In the next few days, Li Zheng began to follow Li's mother to collect waste products, and familiarized himself with the types and uses of waste, including waste recycling value, recycling price, measurement methods, etc., in preparation for the subsequent establishment of a waste collection station.

At first, Li's mother didn't let Li Zhengyi follow, she knew that her son had a good face since he was a child, and she thought that buying scrap was a cheap business. When I was in junior high school and high school, I never talked about my mother's career in front of my classmates, and I was even ashamed of my mother's scrap purchase.

But Mother Li didn't know that her son had long since become different. has experienced the great changes in his family in his previous life and his career as a gangster for more than ten years, and he has long seen through the so-called dignity and face, which is nothing more than a face decorated with money.

In the end, Li's mother couldn't help it, so she had to agree. The mother and son went out together, one taught carefully, and the other learned attentively. In less than half a month, Li Zhengyi touched the common waste varieties, uses, values, prices, etc.

In the past half a month, Li Zhengyi only did two things, the first was to collect waste products, and the second was to read books.

Li Zheng read that books were very miscellaneous, and he knew that he would not be able to go to school to experience high school and college again in his life, and if he wanted to expand his knowledge, he could only rely on self-study. The reason why reading books is very miscellaneous is, on the one hand, because Li Zhengyi doesn't know what to read, and on the other hand, because there is only one way to source books, which is to collect waste products and recover them. Every time he receives a book waste, he has to filter them one by one, and if he finds something that he thinks is okay, he stays, and sells the rest as waste paper.

In recent days, the temperature has started to get colder, and it is drizzling when I go home after collecting waste on this day. When I got home, the winter drizzle began to flutter and spread. At a glance, the mountains and rivers from far and near, the walls and tiles of the houses, are all hidden in this hazy picture.

During the night, the temperature plummeted, and the drizzle mixed with snow particles fell in the middle of the night. The next morning, it snowed again, and in less than half an hour, the sky and the earth were white.

At the beginning of December 2000, the first snow of the year finally fell.

With such heavy snowfall, it was impossible to go out and buy scrap. Li's father suggested that he should not go to Li Zhengyi's uncle's house, he hadn't been there for a long time, so he should walk around.

Mother Li saw that the wind and snow were too big and didn't want to go, so the father and son went out against the wind and snow, and rushed to the uncle's house along the village road in the vast snow. Along the way, when he met a neighbor watching the snow at the door, Li's father, who was in a good mood, would take the initiative to say hello, and occasionally stand under the eaves to chat a few words, Li Zhengyi would change his previous style and talk enthusiastically with neighborhood acquaintances.

Li Zhengyi's uncle's house was not far away, and the father and son braved the wind and snow to walk for less than half an hour before they arrived at the ground. Affected by the weather, every family is basically too lazy to visit the door, so as soon as they enter the door, they see Li Zhengyi's uncle and aunt gathered around the square table, and a coal stove is set up in the middle to roast the fire.

Li Zhengyi has a cousin and a cousin. My cousin graduated from college, settled down in Changshui City, the provincial capital, after working, and has a child who will only come back during the New Year's holidays. My cousin is in junior high school and boarding at school. Therefore, there are usually only two old people in the uncle's family, and only during the holidays, when the sisters and brothers return home, will they be more lively. Last time his grandfather passed away, Li Zheng saw his cousin Li Dan, but he didn't find his cousin.

When Uncle Li saw his younger brother and nephew coming to visit the door, he asked his mother-in-law to bring fruits, peanuts, snacks and other things to entertain. After greeting each other for a while, Uncle Li said to Li Zhengyi: "You kid is really uncomfortable, your grandfather passed away, and he couldn't go out in time for the funeral, and the neighbors in the village are talking about it, saying that the eldest grandson does not wear filial piety, how can I see such an unfilial person? Where has the filial piety of studying and learning gone? Let me ask you, have you ever been to the mountain to kneel for filial piety recently?"

Li Zhengyi knew that he was a bastard, and he had no way to refute it, and it was not an exaggeration to be scolded by others. So he was trained by his own uncle, so he could only bow his head and be taught, and finally said: "I went to the ancestral tomb mountain two days earlier." ”

Uncle Li sighed and said: "Your grandfather has a strong feudal mentality all his life, the second generation is the eldest son, and the third generation is the eldest grandson. I and your father, your grandfather values me, you and my boy, and your grandfather values you. It's a pity that you don't fight for it, so that your grandfather can't see you when he is dying, how can you let him be peaceful under Jiuquan. It's too late to say anything now, I just hope that you won't fool around like before in the future, and on the New Year's Day, kneel and bow to your grandfather twice, so that he can have a spirit underground, and he can rest assured. ”

Li Zhengyi lowered his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes, and did not dare to have the slightest objection.

Uncle Li lectured a few words, turned his head and said to Father Li: "Liangping, your kid must be disciplined effectively, so as not to go down the evil road." If you have a chance, find him a job to do, don't fool around with random people outside all day long, no matter how good the embryo is, it will be ruined. ”

Father Li said yes, and then the two elders trained this forty-year-old man together and trained him like a dog. It wasn't until Aunt Li Zhengyi came out with fruit snacks that she helped him out of the siege.

The three elders were around the stove, and the parents chatted briefly, and Li Zheng interjected a sentence or two from time to time, which made the uncle and aunt who saw him for the first time after being reborn a little surprised, and felt that the child's temperament had changed a lot. In the past, when the elders were chatting, he could be silent from beginning to end.

We chatted like this for most of the morning, during which Li Zhengyi took the initiative to climb up to the window, opened the top window, and then said to the uncle: "Uncle, the weather is cold now, close the door to bake the coal stove, it is best to open the window, otherwise the indoor gas will not be dispersed, and it is easy to be poisoned by gas." At home, you and your aunt are the elders, so it's better to pay more attention. ”

The uncle and aunt who knew Li Zhengyi's past personality were surprised and said to Li's father: "Liangping, Zhengyi's character has really changed, it seems that you are quite tight and disciplined." ”

Father Li was pleased, but he was actually very ashamed in his heart, he really had to discipline well, so that his grandfather would not go home after he passed away, and he only hoped that this change could make him sincerely change his intentions, that is, his ancestors had spirits.

Finally, when it came to opening a scrap yard, Uncle Li became more and more surprised, and turned his head to ask Li Zhengyi: "Is this your idea?"

Li Zhengyi said: "Yes. My mom is too hard to go out every day with a burden, so it's better to get a buying station. The two of them have experience, and it is enough to buy scrap products sold by retail investors at home, and it is better for me to run outside if I have nothing to do than to have nothing to do. ”

Uncle Li nodded: "I just said that I asked your father to find something for you to do, but I didn't expect you to think of this layer yourself, this is very good, there is progress." You should think more about your parents and understand their difficulties and hardships, your father and mother have endured hardships for you, and it is not easy. I taught my children the same, people must be filial piety, filial piety first, this is the ancient precept of the ancestors. ”

Li Zheng nodded and was taught.

At this time, it was almost noon, Uncle Li instructed his mother-in-law to prepare lunch, Li Zhengyi and his son did not plan to have lunch, but Uncle Li insisted on finishing lunch before leaving.

Aunt Li was busy making lunch, and when Father Li saw that his brother was talking about his nephew, he asked the child how he was studying, and by the way, asked how his niece was doing in the provincial capital.