13. The first acquaintance with sorrow
As long as she can read, Cheng Linghui doesn't care much about that issue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Finally, the mountain chief gave Cheng Linghui a word - Mozhi. To put it bluntly, it is to be silent in everything, and don't talk if you can.
Xiuwen clamored for it. The mountain chief named her a 'Jingzhi'. It also means to be quiet and talk less.
The mountain chief took the two to a school that Cheng Linghui had never been to. Most of the people in this school were seventeen or eighteen years old, and there were also one or two young people in their twenties. When Cheng Linghui went, a room of people was silent. They were busy writing something. When he found the mountain chief coming in, he got up and saluted: "Morning, sir!" ”
The mountain chief nodded: "Sit down." Everyone sat down and began to write. Cheng Linghui and Xiuwen, two girls, saw such a scene at one time. Nervously holding hands with each other.
The chief led them to a table in the corner. He said, "You two will sit here from now on." ”
Xiuwen asked, "Then what are we going to do?" ”
The mountain chief said: "Write big characters." Each person writes two hundred, and when they are done, they leave school. Don't eat until noon is not finished. ”
Xiuwen asked, "What do you write?" ”
The mountain chief thought for a moment, returned to the lectern, spread out a piece of paper and wrote a word about it. Cheng Linghui looked at it and it turned out to be the word 'qi'. The heart said what is written. The moment is full of pride. Suddenly I remembered something very important. She didn't have pen and paper.
Previously, she had been mingling with her friends from the same village in the front of the academy. There are half the size of the villages. The meaning of the family is to mix the two-day school, and it is okay to recognize the two words and just open your eyes and be blind. Mr. taught writing a sand table, and the students learned to write with a slate and a pen. Where can there be pen and paper?
It's noticeably different here. Each student's desk is full of pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Even the clothes on his body are clean and tidy. There is a difference between it and the noisy and disheveled students in front of him.
The mountain chief finished explaining and left. A room full of people was busy, and no one seemed to notice the two people who suddenly appeared.
Xiuwen took out the pen and ink from her schoolbag in the same way. Seeing Cheng Linghui in a daze, he asked, "Why don't you move?" My dad said that he wouldn't be allowed to eat if he couldn't finish writing, and he would really not be allowed to eat. ”
Cheng Linghui's tears flowed out at once: "I have no pen and ink, and I don't have paper. She didn't dare to speak loudly, and looked very pitiful.
"How so?" Xiuwen thought it was incredible.
Cheng Linghui lowered her head and shed tears, she was finally able to read, and she didn't want to just leave. But the lack of pen and ink really embarrassed her.
"What's wrong?" A gentle voice asked.
Cheng Linghui raised her teary eyes and saw Chang Jiwen bending over and standing in front of her. Originally, she and Chang Jiwen were not familiar with each other, but at this moment, it was really like a lost child seeing his father. I feel aggrieved and sad. shouted, "Brother-in-law." ”
Xiuwen Balabala told Chang Jiwen about her lack of pen and paper. Chang Jiwen said: "What's this. After a while, he came over with pen and ink and a wad of square-shaped paper. put it in front of Cheng Linghui and said: "Tell me if you have anything in the future, and I will sit there." He pointed to the front.
Cheng Linghui found out that Chang Jiwen's seat was next to the lectern. I was so nervous just now that she didn't see Chang Jiwen standing next to her when she came in.
"Write well. I went back. Chang Jiwen helped her wipe the tears on her face and went back to her seat. Cheng Linghui sobbed and put pen and ink away. Shen Si was soon attracted by the freshness of his first contact with pen and ink.
Xiuwen can write, and she writes very well. Cheng Linghui caught a brush for the first time, and she didn't even know how to take it. Fortunately, Xiuwen took the trouble to teach her. The result was one morning, and neither of them finished writing the two hundred big characters.
The mountain chief really did what he said. They were not allowed to eat at noon, and they were to write a hundred more in the afternoon.
Cheng Linghui felt that she had burdened Xiuwen, and she was very upset. promised to weave a worm cage for Xiuwen to play. In the summer, catch the worms and put them in, and hang them under the eaves.
Xiuwen said that if Cheng Linghui gave herself a mussel cage, she would embroider a fragrant cloth bag for her. It's fragrant to decorate the dried flowers.
Two children who didn't know each other in the morning became inseparable good friends in one morning.
Fortunately, both of them finished writing 300 'qi' characters in the afternoon. Cheng Linghui packed up the pen and paper and walked over to return it to Chang Jiwen. Chang Jiwen didn't want it, saying that he gave it to her. Cheng Linghui couldn't be happier. After saying goodbye to him, I went to the front yard to find my friends in the same village. Chang Jiwen followed, walked to a place where no one was and stopped her: "In the future, in the academy, don't call me brother-in-law." Call me brother. ”
Cheng Linghui was puzzled: "Why?" ”
The young man's face turned red: "Don't scream if you don't call, why do you ask so much?" ”
Cheng Linghui also remembered something: "The mountain chief gave me a new name, called Mozhi." Don't be Sanhuizi in the future, Sanhuizi will call me. ”
"What's the new name? It's a word, right? ”
Cheng Linghui nodded, turned around and went home to find her friends.
The next day, she and Xiuwen wrote the word 'qi' for another morning. At noon, the students all took the rice sign to the canteen of the college to eat. Xiuwen also went home. Cheng Linghui realized that there was still a canteen in the academy. In the past, she was like those little friends, bringing a nest or something from home. Two bites and you're not so hungry and you're done. Now, she suddenly felt that the nest in her schoolbag was a little out of her way.
Chang Jiwen saw her sitting in her seat in a daze. He walked over and asked, "Why don't you go to dinner?" ”
Cheng Linghui didn't want him to know that he didn't have a canteen at all. said, "I'm not hungry. You go first. ”
Chang Jiwen did not doubt him, and left first.
Walking on the road after school, Cheng Linghui couldn't help but say the question in her heart: "How did those people's food brands come from?" ”
Someone from the same village asked, "What kind of rice brand?" ”
One of the older children said, "You said that." That's only for students within the second college. They are different from us, and they are prepared for the examiner. Most of them have passed the children's exam, and some of them are still talented. They generally live in the academy and pay some money and food to the academy every month. There are very few people who run back and forth like us. Those rice brands were exchanged for money and food. ”
Cheng Linghui listened and silently added something to her heart. When she got home, her grandmother saw that she was upset and asked her what was wrong, but she didn't say anything. She knew that the family was very frugal in order to make up the eldest sister's dowry. For this reason, my father didn't even care about spring sowing and went to Cangzhou. It's not easy for her to study, how can she let her grandfather and grandmother worry about the food brand anymore?
Cheng Linghui tossed and turned all night, and finally thought of a good way. The academy has one day off every five days, which is called a retreat. Cheng Linghui decided to take advantage of the rest of the year to take the blame, and saved enough money to pay for the food expenses of the college.
Also, it is getting warmer in February. Plants and trees sprout. The days are getting longer. She doesn't take a break at noon to write more. I can get off early in the afternoon. It's still early for school, so you can dig up some medicinal herbs and dry them for money. The 'sticky root' can be sold for a lot of money when it is dried, and the 'madder' that nourishes blood in Chinese medicine says about it.
Cheng Linghui is a very thoughtful person. If you decide, do it immediately. She had enough to eat at home in the morning and didn't bring any dry food for lunch. In the afternoon, after writing the homework given by the mountain chief, I went home first. Eat something and dig up herbs. When it's time to rest, go back to the pot.
Because it's a girl, the mountain chief doesn't restrain her very much. As long as she finishes her schoolwork, she will go home early.
However, Cheng Linghui's plan did not go smoothly.