Early in the morning of Saturday, Ning Guang couldn't wait to go to the town.

Yang Qiuhan had been waiting for a long time, and took the letter to her as soon as he saw it.

Originally, Ning Guang wanted to take the letter and come over, but Yang Qiuhan's parents came out with the washed fruits, saying that they would let her stay for dinner, and that they had bought chickens and fish specifically for her.

"See what An Yi told you?" Yang's father and Yang's mother went to the kitchen to get busy, but Yang Qiuhan kicked off her shoes and climbed onto the sofa, squeezed to her side and urged, "Did you say something I didn't know?" ”

Ning Guang actually didn't want her to read the letter Shen Anyi wrote to herself, but at this time, she had to open the letter and read it with her.

Shen Anyi didn't say any secrets in the letter, just greeted Ning Guang's recent situation, and said that Yang Qiuhan promised to take care of her, and encouraged her to have more contact with Yang Qiuhan, so that even if they couldn't be classmates in junior high school, there was still hope for high school and college. In the end, she said that she was all right in the provincial capital, and her grandfather's comrades-in-arms treated her as if they were their own, so let Ning Guang not worry.

Ning Guang was a little ashamed, because she hadn't really worried about Shen Anyi during this time.

One is that she doesn't know that Shen Anyi has transferred to the province, and the other is that she thinks that Shen Anyi can live well anywhere, and this girl seems to have been born to enjoy happiness in this world.

"You write back to An Yi and tell me something." At this time, Yang Qiuhan flicked his braid and asked, "Otherwise, An Yi will think that I haven't helped you with anything." ”

Ning Guang let out a "hmm" and said a little awkwardly, "Thank you." ”

She was also a little skeptical at this time, did she think that Yang Qiuhan was hostile to her, was she too self-righteous, or was she inferior as some people said?

After all, as Ning Fulin said, there have been many people who have been mean to her since she was a child, and those people have never given her a sip of water to drink.

Don't care how aggrieved Yang Qiuhan felt when she said before, at least they really gave Ning Guang shoes, and they were willing to help Ning Guang take care of Ning Zong, every time she came to the house, she was entertained with chicken, duck and fish...... Ning Guang didn't have such treatment at home during the New Year's holidays, and it was hard for her not to feel ashamed of her previous thoughts and practices.

At this moment, I sincerely promised Yang Qiuhan that I would definitely say more good things to Yang Qiuhan when I replied.

And after agreeing to Yang Qiuhan like this, Ning Guang suddenly thought of one thing, that is, if Yang Qiuhan's relationship with Shen Anyi surpassed her own, then why did she bother to help her say good things by herself?

So, in Shen Anyi's mind, she is the most important friend?

This kind of speculation, even if it was just a guess, made Ning Guang very happy in his heart.

This year is special for the country. Small. Ping died, this matter is still ignorant for Ning Guang's age, especially for children from the countryside, who only know that it is "Deng. Small. Grandpa Ping's departure is a big deal, but they are still at a loss after all.

However, for people who are a little older, especially for a few teachers in the village elementary school, it is a bit of a bolt from the blue.

At the mourning ceremony held by the school, several veteran teachers, including the principal, even cried uncontrollably on the spot.

The children who stood in the playground in a queue looked at each other and were at a loss.

Or the next day, a class cadre went to the office to send the homework book back, their village primary conditions are poor, the office is one, all the teachers, including the principal are in it, so the class cadres heard some discussions, and everyone revealed, that the principal and several old teachers have experienced a special era, and because of culture, belong to the kind that was defeated, the wife was separated and even the family was broken, or after the end of the special era was rehabilitated, this entered the village school.

They have a special affection for the leaders of that era.

These are things that a child of Ningguang's age can't understand, at least at this time, so a few words of discussion passed quickly. On the same day, the Chinese teacher assigned homework and asked them to write a mourning essay, which caused a group of people to mourn.

Then came the return of Hong Kong in July, and the teachers of the village elementary school did not expect the students to participate in any essay competitions at all, and they did not mention it at the end of the semester in the first half of the year, but the Chinese exam at the end of this semester was always the topic of "return".

Ning Guang, like most of the bad students, finished the previous questions with great difficulty, and went to the final composition, meditating hard, scratching his ears and cheeks, racking his brains, and hysterical...... In the end, I scribbled a few lines, counted and still didn't reach the required four hundred words, and desperately checked the previous text, trying to stuff the number of words inside.

Her opinion on this matter in her heart actually has a lot in common with Mrs. Chu, that is, what does Hong Kong's return to China have to do with herself?

Ask her what she thinks?

She didn't have any ideas!

Of course, the essay that she worked so hard to get a score basically didn't get a grade, and she went back with a report card full of red lanterns.

Fortunately, the Ning family didn't expect her to study at all, except for Miao Guoqing, no one even asked her how she did in the exam.

Ning Guang actually suspected that her family wished that her grades were not good, so there was no need to give her tuition after junior high school. And the reason is still very good, because she is not this material at all, because she did not pass the exam at all.

After the school started in September, the teacher took a sample essay to read to them, saying that it was the first prize in the provincial essay competition for primary and secondary school students about Hong Kong's return to China. Ning Guangdu didn't even understand what was said, he just felt as if he was very far-sighted and powerful.

After reading it, the teacher praised it for a long time, saying that this student is the same age as you, but the ideological realm and vision of others are beyond your reach. At a young age, I knew that I was worried about the country and the people and looked forward to the future, and in the future, I still have to count on such elites in the construction of the motherland, and I will be done counting on you.

The students of the village elementary school were damaged by the teacher, and it was common for them to be beaten by the teacher, and they didn't have any glass hearts, not only did they not feel sad when they heard the words, but they also said with a hippie smile: "No, why the country also wants people to farm, we can't study, we can farm!" If you don't believe it, call the person who wrote this essay to come over to the competition to plant seedlings, and you will definitely not be able to plant us! ”

The teacher laughed and scolded them for being a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and finally said that the little author of this essay really stayed in the countryside, it was Shen Anyi, who had studied here before.

At this moment, there was an exclamation in the classroom, and Ning Guang was also very surprised.

But it was shocking for about a long time, children at this age are still very forgetful, especially Shen Anyi has already transferred to another school, although they are very interested in the little girl from the city, they are more concerned about the life in front of them.

At this moment, they discussed a few words about who Shen Anyi was good with when she was in the village, and she had to bring Ning Guang...... Ning Guang was silent, both happy for Shen Anyi, but also ashamed of himself, feeling that the gap between the two seemed to be widening again.

…… Although this gap has not been narrowed.

She felt that she should study hard, but even if she seized all her free time to read, progress was still difficult.

It is difficult for people to insist on the payment of invisible harvest, and Ningguang is the same, after a few times, she feels that she may really not be this material, the problem is that if she doesn't study, she doesn't seem to have any other way out?

When I think about it, I feel that the future is not bright.

But the days went by.

Because the Yang family's parents promised to take care of Ning Zong, and Ning Zong did feel their care and looked at it differently, the Ning family's attitude towards Ning Guang eased a lot, although the speech was still not good, but at least it didn't fight much.

Even during the change of seasons and the New Year's Festival, he would buy something for Ningguang. In this way, even if Ningguang is still not as good as most of her classmates, she will not be dressed like a beggar, because she never causes trouble and does not laugh at people, gradually in school, there are people who are willing to talk to her. For example, Zhao Xiaoying, of course, is still arrogant...... But he won't bully her all the time like before.

Occasionally, Zhao Xiaoying would tell her about the difficulties and grievances of a girl who also had a younger brother. Although she was a little disappointed that Ning Guang only listened and didn't answer, she had no one else to talk to. After all, there are still a few girls with younger brothers in the village, but only Ning Guang is more miserable than her.

So every time he finished speaking, he stomped his feet at Ning Guang, saying that he would not play with this wood next time, and he couldn't help but find it in a few days.

In addition to getting better at school, when eating, the Ning family will not gouge out her eyes, and she is not allowed to touch any meat.

In addition, every time Shen Anyi wrote a letter, she took a message from Zhao Qin and went to the Yang family to get the letter, and she would be left by the Yang family for a big meal...... In this way, I graduated from elementary school before I knew it.

At this time, they can still repeat grades in primary school, and if they do not do well in the junior high school exam, they will generally recommend another year.

Nowadays, parents in the countryside do not have the concept of racing against time, and they do not have the consciousness of letting their children enter the society a year earlier, so if the child's grades are too miserable, and the teacher says that he repeats the grade, it is not that the family is really difficult and does not want to pay an extra year of tuition, he will agree.

Ningguang's grades are more dangerous, and the teacher also put forward a suggestion to repeat the grade, but he didn't expect the Ning family to agree.

Because the teachers in the village elementary school all knew that the Ning family was quite economical for Ning Zong, they must have wished that Ning Guang would work or marry early after finishing junior high school so that he could get money for the family. If it weren't for the policy pressure, they wouldn't even want to go to elementary school.

As a result, after the Ning family learned the news, they actually agreed to give Ning Guang a year of repetition.

This surprised Mura Xiao, and Ning Guang was also surprised.

Ning Fulin explained to her: "Now that the country has compulsory education, no matter how bad your grades are, you have to go to junior high school to graduate, even if there are really people who don't finish it, it is still a minority." If you want to study with such an education, whether you get married in the future, or find something to do, it will not be advantageous. ”

He said that he agreed that Ning Guang repeat the grade so that Ning Guang could consolidate the knowledge points of the primary school, so as not to be unable to keep up after entering junior high school, and then he could not enter the school after graduating from junior high school, so he could only take the junior Chinese certificate to step into society.

Ning Guang was very surprised by these words, because in her cognition, Ning Fulin could not think so much about herself.

Thinking about it later, maybe it's because girls with junior high school education or above can ask for a higher bride price when talking about marriage?

She frowned subconsciously, and suddenly remembered the example Dai Zhenguo gave herself back then, and subconsciously bit her lip.

She didn't expect to be able to learn from that girl, because she was not a student at all, but now her family has asked her to repeat a grade...... What if she really ran into a dead mouse and got a secondary school?

In that case......

Thinking of what the girl did later, Ning Guang felt his heart pounding, full of indescribable fear and longing.

She silently approved of Ning Fulin's plan.

After all, Shen Anyi has been transferred to the province, and her relationship with Yang Qiuhan has been much better in the past two years, but it has not reached the point where she has to rush to the junior high school to meet as a tablemate.

She didn't know that when Yang Qiuhan learned that she planned to repeat a grade for a year, she also breathed a sigh of relief, threw a pillow and complained to Yang's mother: "It's good that she doesn't go, otherwise I feel annoyed when I think about being at the same table with her for three years, and I have to be busy with her!" ”

"Bear with me." Mother Yang coaxed her, "It depends on your uncle's face, you think your uncle has been the principal of the town for so many years, and he has been trying to transfer to the county without success, in the final analysis, it is because there is no one above...... It's easy for you to become classmates with that Shen Anyi, and let your uncle get a chance to get in touch with her parents, if you succeed, your uncle goes to work in the county, won't you be able to go to the county middle school to study? At that time, even your mother and your father can go to the county to teach, isn't it better than shrinking in the countryside? ”

Although the three members of the Yang family are all urban hukou, the town is still the countryside for the county seat.

Yang's father, Yang's mother, and Yang Qiuhan's uncle are all working hard and going to the next level.

Shen Anyi's transfer to Li Xiao is an opportunity in their eyes.

The children who have not yet grown up don't know much about this, but it doesn't matter, Yang's mother promised to buy Yang Qiuhan a beautiful new bicycle, as well as a dress that the girl has been fancy for a long time, Yang Qiuhan happily agreed, and continued to envelop Ningguang.

But she also felt depressed, and said angrily: "I really don't know where Ningguang is good, An Yi wants to think of her like this?" ”

Mother Yang disagreed: "You care so much, anyway, as long as Ning Guang says good things about us in the letter, Shen Anyi will say good things about our family in front of her family, although she is naïve, she is really favored at home, last time your uncle went to the county, he has successfully visited one of her grandfather's old subordinates, you are good, bear with it again, ah?" ”

Yang Qiuhan wanted to pout, but thinking of her mother's promise, she finally nodded stupidly: "Hmm." ”

And he said, "Then call her over for dinner in two days?" ”

Because Shen Anyi in the provincial capital is also facing the exam of junior high school, although her grades are good, the students in the provincial city are not easy to mess with, the Shen family has high hopes for her, counting on her to be admitted to the best junior high school in the provincial capital in one fell swoop, so the pressure is also very high, and she wrote a letter from the beginning of the semester to explain, saying that this semester until the exam results come out, it is estimated that there is no time to write to them, and they have to review wholeheartedly.

Therefore, Ningguang basically didn't go to Yang's house much this semester.