Chapter 40
It was September and school started.

Liu Jinrong and his brother's new school is on the back mountain of Zhangjiabao.

Walking from Nangou’s house along the dirt road beside the small river, passing through the sorghum and corn fields taller than a person, wading across the river nearly ten meters wide, and bypassing the tree that had existed for many years, the two The old willow tree, which can only be carried by adults, stepped on the dirt slope beside the sheep pen of the small team. It took a total of more than one mile to reach the school.

The school is a red brick building with only one and a half rooms, one is a classroom and the other half is a teacher's office.

The whole area was excavated and leveled manually on the hillside. There is no playground, only a two-meter-wide earth dam in front of the classroom.There are no extracurricular activities, let alone any additional subjects.

The Nangou side is full of migrants. There are six children who go to school together, three brothers from the Zhong family, brother and sister Liu Zhaofeng, and a boy named Yang.There are four older brothers in the Zhong family, and the eldest has already gone to the commune to study in the fifth grade.

'a\o\e, y\u\ü, b\p\m\f\, d\t\n\l, g\k\h...'

"How big is it, mountains, rocks, soil fields, population and hands..."

Every morning, the sound of reading aloud resounds on the hillside of the small mountain village.

There is only one teacher in the school, who teaches mathematics and Chinese for three grades at the same time.

During class, the three grades sit in one classroom and are divided into three rows. When the teacher is giving lectures to one grade, the other two grades are reviewing on the side.

One grade will teach a little bit, and then practice by yourself, and the teacher will teach the next grade.

No book, no notebook, no pen.

Each student has a slate and uses chalk to study on the slate.

The teacher is from Benbao, also surnamed Zhang, 20 years old, a junior high school graduate, and the most educated person in Zhangjiabao at the moment, so he naturally became a teacher when the school was established.Get paid to eat royal food.

There are many families surnamed Zhang in the fort, and they are basically relatives.

Mrs. Zhang’s ancestors were from Shandong, and he came from the east of the Guandong. The family survived here and there were only two brothers left. They took root in this mountainous valley, and slowly set up a family business, married a wife and had children.

The old man himself had four sons and two daughters, two of his sons were killed by the bandits, and his two daughters were married off.The two sons bore seven sons and daughters.

Then it was liberated, the land was returned to the state, and the family was dispersed, and each family lived its own life.

When the people's commune was established in 58, many people with foreign surnames moved from the surrounding areas of Baoli, and it became a big village and a production team was established.

Mr. Zhang is the boss of the fourth branch of the fourth generation of the Zhang family. There are more than 20 brothers and sisters in his generation.

Half of the students who sit in the classroom with Liu Jinrong and his sister are the younger siblings of Mr. Zhang.This three-year elementary school has only a dozen or so students.

……

"Mom, I don't want to go to school."

Liu Zhaofeng said while standing next to Zhang Jingyi, who was cooking pig food, with his head down.

Zhang Jingyi was stunned for a moment, straightened up and turned to look at his 13-year-old son who was already taller than him: "Don't want to go to school?"

Liu Zhaofeng nodded: "It's useless to go to school. I want to work. I'm old enough to earn money."

Zhang Jingyi thought for a while and said, "At home, the family can support you. Your father said that children still need to study, and they will be successful after studying."

Liu Zhaofeng lowered his head and said, "Mom, my father has been dead for a few years. What's the use of studying when we are in this big mountain now? Farming doesn't require me to read. I want to earn work points, and I don't want to let people They said they were raised by others, but I can raise myself, and I can also raise you.”

Zhang Jingyi asked: "You, who did you hear?"

Liu Zhaofeng shook his head: "No, I thought about it myself. Mom, I've grown up, I'm not a kid anymore."

Zhang Jingyi asked: "You, what do you want to do?"

Liu Zhaofeng nodded and said: "When I was in school, I went to the brick kiln in the fort to ask. He is an important person, and the work is calculated according to the bill. I want to go."

Zhang Jingyi thought for a while and said: "Mom, I don't understand these things either. Think it over, think it over, go if you want, you're too old."

Liu Zhaofeng said: "I've made up my mind, I'm going to work in a brick kiln."

Zhang Jingyi said: "Why don't you wait for your father and your uncle to come back and discuss it, okay? They know more than us."

Liu Zhaofeng frowned, and said after a moment of boredom, "Mom, my father is dead. He has been dead for three years."

The circles of Zhang Jingyi's eyes turned red, and tears overflowed. He raised his hand to wipe his eyes, sucked his nose, and said, "Mom can't stand it, and she didn't make it down with you two, so I made you suffer. Mom can't help it either." , I can’t just watch you starve.”

Liu Zhaofeng said: "Mom, that's not what I meant. I understand. I just feel that I am old enough that I don't need anyone to support me. I can earn work points to support myself. I just want to go out and work."

Zhang Jingyi wiped away his tears and said: "If you think about it, go ahead. Mom doesn't understand. You can handle it yourself. You're too old."

Liu Zhaofeng nodded: "I've made up my mind, Mom, then I won't be able to go to school. I'll go to the team to sign up in the afternoon."

Zhang Jingyi lit the fire under the stove, stirred up the pig food, and asked, "Then how do Jin Bao'er go to school? Go alone?"

Liu Zhaofeng said: "There is a classmate. I will go with her in the morning when it's over, and send her to school before going to work. There will be no delay."

Zhang Jingyi hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Then, it's fine. Be careful yourself, don't push yourself."

Liu Zhaofeng said: "I send my little sister to school in the morning before going to work, I take a bite at noon, and I pick up my little sister before returning in the evening."

Zhang Jingyi looked left and right, and his eyes fell on his son's face: "Bring food? What do you want to bring?"

Liu Zhaofeng said with a very relaxed look: "You don't have to worry about it, I'll figure it out for myself. I'll go see what other people bring tomorrow, and I'll talk about it when I come back."

Zhang Jingyi said: "It's more convenient to bring food. I don't have a lunch box at home and I can't bring food. Is the small bucket that I used to go to the cafeteria okay? The bucket is still there. If it works, I can use that to bring food. .Tomorrow mom will find someone to learn steaming."

Liu Zhaofeng curled his lips: "You learn, you are not as fast as I can learn by myself."

Zhang Jingyi raised his hand and slapped his son on the forehead, and laughed himself first: "Mom is a bit stupid, she didn't know anything since she was a child."

Liu Zhaofeng said: "It's not stupid, you're not stupid, it's just that you've never done it before."

The next morning, when Liu Zhaofeng went to school after breakfast, Liu Zhaofeng came out of the house empty-handed. Liu Jinrong walked around his brother and asked, "Brother, where is your schoolbag?"

Liu Zhaofeng patted his body and said, "I don't need it, how easy it is to walk like this. Besides, I don't have to go to school anymore, I will go to work today, and I will earn money to buy candy for you in the future."

Liu Jinrong blinked a few times: "Children, don't you have to go to school?"

Liu Zhaofeng looked back at the courtyard gate and said, "Brother has grown up, he is no longer a child."

(End of this chapter)

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