The moment he walked out of the house, the cold air with a trace of the smell of burning gunpowder directly penetrated into Li Jun's nostrils and throat, and Li Jun couldn't help coughing a few times.

"Li Xiang, you save some guns, it's not the New Year yet, it's over." Seeing that his younger brother wanted to get fireworks to set off again, Li Jun stopped him next to him.

The younger brother reluctantly took the fireworks in his hand back into the house.

"Xiaojun, don't be too strict with Xiaoxiang, your father is already strict enough with both of you, and now that you have grown up and become much more sensible, Xiaoxiang is still young, or greedy for fun, let him play more." Grandma walked out of her room and looked at the two grandchildren in front of her with love in her eyes.

Hearing Grandma's words, Li Xiang poked his head out of the room again, but when he saw Li Jun's eyes, he still shrank back again.

"Grandma, if you want to be playful, you can't finish the fireworks you bought before the New Year, and our family won't let them go when the New Year comes." Li Jun changed his grim expression when facing his younger brother, and walked towards the grandmother's house with a smile.

Grandma habitually raised one hand to stroke Li Jun's head, and the other hand pulled him into her room, and after letting Li Jun sit on the bed, grandma opened her cupboard and took out a banana-like cake from it and handed it to Li Jun.

"Grandma, my sister-in-law came to see you, did you bring Xiaoqian over? Has she grown taller again? Li Jun took the cake handed by his grandmother and asked hurriedly.

"You're such a clever ghost, you know it's your sister-in-law who brought the cake!" Grandma said with a smile.

"Of course, because my sister-in-law knows that you love this kind of cake, and she will buy it for you every time she comes." Li Jun took a bite of the sweet and delicious cake and said proudly.

"Grandma, if you are eccentric, I will also eat cake." The younger brother Li Xiang opened the curtain and walked into the house.

"How can grandma be eccentric? When your sister-in-law came yesterday, you ate several pieces for you at home, and Xiaoqian took you two. Grandma opened the cupboard again, took out the whole bag of cakes, and put it on the table.

"Xiao Qian likes to play with Xiao Xiang the most, why didn't she stay to play for a few days?" Li Jun looked at his younger brother who was gobbling up the cake and asked.

"My sister-in-law said that she would let her play in a few days, and she would be asked to go back to school to get her results just after the exam." The younger brother finished eating a piece of cake and touched his mouth and said.

"Yes, your sister-in-law also hopes that she can study hard, and the two of you will study hard, your father and your aunt didn't have the opportunity to go to school when they were young, otherwise your father wouldn't have returned to the village now. At that time, the leaders of the troops he was a soldier were reluctant to let him back, but it was a pity that his cultural level was too low. Grandma said, her eyes were full of pity and helplessness.

Hearing grandma talk about his father's old story again, the younger brother, who wanted to eat the cake again, withdrew his hand and turned around and left grandma's room.

"Alas, this little thought, he just doesn't like to listen to me talk about your father, he is afraid that I will urge him to study. Xiaojun, you've been learning very well since you were a child, but you're too playful, and now that you've grown up, I think you're gradually able to understand the hearts of some adults. Seeing that your parents are very close to your learning all day long, I can also relax a little, but in the end you have to rely on yourself to learn, grandma has no culture, and your parents have a low level of education, but we are all one mind, I hope you can have culture, in the future, you can be out of the ground, and you can live better and better by your own ability. Grandma said and patted Li Jun's shoulder gently, her eyes full of eagerness and love.

"Grandma, I understand your heart, I will also work hard, I used to be too playful, took a lot of detours, and caused a lot of trouble to my father, but I will not be like this in the future, I am constantly reflecting on myself." Li Jun's eyes were full of perseverance, and in the face of his relatives of the next generation, he also understood the old man's thoughts and her love for him.

"Our Xiao Jun has really grown up!" Grandma gently patted Li Jun's shoulder with a smile, her eyes full of satisfaction and appreciation.

"Xiao Jun, Xiao wants to eat, Xiao Jun, you come over first to help your grandma serve the meal." Mother's voice came from the kitchen.

"Grandma, I'll go serve you dinner." Li Jun stood up as he spoke, walked out of his grandmother's room and went directly to the kitchen.

Mother has given grandma rice and vegetables, there is also a cornmeal cake in the vegetable bowl, so many years grandma still likes to eat cornmeal and yam flour cakes, in her mind these are the most delicious things, far more prosperous than the current steamed buns, perhaps it is a habit formed in the past hard years, in that era people can eat cornmeal and yam noodles is already the best food.

Also in this era of gradual affluence in material life, the younger generation is far from being able to accept such coarse grains, Li Jun after experiencing a week of continuous cornmeal tortilla life in junior high school, whether it is tortillas or polenta are difficult to swallow, this situation not only happens to him alone, the junior high school classmates who have experienced a week together are almost as completely immune to cornmeal and other coarse grains as him.

After helping grandma bring the food to the room, Li Jun returned to his parents' room, his younger brother had already helped bring all the food to the table in his parents' room, his father and younger brother were already sitting on the edge of the table, and his mother didn't know what he was still busy packing. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and everything in the house has been scrubbed by my mother, and some meat such as fish and chicken used in the family for the New Year has been cleaned up by my father.

"What is my mom still packing?" Li Jun looked at his father and asked.

"I think I'm going to prepare fried tofu and meatballs!" Father lowered his head and took a sip of porridge and said.

"Then I'll finish eating and then do it, the rice will be cold for a while." As he spoke, Li Jun turned around and walked to the kitchen in the east room outside, and sure enough, he saw his mother standing in front of the kitchen board cutting tofu.

"Mom, let's eat first, the rice will be cold again after a while, I'll help you get it after eating." Li Jun stepped forward, took the knife from his mother's hand, and pulled his mother out of the kitchen.

"Okay, eat first, Xiaojun has grown up and knows that he feels sorry for his mother." Mother smiled and followed Li Jun out of the kitchen.

"Mom, I've always known that I feel sorry for you, haven't I been helping you with all kinds of work since I was a child? You keep saying that you don't have a daughter at home, so you use me as a daughter. Li Jun looked back at his mother dissatisfied.

The mother gently patted Li Jun's back with her hand behind the back, and said with a smile: "What a stupid child, isn't my mother joking with you?" Mom asks you again, did you chase girls in the class? ”

Hearing his mother's words, Li Jun's heart couldn't help but tremble, he didn't tell his parents about his grades when he came home, and they didn't ask, but the ups and downs in school were because of Fang Ning, although he no longer wanted to have too many emotional entanglements, but after all, his academic performance this time was not ideal, and his mother must have been worried about her studies.

Seeing Li Jun's hesitation, his mother didn't say anything more, opened the curtain of the north house and walked into the house, and Li Jun followed suit.

Sitting back next to the dining table, Li Jun didn't say much, lowered his head to eat, his mother washed her hands and sat at the table, and she didn't speak, and the family ate silently.

Out of the corner of his eye, Li Jun saw his father's inquiring look at his mother, and his mother just shook her head.

"Brother, when you went out in the morning, someone called to look for you." The younger brother didn't see anything wrong at all, and said directly to Li Jun after his mother sat down.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Li Jun didn't answer, but his mother asked directly.

"Mom, it's a girl, and her voice is pretty good, it seems to be called Yuan Yamin. Brother, do you know this person? The younger brother smiled wickedly, as if he had finally caught Li Jun's handle.

Li Jun's heart chuckled again, and he unconsciously turned his head to his mother, looking at whether the expression on his mother's face had changed a little, but his mother's face was still calm without a little ripple, and Li Jun was even more bottomless in his heart.

"Mom, Yamin, me and Yujun or Hongjing are a few of us who worship our brothers and sisters, and Yamin is our little sister." Li Jun hurriedly put the rice bowl on the table and explained nervously.

"Nonsense, a few of you boys almost made a mess of the school when they became brothers, and now there are brothers and sisters again." My father's face suddenly turned gloomy.

Looking at his father's appearance, his younger brother Li Xiang also put away the smug look just now, lowered his head and drank the porridge in the bowl and ran out of his parents' room, his father looked at Li Jun, who was still eating with his head down, and snorted coldly, and walked out of the room, leaving only his mother and Li Jun in the room.

Mother gently put the rice bowl on the table, patted Li Jun's shoulder with her hand, and said gently: "Xiaojun, you have been going to school and living outside since you were thirteen years old, and you often can't go home for a week or even two weeks. ”

"Mom, you don't, you've always been good to me, it's my own self-control that is sometimes too poor and causes you trouble." Li Jun also lowered his head a little ashamedly.

The mother sighed softly and said, "Child, as a mother, I hope you can grow up happily, and all we can give you now is the mother's care and love for her children." Your father and I are not educated, and I can't help you much in learning, but in terms of life, I hope you can be an upright person, be a self-motivated person, I don't want your future to be the same as us, to be a farmer who can only work hard, you should go out of our small village, a small county, to a bigger city to realize your better dreams. ”

When she said this, her mother was a little excited, paused and then said: "Xiaojun, it's still the same thing my mother always says, your grandfather and grandfather's family are poor, and they didn't leave us anything?" But we didn't stop trying to do a good job just because the old man didn't give us anything. Your father and I are both strong people, and we are not willing to be looked down upon by others, so your father gets up early every day and goes to work and work, although he can't see anything in a day, but after a long period of accumulation, we are living no worse than others. Your learning is the same, first of all, you must set your own learning goals, and then work hard little by little, learning is not achieved overnight, it requires you to continue to accumulate. ”

Li Jun raised his head and looked at his mother's anxious look, and finally mustered up the courage to say to her: "Mom, I'm sorry, I made you anxious, I really didn't do well in the final exam this time, I came back last night and I have already woken up to myself, I will also review well during this winter vacation, a lot of things have happened this semester, and they are all caused by my ignorance and impulsiveness." When I was in junior high school, I was in early love, and some things happened in high school that shouldn't have happened, but now I have taken these very lightly, a man who has not succeeded, and no future is not qualified to talk about feelings, you can rest assured, in the future high school, I will no longer easily have emotional entanglements with girls, I will use more time to study harder. ”

Listening to Li Jun's words, the expression on the mother's face finally relaxed, for every mother, the most gratifying thing is that the child can listen to his own words, can understand his own mood, and more importantly, the child can understand how to achieve his future.