Sanlin is in first grade, Siling in kindergarten, but there's no kindergarten in the countryside, so he has to stay home for now, and let the village kids take him to the mountains to cut pig grass for work points.
At first, Siling went to the mountains just to play, but after being beaten by Yuan Chun and going hungry a few times, he obediently learned to cut pig grass with the other children.
When Ma Laosan and Wang Yingying graduated from college and were assigned work in the county town of their original household registration, Sanlin and Siling couldn't stay in the countryside anymore, crying and screaming to move back to the city.
Once Ma Laosan's couple settled into their jobs, they brought their two sons back to the city.
In 1982, the rural land contracting system extended to every village and household.
Yuan Chun took the opportunity to divide the family assets.
