In front of the deserted house, Xiao Yu sat on a large rock, looking in the direction of the town from time to time.

Not far away, is the small river that flows through the town.

Each time, he would sit here and wait for his mother to come back and go back to the house together.

Only when his mother is there will he feel the warmth of home and forget his troubles for a while.

I didn't have a father for as long as I can remember, and if it weren't for my mother's long years of doing some hard work for others, I would have starved to death. Years of war have destroyed many homes, and Xiao Yu saw with his own eyes that those displaced people were not killed by the rebels, but left in starvation. Since being brought to this town by my mother, my life has settled down.

He is already twelve years old, but he is still like an eight or nine-year-old child, even if he wants to find a job in the town at such a young age, no one will use him.

On the wharf by the river in that town, there were quite a few people who did some coolies, and used merchants to carry some goods.

Xiao Yu had already thought that when he grew up again, he would go there to earn money, and he couldn't always make his mother so tired.

It's been two years since I came here with my mother, and Xiao Yu doesn't have any friends except for the people in the town.

In the sky, several white clouds floated through.

Inadvertently, Xiao Yu came to the river, listened to the flowing river, and quietly watched the white clouds in the sky.

At this moment, Xiao Yu forgot everything......

The heart seems to stop at this moment.

It wasn't until the white flowers dissipated with the wind that he woke up from that tranquility.

Just now, what's wrong with me?

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and Xiao Yu turned around to see it, and his face suddenly smiled.

Here it comes!

The moment he saw his mother, Xiao Yu quickly got up and greeted him.

In my mother's basket, there must be food for tonight.

When she saw him, a smile appeared on her mother's face, and regardless of the tiredness of the day, she first put down the Tyran in her hand and hugged Xiao Yu in her arms, and brushed the child's back with her already rough hands!

"I'm hungry, hurry back to the house and eat. ”

When the oil lamp is lit, the warmth in the house is once again revealed......

At dawn, the sound of her mother getting up woke Xiao Yu from her sleep, and she wanted to get up and send her mother off, but in the end Xiao Yu chose to be silent.

Before leaving, he put a piece of rice ball on the table, and when he returned in the evening, the fist-sized rice ball was Xiao Yu's meal for a day, and the tears in his eyes flowed again. In the past two years, the mother and son have never eaten breakfast, perhaps accustomed to such a life, and have never heard Xiao Yu say a word of hunger. For this, the mother and son have no complaints, it is not easy to live in troubled times, look at the people who died along the way when they fled, how to ask for others.

Thinking of the harshness of the big family, in the end, the mother still walked away.

An hour later, Xiao Yu came to the town again.

The rice ball has been taken into his arms.

In the distance, Xiaomin's figure had already appeared, and what he was holding in his hand was a steaming meat bun.

"Xiao Yu, give!"

Shaking his head, Xiao Yu knew that this meat bun did not belong to him.

"Eat!"

In the end, when Xiao Min forced the meat bun into his hand, Xiao Yu swallowed a mouthful of spit and ate it!

"My mother said that the teacher in the town agreed to let me go, but it will cost five taels of silver in the first year!"

"Well, I want to learn too, but it's a pity ......"

"Don't be afraid, when I learn to write, I will teach you!"

"Good!"

"However, I can't come here to play with you every day in the future, Mr. Teaching said, I only have one hour to rest every day, you come to our school, how about I use that hour to teach you to write?"

The meat in his mouth hadn't been swallowed yet, and Xiao Yu replied vaguely.

Afterwards, the two ran down the river, where they were in paradise.

In the days to come, Xiao Yu will appear outside the courtyard of the small town teacher in the afternoon, and Xiao Min will also secretly come out and teach Xiao Yu what he has learned in the day.

Being able to learn words, not only Xiao Yu was very happy, but even his mother was also happy.

has been persisting for five years, Xiao Yu has been studying with Xiaomin in the town, and he has not fallen behind for a day.

In the blink of an eye, both of them have grown up.

Mr. Teaching had already discovered the secret of the two, but for some reason, Mr. Teaching did not stop Xiaomin. If it were someone else, Xiao Yu would have been driven away a long time ago, after all, Xiao Yu didn't pay the money, so he could be regarded as stealing school.

One day, Xiaomin wrote eight words on the ground.

"Xiao Yu, come and see this, I can't understand the meaning, do you have a solution?"

Xiao Yu took a closer look, and the eight characters were: Go to the water poor, sit and watch the clouds rise!

"What is this?"

"What Mr. Teach said today, but did not explain what he meant. Xiao Min's face was already sad.

"I don't understand. ”

Then, both of them fell into deep thought......

Unexpectedly, as soon as these eight characters came out, it would become a precursor to the parting of the two.

Originally, the two were poor and rich, and now the gap is getting bigger and bigger.

One is clothed and fed, and the other is hungry.

Xiao Yu came less and less, as for the reason, Xiao Yu never said.

Until one day, I heard Xiao Yu say that he would not come again in the future. After that, Xiao Yu really never appeared in front of Mr. Teaching's courtyard again.

For a few days, Xiaomin looked out of the courtyard, silently lost in his heart......

Xiao Yu, it really won't come.

Could it be that the good or bad family background will really affect the friendship between the two? Or is it the question that made Xiao Yu misunderstand?

I really don't understand that sentence before I write it.

If that's the case, you shouldn't.

But how could the friendship between the two be broken by one sentence.

Xiaomin didn't believe it.

When Mr. Teach said the meaning of that sentence, Xiaomin was silent!

Thinking of Xiao Yu again, Xiao Min, who couldn't help it, finally looked for it along the river, but only saw an empty room, and Xiao Yu had already left with his mother.

Three years later, Xiaomin Jingshi rushed to take the exam.

In the land of Jingshi, the story of an unknown bachelor is circulating everywhere. This person lives in the far mountains but is full of wealth, if this person comes to take the exam, he will be in the first class!

Unfortunately, no one knows the name of this bachelor.

After returning to the town, he devoted himself to his studies, but he never dared to forget the words of Mr. Teach.

Go to the water and sit and watch the clouds rise!

I don't know the true meaning of these eight characters, what face do I have to survive in the world?

From then on, Xiaomin began to study hard.

Ten years later, he went to Beijing again, but he still did not make the list. And the apotheosis of the nameless bachelor is even louder!

Xiao Min's heart, touched by the nameless bachelor, embarked on a vast journey from then on, and began to look for this person, one to see this amazing genius, and the other to let him solve the confusion in his heart. He was a precious child, but he lived in the wind and rain, after more than 30 years, and after suffering all the hardships in the world, he still failed to meet the unknown bachelor.

It wasn't until his later years that Xiaomin finally returned home. The place where I played with Xiao Yu.

That small river is still there, and the only thing that can change is the state of mind.