Chapter 14: The Sad Autumn

When I got home, I saw my grandfather cooking in the pot house. But I didn't dare to go, so I carried my schoolbag back to my own grass house. Then I moved a stool and lay down in front of the door to do my homework.

About half an hour later, Grandpa suddenly came over with a bowl. When he saw my appearance, he hated that iron could not become steel.

"If you don't call, you don't know how to go over to eat?"

He was still a little stunned when he saw me, so he said angrily, "Do you still ask people to invite three or four times for dinner?" Meat all day long! At the end, his tone relaxed a little more, and asked, "Did you lose money by beating you last night?" The money for a season's food has been stolen away, where are you going to play at night? Let you run around at home to watch the door, and you won't give in to death! ”

I wiped away the tears that kept falling, packed my bag, and then locked the door and went back there again amid the sound of my grandfather's counting.

In the following days, I lived every day carefully, doing whatever I wanted, and I would not say a word of superfluity.

I also went to school very early one morning to give him back the money Li Yaowen paid for instant noodles and water. At first he didn't want it, and then I threw it on his desk. Then he brought it back to me, and then I glared at him for a while.

In the end, he had no choice but to take the money away, and said, "Okay, since you must pay it back, then I will accept it, but don't call me stingy!" ”

I haven't had much contact with him since.

The days fly by, and the final exam is coming soon. Also when I didn't expect it, my dad actually came back.

I came home from school that day and saw a figure behind my house. When I recognized it, I shouted, and it turned out that it was really Dad who had returned.

I was so happy that I ran to him in three steps and two steps. But somehow I felt like he was tired.

"Dad, why did you come back at this time?"

"In the past two months, I have always had back pain and can't work, so I came back!"

"What's wrong?" When I heard him say that, I suddenly felt a pain in my heart, nothing would happen to my father, right? Phew, of course not!

"Your uncle said that it may be a bulging waist disc, I will go to Wuhe in two days to have a look!"

"A herniated disc in the lumbar area? What is that? Is it serious? ”

"Who knows if you don't look at it......"

After dinner that day, I washed the dishes and chopsticks and ran to my father's house to talk to him late, until my father urged me to go back to bed.

Although I have not forgotten the content of that conversation, it is also becoming more and more blurry in the depths of my memory. Not because it wasn't important or careless, but because Dad's words were so sad, and the sadness in my memory already had so much. Therefore, those sorrows that have been melted in the depths have long been unable to stir up a trace of waves in the quiet and deep heart.

And the only thing I will never forget is the heart-wrenching warmth.

I woke up early the next morning, packed up after dinner, and got ready to go to school with my school bag. When I was leaving, I pushed the door and glanced at my father, who hadn't gotten up yet, and he heard the sound of someone pushing the door and looked up at me.

I asked him why he hadn't gotten up to get food, and he said he was tired and would get up later, so I told him to hurry to school.

Because the final exam is coming soon, there was a physical education class this morning, but it was taken up by the language class. So all of the four classes in the morning were Chinese, except for one math class.

In the last two lessons, the Chinese teacher simply gave us a quiz. When I made it, I didn't think it was difficult, and 80 points shouldn't be a problem.

There is an essay in the Chinese paper of the third grade, and the score is not low, a full 30 points. Therefore, students who can score 80 points are at the top of their class. At that time, I was always confident in my results.

When I got home, life was the same, and nothing changed because of who came back. But if I had to say anything, it was Daddy's body. He went to the hospital for a check-up, and it was really a herniated disc in his waist. However, he said that surgery was not needed, and he opted for conservative treatment. It is to drink Chinese medicine, plus steamed with medicinal water.

Out of nowhere, he got some bricks and built himself a table like a bed, but it was empty in the middle, just enough to fit a large basin. After boiling the hot water in the pot, he scooped the water into the large basin, then wrapped a layer of plastic paper around his waist and lay down on the table to let the heat in the basin steam. I thought it was funny, but I never laughed. And the herbs he used to steam his body were wild mint and wormwood cut from the lake.

I remember very well that for a long time, he couldn't eat because of drinking Chinese medicine. As a result, the man became emaciated, and he had no strength, and the most he could do all day was lying in bed. I think his situation is a bit like my grandmother's, and I'm scared. So I don't like to go to him more and more, and I blame myself for having that idea. That's Dad, I think so......

On the day of the final exams, all my classmates arrived at school early, and I was not one of them. Because we didn't refer to it in our own school, but the school organized a trip to an elementary school in the town to take the exam.

There were a lot of students from other schools in one exam room, there were fifty-one people in our class, and there were five people in my exam room plus me.

On the way to the test room, I got a little motion sickness, probably because I rarely sit in the car, and I almost threw up in the car. Fortunately, our village is not far from the town, and I was much better after getting off the bus.

Before entering the examination room, the teacher told us a lot of precautions, although he had already talked about them many times before we came to the examination room. But he still doesn't feel at ease, like many parents who watch their children go far away, he tirelessly tells Zuo over and over again.

Actually, for me, this kind of exam is not very stressful or stressful. Because I was always confident in my results.

The first session was Chinese, there were two invigilators in total, I found my seat according to the student number and sat down, listening to the two invigilators I didn't know tell us about the precautions during the exam. It's nothing more than that you can't cheat, and you can't put anything on the table except pens and tape. The manuscript paper will be sent to us separately, and don't forget to write the name of the school or something.

After the curls came down, I took a quick glance and the content was not very difficult. After I wrote the school and the name, I started to write and answer the questions. There is nothing wrong with fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice questions, and true/false questions, and there is no problem with dictating ancient poems. I did okay with reading short passages, and in the end there was only one essay left.

Write an essay on the topic of the four seasons of the year, and you can also choose one of the four seasons as your favorite season. Narrative, narrator, narrator. It is required that the sentences are smooth, clear and neatly written. The total score is thirty points.

I thought about it for a moment and chose autumn among the four seasons. Because it was not only the harvest season, but also the season when Dad spent the longest time at home. What makes me even more incredible is that I actually feel that autumn is the saddest season of the year. I can't tell where it was sad, but that's what I thought in my heart at the time.

So sometimes I ask myself, why do I think that way? Could it be that the trees in front of the house have lost their leaves, or the flowers that I planted have lost their petals, so it affects my mood?

The answer is still unclear, or I have the answer in my heart for a long time, but I can't express it for some reason, so it is still precipitated to this day.

The second and final exam was mathematics, and I still habitually glanced at it when the paper was sent, and the questions were not difficult, so it could be said that it was very simple. As long as I'm not careless, I can get 100 points.

In fact, after answering the questionnaire unhurriedly, I found that there was still plenty of time, and then checked it twice. I found a mistake, corrected it, and looked at it again, but I didn't find any problems. A few minutes later, the bell rang and the teacher began to rewind. After handing in the papers, I went to the place where I got off the bus to meet.

When I arrived, I found that there were few people, and Li Yaowen was also there. His grades are not bad in our class, which can be said to be very good, but what I thought in my heart was that after all, he had studied for an extra year, and if he was still poor, he didn't need to study. When he saw me, he waved at me, but when he was about to come over, he was stopped by the two boys who had just arrived.

"How's the test, mosquito? What is your answer to the last math question......"

I heard him say it was good, and in the end he said the same answer as mine, and I knew I was doing it right. Although I didn't doubt my answer, I was always relieved to hear that someone had the same answer. But the one who asked the answer but it was different was depressed.

"How do you do that? It's over, my answer is different from yours, the last question is 12 points, ahh......hhh

When I got home, I was so dizzy that I went to bed without eating. When I woke up, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, because it was winter, and the days were relatively short. I got dressed and got out of bed, and saw my dad getting firewood for the pot house. I went over when I saw it, and he asked me how I was doing.

I told him that he could score at least 80 points in Chinese, and that he should be above 90 if he didn't score 100 in mathematics. When he heard this, he was very puzzled, so he asked me why I got so many points in the Chinese test.

"Because there is an essay in the third grade, which accounts for 30 points, no matter how good you write, you will be deducted so many points. And there is also a reading comprehension that will more or less deduct points, and it is difficult to get 90 points. ”

"Can that guy get it?"

"How do I know, the test paper hasn't come down again!"

"If you are lower than others, you don't want to read, it's better to read something......

Again, although I know and understand in my heart, there is a reason why you are so strict with me. But I still want your affirmation and encouragement.

Because, there are so many sad memories, how can you live without a little warmth......