On the weekend, Geng Hao went to Mo's house as promised to tutor Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng, in addition to Chinese and mathematics. To this end, Geng Hao also asked Wang Dahua about the progress of his first-grade mathematics class. Tutoring is usually five hours, two hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. Lunch was also dealt with at the Mo family.

After Mo Fengshou's leg was broken, neighbors three or five minutes away came to help cook, and Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng would go to the vegetable field in advance to pick vegetables, go to the river to wash them and bring them back. When Geng Hao came, he would be with them, and occasionally catch a few fish while washing vegetables. Geng Hao is very good at catching fish, he can catch a small plate of fish in an hour or two, cut his stomach directly by the river and remove the internal organs, and take it back to wait for the meal after processing. Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng sat on the stones by the river, their feet soaked in the water, watching him catch fish and handle fish, as a cheering audience.

This time at noon, it was a full load again. Mo Yuancheng held a few vegetables and walked beside Geng Hao like a little adult, Mo Yuansheng held a small plastic bucket containing fish and followed behind their butts unhurriedly. After Zhong Xiu's reminder, Geng Hao clearly distinguished the two brothers, the one with a mole on the left eyebrow was the eldest brother Mo Yuancheng, and the one who didn't have it was the younger brother Mo Yuansheng.

Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng are not particularly lively people, and they usually don't like to laugh much. Mo Yuancheng is wary of everything, Mo Yuansheng has always been wooden, he is slow to do anything, and his eyes are always full of confusion and doubt. Geng Hao was with the two of them, and he was very quiet when he had nothing to do, and he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"Teacher Geng. As soon as Mo Yuancheng opened his mouth, he had the timbre of a milk doll, with a strong local accent. He leaned closer to Geng Hao, his expression was very worried, "We're done with the exam, are you still here?"

Geng Hao didn't expect Mo Yuancheng to ask such a sentence, looking at his little face, he couldn't help patting his head: "Come when you have the opportunity, take you down to the river to fish." ”

Mo Yuancheng grinned. Mo Yuansheng behind heard it, and a silly smile slowly appeared on Mu Mu's face. Geng Hao saw that they had a rare smile, and he couldn't help but smile even brighter.

As soon as he arrived at the house, there was another smell of smoke, and Geng Hao frowned. The air in the room is not smooth, once you smoke, it will not dissipate for a long time, and all the second-hand smoke will be inhaled into your lungs. Geng Hao also has a lot of smokers around him, but every time he stays in this house for a long time, he will feel uncomfortable when he smells too much. Mo Fengshou found that he couldn't stand the smell of cigarettes last time, so he smoked less when he was there, and this time he took advantage of them to go out and smoke two cigarettes.

"Are you back?" Mo Fengshou greeted them happily, saw the small plastic bucket in Mo Yuansheng's arms, and said happily, "You are going to catch fish again?" ”

Mo Yuansheng immediately hugged the plastic bucket and ran to the side of the bed to show Mo Fengshou. Mo Yuancheng didn't pay attention to anyone when he entered the house, put the dishes on the table, waited for the neighbor's aunt to come over to cook, and plopped up the compartment by himself. Geng Hao glanced at the compartment curiously, picked up a stool and sat to rest, shaking his shirt, trying to make the sweat on his body dry faster. It is very refreshing to go down to the river to fish in the summer, but it is also very uncomfortable to bask in the scorching sun on your back.

"Yo roar, have you caught so much this time?" Mo Fengshou looked at the small fish processed in the plastic bucket, one by one, and began to chat with his son every day.

Mo Yuansheng laughed dumbly, pointed at Geng Hao, and said in a milky voice: "It's all caught by Teacher Geng, Teacher Geng is amazing." ”

"Really?" Mo Fengshou pretended to look at Geng Hao in surprise. Geng Hao knew that he was cooperating with Mo Yuansheng, so he turned his head and smiled at them, which could be regarded as a third-party cooperation. Mo Yuansheng was very satisfied with this kind of cooperation, and nodded vigorously, "Well, Teacher Geng is amazing." ”

Geng Hao listened attentively to the conversation between their father and son, and looked around at this dirty and messy environment, feeling embarrassed. The sweat on his forehead rolled down his eyes, and his hot and dry eyes were moistened, recalling the scene when his father took him down to the river to fish when he was a child.

Every time my dad touched the river for a long time and caught a fish, he would show off to Geng Hao very proudly, asking him if his father was powerful, Geng Hao was young and ignorant, and he was happy when he saw the fish, and he cooperated very stupidly and said, amazing, dad is the most powerful. Sometimes the uncle followed, and the uncle would sneer, saying that his father would bully him for being young and ignorant. When he grew up, Geng Hao found that his father was not powerful at all, he only touched a fish in the morning, and slipped and fell in the river and got wet.

"Bang"!

Suddenly there was an explosion, Geng Hao came back to his senses suddenly, and there was already a yellowed and old book on the table in front of him, and on the book was a few big characters "Lei Feng's Diary". This book is Mo Yuancheng's, last week Genghao inadvertently picked it up, and was beaten by Mo Yuancheng. When I saw it again, I was full of puzzlement. When he looked up, he met Mo Yuancheng's firm eyes. Geng Hao asked in his heart, is it possible, Mo Yuancheng is going to give him this book? This is his mother's relic. Mo Yuancheng opened his mouth, and Geng Hao found that he was thinking too much.

"Teacher Geng, you teach me to read. Mo Yuancheng stared at Geng Hao for a moment, his expression aggrieved, full of requests. The child's begging gaze is really inescapable, Geng Hao carefully picked up the "Lei Feng Diary" from under him, and saw that he didn't mean anything reluctant, so he opened it and flipped it twice, thinking that although the words in it are not difficult, it is not easy for first-grade children, there is no pinyin on it, how can he teach it?

Mo Fengshou watched all this on the bed, and sighed long: "This book is the only book for the child, the child has no culture, just know these words, and I have been reading them to them before......"

As he spoke, Mo Fengshou couldn't continue. Because of the enlightenment of this book, Mo Yuancheng likes to read, since the death of Mo Yuancheng's brother's mother, no one reads this book anymore, Mo Yuancheng wants to learn to read and write, and he wants to be able to understand this book. But the current situation of their family can no longer provide education for their brothers. As a father, he can't even realize his child's desire to study, and this kind of self-blame is more uncomfortable than breaking his leg.

Geng Hao looked at the words on the book, fell into deep contemplation, and no one disturbed his thinking. It took him a long time before he closed the book and looked at Mo Yuancheng, who had been waiting for the result next to him. It is estimated that Mo Yuancheng is now seven years old, because his birthday is in October, so he enters school later than others, if he really wants to learn and can work hard, he can also teach. But Geng Hao firmly believes that it is better to give a fish than to give it a fish.

"I can't guarantee that I will teach you literacy every week in the future, but I can teach you how to look up the dictionary first, learn to look up the dictionary, and you can find out the words in this book and recognize it yourself. What you have to do now is to learn the pinyin and the side capitals that you are learning now. ”

Mo Yuancheng looked at Geng Hao as if he didn't understand, and only knew that what Teacher Geng meant was that now he had a way to read and read, so he immediately agreed to nod: "Mmmm." ”

"Teacher Geng, what a good person. Mo Fengshou put his arm around Mo Yuansheng and looked at Geng Hao very gratefully, "I really thank Mr. Geng for helping our Yuancheng and Yuansheng so much." Yuancheng, Yuansheng, thank you quickly. ”

Mo Yuansheng and Mo Yuancheng were very obedient, and hurriedly said "thank you, teacher" to Geng Hao. Mo Fengshou opened his mouth and said again, kowtowing to the teacher. Geng Hao was so frightened that he hurriedly said no, kowtow from time to time in this era. Mo Fengshou now trusts Geng Hao very much, Geng Hao said no, he suddenly accepted this concept, and was very ashamed to say that he couldn't keep up with the pace of the times, and then stopped mentioning this matter.

When Geng Hao came back the next day, he brought a small red dictionary to Mo Yuancheng, and Mo Yuancheng was reluctant to put it down when he took it. Geng Hao was very satisfied with Mo Yuancheng's reaction, and secretly sighed that if Mo Yuancheng could go to school normally, he would definitely be a scholar. Because in addition to talent, the most important thing in learning is interest. Interest is the best teacher. On this day, Zhong Xiu's eldest sister Zhong Ling also came, and brought a basket of steamed buns to see Mo Fengshou's situation.

"Now that Teacher Geng is here to teach you, you have to seize this opportunity to study hard. ”

Zhong Ling told Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng a word, and said that he would not disturb their studies anymore, and turned around to talk to Mo Fengshou in dialect. The two of them chatted quietly, and from time to time they looked at the three of them who were taking cram classes and sighed. Geng Hao could probably guess that they were discussing things about Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng.

After chatting for a while, Zhong Ling began to help Mo Fengshou clean up the room. Last time, Zhong Xiu went back and told Zhong Ling about this cousin's family situation, Zhong Ling said that he wanted to take a chance to take a look, so it was easy to come up early after finishing housework today. When my cousin was alive, the conditions in this house were not good, but it was neat and clean, and within a few years of my cousin's mother's departure, this house became a beggar's house.

Mo Fengshou repeatedly stopped Zhong Ling from busy, and Zhong Ling called out to his cousin a few times and pressed him to the bed. Seeing the situation, Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng also put down their pens and stepped forward to stop Zhong Ling from doing things. Zhong Ling slammed them back to the table and asked Geng Hao to continue tutoring them. It took me a lot of persuasion to persuade Mo Fengshou.

Zhong Ling was very quick with his hands and feet in housework, took out the large bamboo basket with a layer of dirt stored in the corner, and threw all the dirty clothes in the corner of the cabinet on the bed into it, and this collection was a whole three baskets. Zhong Ling raised it and left them all at the door. He took out a useless rag to use as a rag, found a black porcelain basin, and went out with an iron bucket. After about ten minutes, Zhong Ling came back with a bucket of water and a bottle of dish soap in his hand. The Mo family has no running water, and the water used for eating is the water from the river below the slope.

Geng Hao watched Zhong Ling, a woman who was almost forty, doing these heavy jobs, and it was not very good for him, a young and strong woman, to sit down. It happened that Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng were doing exercises, and when Zhong Ling was carrying the iron bucket and was about to pour water into the water tank, Geng Hao got up and walked to the front of him with an arrow step, and first reached out and grabbed the iron bucket. Zhong Ling was frightened and subconsciously held down the bucket.