Xiang Zhen
I am a visitor from my hometown
The real life suffering writes about the courage and strength of reality, and the book uses prose narration to write about the black and white sides of human nature.
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The author's self-contradiction struggles in the fence of the shackles of fate, that kind of tenacity and helplessness, the cold and warm of human feelings jump on the paper, and are also deeply engraved in the hearts of people...
05
Study time
◎ Xiang Zhen
"Chun'er, pick all the ripe peppers in the field and take them to the market, if the price is right, you should be able to make up a little registration fee!" Father smoked a dry cigarette, looked at the peppers that were fading red in the field, frowned, looked into the distance, and said to my sister, who was in the sixth grade.
It was the ninth year, and I dropped out of school at home because I couldn't pay my tuition.
For more than ten years, every time I think of my father's words, I can't help but think of my sister who graduated from elementary school.
Time passed, since I was in high school, we rarely saw each other, one is that I have been pursuing my studies and rarely go back, and the other is that she has been married far away and rarely comes back. Therefore, when I look back on the past time with the current living conditions, I miss my kind sister very much in my heart, and I am even more ashamed, because of fate, we have been so helpless and helpless.
When I was ten years old, I started repeating and started again in the first grade. At that time, the family was still poor. Sometimes, in order to collect my registration fee, my father went all over to find friends to borrow it. At that time, the family fed more than a dozen old hens, but the grain and eggs were not valuable, and I remember that when I was in the second grade, my mother accumulated eggs for a year to sell enough for my tuition. Such days were my entire elementary school days.
When I was in junior high school, the state implemented the "two exemptions and one supplement" policy, my tuition fees were almost solved, but the middle schools were in the townships, more than 50 kilometers away from home, I went from the mountains at home, I had to stay for a week, at the beginning, the family can also provide more than 20 yuan a week of living expenses, a semester down, the family's savings are gone. When I was helpless, it was my sister, who went out to work at the age of 16, who provided me with living expenses, allowing me to finish junior high school. Sometimes, it was an uncle of mine who taught at the school, and he and his aunt helped me.
I still remember that time, a hot summer day, because, there was no living expense at home, on Sunday, I cooked a lot of potatoes at home and carried them back to school. At first, they were reluctant to eat, and on the third day, they were all moldy. I was hungry that time, ate a meal, and spent a week. Later, I carried raw potatoes to school, and at noon, I went to the back hill of the teaching building to collect firewood, burn potatoes to eat, mix, and a semester passed. Later, some classmates knew that I often went to roast potatoes to eat, and they also joined in.
After high school, the living conditions at home were much better. However, to go to the county seat, it means a big expense. At that time, I had the idea of dropping out of school, and under the persuasion of my father, I made up my mind to study. At that time, he said to me: "It's okay, don't worry! ”
After I heard about the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation by the state, I was very happy that I had received help from the state. The days of worry in the past were only relieved in my academic career.
After graduating from university, I worked hard and later taught in Qianzhong.
When I was a child, many of my childhood friends gradually withdrew on the way to school, so that when I looked back, I could no longer find them. Perhaps, those cold winter days, under the cover of reform and opening up, have become the story of spring. But I don't know how many miracles have been written in this silent torrent.
Children now, they grow up in a silent happiness. No one can afford junior high school anymore, no one nibbles on moldy potatoes anymore. Nine-year obligation, nutritious meals, have become routine. The university's student loans are fully covered.
More than ten years have passed, the past study time is no longer there, those bitter days, with sour emotions, have become memories!
I don't know how many miracles have been written in this silent torrent.
- Xiang Zhen
"I am a visitor from my hometown" by Xiang Zhen
This article is the fifth section of "I am a visitor from my hometown", written by Xiang Zhen.
Xiang Zhen (Nuo), born in 1992, pen name Zhou Chuan, is a young writer and poet. His works can be found in Prose Poems, China Youth Daily, China Young Writers Daily, Poetry Geography, Huanggang Weekly, Guizhou Daily, Chinese Poetry, Learning to Strengthen the Country, Young Pioneers Activities, And Juvenile Times Daily. He is the author of "Qianshan Qianshui", "Small Dictionary of Red Scarf Study", "I Am a Visitor from My Hometown" and so on. His works have been selected into the "Youth Poetry Yearbook (2017 Volume)", "Dragon Palace Poetry", "Weining on the Clouds" and so on.
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