through those heavy years

After plowing the field, transplanting seedlings is also a job. The mud should not be too deep or too shallow.Be uniform and fast.In order to finish the work in time.

Generally, people in the village plant two seasons of rice, and my grandma and I plant one season of rice.In this way, grandma is always in a hurry, and she will definitely delay her study.I comforted me and said no, I slept late at night so that she could see that I was studying hard.

Then the family raised a piglet.Every time I go back from school to cut pigweed to grow it, the tuition for the second semester will be covered.Tuition fees can be obtained by myself, and grandma no longer has to beg her uncles and aunts, or even go to the school to find the principal. This is the happiest and most fulfilling thing I have ever felt after the separation.Thinking about how I used to cut pigweed to feed my uncle's pigs, but since they didn't pay the tuition fees, this made me understand that not only did my uncle and them feel cold-blooded and heartless, they were also greedy and deceitful.

It’s just that I’m in the third year of junior high school, which is not the same as before. In the third day of junior high school, I study for three classes in the evening. After class, the pointer points to a quarter past nine. Even if I run as hard as I can, it will take half an hour to go home, so there is basically no time at night. What spare time to get busy.But I want to raise pigs and do things.No matter what you have to go home.So from the third day of junior high school, I learned to find excuses to lie to the teacher.I racked my brains and tried all kinds of reasons to ask for leave, such as the death of my uncle, my uncle, my uncle’s mother, my uncle’s father, my uncle’s natal brother, sister-in-law, sister, brother-in-law, etc. , coupled with the cooperation of pretending to be pitiful, being good-looking, and writing a letter of guarantee, and the junior high school head teacher himself is a soft-hearted and kind old man, so that he asked for leave many times with good reasons and agreed to approve it.I basically didn't attend the evening self-study for a semester.

One day, the homeroom teacher couldn't bear to listen to my miserable reasons for asking for leave, so he couldn't help but ask me, is your uncle's and aunt's family bad in geomantic omen, and why so many people died one after another.I looked at the kind face of the head teacher, and said solemnly, I don't know, maybe I have committed too many sins!

The head teacher fell into deep thought when he heard this answer.Although he is a scholar, he also believes in karma.He sighed: How many sins have been done!I didn't ask too much.Looking at the expression of the head teacher, I am so happy!

Of course, there are times when all the reasons are exhausted.If you ask for too much leave, you simply skip class.Because the senior high school entrance examination is approaching, the head teacher will not say anything.If it was too much, he would ask me what I was doing.I looked at the head teacher and immediately pretended to be pitiful.The head teacher saw how pitiful I was, and once his heart softened, he couldn't say anything.Wave your hand and let me go back to the classroom to cope with the upcoming senior high school entrance examination.I said yes and left with a smile on my face.

Although the class teacher in junior high school is not as good as Mr. Zhou.But it also made me feel that not all teachers have a self-righteous side.I know that there are many bad people in this world, and there are also many good people.As a human being, if you can't see the bad things, you can generalize them and beat them to death with a stick.However, the truth is the truth, even if you know it, you can’t help but think so!

I skipped classes and went out to do farm work.Grandma's eyesight is bad, so I'm going to catch fish in the river to make up for her. I also have to pick up the things I used to do in elementary school, climb trees to dig out bird eggs, and look for pheasant nests and rabbit nests all over the mountains.I found Mantian Huanxi, and brought back a litter of pheasant cubs and small hares to raise them, and they will have meat to eat when they grow up.

The little hare was easy to raise, so I kept it in a basket and fed it some green vegetables and radishes that didn't touch water, and barely survived.Small pheasants are not easy to raise. They bark when they are locked up, then let them out and run around.It eats food all over the place, and if it is indulged by any temperament, it will still die within a few days.No way, I let it live with the domestic hen.But some hens saw that the young pheasants did not look like their own chickens, so they used their mouths to cut and kicked, and they were tortured to death within a few days.

I watched the little pheasant die, and felt very distressed.Although there was not much meat, I still ate it.Next time I thought, it would be better to spend some effort to catch the old pheasant.

Grandma saw that I could always bring a lot of things back during my studies, which was unbelievable.Hogweed, bird eggs, pheasant and hare, and fish.These are things that take time to harvest and capture.How can a person who is busy with his studies have so much time to do these things!

She asked me more than once.I try my best to prevaricate every time.She was dubious, and when it came to this matter, she never forgot to ask not to delay her study.She said that the results of the monthly exam have dropped again, and the senior high school entrance exam is coming soon, so I have to work hard, I have to ask the teacher, and I have to ask my classmates!

I pretended to be miserable and helpless, and said that the topic was difficult, and it was really difficult.Those who work overtime every night can't make it up.It can be seen that I am not talented in studying, and I can't blame the delay in labor.

Grandma said, where, there used to be a Principal Zhou who praised you for your talent!

I said, it was all a matter of childhood, and it is worth mentioning.Besides, everyone else is dead. If we knew that the current junior high school knowledge is becoming more and more difficult to understand, we wouldn't have said those words to us when we were in elementary school.There is a big difference between elementary school and junior high school.Many elementary school students were among the best in their grades in elementary school. When they entered junior high school, before they had time to let everyone react, they fell down or even counted down.I can hover in the middle, which is considered hard work the day after tomorrow, not easy!

Grandma was a little speechless, and asked unwillingly: "Then, junior high school is so difficult, what about high school?"

I pretended to be disappointed and said, I don’t know, just let fate!

She believed it more or less, standing at the door of my room, motionless, as if thinking about something.I looked at her for a long time, she probably couldn't think of a reason, sighed, seeing me looking at her, she couldn't help but turned around and went back to her room to sleep.

You can feel at ease if you lie to anyone, but if you lie to grandma, an unspeakable soreness can't stop coming out of your heart.I don't know what kind of apology is on my conscience. Her worried face, bent back, and lonely expression have become wounds that cannot heal.

At that time, people in the village did not know where they learned it, and they began to know how to give gifts to teachers.The teacher will pay extra attention to the weight of the ceremony.Standing at the door of my room that night, my grandma probably thought of this and followed suit.She raised a few chickens, and one day she caught a fat one with old legs that could not move, and went to the middle school in the town to bribe the head teacher.The head teacher saw that someone was looking for him, and it was a thin old woman carrying a chicken. After being surprised, she knew it was Wang Xiaodong's grandmother and treated her with courtesy.The homeroom teacher didn't want to accept the chicken, and knowing the purpose of grandma's visit, he politely told grandma that Xiaodong was actually very smart, but he didn't seem to be focusing on his studies recently.There are always so many reasons to ask for leave every day.What uncle, uncle, aunt and others died, and he had to go back to help with the funeral.Why I am not in good health, I need to go home and rest.It was grandma who was in poor health at home and had to go home to take care of her.I see him as sincere and filial.Approved every time.It's just that the more he asked for leave, the more he asked for leave. If I didn't approve, he simply skipped class and the monthly exam.I told him about it several times.He just looked at me pitifully, his appearance made people feel distressed.I know his situation well, and I don't want to blame too much.Let him do it.

Grandma was shocked when she heard this.She always thought that her grandson was a good kid who studied hard at school, just as obedient as reading at home every night.Unexpectedly, the good grandson in his eyes who is serious about studying is skipping class every day at school.No wonder he always brings back so many things.

She couldn't abduct anyone, and tears flowed down her face.The head teacher said that as long as Xiaodong is willing to work hard and spend more time on his studies, he will be admitted to a key high school.

Grandma hummed, thanking the head teacher for her care and understanding.On the way home, the teacher in charge said that grandma's hunched body in the wind, like a swaying candlelight, made people look at her, but her heart was turbulent.

When I got home, my grandma was a sensible person. She didn't say anything to condemn me, but just ignored and stood still.I didn't know how to persuade her, but she didn't listen to a word, and she was only willing to cry alone.But I still want to say that for a family like ours, the worst is the worst.We can live under the eaves of our uncles and aunts without bowing our heads and being wronged. Can it be strange to skip a few classes?However, I can't convince grandma, just like grandma can't convince me.

I failed to be admitted to a key high school, and it was because I deliberately did not want to be admitted to a key high school.The key high school is in the provincial capital, and it takes three hours to get there by bus.The fare for each round trip is enough for our living expenses for a month.So key high schools, don't even think about it, kill it in your heart early.I am a person who may not even be able to study in college, what is a key high school!

The ordinary high school in the town is also good. Although the campus environment is average and there are dilapidated buildings everywhere, the strength of the teachers may not be something that teachers in the provincial capital can underestimate.Once upon a time, there were not a few students who were admitted to key universities in this middle school.It wasn't until a new principal was appointed later that the incident happened, and it took a 180-degree turn.I heard that the former new headmaster had the audacity to be greedy for money, and withheld the bonuses that the state provided teachers with.The teachers worked hard for a month to get a meager salary, and finally gave out some bonuses, and were detained by the principal for private use with various reasons.As a result, these teachers had no time to enforce discipline, and were in no mood to teach. Slowly, they simply gathered together to strike and suspend classes.I heard that the strike has been going on for more than a month, and in the end it became so loud that it caused a commotion outside.Parents are worried that if teachers do not teach, their children's academic performance will be greatly affected.This was to be avoided at all, and the matter of the bonus became the top priority of the town for the sake of the children.One day, the whole town was filled with righteous indignation. Holding pig rakes, iron hoes, and excrement bins, they went to the house of the money-hungry headmaster in a majestic manner, and threatened him to spit out the money.The money-hungry headmaster, seeing the scene as unstoppable as flood water, was trembling with fright, and finally confessed honestly.Don't tell me you don't know, you will be shocked when you say it.It turned out to be the idea of ​​the mayor of this town. He said that the money would be withheld and they would split it equally.I thought it was a small amount of money, and it didn't matter much.Never thought that these teachers could make such a big fuss for such a small amount of money.He fired some old fritters with seniority and clamor, but he still couldn't achieve the effect of suppression.He underestimated these peasant-born teachers too much, they regarded money as life and fought to the end.So the end result was that his title of principal was gone, he was fined, he made a big face, and became notorious!