Chapter 22 New Year's Greetings
The third uncle is also kind, Li Mo doesn't know how much it cost him to buy these books, but he thinks it will not be less. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
How much is a day's work in rural areas?
I'm afraid that my uncompetitive nephew won't eat or drink for a year, and he won't be able to afford these books.
But he may be well-intentioned, but he doesn't like the tone of his voice.
It's all about his mentality.
In fact, the situation in the city is not very good now, like the third uncle's house, a large family is crowded in an old house, the children are older, and it costs money to start a family, and they are also worried about the future jobs of several children.
But in any case, it is much stronger than in the countryside.
Grandma explained: "Most of this money is also earned by him fishing for soft-shelled turtles." ”
"Then you can spend it all the time?"
The third cousin had some doubts in her heart, and the next day he sent Li Mo's grandmother and grandson away.
There were many books and they were heavy, so my grandmother had to ask my third uncle for a flat pole, divide the books into two piles and bundle them, and prepare to carry them away. However, grandma is also old, Li Mo took down more than a dozen books, and made them into packages, ready to carry them on his back, so as to reduce his grandmother's burden.
What's the matter, it's also his own sister, and the third uncle asked the third cousin, who has not yet married, to send the two grandchildren to the small ferry wharf.
On the way, the third cousin asked, "Can you read those books?"
He deliberately flipped through the pages last night, and many of the books were so deep that even he couldn't understand them. Although he didn't care much about his nephew in the countryside for the past ten days because of his contempt, he had seen some of Li Mo's precocious performances, and he didn't believe that Li Mo dared to buy a bunch of useless books for dozens of yuan to go home and read.
"Cousin, most of them can understand, but I don't just want to understand, I have a special use, you will know in a few years, it's not like my uncle was worried, spending money indiscriminately. ”
"Can you really understand most of it?"
"What's there to lie about? And cousin, let me tell you one thing, I don't score at least 195 points in two subjects in each exam, and not only that, but I basically understand the curriculum in elementary school, even if I don't go to school. ”
After Li Mo finished speaking, the third cousin was stunned, and carried the book into the ticket gate.
When they got home, Li Guangping and his wife were also suspicious: "Little Mozi, why did you buy so many books?"
"Mom, Dad, don't worry, these books will come in handy in a few years. ”
But Li Mo said in his heart that fortunately, his parents were illiterate, otherwise it would be really difficult to explain.
Two days later, Chinese New Year's Eve arrived.
The parents were ruthless and bought a lot of vegetables and came back. But the two returned home, counted the money in the crockpot, and sighed.
Although it is buried in the ground, take a little today and a little tomorrow, and there is only one hundred and fifty dollars left.
The long life of poverty has led them to attach great importance to money, not just the two of them, many people have this mentality. Therefore, as soon as the policy was liberalized, gradually, many people completely fell under the feet of money.
Li Mo really wanted to say that money is good, but people are better.
The New Year is coming, and it's time to greet the New Year. There are also a lot of special New Year's greetings, such as the first day of the first year of the first year of the first month, the second day of the first year of worship the new spirit, and the third day of the first day of the first day of the mother and uncle. The fourth day of the first year worships the father-in-law, and the fifth day worships the aunt and aunt. There are also places where the first day of the junior high school worships the uncle, the second junior high school worships the uncle, and the third and fourth junior high schools worship the father-in-law. There are local customs, so if the husband and wife are in different places, if there is no communication, there will often be conflicts because of the order of this New Year's greeting.
The custom of Cao Zhen is to worship his uncle on the first day of junior high school and his father-in-law on the second day of junior high school.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mother Li said: "Little Mozi, you go to Liangcun to pay New Year's greetings." ”
Liang Village is also composed of four villages, but the village is very large, with more than 100 households, and the Li family has four important relatives, two cousins, one maternal uncle, and one second aunt.
Uncle "Tang" is not far away, and he shares a grandparent with Li's mother, that is, only a generation apart.
The second aunt is the husband of Li's mother and second sister, and he is a small leader of the brigade. It is a leader, even if it is an unimportant leader, there will be many benefits, both explicit and implicit. However, the second aunt died early, the rural income was very low, and an important person died, no matter what the second aunt was, it was like that, and one of his legs was still a little crippled.
The second aunt's family has two children, probably because they died of their mother, Li Mo attached great importance to the two cousins and cousins of the second aunt's family and the two cousins and cousins of the brother-in-law's family in his previous life.
Some children from poor families dare to do anything for money. There are also children from poor families who will have an extremely hateful mentality towards the rich.
Li Mo has read a lot of books, and he will not have these two extremes.
But Li Mo's mentality is also a little wrong, the poorer he is, the more he wants to save face, he is iron-clad, he does not climb the rich and does not ask for others, although he has integrity, but how can he eat openly in the future? Sympathy for the weak is even more virtuous, but the key is that you have to have that ability, if you don't have that ability, talk about a ghost.
Since his rebirth, Li Mo has also done deep reflection, but with his temper, although he can make him bend his waist a little in this life, he can make him kneel, I am afraid he still can't do it.
The uncle has a bad temper and always thinks that his mother has wronged his mother by marrying his father, so in his previous life, Li Mo was both afraid and not close to this uncle.
It doesn't matter now.
Mother Li mainly saw that her son was more sensible, so she let him pay New Year's greetings alone, of course, it was also to show a few relatives of her mother's family, my son has a future.
Li Mo set off with New Year's gifts, a little far, ten miles away, and had to cross a river.
He came to Liang Village breathlessly, and was the first to pay homage to his uncle's family.
Among all the relatives, the uncle is the biggest, and when the banquet is set, the uncle must sit at the head of the first table, otherwise the family does not know the etiquette.
When Li Mo came to his uncle's house, he immediately saw a familiar scene, his uncle was beating his fourth cousin. The reason is also related to Li Mo, Li Mo is one year younger than his fourth cousin, he is in the third grade, and his grades are still so good. But the fourth cousin is a year older and only in the first grade, and his grades are still a mess. During the Chinese New Year, my uncle taught my fourth cousin a lesson, and he got angry as he spoke, so he started fighting directly.
Li Mo put down the New Year's gift and hurriedly said, "Stop, stop." ”
"Uncle, you know Zhu Yuanzhang, when he was a child, he herded cattle for the landlord's family, became a monk at the age of sixteen, asked for food part-time, rebelled at the age of twenty-four, and never studied. A good reading may not be productive, and a bad reading may not be unproductive. ”
"Little Mozi, what are you talking about? Uncle said unhappily. If it weren't for Li Mo's frighteningly good grades, it would not be displeased, but he would have been reprimanded.
"Uncle, I'll tell the fortunes of my two cousins and two cousins, and the third sister will definitely be the most promising in the future. ”
The fortune telling is fake, but there is no big accident, his third cousin will have a very big interest in the future, start a business with his cousin-in-law, and finally have hundreds of millions of family properties.
Not only is the third sister talented, but also good-looking, her young appearance is no less than that of a star, even if she is only twelve years old now, she is thirteen years old, she is already a little beauty, and among all the old watches of Li Mo's family, she looks the best.
The third cousin giggled.
She is good at everything, but there is one bad one, especially for face.
But he has a good heart, and even if he is developed in the future, he has never looked down on his poor relatives.
"Uncle, do you know why? I'll tell you another story, Edison liked to ask his teachers the most when he was a child, but the teachers didn't like it, and he scolded Edison's mother several times. His mother was furious and said, "You can't teach my son, I'll teach it myself, and Edison became the greatest inventor." The reason is simple, confidence. If you fight, you will lose confidence, your grades will become poor, and you will not succeed in life. ”
Well, the reason why the third cousin has a future has come out, and the uncle is also partial, preferring this eccentric and clever third cousin, so the third cousin has the strongest confidence, and this confidence eventually becomes the source of her success.
Of course, spoiling is too much, worse than the stick education method.
But because of his own experience, Li Mo hated the stick education method more than the doting education method.
The uncle was even more displeased, and said, "Then you mean that your father often beats you and breaks it?"