Chapter 17: Criticism
Seeing that I was silent, my aunt had an angry look on her face, and said: "Zeze, you are stupid, do you know that if you don't continue to go to school, you will deal with the loess for the rest of your life, and in the end, like your father, you will be an old farmer." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Sure enough, another criticism meeting began.
In fact, I have heard such words more than a hundred times, and I have long been numb. At that moment, I explained again: "I have poor grades, and even if I repeat my studies, I won't be able to get into college, so I might as well not be able to do it." ”
The aunt answered: "How do you know if you don't try, you say, if you don't go to college, what way out can you have?" ”
At this time, my mother sighed and said: "Lan Ze doesn't have that brain, if he really doesn't want to go to school anymore, forget it, no matter how much they persuade him, it's useless." ”
My aunt rebuked my mother: "What a good child, he said that he didn't want to go to school, you are his mother, beat him with a stick, and let him go to school, but you are good, and you actually obey his wishes." Are you reluctant to spend money, do you know that if you follow him like this, you will harm him, delay his life, and his future will be ruined. ”
When my mother heard this, she stopped talking. The aunt continued: "Say, what is your way out? ”
I said calmly, "Go to work and earn money." The second aunt snorted coldly and continued: "Go to work to earn money, you can say it, you don't have a college diploma, you can only engage in coolie work, are you willing to suffer like this for the rest of your life?" ”
Seeing that I was silent, the second aunt continued to reprimand: "You don't go to college, you are useless at all, tell me what you have, you look good, but no matter how good you look, it is useless to put it in the countryside, and like others, you can't escape the fate of working." You are thin and weak, and you have as much strength as you can, that is, what is the point of you digging in the soil every day? Besides, you said that you go to work, deliver goods to people every day, and look at other people's faces to do things, are you willing? Also, when you are old and frail, what should you do, if you have no strength, you will lose your financial resources, and when you drink the northwest wind! ”
The second aunt's level of speech is indeed very high, and she analyzes the problem very profoundly, but my heart is like a black iron, and I can't listen to a word. In the end, under the aggressiveness of my second aunt, I said firmly: "I just don't want to go to school, you say, I won't go to school, even if I starve to death on the streets in the future, I won't regret it." ”
When I said this, my aunt, my aunt, and my second aunt all looked at me with a look of hatred for iron, and my mother said on the side: "I said it a long time ago, this child is determined not to go to school, before you, many relatives and friends have persuaded him, but he just didn't listen, and my father and I couldn't do it, so I had to follow his heart." ”
Seeing that what Fang Cai said was useless, the second aunt began to bring out typical cases again, trying to move my heart. It's all old-fashioned stories, and it's almost the same, at the beginning, they were all children from a poor family, working hard to study, moving forward bravely, although they also had the idea of dropping out of school for a while, but finally repented. Then he was admitted to a prestigious school, and then graduated from college, all of them worked in large companies, with a monthly salary of 8,000 or even 10,000. Now they have settled in the big city, have a house and a car, work decently, and no longer have to suffer from the farm work.
The second aunt talked endlessly for a long time, but I thought to myself: I can also make up a bunch of this kind of inspirational stories, but no matter how inspirational the story is, I am not the protagonist. Also, I don't think it's possible for me to be the hero. Therefore, the second aunt spoke hard, quoted scriptures, and persuaded at length, but finally failed.
Once, I also read a lot of motivational articles, and at first, those articles really made my blood boil. Then, I will have a kind of blind confidence, thinking that I, like those protagonists, as long as I desperately endorse and do the questions, it is possible to be admitted to a prestigious university. Even, I once thought that as long as I studied hard, Tsinghua University and Peking University would be close at hand.
However, it turns out that I overestimated my ability, if I don't have a strong interest in learning and good qualifications, just rely on a few inspirational chicken soup, just rely on my own momentary enthusiasm, it will not make much difference. When I get tired of reading inspirational articles, when my enthusiasm fades, I am still me, the poor student with messy grades.
The aunt continued: "Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you can't find a satisfactory job after graduating from college. At least if you have gone to college and lived in the city for a while, your thinking will be greatly improved, your words and deeds will be different from those of the people in the village, and the temperament you embody will be noble. ”
I admit that what my aunt said is indeed somewhat true, going to college can indeed broaden your horizons and improve your overall quality, but the premise is that you have to pay thousands of tuition fees and prepare for high living expenses, and these tens of thousands of high costs often cause such a result -- rural parents provide for their children to finish college, and the family is basically bankrupt, and the child, trying to find a high-paying job with a college diploma, is no less difficult than picking up stars for a month. Of course, there are indeed people who have tens of millions of assets after working hard to start a business, but such people, in terms of the whole country, are almost rare, one in a million.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but retort: "Auntie, people who go to college do have different temperaments and thoughts from rural people. However, no matter how noble the temperament is, no matter how sublimated the thoughts, what is the use. Since he was born in the countryside, his final destination is still in the countryside. In this village, there are many rural college students, who are full of hope to be admitted to university, only to find out after graduation that this society is very cruel. They can't even find a guaranteed high-paying job in a big city, let alone own a house and a car in the city. ”
After a pause, I continued: "When they found out that it was extremely difficult for them to gain a foothold in the city with a broken diploma, they also died and returned to the countryside in disgrace, and had to endure the gossip of the villagers. They also feel embarrassed to return to the countryside, but they have to face the cruel reality, the best result is to work in the office, the salary is not high, and even forced to helpless, they can only be reduced to workshop workers, what is the difference between this and high school students? ”
I spit out the words in my heart, and suddenly felt much more comfortable, and then looked at the faces of the three aunts, all of them had a look of "this child is hopeless". I saw my aunt open her mouth, as if she wanted to say something again, and hurriedly stopped: "Auntie, you don't need to persuade me, I have made up my mind, even if I put a knife on my neck, I won't go to college." ”
When the three aunts saw that I was obsessed, they all looked distressed, and only said, "You will regret it." ”
I said firmly: "I have no regrets, never will." ”
When the three aunts heard this, they shook their heads and sighed. (To be continued.) )