Two years have passed.

Cao'er and Li Yunfeng have been promoted to the third year of junior high school and have begun to actively prepare for the upcoming high school entrance examination. Li Yunqin went to the township central primary school where her brother and sister used to study, and Junsheng transferred to the county central primary school close to home. Li Yunhe was admitted to the county No. 1 middle school as early as two years ago, and he took classes in the same teaching building as Cao'er. So far, Cao'er's biggest wish is that Li Yunfeng can be admitted to the high school of the county No. 1 middle school, so that he can meet every day, discuss learning, and talk about life.

"Yun Feng, I borrowed the book last week, I've finished reading it, and I've returned it to you." Lin Renli threw the book on the grass bed and began to spread out the homework book to write homework.

"Got it."

The classmates in junior high school, unless they are from Cao'er's hometown, have begun to call her "Yun Feng". And every time Cao'er hears someone call her scientific name, she can't help but feel a shock in her heart, and Li Yunfeng's face will always flash in her mind, and at that moment she can't tell whether the name she hears is calling herself or calling him, there is no doubt that when she hears this homophonic name, she will always involuntarily give birth to a little sweetness in her heart, like the Ming Qian Qing tea that has just flowed into her throat, and it is very sweet between her tongue.

Cao'er moved a small stool and sat at the door of the dormitory, looking at the light rain outside the balcony in a daze. She was supposed to go home this week, but she promised to discuss math problems with Lin Renli in the morning, so she couldn't go to Li Yunfeng's house. Adolescent girls tend to feel that their parents don't understand them, and when they are coming home with sorrow, they have to face the problem of staying at home with their parents.

"Sister Cao'er, Sister Cao'er!"

Under the bicycle shed in front of the dormitory building, Li Yunfeng's second brother, Li Yunhe, who is now Cao'er's younger brother, shouted loudly downstairs again. Almost every Saturday morning at about 8 o'clock, he would come to the girls' dormitory to ask his sister Cao'er if she would go to his house, and if she did, the two of them would ride together. This week is no exception.

Cao'er stood up and leaned on the balcony to look at Li Yunhe with his neck up, his hair was wet from the rain, and he didn't use an umbrella.

"Yunhe, you go back and tell your brother that I can't go over this week, I have something to do at school."

"Oh, okay then, then I'll go back first, Sister Cao'er has a happy weekend!"

Yunhe knew that the family was busy with spring ploughing and the grass was not going, so he had to go back quickly and go to the field with his brother.

Looking at the back of Yunhe running out of the door of the girls' dormitory, Cao'er thought about the spring water in the field after the rain, and the newly planted seedlings were green, but it was really hard for the two brothers, and Li Yunfeng's homework was probably delayed by this busy work. She thought that if she couldn't do it, she would take the time to visit him on Sunday afternoon, and make copies of some of the new papers issued by her class, so that the June high school entrance examination could not be delayed.

"Sister Cao'er, Sister Cao'er!"

At noon, Cao'er, who was about to go home after discussing homework with Lin Renli, ran into Li Yunhe, who was riding over. Isn't this Yunhe going home? Haven't left yet? Cao'er had doubts in her heart.

"Yunhe, you haven't gone back yet?"

"Sister Cao'er, grandma is in the county people's hospital, and my brother and Yunqin are there."

Yun He said in a hurry. Cao'er was taken aback when she heard this, got on the car and followed Yunhe to the hospital.

"Yunhe, what's wrong with grandma? You okay? ”

"I don't know, as soon as I went back in the morning, I saw Uncle Gen and Aunt Gen at home, helping to carry grandma to the car, and I heard my brother say that grandma fainted when she got up in the morning, and I didn't wake up when I came!"

When the two of them rushed to the ward of the Li family's grandmother in the hospital in the rain, Li Yunfeng, his little sister Yunqin, and his two cousins Yun Tu and Yun Yuan were standing in front of the old man's bed.

"Yunqin, don't cry, grandma will wake up in a while."

It was also a coincidence that as soon as Cao'er's words to comfort Yunqin fell, the Li family's grandmother let out a sigh of relief and opened her eyes with great difficulty.

The old man looked at the grandchildren beside the bed, squeezed out a satisfied smile, and also looked at the grass standing side by side with Li Yunfeng with grateful eyes. For this girl, the old man likes it very much, seeing that she often comes to the house to help Li Yunfeng's brothers and sisters study, the old man has long regarded her as his half granddaughter.

Li Yunfeng watched his grandmother wake up, so he poured a cup of hot water and helped his grandmother drink it. The old man took the eldest grandson's hand and said to Li Yunfeng's younger brothers and sisters standing next to him:

"In the future, you all have to listen to your eldest brother, help your eldest brother more, don't make it difficult for him!"

The younger siblings also nodded in agreement.

Cao'er glanced at Li Yunfeng, a sad look flashed on his face, but he quickly regained his composure, put the water cup next to his grandmother's mouth, and comforted:

"Don't worry, grandma, my brothers and sisters are very sensible, and we have to wait for you to go back and taste the new eggplant peppers in the garden."

"Yes, grandma, don't worry, we can all listen to the eldest brother, and we won't cause trouble for the elder brother at all. Oh, and the hen at home is starting to lay eggs, which I found when I went to the hen's coop this morning, and I'm going back to make you poached eggs. ”

Yunqin also comforted her grandmother with her immature voice.

The Li family's grandmother went back after staying in the hospital for two days, and the doctor didn't check anything, just said that the body was relatively weak, and after all, the age is coming, so just take care of it at home. However, the old man's advice to his grandchildren on the sickbed clearly established Li Yunfeng's status in the family, and in fact, it also made Li Yunfeng feel his heavy responsibility to the family.

So much so that when he applied for the exam, he took the initiative to discuss with Cao'er, wanting to give up the entrance examination for the county No. 1 middle school, or continue to stay in the township middle school to go to high school. Township middle schools did not have high schools before, but Li Yunfeng and his class began to enroll students, so if he continued to study high school in township middle schools, Li Yunfeng would be able to take better care of his family.

Cao'er was unhappy in her heart, but thinking of Grandma Yunfeng who was still lying at home and needed to be taken care of, and Yunqin and Yunyuan, who had just entered the third grade, and then thinking that Yunfeng usually studied hard, and he could do the copy papers he gave him neatly, and his level was not worse than most of the classmates in his class, so he also understood.

In this way, in the first important choice in his life, Li Yunfeng once again shouldered the burden of his family, while Cao'er continued to help Li Yunfeng in the past three years in junior high school, and copied the homework and papers in his class, even including his own notes, to Li Yunfeng every week. Sometimes Cao'er came over to give it to him on the weekend, and sometimes he asked his second brother Li Yunhe to give it to him.

"Yunqin, what does your eldest brother do at home in his spare time?"

Although she knew that he was not a lazy person, she still hoped that he could work harder, create a record in the township middle school in the college entrance examination, and most importantly, realize the ambition they set back then.

"Sister, eldest brother is very hard, when he comes back, he has to take care of me and grandma, as well as Yuntu and Yunyuan, it's eight or nine o'clock at night, and I still write my homework until eleven or twelve o'clock."

Hearing Yunqin say this, Cao'er felt both relieved and distressed, and had to look forward to her and him and his younger siblings growing up soon to get through this period of growing up.

But what Cao'er didn't expect was that growing up was often not necessarily accompanied by smooth sailing in life, but was likely to be accompanied by greater twists and turns.