There is a kind of small bamboo in the southern mountainous areas, except for the small bamboo shoots that can be picked in spring, it is useless if it does not grow, but it is the nightmare of countless children. Adults often cut down a small bamboo like that, leaving the top branch to stick in the door frame, and if the child is disobedient, he will use the small bamboo tip to whip it, which will hurt and not hurt the bad person. The small bamboo tip hurts to hit someone, and if you smoke it, it will be a blood stain, only hurting the skin and flesh, not the bones. The children in the mountains are stubborn, but under the whipping of the little bamboo tops, even the stubborn children will beg for mercy.

Li Jiaming is also stubborn, and he is the kind of stubbornness that makes the onlookers feel cold.

Who hasn't been beaten by an adult's little bamboo shoot when he was a child, and who hasn't cried and screamed and begged for mercy after a few hits? But Li Jiaming didn't, the little bamboo tip in his father's hand drew blood marks on his arms, arms, and calves, and he just stood there silently and let his father smoke it.

Hearing that something was wrong at home, the little sister who was out hopscotch (a kind of children's game) ran back and saw that her father was beating her brother desperately, stumbling and crying and jumping up.

"yes yes (dad), don't beat brother! yes, don't beat brother!"

Li Jiaming then used his hand to block the little bamboo shoots that his father was about to fall on the little sister, and with the other hand, he pushed the little sister who was crying and was about to pounce into the arms of the eldest sister, who was already in tears, and said in a deep voice: "Eldest sister, look at the little sister." ”

"yes, yes, I beg you, I beg you, don't beat my brother! yes, I beg you, I beg you. ”

The little sister cried like crazy in the arms of the eldest sister, and finally woke up her angry father, threw away the little bamboo tips that had been stained with blood, and the little sister who was struggling desperately in the arms of the eldest sister muttered with tears streaming down her face: "Sister Wen don't cry, Sister Wen don't cry, yes don't fight, yes yes don't fight." ”

The little sister who was afraid that her father would still beat her brother immediately stopped crying, choked up and flatteringly wiped the tears on her father's face with her little hand, seeing the pain in Li Jiaming's heart, she also walked over to wipe her tears for her little sister with her palm, and said warmly: "It's okay, don't cry, wait for my brother to cook porridge for you to drink." ”

The second uncle, who had been watching for a long time on the side, suddenly said, "Yes, the cub is not defeated! The third brother, you have a good cub." ”

Li Jiaming, who was in pain, turned his face and smiled at the second uncle who praised him, and when he saw that the fourth uncle was also here, he still said stubbornly: "yes, yes, are you here or am I coming?"

The whole house looked at each other, the father glanced at his bloodstained son with a complicated expression, sighed, turned around with his little sister in his arms, and apologized to the fourth uncle: "Fourth, the third cousin married his daughter on the National Day, and came to invite me to make a dowry." When your sister-in-law was outdated, I borrowed 1,200 yuan from him, and it took five years to repay 350 yuan, and I can't help you build a house this time. ”

The fourth uncle immediately blushed, and hurriedly said: "Third brother, you said earlier, we are brothers, just this little thing, do you need to beat Ming Ling like this?"

When the fourth aunt next to her heard this, she immediately became red-faced and swollen, she never expected that the usually amiable third uncle, in order to help her family build a house, actually pushed away the work of the creditor outside.

Li Jiaming saw that his father was relieved, and hurriedly took the little sister in his father's hand, and said with a smile: "yes, yes, you should go soon." Wait for the third cousin to invite someone else, it won't be good. ”

"Ah", the tall father sighed, touched the head of his son, who had been beaten by himself, and turned to get the carpenter's tools.

"Third brother, I'll send you there. ”

The red-faced fourth uncle also hurriedly pushed away the people watching the excitement and went home to push his motorcycle. There was no excitement to see, and the adults and children in the village slowly dispersed, but the children looked at Li Jiaming with awe, while the adults had different meanings. Twelve-year-old man, beaten like this, can still coax his sister like nothing, how hard is his heart?

After a while, the sound of the motorcycle's engine sounded outside, and the second uncle hurriedly helped his father, who had already packed up the toolbox, to get things, and the uncle who had not spoken next to him and had conflicts with the uncle, second uncle, and fourth uncle, suddenly patted Li Jiaming's head and praised: "Yes, you have given birth to a good cub, and a good seed has finally been born in the third room!"

After speaking, Uncle Chuanzu, who was in the same year as his father and had a close relationship, said to his father who was about to go out: "Chuanlin, when the military comes back for the New Year, I will help you repay your debts first, anyway, it's too early for the military to ask for relatives (marriage)!"

The fourth uncle, whose face had not yet dissipated, was flushed again, looked at the fourth aunt who was speechless, and finally did not squeak, helped his father tie up the toolbox, and took him to catch up with the third cousin.

"Eldest sister, go soak some salt boiling water and help Ming Yan wash it. ”

The second uncle, who had just made Uncle Chuan's face darken, touched Li Jiaming's head, and then touched the head of the little sister who was still choking, and said in a deep voice: "Mingya, take your sister, don't worry about things that shouldn't worry about you, your second uncle is not dead, and it is not your turn to worry about it!"

Li Jiaming hurriedly laughed and said, "Thank you, second uncle." ”

"Hey", the second uncle sighed, picked up the hoe placed by the gate and went to work.

After a while, the eldest sister soaked in salted boiling water, took a clean cloth to scrub for Li Jiaming, and choked up: "Bear with it, it hurts a little." ”

'Sizzle', the wound was stirred by salt water, Li Jiaming took a cool breath, and the little sister next to him hurriedly helped him blow air, and the full sister also did the same, and couldn't help but make him smile, and his whole body was as comfortable as soaking in warm water.

"Still laughing, I've never seen you so tough!"

'Hey, hey, hey', Li Jiaming scratched his head and smirked twice, and whispered, "Eldest sister, can you do me a favor?"

"Say"

"Eldest sister, Uncle Chuanzu has always spoken and counted, he said that if he lent money to my family to repay the debt first, he would definitely borrow, but that is not a long-term solution, and the borrowed money must be repaid. I used to be ignorant, and yes yes didn't worry about going far away, but now I can cook and stir-fry, and I can take my sister well. You go and talk to the fourth uncle, and when he goes back to Guangdong, he will also take me out. ”

The eldest sister immediately widened her eyes and scolded: "How can this be done? It's not that I don't know you, if you make a mistake, you will be stronger than anyone else." If the third uncle is not at home, who can control you?"

'Hey', Li Jiaming sighed with a wry smile and explained: "Eldest sister, haven't you noticed that I don't like to talk more and more in the past few years? That's because I'm afraid of being pressed by debts! Every year during the Chinese New Year, someone always comes to ask about the account, who is not afraid?"

Brother Jun is eighteen this year, and he will have to ask for a marriage in three or four years, so what will I do when I return it?"

"What are you afraid of? The eldest sister will go to work after the New Year, and the eldest sister will lend you money at that time. ”

knew that the eldest sister would say this, but other people's hard-earned money, even if it was both sister and mother, Li Jiaming felt ashamed to use it.

"Eldest sister, you can help my family for a while, and you can help me for a lifetime? In the future, I will go to high school and college, and my little sister will also go to high school and college, and you can also afford to help? You also want to get married, and you will have a family!"

The first words, the eldest sister didn't think about it carefully, and the latter words, she didn't feel at ease, but the middle sentence made her stop the scrubbing in her hand, and said in disbelief: "Mingya, you said that Sister Wen can also go to high school and college in the future?"

Li Jiaming's eyes lit up, and he knew how to convince the eldest sister.

"Yes, sure, not only her, but also in the future!"

The eldest sister suddenly laughed and mocked: "You just blow it! I don't think you can necessarily pass the exam, and you can still be a Wen sister and a full sister." ”

Now is not the time to be humble, and to make others have confidence in themselves, you have to do something that makes people have confidence. Li Jiaming no longer imagined that the fourth brother would be put on the altar like him, and he also said categorically: "Sister, do you believe it or not? I can complete all the courses of the fifth grade by myself in just one month, and I also guarantee that if you find any paper, I can get a full score!"

"Only by believing in you can you have a ghost!"