Chapter Twenty-Nine: Jackie Chan
It is the wish of parents all over the world to hope that their son will become a dragon, and Li Jiaming's father is no exception. This time, he worked in the county town, earned a few hundred yuan, paid off the money of his third cousin, and said to several other cousins that he would pay it off at the end of the year, at most next spring, and he was happy.
Li Chuanlin, who quit his third cousin to stay for dinner and was about to return to the county seat in the afternoon to continue working, rode Uncle Chuan's bicycle back home, just in time for lunch.
"Third uncle, let me tell you a big happy event, in the morning, Ming Yan made a roll of family virtue, it may be a full score!"
"What?"
Li Chuanlin, who was washing his face under the eaves and preparing to eat, made the eldest sister's words stunned.
"Really, that's the paper of the county-wide math competition!"
"Really!"
learned from the eldest sister that his son had actually completed the test papers of the county's primary school mathematics competition in the past three years in one morning, and it was likely that all of them were full marks, Li Chuanlin couldn't care about eating, so he took Li Jiaming and went to the fourth brother with the three test papers. Last time, Jiade said that his son was a genius, but that was just talking, only the papers in the county-wide competition can get full marks, that is the real genius!
When they arrived at the uncle's house, they were eating around a small dining table in the kitchen, and Li Jiaming glanced at the dishes on the table and sighed secretly.
The family is shredded potato rice, fried beans, eggplant and the like, and the fourth brother is pure white rice, and there is also a bowl of scrambled eggs with chili peppers, I heard that it has been since the third grade. This kind of special treatment, if you change it to a leather girl like a dog and a hairy man, you can eat heartlessly, and it will be difficult to swallow if you change it to someone like yourself, but the precocious fourth brother is peaceful, and I have to say that he is a real monster.
The uncle who was eating greeted his father and asked if he had eaten, and there was no follow-up. The father was not in the mood to be polite to the uncle, so he directly snatched the test paper from his son and handed it to the fourth brother who was looking up at him.
"Jiade, you can help me take a look, Ming Yan himself said that he did a good job, I don't worry!"
"That's it?"
The fourth brother asked casually, took the test paper in his father's hand, and read it while eating, and the third brother also leaned his head over.
The aunt's face was a little ugly, and she wanted to ask the fourth brother to look at it after eating, but she opened her mouth and closed it again. This third brother is not the second brother and sister, the eldest niece, if he angers him, he will definitely not quarrel with himself, but it is possible that from now on, he will be like the fourth brother and no longer regard himself as a sister-in-law. The current third child is different from before, he can earn three or four hundred yuan a month, and he will inevitably ask him for his head when they study in the future.
After a few minutes, the fourth brother raised his head and gave his father and Li Jiaming a bright smile.
"Well, a perfect score for the year before last. ”
The father's nervous face immediately smiled brightly, and the uncle and aunt stopped their chopsticks and looked at Li Jiaming, who was 'hehe' silly and happy, strangely.
The third brother is also a student with excellent grades, but he was completely covered up in the light of the fourth brother, pointing to the question marked out in the exam paper the year before last, and wondering: "Huh? Jiade, this is the content of the second year of junior high school, how can you take the exam in the fifth grade of primary school?"
"Oh, maybe there won't be such a question, and you won't be able to pull the grades."
The fourth brother responded lightly and continued to revise the paper orally, "Third uncle, this question needs to use the content of the second year of junior high school, and only one student from the county and one elementary school made it the year before last, and Jiaming also did it right with the knowledge of the fifth grade." Well, the year before last was a perfect score. ”
"This topic is a bit interesting, I'll take a look at it again", the third brother took the paper that the fourth brother had read, thought about it himself, looked at Li Jiaming and said: "Jiaming, I really can't see it, you can do such a tricky topic!"
"Hey, hey, hey", Li Jiaming was a little embarrassed by the third brother's praise, this is a key college student, master's degree, doctor's degree in the future, and a great person who can stay in school as a teacher!
The father's face was even more happy, and the fourth brother glanced at the last one a few more times, and smiled with satisfaction: "Well, yes, last year's is the same as the year before last, there is a one that is beyond the scope of primary school knowledge, and Jiaming has also made it and it is also a full score." ”
Li Jiaming took more than two hours to complete the test paper, and the fourth brother only took less than ten minutes to finish it orally. The third brother next to him had to think about individual topics for a while, but the fourth brother only needed to know the answer at a glance, and the difference between the cow and the monster was here.
The father's dark face was overjoyed, and he was so red that he drank wine, rubbing his hands and saying, "Jiade, Ming Han is really so powerful?"
The fourth brother rarely smiled so happily on his face, instead of the usual polite smile, and congratulated: "Third uncle, congratulations! Even if Jiaming goes to the county to participate in the math competition tomorrow, he will definitely be in the top three." ”
'Hahaha', the father laughed heartily, patted the fourth brother's shoulder and thanked him, "Jiade, you taught well!
Big brother and sister-in-law, take Sanyan and Jiade to my place for dinner in the evening, and I will go to the countryside to cut (buy) meat and buy vegetables in the afternoon!"
"What's so embarrassing? My own family, and so polite. ”
The uncle's kind words are also a kind words, and the father is even more unhappy when he is happy, and jokes with his eldest brother.
"It's not to invite you, I'm a guest of Jiade, and you are touching his light! That's it, I'll go and call the second sister-in-law and the fourth child, and everyone will go to me at night. I usually eat too much of your food, so I should invite you to dinner!"
"Hey, hey", the uncle also laughed a few times like Li Jiaming, sent his father and Li Jiaming out of the kitchen, watched the father and son go to the opposite side of the sun, his face turned into a wry smile, and sat back at the small square table to continue eating. The aunt wanted to say a few words, but the uncle kicked under the table, immediately closed his mouth, and felt uncomfortable in his heart.
If that nephew is like that, in the future, his four sons will go to college, and the second, third, and fourth sons will all take a hand. Now that there is a genius like family virtue in the family, I am afraid that in the future, in addition to family morality and family morality, it will be difficult to borrow money from my three younger brothers if I want to ask my three younger brothers to borrow money for tuition.
The two couples were eating in distress, and the opposite side of the kitchen was already laughing, and the second aunt's loud voice could be heard.
"Big sister, go and scramble a few more eggs, and then fry bacon, Jiaming will call Sister Wen up for dinner. Fourth, don't laugh, go and take out the wine, it's a pity that Chuanmin didn't come back, otherwise you can accompany the third child to have a good drink. Don't worry about the dinner of your men, the eldest sister goes to the countryside to buy vegetables, and I and Jinhua just need to do it. ”
When Li Jiaming brought the little sister and his own fried vegetables to the second aunt's house, the eldest sister, the second sister, and the third sister who were quick and fast had already scrambled eggs and bacon, and the fourth uncle seemed to have forgotten the uncle opposite, he hurriedly pulled down his father's sleeve and said in a low voice: "Ye Ye (Dad), you go and call the uncle to come over and drink wine, he is the uncle after all, the fourth brother and the third brother." ”
Li Jiaming's precociousness made the happy second aunt listen to Zhile, got up and laughed in a low voice: "I'll go with the third child, the fourth child, keep your mouth shut for me!
The fourth uncle, who was afraid of the second aunt when he was a child, pulled Li Jiaming into his arms, rubbed his skull vigorously, and said happily: "Don't worry, I promise not to talk nonsense! I really can't see it, the skin boy who catches birds and fish all day long is actually a little genius!"
The fourth uncle, who whispered to the second aunt, immediately laughed and said: "Well, the fourth uncle's words count, and if you are admitted to the university in the future, the fourth uncle will help you send it! There are also you two little sisters, as long as you are angry, the fourth uncle will also provide you with college in the future!"
The eldest sister, who was adding dishes and chopsticks, immediately knocked her feet to death when she heard the fourth uncle suddenly speak so loudly.
"Fourth uncle, this is the second time you've said it!"
"Get out, is the fourth uncle so discredited?"
"What about taking me to work?"
The fourth uncle was happy, and immediately said that he leaked his mouth, "Cut, if you don't say it, I will take you there too." I won't take you to see the world, and let you get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and then become a pig woman and a piglet?"
The eldest sister immediately put down the chopsticks and wine cup in her hand, and said eagerly: "Really?"
The fourth uncle hurriedly said: "Pigs still have to be raised for the New Year! When it comes to it, you have to do it, if you can't do it, don't blame me for not counting when I speak!"
"That's for sure, when did I never speak?"
Laughing, my father had already invited the uncle over half-mopping, pressed him on the main seat of the small square table, and even the fourth uncle, who had always been at odds with him, smiled and said politely, "Big brother, I'm sorry, there are no good dishes." Come, drink a cup of Jiaming's happy wine!"
Last year's bacon was left for the autumn of the next year, and it was already a little astringent, but Li Jiaming and the three of them still ate sweetly, and even the second and third sisters who occasionally held a chopstick were smiling. The second aunt watched them eat, gave them three small bacon, and looked at the two drinking men with a smile on her face, and suddenly sighed in her heart.
Since the death of my father-in-law and mother-in-law, except for the Chinese New Year, how long has it been since these three brothers had had a drink together? If Chuanmin hadn't gone to work, he would have been very happy to see the fourth uncle and uncle talking and laughing.
is no longer like the intimate uncle and fourth uncle, who also control the amount of alcohol and carefully choose the topic, which makes Li Jiaming, who has two ears pricked up, also sigh secretly.
Others say that poor couples mourn everything, but in fact, poor families are the same. Of course, there are brothers in the world who are in the same boat, but there are more quarrels and quarrels, and everyone's feelings will fade when they quarrel. It is said that brothers break bones and tendons, but when brothers look at each other, it is like a thorn in their hearts, but it is the most difficult to pull out that thorn.
Just now, the fourth uncle not only said that he wanted to help his father provide for his own education, but also dragged the younger sister and the younger sister into it, and he also deliberately said it so loudly, isn't it just for the uncle and aunt? In the past few years, with the uncle and aunt digging in the soil, how can they afford to support the education of their four sons? If it weren't for the second uncle and the fourth uncle to help them, it would be difficult to even make up for the tuition fees.
Now that he has his own 'little genius', I am afraid that the fourth uncle, who has always been at odds with his uncle and aunt, is ready to withdraw. If there is no funding from the fourth uncle, as soon as school starts next year, the uncle's family will be in trouble. Although the second uncle can earn 15 yuan a day on the construction site and work for seven or eight months a year, how can a person like the fourth uncle, whose two members both work outside, earn more? Not to mention that the second uncle also had a conflict with the eldest uncle, if it weren't for the fact that he had no children under his name, he would still count on a few nephews to wear linen and wear filial piety and Duanling cards in the future, and I am afraid that he would have been the same as the fourth uncle and the uncle.
Unconsciously, Li Jiaming finished eating the rice in the bowl, saw that the adults were still drinking, sighed secretly, said hello to the eldest sister next to him, and got up and pulled the two little ones who still wanted to play here home.
He has been a man in two lives and has worked hard outside for many years, and he is different from the second aunt and the fourth aunt, two rural women, and he knows more about the world than them. In the kitchen of the uncle's house just now, the strange expressions of the couple made him guess something, and the eldest brother-in-law who was even more sure of the 'future' was right, the uncle was really so scheming.
Wine is the catalyst of affection, if the bad-tempered fourth uncle gets off the table early, the father and the uncle can still drink calmly; if he drinks two more glasses without holding back, and bumps into the uncle who has been in a bad mood for many years, maybe what will happen.
Even a monster like the fourth brother is not qualified to participate in these things between adults, let alone a 'child' who can be involved. What I can do is to take my two younger sisters away and not let them see bad things too early.