Chapter 129 Go to the student's home to check the situation
Ma Siqing followed Cheng Fuqing and drove to Hezigou.
Along the way, Cheng Fuqing told Ma Siqing the origin of Hezigou.
There is a mountain ditch five miles in front of Hezigou village. Twenty years ago, many raccoons appeared there.
So people gradually changed the name of the village.
In recent years, raccoons are rare, but tigers and blind bears have been seen by villagers several times.
There were traces of blind bears and tigers a while ago.
So Cheng Fuqing was worried when he heard Ma Siqing say she was going to Hezigou.
Tong Shiyu took the three children to the camp and heard an old soldier say that traces of tigers were found in Hezigou some time ago.
Anxious, because Ma Siqing just said she was going to Hezigou to look for the student.
The teachers in the school were busy, and the student was sent to school by his father every day. I don't know why he didn't come today.
Even though his home is far away, he has never been absent from class.
Everyone is worried, his home is remote, could something have happened?
Tong Shiyu handed the children to Chen Xiaowei and asked him to help take care of them for a while.
The three children knew that their father was going to look for their mother, so they played with the soldiers in the camp.
Tong Shiyu borrowed a bicycle from the logistics department and ran away from the army. When he arrived at the gate of the forest farm, Hu Zi happened to see Tong Shiyu: "Brother-in-law, where are you going?"
Hu Zi caught up and asked, Tong Shiyu answered while riding his bicycle:
"I'm going to find your sister, she went to Hezigou."
"Brother-in-law, where are Dashuang and the others?"
"They are with Chen Xiaowei in the army camp. Where is your father?"
"Oh, my father went to Hezigou with my sister. He said he was worried about my sister going alone."
Hearing this, Tong Shiyu's heart fell back to where it was.
But he still speeded up, faster, to catch up with them.
I hope there will be no accidents.
At this time, Ma Siqing and Cheng Fuqing had already arrived at the mountain ditch where tigers and blind bears were said to have appeared.
This is a stream, a stream like a ditch.
There are six or seven meter high stone walls on both sides of the stream. Because it is the season of melting snow, the water in the stream is flowing continuously, rustling, and the trees on the stone walls have sprouted new buds.
If you come here in the midsummer season, the trees are lush and green, covering the sky and blocking the sun, and you probably can't see the bottom of the ditch.
Ma Siqing speculated that the raccoons must have come here to drink water in groups, and were seen by the villagers, so it became the Raccoon Ditch.
As for the blind bear, it will definitely come out to move around after the heat stored in its body is used up.
If it is seen at the bottom of the ditch, it is still quite high from the ground, and there should be no danger.
Cheng Fuqing saw this terrain. He only looked out from a distance here last year and did not come in.
But be careful.
Cheng Fuqing cut down a tree with a diameter of six or seven centimeters from the side, and then cut it into two parts.
He gave one part to Ma Siqing and took the other part in his hand.
"Siqing, take this, in case you encounter an animal, you can protect yourself."
"Thank you, uncle."
The two continued to move forward.
After crossing the Heracles Valley and riding for another five miles, they arrived at the village.
Ma Siqing asked a fellow villager where Xiang Licheng was, and the fellow villager said he didn't know him.
Could it be that he heard the place name wrong? Ma Siqing was suspicious.
She immediately understood that everyone in the village probably called him by his nickname.
Remembering that classmates called Xiang Licheng "Xiaoqiuzi" during breaks, he quickly changed his name and asked the fellow villager, "Where is Xiaoqiuzi's home?"
The fellow villager pointed in the direction of the foot of the mountain and told Ma Siqing to walk along the road in the village, not to take the detour, and walk to the end of the foot of the mountain. There is a locust tree at the door of the house. That is Xiaoqiuzi's home.
Ma Siqing thanked him and continued to move forward with Cheng Fuqing. It took five minutes to ride to the foot of the mountain.
Xiaoqiuzi's home is easy to recognize, a large yard with a locust tree in the middle. There
are some green buds on the locust tree.
There is a row of houses on the edge of the yard, with four windows, but a door can be seen.
It should be a structure where all the houses are connected and the door is inside.
At this moment, the door of Xiaoqiuzi's house is closed, and it seems that no one is there.
Ma Siqing walked to the door and knocked.
She heard a weak man's voice: "Who is it?"
Ma Siqing replied outside the door: "I am Xiang Licheng's teacher. He didn't go to school today, so I came to see him."
Then she heard a noise in the house, and the man came to open the door.
"Squeak--" The sound of the old wooden door opening reminded Ma Siqing of the days at Zhang Xiao'e's house.
The man saw Ma Siqing and Cheng Fuqing, and hurriedly invited them to come in and sit down.
Cheng Fuqing saw that the man's steps were unsteady, so he stepped forward to support him.
After taking his pulse, the man was too weak. It should be caused by long-term work without rest and poor nutrition.
After Ma Siqing and the others sat down, the man started coughing, and coughed very hard. Ma Siqing couldn't help but worry when she heard it.
After a long while, the man finally spoke: "I am Xiang Licheng's father. I had a high fever last night, coughed and was afraid of the cold. I couldn't send him to school this morning. I didn't have a phone, and no one in the village went to school. I couldn't send a message to the teacher, which made the teacher worried."
Ma Siqing was relieved, thinking that something happened to the child.
"Where is Xiang Licheng? Why is he not at home?" Ma Siqing asked.
"It's embarrassing to say that there is no money or rice at home. He went to his uncle's house to borrow money. He should have been back by now. He must have been gone for an hour!"
Looking at the furnishings in the house, it was very simple, so simple that there were only three or two stools, and there was not even a table.
Many of the papers on the wall were damaged. The
damaged papers were cut off neatly with scissors, and it didn't look messy.
The stove in the main room was wiped clean, and the floor was also clean.
Although there were few things, they were all clean and tidy.
Ma Siqing couldn't help but admire the man in front of her.
This was a man who loved life.
"Xiang Licheng studied very hard and had very good grades. It's just that this place is too far from school, and it's not convenient to go back and forth in the morning and evening. Especially in winter when it snows heavily."
"There was no way. The kid wanted to study, and I couldn't send him to school in winter, so he studied at home. So he stumbled and was only in the third grade at the age of twelve."
No wonder this student looks much older than others.
Xiang Licheng's father told Ma Siqing about the family situation. When Xiang Licheng was two years old, his mother died of illness.
He earned work points in the village and saved money to send his child to school.
Fortunately, the school run by the army only requires children to pay for food. Xiang Licheng always brought his own lunch, so the food expenses were almost zero.
Then it was time to buy stationery.
During the years of schooling, several teachers bought notebooks and pens for Xiang Licheng.
There were really none, so Xiang Licheng did his homework orally.
He memorized the fastest.
The textbooks were borrowed, but Xiang Licheng could memorize them all.
Ma Siqing felt bad after hearing this.
She had suffered from lack of education, so in this life, she wanted to go to college.
She also wanted to be a teacher so that more children could receive education.
As they were talking, Xiang Licheng came back.