Chapter 3 Accompaniment

The days with sheep are calm and beautiful. It is not only the blue sky and white clouds that meet you, but also the wild flowers and grasses, and even the fish, shrimp, and loaches in the small ditch and the gurgling water......

The most important thing is that you are not alone, you also have a lot of friends, those who accompany you to herd sheep and have fun.

Child's time is truly amazing, though. Yesterday, I saw that I was still very young, and I seemed to have just learned to walk. But who knew they would soon be going to school?

You don't know what school is.

Grandma explained to you that it was the place to teach you how to read and behave. She and your dad are illiterate, so don't want you to be illiterate too.

You were six years old, and children your age had already begun to step into school. Grandma wanted you to go too, but Dad said that you are still young, and it is of little use for girls to go to school, and the family has no money now.

So, failed to go to school for the first time.

You're still doing what you used to do – herding sheep.

It's just that there is one less partner to accompany you - those friends of the same age.

You don't envy anyone, because you're still happy, just a little curious about what kind of place the school is.

Sometimes when you come back from herding, you go to the neighbor's house. Look at the books handed out by the school, look at the words taught in the school. Listening to people talk about school, open the book and ask if you recognize this word and that word.

And then you find that you seem to be a little envious......

It was also in that year that my uncle and aunt finally couldn't live anymore for some objective reasons. My aunt's family came to make trouble a few times, and a lot of things were smashed, and finally it ended with an end.

But because you were young at the time, and they didn't like you very much, and Dad didn't allow you to go there. So you don't feel anything.

Your days are still happy.

Every day, in addition to herding sheep, I ate and slept and ate.

It was summer, and you remember vividly that it was evening. When you wake up, you find that there is no one in the house. You're a little scared, although you don't know why.

You looked for your grandmother in front of and behind your house, but you couldn't find it, and your father was nowhere to be found.

Then you run into the lake, and in the distance you see an old man who looks like your grandmother.

You happily run in that direction, but as you get closer, you notice that the old man has a child with him.

How could a grandmother have a child? You are confused, but you don't hesitate to move forward.

You said that when you got closer and found out that the old man was not your grandmother, you instantly burst into tears. Later, when the old man asked you where you were a child, you pointed to the village where you lived, and you realized that you had traveled so far.

By the time the old man takes the child home with you, it is almost dark, and Daddy and Grandma are anxiously looking for you all over the world.

You can't remember what happened later, you seem to have been scolded, and you don't seem to have been scolded.

By the time you were seven years old, most of the children your age were already in school. But Dad still doesn't agree with you going to school, and Grandma can't help it.

So the second time I went to school, I still failed.

You're not happy anymore, but you're not too sad either. You start to envy the kids who can go to school. You still do the same thing every day as before, driving a herd of lambs to the lake to graze.

You also don't go to your neighbor's house anymore when you come back from herding the sheep, because you find that they don't want to play with you anymore.

After all, you don't understand what they say.

And when that happens, you always feel harsh about what the adults say. They said, "If you want to read and write, let your dad send you to school, what can our child teach you, so that he can recognize a few words?" ”

After that, you never went again.

It is worth mentioning that that year, the neighbor's couple also ended in an end, and the two sons each took one with them, and they have been strangers since then.