That night, the three siblings cleaned up and went to sleep, paying no attention to the situation of the Zhou family. They still have big things to do tomorrow, so how can they have the spare time to take care of them.

On March 1, 1963, Zhou Chen picked up his schoolbag again and went to school.

The three siblings got up early in the morning, and Zhou Yang didn't go to work this morning, so he was ready to send his younger brother to school.

"No need to send it, I'm so old, and I'm not a child." When Zhou Chen heard that his brother and sister were going to send him to school, he was a little shy, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, and he couldn't hold it down.

Zhou Wanwan looked at the second brother with a red face and bright eyes and smiled, "Snowflakes will also be delivered, and our whole family will go!" ”

Their whole family, counting snowflakes, is only these four.

"We will come back when we send it to the small bridge, and we will not reach the gate." Zhou Yang was afraid that his younger brother would be embarrassed, so he hurriedly appeased him. The small bridge is separated from the primary school by a small forest and a road, which is the only way for Zhou Chen to go to school, and no one else can see it when he reaches it.

"It's okay! Let's go to the gate! You haven't seen the school well, have you? Just take her out for a while! Zhou Chen lovingly smoothed his sister's small hair curls, "I haven't let Nan Nan go out this winter, but I'm suffocating!" ”

Zhou Wanwan nodded, "I'll accompany my second brother to the exam." "Today, Zhou Chen will go to the exam first, and after the exam, he can decide what grade he will go to.

"I'm afraid that if I don't do well in the exam, I'll be embarrassed for you." Zhou Chen didn't take his sister to school today for this reason, what he was most worried about was that his brother and sister would be affected by himself, and let the teachers and classmates in the school point fingers.

"Teacher Li will not come up with other topics except for asking the second brother to write about labor, don't worry!" Zhou Wanwan knows Teacher Li too well, in her previous life, Teacher Li taught her for five years, and half of the essay topics every year are labor, "Remembering a Learning Farming Activity", "Wheat Field Harvest", "Rice Planting Notes", "Threshing Grain" ...... Basically, the farm work is written down according to the season.

So Zhou Chen really doesn't have to worry about the essay exam all the time, they have practiced all the questions they can think of, and they can definitely bet on the right questions.

"Well, Mr. Li is a diligent person." Zhou Yang said it seriously, but he made Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan laugh. The eldest brother is sympathetic to Mr. Li, and he doesn't think he has quirks at all.

"Teacher Li is still thrifty, don't forget to mention in the second brother's essay that some particles are returned to the warehouse and the farm tools can be added five more points!" Zhou Wanwan gave Zhou Chen an idea.

"Teacher Li likes children who can endure hardships, and Xiao Er writes down the fact that your hands are blistered and you insist on working, which can add five more points." Zhou Yang also began to think about how to add points to his younger brother.

"If you don't do it all over again, a serious child will add five more points." Zhou Chen was amused by his brother and sister, and the originally serious discussion turned sour.

"Help others do it yourself, and add five more points!" Zhou Wanwan hurriedly said.

"Reason for being lazy and slippery and not working well, add five more points!"

"Get up early and be greedy for darkness, endure hardships first, and add five points!"

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In the end, the three brothers and sisters laughed, scrambling to add points to Zhou Chen's essay, and played this matter as a rush game, and Zhou Chen's nervousness had already disappeared.

After the three brothers and sisters finished breakfast and were about to leave, the Zhou family was still quiet.

Adults have gone out to work, in the past, when the production team was not busy, women were not required to work, but now the Zhou family is the focus of monitoring, and those who can work must go to work, except for Shen Yufen, who is in confinement, there is no adult in the family.

After the people of the Zhou family were tortured fiercely yesterday, although they were all humming and chirping this morning, they were all covered in unbearable pain, but none of them fell down, and not daring to be lazy was one reason, and the other more important reason was that Zhou Wanwan didn't let them die like this.

She has never seen the retribution after death, so she must let them live to suffer enough of sin, no one wants to run, and they can't even die if they want to!

Only Zhou Xia and Zhou Ling were in the east house, and Zhou Hongying was dragged to clean the toilet, and she had to go to work in the production team after cleaning the toilet. From now on, the day of school has nothing to do with Zhou Hongying, what she needs to worry about is not to run into her former teachers and classmates when she goes to the toilet, because the production team can't go home after finishing her work, and the children in Quantunzi are always ready to jump out and beat her.

Zhou Xia and Zhou Ling, who stayed at home to recuperate, also shrank in the corner tremblingly, they are also rats crossing the street now, Shen Guodong's few pieces of candy are too attractive, and the children of the whole tunzi are counting on beating them to earn candy to eat! Even at home, they were all frightened like frightened birds, afraid that someone would suddenly jump out and beat them up.

Zhou Meihua lay motionless on Nankang, she was besieged by a group of children yesterday, Xue Shuiqin was already a little delirious when she dragged her back with one hand, and she has not moved this morning.

Zhou Wanwan looked at the small bag bulging in the bed and couldn't bear it for a moment, after all, she was only a six-year-old child now. But looking at the two brothers around her, she immediately wanted to give herself a big-eared scraper!

Is now the time to be blind and kind?! Zhou Wanwan, you idiot!

Xue Shuiqin sharpened her head and wanted to jump into the fire pit of the Zhou family, even if there was no Shen Guodong's push, Zhou Meihua would not have a good life. Now I can't bear Zhou Meihua, just give Xue Shuiqin a chance, and when she recovers and turns back, she has to bite her brother and sister to the death.

Zhou Wanwan warned herself over and over again in her heart: There is only one step between kindness and stupidity, and no Zhou family member can be taken lightly, otherwise if you take a wrong step, your brother and sister will be shattered.

Zhou Chen put on the new coat brought by Shen Guodong for his sister, and watched her sit there obediently with Xuehua in her arms, the two little ones were white and clean, soft and pink, and it was very comfortable to see.

Zhou Yang took advantage of Zhou Chen's efforts to dress up his sister, checked his schoolbag again, sorted out the books and books again, and even sharpened the pencil for his younger brother, for fear that there would be something inconvenient for him to go to school on the first day.

The three brothers and sisters were ready, and finally looked at each other with a smile on their faces, and the joy in their hearts was indescribable.

"Big brother, second brother, clap your hands!" Zhou Wanwan stretched out his hand and motioned for everyone to high-five in celebration.

"Come on!" The three hands clapped together, conveying joy and strength to each other that only they understood.

"Let's go to school!" Zhou Wanwan was hugged by Zhou Yang and opened his little arms to fly.

In order to cooperate with his sister, Zhou Yang trotted out of the gate of Zhou's house all the way. Zhou Chen followed behind with Xuehua in his arms, his steps relaxed and cheerful.

The three brothers and sisters left the cold and dilapidated courtyard of the Zhou family behind them and walked towards the rising sun.

"Take the test well, don't be nervous, if you can get into the first grade, we will study for a few grades, as long as you want to study, the eldest brother will always be for you!" When he arrived at the gate of the elementary school, Zhou Yang solemnly said this to Zhou Chen again.

These days, he has to say it several times a day, Zhou Wanwan recited it backwards, shook his head in Zhou Yang's arms, and memorized her eldest brother's words word for word, making Zhou Chen forget the nervousness of the upcoming exam.

As soon as he said a few words, Teacher Li came over, Zhou Yang thanked Teacher Li again, and then watched his younger brother walk into the school gate.

"Second brother, add five points, add five points, add five points!" Zhou Wanwan whispered behind Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen turned his head with a smile and made a cheering motion.

Teacher Li looked back and saw the movements of the two siblings, and educated Zhou Chen very seriously: "You can't go through the back door, how many points should be how many points, and adding five points is not the knowledge you learned by yourself." ”

Zhou Chen lowered his head and listened to the training honestly, and Zhou Wanwan lay in Zhou Yang's arms and laughed so much that the little curly hair trembled.

Zhou Yang and Zhou Wanwan watched Zhou Chen follow Teacher Li into the classroom office to take the exam before retracting their gaze, "Big brother will take you around the school!" ”

It was still early for Zhou Yang to go to work, and he was in a good mood today and was very interested.

The primary school of the Erdaokan Brigade and the brigade department and the brigade supply and marketing cooperatives are a courtyard, with more than ten red brick houses connected together, and the children of the five tunzi of the whole brigade go to school here. More than 10 houses occupied by the primary school are marked with the slogan "Study hard, make progress every day" written in white ash.

A circle of poplar trees was planted around the elementary school, and the playground was divided into two, half planted with crops and half used as a playground for student activities. There was nothing on the playground, only two wooden basketball hoops erected on the edge of the trees, which had been eroded by wind and rain for many years and were dilapidated.

There is also a vacant land of three or four acres behind the house, half of which is planted with crops and half with vegetables, which is eaten by the teachers on duty and the people of the supply and marketing cooperatives and the brigade department.

Because of the snow, there are still many places on the mud of the playground where people can't walk, and the surrounding trees are also bare, to be honest, there is really nothing to visit.

But Zhou Yang was very interested. Zhou Wanwan looked at the yearning in the eyes of the eldest brother, and her heart ached.

When the brother and sister returned to Zhou's house, the whole courtyard was still silent. For a long time in the future, the Zhou family will be silent.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Chen came back at a trot.

Elementary schools do not have a lunch break at noon this season, and there are six classes a day, and school ends at 2 p.m. It is not until after May, when the weather is warmer, that the time difference between day and night is not so great, and the lunch break will be resumed, and there will be three classes in the morning and three in the afternoon.

The main consideration of this arrangement is to take care of the children far away from the school, the winter and spring weather is cold and the road is not easy to walk, they can not go home for lunch, bring a roasted sweet potato or the like when the lunch is cold and it is not good, some children can not even bring a roasted sweet potato, can only be hungry for a day, so the school simply does not take a lunch break, but also can leave school early to let the children go home to eat a hot meal.

Zhou Chen ran home after school, and when he saw his sister, he hugged him and kissed him fiercely, "Second brother is in the fourth grade now!" ”

"Second brother is amazing! Yes! Zhou Wanwan stretched out her little hand and patted Zhou Chen, happily hugging Zhou Chen's neck and jumping around on the kang.

"100 points in math! 95 points in Chinese! Zhou Chen was very happy all day, but he had been suppressed in school and didn't dare to show it too much. When he got home, his sister was happier than him, he was immediately infected, and he didn't hold it anymore, and he hugged his sister and began to talk about the experience of the day, excited and excited.

"The math problem is so easy, I don't even use a pen to calculate, I know the answer when I see the question! I also know the new words in front of the language, and Mr. Li also said that the sentences I made are good! As soon as I saw the essay title, my heart immediately became steady! ”

"We guessed right!" Zhou Wanwan hurriedly said.

"Hmmm! You're so smart! Zhou Chen happily kissed his sister, and then told her, his voice was several degrees higher, "That composition is "The First Time?_____"!" Ask to write a labor, fill in the horizontal line casually, any labor is fine! ”

"What kind of labor did the second brother write?"

"Guess what?"

"Beat the hemp rope!"

"How do you know?!" Zhou Chen's eyes widened.

"Add five points!" Zhou Wanwan smiled evilly. Zhou Chen learned to play hemp rope from Teacher Li, and now he writes it to Teacher Li, but it doesn't have to be a plus!

Zhou Chen looked at his sister's shrewd little appearance and laughed. Although the younger sister is small, the two of them can understand each other's thoughts without saying many things, and this kind of heart-to-heart and blood compatibility is too beautiful.

The brother and sister were very interested, talked and laughed for a long time, and took out their books to write their homework.

After Zhou Chen finished his homework, he began to lobby his sister to be her little teacher. Reducing the burden on the eldest brother is one aspect, Zhou Chen wants to teach his younger sister, and the addiction to being a teacher is also an important aspect.

Zhou Wanwan shook her head and said nothing with a small curly hair. As her little teacher, Zhou Yang can have the motivation to study, otherwise there are so many farm work and family affairs, what if he slacks off? In this life, the eldest brother must learn to read and write, so that he can have the conditions and confidence to see the outside world.

There is still a long, long way to go for their brother and sister, and reading and writing is the first step, and it is also the foundation, and it must be done well.

In the evening, Zhou Yang also rushed into the house. As soon as he saw the faces of his younger siblings, he showed a big smile, "Xiao Er has been admitted!" ”

"Second brother is now a fourth-grade elementary school student!" Zhou Wanwan hugged Zhou Chen's neck and smiled proudly. (To be continued.) )