"Morning! Zhang Mengxin!" I "bumped into" Zhang Mengxin again outside the school.

"Morning!" After speaking, he handed me a braided chain! A red string was strung with a bracelet made of small beads.

At that time, this was popular in the class, and a few lively girls in the class showed off what they wanted to say on a very narrow strip of cloth, and then used a lot of red rope to weave it into a bracelet for the senior students to like!

But I asked her to knit it for me, and I lied that my sister wanted it, and many girls in the class asked her to weave it, because she made it the best!

Although the nine-year compulsory education is universal, the dropout rate of rural children is often very high, and many families do not have the conditions to continue their studies, and often they cannot afford the 300 yuan tuition fee for a junior high school!

In 98, the tide of working in the south came, and the temptation of money made the outside world attract many people of the younger generation! Many adults said that it was useless for children to study, and many children were 16 or 17 years old, and going to school was not only an increase in the burden on their families, but also a matter of their own reluctance.

These problems can be solved by going to work on your own. At the same time, the family can also receive money in the mail every month.

The two middle schools near our village are more than 20 kilometers away, and there are no buses in the village, and there are no cement roads now, some are just potholed dirt roads, and when it rains and snows, the 20 kilometers can only be walked by two feet! At that time, the corporal punishment of students in middle schools was also very severe, and if they were late, they would be beaten in the palms! Many people who insisted on going to school basically had to endure a lot of hardships to survive! The journey to school takes an hour and a half every day, and many people can't hold on, and they have to get up before dawn every day, and if they wait until winter, it will be even more sinful! After only finishing elementary school, I chose to go out to work!

Every year during the Chinese New Year, those brothers and sisters who come back from part-time work are dressed very fashionably and beautifully, which strengthens the idea of some older children to go out to work!

Two of my cousins went to Nanjing to work, serving dishes and washing dishes in other people's restaurants. It was only 5 or 600 yuan a month! At that time, it was a high salary.

In the past two years, as long as the New Year is over, my cousin will take a few little sisters in the village to work together. A few times I drove my cousin and I to the town on a tractor, and I felt very sad to watch them pack their bags and get on the 12 bus. It's like working hard in my heart, where is my sister and my friends who grew up with me!

It's good to have a sister outside, but if you don't have a sister or brother, you can only work outside alone! All the tiredness and hardship can only be told by yourself and your own family!

Zhang Mengxin and I walked side by side on the way to the classroom. Rows of aspen leaves fell to the ground. The morning dew is still on it, and the morning sun is shining warmly on our bodies.

None of us spoke again. Just walked quietly, usually she came early in the morning, and there were not many students on the road we walked together, only the old man who was holding a big broom was sweeping the fallen leaves!

Walking with the person you like, even if you don't have words, you will feel full of happiness. This is my thoughts, I don't know what Zhang Mengxin is thinking, I feel like she has something on her mind, and there is a faint sadness in her eyes.

After class after class, although Zhang Mengxin has been talking and laughing with me, I feel that she is still sad in my heart. There was still a small errand in class, and she actually answered her questions from the teacher, and was severely punished by the math teacher for standing for 10 minutes!

I was worried about her state and decided to ask her what was wrong!

I took the opportunity to clean up together after school and asked her about the opportunity to walk out of the school gate.

"Zhang Mengxin, is there something wrong with your family!" I asked with concern.

Zhang Mengxin looked at me leisurely, opened his mouth and said, "Kong Weihe, can you accompany me to go for a walk." ”

I looked in the direction of her finger, there were two canals on the west side of the school, and rows of big poplars were planted on both sides of the canals, which made people feel comfortable against the golden background of the sunset!

"Okay, I'll help you get your bag. As I spoke, I picked up Zhang Mengxin's schoolbag and carried it on my back.

We walked on the top of the long canal, two rows of large aspen trees gently shaking their leaves, and the setting sun shot through the leaves of the aspen trees that had been slightly whitened into the water between the two canals, and the breeze blew and the water surface gently shimmered!

Zhang Mengxin walked very slowly, and I followed very slowly, and the shadow of me and her slowly stretched very long in the sunset.

"Thank you for being with me, Koonweih. ”

I smiled and didn't speak.

After a while, Zhang Mengxin felt tired and found a soft grass and sat down slowly facing the sunset. I also sat next to it, next to the body of the schoolbag house!

"My sister went to Guangdong to work! I can't bear to let her go so far alone!"

After speaking, Zhang Mengxin thought of her sister again, and tears flowed unconsciously.

The first time I saw Zhang Mengxin crying, I didn't know what to say, so I took out a tissue from my schoolbag and handed it to her. I didn't speak, my eyes looked at the pond in the setting sun in the distance, and I listened to her quietly.

After crying softly for a while, Zhang Mengxin gradually stopped crying and spoke slowly.

"My sister is a year older than me, my sister and I have a very good relationship since childhood, at home, a lot of housework is my sister rushing to do, as soon as there are some delicious sisters will always let me, let me eat first!"

I listened quietly to Zhang Mengxin's narration, and then took out the tissue in my schoolbag and handed it to Zhang Mengxin.

She slowly rested her head on my shoulder and continued

"Two days ago, on August 15, my cousin Shanshan came back from Guangdong, saying that this time I could take a few people to work in a shoe factory in Guangdong, and the salary would be 15,000. As soon as Dad heard this, he decided to let his sister follow her cousin to work!"

"I was reluctant to let my sister go, my sister went for the family, and after she went to work, the family had the money for me and my brother to continue schooling.

Saying that, Zhang Mengxin sobbed softly again!

"My sister has just entered her first year of junior high school and has very good grades in her class. In the past few days, her middle school teacher has come to my house several times and wants my sister to come back to continue her studies! But my parents don't want my sister to come back, because they are afraid that the family will not be able to afford for us to go to school when my sister comes back! I heard my mother say that my sister's travel expenses will be one or two hundred yuan!"

"The day my sister left, I was so reluctant, I held my sister's hand and didn't want to let go, my sister endured it and didn't cry, and told me to bring me books back for the New Year. I know my sister can't hold back her tears. My sister went to work so that my brother and I could continue to go to school, I'm sorry for my sister!"

Slowly, Zhang Mengxin's voice became smaller and smaller, and I never said a word. I turned my head and saw that she had fallen asleep gently on my shoulder, I guess she had not rested for several days, so I took the school uniform jacket I had just taken off and covered Zhang Mengxin.

Looking at Zhang Mengxin's shallow breathing, there were still undried tears in the corners of her eyes, she was so sad because of her sister's departure. Her eyes were quietly closed, and her long and narrow eyelashes were like a small fan, covering a faint shadow!

I stared at her blankly, not daring to move, just sitting in a sitting position and looking into the distance. The setting sun casts irregular gold edges under a golden cloud, stretching all the way to the sky. The light of the setting sun dragged its long tail obliquely on the earth, combined with the rice seedling fields on the ground, full of elongation, and gradually deepened....

I gently stroked Zhang Mengxin, who was still asleep, she slowly opened her eyes, saw that the sky was about to enter darkness, and hurriedly stood up and said to me.

"I'm sorry, I fell asleep!"

"It's okay, it's dark, I'll send you home"

"Hmm!"

So in the tail of the remnant sun, the two of us slowly walked towards the south of the canal...