Three years ago, Yanagimura.

The reason why Liucun is called Liucun is because most of the people in the village are surnamed Liu.

In the past, in order to prevent bandits, the village was dug a deep trench to protect the village, but now the edge of the trench is full of willow trees.

When spring comes, I dare not say that it can be compared with the famous "Su Causeway", but Liu Mianmian can always have beautiful poems such as "the willow shore dawn wind and waning moon" in her heart.

When she was in elementary school, Liu Mianmian once protested her name with her parents.

"I don't want to call me Mianmian, my classmates call me a soft little sheep!"

Seeing that her daughter was clenching her little fists and her pigtails were about to be cocked, Liu Dazhi, the father who was a substitute teacher in elementary school, pulled her into his arms, wiped away her tears and said, "They don't read, what do they know?" 'The good wind sent me to the clouds. You'll find out when you're older! ”

Liu Mianmian believed in her father's words, because her father loved her the most, and every time she was beaten and scolded by her mother, he protected herself, even if he was scolded by her mother.

However, at this moment, my father was lying on the wooden bed in the east room in pain, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain of his broken leg. Comminuted fracture of the left leg, just think about how painful it is.

There was no joy in getting the university admission letter in City B at the same time as my younger brother, and some were just full of worry and bitterness.

In order to earn more money for himself and his twin brother to study, his father followed the contractor in the next village to the provincial capital to do waterproof construction.

After the contractor sent the person home, he only gave 500 yuan to see a doctor, and he didn't care anymore.

The family's savings were basically spent, and his father was struggling in bed, and from time to time he endured the muffled snort of pain that made Mianmian's heart ache. She poured water for her father and soaked a towel for him to wipe his face.

Liu Mianmian walked into the courtyard after doing all this and sat down beside her mother.

Mother Yang Fengxia cursed loudly: "Mother, why are so many people falling on you, what's the use of just lying on the bed and humming, can the child's school money be hummed?" ”

The sun casts dappled shadows through the broad, heart-shaped leaves of the paulownia tree. There was a ray of broken light just shining on Liu Mianmian's face. She moved the small chair with the back she was sitting in. I felt that the poplar chair was very uncomfortable, and the paulownia tree was noisy.

Listening to her mother's vicious curse on her father, her mood also became irritable.

The mother scolded as she chose leeks.

Mianmian looked at her mother Yang Fengxia, who was just forty-four years old, because she did farm work all the year round, she looked much older than her actual age. Her skin is yellow and black, and when she bends down to pick up vegetables, you can see the gray hairs on the top of her head.

However, the natural and unmodified willow eyebrows and the eyes shining with resolute eyes under the eyebrows, as well as the straight nose bridge, declare that her mother was really a beauty in the past, but her beauty was sharpened by the suffering life, and the pressure of life made her temper worse and worse, scolding people at every turn, and the punching bag was herself and her father Liu Dazhi.

"Liu Dazhi, I was blind and married you at the beginning, and you can't even earn money for your children's schooling! You're clean in bed, what should we girls do? ”

"Mother, don't scold your father, he doesn't want to ...... like this"

Yang Fengxia took out a handful of leeks from the bamboo basket stained with yellow mud. Tear off the yellow leaves, rub off the old skin at the roots, and throw it into a plastic basin on one side, then she turned the fire on her daughter.

"Mianmian, you are a girl, you are going to get married sooner or later, and it is useless to go to college? All the money our family saved was spent by your father to see a doctor, and there are thousands of dollars owed outside...... Li Cannon can tell you that the Wei family's matchmaker is our family burning high incense. Let me tell you again, today, if people take a fancy to you, you have to be willing if you don't want to. ”

Liu Mianmian took a step forward in the wooden chair and picked up a few leeks. said in a muffled voice: "Mother, I'm going out to work to earn money for my father's medical treatment, right?" I don't want to get married so soon. ”

"You don't want to get married so soon? You still want to go to heaven! Do you see that there is still a girl of your age in our village who has not been married? I'm just too used to you! Last time, the son of the secretary of Huangcun, you disliked people and were stupid, and I didn't want to, I relied on you, and you have to listen to me this time. Yang Fengxia was so angry that she threw the leeks into the basket.

"Let me tell you, your father will probably be a waste person in the future, how much money can I earn from farming alone? You and Dongfeng can only go to school alone, you are the elder sister, let the younger brother. Besides, a girl is going to get married sooner or later, what's the use of studying? ”

Thinking of her father, Liu Mianmian was silent.

Compared to the girls in the village, she is simply too happy. Yinling, who went to junior high school with herself, Chunhua was not allowed to study at home without graduating from junior high school, dropped out of school to help adults do farm work at home, Yinling in order to change her brother who had ear problems, married a lame man who was more than a decade older than her, as long as her brother and sister-in-law made some conflict here, the lame husband beat her, she cried and ran back many times, and was sent back to her in-law's house by her father.

During the high school entrance examination, he and his younger brother were admitted to the first middle school at the same time. At first, her mother felt that the burden of studying together was too heavy for the two children, and wanted her to stay at home and help with the farm work.

Unexpectedly, my father, who had always been obedient to his mother, was unusual, and despite his mother's insults and the advice of the villagers, he resolutely decided to let her go to high school!

The father said: "The children were easily admitted to high school, and I just pulled the stick to ask for food, smashed the pot and sold iron, and also asked them to go to college." ”

For this reason, my father quit his job as a substitute teacher and went out to work on waterproofing with a contractor in a neighboring village. If it weren't for the fact that he had to study, maybe his father wouldn't have been hurt, and he wouldn't be lying on the bed at this moment, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, and listening to his mother's abuse.

Tears filled his eyes and fell silently.

Seeing that her daughter was silent and crying, Yang Fengxia stopped scolding.

Liu Dazhi in the house was also uncomfortable, in addition to the pain on his body, the frustration of feeling sorry for his daughter and being unable to do anything made this honest middle-aged man bite his lip.

The girl she raised herself knows.

Mianmian is kind, filial, and strong when he is young, unlike other children who can't understand the hard work of their parents. As long as she has time, she will rush to do the work at home and in the field, as if she wants to make up for the work she missed because of school.

As long as she is at home, she cleans up the inside and outside of the house every day. The leaves and weeds in the yard were also cleaned. Rush into the stove house to cook.

"Mianmian, the child in Weizhuang is good. His father was an asphalt head (waterproof bag foreman). The four large tiled houses in the family have already been built, and the two sisters have gone out. Li Dacang said that after getting married, his family would buy another house in the city. We can't find such conditions in ten miles and eight villages. ”

Yang Fengxia was a little unbearable and comforted her daughter.

Looking up at the sun again, he said to himself, "They should have arrived, too." ”