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Chapter 53 Firewood

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    Qingxi Village Primary School is the only school in Shiliba Village that covers kindergarten to sixth grade.  So all the children from these ten miles and eight villages also come here to go to school. Not only that, but its brilliance lies in the fact that the parents of these children also graduated from here.  Because the facilities in poor schools are extremely rudimentary, children in kindergartens still have three standard toys: seesaws, swivel chairs and slides.  On the same slide, he slid down Chenfeng, slid over Chenyu, slid over Chenfeng, and slid over Chenyao.  Because there are few children, there are only a few teachers. Basically, the teachers are all from the village. The teachers know exactly which children belong to which family and which children are related.  For example, Chen Yao is always compared with her sisters by the teacher.  But she is not afraid of this comparison, because she is also the outstanding one.  In addition to the ugly handwriting, the grades have always been the top three in the class.  Of course, every time she got excellent grades in the exam, Yang Yi would always warn her, don't be proud, don't choose a general from a dwarf.  Although she felt that what Yang Yi said was correct every time, she was always a little bit disappointed because the recognition she longed for was not certified.

    The school is not only poorly equipped, but also poor.  This is especially true in winter.  In winter, the coal bought by the school is crushed cinders, and the stove is also a simple chimney and small stove.  Throughout the winter, students need to bring dry firewood for coal from their homes.  However, in this era of material scarcity, even this bit of dry firewood is extremely precious in the eyes of adults, especially when it comes to confiscating it. Unreasonable people always try to make children bring less, or even  Lied that I forgot to bring it and missed it.  On unlucky days, the children will be frozen for a whole day.  Tomorrow is the day for Chen Yao to bring firewood. Although she takes it every year, she is still a little worried this year.  This year, there is little firewood at home, and Yang Yi has been nagging about finding a way to get some firewood back.  Tell mom, will she be angry?  Chen Yao kicked small stones all the way home slowly.  People always try their best to delay the time to face things they don't want to face, but it will come sooner or later.

    The first thing I do when I get home is not to do my homework as usual.  For Chenyao, homework has never been the most important thing after school.  Because there are so many unfinished jobs at home, my father comes home late every day when he works outside, and he is very tired when he gets home. My mother is not in good health, and she always feels uncomfortable after doing too much heavy work.  So Chenyao started to pull wheat from the age of 9, and learned all the housework little by little.  The first thing she did when she got home was to dig out ashes from the stove.  Because the firewood is soft wood such as wheat straw and corn leaves, there is always a lot of ashes, which can only be put down with the biggest shovel in the house.  After digging out the ashes, she began to use the pig food bucket to prepare ingredients, which was a job she was already familiar with: three ladles of grass fodder, one ladle of corn feed, and now the black pig was also at an important moment of pregnancy, and she needed  Add half a spoonful of dregs.  Then he began to sieve grass for the old donkey.  These tasks have almost become like eating and breathing and become Chen Yao's daily life. She has never complained, although she sometimes feels dirty, especially the work of sifting grass for the old donkey, which is always dusty.  For this reason, she specially prepared a set of extremely worn-out clothes for sifting grass. Although the clothes were extremely ill-fitting and were father's worn-out clothes, at least they could ensure that the clothes she wore to school were clean.  Yang Yi is very pleased with her daughter's sensibleness, she almost never needs her to order, the old girl can always see the work in her eyes, and can always help her to share.  Even when Chen Yao was shaking the sieve, in the dusty and dark small room, she was still thinking about how to talk to her mother. She hesitated, and even had to pick and choose again and again when picking out the plastic sheet for grass seeds outside.  several times.  She didn't know that she had to speed up until the night was coming at a speed she hadn't realized. Otherwise, when it was dark, she wouldn't be able to see the plastic sheeting outside, so she would have to go inside and turn on the lights again.  It costs money.

    Finally finished dinner like chewing wax, Chen Yao knew that she could no longer hide, she also thought about whether she should lie and say that she forgot to bring it, but she was the class monitor, and in that case the whole class would be frozen because of herself, besides  She really hates lying.  Forget it, I can take less, and then arrive early tomorrow, and turn on the stoves as soon as possible.

    "Mom, it's my turn to get the firewood for the stove tomorrow in our class." The moment she said those words, she felt relieved, and finally spoke.

    "Well, I'll pretend it for you in a while." Yang Yi agreed while tidying up the dishes.  Chen Yao didn't expect her mother to agree so happily.

    "Mom, let me do the dishes."

    "No, let me come. You can do your homework quickly. I'll put it in a cage for you in a while. You can just get up early and go to school with it."

    "Yes." Chen Yao originally wanted to say thank you as taught in the textbook, but why???Can't say it, she thinks these words are very awkward to say to her family.  In order to stabilize her flustered heart, she had no choice but to plunge into her homework.

    "Here, take a look, it's almost enough." Yang Yi took the stuffed cage to show Chen Yao. There were plenty of bean stalks on the top, and corn bones almost full on the bottom.

    "There's so much, let's take less, our family doesn't have much." The firewood is considered good firewood at home, because the amount is small, and Yang Yi uses it very sparingly.  The stalks of the lower half of the burning corn stalks and some picked leaves.  The upper part of the peanut stalks and corn stalks at home are used to make fodder for the old donkey for a year, so Yang Yi has to plan carefully for firewood.

    "Bring more, you will only take it two or three times this winter, and when it's time for you to take it, turn on the stove a little more, so that everyone doesn't freeze." Yang Yi saw that her daughter didn't dislike her, so she put it aside.

    "But, we don't have many families." Chen Yao still felt a little ashamed, and she felt uneasy every time she directly asked for things from her parents like this.  When she asked for teaching fees for school, and when she asked for notebooks at the beginning of school, every time she asked for it, she felt guilty when she thought of her hard-working parents.

    "Our family is fine, enough to burn. I will ask your dad to go to the field to get some mulberry roots in a few days. That will burn better than this." Yang Yi saw the worry in the child's heart and said it lightly on purpose.  She didn't want her children to follow her at such a young age to plan every detail for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even lose face in front of others.

    "Well, then I'll go with my dad."

    "Well, you should do your homework first."

    Chen Yao finally let go of her burden, and there is still a way to make up for it, so she will not be afraid, as long as she digs more mulberry roots when she goes to the ground, and make up for what she took away.  After thinking about it, she became more at ease immersed in her homework.  While eating their homework, they were happily holding dried sweet potatoes in their mouths, which were almost their snacks throughout the winter.  The sisters are very sensible and rarely buy snacks. In winter, they almost create snacks by themselves.  Dry-clean the sweet potatoes, put them in the pot and stick them on the sticky surface, it will be more delicious.  What's more, soak some peanuts in a bottle of mineral water. After two days, the peanuts will be as crunchy and sweet as if they were just dug out of the ground.  And the persimmons on the persimmon tree, the sweet taste made them very satisfied all winter.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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