The black-and-white TV that Li Shuangzhu and his wife bought for the old couple a few years ago was the first TV set in the village, which brought countless joys to the people in the village.

According to Li Hao, on the day the TV was first bought, people in the village who had nothing to do during the slack came to watch. Some of them have never heard of television, and some of them have never heard of it. Hearing that Li Shuangzhu, the eldest son of the Li family, bought a TV for the old couple of the Li family, the people in the village who came over to watch were boiling. Especially when Li Shuangzhu fiddled with the antenna of the TV set and received the signal from CCTV, with the opening of the TV program, the Li family became the preferred destination for people in the village to visit the house.

No, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, some people didn't even go to their relatives, and ran to Li's house early in the morning to wait for the TV show. Li Liang's grandfather was very happy, he was a retired private teacher, and after retirement, he worked at home as a farmer, and he was bored when he was idle in winter. Now that there is a TV at home, many old men of the same age love to come to Li's house, so everyone plays chess while watching TV programs, which is lively.

The middle-aged people in the village who were good friends with Li Shuangzhu asked Li Shuangzhu about the price of this TV, and when they heard that just such a TV would cost more than 300 yuan, which was equivalent to their income for several years, they were stunned.

"Dazhu, it's still up to you, if I studied as hard as you did, I would have graduated from junior high school and been admitted to the recruitment of a textile factory!" A middle-aged man of the same age as Li Shuangzhu said enviously with Li Shuangzhu in his mouth and a cigarette scattered by Li Shuangzhu.

He and Li Shuangzhu were classmates who lived in the township early, and after graduation, they just caught up with the establishment of the county textile factory to recruit junior and senior high school graduates in the county. Naturally, he also participated in this recruitment exam, but he was too careless when he was in school, and he didn't learn much and didn't pass the exam. And Li Shuangzhu and Wang Xiulan both entered the county textile factory, and later they were introduced to each other, fell in love and got married, and gave birth to a pair of children.

Over the years, Li Shuangzhu and his family have subsidized their parents on both sides, and they are also seen by the villagers, and most of the old people in the village secretly envy the old man of the Li family for giving birth to a good son. Especially in the current year, the third child of the Li family was admitted to Yixian University in Yangcheng, and the Li family has become the envy of the villagers.

Li Shuangzhu knows his own family affairs, although his husband and wife work in a textile factory, but the monthly income is only dozens of yuan, the parents on both sides need to support the elderly, and they have to subsidize a little every month, plus they have a small family, in fact, life is still tight. If it weren't for his son's miraculous performance for most of the past six months last year, he would have said that he would not be able to afford a color TV, let alone send a black and white TV to his parents.

He laughed and said: "Therefore, students must study hard, and only by reading can they have a way out." If I hadn't been lucky enough to enter the Textile Institute back then, my life would be miserable now. ”

The people chatting around him nodded one after another, if the children in the family can study, whether they are admitted to secondary school or university, they can make the family completely turn over. It's just that it's so easy to read, not to mention that they don't know how to educate their children to read, but the quality of teaching in township middle schools, H County, compared with other large and small cities, is also incomparable. This is also where most parents are helpless, what the noble son said is right, but the probability is too small.

This topic is a bit heavy, and it is not suitable for such a festive time to discuss the New Year, so people have changed to other topics, and some people also proposed A bag and golden flowers to pass the time.

Li Liang sat next to his uncle Li Shuangtong, and stretched out his hands to the brazier in the middle to bake the fire. The grandparents kept greeting their eldest granddaughter and grandson to eat sugar, melon seeds, peanuts and other snacks.

Li Liang took a few peanuts in his hand, which were planted by his grandfather and fried by his grandmother Qian Sanmei. The peanuts are large and full, and the heat is just right, and they taste crispy and crispy.

"Liangzi, I went home to the back mountain in the past few days to see the camellia trees planted by the second brother, the second brother can take care of it, I estimate that if it is managed well, it should be able to bear fruit in three or four years." Uncle Li Shuangyuan said, "However, the second brother has no money in his hands, and after the spring, there are no new seedlings." ”

Li has a bottom in his conscience, and after he came up with this idea for his second uncle Li Shuangyang during the summer vacation, his parents lent the second uncle's family a few hundred yuan to pay the rent of the mountain and buy seedlings. It's just that after most of the year, the money has already been spent. Fortunately, Li Liang's grandfather has a little retirement salary, and after the field is divided into households in the second half of the year, the grain harvest is much more than before, and the family will not go hungry, but after the beginning of spring, it will be more than enough to expand the planting scale of Camellia oleifera.

Li Liang also knew what his uncle Li Shuangyi meant when he said this, but Li Liang planned to pretend to be stupid first. Lending money to the second uncle's family is definitely to borrow, and he and his brother-in-law Wang Fagen have made tens of thousands of yuan in the Spring Festival couplets business, and it is estimated that there will be some left in addition to preparing to build a house and preparing the construction team. It's just that there is no reason for the son to take the initiative to lend money to others, even if it is his own second uncle, he needs the second uncle to take the initiative to speak.

"Uncle, this matter is up to the second uncle and second aunt to tell my parents themselves!" Li Liang said.

At this time, Li Liang's second uncle and his family had already gone to the kitchen to prepare lunch, and they were not cooking in the living room.

Li Liang's grandfather listened to the eldest grandson's words on the side and nodded secretly. He has seen a lot of things in the countryside where brothers turn against each other and fathers and sons become enemies, most of which are because of money. The second son has been planning to plant Camellia oleifera trees in the past six months, and he is very supportive in his heart, and he has also taken out the savings he has accumulated over the years to make up for it. His three sons are all filial and loyal people. Especially the eldest son's family, who subsidizes their old couple every year. It's just that no matter how rich the eldest son is, after all, the two sons have started their own families, and the matter of borrowing money is not suitable for the unmarried third child, on the contrary, the grandson Li Liang's answer is more reasonable.

Li Shuangyi actually understands this truth, but he went home to live with his parents and the second brother's family, and what he said was not to borrow money for the second brother, but to remind his nephew from the side.

Speaking of this camellia tree, Li Liang once again remembered the kiwi he mentioned to Li Shuangyuan last time: "Uncle, you must remember the matter of that kiwi, and help inquire after going to school." It is best to be able to bring back some high-quality seedlings from abroad. ”

"Okay, I can't forget, you mean it's called kiwifruit in New Zealand, right, I'll ask someone when I get back to school. ”