Chapter Seventy-Five: The Children Next Door Grow Up
"Carrie, I'm back from school. ο½?ο½?ο½?οΌ?β Wang Chunling entered the door with a basket of vegetables, saw her daughter sitting at the table and wrapped the book jacket with a bunch of old wall calendars, and asked with a smile.
"Hmm!" Zhang Jiali agreed to continue to be busy with the work in hand.
"Your brother hasn't come back yet?" Wang Chunling put the dishes into the kitchen and came out to ask.
"As soon as I got out of the school gate, I saw my brother sitting in my cousin's new Santana car, and he must have taken my brother for a ride again. Zhang Jiali shook her head and said with a smile.
"Your cousin seems to have made a lot of money, and it costs more than 200,000 yuan to buy that car! I heard that there are only two cars in the Jiangwan District Party Committee and District Government, and your father, the executive deputy district head, has not yet been on the wheel! Wang Chunling said.
"Come on, Mom, this is something you don't want to spend! In the past two or three years, my brother has earned seven or eight hundred thousand yuan from publishing books, right? Or let's buy one, my dad's broken Volga car usually doesn't let our mother sit, that time I was late for school and wanted to take a hitchhike he didn't want to, what bus can't be used privately, the impact is not good, just he himself is high, hum! β
"It stands to reason that it is not a problem to buy a Santana with our family's economic conditions, but have you ever thought that your father is the deputy head of the district who is directly in charge of the economy, and what will others say about your father in the eyes of our family who is so public?"
"Every penny of our family is innocent, the body is not afraid of shadows, and the mouth is long on their heads, what do they like to say!"
"Saying that, others won't think so, now that your father is so respected in the city, I heard that it is possible to go to a higher level in the general election at the end of the year, we can't make trouble for him at a critical time!" Wang Chunling said in a low voice.
Zhang Jiali said with a smile: "My mother's political consciousness has improved quite quickly now, I remember that you were not like this before." β
Wang Chunling smiled, brought the vegetable basket from the kitchen to the living room, and said while picking vegetables: "Tomorrow will start school Jiaming is in the first year of junior high school, and now your sister and brother are studying in the same school again, Carrie, aren't you very happy to be a sister!" β
"Hmm!" Zhang Jiali nodded and said: "In the past, when I was in a school, my classmates and I talked to me in three sentences, and even the teachers in our class always loved to talk to me about my brother's affairs, I felt that the last two years of my primary school were living in the shadow of my brother, at that time I always wanted to graduate quickly, so that I could get rid of my brother's shadow, who knew that I was wrong as soon as I read the first year of junior high school, and when no one mentioned my brother's affairs in my ear, I suddenly felt empty in my heart, I don't know if my brother can still be as beautiful as he used to be when he is in junior high school. β
The eldest cousin drove the newly bought Santana, Zhang Jiaming sat in the passenger seat, the car lay down when passing by an intersection, Zhang Jiaming roared angrily, "I've told you several times, when you subtract, I will make you sad to death, cousin, taking the car you drive is like sitting in a bumper car, cousin, don't tell me, you are a self-taught driver from a driving school!" β
If it weren't for the fear of scaring the eldest cousin, as a veteran driver with more than ten years of driving experience, Zhang Jiaming really wanted to sit in the driver's seat and give him a personal demonstration.
"Didn't I just get my driver's license, just let my cousin be familiar with it." The eldest cousin is also cheeky, hehe laughs and fights the fire again.
"With a driving method like yours, the battery of our car has to be replaced every year!" Zhang Jiaming frowned and said cheekily.
"Cousin, I'll show you a cassette tape to listen to, relax!" The eldest cousin stuffed a cassette of Fan Linlin's "Loess High Slope" into the card box.
"My family lives on the loess slopes, and the wind blows in front of the door......"
Zhang Jiaming put ten fingers into his head and shouted: "I've been listening to this song for three days in a row, and I'm about to vomit yellow water when I hear it, cousin, aren't you tired?" β
"Anyway, you're my big boss, everything in this car is yours, even the big cousin is yours."
"I don't like to pick up soap, you belong to my future sister-in-law!" Zhang Jiaming said with a smile.
"Hey, hey!" The eldest cousin also laughed a few times, and suddenly asked shamelessly: "Cousin, what does it mean to pick up soap, does it have a deep connotation?" β
Well, the vocabulary is far from being so rich now, and when your village is connected to the Internet, you will understand, Zhang Jiaming asked another topic: "Cousin, how are your grades in the economic management course you studied at night college?" β
βnoprob1emοΌ It's not my big cousin bragging, my grades in all subjects are the top three in the class, especially English, I can beat the other students in our class more than eight streets! The eldest cousin said proudly.
"Cousin, learn this professional knowledge well, and soon we will have a big project to do, and we will be able to use this knowledge when the time comes!"
Although the thirteen-year-old Zhang Jiaming no longer has the immature childlike voice of the nine-year-old, he still sounds childish.
"Cousin, you said we were going to do big projects! What big project to do? The eldest cousin asked as if he had been beaten with blood, and Santana lay down again.
"I haven't thought about it yet!" Zhang Jiaming replied.
"It's the same as if I didn't say anything." The eldest cousin retracted back into the driver's seat like an inflatable doll that had been punctured and leaked.
"But it should be soon." Zhang Jiaming smiled and said to his eldest cousin: "Cousin, you are the emperor, the eunuch is not in a hurry, drive well, I am starving, I have to hurry home for dinner!" β
Santana stopped at the gate of Zhang Jiaming's community, and Zhang Jiaming got out of the car and muttered to himself, "Why are my ears so hot, someone must be talking about me behind my back." β
"My ears feel a little hot, and I guess the people who talk about you are talking about me at the same time." The eldest cousin said.
Zhang Jiaming closed the car door, waved to his eldest cousin and said, "Goodbye, cousin, drive slowly on the road!" β
The cousin nodded, and the Santana sedan nodded after rushing a few meters before returning to its normal posture and walking away.
"Being able to drive the car so politely, this is not an ordinary technique!" Zhang Jiaming smiled and shook his head.
Zhang Jiaming stood downstairs in his house and did not rush to go upstairs, in a few months their family will move out of here, Zhang Jiaming's father has divided a new house in the district, and now it is being renovated, and the house he lives in now will be handed over at the end of the year.
Zhang Jiaming remembers that he moved here when he was five years old, and it was not until 2oo1 that he bought a new house and moved out, and he lived here for twenty-one years in his previous life, plus three and a half years after he started over, he has lived here for almost twenty-five years.
It carries too much pain and happiness, joy and sorrow for Zhang Jiaming, but mixing these complex feelings together, Zhang Jiaming feels that he is still happy as a whole, so it is still worth his nostalgia here.
"Jiaming, why don't you go home after school, what are you doing standing here in a daze?" Liu Tengda stopped his bicycle and asked, and his daughter Liu Xiaohui was sitting behind the car.
"I'm getting ready to go upstairs!" Zhang Jiaming replied with a smile.
Liu Tengda is still the head of the propaganda section of the Dongfang Machinery Factory, and Liu Xiaohui is now in the fourth grade of primary school.
"Brother Jiaming, we are not in the same school now, when I went to report to the school today, I felt a feeling of emptiness in my heart when I thought that I would never see you again in the school in the future." Liu Xiaohui said with a disappointed face.
"Sister Xiaohui, you have to understand a truth, you are not studying for Brother Jiaming, nor for your parents, you are studying for yourself, Brother Jiaming hopes that you will study hard and become an honest and kind useful talent in the future." Zhang Jiaming said to Liu Xiaohui very seriously.
"Hmm!" Liu Xiaohui nodded vigorously.
Liu Tengda locked the bicycle and the three of them walked to the cave together, "Jiaming, you have to be 1.7 meters tall now, right?" β
"The amount of shoes I wear is 1.7 meters." Zhang Jiaming replied.
"Your sister is not short, she looks taller than your mother."
"Well, my sister is now one meter six or seven, two centimeters taller than my mother."
"Time flies so fast, you and your sister have grown into big children in the blink of an eye!" Liu Tengda stopped at the door of his house and smiled with emotion.
Zhang Jiaming also smiled and waved his hand to Liu Tengda and Liu Xiaohui and said, "Goodbye Uncle Liu, goodbye sister Xiaohui!" β
"Brother Jiaming, goodbye!" Liu Xiaohui waved with the male god in her mind with a look of admiration.