My family lives in a rural area, which is relatively backward, and most of the people in the village depend on land for their economic resources. What puzzles outsiders is that there are schools in such a backward place. The people in the village are more feudal in their thinking - if they are farmers, then their descendants should "deserve" to be farmers. What do you do when you go to school with your face facing the loess and your back to the sky? Therefore, the school has a pitiful number of people.

Dad has a junior high school education, and his grades have always been among the best when he was a student. My biggest dream is to be admitted to university and have a good future in the future. Unexpectedly, after finishing junior high school, his family no longer had the ability to provide him with a higher level of education. Dad often mentioned this incident and said that it was the biggest regret of his life.

When I was six years old, my father began to take me to work in the fields, forcing me to weed and water. I was tired every day, so I went home and fell asleep. One day, my father suddenly asked me, "Baby, do you like farming?" ”

My head shook like a rattle, how could I possibly like farming? Every day when I get up early and go to pull weeds, my hands are dyed green and I can't wash them off, and I have revealed my skin in several places.

Dad squinted and said, "Then I'll send you to school?" ”

I said, "What do you mean by going to school?" ”

Dad said, "You can learn a lot in school, and there will be a lot of children to play with you." ”

I said, "Do you have a lot of people playing with me and still not having to work in the fields?" ”

Daddy nodded and said, "Yes! ”

As soon as I heard that there could be such a good thing in the world, I immediately agreed. The next day my dad dropped me off at school.

The school is not big, there is only one class in a grade, and there are only a dozen people in a class. For me, getting along with more than a dozen people at once is indeed "a lot of children". There are 10 teachers in total, including the principal. These teachers were assigned by the town, and most of them were hung up. But then again, how can the town be willing to distribute excellent teachers?

On the first day of class, the teacher didn't teach anything, just took us to play. That's when I realized what it means to be a paradise on earth. The next day, when the teacher started to lecture, it was not like that, but unfortunately my father did not pass on the studious genes to me, and I didn't like to study at all, and I listened to it in a fog. If you can't learn the teacher, you have to beat your palms, and when you go home, your father has to check your homework, and if you can't pass it, you will be beaten. It didn't take long for me to hate school to the fullest. He said that he never wanted to go again, and even if he worked every day, I would not go to school. It's just that it's easy to get on a thief ship, and it's hard to get off a thief ship, and Lao Tzu's money will be saved for the small one, and in the same way, Lao Tzu's dream will naturally be pinned on the small one if he doesn't have a chance to realize it. My father didn't agree with me not going to school, so he forced me to go to school and come back to check my homework as usual. Under the double pressure of my teacher and my father, I had to bow to authority. After my mentality turned positive, my grades began to improve gradually.

The school is very rudimentary, and there is no basic water supply. There is an ancient well next to the fence of the school, and the school is no exception to the well, which people in the neighborhood depend on for their daily drinking water. Tie a string to a bucket and go deep into the well to get water. Of course, these are operated by the teacher, and the students just wait in line with their cups.

When I was seven years old, I came home from school at noon one day and happened to meet my father who was drunk. People talk a lot after drinking, and my dad talks endlessly at me. For example, "Study hard, you must be admitted to university in the future, and the Ling family will rely on you in the future." Something like that. I've heard this more than a hundred times, and it sounds like a big head. In order to clear my ears for a while, I said to my father, "Dad, I remember that I still have a few math problems to finish, and I want to go to school and finish them." When the father heard that his son was so studious, he was very happy, and nodded in agreement. I rushed to the school to evacuate.

Teachers don't show up at school at this time, so if nothing else, they should be taking a nap. When I got to the classroom, I noticed that there were two girls who had arrived earlier than me. When they saw me enter, they greeted me politely, and to my disbelief, they actually gave me a lollipop.

When I returned to my seat, the two of them gathered around, and one of the girls said, "Ling Yongning, I actually found that you are very handsome." The other girl nodded in agreement.

My heart blossomed, although I was not interested in girls at that age, but I was still happy to hear someone praise me for being handsome. The girl who praised me for being handsome just now continued: "It's hot and we don't have water, can you help us get some water?" ”

I ate other people's lollipops in my mouth, and I was happy with their compliments, my brain was hot, and I patted my chest and promised, "No problem, wrap it on me." ”

The bucket for the daily fetching of water is kept in the office, but the door is locked in the office at this point. I wanted to go back, but I thought it would be shameless to go home empty-handed, so I took my cup and went to the well.

The walls of the wells in the village are made of stones, and there will be a foothold at every step from the wellhead. Although my parents told me many times to go to the well in the yard by the river, I saw that other friends had gone down to the well and tried it myself. I drove down with ease, unscrewed the cup and just wanted to fill it, but I didn't want to slip under my feet and sink into it.

I've seen it on TV before, people struggle when they are drowning, but after experiencing it myself, I realized that it is not like that. I was so frightened that my mind was blank, my limbs were not listening, and I forgot to breathe. I vaguely remember that my body was slowly sinking. Other than that, there is no impression. When I regained consciousness, my head was already leaking out of the water, and perhaps it was the buoyancy of the water that saved me, so I quickly grabbed the wall of the well and climbed up.

I don't know where the cups of the two little girls were thrown, and they were waiting for me at the school gate. Seeing that I went back like a soup chicken, I hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I said, "I've fallen into a well." ”

One of them asked, "What about our water?" ”

I almost died of anger, Lao Tzu almost put his life into it in order to fetch water for you, you don't ask me if I have anything to do and still have the heart to worry about your broken water. I said angrily, "Water, you're big." After saying that, he walked away. Although it was summer, I was soaked and uncomfortable, so I had no choice but to go home and change my clothes.

I was afraid of my father's punishment, so I didn't dare to enter the house when I entered the house, so I leaned on the window and peeked in secretly. My dad had fallen asleep, and I was greatly relieved and secretly glad. Just about to enter the door, he was grabbed by his mother's ear. "Little bunny, how did you do this?"

My mother never hit me, and although she often pulled my ears, she never tried to do it. I just wanted to explain, I didn't want to know nothing as soon as it was dark.