Han Xing Yuan Gu
The first chapter was given to Li Gu, and his heart slowly cooled down. (1)
Some are cute.
Ji Hanxing and Ji Zhiqing are very close, but Li Gu always feels that there is an indescribable distance between them. Maybe it is because Ji Zhiqing's personality is not used to getting too close to people, or Ji Hanxing knows that he is not his biological child. Not as casual as a normal father and son.Therefore, Li Gu couldn't help but be more soft-hearted towards Ji Hanxing.
There are three people in the family, Li Gu thinks that buying food is too expensive and not worthwhile, so he goes to buy vegetables by himself and cooks for them in different ways.He accidentally discovered a column of practical recipes in the old magazine that he brought back from Xu Jiwen. Li Gu learned from it. He could cook it to the extent that he could cook it well, but later he cooked it and it was still delicious.
When he was preparing for lunch, he went to wash the vegetables, and Ji Hanxing wanted to help, but Li Gu didn't let him touch the water, and quickly washed an apple and stuffed it in his hand: "You eat, brother can make it quickly by himself." Ji Hanxing He took it over with a docile attitude, he didn't want to argue with Li Gu, he already knew that Li Gu was a dead-headed and stubborn person, and he couldn't change what he was sure of.
Ji Hanxing took small bites of the apple.The apple was so big that he had to hold it in both hands to chew.Li Gu glanced at it, stood up and took the apple back, went to the kitchen and cut it into small pieces with a knife, put it in a bowl, mixed a little sugar, and asked him to poke it with a toothpick to eat.Ji Hanxing sat on a small bench, poking apple slices while watching Li Gu wash the vegetables.
Ji Zhiqing came out of the study and saw this scene with a slightly stiff face. After all, Ji Hanxing is no longer a baby who needs to be fed complementary food. This way of eating feels like petty bourgeois pleasure eroded by the evil capitalism.But Mr. Ji is a calm person, he walked slowly to Li Gu to help him, and said along the way: "You are too spoiled for the stars."
Li Gu smiled honestly: "He's still young." He didn't need Teacher Ji's help either, he was very agile in doing things by himself.Ji Zhiqing looked at him for a while, but finally said nothing.
Blue moss is crawling on the wall of the small courtyard, and some cracks have appeared on the stone wall due to the age. The light from the outside sky shines in and reflects on the wall, like flowing water.
Xia Tian was drowsy after eating, Ji Zhiqing went back to her room to rest, Ji Hanxing also closed his eyes slightly and dozed off.Li Gu asked him to go back to his room first, saying that he would come after washing the dishes.When I went back, I found that Ji Hanxing was not sleeping soundly, and there was a fine sweat on his white forehead.He carefully brushed Ji Hanxing's broken hair aside, found a fan and fanned him lightly.The sleeping child was indeed soothed.
Li Gu looked at him with a peaceful sleeping face and felt satisfied. For a boy who was growing up, being able to take care of others and do more things was a good experience, and he felt that he was very valuable.Li Gu didn't stop working, and he didn't feel tired.In the end, he was so tired that he fell asleep lying on the edge of Ji Hanxing's bed, and fell headlong on the checked mat.
When Li Gu woke up again, he felt a slight wind around his ears. He suddenly raised his head, and there was a squeak—the neck was twisted.
Ji Hanxing smiled and rolled his eyes, it turned out that he was the one fanning Li Gu.Li Gu blinked his eyes for a while before waking up, his face blushing like a mat mark.Ji Hanxing asked him: "Brother Li Gu, have you been fanning me while I was asleep?" Li Gu replied stiffly: "No, it hasn't been long." Ji Hanxing leaned over and looked at him curiously. : "Why don't you look at me?"
Li Gu: "...Brother twisted his neck."
The tough teen twisted his neck to make dinner, his inability to look people in the eye gave him an irreverent air.Ji Zhiqing was a kind person, so he decided to order some noodles by himself, and let Li Gu sit and relax.Li Gu turned around slowly and saw that Ji Hanxing was probably holding back a smile, but he stopped when he saw him, but his eyebrows and eyes were all crooked, and his smile was hard to hide.Li Gu suddenly stopped being aggrieved. He saw that the corners of Teacher Ji's mouth curled up when he reached for the noodles from the cupboard. At that moment, he unexpectedly felt that he was really a useful person.
Ji Hanxing went to the kitchen to help Ji Zhiqing. He tiptoed to get a bowl from the cupboard, and accidentally touched the sundries on the upper floor.Ji Zhiqing and him were unaware of this, but Li Gu's ears were sharper than his nose, and when he felt the sound was wrong, he quickly turned his head and rushed over to catch it, preventing the jar from falling from hitting Ji Hanxing.The crisis was resolved, and there was another Gaba sound——Okay, Li Gu's neck twisted back again.
The three looked at each other, and finally laughed out loud.After Ji Zhiqing laughed, he wrung a hot towel and put it on the back of his neck worriedly.
Recalling that it was a very good time, the long summer afternoon, the air was hot and the sun was bright, he and Ji Hanxing were writing together, and occasionally a little breeze blew in from the window to turn the pages of the boy's book.If the world is gentle enough, it would be nice to give young people a little more time to grow up.
Li Gu looked at Ji Hanxing's dazed look, and thought that even a well-protected child would sense changes before the storm came.
Ji Zhiqing's surgery was approaching, and Ji Hanxing became more obedient and clingy in front of him.He used to be calm and independent among kids of the same age, but now he would go to Ji Zhiqing from time to time, offering to wash some fruit for him, and asking Ji Zhiqing to help him with his homework.He is like a little milk cat who knows that his master is sick. He will not explicitly express his worries to burden the other party, but conveys the meaning of "I need you, I care about you" all the time.
Ji Hanxing didn't say anything, but Li Gu could tell that he was very afraid that something would happen to Ji Zhiqing.If he was a little older, he might be able to hide this worry better, but he is only nine years old.Ji Zhiqing generally knew that there was finally no such subtle sense of distance between him and Ji Hanxing.He called Ji Hanxing over and poked his face: "Come and see, has Xingxing gained a little weight recently?" Ji Hanxing raised his head and smiled at him, then patted his stomach childishly: "Li Gu Brother's food is so good, I'm going to be fed into a little fat man by him."
"It's good to be fatter, now you'll be taller when you grow up."
"Is it as tall as the educated youth uncle?"
"You will be taller than me, and then I will have to look up at you."
Faster
The night before the operation, the three of them had dinner and went out for a walk. Maybe it was because there were two children with them, or maybe it was because the surgery was coming soon. Ji Zhiqing felt less uncomfortable seeing her neighbors, and even nodded after meeting one of them. .Ji Hanxing held Ji Zhiqing with one hand and Li Gu with the other. He hummed softly, like a little prince ignorant of the world.Ji Zhiqing asked him why he was so happy, and Ji Hanxing said, "I am very happy to have Uncle Educated Youth." The softest consolation, Ji Hanxing let out a "huh".
At night, the two said goodnight to Ji Zhiqing, and went to sleep in their respective rooms.
Ji Hanxing stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, he couldn't fall asleep.Consultant Li: "Xing Xing, are you hot?" He took out his fan and began to shake it. Ji Hanxing quietly shook his head: "Uncle Educated Youth will have an operation tomorrow."
Li Gu understood, and asked softly, "Are you worried about him?"
Ji Hanxing didn't answer directly, he said: "You went out to buy vegetables that day, and the educated youth uncle asked me, if possible, would I like to live with Uncle Kang."
"That is?"
"He was the captain of my father in the past, but now he is a very powerful person. Last time at the market... it was because of him that the bad guys were taken away in the end." Seeing that Li Gu was still ignorant, Ji Hanxing said: "Maybe Uncle Educated Youth thinks that if something happens to him, I hope that uncle will take care of me." Li Gu was anxious: "I can take care of you too! No, Teacher Ji will be fine!"
Ji Hanxing smiled lightly: "You are not yet of age."
Li Gu was stuck for a moment: "The village chief, and the village chief, we can take care of you." Ji Hanxing didn't speak for a long time.Li Gu looked at him curiously through the moonlight leaking through the window. When he saw Ji Hanxing's calm but sad face, he suddenly understood that Ji Hanxing didn't care about who would be adopted in the future, but that he didn't want to lose him right now. Ji Zhiqing.Li Gu leaned over and hugged Ji Hanxing, and gently patted him on the back: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid of the stars." He couldn't say that Ji Zhiqing would be fine, he could only tell him over and over again not to be afraid .Ji Hanxing's mood gradually calmed down, and he fell asleep holding Li Gu's hand.Li Gu stared at the child, sighed faintly, and then closed his eyes.
In his drowsiness, he had a nightmare, dreaming that Ji Zhiqing was missing and Ji Hanxing was taken away.He could hear Ji Hanxing calling him Brother Li Gu, Brother Li Gu, but he couldn't get him back.Li Gu woke up in a cold sweat, seeing Ji Hanxing grabbing his lapel to sleep soundly, he breathed a sigh of relief, took the fan and slowly shook it for Ji Hanxing.
Ji Hanxing fell asleep, but Li Gu couldn't fall asleep anymore.He recalled what the child had said to him, and suddenly felt that he was a little silly in the past.Living a foolish life, just doing better in the exam can fly to the sky happily.But these are just the appearance of life. He thinks he is living a good life because he is very ignorant.
Just like Ji Hanxing only has Ji Zhiqing as his relative, he also has only the old village head as his relative.That nightmare reminded him to start worrying about some more realistic things, such as what if Ji Zhiqing really had an accident, and what if Ji Hanxing was really taken away and brought up by someone he didn't know.He was also worried about his old village head, he was so stubborn and worried, would he leave one day?He also worries about the loss of his father Rabbit and his grandma.Li Gu worried about everything he could think of, and then worriedly... fell asleep.
People always have to go through a few sleepless nights to grow.Early the next morning, when Ji Hanxing opened his eyes, the bedside was already empty.Li Gu was busy working outside, he decided to stop treating himself as a child from today on, he didn't need a vacation, he didn't want to live life ignorantly, he needed to grow up faster, faster.
On the day of Ji Zhiqing's operation, Li Gu took care of everything before the two of them woke up. He prepared breakfast and packed the things Ji Zhiqing needed for the hospital for a few days after the operation.Ji Zhiqing went for surgery, so he was the only adult in the family, and he was supposed to take care of everything properly.He waited with Ji Hanxing outside the operating room, peeled a candy for the child and fed it into his mouth.
Ji Hanxing tasted the sweetness of fruit candy. Many years later, he remembered the scene in the hospital. Li Gu borrowed three points of determination and seven points of youthful spirit out of thin air, and stood behind him solemnly: "Is there a brother here?" , I will be an adult soon." At that time, he had grown gradually, and he could vaguely see the handsome facial features and good face in the future.Ji Hanxing sucked the candy he was feeding, and he knew rationally that if something happened, Li Gu would not be able to help much, after all...he was just a child who had just stepped out of the mountains.But at that moment, he believed that Li Gu would do what he said.
Fortunately, the news finally came out that Ji Zhiqing's surgery turned out well.Ji Hanxing sat by his bed, he looked at Ji Zhiqing for a long time with red eyes, Ji Zhiqing smiled weakly at him: "Star." Ji Hanxing pursed his lips, he opened his arms and hugged Ji Zhiqing , whispered: "Dad", Ji Zhiqing was shocked.
When he recovered a bit, Ji Zhiqing still chose to leave the hospital to recuperate, and Li Gu also started a regular life.
He gets up early during the day to buy vegetables and cook, and sometimes he reads while guarding the pot.When Ji Zhiqing is in good spirits, he will take his textbooks for the next semester and teach him more.Ji Hanxing is different from his courses, and will teach him to pronounce very authentic English.
Li Gu worked so hard, and a tragedy happened soon - the summer vacation was less than two weeks old, and several summer assignments had already been written.He didn't want to be so idle and flustered, so he tried to contact Shao Li, and did odd jobs in the extra time in the afternoon.The wages of summer workers are lower than others, but Li Gu works neatly, so he gets quite a lot of money.During this process, the boy grew up like the wind, and in the past few weeks, he still developed some muscular lines. Every evening, when he came home, his overalls were always stained with white spots, and he smelled of fermented sweat.
Ji Hanxing would always pick him up at the door, and then turn around and leave when he saw him—as a kid who loves cleanliness, he despises Li Gu's sweaty body.Li Gu didn't let him get what he wanted, so he walked over to pick up the child in a few steps, but Ji Hanxing couldn't run, and was finally lifted by Li Gu to the top of his head, and he rode home on Li Gu's shoulders.Li Gu ran so fast that the children had to hold on to his sweaty hair to keep their balance.
Ji Zhiqing came out and saw Ji Hanxing riding on his head, he couldn't help shaking his head, the only thing he didn't agree with was that Li Gu was so pampering to the children, even one day he saw Li Gu squatting on the ground cutting Ji Hanxing's toenails, Ji Hanxing The educated youth said that he should let Ji Hanxing do these things by himself, Li Gu said seriously: "But the stars are very precious." Ji Zhiqing had no choice but to let him go.
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Li Gu, who was raped and laid on the bed many years later, recalled the past: what can he do with a child who was raised by himself.Why.
Let each other down, make up for each other
After more than half a month, Ji Zhiqing had several inspections, and the condition was stable, so the three of them returned to Ningchuan together.
Li Gu bought a pair of sports shoes for the old village chief with the money he saved from odd jobs.The old village head put it in his hand and looked at it for a long time. At one time, he was critical of the white one, which was easy to get dirty. At another time, he said why it was so light, and whether the material was not enough.Li Gu couldn't help but talk about him, and he was so angry that he went to work on other things, but the person who said he hated him put the pair of shoes on the desk of his village committee.When others go, they will ask: "Village chief, why do you have a pair of shoes on this table?"
What he was waiting for was this question, and then he said "anxiously", "Don't talk about it, the little boy at home bought it, it's so white, who should wear it." Then he was also happy under the envious eyes of others.
After returning home, Li Gu told him about his grades. The village head opened the bottle of wine he kept and drank a glass. Li Gu said, "Didn't you say you want to drink it after I get married?"
"Can I be happy?"
"to make."
The village head touched his head, his eyes were not sure whether it was smelled of alcohol or something, it looked extraordinarily moist: "Okay, good luck, I picked up a treasure and came back. Li Gu, why do you think I picked this for you?" As for your name, you were so big when I picked you up. If you were so big, you would almost die in that ravine. I asked in several villages, but no one came out to recognize you. I am most afraid that you will have no future. Ren Gu Nian, I gave you this name, I think someone will take care of you in the future."
In fact, his original name was one word more than this, Li Tiangu.When the village chief picked him up, he felt that no one wanted him, and seeing that he was so small and thin, he might not be able to support him, so he could only hope that God would take care of him.It's a pity that Ningchuan encountered a natural disaster that winter, and the heavy snow collapsed many houses.In a fit of anger, the village head removed the word Tian.He has a contradictory worldview, he has ghosts and gods watching in his heart, he has clumsy beliefs, so he has to do good things and be a good person.But he doesn't believe that there is really a god who can save him, so he has to fight with all his might.
The village head is an old bachelor who doesn't know how to clean up. Li Gu went home and looked around, worried about him, only felt that there were a lot of things waiting for him to do.Old countrymen don't know how to tidy their clothes from winter to spring, so Li Gu used these few days to wash all the winter clothes, took advantage of the strong sun, dried them, folded them, and put them on the upper shelf of the closet.
Ji Zhiqing's spirits are still not good, and he went back to Ningchuan to recuperate, so he was not in a hurry to call the children back to class.Li Gu and Ji Hanxing were free to help Grandma Rabbit process some herbs.Tu Yuming told him that during the absence of Teacher Ji, the people from the next village had visited several times and secretly urged them to go out to work.As soon as Li Gu guessed, he knew it must be Shao Li and the others. He frowned and said, "They are short of people, and now they are pulling everywhere. Aren't there rules in the village? If this happens again next time, you can go and help them." The village chief said."
After Tu Yuming heard the news that Li Gu got the first place in the exam, he seemed to regard him as a spiritual mentor, and agreed very crisply: "Okay, I will take care of this."
The summer vacation is over in a flash, and the two children have to report to the city early.Li Gu took over all the work of sending Ji Hanxing to school and registering: "Mr. Ji, don't worry, I will definitely protect Xingxing. Isn't Ningchuan going to start school in a few days? You still have to prepare lessons, don't worry." Running back and forth." Ji Zhiqing went to see Ji Hanxing, and the child agreed: "The mountain road is not easy, don't see me off, brother Li Gu is fine." Ji Zhiqing patted his head, then looked at Li Gu: "Then I entrust the stars to you."
Li Gu was so encouraged by these words that he almost slapped his chest out of resonance: "Yeah!"
When we walked this road together to go to the market, we still thought we were two children.After less than a year, Li Gu looked like an adult. "Brother Li Gu." Ji Hanxing said suddenly.
"what's wrong?"
"I don't want to go to school anymore."
"What?" Li Gu was taken aback.
Ji Hanxing said, "I want to accompany Uncle Educated Youth."
Li Gu was a little flustered, other brats were easy to deal with, like rabbits, he could manage a class by himself.But Ji Hanxing... he was sensible and sensible, like a little monster, so if something happened to him, Li Gu would have no idea what to do.His bewilderment was written all over his face.
"I just said it casually." After a while, Ji Hanxing spoke first, and then asked him: "Will you come back in the middle of this semester?" Li Gu thought for a while: "If the village needs me to come back..." Ji Hanxing Pulling his sleeve, he smiled at him: "Then take me with you when you come back." Li Gu nodded quickly: "Okay." He held Ji Hanxing's hand tightly all the way, and he felt that his mouth He is very clumsy, and he can't actually do anything for him. I just hope that by doing this, he can give him a little bit of strength.
……
Generally speaking, the first few days of the new semester always go through such a rehabilitation period, otherwise the youngsters in the class will hardly remember how to write their names.But Li Gu was different, he showed an extraordinary self-discipline, it didn't look like he had been sloppy for two months, but it was like in a martial arts novel that fell to the bottom and met an expert for two months of extra training.Xu Jiwen saw that he was different again, and said that growing up was like a transformation. This process is very interesting. You never know what kind of person will be transformed from the old shell of the past.
He has firmly secured the first place in the grade, and he has shown that he is bound to win every homework.If the other teachers thought at first that Li Gu was able to get the first place only because the scope of the test was small at that time, and he was lucky enough to meet him, then the big and small tests in the new semester really made people realize that this is not to be underestimated. poor students.
One day before the mid-term exam, the teacher from another class met Xu Jiwen and dragged Li Gu to talk.The teacher kept an eye out, thinking that Xu Jiwen was afraid that he was teaching some skills, so he went to listen to it secretly.As a result, what Xu Jiwen said was: "Take it easy, just sit firmly first, and you don't need to shake No. 2 too much." The teacher almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, and then he heard Li Gu's voice full of doubts: "Then ...I left it blank? Or did I write it wrong on purpose?" The teacher was frightened and walked away with hands and feet.
There is another thing worth mentioning this semester. Li Gu met an acquaintance at the school gate——Cheng Yong's brother changed from a small shop to a pancake stand.With the previous lessons, he was afraid of killing people, and the materials he used were all solid and good products, and the students still bought him.Li Gu laughed and said that I would also tell my classmates when I go back and ask them to come and eat.Cheng Wu was very happy, probably wearing a white apron has a sense of service industry, and his smile is more joyful than before. He handed a hot pancake to Li Gu: "I can tell, you got up early , you come every day in the future, I will share one for you, no money. You can take one for Cheng Yong, he is always late and doesn’t remember to eat.”
Cheng Wu and other students rested after class, went home to clean up, and set up a stall not far away at night as a night food stall, so there would be no delay in the morning or evening.That day, Xu Jiwen took Li Gu to dinner in order to reward Li Gu for his mid-term performance, and happened to be at Cheng Wu's booth.
Cheng Wu also looked surprised: "Mr. Xu, do you still know me?"
Of course Xu Jiwen knew him, probably thanks to this underdeveloped small city, his teaching career collected a lot of gangsters.
Cheng Wu enthusiastically asked him to order, and said: "I also regret not studying, but my brain is not good enough, maybe everyone has different food. Teacher Xu, you are a good teacher. If you taught cooking at that time, Maybe I have already opened a restaurant." Xu Jiwen laughed, asked him to open a bottle of wine, and brought two glasses, one for him and one for himself.Li didn't care about his age, so he wasn't among the drinkers.He looked at the people sitting around the booth: "It's pretty good, just live your own life. Who is your class monitor? I only choose good grades for the class monitor, but that little bastard hasn't come back for a long time. Bar."
"The squad leader has passed the exam and is about to get married."
Xu Jiwen took a sip of his wine, his eyes blank for a moment: "Oh, that's pretty good too."
Xu Jiwen didn't eat much that meal, and all the food he ordered was fed to Li Gu, a young man in his growing period. His current meal size is astonishing.There are more people during peak hours, and the stalls are not like breakfast, there are few things, and there is no need to settle accounts.Now that there are too many dishes and more people, Cheng Wu can't figure it out, so Xu Jiwen stands beside him and helps him collect the money and make change.When there were fewer people, Xu Jiwen walked away. When he came back, he took a brand new calculator and slapped it on his desk together with today's food money: "Let's go, you didn't teach arithmetic well, I will take responsibility for that."
Cheng Wu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed for a while: "Teacher Xu, come again next time."
Xu Jiwen still had the same temper, and waved his hands impatiently: "You cook the dishes well first."
Xu Jiwen went home after eating, and Li Gu walked to school alone, with the clear and bright moonlight shining all over his body.He had just witnessed a reunion that was no more ordinary in the world, where they let each other down and made up for each other.It has never been a life without regrets, but walking in regrets, seeking a fulfillment that makes one feel at ease.
That young man's face is [-]% similar to Ji Hanxing's
When Li Gu was looking for Ji Hanxing on the weekend, he ran into Shao Li again. He seemed in a good mood, so he hurriedly met and left.
But when I was eating with Ji Hanxing, I heard from the children that there were a few children in the village who did not go to school after school started.Ji Hanxing's small face had a calmness that didn't match his age, and there was also a trace of imperceptible disgust. He said: "I think it would be better if fewer people go to class. Maybe they don't want to study in the first place, but they feel that Uncle Educated Youth is giving them lessons. It's a burden. But the educated youth uncle still wants to talk to their parents, when he is in better health."
After he finished speaking, Li Gu was stunned for a moment, for some reason, he was a little worried about the child's appearance.He hoped that his little friend would always be innocent and happy, like a little monster in the mountains who has just arrived in the human world, and all that can be used to entertain him are the best of the world.Therefore, when Ji Hanxing was thinking about these things, Li Gu felt a little complicated.
He was a little more intelligent than before, knowing that life is helpless, and it cannot be finished in one or two sentences, and he himself can't fully figure out whether this is right or wrong.But he didn't want Ji Hanxing to misunderstand Ning Chuan. Li Gu said with some difficulty: "It's too difficult, Xing Xing. The village is poor, and more labor is more income." Ji Hanxing pursed his lips, and Li Gu revealed A mixed expression of helplessness, inferiority and pleading: "They can't see that far, the stars. This is not what Teacher Ji owes them, it is what Ning Chuan owed them for a long, long time. Teacher Ji wants to pay back for these people. , he's amazing."
Ji Hanxing looked at Li Gu with those bright eyes, and the cold expression on his face softened after seeing Li Gu, Ji Hanxing said in a low voice: "I know, it's Uncle Educated Youth who wants to do this himself. "The two children didn't continue talking, they turned the page.
After a few rains, it will be autumn, and the wind will "swish" and get cold.Li Gu felt that he couldn't just leave like this, and it would be easy to leave troubles in his heart in the future.The two went to a nearby park to play together, Li Gu hugged him up and dangled: "Aren't you happy in the spaceship?" Ji Hanxing giggled, and Li Gu was so tired that he was out of breath.When the child was put down, he made a gesture of the height difference between the two of them: "My brother has grown so tall." Li Gu patted his little head: "The stars seem to have grown a little taller too."
Before he left, he called Ji Hanxing: "Don't worry, the village chief is here, so we can't let anyone bully Teacher Ji." "Yes."
Shao Dajun is Shao Li's father. He has been lucky in the past few years. He has received several lucrative projects in the city and worked as a small foreman.If you want to take on more jobs, you need someone under your command.The best candidate is naturally to bring your own little fellows, these people are cheap, and because they are newcomers, they can only rely on him, and they are obedient to order.He has tasted the sweetness from this model and intends to continue to expand the scale.Apart from him, several other contractors also did the same, and most of the children in the surrounding villages were found.When it was Ning Chuan's turn, he found that it was harder for people here to lobby than in other places. After a summer vacation, only a few people were brought into the city to work. The reason was that Ji Zhiqing was the biggest obstacle.And together with the village chief, they came up with a shitty rule that they are only allowed to go out after three years of study, which is simply absurd.
Shao Dajun was very angry about this matter, and complained to other friends at the wine table. "Just make some unremarkable things, saying that his father used to be a private school teacher, and he was a college student, and he was quite powerful. Now that he is in Ningchuan, he is domineering, and children who have not studied for three years cannot be released. All thirteen You're four years old, and you still don't come out to work? It's fine if you want to teach yourself, don't block others from making money." When he said this, someone immediately followed up: "Private school teacher? Go to teach in the mountains? The person you are talking about is not Is the surname Ji?"
Not all contractors are from the countryside, and some are from the city themselves. These people are not only competitive, but also a loose alliance of interests.Shao Dajun said "Hey?": "Really, a tall and thin guy, what's his name? Ji Zhiqing!" "That's why he's right."
This person was three-point playful, seven-point contemptuous, and said that his relatives lived in that area, and the surname Ji was not a cultural person, but a man who had sex with men. After the incident, the family had no face to accept him. This man, he was driven out and hid in a ravine.
Shao Dajun was stunned when he heard it. He couldn't guess the plot even if he tried his best.He thought to himself that Ning Chuan praised Ji Zhiqing so much now, because he was treating him as a literary star, offering him as a cultural person.If they really knew that Ji Zhiqing still had this disease, who would dare to send the child to him to teach?Doesn't he have a small worker?
Ningchuan is a small place, so the news spread quickly, and half of the students did not show up for class the next day.
The village head trembled with anger, his whole body seemed to be wound up, and he didn't dare to stop going to Ji Zhiqing to apologize to him. "Teacher Ji, don't worry, Shao Dajun did such a thing, I will take someone to their village tomorrow to ask for an explanation." He was obviously avoiding the most serious, because he couldn't talk about the core of the matter with Ji Zhiqing, either he agreed or It's not objection, it's just that it's embarrassing for a big man to discuss this matter with another man.He couldn't find out the reason for this embarrassment, so he could only simply and rudely attribute it to Shao Dajun, the thief leader.
Ji Zhiqing's face was unhealthily pale, but he straightened his spine: "It's okay, and it's all the truth. But I don't have any unsightly illnesses, so I have to make it clear for myself first. If Ning Chuan doesn't need me to teach, you and I It’s fine if I just say it. It’s nothing in itself.” His tone was very calm, but the village chief read a trace of ominous meaning from his overly calm tone. He was so calm, as if he had accepted something destined long ago. tragedy.
The village chief's heart trembled, and his voice was hoarse with anger: "Damn, there are all kinds of things! Teacher Ji, I beg you not to think too much. I found you, and I know what kind of person you are The people in the village are stupid, but their hearts are not bad, I will tell you, and I will give you an explanation."
Ji Zhiqing wanted to force a smile at him, and wanted to say something more, but the village chief couldn't bear to look at him like this, his words were stuck in his throat, so anxious that he finally bowed to Ji Zhiqing, and then ran away.
He invited the parents of those students to hold a meeting, saying that your conscience has been eaten by dogs.Who doesn't let the child go, you stand up and stand in front of me!A few adults stood up hesitantly, and the village chief threw his leg at a man. "What a fucking promise!" The one who was beaten didn't dare to speak out, and muttered in a low voice: "Then this thing is true, I'm also afraid that the baby will learn to be bad."
In the past, Li Gu also wondered how the old village man of his family, with a temper like a violent donkey, could manage such a village.Later, he understood that everything can be encountered at the grassroots level, and the work is too gentle to overwhelm people.
The village head spat at the man, and raised his voice an octave: "Just pay the teacher's salary, who can keep it! If there is an educated youth like Ji to teach children, what is that, that is a Bodhisattva! Dolls will I can write and read, and I can recognize my surname and name! He will go out of the village in the future, and he will be able to do the calculations and see the street signs clearly! You have suffered a lot and your baby will not eat it again. It is all you Teacher Ji, whom I looked down upon today, taught."
The rest of the people swallowed their saliva. Due to the presence of the old village chief, they didn't dare to speak louder, and only dared to discuss with their voices suppressed.But the sound didn't set off a storm, and it stopped completely after a while.
Grandma Rabbit had been listening quietly until she saw that they had all shut up, so she opened her mouth in a nonchalant manner. Her expression was very indifferent, as if discussing such things was just a waste of time: "You just haven't lived to the age. When I was young, I heard that the master in the mansion begged a man to come in, and raised him like a wife. Isn’t this a normal thing. He is not shorter than you, and he can read more than you. I can’t even eat, so I just Don't worry about it for others."
What is the state of ignorance? The place in the brain that belongs to right and wrong is empty, and whoever has a louder voice is more likely to occupy it.After this meeting, even if someone had any objections, they didn't dare to raise it, and promised to let the children go to class independently.The village chief was worried about Ji Zhiqing, so he went to find him again. Ji Zhiqing opened the door and revealed his pale face: "It's okay, I'll take a day off, and let them have a vacation, and classes will resume the day after tomorrow."
He didn't mean to care about and pursue responsibility at all.This is a sensible person, the village chief can't say more wise words to comfort him, he can only make him feel more relaxed.
After he left, Ji Zhiqing closed the door and took out the old photo that was treasured.The young man's face was [-]% similar to Ji Hanxing's.Ji Zhiqing's hand caressed the photo, and large swathes of water gushed out of his eyes: "Nie Yan...I miss you very much."
if i become a star too
Compared with big treachery and big evil, more tragedies in the world are caused by small treachery and petty evil.For example, that night, Ning Chuan fell into a deep sleep in the cool autumn wind, but someone knocked on Ji Zhiqing's door.
Ji Zhiqing raised his voice and asked, "What's the matter?"
The voice from outside said that the village head asked him to go to the village committee and have something to say.This wasn't unusual, but it wasn't unusual either. Ji Zhiqing thought maybe the village chief was still very upset, and wanted to give him two more baskets of comfort and persuasion, so he put on a thin coat and went out, closing the door.The person who called him outside had already run away, and there was no trace of him in the night.
When I arrived at the village committee, I saw only darkness inside, Ji Zhiqing had already started to wonder.He walked in the direction of the village chief's house and found that the lights were already dark.There is no entertainment in the mountain village, and people go to bed early.He guessed that it was just a prank, so without much delay, he walked back to his room, put the key on, and found out that the door lock could not be opened.
With the help of the faint moonlight, Ji Zhiqing saw that the keyhole was stuffed with tiny branches, and the lock surface was scratched into messy scratches.The keyhole is plugged and cannot be opened without a tool.Ji Zhiqing wandered outside for a while, the night wind was very cold, he rubbed his arms.After a moment of hesitation he gave up on finding someone to pick the lock.First of all, it was already midnight, and he himself was not a person who liked to cause trouble to others, and he didn't want to wake up people who were sleeping hot from bed.Secondly, his little privacy was punctured, his identity was embarrassing, and he couldn't tell if he knocked on the windows of other people's houses in the middle of the night.So he walked to the place where he usually went to class, opened the door of the classroom and went in.The classroom is not too warm, but at least there is no cold wind.
Someone came to class the next day and found Ji Zhiqing lying on the desk in a coma.It was already very cold at night at this time of year, and he had already suffered a serious illness that damaged his roots. After this incident, he developed a high fever that couldn't be controlled.
The village head was furious because of this: "Forget it if you don't want to study, get out, get out, go out and work! You go, generation after generation, and when all the old people here are gone, this village can be disbanded. Ningchuan is gone! Don't leave anyone here!" He even showed some crazy looks when he was so snarky, and speaking of the facts, it was more than that.But perhaps everyone also understood from the bottom of their hearts that this was the despair that the village chief had suppressed for a long time.A person cannot choose where he is born. He has been working hard to be a leader and a protester, but it does not mean that he has no resentment in his heart.
In the predicament of fate where he has nowhere to complain, Ji Zhiqing is his hope, allowing him to see the possibility of Ningchuan getting better.He was so careful to guard this flickering candle, but now he was splashed out with a basin of water by his own people. There was more sadness in his heart than anger.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one dared to admit that it was him who knocked on the door.The village head asked Ji Zhiqing if he could hear the man's voice.Ji Zhiqing just shook his head. He was in a high fever and couldn't tell whether he didn't want to talk about it or didn't want to pursue it.
His consciousness was drowsy, and his fragile emotions were out of control. He thought of Nie Yan.
That was when he just found out that Nie Yan's job was so dangerous, and he told him not to do it seriously and sincerely, but Nie Yan told him with emotion: "That place is really poor, you don't know, there is no such thing as a small child. Renjiao, following their parents astray. The whole village is producing and selling drugs, and the semi-finished products are so big. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all when we catch them once or twice. Quickly return to the original state. But you can’t do without catching, you can’t just look at such a tall child and start to go astray.”
Ji Zhiqing didn't have a deep understanding of Nie Yan's words at the time. After he came to Ningchuan, he realized how terrible a place can be without education and development.In fact, what the village chief thought was not entirely correct. These people would not rely on selling their labor to go out. After entering the city to work, they were lucky enough to save a sum of money and come back to do small business, but they still could not buy a piece of paper in the city. a house and give their children a decent education.A large part of them will bring back old diseases when they are in their 40s, and they will be forced to return to their hometowns because they cannot engage in manual labor. Therefore, they must raise their children before that and let them go to work for a living.Then they take care of the children of migrant workers at home, from generation to generation, and the cycle continues.The same is true of the "poisonous village" that Nie Yan saw. They were born in that place, in that kind of land, without the help of external forces, no one could escape from such a curse.
Nie Yan said that he was going to make a
Ji Hanxing and Ji Zhiqing are very close, but Li Gu always feels that there is an indescribable distance between them. Maybe it is because Ji Zhiqing's personality is not used to getting too close to people, or Ji Hanxing knows that he is not his biological child. Not as casual as a normal father and son.Therefore, Li Gu couldn't help but be more soft-hearted towards Ji Hanxing.
There are three people in the family, Li Gu thinks that buying food is too expensive and not worthwhile, so he goes to buy vegetables by himself and cooks for them in different ways.He accidentally discovered a column of practical recipes in the old magazine that he brought back from Xu Jiwen. Li Gu learned from it. He could cook it to the extent that he could cook it well, but later he cooked it and it was still delicious.
When he was preparing for lunch, he went to wash the vegetables, and Ji Hanxing wanted to help, but Li Gu didn't let him touch the water, and quickly washed an apple and stuffed it in his hand: "You eat, brother can make it quickly by himself." Ji Hanxing He took it over with a docile attitude, he didn't want to argue with Li Gu, he already knew that Li Gu was a dead-headed and stubborn person, and he couldn't change what he was sure of.
Ji Hanxing took small bites of the apple.The apple was so big that he had to hold it in both hands to chew.Li Gu glanced at it, stood up and took the apple back, went to the kitchen and cut it into small pieces with a knife, put it in a bowl, mixed a little sugar, and asked him to poke it with a toothpick to eat.Ji Hanxing sat on a small bench, poking apple slices while watching Li Gu wash the vegetables.
Ji Zhiqing came out of the study and saw this scene with a slightly stiff face. After all, Ji Hanxing is no longer a baby who needs to be fed complementary food. This way of eating feels like petty bourgeois pleasure eroded by the evil capitalism.But Mr. Ji is a calm person, he walked slowly to Li Gu to help him, and said along the way: "You are too spoiled for the stars."
Li Gu smiled honestly: "He's still young." He didn't need Teacher Ji's help either, he was very agile in doing things by himself.Ji Zhiqing looked at him for a while, but finally said nothing.
Blue moss is crawling on the wall of the small courtyard, and some cracks have appeared on the stone wall due to the age. The light from the outside sky shines in and reflects on the wall, like flowing water.
Xia Tian was drowsy after eating, Ji Zhiqing went back to her room to rest, Ji Hanxing also closed his eyes slightly and dozed off.Li Gu asked him to go back to his room first, saying that he would come after washing the dishes.When I went back, I found that Ji Hanxing was not sleeping soundly, and there was a fine sweat on his white forehead.He carefully brushed Ji Hanxing's broken hair aside, found a fan and fanned him lightly.The sleeping child was indeed soothed.
Li Gu looked at him with a peaceful sleeping face and felt satisfied. For a boy who was growing up, being able to take care of others and do more things was a good experience, and he felt that he was very valuable.Li Gu didn't stop working, and he didn't feel tired.In the end, he was so tired that he fell asleep lying on the edge of Ji Hanxing's bed, and fell headlong on the checked mat.
When Li Gu woke up again, he felt a slight wind around his ears. He suddenly raised his head, and there was a squeak—the neck was twisted.
Ji Hanxing smiled and rolled his eyes, it turned out that he was the one fanning Li Gu.Li Gu blinked his eyes for a while before waking up, his face blushing like a mat mark.Ji Hanxing asked him: "Brother Li Gu, have you been fanning me while I was asleep?" Li Gu replied stiffly: "No, it hasn't been long." Ji Hanxing leaned over and looked at him curiously. : "Why don't you look at me?"
Li Gu: "...Brother twisted his neck."
The tough teen twisted his neck to make dinner, his inability to look people in the eye gave him an irreverent air.Ji Zhiqing was a kind person, so he decided to order some noodles by himself, and let Li Gu sit and relax.Li Gu turned around slowly and saw that Ji Hanxing was probably holding back a smile, but he stopped when he saw him, but his eyebrows and eyes were all crooked, and his smile was hard to hide.Li Gu suddenly stopped being aggrieved. He saw that the corners of Teacher Ji's mouth curled up when he reached for the noodles from the cupboard. At that moment, he unexpectedly felt that he was really a useful person.
Ji Hanxing went to the kitchen to help Ji Zhiqing. He tiptoed to get a bowl from the cupboard, and accidentally touched the sundries on the upper floor.Ji Zhiqing and him were unaware of this, but Li Gu's ears were sharper than his nose, and when he felt the sound was wrong, he quickly turned his head and rushed over to catch it, preventing the jar from falling from hitting Ji Hanxing.The crisis was resolved, and there was another Gaba sound——Okay, Li Gu's neck twisted back again.
The three looked at each other, and finally laughed out loud.After Ji Zhiqing laughed, he wrung a hot towel and put it on the back of his neck worriedly.
Recalling that it was a very good time, the long summer afternoon, the air was hot and the sun was bright, he and Ji Hanxing were writing together, and occasionally a little breeze blew in from the window to turn the pages of the boy's book.If the world is gentle enough, it would be nice to give young people a little more time to grow up.
Li Gu looked at Ji Hanxing's dazed look, and thought that even a well-protected child would sense changes before the storm came.
Ji Zhiqing's surgery was approaching, and Ji Hanxing became more obedient and clingy in front of him.He used to be calm and independent among kids of the same age, but now he would go to Ji Zhiqing from time to time, offering to wash some fruit for him, and asking Ji Zhiqing to help him with his homework.He is like a little milk cat who knows that his master is sick. He will not explicitly express his worries to burden the other party, but conveys the meaning of "I need you, I care about you" all the time.
Ji Hanxing didn't say anything, but Li Gu could tell that he was very afraid that something would happen to Ji Zhiqing.If he was a little older, he might be able to hide this worry better, but he is only nine years old.Ji Zhiqing generally knew that there was finally no such subtle sense of distance between him and Ji Hanxing.He called Ji Hanxing over and poked his face: "Come and see, has Xingxing gained a little weight recently?" Ji Hanxing raised his head and smiled at him, then patted his stomach childishly: "Li Gu Brother's food is so good, I'm going to be fed into a little fat man by him."
"It's good to be fatter, now you'll be taller when you grow up."
"Is it as tall as the educated youth uncle?"
"You will be taller than me, and then I will have to look up at you."
Faster
The night before the operation, the three of them had dinner and went out for a walk. Maybe it was because there were two children with them, or maybe it was because the surgery was coming soon. Ji Zhiqing felt less uncomfortable seeing her neighbors, and even nodded after meeting one of them. .Ji Hanxing held Ji Zhiqing with one hand and Li Gu with the other. He hummed softly, like a little prince ignorant of the world.Ji Zhiqing asked him why he was so happy, and Ji Hanxing said, "I am very happy to have Uncle Educated Youth." The softest consolation, Ji Hanxing let out a "huh".
At night, the two said goodnight to Ji Zhiqing, and went to sleep in their respective rooms.
Ji Hanxing stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, he couldn't fall asleep.Consultant Li: "Xing Xing, are you hot?" He took out his fan and began to shake it. Ji Hanxing quietly shook his head: "Uncle Educated Youth will have an operation tomorrow."
Li Gu understood, and asked softly, "Are you worried about him?"
Ji Hanxing didn't answer directly, he said: "You went out to buy vegetables that day, and the educated youth uncle asked me, if possible, would I like to live with Uncle Kang."
"That is?"
"He was the captain of my father in the past, but now he is a very powerful person. Last time at the market... it was because of him that the bad guys were taken away in the end." Seeing that Li Gu was still ignorant, Ji Hanxing said: "Maybe Uncle Educated Youth thinks that if something happens to him, I hope that uncle will take care of me." Li Gu was anxious: "I can take care of you too! No, Teacher Ji will be fine!"
Ji Hanxing smiled lightly: "You are not yet of age."
Li Gu was stuck for a moment: "The village chief, and the village chief, we can take care of you." Ji Hanxing didn't speak for a long time.Li Gu looked at him curiously through the moonlight leaking through the window. When he saw Ji Hanxing's calm but sad face, he suddenly understood that Ji Hanxing didn't care about who would be adopted in the future, but that he didn't want to lose him right now. Ji Zhiqing.Li Gu leaned over and hugged Ji Hanxing, and gently patted him on the back: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid of the stars." He couldn't say that Ji Zhiqing would be fine, he could only tell him over and over again not to be afraid .Ji Hanxing's mood gradually calmed down, and he fell asleep holding Li Gu's hand.Li Gu stared at the child, sighed faintly, and then closed his eyes.
In his drowsiness, he had a nightmare, dreaming that Ji Zhiqing was missing and Ji Hanxing was taken away.He could hear Ji Hanxing calling him Brother Li Gu, Brother Li Gu, but he couldn't get him back.Li Gu woke up in a cold sweat, seeing Ji Hanxing grabbing his lapel to sleep soundly, he breathed a sigh of relief, took the fan and slowly shook it for Ji Hanxing.
Ji Hanxing fell asleep, but Li Gu couldn't fall asleep anymore.He recalled what the child had said to him, and suddenly felt that he was a little silly in the past.Living a foolish life, just doing better in the exam can fly to the sky happily.But these are just the appearance of life. He thinks he is living a good life because he is very ignorant.
Just like Ji Hanxing only has Ji Zhiqing as his relative, he also has only the old village head as his relative.That nightmare reminded him to start worrying about some more realistic things, such as what if Ji Zhiqing really had an accident, and what if Ji Hanxing was really taken away and brought up by someone he didn't know.He was also worried about his old village head, he was so stubborn and worried, would he leave one day?He also worries about the loss of his father Rabbit and his grandma.Li Gu worried about everything he could think of, and then worriedly... fell asleep.
People always have to go through a few sleepless nights to grow.Early the next morning, when Ji Hanxing opened his eyes, the bedside was already empty.Li Gu was busy working outside, he decided to stop treating himself as a child from today on, he didn't need a vacation, he didn't want to live life ignorantly, he needed to grow up faster, faster.
On the day of Ji Zhiqing's operation, Li Gu took care of everything before the two of them woke up. He prepared breakfast and packed the things Ji Zhiqing needed for the hospital for a few days after the operation.Ji Zhiqing went for surgery, so he was the only adult in the family, and he was supposed to take care of everything properly.He waited with Ji Hanxing outside the operating room, peeled a candy for the child and fed it into his mouth.
Ji Hanxing tasted the sweetness of fruit candy. Many years later, he remembered the scene in the hospital. Li Gu borrowed three points of determination and seven points of youthful spirit out of thin air, and stood behind him solemnly: "Is there a brother here?" , I will be an adult soon." At that time, he had grown gradually, and he could vaguely see the handsome facial features and good face in the future.Ji Hanxing sucked the candy he was feeding, and he knew rationally that if something happened, Li Gu would not be able to help much, after all...he was just a child who had just stepped out of the mountains.But at that moment, he believed that Li Gu would do what he said.
Fortunately, the news finally came out that Ji Zhiqing's surgery turned out well.Ji Hanxing sat by his bed, he looked at Ji Zhiqing for a long time with red eyes, Ji Zhiqing smiled weakly at him: "Star." Ji Hanxing pursed his lips, he opened his arms and hugged Ji Zhiqing , whispered: "Dad", Ji Zhiqing was shocked.
When he recovered a bit, Ji Zhiqing still chose to leave the hospital to recuperate, and Li Gu also started a regular life.
He gets up early during the day to buy vegetables and cook, and sometimes he reads while guarding the pot.When Ji Zhiqing is in good spirits, he will take his textbooks for the next semester and teach him more.Ji Hanxing is different from his courses, and will teach him to pronounce very authentic English.
Li Gu worked so hard, and a tragedy happened soon - the summer vacation was less than two weeks old, and several summer assignments had already been written.He didn't want to be so idle and flustered, so he tried to contact Shao Li, and did odd jobs in the extra time in the afternoon.The wages of summer workers are lower than others, but Li Gu works neatly, so he gets quite a lot of money.During this process, the boy grew up like the wind, and in the past few weeks, he still developed some muscular lines. Every evening, when he came home, his overalls were always stained with white spots, and he smelled of fermented sweat.
Ji Hanxing would always pick him up at the door, and then turn around and leave when he saw him—as a kid who loves cleanliness, he despises Li Gu's sweaty body.Li Gu didn't let him get what he wanted, so he walked over to pick up the child in a few steps, but Ji Hanxing couldn't run, and was finally lifted by Li Gu to the top of his head, and he rode home on Li Gu's shoulders.Li Gu ran so fast that the children had to hold on to his sweaty hair to keep their balance.
Ji Zhiqing came out and saw Ji Hanxing riding on his head, he couldn't help shaking his head, the only thing he didn't agree with was that Li Gu was so pampering to the children, even one day he saw Li Gu squatting on the ground cutting Ji Hanxing's toenails, Ji Hanxing The educated youth said that he should let Ji Hanxing do these things by himself, Li Gu said seriously: "But the stars are very precious." Ji Zhiqing had no choice but to let him go.
The author has something to say
Li Gu, who was raped and laid on the bed many years later, recalled the past: what can he do with a child who was raised by himself.Why.
Let each other down, make up for each other
After more than half a month, Ji Zhiqing had several inspections, and the condition was stable, so the three of them returned to Ningchuan together.
Li Gu bought a pair of sports shoes for the old village chief with the money he saved from odd jobs.The old village head put it in his hand and looked at it for a long time. At one time, he was critical of the white one, which was easy to get dirty. At another time, he said why it was so light, and whether the material was not enough.Li Gu couldn't help but talk about him, and he was so angry that he went to work on other things, but the person who said he hated him put the pair of shoes on the desk of his village committee.When others go, they will ask: "Village chief, why do you have a pair of shoes on this table?"
What he was waiting for was this question, and then he said "anxiously", "Don't talk about it, the little boy at home bought it, it's so white, who should wear it." Then he was also happy under the envious eyes of others.
After returning home, Li Gu told him about his grades. The village head opened the bottle of wine he kept and drank a glass. Li Gu said, "Didn't you say you want to drink it after I get married?"
"Can I be happy?"
"to make."
The village head touched his head, his eyes were not sure whether it was smelled of alcohol or something, it looked extraordinarily moist: "Okay, good luck, I picked up a treasure and came back. Li Gu, why do you think I picked this for you?" As for your name, you were so big when I picked you up. If you were so big, you would almost die in that ravine. I asked in several villages, but no one came out to recognize you. I am most afraid that you will have no future. Ren Gu Nian, I gave you this name, I think someone will take care of you in the future."
In fact, his original name was one word more than this, Li Tiangu.When the village chief picked him up, he felt that no one wanted him, and seeing that he was so small and thin, he might not be able to support him, so he could only hope that God would take care of him.It's a pity that Ningchuan encountered a natural disaster that winter, and the heavy snow collapsed many houses.In a fit of anger, the village head removed the word Tian.He has a contradictory worldview, he has ghosts and gods watching in his heart, he has clumsy beliefs, so he has to do good things and be a good person.But he doesn't believe that there is really a god who can save him, so he has to fight with all his might.
The village head is an old bachelor who doesn't know how to clean up. Li Gu went home and looked around, worried about him, only felt that there were a lot of things waiting for him to do.Old countrymen don't know how to tidy their clothes from winter to spring, so Li Gu used these few days to wash all the winter clothes, took advantage of the strong sun, dried them, folded them, and put them on the upper shelf of the closet.
Ji Zhiqing's spirits are still not good, and he went back to Ningchuan to recuperate, so he was not in a hurry to call the children back to class.Li Gu and Ji Hanxing were free to help Grandma Rabbit process some herbs.Tu Yuming told him that during the absence of Teacher Ji, the people from the next village had visited several times and secretly urged them to go out to work.As soon as Li Gu guessed, he knew it must be Shao Li and the others. He frowned and said, "They are short of people, and now they are pulling everywhere. Aren't there rules in the village? If this happens again next time, you can go and help them." The village chief said."
After Tu Yuming heard the news that Li Gu got the first place in the exam, he seemed to regard him as a spiritual mentor, and agreed very crisply: "Okay, I will take care of this."
The summer vacation is over in a flash, and the two children have to report to the city early.Li Gu took over all the work of sending Ji Hanxing to school and registering: "Mr. Ji, don't worry, I will definitely protect Xingxing. Isn't Ningchuan going to start school in a few days? You still have to prepare lessons, don't worry." Running back and forth." Ji Zhiqing went to see Ji Hanxing, and the child agreed: "The mountain road is not easy, don't see me off, brother Li Gu is fine." Ji Zhiqing patted his head, then looked at Li Gu: "Then I entrust the stars to you."
Li Gu was so encouraged by these words that he almost slapped his chest out of resonance: "Yeah!"
When we walked this road together to go to the market, we still thought we were two children.After less than a year, Li Gu looked like an adult. "Brother Li Gu." Ji Hanxing said suddenly.
"what's wrong?"
"I don't want to go to school anymore."
"What?" Li Gu was taken aback.
Ji Hanxing said, "I want to accompany Uncle Educated Youth."
Li Gu was a little flustered, other brats were easy to deal with, like rabbits, he could manage a class by himself.But Ji Hanxing... he was sensible and sensible, like a little monster, so if something happened to him, Li Gu would have no idea what to do.His bewilderment was written all over his face.
"I just said it casually." After a while, Ji Hanxing spoke first, and then asked him: "Will you come back in the middle of this semester?" Li Gu thought for a while: "If the village needs me to come back..." Ji Hanxing Pulling his sleeve, he smiled at him: "Then take me with you when you come back." Li Gu nodded quickly: "Okay." He held Ji Hanxing's hand tightly all the way, and he felt that his mouth He is very clumsy, and he can't actually do anything for him. I just hope that by doing this, he can give him a little bit of strength.
……
Generally speaking, the first few days of the new semester always go through such a rehabilitation period, otherwise the youngsters in the class will hardly remember how to write their names.But Li Gu was different, he showed an extraordinary self-discipline, it didn't look like he had been sloppy for two months, but it was like in a martial arts novel that fell to the bottom and met an expert for two months of extra training.Xu Jiwen saw that he was different again, and said that growing up was like a transformation. This process is very interesting. You never know what kind of person will be transformed from the old shell of the past.
He has firmly secured the first place in the grade, and he has shown that he is bound to win every homework.If the other teachers thought at first that Li Gu was able to get the first place only because the scope of the test was small at that time, and he was lucky enough to meet him, then the big and small tests in the new semester really made people realize that this is not to be underestimated. poor students.
One day before the mid-term exam, the teacher from another class met Xu Jiwen and dragged Li Gu to talk.The teacher kept an eye out, thinking that Xu Jiwen was afraid that he was teaching some skills, so he went to listen to it secretly.As a result, what Xu Jiwen said was: "Take it easy, just sit firmly first, and you don't need to shake No. 2 too much." The teacher almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, and then he heard Li Gu's voice full of doubts: "Then ...I left it blank? Or did I write it wrong on purpose?" The teacher was frightened and walked away with hands and feet.
There is another thing worth mentioning this semester. Li Gu met an acquaintance at the school gate——Cheng Yong's brother changed from a small shop to a pancake stand.With the previous lessons, he was afraid of killing people, and the materials he used were all solid and good products, and the students still bought him.Li Gu laughed and said that I would also tell my classmates when I go back and ask them to come and eat.Cheng Wu was very happy, probably wearing a white apron has a sense of service industry, and his smile is more joyful than before. He handed a hot pancake to Li Gu: "I can tell, you got up early , you come every day in the future, I will share one for you, no money. You can take one for Cheng Yong, he is always late and doesn’t remember to eat.”
Cheng Wu and other students rested after class, went home to clean up, and set up a stall not far away at night as a night food stall, so there would be no delay in the morning or evening.That day, Xu Jiwen took Li Gu to dinner in order to reward Li Gu for his mid-term performance, and happened to be at Cheng Wu's booth.
Cheng Wu also looked surprised: "Mr. Xu, do you still know me?"
Of course Xu Jiwen knew him, probably thanks to this underdeveloped small city, his teaching career collected a lot of gangsters.
Cheng Wu enthusiastically asked him to order, and said: "I also regret not studying, but my brain is not good enough, maybe everyone has different food. Teacher Xu, you are a good teacher. If you taught cooking at that time, Maybe I have already opened a restaurant." Xu Jiwen laughed, asked him to open a bottle of wine, and brought two glasses, one for him and one for himself.Li didn't care about his age, so he wasn't among the drinkers.He looked at the people sitting around the booth: "It's pretty good, just live your own life. Who is your class monitor? I only choose good grades for the class monitor, but that little bastard hasn't come back for a long time. Bar."
"The squad leader has passed the exam and is about to get married."
Xu Jiwen took a sip of his wine, his eyes blank for a moment: "Oh, that's pretty good too."
Xu Jiwen didn't eat much that meal, and all the food he ordered was fed to Li Gu, a young man in his growing period. His current meal size is astonishing.There are more people during peak hours, and the stalls are not like breakfast, there are few things, and there is no need to settle accounts.Now that there are too many dishes and more people, Cheng Wu can't figure it out, so Xu Jiwen stands beside him and helps him collect the money and make change.When there were fewer people, Xu Jiwen walked away. When he came back, he took a brand new calculator and slapped it on his desk together with today's food money: "Let's go, you didn't teach arithmetic well, I will take responsibility for that."
Cheng Wu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed for a while: "Teacher Xu, come again next time."
Xu Jiwen still had the same temper, and waved his hands impatiently: "You cook the dishes well first."
Xu Jiwen went home after eating, and Li Gu walked to school alone, with the clear and bright moonlight shining all over his body.He had just witnessed a reunion that was no more ordinary in the world, where they let each other down and made up for each other.It has never been a life without regrets, but walking in regrets, seeking a fulfillment that makes one feel at ease.
That young man's face is [-]% similar to Ji Hanxing's
When Li Gu was looking for Ji Hanxing on the weekend, he ran into Shao Li again. He seemed in a good mood, so he hurriedly met and left.
But when I was eating with Ji Hanxing, I heard from the children that there were a few children in the village who did not go to school after school started.Ji Hanxing's small face had a calmness that didn't match his age, and there was also a trace of imperceptible disgust. He said: "I think it would be better if fewer people go to class. Maybe they don't want to study in the first place, but they feel that Uncle Educated Youth is giving them lessons. It's a burden. But the educated youth uncle still wants to talk to their parents, when he is in better health."
After he finished speaking, Li Gu was stunned for a moment, for some reason, he was a little worried about the child's appearance.He hoped that his little friend would always be innocent and happy, like a little monster in the mountains who has just arrived in the human world, and all that can be used to entertain him are the best of the world.Therefore, when Ji Hanxing was thinking about these things, Li Gu felt a little complicated.
He was a little more intelligent than before, knowing that life is helpless, and it cannot be finished in one or two sentences, and he himself can't fully figure out whether this is right or wrong.But he didn't want Ji Hanxing to misunderstand Ning Chuan. Li Gu said with some difficulty: "It's too difficult, Xing Xing. The village is poor, and more labor is more income." Ji Hanxing pursed his lips, and Li Gu revealed A mixed expression of helplessness, inferiority and pleading: "They can't see that far, the stars. This is not what Teacher Ji owes them, it is what Ning Chuan owed them for a long, long time. Teacher Ji wants to pay back for these people. , he's amazing."
Ji Hanxing looked at Li Gu with those bright eyes, and the cold expression on his face softened after seeing Li Gu, Ji Hanxing said in a low voice: "I know, it's Uncle Educated Youth who wants to do this himself. "The two children didn't continue talking, they turned the page.
After a few rains, it will be autumn, and the wind will "swish" and get cold.Li Gu felt that he couldn't just leave like this, and it would be easy to leave troubles in his heart in the future.The two went to a nearby park to play together, Li Gu hugged him up and dangled: "Aren't you happy in the spaceship?" Ji Hanxing giggled, and Li Gu was so tired that he was out of breath.When the child was put down, he made a gesture of the height difference between the two of them: "My brother has grown so tall." Li Gu patted his little head: "The stars seem to have grown a little taller too."
Before he left, he called Ji Hanxing: "Don't worry, the village chief is here, so we can't let anyone bully Teacher Ji." "Yes."
Shao Dajun is Shao Li's father. He has been lucky in the past few years. He has received several lucrative projects in the city and worked as a small foreman.If you want to take on more jobs, you need someone under your command.The best candidate is naturally to bring your own little fellows, these people are cheap, and because they are newcomers, they can only rely on him, and they are obedient to order.He has tasted the sweetness from this model and intends to continue to expand the scale.Apart from him, several other contractors also did the same, and most of the children in the surrounding villages were found.When it was Ning Chuan's turn, he found that it was harder for people here to lobby than in other places. After a summer vacation, only a few people were brought into the city to work. The reason was that Ji Zhiqing was the biggest obstacle.And together with the village chief, they came up with a shitty rule that they are only allowed to go out after three years of study, which is simply absurd.
Shao Dajun was very angry about this matter, and complained to other friends at the wine table. "Just make some unremarkable things, saying that his father used to be a private school teacher, and he was a college student, and he was quite powerful. Now that he is in Ningchuan, he is domineering, and children who have not studied for three years cannot be released. All thirteen You're four years old, and you still don't come out to work? It's fine if you want to teach yourself, don't block others from making money." When he said this, someone immediately followed up: "Private school teacher? Go to teach in the mountains? The person you are talking about is not Is the surname Ji?"
Not all contractors are from the countryside, and some are from the city themselves. These people are not only competitive, but also a loose alliance of interests.Shao Dajun said "Hey?": "Really, a tall and thin guy, what's his name? Ji Zhiqing!" "That's why he's right."
This person was three-point playful, seven-point contemptuous, and said that his relatives lived in that area, and the surname Ji was not a cultural person, but a man who had sex with men. After the incident, the family had no face to accept him. This man, he was driven out and hid in a ravine.
Shao Dajun was stunned when he heard it. He couldn't guess the plot even if he tried his best.He thought to himself that Ning Chuan praised Ji Zhiqing so much now, because he was treating him as a literary star, offering him as a cultural person.If they really knew that Ji Zhiqing still had this disease, who would dare to send the child to him to teach?Doesn't he have a small worker?
Ningchuan is a small place, so the news spread quickly, and half of the students did not show up for class the next day.
The village head trembled with anger, his whole body seemed to be wound up, and he didn't dare to stop going to Ji Zhiqing to apologize to him. "Teacher Ji, don't worry, Shao Dajun did such a thing, I will take someone to their village tomorrow to ask for an explanation." He was obviously avoiding the most serious, because he couldn't talk about the core of the matter with Ji Zhiqing, either he agreed or It's not objection, it's just that it's embarrassing for a big man to discuss this matter with another man.He couldn't find out the reason for this embarrassment, so he could only simply and rudely attribute it to Shao Dajun, the thief leader.
Ji Zhiqing's face was unhealthily pale, but he straightened his spine: "It's okay, and it's all the truth. But I don't have any unsightly illnesses, so I have to make it clear for myself first. If Ning Chuan doesn't need me to teach, you and I It’s fine if I just say it. It’s nothing in itself.” His tone was very calm, but the village chief read a trace of ominous meaning from his overly calm tone. He was so calm, as if he had accepted something destined long ago. tragedy.
The village chief's heart trembled, and his voice was hoarse with anger: "Damn, there are all kinds of things! Teacher Ji, I beg you not to think too much. I found you, and I know what kind of person you are The people in the village are stupid, but their hearts are not bad, I will tell you, and I will give you an explanation."
Ji Zhiqing wanted to force a smile at him, and wanted to say something more, but the village chief couldn't bear to look at him like this, his words were stuck in his throat, so anxious that he finally bowed to Ji Zhiqing, and then ran away.
He invited the parents of those students to hold a meeting, saying that your conscience has been eaten by dogs.Who doesn't let the child go, you stand up and stand in front of me!A few adults stood up hesitantly, and the village chief threw his leg at a man. "What a fucking promise!" The one who was beaten didn't dare to speak out, and muttered in a low voice: "Then this thing is true, I'm also afraid that the baby will learn to be bad."
In the past, Li Gu also wondered how the old village man of his family, with a temper like a violent donkey, could manage such a village.Later, he understood that everything can be encountered at the grassroots level, and the work is too gentle to overwhelm people.
The village head spat at the man, and raised his voice an octave: "Just pay the teacher's salary, who can keep it! If there is an educated youth like Ji to teach children, what is that, that is a Bodhisattva! Dolls will I can write and read, and I can recognize my surname and name! He will go out of the village in the future, and he will be able to do the calculations and see the street signs clearly! You have suffered a lot and your baby will not eat it again. It is all you Teacher Ji, whom I looked down upon today, taught."
The rest of the people swallowed their saliva. Due to the presence of the old village chief, they didn't dare to speak louder, and only dared to discuss with their voices suppressed.But the sound didn't set off a storm, and it stopped completely after a while.
Grandma Rabbit had been listening quietly until she saw that they had all shut up, so she opened her mouth in a nonchalant manner. Her expression was very indifferent, as if discussing such things was just a waste of time: "You just haven't lived to the age. When I was young, I heard that the master in the mansion begged a man to come in, and raised him like a wife. Isn’t this a normal thing. He is not shorter than you, and he can read more than you. I can’t even eat, so I just Don't worry about it for others."
What is the state of ignorance? The place in the brain that belongs to right and wrong is empty, and whoever has a louder voice is more likely to occupy it.After this meeting, even if someone had any objections, they didn't dare to raise it, and promised to let the children go to class independently.The village chief was worried about Ji Zhiqing, so he went to find him again. Ji Zhiqing opened the door and revealed his pale face: "It's okay, I'll take a day off, and let them have a vacation, and classes will resume the day after tomorrow."
He didn't mean to care about and pursue responsibility at all.This is a sensible person, the village chief can't say more wise words to comfort him, he can only make him feel more relaxed.
After he left, Ji Zhiqing closed the door and took out the old photo that was treasured.The young man's face was [-]% similar to Ji Hanxing's.Ji Zhiqing's hand caressed the photo, and large swathes of water gushed out of his eyes: "Nie Yan...I miss you very much."
if i become a star too
Compared with big treachery and big evil, more tragedies in the world are caused by small treachery and petty evil.For example, that night, Ning Chuan fell into a deep sleep in the cool autumn wind, but someone knocked on Ji Zhiqing's door.
Ji Zhiqing raised his voice and asked, "What's the matter?"
The voice from outside said that the village head asked him to go to the village committee and have something to say.This wasn't unusual, but it wasn't unusual either. Ji Zhiqing thought maybe the village chief was still very upset, and wanted to give him two more baskets of comfort and persuasion, so he put on a thin coat and went out, closing the door.The person who called him outside had already run away, and there was no trace of him in the night.
When I arrived at the village committee, I saw only darkness inside, Ji Zhiqing had already started to wonder.He walked in the direction of the village chief's house and found that the lights were already dark.There is no entertainment in the mountain village, and people go to bed early.He guessed that it was just a prank, so without much delay, he walked back to his room, put the key on, and found out that the door lock could not be opened.
With the help of the faint moonlight, Ji Zhiqing saw that the keyhole was stuffed with tiny branches, and the lock surface was scratched into messy scratches.The keyhole is plugged and cannot be opened without a tool.Ji Zhiqing wandered outside for a while, the night wind was very cold, he rubbed his arms.After a moment of hesitation he gave up on finding someone to pick the lock.First of all, it was already midnight, and he himself was not a person who liked to cause trouble to others, and he didn't want to wake up people who were sleeping hot from bed.Secondly, his little privacy was punctured, his identity was embarrassing, and he couldn't tell if he knocked on the windows of other people's houses in the middle of the night.So he walked to the place where he usually went to class, opened the door of the classroom and went in.The classroom is not too warm, but at least there is no cold wind.
Someone came to class the next day and found Ji Zhiqing lying on the desk in a coma.It was already very cold at night at this time of year, and he had already suffered a serious illness that damaged his roots. After this incident, he developed a high fever that couldn't be controlled.
The village head was furious because of this: "Forget it if you don't want to study, get out, get out, go out and work! You go, generation after generation, and when all the old people here are gone, this village can be disbanded. Ningchuan is gone! Don't leave anyone here!" He even showed some crazy looks when he was so snarky, and speaking of the facts, it was more than that.But perhaps everyone also understood from the bottom of their hearts that this was the despair that the village chief had suppressed for a long time.A person cannot choose where he is born. He has been working hard to be a leader and a protester, but it does not mean that he has no resentment in his heart.
In the predicament of fate where he has nowhere to complain, Ji Zhiqing is his hope, allowing him to see the possibility of Ningchuan getting better.He was so careful to guard this flickering candle, but now he was splashed out with a basin of water by his own people. There was more sadness in his heart than anger.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one dared to admit that it was him who knocked on the door.The village head asked Ji Zhiqing if he could hear the man's voice.Ji Zhiqing just shook his head. He was in a high fever and couldn't tell whether he didn't want to talk about it or didn't want to pursue it.
His consciousness was drowsy, and his fragile emotions were out of control. He thought of Nie Yan.
That was when he just found out that Nie Yan's job was so dangerous, and he told him not to do it seriously and sincerely, but Nie Yan told him with emotion: "That place is really poor, you don't know, there is no such thing as a small child. Renjiao, following their parents astray. The whole village is producing and selling drugs, and the semi-finished products are so big. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all when we catch them once or twice. Quickly return to the original state. But you can’t do without catching, you can’t just look at such a tall child and start to go astray.”
Ji Zhiqing didn't have a deep understanding of Nie Yan's words at the time. After he came to Ningchuan, he realized how terrible a place can be without education and development.In fact, what the village chief thought was not entirely correct. These people would not rely on selling their labor to go out. After entering the city to work, they were lucky enough to save a sum of money and come back to do small business, but they still could not buy a piece of paper in the city. a house and give their children a decent education.A large part of them will bring back old diseases when they are in their 40s, and they will be forced to return to their hometowns because they cannot engage in manual labor. Therefore, they must raise their children before that and let them go to work for a living.Then they take care of the children of migrant workers at home, from generation to generation, and the cycle continues.The same is true of the "poisonous village" that Nie Yan saw. They were born in that place, in that kind of land, without the help of external forces, no one could escape from such a curse.
Nie Yan said that he was going to make a
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