Xiao Ning didn't know that he had disappeared for three days, and when he came home, he found that his mother was sitting on the threshold crying, with bloody tears on her red eyes and her hair already a little gray. The despair of her heart made her vitality gradually dissipate.

"Mom, I'm back. Xiao Ning quickly ran to his mother, squatted on the ground and grabbed his mother's arm.

Hallucination, absolute hallucination, Xiao's mother looked at her son in front of her in a daze, and after a while, she reached out to touch Xiao Ning's face, thinking that she would touch the immature face with her empty hand.

"Son, are you really back?"

"Well, I'm back, what's wrong with you, Mom?" Xiao Ning looked at the pale red tears on his mother's haggard face, and his heart was stunned.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, if you haven't eaten, mom will make it for you." ”

Xiao Mu said as she reached out and wiped her tears, and was about to stand up with a smile.

"Mom, I'm not hungry, look what I brought back. Xiao Ning took out the fruit wrapped in his clothes and handed it to his mother.

Xiao Mu took it and saw that it was all golden fruits, and she sighed in her heart, "You went into the mountain?" The worry on her face covered the smile that had just appeared.

"No, I found a place with a lot of fruit in it, you eat it quickly, we can pick it if it's gone." Xiao Ning took out one of the largest golden fruits, wiped it on his clothes, and handed it to his mother.

Xiao's mother didn't take a bite politely, saying that it was delicious, but she didn't know that the wrinkles on her face slowly dissipated, and her red and swollen eyes gradually faded red.

Xiao Ning saw that her mother was eating happily, she didn't notice the changes in her mother's face, and told her own experience, Xiao's mother unconsciously opened her mouth wide when she heard it, and her face was full of disbelief.

"Mom, eat quickly, I'll take you to see it later. ”

Xiao Ning happily ran to find the rope ladder used to be used at home, tested the strength and hung it on the well.

Xiao's mother came to the ancestral land of the Xiao family under the guidance of Xiao Ning, and found a tablet at the entrance of the passage when she walked out of the passage, and the dragon and phoenix danced on the tablet engraved with the four big characters of "Xiao Zongmen", Xiao's mother trembled and stretched out her hand to touch this tablet and said, "Son, this is where our Xiao family ancestors lived"

Xiao Ning didn't seem to hear his mother's voice, and shouted loudly, "Mom, come here."

Xiao's mother followed the voice and saw her son standing in front of a fruit grove, pointing to the fruit of the tree and saying, "This is the fruit, you see a lot of fruit, we can't eat it all." ”

"And this, we can grow vegetables, wheat and sweet potatoes, and we don't have to worry about wild boars in the future. ”

Xiao's mother smiled happily, followed her son around this ancestral land, and listened to her son's cheerful voice.

"Mom, shall we live here in the future?" Xiao Ning pointed to a bamboo building, which had beds, tables, kitchen stoves, and even all kinds of ornaments, as if the people living here had just moved out yesterday and were spotless.

There are many such small buildings, Xiao's mother is actually very afraid that she lives in such a big place, this place is too unfamiliar, afraid that one day the owner here will come back to blame herself, and even more afraid that living in this kind of uninhabited place will not even have a person to talk to is even more lonely. However, looking at his son's excited appearance, he nodded instinctively.

Xiao Ning jumped up and down like a naughty monkey and came to a tower-like building, which contained many books, silk slips, bamboo slips, jade slips, animal skins and paper. The fonts on it are different, and the only thing in common is that Xiao Ning doesn't know a word. This is sad for Xiao Ning.

After seven or eight days, Xiao Ning walked around every corner, and most places couldn't understand what was going on, only to find that he couldn't understand anything without reading, which aroused his interest in learning.

"Mom, I want to read. ”

"Your grades are so bad, the teacher told you to go back in two years. ”

"Then I'll go to school and see if I can understand, okay. ”

Xiao's mother knew very well that her son was not stupid at all, but he couldn't remember the content of the book, and her heart couldn't help but soften when she saw him wanting to read in such a hurry.

"Then you go to school tomorrow, give the two dollars to the teacher, and beg him to let you go along. Xiao's mother took out two yuan from the drawer and handed it to Xiao Ning.

The next day, Xiao Ning came to the school early in the morning to find the teacher. "Teacher Tang, I want to go to school. Xiao Ning shouted when he saw Teacher Tang, who was over half a hundred years old.

"Xiao Ning, why are you here, didn't you say you'll come back in two years?" Teacher Tang said to Xiao Ning with a smile.

Teacher Tang usually has a kind face, but when he saw Xiao Ning, he felt that his head was big, and he forced a smile at Xiao Ning, hoping to send Xiao Ning back.

"Teacher Tang, I really want to go to school, you can help. Xiao Ning whispered with a crying voice.

Xiao Ning suddenly thought that her mother had given her two yuan, so she immediately took it out and handed it to Teacher Tang.

Two yuan can buy dozens of catties of rice, and you can also buy several catties of meat, Teacher Tang saw Xiao Ning take out two yuan, the smile on his face was much normal, this time he could make a tooth sacrifice, and he would not postpone it anymore, so that Xiao Ning returned to the class.

Most of the students don't have books, and the teacher has to copy the contents of the books on the blackboard every class, and let the students copy them on the homework books by themselves, which is very inefficient but better than nothing.

This time Xiao Ning's performance is like a different person than before, as long as the teacher talks about Xiao Ning can write it down, and write it down silently, the teacher goes to other classes to lecture, when it is their turn to study by themselves, Xiao Ning will sneak to the school library, saying that it is a library, in fact, there are twenty worn-out books inside, Xiao Ning wrote: I don't know the words to write down and ask the teacher how to read what it means, in just two months Xiao Ning read all the books, and every word can be written down silently, and the midterm exam got a full score, which made Mr. Tang very surprised, but also a heart of love。

Under the recommendation of Mr. Tang, Xiao Ning participated in the individual test of the county primary school, this test is prepared for top students, and the students who meet the standards can enjoy the school subsidy for free food, housing and free schooling, Xiao Ning was accepted by the county primary school with a perfect score in three subjects, and officially lived in the city.

From the beginning of admission, the school spread the story of a prodigy, Xiao Ning applied for a grade skip on the exam a few days after enrollment, skipping a grade once a month, all of them passed with a full score, and was admitted to the county No. 1 Middle School with the first place in less than a year, and studied in the first year of high school.

After a year of study, Xiao Ning can basically write down the words in all kinds of dictionaries and dictionaries, but he still doesn't know much when he arrives at the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, except for a small number of paper books, he doesn't know anything else, which makes Xiao Ning feel very old-fashioned, he said that what he understands is some experience, these are the marginal notes and application perceptions of those books crawling with tadpoles, but he can see between the lines that these books are mainly about cultivation exercises, which is a strange field, and he has never found the answer to the people around him, even if it is some fur。

Discouraged, Xiao Ning had no choice but to go back to school, hoping to reach a higher level of people through reading to see if he could find the answer.

Before the first year of high school started, Xiao Ning came to school. The grade director admissions office didn't open the door, so Xiao Ning had to find the duty room.

"Hello teacher, my name is Xiao Ning, and I am here to sign up for the first year of high school. Xiao Ning knocked on the door of the teacher on duty and said.

"School hasn't started yet, let's wait for school to start. The teacher on duty said without looking back.

"I've been gone for two days to come, can you let me stay. Xiao Ning was a little anxious, the child's heart, and the helplessness after being rejected came out.

The teacher on duty listened to the voice of a child, turned his head and found that it was a child, and felt very strange, "Children, are you in the wrong place, we are in the high school here." ”

"That's right, I was admitted to the county No. 1 middle school." Xiao Ning was about to burst into tears, and hurriedly took out his admission letter.

The teacher on duty took a look and was surprised, he heard that a child prodigy was admitted this year, but he didn't know that it was such a child who didn't seem to be able to take care of himself, so he went to the archives and called up this year's admission file, the name of Xiao Ning, the first on this year's admission list, looked down carefully, the personal situation was written in detail, the primary school and junior high school were completed in one year, the family was poor, all enjoyed the care of the school, and lived on scholarships. Seeing such a description, the teacher on duty paid attention to it, politely asked Xiao Ning to sit, and went to call the principal himself.

After some calling, the teacher on duty began to arrange life for Xiao Ning, lived in the special lounge for the teacher on duty, dined with the teacher on duty every day, and issued the school uniform in advance, and changed Xiao Ning's shabby clothes.

Because Xiao Ning came too early and didn't go to class, the teacher on duty had to give a library card according to Xiao Ning's request, and from this day on, a little boy came to the high school library, constantly flipping through all kinds of books.