Dad did keep mentioning that if she wasn't admitted to a key high school, she wouldn't be allowed to continue studying. During the summer vacation after the high school entrance examination, she finally complained hoarsely, blaming her father for being too patriarchal-

"How can you do that?"

"The family is poor, but you let my brother live in a teacher's apartment for three years, and spent an extra two or three thousand accommodation fees, and the living conditions are so good, but he only scored 513 points in the high school entrance examination, and I ......"

When Pei Qingxi thinks about it now, he feels extremely sad and aggrieved.

For three years in junior high school, she has been living in the school's crowded student dormitory, making noise every night, and turning off the lights regularly, and the lights go out before she even has time to wash her clothes. Other parents are only worried that their children are disobedient and playful and unwilling to do their homework, and she can't write even if she wants to.

There are no lights in the dormitory, how can you write it?

Pei Qingxi rubbed his blurred eyes and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

At that time, if I wanted to have extra time to learn and do more, I had to save my pocket money dime by penny, ran to buy a flashlight, and then nestled in the quilt and did the exercises with difficulty. Sometimes, when the flashlight with the battery runs out, I run to the bicycle shed next to the dormitory with my classmates, and I use the dim voice-activated light, reciting ancient Chinese and English words, and pedaling while reciting to keep the voice-activated light on.

It was under such conditions that she finished fifth in the class.

Ranked in the top five in the class of more than 60 people, although it is still ten points away from the key line can only enter the general high school, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is also the top key class, according to her mother's primary school classmate, Huang Pu's head of the teaching affairs team Teacher Dai said, her high school entrance examination results ranked in the top ten among more than 80 people in the class, in this situation, hard work is still very promising to be admitted to the second university.

But with such a result, the family made up their minds and wanted her to drop out of school and go to work.

"My brother's learning environment is so good, he lives well and the teacher guides him at night, but he doesn't do as well as me in the exam, why can he continue to study, but I can't, why?"

"Just because I'm a girl, is my brother a boy?"

At that time, she was so excited, knowing that her father actually loved her very much, but she still couldn't help but sobbed like this to accuse.

Mom let out a suppressed sigh at that time, so that she almost couldn't help but reddened her eyes, and there was water in her eyes: "Qingxi, our family is poor!" ”

Yes, the family is poor!

In 2001, when the big family separated, Qingxi's family shared more than 20,000 debts, and it was not until she was in the first year of junior high school in 04 that she barely paid it off, but in 05, the cousin of the uncle's family got married, and the family wanted to build a new house.

As soon as this new house is built, it is again in debt!!

The family can't afford to let all the children study together, so they have to choose to let the girls drop out of school, which is a habitual practice in the countryside, after all, the water that spills out of the daughter to marry, no matter how well she is trained, she will marry into someone else's family in the future, but the son is always his own family.

"But I want to study, you can't do this, who of you can guarantee that I won't be admitted to college, and I won't be able to take care of my family in the future?"

Qingxi's father was silent for a long time, and finally didn't say anything, and hung up the phone with a "snap".

That night, Pei Qingxi lay upright on the bed, crying until late.

In the end, she was so sleepy that she fell asleep, and in a daze, she heard her mother's bitter sigh, and there seemed to be a faint sound of sobbing.

When they woke up early the next morning, the family's eyes were red and swollen.

Even my brother, who had been silent and didn't speak yesterday, had red eyes.

Poor families always want to break a penny into two cents, oil, salt, tea, rice, sauce and vinegar, and neat exchanges, all of which are expenses, and even the most basic education issues for children are considered again and again.

Sitting in the classroom, Pei Qingxi's smile gradually became bitter and desolate.

In the first evening self-study of high school, in the bitter scene of Cheonggye's head hanging down and recalling his begging to go to school, slowly slipped away little by little.

The bell rings for the end of class.

The classmates stood up one after another, cheering that class was finally over, Pei Qingxi was still sitting near the back door, his chin against the desk, looking at the old pencil case fixedly, stunned for a moment.

A hand suddenly shook in front of his eyes, and Pei Qingxi's eyes flashed a few times.

Then the girl's crisp and puzzled voice came: "Qingxi, it's already out of class, why don't you move?" What are you thinking? ”

Pei Qingxi raised his head in a daze, glanced at Su Qin with dry eyes, and then turned his head to glance at the other people in the classroom, only to find that most of the people in the classroom had already left, and at this time, there was also the sound of footsteps on the stairs next to the classroom.

Only then did I know that I was studying for myself next night, so I took a shallow breath, bit my lip and began to clean up my things.

"What were you thinking about just now, thinking so much?" Su Qin frowned and looked at her, his expression a little resentful, "You won't even reply to the note I wrote to you." ”

Pei Qingxi paused, pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment before raising his eyes to look at her: "It's nothing, it's just worrying about my legs, how to go up and down the stairs......"

Saying this, Pei Qingxi really felt a sense of melancholy in his heart again.

Luckily, the classroom is on the first floor, and there are only two floors of stairs, so it's good to endure it. But the dormitory is on the third floor, and when she comes out of the classroom slowly, and then climbs upstairs slowly, it is estimated that the lights in the dormitory are not far from going out.

It is said that high school is also like junior high school, and the lights in the dormitory are on for twenty minutes at night.

Ah, what an annoyance!

When Su Qin heard this, she remembered that the boy had just suddenly sent her a text message - Su Qin, Pei Qingxi's legs, do you know what's going on?

She was puzzled for a while.

Lowering his gaze and glancing at her calves, Su Qin asked, "Hey, why did you get your legs like this?" ”

Pei Qingxi's eyes flashed, and his expression suddenly became embarrassed: They are all high school students, will it be embarrassing not to ride a bicycle?

Just thinking about how to answer and told Su Qin euphemistically that she was learning to ride a bicycle at home during the summer vacation, she rushed into the ditch in one breath because of her skills, and as a result, her leg fell and broke, and suddenly, there was a faint voice calling Pei Qingxi from the front door-

"Qingxi...... Pei Qingxi ......"

There were some familiar hoarse voices, Pei Qingxi could hear it at once, it was another friend Xia Yibai calling her.

Pei Qingxi looked at it, and sure enough, it was her, so she sped up her actions to pack up her things, stood up slowly with her hands on the desk, and naturally ended the topic that might make her embarrassed, and limped slowly out of the door.