When Chen Youshan returned to the village, it was already evening, and many villagers could be seen working in the fields on the roadside.

"Yo, isn't that our top student?"

"Isn't it, a high-achieving student who scored more than 300 points in the exam."

"It's a sin, it's usually good, why did you fail the test at a critical moment?"

"Hehe, maybe my usual grades were copied."

Seeing Chen Youshan coming, the villagers working in the fields suddenly discussed. Since the score came out, Chen Youshan's failure to make the list exploded in the village, and all kinds of rumors and rumors have risen, treating Chen Youshan's family as a joke.

Chen Youshan's fall off the list was indeed a big surprise to all the villagers, no one thought that the top students in this village who had been top-notch since childhood were beaten up on the important battlefield of life, and this child who was favored by everyone at the beginning actually fell off the list, and for a while, Chen Youshan also changed from a model in the village to a negative teaching material.

Listening to the ridicule and sympathy in his ears, Chen Youshan didn't seem to take it to heart at all, as if the person they were talking about now was a person he didn't know at all. With a smile on his face, he greeted these uncles. It's just that this smile looks like a knife in it.

He had expected such an outcome for a long time. Fortunately, he is psychologically strong enough and does not care what others think of him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have done such a thing. The only thing he was a little sad about was letting his family go through the rumors with him.

Chen Youshan's home is a two-story bungalow, which was built with the help of some relatives a few years ago, but because of the brothers' study, the money borrowed from relatives has not been repaid until now, which is a piece of heart disease that has been pressing on Chen's father for many years. Fortunately, these relatives did not urge, otherwise they don't know what their life would have become.

None of Chen's father and Chen's mother's generation had read any books, and they had no way to make money except for doing some hard work. After Chen Youshan finished the college entrance examination, he took a tough attitude and asked his father to quit the hard work in the brick factory, and he was not allowed to go out to earn those hard-earned money. Maybe it's because he reads a lot of books, I don't know when his parents will discuss some big things in the family with him, and over time, the family is used to letting him take ideas. Therefore, under his tough attitude, Father Chen could only obey his wishes.

I don't know if I know the reason why Chen Youshan is leaving tomorrow, Chen's father and Chen's mother didn't go out to work that day, even his younger brother Chen Youlin didn't go out to herd cattle, the family sat here silently, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was a little depressing.

Chen Youshan walked into the house, felt the strange atmosphere, and couldn't help but smile: "Dad, what's wrong with you?" ”

Chen's father and Chen's mother glanced at him, and stopped talking, but for some reason, the two didn't say anything in the end.

"I'm going to cook." Mother Chen walked towards the kitchen with red eyes.

Father Chen hesitated for a moment and asked, "Ticket...... Bought it? ”

"Bought it, tomorrow afternoon's train." Chen Youshan looked at his father and said with a smile: "Dad, it's not like I'm not coming back, don't you want to be like this, okay?" Even if I am admitted to the university, I will still have to leave, you should just treat me as if I was admitted to the university. I'm almost twenty years old, and I'll take care of myself. ”

Father Chen nodded, as if he was afraid that he would not be able to control his emotions, and got up and walked towards the kitchen: "I'll go see if I want to make a fire." ”

Looking at his father's back, which seemed to be a little older, Chen Youshan suddenly fell silent and sat down in front of the door silently.

"Brother." A fifteen or sixteen-year-old guy sat down beside him, gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you really leaving?" ”

"If you want to get ahead, if you want your parents to live a good life, you have to leave this place with a big palm." Chen Youshan looked at the fields in the distance and said softly: "We can't live here all our lives with our faces facing the loess and our backs to the sky, and I am not reconciled." ”

Chen Youlin lowered his head, and after being silent for a while, he asked out loud: "Brother, did you deliberately score such a point?" ”

Chen Youshan was slightly stunned and turned his head: "Why do you ask that?" ”

"I don't believe you're only scoring that much." Chen Youlin gritted his teeth, his voice was a little choked, "After you left this morning, Dad told Mom the same." Dad said that you saw that your family had no money, so you deliberately scored such a point. Dad also said...... He also said that he was sorry for you and that you didn't go to college. ”

"Don't cry." Chen Youshan shouted.

Chen Youlin stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face, stubbornly tilted his head, and no longer let the tears fall from his eyes.

"If you want to get ahead, reading is the fastest way, but it's not the only way." Chen Youshan looked at him and said, "Although the other roads are difficult, it is still possible to succeed. But such a road is enough for one person in our family to walk. Whether I succeed or not, you are not allowed to follow my old path, do you hear? ”

Chen Youlin clenched his teeth and did not squeak.

Chen Youshan suddenly gritted his teeth and looked at him: "Chen Youlin, I warn you, if you are not admitted to a university that satisfies me in the future, you can see how I will clean you up." ”

Chen Youlin asked unwillingly: "Is it possible that there is only one person in the family who can study, so you don't read?" ”

"You can get ahead without studying." Chen Youshan didn't seem to want to continue on this topic, and said: "I'm not at home, you have to take good care of your parents." ”

Chen Youlin nodded heavily.

Chen Youshan stretched out his hand and rubbed his head vigorously, without saying anything more, got up and walked to the kitchen.

Soon, there was a sound of talking in the kitchen. Under Chen Youshan's intentional guidance, the depressing atmosphere at home suddenly faded a lot, and finally laughter came out.

After the family finished dinner, they each moved a bench and sat in front of the door chatting, and the atmosphere was much more relaxed.

……

The next day, after breakfast, the family sent him to the entrance of the village, no one spoke, each with red eyes, and Chen's mother held his hand and refused to let go, crying silently. Chen Youshan himself was free and easy, waved his hand to his family, and climbed into the tricycle box of a cousin in the same village, smiling.

The roar of the tricycle rang out, and it staggered towards the county seat. The three parents followed from a distance, but how could they keep up with the speed of the tricycle, the figures of the three of them became smaller and smaller in his line of sight, until he turned a corner and was completely invisible, the smile on Chen Youshan's face slowly froze, and he stared blankly at the scene of rapid retreat on both sides.

At some point, tears have fascinated my eyes.

"Wait for me to come back." He gritted his teeth and stared steadfastly.

Chen Youshan left, with his parents' worries, and left under the sympathetic and pitiful eyes of the whole village.