When Lin Na was about to go to the fourth grade of Panlong Village Central Primary School, Li Li was admitted to a key university in another province with the fifth place in the county.

This incident caused a stir.

In that era of secondary school student package distribution, almost 95% or more of children in rural areas would choose to enroll in secondary school directly after graduating from junior high school.

After studying for three years of secondary school, after graduation, waiting for the assignment of work, you can eat "imperial grain", serve "iron rice bowls", be carefree for a lifetime, and live the life of a superior person.

Who would spend that hard time chopping wood and selling it to earn tuition fees, go to high school, and then take the university entrance examination! How many years do you have to study to graduate before you can get paid?

Li Li graduated from junior high school, did not apply for the technical secondary school examination, insisted on high school, let several elder brothers and one sister tighten their belts, get up early in the morning, go up to the mountains to collect firewood, go down to the river to fish to earn tuition for him to go to school.

Many people in the village are confused.

After all, after so many years, Yamaguchi Village has not even been a big village as Panlong Village, and there has never been a college student!

Everyone only sees that the students who graduated from secondary school have stable jobs and do not have to worry about eating and drinking, and they don't know what is the good of graduating from college and then looking for a job by themselves?

"If you spend so much money to go to college, you have to work for decades to get back to your capital, right?" The people of the village muttered.

Li Li is like a cow that he herds every day, he can't pull it anymore because of his stubbornness, and he is determined to be admitted to high school and college.

Fortunately, several brothers and an older sister spoiled him, he was going to high school and college, everyone didn't say a word, the whole family worked together, and would rather not eat meat for half a year than squeeze out tuition for him to go to school.

No, when Li Li was eighteen years old, his dream came true and he was vigorously admitted to a university in a big city.

At the end of August, before leaving, he came to Lin Na's house with a large number of extracurricular books he had read, notebooks and study materials.

"Cortana, I'm going to college! I'm afraid I won't be able to come to your house to help you share the housework and teach you to study in the future, so you have to take care of yourself! ”

He handed Lin Na a stack of materials in his hand: "These books, notebooks and study materials, you can take them!" Next semester, you will go to Panlong Village to study in the fourth grade, you have to work hard! Don't be busy with housework and take care of your brother all day, but also make time for studying. Hurt yourself a little more, look at you, how thin you have become! ”

In fact, you don't have to, have no responsibility or obligation to take care of your "younger brothers".

Li Li swallowed back the words that were about to come to his mouth, and a trace of pain welled up in his heart, a touch of sadness.

Lin Na stretched out her hands to catch it, there were too many books and notebooks and too heavy, and when Li Li let go, she didn't catch them, and things were scattered all over the ground.

"Look at you, who called you ......"

Li Li wanted to say: "Whoever told you not to eat more, you don't have the strength to connect a few books." I really don't know how you usually use your thin body to support this crumbling home and the burden of this family. ”

Later, when I thought about it, didn't he know the reason why Lin Na didn't eat much? It's not because she doesn't have any extra food at home to fill her stomach!

Those words that told her to take care of herself, do less farm work, and find more time to study, were also in vain.

It's not that he doesn't know the situation of Linna's family.

For the first time, Li Li discovered that language was pale and weak.

"Cortana, remember what I told you, right? Reading is your only way out. There is a golden house in the book! ”

"Actually, I worked so hard and insisted on going to high school and college, because I wanted to have a greater ability to protect you!"

Li Li didn't say the latter sentence, and Lin Na naturally didn't know anything.

If it weren't for remembering what Li Li's brother told her, "Reading is your only way out", maybe she wouldn't have been able to hold on for a long time, packing her schoolbag and going home.

In order to go to school, she had to get up before dawn every morning, cook the porridge she had to drink for the day, and stir-fry a large bowl of green vegetables and a small bowl of dried radish.

Boil the pig food and feed the pigs, and mix rice bran with water to feed the chickens.

Then, eat a bowl of gruel by yourself.

packed his schoolbag, took his two younger brothers, trotted all the way, and rushed to Panlong Village Central Primary School to attend classes.

As soon as school is out at noon, I still trot home, drink a bowl or two of porridge, hurry up and work, and continue to trot back to school until about half an hour away.

In the evening, she was supposed to go to self-study, but she and her younger brother didn't live in the school, so the overlord forced himself to bow down, but he didn't go to school, and the teachers couldn't help them.

She and her younger brothers are still at home, and they still have endless work to do.

There is simply no time to study!

Hunger and fatigue accompanied her throughout her life as a student at Panlong Village Primary School.

Whenever she couldn't hold on, she would think of Brother Li Li, and remember what he said to her, "Reading is your only way out", "There is a golden house in the book", and a better life is coming.

Eating and closing, the greatest luxury in life!

Wouldn't it be nice if we could still get a little spiritual food in our spare time?

I remembered that when he was at home, he helped her with every job and gave her every piece of food he ate.

Remember every trace of warmth and emotion he brought to her.

How much she hopes that she can be like Zhang Ze, with excellent grades and all-round development of morality, intellect and physique, so that she can hope to be admitted to university like Brother Li Li.

What is it like to be in college and far away?

The big city that Li Li's brother went to, is it good? Is it big or not? Isn't it glamorous, enchanting and prosperous?

People in big cities, dressed modestly during the day, sit in offices to work.

At night, eat supper on the brightly lit street and talk about life.

Or dance the night away.

It's certainly not like Yamaguchi Village and Panlong Village, but there are mountains as far as the eye can see.

Undulating and endless.