Harmonious home

Chapter 3 The ups and downs of going to school

When I started school at the age of 8, I was in the era of literacy. All children, big and small, were required to go to school, so those who went to school with us were younger than me, and some were several years older than me, like my aunt and the others. Those who are too old and illiterate are required to read picture books.I remember the day my mother asked me to go to school with the older children of the production team to register. A teacher surnamed Xiong handed out a piece of blank paper and a pencil to each of us when he saw us, and said: "If you want to study, you have to take an exam. Everyone writes from 1 to 100. If you pass the exam, you can go to school, and if you can’t pass the exam, you can study in the next semester.” After speaking, everyone picked up the pen and began to write on the paper.But I have never held a pen, and I don’t even know what 1 looks like. I sneaked a look at the 1 written by the classmate next to me, and I also drew it, but I was not sure so I wiped it, so I wrote a few times back and forth. , the other students all asked the teacher to hand in the papers, but I couldn't hand in them for a long time. The teacher walked up to me and looked at me and drew a big duck egg for me with a red pen. In this way, the teacher said that I was too stupid and refused to accept me to go to school.The seven or eight students from the production team who went with me all registered successfully, but I was the only one who was rejected by the teacher. When I ran home with a blank paper, my mother asked me: "Have you signed up?" Shaking my head, when I casually handed over a white scroll with a picture of a big duck egg to my mother, my mother hugged me and cried a lot, then took me to run to the teacher to argue, and said: "Mr. Xiong, my eldest daughter is not a fool , why don't you accept her to study?" "How can she read if she can't even write 1?" "She just has no one to teach, and there are no brothers and sisters at home. How can I have time to teach when I am busy working all day? You know her Dad left and we were the only ones at home, so you can take pity on this child and accept her! Even if you really can’t get downgraded at that time, it’s fine!” My mother argued for me, but the teacher didn’t know it was kindness. I'm still really pitiful, and finally agreed to accept me to study. Before leaving, I didn't forget to ask my mother a few words, saying: "You can remember that you said this, and if the child can't pass the school, he will not be demoted." Blame me." Seeing that the teacher agreed to accept me to study, my mother nodded happily and took me home.

After that, my mother never forgot to teach me calligraphy and writing, whether she was cooking or working in the mountains. She used charcoal at home and branches when going up the mountain. She asked me to draw on the ground first, and then read it again until After practice, my mother asked me to write it down in a notebook and give it to the teacher. After practicing for a period of time, I could not only write from 1 to 100, but also add and subtract arithmetic. I entered Chinese and mathematics at the same time, and my test scores were all the same. After surpassing my classmates who were older than me, the teacher looked at my mother and me with a smile and said, "I didn't expect this child to be very serious in class and progressing so fast." My mother was also very happy when she heard this and said "Our eldest daughter also works very hard and never misses classes no matter it's sunny or rainy." The teacher smiled and nodded.

Once, the school asked to teach the tuition fees for the next semester. My mother managed to scrape together 4 eggs. Ten of them cost [-] cents and sold them on the street for three yuan and [-] cents. The money was handed over to me, and he told me: "Big boudoir, this is money for your tuition. You have to keep it safe. When you arrive at school, hurry up and hand it over to the teacher. Mom has to work in the fields today and has no time to go to school. Don't worry." Don't lose it, ah." I nodded half-understood, touched my mouth after lunch, and happily went to school with my schoolbag on my back.Just passing by my aunt's house, my cousin Xiaowu stopped me: "Hey, wait, let's go together." I stopped without thinking, and we waited for a while, one after the other Walking to school, I thought that my mother had paid my tuition fee, so I asked my cousin with a smile: "Hey, Xiaowu, have you paid the tuition fee?" The cousin shook her head: "Not yet! Where will your mother pay you?" "Well, my mother just collected [-] yuan today and asked me to take it to school and pay it." After we finished speaking, we walked to school.Unexpectedly, when the teacher was not there at school, I went to the toilet and the money disappeared when I came back. At that time, I was so anxious that I was sweating, and I dared not tell the teacher, and I didn’t dare to tell my mother when I got home. , but a few days later the teacher met my mother on the side of the road and urged my mother to pay the tuition again. My mother knew that I hadn’t handed over the money to the teacher. Before I got home from school, my mother stopped me halfway with a tree stick. I said, "Where did the money for your tuition go that day?" Do you know where to go?" My mother "slapped" twice and shouted at me angrily: "Say, should I buy something to eat?" I cried and jumped loudly: "I didn't...I didn't buy anything Eat! I put the money in the "Skydiving" lesson in the language book, and the money will be gone after going to the toilet." My mother was furious after hearing this, and beat me up and down, scolding me while beating: " You useless thing, what did you say when the money was handed over to you, huh? Do you know how hard it is to get that four dollars? Do you know how long it takes forty eggs to get together? The time you need to go to the toilet I lost it, are you sorry for me? Are you sorry for me, huh?" I was beaten until I cried and rolled on the ground, and my mother continued beating and scolding: "Who told you to put it in the textbook, ah ? Didn’t I tell you to hand it over to the teacher when you arrive at school? Why are you so stupid, big boudoir?” Cursing and cursing myself also whimpered... and started crying.I jumped up from the ground and said loudly to my mother: "It's Xiao Wu, only she knows that I put the money in the textbook, she must have stolen the money while I was going to the toilet." My mother stopped I stopped crying, grabbed my hand and walked to my aunt's house in one breath: "Sister-in-law... Did your little five take the tuition money from my eldest daughter? Take it out quickly. Look at what my eldest sister is doing for you." Do you have the heart to be beaten so badly?" The aunt pretended to ask: "Xiao Wu, did you take the boudoir's money?" Xiao Wu categorically denied it, and the matter was over.

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