When Cen Huaian heard Chuxia's words, he immediately looked up at her, with surprise in his eyes, and asked in a childish tone: "Are you going now?"
"Yes, didn't you see that I took my bag with me when I went out, and locked the door. Let's go."
"Wait, Mom, I need to talk to Brother Bang."
Cen Huaian and Bangzi had agreed before to go sell things together on the weekend. Now he is not going, and he has to say goodbye.
"Okay, I'll wait for you outside the alley."
Chuxia looked at the main road outside the alley. A gust of wind blew, and many leaves of the trees fell.
It's autumn, and the weather will get cooler day by day.
Not long after, Cen Huaian came out with four little radishes in a row.
"What are you doing?"
Bangzi pushed Cen Huaian to let him speak, and he turned his face to the side, deliberately looking at the trees on the street, looking indifferent.
But from his tightly clenched hands, it can be seen that he is nervous.
Cen Huaian: "Bangzi and the others also want to go and see what college is like."
In fact, it was not Bangzi who first mentioned going. He was tempted, but he was not ready to say it.
It was his grandmother in the yard who forced him to go with her, saying in a vicious tone: "Go and show me! What's so good about college that that heartless woman would abandon you and your daughter and run away!"
When his grandmother said this, Bangzi fell silent and followed Cen Huaian silently.
Chopsticks, Maozai and the others looked at each other and hurried to follow.
Bangzi was about to say, if you don't want to take me, then forget it.
Chuxia took Cen Huaian's hand and asked him to hold Bangzi and others' hands: "Okay, let's go together, it will be more lively." She
didn't care at all, just asked Cen Huaian and Bangzi to follow closely and not to leave anyone behind when getting on the bus.
Liangzhou University and the textile factory are in the same district of Liangzhou City, and the road is not very close. It took more than 40 minutes to get there by bus.
The main reason is that the bus will stop in the middle, so it takes a long time.
When you get off the bus, you will be facing the gate of Liangzhou University. There are four big red characters hanging on the gate: Celebrate National Day.
The square stone pillars on both sides of the gate are also engraved with four characters-Liangzhou University.
Before entering the university, Chuxia felt the greenery blowing in from the gate. Except for the largest square at the entrance, there are no trees planted, and the roads on both sides are full of trees.
Chuxia asked a few children to wait, and she went to ask the security guard. She had something in her bag, which was the cigarettes she prepared in advance. She
stuffed the cigarettes into the security guard's hand, said a few nice words, and took out her high school diploma, and then Chuxia took the four children in.
The university management itself is not strict, and people can enter and exit freely. Chuxia prepared these just in case.
Generally, the security guard will check your identity and let you in after confirming that you are not a dangerous person.
As soon as I entered the university, I looked up and saw a four-story building at the end of the square facing the gate, a very long teaching building.
It was the weekend, and many students in the school were studying. They held books and immersed in them, and didn't notice other people around them at all.
Since entering the university, Cen Huaian and the others have been silent, busy looking around, their eyes are not enough.
Chuxia also did not say anything, just took them to visit.
Liangzhou University is now very large, and it is impossible to visit it all in one morning.
Chuxia asked the students of the school and took Cen Huaian and the others to see the university's library, the largest teaching building, and the cafeteria, which are the iconic buildings of the university.
The library was crowded with people reading everywhere, and they sat on the floor when there were no tables or chairs.
Cen Huaian couldn't take his eyes away when he saw the rows of books in the library, which seemed like an endless sea of books.
At noon, they used money and food coupons to ask university students to buy lunch for a few people. After lunch, Chuxia was exhausted and leaned back in her chair and asked, "Are you still going shopping?"
Cen Huaian and Bangzi shook their heads.
On the way back, Cen Huaian couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes. Bangzi kept his head down and kept silent, tapping his feet on the ground without saying a word.
Chopstick Cat was also excited, and even felt a yearning in his heart, but he quickly cut it off.
People like them don't even have the opportunity to go to school, so how can they have the opportunity to go to university. There was
still time, so Cen Huaian didn't go home, but followed Bangzi to his house.
As soon as he entered, Bangzi said to Cen Huaian, "I want to go to university."
Who wouldn't feel yearning after walking around the university.
Cen Huaian kept saying to himself in his heart: I must get into college, and I want to get into the best college!
There and the family compound and the textile factory are two completely different worlds, which also attracted the hearts of these children.
Bangzi thought about it all the way, and finally said it out loud. He was relieved that studying must be useful, otherwise why would so many people go to study.
He didn't understand, so he would join in, and one day he would understand.
Cen Huaian understood Bangzi's ideas, and they had the same idea.
But there are practical problems in going to school.
"Brother Bang, will your grandmother agree?"
Bangzi hugged his head in distress: "I don't know."
Cen Huaian and Kuaizi were waiting outside the yard, and Bangzi went to ask his grandmother.
Soon, the house was filled with the grandmother's hoarse but resolute voice: "No! Books are harmful, you can't read them, and you can't go to school!"
Bangzi didn't know what he said, and there was a crackling sound in the house, and Bangzi was beaten out.
He showed a nonchalant smile to Cen Huaian, spread his hands and said: "It seems that I can't go to school with you."
Bangzi's smile at this moment made Cen Huaian frown: "If you don't want to laugh, don't laugh."
Bangzi rubbed his hands with a giggle: "It's okay, I didn't plan to go to school anyway."
Cen Huaian still frowned when he returned home. Chuxia was doing math problems at home, looked up and saw him, and rubbed his hair: "What's wrong? Weren't you happy this morning?"
"Bangzi wants to go to school, but his grandmother won't let him."
An old lady with a stubborn mind, Chuxia thought for a while and said: "Let Bangzi say that he goes to school to find his mother and see if she gets retribution. If he doesn't go to school, he will always be in Liangzhou City, and he will never find his mother who ran away."
Cen Huaian: "Is it okay?"
Chuxia was also unsure, and just said: "You guys try it, and if it doesn't work, think of other ways."
Cen Huaian told Bangzi, and Chuxia also asked Cen Huaian if Bangzi's grandmother had any good friends, and asked Bangzi's grandmother's friends to persuade her with gifts.
For example, "You only have one grandson, Bangzi. Can you bear to let him be a garbage collector or a seller for his whole life? You don't want him to be successful and make that woman regret it in the future."
"Bangzi is so old and he has never been to school. It is not easy to be a garbage collector or a seller. Don't you see that he is often injured? This is your only grandson. What if someone else fails..."
Bangzi looked particularly disappointed at home again.
Cen Huaian relayed Chuxia's words to Bangzi one by one, and said, "My mother gave you an idea. You can't blame my mother whether it succeeds or not, otherwise we will not be friends in the future."
Bangzi naturally knew that Chuxia helped him for Cen Huaian's sake, and he would remember it.
"In the future, I will be as filial to your mother as I am to my grandmother!"
Cen Huaian immediately said, "No need, my mother is as filial as I am to her, just remember that my mother helped you."
Days passed, and before Chuxia asked Cen Huaian and Bangzi whether they had succeeded, she received something from her mother-in-law again.
But this time there was no letter from Cen Zhengnian, and the letters she sent out also fell into the sea.
It was not until late September that she saw the report in the newspaper she subscribed to every day, and Chuxia's heart skipped a beat.