Reborn to Strive

It has been four years since Shi Zhen came to Anshan Town in his last life. The Anshan Town at that time was very different from the current Anshan Town.

Shi Zhen looked at this small town that was a little strange to him, and someone was also looking at him.

The young man wore clothes that were common only ten years ago, his skin was tanned, and his hair was too long and fell back in a mess.

Even so, the face was attractive.

His eyebrows are black and thick, and the brows are high and naturally unruly. The straight nose bridge and the tough facial lines are indescribably harmonious.

What attracts the most attention is his pair of deep eyes, like an eternal pool deep in the mountains, with no bottom to be seen.

Such a handsome person, people who come and go, have to look at him a few times.

Shi Zhen didn't pay attention to the gazes of these people, he looked around, chose a direction, and walked forward.

Guan Baiyu is three years younger than him, only fifteen this year.

His biological father died early, his mother was unwilling to raise him, and his adoptive parents didn't like him either.He had no money. Although he was admitted to high school, he dropped out of school after only one year of study. After that, he began to work around to support himself, and took the self-examination by the way.

Right now... 15-year-old Guan Baiyu should be in the third year of middle school.

Anshan Township is a big and wealthy town. There are primary schools, junior high schools, and even a high school that rank among the top three in Changxi City.

But Guan Baiyu did not study in the town, he studied in the countryside.

The quality of primary and junior high school education in the town is very good, but the quality of education in rural schools is very poor.

There is a shortage of teachers everywhere in this era. The teachers he used to study couldn't even speak Mandarin well, and they often taught them wrong. Although City J is relatively rich, the schools in the countryside are still not very good.

So even if Guan Baiyu got good grades in school, he only got into an ordinary high school in the end.

At this time, there were no buses leading to the countryside in Anshan Town, but there were many tricycles carrying passengers.

There are many people in the town who make a living by riding tricycles.

It is not expensive to take this kind of tricycle, and it only costs a few yuan to go where he wants to go.

But Shi Zhen only has 71 yuan and [-] cents left at the moment, and he is reluctant to spend more.

He took Shi Xinghuo with him and went to the village where Guan Baiyu lived.

Guan Baiyu's village is not far from Anshan Town, and it only takes four to ten minutes to walk from the bus station.

In the previous life, around 2008, Guan Baiyu's village was demolished.

Shi Zhen walked west all the way.

After leaving Anshan Town, the road becomes much smaller. The concrete road is only a little over one meter, and it is basically impossible for cars to pass.

Few families now have cars, and it is good to have a motorcycle.

The cement road is built along the river, and there is a river on the south side of the road, and a few wild mulberry trees grow sparsely on the soil slope beside the river.

On the north side of the river, there are small yards surrounded by fences, full of vegetables. To the north of the small yards is a cement drying yard, and further north are small two-story buildings.

The small buildings with white walls and black tiles are all similar in appearance, and occasionally there are a few of them, with some mosaics on the walls, or some diamond-shaped patterns pasted with fragments of green glass bottles, they are already very different.

Anshan Town has a large population, and there are many people in the countryside. On the drying yards of the houses, there are many old people with their children, chatting and talking.

Shi Zhen came here with Guan Baiyu in his previous life. Although the scene at that time was quite different from now, the roads are similar, and he still knows the way.

Shi Zhen didn't stop until he reached a hut.

There are basically brick houses along the way, but the walls of this house are made of rammed earth, and there is only one floor. Look at it, it has been built for decades at least.

This house is not even in a row with those small buildings, it is next to the concrete road, standing there alone.

This is Guan Baiyu's residence.

Guan Baiyu's life experience is also pitiful.

His biological parents were originally from the town.

In the early years, when people in the town gave birth to a child, and there was no elderly in the family who could not take care of them, they would send them to the countryside and find a nanny to take them with some money.

Guan Baiyu's biological father was sent to the countryside by his father in the 50s to be raised by Guan Baiyu's adoptive grandmother.

Guan Baiyu's grandmother died in childbirth, and his grandfather married another wife not long after. Guan's father was almost forgotten in the countryside and was not picked up until he was a teenager.

After being picked up, Guan's father was not used to living at his father's house, so he would run to his nanny's house in the countryside from time to time. Later, his father got annoyed and simply sent him to the engineering team, letting him go around with the engineering team to build roads and bridges.

Guan Fu lived like this until he was almost 30 years old. When he was repairing the water tower, he fell off the water tower and died.

As soon as he died, his wife ran away, leaving only one child waiting to be fed, which his own father didn't want to raise.

It was 79, and Guan's father's family had already moved to Changxi City. For the Guan family who lived in the countryside of Anshan Town, it was very, very far away. After traveling thousands of miles, he took back the unwanted child, named the child Guan Baiyu, and registered with the Guan family.

The old lady Guan's own son is one year older than Guan's father, but has never had any children after marriage.

The old lady Guan brought Guan Baiyu back because she wanted her son to have a queen.

But Mrs. Guan didn't want her son, especially after Guan Baiyu came to the Guan family not long after, his wife became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter.

Some families favor sons over daughters, and treat their adopted sons better than their daughters, but Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents are not. They just like their own flesh and blood, and they don't bother to talk to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu was raised by the old lady Guan. Although he called the Guan family's parents, he was not close to the Guan family couple. The Guan family couple had always been poor, had no money, and had no extra kindness for Guan Baiyu, so Guan Baiyu It didn't go very well, and I dropped out of high school.

In the past two years, Guan Baiyu's adoptive father borrowed money to raise chickens in order to make some money, but the chickens all died of illness and lost all the money.

He himself has tightened his belt to live, where will Guan Baiyu be cared about?

Guan Baiyu lives in a small house, which is only [-] to [-] square meters. Behind the old house, there is a two-story building, which is where Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents live.

The small building is made of bricks and tiles, but it only occupies an area of ​​about [-] square meters. There are two rooms at the front and back on the ground floor, and there are even only two rooms at the front on the second floor. Because there was no money, it was not covered, and only one platform was wiped.

Guan Baiyu, his adoptive parents and his daughter live in one of the two rooms upstairs, and the four rooms downstairs. The first two rooms are for eating and raising silkworms, and the back two rooms cannot be lived in because the roof is not tiled and leaks. Pigs are raised.

Calculated in this way, there is no place for Guan Baiyu to live at all.

Guan Baiyu had been living with Mrs. Guan in that mud-walled hut before. Mrs. Guan died two years ago, and he still lived there alone.

These are all things that Shi Zhen knew a long time ago, but now that he thinks about it, his memory is still fresh.

The door of the mud house was closed, and there seemed to be no one at home. Shi Zhen sat down on a big rock by the roadside, feeling a little dazed.

He was at the station before and asked today's date, whether it was Arbor Day or Saturday.

He didn't have to go to school on Saturday, so he came here in a hurry just to see Guan Baiyu.

But he forgot that he had to study for half a day on Saturday, and it was about eleven o'clock at noon, so Guan Baiyu might not have finished school yet.

At eleven o'clock at noon, Xiaqiu Township.

Xiaqiu Township is a township below Anshan Township. There are primary school, junior high school, and a large health center in the township.

A few years ago, all the babies born in the nearby villages came to the township health center. This year, there was a regulation that they must go to the town hospital to give birth.

There is a street here in Xiaqiu Township. There are all kinds of shops along the street. Whether you want to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, or buy various groceries, or fish, shrimp and pork, you can buy them here.

Xiaqiu Junior High School and Xiaqiu Primary School are at the end of the street.

At this moment, elementary school is over, and a large group of children rushed out of the school with their schoolbags on their backs.

A small number of students were picked up by their parents, and the rest went home by themselves. Some rode bicycles, and some walked home together in twos and threes.

The junior high school next door has not finished school yet, and it will be another 10 minutes.

Class one of the third grade of junior high school.

In Xiaqiu Junior High School 20 years later, although most of the students will not be admitted to ordinary high schools, they will go to a vocational high school after graduating from junior high school, and many will continue to study in a junior college.

But in Xiaqiu Junior High School at this time, 90.00% of the students will not continue to study, and even now they are only in the third year of junior high school, and many people no longer come to school and work in factories outside.

The school also divides into fast and slow classes. The fast class is for those who are ready to continue studying after finishing the third year of junior high school. The teacher will pay close attention to their studies. The students in the slow class will not continue to study after finishing junior high school, so the teacher doesn't care.

Those students don't want the teacher to control them either.

The first class is the fast class. Although it is a fast class, the students in the class can't sit still as the end of school is approaching. They have already secretly packed their schoolbags. When the bell rings and the teacher leaves, some people will rush out.

Guan Baiyu also followed Daliu to stand up. At this moment, his deskmate suddenly stepped on his stool with his schoolbag on his back, followed by his desk, jumped off the desk, and walked away with a sneer.

There was still a textbook on his desk that was confiscated, and a big footprint was printed on it at this time.

The desks in the classroom have been newly changed, from the previous one for two people to one for each person, and they are arranged in four rows next to each other in the classroom.

The first and fourth columns are placed against the wall.

That is to say, for the two people at the same table, the one next to the wall will come in and out, and the one outside should give way.

Every week, the tables and chairs will be moved to the left by one row, and the fourth row will be moved to the first row, which means that everyone will sit against the wall and make room for the same table.

This is nothing at all, just to give up a seat, but Yan Jiangtao, Guan Baiyu's deskmate, doesn't like him very much.

When Guan Baiyu was sitting against the wall and wanted to go to the bathroom after class, Yan Jiangtao sat on the outside without moving and refused to let Guan Baiyu go out.

When Yan Jiangtao was sitting against the wall, he would not allow Guan Baiyu to slow down when he wanted to get in and out, otherwise he would kick Guan Baiyu's stool, or simply step on Guan Baiyu's table to get out.

"Why is Yan Jiangtao doing this!" The girl sitting behind Yan Jiangtao muttered dissatisfiedly. When Yan Jiangtao was sitting outside, she didn't let Guan Baiyu go to the bathroom after class. Guan Baiyu went out.

Guan Baiyu smiled at her, wiped the book with a rag, put it in his schoolbag and left.

Behind him, there are people who are unfair to him, some people don't take it seriously, and some people don't like him.