The noon time basically passed like this, Lu Yao casually found a roadside stall to eat some food, and hurried back to the classroom to prepare for the afternoon exam.

University exams generally do not change the invigilator casually, it is still the teacher who trained Lu Yao in the morning to invigilate, but his attitude towards Lu Yao in the afternoon is much better, and when he walked into the classroom, he glanced in the direction of Lu Yao and smiled.

When invigilating, he didn't pay more attention to Lu Yao, intentionally or unintentionally, he focused more attention on the classmates who he thought were not doing well in the morning and had a large blank on the exam paper he handed in.

The entire final exam lasted for five days, and Lu Yao basically didn't have time to deal with other things during these five days, and he was completely nervous to go back and forth between the dormitory and the classroom, and these five days were also the longest period of time Lu Yao lived in the 602 dormitory of the Blue Sky Apartment.

On this afternoon, the last course of the exam "Selected Readings of Famous Chinese Medicine Doctors' Medical Cases", after the exam, this semester is completely over, everyone's minds have drifted to their hometown thousands of miles away, and when Lu Yao went back at noon, he heard that many classmates were discussing where to go to play during the New Year, whether the ticket to go home had been bought, and whether to return to school early at the beginning of the school year and other topics.

The exam in the afternoon also went relatively smoothly, and Lu Yao was still the first to hand in the papers, but to his surprise, he didn't expect that Hua Manlou, who had always been the last to hand in the papers, handed in the papers only half a minute later than himself, that is to say, when Lu Yao packed up his things and was about to walk out of the teacher, Hua Manlou had already walked to the door of the classroom.

Hua Manlou is used to being alone on weekdays, and he has less contact with other students in the class, and he often discusses this matter when he talks about them in the dormitory, but, maybe because he participated in a performance with Lu Yao at the last school-wide orientation party, he and Lu Yao will still say hello when they meet.

When Lu Yao saw Hua Manlou, he took the initiative to step forward and prepare to say hello, but before he could say his words, Hua Manlou had already said to him in advance: "Lu Yao, are you going back to your hometown during the Chinese New Year?" ”

"Well, there is a plan for this, but it hasn't been decided yet, what's wrong?" Lu Yao saw Hua Manlou's strange expression, and always felt as if he had something to say to himself, so he said truthfully.

"I have something I want to discuss with you, I wonder if you have time?" Hua Manlou said embarrassedly.

"Everyone is classmates, you and I are friends, just say anything!" Lu Yao took two steps forward, patted Hua Manlou's shoulder, and said calmly.

Hua Manlou saw Lu Yao's sincerity, but he was still a little embarrassed, hesitated for a long time, and said as if he had made a lot of determination: "Will you go to a place with me first?" ”

This time Lu Yao didn't speak, a thousand words would become an action, and he nodded slightly.

Hua Manlou saw Lu Yao nodding, a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes, and he turned around and walked towards the outside of the school.

Lu Yao followed Hua Manlou for about a kilometer or so, and came to a real estate development site under construction, looking at the dust flying in the sky, Hua Manlou glanced back at Lu Yao, with a deep apology in his eyes, and said: "It's a little dirty here, if you don't want to go in, I can call them out and talk to you?" ”

"No, I'm also a bitter child from the countryside, this bit of dust is nothing, you can take me in!" Lu Yao smiled sincerely and said.

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Originally, dump trucks came and went on the construction site, and the workers were also very busy, but when they saw Hua Manlou and a white boy they had never seen walking into the construction site, they put down their work and surrounded the two.

"Manlou, who is this?" A middle-aged man with a scruffy beard and covered in dirt jumped from one of the dump trucks, walked quickly to Hua Manlou, pointed to Lu Yao and asked.

"Uncle Li, this is my classmate Lu Yao." Hua Manlou introduced Lu Yao to the middle-aged man and other people who had already walked up to the two, and then introduced Lu Yao to many of these people to Lu Yao.

When Lu Yao saw the excitement on everyone's faces with a slightly worried expression, Lu Yao also greeted everyone warmly.

"Let's go, let's go to the shed, it's too dirty here!" Uncle Li took Hua Manlou's hand, glanced at Lu Yao, passed through a gap in the crowd, and walked towards a color steel house not far away.

The color steel room is not big, but it is full of more than 20 high and low beds, and the ground is not made of cement, but the potholed earth, because it is the early winter season, even if the sun has not set, the color steel room is still cold and damp.

At this time, the house was full of people inside and outside, and only a vacant space was vacated where Lu Yao, Hua Manlou and Uncle Li were standing, Uncle Li beckoned the two to sit on a relatively clean bed, and said embarrassedly with a red face: "I'm usually too busy, and I don't have time to clean up, so I can laugh at you cultural people." ”

"Uncle Li, you're welcome, I also used to do odd jobs with my godfather, and I lived in a chase shop with dozens of people, and your conditions here are not the worst, but I think there is still a trace of cordiality." Lu Yao said with a sincere smile.

"Oh, classmate Lu is also a child from our countryside?" Uncle Li said with some surprise.

"It's like a fake!" Lu Yao patted his chest and said.

"That's good, that's good, so things are much easier." Uncle Li listened to Lu Yao's words and knew some of Lu Yao's experiences, as if he had taken a reassuring pill, he slowly sat opposite Lu Yao, and said, "Man Lou, have you told Xiao Lu about the matter?" ”

"Uncle Li, I haven't had time to say it yet." Hua Manlou said embarrassedly.

"Okay then, I'll do it!" Uncle Li lit one of the cheapest cigarettes seen in the market for two yuan a box, took a puff, and said.

"Xiao Lu, here's the thing, we are all from the remote Lingui Province, now everyone you see here is from one place of ours to work, we are all uneducated people, that is, the so-called illiterate, except for a handful of strength, there is nothing to earn money to support the family, we can only ...... here" Uncle Li said while smoking.

Lu Yao didn't speak all the time, knowing that Uncle Li told Lu Yao everything, Lu Yao knew why Hua Manlou was always reluctant to participate in various group activities held by the class on weekends, it turned out that Hua Manlou not only followed these construction workers to do odd jobs on weekdays, but also helped the children of these hard-working workers to tutor their homework on weekends.

As Uncle Li said, they came to Lingui Province, the most remote and poor and backward province in China, where it is not only remote, but also has deep mountains and deep ravines, and inconvenient transportation, and officially Therefore, the education level there has not been able to catch up with the level of those developed areas, these people live like this because they are all uneducated, and they don't know a single character, so they don't want their children to be as unproductive as themselves, and they can only rely on their strength to make money.

When they go out to work, they bring their children to the place where they work, so that they can receive a better education, but children in big cities often participate in cram schools, especially some morally corrupt teachers, they are like parasites, eager to squeeze out the money in the pockets of all parents, they often deliberately omit some knowledge points in their daily classes, and then let students can't help but pay for his cram school, and only by attending his cram school can they learn those knowledge points.

What's more, these cram schools are all expensive, and the fees they charge are simply not affordable for these migrant workers, so their children are still the worst learners in the class.

Uncle Li is the foreman of these people, and he is also the person who is looking for work for them, and by chance he met Hua Manlou, who was a tutor, and Uncle Li "cheekily" told Hua Manlou about these situations, and wanted Hua Manlou to tutor their children.

Originally, Uncle Li didn't have much hope for this, but he never dreamed that Hua Manlou not only agreed, but also resigned from his well-paid tutoring job in order to have more time to tutor the children's homework, and devoted himself to tutoring these children.

Originally, Hua Manlou repeatedly emphasized that his tutoring was completely voluntary and did not charge any fees, but in the end, he couldn't stand the repeated persuasion of these simple men, and finally charged a very cheap part of the fee.

This matter can be regarded as a great merit of creation, the building has an income, and the children of these migrant workers also have the opportunity to tutor, the best of both worlds, but now the winter vacation is coming, the New Year is approaching, and their construction period is relatively tight this year, and the workers cannot go home for the New Year, but the children have left their hometown for half a year, and the old people at home are thinking about it, and they have no choice but to go home for the New Year.

In this way, trouble followed, the children went back to their hometown, no one tutored homework, and after a holiday, the grades would regress a lot, and finally Hua Manlou discussed with everyone, and decided to go home with these children for the New Year, and it was good to tutor the children in their homework on weekdays.

But these people are not too close to each other, and the children's time can't get together, Hua Manlou once again proposed to find a like-minded literate person and go to his hometown with him, and give those children who can get together as much time as possible to tutor their homework, but although this proposal is good, Hua Manlou can't find a person like this for several days, and finally in a helpless situation, he thought of Lu Yao, who has excellent academic performance and is enthusiastic, this may be the last chance for their plan, after today, Everyone went home.

Lu Yao listened a lot, and he understood the beginning and end of the matter, when he knew the reality of Hua Manlou, he was very emotional, maybe only the children of the poor know the difficulties of the poor best, Hua Manlou has no father and mother, and he can best understand that feeling, so he is willing to do this, the reason why he was very entangled and difficult to talk about before he came, it was because he didn't understand how Lu Yao would see this matter in his heart, whether he refused or agreed, it was difficult for him to guess.

Uncle Li's words represented the thoughts of all the workers, and when he finished talking about the cause and effect of the matter, everyone looked at Lu Yao nervously, worried that Lu Yao would refuse.

"Uncle Li, Hua Manlou and I are classmates, and I am willing to take on the task of tutoring with him this time, but there is one thing I want to declare in advance!" Lu Yao saw everyone's gaze, couldn't find a reason to refuse, nodded and agreed.

"You say, you say, you say it, I will definitely agree!" Uncle Li threw the cigarette butt that was about to burn his fingers to the ground, stepped on it twice, stood up excitedly and looked at Lu Yao and said.

"My tuition this time can't be free, it has to be charged." Lu Yao said with a serious expression.

"Then, how much do you want for this fee?" Uncle Li's heart suddenly rose to his throat, he was afraid that Lu Yao would say a fantastical price, and the matter would be in trouble again, so he looked at Lu Yao nervously and asked.

"I pay as much as I spend on the building, and I charge him how he charges on weekdays, not a dime more, not a penny less." Lu Yao suddenly had a smile on his face, and looked at Uncle Li and the surrounding workers and said loudly.

"Ahh Uncle Li was obviously stunned for a moment, and when he heard Lu Yao's words clearly, he immediately said excitedly: "That's nature, that's nature!" ”

Everyone talked about it again, and the matter was settled.