168. The future is uncertain

At dusk, after settling the flock, the family held a family meeting and conducted a deep and serious study on Xiaoyu's future.

Ask Xiaoyu's ideas first, Xiaoyu still didn't say a word, maybe this kid didn't have thinking at all, didn't have life thinking and ability, and didn't think about his future and destiny at all. Looking at Xiaoyu's sluggish appearance, he looks like a big smoker (this is what people call Internet addiction, and it seems that quitting Internet addiction is not an easy task).

Shandan looked at it and was angry: "In this way, my opinion: don't go to school first, put aside the matter of tutoring, and ask him to go to Ordos with Mao Daner to work for a year, taste the taste of life first, and experience the hard work of making money." He should have been at home to let him see with his own eyes how his parents and grandparents were shaving food from that one-acre and three-point land, and see how every penny he wasted came from, but no one in the family could manage him, so he had to let Mao Dan'er suffer for a year, and other things would be said later, three years were wasted, and I don't think this year is so important. ”

Mao Dan'er didn't say anything, just silently observed Xiaoyu's reaction.

Gu Haiping continued: "Xiaoyu, that's the case, I shouldn't say anything about you, you can solve the affairs of your family by yourself, but I have to tell you one thing: our time is very tight, and your aunt can't worry about you when we come back this time, so I came back to see you." But I've been observing you since we entered the door, and I haven't found that you have expressed the slightest expression of your past mistakes and thoughts about the future, which makes me wonder, you are a smart child, a child who is much smarter than your peers, you don't distinguish between right and wrong, oil and salt don't enter, right? If you give up on yourself and don't take yourself seriously, then it's useless for all of us to take you seriously! As the saying goes: mud doesn't make it up to the wall. If you're treating yourself like a puddle of mud, there's no way any of us can stick you to the wall, do you know what I mean?"

"I ......" Xiaoyu raised her head, her eyes were full of tears, and she muttered a word.

"Xiaoyu, the second father can't rest assured that you will come back, and your aunt and uncle will come back for your future. You look up at your father, he is a year younger than your eldest uncle, you look at the condition of the two of them, don't you feel sorry for him? Well, even if you don't feel sorry for him, your current situation, your father's current situation is your future, are you willing? Are you willing to live like your father in this life? Look at your grandparents again, they have always regarded you as a treasure, that is the fear of melting in your mouth, and you are afraid of falling in your hand, and you are not sorry for your current achievements? Don't you feel guilty?" said Mao Dan'er with a dark face.

"I ......" Xiaoyu finally started crying, Tie Dan'er also cried, the family was silently crying, Xiaoyu looked at everyone crying when they were "criticizing" their cousins, they were all crying, very puzzled, and asked their cousin: "What's wrong? Why are my mother, your mother and grandma crying?"

"Don't ask, let's go out and play" The eldest cousin sensibly took the two children out to play.

"I've said all the good things and bad things, and it's useless to say it for so many years! This doll is much more difficult to serve than a cow, and I can't help it. You are literate people, explain reasoning, analyze and analyze, and see if you can help this guy who can't get oil and salt to wake up. Tie Dan'er stood against the red cabinet, rubbing his hands together at a loss.

Seeing his brother's helplessness and frustration, looking at his face tanned by the sun of the plateau, looking at his calloused hands, and looking at his arms that were gradually unable to stretch due to the bitter cold of the plateau, this appearance of premature decay made Shandan deeply sad. When she was a child, she was determined to study and become a talent, to help her family get out of poverty, so that everyone could live and work in peace, but now she is unable to do anything, and the same frustration and self-blame have left her heart devastated.

"Xiaoyu, you say something, so many people are so sorry for you, you can't not go in with oil and salt! Grandma is an illiterate person who can't read a single word, but grandma understands everyone's minds, and you should also know that no matter who scolds you or beats you, everyone is your relatives, they all care about you, and they are anxious for you. Look at so many people in the village, which one of them has come to inquire about you if you haven't been admitted to university? Don't say scolding you, people don't even say a word about you? The only ones who can't let go of you are these relatives, your aunt and uncle come back from so far away, you know how busy your second father is, and you also came back specifically for you, but you should say something, be happy, what do you want? What do you want to do in the future?" Tie Dan'er's mother looked at her grandson without saying a word, and couldn't help crying.

"I want to tutor," Xiaoyu muttered in a low voice.

"Oh, if you don't say it, grandma also knows that you regret it, you see that other people's classmates have gone to college, and you have such a score in the exam, grandma knows that you don't feel good in your heart. Today, your aunt, your uncle, your second father, and your second aunt are all here, and you have to make a statement, will you study hard this year? Tie Dan'er's mother found the steps for Xiaoyu, set up the ladder, and waited for Xiaoyu to get down the steps and climb the ladder.

Xiaoyu said in a low voice: "I study hard, I will study for a year, and I promise to be admitted to a good university." ”

"That's it, come to me, I'll help you arrange all the tutoring things, you are only responsible for studying, you don't have to worry about other things, we will see your manly husband make a promise, and this sentence said in front of so many people today can't be fulfilled. Mao Dan'er followed Xiaoyu's words and gave a forced test.

Shandan's heart also let go, with Xiaoyu's intelligence level, as long as he is willing to learn, it is definitely not a problem to be admitted to a university, I am afraid that he has no understanding in his mind and will break the jar. These days, Shandan is constantly whipped to stimulate his fighting spirit and backbone.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Xiaoyu and Mao Dan'er's words

"However, there is one thing I have to explain: When you get to Mao Dan'er, you will be in charge of Mao Dan'er, whether it is beaten or scolded, or even maybe your arm or leg is broken, no one in the family is allowed to have the slightest complaint and dissatisfaction! If you want to agree, give Xiaoyu to Mao Dan'er, and if you don't agree, you can find a way at home. Don't bother to complain when the time comes, I'm the first to not agree. Mao Dan'er and I are both temperamental, maybe I'll slap him when it's not right, don't rub the skin today and scratch your hands tomorrow, you and Xiaoyu have weighed it clearly. "Shandan and his family are good at teaching, look at his mother and sister-in-law, don't let Mao Dan'er be thankless and complain.

"No, no, we don't know what to do? It's all for his good, we all know it. Fan E immediately expressed her position

"No, only his second father and his aunt can manage him literately, our family has no way, he is disobedient and should be beaten and scolded, we have no two words, not even a sneeze, you can rest assured, we are entrusted to the doll to Mao Daner to discipline, in order for him to have a good future, we all support. Although Tiedan'er mother said this, she still couldn't let go of the pity in her heart.

"That's that, Mom is right, I listen to Mao Dan'er, you and your sister communicate often, about Xiaoyu's future, you discuss it, we don't understand, so I'll entrust it to you. Tie Dan'er said humbly.

"Well, I have a bad temper, he may have to be beaten if he doesn't do it right, but it is estimated that it is not enough to break his arm and leg, and he also needs to have a long personal memory, and the Internet can no longer be used, learn this year well, I think it should be no problem to take a test with your ability." Mao Dan'er stared at Xiaoyu sternly and said.

"Oh!" Xiaoyu replied timidly with a torch-like gaze dodging hairy eggs.

The matter of Xiaoyu was well arranged, and a major event was arranged, and the Shandan family and Mao Daner left the riverbank grassland.

When I arrived in Hoh, that is, at ten o'clock in the morning, Shandan contacted Yao Xiaoling, and my colleague answered the phone and said that Yao Xiaoling was still on the operating table for a cesarean section with an abnormal fetal position, and he might not be able to come down at noon. Shandan was a little surprised: How complicated is a cesarean section? Isn't it just an hour or two of work? The other party said that it was a cesarean section of a short stature patient, and the mother's physical condition was not suitable for pregnancy, but the family insisted on giving birth to the child, and the fetus was not in the right position, and now the pregnant woman and the fetus are in danger

Shandan had to give up his plan to meet Yao Xiaoling, thinking that they had not seen each other for several years since they had been separated, and once Shandan returned to Hohhot late at night and did not disturb her. Once Yao Xiaoling went on a business trip to Beijing and didn't see it, today was a good opportunity, but I missed it again.

Back then, a few people in their dormitory were noisy and lawless, but now they are all mothers, and life is really fast.

Gu Haiping looked at Shandan's somewhat lost expression and said, "Why don't you ask Mao Dan'er to go back to Ordos first, let's meet Yao Xiaoling today, and then go to Ordos tomorrow." ”

Mao Dan'er said: "Let's go together, there will be opportunities in the future, and when the transportation is developed in the future, you often come back, she is in Hoh, and you are worried that you can't see her?"

Shandan thought about it, there will be opportunities in the future, the second uncle and the second aunt are still waiting for them to go in Ordos, so they didn't stop in Hoh, and drove directly to Ordos.

Shandan's thoughts went back to the past with the car that was drifting away, and every time he left home, he was so reluctant. Seeing his elderly parents looking at each other and the guilt of not being able to be filial by his side made Shandan's heart ache every time he left home.

Therefore, she really wants to tell those wanderers who plan to stay away from their parents, what the ancestors said: Parents are not far away, and that is right! As she grows older, this kind of homesickness and melancholy of leaving her hometown is so deep and helpless.