"Wang Fen from Class 2, Grade 3, Chen Cai from Class 1, Grade 6, and Lu Rong from Class 1, Grade 3, come to the reception room to pick up the money order."
When class was over, the sound of the trumpet on the roof of Longtan Primary School resounded throughout the campus.
Longtan Primary School is a village primary school, and the students are all children from several villages on Longtan Mountain, and many of them are left-behind children whose parents are working outside.
Parents initially mailed remittances to the elderly at home, but the elderly were not sensitive to their names. Sometimes the postman shouted in the village: "Who is Wang Donglai? Who is Wang Donglai from the east end of Longquan Village?" People should.
The old people looked at each other, and it took a while before someone stabbed the person next to him: "Wang Daga, you seem to be called Wang Donglai."
Later, I simply sent the remittance slip directly to the school for the children at home to pick up. The school's address is accurate and convenient, so every once in a while, under the envious eyes of the people around, there are students who are reserved and excited to go to the reception room to get the money order.
Lu Rong was lying in the classroom doing homework, only heard the horn beeping, but didn't pay attention to the content, until the deskmate urged him: "Lu Rong, hurry up and get the money order, it's in the reception room."
Lu Rong was a little taken aback. He had never heard his name on the loudspeaker before. After confirming it again and again, he went to the reception room nervously, still not convinced in his heart.
"Wang Fen's, here, take it. Chen Cai's, ouch, your dad sent a bit too much this time. Lu Rong... Has Lu Rong come? Who is Lu Rong?"
Lu Rong took the remittance slip from the teacher who sent and received the letter, and began to read the words on it on the way back to the classroom.
"... What Feng Street, what embroidery district, Pingjing City... Shen Jize."
When Lu Rong returned to the classroom, the students cheered and surrounded him.
This is always the case in the class, if anyone receives the remittance slip, the whole class will have to read it over and over again. Passing the thin paper to each other, even if you only touch it for a second or two, you can feel the joy when you receive the money order.
——That is the only thing they can feel in ordinary days, the concern and love from parents in distant places.
"Lu Rong, Lu Rong, who sent you the money?"
"Is it your parents? How much did you send?"
"Lu Rong doesn't have parents, so it must have been sent by someone else."
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Country kids don't have so many twists and turns, they speak straightforwardly, but Lu Rong doesn't care about these words, his eyes are bright, his face is flushed with excitement, and he can't help laughing while sitting in his seat.
After a while, he said proudly: "My brother sent it to me. Look, Shen Jize is my brother's name."
When he said this, his chin lifted a little proudly, wishing he could directly say that it was the support money sent by his husband, but his only rationality told him not to say it, or he would be laughed at.
"Your brother, your brother is really nice. Let's see how much money is there." The students all stared at the money order in his hand.
Lu Rong unfolded the remittance slip carefully, and immediately bowed his heads.
"17800! Lu Rong, your brother sent you 17,000!" A fat man exclaimed.
Lu Rong was taken aback by this huge number.
Another student patted his head: "Under the word hundred is the number one, which is one hundred and seventy-eight yuan."
"These are all pencils and notebooks that my brother asked me to buy."
The remittance slip was circulated among all the students according to the procedures. Like other students who had received the remittance slip, Lu Rong kept staring at it worriedly, for fear that something would be torn apart, and anyone who looked at it for a second would hurry up.
When the remittance slip came back to his hand, and the surrounding classmates dispersed, he looked at it carefully, touched the words on it with his hand, and carefully put it into the middle of the schoolbag.
It's just that I haven't been happy for a while, and then I think of Cai Ye's cane again, and my mood starts to fluctuate from worry to joy.
Throughout the afternoon, he was restless in class, reaching into the middle of his schoolbag from time to time to check if his money order was still there.
After school, he rushed out of the classroom as soon as possible and ran home along the mountain path.
The little dog was standing at the entrance of the village waiting, and it rushed up wagging its tail from a distance, and before it had time to act like a baby with Lu Rong, it ran into the village again.
Panting, Lu Rong ran to the village committee, rushed into the house and asked, "Uncle Chen, do you have my number?"
Uncle Chen was lying on the table copying documents, without raising his head, he said, "Lu Rong, don't you call every Saturday? Today is only Friday, and the call will be tomorrow."
Sweat dripped down Lu Rong's forehead: "Last week when my brother called me, he told me that he didn't have tutoring this Friday, so he could call me."
"Okay, then just wait." Uncle Chen said.
"Well, I'll just sit in Grandpa's place."
Lu Rong sat behind an empty desk, put down his schoolbag, took out the books inside and started doing homework.
When the homework was finished, he stood by the milky white phone, waiting quietly and patiently.
The water on the top of the small stove boiled, Uncle Chen added it to the water bottle, and put another pot of cold water on it.
When the sound of boiling water was gurgling again, Uncle Chen looked at him and said, "Rongrong, I'm going home to make dinner, you may not have a phone call today, should you go with Uncle or stay and wait?"
Lu Rong said: "Uncle Chen, if you have something to do, go first, I'll wait, what if there is a call? Don't worry, I will close the door when I leave later."
He spoke in a very orderly manner at such a young age, Uncle Chen patted his head with a smile: "Okay, then Uncle will go first."
After Uncle Chen left, the puppy also came in quietly, sleeping at Lu Rong's feet.
Lu Rong rested his chin on his left hand and lightly touched the phone with his right hand. When it suddenly rang loudly, he was startled, and then quickly grabbed the receiver.
He was about to say hello, and changed his tone temporarily, imitating an adult's voice and said in a rough voice: "Hello."
"Hello, is Lu Rong there? I'm his brother." Shen Jize's voice came from the phone, slightly distorted.
"Meow, meow meow."
Shen Jize was stunned for a moment, and asked uncertainly, "Is Lu Rong there? I'm his brother."
"Meow meow meow~~" This time it was a sweet and greasy little milk cat.
"Woof, woof, woof." After Shen Jize laughed twice, he also started.
"Meow meow meow."
"Wow woof."
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The two yelled at each other for a while in various tones, and then laughed for a while. Shen Jize asked, "Rongrong, have you received the family support money I sent? I kept some for myself, and I sent the rest to you."
"Received." Lu Rong replied sweetly: "I received it today, and I put it in my schoolbag."
Shen Jize heard his joy, smiled and said, "I will send it to you every month."
But Lu Rong thought of the rattan of the rich man again, and after hesitating for a moment, he hesitated and said: "Brother, you should not send it to me. Grandpa took all the money you gave me during the summer vacation, and said that Uncle Shen will return it to you." , I was almost beaten."
Shen Jize turned pale with shock: "Didn't I tell you to hide it? How did grandpa find out?"
"I hid the family support in the closet, and my grandfather found it when he was looking for clothes..." Lu Rong's voice became smaller and smaller, revealing deep frustration.
"Did you tell grandpa that I gave you the money?" Shen Jize asked.
Lu Rong: "I said it."
Shen Jize: "That won't work either?"
Lu Rong: "He said no."
"Then you said it was my family support?"
"Say it, he laughed first, I thought it was a promise, but after he finished laughing, he went to get the cane from the top of the cabinet, so scared that I hugged his legs and slipped to the ground, that's why I didn't get beaten." Lu Rong said with lingering fear Say.
After a moment of silence, Shen Jize sighed: "It's too difficult to pay for the family support. I see that other people in your village are very happy to receive the family support... My mother sent it to my uncle a few days ago and asked him to pass it on to grandpa. Did he accept the gift?"
After he brought home the bag of cured meat from the rich man, Shen's mother went out that day, bought a lot of Beijing specialties and sent them to the mountains, asking Shen Yan to transfer them to the rich man anyway, and called the village committee , invited Cai Ye to take Lu Rong to the capital to play.
"Accepted." Lu Rong said.
"Did you see the chocolate I stuffed inside? That's real Dove chocolate."
When Lu Rong mentioned this, he giggled: "I'm going to eat all the chocolate."
"I'll send it to you after eating it all, but be careful not to eat too much, so as not to hurt your teeth again."
"understood."
Lu Rong took out the remittance slip and said sadly, "But it's so difficult to spend the family support."
Shen Jize said earnestly: "No matter how difficult it is, you have to collect it, just hide it well, and don't let grandpa find out."
Lu Rong trembled in his heart: "Brother, can't we pretend that we have already sent the family support?"
"No." Shen Jize's voice became heavier, and his tone was heavy: "That's my responsibility as a husband."
Lu Rong: I really don't want to be forced to accept the responsibility sent by my husband...
"Don't post it, okay? I'm afraid that if grandpa finds out..."
It is indeed very happy to receive family support money, but the days of hiding family support money in fear are really painful.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Jize said: "Then how about this, I will save up the family support and hand it over to you in the future."
"Yeah!" Lu Rong regained his spirit instantly.
The two chatted for a long time, talking nonsense.
Normally, when Uncle Chen was in the room, Lu Rong was a little shy, so he just answered a few times like a kitten. Today, there is no one in the office of the village committee, so he opened his mouth.
He murmured about the bird's nest that he hadn't dug out last time, and all the eggs in it turned into little birds. Danwa and the others went to ride the pigs, but one pig couldn't stop and rushed back to the pigsty, almost throwing a person into the cesspit.
Shen Jize also said that he is studying very seriously now, and sometimes he studies at night until dawn.
—I haven’t finished my homework since school started, so I hide under the quilt at four o’clock in the middle of the night to do my homework.
He also said that he was elected as a class cadre again, not only had to deal with the heavy academic work, but also took on the duties of the class cadre, although it was fulfilling but also very tiring.
—As a sports committee member, I have to hold basketballs before get out of class, and return those basketballs to the equipment room after class.
I don't know how long they talked, until it was almost dark outside, the two reluctantly said goodbye.
When saying goodbye, there was another meow and woof.
Shen Jize is a person with a strong sense of ritual. Even if he was still barking just a moment ago, he would solemnly say when he hung up the phone: "Honey, take care of your health and study hard. Goodbye."
Lu Rong, who had just finished meowing, put away her smile and said in a serious tone, "Honey, take care of your health and study hard. Goodbye."
When Lu Rong returned home, Mr. Cai was cooking dinner in the kitchen. He took out the hot remittance slip and looked around in his small bedroom, but he couldn't find a place to hide it.
In the end, the pictorial was uncovered and stuffed into a crack in the wall.
That night, it rained heavily in the mountains suddenly. Lu Rong dreamed that someone kept setting off firecrackers in his ears, and when he woke up, he realized that it was the sound of rain.
He had never seen such a heavy rain, the sky seemed to have opened a hole, and water poured down the sky and covered the earth.
The outside room was lit, the rich man opened the door, and the puppy got into the house from the kennel under the eaves, and ran to Lu Rong's bed whining.
"Grandpa." Lu Rong patted the wet dog's head and called out loudly.
"Don't get up, Rongrong, there is no one in your Granny Li's house, and the house will not collapse. I will go and have a look, and I will be back in a while." Cai Ye said.
Lu Rong put his face close to the glass window, and saw the rich man wearing a coir raincoat, rain boots, and holding a black umbrella, hurried out of the yard and stepped into the pouring rain.
A white light flashed, the world was dazzlingly bright, and then plunged into darkness in an instant.
A few seconds later, thunder exploded violently, shaking the glass windows to buzz.
The puppy blew twice anxiously, and Lu Rong patted it reassuringly.
After a while, lightning bolts fell from the sky one after another, seeming to hit the trees in the distance, making a piercing crackling sound.
The lights in the house were bright and dim, and the rain did not slow down at all. The water in the yard had no time to flow out, forming a shallow pool.
Lu Rong stared at the gate of the courtyard, and the rich man hadn't come back for a long time. He began to feel uneasy, hugged the puppy and said, "Be good, puppy, I'll go find grandpa."
The puppy just flicked its tail sensiblely.
Lu Rong put on his clothes and trousers, took out his little rain boots from under the bed and put them on, and took an umbrella from the cabinet.
The moment the door was opened, the wind blew in with rain and mist, bringing a chill all over his body.
He hurriedly opened the umbrella to block it, closed the door and went out of the yard.
The road in the village was flooded, like a stream, and when it flowed over his rain boots, it caused a circle of small splashes on the boots.
Lu Rong looked left and right, and walked to Grandma Li's house at the east end of the village.
Lights were on in every house along the way, and no one could sleep. The stones on the back mountain were washed down by the rain, rumbling from time to time, making people frightened.
Lu Rong's whole body was soon soaked, and the little umbrella couldn't keep out the wind and rain at all. The trousers were sticking wet to the legs, and the rain seeped into the boots, making it very uncomfortable.
Grandma Li's family has a single family, and there is still a mountain road to walk after leaving the village.
As soon as he walked to the entrance of the village, a bolt of lightning fell on the west end of the village. A string of sparks burst out, and the whole village was plunged into darkness.
power cut.
Through the curtain-like rain, a faint light appeared ahead, and someone was lighting a flashlight.
Lu Rong chased him for a short distance, and saw his figure and clothes clearly. The person who walked forward cautiously and slowly was the rich man.
He didn't dare to step forward rashly, the rich man would definitely get angry when he saw him appearing here, and would drive him back, so he could only follow behind silently, like a small tail.
Cai Ye's legs are not very flexible, especially in such a dark night, the wind, rain and slippery road made him move very slowly.
Fortunately, every step is very steady, and there is no sign of falling.
Lu Rong quietly followed more than ten meters away. The wind, rain and night made him hide his whereabouts, and was not discovered by the rich man.
This road is next to the back mountain, and further ahead is the yard of Grandma Li's house. Lu Rong plans to follow for a while and find a place to hide, and follow the rich man later when he comes out.
At this moment, he keenly sensed that something was wrong.
It was an innate instinct that made him smell the danger coming. The hairs on his neck stood up, and his heart was beating non-stop.
Lu Rong stopped and looked around, he couldn't see too far under the rain curtain, the mountains and fields were only vague outlines.
But when he looked up, through the hazy sky, he saw a huge black shadow swaying on the cliff a few times and falling from the sky.
And directly below the black shadow is Cai Ye who is slowly advancing.
The sound of thunder and rain obscured the movement of the rocks collapsing, and the rich man knew nothing of what was happening above his head, nor did he know that a boulder was falling and would crush him to pieces in an instant.
Lu Rong's pupils suddenly constricted, only staring at the black shadow in the sky.
Thirty meters.
Twenty meters.
ten meters.
A white deer jumped up from the rain, and shot forward like an arrow. When the boulder was about to hit the rich man, it lowered its head in the air, and used its two silver horns to pick up the back collar of the coir raincoat. , Leap out with people.
Everything happened in a blink of an eye, and the rich man felt that he was flying into the air in an instant, with nothing to go down, and only a few seconds later his feet touched the ground. At the same time, there was a loud bang behind him, and the ground seemed to be shaking.
Cai Ye stood there for a few seconds, a little unresponsive, and only turned his head tremblingly after everything calmed down.
There was a huge boulder behind him, and it landed right where he was just now. Other than that, no one else.