The days are simple and interesting, at least for Yuan Junjun and Li Mengjiao, Li Mengjiao is like bamboo, the foundation has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and it suddenly rises overnight, and it can only advance by leaps and bounds step by step, and now there is no need for Yuan Junjun to beat his chest anymore, hard knowledge points need to be memorized and not stolen at all, and the self-confidence that has never been there rises in the bottom of his heart, Li Mengjiao is very grateful to Yuan Junjun, a little admiration, the two will always fight each other on the surface, but in the bottom of their hearts, each other is their best friend, well, they are friends, Children should have children's feelings, innocent friend feelings.

Counting up, three-quarters of the entire semester has passed since the start of the winter vacation, and the approaching midterm exam is like a stone pressing on the hearts of students. Li Mengjiao's grades have improved a lot, and she has run from the bottom of the class to the middle and upper reaches, but there is still a distance from the top ten mentioned by Liang Qiuhua, after all, the second and fourth classes of junior high school are also the top class collectives in the county. Liang Qiuhua was very surprised by Li Mengjiao's progress, he didn't expect the progress to be so fast, and now his grades are already sure of going to high school, the top ten he said at that time was really just a goal, a goal that was difficult to reach, and he knew how good the top ten in his class were.

Yuan Cuiping and her younger brother, who came home from school at noon, saw a familiar and somewhat unfamiliar middle-aged man sitting at the door of the hall, and her mother Li Xiaofeng saw the sister and brother standing at the gate when they came back from school, and said with a smile, "Why, I haven't seen you for half a year, so I don't know your father." Yuan Cuiping and Yuan Jun immediately ran over and threw themselves into the arms of their father Yuan Shizhong. Tap, tap, my old waist can't stand the toss of your sister and brother now, so let Dad take a good look at it, have you grown taller. "Mother Li Xiaofeng walked to the house with the fried hot vegetables, the rice was steamed in the pot, Yuan Shizhong came back today, and it was rare for the family to have a good meal." Dad, why don't you say anything when you come back, when will you come back? "Didn't I miss you two brothers and sisters, so I came back." "Cut... We don't believe it. "You kid, look what this is." As he spoke, Yuan Shizhong took out the gifts he had hidden for his sister and brother, and saw that what he handed to Yuan Junjun was a set of high school entrance examination exercise books, a thick one. "Isn't it, Dad, is this a gift for you?" "Why not, you must be fine if you finish the exam with the exercises from the past year's high school exam." "I don't want it, it's such a big book, when do I have to do it, I'll see what you bought for my sister." Yuan Cuiping dismantled the plastic shell, and it turned out to be a dress inside, a skirt with a lace edge with a pale pink edge, after unfolding, she knew that it looked very good without wearing it, Yuan Jun was not happy, "Dad, you are eccentric, buy me homework, you buy clothes for my sister, you see that the clothes on my body are still patched." At this time, Li Xiaofeng, who was cooking, came over, "Okay, don't tease Xiaojun, you see that he is about to cry when he is wronged." Turning his head to Yuan Junjun, who was about to cry, he said, "Oh, do you still want to wipe your tears from the big man?" Your dad teased you, and you got it too, and bought you new clothes. Yuan Junjun, who was still extremely aggrieved and brewing tears in the last second, burst into tears and laughed at this second, "Where is Mom, I'll see if it looks good." Yuan Shizhong smiled and took out a plastic bag from his bag, Yuan Junjun grabbed it and opened it carefully, as if he was afraid of damaging his clothes. Yuan Junjun is wearing sportswear, a white shirt and black pants, which is just right to wear this season, and he can't wait to run to the house to put it on, and he can't care about his mother calling him to try again after eating. Yuan Shizhong was frugal, bought clothes for his two children, and bought a pair of good-looking leather shoes for his wife, Li Xiaofeng didn't feel sorry for the clothes of the two children, only felt sorry for his own shoes, "How expensive are these shoes, you still spend money, you see that you have lost weight, don't always know how to work outside, eat something good." "It's not expensive, I'm not in charge of food and housing on the boat, I don't need money, you see that you take care of your two children by yourself, I am not at home when I work outside the house, and I am not at home for the work in the field, it is not easy for you to be alone." I'm outside, I just want to make more money and buy something for your mother-in-law, when I think of you, I won't be tired, and I will have energy to work. Hey.. "Stupid, don't let the children hear it, it's such an adult, it's not sour." Li Xiaofeng is beautiful in his heart, a simple man, down-to-earth with labor for money, and what flows out is sweat and comes back is the living expenses of a large family.

Yuan Shizhong stayed at home for three days and then went out to work again, now life is getting better day by day, the money outside is better than at home, and he has saved up for a year to go home, which is enough to spend, and the children no longer need to wear patch clothes. It's just that the coughing sound in the middle of the night always comes from time to time, and the workers on the ship told him to go to the hospital for a check-up, and he shouldn't cough all the time if he doesn't smoke or drink. Yuan Shizhong said with a smile in his mouth, "It's okay, the cause of the cold, I will be fine after a while." "It's really good after a while, on the first day after the midterm exam, Yuan Junjun and Li Mengjiao discussed the exam questions, Li Mengjiao felt okay, basically would, but the final additional questions were a little difficult, and I tried to end the question with the method taught by Yuan Junjun, solved a few questions, and there was no time to do one question left. While the two were discussing, Yuan Cuiping ran to Yuan Junjun's class with red eyes and asked him to go home with him. On the way, Yuan Junjun asked Yuan Cuiping what was wrong, whether she was bullied, Yuan Cuiping shook her head, didn't speak, just lowered her head and walked home. Yuan Junjun ran to her and walked backwards, "What the hell is going on, sister, don't stop talking, have you ever cried." "Just now, Aunt Zhao from the village came to the school to look for me, saying that my father had an accident outside, so let the two of us hurry home." "What's wrong with Dad?" "Aunt Zhao didn't say." "I didn't say why you were crying." "I looked at Aunt Zhao's expression, as if she was pitying me, saying that something happened to my father, don't you understand it yourself."

Yuan Shizhong died on the boat, and when his fellow dormitory worker called him to get up for breakfast in the morning, he couldn't wake him up. After a closer look, the workers panicked and hurriedly called someone to come and see. After the doctor's examination, the person died last night, died of cardiac arrest, and later learned that Yuan Shizhong's body had already collapsed, with advanced lung cancer and myocardial infarction. I don't know how he survived all these years. After Li Xiaofeng received a call from there, he collapsed directly on the ground, spinning around, at a loss, at home Li Xiaofeng is the backbone of the child's forehead, but in Li Xiaofeng's heart, Yuan Shizhong is the backbone of his own Tianzhu, and now he left without saying a word. What to do yourself. Someone needs to go there to claim the body and preside over the cremation funeral. Yuan Shizhong has an elder brother, Yuan Shicang, and the call is to his home. In the end, Yuan Shicang took Li Xiaofeng and Li Xiaofeng's brother Li Yulong to Zhejiang, and the two children were handed over to the eldest mother to take care of.

The body was not brought back, so it was buried in Zhejiang, and Yuan Junjun would move back when he grew up, and Yuan Junjun didn't understand why he didn't bring his father back. Since he didn't bring it back, the funeral couldn't be held, and the result was that every time he went to the grave, Yuan Junjun would draw a circle with a stone in the direction of Zhejiang, and burn paper money in it, which he learned from the older generation, so that his father could receive the money. Out of humanitarianism, the shipowner lost 100,000 yuan, Yuan Shizhong in the impression of the workers can endure hardships, do a good job, be modest, never play tricks, everyone likes him very much, and the workers spontaneously donate money, no one 1200, but also made up a few thousand yuan. Li Xiaofeng didn't want it, she couldn't bear everyone's kindness, but she wrote the name of the worker who gave the money on a piece of paper, and bowed deeply to everyone, "Thank you, thank you very much." "People die like lights go out, and perhaps no one will remember that there was once a worker named Yuan Shizhong buried in a foreign land.

After the start of school, the Yuan Junjun sisters and brothers, as usual, all the children in a village knew the news that their sisters and brothers had lost their fathers, and everyone kept silent. Yuan Junjun still loves to laugh and still be funny, but there are some other emotions in it, as if this emotion should not appear in a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child. Li Mengjiao was admitted to the top ten and tenth in the class, which was just right. Yuan Junjun expressed his gratitude to her. Li Mengjiao didn't know how to comfort him and heard about him. How different is he from him, in a single-parent family, his mother is no different from death. Seeing that Li Mengjiao wanted to speak and stopped, Yuan Junjun talked first, and the two walked to the playground together. "No need to be comforted, I have heard too much, the people in the village say that our family is pitiful, everyone says so, in fact, our family is not pitiful, and I am not as fragile as they say." took a deep breath "My dad is actually very tired, for this family, he has no ability, people are stubborn and dead-eyed, can only use brute force, this is actually very good for him, there is no painful death in the dream, my mother is very sad, I can't experience their love, but it's really good, I don't know why." In the future, my mother and my sister will be left, as the only man in the family, I can't cry my nose to outsiders anymore, right? Li Mengjiao quietly looked at the boy in front of her, who was still white and handsome, and suddenly felt that he was much more mature than herself. My mom thought my dad couldn't make money, he didn't have the ability, and he ran away with others. Actually, I'm in a similar situation to you, I was abandoned by my own mother, and you are much better than me. "I know, I've always felt that you are strong, so now what reason do I have to be cowardly in front of you?" The two looked at each other and smiled, "For a better tomorrow, for the future, work together." "Well, come on." The two people in the sunset were just like them later.