"Bo'er, it's time to eat!" came the voice of her mother calling for lunch.

"It's here, Mom!" Wang Bo replied loudly, and asked at the same time, "Mom, what are we going to eat at noon today?"

"Fried eggplant with chili peppers!" While speaking, Wang Bo's mother Zeng Fanyu came to the hall with a bowl of fried eggplant with green chili peppers from the kitchen, and said to Wang Bo, "You eat first, I'll go to Xiao Sanwa and call your father to eat!"

"Mom, Mom, Dad is playing cards again?" Wang Bo asked as he took the green aromatic chili eggplant from his mother's hand, put it on the table, and asked.

"He doesn't play cards one day!" said the mother, rubbing her hands on her apron and turning to go out the door.

Wang Bo sat by the window, watching his mother's distant back, his lips smiling, and his eyes contained unconcealable affection. In the past few days, when his mother was not paying attention, he could no longer remember how many times he had looked at his mother in a daze. At this time, he thought that in this life and this life, even if he can't get rich and can't live a rich and noble life, he will feel no regrets just to be able to see his mother again.

Isn't it?

However, according to what he knows about his stepfather, if he does not make major changes in his life, if he cannot improve the economic conditions of the family as soon as possible and then take the lead, with his stepfather's irresponsible and unchanging character, a similar tragedy more than ten years later is likely to be repeated. And this is absolutely intolerable to Wang Bo.

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When Wang Bo was in the fourth grade of primary school, his mother divorced his father. Mother is naturally heartbroken, and at the same time she is sad and looking forward to the day when she will reunite with her father and reunite. But my father had already changed his mood at that time, and he got involved with his younger and more beautiful brother and daughter-in-law, who had been a widow for less than two months, and no matter who persuaded him, he couldn't turn back.

My mother waited for my father for more than half a year with wishful thinking -- of course, it was in vain, and during this period, a lot of things happened, and the chickens and ducks that my mother had worked so hard to raise and planned to sell for money were stolen overnight, and she was frugal, and the more than 400 yuan that she had saved up to buy a black and white TV for Wang Bo was also stolen by her father.

The economic blow is not fatal, the most fatal should be the gossip of the surrounding neighbors and the cold face of the uncle and concubine. At the time of the divorce, all the uncles and aunts stood on the side of the mother to crusade against their brother who was not a human being, but a shameless brute, and each patted his chest to comfort his mother, saying, "Second sister, even if you divorce your brother, we will always be our good sister-in-law, our relatives, you can rest assured that you take Bo'er, if there is any difficulty, you tell our brothers and sisters, we will help you." In less than half a year, the "brothers and sisters" who used to pat their chests changed their attitudes and already regarded Wang Bo's mother as an outsider.

It's just an outsider, and I'm afraid that it's not as good as an outsider. According to her mother, she once told Wang Bo during a casual chat, she suspected that it was Sanbo who stole her chickens and ducks, not by himself, but by others who were also involved in him. Wang Bo didn't know why his mother said this at the time, but when he grew up and contacted the three uncles two months before stealing chickens and ducks, his mother and the third uncle had a quarrel, and he immediately understood why his mother was so suspicious.

My grandmother's family has seven brothers and sisters, my mother is the eldest, I haven't read a book for a day, I can't even write my own name, and I started to work in the fields at the age of seven to help my grandmother and grandfather work, and worked until she got married. The population on my father's side is larger, eight, my father is the second, and the eldest is married far away, so my mother married into my father's side and continued to work, raising pigs, raising poultry, washing and cooking, which is farming, and it is even busier when farming is busy. In addition, he had to take care of his brothers and sisters, who were much younger than his father, because of the large population, there was often not enough rice to eat, so the uncles and aunts often ate and drank at Wang Bo's house. All of this, the honest and kind mother did not have a word or two.

The mother couldn't stay any longer, and in desperation, she finally sold the five buildings and two tiled houses awarded to Wang Bo by the court at the time of the divorce at the instigation of countless times, and the 5,000 yuan obtained from the divorce came to Wang Bo's stepfather in Lin, the county (Lin, the county is also a harmonious word?).

Wang Bo's stepfather was also divorced, and he had a son about the same age as Wang Bo, who was awarded to the woman, so he was single. Wang Bo's stepfather said in other respects, except for one word, lazy, two people, very lazy! How lazy is he? When the neighbors around him generally live in tiled houses, he still lives in thatched huts.

But the mother did not dislike it, and never complained, feeling that economic conditions are secondary, as long as the person is good, good to her children, can form a normal family, and give the child at least fatherly love.

With the thousands of dollars from selling Wang Bo's house, and borrowing thousands of dollars from all over the place, the stepfather built four tiled houses, a kitchen, a pigsty, and a small courtyard at the back of the main house with two walls.

The house, however, was furnished, with nothing but a bed and a bench and table for eating, a few cabinets and a writing desk that accompanied my mother when she was married, and a few glowing electric lamps for appliances.

The stepfather is also uneducated, he can recognize a few words, can write his name, and worked as a goalkeeper in a small factory before he met his mother, eighty yuan a month. After working for a few years, the family was really poor and couldn't survive, so I finally resigned. After resigning, his main business is still farming with his mother on two or three acres of contracted land, and in his spare time, he goes to a nearby construction site to dig foundations. During this period, my father opened a commissary, pedaled three wheels of manpower, raised pigs, and planted celery, but none of them dried up to the climate. All businesses are half-, not only not making money, but also losing money.

The reason, in Wang Bo's view, stems from the kind of laziness and lack of responsibility that his stepfather can hardly change. The simplest example, digging the foundation with a friend, the stepfather quit when he estimated that he could have two or three hundred yuan, and he could always find an excuse, sometimes it was a pain in his hands, sometimes it was a pain in his feet, and sometimes it was a pain in his lower back, and there were always painful places all over his body.

So, in addition to farming, the stepfather had a lot of free time, and the stepfather contributed all of this spare time to the table. Card skills are passable, there are wins and losses, what is a waste of time is just time, but the stepfather who does not have much culture belongs to the type of "card addiction", lose more and win less, win small and lose big.

I didn't want to look for money, and I love to play cards, so it's strange that the life of the family can get better!

In Wang Bo's view, in addition to his stepfather's irresponsible attitude towards the family, in addition to being lazy by nature, I am afraid that he is not unrelated to the fact that he is not his biological son, and he probably does not think that he will be able to rely on his stepson in the future.

In the first few years, for the stepfather's cheating and slippery, afraid of bitterness and tiredness, for her own child's troubled situation, the mother's heart should be quite resentful, although the mother did not tell Wang Bo, but Wang Bo guessed that the mother also tried to change the stepfather, let him take on the responsibility of the father, but the mother's character of not fighting with others doomed her to change nothing; not only could not change, but even imperceptibly was also affected by the stepfather who was clever and distorted.

So in the end, the mother probably accepted her fate, knowing that her stepfather was this kind of person, as long as the family was safe and healthy, and her children could still study, and the rest, let it go.

The children of the poor are in charge of the family at an early age, and the children who have had family changes are also sensitive. From a family that was not short of money, had a building to live in, and was able to take care of Uncle and Aunt Ji from time to time, he suddenly fell into a family that was forever short of money, and his life was forever poor, embarrassed, and difficult, Wang Bo's mind matured rapidly. Lying in bed in the dark, he gritted his teeth more than once and told himself that he must study hard, must be admitted to university, and must change his fate, which is not much better than a beggar! Therefore, from elementary school to junior high school to high school, Wang Bo's grades have never fallen into the top three in his class, and the first place is a frequent visitor. Especially in the junior high school entrance examination, he was admitted to the provincial key high school "Sifang Middle School" in the county with the first place in the township!

If Wang Bo exerts his strength with this momentum, it may be too absolute to say that he must go to Tsinghua University and Peking University, but it is not a big problem to go to Fudan and Jiaotong University.

After graduating from junior high school, a neighbor's eldest brother who was in his third year of high school came to Wang Bo's house to play, and he brought a book, the fourth episode of Huang Yi's "Rain and Clouds". As soon as Wang Bo opened it under curiosity, OK, this opening completely changed his entire life. Since then, the weekends that used to be either doing questions or memorizing words, winter and summer vacations have become a happy time for Wang Bo to wander the sea of books!

And his grades have also changed from the first place in the class in the first year of high school to the top three in the second year of high school and the top ten in the third year of high school. In the last college entrance examination, 3+X, with a total score of 750, he only took the 555 exam, and missed the magic capital Jiaotong University of one book, and finally entered the SC Foreign Language College of Shuangqing Erben!

That year, the results of the college entrance examination of the entire Sifang Middle School were the best since the establishment of the school, and eight students were admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University, and twenty or thirty students were admitted to first-class universities such as Jiaotong University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University! Wang Bo was the fifth in the school when he entered high school, and his grades in three years of high school were even if he did not surpass them, but only maintained them, and Peking University and Tsinghua University also entered.

That damn Huang Yi, that damn "Turning Clouds and Rain"!

Of course, Wang Bo does not regret that he once dedicated his youth to the boundless sea of novels, nor does he feel that if he reads Peking University Tsinghua University, he will definitely do something, or there is anything wrong with studying outside C, different places have different encounters, will meet different people, and have different experiences. Rain, snow, wind and frost are all landscapes! Moreover, in addition to the beautiful C, he has also experienced a lot of beautiful experiences, watched enough beauties, and left enough memories for a lifetime!

Of course, there are also countless regrets, countless deep regrets that can only be watched from a distance and cannot be "blasphemed" at close range because of low self-esteem and poverty!