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Wende Town is located in a small town, and there is only one primary school in Wende Town, and the teachers like to compare it with schools in the city, which makes Wende Town have many regulations and strict management. Also pay special attention to grades.Under such circumstances, the fact that Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui want to skip a grade has attracted the attention of many people.

In a blink of an eye, the second semester of primary school was over. Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui took the final exam together with the third grade students.

The math scores of both of them can be guaranteed, so in the last days, they also grasped the Chinese language, read the Chinese language books and memorized the relevant texts.

In the end, both of them scored 99 points in mathematics, but they both scored [-] points in Chinese. Their scores were exactly the same.However, the points deducted are different. Zhu Yunxuan deducted one point for reading comprehension, while Li Rui deducted one point for composition.

"Why do you get points deducted for your composition?" Zhu Yunxuan was really surprised. Isn't it true that third graders don't need to deduct points as long as they understand the words and sentences well?No points were deducted for his composition, so why did Li Rui deduct points?

"There are two spaces at the beginning of the paragraph, I forgot about that..." Li Rui blushed and pointed to his paper.His handwriting is correct, and every word written by the blue and black pen is very beautiful, and it is even more beautiful when put together.

There are four small pictures at the end of the test paper, and a few lines are drawn under them so that people can read and write. Two frames are drawn in front, and one point is deducted.

"Ha, then you should work harder next time, and don't keep losing points in this kind of place." Zhu Yunxuan was very proud. He always hated writing essays, but this definitely did not include elementary school essays—as long as he wrote less than [-] essays each time. It's really cool to use an idiom to enter a word and be praised by the teacher!

Li Rui didn't continue talking, but just looked at Zhu Yunxuan's smile.When he made the paper, he tried his best to look beautiful. After meditating twice, he looked at the space available for writing, and finally decided that the front was not empty. Who would have thought that points would be deducted because of this?

But no matter what, with this result, they can go directly to the fourth grade next semester.

The primary school head teacher in Wende Town may lead the children directly from the first grade to the sixth grade, or there may be one head teacher for the first, second, and third grades, and one head teacher for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. According to internal information, their head teacher will be there next year. It was Wang Qiuzhen.

On the last day of the final semester, there was only half a day of classes, and Zhu Yunxuan went home with the certificate of three good students at noon.Seeing Zhu Chengcai happily pasting the certificate on the wall, he went to the next door while talking loudly about his son's award and skipping a grade, planning to call his parents over for dinner.

Zhu Yunxuan naturally knew that Zhu Chengcai was planning to show off, but he didn't intend to act modestly and feel very proud like in his previous life, so he simply ran to talk to Jiang Yuexiu.

Jiang Yuexiu is now pregnant for more than seven months. She was just told that the fetal position is not correct, so the hospital dispensed some herbal medicine. This bunch of herbal medicine was lit and used to smoke the soles of the feet. Zhu Yunxuan didn't know if it would be of any use. , It’s just that every night when I go home, I will help Jiang Yuexiu smoke her feet.

"Mom, Grandpa Sun said, if you eat too much, the child will not be born when he is too big." Zhu Yunxuan saw Jiang Yuexiu eating the homemade cold chicken feet, and said.

If Jiang Yuexiu was hungry and had something to eat, he definitely wouldn't say much, but it was obvious that most of the time Jiang Yuexiu just ate for the sake of eating or was greedy.

Jiang Yuexiu has also met Sun Ling, and she admires this imposing old man very much. She and Zhu Chengcai have learned a lot this year, and learned to speak some substandard Mandarin through the TV and radio. Jiang Yuexiu also learned Zhu Chengcai is learning accounting by himself.The more she learns, the more she admires learned people. Ever since she saw Sun Ling draw a picture, Jiang Yuexiu has fallen in love with him. Now when she heard Zhu Yunxuan's words, she immediately asked, "Mr. Sun really so?"

"Of course it's true!" Zhu Yunxuan nodded immediately, regretting that he didn't bring Sun Ling out earlier. He told Jiang Yuexiu many times before, but Jiang Yuexiu didn't care at all.

"Then I won't eat snacks, Yunxuan, mom made a lot of chicken feet, you can take them to Teacher Sun and the others later." Now the garment factory is on the right track, and although the profit is not earth-shattering, it is not bad. Jiang Yuexiu works eight hours a day and has two days of vacation every week. It is quite relaxed, and she cooks small things to eat from time to time.

The chicken feet are chopped, boiled with a little salt, and then served cold with seasonings such as minced garlic and chili oil. In addition, because Jiang Yong likes spicy food and Sun Ling doesn't mind spicy food, she also made chicken feet with pickled peppers.The method of pickled chicken feet is not difficult, but you just put the cooked chicken feet into the pickled peppers you bought and soak them overnight.

"Okay." Zhu Yunxuan nodded immediately. The summer vacation is coming, but he and Li Rui don't have a day off. No, we have to go to Sun Ling's place after lunch.

When Zhu Yunxuan arrived at Sun Ling's place, Li Rui was practicing calligraphy, but Sun Ling looked like he was deliberately waiting for him.

"Grandpa Sun, are you waiting for me? Do you know that I will bring delicious food?" Zhu Yunxuan said, and then put the two chicken feet that Jiang Yuexiu had prepared into a bowl.

"Why chicken feet? Actually, I like cold chicken better. Next time, try cold chicken breast." Sun Ling likes meat, and he really likes it. A happy look appeared on his face right now.

Maybe he was a little prejudiced at the beginning, but now he likes Zhu Yunxuan from the bottom of his heart.

"Okay!" Shredded chicken breast, it should be served cold, right?

"Okay, let's get down to business, it's finally summer vacation, and you two have a complete study time, I will increase my demands on you in the next few days, and in addition, we need to find some time to go out for a walk. "Sun Ling remembered what Jiang Yong had mentioned to him, and spoke.

"Grandpa Sun, how long will it take? My mother..." Zhu Yunxuan hesitated. In his previous life, he had never participated in a summer camp because his family was not well-off. This opportunity is still very rare, but Jiang Yuexiu's stomach...

"Your mother is pregnant, so what does it have to do with you? Even if you have to worry about it, it's not your child's business... Well, this time we are going to a mountainous area in Zhejiang, we will live there for 20 days, and we will leave the day after tomorrow. Take care of yourself." Things are fine. You will definitely be able to come back and watch your mother give birth." Sun Ling said, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles, and he felt that it was necessary for the two children to travel around.

Moreover, walking more can also gain insights.This time I went there with Jiang Yong, but I can find some big cities to visit in the future.

"No problem!" Zhu Yunxuan agreed immediately, although he felt that the day after tomorrow would be a bit quick to leave.

Sun Ling specifically said that the mountainous area should not be rich. Zhu Yunxuan felt that it was necessary for him to make preparations.

Now it is [-], people's living standard has improved a lot, but the rural areas are not rich, they are in the coastal area, and people's life is just average.

People in the countryside can’t make much money just by farming and silkworm raising, and it’s enough for the whole family. If you go to work in a factory... There are many factories here, but all of them recruit female workers. If you don’t have a job, a woman’s hard work last month is only 400 yuan a month, which was less than before. If there is nothing to do at home, it’s okay, and there will always be a balance. If something happens to the family or you want to build a house What, always have to borrow money to get things done.

The Zhu family is still rich. When Zhu Chenggong and Zhu Chengcai got married, many people came to matchmaking, but marrying their two sons, building a house, etc., still emptied Zhu Ada's family.

Later, Zhu Chengcai and Zhu Chenggong lived separately, and they each had children, so the expenses were high. Zhu Chengcai's family had only Feng Xian to go to work, and had to buy some things. Of course, life was very tight.Zhu Chengcai's family is relatively better off, but he can't save much money. That is to say, both of them are working now, so they have savings.

However, most of these savings have been lost after I recently bought washing machines, telephones and other things, and paid the fine for super-birth.

When Zhu Yunxuan returned home, he saw Jiang Yuexiu cooking a table of dishes, braised crucian carp in soy sauce, pork intestines fried with garlic, pork liver with roasted leeks, tofu wrapped in meat, and several vegetables.

What's more, originally they were talking about inviting Zhu Ada and Wang Feng'er over for dinner, but now even Zhu Chenggong and his wife were invited. Zhu Qiuyue was looking at the certificate on the wall with envy.She graduated from kindergarten, but the kindergarten only gave out little red flowers but not certificates.

When Zhu Ada saw his grandson coming back, he hugged him happily: "Xuanxuan is really amazing, he is a good student!"

"Grandpa." Zhu Yunxuan also put his arms around the other party. He is very busy these days, and he has no chance to get along with grandpa.

The dishes were all ready, Zhu Yunxuan also came back, Zhu Chengcai immediately greeted people for dinner, there were eight people in total, and it happened to be full.

When Wang Feng'er ate at her son's place, she always picked good food. Others had long been used to her way of eating, and no one thought it was strange.

"Mom, you can eat a few slices of pork liver to replenish blood." Zhu Yunxuan took a slice of pork liver for Jiang Yuexiu. Seeing this, Zhu Qiuyue immediately picked up a few slices for Feng Xian.

"Yunxuan and Qiuyue have grown up now. In two months, you will help your mother take care of your younger brother." Zhu Ada stretched out his hand to pat Zhu Qiuyue's head, and said with a smile.

"I will treat my little brother well." Zhu Qiuyue said immediately, she was very curious and looking forward to the child in her mother's womb.

"It would be great if he was really a younger brother." Wang Feng'er said coolly, Feng Xian's expression changed, and he finally held back.

"Brother, someone came from the village this afternoon and said that all the one-child fees paid before will be returned. How about we go together tomorrow afternoon?" Seeing the silence, Zhu Chengcai spoke to Zhu Chenggong and changed the subject .

"I'm not here this afternoon, so I don't know about it, so let's go there tomorrow." Zhu Chenggong and Feng Xian could have another child, but before Feng Xian didn't want to have another child so he gave birth to his only child. Not to mention the New Year pictures, they will pay the only child fee every year, but now they have to pay it back.

"Back then we both became fathers almost at the same time, and this time we had a child together again, which is really a coincidence." Now Zhu Chengcai is happy when he sees his wife's belly, and looks forward to having a daughter all day long.

After that, Wang Feng'er didn't say anything, and the atmosphere of everyone's meal became much better. After the meal, Zhu Yunxuan told his parents that he was leaving for 20 days.

Both Jiang Yuexiu and Zhu Chengcai were very reluctant, but they also valued learning. If it wasn't for this, they wouldn't deliberately let Zhu Yunxuan go to the town to study. Of course, they didn't object to Sun Ling's decision. Buy some more things and bring them to Zhu Yunxuan.

When he finally set off, Zhu Yunxuan really brought a lot of things, just [-] ham sausages, tea eggs made for him by Jiang Yuexiu, and his own clothes, shoes and socks. I ordered two big bags.

Li Rui, on the contrary, only brought a few sets of clothes, and nothing else.

This time, Jiang Yong took them there in a van. At first, Zhu Yunxuan thought that the car could go directly, but he didn't want to have to take the mountain road later.He stared blankly at Jiang Yong carrying Sun Ling on his back, and took the luggage of the two of them, and then looked at his two big bags dumbfounded.

The rugged mountain road should be walked by people from time to time, but it is not difficult to walk. There are towering trees and unknown flowers blooming on the side of the road. The scenery is also very beautiful, but Zhu Yunxuan has no energy to appreciate it.His physical fitness is actually good, but he is only a seven-year-old child. Now he has been walking with Jiang Yong for more than an hour with his luggage on his back, and he is so tired that he is about to lie down.

"Let me carry some for you." Li Rui didn't bring much, just a few summer clothes, but even so, his breath was a little uneven at the moment.

"No, I should still be able to persist." Zhu Yunxuan refused the other party. He brought these things himself, and he would be embarrassed to trouble Li Rui to carry them.

"How about this, you share some of the food with me?" Li Rui said again.

"I……"

"Jiang Yong, help him take that bag of food, it's his filial piety to us." Sun Ling said suddenly with a smile.

Without the heavy food, Zhu Yunxuan felt a lot more relaxed. He could guess that the place they were going to must be very poor, but he had also lived a hard life. Even if he could not eat meat for 20 days, it was still a big deal. what?

After walking for six hours, they stopped and rested for an hour before they finally arrived at their destination at eight o'clock in the evening. If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui had been running with Jiang Yong in the past six months, the two of them Definitely can't stand it.

Jiang Yong seemed to be very familiar with this place, and quickly arranged for them to live in the school in the village. Now that the school is on holiday, the place is very empty. In the end, almost as soon as there was a place to lie down, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui went soft. Falling down, I don't even have the energy to take a second look at my environment.

When the two woke up the next day, the sun was already high. When they went out, they didn't see Jiang Yong and Sun Ling. Instead, they saw a young man tending a piece of land in front of the school. Seeing them, the other party immediately smiled: "Are you awake?"

This young man is at most 1.6 meters tall. He is very dark and his teeth are covered in the sky. He doesn't look good, but his smile is very sincere. Zhu Yunxuan rubbed his sore legs after a nap: "Brother, Where did Grandpa Sun and Uncle Jiang go?"

"Teacher Sun followed Brother Jiang to Zhou's house at the other end of the village, but I think they will be back soon. Are you hungry? Go and have breakfast!" The young man paused, then said: "My name is Chen Xiaoming , is the teacher of this school, you can just call me Big Brother Chen from now on, ha, don’t call me Uncle Chen!”

"Brother Chen," Zhu Yunxuan immediately called out sweetly, "Let's go eat." They only ate some miscellaneous things while resting on the road yesterday, and they were really hungry.

Chen Xiaoming took them to a classroom, and within a short while brought a large bowl of pickles and a pot of porridge. Zhu Yunxuan took a look and found chopped ham sausage in the porridge.

Ham sausage is very popular among children at this time, and adults will buy it for home cooking, but Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui don't like it. This time they brought it for convenience, but they don't want to Just eat it.

"Ms. Sun gave me some good things. I thought there was nothing delicious now, so I put them in the porridge." Chen Xiaoming took a bowl of porridge and handed each of Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui a bowl.

Both of them were very hungry. They ate and listened to Chen Xiaoming. Only then did they know that Chen Xiaoming was the only non-local among the teachers here. After graduating from a normal school, he was assigned to practice here. I hated the environment here very much, but slowly fell in love with it, and finally chose to stay.

This is really a very poor place. The only source of income for the villagers is to grow shiitake mushrooms, but even if they grow shiitake mushrooms, it is not easy for them to transport them out due to inconvenient transportation, and the money they sell is only enough to buy some. daily necessities.

"I'm not a good person. I just went to a junior college when I was a teacher. I'm sure I can't do well in other places, not to mention I might not even get a wife. It's different here. Now I'm the principal." Chen Xiaoming expressed interest Open up vigorously.

Is being a principal in a place where you can't even buy meat compared to being a teacher in another place who can run cram schools?Obviously not.

But in this place, there are not many teachers in total. If Chen Xiaoming didn't stay, no one would be able to teach junior high school.

"Actually, it's good for me to be a teacher here, at least much better than others. The children who come to school are far from home. Every week, they will bring a bag of rice and a jar of shiitake mushrooms to class, and then live in the school for a week. ...every family grows shiitake mushrooms here, but many people are still reluctant to eat some, and only those from good families bring oil and shiitake mushrooms in the pickles..." Chen Xiaoming could see that these two children were Those who were brought to suffer, of course, he didn't mind helping to teach these children.

He has been here to teach for two full years, and he also talked to a partner in the village, but he would often go home. Every time he went back, he saw his nephew eating meat, and the children here had a jar of pickles. But I have to eat it for a week, and my heart is always uncomfortable.

Zhu Yunxuan had lived a hard life. Although Li Rui had no shortage of food and clothing since he was a child, he was not completely ignorant of the situation in the impoverished mountainous areas, so he didn't think much of it when he heard Chen Xiaoming's words, but after eating the porridge, Chen Xiaoming took them with him. When I visited the school, I understood all this intuitively.

"This is the place where the students who live far away sleep here. There are twenty people in a room. If those students are here, you will definitely be fainted by the smell."

"The land outside belongs to the teachers. We have to grow our own vegetables. Of course, the students will help. In addition, the village will give us some shiitake mushrooms."

"Actually, this village is not bad. There are still a few villages in the mountains. There is no school there, and the students have to walk for four or five hours to get here..."

"The rarest food for me here is eggs. We can eat egg drop soup every weekend. It's not easy to find a piece of egg in it."

……

Chen Xiaoming is a very talkative person. While listening to him, while looking at the low houses in the village, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui were a little silent.

The transportation here is inconvenient. Naturally, the house cannot be made of bricks, but made of mud and stones. The two planks are fixed at a distance of three or four decimeters, and then filled with soil and built very tightly, so that the height is raised little by little. A wall was rammed out.

After Chen Xiaoming introduced the situation here, Sun Ling and Jiang Yong brought an old lady in her sixties over.

"Sister-in-law Zhou is Jiang Yong's godmother, you can just call her Grandma Zhou." Sun Ling introduced Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui, and then the old lady smiled at the two of them, and took a picture from the basket she was carrying. He took out two tea eggs and gave each of them one.

This, it seems that Jiang Yuexiu cooked tea eggs for herself?Zhu Yunxuan looked at the old lady with a smile on her face and spoke some dialect that he didn't understand, and finally took the egg under Jiang Yong's eyes.

Here their life begins.

Sure enough, Sun Ling didn't tell a lie, he had stricter requirements on the two of them. Moreover, Zhu Yunxuan watched Sun Ling read a passage of English to Li Rui and asked the other party to repeat it all, and showed himself a series of numbers and asked him to write it silently... ...he didn't want them to remember it?

In addition to this, Sun Ling also taught them a lot of economic and financial knowledge. It can be seen that the members of the Zheng family all hope that Li Rui can do business.

It's okay to be a little tired from studying, but Zhu Yunxuan regretted that he didn't persevere at the beginning, and finally gave Jiang Yong the bag full of food.Li Rui also regretted it very much. He should have forcefully helped Zhu Yunxuan share half of the food from the beginning, instead of letting Jiang Yong take away Zhu Yunxuan's things.

In fact, both of them are not people who can’t bear hardships. There are cockroaches and geckos in the sleeping room. They can bear it. Eating vegetarian dishes every day is also tolerable, but eating the same dish every day without adding oil is unbearable. Accepted.

In the first few days, they could still persist, but after a week, the two who had been eating food without oil and water couldn’t stand it anymore, and after another week, they felt hungry all day long, and they must eat in the afternoon. Wrap pickles with leftovers and eat a rice ball to feel better.

During the period, Chen Xiaoming went out for a trip and brought back ten catties of fat meat. After sending half of it to his girlfriend’s house, he kept half of it in school. When the lard was boiled, many children from the neighborhood were attracted, and the oil residue was swept away. Not to mention, after two days, the jar of lard was stolen...

Chen Xiaoming beat his chest and stamped his feet, regretting that he hadn't hidden the jar properly, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui also felt a sense of sadness from it, and what was even more exasperating was that occasionally Sun Ling would even take out a ham sausage to eat...

"Grandpa Sun, do you want us to take a look at the sufferings of the people?" Finally, Zhu Yunxuan will be able to leave in a day, and Zhu Yunxuan has a feeling that he will see the light of day again. Although this place is connected to electricity, the only electrical appliances are electric lights...

These days, he and Li Rui have both darkened a lot and lost a lot of weight.

"Not all. Another reason is that Jiang Yong is coming to take your Grandma Zhou to Wende Town."

"Really?" Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui lived for a while, and they could understand some dialects here. Grandma Zhou was very happy to talk to them, and they knew a lot of things, but they didn't learn from each other. heard the news.

"This is not the first time Jiang Yong has come here, but his previous visits were not in vain. This time, Mrs. Zhou finally let go." Sun Ling didn't hold back, "Living in such a village, being a soldier is a must. This is a good way out, sister-in-law Zhou had a son who became a soldier, who happened to be Jiang Yong's comrade in arms, and when he passed away, he asked Jiang Yong to take care of his mother."

"I see." Li Rui said, and suddenly gave Sun Ling a strange look.

"What's wrong with you?" Sun Ling felt that there was something wrong with Li Rui's eyes, and asked.

"Master, I remember that you are 70 years old, but Grandma Zhou is only 50 years old. Why do you keep calling her Mrs. Zhou?" Li Rui also got some information from Chen Xiaoming.

"50 years old?" Sun Ling looked weird, feeling unbelievable.

"Well, 50 years old. Grandma Zhou got married when she was 16 years old. She gave birth to a son when she was 20 years old. Her husband passed away when she was [-] years old..." The old people like to talk about me back then. Zhu Yunxuan told her When chatting, I learned a lot of things. When Grandma Zhou found out that Zhu Yunxuan's mother was pregnant, she even talked a lot about her own childbirth. It is said that she picked mud to fill the land with a big belly, and suddenly It hurts, and after picking up the mud, I gave birth to a child.

It is unlucky to have a baby, but she accidentally soiled the quilt while giving birth. As a result, her husband scolded her for not covering her quilt. In the end, the brown sugar distributed by the village for women who gave birth was also caught by her husband. ate half of it...

Sun Ling never called that old lady Mrs. Zhou again.

And when they left, although Grandma Zhou was very reluctant, she still followed them. She was not young, but it was very easy to walk the mountain road, and she carried a lot of shiitake mushrooms.

It was already night when Zhu Yunxuan returned to Wende Town. He was very homesick and went home without stopping. Then he saw that Zhu Chengcai, who had been notified in advance, had already roasted a chicken for him.

When Zhu Yunxuan ate like a storm and praised Jiang Yuexiu's fried chicken for cooking well, when Jiang Yuexiu punched him on the head and told him that fried chicken was the best dish, Feng Xian began to feel labor pains.

Zhu Chenggong and Feng Xian didn't tell anyone at first, because the pregnant woman was very shy at this time, Feng Xian planned to wait longer before going to the hospital, but after waiting, the amniotic fluid broke.

Zhu Chenggong was in a hurry, fearing that the amniotic fluid would run out, he dared not let Feng Xian walk to the hospital, and the ride was bumpy, so he could only carry Feng Xian on a scooter, intending to take her to the hospital in the town. Then, while asking Zhu Chengcai to take care of Zhu Qiuyue tomorrow, he called Wang Feng'er to the hospital together.