The old man panted and said, "Let's go, go home, I guess you're hungry too." ”

It's not nonsense, I'm already tired.

Xiao Mu propped up his tired body with the handle of his hoe, and followed behind the old man like a walking corpse.

"Yo, this is not a small Mu, why did you two go home?" said the passer-by with a strange look.

Xiao Mu was no longer able to pay attention, only to hear the old man respond: "This doesn't let Xiao Mu experience the hard work of work, so it has been grinding until now." ”

"Oh!"

Passers-by teased Xiao Mu and said, "Oh, Xiao Mu, your parents don't want you anymore, you can work honestly with your grandparents, don't do nothing like others!"

Do you have to be like this if you don't have parents? Can children without parents be ridiculed like this? Don't you deserve to be free without parents?

A series of question marks lingered in Xiao Mu's mind, and he even began to wonder if he should continue to stay in this house.

But I heard the old man say that when he was a child, he didn't even want his father to pick him up, and now that a few years have passed, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to go back to my father.

Lowering his head and gritting his teeth, he wanted to scold passers-by, but when he thought of what the old man said, he dispelled his thoughts.

"Yo, look at you, this kid has a big temper, and he gets angry when he says a few words, old man, how did you educate him!"

"Ahem, this temper is like this, there's no way, I can't say it, I get angry when I say it!"

The passer-by walked up to Xiao Mu, poked Xiao Mu's head with his finger and said, "You, you, you, you don't have much ability, and your anger is quite big, if it weren't for your grandparents, you wouldn't even be a fart, I guess you'd pick up garbage on the street!"

Forget it, but the passer-by didn't change his face, and even smiled happily.

This is obviously making Xiao Mu happy, how can a six-year-old child withstand such a big blow, maybe an adult should be furious.

The tears in the corners of the eyes couldn't stop flowing, sliding down the cheeks and flowing into the mouth, which was salty.

"Yo, why is this still bitter, can you say this?"

Xiao Mu couldn't hold back any longer, dropped the hoe in his hand, and pushed the passerby hard, "I don't have to worry about you, I have nothing to do with you." ”

After saying that, he ran away and ran back to the house in one go.

The old man picked up the hoe that Xiao Mu dropped and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the child's temper has been a little unstable recently, I'll catch up and see what's going on." ”

Along the way, the old man chased and shouted to Xiao Mu to stop, but these were useless, after chasing for a while, the old man stopped, after all, he was old and couldn't stand the toss, but he was worried that Xiao Mu would do something stupid.

The first thing I did when I got home was to frantically look for Xiao Mu, but I couldn't find Xiao Mu all over, so I went to the room to look.

Sure enough, it was in bed, but it didn't move, so it must have been asleep.

Actually, I didn't fall asleep, I just lay in bed and thought about it.

After the old man made the meal, he came to ask Xiao Mu to get up and eat, and Xiao Mu's eyes were red and swollen, so he must have cried a lot.

A bowl of soup, a bowl of vegetables, life is very simple, there are no dishes in the soup.

Xiao Mu ate three bowls in one go, and this amount of food never disappointed, whether there were dishes or not.

"Xiao Mu, can you stop being so naughty?"

Naughty? Am I naughty? Am I not very obedient? How can I say this? Xiao Mu didn't understand.

So he stared at the old man and asked, "What's wrong with me, haven't I always been very well-behaved?"

"You're good, you wouldn't have thought about dropping out. ”

Xiao Mu was a little reluctant and twisted his head to the side.

And the old man began to persuade Xiao Mu.

"Xiao Mu, think about it, today you also know how tired and hard it is to work, but there is no money to earn all year round. ”

"Let's talk about dropping out of school again, you don't want to go to school because your grandfather is sick, isn't it because the family has no money and can't afford you to go to school, right?"

"Then why doesn't the family have no money for you to go to school? It's not because our family has no educated people and can only make a living from farming, so we will end up in such a messy situation. ”

"Look at me again, I'm dozens of years old, I don't know a few big characters, and I will lose myself when I go to the city, do you want to be like me?"

The old man babbled a lot, and Xiao Mu naturally listened to half and lost half, because he hadn't reached this point at this time, and he didn't empathize.

Immediately afterwards, the old man said: "Until why so many people in the village have been counted down in our house?"

"Oh, now your grandfather is also sick and hospitalized, and others have heard that this disease cannot be cured, and there is no man in the family, so it will be counted in our family like this. ”

"Of course, this is not all, and part of it is because our family is poor, so we are looked down upon by others. ”

"And when you were taken in, a lot of people in the village were already against you, and they didn't think well of you, you know? ”

This can be regarded as saying that Xiao Mu is in his heart, it turns out that it is because he is an orphan and was taken in by Zhang Laohan and them, so he will be counted.

Xiao Mu secretly said to himself in his heart that he must get ahead in the future, he must be filial to Zhang Laohan, and beat the faces of those who looked down on him at the beginning.

But it's just thinking about how hard it is to do what you want.

"Well, do you still want to think about going to school, or are you still thinking about dropping out?"

After listening to the old man's nagging for a long time, Xiao Mu was a little shaken, is it true that studying and going to school is really the only way out?

But thinking about it, I have already told Guo Yang and others that I will not go back to school, and this sudden start of school and going again, this is inevitably a little embarrassing.

As for the old man's inquiry, Xiao Mu didn't directly say whether he could go on or not, but just said coldly: "But my family is poor, how can I go to school, and what do I use to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees." ”

The experienced old man saw Xiao Mu's thoughts at a glance, Xiao Mu was shaken, he or outsiders pushed a little, and he would definitely go back to school.

So the old man flickered and said, "Don't worry, as long as you want to go to school, grandma will always find a way for you, as long as you say you want to go or don't want to go." ”

I thought that Xiao Mu would say that he would continue to go to school, but what the old man didn't expect was that Xiao Mu didn't have a clear attitude.

Supporting his knees with his hands, he slowly got up, turned his back to the old man and said, "Oh, let's talk about it, I have a headache, I don't want to think about this, it's still early anyway." ”

This made the old man a little worried again, he said so much bitterly, but he still couldn't move, how good is this.

So the old man said: "Okay, maybe you haven't realized it deeply, then you can continue to work in the field with me, and it's not too late for you to tell me when the time comes." ”