My back felt like it was pressed against the heated bed on a hot day. When I woke up, my mouth was dry, my whole body was sticky and I felt unhappy, and I woke up immediately.

It was pitch black all around, stars were dotted overhead, and insects chirped in my ears.

When I woke up, my heart palpitated, as if I had experienced something terrible. My eyes were widened and my body was motionless. It took me a while to get used to it, and I got off the bamboo bed underneath me.

"Is it too hot?" a voice came from beside me.

"It's okay, I'll just drink some water and it'll be fine. Mom, you can go to sleep and don't worry about me." Su Xing turned around and said softly.

Wang Chunlan responded, shook the cattail leaf fan in her hand twice and then lay down half asleep.

It's really hot today.

The bungalow, the smell of asphalt in my nose, it was back to more than ten years ago, when I just took the high school entrance examination.

The summer of 1999.

I remember correctly, Su Xing didn’t have to go downstairs to look at the calendar. It was a one-story bungalow. It wasn’t until after he was a sophomore in college that his uncle helped him spend some money to build an additional floor above the bungalow at home.

After a brief silence, after figuring out the situation, Su Xing could not suppress his secret joy. There were too many things that slipped through his hands and he wanted to catch them.

"Brother, I'm hot and thirsty." A confused voice came from behind. Su Ran sat on the mat and rubbed her eyes.

There are two brothers, Su Xing and his sister Su Ran, who is four years younger than him and will be in sixth grade after this summer.

"Wait a minute, I'll get you some water." Su Xing went downstairs and scooped up a ladle of well water, "Drink slowly."

Almost every household in rural areas has a well, and there is no habit of heating hot water on hot days. The freshly drawn well water is cold and comfortable to drink.

The introduction of running water in the village was something that happened after college, but not yet.

Su Ran held the gourd scoop and drank loudly. Su Xing was worried that drinking too much would make her stomach upset, so she took the gourd scoop and said, "Okay, drinking too much will upset your stomach. Go to sleep."

"Hot." Su Ran touched her forehead. Sweat stains stuck to her hair, as if she had been in a sauna.

It's okay to enjoy the cool air on the roof.

"I'll fan you." Su Xing picked up the cattail leaf fan on the mat and shook it again and again.

The wind is hot.

At three or four o'clock in the morning, Su Xing felt a hint of mat in the air. He covered Su Ran's belly with a thin blanket. Su Xing returned to the bamboo bed and squinted for a while.

I just fell asleep, and when I woke up I was awakened by the intermittent quarrels.

"I told you to be greedy for petty gains. Now it's fine. My son's tuition fee is gone. All the fifteen hundred yuan was defrauded by others. Where can I find the tuition fee again?" Wang Chunlan's voice came from downstairs. She had gone early.

I got up and was making breakfast.

"It's been a few days, and you still keep talking." Su Changmin, Su Xing's unreliable father, was very impatient, "How do I know those people are liars? I am such a shrewd person that I will never be deceived.

I just accidentally said it, don't talk about it anymore, how can I stay in the village if the people in the village know about it."

Su Xing sighed. After reviving his life, his head was still a little confused and he still couldn't understand many things. However, Su Xing was deeply impressed by the quarrel between his parents.

It happened just a few days ago. Some strangers brought some scrap copper to the village, saying it was from a factory. They were eager to get rid of it. Su Changmin happened to meet him. He thought he was smart and bought the scrap copper at a low price.

copper.

One thousand five hundred yuan is almost all the family's income.

Su Changmin came back carrying the bag in a hurry, and specifically ordered the doors and windows to be closed. However, when he opened them, he found that they were all filled with sand.

Carrying a bag of sand along the way, Su Changmin didn't realize that the bag was filled with sand. The sand was dug by someone nearby and stuffed into the bag.

When I went to find the person again, he had already run away. I spent 1,500 yuan to buy a bag of sand.

Su Changmin was so unreliable in his work. The key was not to admit his mistakes when he did something wrong. He told his family not to speak out, lest it affect his reputation and lose face.

"Of course, get up and go down to eat." Su Xing woke up Su Ran, who was still sleeping.

"I'll sleep a little longer." Su Ran squinted her eyes, still wanting to sleep.

"Go to sleep below." There was not even a fence on the roof of the bungalow, and Su Xing was worried that Su Ran would be alone on the roof.

Su Xing owed this sister a lot, especially after entering high school and going home less often. Later, Su Ran went to work before graduating from junior high school, and Su Xing failed to fulfill his brother's responsibility to dissuade her.

Later, Su Ran got married and married to another province. Her life was not good. Su Xing felt guilty every time she thought about it.

An older brother has the obligation to make his sister's life better, but he failed to fulfill his responsibility as an older brother.

Nowadays, it is not like more than ten years later, everyone likes small villas with multiple rooms. The popular houses in rural areas have large rooms, just like Su Xing's house, with three rooms, each with an area of ​​more than 30 square meters, and a mesh-shaped structure.

It's very simple. The middle room is the living room, which is the main room, the east room is the bedroom, and the west room is the kitchen, where some farm tools and sundries are also placed.

Four members of Su Xing's family slept in the same room. This situation lasted until the bungalow became a building.

Su Xing washed his face, ran into the kitchen to help Wang Chunlan light the fire, and handed a piece of firewood to the stove.

"This is the fire, no need to add more firewood." Wang Chunlan said, a little frowning.

"Mom, don't worry about the money, I will find a way to solve it." The reason for waking up and making a fire was to say this.

Su Changmin was careless. Wang Chunlan was busy inside and outside the house. She took care of three people by herself. She never enjoyed happiness until she was old and had never traveled far in her life.

"What can you do? Don't worry about money. Just read your book." Wang Chunlan served four bowls of noodles and put poached eggs in three bowls. "Take the noodles out to eat. Be careful, they are a bit hot."

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Su Xing dusted off his hands and picked up a bowl of noodles without eggs.

"Keep that bowl for me. If you want to eat the one with eggs, call your dad and Ranran over for dinner." Wang Chunlan hurriedly stopped her.

Su Xing didn't listen and had already gone out with the noodles: "I don't want to eat eggs today, but it's time to eat."

Su Xing squatted at the door, rolled up his chopsticks, and rolled the noodles into a ball. He breathed a sigh of relief and stuffed it into his mouth. His mind was not on the noodles. He was thinking about how to make money.

The results of the high school entrance examination have not come out yet, but Su Xing already knows the result, which is 610 points, just three points higher than the score line of the city senior high school.

In the previous life, Su Changmin bought a bag of sand for 1,500 yuan, and Su Xing later gave up the opportunity to attend the city's senior high school and went to a relatively poor high school, just because he could be exempted from tuition for one year.

The teaching environment and teaching staff of a good high school are much better than those of ordinary high schools. Su Xing has a very clear understanding of himself. He is just an ordinary person. He wants to go to a good school, a city senior high school, and get into a high school.

A key university, not just an ordinary second-tier university.

While thinking about how to earn tuition, a poached egg suddenly slipped into the bowl. Su Xing raised his head and said helplessly: "Mom, I won't eat it."

"Eat, why don't you eat? Eat quickly, the noodles are dry. Don't be in a daze. Don't worry about the tuition. Mom will find a way for you so that you can't go to high school." Wang Chunlan said.

Su Xing smiled bitterly and took a bite of the poached egg. It tasted like chewing gum. The poor family members had to push it back and forth even if they wanted to eat an extra egg.
Chapter completed!