Chapter 17: The Iron Tree Blossoms

It is not easy for the family to have a neat and tidy Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Chen Yunchao has not been at home for three years, and this year he left after the fifth day of the first lunar month, Fan Lihua felt very satisfied. She kept talking at the dinner table, occasionally picking up her sons' favorite dishes and putting them in their bowls.

Li Tian'er put down her chopsticks after eating a few bites and wanted to go back to her own room.

Fan Lihua is not happy, the Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner is to eat a family neatly, even if you can't eat, you can't get off the table in advance. Accompanying four emotionless people to dinner, she didn't have anything to say, and she wasn't interested in listening to them.

Li Tian'er pretended not to hear Fan Lihua's words, stretched out her feet and put on cotton shoes. After a busy day, her bones are about to fall apart, so she has to breathe. She doesn't have a hard time with Fan Lihua, and she also thinks that it is not easy for her to raise her three sons by herself when she is young and widowed.

"Mom, don't mumble, having dinner together is already a reunion. The second sister-in-law is tired, so she wants to go back to the house to rest, so let her go back. ”

Chen Yunchao was silent, and Chen Haichao was upset for his sister-in-law.

"When did I mumble?"

Fan Lihua glared at her youngest son. Although she is proud of her second son Chen Yunchao, the most painful thing in her heart is her younger son, and she is reluctant to make a new dress for the New Year, so she helped Chen Haichao prepare a new dress early. As a result, her youngest son opposed her, and her heart suddenly became big.

"Our mom didn't mumble, come on, let's have a drink together."

Chen Yunchao played a round and signaled that Li Tian'er could leave. Li Tian'er didn't refuse Fan Lihua's blockade, but her toes were hooked by cotton laces, so she didn't go away after a long time.

Chen Yunchao poured wine for his mother and younger brother, and Chen Jiangchao suddenly stretched out his hand and picked up an empty bowl in his hand to pour wine and drink.

Usually he eats with his head bored, and he eats as many dishes as his mother gives him, and never picks up the dishes himself, eats the rice in the bowl, and then picks up the rice he dropped on the table to eat.

Today, Dasha's son will want to drink!

Fan Lihua was so shocked that she held the glass and opened her mouth, looking at her eldest son in a daze. Chen Yunchao and Chen Haichao were also stunned, not because the stupid big brother would ask for wine, but because Chen Jiangchao's eyes flashed with wisdom.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to his words, Chen Jiangchao simply took the big-bellied wine bottle and poured wine into the blue-rimmed coarse porcelain bowl in front of him.

"Big brother, you, can you drink?"

Chen Haichao said suddenly.

Chen Yunchao knelt on one leg and leaned over to observe Chen Jiangchao's changes.

Li Tian'er had already put on her shoes and stood on the ground, turning to look at Chen Jiangchao, squinting her eyes, she needed to continue to pay attention to Chen Jiangchao's greater changes.

Chen Jiangchao ignored his two younger brothers, took the wine bowl and drank it, put down the bowl and wiped the corners of his mouth, and then let out a sigh.

"Mom, I want to go to school and learn culture."

"What?"

Fan Lihua hadn't recovered from the first wave of surprise, and Chen Jiangchao's words gave her a second shock.

"I want to go to school."

"Big brother, what do you want to go to?"

Chen Haichao's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe that the words of going to school and learning culture could be said by a stupid big brother.

"Big brother, are you drunk?"

After Chen Yunchao said this, he felt that the logic was wrong, the stupid big brother was like being drunk, and he wouldn't say anything like going to school and learning culture.

Fan Lihua stood up and leaned over to touch Chen Jiangchao's forehead, she felt that Dasha's son must have been possessed by something.

"Jiang Chao, where are you uncomfortable?"

Chen Jiangchao dodged his mother's outstretched palm.

"I'm not uncomfortable, I'm going to go to school and learn culture. Peach Blossom told me so. ”

He pointed to Li Tian'er, who was standing on the ground and squinting at him.

The eyes in the room were all focused on Li Tian'er's body, as hot as a spotlight.

"Peach Blossom, what's going on? What are you saying to Jiang Chao, you know that he is sick and what kind of book he reads. ”

Li Tian'er didn't speak, and continued to look at Chen Jiangchao.

Chen Jiangchao was not happy to hear his mother say this, he said loudly that he was not sick, he just wanted to study. Li Tian'er smiled faintly at this time.

"Don't worry, I gave my eldest brother a few pills, and he is back to normal now. He wants to study and learn culture, and he also wants to be a useful person. ”

Li Tian'er gave Chen Jiangchao a pill, worried that the effect was not good enough, so she took some brain-strengthening medicine for him to eat. Every time she coaxed him to take medicine, she would say that when she was cured, she could go to school, learn culture, and become a useful person. Only eat and sleep, that's a pig.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jiangchao took her words to heart.

"My eldest son is finally not stupid!"

Fan Lihua was so excited that she didn't know what to say, so she grabbed Chen Jiangchao and looked left and right, and she couldn't see that he was stupid, so she was relieved. Only then did I think of the person I wanted to thank, her second daughter-in-law, Li Taohua......

Chen Jiangchao is exactly 30 years old during the Chinese New Year, and he is going to study in the village primary school.

The Chen family's stupid son is going to go to the village primary school, which suddenly became big news in Xiaowu Village. The villagers were so surprised, they didn't know that the stupid son of the Chen family could also study.

On the day of the opening of the primary school, the villagers, who never send their children to school, actually accompanied their children to the village primary school with their parents, and some grandparents also came with them.

Just after the New Year, everyone's mood is still jubilant, and it is also a lively picture to be able to watch fools go to school.

Fools can go to school, and iron trees can bloom.

Fan Lihua and Chen Jiangchao walked side by side, and some people in the crowd coaxed.

"Can a big fool go to school?"

I don't know whose child raised his face and asked his parents, but his parents hurriedly covered his mouth and didn't let him speak.

Since the fifth day of the first lunar month, there have been more than a dozen patients who have been favored by the hands of the second daughter-in-law of the Chen family. Even the barefoot doctor from the village health center came to his door to ask for advice.

Now the status of the Chen family in the village is higher than that of Li Taohua's mother's family. Including neighboring villages, some people began to inquire about the peach blossom fairy in Xiaowu Village who can cure all diseases.

Walking into the low adobe wall of the village primary school, Fan Lihua had mixed feelings. When her eldest son was seven years old, she brought him to school.

Chen Jiangchao slept in class and snored and had a runny nose, grabbed things with his classmates after class and cried and rolled on the ground. The next day, the school decided to expel Chen Jiangchao and called Fan Lihua to take Dasha's son home.

At that time, the children who went to school with Chen Jiangchao, except for those who could not afford to marry a daughter-in-law in difficulty, many of the girls were already mothers of two or three children.

"Study hard, tell your mother if you can't learn."

Fan Lihua also instructed Chen Jiangchao as she did back then. Chen Jiangchao carried the green satchel given to him by Chen Yunchao, walked straight to the last seat against the wall and sat down, then smiled and nodded to his mother standing at the door with tears in her eyes, and waved her hand to signal her mother to leave. He ignored the commotion outside the window, took out the pencil case and the exercise book with his name written on it from his school bag, and then rested on the unpainted desk, quietly waiting for the teacher to arrive.