Grandma told Yuan Fangguo that Erzhu's wife had abandoned their two children and ran away. He now drinks every day and is very decadent.
"When did it happen?" Yuan Fangguo was very surprised. Erzhu got married when he was sixteen, became a father at seventeen, and his child is almost two years old now.
"He ran away from home in October. We've been looking for him for months but haven't found him." Qin Mingzhen felt a little sad for Erzhu.
It is not common for young wives in the village to run away from home. After all, their hometown is full of mountains, and even the town is at the bottom of a valley between two mountains.
"Then I have to go and comfort him." After saying this, Yuan Fangguo strode towards Erzhu's house.
Although the two people's life development trajectories are different, one is studying in college and the other is a farmer, but their private relationship is very good. In the past, every time Yuan Fangguo returned to school from home, Erzhu would send him off.
Erzhu's home is not far from his home, only less than 500 meters away.
Most of the houses in the village are still adobe houses, and Erzhu's house is no exception.
When we arrived at Erzhu's house, we saw that the door of his adobe house was closed, with couplets and New Year pictures pasted on the door in rather disorderly manner, and firewood piled under the eaves.
"Erzhu, Erzhu!" Yuan Fangguo shouted at the door in a loud voice, but unexpectedly no one answered from inside.
After a while, an old lady with a hunched back came out, leaning on a cane. She squinted her eyes and looked at Yuan Fangguo for a few times before she realized that he was Qin Mingzhen's eldest grandson. "He's gone."
"He's gone? Where did he go? Grandma." Yuan Fangguo asked quickly.
"It seems he went to Yuecheng." The old lady said after thinking for a while.
The old lady from the mountains had only been to the county town at most in her life. Although she said "Yuecheng", Yuan Fangguo immediately understood that Erzhu must have gone to Guangdong Province.
"I also said I would come over to play with him for a while." Yuan Fangguo said with a smile.
"Then we can't find him to play with." The old lady shook her head.
Yuan Fangguo was a little disappointed, but he soon realized that for Erzhu, it was impossible to dig up gold nuggets by guarding the land in the mountains at home. Erzhu was still young, only nineteen years old. He could go to Guangdong Province to try his luck. At the very least, he would live a better life than in his hometown.
On the way home, Yuan Fangguo saw another female classmate from elementary school. She was about the same age as Yuan Fangguo, but she was already a mother of two children. After seeing Yuan Fangguo, she was very embarrassed and even shyly asked her three-year-old child to call Yuan Fangguo uncle.
Yuan Fangguo played with the child for a while and chatted with her for a while. When he went back, he was full of emotion. He even remembered that this female classmate raised her hand to speak when she was in elementary school and told everyone that her dream was to become a teacher when she grew up.
Not long after returning home, my parents and sister Yang Fangan also returned home, but there was no sign of my third brother.
When I asked my sister, I found out that my third brother was playing at my uncle's house.
My uncle's second and third brothers are about the same age. They are both very naughty and can play together.
"Brother, you've become darker." Yuan Fangan said with a smile.
"Really?" Yuan Fangguo didn't notice that he had turned darker. He subconsciously touched his cheek.
"If you don't believe me, ask mom." Yuan Fangan said.
Chen Yongying smiled and said, "Boss, don't listen to your sister's nonsense. This darkening is a good thing."
"I didn't say anything bad." Yuan Fangan couldn't help but pout. She was still a little girl.
"Who bought these vegetables?" At this moment, the voice of father Yuan Chengzhu came from the main room.
"My eldest grandson bought it." Qin Mingzhen said with a smile.
"Fang Guo, did you buy it?" Yuan Chengzhu asked hurriedly.
"It was still early when I arrived in the county town today, so I went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables."
"Did you stay in the county town last night?"
"Yes, I live in a classmate's house."
"oh"
As soon as his parents came back, his mother carried a basket on her back to pick grass for the pigs, and his father carried an axe to the back mountain. Yuan Fangguo knew that his father was preparing tuition for his younger brothers and sisters again.
"Brother, how is college life? Is it as fun as high school?" Yuan Fangan was very curious about college life and chirped in Yuan Fangguo's ear like a happy lark.
"You don't even have evening self-study? What do you do in your spare time?"
Yuan Fang'an's series of questions made Yuan Fangguo a little overwhelmed, and he finally answered them one by one.
"Fourth sister, don't keep asking me. Let me ask you, how did you do in the exams this semester?" Yuan Fangguo frowned.
"I'm sure I'll be first." Yuan Fangan looked confident.
"I see you are getting proud. There are only a few students in your class, less than 20. When you go to junior high school in the second half of the year, you will find that the competition is much more intense than that in elementary school. Your brother and I were hit hard by reality in the first semester of junior high school." Yuan Fangguo still remembers clearly what happened when he went from elementary school in the mountain village to junior high school. The quality of education in the mountains is far from comparable to that in the town. The elementary school teachers basically have only junior high school education and have not received complete and systematic training.
"I understand. You and my second brother both have such good grades. I should be more confident about this." Yuan Fangan stuck out his tongue playfully.
"So which school do you want to go to in the future?" Yuan Fangguo asked jokingly.
"I want to be a doctor." Yuan Fangan said without hesitation.
This was the first time Yuan Fangguo asked his sister about her ideal future career. When he heard that she wanted to be a doctor, he couldn't help but smile. He touched his sister's head and said, "If you want to be a doctor, you have to study harder. Otherwise, no one will dare to see you for treatment in the future."
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