The end of the old calendar, after all, is most like the end of the year.

Every household is busy, began to kill chickens and sheep, buy New Year's goods, the street has begun to have red lanterns hanging high, selling New Year's calendars and couplets of hawkers are very numerous, adults and children are full of energy, jubilant, just in the sky, but also show the weather of the New Year, gray and white heavy evening clouds in the middle of the flashing from time to time, there is always a nostalgic faint smell of gunpowder in the air. Zhang Yunqi went back to school on this day to receive the transcript of the final exam.

He met Wang Xiaokai, Yang Wei and Tian Zhuangzhuang in the teaching building. They chatted in the corridor, and Wang Xiaokai came to Zhang Yunqi and said mysteriously: "I heard that Wu Yali was by someone." ”

Zhang Yunqi tilted his head: "What's wrong?"

Wang Xiaokai whispered: "I broke a leg, I was injured all over my body, and I was thrown on the street, it looked so miserable." ”

Zhang Yunqi was a little surprised: "There is such a thing." ”

Wang Xiaokai didn't say anything more, the four of them received the report card, had a meal together at noon, and went back to their own homes.

The Zhang family was quite busy on this day.

In two days, Zhang's father is about to be released from prison, and the family is solemn, but they try not to mention this matter very tacitly, everyone is silently preparing some things to be used at that time, Zhang's father from the inside to the outside from top to bottom, clothes, pants, hats and shoes, cars, red cloth strips, firecrackers, incense paper candles and rich food.

The villagers of Yunxi Village seem to be very attentive, and many people have come one after another these days, including close relatives, distant relatives who can't be beaten, and several cadres of the village committee led by Zhang Guorui, who probably came to find out what time the Zhang family would go to Guiping County to pick up Zhang's father, whether they would return to Yunxi Village, and so on.

The village committee of Yunxi Village also called on the villagers to pool a large amount of money together and buy a large number of firecrackers, preparing to clean up the dust when Zhang's father was released from prison. It's just that such a big battle caught Zhang's mother off guard.

Their old Zhang family has lived in Yunxi Village for generations, and the people in the village stand on the roof to scold the grievances are not few, of course, they are all trivial little stumbling, which is not a big grudge to keep in mind, but these small stumbles also make the Zhang family's life in the village really unhappy, especially when Zhang's father just entered the prison, there are some gossips chewing the root of the tongue in the village every day, what a room of miscellaneous animals, broken households, miscellaneous men, and the brains flashed...... It's really poking at people's backbones!

Now Niu Fen, who is in charge of the purchase of raw materials for the Longjingyuan Canning Factory, is very clear about this matter, and his younger brother wants to build a vegetable production base in Yunxi Village, so it is a good thing to make money.

However, no matter what the purpose was, Zhang's mother did not hesitate to refuse the kindness of the village committee, asking them to return all the money to the villagers, because she didn't want to make too much noise about this matter, Zhang's father's release from prison was a big deal, but it was only a big deal for her Zhang family, she just wanted to take people out, and the family would live a peaceful life.

Of course, although Zhang's mother was thinking about Zhang's father's release from prison, she did not forget the learning problems of several children, she knew that today was the day when the final exam results were released, as before, and when they came back, she took the report card and asked them one by one, Chunlan was still the first place in the first grade group of the city's first high school, I don't have to say, Zhang Yunqi is not bad, except for the English dragging, each subject is the top two in the class, only worse than the first time, only the fifth Zhang Xiaoxiao, the grades are really poor, the class is countdown, was scolded by the mother poked in the head, and directly scolded and cried。

At dinner in the evening, Zhang Xiaoxiao was still hiding in the room and refused to come out, Zhang Yunqi walked to the bedroom and called her, the little girl lay on the bed and covered her head with the quilt, bulging like a small hill, without saying a word.

Zhang Yunqi walked over and patted the quilt: "What's wrong? Still angry? I didn't do well in this exam, just work hard next time." ”

A small urn's voice came from the quilt: "But I can't pass the test." ”

Zhang Yunqi said happily: "That means you are not careful enough." ”

Zhang Xiaoxiao got a little head out of the quilt, pouted and said, "I'm attentive." ”

Zhang Yunqi just laughed.

According to him, at the age of the fifth child, it is the time to release his nature, he loves to play, and it is not a big fault that his grades are not good: "Get up, go to dinner, we will go to see my father in two days, tomorrow I will ask your sister Ji Ling to take you to Ximen Street to buy new clothes, and then dress up beautifully to see your father." ”

"Okay!" Zhang Xiaoxiao was happy at this time, and jumped up directly from the bed, but when she was sitting on the edge of the bed and putting on her shoes, she suddenly said, "By the way, second brother, is Dad a bad person?"

Zhang Yunqi was stunned for a moment: "Why do you say that?"

Zhang Xiaoxiao shrugged his little head, and said with a sad expression: "I heard from my classmates that the people in the prison are all bad people who have done bad things, so my father is a bad person." ”

This sentence made Zhang Yunqi stunned.

He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, as if he had been pricked by a needle.

A child's way of thinking is always simple. Zhang Yunqi didn't blame Xiao for saying this, but he never wanted and couldn't let his own sister look at his father like this! But what made him powerless was that he couldn't refute such a simple and direct point of view that "everyone in prison is a bad person", and after a long time, he asked in a low voice: "Xiaoxiao, do you know why my grades and your sister Chunlan are so good?"

Zhang Xiaoxiao may have sensed that Zhang Yunqi's expression was wrong, and asked timidly, "Why? Second brother." ”

"Let me tell you something, Tiny. Zhang Yunqi pulled a chair from the side, sat down, and then flashed a pair of big eyes: "One year during the winter vacation, our father ploughed the tobacco field, and took advantage of the agricultural slack in the city to do small work on the construction site of a textile factory to build a family building, about seven or eight days later, the eldest sister called me to go to the city to play, and my mother asked me to go to my father's construction site by the way, and gave him a little something, a jar of chili pickled cabbage, and a tattered big cotton jacket. ”

Zhang Yunqi said: "I remember that when my brother-in-law took me to the construction site, it was still more than four o'clock in the afternoon, there were many workers on the construction site, throwing bricks, building walls, pulling steel bars, carrying cement, and the people carrying cement were all small workers, and they lived the hardest. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yunqi couldn't help but think of "Volga Fiberman": " That night, I slept in my father's place, in the building under construction on the construction site, there were no doors and no windows, only four walls, and a bunch of tattered bedding was laid on the wheat straw on the ground in the corner of the wall, it was very cold, it was so cold that I couldn't sleep at all, I couldn't sleep at all, I couldn't sleep either, I was rummaging in the tattered bedding, and my mind was full of the scene of our father carrying cement, when my father saw me like this, he sat up and patted me on the shoulder, and said to me: Third child, I have no ability, only a brute force, I can only do such hard work in this life, to try to feed you five dolls。 You don't feel ashamed and sad. Don't worry, I'll fight for the money to get you out. You also have to fight for breath and read the book. Don't be a farmer like me, and make people look down on you for the rest of your life. You have to live with dignity. ”

Our father is 50 years old, and he climbed from the first floor to the eighth floor with 100 pounds of cement on his back for 5 cents in the winter! Since then, I have felt that I have no reason to fall, I studied hard, and I swore that I would definitely break out of Yunxi Village! So I became the first champion of Yunxi Village, so I did everything I could to make this family better, so that our relatives could have no worries about food and clothing, and live with dignity! Let you have 5 yuan a day for pocket money!

"Second brother, you... Don't be angry, I know, I know. Zhang Xiaoxiao was obviously frightened, her eyes were red, and she was almost crying, in her impression, the second brother in the past two years has always been considerate and responsible, never lost his temper with his family, and never said such heavy words.

Zhang Yunqi looked at the ignorant little girl in front of him, reached out and touched her head: "Xiaoxiao, I'm not angry, maybe you are still young, and you don't understand many things, but I hope you can remember this sentence: Thirty years ago, look at the father and respect the son; Our father gave everything for us, including his dignity, and anyone can slander him, but we can't! We must work hard to let him have something to rely on in his old age! Stand up and be a man!"

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