Zhou Kuan can't remember how he finished this ordinary lunch.

The meals are all average.

It will taste much better than the big pot rice in the school cafeteria, and it will taste better than the buns that Zhou Kuan ate outside the school since he was reborn, and the bowl of rice noodles that he ate casually.

Zhou Kuan only remembered that he had eaten three bowls of rice, which was considered normal.

The family’s current rice bowl is small, and three bowls are roughly the same as the previous one, and the same amount of rice made in the school cafeteria…

Shortly after lunch, while the sun was rising and the earth was spreading, the old man stood up and prepared to leave.

It is not far from Lao Zhou's house to grandma's house. It walks more than three kilometers along the main road and less than two kilometers along the mountain road.

They are very close to each other, but the two families belong to different counties and cities, because Jiayu Bridge is a junction between Baihua and neighboring counties...

When I changed into rain boots that were more convenient to walk in rainy and snowy weather, the old man greeted me: "Kuankuan, come here early after the Chinese New Year. I bought you candy. I walked in a hurry today and I don't remember it at once."

"I'm going to take the college entrance examination next year, I'm afraid I won't have a few days off. I can stay for one night after I'm leaving early."

"Anyway, there are only a few days of vacation, so just play for a while if you should."

“…”

When he walked into the muddy floor in front of the house, the old man still turned around and said a few words in one step.

His face, which was already spotted with old people, was very happy.

Zhou Kuan sent a short section until he passed a small bridge called Yaoba not far from the east of the Old Zhou family.

Watching the old man walk away step by step, Zhou Kuan couldn't tell what he was feeling at this moment.

When he returned to the house, Zhou Kuan met Chen Wenyin instructed Zhou Yuanchu: "It's the New Year, you go and move the TV down."

"Zhou Kuan, go and help."

Zhou Kuan responded: "Oh."

During the Chinese New Year, my family always moves the TV set on the master bedroom on the second floor.

In the first half of the year, there are frequent tide-returning days in the south. Water mist can often be seen on the first floor. It is not very friendly to electrical appliances. When building a house, I didn’t even consider the toilet, so I didn’t consider moisture and waterproofing too much.

Soon, Zhou Kuan and Zhou Yuanchu moved down the old-fashioned color TV with big butts.

Although flat LCD TVs have also been in the countryside in the past two years, during this period in early 2009, no household bought the entire Jiayu Bridge.

In ordinary rural areas, flat LCD color TVs are still considered luxury items...

After reconnecting the satellite receiver and the TV, Zhou Yuanchu gave up the window position he liked to sit in, and sat opposite Chen Wenyin across the square table.

Since he got home, Zhou Kuanren was confused and did not even think about giving in.

After the bamboo chair that changed seats, Zhou Kuan reacted, but when he saw Chen Wenyin and Zhou Yuanchu who were used to it, he did not get up again.

...All afternoon, Zhou Kuan was looking at the three water cups on the table most of the time.

One is a patterned transparent glass water cup, washed cleanly;

The other two are old-fashioned white tea jars, enamel products, which are resistant to falling and durable, and have gradually begun to disappear in rural areas in the past two years.

The transparent glass water cup was bought by Zhou Kuan when he was in high school. It has been more than two years since now and is still as new as it is.

When Zhou Kuan goes to school, he will put it in the cabinet and not take it out for use.

Every time Zhou Kuan goes home during holidays, Chen Wenyin has basically washed it in advance.

The other two tea jars are not so particular, and they are occasionally used. They are filled with tea for many years and have a thick layer of tea stain.

To put it in a different way, the daily life of Nanqiu and Baihua area is to drink tea. Boil it in a big pot and sprinkle a little tea leaves with it is usually enough for a family to drink for a day.

Even in 2021, not too many people changed to drinking it for free.

………

Before the evening of January 9, 2009, Zhou Kuan had not returned to his hometown for more than a year.

The last time I went home was...

Grandma passed away.

When Zhou Kuan saw his living grandmother again, walking out steadily like in his long-standing memory, talking to him with a red face. At that moment, he felt that he had been reborn for enough these days.

After eating the fried radish made by my grandmother again, Zhou Kuan, who had been wondering what tears were, almost burst into tears.

When his grandmother passed away in his previous life, Zhou Kuan was mum and lost several pounds after a frivolous incident, but he didn't shed a single tear.

Thinking of all this, Zhou Kuan once again muttered in his heart: "It's so good in 2009."

This year, my grandmother had not died of illness.

This year, Chen Wenyin was still very young, and she did not have gray hair because Zhou Kuan was burdened with huge debts. She looked like she was twenty or thirty years old than she was now.

This year, Zhou Yuanchu was considered worry-free.

This year, Zhou Kuan's sister Zhou Yu has been graduating from university for a year and a half.

This year, Zhou Kuan himself was also in the third year of high school carefree, looking forward to the college entrance examination and college, and finally passing the second-tier line, everyone was happy.

After awaiting it, Zhou Kuan never felt that everything was so good as today.

When Zhou Kuan was awake these days, he almost kept asking questions in his mind, and when Zhou Kuan stepped into the house;

After his mother, Chen Wenyin washed his usual water cup in advance and brewed a cup of tea for him alone;

When my grandmother heard that he came home today, she came over to deliver bacon and made fried dried radish.

Zhou Yuanchu, who had never talked much, was concerned about whether Zhou Kuan would be safe when he went home. He also went to cook a few special dishes and habitually gave up the most convenient position to watch TV;

Suddenly, it disappeared completely and appeared in a minute.

…………

After dinner, it was around nine o'clock in the blink of an eye.

The TV series on various satellite TV stations have been played, and some variety shows, advertisements, etc. have been played.

Zhou Yuanchu and Chen Wenyin had already washed their feet and changed into cotton slippers, ready to go upstairs to sleep.

Zhou Kuantui said that he was not sleepy yet, so he didn't go upstairs.

Chen Wenyin and Zhou Yuanchu also ignored Zhou Kuan.

After his parents went upstairs, Zhou Kuan took the remote control and turned off the TV. The room suddenly became very quiet.

Even the whistling north wind outside the window seemed to stop.

After being confused all day, surrounded by darkness, Zhou Kuan finally calmed down and sorted out his thoughts.

He turned around and thought about the big and small things that happened in the past ten days of rebirth.

From the beginning of the first day, I just wanted to pick up money, to the later pushing Liu Nian to provoke some things, enjoying the compliments and admiration of the students around me, and then instigating the trouble.

I also remembered the carefreeness and joy that seemed to be entangled with my anxiety and irritability every moment, and that I had no return to my youth...

Scenes slid through Zhou Kuan's mind like a movie.

Finally, Zhou Kuan relaxed himself and no longer resisted the questioning deep in his heart.

As the clock ticks, Zhou Kuan gradually felt some incomplete answers in his heart.

"What can I do in this life, what is the meaning, it's too long to be now, I can't figure it out."

"But it's not complicated right now."

“Whether it is for a better life, to get money through information gaps, or to make the first pot of gold, it is inseparable from the accumulation of massive knowledge;

There are still a few months left in high school, so I can find a way to seize the fairest opportunity in my life like the college entrance examination;

If you can go to the familiar Yangcheng Shangzhong University, or if you can reach the Tsinghua University and Peking University reopen, your platform will be different. Perhaps with the help of experience in your previous life, you can see a completely different world."

"I am just an ordinary person after all. If I want to live a good life, I can only work hard on this path myself."

It is very easy for Zhou Kuan to figure out what is going on about learning.

It is precisely because it is simple that it is often more difficult to do, so Zhou Kuan used to just try it out and was afraid of such simplicity difficulties.

I always think that I am a reborn person, and I should do everything like the protagonists of those reborn articles.

After determining the current goal, the anxiety was relieved.

Zhou Kuan thought of something that had been in his heart since he saw his grandmother.

Yes, birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, but Zhou Kuan believes that he does not have the ability to accept it calmly.

My grandmother died of illness back then. Although she was not tortured by illness before her death, she had not received good treatment.

The farthest and farthest one has only been seen in the Nanqiu Municipal Hospital, not to mention Xiangya in the provincial capital and Union in the capital.

On the one hand, the family situation of the Old Zhou family and the Old Chen family is relatively average, and they have never thought about anything like giving the elderly a physical examination;

On the other hand, it is also caused by rural concepts. In the early stages of illness, I always think that the problem is not big, so I just take a look at it at my doorstep.

Because the older generation is older than giving birth, Zhou Kuan’s grandmother is 63 and 64 this year. She is not old in more than ten years, and she doesn’t feel that it’s so sudden.

If you say it cold-blooded and harsh, it is:

In the popular concept of rural areas, even if a person gets seriously ill at a certain age, he will basically choose a conservative treatment plan with lower cost.

As far as the city, most families never thought of going to the provincial capital or even the capital that could be called far away.

Due to the spatial distance and the speed of disease development, most people are completely out of time by the time they want to work hard.

Thinking of this, Zhou Kuan once again said: "It's so good in 2009!"

“Even if the family is open-minded and the real economic situation is here, it is difficult to convince my parents to do this and that with my age;

But if I have money myself or find a way to make my family richer, it will be different…”

“…”

"Now it seems that it is difficult for me to pick up money directly, so I can only find ways to accumulate small amounts and make a lot of money."

"After all, I have been an IT migrant worker, there should be a possibility that I didn't expect..."-
Chapter completed!