"Your husband? You've grown so tall. When Hyosung wiped the table, Kong Ping, who had a square face and big eyes, smiled and inquired.

"Uh...... Yes. ”

"Why is it over in a few words, you two are really neat."

"Uh-huh......" Hyosung ignored it and turned to get busy.

The more Bao Xiaoxing avoided it, the more Kong Ping was sure that the couple was tired.

Why did Kong Ping pay so much attention to Bao Xiaoxing's every move? It turned out that Kong Ping, who was five years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, has not been married.

After graduating from high school, Kong Ping has been working in the city, and later learned decoration from others, and made a lot of money by doing decoration independently, and once opened a small hardware store in the county. With some money in his hand, he asked matchmakers everywhere to find beautiful girls in the town. It happened that Hongyuan was really looking for one, four years older than him, with red lips and bright teeth, like flowers and jade. The two fell in love for a year and got engaged and lived together, but suddenly the woman was pregnant, and Kong Ping hurriedly prepared for marriage. At this time, the woman's family asked for 180,000 bride price, Kong Ping felt that it was too much, except for the wedding and the decoration of a new house, he couldn't get 180,000 yuan in his hand. The parents on both sides negotiated many times but failed, and in the end, the father-in-law used his daughter-in-law and children as a threat, clearly saying that he would not be allowed to see anyone if he did not have enough money......

The girl is a soft child, listening to her father inside and out, Kong Ping is difficult to support, and the two have been separated for a long time, so this is just a period of karma. Kong Ping, who was originally sad for the child, later learned that the girl was not pregnant at all, and her father was all doing things inside. At this time, Kong Ping, who was created by the public, was a little disheartened, and left his hometown to go to Shenzhen alone to join his cousin Dou Dongqing.

The days of working in the store are boring, and since Bao Xiaoxing came, Kong Ping's two eyes seem to have been brushed by someone, and he has energy to see everything. Bao Xiaoxing has a delicate face and a slender posture, is tenacious and rarely talks, is diligent and down-to-earth, and has a noble character. At the busiest time of every night, Hyosung's serious work and neat appearance greatly infected and drove Kong Ping, and the favorability of his appearance increased day by day because of in-depth contact. Thinking that Hyosung had a beautiful family, Kong Ping didn't want to disturb it, thinking that he could just watch it from afar. He had already discussed with himself that one day Hyosung would leave the store, and one day he would turn back and take care of himself.

But just after smoking, he saw from afar that the couple was obviously abnormal—the two talked from afar, and the conversation ended in a total of three sentences, and Hyosung came back with a look of resentment, no matter how he looked at it, it looked like his ex-husband rather than his current one. Kong Ping was overjoyed when he saw this scene, thinking that there was an opportunity, and he was overjoyed, so he put out his cigarette and went back to work in the store.

"Did you send the bag?" At night, the old man Zhong Neng, who rushed back from Fuchun District, asked his son.

"No, you can send it." Zhong Li pointed to the new schoolbag on the broken sofa.

"Why?" Zhong Neng was puzzled.

Zhong Li didn't answer.

"The baby is rare in his heart, you treat him better, see him more, tease him, buy something to make him happy, don't touch him. Today, I sent a box of braised pork over, and Cheng Cheng ate a whole portion by himself! When Mei Mei bought a gift for him, the baby Gao Xin played with one, and this child - so coaxing! You care more about it with snacks...... it's okay"

Zhong Neng said on the side, seeing that his son was not happy to listen, and the old man was not there. I went to work from half past four in the morning to get off work at five in the afternoon, cooked a meal at home at six o'clock, and gave my grandson a box of braised pork without stopping, as a reward for the baby's progress in the exam. Now I'm sweating profusely and panting when I come home, and I'm too tired to hold on. Seeing that his son was coldly ignored, Zhong Neng went upstairs to sleep by himself.

"Hey boss, how much money do I have? Tell me thirty-five before eating, and tell forty-three when I pay the bill after eating! How much! At ten o'clock in the evening, a fashionably dressed man yelled at Bao Hyosung.

"Uh......" Hyosung froze, trying to remember how much money Holly had told her.

"Table Four, Thirty-Five!" Holly roared in anger at the cauldron in the doorway, and then looked away from Hyosung.

This is the third time that Bao Xiaoxing has miscalculated tonight.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm wrong hahaha...... You are an old customer, you know the price in our store, sorry handsome guy! Kong Ping nodded and stepped forward to apologize.

"It's okay, it's okay!" The guest scanned the code to pay the bill and left.

Leaving a bag of Hyosung, he stood awkwardly to the side.

"Sister Xing, don't care! When I first arrived, I often miscalculated, don't take it to heart! Kong Ping comforted Bao Xiaoxing while cleaning up the table.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Hyosung waved his hand and went to the sink to wash the dishes.

The two girls who went to work in the morning got off work early, and there were only three people left in the store: Dou Dongqing, Kong Ping and Bao Xiaoxing. At ten o'clock, the number of guests who came to eat gradually decreased, and Bao Xiaoxing washed the dishes as usual and prepared to get off work. Holly saw that Hyosung was making frequent mistakes today, and wanted to ask her if there was something wrong, but it was inconvenient for acquaintances to speak, and as soon as she opened her mouth, as if she was holding her accountable, Boss Dou swallowed and salivaed. Hyosung got off work after saying hello and rushed home at half past ten, when his son went to bed early.

"Sister, what's wrong with your hand?" Bao Xiaotang came out to pick up people when he heard the voice, and when he turned on the light, he saw that his sister's wrists and the back of his hands were red, and he was shocked first.

"It's burned, it's fine."

"So serious! Wait! Xiaotang turned around and walked quickly to get the medicine box at her sister's house.

The two sisters sat on the sofa applying medicine, Hyosung was so tired that his body was a little wooden, his heart felt that he had no strength at all, and the arm that his sister was holding in his hand seemed not to be his own. Lenovo's sister found a good job, and Hyosung sighed: "It's still easy to make money with culture, and if Meimei has potential, I plan to offer her as a graduate student!" ”

"What about the completion of the study?" Xiaotang asked her sister with a smile.

"Learning...... As long as he wants to study, I can also provide a postdoc when he reads a postdoc. "When it comes to the light in the eyes of her daughter Hyosung, the heart of her son as a mother is sometimes determined and powerful, and sometimes ambiguous.

"I'm ...... today I've been thinking about ...... What if I go to work and complete my studies? After being silent for a long time, Xiaotang asked first.

"I've been distracted by this tonight as well."

Bao Xiaoxing shook his head and sighed, looked at his sister and continued: "His grandfather is already too tired to go to work, and it would be too embarrassing for the old man to run on both sides again." But if you send your studies over there to live...... Same words as before...... Ay! I haven't figured it out yet. Hyosung was so worried that he didn't want to ask the question again.

"Don't sigh! Many parents of office workers are like you, and they look like an old lady who worries you. I have time to take care of him on Saturdays and weekends, and recently I have become obsessed with making Sichuan cuisine and our hometown cuisine, and from time to time I give him two plates, and wronged your son to be a taster for me. Xiaotang made my sister happy.

Hyosung let out a laugh from his nose, and his whole face collapsed after laughing.

"You go to work on Friday, and it's still a big company, so you have nothing to do and prepare things for work." For a long time, Hyosung reminded the girl.

"Know-way! You still have to worry about it! In the past, you supported me, but now it's time for me to save all sentient beings from fire and water! I can't work overtime late every night, I have to get off work early and contact you and Uncle Zhong early, so that I can have dinner with you or Uncle Zhong first, and then I will lead him back to live here. If I'm busy, I'll live over there, or if Uncle Zhong has the strength to send it, it's really not cooperative... You discuss it with Uncle Zhong...... Or did he quit his job? ”

"I've been! It was mentioned several times, but he disagreed. You may not know that the old man's salary ...... to sustain him and ...... Zhong Li's life, as well as the rent of the farmer's market! ”

Hearing his sister's embarrassment and Uncle Zhong's difficulty, Bao Xiaotang suddenly caught fire, and said shamelessly: "Really! Drinking everywhere, where does he get the money to drink? I'm amazing at all! People are a chicken dog sheng, he is good, a mouse hurt a pot of soup! Let's get out of here! If you leave each other, you will not be guilty! Let Uncle Zhong find a new place to rent, and quickly transfer the two-story shop, so that everyone will be more relaxed. It's really not possible to take Uncle Zhong over to live, this is the best, it can take care of the children and save money, as for him, how can he ...... it?"

Xiaotang was complaining while packing up the medicine box, and when she looked up, she saw her sister holding her breath and crying for a long time. Xiaotang was frightened, immediately shut up, got up and put the medicine box to get a paper to wipe her sister's tears. Hyosung remembers the scene of meeting Jong-ri today, and his heart is sad, coupled with the labor, grievances, frustration, anger, and pain of the recent period...... I couldn't stop it for a while, rubbed it together and turned into tears, and cried out with a whimper. Xiaotang hugged her sister's left shoulder, silent, and her heart burned.

At 10:20 p.m., Tsai Tsai returned. As soon as I got home, I went straight to the room with a pale face like land, and I didn't even say hello.

The old horse had a good time, from sending Yangyang away in the morning to picking up Yangyang in the evening, and in the middle he spent a full eight hours counting tobacco leaves, picking out his ears, washing sweat towels, and picking his feet and sewing at home...... I listened to the excerpts again and again, and the TV station changed one after another, if it weren't for the rare Yangyang, he would have returned to Majiatun earlier, why should he be angry and cold here. The happiest thing is to pick up the rippling after school and eat with the baby, and the most painful thing is to coax the rippling to sleep and deal with the baby's crying. finally stayed up until Yangyang fell asleep, and the old horse only waited for a big living person to come back and talk to him, but he didn't expect that this boy would make a face when he came home. The old horse didn't care, and continued to lie on the sofa and listen to the play.

Not long after, the old horse heard the conversation in the room. The old man, who had been lying for more than a long time, got up and moved his muscles, and wanted to go to the bathroom, but who wanted to go around to the door of the boy's room. Now that he has reached the door of the room, it is better to stop and listen, and he may not know what is going on.

"One hundred and thirteen in English, seventy-two in chemistry, fifty-four in physics, and sixty-eight in biology...... The total score is four hundred and thirty-eight. ”

"Ranking...... Ranking...... Fifty-three students in the class ......"

The old horse listened to the boy and paused for a while, obviously on the phone.

"Class...... Sixty-three people in all......"

The old horse couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, it turned out that he had taken the tenth to last exam, and the old man was afraid that the laughter would be heard, so he quickly covered his mouth awkwardly.

"There are two big questions in mathematics that I can't answer, the physical feeling falls the most, and some can answer but answer ...... wrong."

"I made up for the lessons that I fell in October, and then ...... The weekend make-up classes continued, and I think the final exams were ...... I should be able to make it all up......"

"Hmm...... Well...... Well...... Didn't welcome... Good ......"

The old horse guessed that he should call his father, but when he saw that there was no talk in the back, the old man hurriedly tiptoed out of the door. After going to the toilet, the old man who pretended to go back to his room to sleep asked the boy as soon as he lay down: "Eh...... Have you finished your exam today? How did you do in the exam? ”

"Grandpa, are you funny? I was eavesdropping outside, and the lights outside hit your shadow at my feet, and I asked on purpose! Interesting? The boy couldn't laugh or cry.

"Hahaha......" The old horse laughed shyly, and turned to the boy: "Ye is at home, no one talks to me, and I finally managed to help you come back, look at you, take Ye as if he was air." ”

When Tsai heard the old man like this, his heart softened, and he said with a sad face: "The results came out after the exam today, and in the second evening self-study, the head teacher read the grades in the class, and I regressed dozens of places, and was criticized by the teacher in public!" ”

"You-didn't cry like a girl, did you?" The old horse teased.

"Grandpa, did you mean it! Will you talk! "Tsai Tsai was so angry that he kicked his feet on the bed.

Lao Ma saw that he was still a child in his bones, and laughed happily.

After a while, the old man spoke: "Do you know what you were doing when you were so old?" Guess what, I think you're learning history? ”

"We don't take history in science! Why are they two worlds people, I can't guess! ”

"You can't guess that, I'll tell you. When he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he went to several nearby counties to ask for food! When I arrived at a village, I saw a good door knocking on the door directly, and I asked, "Can you give me a bun to eat?" Some people are rich and give some to eat the rest of the bread or something; Some people are kind enough to give three or five big steamed buns; There are also some people who see that I am badly dressed and call Hanako, and they pick up a big broom and want to beat me—drive me away—and think that Hanako is unlucky and unlucky. Scolding me, spitting, scaring me with whips, and hitting me when I encounter hooligans...... I have seen a lot, but I am not afraid of anything, and I don't care. I take what you give me food, I don't listen to you when you scold me, I dodge and run if you hit me, anyway, my doll's house is slippery! ”

Memories came flooding up like chili water, and the old horse who had come to be in high spirits sat up and looked for a lighter to light a hookah. In a room of more than 20 square meters, a single bed is in the northwest corner of the room, a single bed is in the southeast corner of the room, and there is a large desk between the two. The smoke of the old horse mixed with the thick history of the old horse is smoking, little by little, and the young and arrogant minds are smeared.

"That's it, sometimes there is a reincarnation in a month - go home and bring a sack of steamed buns to the house, or rely on this steamed bun gnocchi that will come to the house, what do your mother and aunt and two uncles rely on! There is no land for the land, your mother and her father went to the ditch to open some wasteland and was found to be named and criticized in the trumpet horn - comment! Hehe......" The old horse shook his head and asked his grandson, "Do you know where you sleep at night when your grandfather goes out to ask for food?" ”

"Where?" Tsai Tsai clasped his hands on his chest, nestled himself in the corner of the bed, and listened quietly.

"On the mound, there is the dirt slope! It's easy to do it in summer, find a wheat field to sleep casually, not in winter, nothing, it's okay! There is a short shovel in the Ye cloth bag, an iron shovel, which is used for self-defense. When you go to bed at dusk, go to the field to find a sheltered soil hollow and dig a big pit to sleep. Your grandmother used to joke that I dug my own grave when I was young! Grandpa told you that the most reliable sleep in my life was to sleep in the pit at that time, and a person who was so bold in the ravine that he was not afraid of a wolf! ”

"At that time, in the middle of winter, there were two people in each village—starving! Once, I asked for food in the village dozens of miles away from Majiatun, but I didn't get anything, and I ate all the bags in my bag, and I dug a big pit to sleep at night, and I was so hungry that I couldn't sleep, and I didn't dare to sleep when I was going to doze off - I was afraid that I would starve to death and fall asleep! I was really hungry, so I picked the loess from the side and ate it...... Ay...... That night I thought, the master let me live, then I kowtowed three times to the old man for the second time, and the master let me die, then I died in the dirt pit, or choked to death by the loess, or was bitten to death by a wild wolf. And guess what? Second, I'm really awake! Oh my grandfather, I'm so happy, I'm so happy when I don't have anything to eat. ”

"Did you kowtow then?"

"It must have knocked! You promised in your heart that if you don't kowtow, you will be unlucky! ”

"Then why don't you stay at someone's house?" The teenager asked.

"Hehehe...... Lao Ma laughed, laughed out of tears, and replied with a puff of smoke: "Who would dare to take you in when you go to the village?" If I don't hit you, that's light. One time I slept in a sheepfold and his sheepfold was outside, and guess what happened? The buns I begged for half a month—most of the sacks, enough for half a month's rations for our housemen—were stolen! That guy is so angry! At that time, I was a teenager with a high spirit, and I knocked on the door door like crazy, where can I get it? I was beaten and bloodied! I'll tell you the truth, I wanted to burn that village on fire! Ay...... Later, I passed through that village for more than ten years, sulking for no reason, and I must spit in their heart to pass! The steamed buns that saved people's lives, the steamed buns that Hanako begged for - steal them! Ay...... With your mother, your mother never believed in these things! ”

The old man suddenly became angry, suddenly lost color, suddenly thundered, and suddenly choked, and the boy heard it in a fog, and saw that the grandfather took out the sweat towel in his pocket to wipe his tears, and secretly thought that the old man was the real thing.

"I felt sorry for the three (Lao Ma's brother and sister), and when I got home, I picked out the rotten and moldy ones to eat by myself, and ate one or even half of them. Some of the moldy hairs have grown an inch long, so you can eat them properly. ”

After the two-handed gesture, the old man's left hand tightly pinched his eye sockets, remained motionless, and continued to speak after a long time: "The appearance of the twenty-year-old looks older than the fifty-year-old!" There are photos to prove it - the photos taken at the SC team later, the master kept it, there is a chance for you to go back to Majiatun, and look at what the master looked like when you were so old. ”

"Hmm." The boy obediently responded.

I don't know how to comfort him, so he sat far away and calmly watched the living history of his grandfather.

"After those years passed, my lord's courage suddenly became bigger, and he was not afraid of death! As long as you live, you can toss casually, why be proud and toss! You are now in the tenth to last in the midterm exam, and you will not pass the college entrance examination in the future, get married and divorced, and have a white affair at home - are you still alive? It doesn't involve life, success or failure, it's not a matter at all! How good the life of the country is now! Those who have brains make money by their brains, and those who have no brains make money by their strength, how can they live! Your second uncle didn't go to school, didn't take exams, didn't live well? I feel that you, the pattern is a little bit, and the heart is also a little bit, and it's not good to be too serious! You have to be optimistic and open-minded like your mother! This optimism is heartless, shouting that there is vitality! No matter how old you are doing, you have to live happily! Fail 10 times and do it again 11 times - let this life be resilient! Do you understand what you mean? ”

"Understood!"

"Got a fart! You look like an adult, with too little experience in your bones. People are weak and cannot be compensated, you are too young to listen to the big truth, and the child will be confused if you listen to the truth too much! Lao Ma pointed to the tip of the boy's nose, swallowed his saliva, paused for a long time, and continued to speak: "Master will tell you about your mother again!" Do you know what your mom did when she was your age? ”

"What for?"

"What a mother you are! The lord got engaged to her, but as a result, people were not happy to run away from the marriage, and ran to the provincial capital alone, and ran to Shenzhen alone...... Look at your mother's guts, do you have it? Master tells you, this person, the more things that make him worry and worry, the happier this person will be. You're sixteen years old and don't have any viability at all, and you're worried about trivial things like shoes and bags, bad exams, and jealousy with your sister! Look how happy and successful you are! I don't worry about eating, making money, or getting seriously ill, I just look forward to more and more pocket money, better and better exam rankings, and how happy I am! ”

"I don't think I'm happy!"

"The less you feel it, the happier it is. The poor are used to being poor, and they are happy to drink a bowl of sugar water! ”

"Hehe......" Tsai chuckled.

The old horse was messing around, and the grandfather and grandson chatted until midnight before going to sleep.

Grandpa's words came out in dialects, and some of them didn't understand it too much, and those who understood it would be skeptical. Mom used to be the old village chief the most boastful, although it seems to believe it or not, Tsai Zai's thoughts were still steadily dragged by his grandfather, a comparison of different growth environments, the pattern in the hearts of middle school students seems to be higher and bigger. At least, the teenager no longer feels ashamed of his ten-to-last result when he goes to sleep.

Gui Ying arrived home at one o'clock this night, and when she got home, the family went to bed early. People who have insomnia tonight are not at home, outside. Since He Zhiyuan knew that his son was ranked tenth in the cold test, he was worried. Calculated with the proportion of key undergraduates and ordinary undergraduates in their high school in previous years, if the results of this midterm exam are taken as college entrance examination scores, my son may not even be able to get into an ordinary undergraduate, and he categorically accepts this result.

After finding the rental house yesterday, He Zhiyuan fell asleep in the rental house for a whole day, and the middle-aged man was immersed in his own failures and couldn't extricate himself. In a mature society, learning to obtain a degree to achieve social advancement is almost the only way other than entrepreneurial success and the coronation of capital resources. He Zhiyuan, who has been a teacher for more than ten years, has been competing with grades and rankings in the first half of his life, and never thought that his son would be tested to the bottom tenth. The lack of hope for the next generation is even more devastating than the lack of hope in one's own life. He should blame himself, luck or fate for this failure.

There are three major explicit barriers in life – college entrance exams, marriage, employment or entrepreneurship. If you miss the obvious barrier - even if there is one or any one, it will be difficult for life to be smooth or lucky; If you lose the two major barriers, there will basically be no more miracles in life; If the three major passes are lost, it will be reduced to a situation in which it will be defeated without a fight, and it will be difficult to achieve a war. Fortunately, there are three hidden barriers in life - the first is self-discovery, which is called awakening; The second is self-exploration or self-pleasure, which is called growth; The third is self-realization or self-perseverance, that is, realization. Break through these barriers - even one, any one, then his life path will be biased and different; Whoever breaks through the two levels, he will become a joyful and transparent person; Whoever breaks through the three levels will be a successful and happy person. External factors such as family background and friends will also affect the pattern of life, but the influence of external factors is limited, not to mention that external factors also act through internal factors.