Chapter 1 Selection
Long Cheng sat on the top of the mountain and looked at the starry sky with his eyes blank and motionless, this was the seventh consecutive day he had sat here in a daze.
No one paid attention to him, and no one cared about him.
It was quiet, except for the occasional chirping bird. Sometimes it's quiet and you can't help but want to jump, and loneliness sometimes makes people crazy.
Long Cheng is an orphan who has lived on this mountain with his blind grandfather since he was sensible. As for who his parents were, he didn't know at all, and the only clue was that there was a copper coin hanging around his neck. It's a pity that a copper coin can't bring any good clues to him.
When he saw that everyone else had parents, he also once asked his blind grandfather, who his parents were and what they looked like, but his grandfather's answer disappointed him, always a sentence, orange, life is fate, and when the time comes, you will know the way, and you can't come in a hurry. His grandfather's words were the same as if he didn't say them. But that's normal, a blind man, what can he tell you? He didn't necessarily meet his parents. So Long Cheng didn't ask after that.
However, although Long Cheng's grandfather can't see with his eyes, his heart is very clear, and he still has a very strong ability in fortune-telling and martial arts medicine.
In the old society, the blind would always learn one or two survival skills, fortune-telling seemed to be the patent of the blind, and many blind people generally lived by this line of work, and Long Cheng's grandfather was the same. But his skills are more than just fortune telling. His greatest skills are acupuncture, medical Taoism and martial arts, and fortune-telling was only changed later.
Long Cheng's grandfather is said not to have been blind from the beginning. In the era of artillery fire, his grandfather was said to be blind because of some things, and he never talked about what it was, nor did he want to talk about it, but after he was blind, he began to study fortune-telling with an old Taoist priest in order to live. It's been forty or fifty years now.
Even so, his fortune-telling skills are still very strong. Many, many old people in ten-mile and eight villages will secretly ask him to count, count the health of his family, count the cattle lost there, count the birth of boys and girls, and count the harvest of the coming year...... And when these people leave, they will leave some money or food or something.
Because of this, Long Cheng has been acting as his grandfather's guide since he was a child, holding his grandfather's hand for ten miles and eight villages, and relying on this, he lived healthy to the age of ten under his grandfather's hard work.
When he was ten years old, after a heavy rain, his grandfather didn't know what was going on, he got up at night to go to the toilet, fell and injured his muscles and bones, and couldn't walk far from then on. Since then, his grandfather has been lying in bed or sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard, cutting off the way of life.
It was also from that day that the burden of life began to weigh on the shoulders of this ten-year-old child, and when his peers were still coquettish in his parents' arms, Long Cheng had already begun to look for work everywhere.
Help people cut rice, help people move bricks, and help people deliver things. Anything that can make money or exchange food for him at his age is doing it desperately.
Many times, his grandfather thought of death, and used death to alleviate Long Cheng's pain. But every time his grandfather thought like this, Long Cheng would say in his delicate voice, "Grandpa, I only have you as a relative in this world, if you leave, what is the point of my life?" Who to talk to when I'm tired, when I'm hurt, when I'm helpless? ”
As soon as he said this, his grandfather was full of tears.
A ten-year-old child, he really can't bear to do such a thing. Many times, his grandfather was lying alone in bed, thinking about the tears that could flow from his completely blind eyes. For his grandson, he really felt guilty in his heart. I have been dominating the world for so many years, and the only thing I have done to be proud of is to have such a good grandson. Many times in the middle of the night, he would sit up alone, open his worn-out box, and then rummage through it, and turn it out of a small copper box, and just sit there alone, looking at the box with his invisible eyes, and his hands kept stroking. It was as if he had to make a decision, but he put things away in a trembling manner, and then burst into tears.
Fortunately, the surrounding villagers, in many cases, see the situation of the two of them, they can't help but help, and sometimes they don't need anyone to help, they will call Long Cheng and ask him to help do something, and then give him some money or food.
But this kind of thing is not always happening, especially in winter, which is the most headache and depressing, at this time, so who needs help?
So at this time, the only thing that can help the dragon orange is the fish in the river and the game in the mountains.
Every day, Long Cheng will put hidden buckles on the mountain to catch some wild meat such as hares, and then go down to the river to fish or net fish. Then a trot to the town or county to sell. These things were exchanged for the necessities of their grandparents' lives.
From the age of ten to the age of eighteen, it is hard to imagine how Long Cheng persevered for more than eight years. But he did survive, and not only ensured the necessities of the two of them, but Long Cheng also finished high school in the township.
Originally, Long Cheng didn't want to study, because a poor child like him was not qualified to study at all, and the reason why he went to study was because his grandfather forced him.
If Long Cheng didn't go to school in order to take care of him, his grandfather would commit suicide.
When watching his grandfather endure the pain and pull him trembling to the house of the village chief of their village to ask the village to solve the matter of Long Cheng's study, Long Cheng wanted to cry, because he saw his grandfather's trembling body, because of the huge pain of walking, his back was wet. What can the village chief say when he sees such a situation? It's nothing more than an extra desk in the school. Promised.
There is no way, Long Cheng can only insist like this. Every day, I get up early to cook and start running to school, and after a few classes, I start to run back to cook or do other things, such as growing sweet potatoes, potatoes and other foods that are stored for the winter.
Because of this, he goes to school very seriously, because he doesn't have much time to pay attention to studying, he only tries to compress his limited time to study these things in books. Learn these things from books in the shortest possible time. Because of this, he set a record that is still difficult to break in their township school.
He was in his first year of elementary school when he was ten, and at eighteen, he graduated from high school. He can be called a prodigy in their hometown.
In fact, according to his grades, he could have studied in the county No. 1 middle school, but in order to take care of his grandfather, he still chose their township high school. And because he chose the township high school, this year, the township high school came out with a county-wide college entrance examination to explore flowers. This is also the best result since the establishment of their township high school.
The English education in the township is still a little poor, otherwise this first lecture may be Longcheng's.
It was also because of this tanhua that he became famous, and at the same time brought him troubles.
I was admitted to a good school, but I couldn't come up with the money to study. What is this?
He didn't dare to tell his grandfather about these things. He was afraid that his grandfather would be sad and blame himself. In fact, for his grandfather, Long Cheng is very grateful, not to mention that he raised him so big, just to say that his grandfather has taught him some things over the years, which is enough for him to live his life.
Martial arts, what is the current martial arts of Long Cheng, he himself is not very clear, because he has never fought with anyone. But over the years, Long Cheng has never been sick at all, he has always been in good health in the wind and rain, and he can fight wild boars with his bare hands on this mountain, not to mention chasing a hare or something like that.
He doesn't know exactly how far acupuncture and medicine have been, but his grandfather has become healthier and healthier under his acupuncture and treatment, and he is not very tired after a long time when he can walk around. Of course, in order to learn acupuncture and medicine, his grandfather also suffered a lot, and he didn't know how many wrong holes there were on his body.
As for the fortune-telling thing, his grandfather didn't teach him from beginning to end, the reason is very simple, his grandfather thinks that this thing is something that the heavens have learned, and it is a road created by God to help the heavens. So no matter what Long Cheng said, he didn't teach Long Cheng, but instead found some ancient books to be burned in a no-man's place.
Now that Long Cheng has been admitted to such a famous university as Huaqing University, what do you think he should do?
Who doesn't want to go out and take a walk and see the world outside? But how do you go about this situation?
Studying in college, at least one or two thousand yuan a year, plus food and drink, even more terrible, here, he can still find something to do through the villagers, in the city, what can he do? And the situation outside is so complicated, you need money to drink water, and you take your grandfather with you, how to go? In addition, grandpa's health has become worse and worse in the past two years, and he can no longer withstand the fatigue of traveling.
And now there are two paths in front of him, one is to read it forcibly, regardless of the rest, even if he is hungry and poor, he has to read it desperately. But this is more difficult, at least he can't afford to pay the tuition.
Another way is to give up your place to others......
A few days ago, a very fashionable woman approached Long Cheng and said that if Long Cheng was willing to give her his admission letter, she would be willing to arrange a formal job for Long Cheng and 5,000 yuan.
The reason she found Long Cheng was because Long Cheng's name was exactly the same as her son's, and they were the same people who took the college entrance examination. It's just that Long Orange's grades are too bad. It's so rotten that it's hard to say.
And now, Long Cheng's parents are ready to use this method to obtain this admission letter from Long Cheng, and give their son a chance to study in a first-class university through their own connections.
Of course, the premise is that Long Cheng himself gives up this opportunity to go to school.
Long Cheng looked at the sky, and then at the dilapidated and low house in the middle of the mountain, he stood up, picked up a stone, and looked at the birds flying in the distance. I secretly said in my heart, "If I hit this bird, I will go to college, if not, I will go to work, while I am young, to give my grandfather a stable life"
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