At the same time, Xiang Yuan was being educated by his mother in a cave in a remote mountain village far away in the northwest.
"Yuanyuan, starting this year, there will be no restrictions on family background when registering for the college entrance examination. Whether our family can turn things around depends entirely on you. You are our family's only hope, so you must fight for your mother!"
Zhu Qingyuan had been here for ten years and had already accepted her fate, thinking that this was how her life would be. Unexpectedly, God would not abandon her and the college entrance examination was resumed. This was a way out for their family. As long as her son worked hard and was admitted to a university, their whole family would have hope of returning to Beijing. She was really fed up with this desolate place.
Xiang Yuan, who was only fourteen years old, scratched his head in annoyance when he heard this. "Mom, you know how bad I am at studying. I don't even have the confidence to be admitted to high school."
He is only in the second year of junior high school now, and he has to walk a long mountain road to go to school in the commune every day. He has had enough of it.
"Then you should start studying hard from now on. You still have two and a half years to prepare. You should make your parents proud! Don't you want to get out? Do you want to stay in these mountains forever?"
"I……"
How could he not want to go out, but he felt that he couldn't.
"Say something!"
Zhu Qingyuan slapped Xiang Jinghua.
"Ahem~ Your mom is right, ahem~ Only you can, ahem, change the current situation in our family, ahem~
You are still young. If you want to have a bright future in the future, you have to rely on yourself. Your mother and I are incapable of helping you. You have to work hard on your own!"
Ten years of hardship is enough to completely change a person. Xiang Jinghua has hunched shoulders, is skinny, has a pale face, and coughs from time to time. He no longer looks like the high-spirited young man of Beijing. He looks like an old man half buried in the earth.
The same goes for Zhu Qingyuan. Her countless white hair, crow's feet at the corners of her eyes that could kill a fly, and her tanned face all show how hard her life has been over the years.
"Okay, I got it."
Seeing his parents’ health deteriorating year by year, Xiang Yuan couldn’t bear to say anything to disappoint them.
Xiang Nuan didn’t know the current situation of this family of three, and she didn’t want to know at all. Anyway, they had severed ties and it had nothing to do with her anymore. How they lived was their own fate.
She should study hard, not let these four years go to waste, and not let herself down.
Soon it was the first weekend. She packed her things and took the bus home early on Saturday morning. When the two children saw her come back, they rushed over to hug her, kissing her and jumping for joy.
"Mom, I miss you so much! Are you doing well in school?"
Yanyan hooked her arms around her mother's neck and refused to let go, with her little face pressed tightly against her chest.
Haoyang stuck to the other side and said sweetly: "Yangyang misses mommy too~"
Xiang Nuan kissed each of them and said, "Mom is fine, but I miss you guys so much. Are you two being good and obedient?"
The two children said in unison, "Yes!"
Xiang Nuan smiled with relief, "So good!"
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