On National Day, senior high school students had a five-day holiday. Liu Hai and Liu Chen, who also had a holiday, took the bus back to town.
"Brother, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so ugly?"
Liu Chen's delicate face showed slight worry. He hadn't seen his brother for a month. He had changed a lot in this month.
It should be said that women are indeed the best maturity accelerator for men. In the past month, Liu Hai has been thinking about things every day instead of food and tea. After a month, he has lost weight and his face has changed. The whole person looks like
He is much more mature than a month ago. His face is always expressionless, and his eyes show a trace of worry, which makes the careful Liu Chen feel distressed just looking at him.
Bangs gave her sister a reassuring look.
"It's okay, brother, I'm just a little tired recently." Liu Hai's voice was calm and calm, not showing any sadness inside. He just didn't want his sister to worry about him.
"Brother, are the study tasks for the senior year of high school too heavy? Brother, it's okay. As long as we work hard, we won't regret it in the future."
Liu Chen listened to Liu Hai's words, took Liu Hai's hand, and sat next to Liu Hai. She knew that Liu Hai's academic performance was not satisfactory, and he must be under great pressure now that he has entered the senior year of high school. She thought that Liu Hai felt tired because of this.
That's why I spoke to comfort him.
Liu Hai nodded in acquiescence, but felt a little guilty in his heart. He didn't understand what his sister meant. He had poor grades, but neither his parents nor his sister had ever said anything about him or put any pressure on him in terms of academic performance. On the contrary,
Constantly comfort him and care for him.
Everyone said that it would be fine if he worked hard.
But does he try hard?
Only he knew in his heart that he had not tried his best. Whenever his parents and sister said these words of comfort to him, he felt guilty.
Thinking about this month of ignorance, a month like a walking zombie, and then thinking about the hard work of his parents in the fields under the scorching sun for their own tuition, Liu Hai suddenly hated himself a little.
Liu Hai touched his sister Liu Chen's head and the apple jade pendant on her chest, sighing secretly.
It is true that I like Wen Bingbing, it is true that I want to get good grades, and it is also true that I feel ashamed of my parents!
Really, everything in this world is 90% unsatisfactory. In the final analysis, I can only blame myself for my poor ability and poor self-control! I don’t have strong self-control to persist in studying, and I don’t have good academic performance to face the girl I like!
Now that the girl is gone, my grades are still at the bottom of the class as always, and there is basically no hope of getting into college. Not only did love die before it sprouted, but I also failed to live up to the expectations of my relatives. In the final analysis, my more than ten years of life
, is a life that is a complete failure!
Outside the car window, rows of blue sycamore trees were standing against the scorching sun and whirling in the wind.
Listening to the sister next to her chirping about anecdotes about school, Liu Hai slowly confessed in his heart.
He suddenly began to think about some profound questions about life.
He was even thinking, what is he living for? How to live meaningfully? These questions are naturally a bit profound for Liu Hai, but fortunately, he has realized that he should think about these questions, which is important for Liu Hai.
For Liu Hai, who is less than seventeen years old, he has already taken a crucial step towards maturity.
When the county bus arrived in the town, Liu Hai and his sister Liu Chenyou got on the "shuttle bus" bound for the village.
"Brother, the cars in our village are really bad. They are too dangerous. I'm afraid they will break down halfway. How about we walk back." Liu Chen whispered to Liu Hai.
In recent years, everyone has become rich, and many people in rural areas have even bought private cars. The roads leading to the villages have also been replaced by cement roads. Many things have changed, but the only thing that has not changed is the extremely rotten shabby house in front of me.
The shuttle bus, ever since I first entered the county town two years ago, has been in this dilapidated state. It looks like it is about to fall apart. Fortunately, the parts inside the bus are still strong and there has never been an accident.
"Xiao Nizi, let's just make do with it. Our parents are still waiting for us at home." Liu Hai rubbed his sister's head lovingly and whispered.
When Liu Hai and his two brothers returned to Xiahe Village, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon and the sun was setting.
"Dad! Mom! We are back!!"
Before he even entered the courtyard, Liu Chen had already opened his voice like a silver bell and shouted loudly.
The Liu family is naturally the happiest when their children come home from school. Meat, tofu and other foods that are rarely eaten have been prepared, heated up and served on the table. Seeing their children eating happily, as parents
I felt very satisfied in my heart.
"Haier, are you too tired from studying recently? Why have you lost so much weight?"
Mother Liu looked at her eldest son distressedly. She hadn't seen her for just a month. Her eldest son's face had lost a lot of weight. His bangs, which were not fat at first, looked even thinner because he had grown taller.
"It's okay, Mom, I'm not very tired."
The concern for my mother made my guilty heart feel even more guilty. I stopped my chopsticks and answered seriously and calmly. But I thought in my heart that no matter what, as a son of a human being, I could never do anything to disgrace my parents again.
"Mom, I'm not tired. It's just you and my dad who have been tired over the years."
He carefully looked at his parents, who were less than forty years old, but they had a lot of white hair on their heads. Under the weak yellow light, their faces were already showing their age, and their faces showed concern and distress for themselves. Suddenly, Liu Hai felt a faint feeling in his heart.
My nose suddenly started to feel sore, and I was about to cry. Liu Hai hurriedly endured it, and said something out of tiredness, lowering his head to pick up the vegetables, not wanting his parents to see his red eyes.
Father Liu and Mother Liu looked at each other for a moment. They never thought that their eldest son would actually say such thoughtful words. It seems that after entering the third year of high school, his son has indeed become much more mature than Qian. In just one month, his appearance has changed.
I immediately felt relieved.
The two thought it was the heavy pressure of senior year in high school that made Liu Hai mature a lot, but they didn't know that their son matured so quickly because of the double blow of his senior year in high school and the transfer of schools by his crush, and he gradually began to sincerely think about some principles of life.
Late at night, Liu Hai was lying on the bed, holding a green apple jade pendant the size of his little finger in his hand, lost in thought.
Looking around at the walls, I didn't think much of them before, but now the broken adobe bricks on the walls are so dazzling in Liu Hai's eyes. In recent years, because it has become a common practice in the village to go out to work to make money, I have been living frugally, and I have made a lot of money.
, many people in the village who moved their families to the south to work in the city began to replace their mud houses with new brick houses one after another. Seeing that people built new brick houses, those who did not go to the city to work were jealous, and later moved to the city to work.
There are more and more migrant workers.
In order to raise tuition for his two children, Liu Hai's father once thought of going to the city to work. However, when Liu's mother gave birth to her younger sister Liu Chen, the fetus was not well preserved, and Liu Chen was born prematurely, which caused the disease. From then on, she worked
He was not allowed to work again. If he went to the city, his family's land would be left uncultivated. After much thought, he never took any action.
Liu Hai knew that the tuition fees for himself and his sister had always been a huge burden at home, sometimes making his parents breathless. He also thought that anyway, if his grades were not good, he might as well drop out and go home, but Liu's father just didn't want to.
Ken.
When Grandpa Liu Hai left, on his deathbed, he took Liu Hai's father's hand and told him that he must "send" Liu Hai's brother and sister out!
"Send out" is a local term, which means that you must send your children to read a lot of books. For rural people, the concept of reading a lot of books is to at least finish high school.
Liu's father is a filial man and a person who loves his children. Therefore, no matter how much he suffers or suffers, he must send his children to finish high school. Therefore, Liu Hai Zengjin proposed to him that he would drop out of school.
But he firmly disagreed!
Liu Hai looked at the bare-walled house and hated himself more and more for not living up to expectations. He actually wasted his parents' hard-earned money for a girl who had never opened her eyes to look at him!
Lying on the old bed he had slept on for more than ten years, he thought a lot. Little did he know that in the master bedroom next to his room, his parents were discussing tuition fees.
Liu's father, Liu Qinglin, sat on the edge of the bed made of sycamore trees, took a puff of a cigarette grown in his field, and sighed deeply.
Mother Liu was tying shoe soles next to her. This was a job she had done all year round. She helped people collect shoe soles for three yuan a pair. This was actually a very tiring job. A pair of shoe soles would take at least three days of her free time.
Over time, my hands have become a thick layer of calluses.
Hearing her husband's sigh, Mother Liu put down her needlework and said softly: "Qinglin, I think you should go to the city to work. This year, the family has already owed a lot of debt for the tuition of the two boys, but next year
What? The tuition fee plus living expenses for two people is about 5,000 yuan. Well, if you go to work in the city and save a little, you can earn 700 to 800 yuan a month."
"Xiaoyun——"
Liu Qinglin hesitated to speak. Looking at his wife of almost 20 years, he felt extremely guilty. Xiao Yun's family was considered a wealthy family in the countryside, but they suffered a lot from being with him. Why didn't he want to go out?
He worked part-time to pay for the children's tuition, but his wife's health deteriorated when she gave birth to the second daughter, and she was unable to do heavy work. If he went to work in the city, wouldn't the work at home fall on his wife?
Xiao Yun naturally knows her husband's difficulties and her own physical condition, but if she doesn't prepare for the coming year now, when the next semester starts, her family will be as anxious as a month ago, borrowing money everywhere, and being harassed by others.
She rolled her eyes. Thinking about the situation a month ago, Xiao Yun felt extremely uncomfortable. She was a strong person. Since she followed Liu Qinglin, although her family was poor and she had suffered a lot, she had never borrowed a penny from her parents' family.
, except a month ago, in order to raise tuition fees for my children.
Liu Qingyun thought for a while and said: "Anyway, there is not much work in the fields now. I will ask Liu Zhi tomorrow to see if he can introduce me to a part-time job in the county. After a while, there will be more work in the fields.
I will come back again."
Xiao Yun looked at her husband's wrinkled face, complaining that her body was not as good as it could be. She knew deeply in her heart how much her husband had suffered over the years.