Chapter 19: Discrimination in Growth
Five years is like a year for Wang Defa, who is squatting in the class room. But for the three children at home, it was a white horse. In the past five years, Wang Defa did not let his three children come to see him, and he also told the woman that he could not tell the children that he was in prison.
That is, in the past five years, the whole county, the whole place, the matter of tomb robbery has been repeatedly banned, if Wang Defa's incident is a wake-up call, some people were awakened by the alarm bell, and some people were reminded by the alarm bell. Unexpectedly, digging treasures underground can still come so quickly, there must be reckless men under the temptation of money, and an unhealthy wind spreads like this. There are those who fight unevenly and unequally, those who kill people with greedy intentions, and those who lose their lives by accidental landslides, and few people can think about the causes of these tragedies.
Since the men in the family squatted in the class room, Wang Defa's woman has carried a piece of the family. The eldest Wang Chenglong can already help her mother take care of her sister and younger brother, at least Wang Defa will not be tied up by the child and will not be able to go anywhere. There is not much land at home, and after she is busy with her own work, she works everywhere for other people's families, and she counts the money for a day, and barely survives this day.
Wang Chenglong had not yet gone to school when he was six and a half years old, and the person in charge of compulsory education in the town came to his door. There is only one purpose, this autumn school starts, Wang Chenglong must go to school. Wang Defa tried to talk to the public, but everything was refuted by others, and she ignored it.
When you go to school, don't let the doll go to school, that's the adult's thing, the public also said it is very good, the doll is your doll, the doll is the country's doll, don't go to school, don't learn knowledge, how can the country develop in the future, to treat every child as the pillar of the country in the future, in case Wang Chengchan is the next Einstein. She also said that if she thinks that books are expensive, then bring it up, and the town and the team will help her solve it.
It's not that Wang Defa doesn't want Wang Chenglong to go to school, nor is it a matter of money, the key is that Wang Chenglong goes to school, who will help the two little ones? If she can't get out of her body and do some odd jobs, then the biggest problem for this family is really money.
When the people in the public family chatted with Wang Defa, Wang Chenglong was next to him, and when they were about to leave, Wang Chenglong shouted at the door: "I don't go to school, I want to help my mother at home!" ”
About three or four days later, the woman went to the county prison to see Wang Defa, mainly to discuss how to make a decision about going to school.
"Go to school, you have to go to school! If you don't go to school, the dolls will be over, you look at me, I have been reading books for five years, and my brain is sometimes the same as paste, and no one knows what the society will develop into in the future, but all dynasties and dynasties can read and write and have culture, as long as the brain is lively, they are not poor scholars, and they have a bite to eat. Jackie Chan can learn, and his younger brother and noble students must also go! Wang Defa is very resolute.
"What you said is light, Jackie Chan is older, now he can help me see my two younger siblings at home, if she goes to school and takes the two little ones, how can I feed the family?"
"No matter how wronged you are, you can't be wronged by the doll, especially Guisheng, there are more than two years left, you just work hard, and when I go out, I will also find a job, this day can still be coiled, lack of money, you don't open your mouth, go to my brothers who have a good relationship to borrow some, when they came to see me, I also settled down, and I will return it to them later." But the matter of the doll going to school, it is not discussed, the new semester starts, so send it, the public is right. ”
The woman's heart agrees with the doll to go to school, just to find a reason and excuse for herself, since Wang Defa is so resolute, then let's go, so many years, how difficult times have they survived, and there is nothing that can not be passed by gritting their teeth.
After returning from the county seat, she began to do Wang Chenglong's work. Wang Chenglong is really sensible, and the reason why she doesn't want to study is to help her mother take care of her younger siblings.
"You can go to school with confidence, what do you worry about at home at a young age, I can take your younger brothers and sisters, and when they are older, when they reach the age of studying, I will go to school with you! It's so decided, and your dad also believes it a little, supports you to go to school, and you have to go! ”
"Where's my dad now? I can't even remember what he looked like. ”
"He works outside to earn money, otherwise what do we eat and drink a day, since your father and I agree that you will go to school, so decided."
"Well, if you can't keep busy, I won't read it, I'll come back and help you."
"Okay, I want you to help, we all have to be hungry, start school and sign up for school! Not negotiable! ”
This is the third year that Wang Defa has been imprisoned, and every time I go to see Wang Defa, the prison staff say that Wang Defa is doing well, and he also has the intention of repenting, saying that he will strive to let Wang Defa come out early, which is also good news. Three years have passed, two years is still a year, and it will not be too slow.
Before the harvest of the family's acres of wheat, Wang Chenglong had to go to school in September. The woman found out the rags at home and sewed a small cloth bag with broken flowers for Wang Chenglong, one shoulder, the same size as a book, which was a gift for her to go to school.
First-year freshmen signed up earlier than other grades, and on the day of registration, there were not many students on the whole campus.
"Mom, where is the toilet where you take me to the bathroom?"
"Momada."
The two of them walked around and turned, the school was not far from Wang Defa's home, and on the way back, the mother and daughter made a special trip to stare at Wang Chenglong's route to and from school. When he got home, Wang Chenglong neatly arranged the books he received, and shouted for her mother to wrap the book covers for her with brown paper. A woman has never wrapped a book cover, and she was stumped for a while.
"I'll go to the field first, and I'll give you a bag when I come back in the evening!" After saying that, he pushed the rack car and went out. When she was working in the afternoon, she asked the person who already had a student baby at home how to pack the book cover, and finally asked the church.
On the third day of Wang Chenglong's school, something happened at home. The old couple watched Wang Laidi and Wang Guisheng at home, who knew that Wang Guisheng's crying illness was committed, rolling all over the ground, and it was not good to coax him.
The old man struggled to get up from his back chair and hugged Wang Guisheng, who knew that when he went up the steps of the room, there was a "bang", and both the grandfather and grandson fell, the old man landed on the ground first, and Wang Guisheng lay on his grandfather's body and didn't fall much. Wang Guisheng looked at his grandfather who fell to the ground motionless, and cried again in fright. Wang Laidi and her grandmother also heard the news, and pulled the person up and put them on the kang with difficulty.
When the woman got the message, she ran back, and on the way, she called the old Chinese medicine doctor who ran a pharmacy in the team to her home. The old Chinese medicine doctor who entered the door took a look, and the person was no longer good.
"The old man looks like he's falling on his head, and the person is not good, so let's prepare for the future!" The old Chinese medicine doctor opened the old man's eyes here as he spoke, and confirmed it again.
"Grandpa! Grandfather! Wang Guisheng and Wang Laidi cried.
"Dad, wake up, wake up!" The woman threw herself on the old man.
There is no response, no response, people who are almost ninety years old, how can they stand such a fall.
The relatives of the Wang family also rushed over when they heard the news and began to talk about the old man's funeral. The house was vacated, and it was facing the uphill place, where everyone laid out the straw, and the old man lay on it.
The woman went out to the street, she wanted to see if there were any people in the county seat, and sent a letter to Wang De. Now she must be unable to get out of her body and tell Wang Defa in person.
The weather in September has not cooled down, and everyone unanimously decided to let the old man settle in the ground the next day.
When Wang Chenglong came back, he looked at his grandfather lying on the ground and cried, after all, he was already a student baby and had grown up.
In the small courtyard, everyone came and went about the future. The old man left too suddenly, and he didn't know that his son was squatting in the class room until he died. As for those who believe a little, I don't know if they can bring it to Wang Defa.
The next day, the mourners were basically complete, the woman held Wang Guisheng, followed by Wang Chenglong and Wang Laidi, wearing linen and filial piety, and the team slowly walked towards the river.
When he was about to start the burial, a police car took Wang Defa to the ground. Wang Defa was wearing the uniform clothes in the class room, and there were no handcuffs on his hands. The police are also people, and they send the old man in handcuffs, so that the old man can go all the way.
Wang Chenglong saw all this clearly, she was in the first grade, but Wang Defa's image in his heart became more and more blurred, she looked at this man who came with the police to send her grandfather, strange and familiar.
Wang Defa wailed and knelt beside the coffin, the people around him were quiet, it had been three years, and this person who had been squatting in the class room for three years was also the first time everyone had seen him. Wang Defa didn't cry like a person, the two young men set him up in the arm socket, everyone persuaded him word by word, the time is up, and there can be no longer delay.
After the burial, Wang Defa stared at Wang Chenglong, and before he could say a few words, the police signaled that it was time to go. The crowd of mourners also gradually receded.
"Mom, it's my dad who came with the police today, right?"
"That's right."
"Why are the police following my dad?"
"It's nothing, your dad just asked the police to help send it to your grandfather's funeral."
"You talk nonsense, you talk nonsense, my classmates say that my dad is squatting in the classroom, that my dad is a labor prisoner, you are a liar." Wang Chenglong cried and said.
In the past few days of school, Wang Chenglong heard his classmates say that his father was a prisoner of labor reform, so he refuted it vigorously, saying that her father was working far away to earn money, and of course the girls couldn't fight, but they were angry and cried on the way home every time.
Wang Chenglong didn't know how to go to school tomorrow, in such a big village, his father was escorted by the police to send his grandfather to mourn, and it is estimated that it has already spread to the ears of all his classmates. She is now particularly sensitive to the word "dad", she can't hear others say what happened to her father, she can hear others say that she is the child of a labor camp. She didn't want to go to school anymore, she didn't want to see people, she wanted to close herself off.