During the summer vacation at school, Sheng Rui and Sheng Jia played with other children in the compound every day in addition to doing homework and helping with housework.

It's just that Su Ge came back from work for two days, and he only saw Sheng Jia playing with a few girls, but he didn't see Sheng Rui.

asked Bao Dan, Lin Zi, and Feng Song, and they all said that they didn't see Sheng Rui.

Later, Sheng Jia told Su Ge that his brother followed Lu Chengze out, and the two went to the railway to pick up coal cores.

Only then did Su Ge know what Sheng Rui was doing.

The railroad comes and goes every day, and there are many freight trains pulling coal passing through.

As the train passes, cinders fall and land on both sides of the tracks.

Some people who can't afford coal will go to the railroad to pick up coal cores, and the savings will be enough to survive the winter.

Before the winter, they will issue coal tickets, 100 catties for adults, 50 catties for two children, and their family of four can get 300 catties of coal tickets, which is enough for the winter.

Sheng Rui definitely didn't pick up coal cores to save coal for his family, probably to help Lu Chengze.

Seeing that it is autumn, the weather will be cold in more than a month, and then the family will have to burn coal stoves.

When Sheng Rui went home in the evening, Su Ge asked him in detail, and sure enough, as she guessed, the Lu family was not good, and he couldn't get coal tickets at all, and even if he had coal tickets, he had no money to buy coal, so he could only rely on him to pick up coal cores and barely survive the winter.

Su Ge asked worriedly: "You two run to the side of the railway every day, it's too dangerous, what if a train comes and you don't have time to avoid it?" ”

Sheng Rui whispered: "Auntie, we not only go to the railway to pick it up, but sometimes we also go to the boiler room of the factory, there are a lot of coal cores that have not burned through, and we can pick up more than a dozen catties a day when it is good." ”

More than ten catties a day, two children can pick up two or three hundred catties of coal cores in a summer vacation, which is indeed enough for the Lu family to heat up.

However, Su Ge knew that the cinder heaps behind the boiler room in the factory were piled high, and there were indeed many children picking up coal cores over there, basically from families with many children and poor living conditions.

Those cinders are burning hot, one is easy to get burned, and the other one, in order to grab the coal core, the children will also fight back and forth, just to grab more points.

"Anyway, safety first, you and Lu Chengze must pay attention to safety. If there are older children grabbing coal cores with you, don't be tough, and if you are bullied, you must come back and tell your uncle and aunt. ”

Su Ge repeatedly instructed Sheng Rui.

Coal is a ration in each winter, and Su Ge can't help get it, and she can't help the Lu family's situation.

Since Sheng Rui can help with something, he is also willing to help, and Su Ge will not stop him.

But basic security still needs to be taken care of.

Sheng Rui thought that the aunt would say that she would not let herself go again when she knew about this, but she didn't expect that the aunt just told a few words and didn't stop her.

He immediately responded happily, and the next day he followed Lu Chengze to pick up coal cores.

Picking up the coal core for a summer vacation, Sheng Rui got a lot darker, and Lu Chengze came to the compound once in the middle, and he still rolled on the donkey made by Grandma Lu.

When Su Ge saw him, he found that he was also dark.

Not only is it dark, but it is also thin, but at the same time it is taller.

Lu Chengze grew up very quickly, Sheng Rui has grown a lot this year, and the two children are about the same size when they stand together, but Su Ge made new clothes for Sheng Rui, and he couldn't show anything when he wore clothes that fitted.

But the clothes on Lu Chengze's body are obviously the same as before, the sleeves of the clothes are shortened, and the forearms and calves are exposed.

It's nothing in the summer, and if you wear it like this in the fall, it's too cold.

Su Ge didn't ask Lu Chengze anything in person, and there was nothing to ask about it.

Lu Chengze and his grandmother depend on each other, and it is a problem for both of them to eat, let alone dress.

Su Ge couldn't look at it, so he made an excuse to take two pieces of fabric out of the space, made an autumn dress for Lu Chengze, and asked Sheng Rui to call him to the compound and give him the clothes.

"Try what doesn't fit, and you can change it."

Because he couldn't measure the size, Su Ge estimated that he made it bigger.

Half-sized children are just when they grow their bodies, and they are very fast.

The clothes are bigger, now you can wear the sleeves and trouser legs up, and when you grow taller, put the sleeves and trouser legs down, and you're just right.

This way the clothes can be worn for a while longer.

When Lu Chengze saw the clothes, he refused to accept them at first.

When he was in school, Sheng Rui always took the amount of food for two people and gave him half of it.

Sheng Rui always said that he brought too much and asked him to help eat it, but in fact, Lu Chengze knew in his heart that Sheng Rui wanted to help himself and deliberately made an excuse.

Sheng Rui brings so much food every day, the Sheng family must know that Lu Chengze is already very grateful for the help of the Sheng family.

Since his father's accident, he has seen too many cold faces and white eyes, and his uncle and uncle, who used to have a good relationship, have changed their faces in an instant.

At a young age, Lu Chengze has seen too much of the warmth and coldness of the world.

Therefore, the Sheng family is especially grateful for his help.

But he has already received too much favor from the Sheng family, and he can no longer ask for other people's clothes.

Lu Chengze insisted on refusing to accept it, and Su Ge persuaded him that he worked in a textile factory, and it was relatively easy to get fabrics, and the clothes were all ready, or his size, wouldn't he be blind if he didn't wear these fabrics?

In fact, the latter sentence is purely fooling.

Even if the clothes are made according to Lu Chengze's size, it is okay to change them for others to wear.

But Lu Chengze was really frightened.

No matter how mature he is, he is only a ten-year-old child, and he trusts Su Ge very much, and she believes all these words.

In the end, Su Ge forcibly stuffed his clothes to Lu Chengze.

She always felt a little sorry for this child.

Perhaps because his experience is very similar to his own, every time he sees him, Su Ge will think of the days when he lived alone when he was a child.

Because of this, I always want to do something for him.

In September, schools are opening one after another.

Sheng Rui ended the days of picking up coal cores, put on his schoolbag with Sheng Jia, and started a new semester.

Night school also opened, but Su Ge had only been in class for two days, and the school was closed.

Not only night classes were suspended, but also elementary, junior and senior high schools.

The factory was also shut down.

The great leading comrade, who was revered by the people of the whole country, passed away.

It was sometime in early September.

When the news was released, everyone cried.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, Su Ge and other female workers were preparing to get off the morning shift and hand over to the female workers in the middle class, when the factory radio suddenly sounded, and the announcer broadcast the news of the death of the big leader in a painful voice.

At that time, everyone was stupid.

Everyone was in disbelief at first, but after confirming the authenticity of the news, the female workers all hugged their heads and cried together.

Although Su Ge knew about this history in advance, his eyes were also red.