The love of parents for their children is a great love that does not cost, does not ask for returns, and never hides selfishness. The so-called great love has no boundaries, and in the shackles of reality, it is sometimes inevitable that there will be helplessness.
Life in the mountains seems to be an unworldly paradise, but in fact, it cannot escape the shackles of the world. Parents living in the mountains have to face a difficult choice: "Staying by the side of the child cannot give the child a stable life; going out to work to earn money to support the family can only let the child face life alone." ”
Life is good, life is also bitter. Adults have been entangled with life for many years, and they will often sigh, and they will occasionally collapse and cry, and they will also be tired, let alone children.
Left-behind children are also children, they just lose the protection of their parents, like children who have no umbrella but have to stand in the wind and rain.
In the mountains with an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters, there is a small village called Longjiang Village, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Liangping County. There is a family surnamed Deng in the village, with a total of four people, father, mother, sister and brother.
When her sister Deng Tingting was 7 years old, her younger brother Deng Jifei was just 5 years old, and her mother had run away from home for more than 3 years because of poverty at home, and there was no news. As the children grow up, the pressure of survival in the family is increasing, in order to ensure the needs of the family,The father has no choice but to go out to work and leave home for many years.
After losing the protection of her parents, 7-year-old Deng Tingting became the pillar of the family, and the two children who were lonely and orphaned began an independent life. In the city, children at this age can only be angry, but Deng Tingting has been able to cook every day, take care of her brother, and take care of school.
When the moon was still hanging in the night sky, Deng Tingting would get up early to make a fire to cook, and every morning, she had too much to do to allow her to sleep for a long time. Collect firewood, make a fire, cook, take care of his brother to get dressed and eat, clean up the dishes after eating, brush the pots and pans, and brush the dishes.
By the time all this was done, it was already dawn. The village school, more than ten miles away, is where Deng Tingting went to school. She loves school, she loves to read, and school makes her life hopeful.
For Deng Tingting, there are three difficulties in going to school: tuition, distance, and brother. The tuition fee is solved by her father, although Deng Tingting remembers, she does not have to worry too much; the problem of the long distance makes Deng Tingting very difficult, because she needs to do too much after getting up every day, although she gets up before dawn, but it still takes a lot of precious time to catch more than ten miles of mountain road every day, resulting in her often being late;
As for her younger brother, it was Deng Tingting's biggest concern. Her brother was only 5 years old, couldn't go to school yet, and couldn't leave him alone at home, she wasn't at ease. Therefore, Deng Tingting went to school every day and always took her brother with her. Because her brother walked slowly, which made the original insufficient time more urgent, Deng Tingting never scolded her brother for this.
When my sister was in class, my brother could only play alone in the empty school yard. Deng Tingting likes to sit by the window, so that she can look out the window to take care of her brother during class. Although this will affect her learning, Deng Tingting's situation, teachers and classmates are very understanding, but also very helpless, can only try to give her some care. Children in the mountains are not easy.
The younger brother wandered alone in the large courtyard of the campus, lonely and restless, expecting his sister to take him home from school early. Time is like this, whenever you expect it to be faster, it is slow like a snail, leaving you in endless suffering. The younger brother is in this torment every day, in the long wait, ushering in the ringtone of her sister after school, which makes her extremely happy.
After walking a long mountain road again, the sisters and brothers returned home. My brother's stomach was already grumbling with hunger, and he began to cry incessantly in order to eat early. Deng Tingting put down her school bag, and she was about to pick up the stir-fry spoon and start cooking food for her brother.
After all, the younger brother is too young to understand the hard work of the older sister. Due to the extremely limited ingredients in the family, rice and pickles are eaten on weekdays, which sometimes causes the dissatisfaction of the picky brother. Every time my brother cried, my sister would coax him and wouldn't yell at him.
Deng Tingting's family is very poor, and the most important things in the family are rice and firewood, which are the things that the sisters and brothers rely on for their livelihoods, which are precious in Deng Tingting's eyes. Although the older sister is young, she is very good at running the family and never lets her brother waste food. But she also loves her brother very much, and when there are delicious things, she will always give them to her brother first and then eat them herself.
Once, a well-meaning person gave her a pumpkin, and Deng Tingting planned to improve her brother's food. As a result, the carefully cooked pumpkin dish, the younger brother did not move because he did not like to eat a bite. When the sister saw this, she immediately felt very aggrieved, and the tears suddenly poured out of her eyes, like a broken bead.
The younger brother saw his sister crying, knew that he had made her angry, stopped crying, and leaned over to her sister.
Because Deng Tingting took care of her younger brother, she did not have much time to study after returning home, and she was often distracted during class, resulting in poor results in the exam. On the day she got the report card, Deng Tingting was very sad, she was very strong, but the results were not satisfactory. On the way home with his brother, because the wind and snow were too cold, the younger brother could not bear it, and he cried in the snow, which made Deng Tingting feel depressed.
After finally returning home safely with her brother, Deng Tingting put down her school bag, settled her brother, and wanted to call her father and pour out the bitterness and grievances in her heart. The phone was dialed, and Deng Tingting told her father on the phone that her brother was disobedient today and was naughty and crying. He also told his father that she did not do well because she was distracted from taking care of her brother.
As a result, what came from the other end of the phone was not comfort, but a loud rebuke. What makes Deng Tingting most sad is that the electronic keyboard that her father once promised to buy her was in vain. She loved music and longed to play music through the electronic keyboard, and when her father promised her that he would buy her an electronic keyboard, she was so happy that she couldn't sleep, but at the moment, all this was in vain.
That night, the younger brother had already fallen asleep early, but Deng Tingting had difficulty sleeping. However, she must go to bed as soon as possible, because tomorrow morning there will be a lot of chores waiting for her.
Although life is weekdays, there is still hope. For Deng Tingting, the Spring Festival is approaching the most difficult stage. Every family in the village is very lively, which naturally evokes her thoughts of her loved ones. Unfortunately, her father did not go home this year in order to save money, and her mother still had no news to come back, and this New Year could only be spent by their sisters and brothers.
The heavy burden of life did not completely overwhelm Deng Tingting, and the weekend of every week was a good time in her life. On this day, she can sleep a lazy night' sleep, can not have to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads, and can enjoy the afternoon sun. The most happy thing for Deng Tingting is that on this day she can read to her brother.
In Deng Tingting's eyes, books are like a window, allowing her to see the outside world and see the hope of the future through the mountains and obstacles. If Deng Tingting is like a sunflower in a deep mountain, then books are like the sunshine in her life, making her full of yearning.
If I have the opportunity, I can give Deng Tingting a book, and I will definitely give her "Little Bean by the Window". The book's author, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, is a well-known Japanese female writer who is now 89 years old, but her works are still bestsellers.
In the book "Little Beanie by the Window", the protagonist Xiao Doudou is a naughty little boy who is dismissed from school because of his strange behavior and is regarded as an alternative problem child. Xiao Doudou's mother did not abandon him because of this, but sent him to Ba Gakuen.
After Xiao Doudou came to Ba Gakuen, she immediately felt the difference. When he first met the head of Ba Gakuen, Sosaku Kobayashi, he began to talk as usual. However, Kobayashi Did not end the conversation in advance like his previous teacher, but instead sat directly next to Xiao Doudou and listened carefully to his previous events.
Xiao Doudou spoke for more than four hours before he paused. At this time, something that made Xiao Doudou even more unexpected happened, and the principal Kobayashi Sosaku not only did not show a relieved expression, but his face was full of curiosity, and asked Xiao Doudou: "And then?" ”
In the eyes of Kobayashi Soosaku, every child has its own characteristics, naughty children are smarter, no child can be called "weird", and the same is true of Xiao Doudou.
In Ba Gakuen, there are many children like Xiao Doudou, and one of them is a little girl who is very unconfident and rarely communicates with people. In order to let the little girl regain her self-confidence, Kobayashi Sosaku organized an event based on the little girl's strengths in Ba Gakuen, and finally the little girl won the championship as she wished and restored her self-confidence.
The same is true of Xiao Doudou, with the help of Kobayashi Sosaku, he no longer feels that he is different from others, and soon integrates into the group of Ba Gakuen.
Ba Gakuen, there is no fixed curriculum, there is no ranking of grades, and the courses that children need to learn every day are selected by the children according to their own interests. The only requirement of Ba Gakuen is that the subject of interest selected by the child must be completed independently and autonomously on the day. While discovering children's interests, it also allows children to learn "today's things are finished today".
Although Ba Gakuen was reduced to ashes in World War II, the warmth and hope that Ba Gakuen brought to Xiao Doudou's childhood has been passed down to this day with the book "Little Bean by the Window". Ba Gakuen not only warms children, but also many adults, and I am one of them.
Therefore, I hope that through this book, Deng Tingting, a child who is far away in the mountains and shoulders the burden of life, can also look at the outside world, can also be warmed by "Ba Gakuen", can also be healed from this book, and is full of hope for the future.
Every child is an angel, and so are left-behind children, and they only lose their shelter prematurely to become strong. The author hopes that through this article, more people will pay attention to the problem of "left-behind children" reading, our lives are not easy, but donating a book is a show of hands, for left-behind children in the mountains, a book is a window, the general book is a sun, its light, enough to illuminate the sunflower!
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