Chapter 76: When You Smile at the World
The school suddenly issued a notice to change to a new school uniform, and three sets of clothes in spring, summer and winter cost more than 400 yuan, Guan Zhengxing looked at the payment notice on the blackboard, and his eyes sank.
Every time she mentions the school fee to Dai Meicui, she will shirk it for various reasons, and this time it is inevitable to say a few more words.
"Hey,"
“!” Guan Zhengxing's thoughts were interrupted, and Shen Zilu said: "The double helix structure of the DNA molecule is counterparallel. ”
"Hmm."
There is no spirit in speaking. Shen Zilu turned his head, "...... What happened to you? ”
Guan Zhengxing didn't want anyone to see through his mind, so he glanced at her workbook, pointed to one of the questions and said: "This question is wrong, the cellular immune molecules of the animal body are antibodies and lymphokines, not macrophages and antibodies. ”
"Oh," Shen Zilu's attention was instantly diverted, and he changed the wrong answer and said as he wrote: "Harry Potter said to go to the movies on Saturday, are you going?" ”
Guan Zhengxing said: "I can't go, I want to send Huihui to the tutorial class." ”
Speaking of Huihui, Shen Zilu thought of Guan Zhengxing's aunt at home, leaned over and whispered, "Why didn't your aunt send it herself." ”
"She's going to play cards."
"......" Shen Zilu nodded, "It's really a shameless reason that people can't refuse." Actually, I don't understand one thing, your aunt doesn't care what you care. ”
Guan Zhengxing said: "My dad told me before leaving, take care of Huihui. He knew that she was unreliable, and he was afraid that Huihui would not have anyone to take care of her, and she would be like her in the future. ”
Shen Zilu nodded clearly, "Then you really can't go on Saturday." ”
"Hmm."
Shen Zilu was a little excited, "Okay." ”
After class, Sheng Hailuo asked Shen Zilu, "Did you ask Guan Zhengxing, did he go?" ”
Shen Zilu leaned on the windowsill and faced the playground, "I can't go, he has something." ”
Sheng Hailuo said: "I don't have a break on weekends, and Xueba also goes to cram school? ”
Shen Zilu couldn't reveal the situation at Guan Zhengxing's house, so he could only respond, "Yes." ”
"My God," Sheng Hailuo exclaimed, "The study is so good, and we still go to cram school, so we can't live a group of scumbags." ”
He was able to teach cram school students at that level.
Shen Zilu didn't smile, "Hehe." ”
……
Guan Zhengxing opened the door, there was a noise of TV in the living room, Dai Meicui heard the door ringing, turned off the TV without looking back, got up and walked to the bedroom.
"Aunt Cui," Guan Zhengxing called to stop, "our school will pay for school uniforms tomorrow, a total of four hundred and thirty-seven." ”
Originally, the person had his back to Guan Zhengxing, but when he heard the words, he turned around and said with a bored face: "Why do you pay the money again, haven't you all paid it at the beginning of school." ”
Guan Zhengxing once again emphasized, "This is the school's unified replacement of new school uniforms. ”
"The school uniform is already newly bought, why do you still change it?"
"The school asked for it, not me."
"No money." After Dai Meicui finished speaking, she entered the bedroom and closed the door.
“……”
Guan Zhengxing returned to the room, looked at the clock, and hesitated to pick up the seat and press a string of numbers. No one answered at grandma's house, so he called another number, and the phone rang for a long time before it was picked up, and the old man said, "Hey, who are you looking for?" Guan Zhengxing called in a low voice: "Grandma, it's me, Xiaoxing." ”
With a beep, the other party hung up, and as he expected, Guan Zhengxing put down the phone.
Guan Zhengxing's parents' marriage had no emotional foundation, and the two got married after knowing each other for less than two months under the mediation of an introducer. At that time, the reason why the Guan family proposed marriage was to give Guan Zhengxing's grandfather Chongxi, but he died of illness within three months of marriage, and Guan Zhengxing's mother's purpose of marriage was simpler, the younger brother in the family wanted to get married, and the woman's only condition was to live in a new house, but the family had no money to build a house, and the Guan family agreed to pay a bride price of 80,000 yuan to solve their problem. Eighteen years ago, in the countryside, 80,000 built three large tiled houses were more than enough.
This is the marriage of Guan Zhengxing's parents, which is a constraint on Guan's father and blind to Guan's mother.
As the continuation of married life, the inconsistency of the three views and the spiritual level, so that they often quarrel over trivial matters, and later Guan's father was promoted, the power in his hands is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more social interactions, Guan's mother, a full-time housewife, only stares at her husband in her eyes, and after a long time, she began to be suspicious and suspicious, and the tired marital state made Guan's father cross the final bottom line of marriage, and he began to communicate privately with Dai Meicui. went to the company to make Guan's father ugly, and went to the hotel to find Dai Meicui trouble, the marriage of the two was shoehorned into the third person, the broken relationship could not be repaired, Guan's father filed for divorce, Guan's mother dragged on, Dai Meicui muddied the waters in the middle, often called Guan Zhengxing's mother and mother's family to humiliate, and finally Dai Meicui went to Guan's mother's house with a big belly to make a big noise, making the surrounding neighbors known, the ending was too ugly, and the two could only end in divorce.
Last year, his father died, Dai Meicui wanted to push him to his biological mother's family several times to raise, and his biological mother and family considered that Guan Zhengxing was already in high school, and the future cost of both his studies and life would not be low, and he really couldn't afford it. There is another point, the biological mother's family considers the junior to be on top, and Guan Zhengxing will be raised by them, and the family property will not be given to her, so the so-called people and money are empty.
These complex reasons came together to make his mother avoid him, and even his elders and relatives avoided him like a snake and scorpion.
Guan Zhengxing looked at the books on the table, and it seemed that the cost of more than 400 school uniforms had to be figured out by himself.
……
Early Saturday morning, on the First Ring Road.
In the midst of the traffic, a tall boy wearing a red vest held a stack of leaflets and distributed them along the car. Whenever a car stopped, he would run over and hand over a sales flyer, and if someone lowered the window, he would smile and say, "Amacro Real Estate, thank you." ”
There are also those who refuse, seeing him standing outside the car, pretending to ignore the window, and some who start the car and throw it out of the window after taking it. Whenever this happens, he will walk over and pick it up and hand it to the next car.
There were also two young men who distributed leaflets with Guan Zhengxing, and when they saw him working too hard through the traffic, they teased him with disdain...... Thinking about money and going crazy.
The sales center across the road is Acer Real Estate. The lunch break is also a flexible system, and you can rest as long as you want, anyway, the salary is calculated according to the time you send the flyer.
It was almost twelve o'clock, the two young men left first, and Guan Zhengxing sent the remaining three cards in his hand before returning to the sales center to receive a cup of hot water to drink.
The sales lady came over and asked, "How old are you?" ”
Guan Zhengxing sat on the sofa in the rest area, his eyes were neither humble nor arrogant, "Seventeen." ”
"You're so young, you're still in school."
Guan Zhengxing lowered his eyes, "Hmm." ”
"Which high school?"
"Jiang Yi's."
"Jiang Yi is the point, why do you want to hand out flyers if you don't go to school?"
Guan Zhengxing pursed his lips, "It's nothing." He picked up the paper cup on the coffee table, walked to the side and threw it in the trash, "Thanks, please give me some more flyers." ”
The sales lady was surprised, "You have been resting for ten minutes since eight o'clock in the morning." ”
Guan Zhengxing said: "I'm not tired, give it to me." ”
Looking at his expressionless face, the sales lady also felt that she was nosy, and went to the front desk to take out a paper bag of leaflets, and was just about to take out half of it, Guan Zhengxing took it all, "Give it all to me." ”
"So much, you're going to send it until the evening."
Guan Zhengxing asked, "What time do you get off work?" ”
The sales lady replied: "Six o'clock." ”
Guan Zhengxing nodded silently, and walked to the center of the sales building with a paper bag.
At that time, the heavy snow was coming, the sky was dark, and the young man's back was resolute.
This year, the winter in Jiangcheng is extremely cold, and the wind blows on the face like a knife, Guan Zhengxing lifted the scarf, covered half of his face, and the breath exhaled from his lips dissipated instantly, he walked into the traffic with a paper bag and walked towards a black car......
At the red light for 75 seconds, Shen Kangnian was on the phone, and when he saw a teenager standing outside the car, he lowered the window after chatting with the other party.
Guan Zhengxing said: "Acer Real Estate understands, thank you. ”
Shen Kangnian took the flyer and looked at his childish face, "Young man, how old are you?" ”
Guan Zhengxing's smile froze on his face for a second, and then he said naturally: "Seventeen." ”
"Coming out to work at such a young age?"
Guan Zhengxing replied truthfully: "I work part-time. ”
Shen Kangnian looked at the real estate on the leaflet, purely casually, but Guan Zhengxing immediately said when he saw this: "Qianhuwan is located in the first ring of Jiangcheng, adjacent to three key schools, uncle, it is very convenient for your children to choose the real estate here to go to school." ”
Shen Kangnian asked, "Which three?" ”
Guan Zhengxing replied: "Jiangdong No. 1 Elementary School, Jiangcheng No. 2 Middle School, and Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, the teachers are among the best in Jiangcheng. ”
"Well," Shen Kangnian nodded, "It's really a good location." ”
"Uncle, there is our manager's phone number in the lower right corner, you can consult him if you are interested."
Shen Kangnian looked at the red light and counted down to 2 seconds, put the flyer on the passenger seat, smiled warmly at the young man outside the car, Guan Zhengxing took half a step back, and watched the car leave.
When you smile at the world, the world will smile at you, but at the end of the day, the only one who smiles at him is him.
……
At night, the starry sky is accompanied by the moon, the neon lights of the city are shining brightly, and the red car lights converge into the end of the road of light strips. The scarf was hung with frozen frost, and his feet were almost unconscious, and the cold air jumped up along his calves, and Guan Zheng handed back the empty paper bag to the manager when he walked back to the sales center hall, and the time was exactly six o'clock.
"Manager Wang, I've finished handing out the flyers."
Manager Wang called Xiao Li from the store, asked him if he was lazy and discarded, and settled today's hourly wage for Guan Zhengxing.
Guan Zhengxing took the red ticket in Manager Wang's hand and asked, "Do you still need to hand out flyers tomorrow?" ”
Manager Wang paused, "You still do it?" ”
Guan Zhengxing nodded.
Walking to the center of the sale building, Guan Zhengxing put 100 yuan into his pocket, and he still needed 337 yuan.
At that time, the riverside villa area.
Shen Kangnian took off his coat and put the flyer of Hongji Real Estate on the coffee table, Cui Anya looked at it, "You want to see the real estate?" ”
"No, on the way to the company at noon, a child of the same age as Xiaolu gave it to me," Shen Kangnian said while unbuttoning his fleece sweater, "I came out to make money by handing out leaflets at such a young age, and I raised my family a year earlier than I did. ”
Cui Anya took the flyer and looked at it, "That's not necessarily, being able to endure hardships doesn't mean that you have a future, as you said, you can come out to distribute flyers when you're only seventeen, and you can't read any books." ”
Shen Zilu came out of the room, "What are you two talking about?" ”