When I saw the watermelon today, I couldn't help it, she had eaten it once when it was so big, and it was still a small piece given by others. At dinner in the evening, she took out the watermelon, Zhang Lanlan knew and praised her for her ability, since her daughter came, someone burned the stove in the morning, someone washed the clothes, and she could take good care of her younger brother. Zhao Jianshe also rarely praised Qiu Ni, Qiu Ni was very happy, when the watermelon was divided, her father and younger brother each got a large piece, and her mother and herself each got a small piece, and the family felt that this watermelon was particularly sweet.

A few days later, there was another incident in the small courtyard. There is an Uncle Cao living in the yard, who is the driver of the textile factory, Uncle Cao lives alone, and when he has a holiday, he goes back to the countryside to live with his family for a few days, and he will come back to live when he is going to get out of the car. Because he lives alone, Uncle Cao eats in the canteen of the unit. Occasionally light a stove to boil some water, so there are a lot of briquettes in front of Uncle Cao's house, and Uncle Cao is also generous, whoever is short of briquettes will ask Uncle Cao to borrow a piece, and when the time comes, give some food or return it next month.

When he came back from his hometown this time, Uncle Cao felt that his briquettes were missing several pieces, and Uncle Cao usually didn't pay attention to them, and it was nothing to miss one or two pieces. Before going home this time, Uncle Cao sorted it out once, and it happened to be five stacks. When I came back, there was a stack that was missing several pieces. When it was cool in the evening, he casually asked who borrowed his briquettes.

Uncle Cao's neighbor said he borrowed a piece, but no one else did. Uncle Cao was a little unhappy: "The big guy hasn't lived in a yard for a day or two, and he also knows my temper, so if he borrows it, he will talk to me, if it doesn't matter, I don't have a piece or two here, otherwise I won't say it, don't treat me as a big wronged person! When I go out, it's a neat five stacks." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, they all knew that Uncle Cao's temperament was not a stingy person. There was silence for a while, Uncle Cao saw the situation and waved his hand: "When I didn't say it, who wants to borrow it and tell me to take it in the future!" At this time, the person who borrowed Uncle Cao's briquettes spoke: "Today, I will also say, Brother Cao, I took a piece yesterday, but when I took it, it was not five stacks, four stacks were piled high, and there were only a few pieces on the side, and I took a piece there." Also, a few days ago, there was less corn at the door of our house, but not much, before, I just thought I was wrong, but now it seems that I am not mistaken. "So everyone understands that there is a thief in the yard.

There has never been such a thing before, and everyone has not grown this string, they are all employees in the factory, and they can't do this stealing thing, and they were caught and fired directly from the factory. With this, everyone is also vigilant and knows to take a look at their own things. When Tong Yan heard about this, she looked at Qiu Ni's eyes even more vigilantly. But after the commotion, Qiu Ni also learned to behave, and there were no more things lost in the yard.

Finally, this hot summer is going to say goodbye to everyone, at the end of August, the school is going to open, Tong Yan and Sister Li said okay, and then they will no longer go to Gao Yue to make up lessons, Gao Yue knows that Tong Yan is going to school, and swears that Tong Yan will be bullied in school in the future, just go to him, he will definitely be able to protect Tong Yan. Tong Yan listened to Zhile, and Sister Li was so angry that she scolded Gao Yue again.

After two months of make-up classes and Tong Yan sold some food in the space piecemeal, Tong Yan had a small ten yuan on hand, but after paying the tuition and rent, there was not much money on hand, Tong Yan felt that she still needed to find a way to make money, and it was estimated that she would need to live on space in the third year of high school.

It is difficult to guarantee that the town will not be recognized, especially recently, there have been patrols in the town to catch "speculators". With Tong Yan's understanding of this era, once she is caught, half her life will be ruined, and Tong Yan is unwilling to take such a risk.

Before entering the courtyard gate, I met Sister Tian smiling and taking a child to go out, the child looked white and clean, and a pair of dark eyes flashed on the little face. Tong Yan was stunned, but she hadn't heard Sister-in-law Tian mention it. Sister-in-law Tian urged Douzi to call people again, and Douzi was also generous and shouted loudly: "Hello, auntie." The cute appearance of the little cute baby made Tong Yan happy.

At night, everyone in the yard knew that Sister Tian's son Xiaodouzi was coming, the beans were sweet, uncles, aunts and sisters called, and for a while the beans became fragrant and sweet in the yard, and they had to hug and tease. Of course, there are exceptions.

Tong Yan also liked this cute little bean, so she led the bean to her own room and took a few candies and stuffed them into the bean's pocket. Douzi thanked him, turned around and ran back to his house. After a while, Sister-in-law Tian came over, Tong Yan poured sugar water, and the two chatted a few words.

Sister-in-law Tian told Tong Yan that the last time she went back to the countryside, she had a quarrel with her mother-in-law's house. It turned out that Tian's sister-in-law's mother-in-law gave birth to two sons and two daughters, and Tian's sister-in-law's man was the second son, with a big brother and a big sister and a younger sister. The old lady is partial to the eldest son, because in her hometown, it is generally the eldest son who provides for the elderly, and the eldest son's family has 4 children, and Tian's sister-in-law has only one little bean.

Because there is no separation, the money taken by the man is handed over to the mother-in-law, to put it bluntly, it is to subsidize the other families, which is also a matter of no way, but in addition to subsidizing the uncle's family and raising the sister-in-law, even the eldest sister who married also goes home from time to time to play the autumn breeze, and the sister-in-law Tian is unwilling, and then the children of the uncle's family bullied Xiaodouzi, which made the sister-in-law Tian unbearable, and made a fuss, but fortunately, the man gave his strength and stood on the side of the sister-in-law Tian, and the sister-in-law also got married last month, and the two families were separated. Of course, the mother-in-law will not take the child anymore, so Sister-in-law Tian will take the child with her.

Sister-in-law Tian was still a little indignant when she talked about these things: "Look at it, whose sister-in-law married her brother to prepare a dowry, and all the money earned by my man was handed over, and the family gave us some food, if I didn't do some work, we wouldn't be able to get by." Sister-in-law Tian took a sip of water and said: "When my man handed over all the money, he said that all the expenses were in it, and he wanted me to give another one, no way! If it weren't for raising such a group of white-eyed wolves, how could my little bean be so bitter, the clothes and pants are all leftovers from other people, I went back last time, the little bean was so thin that there was no meat, or my mother couldn't see it, and took it for more than a month, and then it was raised. ”

Shallow wrinkles appeared on Sister-in-law Tian's face, but she couldn't hide her enthusiasm for life, Tong Yan still admired Sister-in-law Tian's very much, men work to make money, she also works to make money, go home inside and out, clean up the house, shrewd and decisive in big things, and informalized in small things. Maybe a family has a family's difficulties, and can defy difficulties and rely on hard-working hands to improve their lives, this is the most simple Chinese woman.

Tong Yan took Sister-in-law Tian's hand and said, "Now it's time to come to the bitter end, Xiaodouzi has also come to his side, and take good care of him after that." Speaking of her son, Sister-in-law Tian smiled comfortably: "That's right, I'm going to let him study in the town, and he won't have to go back to farming in the future." "The town primary school is not close to us!" Tong Yan remembered that the town primary school was close to the machinery factory, "In the morning, his father will send him, and I will pick him up in the evening, and when he is older, he will go home by himself, it's fine." After saying this, he lowered his voice and said, "You know no, the family next door is also going to go to the Central Primary School." Go for both. This was beyond Tong Yan's expectations, Zhang Lanlan was willing to send her children to study in the town primary school, and the two children also needed a lot of money. "That day, I heard Qiu Ni crying, and I said it for a long time before I agreed. Tong Yan thought about the behavior of the two children, and specially reminded Sister-in-law Tian to let the two people in Xiaodouzi stay away.

When Tong Yan went to buy school supplies, she also bought a notebook and pencil for Xiaodouzi. Xiaodouzi jumped up and down to Sister-in-law Tian with a new notebook, showing off her new stationery. Little Douzi didn't notice that there was a pair of eyes in the yard looking at him coldly.

When Tong Yan walked into the school with a satchel, it was like a dream, with a simple classroom and dilapidated chairs, it was hard to imagine that this was still a high school. As for the classroom, it is easy to find, and the whole school is only a third year of high school, in the easternmost one. In the classroom, a new face came, and the originally noisy classroom was quiet all of a sudden, and everyone looked at Tong Yan curiously.

A boy walked over, "Classmate, who are you looking for?" Tong Yan responded to him generously: "I'm a newcomer, and I'll be in this class in the future." As soon as they heard that it was a new classmate, everyone gathered around Tong Yan and asked questions. Tong Yan looked at the children in this class, although it was such a simple environment, everyone's mental outlook was still positive, it was really like the sun at seven or eight o'clock.

There are more than 20 people in this class, and there are only a few girls. The chair is not the modern one-person, but a bench, a stool sits four people, and one girl is very enthusiastic, pulling Tong Yan to sit beside her, so that Tong Yan and the other three girls occupy a bench. Everyone exchanged names, and they gradually became familiar, the enthusiastic girl was called Ji Ning, and the two were Li Fangfang and Wang Li.

Ji Ning also introduced other classmates to Tong Yan, and the boy who just talked to Tong Yan was the class leader - Wu Beijiang. When it was almost eight o'clock, the teacher came to inform everyone to get the book, and when he saw Tong Yan, he called Tong Yan aside: "It's the new Tong Yan classmate, I'm still worried that you can't find the classroom, you came by yourself, I am the head teacher, my surname is Hu, I teach mathematics, I have read your mathematics papers, and you are doing well." He also encouraged Tong Yan to work hard, and finally asked Tong Yan to introduce herself in front of everyone, and deliberately said in front of everyone, "Tong Yan was admitted by skipping a grade, and now she is the youngest student in the class, and everyone takes care of her." "It's embarrassing to say that Tong Yan is really not proud of the test papers of the 60s with the knowledge of modern people.

However, these words still frightened some of the classmates. Most of the students expressed their admiration for Tong Yan, who was able to skip a grade in high school, and of course there were also sour words.

Tong Yan noticed a girl with short hair, looking at her, but there was absolutely no friendliness in her eyes. If you don't pay special attention, Tong Yan hasn't found out that this is a girl, her hair is cut like a boy, her clothes are obviously changed, she is thin, and in modern terms, she has a flat body. Tong Yan has already shown her due curve at this age. Especially with space, Tong Yan didn't treat herself badly at all, the standard of two dishes and one soup, plus the supplement of fruits, it is no problem to raise herself with a ruddy face. In this situation where most people still can't eat enough, Tong Yan is different.

However, Tong Yan never wants to "keep pace" with everyone in this regard, making fun of her body, and no one can do this if there is nothing wrong.

After receiving the books, everyone went home, and the school officially started tomorrow. Tong Yan walked while thinking that she would have to eat at school from tomorrow, the school did not provide lunch, most of the students in the class were far away from the school, and the time to go home for dinner was too tight, so she usually brought some dry food and some pickles to deal with. Although Tong Yan can rush home for dinner, it is hot at noon, and it is troublesome to run around, so when Ji Ning invited her to eat together tomorrow, Tong Yan agreed. Most people in this era eat coarse grains, corn stickers, wowotou, Tong Yan said that he would not do it. She has been eating rice all the time after wearing this place. Tong Yan was worried about tomorrow's lunch, and she didn't agree to Ji Ning if she knew it, she was really asking for trouble.

Before entering the yard, Tong Yan heard Xiaodouzi's cry, Tong Yan hurriedly ran into the yard, Xiaodouzi stood in front of his own water tank, crying heartbroken, Tong Yan took a closer look, there was more than half a tank of water in the water tank, and there were brand new homework books floating on the water, and there were a few books under the water. Tong Yan hurriedly fished the homework book out of the water, looking at the textbook that sank to the bottom, Tong Yan estimated that her arms were not so long, and walked around to see if she could find a tool.

Xiaodouzi cried even more sadly when she saw Tong Yan coming. "What's the matter, what are you crying about?" Tong Yan turned around and saw Xiao Douzi's father coming back, and hurriedly said, "Uncle, Douzi's textbook fell into the water." Uncle He hurriedly walked over, stretched out his hand to fish out the book, and turned his head and scolded Xiaodouzi: "What are you doing throwing the new book in the water? ”

Listening to Xiaodouzi's words, Tong Yan and Uncle He were stunned, and they couldn't care about these at this time, Uncle He stuffed a lunch box to Douzi, scooped up the book, and discussed with Tong Yan: "Uncle is going to work, Douzi is home alone in the afternoon, can you help take care of it." Tong Yan naturally agreed, Uncle He hurried to work, and didn't ask much about Douzi, only said that he would wait for Sister-in-law Tian to come back.

Tong Yan naturally couldn't be so big-hearted, she took Xiaodouzi back to her house, Xiaodouzi had stopped crying, Tong Yan washed his face and hands, opened the lunch box, half a box of sweet potato rice, and a little fried pumpkin.

Tong Yan asked Xiaodouzi to eat first, spread out the wet books and notebooks, and dried them in the sun. Taking advantage of Xiaodouzi's inattention, he took two tea eggs out, Xiaodouzi smelled the fragrance of tea eggs, and while pulling the rice, he aimed at the eggs in Tong Yan's hand. Tong Yan is so cute to watch. Waiting for Tong Yan to put the peeled eggs into Xiaodouzi's lunch box, Xiaodouzi refused to eat them: "Auntie, I don't eat it, I have rice, and pumpkin, I don't eat eggs." After saying that, he swallowed his saliva.

Tong Yan rubbed the back of her hand on Xiaodouzi's face: "Hurry up and eat, what are you polite to your aunt?" Seeing that he was still refusing, Tong Yan took an egg and gagged his mouth. This time, Xiaodouzi was obedient.

After Xiaodouzi finished eating, Tong Yan asked about the book. It turned out that after Uncle He brought Xiaodouzi back, he asked Xiaodouzi to play at home, and Uncle He rushed back to work in the machinery factory and said that he would come over to deliver food to Xiaodouzi later. Xiaodouzi obediently stayed at home, and then a few children came to find Xiaodouzi, to go to a vacant lot behind the yard to play, in fact, this so-called vacant land is the location of the well, and the surrounding open space is where everyone washes clothes and vegetables.

When he came back, he found that the lid of the water tank at the door was open, and his books were in the water tank. Tong Yan asked him who he had gone with and if he had found anyone else in the courtyard when he came back. Xiaodouzi said the names of several children, all of them are children from the surrounding neighbors, Tong Yan is a little wrong, but there is a name Tong Yan is familiar with, that is Dong Bao.

Tong Yan coaxed Xiaodouzi to take a nap, and when he fell asleep, Tong Yan ate. It didn't take long to hear Qiu Ni and Dong Bao's voices, Tong Yan listened in the room for a while, and didn't hear what they said, but Tong Yan just felt that this matter must be inseparable from these two people. When Sister-in-law Tian came back in the evening, she heard about it and didn't say anything, just thanked Tong Yan and took Xiaodouzi home. This seems to be the end of the matter. But three days later, when Tong Yan came home from school, she heard a heart-rending cry from Zhang Lanlan's house - Qiu Ni was beaten. At night, when she saw Qiu Ni, who had a blue nose and swollen face, washing dishes at the door, Tong Yan felt that Zhao Jianshe and his family were really ruthless.

When Sister-in-law Tian came to Tong Yan with a bowl of dried sweet potatoes, she was completely depressed and refreshed. Tong Yan looked at her and secretly laughed: "Is this a good thing?!" Sister-in-law Tian glanced at her with disgust, and put the dried sweet potato on the table: "Make it yourself, taste it." Tong Yan is also welcome.

At this time, Tian's sister-in-law told Tong Yan the reason for this incident. Before, Tian's sister-in-law was suspicious of Dong Bao, and later found a child to set Dong Bao, Dong Bao was so young that she sold Qiu Ni to the bottom if she gave her something to eat.

Originally, when the group of children played, they didn't expect to call Xiaodouzi, but Dongbao proposed to call Xiaodouzi to play together. But Dong Bao and Xiao Douzi rarely play together, the reason why they called Xiao Douzi was Qiu Ni's idea, and when Dong Bao called Xiao Douzi out, Qiu Ni went to the house to get the book and threw the book and notebook into the water. Tong Yan felt strange: "Xiaodouzi and Dongbao are not playing together, and it has nothing to do with Qiuni, she has no reason to throw Xiaodouzi's book." "Who knows, his parents beat Qiu Ni so hard, but Qiu Ni didn't say a word. Saying that, Sister-in-law Tian sighed, "This kid is crooked." ”