In this way, Jiaojiao and Lingmei went to a neighboring village, Huanghuang Village, to study in the first grade of primary school.

This time the road is even farther, at least eight miles, to climb three mountains, three difficult passes.

Jiaojiao didn't bother to ask the reason why she didn't go to primary school in the village, and when she signed up, the sixth child actually found that the homeroom teacher who taught Jiaojiao and them in the first grade was his old classmate.

The old classmate's surname is Yang, a martyr's family, her man died in battle, so the state usually has to give preferential treatment, I heard that the official notice to teach in the township is being processed, that is, the certificate of teacher qualification.

Mr. Yang took his daughter to live and did not remarry, which was praised by many people in the real society at that time, which was still relatively old-fashioned.

Teacher Yang is patient and good-looking, tall, well-proportioned, with curly hair in a shawl, and beautiful writing on the blackboard.

Jiaojiao is very serious in learning, she can't embarrass her father in front of her old classmates, although she doesn't understand what reading is for, what is literacy for, adults let her do it, you have to be obedient.

My favorite thing to play after class is hide and seek, catch cats, throw sandbags, as long as the grades are good, anything is fine, and even occasionally cross the teacher's bottom line will be tolerated.

As for why Dad has always been at home in the past two years, Jiaojiao didn't feel anything, just one more meal.

This night, a family of three peeled cotton by kerosene lamp, and my father said: "Jiaojiao peels hard, and you will count every penny and pound of cotton you peel." ”

How much is a penny, Jiaojiao has no concept, anyway, the school has a commissary, and many classmates go to buy food every day, but she has no money, so she has never bought it.

Jiaojiao had the motivation, and she stripped the eyelids of the fight to the big back basket of cotton peaches, and finally her father generously gave Jiaojiao two cents.

On the second day, Jiaojiao went to school with her head held high, and the first thing she saw was to see if the old man at the commissary had opened the door, and then bought four lollipops at the commissary very boldly.

When she got home from school, her dad asked her, "What did you do with your money?" ”

Jiaojiao said that she bought a lollipop to eat.

Dad reprimanded Jiaojiao, saying that you should save up the money, you can't spend it indiscriminately, you have a full meal for you to eat, and what kind of candy do you eat? I can't get any teeth.

Jiaojiao thinks about it, Dad is right, at least wait for the teeth to come out.

Huang didn't speak, but although Jiaojiao agreed with her father's words, she still wanted to cry, and for the first time she realized the word "poor", their family was very poor, because she was scolded for eating a five-cent lollipop.

"Dad, where's my mom?" I haven't seen my mother for a long time, and every time I ask my father, I say that I went to my mother-in-law's house.

"Oh! What are you going to do with my mother-in-law? When will it come back? Jiaojiao doesn't like her father at home, she is worried that her mother has no white rice to eat, and no matter how poor her family is, she will have white rice to eat every meal.

Every time she wanted to go to her mother-in-law's house to play, her grandmother would tell her: "Don't go to your mother-in-law's house to play, the poor don't even have to eat, only corn paste and wild vegetables, only the red lotus that feeds the pigs for you to eat, and you won't grow if you don't eat white rice." ”

Jiaojiao looked up at her grandmother suspiciously, her mother-in-law's family is indeed very poor, every year after the new rice harvest, her father-in-law has to come to Jiaojiao's house, and give Jiaojiao's family some baskets and baskets woven with bamboo, etc., and when you go back, you have to carry a big load of white rice, at least two hundred pounds, and take a few wooden stools.

The father-in-law has a lot of strength, and when he walks in front, he can still take care of the little Jiaojiao who follows behind.