September 7, 2018.

Daba Mountains, Shennong Mountains.

As a well-known environmental protection zone in the country, Shennong Mountain Mausoleum was once famous for the possibility of savages. After the reform and opening up, the local government also began to increase the development of tourism resources, making this originally barren land gradually full of vitality. People

Life has gradually become richer.

But there are always places that cannot be taken care of. For example, Daowang Village hidden in Shennong Territory.

Because it is far away from the highway in the scenic area, Daowang Village is still poor even though it is already 2018. Most of the young people in the village have gone out to work, and most of the people left behind in the village are the older generation of villagers and their grandchildren.

The older generation's stay behind means they are reluctant to leave their homeland and have no good way out, while the grandchildren's stay behind is the plight and helplessness of this generation.

After all, they are all farmers in the countryside. They are exhausted physically and mentally from working hard in the city. How can they have free time to take care of their children?

Fortunately, thanks to tourism development, the village has been provided with electricity and a brand new primary school has been built in recent years, which at least gives these left-behind children a serious place to study.

The villages in the mountains are not like those in the plains where every household is gathered together. Instead, they are scattered along the flat location of the mountains, with one household in the east and one in the west, scattered over an area of ​​about seven or eight kilometers. Daowang Primary School is built on

Halfway up the mountainside of Daowang Mountain, it radiates to five or six surrounding small villages. Most students have to walk at least four or five miles of mountain roads to get to school every day.

Wang Yufei was walking on the mountain road to school.

He is already sixteen years old this year, but due to malnutrition, he only looks like he is twelve or three years old.

Speaking of which, this is a poor child. When he was seven years old, his parents who went out to work died in a disaster caused by a drunk and unscrupulous driver.

This incident was quite a big deal at the time, with three people dead and four others injured. But the driver only bought compulsory traffic insurance and didn't have much property to enforce the law.

In the end, the Wang family only received tens of thousands of yuan in compensation, and the price the driver paid was to spend his life in jail.

It is unknown how much impact this had on Wang Yufei at that time. He lived with his grandparents on weekdays. His parents were just a thought of him during the holidays. The death of his parents meant that his thoughts were gone.

But it was a huge blow to the two old people.

Unless the pain of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person to someone else happened to him, he would never be able to understand the heart-wrenching pain, let alone the fact that the person who died was the couple's favorite and most well-behaved son.

So when he was eight years old, his two elders died one after another due to depression and illness, and Wang Yufei was forced to live with his uncle and aunt who were also working as farmers in the village.

A few years ago, his uncle and aunt were quite good to him. After all, they never had any children of their own for some unknown reason, so they treated him as their own. Although the family was in trouble, they even sent him to school. But the good times did not last long.

, the village had access to TV a few years ago, and after seeing an advertisement for a hospital that sent children to hospital, the two of them discussed it and went to the city with the tens of thousands in compensation they inherited from their parents.

After all the money was spent, they actually got pregnant with a child, a boy.

At this time, Wang Yufei's life had undergone earth-shaking changes.

When he was ten years old, the extremely dilapidated primary school in the village was cancelled, and he had to go to another school in the town ten kilometers away. His uncle simply asked him to drop out of school, and he was used as a child laborer after returning home.

It may be difficult for city dwellers to imagine that a ten-year-old child has to go to the mountains to collect firewood and cut pig grass before dawn. After returning home, he has to chop firewood and boil water for cooking. After serving food for the whole family, he has to feed the pigs and do housework.

, taking care of my infant brother by the way.

And not enough to eat...

All the good things in the house must first satisfy the youngest one, then the uncle and aunt. After all, only when they are full can they have the strength to do farm work. The last thing left is Wang Yufei’s rations, although the little one is the same when he is busy at farm work.

I have to carry my younger brother on my back and work in the fields.

Fortunately, Wang Yufei's temperament has always been very...

How should I put it? To describe him as honest and sensible is easy to make people feel sad, and it is not enough to describe the kind of well-behaved person. Or perhaps it is best to use the word "buzi" to describe him.

He doesn't like to argue about anything. Even when his younger brother did something wrong and was slandered and beaten up by his uncle and aunt, he never argued and endured it silently. He would do whatever he had to do after a while.

Forgot too.

Occasionally, when someone mentions the truth because my little brother leaked something, he will just smile honestly, touch the back of his head, and say in a simple tone: "Ah? I forgot, my brother is still young, uncles and aunts usually

Being so busy, it's normal to make mistakes. I'm rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and I also urinate, so it's okay."

The helplessness of life did not make Wang Yufei complain too much, he just accepted it calmly!

This situation continued until the new primary school that radiated to surrounding villages was built last year. The village began to go door-to-door to find out the children who must receive compulsory education. After village cadres took turns to come to the door several times to do work, at least the children had to learn a few words. The uncles and aunts finally

Agree to let Wang Yufei go to school again.

It's just that he was fifteen years old last year. When he left school at the age of ten, he was only in the third grade. When he returned to school at the age of fifteen, he still started in the third grade. So even though he is now a sixteen-year-old boy, he is still a four-year-old boy.

As a primary school student, he is the oldest in the class, so he naturally gets a lot of ridicule on weekdays.

Fortunately, Wang Yufei has a generous temperament and doesn't care about it at all.

Today is the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the day for school reports, so Wang Yufei set off on his way early in the morning amidst his aunt's yelling and scolding.

…

Huh? That's...

On the mountain road, an old man was lying on the ground, sniffing a weed with his nose, and he looked like he was enjoying himself. His coat, which was or should have been white, was covered in dust, which looked very strange.

"Uncle, what are you doing?" Wang Yufei couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "Can't you get up? Can I help you get up first?"

"Huh?" Han Xu looked up at the young man who spoke and nodded: "Thank you."

Is he really unable to stand up on his own? His legs are weak, or he has overestimated his body's endurance. You don't need to look at him to know that he must have entered his twilight years and is aging faster and faster. Maybe at any time

Everyone will die, right?

Wang Yufei couldn't believe it to death, but just a few hours ago, the old man in front of him, with pale hair and wrinkles deeper than his grandfather, was actually a middle-aged man.

But this will not affect the kind-hearted mountain village children to help an old man.

The city's moral values, which are on the verge of collapse, have not yet been able to radiate to his simple kindness.

"Child, do you want to be the smartest person in the world? Have a future that ordinary people can't even imagine." When Wang Yufei's hands helped the old man's arm, Han Xu suddenly said.
Chapter completed!