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Chapter 23 Brand New

In Qi Nuliang's impression of Yao Huilan, apart from her appearance as a young girl in Yao's family, she was the same as her portrait.As for her appearance after marriage, Qi Nuliang can't remember at all.

Hongcheng was not far away, and she often went back to her mother's house at that time, and every time she came back, she would come to look for Qi Nuliang, bring him some food and clothing, and talk to him.For this reason, she was often scolded by her father, saying that she turned her elbows outwards and treated outsiders better than her own brother.

But at that time, Qi Nuliang couldn't remember exactly what clothes she wore, what hairstyle she had, and what she said.The only thing she remembers is her rapidly bulging belly, and the extra little person in her arms after her belly deflated.

Strangely, Qi Nuliang had a very deep impression of Jiang Yu when he was a child.

When he was still in his infancy, the child had a small white face and a pair of smart eyes. The dense long eyelashes often made people mistake him for a little girl.

At that time, he hugged him and took him from Yao Huilan's arms, carefully, like holding a puddle of broken snow, as if if he didn't pay attention, the little person in his arms would fall apart.

When he hugged him, he held his breath, he didn't show any affection, he just felt helpless and a little scared.Soon he returned it to Yao Huilan.

Later, Jiang Yu grew up quickly.From only being able to hug to being able to run and jump on the ground, from only being able to cry loudly to being able to speak a complete sentence.From the lump of soft flesh that Qi Nuliang hugged at a loss, he grew up to be able to hug Qi Nuliang's legs and call him little uncle and child in a coquettish voice.

The only thing that remains the same is that white face and eyes with black eyelashes.

"Jiang Yu?"

On the bus, Qi Nuliang called him.He just went to visit his mother's grave, so I don't know if the child is as panicked as he is at this moment.

The boy turned his head.

The frostbite on his face healed, and the frostbitten red skin became smooth and fair.It's still the same white face, and the same beautiful eyes as his mother.At this time, the eyes were clear and calm, not particularly depressed and sad.Qi Nuliang thought too much.

Jiang Yu waited for a while, but before he could speak, he asked, "Why?"

Qi Nuliang scratched his forehead, remembering the things he hadn't discussed with Jiang Yu, and tentatively asked, "Do you... want to go to school? You see that children like you are going to school, and you can't pick up trash all your life, right? "

Qi Nuliang is well aware of the psychology of resisting school and being unwilling to go to school, because it was the same when he was a student.If it weren't for Yao Huilan's persuasion and scolding, he wouldn't even be able to finish junior high school.So at this time, when he tried to persuade Jiang Yu, he felt a little guilty.

"I went to Rihua Elementary School to ask, the school is willing to accept you, and it's only been a few days since you left..." Qi Nuliang rubbed his hands, "...Are you going?"

"go."

I didn't expect Jiang Yu to be so forthright, but it made Qi Nuliang doubtful: "Going to school is for you to study hard. In school, you can't skip classes and stop studying, and you have to get grades in exams."

"Yeah." Jiang Yu nodded, and only asked one question, "Where should I eat when I go to school?"

"I also asked about this. The school cafeteria serves two meals in the morning and noon, and I go home to eat in the evening."

Jiang Yu was relieved, and asked again: "When will school start?"

Seeing the child's excited and expectant eyes, Qi Nuliang was a little uncertain: "School will start the next day after the Lantern Festival... By the way, what grade should you be in?"

After his mother passed away, he stopped studying. At that time, he had just turned ten years old, and he was in most of the first semester of the fourth grade.

"The second term of the fourth grade."

"The start of school happens to be the next semester. I will take you to the principal in two days."

The bus wobbled and stopped on the side of the road a few hundred meters away from the alley entrance of the daily chemical factory.The two got out of the car, stepped on the firecracker paper all over the floor, and walked towards home.

Qi Nuliang was still not at ease, and pressed Jiang Yu's shoulder: "I heard that your aunt sent you to the elementary school in Hongcheng, and you always ran away. I don't think you are unwilling to go to school, why? Want to run?"

In any case, the condition of Hongcheng Primary School is better than that of Rihua Primary School.What's more, the people over there gave Jiang Yu a discount and let Jiang Yu study for free. He couldn't figure out why he didn't continue to study there, but insisted on running back to pick up the trash.

"No food."

"How come there is no food, you are not born for free?"

Recalling that period of time, Jiang Yu lowered his head, his delicate face was almost wrinkled into a ball.

"I only give free tuition, but I need money for meals, and my aunt doesn't give money."

Not only do they not give him money for meals, but they also don’t give him any other money. They don’t buy him school uniforms, nor do they buy him tutorial books and exercise books.

Everyone else wears school uniforms to school, but he is the only one who is different from all the students in the school.Every morning, I have to be stopped by the security guards for questioning, and I have to repeat every day that the family does not buy school uniforms.He also only has textbooks in class, and he can't do exercises and homework.In the lecture, there was nothing in front of him, he just sat upright, staring at the teacher blankly with his eyes wide open.

He became an outlier in the school and a laughing stock.But in the end it was hunger that made him unbearable.

His hunger didn't start when he was wandering, since his aunt took over from him, he was already out of food.On the contrary, when he is lucky in picking up trash, he can still have a full meal.

"Didn't your aunt receive your subsidy and not even pay for meals?" Qi Nuliang said a little angrily. It seems that Aunt Jiang Yu is not a good person either.

Jiang Yu didn't speak, he still remembered what his aunt scolded him back and forth.

First scold the father for paying the debt, and Jiang Yu should pay the debt owed by his father.His grandfather retired early and asked his father to go to the post to get the iron job, and the agreement was that the son would give the two old pensioners the end of the day.In the end, his father was a short-lived ghost, so he left the two old things to her to raise, and Jiang Yu's subsidy belonged to her as a matter of course.

He even insulted his mother who had just passed away.Speaking of his father's death, his mother murdered his father together with the adulterer.The mother is a sleazy, ungrateful whore.

Finally, scold Jiang Yu again, call him a bastard, beat his father to death, and beat his mother to death, and now come to her house to harm the entire Jiang family, let him go away...

In short, he had to curse all three members of his family—the living and the dead—in one breath.

Jiang Yu didn't have much impression of his father who passed away very early, but his mother told him that his father's death was an accident.In the early years, there were also some rumors about his father's death at the daily chemical factory. His mother told him not to listen to the nonsense, saying that the death of the man was mainly his own fault and no one else's.

Mom rarely mentioned his dead father, and when she did, she only referred to him as "that man."

After a long time, no one mentioned the dead man anymore.Because of the thin memory, even Jiang Yu himself seldom thinks about him, as if he was born without a father at all.

Seeing that the child went to the grave was not depressed, but was dejected by the matter of going to school.Qi Nuliang grabbed his shoulders, hooked him to his armpits, and rubbed his head hard.

"Don't worry, the food will definitely fill you up. You only care about studying hard, do you hear me?"

Jiang Yu nodded emphatically with his rumpled hair.

[-]. The holidays for the first two days of junior high school passed quickly, and Qi Nuliang's cold also recovered quickly, before the start of work.On the second day of the Lunar New Year, he returned to the back kitchen and started working without touching the ground.

Before the Lantern Festival, the boss finally paid out last month's wages.Qi Nuliang only started working in the middle of last month, and he only received [-] yuan for most of the month.

Doing the math, just paying Jiang Yu's tuition and miscellaneous fees will cost half of it, and the rest will have to be dealt with for the next full month.

Fortunately, he eats at the restaurant twice a day, Jiang Yu eats at the school twice a day, the school cafeteria is cheaper than the small restaurants outside.Apart from meals, the two of them have no other expenses, so they can make do with it, so let's tighten their belts temporarily, as long as they wait until next month to pay their wages.If it doesn't work, just ask the boss to pay in advance.Qi Nuliang made up his mind.

On the day before the start of school, Qi Nuliang also spent one day of the two-day vacation in January, and took Jiang Yu to report to Rihua Primary School.

Sign up, sign, and pay the fee at the financial office.

The small financial office is crowded with people, all of whom are paying parents.Several windows, all kinds of tuition fees, miscellaneous fees... Some parents complained that their children can't read a fart, and they can't read a big word after studying for a semester, and they spend a lot of money.Some parents also said that some schools have already exempted tuition and miscellaneous fees, so why do daily chemical primary schools charge several hundred dollars?

The toll collector sitting inside said that there is a policy of exempting tuition and miscellaneous fees for the compulsory education stage, but only rural schools, and urban schools have to pay.But let them wait a little longer, maybe next year or next year they won't be able to go to town.

Qi Nuliang heard it, but he didn't believe it.

There is no such thing as going to school without spending money.Thinking back when Yao Huilan studied so well at the beginning, his father didn't let her continue studying because he felt sorry for the tuition fee of one or two hundred yuan per semester.And he obviously couldn't go on studying at the beginning, because he was a boy, his father was afraid that he would be gossiped by the Qi family clan if he was not allowed to study, so he just sent him to finish junior high school.

Coming out of the accounting room, Qi Nuliang held Jiang Yu's shoulder and said to him: "Your mother used to be the best at studying, and she was No. 1 since she was a child. You have to learn from her."

Jiang Yu's eyes widened in surprise: "Really?"

"What did I lie to you about? If your mother keeps studying, she will definitely be able to enter the university. She is really very smart, and she will be able to read the book once."

Jiang Yu had never heard his mother say that she was a child, and felt a little unbelievable.

"But I think, you haven't inherited her advantages, you are sometimes stupid. So I don't ask you to take the No.1 exam, it's not bad if you pass."

To be able to pass, for a person like Qi Nuliang who often scored single digits in his student days, it is already a great excellence.

Jiang Yu was a little unconvinced, blushing, and murmured: "I study very well."

"What do you say?"

"……nothing."

But he hasn't studied for a long time, and he has almost forgotten all he learned before. Maybe it will be like going to school tomorrow.

He was not allowed to think too much, and then he had to go to the teaching building to get the textbooks.

In the classroom, Jiang Yu was a little embarrassed because he was taller than his classmates.When you are growing up, the difference between two and three years old is quite intuitive.The teacher also arranged his position in the last row.

After leaving the classroom, I went to the cafeteria to buy food tickets.

A meal ticket is [-] cents, and a serving of rice is [-] taels.A vegetable ticket is one yuan, and two tickets can be used for a portion of meat.Meal tickets and vegetable tickets can also be exchanged for steamed buns in the morning.This is a trick the school came up with to prevent children from buying snacks with their meal money.

In order to reassure Jiang Yu, Qi Nuliang bought a meal ticket of [-] yuan in one go, a big bag full, and handed it all over to him, completely solving his worries.

After working for a long time, Qi Nuliang took Jiang Yu to buy schoolbags and stationery when he came out of school.

Brand-new books and stationery were put into a brand-new schoolbag, and the brand-new schoolbag was hung on Jiang Yu's young and thin shoulders, as if he had turned him into a brand-new person.

The author says:

Xiao Jiang is finally not a gai liar