Chapter 51: Cao'er and Li Yunfeng
"Yunfeng, don't worry, the village will always help your family. It's you, for the sake of growing up, the family needs you to take care of it, and you are a teenager who can afford to be an adult. ”
"Uncle Gen, thank you. I will never forget how you and the village helped me. In the future, I will definitely help the village as everyone else helps our family. ”
Li Yunfeng sat on the small bench opposite the village chief, his face was serious, his tone was full of gratitude, and there was also a trace of unshakable firmness.
"Yunfeng, good offspring, Uncle Gen is still very happy to hear you say this, the people in our Li Village are all grateful for their kindness, and there are no white-eyed wolves."
Uncle Gen said with great relief.
"However, you don't have any ideological burden, you are still young after all, and it is also the responsibility of our village committee to help your family. Don't be stressed! ”
Uncle Gen's voice was a little lower, and his face was a little unbearable.
"Well, I know. Uncle Gen, I have an idea for you. “
Li Yunfeng's face was also serious.
"You say. Uncle Gen listened. ”
"Uncle Gen, I want to take a leave of absence."
"Take a leave of absence? No way! I told the principal about your special situation just the day before yesterday, and said that when Yunhe can go to the ground, you two brothers will have to go to school, and I will arrange someone to take care of your grandmother. Yun Qin followed Yun Yuan to our house and let our old lady watch it. ”
"Uncle Gen, I want to take care of my second brother and grandmother, when they are all well, Yunqin can also go to preschool, I will go to Guangzhou with my uncle to work, and I can also make money."
"Hey, you bastard, you just praised you, why did you make a mistake?"
Uncle Gen waved his hand anxiously. Cao'er was also stunned, but she didn't expect Li Yunfeng to be worried all morning, and it turned out that he was thinking about suspending school.
"Uncle Gen, my younger brother and sister go to school, I am older than them, go to earn money first, and I can make them live a better life in the future."
Li Yunfeng was very stubborn.
"What! Yunfeng, do you think your family doesn't have enough money to spend? The village will give you a monthly living allowance that will increase with your age, primary and junior high school is now nine years of compulsory education, there is no need to pay tuition fees at all, and tuition and miscellaneous fees will be exempted for you in the future, this is the state's funding policy for poor students, your grandmother here, is also helpful, what are you worried about? “
Uncle Gen was afraid that Li Yunfeng would not understand, so he gestured as he spoke.
"I want my younger siblings to go to college in the future. I heard from my uncle that it's easy to find a job now. “
The age on Li Yunfeng's face is beyond his age.
"Then let me tell you clearly, you are only twelve years old, nine-year compulsory education is clearly stipulated by the state, and it is illegal to not let you go to school, your uncle said that it is easy to find a job relative to him, you are under the age of eighteen, who dares to ask you to work, it is illegal to recruit child labor!"
Uncle Gen took a sip of water from the cup, and said to Li Yunfeng earnestly:
"Yunfeng, if you want your family to live a better life, and if you want your younger brothers and sisters to go to college, then you have to study harder, learn better, and be a good example for your younger brothers and sisters. If the three of you brothers and sisters, plus your uncle's Yuntu and Yunyuan, can go to college, it will be a great pride in our village!
If you live well, you can better help your family, and you can come back to help the village as you just said! If you can only work to earn some money, your family will not be much better, let alone how to help the village. “
The village chief's sincere and enthusiastic words completely dispelled Li Yunfeng's idea of suspending school. Later, every time he and Cao'er talked about the words of the village chief, they were not only grateful, but also admired, allowing him to see a higher place.
Since then, his idea of letting his younger siblings go to college has become that he wants to take his younger siblings to get admitted to college, live a good life, and help the village.
"Which university do you want to go to?"
Once, Cao'er asked Li Yunfeng when they were harvesting peanuts in the field together.
"I don't know, but I'll see which university has the best farming major, and I'll go there."
Looking at Li Yunfeng's serious appearance, Cao'er couldn't help laughing.
"Hahaha...... Do you still want to come back to farming? “
Cao'er originally wanted to make fun of him, but he replied seriously:
"Yes, I just want to come back to farming, learn more and better methods, so that everyone doesn't get so tired of plowing the fields, and it's good to harvest CDs."
Li Yunfeng didn't tell Cao'er that his father died of illness that year, but it was actually because the family was too tired from the work, and he left after hard work.
"Alright then, future farming specialists. In the future, the problem of food in my family and our village will depend on you. “
"No problem. Your home is my home, your village is my village, and after I thought of a way, I not only want to help our village, but also help many villages. “
As soon as Li Yunfeng thought about it, his expression was excited, and his oily black face seemed to be glowing.
"Well, okay, my dream is to be a scientist, I heard people say when I was in school, being a scientist is the best, BJ's Tsinghua University is the best, I want to be admitted there!"
Cao'er is an idealist, she is different from Li Yunfeng's steadfastness, she will always live in her magnificent imaginary future.
"Good! Then I will go to you then, and you must also teach me your scientific things, so that I can come up with more and better ways to help the village cultivate the fields! ”
Li Yunfeng was as excited as Cao'er, and both of them were full of infinite expectations.
In the early morning, the fiery red and brilliant morning glow disappeared in their ambition and pride, revealing ten thousand rays of light falling on the faces of the two teenagers, and the whole field was instantly shrouded in golden light.
In the following days, Li Yunfeng took care of his grandmother and second brother, and also began to self-study the content pulled down during his absence at home. Cao'er hasn't used her scientific research methods to teach Li Yunfeng in the future, but she started to take time out of her time on Sunday to teach Li Yunfeng the problems he encountered when he was self-taught, and Cao'er's younger brother Junsheng also followed, just enough to play with Yunqin.
Zheng Xingxing originally went home every Saturday and would return to school on Sunday to go to the classroom to do her homework, but she didn't see Cao'er, and she didn't see her with her little brother on campus.
"Hey, we have a football game on Sunday afternoon, and a game against Class 2, are you coming?"
Zheng Xingxing said this when he went to borrow a pencil from Cao'er during class on Friday.
"Sunday?"
Cao'er's face showed a hint of embarrassment.
"Don't you usually go back to your grandmother on Saturday and come back on Sunday?"
"Hmm. All right. It's Sunday afternoon, right? Some? ”
"Four o'clock."
"Oh, okay. I'll take my brother with me then. ”
Hearing that it only started at four o'clock, Cao'er felt relieved. She could take advantage of the adults' lunch break at noon to sneak out of Li Yunfeng's house with her younger brother and teach him the homework he had pulled down. Rush back before four o'clock, and then tell my mother truthfully that it will be no problem to take my younger brother to watch the football game in the class.
"Hmm."
Zheng Xingxing agreed, so he also turned around and prepared to return to his seat. But as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and added:
"Four o'clock. See you or leave you. ”
"Hmm."
Cao'er smiled and agreed.
Zheng Xingxing is different from Li Yunfeng, Zheng Xingxing always gives Cao'er the feeling of being frightened between seeing and not seeing, but Li Yunfeng always makes Cao'er feel at ease, like a relative.