Chapter 413 The first is mine (4)
It was already dark outside, and a full moon disk hung in the empty night sky.
After eating, Yu Jun quietly put away the dishes, fetched water, wiped Grandpa's hands, face and washed his feet, then helped Grandpa go to bed.
"Master, stop reading and go to sleep."
There is a white candle next to the bed, only about an inch long, and the dim candlelight dances. Grandpa Yu is leaning on the bed, wearing thick reading glasses, holding an old yellow book in his hand, and tremblingly holding a page Turning the page.
"My eyes are weak... I can't see clearly. Oh, I can't see clearly."
Yu Jun stood aside and watched, and the next second he sat down with a stool, reached out to take the book from his grandfather's hand, and turned it to the middle position.
"Lie down and I'll read."
"You go back to study, I fell asleep and stopped reading."
"It's okay. There's not much homework today. I'll read you two pages first."
This book "The Biography of Li Hongzhang" has been read for more than ten years. Grandpa Yu likes to read books, but because of the poor conditions at home, he cannot afford to buy books, and he is even more reluctant to part with them when he gets old, so he only holds this book every night. Watch later.
The young man's voice is clear and clean, and his words are clear and well-spoken, like a broadcaster on TV, unhurried, gentle and neat.
Just after reading the second page, the old man leaning on the bed had closed his eyes, his breathing gradually became heavier, and the glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose were tilted to one side.
Yu Jun closed the book and placed it beside the bed. He took off his glasses and covered the old man with a quilt. He stood up, slowed down and walked out of the room gently.
There are only three rooms in the whole house. Yu Jun lives in the main room. There is a bed made of bricks and wooden boards. Although simple, it is neat and clean. On top of the meticulous sheets is a quilt that has been washed until it turns white. The bed is next to the window. When you lie down at night, you can clearly see the full moon in the window.
After cleaning up the sundries at home, I went into the kitchen to steam the taro for the next morning.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the young man took out his textbook, sat in the yard, and read through it carefully under the bright moonlight.
When the world became quiet, Yu Jun finished his busy day, lay down on the bed, covered himself with quilt, and closed his eyes to sleep.
After a while, the young man opened his eyes again, tilted his head and looked at the moon outside the window. In my mind, I couldn't help but think of the cherry forest and the agile and thin figure standing on the treetops.
The bright black eyes, the braids flying up and down, and the bright little face.
"Well..."
The young man frowned, turned over, turned his back to the window and closed his eyes again.
This time he didn't think much more and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
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Jieshan is very poor. There is Jieshan Town eight kilometers away.
The town is very small and isolated, but there is a middle school in it, Jieshan Middle School.
The school was built with donations from businessmen who came out of the mountains. The teachers are college students who went to the countryside to teach. The state pays for junior high school tuition, so to go to school here, you only have to pay for three meals a day.
Everyone can afford to go to school, but few in Jieshan persist to junior high school.
There are only a few main reasons.
There is no way out of school. The mountain is so big that it is not easy to get out.
A child in junior high school is already a young and strong man at the age of thirteen or fourteen. It is better to stay at home, get married and have children, and continue the generation of future generations than to go to school.
The road to school is too difficult, with a round trip of more than ten kilometers. If you want to catch the first class on time, it means starting at four in the morning. Many children cannot persist and give up early.
The most important thing is that three meals a day are not so easy to afford.
(End of chapter)