Chapter 123: Cultivating a Nephew Carefully
Fang Caihe can be said to have lost very completely in this matter, so he was a little unconvinced, but he was helpless. Once I happened to meet the eldest son-in-law of the Fang family in the market, I brought up the matter of Bao Yumei's land again. The eldest son-in-law scolded these two women for being pigs, saying that he didn't know about it until now, and if Fang Caihe had told him earlier, Bao Yumei would not have been able to replace it even if she spent the most money. After all, he has two nephews who will need to use land to build a house in the future.
Xu Yunqin didn't interfere too much in Bao Yumei's exchange of land from the Fang family, but he felt very uncomfortable seeing these two incompetent sisters signing, and he couldn't clash with them face to face. If he didn't sign, he also had another consideration, that is, the two grandsons of the Fang family would not complain about him when they grew up in the future, and everything was their aunt's fault.
Xu Yunqin still takes care of Fang Yunqing, and Fang Yunqing can still drink a cup of hot rice wine every night. Fang Yunqing rarely went out for a stroll, unless someone tempted him to drink there. Xu Yunqin no longer has time to go out to work, the Fang family's land needs to be cultivated, and the two nephews must be taken care of at all times. In this way, Yun Qin could only work on the land non-stop, and had to find time to do some short-term work in the neighborhood to supplement the family.
He wrapped his only best pair of leather shoes in newspaper, put them in a cupboard and hid them, and usually wore some shabby clothes and shoes and socks. On this day, he needed to go out to visit a friend, so he went to the cupboard to look for leather shoes, but he couldn't find them, and he had nowhere to ask, so he had to wear them out to meet friends as usual. My friend was a former classmate, and when I saw him dressed in tatters, I couldn't help but count him down a few words, saying that the hardest thing was to live without a decent set of 'outfits'. criticized him for finding a partner to come over, Xu Yunqin smiled and said: "I have two children now, what else are you looking for?" This classmate was confused, and later learned what happened, began to sympathize with him and admire him, and had some respect for him, and then simply went to buy a pair of leather shoes and gave them to him. Yun Qin finally found his leather shoes from the freezer in the refrigerator, and what made Yun Qin cry and laugh was that the leather shoes had already been frozen and covered with frost.
Yunqin couldn't afford to buy an air conditioner, so he only bought an electric fan for his two nephews. The wind coming out of the electric fan is all hot air, so Yun Qin tried to put a few basins of ice water in the room to lower the temperature. Fang Yunqing was sometimes careless, always knocking the water on the ground, making the whole floor slippery. Several times his grandson slipped and fell to the ground crying, Fang Yunqing didn't pay attention to them.
Xu Yunqin considered the future of his two nephews, so he intended to start enlightening his nephews who were still young. He rarely goes out to socialize now, especially at night, when he encloses his two nephews under the incandescent lamp in his room and teaches them to read pictures and do math problems.
Fang Qiuping's son is called Fang Jiyong, and he is only five years old this year. Fang Qiuxiang's son is called Fang Ji'an, and he is three years old this year. Fang Yunqing was seventy-five years old at this time.
Xu Yunqin found a few primary school textbooks, regardless of whether these textbooks were outdated or not, he couldn't care about them anyway, he taught Fang Jiyong and Fang Ji'an how to read the pinyin alphabet according to the most basic content in these textbooks. Although his Mandarin is not accurate, he teaches very carefully and carefully, and his two nephews also learn very hard.
Xu Yunqin will also collect the story books that other children in the village have read and used to collect one by one, so that the brothers can read them carefully.
Usually he would make up his own stories to tell them.
When Fang Jiyong was eight years old and went to elementary school, Xu Yunqin asked Fang Ji'an to learn from his brother. Because Fang Jiyong had learned the pinyin alphabet with Xu Yunqin earlier, although Xu Yunqin had many mistakes in teaching, Fang Jiyong had a good comprehension, and he could quickly correct the mistakes taught by his uncle, and taught the accurate pronunciation to his younger brother Fang Ji'an. Yun Qin has a lot of confidence in Ji Yong, and pins all his hopes on him, and is very strict with the two brothers in their studies, and they dare not relax for a moment in their studies.
Xu Yunqin is usually very busy, so Fang Jiyong has already begun to participate in some simple housework when he is less than ten years old. After Fang Jiyong finishes his homework, he must do housework such as sweeping the floor and washing dishes. Fang Ji'an is also smart, well-behaved and sensible.
Whenever his brother Fang Jiyong was doing his homework, he would sit quietly beside him without making noise, and sometimes accompany his brother to do some small work. Xu Yunqin personally supervised their learning at any time, and Fang Jiyong's study was even more meticulous and very strict.
Xu Yunqin is usually not good at talking and laughing, which gives the children a sense of majesty. But Xu Yunqin was very able to find some villain books for them to read and watch to broaden their knowledge and horizons. I will also make up some short stories to increase children's interest in reading. It's fun and wonderful to learn. Fang Jiyong did well in primary and junior high school, and under his influence, six-year-old Kean is also full of expectations for studying.
Fang Yunqing died at midnight a month after his seventy-eighth birthday, ending his mediocre and difficult life. No one commented on his death, and the death of an old man like him in the vast countryside was a relief for the family and the people of the clan.
At the funeral, except for the two daughters who cried so much, no third person left even tears of pity or sympathy, and they all felt that Fang Yunqing's death was an inevitable result or a real relief.
Yun Qin simply handled Fang Yunqing's funeral and sent his father-in-law on his last journey, which can also be said to have liberated him from a lot of time constraints, Fang Yunqing is gone, and he can do a lot of things at the same time. There is another dream in Yun Qin's heart that he has never told anyone, that is, he hopes to find Wu Lanlan in his lifetime. No matter Wu Lanlan is now floating to the ends of the earth, as long as she is still alive, he is confident that he will be able to find her one day. For so many years, there has been no trace of information about Wu Lanlan.
Some people say that Wu Lanlan has gone completely crazy, lost her memory and can't recognize people; Some people say that Wu Lanlan has already died, and it is very likely that she committed suicide; Some people also say that after Wu Lanlan remarried and had her own new home, she began to go incognito.
For all these rumors, Xu Yunqin never believed it. The only thing he felt was that Wu Lanlan was most likely to settle in a certain temple or some Taoist temple. But this is just a kind of reasoning on his part, he can't go out to find her yet, he thinks in his dreams that Wu Lanlan will be fine. Undoubtedly, he is very thoughtful and sympathetic to Wu Lanlan.
Wu Lanlan's fate was much more tragic than that of Xu Yunqin. Xu Yunqin has only lost a wife and a home; And Wu Lanlan has not had a good life since she married into the Fang family: after her mother-in-law died soon, then her husband began to get sick, treated, and died, her daughter had a car accident, and her brother-in-law deceived his wife and was retaliated by the woman's family, and then fell ill and died, and her daughter finally committed suicide by drinking medicine. All these encounters befell her, a weak woman, even if she was the strongest and bravest, what could she do? Anyone will be knocked down by such bad news and become crazy.
When Fang Jiyong was in junior high school, he was admitted to a central school in the county, although the cost of studying in the city was much higher than in the countryside. But Xu Yunqin's hard work in the past few years has not been in vain, he is happy to increase his nephew's expenses, he feels that his hardest and most tiring expenses are worth it.
Fang Jiyong's fighting made Xu Yunqin see the last glimmer of hope for the Fang family, this may be the spark of the Fang family, this may be the dawn of the Fang family, the Fang family has this kind of spark of hope, in order to have light and hope, even if he Xu Yunqin is tired to death, it is worth it.
Now, Fang Ke'an has also begun to study in elementary school. Xu Yunqin couldn't leave the Fang family to go out to find Wu Lanlan's job, but Xu Yunqin had already begun to prepare for this plan.
Xu Yunqin's ideological pressure has gradually eased, and this is a good start. Xu Yunqin, who has carried the heavy burden of so many years, has also been unloaded with the gradual growth of several children of the Fang family. His aspirations also began to take a big step from planning to practice. But at this moment, there is still no immediate action, these two children are still very weak and delicate, and they need to be carefully cared for by him for a few years.
During this period, Xu Yunqin was also dragged on a blind date. When he reported his situation truthfully, the woman had already fled without a trace. Xu Yunqin didn't care about these at all, and even he deliberately exaggerated his burden, because such a blind date was of no practical significance to Yunqin. Rather than letting yourself waste other people's youth, it is better to let others know the difficulties and retreat sooner. In this way, even the kind-hearted people who are most willing to conjure Xu Yunqin are in vain. In this way, even being a matchmaker avoided Xu Yunqin far away.
Fang Jiyong is indeed very competitive, and his junior high school grades are among the best, and he was admitted to the county key high school, and after three years of high school, he took the college entrance examination again.
Xu Yunqin was so excited that he cried the moment he received the college admission letter, Fang Jiyong thought that his uncle had no money to let him go to college, so he came over and said to Xu Yunqin silently: "Uncle, don't be sad, I decided that I won't go to this school, I have grown up, and in the second half of the year, I will go out to work." ”
Xu Yunqin raised his hand and slapped Fang Jiyong's face with a "snap": "Jiyong, you are messing around, who is sad, who allows you to go out to work now?" Listen to me, not only are you going to college, but you must continue to work hard in school, this is your uncle's happiest and happiest moment in more than ten years, don't let me down on my expectations. ”
When Fang Ji'an was in junior high school, the school had already required all his classmates to live on campus. In this way, Xu Yunqin could squeeze out time for free disposal, and he remembered that he had to go out to find Wu Lanlan. In the past few days, I got the information from my cousin that Yu Caibao had found another woman to live a small life. Since Wu Lanlan's disappearance, Yu Caibao returned home from Shanghu Village and lived alone at home for a long time. Yu Caibao doesn't have much ability, and he is very lazy, although he has found another woman to live, but his life is also very difficult. That woman is not a very smart kind of woman, and it is common for the two to quarrel and scold. Xu Yunqin still felt that he would go to Yu Caibao's house in the hope of getting some useful information from him.