Chapter 1817: That Journey Is Not Easy
Wang Meiqi's hometown, located in the northwest, is a bit remote, it can be said that it is the kind of very small village, basically the kind of small village that cannot be found on the map.
But I have to say that this small village still had a bit of a reputation in the past, of course, the reputation is not the small mountain village where they live, but because of the yellow mud that is abundant in this small mountain village.
This kind of soil is very suitable for making some crafts, so many years ago, the people who lived in this small village basically made a living by selling this kind of soil from the mountains.
However, no one was mining this kind of soil gradually, mainly because the handicrafts were almost worthless in those days, and few people would spend money on it, and the small villages gradually became poor, and the villagers relied on a little arable land to make a living.
Wang Meiqi was born in this ordinary small mountain village, Xiaocangzhuang at that time, but it was notoriously poor and backward, and there was no school or hospital in the whole village, so it can be said that there was nothing.
However, Wang Meiqi's luck was good, when she was eight years old, a volunteer teacher came to the city to teach and established a small elementary school in Kokurazhuang, and Wang Meiqi was the first student.
The teachers in the small village like Wang Meiqi very much, and in addition to classes, the teacher also taught her a lot of things, singing, dancing, and painting, and Wang Meiqi likes everything.
But what I like the most is that the teacher tells her about the world outside the mountains, and every time she listens to something new outside, she can listen to it and forget to go home for dinner.
It is because of this teacher that Wang Meiqi planted a seed of hope in her young heart, and she looks forward to one day when she can walk out of these two mountains and go outside.
See the world with your own eyes, but the teacher said that it is not easy to get out of the mountains, and the mud on the mountain road blocks the development of small mountain villages.
The words of the volunteer teacher did not scare Wang Meiqi, in her heart, the road between the two mountains is the most difficult road in the world, but no matter how difficult this road is, don't try to stop her from leaving here.
That year, Wang Meiqi was thirteen years old, she used her excellent results to walk out of this small mountain village, and for the first time she walked out of this small village, she felt that the air outside was sweet.
No one knows how difficult it was for her to get out of that small mountain village and out of that home.
Wang Meiqi is not an only child, there is a younger brother who is five years younger than her at home, her parents originally planned to find her a family to marry when she was sixteen years old, and the reason why she was called to school was just because it didn't cost money to go to school, and she could manage a meal in school.
And if she is married off in the future, this woman still knows how to read, and maybe she can ask for more dowry money.
I didn't think that she would continue to go to school, Wang Meiqi could go out of the small village and go to school in the county town, thanks to the teacher who volunteered, looking at Wang Meiqi's eager eyes, the teacher couldn't bear to let her dream be shattered like this, and used the money he saved, plus his own salary, to help her complete her dream.
After all, a child who grew up in a mountain village knows how difficult it is to achieve his dreams.
Maybe she can go to the county, which is already her end, at least it can make her closer to her dream, maybe it's also a good thing.
No one thought that after Wang Meiqi walked out of the small mountain village, she did not stop there, studied hard every day, and the rest of the time, when others were resting, she went outside to do some odd jobs, or do some handicrafts, and was constantly busy for the next year's tuition.
In addition to learning to earn money, she has to set aside an hour every day to practice the dance taught by her teacher and practice singing.
At that time, when Wang Meiqi was still growing her body, she lived under high pressure every day, she ate little, and her body couldn't bear it after all, and in her sophomore year of high school, she finally fell into a coma of exhaustion on the way out to make money.
Fortunately, well-wishers passed by and sent her to the hospital, and the school knew about her family difficulties, not only waived part of her tuition and miscellaneous fees, but also gave her a scholarship every year.
In fact, this scholarship is not very much, but Wang Meiqi still feels that this money is not easy to come by, and plans to secretly save this money and use it when she goes to college in the future.
Unexpectedly, this money was finally discovered, that year she was in her third year of high school, and Wang Meiqi, who was already sixteen years old, had grown into a big girl, but her long-term poor nutrition made her body look like a minor, much shorter than her peers, and her body looked a little shriveled.
has reached the age of sixteen, Wang Meiqi's father plans to marry her to a small restaurant in the town, the owner of the family has a son, twenty-seven years old has not yet married, although the age gap is a bit big, but the living conditions of the family are good.
Wang Meiqi's father has already come to talk about it, as long as Wang Meiqi is married, the bride price given by others is definitely beyond imagination.
Wang Meiqi's father has been coveting this bride price for many years, and seeing that Wang Meiqi is sixteen years old, he doesn't care about it so much, and directly locks Wang Meiqi at home, and doesn't let her go anywhere, let alone ask her to go to school to take the college entrance examination.
In order to prevent Wang Meiqi from running back to the county seat, Wang Meiqi's father even locked the chain of the family's dog directly around Wang Meiqi's neck, and burned all her books.
And when she was rummaging through her schoolbag, she also found the money that Wang Meiqi had saved over the years in her schoolbag.
Needless to say, this money has become the money for Wang Meiqi's younger brother to marry his daughter-in-law in the future.
Her father was like this, and her mother was even more so, not only did not help her, but even cursed her for having no conscience, saying that she did not know anything about family affection.
In fact, Wang Meiqi knows her parents well, they have never regarded Wang Meiqi as a person, in their eyes, Wang Meiqi is a beast they raised, and when she was raised, she pulled it out and sold it, exchanged money and came back, and prepared to marry a daughter-in-law for her youngest son.
In fact, this kind of thing is not strange at all in their small village, and many families come over like this.
Wang Meiqi has grown up watching such scenes since she was a child, and it is precisely because of this that she is more determined than anyone else to leave here.
Although this is her home, the place where she was born and raised, in her eyes, every inch of land here smells disgusting, and she wants to escape from this hellish place.
It's a pity that it's too late, the moment she was chained, her heart died, and she even thought about going on a hunger strike, starving herself to death would definitely not be as they wanted.
Wang Meixi went on a hunger strike for three days, and the family watched her body lose weight day by day, and finally decided to take off the chain around her neck first.
After all, they just want to marry their daughter off in exchange for a bride price, and they don't want her life, if they really starve to death, they won't get a penny.
Removing the chain, Wang Meiqi's mother made her favorite oily noodles that night and sent them to the bedside, saying that it was all for your good, the family was poor, and there was no need to live a poor life if you got married.
Everyone knows how many ingredients in this statement are for Wang Meiqi's good.
Seeing that Wang Meiqi still didn't eat, and finally her parents didn't bother talking, thinking that they would send her over in the next two days, no matter what, people can't die by their own hands.
But this incident was inadvertently known by Wang Meiqi, a playmate who grew up together.
This girl's name is Ximei, a few years older than Wang Meiqi, she was married two years ago, although she was not married, but she is not Wang Meiqi after all, she does not have such lofty ideals, so she can only reluctantly accept her parents' arrangement.
But she knew Wang Meiqi's dream, heard about Wang Meiqi, secretly took money from home, rescued Wang Meiqi overnight, handed over the dry food and money that had been prepared on her body to Wang Meiqi, and sent her to the entrance of the village.
Since then, Wang Meiqi has never returned to this home, as if she has completely cut off relations with this family, and the people in the village are also well aware of this matter, but no one has ever been willing to mention it.
And Ximeike, who helped Wang Meiqi escape from the house, was unlucky, because she stole the family's money and was broken by her own father.
At that time, if it wasn't for the fear of death, Ximei didn't know how much of a crime it would be, but fortunately, Ximei's younger brother still had a little conscience, and he couldn't bear to watch his sister being beaten, so he returned to his brother-in-law's house behind his sister's back.
And this matter did not end there, Wang Meiqi's father was worried about the rich dowry, and in the future, he would marry his son to a daughter-in-law, so naturally he would not just forget it, and he was still looking for someone to inquire about Wang Meiqi's whereabouts outside.
I don't know who I heard it, Wang Meiqi went to Yanjing and has already gone to college.
Wang Meiqi's father took his son and rushed directly to Yanjing, but after arriving in Yanjing, he realized that the city was too big, and there were people coming and going, and trying to find his daughter among these people was no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
But he must do this thing, maybe Wang Meiqi's stubborn temper is with her father, and the father and daughter are both temperamental and will not give up until the goal is achieved.
Wang Meiqi went to school while doing odd jobs outside, and finished her freshman year on a work-study basis, but was blocked at the school gate by her father on the first day of her sophomore year.
Wang Meiqi's father saw that she was dressed decently now, and she was not as thin as before, and she was also open, and she was on fire at that time, he worked outside for a year, just to find this daughter, but she was eating and drinking at school, looking at her son, dumbfounded, how to swallow this breath.
At the moment, he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he was about to do it when he untied the belt around his waist, but fortunately, Ximei's younger brother came with him, and when he saw that the posture was not good, he quickly reached out and stopped him.
And Wang Meiqi also took this opportunity to run away, but the place where she went to school was found, where else could she run?
Wang Meiqi, who was originally considered excellent in school, soon became a popular figure in the school, because her father came to the school twice in three days, pulling banners and constantly making trouble, and the students in the school pointed at her one by one.
Even the school couldn't stand this pressure, and looked for Wang Meiqi several times, hoping that she would work hard to solve the family's affairs and not affect the reputation of the school.
It's a pity that this matter is where she can solve it, if she can really solve this trouble, she won't bring the trouble here again.
Due to her father's constant troubles, the school finally decided to give Wang Meiqi a temporary suspension of school, when to deal with all the things at home, and apply to continue her studies when she came back.
After knowing that this was dealt with, Wang Meiqi praised her whole person, and she cried on the bed for I don't know how long.
Maybe she can only vent the helplessness and grievances in her heart through crying, after all, only she knows how difficult it is to get to this point.
I think that at the moment when she cried bitterly, she realized what the teacher had said: every step in the future will be extremely difficult, far more difficult than the muddy road!