Qian Aishu soon grew to 8 years old, the age when he should go to school. Father Qian is getting older, the eldest three daughters are already married, the two younger daughters can't do heavy work, there is no male labor in the family, and the days are getting tighter day by day. Liudou once mentioned to Daddy Qian more than once that it was time for the scholar to go to school. Daddy Qian just lowered his head and didn't say anything. For this matter, Liudou also went to Wei Hua and Chunxi, but the result was the same. When he went there a few times ago, Wei Hua still politely entertained Liudou, and then he avoided Liudou. Chunxi led Liudou into the house, Liudou sat on their bed, and Chunxi sat on the small bench opposite him.

"If you don't go to school, it's too late."

"I know, but I can't move Weihua."

"How can he be like this, although the scholar is gone, how can he say that he is also the scholar and his own father? If your dad could handle this, I wouldn't be looking for you. ”

“…… Wei Hua, he, he, knows ......"

"Know what?"

“…… It is...... Scholar ......"

"What's wrong with the book?"

"It's all in the past, I ...... If you don't want to mention it again, don't ask. ”

Haruki suddenly became agitated and sobbed quietly.

Seeing Chunxi's appearance, Liudou didn't know what to do. Thinking about it, no matter how much entanglement continues, it won't end well, so I have to go out.

Coming out of Wei Hua's house, Liudou's legs sank as if they were filled with lead. Back at home, Liudou told his father that he would pay for Aishu to go to college.

Daddy Liudou stared at Liudou in surprise.

"Liudou, you have thought clearly, Shu Yanzi is a person who has a mother and a father, when will it be your turn to take care of it? Can you manage it? I can't even eat enough! ”

But Liudou had already made up his mind, so he didn't listen to his father's words at all. He had always taken his father's words as a holy decree, but this time, he decided to be the Lord himself. Every time he saw Qian Aishu's innocent smiling face, Liudou's heart kept tugging, looking at him, it was like seeing his own shadow. For this feeling, Liudou has never been able to say or understand.

There is no school in the mountains of Qianjiaao, and most of the children in these villages and eight ditches do not go to school. A few of the few who went to school had to walk dozens of miles along the stone road in the mountains to get out of the mountains. The school outside the mountain is not too big, and there is still a mountain outside the mountain, and this school is still in the mountain.

The school was rudimentary, with four adobe houses – two classrooms, one for teachers, and one for students in the mountains and a cafeteria. The dining table also serves as the bed.

It is a junior elementary school with only four classes from grades 1 to 3. Even so, there were not enough classrooms, and the two grades had to share a classroom. The only two respectable teachers in the school are in charge of one classroom each.

One of the two teachers is surnamed Qian, and the other is surnamed Peng, Teacher Qian is now a mother, and Teacher Peng is also a father. A few years ago, Qian Aishu came home and met their sons, who were all tiger-headed and very cute.

Towards the end of summer. That day, Qian Aishu was playing with the puppies and kittens outside as usual, and Liudou went over to grab him. He was in a hurry to play with the puppies and kittens, struggling to run away, "Brother Village Chief, Xiaohua has run far away." Xiaohua was chased by Xiao Hei and ran into a pile of bushes next to the house, and Xiao Hei followed and ran in. I can only hear the cry of the little flower "Wangwang". The voice was high and low, and then it slowly went down, and gradually disappeared.

"Xiaohua was bullied by Xiaohei!" Qian Aishu was so anxious that he jumped up, "Brother village chief, let it go!" ”

"Scholar, Uncle took you to study. Don't play anymore. Liudou squatted down, grabbed Qian Aishu and said to him.

Qian Aishu thought in his heart that Xiao Hei might be bullying Xiaohua, and Xiaohua's voice was gone, he had to help it, and he didn't listen to a word of Liudou's words. He swayed himself with enough strength to feed, and waved his hands to run away. Liudou didn't say anything more to him, picked him up and threw it on his wide back, went into the room and took a small cloth bag on the square table—Aunt Qian had already packed it up and put it there—and walked out the door. Aunt Qian was mixing pig food next to the stove in the kitchen, and when she saw Liudou coming, she stopped what she was doing and went out.

"Auntie, I took the scholar to the school to be enlightened and meet the teacher." Six Beans said to her.

Aunt Qian nodded, looked down at the pig food in her hand, and hurriedly put the pig food on her apron. "Hey, be careful on the road." A smile on his face.

Years, poverty, and the drag of family are deeply engraved on the face of this woman who has just turned 50. The beautiful and flat face that was as smooth as the grassland is now ravines and charred like earth. When he was young, his black, thick, tight black braids were dry and scattered, and black and white hung down on his forehead and back, and sweat stuck to his cheeks.

Liudou waved his hand and said, "Got it, don't worry." Wearing the new cloth shoes that his mother had just sewn for him, and carrying Qian Aishu and a cloth bag, Liudou stepped steadily on the bluestone road leading to the outside of the mountain. After walking a long way, Qian Aishu looked back and saw that his mother was still standing in front of the house, and the wind blew Aunt Qian's apron crookedly. Seeing him turn around, Aunt Qian raised her hand and beckoned to him, "Cub, study hard!" When Qian Aishu heard it, he also shouted at Aunt Qian: "Got it!" Mother. ”

Qian Aishu didn't know what Aunt Qian wanted him to do and what was going on with reading. In the past, Aunt Qian would shout at her loudly when he asked her to do anything: "Got it!" Mother. It was the same this time, and it continued to be that way until he graduated from high school and left his hometown.

Liudou carried Qian Aishu on his back and walked all the way to the east. When he left the house, the sun shook his eyes until the sun warmed his ass, and the endless bluestone pavement was finally gone. He put down Qian Aishu, pointed to a cedar pole not far in front of him, and said; "Scholar, you see, the national flag is floating on the pole." Qian Aishu was ignorant, and looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a roll of red cloth hanging on the top of the pole. The wind blew and whipped with a "crackling" sound.

"This is the school." Liudou pulled Qian Aishu into the school in front of the flagpole, and the flagpole was about 100 meters away from the school gate.

In addition to the adobe house mentioned above, the school also has a gate and an earthen wall that connects the gate to the earthen house. When they are connected in a circle, they become the entire space of the school. The door was open, and Liudou dragged Qian Aishu in.

There are several rows of trees planted next to each other on the campus, and the trees are growing luxuriantly. But the school didn't even see half a figure. There was a door in the earthen house that was open, and Liudou walked over and pulled Qian Aishu. A male teacher in his mid-20s sat inside. I didn't look down at them.

"Teacher." Six Beans screamed. The male teacher looked up, "Is there something wrong?" Fellow. ”

Qian Aishu was afraid to see the living, so he hid behind Liudou's ass and watched secretly. Liudou pulled him in front of him, "Call the teacher quickly." Qian Aishu shouted timidly according to Liudou, "Teacher." ”

"Lead the little girl to report to the teacher." Liudou said.

"School hasn't started yet, fellow, it's going to take a week."

Liudou took a few steps closer and pushed Qian Aishu in front of the teacher. "Teacher, the child's future is in your hands."

"School hasn't started yet."

"The children in the mountains, stupid and wild, send them over first and let the teacher take them with them to raise their temperament." Liudou said with a smiling face, "Teacher, I brought all the money and your clothes." ”

"This ......" the male teacher had a difficult face. He looked at Liudou's appearance, looked at Qian Aishu again, and then nodded.

Seeing the teacher nodding, Liudou was so excited that he picked up Qian Aishu and raised it above his head, "Scholar, you remember, you must thank the teacher for your kindness in the future." ”

At Qian Aishu's age at that time, of course he didn't know what "out of luck" and "thanksgiving" was. All he knew was nodding, and that was enough. The next day, Liudou and Daddy Qian came to school again, pulled his big buffalo, and carried two large bags of grain and a large piece of bacon. The bacon was given to the teacher, and the teacher refused to accept it, and finally Daddy Qian said, then trouble the teacher to take care of our family book in the future, and the bacon teacher still accepts it, when you fry it and eat it, our family book can also eat a bite. The teacher agreed to accept the bacon.