Tang Lingfeng, who was caught, was like a quail, shrinking his head and not saying a word.

Tang Mingyao wanted to give him a few big-eared scrapers to wake up this unconscious guy, but after his hand was raised, he hesitated for a long time, and finally failed to fan it.

"Get up for me!"

"Go home!"

Tang Mingyao shouted a few words, picked up the change on the ground, glared at his younger brother and his fox friends a few times, and strode away with his arm.

"Brother, I was wrong, don't you tell your mother about today's incident?"

"What do you think?"

"I'll give you all the money I won!"

Tang Mingyao laughed angrily: "I don't want your money!" Your money is not yet from me! ”

"Then what do you say?"

Tang Mingyao stopped, looked at him seriously, raised his finger and said: "First, you are not allowed to play cards and gamble in the future, if you are caught by me, I will chop your fingers, chop one at a time, chop two twice." Don't doubt it, I can do it! ”

"Second, you are not allowed to interact with those classmates again, if I see it, I will beat them together!"

"Third, when you go back today, read with me for at least an hour a day! I'll check if you're serious about your studies, you can't pass the test, and you won't have anything to eat! ”

"Huh?" Tang Lingfeng looked depressed.

Tang Mingyao didn't care about him, waved his hand, and said decisively: "That's it, there is no room for negotiation." ”

On the way back, Tang Mingyao felt a little more embarrassed.

His mother, Li Qiong, is an ordinary rural woman who doesn't know much and has little courage, because her grandparents are patriarchal, she still has low self-esteem in her bones.

In addition, her father has been away from home for many years, and she has a lot of farm work, so she basically has no energy to control her two children.

Such a mother, although her love for her child is not flawed, it is difficult for her to raise a child with a normal personality.

The children she brought up, one is Tang Mingyao, who has low self-esteem buried deep in his bones, and after entering the society, he is afraid of socializing and trying, and the road is getting narrower and narrower, and finally it turns into a middle-aged existential crisis.

The other is a younger brother like Tang Lingfeng, because of neglect of discipline, he became more and more wild, and finally had no way to see the king and destroyed his future.

Such an example is not an isolated case in Tang Mingyao's village, but there is a large group of people who share the same disease.

In the primary school in Tang Mingyao's township, in addition to his younger brother's group of five, he heard of at least a dozen of the teenage offenders who were sent to prison.

This is still the impression in his mind. Those who are not impressed, far away from his home, and who have never heard of it, are even more unknown.

The younger brother's problem is far from his own problem.

It's a family problem.

It's a social issue.

Tang Mingyao thought to himself, in order to earn money to support the family, his father could not shoulder the responsibility of educating his children, so he had to shoulder the education problem of his younger brother on behalf of his father, and he must not let this kid go down the wrong path again.

And the first step to do this is not to let your mother go out to work!

Someone must supervise Tang Lingfeng.

The second step is to tie his younger brother to his side, always pay attention to his ideological trends, and cultivate his correct outlook on life and values.

This question is a bit nerve-wracking, because Tang Mingyao knows very well that he will go to the town to take the exam in a few days, and then go to the city to study in junior high school.

Even if he does it all over again, he must take this step, otherwise he will be trapped in the mountains, and if he studies in junior high school for another three years, everyone else will be useless.

When he entered the city, he had to find a way to get his brother into the city, and then his mother had to follow him into the city.

It's not just about finding a place to live in the city, it's more about considering the source of livelihood for several people.

After all, it is not realistic for my father's salary to pay for their life in the city, and it is impossible to get their consent.

This dragging his family into the city is really not an easy task for Tang Mingyao.

However, no matter how great the difficulties are, they must be solved.

Family tragedies cannot be repeated.

He leaned against the side of the ship with his eyes closed, his mind racing.

…………

After returning home, Tang Mingyao first returned the two yuan he had borrowed from his mother in the morning, and wrapped the rest of the money in an old letter and hid it with stamps.

After lunch, he forced his younger brother to study with him.

Tang Lingfeng is still in the second grade of primary school, and he will only be in the third grade in the next semester, and the things in the textbook are very simple.

Tang Mingyao took out this guy's textbook, started in the first grade, and asked him to memorize it from scratch.

When Tang Mingyao's own book was finished, he would draw his words and draw the sentences and paragraphs that needed to be memorized.

When he found out that his younger brother had not learned anything because he was not attentive, he decisively dragged a bamboo stick from outside the door and hit it a few times, which immediately made Tang Lingfeng cry.

Tang Mingyao is not soft-hearted, this bit of hardship is nothing compared to the hardships of squatting in prison for half a lifetime.

At the end of the day, Tang Lingfeng's eyes were evasive when he looked at him.

Tang Mingyao sneered secretly, where is this, he has to correct Tang Lingfeng in his life! Even if he hates him and resents him in the future, he will never be soft.

…………

Since he was going to take the selection examination of the county No. 1 middle school next, Tang Mingyao took time to go through the primary school textbooks from beginning to end in the past two days.

Mainly looking at the language, he was worried that when he went to the examination room, he would encounter poems and sentences that he couldn't write.

After reading it again, he remembered more information about this exam in his mind.

I remember that back then, there were many over-syllabus questions in this exam, so that few students in the county got high scores after the exam.

Therefore, if Tang Mingyao wants to be more sure of the exam, it is best to ponder the textbooks of the first year of junior high school.

He didn't have his own junior high school textbooks, but his uncle's cousin did.

Early that morning, Tang Mingyao had breakfast and set off to borrow books from his cousin's house.

The two families are not far apart, Tang Mingyao's family lives halfway up the mountain, and his cousin Tang Gui lives on the top of the mountain.

It took more than half an hour to get to my cousin's house, and I happened to meet my cousin coming back from the field.

So Tang Mingyao saw Tang Gui take out the key from their chicken coop, open the door, and let him into the house.

"Brother, I'll ask you to borrow the Chinese and math textbooks of the first year of junior high school and take a look, and I'm going to take the exam in the town in two days." Tang Mingyao said straight to the point.

Tang Gui was not ambiguous, and immediately found the book he wanted, stuffed it in his hand, and then said: "It's rare for you to come up, you will eat at my house at noon, and I will knock a few pears for you." ”

Tang Mingyao was indeed a little greedy, so he had lunch at his uncle's house at noon, and packed more than a dozen pears to go home by the way.

Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Brother, has anyone in your family written a letter?" There are no old envelopes, I've been collecting stamps lately, give me stamps. ”

Then, under the watchful eye of his cousin, he used scissors to cut dozens of envelopes from his house into pieces, all of which looked like dogs had gnawed on them.