Chapter 307: A Farmer in a Peanut Field (Part I)
For Zhao Leilei, Li Lanzhi is really hard to draw conclusions.
If he is only measured by grades, then he is undoubtedly the worst type of student in the second; skipping class every day to go to an Internet café has a fight with Wei Chenglin back then. But he never formed a gang, let alone participated in any fights, and he was a very worry-free poor student.
Well, it seems contradictory, but he is really bad and very worrying.
It's not just worry-free, sometimes he will do something very heartwarming. When Baoqing first arrived in Hong Kong City, he was covered with one hand (when he said the word "cover", he had a bit of the style of a Hong Kong film boss), and Baoqing smoothly adapted to life in a strange city; Zhao Leilei volunteered to carry him up and down the stairs and took care of him for a long time. (This matter, if it was spread on the two top students, it would have been on the news and became a local story; but both of them were not angry, and this kind of righteous behavior was also reprimanded by the teacher as complicity, and deserved to be reduced to a difficult brother). Moreover, Zhao Leilei was not spoiled by his grandmother, it was still clear from wrong, as long as his parents fought, he stood by his mother unconditionally, and was accidentally injured by his rough father several times.
In the first semester of his sophomore year of high school, he was severely warned by the school several times because he continued to skip classes and play games, and finally he was almost expelled. Zhao's mother came to Li Lanzhi with 20,000 yuan and asked her to save Zhao Leilei, and if the money was not enough, she would go home and get it. Li Lanzhi repeatedly explained that this is not a matter of money, but Zhao Leilei has gone too far, and good students have been taken by him. Zhao's mother knelt down for her and cried that if Zhao Leilei was fired, this life would be over.
Li Lanzhi's heart softened, and she returned the money to Zhao's mother as it was, she went back to school and begged Zhao Leilei, saying that the child's nature was not bad, and if she gave him another chance, Zhao Leilei would be saved from the fate of being expelled. Later, Zhao's mother came again, and when she saw Li Lanzhi, she asked Zhao Leilei to kneel down for her, which frightened Li Lanzhi. Zhao Leilei is also sensible, wiped his tears and promised that he would definitely change his mind and be a new person in the future.
So, Zhao Leilei shifted his goal to hip-hop dance, and also performed at the New Year's Day party. The children of the second middle school cheered constantly, but the elderly Lao Xu obviously couldn't appreciate this kind of art, and Lao Xu even frowned and commented-what was he dancing like?
In fact, after teaching so many students, Li Lanzhi has long seen through it, this child will be honest for a month at most, and there will be no fundamental change. Sure enough, within a few days, the scalded scorpion attacked Li Baoqing.
For Baoqing, his father's illness has a great impact on him, although there are adults in the family, it is impossible for him not to worry at all, and it is impossible not to look at the faces of the people around him. When he came home during the winter vacation, he took care of his sick father, and he didn't know who he said, saying that it was expensive and laborious to replace a kidney, but it was just a few years to extend his life, and it couldn't even be extended for long.
Perhaps because of this reason, seventeen-year-old Baoqing was deeply disillusioned, and in the second semester of his sophomore year, his grades in the top five of his class plummeted, and he actually fell outside the twenty in two consecutive monthly exams. Li Lanzhi was also anxious, and asked him what was going on, was there anything on his mind?
Baoqing lives in his aunt's house, and he is already extremely sensitive, but when he is asked by his aunt, he is anxious, and he can't continue to study. At this moment, his good friend Zhao Leilei leaned into his ear and said - Hey, buddy, if you are too tired, play games and relax!
It's tantamount to saying to an extremely decadent person – hey, buddy, take a sip and you're guaranteed to get the ultimate pleasure in no time.
So, Li Baoqing followed his good friend to the Internet café, only went two or three times, and the simple boy who couldn't even tell the difference between β and Dota became addicted to the Internet that he couldn't quit.
In order to take care of her injured son, Li Lanzhi went to the capital several times, but Baoqing was left unattended, and he was even more unscrupulous. After Qiao Nan was discharged from the hospital, Baoqing's results could no longer be seen.
These situations were also learned by Qiao Nan after he went home. Baoqing fell into a strange circle, he knew that what he was doing was wrong, but he couldn't control himself. While sinning, he repents, but he falls deeper and deeper, and he can't extricate himself.
Zhao Leilei didn't expect him to be like this, he also persuaded Baoqing that he was not a person from the same way, he was going to take the university entrance examination, Baoqing was unmoved; Zhao Leilei simply didn't take him to play, and even as soon as Baoqing went to the Internet café, he sent a message to Li Lanzhi. Li Lanzhi cried a few times in front of Baoqing, and before Qiao Nan went home, he finally restrained a little.
After Qiao Nan finished the propaganda meeting, he immediately became the most popular figure in the No. 2 Middle School Tieba. Zhao Leilei wanted to come to Qiao's house to look for him, but he didn't dare to look for him, and he kicked the stone at the intersection for a long time, but he still wanted to go home, but when he turned around, he saw Qiao Nan standing at the door of the wonton restaurant, staring at himself.
As if he was aimed at the head with a sniper rifle, clang-Zhao Leilei obviously wanted to turn around, but he didn't know what was wrong, so he performed a flat fall.
Qiao Nan approached and said, "I'm a tiger, what are you afraid of?"
Zhao Leilei patted the dust on his buttocks, unlike the activity at the propaganda meeting, when facing Qiao Nan alone, he didn't dare to speak.
"What are you hanging around in front of my house, I see your yellow hair inside. ”
Zhao Leilei mustered up the courage to say: "Brother Qiao Nan, take me away!"
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Qiao Nan was very inexplicable: "Where to take you?"
"I also want to be the kind of person you are talking about, who has feelings, who guards this land. ”
Qiao Nan was speechless for a while, and knocked on his golden head: "You can pull it down! Don't think that after watching a few TV series, you know this profession very well." If you do go to the army, you won't be able to stand it for a day. ”
"I can do it!"
In Qiao Nan's opinion, this is just a childish three-minute blood. He smiled and said, "You first quit netting for a week and leave a month's board size, if you can stand it, it means that you still have some possibility." ”
Zhao Leilei was stunned and didn't speak, Qiao Nan sighed: "I can't take you away, it's still unknown whether I can go back." Didn't Baoqing always want to go to the military medical university? If you really had the heart to push yourself, maybe you would be able to go to the military academy with Baoqing. ”
"Brother Qiao Nan......"
"Huh?"
"Don't you blame me?" Zhao Leilei bit his lip: "Teacher Li, and our head teacher asked Baoqing to stay away from me, so as not to suffer from me again." ”
"Is Baoqing far away from you?"
"That's not ......"
"No one is perfect, and no good friend is perfect, not to mention that you are all children. Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. If you make a mistake with Baoqing next time, I won't be able to spare you. ”
Zhao Leilei didn't go home immediately, he stayed at the door of the wonton restaurant for a long time. Since Baoqing's fall, he has been criticized countless times, and even he feels that he has made an unforgivable mistake...... It wasn't until today that Qiao Nan told him that he hadn't grown up yet, and he could still make mistakes, as long as he knew his mistakes, he would change them, and he could be forgiven.
After Qiao Nan returned home, Li Lanzhi told him angrily that he should not bother with Zhao Leilei in the future, and see what he made Baoqing like. Qiao Nan smiled: "Mom, if the enemy coercs and tempts me, I really give in, who is to blame for this?"
"This ...... These are two different things!"
"I mean, it's really wrong for Zhao Leilei to do that, but if Baoqing is determined, how can he be addicted to games?" Qiao Nan hugged his mother's shoulder and said: "Zhao Leilei made a mistake, if he doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, and he doesn't admit his mistake to death, I can't spare him, but he still knows that he did something wrong, and he also wants to help Baoqing, so I won't worry about him for the time being." ”
Li Lanzhi finally stopped tightening her face and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I have been a teacher for more than 20 years, and finally let my son teach me a lesson." ”
Since Qiao Nan went home, although Baoqing is still quite unenergetic, he has never skipped class. He lives in the same room with his cousin, and he gets up at half past five every day, and when he opens his eyes, he finds that his cousin is dressed and ready to go for a run at the beach.
For so many days, it only rained heavily one day, and his aunt didn't let him go out, so he didn't go for a morning run. But after the rain stopped, he went for a run.
Not only that, after Baoqing came home from self-study at night, he also saw him putting his feet on the sofa and propping his hands on the ground doing push-ups; he removed the mats on the bed and slept on the hard bed every day, doing sit-ups.
No one forced him to do so, but he was very strict with himself.
When he was not at home, Baoqing secretly looked at his records, and there was no growth for several days. It was more than three kilometers from Swallow Reef to the trestle, and it took him more than 20 minutes each time. A high school student like him who is not diligent in his body can practice for a period of time, and it is not more than this level, right?
Every time he went out for a run, his aunt would be worried, for fear that he would not be able to bear it and faint halfway, and that there would be another problem with the bones he had just grown. Baoqing also felt that he was too thin now, and the wind was strong on the beach, so he couldn't run at all, so it was better to go to the playground of No. 2 Middle School to run. But my cousin was silent and insisted every day, and on the Sunday after the lecture, Baoqing took another look at his running results and was slightly surprised.
He ran from Swallow Reef to Fortress Hill, nearly five kilometers, and it took twenty-three minutes.
Physical strength, he got it back little by little, and Baoqing also understood a little bit the reason why he was so self-disciplined.
At night he was doing push-ups at home, sweating profusely and coughing several times. Li Lanzhi ordered him not to do it again, so he lay down on the hard bed to rest. After Baoqing finished washing, he asked blankly, "Brother, is it really meaningful to work hard?"
"Not necessarily......"
Baoqing found resonance and smiled bitterly: "I think so too, just like no matter how hard my dad tries, isn't it inevitable that he will die." ”
"Baoqing, I often betray you when I work hard, but I will never give up. If you want to be completely gone, giving up is the best choice, you can easily achieve your goal, so that you will sink to the end for the rest of your life, and there will be no chance to turn over. ”
Baoqing was stunned, he was still young, he hadn't thought too far ahead, and he hadn't thought about what his life would be like when he sank to the end.
Qiao Nan rested for a while, and then did sit-ups on the bed again. Baoqing persuaded: "You have exercised enough today, and my aunt will talk about you again later." ”
"It's okay, I know it. My foundation is still there, and after practicing for a while, it will be the same as before. Qiao Nan sweated like rain, still gritting his teeth and insisting: "My goal today is to make one more than yesterday, and that is meaningful." ”
Baoqing sat for a while, then took out his homework and wrote intently.
Unlike his aunt and cousin's bitter words, cousin Qiao Nan hardly instilled in him any big truths, nor did he force him to study. But in front of such a cousin, he has no reason to continue to indulge himself. The foundation of his learning is also there, as long as he works hard for a while, he can catch up.
So, he also set a small goal - the next monthly exam, ten places higher than this time, that is also a big victory.
At the end of the May Day holiday, Jolene and her party reluctantly returned to Beijing. After sending off a group of younger brothers and sisters, Qiao Nan took his girlfriend to pick cherries from his old high school classmates. That Miss Wen is not simple, she accompanies him to be an idle member of society, and occasionally works part-time as a sparring partner. In the afternoon, when he returned from his classmates, he brought back a lot of large cherries. Qiao Nan wiped his sweat and asked his father for Lao Fang's contact information, and wanted to send him the cherries.
I don't know if Qiao Nan really coughed or deliberately coughed dryly, anyway, he looked very uncomfortable: "I don't know if people have taken care of me for four years...... Even from now on, I have to repay people little by little. ”
When he was still in a coma in the intensive care ward, he heard all the words that Old Joe told him and remembered them in his heart. Thinking of the true feelings revealed at that time, Lao Qiao was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do. He muttered, "That's my comrade-in-arms, you don't have to worry about it." ”
"That's not going to work...... Qiao Nan also muttered: "That...... I said, how can a person in charge of logistics meet me by chance at every turn and say a few words to me......"
Old Qiao had no choice but to give him the address, and Qiao Nan immediately sent the cherries. When I came back, I bought two fishing rods and said that I was going to go fishing with my father.
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Although Lao Qiao knew that his son was smart, he couldn't figure out why his brain capacity was so big. The words he said before his hospital bed were nothing more than an attempt to awaken his son's consciousness. At that time, he was like a vegetative person, lying motionless, and Old Qiao spoke unscrupulously and said everything in his heart. However, this kid actually wrote them all down?!
It's vaguely scary, no, it's self-contained. Thinking of what he said at the time, Lao Qiao felt more and more that his old face had no place to rest.
He spun around in circles for no apparent reason, then raised his voice and scolded his son for not spending money indiscriminately. He still has to take care of the business, where does he have time to go fishing? No, no, no, that's an idler's job, he doesn't have that kind of spare time.
Qiao Nan did not expose his father's incoherent words, but smiled: "Dad, your son finally came back in good health, just stay at home for so many days, and want to go fishing with you, you don't give face?"
Old Qiao still muttered a few reprimands to him, but Qiao Nan knew that his father had agreed. Old Qiao jingled in the back kitchen for a long time, and finally poked his head out and said, "Go to your grandmother's house tomorrow and help her plant peanuts." Originally, I wanted to go by myself, and you were idle at home, so come with me. After planting peanuts, let's go fishing in the Ink River together, okay?"