Out of Zhong Lao's family, go straight across the river is the road back to Nangou, turn left is the fort, turn right down the river is the road out of the fort, walk a kilometer is the national highway. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, there are still people here, all of whom have been separated from their families after marriage, and there is no place to build a house in the fort, and they are not willing to build a house halfway up the mountain, so they all come here, and there are more than a dozen families.

Mancang's house was here, and grandma took Zhang Xingming's brothers and went to Mancang's house.

Mancang's father is Zhang Xingming's father's uncle and brother, and he also has to be called uncle, the only teacher in the village, who receives a national salary, and the only urban household registration in the village. Those who moved out because of their military service or work were not counted.

Grandma brought the little brothers to Mancang's house because of her brother's schooling.

The last time my father came, I talked to my grandmother, and my brother was old enough to go to school, and I didn't know if he could go to the village for a year. Grandma came to Mancang's house today to ask about it.

Entering the house, the Mancang family was eating, it should be less than one o'clock at twelve o'clock at noon, it seems that the Mancang family has three meals a day, just like in the city.

Seeing that Grandma pulled the little brothers into the house, Mancang's father hurriedly put down the wine glass and stood up from the kang, put on his shoes and went to the ground. "Oh, why are you here, Auntie? Sit down, have you eaten?" "Grandma Zhang is good. "Grandma Zhang, have you eaten?" Mancang's mother moved the dining table to the side, wiped the kang with a rag, and said, "Auntie, come and sit, this is a rare guest, but I haven't seen it for a few days." "Grandma is usually at Nangou's house, and it is rare to enter the fort once a year.

At that time, the Northeast paid more attention to this aspect, because it was a rural area, like visitors and children could not eat at the table, and the elders could not sit and the juniors could not sit. If the children in the house come to the guest's house, it will be a bad crime, you can't go, you can't interject, you can't lie down, you can't play, you just sit honestly in which corner, if you don't leave, you will be locked up. There is also today, half of the meal is eaten, and the guests can't eat, and everyone can't eat, either the acquaintances can sit down and eat together, or they just clean up and wait for the guests to leave and then move out to eat.

Zhang Xingming looked at the people in this room and felt so embarrassed, this is a little unguardable to enter without a door and without a doorbell, seeing that Mancang and the second brother are better, they are older, Xingliang's eyes that have been looking at the dinner table have betrayed his own heart.

Mancang's father had already gone down to the ground to help his grandmother to sit on the side of the kang, saluted a cigarette and lit it, Mancang's mother went to the outhouse to pour hot water, and Mancang's father also sat down on the edge of the kang and said, "Auntie came to me for something? This is Qingzhi's child, right? This is called Xiaojun, right? This is the second child?" Zhang Xingming looked at Mancang's father and said, "My name is Erming, uncle." Mancang's father was happy, lit a cigarette, and said, "Quite clever boy, do you know me?

Zhang Xingming pointed at Brother Mancang and said, "I don't know you, I know my brother and them, their father is my uncle, you are their father, don't I have to call him uncle?" Mancang Dad laughed, reached out and touched Zhang Xingming's head, and said, "This kid is smart and will be great in the future." ”

Zhang Xingming said: "What, uncle, you talk to my grandma, you adults talk, the five of us eat, okay? Then he asked his brother, "Are you hungry?" The elder brother's eyes had already fallen to the dinner table, and he nodded and said, "Hungry." ”

Grandma pulled Zhang Xingming and said, "This kid." Mancang's father smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's all a family, my own nephew, and it's not an outsider, so don't worry about it, auntie." Mancang, go get a bowl of rice for your two younger brothers, and you can continue to eat. Mancang agreed and went out and brought two pairs of chopsticks in, eating dumplings, and there was no need to serve rice.

The five brothers crowded into the dinner table and started eating. Mancang's father is on a salary, and the conditions are much better than other families in the village, five vegetables, four have meat, and of course a pot of pickles and sauce is indispensable. Zhang Xingming was actually not hungry, but he was embarrassed to see that his brother ate half of the meal, so he found a reason for people to finish the meal. Anyway, I'm small, no one can find fault with me, besides, in the previous life, I didn't eat and live in Mancang's house, and my uncle was also an uncle, so what kind of politeness did my family talk about.

The dumpling is a mixture of noodles, the bud rice noodles are mixed with white noodles, fragrant and sweet, the sauce is fish sauce, Mancang and the second child are both older, and they can get some fish and shrimp back every day, and his family has never lacked things in the river. I took a dumpling and broke half of it, handed the other half to my brother, smeared it with fish sauce, and it felt so good to bite into the soles of my feet.

After eating half a dumpling and a few bites of meat, Zhang Xingming put down his chopsticks and sat at the table to watch them eat.

The five children here were eating, and the grandmother over there told Mancang's father about her brother's schooling.

"The first few days Qingzhi came back and said that Xiaojun was old, so he came to ask if you could go to school with you first and follow the study for a year. There's a lot going on over there now, and the little ones won't leave, so they can't take care of it. I'm going to ask you if I can do it. ”

Mancang's father looked at his brother and said, "How old are you? Six years old? It's okay, if you can trust me, I'll come, who I teach is not teaching, it's not bad for this one, come on. ”

"What about the tuition? ”

"What is the tuition? My own nephew still needs the tuition fee for coming to my school, it's okay, come on." ”

"Don't, it's not good to let others say something, you have to give as much as you want. ”

"No, I don't. I don't take a penny from the team, I say I will accept it, I will accept it if I say I don't accept it, and he will still take care of me.

"Thank you so much, let him thank you for your trouble, wait for Qingzhi to come back, let him thank you. ”

"Thank you, my dad is his fourth uncle, that's his buddy, he grew up with bare buttocks, and it's an outsider to say that. "Mancang's father is a confessor, and he will give the matter in a few words.

The meal here is also finished, and my brother is eating with a greasy mouth and a numb tongue, and he still looks like he can't get enough. Mancang's father teased him and asked, "Little soldier, have you eaten enough?"

The elder brother nodded and said, "It's full." ”

"Isn't it delicious?"

"It's delicious, you have a lot of it, it's so fragrant. ”

"Then don't go back, just stay at my house and eat meat every day, okay?"

The elder brother hesitated, looked at his grandmother, and Mancang's father laughed again, and said, "Okay, it's decided, let's come to school when school starts, eat here at noon, and let Mancang's second child send it back in the evening." Okay, auntie?"

The matter of going to school is solved.

After eating a belly of meat, when he walked back, his brother shook and fell asleep, and his grandmother picked him up and pulled Zhang Xingming away.

In September, elementary school opened, and my brother started school with a small schoolbag sewn by his grandmother. The textbook was given by Mancang's father, and it is estimated that it was used by his family Mancang or his second child. Only Chinese and Mathematics. I only learn Chinese and mathematics.

Zhangjiabao's primary school hall is on the hill behind Mancang's house, with two tiled houses and no brand. One is a classroom, and the other is piled with clutter. There are four grades, sitting in four rows in one classroom, one grade in a row. Mancang's father goes to class every day, first to the first grade, the other three grades read by themselves, and after the lecture, he leaves homework for the first grade to write, and then to the second grade, and then the third grade and the fourth grade, and each class gets two classes at the end of the day. However, the progress is not yet behind, and by the fifth grade, the children will be able to keep up. Come to think of it, the teacher is very tired, and it is not easy.

The fifth grade is going to the brigade, and if the family situation is better, they will spend a few dollars to let the children live in school, and the children who are not in good condition will walk back and forth for more than 20 miles every day, leaving before dawn in the morning, and coming back at night when it is dark. It is said that Zhang Xingming's parents walked back and forth every day to finish junior high school. For four years, more than 20 miles a day, how far did you go?

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