Chapter 2: The Treasure Chest

Lin Hong returned to his room, pulled out a boxy wooden box from under the bed, opened it, and then put the textbook in his hand to the right.

This wooden box was left to him by Lin Hong's mother, and it was also his "treasure chest", in which all his important things were located.

The most important thing is, of course, the textbooks left by my mother. According to my father's account after he was drunk, this was the book that my mother used to review when the college entrance examination resumed. Although Lin Hong didn't know the specific meaning of the "college entrance examination", he also vaguely knew that it was a senior exam.

Lin Hong believes that these books are the most important wealth left to him by his mother, and without the company of these books, he would not know what to do at night.

Since that fall and brain injury, Lin Hong has had a strange problem, whether it is day or night, he doesn't have to sleep at all, no matter how tired he is, no matter how forced he is, he can't sleep.

At first, he thought that everyone was like this, but as time passed, especially after his father beat and scolded him several times for this, he gradually understood that people have to sleep at night, and if they don't sleep, it is abnormal, and they will be scolded by their father.

So, at night, like everyone else, he obediently went to bed, when in fact it was he pretending, and when his father fell asleep, he got up again and played with himself.

At the beginning, Lin Hong was still a little scared in the face of this situation, but as time went by, he didn't find anything uncomfortable, and life went by like this, so he really put his mind at ease.

After a period of ignorance, Lin Hong found that his brain was getting better and better, and the content in the textbook was not only unforgettable at a glance, but also able to understand the knowledge in the textbook very easily.

So, when he was bored at night, he began to study by himself what the teacher had not yet taught.

Soon, he finished reading all the contents of the second grade, and after a few days of boredom, he remembered that his treasure chest still contained a lot of books left by his mother, so he used those books as toys to pass the time.

However, he found that this time he was a little confused, not at all as smooth as before, as if he understood whether he understood or not, but even so, he watched it with relish for a long time.

Once, he followed his father to his uncle's house for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and in the room, he saw the textbook of his cousin who was in the third year of junior high school, and just solved a puzzle in his heart, and then he suddenly realized that the reason why he had difficulty reading his mother's books should be because there was still a lot of knowledge in the middle.

Fortunately, my cousin is also a person who loves to learn, and he protects books very well, and important textbooks are neatly arranged in the small cabinet in the room.

So, from then on, he changed his normal behavior, and when he had nothing to do, he ran to his uncle's house to play behind his cousin, fortunately, his temperament was quiet, and his cousin didn't bother him much, even if he found that he was reading his textbook, he just told Lin Hong not to break it and get dirty.

Of course, more often than not, what my cousin saw was Lin Hong reading his villain books, such as "Water Margin", "The Legend of Tang Heroes" or something.

In this way, Lin Hong read all the textbooks in the small cabinet at an astonishing speed, without anyone noticing.

On the basis of reading all the textbooks in junior high school, and then looking back at the textbooks left by his mother, Lin Hong was pleasantly surprised to find that this time there were no obstacles.

In this way, with the passage of time, until today, he has almost finished reading all the textbooks in the "treasure chest".

Lin Hong put the math textbook in its original place, and then took out a somewhat yellowed photo from the bottom mezzanine of the wooden box, with a strong longing in his eyes.

In the photo, it is a beautiful woman wearing a really good floral shirt, she is smiling and smiling in a dancing pose, as if she is dancing carefree.

Behind her, there is a magnificent and majestic building, Lin Hong already knows from the textbook, that is, the capital that everyone yearns for.

After looking at it for a while, Lin Hong put the photo back on the bottom of the box and hid it, this was the last photo of his mother in his hand, and the others were confiscated and thrown away by his father, who never told him anything about his mother, nor did he allow him to keep any photos of his mother.

His father told him that she was a cruel woman, not worth missing, and not qualified to be his mother.

But in fact, Lin Hong knew very well in his heart that his father also missed his mother very much, otherwise he would not have often cried and called his mother's name after getting drunk.

In the upper right corner of the box, there is also a small black rectangular box with many cracks on it, and if you look closely, you will see that these cracks are glued together.

It was a panda brand radio, which was brought by my mother from Beijing, during this period, it was a very remarkable thing to have such a radio, and it also alarmed all the friends in the village, and they all came to Lin Hong's house to see the real face.

It's a pity that the life of this radio is not very long, and when his father was drunk, he fell to the ground hard, and Lin Hong cried all night because of it.

Many times, he wanted to find someone to repair this radio, but he has not been able to do so, I heard that people who know how to repair can only be found in the county seat, and the maintenance fee is also very expensive.

In addition, Lin Hong has also disassembled the shell of the radio many times, but the dense electronic components inside made him very dumbfounded, it was too complicated for him to understand at all, and finally had to give up.

Lin Hong picked up the scarred little radio and played with it for a while, then reluctantly put it down, covered the "treasure chest", locked it, and then carefully pushed it back under the bed.

At this time, his stomach also began to "growl", and Lin Hong began to wash the pot and cook.

He was young, but he was already very skilled at doing these things.

If you don't do it, you can't do it, if you don't do it, you will have to go hungry, and your drunken father will never get up at this time.

I don't know why, although Lin Hong is short and thin, he is a big stomach, and he eats almost twice as much as his peers.

In this era of extreme shortage of materials, the economic conditions of the family are also very bad, but fortunately, a lot of sweet potatoes are planted at home, and there is never a shortage of things to fill the stomach in the fields and slopes in the countryside, otherwise Lin Hong is definitely not enough to eat.

Breakfast was very simple, gruel, sweet potatoes and pickles, but Lin Hong ate it very satisfied, as if it was the most delicious food in the world.

After eating his own portion, Lin Hong put the remaining sweet potatoes and porridge in the pot and continued to warm them, which was left for his father, so that when he got up, he could have a hot breakfast.