After a lot of hardships. Eventually, they saw the Yellow River. They—the eldest and the second, and the money and books—were just the three of them. Everyone else retreated. That day, Qian Aishu and the second child took the water back, and before the fourth child took it back, he suffered from heat stroke. It's not very serious, but it still makes him and the fifth and sixth retreat collectively. The fifth and sixth said, let's send the fourth child back. And they went.

Later, the third child said that he dreamed that his mother told him that his father scolded him so much that he vomited blood, so he couldn't bear it and wanted to go back to kowtow to his father to make amends, and then he also went back. At this time, they had already entered the territory of Hubei. Walked for a few more days. In the afternoon they ate at a roadside restaurant. The TV in the restaurant was broadcasting a soap opera. The plot that was being broadcast at that time was like this: at the beginning, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and the old mother cried to death, and the scene was very miserable. Then the old mother finally stopped crying, and I thought, okay, finally I can eat quietly. Who knows, someone on the TV is actually shouting, no, my mother fainted. Then, the scene was like a chicken coop. There is nothing to see on the screen except for dangling trousers and leather shoes. After a long period of messy, the old mother had another voice—son! You're coming back! Come back, son......

After eating, the seventh said, "Boss, I don't want to leave." ”

The boss pretended not to hear, got on the bike, and said, "Let's go." ”

Qian Aishu and the second and eighth children, you look at me, I look at you, and finally the eighth spoke, "Boss, the seventh said that he wanted to go back." The boss couldn't pretend he didn't hear anymore, "You want to go back too, okay, you can go too." "The boss is getting more and more angry. Since the fourth child left, the boss's anger has been expanding.

The eighth child probably didn't want to go any further, but what he wanted was for everyone to go back together. "Boss, let's go back together! Please! The eighth said.

As a result, in the end, only the eldest and the second had money to love books to see the Yellow River. In fact, to be precise, they did not see the Yellow River, but only the loess, that is, the riverbed of the Yellow River. It was already late autumn, and the Yellow River had long since stopped flowing.

In their minds, in their imaginations, the Yellow River is a dragon with a bloody mouth. It roared and poured out for miles. The earthen embankment could not control it, so the embankment burst, and the turbid and fierce water of the Yellow River flooded unscrupulously, flooding fields, grass and trees, and houses...... But the Yellow River in front of them was at most a long snake that had dried up and died. They were disappointed, and the fatigue of the journey, which had accumulated over the months, suddenly took control of their whole minds: the ideal and the reality were always far apart.

In the evening, they spent the night in a farmhouse. In this family, there are two grandfathers and granddaughters, the grandfather is around seventy years old, and the granddaughter is fifteen or sixteen years old - a beautiful girl. Lying on the bed, Qian Aishu couldn't fall asleep over and over, and the eldest and second were already snoring like thunder. He got up and got out of bed, put on his clothes, opened the door and walked out. It was a little cold outside, and he shivered with the cold.

The moon was bright and round, and the silvery light came out of the moon's eyes quietly. If you look at it for a long time, there will be a faint golden color.

After looking at the moonlight for a long time, Qian Aishu found that the girl from the peasant family was sitting on the stairs down the corridor outside the house, and she was also watching the moonlight intently. He walked over and sat down next to her. "Haven't slept yet?" He turned his head to ask her. She folded her arms around her legs and rested her chin on her knees. "Can't sleep." "I can't sleep either, you don't have to go to school tomorrow?" "Something is wrong with the teacher."

The girl sat there and looked a bit like Li Hongdou. Qian Aishu looked at her quietly, as if Hongdou was really sitting there. The girl was very quiet, in a trance, Qian Aishu's thoughts were all on Hongdou, as if he didn't think about her, his soul would dissipate immediately, he could only keep it like this, thinking about her over and over again:

Red Beans are often like this, sitting beside him without saying a word. After that "virgin talk" with her, he couldn't find a second excuse other than lamenting her hairstyle. But thinking animals are strange, and when they have the first time, they think about doing the second time all day long, and if the first time comes too suddenly, then the second time they want to find a high-sounding reason, so that they can do the third and fourth times with peace of mind...... What's more, it's such a beautiful thing.

He was anxiously thinking of reasons, and even wanted to make up an excuse for himself. However, all this was in vain, and almost all his ingenuity was taken up by study, and very little was left for him to use to make up excuses.

But the disaster is not alone, when the backyard is on fire, a strong enemy comes. On this day, the math teacher entered the classroom with a stack of exam papers.

"Students, this class exam." The math teacher said without being salty. In the past, Qian Aishu's biggest hobby and specialty in life was exams, but now that he says so, he obviously feels that he lacks confidence. Go into battle head-on, and the consequences can be imagined. Three days later, the exam papers were issued, and the first and second tears of his life were born in his left and right eyes, and then they slowly dragged a tear stain on his left cheek and right cheek, respectively.

After class, Qian Aishu rushed into the dormitory and plunged into the bed. Again, with the first there is the second, third, fourth, and fifth...... Tears welled up and flooded. He was crying all the time, and he didn't even go to class. It wasn't until he felt a little hungry that he poked his head out of the dark bed to look, just in time to see the head teacher coming from the other side of the corridor. He shuddered, and retracted into the bed.

The footsteps of the head teacher are getting closer and closer.

"Money loves books." The head teacher called him softly. He had no choice but to stick his head out.

"Sick?" The head teacher came over and touched his forehead. He didn't speak.

"Get up, get up." The head teacher dragged him out of the bed, as clean and neat as Daddy Qian. Qian Aishu didn't take off his clothes in the first place, dragged it out, put on his shoes and left.

"I'll have to talk to you about it."

Qian Aishu knew what the head teacher was going to talk to him about.

It's past dinner time, and everyone has finished eating. Qian Aishu was extremely remorseful, hating that he cried so much that he even wasted the rations exchanged for his father's coffin. But now that it had come to this, what could he do but starve?

Qian Aishu followed the head teacher and walked all the way to the head teacher's house.

"Dad, you're back." When he entered the door, Qian Aishu saw a girl sitting there with her back to them watching TV, her back looked so familiar, Qian Aishu's brain was spinning rapidly - red beans, it was Li Hongdou, it was actually Li Hongdou!

"You're back, but your mom hasn't come back yet?" The head teacher pointed to a stool while speaking, meaning to let Qian Aishu sit. Qian Aishu walked over and sat down. When Li Hongdou saw him, he just smiled and said hello.

"Have you eaten?" The head teacher asked Li Hongdou.

"Eat." Li Hongdou got up, went to the kitchen, and after a while, came out with a plate of food.

"Let's eat. Let's talk about it after eating. The head teacher walked over to eat, but Qian Aishu didn't dare to move.

"Come and eat too, aren't you hungry?"

Qian Aishu had no choice but to go over and sit down to eat. The head teacher quickly picked up the rice, and Qian Aishu also followed the rice. The head teacher took a bite of food, and he dared to take a mouthful of food, but the head teacher didn't speak, so he naturally didn't dare to speak. In this way, a meal is eaten in the blink of an eye. Li Hongdou came over to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Qian Aishu helped clean up. Then, Li Hongdou brought a plate of dishes and chopsticks back to the kitchen.

Qian Aishu sat down respectfully and waited for the head teacher to talk to him. 、

"What's wrong today?"

Qian Aishu lowered his head and did not speak.

"Why does math regress so much?"

Qian Aishu still didn't speak, so what did he say? Did he tell the head teacher that he was thinking about how to talk to his daughter every day, and he was delaying class? Qian Aishu looked stupid and let the head teacher's words come in from the left ear, and then from the right ear.

The head teacher talked for a long time, and saw that Qian Aishu's attitude was quite good, and he seemed to be very remorseful, so he relented and couldn't bear to blame him again.

"Okay, maybe you didn't do well in the exam, go back and summarize it well."

Out of the head teacher's house, Qian Aishu ran all the way, like a madman, and couldn't control himself at all. The road in front of him seemed clear but intricate, and he knew what to do, but he was still lost.

Running all the way to the river, he stopped, fell on the sand, and he curled up in a mass and wept, and when he had finished crying, he cried out to the river:

Money loves books, I hate you! I hate you!

His mind was like a twist at the moment, he wanted to tear off one, but they all broke, and then the fault appeared, and then there was a blank......