Chapter 216: My Father Passed Away
Indeed, Xu Hui has always been like this, and he has never been restrained when it comes to spending money.
"Please, why don't you please, I'll have money on Sunday, let's have a courtesy." β
Pay somebody back in the same coin.
But it seems that Xu Hui has always been inviting Xiao Mu to eat, and Xiao Mu has invited Xu Hui relatively less, not because Xiao Mu is unwilling, but because Xiao Mu really doesn't have that much ability.
It's already good to fill your stomach, and I invite Xu Hui to eat, but there are still a few times occasionally.
"Hey, Xu Hui, have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?"
Xu Hui instantly became serious, but he didn't speak for a long time, he was still thinking.
"Well, I'll probably go with my parents to take care of the rubber field, I think it's good. β
Didn't he say that his parents didn't work in the city?
"Didn't you say that your parents worked in the city? Where did you get the rubber?"
After inquiry, it turned out that Xu Hui's parents worked in the city and saved a lot of money, and the price of rubber happened to be relatively high in those years, and if you work hard, you can make more money than working.
Not only Xu Hui's parents, but many people in the village also went to the border area to cut rubber, which was a trend at that time.
"Did your parents buy that glue floor?" Xiao Mu asked curiously.
"Well, sort of, contracted. β
Listening to Xu Hui, rubber tapping is very hard, and I have to work at night and collect glue during the day, and the smell is extremely smelly, and the viscosity is still very strong.
It is a cash crop that only exists in the tropics, and Nancheng belongs to the subtropics, without this kind of crop, Xiao Mu naturally couldn't understand it, so he could only listen to what others said.
"Haven't you ever thought about going to school hard? It's good to be a people's teacher or something in the future. β
But Xu Hui sneered: "Hehe, forget it, I prefer freedom and don't like to be constrained, that's not the life I want." β
Want to live?
It doesn't sound like a child saying it at all, it looks very mature, just like what adults say.
Xiao Mu immediately realized the gap between himself and Xu Hui's opinion, and felt that he was very naΓ―ve, and he didn't know what kind of development he wanted and what kind of person he wanted to become.
All he can think of is blindly making money and honoring his elders, but he doesn't know how to make money, which is a terrible signal.
"What about you, have you ever thought about it?" Xu Hui asked rhetorically.
Xiao Mu blushed instantly, and said hesitantly, "I...... I didn't think about it, and honestly, I didn't really know what to do. β
As a result, this caused Xu Hui to laugh.
"Hahaha, then you can buy a car to solicit customers or sell vegetables, and collect the vegetables from our village and the vegetables from nearby villages and sell them to the city. β
If you think about it, it's not impossible, after all, the demand in the city is relatively large, and the dishes are cheaper to buy.
However, the premise is that you must first learn a driver's license and then buy a car.
As soon as he thought of buying a car, Xiao Mu gave up.
At that time, Xiao Mu lost his childhood youth and frivolity, and he didn't talk about it, and after the baptism of life, he already understood how difficult it is to make money.
Besides, at present, it is just enough to eat, and if you are not careful, you may not be full, so you don't dare to think of such beautiful things whimsically.
Hammer said dejectedly: "Alas, let's go to school well, and don't think about those useless things." β
Xu Hui patted Xiao Mu's shoulder, "Well, come on, I believe you can, I don't have any interest in my words." β
At the beginning, his grades in Nancheng were stronger than Xiao Mu's, but now his grades have dropped a lot, far inferior to Xiao Mu, and the results of Er Xiaomu are only barely passing.
If such a grade is transferred to the city, it may be the worst classmate, but you can imagine how bad Xu Hui is at this time.
However, rural primary schools are like this, and a large number of people score more than a dozen points, single digits, and sometimes even zero points.
Is it the teacher's problem, or is it the student's problem?
It can be said that it is all and it can be said that it is not.
First, the students are not willing to study hard, and the teachers are not in the mood to teach, and the children in the mountain villages are not so high-minded, what they see is what they get, and their parents' knowledge is not high, most of them are illiterate, and they have no interest in tutoring.
When I go home on the weekend, almost no parent wants my child to study, but urges them to work in the field.
I have to believe the old saying, "Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and rats are born to make holes." There is a reason for that.
In the evening, Xiao Mu returned home, and the child happily ran to Xiao Mu and hugged Xiao Mu's thigh, which made Xiao Mu unable to move.
I haven't seen a kid like him so much?
Xiao Mu naturally couldn't wait to take out the snacks from the bag and handed them to the child, "Oh, this is the snack I bought for you, do you want to eat it?"
As soon as Xiao Mu finished speaking, the child immediately grabbed it, looking very happy.
tore the bag with the corner of his mouth, but he couldn't open it, so he handed it to Wan Yan and asked her to help open it.
Zhang Laohan thought it was very strange, didn't he say that the living expenses were not enough, how could he still have money to buy snacks for children.
When Zhang Laohan asked, Xiao Mu didn't hide it, and honestly said to Zhang Laohan: "This money is the money given by the relatives of the village tree, and my own money has long been used up." β
As a result, Zhang Laohan was furious.
"How can you take other people's money casually, don't you know that it's not easy for people to make money?"
Xiao Mu naturally knew that he didn't refuse, but people just had to fortress for themselves, what could he do!
Even so, Xiao Mu did not refute Zhang Laohan, he could understand Zhang Laohan's mood at the moment.
"It's not that I haven't fed you, how can you be like this, you can't be like this in the future, do you hear it, your ears are pricked up when you say it, don't pretend you didn't hear it!"
"Well, I know, I won't be in the future, I know it's not good, don't worry. β
This is not over, Zhang Laohan continues to mutter.
"Do you know that your father has died? If you are still disobedient, you really can't go anywhere now!"
Xiao Mu was worried for a while, whether he had heard it wrong, so he asked again, "Is my dad?"
"Yes, it's your dad, yes, he's dead!"
After confirming, Xiao Mu did not panic at all, but asked calmly: "How did he die, why did he die, was he sick?"
"I heard that I was forced by your uncle to go to the next neighbor's house to drink, and then I committed suicide when I came home, I don't know why I don't know the specific reason, I also heard about it. β
Xiao Mu couldn't help but feel a little pity, think about the reason, is it his own fault, after so many years, he didn't go back to see, maybe the old father was also disappointed in life, invisibly, he felt that his father's death was also closely related to himself.