A vague impression of the second semester of third grade slowly emerged in Huang Han's mind. These remaining memories were really not good.

It seems that my academic performance was really poor during this period. In a class of more than 60 people, I was only ranked above a few classmates with abnormal IQs, and was always in the bottom dozen.

It's really embarrassing. When he grew up, Huang Han always felt a little regretful when he thought about the time before the third grade. Later, he summarized the reasons and concluded that some boys' intellectual development was late, and they were always confused and confused when they were young.

I should belong to that kind of people whose mental development is relatively late, and as the saying goes, they are "unenlightened". Later, as they grow older, they gradually catch up with or even surpass their friends.

Huang Daozhou looked at his son who said nothing, as if he didn't want to cause chaos in the house early in the morning, so he said nothing more and said calmly: "Hurry up and have breakfast and go to school!"

Breakfast was very simple, a large bowl of soaked rice and a little pickles. If Huang Han had kept this for later, it would have been a big porcelain bowl used to hold soup.

He knew that the current family was extremely poor and could not eat meat twice a month. This was entirely because of his mother's careful budgeting to maintain the family's basic living conditions.

The county where Huang Han is located was later upgraded to a county-level city, and then to a district. The economic level in South Jiangsu Province is in the middle. Why is Huang Daozhou's family so poor?

There is a reason for that, and it is due to the times. Huang Daozhou's family of five lives in the center of Sanshui County, but because Zhang Fangfen has a rural registered permanent residence, all three of her children are.

Therefore, there is only one person's ration for a family of five, and there will be ghosts only if you are not poor.

The reason why she didn't die poor was entirely because Zhang Fangfen made repairs for others. She was basically busy from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the New Year's Eve.

In Huang Han's childhood memories, he had never seen his mother having time to visit the house like the women in the neighborhood and chatting up the family.

Later, the historical issue of Huang Daozhou was solved, but the length of service was out of line.

In this era, wages have little to do with job title and contribution. As long as the service length is long enough, the salary of the receptionist may be higher than that of the factory director.

Therefore, Huang Daozhou's salary was two levels lower than that of his peers. In 1981, his monthly salary was only more than thirty yuan, and there were still four people in his family who could not enjoy affordable goods.

There was a line in Zhao Benshan's sketch about the household appliances and a flashlight, which made the audience laugh, but Huang Han couldn't laugh at all.

That's because my childhood home was so poor that we didn't even have household appliances like flashlights.

At this time, televisions were still far away from the vast majority of people in small cities, but radios were almost universal, which of course did not include the Huang Daozhou family.

The direct result is that my favorite entertainment is listening to the storytelling "The Legend of Yue Fei", which is often ignored.

While drinking porridge, I looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar home, and I couldn't help but lament over and over again. Using the word "barehouse" to describe the home seemed a bit exaggerated, while using the word "poor" to describe it was not far off.

The spring breeze was blowing and the sun was shining brightly. Huang Han went to school carrying his schoolbag. Of course, the schoolbag couldn't be a backpack, but Zhang Fangfen's shoulder bag patched with rags.

It should be noted here that this schoolbag should be second-hand or even third-hand. After my sister changed it to a larger one, Huang Han became the successor.

Huang Han's home is located in the center of the county, only a few hundred meters away from the Sanshui Experimental Primary School where he attends. In 2019, the house price of a community in this location once exceeded 13,000 per square meter.

The school is literally right in front of home. It only takes five or six minutes for 11-year-old Huang Han to walk to school. Of course, he doesn't need his parents to pick him up.

In fact, children in this era are free-range. Only children are rare, and it is very common to have four or five children in the family.

There are many children and poor economic conditions. Naturally, it is rare for a few children to be pampered like little emperors, so they have strong self-care ability.

Basically no parents picked up their children to and from school, so even though the road at the school gate was very narrow at this time, the phenomenon of blockage at the school gate that would often occur in later generations would not occur at all.

Huang Han was wearing tattered clothes that had been through many hands since he came here. This was a jacket filled with cotton in winter.

He was very indifferent. He didn't mind the rags and rags, but he just disliked the clothes being too dirty. He thought about washing and tidying up after school so that he could look stylish in his rags.

In order to maintain this starving living standard, his mother was too busy and too tired. How could Huang Han desire too much? On the days when they were fortunate enough to meet again, he not only could not cause more trouble to his mother, but also tried to lighten her burden as much as possible.

Not only do you have to do your own thing, but you also have to find ways to let this poor family eat more meat several times a month.

Next, we have to strive to be able to afford milk. At least, my sister, who has grown late due to malnutrition, can drink a glass of milk and eat an egg in the morning.

The background of Huang Han's family is not good. His grandparents consider themselves scholars. The family is not impoverished. They own a tile-roofed house with two rooms and nine rooms, so they are classified as small proprietors.

There was a period of time when "the poorer you are, the more glorious you are, and it is best to have three generations of poor peasants." was the mainstream.

Gradually, families with good social status are far better than those with poor social status. People with problems like Huang Daozhou, who have worked in the government for a year in the old society, will certainly not get a good job, let alone be hired.

Opportunities for promotion.

However, Huang Daozhou's thoughts were not completely corrected during the supervision of labor. He always insisted that "everything is inferior but reading is superior." No matter how poor his family was, he still encouraged his children to study hard.

In fact, this is a last resort. The three children all have rural household registrations. With his connections, it is impossible to change all this. Only by studying can the children "leave the rural door" and have the honor of having a fixed household registration.

Huang Han's sister Huang Xin was in fifth grade. At this time, the nine-year compulsory education system had not yet been implemented. Primary school was a five-year system. Not everyone could go to junior high school after graduation. They had to go through examination screening.

The best primary school in Sanshui County is of course the Experimental Primary School, and the best junior high school is the Experimental Middle School not far from the city center.

Based on the average level of experimental primary schools over the years, the number of people admitted to experimental middle schools has remained at around 20%.

Huang Xin is completely different from Huang Han. Her grades are among the best in the class. Her goal is of course to be admitted to the Experimental Middle School.

The graduating class is responsible for ranking in the admission rate. Of course, the school pays close attention to it. The morning reading time must be half an hour earlier, so Huang Xin has already set off early.

Although Huang Han's childhood memories of elementary school are a bit fuzzy, it's not like Huang Han couldn't find his class.

The Experimental Primary School was rebuilt from a popular temple in Sanshui County. In the end, the ancient building was basically demolished, leaving only an ancient stage.

The school gate in 1981 was this ancient stage. Even more than thirty years later, it can be regarded as a landmark building.
Chapter completed!