't notice it for a long time.

"Is your hand okay?"

Xueke was startled: "Mom, when did you come in? You didn't even knock on the door!"

"Just when you were looking at your fingers and giggling, I came in. It's been a while, but you damn girl didn't notice? What happened to your hands?"

Xueke hurriedly put down her hands and hid behind her back. She told her mother incoherently: "Just now... Just now Brother Lin agreed to accompany me to take the high school entrance examination." Her face was filled with excitement and excitement.

"Hey, what do I mean? You girl has been brainless all day, and you haven't even thought about what kind of person Mr. Lin is? He is a national cadre, from the city. Will he accompany you, a yellow-haired girl, to the exam? I heard

In a few days, Director Lin will lead everyone to dig pipes and install running water in the village. That would be a great thing. After installing running water and connecting electricity, our village will be very different, haha..." Mom laughed from ear to ear.

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"But, but he and I have hooked up?!"

"What's the point? You're just trying to coax the child so he doesn't cry. Do you really take it seriously? Is your job as important as installing running water in the village? That's something we've been looking forward to for several lifetimes. Your mother and I have been doing this since we were nine years old.

Carrying water, I changed from small buckets to big buckets, from earthen pots to iron buckets. I don’t know how many loads of water I carried. The well rope was thick and long, and it was heavier than you when tied up. Every time I carried water, I cried with sadness. This Lin Shaoqiu really helped me.

Everyone has done a great thing. When the running water is available, mom will cook some special dishes and thank him well."

"Third Aunt, who are you thanking? You want to cook and do the scenery?" The daughter-in-law of Lao Li's family next door came in step by step. With such a loud voice, no one had arrived yet.

The words have already flown to the roof.

"Hey, you are such a rare visitor. You haven't been to my house for several days. It seems that there is something wrong?" Mom said with a smile on her face.

"Aunt, you are the smartest, and you can see through it at a glance, but I'm not here to find you today. I'm here to see Miss Xueke."

"Looking for her? It's a girl. What can she do for you?" Mom looked confused.

"Auntie, don't underestimate your daughter. She is amazing. Your daughter is a talented woman in Director Lin's eyes. She is so close to Director Lin. She must be good at talking. I want to find her to tell Director Lin.

He said, let my daughter go to the city to find a job. I heard that Director Lin is recruiting workers for a factory in the city. My daughter does not have a junior high school diploma and is afraid that she will not be able to apply. So I want to talk to Director Lin privately."

"Recruiting? Why haven't I heard about this good thing?"

"No way? You haven't even heard that Yingzi and the others have signed up a long time ago."

"I'll go ask Brother Lin and come back and tell you."

"Ouch! You're already a relative, and you're the eldest brother, but you're still the best!"

"This girl is a goblin, am I right? In the past few days, she has become familiar with a city man!" Little Foot's grandma always interjected without warning.

"Mom, just stop saying a few words, she is still a child."

"Old lady, if my mother-in-law hadn't picked her up from the snow back then, I'm afraid you wouldn't have had this granddaughter. Look, how good she is now, sensible, beautiful, and good at studying. What are girls afraid of? Girls raise children.

Aren’t you still promising now that you’re older?”

Xueke stepped back and retracted her foot: "What did you just say? I picked it up from the snow?"

"Don't you know? Why are you called Xue Ke? Even the name was given by my mother-in-law. The third aunt gave birth to you in the snow. The old lady saw that you were a girl, so she wrapped you in a cloth and secretly threw you into the snow.

Here, it was my mother-in-law who took you home because she felt sorry for you and named you Snow..."

"You wife, don't mention those things about old millet and rotten sesame seeds in front of your children!" Grandma tapped the ground with her cane and hid in the house angrily.

"You are so cruel!" Xue Ke clenched his fists, and a layer of mist rose in his eyes.

My mother shrank aside and her eyes were already red.

She looked at her mother and felt an inexplicable pain in her heart. Even across time and space, she could smell the pain on her mother's body. She couldn't help feeling a little distressed. What had this poor mother gone through?

"You see, I always have no control over my mouth. I mentioned this matter again out of the blue, sister. Go help me and ask about work. Let's not go too far."

Xue Ke wiped her eyes and left the door thoughtfully.

The large yard of the village committee was quiet. Lin Shaoqiu was sitting in the office. He was frowning, holding a pen in one hand and a cigarette in the other, looking at a drawing on the table. His expression was very serious, and that rare expression was direct.

It scared her, she had never seen him so serious before.

"Can I come in?" she asked weakly.

"Is it Xue Ke?" Lin Shaoqiu adjusted his glasses, and a bright smile immediately bloomed on his face.

He looked at her for a while and said, "Are you worried?"

She knew she couldn't hide anything from him, so she simply said, "Brother Lin, does my name sound good?"

He actually burst into laughter: "The name was chosen by my parents, so what's wrong with it?"

"No! My name was given by a neighbor. Grandma wouldn't even give me a name, and..."

"

"Xueke, listen to me. No matter what you were like in the past, or how your family treated you, don't mention it again. Snow symbolizes purity, and Ke symbolizes beauty. Your name is very good. Don't dwell on the past, people

You must learn to look forward. In your village, 368 households change brigade secretaries three times a year. There is still no water or electricity in the village. It is normal for such an environment to be a bit backward. Some things have been deeply ingrained in people's minds. The overall environment is

In this way, you can't change the environment, so you have to learn to change yourself. What kind of life you want, and what goals you want to work towards. Now that the high school entrance examination is about to take place, you don't want to have any mental pressure that will affect the exam. That can be changed.

It's your destiny. You must seize the opportunity." He patted her shoulder heavily. Under his guidance, she suddenly became enlightened and her mood suddenly became much more relaxed.

So the two people looked at each other and smiled. At that moment, Xueke felt very happy. She wished that time would stay at that moment forever.

"Tell me, is there anything else?" Lin Shaoqiu first broke the silence for a moment.

So she told everything about the neighbor's daughter.

"It's a simple matter. The employer is very close to ours, and they are recruiting a few temporary workers. I also see that there are many idle young people in your village, so I want them to go out and earn an extra two cents."

Xueke's eyes immediately lit up: "It's so close to your unit. Can't I go?"

"What? Are you going? Do you think it's just a visit? If you're close, go. That's to work. To put it bluntly, it's hard work. You have such a good time, why don't you study there?" Lin Shaoqiu sank deeply.

Face.

"I just want to be closer to you..." Xue Ke muttered in her heart, but in the end she didn't dare to say it out loud. She lowered her head and tugged at the corner of her clothes and didn't speak for a long time.

"Xueke, to tell you the truth, I am also from a rural area, and my family is not well-off. I have several brothers, and I grew up eating dried sweet potatoes and porridge. When I was in high school, my family couldn't even eat dried sweet potatoes.

From the beginning, I finished high school by carrying a can of junk tofu every week to satisfy my hunger. On rainy days, the road was slippery, and I accidentally dropped a crock pot and I was hungry. But no matter how difficult it was, I never thought of giving up studying, because

Children who grow up in families like ours have no other choice but to study. If you want to live a good life, you must concentrate on studying and not waver. Starting today, I don’t want to hear you talk about other topics besides studying. Is that okay?

?”

His words were sincere and powerful, and his tone was stubborn and firm. Who could refuse? What she didn't expect was that Lin Shaoqiu, who was so free and easy, and the sunshine was suffocating, actually had a gloomy history, and she couldn't help but sigh.

Lin Shaoqiu loosened his tie with his hand and said with a long breath: "After telling you these words, I feel much better." As he said that, he took off his suit jacket and put it on the chair casually: "I wear this outfit every day, like

Carrying a snail's shell is boring and tiring, but this is a job requirement. In fact, I prefer the life I had when I was a child, wearing casual clothes, swimming naked in the river, and running barefoot in the fields.

Free and easy, unrestrained. When you grow up, you will miss the life here. We children who grew up in the countryside have many things that city people cannot understand. They don’t understand us, and we can’t understand her.

, adapting to each other is also a painful process.”

"Who are you talking about? I can't understand you?"

"Sorry, I almost forgot that you are still a child. I have always regarded you as my sister. I have told you a bit too much. Come back quickly, I am a little hungry."

"Then what do you eat?"

He pointed at the two dry steamed buns on the table: "Just take a few bites. I've been used to it since I was a child, so I don't pay attention to eating."

Xue Ke frowned: "People in the village say that you are a cadre of a government agency, and you are not a junior official. Is it possible for you to get this job?"

"Haha, what kind of agency cadre? I've been talking for a long time. You still haven't figured it out. I am also a child of a poor person like you. They say theirs. Don't think so. I think you are different from others. You should

Understand me, at least you are more literate than them and can communicate easily."

Xueke blushed at what he said, and she thought to herself: "Am I that good?"

Lin Shaoqiu picked up a steamed bun in front of her, put it to his mouth and took a bite. The crumbs of the steamed bun fell on the paper. He flicked the crumbs off the paper and continued eating as if there was no one else around.

Xue Ke was delighted when she saw this in her eyes: "It seems that he is indeed no different from me. That looks like an authentic rural boy, so you should stop hiding in front of him, just be open and generous. This way

Come on, she feels that the distance between them is closer, and there is no need for her to act like a lady in front of him, as she is not comfortable speaking."

When she got up and left, she didn't forget to say: "Don't forget to accompany you for the exam."

Lin Shaoqiu smiled and nodded frequently. His smile still made her heart beat nervously.

Suddenly it was time for the high school entrance examination, but the examination room was arranged in a middle school in the county? The county is about dozens of kilometers away from the village. The only means of transportation from the village to the county is the old tractor in the village. When the tractor arrives in the city, I'm afraid

The exam had already started, and Xue Ke couldn't even enter the exam room. Besides, they hadn't even been to the county town, so how could they find the exam room quickly? What should they do? So she wanted to discuss it with Lin Shaoqiu in advance.

She hurried to the village committee, but the door of the village committee was closed. Lin Shaoqiu had already disappeared. She was so angry that she smashed the door with both hands. The door of the village committee was made of two thin iron sheets, and she knocked it with her hands.

There was a loud crash, and the sound was like a broken drum. It was unpleasant, but the sound was so loud that the whole village could hear it. Xue Ke used all his strength to hit it while cursing: "Lin Shaoqiu, you are a big liar. You said

It’s a good companionship for the exam, but at the end, not even a person was seen, you lied to me, you are a bad guy.” She was scolding and crying, and her crying attracted many people who loved to watch the fun. The more people gathered, the more people gathered in the village.

The committee is surrounded by water.

Xue Ke was so embarrassed and angry that he almost lost his temper. The crowd was talking about everything, and the whole village was in a state of panic.
To be continued...