According to the old man in the village, Zhao Laoliu was originally named Zhao Mingrui. There was nothing wrong with his legs and feet when he was young. When he was four or five years old, he got polio. At that time, there were many children in his family, and the food and clothing of the whole family became a problem, let alone treating him, so it left a sequela.
Although Zhao Laoliu is a cripple, his experience is rich and colorful, and there are some interesting stories.
I heard that when Zhao Laoliu went to school, he loved studying and reading, and his brain was flexible, which was very popular with teachers. In order to persuade his parents to let him continue his junior high school education, his teacher Sun Jianguo went to his home in person.
Zhao Laoliu still remembers that night was particularly sultry. Teacher Sun sat on the only broken bench at home and talked to his father: "Your children are smart and studious. I have been teaching for decades. I have met no more than three excellent students like him. You should always let him continue to study and give full play to his strengths. " Lao Zhao Man's veins stood out suddenly and violently. He retorted, "What's the use of reading? You can earn centimeters and fill your stomach. It's interesting enough for me to pay for my five-year work-study program. When you go to junior high school, you will go to town. If I can't earn centimeters, I can only take dry food! " Teacher Sun lowered his head, and the bean-sized sweat on his forehead rolled down to the yellow mud, leaving several small pits. Zhao Laoliu hid behind the door and secretly observed. "I want to go to school." His heart is growling, but his mouth is silent.
Zhao laotou's words are not rough. At that time, all the fields in the village belonged to the production team, and the crops of the production team were all dried together, and how many centimeters each family dried. In that era of hunger, many parents refused to let their children go to school, and indeed few children finished primary school.
Teacher Sun saw that she couldn't convince him, so she got up and left.
But a few days later, Mr. Sun came again. This time, he was turned away and had to leave angrily.
That teacher Sun is also notoriously stubborn. He comes back every few days and hits the wall.
When the emaciated Sun Jianguo knocked on Zhao's door for the eighth time, Zhao's old man finally surrendered. He sighed: "My six children are disabled and can't do much work. Just know a few more words. " That day, Zhao Laoliu was moved to hold Sun Jianguo and cried.
When Zhao Lao was in the second day of the sixth grade, the policy changed and the country began to distribute land to households. He entered high school effortlessly. But when I first entered high school, something happened.
At the beginning of school, Class One or Two of Senior High School had a thorough examination.
One morning in the morning reading class, everyone was reading the text aloud. Teacher Zhao Laoliu entered the classroom as usual, and made a pause gesture after a tour. "Everybody stop. I'll read you the results of the last exam of all our senior one students. " She took out a notebook. "First place, Zhao Mingrui, 462 points; Second place, Cao Yuting 449 points ... "
Zhao Laoliu was happy from ear to ear. His grades in junior high school were indeed much higher than those of other students, but that was in the town. He didn't expect high school to be the first. For an instant, Zhao Laoliu felt that his limping leg seemed to be dexterous, carrying his own body and running in the field of hope.
After the morning reading class, Zhao Laoliu went to the school cafeteria for the first time and bought a dime of steamed bread instead of eating dry food brought from home-a bunch of moldy white or green pancakes. He usually cooks pancakes with boiling water, and many of his classmates are like him, so he doesn't feel wronged. Only a few students often go to the canteen to eat. They have one thing in common, that is, their parents are regular employees, doctors, teachers or government officials. The parents of these students have food stamps and meal tickets issued by the state, and they can exchange meal tickets for their children in the school cafeteria.
Cao Yuting is a member of this minority. My mother is a doctor and my father is the deputy director of the county health bureau. Family conditions make him not only eat better than others, but also always rank among the best. As early as two days ago, the teacher told him in advance that his score in this exam was the first in the class. He is as calm as ever.
Every meal, Cao Yuting always goes to the canteen for breakfast with Chen Ruihua from another class. Chen Ruihua's parents both work in the Health Bureau, so they naturally eat the canteen. One day at noon, they went to the canteen together. It has just rained and the road surface is wet. The trees on both sides of the road have just been washed by rain and look particularly green. There are still water drops hanging on the leaves, shining in the sun, which is very beautiful. Chen Ruihua is chubby and afraid of heat. It has just rained and the air is fresh. With a cheerful face, he deliberately stepped on the puddle to play, and his fat jumped up, which provoked Cao Yuting to laugh. After playing enough, Chen Ruihua said seriously, "Yu Ting, what do you think of that Zhao Mingrui?"
"Who is Zhao Mingrui?" "Don't you know that cripple you took in the previous exam is ten points taller than you?"
Crying, Cao Yuting's face cooled down. Chen Ruihua saw, also didn't dare to go ahead. Cao thought, "I can stand it if it's someone else, but the other person is lame." My director's son is not as good as a basket case. " He felt ashamed. After dinner, he and Chen Ruihua discussed playing Zhao Mingrui at night.
At night, a row of blue brick houses are immersed in the twilight, which is the student dormitory. A figure quickly ran to the edge of the hut, knocked at the door and shouted, "Aunt, it's no good. Zhao Mingrui broke Cao Yuting's hand."
After a while, Zhao Mingrui led the boarding house to the "battlefield". Zhao Laoliu and Cao Yuting are lying on the ground. Zhao Laoliu's face was beaten colorful, but Cao was not injured. His right hand grabbed his left wrist and he was lying on the ground screaming. It turned out that Zhao Laoliu couldn't beat Zhao Cao, so he grabbed at random with both hands and broke Cao Yuting's finger.
Later, the old director Cao was given 20 yuan for medical expenses, which was abruptly returned. Zhao Lao Liu couldn't go to school, so he packed his bags and went back to the village to teach primary school at the village head.
A few years later, Zhao Laoliu ran away from home again. He saw in the newspaper that many people went to the sea to do business and made a lot of money. With a cruel heart, they limped on the South Locomotive with dozens of dollars.
Three years later, he returned to the village, brought a beautiful girl and bought a small color TV for his family. This is the first color TV set in the village. People with good conditions have at most one black-and-white TV set.
At that time, everyone in the village knew that the sixth son of Zhao Laotou's family made a fortune selling clothes in Zhejiang, and a lame man even brought back a foreign women as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. Someone said, "It's really enviable that Zhao Laoliu earned so much money only after he came out for three years." Someone replied, "It's not necessarily something serious. We are in the village, and what business he does depends on himself. "
Of course, some people begged Zhao Laoliu to take himself to make money this time. Zhao Laoliu didn't shirk it, but he took two people with him when he left.
Half a year later, the two returned to the village in disgrace, saying that there was a big shopping mall next to Zhao Laoliu's clothing store with all kinds of clothes, and no one patronized his store anymore. The beauty saw that Zhao Laoliu's shop business was going from bad to worse and secretly ran away with others. Later, when he returned to the village, Zhao Laoliu confirmed that the two had not slandered.
This time, Zhao Laoliu is no longer flushed, her eyes under her messy hair are gloomy and dull, her figure is thin, and her fat trouser legs look empty. When the villagers saw him like this, they all tacitly refused to push things forward. Zhao Laoliu, with a bottle in his hand, staggered around the village.
The villagers couldn't bear to see it, so they invited Sun Jianguo, a teacher who taught Zhao Laoliu Primary School. By this time, Mr. Sun has become President Sun, and everyone knows that Zhao Laoliu has always respected him. Every year during the Chinese New Year, Zhao Lao's six poor households jingle, and Zhao Lao Liu will also kowtow to Sun Jianguo to pay New Year's greetings with gifts.
It is said that President Sun and Zhao Laoliu sat under the big locust tree at the head of the village that day and drank together until midnight. The next day, Zhao Laoliu went to a primary school to teach and never touched alcohol again.