In Tang Yuewen's opinion, it was very rare for Jiang Yulou to tell her this, and it was even beyond her expectations.
After everything that needed to be said was said, Jiang Yulou also stopped talking and started to cook in silence. Now is not the time for children to have long-lasting love, and he is not qualified to talk about those kinds of love.
There was still heavy farm work waiting for him in the afternoon. If he didn't eat quickly, it would delay things.
After the two finished their meal in silence, they said goodbye to each other.
After leaving the cafeteria, Jiang Yulou hurriedly walked towards the school gate.
The school is not close to his home, almost forty or fifty miles away. If we had to walk, given the current road conditions, it would be late at night to get home.
But luckily Ma Xiao is here.
"Dingle bell, dinged bell!"
A bicycle bell rang behind him.
Without looking back, he knew that Ma Xiao was coming.
Ma Xiao was in the same class as him and from the same village, but Ma Xiao's family conditions were much better than his. To make it easier for Ma Xiao to go to school, his family even bought him a bicycle.
Maybe in future generations, bicycles will be nothing and you can ride them by just scanning the QR code. But in this special era, the price of a bicycle is about 200 yuan, and the working class in the city would have to go without food and water for several months to afford it, let alone the countryside.
Thanks to Arima Takashi who rides him to and from school, otherwise, these dozens of miles would be really a big problem for him.
At this moment, Ma Xiao, a tall man with sharp eyebrows and handsome eyes, stopped beside him on his bicycle. After getting off the car, Ma Xiao joked:
"Louzi, why were you sitting with that Tang Yuewen in the cafeteria just now? You're not interested in her, are you?"
Jiang Yulou shrugged and said calmly: "We are all classmates, and my table happens to be empty. Can I still drive them away?"
Ma Xiao then said seriously: "It's better if you don't have that idea. That female classmate's family background is too poor. If you two are together, it will hurt you. We graduated with high school diplomas. At worst, we can find a job in the county. From now on She is from the city. Where is Tang Yuewen? She has a problem with her background, and nowhere else would she be wanted except in the village. It’s hard to leave the countryside, but don’t take the wrong path.”
Jiang Yulou looked at him in surprise, "Did you think of all this yourself?"
These thoughts are not like what a young man of 17 or 18 can think of.
"My dad told me." Ma Xiao touched his head and said sheepishly.
In other words, he is a good brother, he won't talk to others.
Jiang Yulou understood. Sure enough, Ma Xiao's father was not simple. Seeing the problem clearly, no wonder you can work hard in rural areas to earn such a big family fortune. I didn’t completely agree with it, but I still said gratefully:
"I understand, don't worry, she and I are just classmates."
"That's good, come up quickly." Ma Xiao wiped the rain off his face and said unhappily: "This weather is annoying to me."
After holding the novel borrowed from the library in his arms, Jiang Yulou got on Ma Xiao's bicycle.
The two of them rode a car together and walked further and further away while chatting.
Nearly two hours later, the two finally returned to the village.
The reason why I have been riding for so long is not that Ma Xiao rides slowly, but that the road conditions are not good in this era. Let alone asphalt roads, there are basically no decent roads in the village, they are all dirt roads, and it is raining, so it is not possible to ride fast at all.
When they arrived at the village, the two separated. Jiang Yulou went back home, put away his schoolbag, changed into work clothes and shoes, and went to his own land.
At this time, his father Jiang Jianguo and his brother Jiang Yuanchao were sweating profusely in the fields.
Farm work in spring is nothing more than plowing, sowing, transplanting, etc.
Without the help of machines, it is not only inefficient but also tiring.
When Jiang Yulou walked into the field, his father and brother smiled at him when they saw him.
The light rain was pouring with no intention of stopping. After a brief greeting, the three of them started working hard in the fields.
It is getting dark, and although there is still a lot of work to be done, we must call it a day.
After returning home with her father and brother, her mother, Li Xiulian, brought over the steamed black buns, and they ate them with potatoes and cabbage.
After the family members paid attention to Jiang Yulou's studies, they went about their own business.
Jiang Yulou returned to his room, took out the newspaper after taking a short rest.
Writing is the way he found for himself.
However, although there are many famous works and stories from later generations in his mind, it is not easy to show them one by one with his literary skills.
What he has to do is to find a book suitable for this era and easy to read among the thousands of books in his mind. Firstly, it allows him to practice his skills, and secondly, it must be consistent with his current personality.
After all, he is only a high school student now. It would be a bit sensational if he suddenly wrote a masterpiece.
What should I write about?
Just when he was worried, he thought of the story told to him by the old man in the village.
The protagonist of the story is named Li Fanggui, who is from Lindian Township, Shaanxi Province. He studied hard and devoted himself to high school for the imperial examination. He struggled all the way to pass the exam until he was fifty-two years old, but failed. After being disappointed, he no longer wanted to take that road again, so he accidentally started composing operas, and he couldn't stop it from then on.
In the ten years since he gave up his official career at the age of fifty-two and tried to write plays, he has successively created eight original plays and two excerpts, commonly known as the top ten plays: "Spring and Autumn Matches", "White Jade Mother", "Flame Colt", "Ten Thousand Fulian" ", "Ruyi Hairpin", "Xiangliankou", "Purple Cloud Palace", "Jade Swallow Hairpin", "Four Chas" and "Hoe Valley" are excerpts from the opera.
Many of these plays have been adapted and performed by almost all major local operas in China and have remained popular for nearly two hundred years. Later generations adapted "Wan Fulian" into "Female Patrol", which was well received and continues to be popular.
In his later years, Li Fanggui was wanted by the Qing court because his influence was too great and did not conform to the Qing Dynasty's ruling ideology, and he was later angered to death.
His life can be called a legend, but it is not well known to the outside world and is of great value for adaptation.
The most important thing is that a great domestic writer also excerpted a passage from Li Fanggui's deeds and wrote a short story, for which he won an award.
The great writer is Chen Zhongshi. The award-winning short story was published in "People's Literature" that year. The name of the novel was "Li Shisan Pushing the Mill". This novel even won the "Maotai Cup People's Literature Award" short story award that year. .
Moreover, when writing this novel, Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain" has been published. It can be said that he is at the peak of his creation, and his writing power is unquestionable.
He had read this novel before, and although he could not remember the full content, he still knew the general content.
If it is based on the story of Li Fanggui, it is indeed very suitable for practice.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yulou found an unwritten book and wrote "Li Shisan Pushing the Mill" on the cover.
