Mao Mao was reluctant to spend a dollar to take a car, that was too expensive, before dawn he loaded the oil Luo bun prepared for him by his mother and entered the city, he walked along the shortest mountain road from the county, needed to cross seven frames, and then walked a ditch three or five miles long, and then turned over three ridges to the edge of the county.

On the way, he was very happy, and his steps were extraordinarily relaxed, like a little sparrow jumping around, walking southeast along the rugged path between the mountains, the sky was gradually brightening, he found that the people in the village who passed by were eating breakfast outside the door with bowls, he knew that he had crossed the Sanjia Mountain, thinking of Uncle Gao, his heart was beautiful, he liked Uncle Gao's affirmation of himself very much, especially the sentence: "This baby is not ordinary, and there will be achievements in the future." "He wants to show his merit to Uncle Gao, he can support his family, he will not let his family suffer in the future, he has to earn a lot of money, even his younger brother Ermao has to redeem her, and Niuzi can go to school with peace of mind.

The more Liu Maomao thought about it, the more excited he became, the more he wanted to be happy, and he hummed a tune out of tune, which even he didn't understand what it was, and when he was happy, he simply ran up, and walked when he was tired. However, he also remembered Gao Gao's mother Xiu'e, his own dead head, a little Mao Mao is certain, as long as Uncle Gao is here, she Xiu'e can't do anything about herself, besides, although Uncle Gao is old, that crutch is powerful, thinking of this, Mao Mao smiled, because he fought with Xiu'e, Xiu'e was not less affected by Uncle Gao's crutches.

Hey—it's still small, if you go there now, you'll be so naughty, teasing people and what the hell are you doing? Mao Mao shook her head, feeling very disappointed with her previous behavior, now that she is going to someone's house, how embarrassing it is ......to meet.

Unconsciously, Liu Maomao came to the county seat, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon, he felt hungry, his stomach was growling, he spent five cents very expensively, bought a bowl of shredded meat noodles, took out the baked oil bun from the satchel sewn by his mother, sat in the restaurant and devoured it, the rice was delicious, and the food was also very comfortable, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve. I was very curious to walk to the window, touched the transparent glass with my hand, and thought to myself that the people in the city really can, where did they get this kind of window paper, which is strong and transparent, much better than the window paper at home, at least it can withstand the cold northwest wind.

He asked the way to Gao Gao's house, while shopping in a store, he took a fancy to a very beautiful ball belt, he couldn't put it down and looked at it for a long time, picked it up and put it down, put it down and picked it up, it was a piece of two cents, and finally he was not willing to buy it, so he left ruthlessly, in short, no matter what kind of thing, he was very curious to take a closer look, he saw a "Yanmar carriage" placed in front of a store, he bent down, threw the satchel that slipped on his chest behind his back, carefully looked at the structure of the "Yanmar carriage", and then looked at the ride" The man of the "Yanmar carriage" walked in front of him, he scratched his scalp, and he couldn't understand why a person riding on two wheels would run and not fall? He looked at it and smiled, which is strange, why doesn't it fall? Why not four wheels, how stable are four wheels!

At home, he can put the handlebars of two frame bikes into the handlebars and sit in the middle, and if he runs downhill quickly, he must control the flexibility and direction of the handlebars of the frame rider in front of him; In the past, Liangliang, Sansheng, Gao Gao and Ru Ru often played secretly, only Mao Mao could control the direction, Liang Liang and Sansheng would drive the frame car into the ditch, and they were about to rush into the ditch, they jumped out of the car like monkeys, looking at the wooden planks that threw the car shed messily and scattered, and then were scolded by the adults, chasing the rabbit fur flying around, thinking of this Mao Mao looked at the "Yanmar carriage" and laughed again. He saw that when the "Yanmar cart" was about to hit people, there was a steel wire that could pull the rubber stopper in and reduce the speed of the wheels, which was a good solution.

"Hello! Auntie, how do you go to the party school of the county party committee here? Mao Mao stopped at a crossroads, not knowing the way to Gao Gao's house, because after he arrived here, he couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south, and there were several streets that looked the same.

A woman was pulling a crying child and was hurrying along, when she heard Mao Mao's shout, she turned her head and pointed to the street on the left, saying, "We will reach the end." ”

"Thank you! Aunt! ”

The woman did not answer, but bent down and pointed to herself and said to the child, "Do you see that?" I don't go to school well, and when I grow up, I'll be like this little brother who begs for food. ”

Maomao turned around and saw the little boy looking at him in horror, and he really didn't dare to cry.

Mao Mao found that the child was wearing brand new clothes, even the hair was very carefully combed, the seams were also very individual, and he was wearing small wrestler shoes on his feet, and he looked like a very rich man.

But Liu Maomao felt very uncomfortable in her heart, she was wearing new round-mouthed cloth shoes made by her mother on her feet, although her clothes were patched a few times, they were still very neat, why did I become a begging flower?

He was very unwilling, stopped at a barber shop, looked in the mirror, looked at himself, and then looked at the city people walking around him, and then looked at himself in the mirror, not to mention, it was really obvious compared to the people in the city, his hair was fried like a hedgehog, the sweat on his face flowed from the hair to the neck, people walked, their feet were left on the ground, and their legs were raised high; Besides, it's all strange, look, I want to come to see it in front of me, but we really haven't seen too much, what's the solution? Let him go, say whatever you want.

Mao Mao pulled his hair and kept walking to the street.

Walking to the street, he carefully took out a note from the pocket in his arms, with an address and a phone number written on it, he followed the instructions of the three saints, walked to a round telephone booth, on which was a conical lid, in the middle was a circle of glass, which carried books and magazines of different sizes, "Military World", "Novel Monthly", "Small Novel Monthly", "Women's Life", "Half Moon Talk", etc., Mao Mao walked into the window with neat newspapers, and the probe saw a fat face with curly hair in the middle, With big eyes and thick lips, he kept sending melon seeds into his mouth, bowing his head and spitting out the skin.

"Make a phone call?" Maomao handed over the note, but the fat woman didn't answer, her thick lips just snapped at the phone on the windowsill, and Maomao pressed the numbers on it one by one.

"How stupid are you? Pick up the microphone and press again? Maomao's face felt hot and embarrassed, he hadn't touched such a thing.

He picked up the microphone and put it to his ear, and began to look at the numbers on the slip of paper and press it again.

"The microphone is reversed—" Maomao's hand began to shake, and she was very nervous.

"Hey—who?" finally got through, and Mao Mao heard a high voice at the first sentence, and he was pleasantly surprised.

"Gao Gao—I'm Maomao—"

"Where are you?"

"I'm here in the North Street phone booth—"

"You wait, don't move, I'll pick you up."

"Okay—hurry up—"

Mao Mao heard Gao Gao's words, and finally put her mind at ease, first of all, there was a place to live at night, and there was also a place to eat, and her face couldn't help but show a happy expression, the fat woman was snorting melon seeds, and gave Mao Mao a contemptuous grimace.

Soon Gao Gao ran over, because there were too many vehicles on the spacious road, Gao Gao could only wait across the road, Mao Mao saw Gao Gao hurriedly running over, the two waved their hands, and they were very excited.

Gao ran over and took Maomao's hand, and kept looking at Maomao, looking ecstatic.

"Phone money?" The fat woman grunted hard.

"Ahhh Mao Mao smiled and hurriedly took out the money from his arms.

"No need, I'll give it." Hand over five cents high.

"To the east, there is still a mile away is my school, all of which are classes upstairs, and I am in the 513th class." happily pointed to Maomao. "That's the building. There are six basketball courts and fifteen table tennis tables in the school, so I'll take you to see them later. ”

"Are you the 513 class? How many students does that have? Mao Mao asked in surprise.

"I counted my class, it was eighty-two classmates, and there were five, three, and five classes. Listen to my dad say that there are about 2,000 students. ”

"Oh my God—"

"The teachers here are all public teachers who have graduated from universities." Gao Gao proudly explained: "The quality of teaching is also very good, which is different from what the teacher in our hometown said. ”

Rural and urban? It's like one is a region, the other is heaven, the school in my hometown, there are more than a dozen broken tile houses, the walls are still cracked, the whole is located under the earth cliff, facing the big deep ditch, although the teachers are working hard, but can the two be compared?

"Let's go—we're home." It's a short distance.

Mao Mao followed Gao Gao, Uncle Gao was smiling with a cane, and he was already standing at the door waiting, Mao Mao saw Uncle Gao hurriedly rushing up to help.

"Grandpa—"

"Go home—hungry, baby—"

They happily gathered together, and Mao Mao hurriedly took out the snacks she bought for Uncle Gao from her shoulder bag and put them on the table.

"And this piece of filial piety, it doesn't seem to hurt you in vain, hehehe-" Uncle Gao stroked Maomao's head and looked down at Maomao with a smile. "I've grown up and become sensible. How did you find this place? Does your mother know you're coming? ”

"I know, my mother also prepared dry food for me."

"How about going out this time? Suffered a lot, didn't you? ”

"All like that?" Mao Mao scratched his head, this is in Gao Gao's house, if it was in Uncle Gao's house, Mao Mao would say it one by one.

Gao Ping came back, and when he saw Maomao, he asked, "What is this?" ”

"This is your brother's Maomao." Uncle Gao looked at Mao Mao and introduced Gao Ping and said, "I went out with Erwa to shovel soaphorn thorns and came back, and when I saw that I was not at home, he came here to see me." ”

"Maomao—what grade are you in?" Gao Ping took off his coat, sat down in front of Mao Mao enthusiastically and asked a long question: "How did you find this place?" I'm going to have to come back more often in the future—what do you need? Just tell my uncle. ”

"I don't go to school anymore, and I study first in school." Gao Gao hurriedly said.

"The family is poor——, I know this child's thoughts, no one does the farm work at home when I go to school, and your brother Ju is gone, and Niuniu is small." Uncle Gao said regretfully. "It's really bitter, baby."

"I've applied for a grant before, huh?" Gao Ping turned around and looked at Uncle Gao inexplicably, and looked at Maomao's face a little anxiously, a little disbelieving.

"I didn't see anything." Mao Mao said with a sad face and a very angry look: "Before, my father was lame, and I don't know how many times he ran to the brigade, but he didn't give it." ”

"It's just nonsense—" Gao Ping's angry face turned blue, and he got up from the sofa with a sudden, and walked back and forth in the room. "Shameless—"

Every time Mao Mao mentioned this, she was blocked in her heart, took Mao Mao's hand high, looked at her father, pouted, and said with an angry look on her face: "It's okay, my father will take care of it." ”

Gao Ping exhaled deeply, his hands kept kneading.

"Go to school well, these problems will be solved, and they will definitely be solved this time."

Gao Ping walked up to Mao Mao and took Mao Mao's hand, and said earnestly: "The child wants to go to school!" You can't afford not to go to school, and you won't have to worry about it at home in the future. ”

"yes - as long as you go to school, your uncle can help you." Uncle Gao hurriedly took over and said: "Maomao, this baby is very obedient and sensible. ”

Mao Mao looked at Gao Gao and smiled, with indescribable joy in her heart.

"Xiu'e is about to get off work, Maomao will make you delicious tonight-" Gao Ping looked at Maomao with a smile.