Continuing from the story above, when I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, I was able to run a small shop on my own. In addition to cigarettes, alcohol, and snacks, my grandmother also sells all kinds of daily necessities. At that time, it was common for uncles to gather in the store to chat and buy some things by the way. I was quick to do the math, and I sat in the shop after school, studying my homework and helping with business. Whenever I felt like my grandmother was coming home from her farm work, I would lock the door of the shop and go to prepare dinner.
The villagers praised me for being sensible, saying that my grandmother was old and that I should help her with more housework. But the grandmother always retorted to them with a straight face: "My child should concentrate on studying, don't always ask her to go to the field!" "I was amazed at my grandmother's persistence, although she had never been out of the mountains, and she had never heard the words "reading changes my destiny", but she wholeheartedly hoped that I could study more, be admitted to university, and return to the big city to live.
She often said to me, "Man has to fight for his own breath." He also told me: "You were originally a child in the city, and your grandmother had no ability to make you suffer in the township, and now you can only rely on your own efforts to get out." When I heard these words, my heart always felt a pang of sourness.
I know that my grandmother also worked hard to train my dad to be a college student. She expected the same from me as my dad did back then. Although no one is born to be a parent, she always maintained a sense of guilt when it came to educating me. It was this sense of guilt that made her work for me more than most parents.
When I was in junior high school, I was qualified for escort, so it was easier for me to teach English to younger students in the sixth grade, and I was able to help Ms. Yang teach English to younger students. Teacher Yang is the kind of person who is harmed by the concept of "girls study less and marry early". She once casually sighed: "I learned English very well in high school, and if I could be admitted to university at that time, I would go to Beijing to study." ”
I've heard some gossip about her family, and I know that her mother even forced her to die to force her to go home and give up her studies. And her father was even more cold-blooded and ruthless, forcing her mother to take her home with the threat of "sweeping the floor". Most of the children in the countryside are simple and homesick, especially the girls, who are both attached and sympathetic to their mothers. They know how much their mother has suffered, and they also know that their mother has been silently contributing to this family. Therefore, despite the struggle and helplessness in his heart, Mr. Yang finally chose to return to his hometown to start a family.
She is somewhat similar to my grandmother in that they both attach great importance to the education of the girls in the family. They all want us to study hard and get into college. But in contrast, Ms. Yang's obsession may be deeper, because it also contains her own dreams that she has not been able to achieve in this life. She was very envious of me for being able to meet someone like my grandmother who was wholeheartedly thinking about me, and told me to cherish this luck and love.
I nodded desperately to agree with her views and expectations. Look, grandma! Because of your selfless dedication and care, I have also become a person who is envied by others! After so many years of envying the time when others had their parents by their side, some people finally began to envy me!
However, when I entered junior high school, the school was far away from home, and I had to climb a mountain road for more than two hours every day to reach the school. The peaks of the Loess Plateau are stacked on top of each other, and the mountains are dauntingly high, and the path is next to the cliffs. Despite this, we still insist on walking this road every day, just to be able to climb over this boundless mountain, carry the hope of the whole family, and make the life of the family a little better.
My grandmother specially bought a few pairs of cloth shoes with thick soles for me, worried that my feet would be worn out when I walked on mountain roads. Fortunately, in summer, the mountain beams are planted with peach trees, and the pink and white flowers look particularly beautiful against the background of the loess and the blue sky, and the Qin song sung by the old man herding the sheep echoes in the valley. But on rainy days, the trail became muddy and people were afraid to walk, so they had to take a long detour for an extra half an hour to get home. When I came home late at night, I didn't have time to help my grandmother with her work.
The hardest thing to endure is the low temperature of dozens of degrees below zero in winter, and the frozen hard ground is no less than the ice, which is cold and slippery. Until a heavy snowfall in the month of Layue, I was in a hurry to go home, and when I went downhill, I accidentally fell and injured my arm, and my grandmother was so scared that she didn't dare to let me go to school anymore. I didn't want to waste money, but she insisted on letting me live on campus anyway. I gave the accommodation fee to the homeroom teacher and sent her out of the school gate, and I didn't dare to go far in the afternoon, so I leaned against the school gate and watched her pass under a few elm trees, and the dappled shadows of the trees dyed her hair white. I suddenly noticed that my grandmother's back had become much more rickety. She seemed to have eyes behind her back and knew that I was still watching, when she suddenly turned her head to look at me, smiled and waved at me, and shouted for me to go back to class.
At that moment, my eyes suddenly became hot, my nasal cavity was sore, and I couldn't hold back my tears. I couldn't look at that skinny back anymore. When I think of the hot day, she has been busy since four o'clock in the morning, feeding the donkeys, feeding the chickens, and feeding the pigs, and boiling hot water, I feel distressed. I know she's working so hard for me to have a better life. And the only thing I can do is to study hard and live up to her expectations and dedication.