It's winter vacation, and the younger sisters who have done very well in the exam, wear the ice skates that the eldest sister half buys and half gives away every day, and the house is full of chaos and shouting. Fortunately, the uncles paved several mud houses and sun-drying flats with concrete floors, and even the mud roads between the houses were replaced with concrete floors, otherwise those pairs of skates would have been scrapped not long after.

The uncles who were busy with business did not come back, and the eldest brother and second brother who had to work during the winter vacation after school did not come back, but the eldest sister and the second sister who asked them to go home for the New Year sent five pots of daffodils back, saying that they were New Year's gifts for the five younger sisters.

The five small glass potted daffodils have emerald green leaves and white flower bones, which really make the three little ones and two and a half big girls like it. After Li Jiaming's lesson and uncle's education, the two finally have the appearance of being brothers, whether they are superficial or heartfelt, it is always a good change.

And Li Jiaming was still studying with his head bored, and Dong Hao sent him a batch of reference materials for famous schools, I have to say that rich people in big cities are good, and they can even get the materials of Peking No. 4 Middle School. The Li Jiade brothers also stayed in their cousin's study every day, and these materials were so precious that even the teachers in the county couldn't get them.

However, the three brothers did not mean to share this information with others, Jiangxi Province is not as big as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, which is a hard-hit area for the college entrance examination. If you give these materials to the teacher, you may leak them out, and you will help your competitors and lose yourself in the college entrance examination in the future. Li Jiade can be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University without these things, Li Jiaming and Li Jiadao can't, there are so many enrollment places in the province in a good university a year, there is no reason to let his brother take risks for the benefit of others.

Li Jiaming finished a math test paper with his head stuffed, and when he looked up, his fourth brother had already finished two, and couldn't help but admire: "Fourth brother, how does your brain case grow?" It took me half an hour to come up with the stupidest solution. Your solution is so simple, it's amazing! ”

The quiet fourth brother smiled and sighed: "The ruler is short, the inch is long, and I am just a little better at doing the problem." Speaking of which, you kid is amazing, looking at the things you do, sometimes we feel dizzy when we look at it. ”

"Mo, you don't hold me, if you hold it again, you can afford the chicken woman."

The fourth brother still didn't like to joke, so he smiled and drank the honey water poured by the eldest sister, and asked, "Jiaming, I just have something to ask your opinion." ”

"You Speak"

This half-demon, half-immortal monster wants to skip a grade again, and will directly take the college entrance examination in the first half of next year.

"I thought about it carefully, my previous idea was just a joke, I don't like to play with my classmates, I don't even have interest in watching them play, how can there be any difference between teenagers and young people? I still feel that I am struggling with my self-study, so I might as well go to university. ”

Li Jiaming had a smile on his face, but he felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, the seeds he planted last time sprouted, but they grew fruits that he didn't want to see.

Can it be stopped? Can't stop it!

This is a paranoid, he said that he was asking for his own opinion, but in fact, he was afraid that he would not think it through himself, and wanted to let himself help pick up the gaps.

Forget it, all this is fate, God gives the Li family a little more something, and he has to take back something.

"Hehe, I don't think you need to rub it any longer, just your temperament, forget it, I won't hurt you. Fourth brother, if you decide, I personally think you should not go to Tsinghua University to Peking University. Tsinghua University is a pure science and engineering school, your science is scary enough, it is best to get in touch with the humanistic atmosphere of Peking University. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and I don't know whether it's right or wrong, you think for yourself. ”

After pondering for a while, the fourth brother nodded slightly, "It makes sense, now is not the time to pursue a specialization, but to lay the foundation." ”

Maybe, anyway, Li Jiaming tried his best to push the fourth brother down the old road, as for whether he could let him know the fourth aunt and whether he could still follow the old road, then he could only do his best to obey the fate of heaven.

After finishing their homework, the eldest sister who had been accompanying them knocked the two downstairs to go to activities, just in time to catch up with Mao Tong and the thin dog who were taking hoes and carrying sticks, ready to go up the mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft water, the mountains in Chongxiang are either wood or bamboo, and digging winter bamboo shoots is also one of the ways for mountain people to make money. Among Li Jiaming's uncles, the most powerful one is the uncle, who can earn hundreds of yuan every year by digging winter bamboo shoots. These two boys went to dig winter bamboo shoots, in addition to feeding the family, it was also a way for them to earn pocket money, and if they were lucky, they could earn more than ten yuan a day, which was much more than the small workers on the construction site.

Bamboo shoots? Li Jiaming vaguely felt that something was wrong, but after recalling it carefully for a while, he still shook his head, some things were too 'long', so 'long' that he couldn't remember it.

"Jiaming, are you going?"

"Don't go, I'll go to my mother's uncle's house with my eldest sister later, Sister Honghong has been assigned a new house, and I don't know when I will go to the house."

"Really? Tsk, 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, it's better to be a cadre, and even the house has a share! ”

The two men with hoes smacked their tongues enviously, and Chuan Jianbo raised funds to buy two houses in the Agricultural Machinery Bureau this time, and prepared to go to the county seat to study and live in the future, and the funds raised alone cost 74,000. Those cadres can get a brick house without paying a penny, no wonder everyone says, 'Everything is inferior, only reading is high'.

"Don't tsk, hurry up and dig up winter bamboo shoots!"

"Hey"

Since the winter vacation, Li Jiaming has stipulated that each of them dig at least five catties of winter bamboo shoots every day, not to eat the fried bacon with winter bamboo shoots, not to mention the rare four or five yuan of money from selling bamboo shoots, but to let them know that it is not easy to make money. A few younger sisters still do housework to earn pocket money, why can't they work to earn money?

"Home Ming, Home Ming!"

Li Jiaming, who was about to go to the little sister and come back to do homework, looked back and saw that he was riding a bicycle, and he seemed to be a little anxious.

"What's wrong?"

"Something", told him to put his bicycle in the sun-dried valley flat, trotted over and pulled Li Jiaming to the side, and said in a low voice: "Mao Ling called back and wanted to borrow some money from you to come back for the New Year." ”

Hehe, that kid has been working in the store for seven or eight months, and he took more than 2,000 yuan in wages and said that he wanted to learn martial arts, and now more than half a year has passed, and I heard that the tuition fee has been paid more than 1,000, so he actually called back to borrow the travel expenses, and he can be regarded as a capable person.

"How much?"

"Eight hundred, he said he borrowed seven hundred dollars over there."

That's about the same, Li Jiaming took Xue Ling into the house, asked Zhang Xiangfeng for 1,300 yuan, and explained to him: "Don't mention this to Da Mao Ling, do you know?" ”

The last time I was engaged, I didn't know about it, Mao Ling called himself instead of calling his brother Da Mao Ling, it is estimated that his sister called him and told him those things. Mao Yan usually laughs and laughs, but he is also a very strong person, his brother proposed to get married and split up, will he feel comfortable? If Mao Yan can earn money now and become the master, it is estimated that as soon as he comes back, he will have to find his brother and return the storey house.

"Yes."

"More money, let him buy a gift back, no matter what, they are also brothers."

"Well, then I'll send money to the post office."

"Let's go"

After telling him to leave, Zhang Xiangfeng, who had never cared about his stepson, understood a little, and whispered: "Jiaming, is Da Maoling's younger brother angry?" ”

Of course, there will be anger, which is also the reason why Li Jiaming was reluctant to help Da Mao Ling come up with ideas at the beginning. Brothers are no better than cousins, a mother crawled out of her belly, before her brother got married, how could she be in a hurry to 'settle accounts'?

Even if it was the uncle back then, he raised the fourth uncle for nearly a year before he fell lame. If it weren't for the accident later, it is very likely that the uncle and aunt would have pulled the fourth uncle up, at most, there was a little difference in the treatment between the younger brother and the son.

Although he was very shrewd, Zhang Xiangfeng, who was still simple in nature, was anxious, and hurriedly said: "Jiaming, why don't you tell them?" ”

"How? Do you think Da Mao will listen? Don't think that Sister Lan has the final say on the affairs in his house, that guy is the person who 'wears a pig on his face and has a bright heart'! Besides, this is someone's family matter, how can we take care of it as an outsider? ”

"Oh yes."

Zhang Xiangfeng sighed, took out a bag of food from the cabinet, handed it over and explained: "This is for Jiye (godfather) stepmother (godmother), it's too cold, I'm afraid that Wanwan will blow the cold wind, so I just go to see them." ”

"Hey", Li Jiaming took the things and put them on the pedals of the scooter, and waited for the eldest sister and second sister to wrap the little sister, the full sister, and the golden sister tightly, and take them to see their grandpa and grandma.

When I arrived at my grandmother's house, I still listened to the old man's complaints, and then the eldest sister and the second sister took the younger sister to play with their little sisters, while Li Jiaming accompanied my grandmother to roast and chat by the fire, and listened to her say some old stories. Since she was a sister-in-law, she has always been able to talk about her daughter who died young, and sometimes the two grandmothers and nephews can still wipe their tears sadly.

When people are old, they are easy to be nostalgic, and listening to them by their side is the greatest filial piety to them.

Not long after, my cousin, who went up the mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots, came back, and when I saw that my cousin was listening to my mother-in-law say what she had said countless times, she laughed and said, "Mingya, you are really patient." Come on, help me peel the bamboo shoots and fry the bacon later. ”

"Oh", Li Jiaming picked up the short and thick winter bamboo shoots to help, and joked: "Brother Lun, really don't you help your uncle open a store?" You can earn more money from your part-time job, but you don't earn more than half of your mother's uncle! ”

"I'm not used to it! I've been working outside for seven years, and I'm used to the excitement outside, and if you want me to come back for the New Year, it's almost the same as staying for ten or twenty days, and you'll go crazy (crazy) if you stay for a long time!

Don't talk about me, Zhonghua has just been out for two years, Guohua has just been out for a year, and Uncle Chuanmin now wants them to come back to engage and marry, do you think they will be willing to come back? That is, Honghong is honest, and I don't have the ability to help her, otherwise I don't want her to marry back. ”

Also, people always migrate to prosperous places, so there is no reason to drill into the ravines.

But Grandma didn't like to hear this, and scolded: "Lun Yan, don't mess up, how good is it for Honghong to marry a soldier?" Being a cadre in the county, eating national grain, and having a big house is not better than your part-time job? ”

"Yes, yes, Honghong is well married, and how many people have her life? Mother-in-law, you haven't been outside, when I make money with Yanmei and take you out to see the next child, you will know how good it is outside! ”

"If only you knew!"

Li Jiaming happily listened to his grandmother teach his cousin, looking at the winter bamboo shoots that he was only peeling in his hand, the strange feeling just now came up again, but he couldn't remember it when he tried to think about it.

Hell yes!