"Lingling..."

The crisp ringtone rang from afar. In the early morning of summer, the sun was warm, and the morning breeze had the smell of plants and trees.

"Ye Qin, where are you going?"

"I'll go to the town."

On the rural road from Shangyun Village to Xiaoli Town, Ye Qin held the head of the bike with one hand and pointed the support on the ground with his left foot, greeting two young men who were also riding bicycles.

"Ye Qin, have you been admitted to the No. 2 Middle School? Yesterday I heard that your grandfather was walking around the village committee with your admission letter."

The person who spoke was a tall and thin boy riding a beautiful speed-changing bicycle. At this time, the race bikes were called in the towns and rural areas. Next to him was a slightly shorter boy, and he was riding a brand new lady bicycle.

Ye Qin smiled and did not go to take on this topic. Instead, he asked the two of them: "Zhang Jianping, Wang Wu, where are you two going?"

"Go to the town too." Zhang Jianping, a tall and thin boy, paused and scratched his head, "I'm going to school for some things."

"Go to school?" Ye Qin was surprised. Everyone had graduated from junior high school and had been on vacation for a long time. What should I do when I went to school?

"Oh, what's there to hide?" Wang Wu, who was standing beside him, curled his lips and pointed at Zhang Jianping. "His father called him back and asked him to go to high school and ask him to find out how much it costs to buy No. 1 Middle School or Sanyang Middle School?"

After saying this, Ye Qin immediately understood.

In addition to enrolling students who have passed the score line, Xiushui No. 1 Middle School and Sanyang Middle School, which have high school departments in Sanyang Town, not only has the students who have passed the score line, but also one is that the scores in the middle school entrance examination are too low and you can buy them by paying extra money.

Ye Qin doesn’t know how much it costs. In short, it’s a lot of money, and not many people are willing to spend a lot of money every year.

"Then let's go."

Ye Qin gently stepped on his foot and started the first step on the bicycle's pedal.

"Ye Qin, your car is so old that it's jingling. Can you catch up with us?"

Zhang Jianping and Wang Wu followed him up, and the three of them walked in parallel. Looking at Ye Qin's Phoenix 28 bar, Zhang Jianping shouted with a smile.

"Yes, you won't be able to catch up with us later." Wang Wu also shouted. Although his bike was not a racing car, it was light for women to ride a bicycle and didn't take much effort.

The comparison between young people is actually the same in both urban and rural areas. Compared with Ye Qin's Phoenix Brand 28 bar, the two of them are undoubtedly trendy and beautiful. In the three years of junior high school, who would have such a bicycle became the focus, but it still makes people look at it.

The 28-large bar that Ye Qin rode has been around for more than ten years. It was bought by my uncle at home before he got married. Some of the painted parts were mottled and there was a clean snakeskin bag tied to the back seat.

Ye Qin had been particularly eager for speed-changing bicycles since the sixth grade and went to junior high school in the town. He thought that his uncle or sister-in-law or grandpa would really give him one. If he rode such a bicycle, the speed would be extremely fast.

But he himself knew that such things would never be in dreams...

The reverie in my mind flashed, and as Zhang Jianping and Wang Wu suddenly accelerated from the side and rode forward quickly, Ye Qin suddenly laughed.

He clasped the handlebars tightly with his hands, and the man arched slightly, lifted his butt from the cushion, and the weight of his whole body began to fall on the bicycle pedals. Every foot of the bicycle with the 28-bar was heavier at the start, and Ye Qin seemed to have tried his best every time.

After several consecutive kicks, Ye Qin's feet were moving faster and faster, and the squeaking sound of the flywheel chain suddenly became fast and fast.

The lingling ringtone of the bicycle is becoming more and more crisp.

"Damn, he can fly!"

But four or five minutes later, on the winding Huangtu Township Road, two teenagers riding a variable speed bicycle and a brand new lady bicycle were panting. Looking at the 28th phoenix bar that was clattering but quickly disappeared in front of them, they shook their heads and sighed for a moment.

...

Xiaoli Town is the northernmost town in Xiushui County. Today is not a market day, but the main streets in the middle of the town are quite lively. Especially in the vegetable market, there are many vendors along the street, with chickens crowing and ducks crowing and the sounds of various vehicles and pedestrians passing through the street from time to time.

Ye Qin carefully rode his bicycle through the street and soon arrived at a street behind the town government.

In recent years, the town has developed quite rapidly. This old street, which was still dilapidated when Ye Qin Shang’s first year of junior high school, has now formed rows of three-story buildings with white tiles.

There are regular asphalt roads on the ground, with shops on the first floor and people on the second and third floors. There are several places in the distance that have been rebuilt under the planning and cannot be compared with cities in the county, but they are quite regular and can be regarded as understandable.

Maybe it was still early, except for one store selling breakfast, the other roller shutter doors were closed tightly.

In front of a store closest to the corner of the street, Ye Qin jumped down from the bicycle, put the corner of the bicycle on the side, and untied the cloth bag from the back seat of the car.

I looked up at the building in front of me, and the security door on the second and third floors of the shutter door was closed and the security door was closed. I thought the residents upstairs had already gotten up.

Ye Qin stood in front of the door and took a breath. Instead of pushing the door directly, he knocked on the metal panel of the security door.

"Who?" A voice came from it soon.

The person who opened the door was a slightly fat middle-aged woman. Looking at Ye Qin standing outside the door, she was slightly stunned, and then a smile appeared on her face, "Ye Qin, it's you, why are you here?"

"Ye Qin nodded silently. The middle-aged woman was his stepmother Wu Fengqin. But after so many years, he couldn't shout it out.

"There are some dried fish here. Grandma asked me to bring it to you and add a bowl of vegetables." Ye Qin handed over the package in his hand and followed him into the door without saying much.

There are many streams in Xiushui County, and these dried fish are basically powered by Ye Qin carrying a battery along the small river and ditches. The equipment for the electric fish is also simple, just a battery with a metal conductive pole, and a scribing net.

"You sit down and I'll pour you a glass of water."

Wu Fengqin took the package from Ye Qin's hand and the smile on her face became closer.

"No need to worry." Ye Qin waved his hand. He didn't want to stay here for a long time. He just said, "I've been admitted to the second middle school. My grandparents are old. I want to ask if you would like to pay some tuition for me. I'll give it to you in a few years."

When Wu Fengqin heard the words "high school" and "tuition fee", the smile on her face suddenly froze, she was slightly stunned, and then she laughed dryly, "Are you admitted to high school, No. 1 or No. 2?"

"No. 2 Middle School." Ye Qin hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice.

"That's not the first year of the first year." Wu Fengqin's tone seemed to be a little bit looser as she heard it, "Well, let me tell your dad." As she said that, she turned around and put the dried fish given by Ye Qin into the kitchen. She did not pour water, but went upstairs.

"Who is here?"

Ye Qin was about to sit down on the stool in the living room when he heard a male voice coming upstairs.

Although it was upstairs and downstairs, the sound was still clear and audible. After hearing the man's voice, Ye Qin almost subconsciously left the seat and unconsciously approached the stairs.

"It's Ye Qin coming." Wu Fengqin's voice rang out.

"What are he here to do?" The voice of the man talking upstairs sounded again.

"He's admitted to high school and comes to ask about the tuition."

"Oh--" The male voice paused for a long time, as if he had pondered for a long time, and then asked half a beat slower, "No. 1 Middle School or No. 2 Middle School?

"No. 1 Middle School?" Wu Fengqin snorted lightly, her voice raised a little high, "It would be nice to be able to go to No. 2 Middle School. You can go to No. 1 Middle School. Haha, your Ye family does not have that good Feng Shui..."

"No. 2 Middle School seems to have no prospects." The male voice seemed to have no idea how sarcastic Wu Fengqin was, and just said slowly.

Xiushui No. 2 Middle School had a bad reputation in the past few years. There were 1st Middle School in the county and 1st Middle School produced gangsters. It was not until the last two or three years that experienced principals changed one after another, vigorously rectified the atmosphere, and introduced a lot of excellent teachers from outside, and then gradually improved.

However, even so, such a bad impression cannot be changed overnight.

"What do you think?" Wu Fengqin's voice seemed to have a little complaining, "I tell you, Xuanxuan is in the second half of the year, and the salary of my primary school teacher is not enough. If you start a long time, you will have to be born every year in three years of high school. There are not two people in college, and you can go to Xiushui No. 2 Middle School to get a bachelor's degree. Ye Qin can be said to this, it's just high school, and the city spends a lot of money..."

"I know, I know." The male voice was slightly excited, "I don't have money, and I can't pay anymore. No. 2 Middle School has nothing to study. People from the fifteenth and sixteenth are all earned by themselves when they were so old."

"I didn't tell you to say that." Wu Fengqin's tone softened a little more when he heard the man's excited words. "I mean, give it a little bit to save your relatives from being unfavorable."

"What are you giving it to!" The man upstairs' tone became more and more intense, "Their masters and their brothers and sisters have been scolding for so many years, so let them continue to scold. I will not live well in this life like my grandparents and sisters, and I will not expect my children to support me. They live their lives, and I will live my life..."

The voices on the upstairs continued, but when Ye Qin heard this, he could not listen at all. He stood at the entrance of the stairs, clenched his fists with his hands, his body tensed, and his hair seemed to stand up.

The vision in front of me seemed to be a little blurred, and I was just stunned, not knowing how long I had been standing.

It was not until the sound of footsteps came down from the upper floor again that Ye Qin suddenly woke up.

Wu Fengqin, who came down from the upstairs, saw Ye Qin standing at the entrance of the stairs, was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shouted in a harmonious voice: "Ye Qin, have lunch here..."

Ye Qin turned around suddenly and ran outwards.

"Ye Qin, Ye Qin..."

Wu Fengqin hurriedly shouted twice. When she went out, the boy in a blue sweatshirt had already stepped on his bicycle and rode away without looking back.

...

On the way back, the sun was already rising, and the yellow mud road was a little white by the blazing sun.

On a steep and long slope, Ye Qin got out of the car and wiped his face with his sweatshirt. His eyes were slightly red. I don’t know if it was sweat or something else entering his eyes.

The temperature was high and the weather was hot, but Ye Qin's body was trembling slightly, and he felt a chill all over his body.

This is the third time I went up to ask for tuition. The first two times were in the first and third grades of junior high school. In those two times, my uncle was taken by him. He was sent away. I don’t know what my uncle talked to that person, but on the way back, my uncle’s face was always not very good-looking.

And this time, he heard it downstairs.

He didn't know whether it was someone who told him intentionally or unintentionally what he thoughts had come up with, but none of these matters.

He remembered the earnest words of his uncle before going out to work, "Ye Qin, you have to fight for your breath! You don't care about your parents, you still have grandparents, and uncle..."

There is also the sentence that my grandfather often said to him before, "As long as you can continue reading, we will sell the house and provide you with your studies."

Compared with the two, looking at the man who didn't even go downstairs to show his face, Ye Qin felt disgusted.

"ah!"

Ye Qin suddenly shouted loudly on the road, and the depression in his chest seemed to make people breathless.

"Ye Mingwang, if you have the ability to live, but if you don't have the ability to support you, what kind of man are you?"

"Wu Fengqin, you are a primary school teacher, amazing!!"

"I will definitely not be looked down upon by you for the rest of my life!!!"

"At the worst, I don't study and go to work!!!"

"Ye Qin, you must be successful--"
Chapter completed!