The mother told Qin Yang on the phone that she was at the gate of the village chief's house at six o'clock in the morning, waiting for this call.

"You know what? Xiaoyang, it's only an hour, and your mother has been waiting for this phone call like she's been waiting for half a lifetime! As she spoke, her mother Jiang Cuilian's voice suddenly became a little hoarse! Qin Yang knew that his mother was stubborn and didn't cry! Because there is a traditional saying in the old family that an adult woman should not cry or cry in someone else's house, that would be unlucky.

"Mom, don't worry, Xiaoyue arrived last night! It's just that she arrived a little late, and I guess the uncle and grandmother were already asleep, so I didn't call again! Afraid that his mother would be worried, Qin Yang deliberately omitted the part where Qin Yue fainted and went to the hospital because she had been hungry for more than 30 hours. In the end, she is still afraid that her mother will be her sister and worry about herself.

"Xiaoyang, you can persuade your sister to let her come back and go to high school, she got the second best score in the county in the high school entrance examination this time, and the teacher seems to be saying what is the county's list!"

Hearing his mother say that his sister had won the second place in the county in the high school entrance examination, Qin Yang's first reaction was surprise. In her eyes, her sister didn't know anything before, she only knew that she followed a group of boys and girls who skipped class all day long to go out to surf the Internet and play games!

Qin Yang turned his face sideways to look at his sister, but accidentally caught a glimpse of her somewhat faded sky-blue t-shirt that failed to cover her collarbone, revealing half of a scar that should have been scabbed not long ago!

Before Qin Yang could answer, his mother continued on the phone, "The teacher of the key high school in the county has promised that your sister's tuition and living expenses will be free of charge, which is equivalent to spending a penny in high school!" You tell her not to be stupid! ”

Qin Yang suddenly felt that his mother's sharp teeth that he originally thought were illiterate would only be used to reprimand the two sisters, but he suddenly became knowledgeable today.

"Mom, don't worry, it's on me." Qin Yang considered that his mother was answering the phone at the village chief's house, and if she answered it for too long, the village chief's wife would be unhappy, so he handed the receiver to Qin Yue and covered the microphone, "Say goodbye to our mother!" ”

Qin Yue didn't say goodbye to her mother, but whispered into the earpiece with a little weakness, "Mom, I'm fine with my sister, don't worry!" ”

I feel that the mother on the other side is about to start the "reprimand mode" for my sister. Qin Yang quickly stretched out his hand and pressed the hang up button on the landline phone.

Qin Yue said to Qin Yang with a puzzled face, "Sister, the phone is broken!" Qin Yang didn't speak, just smiled!

"Congratulations, Satsuki, you're so good, listen to your mother, go back to high school, okay?" Qin Yang tried to persuade his sister!

"Sister, I don't want you and Mom to be too tired!" Qin Yue bit her lip!

Seeing waves of people walking into the factory gate, Qin Yang knew that it was almost time to go to work. So, she hurriedly arranged for her sister to go back to the dormitory to rest. I washed my face in a hurry, and went to work without even eating breakfast. Before leaving, she pointed to a loaf of bread at the bedside and said, "Wait a minute, if you're hungry, you'll be ready for one."

Come on, I'm going to work. ”

Qin Yue, who had eaten well last night, coupled with the fatigue on the train and the fact that she had only slept for two hours last night, did not feel hungry at all at the moment, and the only thing she wanted to do was to sleep.

She climbed into bed and turned on her own crazy sleep mode. Therefore, when my sister brought the food to the bed in the dormitory after 12 o'clock at noon, she was still sleeping like a baby.

Qin Yue's sleeping position is peaceful and quiet! Qin Yang couldn't bear to wake her up. Luckily, however, she didn't have to go to the factory this afternoon because she had to work the night shift in the evening, and she still had plenty of time. After she reached out and touched the lunch box that was about to cool, she still woke up her sister, "Xiaoyue, get up and eat some food before sleeping!" ”

Seeing that the bread at the head of the bed was still there, Qin Yang asked, "You didn't eat the bread?" ”

"Sister, I'm not hungry at all in the morning, I'm just sleepy, so I've slept until now!" Qin Yue looked sleepy-eyed.

At this time, the dormitory roommates and colleagues were eating in the factory cafeteria. As a result, only the two of them were exceptionally quiet in their dormitory.

"If I hadn't called you, you wouldn't have woken up!" Qin Yang habitually reached over and scratched Qin Yue's nose. The sisters burst into laughter, their crisp and melodious laughter echoing through the quiet dormitory building.

This little game of scratching the nose is a game that Qin Yang and Qin Yue often loved to play when they were children, but after Qin Yang went to high school, the sisters rarely had time together, and this game was almost never played again! Thinking of this, Qin Yang felt a little inexplicably sad.

At lunch time for the two sisters, Qin Yang continued to do Qin Yue's mobilization work, "Xiaoyue, you see that you have such a high score in the exam, and you don't need money to go to high school, you better go back to school and go to school, and ensure that the teachers of the key middle school will spoil you as a treasure." ”

"Sister, I don't want to go to any high school, and I don't need to be spoiled, I just want to work here with you to help my mother pay off my debts, do you know how much debt our family owes?"

Qin Yang shook his head and said that he didn't know, although the debts included the matter of the small book, and her mother Jiang Cuilian had mentioned it to Qin Yang on the phone, but she really didn't know how much foreign debt she owed!

"Sister, it's more than 109,000 yuan, and it's less than 300 yuan away from 110,000!" After Qin Yue opened the small book, that huge number was as deep as a tattoo engraved on her body, deeply engraved in her heart. These days, that huge number has been lingering in her mind and mind.

Hearing this number, one of the chopsticks in Qin Yang's hand suddenly fell to the ground. In order to facilitate cleaning and durability, the factory canteen uses metal chopsticks for employees. The metal chopsticks smashed on the floor, making a metal crisp sound of "ding dong".

Her surprise at the moment was very similar to Qin Yue who opened the small book and saw the huge number at that time. She thought that the foreign debt owed by her mother should only be 30,000 or 40,000 yuan at most, but she didn't expect it to be so much!

Many years later, after sponsoring a cancer patient's treatment, Qin Yang learned that the medical expenses for cancer treatment are really expensive and not affordable for ordinary families! For ordinary

As long as one person has a serious illness such as cancer, earning money is like filling water through a sieve.

"That's why you want to work with me to earn money to help pay off the family's debts, right?" Although tears swirled in his eyes, Qin Yang regained his composure in the sound of chopsticks landing just now.

However, for Qin Yue, this huge number has been chewed by her countless times in her heart. Therefore, she looks calmer than her sister Qin Yang, who is four years older.

"Sister, I really didn't lie to you!"

"I know, but Xiaoyue, you are only 14 years old, and the factory is not allowed to recruit child labor, which is illegal!" Qin Yang wanted to use this kind of hard laws and regulations to dispel his sister's idea of working. No matter what, no matter how much pressure she faces, she still hopes that her sister can go back to high school and college. After all, in that impoverished southwestern town. If a girl doesn't study, she won't be productive at all. Either come out to work like her, or just wait to get married.

"Sister, you don't know this, I can go and apply for another ID card!" Indeed, Qin Yue's classmate Zhang Xiaoqing came here to work because he was not old enough, so he used another ID card and deliberately changed the year, month, and date of birth to be larger.

"Xiaoyue, falsifying identity information, this is an illegal thing, we must not do it, we can't do it for the rest of our lives!" Qin Yang's tone of voice became serious.

"However, I still want to work with you to make money!" Qin Yue snorted.

"Xiaoyue, the money can be repaid slowly! Even if you earn money after graduation, you will be grateful to others! Those who study poorly, can't get into high school, and want to study, how envious you are! In addition, if you have such good grades, continue to work hard in high school, and go to Peking University Tsinghua University in three years, you also have a great chance! What do you think, we have only produced a small county town with Peking University students in more than ten years, if you are admitted, what a great future it should be! From today on, your goal in the college entrance examination is not to take the Tsinghua University entrance examination to Peking University. ”

Qin Yang seemed to be giving a passionate speech. Qin Yue was dumbfounded as she listened. In the end, she whispered, "Sister, if I can't be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University in three years, and I don't achieve the goal you set for me today, what should I do?" Qin Yue whispered.

Seeing that Qin Yue was a little relieved, Qin Yang struck while the iron was hot, "Sister believes you, if our father doesn't have that, I believe you will definitely be able to take the county's high school entrance examination!" "Throughout the ages, people have naturally avoided the word dead! Even Qin Yang didn't mention that word, but when they mentioned their father, the two sisters were silent and their eyes were red.

Indeed, Qin Yue, who is the second place on the list, is only 15 points away from the first place of the champion of another institute. But Qin Yue didn't feel any regrets. Even when the school put up a banner with her name as an advertisement to solicit junior high school candidates, she didn't feel any excitement at all.

Compared with my hometown, the summer here in Guancheng is really hot. After eating, Qin Yang found a clean short-sleeved shirt and a pair of cropped pants, and told Qin Yue to take a shower in the bathroom and understand

Much more comfortable.

"No need, sister!" Qin Yue hesitated for a moment, but after she lifted her sleeve and sniffed it, she still took her clothes and went to the bathroom!

The first thing Qin Yue said when she came out of the bathroom was, "Sister, your bathroom here is so comfortable, the temperature of the hot water is very suitable, and the big shower stick that can spray hot water like a shower head is really cool and crooked." ”

"It's not as complicated as you say, it's called a shower head or a bath bomb!" Qin Yang laughed. But when her eyes fell on Qin Yue's two arms that were exposed from her short sleeves and her sister Qin Yue's neck, she couldn't smile anymore.

"Satsuki, what's going on with your arms, and your neck?" Qin Yang looked at the scars that had already scabbed and felt distressed.

"Sister, it's nothing, it's all over!" At a young age, Qin Yue actually learned to downplay this trick. But her eyes still turned red involuntarily.

Perhaps, life is like this, the scars on your body, your relatives see that they are distressed, and others see that it is not easy to say three simple words. However, only you can understand how many tears, sorrows, countless heartaches and pains. Even if you reassure yourself again and again, it's in the past. However, in the bottom of your heart, it can never be erased.

Most of these scars are the huge price that Qin Yue paid for the second place in the county high school entrance examination this time. Because, she must make herself tireless all the time, and make countless times more efforts to make up for the homework she once missed because of her playfulness. However, none of the teachers or schools that had her name on the banner as an admissions advertisement had seen the scars. They only knew that this time the town middle school killed a dark horse for the high school entrance examination. After all, in the junior high school of which town, except for Qin Yue, the best of her other classmates or alumni in the high school entrance examination were also ranked outside the top 30 in the county.

(End of chapter)

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