Xu Ningyuan is a child from Qidu Town, Shitai County, Southern Anhui Mountain, because of the special family situation, the road to study is not smooth, but the hard work pays off, this year, he was admitted to the university as he wished, before entering the university and starting a new journey in life, he secretly made a promise, and prepared silently for this promise.
A big boy who knows cold and knows hot.
In August, the Qiupu River slowly flowed north through the mountains, and the cicadas on both sides of the river came and went, bidding farewell to the summer working life, walking on the streets of Shitai County, Xu Ningyuan felt extremely relaxed.
Xiao Xu earned 2,600 yuan this summer, and he wanted to use the first money he earned in his life to surprise his family.
There is a particularly old-fashioned electric fan at home, and the base is a welded tripod, and Xu Ningyuan doesn't know how many years this fan has been used. Xu Ningyuan chose an electric fan and took a fancy to a thermos cup.
Student Xu Ningyuan: Because grandparents are at home, they put the glass in the fire bucket to keep warm in winter, and it will be more convenient to buy a larger thermos cup at this time.
This simple big boy not only knows cold and hot, but also has a meticulous heart.
Student Xu Ningyuan: My wife left my grandmother a jade bracelet, but my grandmother accidentally broke it, and when my grandmother put all the small pieces together, she thought about buying a bracelet for her grandmother.
Xu Ningyuan's hometown is in Bijia Village, Qidu Town, located in the mountains, about 40 minutes' drive from the county seat. The gift was ready to stop, and when he got in the car, Xiao Xu embarked on the journey home with a worried heart.
Xiao Xu was worried about the blame of his grandparents. But the smiles between their eyebrows made people feel relieved and satisfied.
The sad past behind the beautiful building.
The reporter who had just arrived in Xu Ningyuan's hometown was still a little puzzled, how could he be linked to the difficulties in living in a beautiful two-story building? It turns out that behind this building, there is a bitter past.
Behind the building is a tiled house, with wooden windows and peeling walls that reveal the mud and stone walls, and this dilapidated tiled house is where Xiao Xu's childhood began.
The tiled house was built in 1980, and when it was built, Xiao Xu's grandfather was not yet 30 years old.
The old house is located on a low level, next to the farmland, and across the farmland is a ditch. Xu Ming remembered that every time it rained heavily in the past, there would be water in the house.
Until Xu Ningyuan was 9 years old, in 2014, his grandfather, who was over the age of six, gritted his teeth and made a difficult decision to build a building in one step, and the money to build the house was borrowed from all over the world.
Xu Ningyuan's parents are both acquired with intellectual disabilities, not to mention helping the family, and their daily life still needs to be taken care of by their grandparents.
However, the baby has to be brought and the debt has to be repaid, and the old couple must grit their teeth and move forward.
Grandpa Xu Invented: Tea is 5,000 yuan a year, at least 1,000 yuan to consume.
5,000 yuan a year can only be a drop in the bucket for a big family. Fortunately, later, a new industry was introduced in the village, and the old couple learned the technique of growing fungus.
In this way, year after year, after 8 years of hard work, the family's debt was finally paid off. Today, my grandfather is 72 years old and my grandmother is 68 years old, and I can't grow fungus and pick tea, but the roots of the disease left by hard work are getting deeper and deeper.
I want to hold an umbrella for my home.
The old couple not only have to take care of their son's family, but also have to get up early and find a way to repay their debts, and they can't take care of Xu Ningyuan's studies at all.
The old couple are good at work, but they have never gone to school, after Xu Ningyuan went to school, about learning, the two of them can only watch, and they can't help.
The aunt who lives in Shitai County is very concerned about Xu Ningyuan's growth, and when Xiao Xu is about to enter junior high school, she and her husband decide to take their nephew to live with them.
Student Xu Ningyuan: I feel a little inferior, and I may not dare to talk to my classmates or communicate with my classmates at the earliest.
Xu Ningyuan, who recognized the gap, felt a sense of urgency to learn for the first time in his life. Xu Ningyuan gradually calmed down and began to work hard.
Facing difficulties, hard work, and several years of hard work have finally paid off. When he arrived in high school, Xu Ningyuan anchored his goal and did not relax for a moment.
On the wall of Xu Ningyuan's study, the sticky notes are very eye-catching, which record his study plan for the 60-day countdown to the college entrance examination, and each note is full of the day's study tasks until the day before the college entrance examination.
Maybe the strings collapsed too tightly, Xu Ning was far from playing his best in this year's college entrance examination, but he was also very satisfied with getting the admission letter from Bengbu College.
Xu Ningyuan said that one day in the future, he will succeed in his studies, and he wants to return to his hometown and use his own way to shelter his family from the wind and rain.
The stone platform in August, the heat is pressing, under the blue sky, the Qiupu River, sparkling, the green mountains on both sides, the sound of cicadas is still the same.