Chapter 11: Dreams Sprout
If it is Li Ping'an, whose academic performance is so bad that the teacher is unwilling to take care of it, he must prefer Castellar Middle School, where the teaching is not strict, and he has friends to play with, and Su Mu has good grades and likes to study, and subconsciously naturally yearns for a better school.
Usually chatting with Du Zhong, Su Mu knows what the atmosphere of a good school is like, if he enters an excellent school, he may even enter a good school such as Caltech, MIT, or eight Ivy League schools, there are still three years before the university entrance examination, and he can even strive to enter Harvard and Cambridge if he works hard, in fact, grades are not the factors that limit him, high tuition is, and he has the qualification to get a full scholarship to a top university in a good school, which is what really makes him excited.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Old Man Su continued to add: "You just listen to me, go to the test."
A bunch of students in Castellar Middle School are busy playing, continuing to study is delaying you, don't care about the tuition fees you spend now, get into a good university first, and when you graduate and work, you can earn back the money, this is called sharpening knives and cutting wood.
There is pressure to afford you to go to college, but it's okay if you go to a private middle school, your parents and I are not still making money, and in the future, we will go to the bank as a manager like Xiao Du, and we will have a good life~"
Although it was very hard, as long as he thought of his grandson Su Mu's future development, the old man was very happy, and the little orange cat lay at the door, curled up in a ball.
Su Mu's mother next to her was also happy, and said with a smile: "Go take the SSAT, your aunt Wang does housekeeping work, and the salary is quite high."
I discussed with your dad just now, and in the future, the restaurant will be handed over to him alone, and I will go with her to find a job, this industry is now short of people, and you can get a lot of tips, and it is enough to save a few years for college tuition, in case you get a scholarship, it will be better. ”
Probably only Chinese parents in the world will pin all their hopes on their children, generation after generation of people reciprocate, not for themselves, but for their children to desperately create the best conditions they can give, the vast majority of Chinese adults The most precious time is spent on future generations, saving their own frugality, and the wealth accumulated through hard work may not be much, but it is always left to future generations.
For example, Old Man Su, even though he is in his fifties, still decides to go to work for his grandson's tuition, which is not mixed with even the slightest selfish emotion, in fact, he can live at home for a long time, drink tea with friends, play mahjong, and pull his son and daughter to grow up, and then start to continue to worry about his grandson.
Su Mu is very precocious, children from poor families are generally precocious, hearing the words of grandfather and mother, tears are about to flow out, he is already half a child, he does not want his family to see his weak side, he holds a sixty-dollar bill in his hand, squeezes it very tightly, and walks out with his back to it: "Okay, I will sign up for the exam, some schools have publicly-funded places, I will fight for it!"
"Son, I haven't taken the money yet, I'm going to buy clothes!" Seeing Su Mu trotting out, his mother was holding more than 100 US dollars in odd and medium-sized bills, most of which were ten or twenty dollars in denomination, and put them back in her pocket, and scolded with a smile: "This kid ......"
It's a bit difficult for everyone.
Li Ping'an was also depressed, his parents went out for a long run, he was alone at home, often not at home, he had long been used to it, but he still felt uncomfortable staying at home alone.
At this moment, seeing Su Mu's eyes red, he asked curiously: "What, there was a quarrel?" I was still happy when I was eating, but how could I be depressed after a while. ”
"No, I'm going to take the SSAT, and I'm reluctant to leave you. Su Mu casually said a reason, young people's worries will not be easily said to the outside world, that is not cool at all.
“...... Sure enough, you're going to take the exam, and you're going to cry if you leave me? Why do I think you're excited to cry, admit your auspicious words, I'm really going to repeat a grade this year, and the teacher talked to me yesterday, so I don't want to study. ”
Knowing that going to other schools to study is a good thing for Su Mu, so Li Ping'an suppressed the uncomfortable emotions in his heart, did not show it, and had no interest in going to school, his family always said that the bad grades were because he did not work hard, but in fact, the brain was not enough is the fact, others knew the mathematical formula at a glance, and after he spent an hour memorizing it, he forgot it in a blink of an eye, and it was really not just hard work in this aspect of learning.
Now that Su Mu is going to take the entrance examination to other middle schools, there is no reason to stay in school, and it will be very boring to play with no one to accompany him, and he is seriously thinking about the future.
Su Mu knew that Li Ping'an didn't like to learn, and his thoughts were different from those parents, and he said: "If you really don't want to learn, staying in school is a waste of time, I advise you to learn a craft, the kind of skill that is very profitable, and it may not earn less than others in the future." ”
"What kind of craft makes money?" Li Ping'an suddenly came to his senses, he always liked to listen to Su Mu's opinions, and felt smarter than himself.
This question successfully stumped Su Mu, he had never thought about how to make money before, he had just been stimulated by the word "money", he thought about it seriously for the first time in his life, and his mind was still empty, what he heard from the old radio station a few days ago quietly affected him, patted Li Ping'an on the shoulder, and said seriously: "Computer!"
This thing is very powerful, haven't many people made money from it recently? In the past few years, we will make money first, and then we will open a company and become our own boss!"
Hearing his serious tone, Li Ping'an sneered and mocked: "If you can use a computer or not, you can also start a company, if you are the boss, then I will buy the Empire State Building as an apartment in the future!"
Apparently laughing at Su Mu's whimsy, when the dream was first generated, it always seemed ridiculous.
The radio content he listened to a few days ago had an impact on Su Mu after all, at least giving him a general understanding of the future development of the Internet, such as shopping online, retrieving files, listening to music, etc., he still didn't know if those were true for the time being, but it made this Chinese teenager imagine the future situation, which was a very good start, and it has surpassed all people in this era.
Su Mu, who has a huge treasure in his head and only sixty dollars on his body, went to the stall with Li Ping'an to buy a short-sleeved shirt for five dollars, and another eight dollars to buy a pair of big pants, and the total number of clothes in the body is less than fifty dollars, the mall is not something they can go to, and they are very happy to pick up clothes at the stall.
Maybe it's because he has the idea of making money, and he also has to go to a good school, Su Mu is in a cheerful mood again, even a poor Chinatown teenager has a small dream......