Once reborn, Zhou Fangyuan has too many things to do, but what he wants to do most is to make his parents happy.

There are many ways to make parents happy, but the most concise and straightforward way is to meet their parents' expectations.

What do parents expect? It is nothing more than that the family is safe, healthy, and healthy, the family has money to spend, and the children have a good income.

But the first few articles are all empty, what is peace, what is health, what is money, and there is no standard for measurement.

Even the last one, to be precise, is a rather empty ideal.

However, there is only a relatively intuitive way to measure the "child has a good life", that is, academic performance.

There are test results, grades have rankings, and whether a student's academic performance is good or bad can be seen at a glance from the test scores.

Of course, there will always be people who will talk about foreign education methods, but the problem now is that Zhou Fangyuan went to school in China, he took exams in China, and he was no different from other students who were also in China. His parents, like other students' parents, care about grades and rankings in exams.

Having a good grade is actually the biggest return he can make to his parents at this stage, which is much more important than making money.

So during this period of time, except for the opening day, Zhou Fangyuan has not been to the Internet café once. On the one hand, it is to exercise the third brother's ability, if he has to rely on himself for everything, then how can the third brother grow?

But the main reason is that Zhou Fangyuan's own energy is limited, and it is impossible for him to take care of both learning and Internet cafes at the same time, and in terms of importance, there is no doubt that learning is still ahead.

He knows that there is still a big gap between him and his good students, and if he wants to catch up or even surpass, he must put in more efforts. Zhou Fangyuan's grades when he entered the school were obviously low in the class, and there were many things in the class that he couldn't keep up with. The liberal arts part is not a big problem, and the science part is ...... It's a big deal that when you are a sophomore in high school, you can choose a liberal arts class like in your previous life.

The biggest problems are in English and mathematics.

In English, Zhou Fangyuan's problem is that he does not have the thinking mode of learning a foreign language, when he sees any sentence of English, he will subconsciously translate it into Chinese in his mind, and then translate the answer into English when he has the answer. Not only is it inefficient, but it is also very bad at dialogue and communication. Fortunately, there is no dialogue in English in high school, as long as you can pass the listening part and do well in the paper part. In this way, the requirements of English become grammar and vocabulary.

Grammar is not a big problem, after all, the thinking patterns are different, and adults can understand the content of grammar better than teenagers. But vocabulary, there is no shortcut to this, you have to work hard day after day, this can't be lazy.

Therefore, in the final analysis, the problem of English is still a process of accumulation, even if you can't keep up with it when you first enter high school, you can still catch up after a long time.

Only mathematics, even if he has taken the time to go through the knowledge points and formulas of junior high school during the holidays, the gap is still very large, and it is a subject that Zhou Fangyuan needs to work. Fortunately, hard work is valuable, from the new school to completely unable to keep up, after this month-long chasing and catching up, as long as there is no way, all kinds of questions, ask classmates, ask teachers, go home to do more questions, in short, Zhou Fangyuan finally gradually caught up.

At least he can keep up with the content of the class, but the chance of making mistakes when doing questions is still very high, and many mistakes should not be made at all. Of course, the question is to make students make mistakes, don't make more mistakes now, how to avoid mistakes in the college entrance examination, so making mistakes now is not a problem, but a good thing.

Zhou Fangyuan's mentality is very correct, he knows that he still has three years to go, so he is not in a hurry.

The time of serious study is calm and bland, there are no waves, and the interference from the outside world is also blocked by Zhou Fangyuan, except that the third brother will come to him every night, everything else seems to have nothing to do with him.

But soon, this state of his was broken, and everything was only because of his parents.

After school on this day, Zhou Fangyuan accompanied Duan Qingyi home as always, and made the little girl very happy with witty words along the way. After seeing the other party sent into the community, he took the bus home.

When he got home, his parents had already returned, but he found that his parents' faces were not very good-looking, especially his mother, whose eyes were red and there were obvious traces of crying. The atmosphere at home was also very solemn, neither of them spoke, Dad Zhou lit a cigarette and sat on the side and smoked silently.

Zhou Fangyuan looked at his parents inexplicably, he didn't know which one they were playing, quarreling? No, usually his father takes care of his mother's little temper, in Zhou Fangyuan's memory, the two have been around for a lifetime, and the number of quarrels is only a handful.

So what else is possible besides quarrelling?

Zhou Fangyuan thought seriously in his heart for a while, but he couldn't think of a reason, so he decided to ask in person.

As a result, it was okay not to ask, but as soon as she asked, Zhou's mother began to wipe her tears again, and the answer was only one sentence.

"You're still young, don't ask about these things. ”

It wasn't until Zhou Fangyuan asked in a hurry that Zhou's mother directly pointed the finger at Zhou's father.

"If you want to ask, just ask your dad!"

The tone of the latter sentence is obviously wrong, and the feeling of resentment is full.

Zhou Fangyuan couldn't understand it at all, so he could only ask his father.

Zhou's father smoked one cigarette after another, and Zhou Fangyuan asked several times before he put down the cigarette in his hand.

"Your mom was laid off......

In one sentence, Zhou Fangyuan suddenly realized.

As mentioned earlier, in my memory, this year, Zhou Fangyuan's mother will be the first to be laid off, and at most next year, his father will also be laid off. Being laid off is a big tide, and there is no way to stop it alone, and the problem is complicated by him, and it is not something that ordinary people can handle. And for ordinary people, all they can do is obedience.

It's just that recently his experience has been completely distracted by Internet cafes and studying, so he subconsciously forgot about it. Now that Zhou's father said this, he remembered that the day when his mother was laid off in his memory was not just recently? Seeing that the National Day would be the 11th National Day in a few days, it was supposed to be a day for the family to get together, but it was at this time that his mother was laid off.

There are still many people with the same person, and as a result, this National Day, many families have a boring time.

However, he remembered that his mother didn't cry in his previous life, although he was still sad, but he really didn't cry.

So he questioned again.

This time, Dad Zhou simply snuffed out the cigarette butt, and then let out a long sigh.

"Your mother wants me to talk to your grandfather and help her get a job. But your grandfather is about to retire, how many people are willing to listen to what he says at this time? And laid-off is a general trend, even if it is adjusted now, what is the use? I can talk to your grandfather, but what about the others? What about your second and third aunts? And what about your uncle? Even if your grandfather can help, how much can he help?"

In other words, you won't talk to grandpa?

Zhou Fangyuan understood, and his mother hoped that his father and grandfather would talk about it and see if they could avoid being laid off by adjusting their work units. But my father didn't want to tell my grandfather, as the eldest son, he obviously had a lot of concerns. But the result of this is to make my mother sad, sad, and even crying so much that her eyes are red.

Zhou Fangyuan was a little distressed when he saw his mother's red eyes, but his father's words were not unreasonable. Because he knows his grandfather very well, he is a man who serves a bowl of water very flatly, and the patriarchal thinking does not work at all with the old man. Don't look at him Zhou Fangyuan is the eldest son and grandson of the family or the only male, but so what? In the previous life, he didn't get more things from his grandfather than his sisters when he was a child, and even because he was the oldest, he got the least benefits.

But he has never complained about his grandfather because of this, in the final analysis, it is his grandfather and not his father, even if it is his father, he is not obliged to provide himself with any conditions. As the saying goes, "giving you is affection, not giving you is duty", the old man's approach has nothing to blame.

The same is true for the work of the children, the old man has done his best to arrange jobs for the children, and even the spouses of the children. As the eldest man, Zhou's father actually received extra preferential treatment, even so, how can he still open his mouth now? As he said, if the old man really rearranged Zhou's mother's work, what would the other members of the family do?

What about the second aunt and the third aunt? What about the uncle? Do these people also have to be arranged by the old man to work?

In the next few years, most of these factories will go bankrupt and close down, creating tens of millions of laid-off workers, including Zhou Fangyuan's second and third aunts.

So Zhou's father refused Zhou's mother's proposal, and there was nothing wrong with it. But there is nothing wrong with Zhou's mother's request, as a woman, she lost her job when she reached middle age, lost her iron job, who to say about the confusion and helplessness in her heart? Of course, she will subconsciously seek help from her husband's family, but now she is rejected by her husband, who can she say to her sadness in her heart?

Zhou Fangyuan sat on the side, looking at the father who was re-lit with a cigarette and a heavy face, and then looked at the mother who kept wiping tears next to him, her eyes were red and swollen, and suddenly felt that she should do something.

He thought for a moment, and after sorting out the words in his head, he cleared his throat.

"Dad, Mom, I don't think you need to bother here, the job is gone, we can do something else." We don't have to go to grandpa, let's do it ourselves, and do our own business!"