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3. Carrying water

"Your father is busy with work and doesn't have time to play with you. What are you going to do? Besides, you are a child, how can you go?" Meng Qingqing had never been to the provincial capital before, let alone how could she go alone as a child?

Dad must have been lying in the hospital at this time, but grandma's words showed that she didn't know about Dad's illness. In the previous life, she and grandma didn't know that her father had been ill for a long time until after her father passed away. Uncle and uncle kept it from themselves and grandma. On the surface, they didn't want them to worry. In fact, they were probably afraid that they would know from their father's mouth that father had those properties, and they couldn't let them occupy those properties for granted, so they concealed them from them. Let them see papa!

Meng Qingqing thought that she would go to see her father no matter what, maybe her rebirth could change her father's fate and prevent him from leaving them so early. Grandma won't leave after Dad left for half a year because of excessive sadness.

Thinking of those things in her previous life, Meng Qingqing couldn't help but shed tears, "Grandma, I miss Dad, I want to go see him, if you don't worry about me, let's go and see him together, okay?"

Grandma hurriedly wiped her tears, "Good Qinger, don't cry, hey! Your father also said that you and I were taken to the provincial capital when you were in junior high school. Now that you are in junior high school, he suddenly said that you are busy with work. , I’ll talk about it later, you haven’t seen your father a few times throughout the year, what a poor child.”

Meng Qingqing cried even more sadly, and grandma said distressedly: "Okay! You can go to the village office and call your father later. If he is not too busy these days, you can go to see him and ask your uncle to send it to you. You go. Your brother-in-law is also, their unit should also have a holiday, and they will not come back to see me, an old woman. After marrying a daughter-in-law, she forgot her mother! The same is true for your sister-in-law, she will never come back after getting married. Yes, they are in the county , how good life is, in this poor mountain valley, come here once covered with dust, and the road is not easy to walk."

Meng Qingqing interrupted grandma's nagging, "Grandma, where is Dad's phone number?"

"You girl, didn't you write it down on the wall calendar in your room yourself? Why is your memory so bad this morning? You can forget so much at such a young age. It's not as good as an old woman like me!"

Meng Qingqing ran back to her room, and sure enough, she found her father's phone number on the calendar on the wall. Meng Qingqing wrote down the phone number in her hand, and silently remembered it again in her heart.

Grandma said: "It's not even seven o'clock now, and the village office doesn't open until after eight o'clock. Go get some water. I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you before going."

It has been two thousand years, the outside world is changing with each passing day, and there are modern buildings everywhere, but the Mengjia Village where I live is still so backward. It has not changed a bit for decades. Pick from the pond at the entrance of the village. The water in the pond is collected from rainwater and then filtered. If the sky is dry and there is no rain for a long time, drinking water will become a problem. No wonder all the girls in the village want to marry outside, and those who go out to work are reluctant to come back. This village is located deep in the mountains, and people's drinking water is a problem, let alone crops. The harvest depends entirely on God. Mengjia Village can be said to be the poorest village in the entire county. I don't know why the ancestors chose such a remote place to settle down.

Meng Qingqing walked to the pool with a bucket.

A few women were washing clothes by the pool, and Meng Zhaodi's mother, Aunt Wang, who went to school with Meng Qingqing, was also there. Because Meng Zhaodi and Meng Qingqing were in the same class from elementary school to junior high school, and in the same village, they naturally Come together, the relationship is relatively good.

Aunt Wang said: "Qingqing, I heard that your father has made a fortune outside and wants to take you to the provincial capital to go to school. Why hasn't he come to pick you up now that school has started for more than a month?"

In Meng Qingqing's family, the uncle, uncle and sister-in-law all went to college and worked outside, so in the eyes of the people of Mengjia Village, the whole family is considered promising.

Some people in the village are envious and some are jealous. They often hear words like this. Meng Qingqing just smiled and passed away before. She never took the words of the villagers to heart, because she never carefully understood the meaning of those words, but after passing For the rest of her life, Meng Qingqing was not the mind of a twelve-year-old girl after all, she could hear the sarcasm in Aunt Wang's words.

Meng Qingqing said lightly: "My father is temporarily delayed by something, and I will go to the provincial capital to go to school next semester."

Meng Qingqing is not talking big, she knows that her father has a house in the provincial capital, she will definitely go to the provincial capital to go to school, but this semester is impossible, the most important thing at present is to save her father.

"I won't change my mind this time, will I? It was said that you went to the provincial capital to go to school when you were in junior high school. You have been talking about it for half a year. Now you are talking about the next semester."

Meng Qingqing bent down to fill up the water, and walked out flickeringly, saying: "My father has already bought a house in the provincial capital, and sooner or later I will go to the provincial capital to go to school." Mencius really got rich when he bought a house in the provincial capital!"

Meng Qingqing knew that within half an hour, the news would spread throughout the village. She just wanted to let everyone in the village know that her father bought a house in the provincial capital. In this way, it would be interesting to see if the uncle dared to take the idea of ​​that house. .

Meng Qingqing took the water home and poured it into the stone jar in the kitchen, and continued to pick it up. She decided to go to the provincial capital to find her father and take care of her father. She might not come back for a long time. She wanted to fill the water jar with water. Grandma It's not easy to be alone at home. In this world, besides her father, her grandma is the best for her.

She was reborn at this time, and her heart was both joyful and heavy. The joy was that she could start again and see her grandma and father again. Her rebirth changed the trajectory of her fate, but she was afraid that she would not be able to change anything, and she would still not be able to hold her father's hand. And half a year later my grandma passed away. She didn't know if it would be possible to change.

When Meng Qingqing went to the pond for the second time, she felt that the atmosphere was a bit unusual. When Aunt Wang saw her, she turned her head angrily and ignored her. She beat her clothes hard while talking to others. It's like having a grudge.

Meng Qingqing knew that what she said before made her jealous. Every time she took the exam, Meng Qingqing's score was higher than Meng Zhaodi's. Aunt Wang always had such an expression, suddenly ignoring Meng Qingqing, or being weird to her. After a few days she saw Meng Qingqing is very enthusiastic about her, because the school is in the town, more than 30 kilometers away from the village, and there are only two girls in the village who go to junior high school, so it is impossible for Meng Qingqing to be so capricious because of Meng Zhaodi's mother. Meng Zhaodi's attitude does not get along with Meng Qingqing, and Meng Zhaodi's mother is also the same. Although she is very jealous that Meng Qingqing often overpowers her daughter in studies, she does not want her daughter and Meng Qingqing to fall out. On the way to and from school, they have to travel together Woolen cloth!

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