Stubborn illness

"Did you go to see a doctor? What did the doctor say?" When I got home on Sunday, my mother asked anxiously.

"Look, the doctor said it's all right."

"Hey, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, don't have any mental burdens, just study hard and take the exams, as long as you pass the exams, you can sell your pots and stoves..., I will find a way for money. "

"Ah."

When filling out the application, I asked my mother, but she didn’t understand, so I asked the boy to ask his elder brother-in-law who was teaching, but the boy didn’t ask, because he already had a certain direction in his heart. The farther the better.

His first volunteer was in Beijing, followed by Panzhihua, Hebei, and Tianjin.He also thought about going to a normal school, and he also thought about going to a high school, but those thoughts were not firm. He was worried that he would not pass the exam when he applied for a normal school. When he thought about going to a high school, some disturbing images would appear in his mind.

In the foggy early morning in summer, the sky is not bright yet, parents get up early, pick up yellow smoke in the yellow smoke field with the big bamboo baskets that can hold two or three big quilts each, the dew wets their hair and wets their hair. Their clothes were removed, the mother had joint strain, and the parents were short in stature. They walked on the muddy field path carrying a lot of yellow smoke. From a distance, no one could be seen, only movement.

The terraced fields with big millstones and long straps are not big except for the ridges. Under the scorching sun, my father waved a bamboo whip, the hooves of the cows rose and fell, and water splashed in the rice fields.In the mountain depression, my father carried the plow and drove the cattle on the downhill roads that were overgrown with weeds or with strange rocks, often hurting his toes.

The dim five-watt light bulb illuminates the messy shed, the big bamboo basket, the full tobacco leaves still retain the dew in the morning, as if they were salvaged from the pond, the tobacco pipe is drawn, the cigarette is tied, and the smoke is put on the kang, two or three After I finished my work, it was already eleven or twelve o'clock, and the night in the countryside was so quiet that there were rustling insects, and I had to get up before dawn the next day.

My brother broke his leg after graduating from middle school and spent a lot of money. For two or three years, he only relied on farming and farming. His parents worked too hard. After weighing it up, he chose a technical secondary school, thinking, in this way, he can come out in two or three years It is also good to make money to support the family.

In the few days after receiving the notice, the family members were very happy, and the uncle also said good-bye with his hands behind his back, and everyone in the village praised him. Last year, XX Village took an exam and went to Tianjin. One went to Beijing, and the other received an admission letter from Shanghai Jiaotong University. These news seemed to cast a layer of glory on the entire remote village.

It's just that the glory has dissipated, raising tuition fees, and starting to worry again.

I followed my mother for thirty or forty miles, and then another fifteen or sixteen miles, to the houses of three uncles who were not relatives, all in different mountain villages, and collected a few hundred yuan in total. When I came back, my mother registered them one by one and wrote them down in a notebook. .

In the village, my relatives asked my uncle to borrow it, but my uncle said no, my elder brother borrowed five hundred, a neighbor who was very close to my mother borrowed five hundred, and there were still twenty-five hundred. My mother recorded them all and told the boy not to be ungrateful. .

Uncle went with him to pay the committee training fee. On Xingang West Road, Guangzhou, there was not enough money, so he only paid part of it.I was accompanied by my elder brother to school, and two classmates from the town were also there. They turned out to be classmates in the second class of the third grade of junior high school. They were sent by their parents and traveled by the way.On the train, during the [-]-[-] hour journey, the boy slept on the table all the way, and when others got off the train, he would lie down and sleep, and it seemed that he could not wake up all the time.

The eldest brother said: "There is no joy at all, I don't know how you can sleep like that."

"Like motion sickness."

"Motion sickness on the train?"

"The world is spinning and I just want to sleep."

"You are too weak, cheer up."

"Yeah." After a while, he fell down again. The whole person looked like eyes that couldn't wake up, and feet that couldn't be moved. They were soft. Just like the big brother said, there was no joy at all, and I don't know why. .

That state started before the exam and lasted for almost half a year after the school started.

New school, new classmates, new teachers, many new subjects added, everything is very novel.After being curious and returning to calm, there will be a gap, a big gap. In middle school, I was busy studying, but here I am getting more and more lazy and mediocre. I don’t usually evaluate. When it comes to the exam, the teacher will tell me what to test, which is probably equivalent to telling Answers to the test paper.

The major is also a fresh major, modern entertainment management, there are two classes in the whole grade, the first class is full of local students, Beijingers, boys and girls, all of them are standard members of the Appearance Association, because they pass the overall interview first when they enter school, and their academic performance is second , their direction is clearer, hotel-oriented and service-oriented.

The second class is full of Guangdong students. There are more than [-] students in total. There are also handsome beauties. The overall situation is uneven. They are mainly from northern Guangdong and eastern Guangdong and the small Pearl River Delta region. Guangdong and northern Guangdong account for half of them. Their admission is mainly based on exams. I applied for this school, but I didn't fill in the major. It was all falsified by the Guangdong Light Industry School Committee Training Office.

The boy often stands in a daze in front of the glass window of the high-rise classroom, standing for a long time, and there is always a kind of faint pain in his heart. He looks at so many people coming and going in the whole school, as if he is the shortest , There are quite a few students from Guangdong in this school. He seems to be the poorest. He knows that he has not paid the training fee in the whole class. Especially for this major, he doesn't know where to go tomorrow, and...

At the beginning, the classmates introduced each other and got to know each other better. Knowing that the boy was so sad mainly because of his family situation, they gathered around to comfort him, especially the female classmates. The boy was deeply moved.The homeroom teacher knew about it, and took it very seriously. He actively helped the boys fight for work-study programs. At first, there were three copies in total, which were cleaning the corridors of the dormitory after school.

Because the dormitory is on the sixth floor, some people want to eat but don’t want to move, and there is a big farmers’ market outside the school, which is easy to buy, so the monitor gave a good suggestion, suggesting that you can sell some fruit biscuits and instant noodles in the dormitory as a snack. Breakfast and supper, sales are very good, several people can eat hundreds of dollars a month on these things, of course, the boy knows in his heart, the purest classmate affection, they are largely out of help, at least at the beginning.

In this way, in addition to tuition fees, living expenses can be self-sufficient, and there is still a surplus. At first, the boy signed up for an evening study class outside the school that traveled all over the United States.Once, in the study class, the blond, blue-eyed, slender foreign teacher asked the students to give a detailed self-introduction, including the growth environment. When it was the boy's turn, the boy stood up, glanced at the manuscript paper written on the table, and said in detail, Many people turned their heads and looked at him quietly, with encouraging eyes. In the end, everyone gave him extremely warm applause. The teacher commented that the language sense is very good, Wei Li Gu, Wei Li Gu, and said several times with thumbs up .

Class was over, and the boy was walking alone on the street back to school from Hepingli, when suddenly someone shouted from behind: "Hey, wait, wait for me." After shouting several times, the boy stopped and turned around. Ten meters away, a man with long hair fluttered A woman in her thirties with a dignified face, a gray handbag on her right shoulder, holding the belt in her right hand, trotted all the way, panting. "Hey, wait for me, just to call you, I didn't hear your name clearly just now." The boy was about to turn his head and go straight, when the man shouted again.

"Are you calling me?" The boy pointed to his nose in disbelief and needed confirmation.

"Yes, I'm calling you. We are in the same study class. I didn't come by bike today. Let's go all the way."

"Oh, yes." The boy stood there waiting for her.

"Where are you going back?"

"Shaoyaoju, what about you?"

"Oh, it's very close, I'm also nearby, just in time, let's go together."

"OK, all right."

They walked and chatted all the way, and they seemed to have known each other for a long time. The woman was from Hunan. She was studying in her hometown. I work in a newspaper office and apply for study classes to recharge my batteries.She advised the boy not to be inferior and not to be sad, and she also said: "It seems that you are a very strong child."

Parting, she asked the boy if he would go to her house to sit for a while, but the boy refused, he unzipped his handbag, took out his wallet, took out a light blue hundred-dollar bill from it, and handed it over: "If this is the case, don't refuse , I will give you 100 yuan, work hard, work hard, everything will be fine." She seemed to be unable to find any better words that could easily be accepted by the boy.

The boy subconsciously took a step back, settled down, came back to his senses, flattered, more frightened, but seeing the other party's expression and reminiscing about the content of each other's chat just now, accepting is a kind of respect, so he accepted.

Before the class ended, the boy went to her house. In the basement, the space was small and the air circulation was not very good, but the items in the house were neatly arranged, and it felt like home, very warm.Her lover was sitting in front of the computer, saw the boy coming in, heard the woman's introduction, got up and washed some fruits, put them on the table, and greeted him.

There was no phone call at that time, and there was no contact after that. I always remember it in my heart, thank you, thank you.