Walking in the yellowish and black sky, Cheng Cai has a match with Cheng Xuefen's chirp.

Cheng Xuefen was very happy, one would say that the popsicles and watermelons were too delicious, and the other would say that today was too fun.

Chengcai is also very happy, and he is very grateful to meet Mr. Liu surnamed Liu who helped today.

He doesn't think that others will not be able to understand the appearance of running out to sell popsicles in bulk in this year.

What makes Chengcai most grateful is that Mr. Liu inadvertently opened a small door for him and stuffed some halos called hope in......

"It's fifteen today, isn't it? The moon came out so early, and it was so bright. Chengcai looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

Cheng Xuefen shouted on the side: "Yesterday was fifteen, didn't you listen to your mother?"

"yes, I'm not impressed. Chengcai smiled.

For so many days, today is the most relaxing thing to achieve.

In the following periods, Chengcai went out a little earlier than usual, and when he encountered patches of farmland and farmers who were busy grabbing them, he would ask if he needed a small gift of watermelon.

There are few coincidences in the morning, but there are more coincidences in the afternoon, so that the income of the adult material occasionally will be three or four hundred a day, and when I go home at night, I can often take out a handful of tickets and pile them on the table to count slowly, which is beautiful.

In this way, half a month later, the time flickered to the end of August, and both the finished popsicle business and the coincidental watermelon business had to be closed.

As long as his father, who is working abroad, can send back the 6,000 yuan that was carefully calculated and negotiated, plus this additional income and the income from the field, his study and family life can be maintained very well.

This is also the reason why Chengcai is worried about tuition, and Eryang wants to pull Chengcai to Shenzhen for a summer job, because after careful calculation, only 6,000 yuan is not enough.

After returning the foam box to his uncle in the town, Cheng Cai took matters into his own hands and exchanged a small part of the proceeds for a pork rib and brought home two catties of pork belly.

That night, the smell of meat wafting from Chengcai's house overshadowed the smell of herbs that had been lingering for a long time.

Chengcai's mother, who is already able to move freely and can do some physical work that is not light or heavy, plus Chengcai and Cheng Xuefen, both brothers and sisters, have a smile on their faces that they are satisfied with life.

……

On the evening of August 29, Chengcai's father hung up the phone at home.

On the phone, he said that the foreman really had no money in his hands, and everyone's children had to go to school, and in the end, everyone had to pay a month's salary and a half.

The settlement is the earliest one and a half months of wages this year, that month and a half of the country mostly rained, the days that can work east and west day by day, a total of 32 days, made up a whole, sent back 3000.

On the phone, Chengcai's father said another thing, which made Chengcai's and Chengcai's mother's faces full of gloom, their project has been completed this time, and they don't know when the new job will be available, so they can only wait......

After answering the phone in the small shop at the head of the village, Chengcai accompanied his mother on the way home with a flashlight.

"Your dad is a little tough at home, and he can't be ruthless outside!"

"3000! I haven't done it yet! How will I spend the second half of this year? Xuefen doesn't have to pay tuition, but your tuition fee will be 1560 in one phase, and you have to pay living expenses, how can this be!"

"If it weren't for your luck in the summer vacation and you earned some extra money, a few of us would have starved to death at home!"

"The foreman is really, he doesn't think about it at all! When the project is over, can't the money be settled? And they have to wait outside for work, how can this be?"

"The family still has to buy seeds, double robbery because of my waist, other family help, it's a few days late, now it's almost better, I have to plant another season of rice immediately, and it costs money to buy seeds and fertilizers." ”

"You have to have some money to spare, right?"

Chengcai smiled and comforted: "Mom, it's okay, it's difficult for Dad, I'll think of a way to live for the semester." ”

"How can that work, you have already earned enough tuition and living expenses!"

"We can also sell a little surplus millet at home, so that our family should be enough. ”

"School is three yuan a meal, nine yuan a day, 28 days a month, more food in the third year of high school, 300 yuan a month. ”

The mature mother pinched and counted little by little with her fingers, walking, calculating, and muttering.

In fact, even if the finished wood has long been understood, the rice at home should be left out to eat by himself, and there is not much that can be sold, as in previous years, it is two thousand and one two, so that there are only about 8,000 yuan in total.

According to the fucking arithmetic just now, there are five months of class time in the second half of the year, and Chengcai alone will take 3,000 and 60 yuan of all the money, which is not much, and it is even 92 yuan and 7 cents less than the 92 yuan he earned during the summer vacation.

But after this calculation, the family's remaining money is only four or five thousand yuan, and Cheng Xuefen also needs living expenses when she goes to junior high school, which is not much worse than Chengcai.

Mature mothers need to continue to take medicine for two months to stabilize themselves, which hurts the muscles and bones, and the good is already slow, and the use of traditional Chinese medicine is even slower, so no matter how you calculate it, there is a gap in the remaining money.

Because when I originally discussed with Chengcai's father, it was planned for Chengcai to earn his own tuition during the summer vacation.

"Mom, I'll figure out how to pay for my living expenses, don't worry. "Cheng Cai said.

Although it can only save more than 1,000 yuan in half a year, for a pure farming family facing the loess with its back to the sky, especially a family in this situation now, it is a huge amount of money, at least it can meet Cheng Xuefen's semester needs!

Chengcai's mother didn't really listen to Chengcai's words, before going to school, Chengcai's mother gave Chengcai 3,000: "You should eat, you don't have money to ask the family again, no, I'll borrow some from your uncle." ”

It used to be given directly for a semester, so there would be so many.

Chengcai pondered for a moment, and drew out ten red tickets: "I'll take two thousand first, follow Xue Fen first, it's really not enough, I'll ask you again." ”

No matter how he tries to solve the gap in living expenses, he must first have a certain amount of capital, four hundred and forty yuan, which already has a certain guarantee.

No matter what he thinks, life is like this, and there will always be a little wind and grass inadvertently.

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"Chengcai, why are you eating steamed buns again?" One day at noon, a classmate who didn't go to the cafeteria to eat saw Chengcai nibbling on steamed buns, so he asked.

"I like the whole grains of the north, they are delicious. Cheng Cai just poured saliva, and the corners of his mouth pulled down with difficulty, and he replied with a smile.

The classmate came over and asked curiously, "Really, then bring me one?"

Chengcai didn't refuse, he is also a half-old man now, a meal is really open, four or five steamed buns are not a problem, plus buy more than one vendor can send a few, naturally there is a surplus.

"It's cold, I'm afraid you won't like to eat it. ”

The classmate looked at the cold and hard steamed buns handed over by Chengcai, and hesitated: "Then forget it." ”

Originally, Chengcai was also going to think of a way to start a small business, but after the start of the new semester, lunch and dinner in the cafeteria became four yuan a meal, two yuan a day, which became an extra huge pressure!

However, after entering the third year of high school in the new semester, the school changed the class schedule of the third year of high school to nine classes a day, and after the eighth class, it was half an hour of self-study, which was counted as the ninth period.

In this way, there is no time to think of a way!

In the end, I can only go to the street to buy five cents and two first, and give one steamed bun for five and one for one meal.

……

"Chengcai, come on. In the ninth class of the day, when Cheng Cai was studying seriously, the head teacher and Chinese teacher shouted.

Chengcai hurriedly got up and followed the teacher to the office, and he didn't dare to speak on the way.

When I arrived at the office, the teacher said unceremoniously: "I see that you haven't been paying much attention to reciting Chinese texts recently, come, memorize the "Getaway" that you taught two days ago, and if you can't memorize it, read it to me here until you memorize it!"

Chengcai was frightened by the teacher's serious tone, and his head suddenly sweated, but it was also common for the teacher to check his homework in the ninth class, so he didn't dare to think much in his head, so he hurriedly memorized it:

"There is a fish in the North Underworld, its name is Kun, the Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles it ......"

“…… No one has self, no god has no merit, and a saint has no name. ”

"The full text is not very long, why do you memorize it so badly? You didn't listen carefully in class? Go and read the textbook and memorize it again!" the teacher was dissatisfied and said sternly.

Chengcai took the textbook and stood there straight and read it word by word, just hidden under the sound of the fan, the teacher said to read it once, he read it five times, and only after making sure that he could recite it fluently before he dared to speak.

Although it is only a high school in the town, the teachers who teach are very responsible, and Chengcai can understand the good intentions in it, and he is also the top performer in the class.

"It's okay, "Getaway" is one of the texts that must be memorized, and it is generally a compulsory text, and the "Chen Qing Table" that I just learned today is also, you should be more attentive in class, and now explain to me the meaning of the text. The teacher said solemnly.

It wasn't until long after the bell rang that the teacher was satisfied.

"It's going to be evening self-study soon, and there is no food in the cafeteria, so you can eat with me. The teacher didn't give Chengcai a chance to refuse, so he decided directly.

Chengcai was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Teacher, I'm ......"

As he was talking, the teacher's family brought the meal over, and the teacher waved his hand and said, "Don't say so much, the meal is here, hurry up and eat, and go to the evening self-study after eating!"

The teacher opened the insulated lunch box in turn, a large bowl of rice, two meat dishes and one vegetable.

Although Chengcai had to sit down to eat at the teacher's request, he finished eating with a few clicks, and the teacher didn't raise his head and said, "There is still food, don't waste food." ”

The teacher intentionally or unintentionally pulled the meat in the meat dish under the chopsticks......

In the ninth class the next afternoon, as soon as Chengcai took out his math preparation to do the problem, he was called by a male English teacher who has always been very serious.

"Chengcai, you don't take your English class very seriously, especially today!"

"Read the first aid paragraph of Unit 5 that I learned today!"

Chengcai opened his mouth and faced the serious gaze of the English teacher, and finally lost the battle: "First aid is temporary from ......"

After the bell rang three times, the English teacher just finished explaining the paragraph: "It's too late, eat!"

Not half a word of nonsense.

On the third day, Chengcai found an excuse early and went to consult the math teacher on math problems, but the result was that he was left by the math teacher for dinner that afternoon.

On the fourth day, Chengcai found an opportunity to ask for leave, and the teacher didn't say anything and directly approved the leave, but was stopped the second time: "Chengcai, I see that you have been very wrong lately! I want to run outside the school every day, what do you look like?"

I can't say one, two, three, or four, and if so, I didn't give approval.

The days that followed were unusual, although not every ninth class would have a teacher come to call Chengcai away, but there would be such a thing every three or two days, and Chengcai wanted to understand that instead of being entangled, it was better to accept this heavy sincere kindness.

This time it was from autumn to winter, and then to spring and summer, and then Chengcai just told his family that he had thought of a way to solve the problem of living expenses, and did not mention the rest.

In the innermost office on the fifth floor of the teaching building of the No. 9 Middle School in the town, during the thirty minutes of the ninth class during the day, I can always hear a boy's voice, either in English, or in Chinese, or in the face-to-face assessment of some math and science problems.

In the summer of the following year, Chengcai was admitted to an old double-first-class university in the next province with a very ideal score, which is not far from Peking University and Qing University, and some majors are even better, which is the only one in the history of the town high school!

The school takes into account the excellent grades of the students, which are 35 points higher than the enrollment line, and there is a scholarship next to the admission letter.

After receiving the admission letter, Chengcai took a few old hens and a large basket of eggs to visit each teacher.

He kowtowed to the teachers who had left him to memorize texts or answer questions in the afternoon, and said in his heart, "Thank you, sir." ”

On September 16, 2010, that extraordinarily hot afternoon, the memory of Cheng Cai is very clear, that day was the first time that the teacher called into the office to memorize the text, reciting the "Getaway", after the back vest was wet, after the sky was dark and windy, there was a light rain at night, and there were some slippery feet on the road during the evening self-study......