Wende Town Primary School is located in a small town. There is only one primary school in Wende Town. The teachers like to compare with the city's schools, which makes Wende Town Primary School have many regulations and strict management, and teachers are also very concerned about grades. Under such circumstances, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui's attempt to skip the grade has attracted a lot of attention.

In a blink of an eye, the second semester of elementary school was over. During the final exam, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui took the exam with third-grade students.

Both of them can guarantee their math scores, so they caught Chinese on the last day, read the Chinese textbook and memorized relevant texts.

In the end, both of them scored 100 points in mathematics, but both scored 99 points in Chinese, with the same scores and were very destined to be together. However, the points deducted are different. Zhu Yunxuan lost one point for reading comprehension, while Li Rui lost one point for composition.

"How come your composition will be deducted points?" Zhu Yunxuan was really surprised. In the third grade, I saw pictures and wrote essays without deducting points as long as you read good words and sentences? Isn't it necessary to deduct points for your composition? His composition has not deducted points, so why did Li Rui lose points?

"The first paragraph is empty and I forgot this..." Li Rui's face turned red and pointed to his own paper. His words were straight, and every word written in the blue and black pen was very beautiful, and it became even more beautiful when put together.

There were four small pictures at the end of the test paper. A few lines were drawn below to let people write. Li Rui wrote a lot, but he didn't have two spaces in front of him, so the marking teacher used a red pen to draw two frames in front of his paragraph, deducting a point.

"Ha, then come on next time, don't lose points in such places all the time." Zhu Yunxuan was quite proud. He always hated writing essays, but this did not include elementary school essays - every time he could write less than five hundred words and use an idiom to get in, he could be praised by the teacher. It was so cool!

Li Rui did not continue to speak, but just looked at Zhu Yunxuan's smile. He strived for beauty when he was doing the test paper. After meditating twice, he looked at the space for writing. Finally, he decided that the front would not be empty. Who would have thought that he would lose points because of this?

But no matter what, they can directly enter the fourth grade with this score next semester.

The primary school class teacher in Wendezhen Primary School may be brought directly from the first grade of the children to the sixth grade, or a class teacher in the first grade of the two and third grades, and a class teacher in the fourth and fifth grades. According to internal information, their class teacher will be Wang Qiuzhen next year.

The last day of the final semester was only half a day, and Zhu Yunxuan took the certificate of Sanhao Student at noon and went home. Seeing Zhu Chengcai happily pasted the certificate on the wall, then he went to the next door while talking about his son's award and his grade skipping, intending to call his parents home for supper.

Zhu Yunxuan naturally knew that Zhu Chengcai was planning to show off, but he didn't plan to be as modest as he did in his previous life, while feeling extremely proud, so he simply ran to talk to Jiang Yuexiu.

Jiang Yuexiu is now more than seven months pregnant. She was told that the fetal position is not accurate, so the hospital prepared some herbs. This bunch of herbs was lit and used to smoke the soles of her feet. Zhu Yunxuan didn't know if it was useful, but he would help Jiang Yuexiu fumigate her feet every night after he went home.

"Mom, Grandpa Sun said, if you eat too much, the child will not be born if he is too old." Zhu Yunxuan saw Jiang Yuexiu gnawing on homemade cold chicken feet and spoke.

If Jiang Yuexiu was hungry and had something to eat, he wouldn't say much, but it was obvious that many times Jiang Yuexiu was just eating for the sake of eating or was greedy.

Jiang Yuexiu has also met Sun Ling and is very respectful to this very powerful old man. She and Zhu Chengcai have learned a lot in this year. They learn to speak some unstandard Mandarin with the TV and radio. Jiang Yuexiu also learned some basic design knowledge, while Zhu Chengcai is learning accounting by himself. The more he learns, the more he admires the learned people. Since he saw Sun Ling painting, Jiang Yuexiu has been impressed by the other party. Now when he hears Zhu Yunxuan's words, he immediately asked: "Teacher Sun really says that?"

"Of course it's true!" Zhu Yunxuan nodded immediately, regretting that he didn't carry Sun Ling out earlier. He had told Jiang Yuexiu many times before, but Jiang Yuexiu didn't care at all.

"Then I won't eat snacks anymore. Yunxuan, my mother has made a lot of chicken feet. You can take it to Teacher Sun and the others later." Now the clothing factory is on track. Although the profit is not earth-shaking, it is not bad. Jiang Yuexiu works eight hours a day for two days a week for two days off, which is quite relaxing. She will make small things from time to time.

The chicken feet are chopped and cooked with a little salt, then added seasonings such as minced garlic and chili oil. In addition, because Jiang Yong likes spicy food, Sun Ling doesn't mind spicy food, so she also makes pickled pepper chicken feet. The way to make pickled pepper chicken feet is not difficult, it is just to put the cooked chicken feet in the bought pickled pepper and soak them all night.

"Okay." Zhu Yunxuan nodded immediately. The summer vacation was coming, but he and Li Rui didn't have a day off. So, after lunch, they had to go to Sun Ling's place.

When Zhu Yunxuan arrived at Sun Ling, Li Rui was practicing calligraphy. Seeing Sun Ling's appearance, he seemed to be waiting for him deliberately.

"Grandpa Sun, are you waiting for me? Do you know I will bring something delicious?" Zhu Yunxuan spoke, and then put the two chicken feet made by Jiang Yuexiu in a bowl.

"Why is it chicken feet? Actually, I prefer cold chicken. You can try cold-smoothing with chicken breast next time." Sun Ling likes to eat meat and likes it very much. Now his face shows a happy look.

Maybe he had a bit of a prejudice at the beginning, but now he likes Zhu Yunxuan from the bottom of his heart.

"Okay!" Cut the chicken breast into shreds, it should be cold-smoked, right?

"Okay, let's talk about serious business. It's finally summer vacation. You two have a complete study time. In the next days, I will increase my requirements for you. In addition, we have to find some time to go out for a walk." Sun Ling remembered what Jiang Yong had mentioned to him and spoke.

"Grandpa Sun, how long will it take to leave? My mom..." Zhu Yunxuan hesitated. He had never participated in summer camps or something in his previous life because his family was not well-off. It was rare to have the opportunity this time, but Jiang Yuexiu's belly...

"What does your mother have to do with you when she is pregnant? Even if you have to worry about it, it's not something you should worry about... Well, we're going to a mountainous area in Zhejiang, staying there for twenty days, and set off the day after tomorrow. Just bring good things. You can definitely rush back to see your mother give birth." Sun Ling said, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. He felt that it was necessary for these two children to walk around.

Moreover, you can have a better understanding by walking around. This time, you can follow Jiang Yong there, but you can find some big cities to visit in the future.

"No problem!" Although he felt that it was a bit quick to set off the day after tomorrow, Zhu Yunxuan agreed immediately.

Sun Ling specifically said that the mountains should not be rich in places to go, and Zhu Yunxuan felt that it was necessary to prepare.

Now it is 1994, and the living standards of the people have improved a lot, but the countryside is not rich. They are coastal areas, so people just live an average life.

Rural families will definitely not make much money by relying solely on farming and raising silkworms, which is enough for the whole family to spend. If they go to a factory to work... there are many factories here, but they all recruit female workers. Most men cannot find jobs. Women's work last month is only three or four hundred yuan a month, even less before. If there is nothing at home, they will always have to make a surplus. If something happens to the family or wants to build a house, they will always have to borrow money to get things done.

The Zhu family is quite rich. When Zhu Chenggong and Zhu Chengcai got married, there were many people who came to talk about the matchmaking, but marrying his two sons and building a house, it still emptied Zhu Ada's family's fortune.

Later, Zhu Chengcai and Zhu Chengcai lived separately, and each had children, so the expenses became greater. Zhu Chengcai's family only had Feng Xian to work alone and had to buy some things. Of course, life was very tight. Zhu Chengcai's family was relatively better, but he couldn't save much money. Only now both of them worked were working, so they had savings.

However, after recently buying washing machines, telephones and other things, and paying a fine for over-birth, most of the savings have been gone.

When Zhu Yunxuan returned home, he saw Jiang Yuexiu making a table of dishes, braised crucian carp, stir-fried garlic with pork intestines, roasted leeks with pork liver, tofu clothes and meat, and several vegetables.

Moreover, what was originally said was to invite Zhu Ada and Wang Fenger to come for dinner, but now even Zhu Chenggong and his wife invited him. Zhu Qiuyue looked at the certificate on the wall with envy. She graduated from kindergarten, but the kindergarten only issued Xiaohonghua and did not issued certificates.

When Zhu Ada saw his grandson coming back, he happily hugged him: "Xuanxuan is so amazing, he is a good student!"

"Grandpa." Zhu Yunxuan also hugged the other party. He was very busy these days and he had no chance to get along well with his grandfather.

The dishes were ready and Zhu Yunxuan was back. Zhu Chengcai immediately greeted people to have dinner. There were eight people in total, and they were just sitting in full bloom.

Wang Feng'er went to her son for dinner and always chose good food. Others had long been used to her cooking, and no one found it strange.

"Mom, you can eat a few pieces of pork liver to replenish blood." Zhu Yunxuan grabbed the pork liver to Jiang Yuexiu. Seeing this, Zhu Qiuyue immediately picked up a few pieces to Feng Xian.

"Yunxuan and Qiuyue are both grown up now. In two months, you will help your mother take care of your younger brother." Zhu Ada reached out and touched Zhu Qiuyue's head and said with a smile.

"I will be nice to my little brother." Zhu Qiuyue spoke immediately. She was extremely curious and looking forward to the child in her mother's belly.

"It would be great if he was really a younger brother." Wang Feng'er spoke coldly, Feng Xian's face changed, and he finally held it back.

"Brother, someone came to the village this afternoon. He said that he would pay back all the only child fees he had paid in the past. How about we go together tomorrow afternoon?" Zhu Chengcai saw the cold situation and spoke to Zhu Chenggong and changed the topic.

"I'm not here this afternoon, so I don't know about this. Let's go tomorrow." Zhu Chenggong and Feng Xian can have another child, but in the past, Feng Xian didn't want to have another child, so he registered his only child. The village would send New Year pictures and not only pay for the only child every year, but now he has to pay it back.

"We were almost dads at the beginning, but this time we had children together, which was really a coincidence." Zhu Chengcai was happy to see his wife's belly, hoping to have a daughter all day long.

Wang Feng'er didn't say anything next, and the atmosphere of everyone's meal improved a lot. After dinner, Zhu Yunxuan told his parents that he was leaving for twenty days.

Jiang Yuexiu and Zhu Chengcai were both reluctant to let go, but they attached importance to learning. If they weren't like this, they wouldn't have deliberately asked Zhu Yunxuan to study in the town. Of course, they did not object to Sun Ling's decision. They just wanted to buy more things for Zhu Yunxuan to bring.

When he finally set off, Zhu Yunxuan brought a lot of things, including twenty ham sausages alone, tea eggs and other things made by Jiang Yuexiu, and his own clothes, shoes and socks. In total, he packed two large bags.

On the contrary, Li Rui only brought a few sets of changing clothes and did not bring any other things.

This time when he went out, Jiang Yong drove them in a van. Zhu Yunxuan originally thought the car could go directly, but he didn't expect that he would have to walk the mountain road behind him. He looked at Jiang Yong carrying Sun Ling, and then took their luggage. Then he was stunned when he looked at his two big bags of things.

The rugged mountain roads should be often followed by people, but it is not difficult to walk. There are towering trees growing on the side of the road, with unknown small flowers blooming, and the scenery is also very good, but Zhu Yunxuan no longer has the strength to appreciate them. His physical fitness is actually good, but he is just a seven-year-old child. He has been following Jiang Yong with his things on his back for more than an hour, and he is so tired that he is almost lying down.

"I'll carry some for you." Li Rui brought very few things, just a few clothes that were replaced in summer, but even so, the breath was a little uneven now.

"No, I should be able to hold on." Zhu Yunxuan rejected the other party. These things were brought by him, so he would be embarrassed to ask Li Rui to carry them.

"So that's it, you can share the food with me a little?" Li Rui spoke again.

"I……"

"Jiang Yong, you helped him take the bag of food, it was his filial piety to us." Sun Ling suddenly said with a smile.

Without those very heavy food, Zhu Yunxuan felt much more relaxed. He could guess that the place they were going must be very poor, but he also lived a hard life. Even if he might not have enough meat for twenty days, what would it be?

They walked for six hours, stopped to rest for an hour, and finally arrived at their destination at 8 o'clock in the evening. If Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui had not been running with Jiang Yong a lot in the previous six months, they would definitely not be able to hold on.

Jiang Yong seemed to be familiar with this place, so he quickly arranged for them to live in the village school. Now that the school is on holiday, the place is very empty. In the end, when almost there is a place to lie down, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui fell soft and didn't even have the energy to take a look at the environment they were in.

The next day, when the two woke up, the sun was already rising. As soon as they went out, they didn’t see Jiang Yong and Sun Ling. Instead, they saw a young man taking care of a piece of land in front of the school. Seeing them, the other party immediately smiled: “Are you awake?”

The young man is at most 1.6 meters tall, very dark, his teeth are still very slim, but his smile is very sincere. Zhu Yunxuan rubbed his legs, which were extremely sore after sleeping: "Big brother, where have Grandpa Sun and Uncle Jiang gone?"

"Teacher Sun followed Brother Jiang to the Zhou family on the other end of the village, but I guess they are coming back soon. Are you hungry? Go for breakfast!" The young man paused and said, "My name is Chen Xiaoming, it's the teacher of this school. You can call me Brother Chen in the future. Ha, don't call me Uncle Chen!"

"Brother Chen," Zhu Yunxuan immediately called sweetly, "Let's go and have a meal." They only ate some mixed things while resting on the road yesterday, and they were really hungry.

Chen Xiaoming took them to a classroom, and soon brought a large bowl of pickles and a pot of porridge. Zhu Yunxuan took a look and found chopped ham sausage in the porridge.

Ham sausage is very popular with children at this time, and adults will buy it home to cook, but neither Zhu Yunxuan nor Li Rui like it. This time it was brought for the convenience of carrying, but I didn’t want to eat it at this time.

"Teacher Sun gave me some good things. I thought there was nothing good now, so I put it in the porridge." Chen Xiaoming took the bowl and put it in the porridge and handed it to Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui one bowl each.

Both of them were very hungry, and they listened to Chen Xiaoming while eating. Only then did they realize that Chen Xiaoming was the only non-local person among the people who taught here. After graduating from the normal school, he was assigned to come here for an internship. At first, he hated the environment here very much, but gradually fell in love with it, and finally chose to stay.

This is really a very poor place. The only source of income for the villagers is to grow mushrooms. However, even if they grow mushrooms, it is not easy for them to transport them out due to inconvenient transportation. The money they transported out to sell is only enough to buy some daily necessities.

"I am not good at looking good. I just went to a college degree in normal school. I will definitely not be able to do well in other places. I guess I can't even get married to my wife. It's different here. Now I am the principal." Chen Xiaoming spoke excitedly.

Is it obvious that being a principal in a place where you don’t even have a place to buy meat is comparable to being a teacher who can run cram schools elsewhere?

But there are only a few teachers in this place. If Chen Xiaoming didn’t stay, no one would be able to teach junior high school.

"Actually, it's good for me to be a teacher here, at least much better than others. The children who come to school are far away from home. Every week they carry a bag of rice and bring a can of mushrooms to class, and then live in school for a week... Every household here grows mushrooms, but many families are reluctant to eat a little. Only those from a good family bring oil and mushrooms in the pickles they bring..." Chen Xiaoming could see that these two children were suffering, and of course he didn't mind helping to teach these children.

He has been teaching here for two years and has also met with a partner in the village, but he often goes home. Every time he goes back, he sees his nephew eating meat every meal, but the children here have to eat a jar of pickles for a week, and he always feels uncomfortable.

Zhu Yunxuan lived a hard life. Although Li Rui had been fed and fed since childhood, he was not completely ignorant of the situation in the poor mountainous areas. So he didn't feel anything when he listened to Chen Xiaoming's speech. However, after finishing the porridge, Chen Xiaoming took them to visit the school, he intuitively understood all this.

"This is where students who live far away sleep when they arrive here. There will be twenty people in a room. If those students are there, you will definitely be fainted by the smell here."

"The land outside belongs to the teachers. We have to grow the vegetables we eat ourselves. Of course, the students will also help. In addition, the village will also provide us with some mushrooms."

"Actually, this village is pretty good. There are still several villages in the mountains, and there are no schools there. The students have to walk four or five hours to get here..."

"The most rare food I like here is eggs. Every weekend we can eat egg soup. It's not easy to find an egg inside."

...

Chen Xiaoming is a very talkative person. While listening to him and looking at the low houses in the village, Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui were both silent.

The transportation here is inconvenient, so the house naturally cannot be made of bricks, but is made of soil and stones. The two wooden boards are fixed three to four decimeters apart, and then they are filled with soil and are very tightly pressed. In this way, they are raised little by little and the wall will be tamped out.

After Chen Xiaoming introduced the situation here, Sun Ling and Jiang Yong came over with an old lady in her sixties.

"Sister-in-law Zhou is Jiang Yong's godmother, just call her Grandma Zhou." Sun Ling introduced to Zhu Yunxuan and Li Rui, and then the old lady smiled at the two of them, took out two tea eggs from the basket she brought, and gave them one.
To be continued...