[Waiting for the end of the world] Dongli chrysanthemum

The three children lived alone for half a year, cooking by themselves, taking care of each other, going to school together every day, walking along the ridge during the flood season in summer, playing all the way, and walking on the mountain road with nine twists and eighteen turns for three or four hours on Saturdays. I spend the weekend at my grandma’s house dozens of miles away, and walk dozens of miles away to go home on Sunday.

Remote villages often cut off electricity. At that time, if you didn't finish your homework or wanted to read a book, you could only light an oil lamp.There is no desk at home, and there are many mosquitoes in the sultry weather. The mosquitoes in the mountains are very poisonous. One bite is a big bag, and it is very itchy. It will not go away for several days. Do homework and read books.

One day, the three brothers and sisters were all asleep. You pushed and shoved the oil lamp that had not been taken out, and someone knocked it over. They lit the mosquito net. Eleven was the first to wake up in the scorching heat. The pain woke up the older sisters and younger brothers, and they ran out barefoot, and ran to relatives' houses in the silent and dark night to call for firefighting.

There was no water in the big water tank in the kitchen, and relatives picked it up from the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, there was nothing to burn in the house. The mosquito net and the plastic film covering the top of the mosquito net were burned, and the big bed that my parents made when they got married was also burned. It was burnt black, but it was still usable.

The three brothers and sisters had more or less injuries, most of which were caused by the dripping of melted plastic and burned the skin, but they were not serious. Although scars would be left in the future, they did not affect their health and were not life-threatening. This is something to be thankful for.

A few days later, my father came back, went through the transfer procedures for the three siblings, and picked them up.

The reality is not as beautiful as imagined.

Because of low education and no skills, even if he enters a factory, he can only get a salary of a few hundred yuan a month. Although it looks like a lot in the village, he has to support a family and five children who go to school. , the hardships of life can be imagined, there is no extra money to rent a house, so I can only live in the dormitory of my father's factory. There are two beds in the small room, and my father processed the bed into a two-story frame bed. Sleeps a family of five.I often change jobs and change housing accordingly. The dormitory is transformed from a cowshed, and a dormitory is transformed from a warehouse. The best house I have ever lived in is an unfinished villa of the boss.

There are two floors above and below, each floor has toilets and bathrooms, the ceiling, floor and walls are all cement, and a family lives in each room, which is very lively.Eleven The room they were assigned to was on the first floor. Not far from the window was a large pond. There was a tall aquatic plant on the bank of the pond. In late autumn, the eldest sister would pick plants with other younger sisters who were also descendants of wage earners. The seeds are as big as a little finger, round, and threaded on them as a necklace.

I don’t know when the top glass of the window was missing a corner. When Eleven was alone at home, I heard local people yelling and cursing outside the window. With a loud sound, several dirty glass bottles were stuffed in through the glass gap, and there were a lot of plastic bags of sand and other garbage. The glass bottles fell on the dining table below and shattered.a mess.

Eleven shrank in the corner of the room, not daring to make a sound.After those people left, they took brooms, dustpans and rags and cleaned the house in a panic, without daring to tell their parents.

Mom and Dad's work is not easy. They often have to work overtime and work day and night. Fortunately, the children are not young, so they can still take care of themselves.Even if I receive it, I can only see it every day. As for guiding children's study, ideological education, etc., they are powerless. Tao's mother can't read two big characters, and Tao's father is reticent. Because of the pressure of life, he is always reprimanded or "My mother and I worked so hard to earn money, and we couldn't get good grades in the exam, so you guys look good when we come back!"

They all know what kind of "good-looking" is.Shaobing or fried meat with bamboo shoots are commonplace.

Province G is a developed coastal area. From the car, seeing so many high-rise buildings, streets full of people and cars, shops with a wide range of goods, and well-dressed people deeply shocked Eleven's heart.

He has a deep inferiority complex.The children in the new school had better food and clothing than him, and knew more than him. The achievements they were proud of in the past were not enough there. They were not very lively, and even more silent.He rarely plays.Every day is studying, studying, sweeping the floor, choosing vegetables and cooking at home, washing dishes after meals and doing homework. The older sister and younger brother don’t like to do housework, so they leave the work to him every day, and he is not allowed to tell his parents, even if they don’t If you warn him like that, Eleven won't tell his parents, he doesn't have that awareness yet.He keeps a lot of things in his heart, like being bullied or feeling sad.

Between classes, the students are jumping and jumping on the playground, chasing each other, sitting on the seats reading books and doing exercises on November [-], occasionally leaning on the railing of the corridor to watch the scenery, the kapok in the corner of the playground is blooming, and the fiery red flowers are blooming. The branches are in full bloom without any green leaves. At that time, I hadn’t learned the text about kapok, but I just felt that the bowl-sized red flowers bloomed under the blue sky, which made him cry.

Among so many students, the results of the 50th grade are not very outstanding, especially after the fifth grade has an English class.English tests are often failed.He felt that he had worked very hard, but he did not get the same harvest as his hard work.But God still cares about the 250th. The quiz stipulates that English only accounts for 32 points, and mathematics and Chinese account for [-] points.I scored [-] points in the English test on November [-]st, and performed exceptionally well in mathematics and Chinese, and was admitted to No. [-] Middle School in the city.

In that elementary school, only [-] students were admitted to No. [-] Middle School in the city.

Dad was very pleased and praised him a few words.And that's all.The hard life made them all learn spiritual encouragement, just like they never celebrated birthdays since they were young.After the eldest sister transferred to another school, she stayed in the first grade. She was in a different class from the eleventh grade. She failed the exam and went to a third-rate junior high school. She said she would not go to school after graduating from junior high school.Dad didn't express his opinion, as if he acquiesced.

When school started, I rode my bicycle to school alone on the eleventh day, because my home was only 20 minutes away from the No. [-] Middle School by bicycle. Although it was compulsory education, the accommodation fee was still a symbolic fee.Usually do not go home at noon, eat lunch at school, read in the classroom or in the corridor outside the classroom, in a daze, doze off, and then ride home after class in the afternoon.

In the second year of junior high school, my eldest brother was admitted to another middle school that was a little worse than the city's No. [-] middle school, but it was also very good. He lived on campus in November, and my father said that he could spend more time studying this way.Eleven has no comments.He has always had few opinions, and he doesn't talk much when he is at home.

The dormitory is newly built, the light is bright, the newly laid tiles are very clean, and everyone has their own desk and cabinet.That was the first time that Eleven had a dedicated locker, although it was only temporarily borrowed.It is also the first time to live in such a good environment.A little bit of joy.

But Shishi didn't remember that he had such an outstanding classmate named Yan Changnian in junior high school.

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Seeing the dazed look on Eleven's face, Namekian Guixian knew that he had forgotten it long ago, so he took out a yellow color photo from the file bag on the passenger seat and handed it to him: "Look, this is the second year of junior high school." In the photo taken after the picnic, isn't you the last one in the penultimate row?"

Eleven has never seen this photo before. In other words, except for the one-inch photos that must be used in school, he doesn’t have any photos of his life. Like a picnic, he needs to pay for it himself. It’s hard for him to ask his father for money, and he always shirks it , the class teacher and classmates are very open-minded. Most of the classmates are children of rich families, so naturally they don’t care about bringing one more freebie. When the classmates looked at him with contempt.

The life committee member is a chubby girl. During recess, she walked to the eleventh table step by step, and said in a small but strong voice: "Tao Jingming, participating in group activities is an important part of every day." As a classmate, we all know that your family is in trouble, and your meal fee is exempted, but you still can't shirk it, don't you have a sense of collective honor?"

It has already been involved in the collective sense of honor, and it is hard to get off the eleventh, and in front of so many classmates, I don't say no, but I feel extremely uncomfortable in my heart.Like being stripped naked in public, the sense of shame at that moment was unprecedented.

Compared to other students who were elated, Eleven was very silent, but he always talked very little, and no one paid special attention to him. He helped light the fire and burn charcoal, grilled chicken wings, grilled squid, grilled all kinds of food, and ate very little , Most of it was given to the students who just cared about playing.

During the event, we still took pictures. Before the end, we took a group photo. First, we developed a photo to see how many people wanted each photo, and then re-edited it. Every time on November [-], we didn’t ask for any photos.After more than ten years, the past was blurred until he forgot it. Strangely, he forgot the name of the fat life committee member, but the figure of her walking with a chubby body left behind the words she said to Eleven. A vivid memory.I have been remembering it until now.In addition, the faces and names of all classmates and teachers have been forgotten.

He didn't expect any junior high school classmates to remember him.

Eleven in the photo is wearing a light blue overcoat that obviously does not fit. He is expressionless and does not look at the camera. His hair is a bit long, covering the eyebrows and eyes on the right. He tilts his head slightly, revealing his left eye. Looking obliquely into the distance.

After coming to G province, he has been wearing school uniform, except for the blue coat.

After living in school, his father gave him 120 yuan a month.School breakfast is mostly soy milk, bread, porridge, glutinous rice chicken and other food, at least 2 cents for each item, 120 yuan for glutinous rice chicken, [-] yuan for preserved egg and lean meat porridge, which is cheaper than those outside the school. There are two prices for lunch and dinner. The minimum is one yuan and six, and if you add more rice, one or two ten cents.Eleven tried his best to control his appetite and didn't eat much, but [-] yuan a month was obviously not enough. Many times he woke up in the middle of the night with an empty stomach and was very hungry.

Even so, he still saves a few dollars a month and buys a second-hand clothes at the night market before that picnic, the coat on his body, it doesn't fit, but he loves it, wears it for years, until it is washed and worn out Can no longer wear it.

Eleven caressed herself in the photo, and then looked for Yan Changnian.This time, he immediately saw the tall, good-looking boy who was also looking at the other side with a blank expression.

Namek Star Guixian said: "Your score in the senior high school entrance examination exceeded the school's high school admission score, why didn't you continue to study?"