Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Only up to the third grade of elementary school

Grandpa couldn't return home, and he still couldn't set foot on the road back to his hometown.However, they grew up under the same roof, and later became good friends of Qin and Jin. Father Lai Yong et al. and mother Wang Zhuzhi had a very close relationship. Apart from farming, the miracle they created in their lifetime was to have 8 children with a complete range of varieties, dragon and phoenix. Half and half. Lai Changxing was born in the era of the Great Leap Forward. She was the seventh eldest in her family, with 4 older sisters and 2 older brothers in front of her. Of course, a younger brother followed behind him.When Lai Changxing was born, steelmaking was in full swing across the country, but the Lai family might not be able to catch up with this lively scene even if they were selling iron.In a poor peasant family, there was only a large iron pot in the house, which not only had to cook food for humans, but also food for pigs.In order to support the family, parents worked from dawn to dusk and worked day and night. The mother in her 30s hunched prematurely, and the father's forehead was already covered with deep or shallow wrinkles.

The parents are diligent in housekeeping and kind, and have an excellent reputation in and outside the village.Especially his father Lai Yong, who is honest and responsible by nature, but also upright and fair, dare to speak and do things, and many villagers turn to him for advice and help in making decisions on all matters in the family. In 1954, Lai Yong and others were recommended as the village head of Shaocuo Village, and a year later he was appointed as the secretary of the village party branch.He led the villagers to dig soil and dig pits on the long coastline, and planted rows of tall and straight green trees and tenacious windbreak forests in order to resist the wanton typhoon.And organized everyone to plant longan trees one after another on the hillside of the village and even in the courtyard of the farmhouse, completely changing the appearance of the barren Shaocuo village.Especially in the early 1960s, Lai Yong and others took the lead and mobilized many Communist Party members in the village to fight against the sky and open mountains for afforestation; difficulties.At that time, reporters from People's Daily reported on the advanced deeds of Lai Yong and others.Lai Yong and others have a high prestige in Shaocuo Village. In September 1988, when Lai Yong and others died of illness, the government of Qingyang Town, Jinjiang specially held a memorial meeting for him with thousands of people.

It should be said that it was the unremitting efforts of the fathers that made the originally single-handed Lai family prosperous and powerful.In particular, his father held an important position as the village party secretary, which established the social status of the Lai family in Shaocuo Village that cannot be underestimated. Lai Changxing started picking up manure at the age of 6, went to the mountains to cut firewood at the age of 7, and also herded sheep and cattle.But eating thin and wearing thin clothes all year round, it is miserable.Because of the poverty of his family, he didn't start school until he was 10 years old with a broken schoolbag used by his brother on his back.Every day, he had to lead the cattle to the back hillside of the school. The cows were grazing on the hillside, so he rushed to the school for class, and after class, he went to the hillside to drag the cows home.

Even this kind of half-agricultural half-study barely lasted for 3 years.Still because of his poor family, Lai Changxing, who only went to the third grade of elementary school, had to drop out of school.He has long been tired of the work of leading the cows and sheep, so of course the younger brother "takes over".It is said that the children of the poor have long been in charge of the family, but Lai Changxing's mind is not on "being in charge" at all.Home, lack of food and clothing, penniless, what's the point of "being".Besides, his parents, older sisters and older brothers earn nearly 10 labor points, which is enough to deal with the family's ten acres of farmland. There is no need for him to hustle around in the fields with his back bare and wearing shorts.

13-year-old Lai Changxing made a formal showdown to his father, saying that he didn't want to be a farmer, but that he wanted to do some small business in his village.After all, it was an era with a special political orientation, the so-called "the poorer the more revolutionary, the poorer the more glorious".People are naturally ashamed to talk about money, ashamed to talk about money.What's more, my father is the village party secretary, and he belongs to the kind of model Communist who would rather tighten his belt than cut off the "bourgeois tail". The father naturally couldn't accept his son's whim.The son was elated when he talked about doing business, but the father turned pale when he talked about money.But Lai Changxing insisted on going his own way. He carried a big basket and went door-to-door to buy longan, citrus, pomegranate and other fruits, and then picked them up to sell in the town.Sometimes I also went to wholesale some popsicles, and yelled along the way to fields, school gates or migrant workers' gathering places to solicit business.