Ye Cheng

This summer vacation, Ye Cheng and the others had a very fulfilling life. They set up a stall to repair shoes and sell salted duck eggs. When they had nothing to do, they could go to the studio to draw pictures. At night, they returned to the rental house and used the small stove to make something to eat. He has to do his homework. His summer homework this year is to copy the textbooks, the first grade and the second volume of two Chinese books, and copy the text five times each.

Lu Mingyuan was basically doing the laundry. When Ye Cheng was doing his homework, he had nothing to do anyway. He was idle, counting the money after washing the clothes, and rolling on the bed after counting the money. Cheng Ye did his homework on the bed. There was no table in this rental house, only a bed, a stove, and several large water tanks.

At the beginning of August, Qian Shouwan called a car to go to the county again, and brought over two large jars of salted duck eggs, and by the way, brought back the empty jars from Ye Cheng and his family, and brought some home-cooked vegetables. Unfortunately, it was hot in summer. Don't put anything away, and don't take too much food.

At the end of August, Qian Shouwan went to pick Ye Cheng and the others back to the village. It was a rare summer vacation, and they should have a few days off. It happened that Ye Cheng and his salted duck eggs were almost sold out, so he told Mr. A Cong They bid farewell, saying that they would not come to set up a stall the next day.There were still some salted duck eggs left, and they were packaged for Teacher A Cong. Teacher A Cong's mother was very polite, she declined for a long time, and finally accepted it.

When it was almost time to close the stall, Lan Mu came over to Ye Cheng with a lot of things, including a drawing board, some pencils and other stationery, and a big bag of food. Ye Cheng was very embarrassed, but he still accepted it.In the face of other people's kindness, it is usually better to accept than to refuse. Lanmu's things are obviously bought for him. If he doesn't want them, should they be returned? Lanmu will probably be unhappy.

At that time, Ye Cheng felt that Lan Mu was a very good person, not only good-looking, but also kind to others, especially to himself. He also secretly thought in his heart that when he grew up, he would treat Lan Mu too The wood is nice and generous.However, as he grew older, Ye Cheng gradually understood that although Lan Mu was a very good person, what he wanted from him was not something that was easy to give.

When Ye Cheng and the others returned to the village, the happiest thing was Ye Ping. She cooked a meal for Ye Cheng and the others like a treasure. .

When Lu Mingyuan started school in September, Ye Cheng accompanied him to buy a schoolbag and a pencil case. This time, Lanmu helped them buy a lot of pencils and erasers, so there was no need to buy any more.

After a few days of class, Lu Mingyuan's class began to select class cadres. The head teacher asked Lu Mingyuan to be the monitor, but Lu Mingyuan himself didn't want to be the monitor. The monitor and the like were meaningless to him.The most active thing he does every day is to go to Ye Cheng to play every time the bell rings after class. After class at noon and evening, he can still go to Ye Cheng's classroom to wait in a big way. Unlike before, he can only wait from a distance. Wait on the side of the road.

But this was not enough. Several students in Ye Cheng's class were annoyed to death. Lu Mingyuan went to Ye Cheng's classroom several times and saw him talking to them, laughing while talking.

"Hey, what are you talking about?" Lu Mingyuan didn't care how good their atmosphere was.

"Luo Jie said that there are many people in their village, so let's go to them to repair shoes on Saturday." Hearing that there is money to be made, Ye Cheng is very happy.

"Not going to town anymore?" Still going to her house?

"Let's go to the town again on Sunday." The business in the town is really mediocre. They rarely have time to go out and make money. Of course, they have to go to places with a lot of business. Ye Cheng thought for a while and added: "If the business is good, We won't go to town anymore, Luo Jie said we can stay at her house at night."

Lu Mingyuan was very dissatisfied with this arrangement. Just as he was about to say something, the class bell rang.He was very angry, but there was nothing he could do. As soon as the bell rang, all the students had to go back to their classrooms obediently. It would be great if they could be in the same class as Ye Cheng, so Lu Mingyuan asked his class teacher.

"You want to skip a grade?" The class teacher looked at the boy in front of him carefully. The elementary school in their village is not big. There is only one class in each grade group. There are only twenty or thirty students in a class. Most of the students' family conditions, school All the teachers knew about it. Like Lu Mingyuan, there was no teacher in the school who didn't know that he was lost with his parents when he was a child and was picked up by Ye Cheng.

"Yes." Although Lu Mingyuan didn't quite understand what skipping a grade meant at this time.

"Skipping grades is not something you can do casually. You have to take an exam, and you can only jump if you get good grades." After all, schools in the mountains are not as good as those in big places, and the teachers and teaching facilities can't keep up. Generally, families in rural areas don't pay as much attention to them as people in cities. Exam scores, let alone asking a tutor to buy extracurricular textbooks.So in contrast, when the unified test papers were used for each final exam, their elementary school suffered a lot, almost at the bottom of the year every year, and he had never heard of such a thing as skipping a grade.

"Okay." Lu Mingyuan cared that it was not easy for him, since he had the opportunity to study in the same class as Ye Cheng, he would definitely grab it.

"Don't worry about it now, let's talk about it during the final exam."

After that, Lu Mingyuan became more interested in studying. He would spend one semester studying the contents of others for a year and a half. Shoes, and sometimes I have to go to the Eighteen Ridges, so I can only squeeze in more time to study.

Fortunately, Ye Cheng's grades are good, and his foundation is relatively solid. Usually, when Lu Mingyuan encounters something he can't understand, he can directly ask him. Every night after eating and taking a shower, the two of them will lie down on the bed and do their homework. Memorizing textbooks, Lu Mingyuan completed the homework assigned by their teacher, and had to learn some new content by himself every day. He learned things very quickly, but he also forgot them faster, so he had to memorize them repeatedly.

Ye Ping has nothing to do at night, so she likes to move a small bench to his brother's room and ask Ye Cheng to teach her with a pencil.The children in their family are good at arithmetic, adding, subtracting, and subtracting. They never count on their fingers, but they are not very good at multiplication and division. By the time they arrived, they were already familiar with each other.

Ye Cheng likes to draw. When he was free at night, Ye Ping and Lu Mingyuan would write and memorize texts. Sometimes he would take out the drawing board that Lanmu bought for him to paint and draw. When he first started learning to draw, the studio His classmates gave him a few textbooks for beginners, and there are many sketches from life lying down, which can be used for beginners to copy.

Ye Cheng should be regarded as a child who can endure loneliness. If he does something seriously, he can enter a state of ecstasy. When he was six years old, he lived alone in this yard, and he never felt lonely. Looking at that small vegetable bed, life seems to be very fulfilling.Now he can draw for hours as soon as he picks up a pencil, and he can really feel the joy and satisfaction that drawing brings him.

Ye Ping was like her brother. When Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan went to school, she would guard a yard by herself, counting and feeding the duck eggs every day, and never felt that she lacked anything.Now that she has learned to cook again, every day when Ye Cheng and the others come back from school, they can eat the meals she prepared. They eat and talk while taking a shower, and move a small bench to Ye Cheng and his room. Learning to write, in her opinion, such a life is very good, although she often hopes for something better.

Lu Mingyuan was different from them, maybe it was born, he had no blood relationship with Ye Cheng and Ye Ping, and he probably inherited some aspects from his parents.He will not be like Ye Cheng and Ye Ping, who is easy to immerse himself in the happiness that a thing itself brings him. What he values ​​more is the result he wants.

For example, this time Lu Mingyuan wanted to skip a grade, so he also invested in his studies, but his investment was different from that of Ye Cheng and Yeping. He devoted his energy, but not his enthusiasm. He studied with a purpose , not much to enjoy the learning process.

Lu Mingyuan's hard work was not in vain. For the final exam of this semester, he finished his own test paper, and was immediately assigned to the teacher's office to do a second grade first volume test paper.After the exam, he and Ye Cheng went to the town to set up a stall as usual, and the results came out within two days. Ye Cheng still got full marks in both subjects, and Lu Mingyuan also got full marks in both subjects in the first grade exam papers, and full marks in the math and Chinese exam papers in the second grade. 96.

After discussion, the school decided to let Lu Mingyuan skip a grade, that is to say, he can directly sign up for the second grade volume [-] after the Chinese New Year, and he will be in the same class as Ye Cheng. This news made him very happy.Ye Cheng was also very happy, because he, who was worrying about the increasingly expensive tuition fees, finally found a way to reduce the burden of tuition fees, that is, to skip grades.

Throughout the winter vacation, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan were still as busy as before, and when they signed up on the [-]th day of the first month, they went to school with a small bag of money they earned from repairing shoes and selling salted duck eggs during the winter vacation.They met Qian Zhigao and Qian Zhiyuan on the playground. They squatted on the playground with sad faces, and did not go to sign up for textbooks with everyone.

"Do you think my aunt can lend money to our mother?"

"It's hard to say. When my father was sick the year before last, I borrowed money from her, but I haven't paid it back yet."

"When will our dad's boss pay him?"

"Who knows, my dad said to wait, if it doesn't work, we will sue him."

"Can you win the lawsuit? People say that my dad has a criminal record, so he's at a disadvantage."

"Fart, you were wronged, didn't you make it clear?"

"Then why hasn't he earned any money in the past two years? It must be because of this."

"...Maybe it's because of my poor health."

"Do you think we are almost out of books to read..."

"No, we have to have a student in our family. Didn't Mom say that?"

"Then go ahead, you are already in the fifth grade, and you can pay one year less tuition than me."

"..."

"Hey, what are you two doing here?" Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan listened for a while before going up to say hello. Qian Zhigao and Qian Zhiyuan usually didn't pay much attention to them, basically they hadn't spoken yet.

"What's none of your business?" The two brothers were lost, and they didn't seem like a reasonable person at all.

"No money to pay tuition?" Lu Mingyuan asked directly, quite shamelessly.

"Can you control it? If you don't want to be beaten, just walk away."

"He has money in his bag." Lu Mingyuan pointed to Ye Cheng's satchel again, which contained their income for the entire winter vacation.

"What do you mean?" Qian Zhigao and Qian Zhiyuan were startled.

"Let me help you pay the tuition first." Ye Cheng smiled. Qian Xingliang took good care of him before, and he always wanted to find opportunities to do something, but after that incident, the two brothers Wang Guihua and Zhigao Zhiyuan It seems that they don't like him very much.

"No, my mother said it will be available tomorrow." The brothers were a little embarrassed, and Qian Zhiyuan blushed slightly.

"It's okay, when the time comes, your mother will just return the money to me." If you can't make it on the registration day, it means that the student's family is already very poor. It's better not to let too many people know about poverty.

Ye Cheng borrowed money to sign up for Qian Zhigao and Qian Zhiyuan. That night, Wang Guihua went to his yard. She went out all day, but she couldn't borrow money from anyone's house, so she had to call Ye Cheng first. I opened an IOU, didn't sit down much, wiped away tears and said, good boy, unlike those heartless ones, and went home.