The mountains in the countryside are majestic and majestic, and under the light of the setting sun, the earth is paved with layers of pale gold, as if it is a golden mountain, which is very attractive.

On the side of a big yellow road, there is a large stone slab, on which sits a young man and a young girl, on the right side of the girl there are seven or eight books, tied with ropes, and not far away there is an old-style bamboo basket, there is a lot of wheat bran in it, you can faintly see that there are eggs in it, probably estimated, I am afraid there are about fifty.

Zhao Bawang, in the future, I will spend three or four hours a day to study, and the rest of the time I will follow you to make back baskets and sell back baskets, okay? The girl who had been staring at the sunset on the horizon suddenly turned her head to look at the young man;

This can't be done, Ye Xi, you must learn all the words you should recognize in two to three months, and when you go back, I will install an electric light in your room, and in the future, you will not only study during the day, but also at night, and I will learn with you at night, and teach you to read at the same time, King Zhao shook his head and said;

Let's not learn any advanced things, just learn to read and count, at least in a short period of time, and if we have the opportunity in the future, let's learn English and physics together, the boy continued.

But if she reads all day long, she will read her brain badly, and the girl is dissatisfied;

King Zhao glared and said, we can't compare with other children, every minute and every second, you have to play a hundred and twenty points of spirit to learn, so as not to fall too far behind, I know you want to help me, but now you just need to recognize the words well, it is the greatest help to me, do not require you to learn all the words, but today the uncle said that thousands of common words you have to learn completely, as for mathematics, you just learn to learn which addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and division, at least a thousand within the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division you have to know.

"Well, I will study hard, and I tell you, my arithmetic ability is very good, for those addition and subtraction, although I don't know what to count, but my mental arithmetic is very fast, and addition and subtraction within a thousand is not difficult for me at all," the girl is no longer strong, she already knew at a young age, in this rapidly progressive society, an illiterate will be very sad, and she did not forget to comfort the teenager, it can be seen that she is very sensible, and her mind has already surpassed her peers too much.

By the way, did you follow the woman to Qibao Street to sell vegetables? After hearing the girl's words, the young man seemed to think of something, and suddenly turned his head and asked;

That's right, not long after you left, I went to find the wicked woman, as long as she gave me a dollar a day, I would help her guard the stall, and at the same time she would teach me how to recognize and collect money, and her hateful son would go to the place where she sold vegetables every day after school to do his homework, as long as no one came to buy vegetables, I would take a look from time to time, and at the same time use some radical methods to let the dead child teach me some, just like that, my arithmetic ability gradually improved, more powerful than her stupid son, Ye Xi shook his head, avoided the important and said lightly;

Although the girl said it easily, the boy could feel the sadness and pain, and he had experienced it himself.

Hehe, Zhao Bawang, you don't know, the son of the wicked woman was cleaned up by me in private, and he didn't even dare to go to the orphanage, the girl seemed to think of something, and chuckled;

The boy was surprised and blurted out the question: Why?

The fat man tried to splash me with hot water, but I avoided him, and at night, when I saw him looking sneaky, I was very annoyed, and the power went out that day, so I wrung a wooden chair and smashed it directly on his head, and made him roll from the second floor to the first floor, and was very badly injured, and then I heard from the wicked woman that he had been in the hospital for more than three months, and the girl's little face became a little hideous, and she said with a smile of four or five points, but no one knew that I had done it, and since then he has never dared to go to the orphanage again.

In the future, if anyone dares to bully you, you are not allowed to do it, you just need to remember him and tell me, you are not good at fighting, let me come, the young man felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, rubbed the girl's hair, and said very seriously;

Okay, okay, I haven't seen you fight for a long time, I just don't know if your small body can be as good as before, anyone can be pressed down by you, the girl smiled and said;

You can rest assured, the person who bullied you will definitely not have a good time, the young man grinned, and when it came to fighting, he immediately remembered some of the scenes when he was in the orphanage, the orphanage was not big, only seventeen or eighteen children, and it was built by the richest family in the town, and the family's surname was Li, it is said that more than ten years ago, the old man with the highest rank in the Li family had a serious illness. How to cure can't be cured, his eldest daughter-in-law thinks that the old man may be stained with something unclean, and then heard that there is a Taoist temple more than ten miles away, there is a seventy or eighty-year-old old master inside, the ability is very high, can subdue demons and catch ghosts, so his eldest son invited the master to exorcise evil spirits for the old man, but what people didn't expect was that the old man just glanced at the old man and said that the happiness enjoyed by a person is related to the merits he has accumulated, and the merits accumulated by the old man Li in this life are too little. But he has enjoyed too much glory and wealth, when he was blessed before, God took a nap and didn't care about him, but now God has woken up and opened his eyes of heaven, and the blessings enjoyed by Old Man Li exceed the merits he has accumulated, in order to balance, God will let him suffer from illness for the rest of his life, and will take away his life span for five years, which can frighten Old Man Li's family at that time.

The sons of the old man Li are very filial, and hurriedly asked the old man for a way to save him, and the old man said that the old man Li is not merit enough, just make up for it, if you can always do good deeds and live a long life, it is okay, but if you want to live past a hundred years old and add a little bit of merit, you need to do some great good deeds and accumulate more merits.

Although the old master said it very mysteriously, the Li family can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, besides, it is related to the life of the old man Li, and his family does not dare to have the slightest neglect, lest there are too few good deeds, as for money, what his family has, and he is also very willing.

So within a few days, Mr. Li set up an orphanage, adopted all the orphans in the town, food, clothing and housing, all of which were paid by his family, and it was strange to say, when Mr. Li adopted the orphans in the town, his illness was really cured all of a sudden, and the whole person was more energetic than before. He even made a contribution, and was called 'Boss Li's good man' in the town, and people within a radius of dozens of miles knew him.

Originally, the orphanage was taken care of by Mr. Li's eldest daughter-in-law, but later, in order to let her daughter study well, she went to the city to take care of her daughter, and entrusted the orphanage to a woman surnamed Ma to take care of her, and I heard that she was given more than 2,000 yuan a month.

King Zhao was adopted in the second year after the establishment of the orphanage, four or five years ago, it was the old man's eldest daughter-in-law who was taking care of him, the old man's eldest daughter-in-law was surnamed Xu, she was very good and had a gentle personality, no matter what the purpose of the old man's family to establish the orphanage was, anyway, King Zhao was grateful to them from the bottom of his heart, if there was no family member, he and Ye Xi would have starved to death.

It's just that the good times don't last long, after the woman surnamed Ma came, their life was not so good, the first month or two was pretty good, she was also decent, because Mr. Li would come to the orphanage once or twice a month to see the children's situation, but later, Mr. Li's feet were hit by a big stone and were seriously injured, and since then, he has not come to the orphanage, and the woman surnamed Ma has changed since then, revealing her true nature, as long as things don't go well, will yell and scold, for those crying children are either pinched or beaten, the more they go to the back, the more they get worse, Zhao Wang doesn't know why, his mind is much higher than his peers, but he never cries or makes trouble.

It's just that the little girl next to him, who is one or two years younger than him, is a crying bag, and the woman beats her a lot, and only King Zhao dared to protect the little girl behind him at that time, which is why the little girl calls that woman a wicked woman.

King Zhao can be said to have conflicts with women every once in a while, and he has done it many times, at that time King Zhao was very small, and he was always the one who suffered, and he was often targeted by women, but the four or five-year-old King Zhao was not a vegetarian, and he couldn't beat it clearly, so he secretly made a mess, and the woman didn't dare to mutilate him to death, after all, a fuss killed people, alarmed which officials, the woman was afraid that she was going to sit through the prison, plus the old man Li's family was shocked, and the woman surnamed Ma didn't dare to die.

Until one day half a year later, the son of the woman surnamed Ma followed her to the orphanage, and that day King Zhao did it with her again, because her son bullied the little girl, King Zhao beat her son, and that day he did it with the woman, King Zhao still suffered a big loss, but when the woman was not paying attention, he grabbed a kitchen knife next to him, and slashed a big knife on her son's back, and the blood flowed loudly, and everyone was scared stupid.

Since that time, the woman is really afraid of King Zhao, but more hate, but she doesn't dare to do anything too out of the ordinary, only bent on driving King Zhao out of the orphanage, let him fend for himself outside, death is of course the best, but the old man of the Li family has confessed that the children in the orphanage can not be released until they are at least fourteen years old, unless someone adopts them, and they must sign an adoption certificate.

King Zhao also knew this, and he also knew very well that the woman surnamed Ma wanted to drive him out, so he made a deal with the woman surnamed Ma, he could help the woman surnamed Ma guard her vegetable stall, and he would not make trouble in the future, and the little girl would naturally be brought by him, but he must give him two yuan a day, as long as he scraped together enough money, he would leave, and the woman did not hesitate to take out ten crumpled red suns, as long as he was willing to immediately put his fingerprints on the adoption book, he would give him a thousand yuan, which was equivalent to buying his life with a thousand yuan.

At that time, King Zhao didn't know what the concept of a thousand yuan was, but he couldn't leave immediately, because once he left, the woman didn't know how to clean up the little girl who was only three or four years old, until he was nine years old, Old Man Li was able to walk, and he also came to the orphanage, however, as long as someone from the Li family came, the woman would know the news in advance, and take out a dozen yuan in advance to coax the children and let them not talk nonsense, but King Zhao never asked for such money, and he didn't sue. He didn't plan to sue, after all, Old Man Li was not too young, there was no need to let him worry about these things, and the other children were bought by the woman, so it was useless for him to sue alone.

It's just that after Mr. Li came to the orphanage that time, he found a problem, the children in the orphanage did not add one, which made Mr. Li very puzzled, could it be that there have been no orphans in the town all these years?

Old man Li thought about it, and went to the town that day, and didn't go around for long, and came back with two or three babies, and he was very angry that day, you know, the old man said that the reason why he was sick was because there was too little merit, and how long he could live, but it was related to the good deeds he had done, the merits he had accumulated, and then there was the fact that he attributed the last time he was smashed by a stone to his own merit was not enough, which was God's punishment for him, and when he thought of this, the old man's face became distorted.

So Old Man Li reprimanded the woman that day, and almost slapped her in the mouth, but she prevaricated on the grounds that the old man had not explained the matter.

However, King Zhao understands the woman's temperament, even if she knows, it will only be perfunctory, after all, the more children she has, the more troublesome she will be.

Later, the old man also felt that his body was gradually getting weaker, and it was definitely not possible to go outside to do good deeds, so he simply did some good deeds in the town, and adopted all these orphans.

Old Man Li often comes to the orphanage, and King Zhao is not worried that Ye Xi will be bullied again, so he chose to leave without hesitation, because he wanted to come out to work hard first, and when he had a place to stay, he would take the little girl out, but things always went not as expected.

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After King Zhao and Ye Xi rested enough, the two of them continued to hurry, the young man twisted the bamboo basket, the girl held the seven or eight old books, as if holding a gold brick, but rare, seeing a few books, the girl didn't seem to feel the pain in her feet, and her heart was beautiful, and she really wanted King Zhao to teach her to read and write immediately.

King Zhao, after we have a chance in the future, we must repay that uncle well, the girl who walked in front suddenly turned her head and said;

"Yes, yes. ”

The young man nodded, he knew who the uncle the girl was talking about, a middle-aged man surnamed Yao, the seven or eight books were given by him, the middle-aged man surnamed Yao bought a small basket from him, King Zhao only charged him thirty-one yuan, logically speaking, two baskets of the same size, others asked for at least thirty-nine yuan, but King Zhao's was seven or eight yuan cheaper, so when King Zhao asked him if he had used old books and could sell him two copies, the middle-aged man unceremoniously wrung out a large number of old books that his two sons had read, and asked him to take them all away.

Take it away for free, King Zhao naturally doesn't want to take advantage of this, but under the persuasion of the middle-aged man repeatedly, King Zhao had no choice but to accept it, but King Zhao said that he didn't want so much, and some books he couldn't use, and the middle-aged surnamed Yao had also read for a few years, and he learned from his two sons when he had nothing to do, so he knew a lot, these seven or eight books, that is, the middle-aged surnamed Yao picked it out according to his requirements, whether it was the best, and the middle-aged were not sure, but he said, if it was just literacy, Learn to learn arithmetic, these seven or eight books are okay, and I also told Zhao Wang and them a lot about the experience of reading, which is why the two of them haven't arrived home yet.

Under the moonlight, the two small backs gradually faded away, seemingly lonely, but they gave people a sense of happiness.

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