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Liu Xia feels a little uneasy recently, because after he received a safe letter from his family and Maoer in the first week of school, it has been 20 days and there is no news from them.

Liu Chuan wrote to Liu Xia the next day after he returned to Rongze from Kyoto, saying that he had already packed his luggage and was leaving immediately. He and a colleague went to other places to receive a one-month training. It is estimated that it is not over yet. So Liu Xia has no way to get the situation at home from him.

Two days before the National Day, when Liu Xia was going to ask for leave to go home, he received letters from his family and Liu Chuan at the same time.

It turned out that on September 22th, there was another short-term torrential rain in some areas of Fengxi Mountain, and then several consecutive rains. The eldest brother and the others couldn't come out to send letters. They wrote to Liu on September [-]th. Xia's letter was also separated in Wangning, and by accident, that letter and the one on September [-] were sent to Jiangcheng together.

Liu Kui told Liu Xia that everything was fine at home, and that their application for food relief was already underway. The heavy rain affected all the mountainous areas in the west of the original city, not just the Wangning area, so the higher-ups took it very seriously, and the relief food might not be needed. They went to the village to beg their grandpa and grandma to find someone like they did in previous years. Liu Kui told Liu Xia not to worry about family affairs and just study hard.

After Liu Kui sent Liu Rui and Mao'er to Wangning to go to school, he didn't go home directly for two days, but observed Mao'er at school for a few lessons. The little guy is really smart and can easily keep up with the fifth graders. Course, Liu Kui said: Yaoer, I think our cat will grow up to be like you, and he is also a material for key universities.

Knowing that the family is safe, Liu Xia feels at ease, and when he sees what his elder brother praised the cat for being smart, he is very happy.

He opened Yanagawa's letter.

Liu Chuan said: Yaoer, I have contacted enough food for our whole family to feed for a year. From now on, you should stop thinking about family affairs and go to your university well.

When I came back from Kyoto, Xiaoling had already given me 200 yuan. He originally prepared it for your fourth brother’s wedding. He heard that the family’s autumn grain harvest this year was exhausted, so he gave it to me first. He thought the same as you and was afraid of me. Now that you have your own small family, sending money to our house will make your third sister-in-law unhappy.

Yaoer, you have always raised cats, so you may have a deeper understanding than I do of how difficult it is for parents to raise children.

Xiaoxia, what I want to say to you and Xiao Ling is that since it is so difficult for parents to raise their children, if the children grow up and have their own small family and can no longer help their parents and family, then who in the world would be willing? What about having children?

There are more than one people around me who always want to get rid of their parents and their hometown, and just want to live a good life with their own small family. I don’t know what their parents and family members did to make them have such an idea, but I can’t do it.

My uncle, my mother, my eldest brother, my sister-in-law, and you are my greatest concern and support. As long as I think of you, including my uncle, second brother, and Liu Yu, I feel that this world is wonderful.

You are treating me like this now, which makes me feel like I have become an outsider in your heart. Just thinking that one day I may be farther and farther away from you, and I will become more and more estranged, I feel empty and uncomfortable in my heart.

Yaoer, now that you know that I have been on a real battlefield, do you know how I felt before I went to the battlefield and after I returned to the motherland alive?

Before going to the battlefield, I had deep expectations and fears in my heart, looking forward to being like the heroes in books and movies, making contributions to the country by killing enemies on the battlefield;

But at the same time, I am also afraid, afraid of death. I used to feel that I was fearless, but when the war is really in front of me, death may really come at a certain moment not far away. I am no longer in this beautiful world, and I am afraid that I may never see you again.

At that moment, I realized how much I miss my family and everyone in the family. At that moment, I began to look forward to reincarnation, so that if I sacrificed, I might still have the opportunity to be a family with you again.

Yaoer, the world is very big and there are countless people, but the only ones who can affect our lives are those around us, and there are very few who can make us care about. Family members, relatives, friends, classmates, for me, Comrades are also added, and among them, only family members will accompany us through life.

I know that I am married, have children, and have the obligations and responsibilities of being a husband and father, but this does not conflict with my responsibilities as a son, younger brother, and elder brother. Your third sister-in-law and Xiaoyun, Xiaoyun Lei is my closest family member just like you, and I will definitely do my best to let them live a good life—the same happy life as our whole family.

Without you, what would Sange's life be like?Do you think I'd like that life?

Seeing you, Xiao Ling, and Xiao Hai happily enjoying your college time is the happiest thing for me as your elder brother now.

So Yaoer, before you have a stable job and income, don’t hesitate to hand over the family to the third brother. My uncle took good care of our family in such a difficult time, and I still have a good job now. Woolen cloth!Don't send me any more money, you can't trust the third brother just like that?

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After being dazed for a long time, Liu Xia folded Liu Chuan's letter and put it away with a pout: "We didn't trust you, we just thought you and Big Brother worked too hard..."

Yun Jian listened to Liu Xia talking to himself on the opposite bed, and exchanged knowing glances with Hei Deqing and Sha Yonghe. They were actually very envious of Liu Xia receiving so many letters and looking forward to them every day. I have always been curious about how good Liu Xia's home in the big valley is, and it will make Liu Xia so nostalgic.

They are also attached to home, but compared with their yearning and enjoyment of the outside world, that attachment is very limited.

Liu Xia sat cross-legged, and opened the cat's letter beside his pillow... Within a minute, he was so angry that he almost jumped out of bed: "What kind of fucking teacher is this? She doesn't understand anything, and she also rations it." Our cat as a teacher?"

Several people in the dormitory stopped what they were doing, Zhang Fusheng stood up and patted Liu Xia's leg and said, "Qi'er, why are you so angry, who offended our cat? Tell the brothers to judge. "

Liu Xia picked up the letter and sat up straight: "I'm so mad, I'll read you the letter from our cat, um, hello baby uncle..."

Everyone rolled their eyes collectively: "Ugh, tired!"

Liu Xia stared dissatisfiedly: "Didn't I tell you, this is to confront my letter, do you understand the confrontation?"

Since the last time Liu Xia comforted Maoer with the name "Baby Cat" because of the sixty-point composition incident, Maoer used the same word to address Liu Xia. Just like writing couplets, you need antithesis, and antithesis is also equal and balanced, so that it feels comfortable to read.

Zhang Fusheng nodded again and again: "Understood, we should fight against each other, you should continue to read, Qi'er."

Liu Xia cleared his throat and continued:

Hello baby uncle:

I am very sad today, because today my composition scored [-] points, and I failed. I was read by the teacher as a negative teaching material in class. The students laughed wildly when they heard it. Write you a letter to talk about it, he said that you must know whether my composition is good or not.

The title of the composition is "Remember a Meaningful Thing", I thought about it for a long time, and I wrote about going to stick wheat season birds with my uncle, and touching the old dragon at dusk for the whole family to eat. I think this is meaningful, Because everyone in our family likes to eat!

But the teacher said that what I wrote was not the same thing, and it didn't make any sense. He said that everyone here has touched the old dragon, and he wanted to write something that only he had done and was different from others;

He also said that what I wrote was not noble at all, not to help others. By the way, he also said that I wrote "Old Gulong" was too rustic, and I had to write "Cicada" or "Cicada", so he just He gave me fifty points, and said that if it weren't for the fact that my handwriting was not bad and the writing was clean, he wouldn't even give me fifty points.

Brother Xiaorui and his class also wrote this composition. He wrote that when our family was digging a cave, he helped transport the soil. Their teacher also said that his writing was not noble and meaningless, so he gave him [-] points.

Uncle, why is it not noble for me to give our family glutinous wheat and season birds, but it is noble to help the old man push the cart?But I have never pushed a cart for the old man, wouldn't it be a lie if I wrote it like that?

Uncle, I don't want to see this Chinese teacher. He is not as good as Mr. Guan and Mr. Liu.

But brother, don't be afraid, he never pulled my ears. My uncle said he wouldn't beat me and scold me, but he just scolded other classmates who didn't study well and didn't dress well. The scolding was disgusting.

I thought, if he was from our family, my great-grandpa would have him kneel down and beat him to death.

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Sincerely,

salute

I miss you the most, Liu An

198*.9.21

The phrase "I miss you every day, you also miss me" and the final signature, Liu Xia was reluctant to let others hear it, so he didn't read it out.

"Damn, the compositions taught by teachers all over China are the same!" Yun Jian first made a speech: "I thought our teacher always asked us to write the most meaningful thing, the plan for the new semester, I The most memorable thing or something, is it the same in your place?"

Liu Xia was angry: "The point is not here, okay? The point is that what our cat wrote is obviously very meaningful, why did he use those two dog eyes to say that what our cat wrote is meaningless and not noble? Our cat It can stick a large teapot of Maiji bird in a day... What do you see? Oh, I know, we call it Maiji bird, before we come out of the field, we are called Old Gulong, and our cat can touch it in one night. Why is it meaningless to have a big jar so that the whole family can eat meat?"

Zhang Fusheng said: "We all wrote about helping the farmer's uncle to push the cart, picking up the eraser of the classmate and returning it to him or giving it to the teacher. I also wrote about helping the old lady cross the road and eating 98 points. However, I hadn't seen it at that time. Cross the asphalt road in the city!"

Zhan Wei said: "I wrote about helping poor students with their homework, and helping the old lady cross the road, and I also wrote about picking up two cents and handing it over to the police uncle. Our cat doesn't seem to meet the teacher's requirements. "

The focus of Hei Deqing's attention is: "Damn, our cat seems to have an unbalanced offense and defense. Qi'er, is he as good at science as you are, but poor at liberal arts, we have to correct it quickly!"

He and Zhan Wei both watched the broadcast of the UEFA Champions League at home during the summer vacation. Now they talk about football tactics, formations, offensive and defensive transitions, and the Dutch Three Musketeers, Platini, and Matthaus all day long. Everything can be related to football. relationship.

Liu Xianu: "My house is in a big mountain ditch, okay? In fact, there are no roads there at all, and there are not many rack cars in our village. If we don't go to the commune to collect relief food, we don't need it at all. Where can we go to the farmer uncle?" Pushing a cart? Teacher can’t count on him pushing a cart for my elder brother, right?

Also, who said that our cats have an unbalanced offense and defense?We cats just don’t have the chance to watch so many movies, TV and extra-curricular books. Our family has the largest collection of books in our area, that is, the inscriptions my father used;

You said eraser?When we went to school in our village, there were no more than five people in Mao'er's class with erasers, including our Mao'er and Xiao Rui. Who would be willing to throw away the eraser and let him pick it up?Help poor students with homework? ..."

Liu Xia suddenly felt uncomfortable, the cat is smart, although it is several years younger than others, it is very good at studying, but no one will ever ask the cat to help, everyone regards the cat as a plague god, and avoids it.

The next time quickly digressed, and everyone began to talk about all kinds of wonderful compositions written by their classmates when they were in school.

Liu Xia also talked with everyone, but the image of Maoer being carried to a corner by the teacher and sitting alone at a table always appeared in his mind.

Liu Xia replied a long letter to Maoer, telling him that he thought his composition was the best, but the teacher thought differently from them, and told him what was meaningful in the eyes of the teacher.

After finishing writing, Liu Xia read it again silently. He felt that a lot of what he wrote was nonsense, but he had no choice but to talk with a teacher who was nonsense, otherwise the cat would suffer.

Mao'er's next reply letter became more emotional, he said that he had picked a lot of ripe goji berries, and now they are all dried and put away, waiting for Liu Xia to return to give him food;

Because of the heavy rain in the previous period, Mao'er and Liu Rui didn't go to school for more than half a month. Part of the time at home was Liu Kui tutoring them with their homework, and more time was practicing calligraphy. Praise him for his progress.

On Mao'er's birthday, Liu Xia sent him back two new clothes and shoes in advance. Mao'er wrote back and asked: Uncle, when I turn 11, will you celebrate it with me?

Liu Xia said: Except for your birthday next year, all your birthday uncles will be with you in the future.

Che Jie's monthly exams in mathematics, physics and chemistry all exceeded [-] points, and Che's father gave Liu Xia a bonus of ten yuan.

After going to Liu Xia's school for a day of college life, Che Jie seemed to understand Liu Xia's words immediately. Although he and his mother were angry and seldom talked, they worked very hard in study, and Liu Xia found it very easy to teach.

In the middle exam in mid-November, Che Jie scored 83 points in mathematics, ranking 230th in the whole grade with a total score. He was so happy that he insisted on asking Liu Xia to perform a breakdance for him.

Recently, Liu Xia would practice with Yunjian and the others up to three times a week, and sometimes he would not practice once when he was busy. He felt that the gap between himself and Yunjian and the others was very large, but Che Jie and his father were very happy to see it.

Liu Xia finished dancing and was just about to start previewing the next day's homework with Che Jie. A guest came to Che's house. He was the leader of Che's father's unit and Gu Pingshan, the chief engineer of their unit.

Liu Xia didn't expect that Gu Pingshan came for him.

Gu Pingshan also lives in this courtyard. He has a daughter, Gu Xiaoting, who is in the third year of high school like Che Jie. She studied very well when she was a child, but now she can barely get into the middle school, because she is generally poor in science.

Everyone in the compound knows about Che Jie's situation. When Gu Pingshan saw Liu Xia come to Che Jie's house after the summer vacation, he wanted Gu Xiaoting to come and listen to two classes. Later, he decided to observe another part of Che Jie's life. The results will be decided. Now that Che Jie's progress is obvious to all, Gu Pingshan discussed with his wife and came to find Che's father.

Of course, Papa Che hoped that Liu Xia would devote himself to teaching Che Jie alone, but his immediate boss came to ask for help, and no one could refuse this matter.

Gu Pingshan suggested that Liu Xia and Che Jie go to their home to attend classes with Gu Xiaoting in the future, because their home is more spacious than Che Jie's, and he pays one dollar more for supplementary lessons than Che's.

Liu Xia tactfully but resolutely refused the request to go to Gu's house for class, reasoning that he was used to the environment of Che's house, and Che Jie had a room by himself, so it would not be inconvenient for Gu Xiaoting to come over.

Liu Xia rejects Gu Pingshan's obvious sense of superiority in front of Che's father from the bottom of his heart. He can feel Che Jie's aggrieved when Gu Pingshan made this request. Che Jie is his first student, so he must pay more attention to Che Jie's feelings.

Although Gu Pingshan was a little disappointed, he did not insist. He smiled and said to Liu Xia: "I heard from the car worker that if Che Jie can enter the undergraduate course, he plans to give you a bonus of 500 yuan. If you can let our Xiaoting The average score in mathematics, physics and chemistry is 65, no matter whether she is online or not, I will give you a bonus of 800 yuan, and if she gets more than 1000 points, [-] yuan."

Liu Xia secretly clenched his fists: "I will work hard to teach, but the final result depends mainly on herself. Che Jie is working very hard now."

Although they are making up the same class, Gu Xiaoting and Che Jie have different problems. Che Jie is smart enough, but he was delayed for a while because of anger. After Liu Xia fills in the vacancy for him, he can basically be If you can keep up, you don't need to worry about Liu Xia.

Gu Xiaoting is different, she is not stupid, but she is not interested in mathematics, physics and chemistry at all. She wants to go to the Department of Chinese, and her dream is to become a writer. Her mathematics, physics and chemistry scores have declined steadily since entering high school. Stabilized at around forty.

Liu Xia really had a headache.

After he taught Gu Xiaoting three lessons, he planned to tell Dad Che that he could tell Gu Pingshan that he couldn't teach Gu Xiaoting.

Unexpectedly, Gu Xiaoting was keenly aware of his thoughts, and took the initiative to tell him: "Although I really hate mathematics, physics and chemistry, I also know that the college entrance examination is the total score. I will try my best to study in the future. Don't fire me. .”

Gu Xiaoting is half a month older than Che Jie, thin and thin, wearing a thick myopia lens, maybe girls in the city are relatively precocious, she behaves quite mature and generous in front of Liu Xia, but boring in front of her parents You are stubborn and look like two different people.

Liu Xia appreciates people who work hard more than smart people. Gu Xiaoting’s statement gave him confidence. His approach to Gu Xiaoting is similar to that of Che Jie: read the questions by himself, and after reading them thoroughly, explain them to Liu Xia. place, Liu Xia told her.

Another one is the preview, this Liu Xia's rules are very rigid, Gu Xiaoting has to read the content of the next day's study in front of Liu Xia every time, and there is no flexibility in any situation.

When the real cold winter came to Jiangcheng, Liu Xia's birthday also came. On this day, he just received a letter from his family. In the letter, Maoer told Liu Xia a very interesting thing: the third uncle took grandma and mother to Rongze When I buy new clothes, I bring a Bodhisattva in my arms when I come back. The Bodhisattva is so beautiful. No matter where I go, she always looks at me with a smile. I really want to see her.

Grandma said that Bodhisattvas bless good people to be safe. If I study hard, not be naughty or angry, and be a good boy, I think all Bodhisattvas will bless me.

Uncle, I scored another [-] points in the math test, and I'm not lying or being naughty, so I told the Bodhisattva to let you go on vacation early, will she bless me?

Liu Xia was very helpless and distressed about Mao'er's problem, but he was full of curiosity about Bodhisattva. He wrote back and said: Mao'er, Bodhisattva blesses you with a reasonable request. My uncle is a student now, so he should go to school. If Bodhisattva tells him to go back, Uncle has to be expelled from school first, cat, do you want uncle to be expelled?

Maoer revised her wish in the next letter: I told the Bodhisattva, let her protect my uncle from freezing in Jiangcheng in winter, uncle, do you feel warm?

That day was Saturday, Liu Xia discussed with Che Jie and Gu Xiaoting in the evening, and the next morning's make-up class was postponed by two hours.

Early on Sunday morning, Liu Xia dragged Mao Jianyong out of bed, and the two went to First Street to buy a down jacket.

Although Mao Jianyong performed well, the cost of the down jacket is still there, and Mao Jianyong insisted that this kind of clothes must be bought from a brand, so Liu Xia still spent more than 100 yuan, which hurt him as much as cutting the flesh on Liu Xia's thigh .

But the down jacket is really warm, so he wrote in his reply to Maoer: Uncle is very warm now, and his palms are a little sweaty!

He just learned two new movements from Yun Jian, and he can be said to be sweating profusely right now.

In the midst of intense study and part-time jobs, Liu Xia ushered in the English Band [-] test before the winter vacation.

Yun Jian's obsession with breakdancing has never diminished, and he has given up on taking the CET-[-] exam; Zhang Fusheng basically devotes his spare time to Qiao Yanfang, and doesn't play the guitar very much, and he has never thought about CET-[-] at all.

There were not many people who signed up for the grade test, and even less for the sixth grade test. Liu Xia and Zhan Wei were very nervous. When they went out before the test, several other people in the dormitory gave them high-fives one by one, wishing them good luck.

After the exam, all the participants felt that it was too difficult.

Liu Xia didn't feel good either. He made an agreement with Zhan Wei to fight again next year, but it was endless.