Chapter 24: The Toad Surprises the Cicada
Li Qin showed an extremely embarrassed expression.
In normal times, she would really agree to it, but now, it doesn't work.
"Chunmei. Li Qin said apologetically: "You and Binzi think about Xiao Shuo, my sister is really grateful in my heart, but, but Xiao Shuo ...... him" After a pause, Li Qin said helplessly: "He has to go to college this year." ”
"What?" Feng Chunmei was stunned.
Downstairs and in the hall, everyone showed a look of surprise, and then looked at each other, some suspected that they had heard it wrong, and some felt that Li Qin was really confused, and it was understandable that they wanted to refuse Feng Chunmei, so they could find a reasonable excuse.
Wen Shuo is going to college......
You have to pass the test.
Obviously, Feng Chunmei also thought so, her previous intimate and enthusiastic expression disappeared in an instant, and she pursed her lips and said disdainfully: "Second sister, I have always felt that you are not a person who tells lies and big words, so you just said that Wen Shuo is going to college, you must have been deceived by him, and he himself told you that he is going to college this year, right?" Speaking of this, Feng Chunmei showed a disgusted expression and said: "That kid has a flamboyant tongue every day, and it's not a shame to pick up rags outside...... I said, Second Sister, how do you educate your children? Do you really believe what he says? Alas!"
Li Bin frowned in the room and said, "Second sister, where is Xiao Shuo, why didn't he come?"
Li Qin, who was struggling with embarrassment, hurriedly looked at his younger brother and said: "The old workshop of the cotton mill is going to be demolished today, he made an appointment with someone to go there, and he picked up waste there, saying that the demolition of the workshop will produce a lot of scrap steel bars and scrap iron......
"How much money can you earn by picking up rags and paid goods?" Li Bin frowned and said, "If you turn around and let him follow me, can you still treat him badly?"
Li Bin's words are sincere.
If it weren't for his wife's strict management over the years, and his own fleet transportation, he would indeed need his wife's relatives in the road administration and traffic police force to take care of him, Li Bin would have already helped the second sister, so that the second sister and his nephew would not have lived a tight life in the past few years.
This time, it was decided to let Wen Shuo follow the car, which was also discussed by him and his wife. Although Li Bin knows that the reason why his wife took the initiative to let Wen Shuo come with the car is that she wants to find a trustworthy person to follow the car without spending money, distribute goods outside, etc., and Wen Shuo, the child, is known for his boldness, and he can fight hard, and he has a lot of eyes - the freight car is running outside, God knows what accidents will be encountered, and with Wen Shuo's own family who follows the car, there can be more protection if something happens.
Li Bin pondered that as long as his nephew followed the car, he would have the opportunity to give his nephew some subsidies from time to time, and his wife would not know about it.
didn't think about it, but the second sister refused.
Li Bin was a little unhappy, thinking to himself that the second sister didn't trust me so much?
"No, everyone has already refused, are you still begging people to come with a shy face?" Feng Chunmei said angrily with a straight face, not caring about the current occasion, whether it was embarrassing for so many hosts and guests to be here, she glared at her husband fiercely, and then looked at Li Qin, and said: "The two of us are kind enough to be treated as donkey liver and lungs, and if we are not happy, we can just say it, and even use what we want to go to college as an excuse, it's ridiculous!"
"Chunmei, Xiaobin, this is true......" Li Qin didn't want to make the scene too embarrassing at her sister's house, and said: "Otherwise, I'll go back to Xiaoshuo early after dinner and ask him how many points he scored, if he doesn't do well, let's make a decision, okay?"
"There's no need!" Feng Chunmei snorted coldly - she thought that Li Qin was deliberately not giving her face, today she played the family card, and her attitude was very sincere, and she was rejected in public, which made Feng Chunmei extremely angry - in the past few years, she has never been rejected in the interaction between relatives and friends.
In the corridor downstairs and in the living room of the hall, the atmosphere froze for a while, and the scene was quite embarrassing.
Hu Junhai, the head of the house sitting on the sofa, was unhappy, angrily snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and shouted outside: "What time is it, why don't you hurry up and cook, what's the matter?"
Li Xiang hurriedly smiled and picked up the selected dishes, and said, "Oh, I forgot to cook when I started chatting, Qin, go stir-fry with me." ”
"Hey. Embarrassed, Li Qin hurriedly got up and went to the kitchen.
As the saying goes, if you can't provoke it, you can afford to hide......
Feng Chunmei didn't care about other people's thoughts at all, and said angrily: "They are all their own relatives, who doesn't know who has a few catties and a few taels?
"Chunmei, don't you say a word! It's not over yet?" Li Bin frowned and scolded in the room.
"What's wrong?" Feng Chunmei was not afraid of her husband, glared and said: "I persuaded her at the beginning, don't let Wen Shuo go to high school, it's just a waste of money, stay at home for three years and don't earn money, at least you can save tuition." I really don't know what she thinks in her heart, she is so poor that she can't eat, she doesn't pay back the money she owes others, and she lets her son go to high ......school."
Li Bin said angrily: "The child was admitted to the first middle school, can I not let the child go to school?"
"What's wrong with the entrance examination, it's not just enough for the second batch of scores, do you really think that the old Wen family can produce a college student? Don't see if there is that grass growing on the ancestral grave!" Feng Chunmei's voice shouted higher and higher, causing everyone to be embarrassed.
Advise?
How to persuade?
No one wants to provoke such a spicy master, not to mention, people still have money and wealth.
At this moment, a petite girl wearing glasses, a blue short-sleeved T-shirt, and a white long skirt walked in briskly with a happy face, first shouting to Hu Junying Mom, and then bowing slightly to Feng Chunmei very politely: "Hello cousin." ”
It is Hu Junying's daughter Chen Nan.
Hu Junying looked at her daughter's expression and knew that she should do well in the exam, so she hurriedly asked, "Nannan, how many points did you score?"
"560 points. Chen Nan said happily: "It should be enough for the undergraduate line." ”
"Ah, that's great, that's great. Hu Junying smiled.
Hearing Chen Nan's college entrance examination results, everyone began to congratulate their families - the university has not expanded its enrollment in recent years, and the comprehensive level of education in high schools in ordinary counties is generally low in terms of hardware and software, so even if it is a child in the city, it is a very long-faced thing to be admitted to university, let alone in the countryside.
People's mood is easily affected and infected by the external environment, Feng Chunmei is also in a much better mood because of the news that Chen Nan's college entrance examination results are good, but she still doesn't forget to say loudly to the kitchen of the East House: "Look at Nan Nan, this is the material for going to college, people are beautiful, smart when they are young, and they are very sensible!"
After speaking, she looked at Chen Nan who showed a shy expression again, and said: "Nan Nan, don't you know, Wen Shuo still wants to go to college, you said, if he can be admitted to university, then won't university become a broken kiln that everyone can enter." ”
Chen Nan was stunned for a moment, then stood up from the small bench with a somewhat strange expression, looked around, and said, "Didn't Wen Shuo come?"
"No, Brother Shuo has something to do today. Li Congwen said beside him.
"He, why is he embarrassed to come?" Feng Chunmei gloated and sneered: "Bragging that he can be admitted to college, only his mother believes it, no, when his son doesn't dare to come, his mother is not ashamed, and he said it in front of his relatives." ”
In the kitchen.
Li Qin was so angry that she trembled, according to her temper, which was still quite spicy, she would have quarreled with others a long time ago, but this is her brother and daughter-in-law.
If you don't think about others, you have to think about your brother's face.
Besides, today is a guest at the eldest sister's house, relatives and friends are there, and if it really quarrels, isn't it adding to the blockage of the eldest sister and brother-in-law?
After thinking about it, Li Qin was so aggrieved that she burst into tears.
Li Xiang shook her head helplessly beside her, and could only comfort her sister softly, and actually blamed her a little in her heart - in the eyes of her relatives, although Wen Shuo's conduct was not bad, his academic performance was average, and it was impossible to be admitted to university. And in fact, relatively precocious young people, in the eyes of ordinary adults, not only will not leave a good impression, on the contrary, they often create a bad impression of being flamboyant and unstable, pretending to talk big.
Therefore, Li Xiang also thinks that the second sister should not believe Wen Shuo's boasting.
But as the old saying goes, "The crops are good in other people's fields, and the children are good in their own fields." So you can't completely blame Li Qin for mocking her.
At this time, Chen Nan, after being stunned for a while, ignored Feng Chunmei's words, she walked quickly to the kitchen door, looked at Li Qin who was crying silently in front of the stove, and said suspiciously: "Cousin, don't you know Wen Shuo's results?"
"Huh?" Li Qin quickly wiped away her tears, turned her head to show a reluctant smile, and said, "I don't know, Wen Shuo, he went to school today to ask for the scores, didn't I come to the meeting, I haven't seen him yet." ”
"Oops!" Chen Nan clenched his fists, and couldn't help jumping, like the only little girl who knew a big secret, showing a happy and excited expression, even happier than when he said his results just now, and almost shouted loudly: "Oh my God, you don't even know that he, he scored 681 points in the exam!"
Without waiting for everyone to come back to their senses, Chen Nan turned his head and said excitedly to everyone: "Our head teacher said that Wen Shuo is the champion of the college entrance examination in the county and the city this year, and maybe he will become the champion of liberal arts in the province!"
In the scorching summer, the small courtyard of the farmhouse, which was still lively and noisy before, instantly quieted down.
The top student in the college entrance examination?!
Wen Shuo?!
This......
Li Qin looked at her sister, who was also looking at her in a daze with a stir-fry pot in her hand, so Li Qin looked at Chen Nan, who was standing outside the door with a red face and a happy face, and asked softly in a trembling voice: "Nan Nan, you, what you said is true?"
"It's true!" Chen Nan said excitedly: "When I was in school, many teachers and school leaders, as well as students who heard the news, were discussing whether Wen Shuo could become the top liberal arts student in the provincial college entrance examination. ”
"Then, what kind of university can he go to?" asked Li Qin with a somewhat sluggish expression.
"Cousin, look at what you asked, he has such a high score, you can choose what university you want to go to, Beijing University, Huaqing, Fudan ......"
Li Qin lowered her head, she didn't know what to ask for a while, and she didn't know what to think about anymore, she just washed the vegetables vigorously, tears dripping from the corners of her eyes, but as if she tasted, she muttered in her mouth: "Really, this is really admitted to college, I Jiashuo, why did he get admitted to college......"