"Grandpa......"

"Haha, grandpa said he wanted to find that pen with you, why did I deviate, by the way, you go and pour grandpa a cup of tea."

"Okay, Grandpa." Ling Yi took his grandfather's teacup and went to the water dispenser to fetch water for his grandfather.

In this matter, Xiaoqi also took a shower and came out of the bathroom, holding this towel in his hand and wiping his hair.

She saw Lingyi pouring tea and water for her grandfather, with a slight smile on her face.

Who can please my grandfather?

Lingyi sat next to his grandfather and looked at his grandfather very seriously.

Grandpa took a sip of tea and then said, "Grandpa was ten years old that year and was liberated. It was said that the children of the poor could go to school, and I remember that the tuition fee for reading at that time was 50,000 yuan. ”

"Mom, was it so expensive back then? The tuition fee is 50,000 yuan! ”

"No, it was the 50,000 yuan coupon issued by the Kuomintang at that time, and the RMB issued by our Communist Party was five cents."

"Oh, five cents is pretty cheap."

"Five cents is a year's expense. My grandfather remembers that your wife and my four older brothers had a meeting all night. Let's just say, how can I get enough for five cents. When your uncle was young, he told me to go to school. ”

"And then?"

Later, my wife took out all the money she had pressed at the bottom of the box, and finally scraped together enough 50,000 yuan for me to sign up the next day. It was the first time my grandfather wore shoes, because he was going to study, and he couldn't go into the classroom barefoot. ”

"Grandpa, you haven't worn shoes?"

"Yes, at that time, children walked barefoot in Jiangnan, I didn't wear shoes before I was ten years old, that was the first time I walked in shoes, it was my grandfather's sister-in-law who made a pair of shoes overnight without sleeping all night."

Zero One stuck out her tongue, it seemed difficult for her to imagine that a person who was born for nine years had no shoes to wear.

At this time, Xiaoqi had already cut a plate of fruit, inserted a fruit fork, and brought it over.

Xiao Qi also sat next to Lingyi, listening to her father tell the story that had been repeated to her many times.

My father always liked to talk about this part of his past. As I get older, I seem to like to reminisce more and more about the past. Sometimes, it is repeated more than ten times.

I'm afraid this is the so-called nostalgia. Every time her father spoke, Xiaoqi listened quietly, and she knew that it was her father's thoughts.

For a person, no matter how old he is, he also has a childhood, and he has a child living in his heart, and he has a thousand years past.

The old people can recall and share this nostalgia and longing for the past, which is probably also a kind of happy taste.

If you really wait until the day when "the son wants to raise but the parent is not there", what kind of tragedy it will be!

And that day will come.

Father is the barrier between life and death, that love, Xiaoqi wants to have all the time.

"That's right," my grandfather continued, "I found out when I got to school that a five-year-old child could go to the first grade, and I was ten years old at that time." The teacher asked me to go to first grade because I hadn't been to school before. At that time, my grandfather was very competitive, looking at the little children who were so much younger than him, and he was very unhappy in a class, what is it called in today's words? yes, 'It's very unpleasant. Then I went to the homeroom teacher and then to the dean and told them that I was nine years old and that I was going to the fifth grade. ”

Lingyi didn't know when he stole his grandfather's teacup and took a sip of tea, only to hear a pop and squirt out......

"Grandpa, you really want to go to the fifth grade, I've heard of skipping one level, but I haven't heard of skipping five grades. Grandpa, you're so good. Lingyi said in a smooth tone.

Grandpa didn't realize it, "I'm counting by age, I should be in the fourth grade." ”

"I see, what about then," Reichi asked.

Of course, the head teacher disagreed, and neither did the dean. I cried in his office all morning......"

"Did you finally agree?"

"Still not agreed."

"Oh"

"I remember very well that the dean seemed to be so annoyed by my torture that he picked up a book in his hand, threw it from behind his back, and smashed it directly on the back of my head, saying, 'Can you read the title of this book?' ”

"Oh, the teacher was so violent."

"Haha, we didn't think it was a big deal at the time, the current teacher ......"

"Now the teacher doesn't dare. Otherwise, it will be dangerous, and it will be said that it is violent abuse of classmates, and you may be punished. Xiao Qi interjected.

"That's right, the times are different, I didn't think it was a matter at that time. The dean was annoyed by me and said that he would take the midterm exam in two weeks. Said that if I pass every class, then I will be in the fifth grade; If you fail the exam, start reading in the first grade. ”

"Grandpa, then you and the teacher are equivalent to signing a gambling agreement." Lingyi interjected.

"It's a new word, that's what it means, and I agreed. When I got back, I started reading and reviewing like crazy. Did you know? The teaching director led the graduating class, and the questions he came up with were particularly difficult, and many of the knowledge points were not at the elementary school level. ”

"And then, grandpa, did you fail the test?"

"Nope. The first course is mathematics. Geometric algebra was examined. My grandfather still remembers. Grandpa made it all. After the exam, the teacher took out my paper and corrected it, and I went home to herd the cattle. When I went back to school the next day, I was the man of the hour. ”

"Why?" Lingyi asked.

"Because of that paper, I was the only one in the whole school with a score of 100. There is also a second place with more than 40 points. ”

"Grandpa, you're so good, how can you do it? You haven't even learned. ”

"That's the credit for the wild fruit I just mentioned. I used the wild fruits I picked during the day to exchange them for books, and at night I studied secretly under the moon. If you don't understand, you can go to an old gentleman in our village to ask, he is very talented, sometimes take advantage of the gap to do some work for his family, and then help to ask a question or two. There is no rule either, just learn from the east and learn from the west. Then I used it for exams. Grandpa smiled, like a child who stole candy, which was a big advantage.

"Grandpa is so good, the only 100 points."

"But Lingling, you listen to my grandfather, the next day I was miserable, the next day I took the Chinese test, my grandfather didn't know what a phrase was, I didn't know what it meant to divide paragraphs, and I didn't know what it meant to write a sentence. I've never heard of these terms, and I'm just writing them there. After the exam, my grandfather felt that he had failed the exam, so I followed the head teacher, and the head teacher drove me away, but I didn't leave, just guarded him, and wanted him to read the papers. I couldn't help it, so the head teacher took out my paper and started to change it. Points are deducted here, points are deducted there, and in the end, it adds up to 58 points. When the head teacher took a red pen and wrote down 58 points, as soon as I saw that I had failed, I screamed and started crying at the door. ”

"That ......" Ling Yi eagerly wanted to know the development of the plot.

"Then the head teacher saw me crying, and hurriedly said, 'Don't cry, don't cry, I'll see if I have corrected any mistakes, and I'm going to review it.'" Then the head teacher looked at it carefully, found a point here, found a point there, 'miscalculated child, it's 60 points' The head teacher crossed out the bright red 58 points and rewrote 60 points, and said, 'Zhisheng', you passed, it's okay, you can study in the fourth grade. My grandfather was young at the time, and I was very happy to hear that I had passed, but in fact, my grandfather scored 58 points in the exam, and it was the head teacher who changed it to 60 points for me, not that I scored 60 points. ”

"Grandpa, are you good at math? So I was specially recruited. ”

"There was no special recruitment for this back then, but that's what it meant, it should be. In this way, my grandfather went directly to the fifth grade, because by the time my grandfather went to school, it was already almost half a semester. I went to school during the day and went home at night to help the family, and at that time my grandfather's bed was a small bench, you know? There are many people in the family, and when I was young, I just slept on a small bench. ”

"Grandpa, can you sleep on a bench, aren't you afraid of falling down?"

"At first, it would fall off, but then I got used to it, and I was able to fall asleep and never fall off again. My grandfather practiced martial arts with his wife when he was a child. When I was five years old, my wife was tied to a small wire and told me to use my skills to break the wire. ”

"Wow, isn't the lady very powerful?"

"Haha, my wife seemed to be a popular figure in the rivers and lakes back then, and my grandfather returned to the countryside after he fell ill."

"What about the princess?" Lingyi's eyes flashed, and she seemed to feel the magic on the other side of the long river of history.

"Taigong is a scholar, he was a talent when he was young, and he was a squire. Before the grandfather was not sick, our Sheng family was still very good, at that time there were 200 acres of land in the south of the Yangtze River, and I heard the grandmother say that there was also an industry in Shanghai, and then the grandfather was sick, and the grandmother said, "The family business was earned by the grandfather, so let him take ...... away'" Speaking of this, the grandfather's eyes were also slightly moist, and Xiaoqi handed the grandfather a square square checkered handkerchief.

Although most people are accustomed to using paper towels now, my grandfather is still used to using handkerchiefs, and his handkerchiefs are all washed cleanly and neatly folded, even if they are washed white, they are reluctant to throw them away.

This may be the diligence and thrift of the elderly, or the obsession of perseverance.

"My wife made a decision to sell all the land and property and treat my father-in-law! At that time, it was not easy to see a doctor, Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, these places were not missing. , and then the family situation also fell. From the time I can remember, my grandfather was sick until my grandfather died. It's not easy for a wife to run a big family alone! ”

"Dad"

"Grandpa"

"I'm fine, but I've been thinking about things when I was a kid lately, and I'm afraid I'm getting old. Lingling, do you know, at that time, there were 42 people eating at every meal in the family, and the wife arranged these arrangements in an orderly manner, all of which were the division of labor and cooperation between the concubines. In fact, it is not a bad thing that the family is ruined, and there are only 2 long-term workers left in the family a year before liberation......"