"Uncle, about Dagang's leg... Oh! Don't get angry, Xiaoyue has me and the villagers here!"
After shouting, Zhao Shugen entered the house, looked at Bi Jinzhi and Liu Yafang and continued:
"What a great honor this is! It brings glory to our family! I watched Xiaoyue grow up. Finally, a golden phoenix has flown out of our mountain valley! Sister-in-law, hold this for you."
Bi Yue, who had kept her eyes closed, suddenly stiffened and listened attentively.
A cotton hat was filled to the brim with money. Inside the hat were food coupons, a few cents, a dime, and so on.
"That's all! All the men in the village chipped in! Xiaoyue and Dacheng are both good kids who grew up under our watchful eyes. They got admitted to Capital University. We're so proud of them, we have to send them there no matter what! Tell Dacheng to come back quickly and don't ask for the money. The foreman owes him money for carrying bricks. I'll collect it tomorrow!"
Aunt Bi Jinzhi took the cotton hat with trembling hands.
Bi Tiegang, who was lying in another room, supported one of his legs that was beaten with a board. He felt as if his heart was blocked and he could not breathe. He had a lot to say but could not get it out.
The seven-foot tall man had not dared to fall down since he was injured. At this moment, he fell along the fire wall onto the kang, covering his face with his hands, his shoulders twitching, and his whole body seemed to have lost all strength.
The old village chief Zhao Shugen looked at the frail Bi Yue and lit his pipe before advising:
"Xiaoyue, let me tell you, everyone will encounter difficulties in their life. You still have a long way to go. If you want to succeed, you must go to the capital and study hard!
When you become capable in the future, everyone in the village, young and old, will be proud of it!
We don't want anything else, just that one day you and Dacheng will become successful, so we can tell others that Bi Yue and Bi Cheng are college graduates who came out of our poor Zhaojiatun! Who says a golden phoenix can't fly out of a mountain village?
Bi Yue did not open her eyes when Liu Yafang cried and discussed with her;
After being slapped twice by her aunt Bi Jinzhi, Bi Yue dared not open her eyes to face him;
But at this moment, when she heard the persuasive voice with a strong rural accent, she opened her eyes and was helped by her mother to sit up.
At the age of sixteen, the girl who skipped grades, passed all the tests, and was both good in character and academic performance just to save a few years of tuition fees finally had a spark in her heart.
Those clear tearful eyes looked at the cotton hat in her aunt's hand...
In the midsummer of that year, when school was almost over, Bi Yue and Bi Cheng left the small mountain village called "Zhaojiatun" with their tiny coins and steamed buns made by their mother in their pockets.
The brother and sister stood on the mountain and looked at the village with curling smoke. Then they looked back at the unknown road they were about to embark on. Bi Yue and Bi Cheng knelt down and kowtowed to their hometown.
I seem to be able to hear the exhortations of the men, women, and children in the village;
He could still seem to see his father standing at the entrance of the village with his crutches;
Grandpa, who had been quiet in recent years, shouted as they turned and opened the door:
"You have to make some progress!"
This scene was engraved in Bi Yue's bones and blood. This was the reason why she was able to maintain top grades despite not having enough food and clothing during her two years in college and having suffered from depression for a long time.
…
Aixuan dug her nails into the palm of her hand.
She saw the sixteen-year-old girl from that year, pulling the cloth bag hard with both hands, and climbing two mountains in succession with her thin shoulders. Then Bi Yue stood on the street in a daze. She seemed to realize that the world outside was different from what she had imagined.
Bi Yue took a train for the first time;
For the first time, Bi Yue realized that she couldn't just walk in Kyoto, she had to learn how to reverse to find her destination;
For the first time, Bi Yue discovered that some of her classmates could eat white flour buns every day.
There are many, many things those watery eyes don't know...
Aixuan struggled and kept shaking her head in the high fever.
Because of Bi Yue's helplessness and the helplessness of working so hard in her previous life, she has to bear more psychologically than herself.
Only she understood that Bi Yue was sick and she had suffered from severe depression for a long time.
She had clearly been unable to concentrate on reading for a long time. She was exhausted all over. The panic caused by her declining physiological functions was invading her every day, but there were too many things she couldn't let go of.
Aixuan suddenly burst into tears, she felt that Bi Yue was about to leave!
She clenched her fist, and Bi Yue let go;
Because Bi Yue was relieved, she knew that she would feel the same way.
"Who is it? Are you annoying? Why are you crying in the middle of the night?" Yuan Lisha in the dormitory shouted in a shrill voice.
"Bi Yue" forced herself to get up. She stood in the corridor and looked at the quiet university campus outside.
Her mind was spinning, spinning the image of the real Bi Yue bowing to her when he left.
At dawn, "Bi Yue", wearing a red plaid shirt, black pants, and black drawstring cloth shoes, stood on the campus of Kyoto Normal University in the 1980s.
She looked up at the loud speaker, which was playing "Talking about the Yangtze River", which belonged to this era:
You come from the snow-capped mountains, and the spring tide is your grace;
You rush towards the East China Sea, the raging waves are your spirit;
You came from ancient times, and the huge waves washed away the dust;
You rush towards the future, and the sound of waves echoes in the sky.
…
"Bi Yue" with red and swollen eyes looked out at the vibrant campus.
This is the eighties.
It seems that she will compose a poem belonging to Aixuan and Bi Yue in the 1980s!
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