At around eleven o'clock in the night, Liu Gen sat at the desk and wrote a letter.
Li Chengzai came out of the shower, walked up to Liu Gen and said, "Brother Gen, go take a shower." After listening to Wang Jiahe's story, he also changed his name to Liu Gen as 'Brother Gen'.
"I'll finish writing the letter first. Will it affect your sleep?" Liu Gen glanced at the fluorescent lights on the roof and asked in a low voice.
Zhang Jian and Wang Jiahe had already washed up and went to bed early.
Li Chengzai put the new desk lamp he bought in the afternoon on Liu Gen's desk, plugged it in for him, and turned on the lamp.
"Haha...thank you, I will also buy a desk lamp tomorrow." Liu Gen raised his head and looked at Li Chengzai and said.
"You're welcome, you write. Before it's too late, I'll turn off the light." After saying that, he went to the right side of the door and turned off the light with a snap.
Liu Gen needs to write three letters, one to his parents at home, and two to his sisters Liu Zhi and Jia Hehuan respectively.
Other classmates called home to report that they were safe, but he could only use this primitive letter method to express his longing for his family. Liu Gen envied those classmates who could hear their parents' voices on the phone. Zhang Jianyou
He had an Ericsson mobile phone. When he was listening to him talking to his family just now, Liu Gen was thinking: 'It would be great if there was a phone at home, so my parents wouldn't have to wait ten or twenty days, or even longer, to receive it.
I wrote a letter to myself, and I can often hear my parents’ voices, and know my father’s condition in time.” Liu Gen secretly vowed to get the school’s highest scholarship and various awards from the college in the first year, and work outside to earn money.
If I have enough money, I will also install a phone at home in the future so that I can listen to my parents’ voices at least every week.
In the letter written to Jia Hekai and his sister Jia Hehuan, Liu Gen wrote this:
Seeing letters is like meeting each other.
My right thumb was slightly injured, so I had to ask my co-workers to write this letter to you for me. You don’t have to worry about my injury, it’s just a scratch, and don’t complain to my father and mother, lest they worry about me.
I don’t know which class you were assigned to in the first year of high school, so I had to write the first year of high school in the envelope address. The address where I work often changes, and I can’t give you a detailed address. You don’t need to write to me in the future, because I can’t receive it.
arrive.
When you receive this letter, your father should be discharged from the hospital. With your mother at home taking care of him, you don't have to worry about it. Study hard. Your parents hope that you can live a good life like people in the city in the future.
Everything is fine, brother. You don’t have to worry about him. This time, brother can only send you three hundred yuan for living expenses. You save some money and wait for brother to get his salary next month, and then I will send you more.
Not much else to say, just remember my brother’s words and study hard!
Brother: On the night of August 30, 1999, Hekai did not use letterhead paper, but wrote on the leftover notebook he had used in the past. It was not that he could not afford the money for the paper, but that he felt that it was more appropriate for his job.
The way Jia Hekai wrote to his sister, he tried his best to make up the lie as roundly as possible. He even thought of the discrepancy in the handwriting, and he couldn't write a detailed address on the envelope. He didn't need Jia Hehuan to reply, so he just gave the three hundred yuan.
Wrap it in the written paper and send it together.
However, the letter Liu Gen wrote to his sister was using the kind of letterhead paper he bought from the school canteen with the words Nanhai Medical University printed on it. He wrote to his sister Liu Zhi like this:
When my sister sees this letter, it means that you are already studying in Qiong County No. 1 Middle School. When replying to the letter, remember to write down the detailed address of your class so that I can send you money every month in the future.
I arrived at Nanhai Medical University at noon today. The feeling of riding the train was not very good. It was not as comfortable as riding in a donkey cart in our hometown Ganggou Village.
The walls in Nanhai are higher than those in our provincial capital. It makes people dizzy just looking at them. When walking on the road, you have to guard against being hit by pieces of glass blown down by the wind at any time.
On the contrary, I like Nanhai Medical University very much. As soon as I entered the school, I smelled the smell of knowledge. You will also smell this smell in the future, provided that you must study hard.
After I arrived at school, I met many classmates from all over the country. Just like the National People's Congress, each classmate represented their hometown elders and gathered at Nanhai Medical University to share the folk customs of their hometown.
The bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the poor, the rich all chirped and reported to me, haha... I am the top scorer in the college entrance examination. In their hearts, I am more prestigious than the president of the country.
By the way, I remember you mentioned a girl named Jia Hehuan last time. Her high school entrance examination score was higher than yours. Is she in the same class as you? In the future, you should use her as a benchmark and have a good relationship with her. On weekends
It’s nice to have a companion on the way home.
When it comes to going home on weekends, Liuzhi, don’t follow my brother’s example. Don’t ride a bicycle or walk at night. You don’t have to go home every weekend. If you miss your parents, just take a car back and forth. Brother can do it.
The money you spend on traveling to and from home and school is included in the living expenses sent to you. If I hear my parents say that you don’t want to travel to and from school, I will never write to you again or tell you about the situation in college.
There are a lot of new and fun things, remember what I said!
Okay, I won’t tell you any more. I’m terribly sleepy and haven’t taken a shower yet. In the dormitory I live in now, I can take a shower every day. I’m envious? The water is so refreshing that it washes over my body and gives me goosebumps all over my body!
What's even more surprising to you is that when you go to the latrine in the dormitory, and people from the city call the bathroom, you will definitely think: 'Brother, I'm talking nonsense again! I can poop and urinate in the room without making people faint because of the smell!'
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Haha... I'm not talking nonsense, it's true! When you go to college in the future, you will be like me, pooping and peeing in the house!
On September 1st, I will participate in military training. When the time comes, I will tell you about the military training.
I haven’t made any money this month. I’ll wait until I make money next month and then I’ll send you living expenses.
Brother: Liu Gen on the night of August 30, 1999.
Liu Gen wrote this letter to his sister in a relaxed and happy way, just like when he was at home, he often made his sister giggle with joy. This is his natural instinct as a brother, encouraging his sister in various ways to make her happy.
She is full and happy inside and does not feel inferior because of her poverty.
Under the care of a big brother like Liu Gen, Liu Zhi is indeed an innocent, lively, cute and sensible girl. The family relationship between the brother and sister makes others envious.
After writing two letters, it was already past twelve o'clock in the night. Liu Gen stretched himself and then started to write a letter to his parents:
Dad and mother are in the faraway South China Sea, wishing to send peace to our two elders.
After parting ways with his parents, Gen'er had a smooth journey and arrived at the South China Sea in a blink of an eye. It was like having a dream, walking from a loess all over the mountains and fields into a beautiful fairyland. Gen'er was not only happy and excited, but also a little bit confused.
I was confused, but fortunately after arriving at school, I met good teachers and good classmates, and I finally felt at ease. Not everyone dislikes our children who come from poor villages.
Gen'er never forgets what his mother often said in his ears: "We are poor but our hearts are never poor!" Please rest assured, parents, that no matter where we go, no matter how difficult it is, Gen'er's heart will never be poor! Gen'er will never give
Shame on my parents! Don’t embarrass our ancestors of the Liu family!
Mom, you are no longer with me. Liuzhi also went to high school in the county. The food and water at home and the heavy farm work all fall on my mother’s shoulders. Mom should take care of her body and not do the farm work.
Don't hold on, ask the neighbors to help! Dad's body is weak and needs nutrition. Don't save eggs to exchange for money. Mom and Dad will eat as many eggs as the chickens at home lay. The tuition fee over there at Willow Branch
, you don’t have to worry about living expenses and pocket money. Now that you are in a good place like Nanhai where you can make money, you will earn enough money to support yourself and Liu Zhi in school while studying.
Mom, you have to supervise Liuzhi and don’t let her ride to and from school and home on weekends. For a girl, the road is dangerous!
Dad, don’t get angry with your mother. I understand how you feel. Nowadays, medical science is advancing rapidly, and my father’s liver disease is nothing. After I got to school today, I asked the teacher and he said it can be cured. When Gen earns enough money, he can cure it.
I brought my father and mother to Nanhai to treat my father's liver disease in the hospital affiliated to our school. I have to ask the most authoritative professors in the school to treat my father. I will definitely be able to cure my father's disease and let my father and mother.
, I will follow Gener and Willow Branch in the future and live a good life like city dwellers in a big city.
Dad, Mom, Gen'er misses you. Without Mom and Dad's frugality and insistence on letting Gen'er study, Gen'er wouldn't be where he is today. I believe your Gen'er will allow Dad and Mom to live a good life!
All the classmates in the dormitory are asleep. Gen'er cannot affect the rest of the students. When the half-month military training is over, Gen'er will officially start studying medicine. Gen'er will work hard to learn every lesson to repay his parents for their years of upbringing.
kindness.
On the night of August 30, 1999, Liu Gen finished writing this letter to his parents with tears in his eyes. This was the first time he had written to his parents in his life. He had never written a letter to his parents before.
The loneliness of being far away from his parents in a foreign land allowed him to truly express a son's most sincere longing for his parents. At the same time, he used letters to give the greatest hope to his parents who were far away in his hometown. This is
Now, the only thing he can do for his parents at home is.
Maybe it was because of writing three letters that Liu Gen couldn't calm down for a long time. He didn't feel sleepy at all. He took out a change of underwear, turned off the desk lamp, wiped off his clothes, walked into the bathroom on the balcony, and asked him to wash his clothes.
The tap water, which his sister mentioned in her letter, was so cool that it gave goosebumps all over his body, washed over his strong body. His V-shaped bronze body was full of infinite power, as if it could withstand the sky and crush the ground.
Liu Gen did not dare to rinse his head with cold water for fear of getting the wounds on his face wet. He just used the white towel that his mother bought at the village market, wetted it and wiped the newly grown hair and face on his head. Unexpectedly,
A brand new white towel was wiped black.
He couldn't remember the last time he took a bath. In his hometown of Gangou Village, not to mention taking a bath, just washing your face is a very luxurious thing all year round. Fortunately, the locals are all the same. If
One day, when you see a neighbor who is usually gray-headed and shabby-faced, suddenly standing in front of you with a fat-haired and pink-faced face, you will startle the whole village, old and young, and make you restless for a whole day.
Things are different now. Liu Gen has come to the big city and lives with people who look clean and dressed in fashionable clothes. His gray-headed face makes him look surprisingly different. To blend in with the 'clean' crowd, Liu Gen must first look at his appearance.
Start.
More than half an hour later, Liu Gen came out of the bathroom. He felt relaxed all over, as if his body had undergone a transformation and shed its heavy outer shell. He exuded the scent of soap and was naked without any clothes on.
He climbed into bed, got under the mosquito net, lay down as silently as possible, took a long breath, pulled the towel over himself, and slowly closed his eyes.