Yang Jianguang was a little frightened. He raised his head in disbelief and faced his mother Chen Fang's face.
He saw such serious anger on his mother's face that he had never seen before, and saw his mother's body shaking violently because of her anger.
This kind of anger from the heart is something Yang Jianguang has never seen in his life.
But he didn't understand it, nor did he understand it.
He made it so clear and told the truth, and his mother also saw the money he earned in a week.
But why is the mother still so angry?
The puzzled Yang Jianguang thought it was Chen Fang who didn't believe him, and explained swornly, "Mom, believe me, there is really no need to study. I will use the time to earn money, and we can buy whatever we want in the future...
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"Snapped!"
The pain on his right cheek made Yang Jianguang suddenly feel dazed.
From childhood to adulthood, Chen Fang played the role of a loving mother, shouldering the family's farm work. No matter what mistakes Yang Jianguang made, he would only scold him a few times and never hit Yang Jianguang.
Even when Yang Jianguang made a mistake and his father wanted to take action, Chen Fang stopped him.
According to Chen Fang, Yang Jianguang has grown up and wants to save face and cannot do anything casually.
But now, Chen Fang actually slapped him!
This slap was accompanied by Chen Fang's trembling and angry roar.
"Kneel down before the incense offered by your ancestors!"
Yang Jianguang felt aggrieved in his heart. Seeing his mother's furious expression, he finally walked towards the Xiangtang helplessly.
But before taking a few steps, Chen Fang, who was extremely angry, gave way and fell straight to the ground.
"Mom!" Yang Jianguang became anxious instantly.
Fortunately, Yang Dazhi, who was standing by, had quick eyesight and quick hands to help Chen Fang.
Chen Fang's body fell on Yang Dazhi, but she pushed Yang Jianguang away, gritted her teeth and pointed at the floor and cursed,
"Kneel down! Whenever you want to study, just get up!"
After finishing speaking, Chen Fang turned her head and wiped away her tears.
Yang Dazhi saw this and was extremely anxious inside. He scolded Yang Jianguang with his face covered.
"You kid, no matter how poor your family is, it's not your turn to think about how to make money.
With our family’s conditions, if you don’t study hard, how can you leave this rural area in the future?”
Listening to his father's scolding and his mother's cries, Yang Jianguang turned around and walked to the incense table, kneeling straight with a bang.
Kneeling on the ground and looking at the ashes in the mushrooms, Yang Jianguang was in a daze.
He seemed to recall the time when his mother would devoutly light incense here and pray to his ancestors on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month to pray for the safety of himself and his father.
He found that his thoughts were a bit taken for granted. With the memory of later generations, he always felt that there was no need to go to school because he could get ahead in society and make his parents proud of his ancestors.
But to his parents, no matter how much money he earns, in their eyes, he is still an eighteen-year-old senior high school student.
Studying and getting into a good university is what they look forward to most!
Although their generation of rural parents cannot provide their children with a working life, they understand that studying is the way out for their children, and they eagerly hope that their children can get out of the countryside through studying.
Just like when he does his homework, no matter how busy the farm work is, his family will not let him do it.
Being able to receive the same education as all children is the only thing most rural parents can give their children.
In this case, Yang Jianguang finally understood how much his words hurt his mother's heart.
So he knelt on the ground obediently and remained motionless.
Gradually, night fell, and my father lit a kerosene lamp and placed it on the incense table.
In the light of the kerosene lamp, Yang Jianguang's forehead was already covered with a thick layer of sweat, and his body gradually began to tremble non-stop.
"Get up."
A long sigh sounded, and the mother walked to the side at some point and stretched out her hand towards Yang Jianguang.
After pulling Yang Jianguang up, his mother looked at the yellow mud on Yang Jianguang's knees that was already covered with mud. She sighed, squatted down and reached out to carefully pat the mud on Yang Jianguang's knees.
Seeing the wrinkles on his mother's face due to overwork, Yang Jianguang's nose felt sour and he couldn't help but said. "Mom, I know I was wrong. I'm going to study, and I'll get you admitted to a key university."
Hearing this, Chen Fang stood up and nodded vigorously, "Well, my son can definitely do it! Mom will invite the whole village to drink!"
Yang Jianguang hesitated for a while, but he still said bravely. "Mom, there is still one month left in the summer vacation, and I want to go to Pengcheng again."
After finishing speaking, Yang Jianguang was afraid that his mother would not believe it, so he quickly promised, "Mom, don't worry, no matter whether I make money or not, I will come back and sign up to study as soon as the summer vacation is over!"
This is actually the best compromise solution that Yang Jianguang has come up with until now.
While he can't live up to his parents' expectations for him to study and get into a good university, he also needs to make money to help his parents improve their lives!
So he wanted to take advantage of the remaining month of summer vacation to earn enough money for the time being and see if there were any small shops that could be opened in the county.
It's just that Yang Jianguang finally came up with a solution, but his mother Chen Fang doesn't seem to agree with it.
She waved her hand, turned and walked towards her room and said, "Let's talk about it later."
Seeing this, Yang Jianguang let out a long sigh. If his mother doesn't agree now, he can only see if he can convince her later.
Afterwards, I hurriedly washed up and returned to my bed with a kerosene lamp in hand.
Perhaps because he was tired from kneeling, Yang Jianguang blew out the kerosene lamp and went to bed. Without thinking too much, Yang Jianguang took off his pants and put them aside, then fell into a deep sleep.
When he woke up the next day, Yang Jianguang found that the pants he had stained last night had been washed by his mother and were hanging on a bamboo pole in the yard, dripping water under the sun.
After looking around the house twice, Yang Jianguang couldn't find where his parents were, so he could only return to the hall alone.
There is a large iron bowl on the table in the hall, which should be today's breakfast. In order to prevent the heat from escaping, my mother also put an iron lid on it.
When I opened the lid, I saw steaming noodles in the big bowl, with two poached eggs on top for the first time.
Pushing the poached eggs aside with chopsticks, Yang Jianguang put a handful of noodles into his bowl, then squatted on the ground and ate it.
"Your dad just went to the construction site, and I just finished seeing him off." While he was eating, his mother opened the door and walked in.
Hearing this, Yang Jianguang quickly swallowed the noodles in his mouth and cleaned the remaining half of the noodles in the bowl.
Then he put down the bowl and asked with some confusion, "Why are you leaving and not staying at home for a few more days?"
"He said there is a shortage of people at the construction site. If you go a few days early, you can get more wages. Besides, aren't you going to start school soon?" With that, Chen Fang walked into the room.
When his mother came out again, she put a small cloth bag in front of Yang Jianguang, and opened the bag while nagging, "Didn't you say you were going to Pengcheng? Remember to come back to study in September. It will be fine."
Make some phone calls and come back."
"Do you agree with me to go to Pengcheng?" Yang Jianguang was overjoyed, but when he saw the contents of the cloth bag, he suddenly froze.
There was a thick wad of banknotes in the cloth bag. In addition to the 6,000 yuan of new banknotes he had specially retrieved, there was also a wad of crumpled old banknotes.
Yang Jianguang took a closer look and suddenly remembered, isn't this the more than 2,000 yuan that his father had borrowed before and planned to pay back to the elephant?
Yang Jianguang's heart trembled, and he hurriedly said, "Mom, why did you give me so much money? And this is not money borrowed by dad. Why don't you let him pay it back first?"
"Besides, you should leave some money at home in case you need it somewhere."
Chen Fang waved her hand and stubbornly stuffed the money into Yang Jianguang's arms.
"If you don't have any relatives over there in Pengcheng, you should bring some money there. You don't have to worry about your dad's side, we will take care of it."
"Why do we need money at home? I can't support myself at home alone?"
After finishing speaking, Chen Fang walked straight into Yang Jianguang's room and packed Yang Jianguang's luggage with an old suitcase.
In the hall, looking at the thick wad of money in his arms, Yang Jianguang couldn't help but burst into tears.
He made up his mind to let his parents live a good life in this life!
Taking a deep breath, Yang Jianguang stopped being immersed in emotions and turned back to the room to pack up his things together.
It's better to go to Pengcheng sooner rather than later!
The border defense permit is valid for one year, so Yang Jianguang is not worried that if Yang Zhong is arrested now, there will be no one to help him apply for the border defense permit and he will not be able to go to Pengcheng.
After wrapping the unsold Walkman tape in clothes and sewing the money into two parts on the inside of the clothes, Yang Jianguang confidently picked up the box and looked towards the south outside the door.