all the way

In the summer vacation without homework, Liu Xia was not so happy. With his first grade in the whole year, he should be able to go to Rongze High School, but he went to Rongze, what should Maoer do?

He has to live on campus when he goes to the county high school, and he goes home once a week. If it rains or snows and he can't come back, who will play with the cat? At night, the cat must sleep with him. If he doesn't hug him, the cat will I don't know how to cry, just thinking about Mao'er's soft and wronged face, Liu Xia's heart aches.

After struggling for two days, Liu Xia decided to give up thinking about this unpleasant problem. He made a study plan for his summer vacation.

Get up at dawn every morning and ask Liu Ling to explain Liu Hai’s high school textbook to him; after the cat gets up and eats at seven o’clock, he takes the cat to play casually while it’s cool; Practice calligraphy in the shade of the trees in the yard. He can read novels or textbooks while the cat is taking a nap, and continue to play with the cat when it cools down in the afternoon.

There are few accidents in the life in the mountains, so in the previous month, Liu Xia's plan was carried out step by step every day.

It is said that the college entrance examination notice usually comes down around August [-]th. Before that, the family seems to have forgotten about Liu Ling taking the college entrance examination.

Liu Ling never showed any abnormality, such things as hurting the spring and autumn are not suitable for people like them in this place.

The family does not need to have any psychological and behavioral burdens because of Liu Ling's college entrance examination.

He gives lectures to Liu Xia with great interest every morning; when there is work in the field, he will definitely go with his eldest brother Liu Kui, and let his sister-in-law cook at home to take care of the children; when there is no farm work, he will go with Liu Yu, Liu Hai, and Liu Xia , as before, climbing trees to stick wheat season birds, going down the river to compete with dogs in deep water; copying brush calligraphy from no less than five newspapers every day; teaching Liu Wei and Liu Rui to know Chinese characters and 26 English letters...

On August [-]th, Liu Yu, Liu Ling, and Liu Hai went to the Ning Post Office to see if there was any letter from their family. When they came back, they not only took back a letter from Liu Chuan, but also brought it to Liu Changqing to go to the commune the next morning. Open the notice of the brigade secretary and the school principal meeting.

Liu Changqing didn't get home until dark, and he never swears in front of the children. For the first time, he swears at a section chief of the Rongze Education Bureau who presided over the meeting today.

Liu Xia and the others knew what happened from Liu Changqing's uncontrollable anger.

What Liu Hai originally said about merging schools, junior high schools and high schools will be changed to three years will be implemented.

The Education Bureau has drawn up districts for various places in the county. It has been decided which villages’ schools will be dissolved and where they will be merged. The meeting is just to inform them and ask the brigade secretary and principals to support the work of the superiors and improve the quality of school-age children. enrollment rate.

The three brigades of Liujialing, Wanhe and Shangyao were merged, and the primary and junior high schools were located in the Wanhe brigade.

Liu Changqing can understand the matter of merging schools. The family planning has been carried out in full swing outside the past few years. There are fewer and fewer children in the village, and the schools in the big villages in the north are gradually becoming vacant.

But the situation in Liujialing, Wanhe, and Shangyao is different from the outside. Although Wanhe is on the north side of Liujialing and closer to Wangning, the village is smaller and the school is dilapidated. There is not even a high school student in the village. The teachers are all junior high school graduates.

In any case, it was impossible for Liu Changqing to let the [-] or [-] children from the Liujialing Brigade climb two more ridges to study in the two dark and narrow dilapidated cave dwellings in Wanhe.

The brigade secretary of Shangyao had the same idea as Liu Changqing, and it was impossible for him to let a group of children climb the steep and steep Shangyao Mountain every day to go to school in the more remote Wanhe.

The primary school in Liujialing is many times better than that in Wanhe.It can be said that Liu Changqing will always do the best for all things that can be found in Fengxi Mountain and can be solved with a little effort.

The five cave dwellings in Liujialing’s primary school are more spacious and brighter than those in Liu Changqing’s house. They were dug out by him and the young people in the village without taking any work points. The money handed over to the brigade as a contract worker went to Rongze to buy it.

The final result of merging schools was beyond Liu Xia's expectations.

Liujialing and the leaders of Shitougou, Wanhe, Shangyao and several other poorest and most remote brigades made a common decision: to treat all those people as fart, we should do whatever we want.

The Rongze Education Bureau has no way to strengthen the teaching staff in the southern mountainous area. Listening to their orders will not change anything except for the children to run a few more miles every day, climb a few more ridges, and suffer a little more. Who would obey such an order? Woolen cloth?

As for the consequences.

joke!

Almost none of these poor brigade secretaries voluntarily served as secretary. What can they do to an old farmer in a ravine?

On August [-]th, Liu Ling, Liu Yu and Liu Hai went to Wangning High School early in the morning, but there was no news.

Several people went to Wangning Junior High School again, but there were no letters or verbal news from Rongze High School.

In previous years, August NO.15 was the opening day of Rongze High School.

Liu Xia felt a little disappointed, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief: Wang Ning's grades are so poor that he, the No.1, can't get into Rongze High School?Huh, it's justifiable not to go to Rongze, and the cat won't cry.

Three days later, they went again, and this time they heard some news, but it had nothing to do with them.

The uncle at the gate of Wangning High School told them that they heard from people in the commune compound that Wangning High School passed 33 this year, and Gucun High School passed 35. The uncle did not remember those from other places.

As for the exam results of Wangning High School, I haven't heard of it yet, and the gatekeeper is also a little strange: "It stands to reason that I didn't pass the exam. In previous years, the exam results should have been brought back at this time. Why is there no movement this year?"

Two days later, they finally saw Liu Ling's score, which was 2 points higher than Wangning High School's No.35 and 42 points lower than the cut-off score.

At the same time, they also knew why Rongze and Gucun's admission letters had arrived, but they didn't even know their grades.

The leaders of the Rongze Education Bureau were busy celebrating the unprecedented good results of Gucun and Rongze High School, and forgot to send the results of Wangning, Yangmiao, and Sandaohe Commune, where no one was online.

Sitting on the persimmon tree on the bank of the Fengxi River, Liu Ling curled his mouth and looked at the sky through the gaps in the leaves. This is their current situation:

The outside world is like a big river after the dawn of spring. The waves are surging forward, merging into the vast world and ocean, but it has nothing to do with them.

In Wangning, Liujialing, and Fengxi Mountain, they are excited, eager, and working hard for the turbulent world outside.

But they are like the fairy world and the human world separated by the invisible nine heavens, even if they hit their heads badly, they can't touch the heaven that separates them.

The hardships and efforts they put in to integrate into the outside world are all just Frog Ming's self-importance. The more excited they are, the harder they work, and the more they struggle, the more humble and ridiculous they appear in the indifference and ignorance of the outside world.

On August 14th, all Liu's family went to Wangning except Sun Chang'e and Xiumei.

Liu Hai started school, Liu Xia and the others were reluctant to come and see him off, and let the younger children visit Wangning by the way.

Liu Kui and Liu Yu are going to send 150 catties of grain and Liu Hai to Rongze;

Liu Changqing was going to the commune to do something.

Liu Changqing, Liu Kui, and Liu Yu didn't return home until dark, and immediately gathered the whole family in the cave dwelling in the main room.

Liu Changqing said to Liu Ling: "I have already contacted Secretary Wang. He has a good relationship with a leader of Rongze High School. It has been agreed that you and Xiaoxia will go to Rongze High School to repeat your studies the day after tomorrow; Accepted, they will add six new classes this year, the place where the students live is not settled, and the start of school is a few days late.”

Liu Xia almost instinctively turned the cat that was dangling on his back into his arms. He couldn't react for a while. He had already decided in his heart that he would go to high school in Wangning. His heart immediately became chaotic.

Liu Ling calmly said to Liu Changqing: "Uncle, I won't go, don't be angry, listen to me.

I'm not angry, I know my foundation, this year I can't make up for what I lost in the previous nine years, I didn't make a mistake on the spot, and there is still hope for another year of re-study, I have used all my abilities, then It is my best level. The students here are all poor in foundation, and those things cannot be made up in a year or a half.

Uncle, let Xiaohai and Xiaoxia study hard in Rongze; and Xiaowei, he should go to school this year, don't let the child run to Wangning every day, he is still young, if I am at home, let him stay with us When he goes to school in the brigade, I tutor him in his studies. Before the third grade, his teaching will be no worse than that of Wangning Elementary School teachers;

If you still think it is not suitable, then you can find someone and let me work as a temporary worker in Luogezhuang. I will earn money for Xiaohai and Yaoer to go to school. Two years, I think there should be hope. "

Liu Kui became anxious at the side: "Ling, what are you talking about? Luogezhuang Coal Mine is what you can do? If your second brother can't go to the kiln, it was arranged by our Botuo with many gifts. If you Now you must go to the kiln to dig coal. Do you know how many people have been stuffed into the kiln in Luogezhuang Coal Mine these years? If you go to the kiln, will you be able to live a peaceful life at home all year round?"

Sun Chang'e burst into tears: "I will not tell you to go to the kiln if you starve to death. If you don't want to study, you can rest at our house. Mom will never dislike you for the rest of your life."

No one can change Liu Ling's mind, and it's useless for Liu Kui to persuade him in the middle of the night.

Liu Kui sat on a tree bump in the yard, staring at the mountains and rivers in the dark in a daze all night, and did not enter the house until dawn.

After Liu Kui left, Liu Xia said to Liu Ling who thought he might understand him: "I'm not going to Rongze either, I'm going to high school in Wangning, fifth brother, you tutor me, I will definitely..."

How could Liu Ling not know about Liu Xia's heart disease, he interrupted Liu Xia and asked, "Do you want the cat to leave Liujialing?"

Liu Xia nodded vigorously.

"If you stay here for the rest of your life, where will you let the cat go after leaving here? Who will you rely on?"

Liu Xia swallowed and remained silent.

Liu Ling said: "If you want Mao'er to leave Liujialing to live a good life, and if you want Mao'er to live in a place where no one knows him or dislikes him, you have to leave here by yourself and take root outside. Our only way out, as you know, is impossible in Wangning, right?"

Liu Xia rested his chin on the sleeping cat's little face and didn't speak.

Liu Ling stroked Liu Xia's head, smiled and said, "Fifth brother knows what you want, boy, go to school well, leave the cat to me and eldest brother, when you are admitted to university and settle down in the city, take care of yourself." If he picks it up, you will be able to protect him forever and let him live a carefree life."

At three o'clock in the morning on August NO.17, most of the family members have already woken up, and Liu Xia is going to report to Rongze High School today.

At 03:30, Liu Kui, Liu Ling, and Liu Yu set off with a shelf cart, which contained 150 catties of grain, Liu Xia's bedding, mats and other utensils.

Liu Xia followed behind the carriage with the excited and curious cat on his back.

A group of people hurried forward on the dark mountain road and left Liujialing, which was still sleeping in the dark.

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