Go to night school

Qin Ling said worriedly, "I don't like my aunt being my stepmother. All stepmothers are bad. Besides, my aunt is a bad person. I want to go with my mother..."

Qin Yu was also very troubled: "If you leave with Third Aunt, I won't be able to see you anymore. Can't Third Aunt not leave?"

Qin Ling sighed deeply: "You are still young, you don't understand, my mother can't stay at home anymore..."

Qin Ling already understood her mother's situation. Even if her father was released, her mother would still face scolding and even beatings.

She hated her father a little in her heart. If he and her aunt hadn't done something wrong, the family wouldn't be in this situation. But she only dared to say this secretly to Qin Yu, and then she asked Qin Yu to keep it a secret and not tell anyone else.

Qin Yu had a heavy expression on her face as she carried a secret in her heart. She turned her mother's back and secretly taught Qin Wenli, "Dad, you can't be like Third Uncle. If you do that, I will leave with Mom, and I will hate you..."

Qin Wenli: ...

Qin Wenli promised: "Dad will never do anything bad, and Dad can't bear to leave Yuyu."

"Then can you bear to let your mother go?" Qin Yu was a smart child and quickly caught the loophole in his father's words.

Qin Wenli said in a panic: "I can't bear to leave you. I can't bear to leave your mother either..."

I’m going to die…

Xizi who steals apples from the tree: Eh…

Xizi waited until the father and daughter walked away before he secretly climbed down from the tree. She ate a few bites of the apple, wiped her mouth and destroyed the core.

As soon as he entered the door, he dropped a bomb: "Sister-in-law, my brother Wenli said he couldn't bear to part with you..."

Everyone in the yard immediately looked at Xizi, then looked at Yang Xiu, and then looked back at Xizi.

Yang Xiu's face flushed red, and he glared at Xizi: "What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up and be quiet."

"Really? He told Yuyu that... Brother Wenli, you just told Yuyu at the apple tree that you couldn't bear to leave my sister-in-law. I heard it so clearly, but my sister-in-law didn't believe it."

Qin Wenli: ...

Qin Wenli fled in a panic.

The whole family pretended they hadn't heard anything and quietly lowered their heads to hold back their laughter.

Yang Xiu blushed and pushed the door curtain open and went into the house.

Only Xizi muttered: "Really, there's nothing to be embarrassed about having two children..."

Hu Yufeng said with a straight face: "Okay, what are you doing going to the apple tree? Are you trying to steal apples again?"

It can be seen that Xizi thought he was flawless, but he didn't know that everyone was just too lazy to expose him.

Xizi stammered and changed the subject: "I'll go help my sister-in-law with the work..."

"Help me carry the melon vines." Hu Yufeng called Xizi. Lao Qin's family planted dozens of watermelons. As soon as autumn began, the weather became cold in the morning and evening, and eating watermelons would make people upset. It would be better to plant some spinach for the winter.

Xizi obediently followed Hu Yufeng to clean up the floor.

Yang Xiu was in the room listening to everyone leaving, then he blushed and spat, wondering what nonsense this man was talking about in front of the child every day.

At the dinner table in the evening, Qin Wenli suddenly brought a big news: the school was going to open a literacy class, and people of Qin Wenli's generation who were illiterate would have to attend.

Yang Xiu hesitated after hearing this: "I...I don't want to go, okay?"

Qin Wenli was puzzled: "This is a good thing. If you can read, you can take the bus by yourself and read the house number by yourself, so you don't have to worry about getting lost."

Yang Xiu even didn't feel the rice in his bowl was fragrant anymore.

Qin Wenli wanted to say something, but Hu Yufeng took over and asked, "Can I go?"

As soon as she said this, everyone put down their chopsticks and looked at her. Hu Yufeng was depressed: "What's wrong? I can't go to school anymore?"

Qin Wenli quickly said, "Yes, the team said that anyone who is willing to learn can come. Mom, if you want to go, I will report it to the team leader."

Hu Yufeng nodded when she heard this: "Then report it to me."

She turned to look at Yang Xiu and Xizi: "You two can go, and learning knowledge won't harm you. Let's not talk about far away. When we go out to set up a stall, we have to find Wenli to do the accounting. Who will you find when Wenli goes out? When we return to school, can't we do the accounting ourselves?"

Yang Xiu wanted to speak, but Hu Yufeng glared at him: "What's wrong? My words don't work anymore. What? You all have your own ideas..."

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiu quickly shut up, and after a while he said with his head down: "I know, Mom, I'll go..."

Only Qin Shengtian cursed in his heart: This witch has been running around outside every day, and now she wants to go to night school. There are many men in night school, who knows what this old woman is trying to do. As her second sister said, he is not a decent person.

When he lay down at night, Qin Wenli asked, "Night school is such a good thing, why don't you want to go?"

Yang Xiu felt a little embarrassed and remained silent for a long time.

Just when Qin Wenli was about to fall asleep, Yang Xiucai said quietly, "You know that our school was founded by my father."

Qin Wenli nodded, and then thought of his wife who couldn't see in the dark, so he hurriedly said, "I know, what's the matter?"

"I was nine years old when my father opened the school. My family sent me to school..." This was the first time since she was born that she went out of the house and met people of the same age. She entered the school with curiosity, but it turned out to be the beginning of a nightmare.

My dad was busy running for approvals and looking for teachers, and all the money we had at home was used to support him. The children at home never told him about their lack of food and clothing, and he didn't notice.

She went to school wearing the old cotton trousers that her grandmother had patched up, and the trousers were torn and the cotton wool leaked out. And she didn't notice.

The school was full of kids about her age. They surrounded her on purpose. Those in front teased her, while those behind took the opportunity to pull at her cotton.

She was so scared that she trembled against the wall, while those who succeeded held up the cotton and smiled at her triumphantly.

She can still remember those people's laughter and her own embarrassment and helplessness.

Qin Wenli was silent: "What happened next?"

Later... she was worried all day long and refused to go to school after four days. She just said that her family was busy and she wanted to go home to help. It was her grandmother who noticed something was wrong with her and took her to her father.

What did the young father say after hearing her trembling narration? He said he was timid, so why did he bully her and not others? If he says he can't go, then he won't go. Many people want to go but don't have the opportunity. You can't blame others for your own failure.

From then on, school became her nightmare. Whenever she heard about going to school, the distorted faces of her childhood would appear before her eyes uncontrollably.

It was the first time that Qin Wenli heard his wife talk about her childhood. In fact, he had been curious before. His father-in-law was a teacher, but his wife and sister-in-law were illiterate, and only his brother-in-law managed to finish junior high school.

He had always thought that his father-in-law favored boys over girls, but today he understood the reason after hearing his wife's explanation.

He felt a little sorry for his wife for a moment. If they had known each other since childhood, it would have been great. He would have protected her and not let her bear it alone.

After Yang Xiu finished speaking, there was a long silence. After a long while, Qin Wenli said gently, "If going to night school makes you feel uncomfortable, then don't go. I will teach you at home."

Unexpectedly, Yang Xiu said in a muffled voice: "Go, my mother is fifty years old and she can go, so I can go too. Besides, Xizi is going too, you know her brain, I have to go and keep an eye on her..."

Qin Wenli was not surprised to hear this. Yang Xiu has always been like this, because she has been hurt, she will try her best to protect others from suffering.

He just felt his heart soften, as if a surge of warmth had broken through the ice. He couldn't help but reach out and rub his wife's head.

*

Night school started as soon as it was announced, and Qin Wenli just signed up for three people in his family this morning. In the evening, a loud speaker notified those who had registered to arrive at the primary school at 7 o'clock to prepare for class.

The Qin family had lunch early. There is a sense of ritual when going to school. Hu Yufeng and the other two were getting ready in the room. At least their hair had to be combed neatly and their clothes had to be clean.

Hu Yufeng smoothed her thin gray hair, looked at herself in the mirror, straightened her collar and then went out.

Yang Xiu nodded his head to go last night, but when it came time to leave, he hesitated and couldn't move his feet.

Hu Yufeng urged impatiently, "Hurry up, it will be too late. We are all acquaintances in the village, what are you afraid of?"

Qin Wenli prepared notebooks and pencils for the group, and put them into Yang Xiu's cloth bag one by one. He looked up and said to Yang Xiu, "It's okay. They are all the sisters-in-law you often see in the village. You can go and experience them tonight. If you don't like them, we won't go later."

Yang Xiu didn't really not want to go, he just had a bit of a fear of going to school. At this moment, her mother-in-law was urging her husband to coax her, so she calmed herself down and went out with her schoolbag on her back.

As the sky gradually darkened, bursts of laughter broke out from time to time on the road leading to the elementary school. Young wives and men went to school in groups of three or five, laughing and joking.

The three people from the Qin family arrived first. As soon as you enter the primary school gate, you will see a row of bungalows facing west and east, one of which has its door open.

When the three of them came in, they saw six rows of desks and chairs neatly arranged in the classroom. The table is a long table and the benches are also long benches, each one can accommodate three or four people.

Hu Yufeng took the lead and walked to the middle table and bench in the first row and sat down in the middle. She looked at the two people standing and said, "Sit down. Why are you standing there like an idiot..."

The two of them sat down next to Hu Yufeng. The three of them then looked around curiously.

I saw a dark red table placed in the middle of the three-inch cement platform in front of me. This should be the podium.

Portraits of leaders are hung on the east and west walls, and large characters written by children are pasted on the back wall.

After a while, someone looked in the doorway and saw three people sitting inside. He said with surprise:

"Xiu'er, you're here too?"

"It's this classroom, isn't it? Emma, ​​why are you guys so active? You came so early!!!"

Yang Xiu: Why so early? Of course the old lady is eager to go to school! ! !

When the visitors saw Hu Yufeng sitting in the middle, they were extremely surprised:

"Aunt, why are you here?"

"Aunt, you are here too?"

"Aunt, what are you doing here?"

Hu Yufeng's face gradually became ferocious: What do you think I am doing here? ! !

The classroom was bustling and lively like a vegetable market.

Even in the classroom, some men are not aware of it at all, they smoke a cigarette, cross their legs and talk big.

The daughters are relatively low-key, but of course they cannot be otherwise.

She either curses the man or the mother-in-law. If she doesn't keep her voice down and someone present spreads it, it will cause another storm.

There were also some people who whispered in low voices with Qin Wenqing as the center of the topic, and occasionally raised their eyes to steal a glance at the Qin family.

Li Lanhua, who arrived late and was sitting in the back row, felt very uncomfortable. She felt as if thousands of pairs of eyes were staring at her, and she suddenly had the urge to run home.

Just then, the branch secretary walked in with two people.