Chapter 22: Days at Home

Walking into the courtyard, passing through the hall, seeing the place where he played as a child, he couldn't help the excitement in his heart, and walked quickly to his home, but when he arrived at the front of the house, he saw that the door was locked and rusty, and he felt that inside, there was no furniture at all, just a few empty houses, did his parents move away.

At this time, the neighbor saw someone approaching, and Zhu Siqi saw that it was his neighbor when he was a child, and called him Aunt Xi at that time, so he hurriedly walked up to her and said

"Aunt Xi, where have the people in my family gone?"

Aunt Xi saw that this young man was talking to herself, and called herself Aunt Xi, but she didn't know, seeing her like this, Zhu Si and the others didn't know her anymore, "I'm a junior, I played at your house every day when I was a child, don't you remember?"

Aunt Xi took a closer look, she looked a bit like Zhu Kun, and then he knew that it was Zhu Siqi, who left home more than ten years ago, "It's Xiao San, your family has built a new house, and now it's moved to the side of the road outside, just go to Chaoyang, go, I'll take you there." ”

Aunt Xi is very enthusiastic, she also liked this child when she was a child, and when she saw him come back suddenly, if his parents knew it, they didn't know what it would be like to be happy.

Aunt Xi returned to her house, closed the door, and led Zhu Siqi out, and when someone asked along the way, she immediately replied, "This is the junior of Zhu Kun's family, he came back today, I don't know where my home is, I'll take him there." ”

When someone on the road heard her say this, they also recognized Zhu Siqilai and talked to him one after another.

"Where have you been for the past ten years?"

"Is the poison on your body healed?"

"When did you come back?"

"Does the family know?"

Zhu Siqi also answered one by one, calling the names when he was a child, third aunt, fourth aunt, second uncle, little uncle or something.

When I came to the road, I walked in the direction I just came, and I saw a two-story red brick house in less than 100 meters, with a small tweed flat in front and a small courtyard in the back, and several miscellaneous houses.

At this time, someone shouted outside Zhu Siqi's house, "Zhu Kun, Teacher Zhu, your junior is back, come out quickly."

Zhu Siqi's father may not be at home, but when his mother heard someone talking, she immediately came out, and when she saw a young man coming from afar, she knew at a glance that it was her son, although he had grown taller and grown up, but he was worried about the sun every night, and every night in his dreams he thought about how his son was doing now, and whether his appearance had changed.

When I got closer, I saw my mother at a glance, my mother was getting old, and there were many wrinkles on her face, and many of the black hair on her head had turned into silver threads. walked over, hugged my mother, couldn't hold back the tears in her eyes anymore, and cried.

His mother, who was much shorter than him now, patted him on the waist and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, just come back, go into the house." ”

Someone on the side also persuaded, "Yes, little three, don't cry, it's a joy to be back, why are you still crying, go into the house quickly." ”

Zhu Siqi and his mother came to the house and asked his mother, "Where is Dad, where have you gone?"

Mother: "Your dad may go to someone else's house to play, he usually can't sit still at home, he likes to go around and talk to people.

Little San, how have you been doing for more than ten years, what about your master, why didn't he come with him? Is he getting better? By the way, have you eaten?"

Seeing that his mother cared so much about him, Zhu Siqi's heart was also hot, and he told his mother everything about himself and his master in the past ten years, but he didn't say anything about martial arts and learning several foreign languages, but he just said that he learned English well. Everything else is not hidden.

Zhu's mother heard that her son had lived alone in the mountains for more than ten years, thinking that her son was so playful when he was young, how could he live alone, and she also felt that her son was pitiful, but Zhu Siqi didn't care, he was used to it, at this time Zhu Kun also heard others say that his son was back, so he quickly ran back, and the father and son cried again when they saw Zhu Siqi

"Don't cry, you're grown up now, just come back. Have you had lunch?"

Zhu Siqi said that he was not hungry, and Zhu's mother knew that her son had not eaten yet, although she had just eaten at home, she still lit the fire and cooked again.

Zhu Kun asked about Zhu Siqi again, Zhu Siqi repeated what he had just said to his mother, Zhu Kun heard that his son had finished reading the textbooks of junior high school and high school, and he was very happy, he was also a teacher himself, and he thought that the best way out for his children was to study more, and now he is very happy to see his son so smart.

"Although you have read all the textbooks, you must also consolidate them well, do more exercises, and tomorrow Dad will give you a set of questions to do to see how well you master. ”

Zhu's mother heard Zhu Kun say this on the side, and he was a little angry, "My son just came back, you know that he went to study, now you should take a good rest, don't do anything, just eat at home every day." ”

"Okay, listen to you" Zhu Kun was happy in his heart, and he didn't care about it.

Zhu Siqi also asked about what happened at home for so long. Zhu Kun also talked about the family with his son.

A few years after Zhu Siqi left, because there was a lack of accountant in the village, the village secretary came to find Zhu Kun and asked him to come back to be the village will calculate, at that time, the salary of private teachers was not high, and the conditions in the village gradually improved, and a collective factory was set up, Zhu Kun also resigned after thinking about it, and went back to the village to work as an accountant, and later the village set up two factories, one is an iron-making factory, A cast pipe factory, Zhu Kun also worked as an accountant in the two factories, a three-position job, the situation at home has also improved, a few years ago in his own field to build a new red brick house, now the eldest sister Zhu Qi graduated from high school and was not admitted to the university to Zhuhai to work with her classmates, the second sister Zhu Mei did not go to school after graduating from junior high school, and learned a tailor in Chaoyang, and also learned a craft.

At this time, Zhu's mother also cooked the meal, and asked her son to eat, there are not many dishes, only one bacon, a bowl of poached eggs, Zhu Siqi has not eaten authentic hometown dishes for a long time, and the food is relish, seeing that her son eats quickly, Zhu's mother shouted on the side: Eat slowly, don't choke.

After eating, Zhu Si's uncle and second uncle also came to see him, his uncle was a little above his house, and the second uncle's house was not far away, next to their old house.

asked about Zhu Siqi's situation, at this time, there was no need for Zhu Siqi to answer again, Zhu Kun and Zhu Mu were answering him, Zhu Siqi only needed to respond twice, "Well, yes, um, yes" like this.

The curiosity of people in the countryside is very heavy, and soon the neighbors also came to ask, and Zhu's mother and Zhu's father also answered them one by one, and it can be seen that their faces are very happy, and they are not tired of answering too many times, but as long as someone comes to the house, they will talk to him about their son.

In the afternoon, the second sister Zhu Mei also came back, and the second sister was also very happy to see her brother coming back, in the past, her parents always sighed and shhed every time they mentioned her younger brother, but now it's okay, my parents see my brother coming back today, and it seems to be a lot younger.

By the next day, my mother had already called Zhu Siqi up, saying that she was going to her grandmother's house, and asked her grandmother, grandfather and uncles to see, her mother had a total of five sisters, she was the eldest, and there were two younger brothers and two younger sisters below, Zhu Siqi was the oldest of the boys among their five sisters, although there was no concept of eldest son and eldest grandson, but grandma and grandfather have always liked this grandson. Now that I'm back this time, I'm sure I'm going to take it with me.

This time I went to my grandmother's house, Zhu Kun didn't go with him, there were a lot of things in the village factory, and he was also very busy, so he could only go home in the afternoon.

When they arrived at their grandmother's house, the two uncles and their grandparents asked fiercely again, and Zhu's mother was so happy that she answered for her son one by one, and came back after eating lunch at her grandmother's house.

After arriving home, Zhu Kun also came back, although yesterday he agreed that Zhu's mother would not give his son questions, but today he still found the college entrance examination mock test paper from his daughter's third year of high school, and handed it to his son when Zhu's mother went to the field to be busy, and asked him to try to do it.

Zhu Siqi knew that his father had high expectations for him, and he also showed his own level, because there are many geniuses who study well, at most they will only cause a sensation in the mountains, and they will not have much impact on their future outings, and they should be the greatest comfort to their parents if they do their homework well.

Picked up the test paper and looked at it, there were seven sets in total, language, mathematics, English, calendar, place, foreign, and chemical, and he took a fountain pen from his father, sand. Sand. Sha wrote, Zhu Kun watched from the side, and saw that many of his son's questions didn't need to be thought about at all, and he could write the answers directly, even if it was the more difficult questions in the back, he just thought about it a little more, and didn't use the scratch paper that Zhu Kun prepared for him, and it took nearly two hours to complete the seven sets of test papers, which is still Zhu Siqi's writing speed is not fast, if it can be fast, it may take less time, leaving Zhu Kun there with his mouth wide open, as if seven or eight eggs can be stuffed inside, and he went out of the room, he sensed that his mother came back from the soil, carried a blue cabbage, ran to his mother, took the blue in her hand, and walked home together。

Zhu Kun came back to his senses after a while, he hadn't used middle school intellectuals for several years, and he had only taught junior high school before, so he put away the test papers and prepared to go to the house of his former colleague Xie Taibin, who was now transferred to teach in high school, and asked him to find a few teachers to change the test papers.

Seeing that Zhu's mother was back, I told her that I was going out for something, and maybe I didn't come back for dinner, so I hurried out.

Zhu Kun didn't come back to eat at night, and he didn't come back until he was about to go to bed at home, and when he came back, his face was full of light, and he saw that Zhu's mother and Zhu Siqi's second sister Zhu Mei were waiting for him, and as soon as he entered the door, he said:

"Today I asked Xiao San to do a set of mock test papers for the college entrance examination, do you know how many points he scored? 690 points" Without waiting for everyone to ask, he couldn't wait to say the answer, Zhu Ma and Zhu Mei were also surprised when they heard it, so Zhu Siqi didn't feel anything, he knew that he should not be far from the full score, at most he wrote quickly in some places, and there were some small mistakes, and the other is that the language may deduct points, and there should be nothing wrong with others.

"It's so high, going to Peking University and Tsinghua University is not a problem. Zhu Mei said on the side.

"Yes, Xie Taibin said the same, I took the test paper to him to correct, and he also called several other teachers to change it together, they couldn't believe it, but I saw Xiao San do it with my own eyes" Zhu Kun was very excited.

And they hope that after the third year of primary school, they will go directly to their high school graduating class to attend classes, and ensure that they will go to Peking University and Tsinghua University. ”

Zhu Siqi thought to himself, it's bad, he doesn't want to go to school in these first-class universities, it's too public, and the consumption in Beijing must be very high, he has to eat a meal in Zhengzhou for a dozen yuan, and he can't get dozens of yuan in Beijing, and the current conditions at home are not very good, he should share his family's worries, how can he still ask his family to spend so much money for himself, where is it not okay to learn knowledge, as long as he has books, he can read several books a day.

Thinking of this, Zhu Siqi didn't say anything now, knowing that it was useless to say anything, which parent didn't want his children to go to a prestigious university, even if he was bitter and tired, at least he didn't care about the pride when he mentioned his son in front of others.

"Dad, I know how to do my own business, and I don't like going to a prestigious university. Zhu Siqi suddenly moved when he said this, "And the master also told me, tell me not to be too public, otherwise there may be some accidents in the future" There is no way, I can only use the master as a shield.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this for now, let's go to sleep" Zhu Mu stopped on the side.

Zhu Kun didn't mention this matter again after a few days, he knew that his son had his own wants to do, after all, he had been alone outside for more than ten years, even if he wanted him to go to Peking University, but it was not good for him to dislike it, he owed him enough, and he didn't want him to do things he didn't like, Zhu Kun began to figure it out a little, he was also a teacher himself, and he was more open-minded, unlike ordinary parents who have to force their children to go to prestigious universities, as long as their son has real skills.