Chapter 7 It is difficult for every family to recite the scriptures
As the saying goes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. The old man of the Qin family wants to level out a bowl of water and treat his three sons equally, but Qin Hancheng and Qin Hanliang, the brothers, both have their own families and live very close to each other, and there is always a little contradiction between the two ladies and the children of the two families.
Qin Hanliang is the eldest and has been busy with his father since he was a child, and he feels that he has contributed a lot to this family. He had a slight complaint about the two brothers, because the second and third children had stayed abroad, wandered outside for several years, squandered a lot of money, and when they came back, they could not help the family much.
Qin Hancheng works in a bank, wears well-dressed leather shoes, and looks very beautiful, but the salary is counted, although he is not short of money, but he does not have too much savings. He looked at his eldest brother's family, and his clothes were not bad, and sometimes he wondered if his eldest brother had enriched himself when running a yarn factory. Of course, he will not voice such suspicions.
The two brothers had a little bit of a problem, but when they got to the two daughters-in-law, the contradiction was magnified.
The eldest young grandmother Hu Ying did not go to Western school, only went to a private school for a few years, she stayed at home all day to watch the children, and saw the second young grandmother Zhu Wan in and out, having a serious job outside, and a respected doctor, she naturally felt a little pantothenic acid in her heart.
Qin Di was separated by two houses, more than once, heard the eldest aunt complaining at home, with all kinds of ridicule and sarcasm, saying that Zhu Wan was not good, she only gave birth to a son, or a sick seedling, a half-hanger, a big fool, a white-eyed wolf, spent countless money, took I don't know how much medicine, and finally got better, but it didn't make people worry, and offended Mr. Qian with a casual word, and I don't know how much chaos it will add to the family in the future.
In terms of knowledge, Hu Ying is not as good as Zhu Wan, but when it comes to having children, she is much stronger than Zhu Wan! She has three sons and three daughters, and Zhu Wan only has one son and two daughters. So Hu Ying has confidence, in other words, it is called "bursting with combat effectiveness".
And Zhu Wan's vision is very wide, and she is not limited to her family. She is an intellectual woman, she is too busy with work, and she is too lazy to worry about her sister-in-law, so the two of them did not face each other, but it is always inevitable to worry in private.
For example, in August of this year, Qin Zhaoan, the elder brother of the old man Qin Zhaoji, came over from Ningbo with two family members.
The Qin family naturally held a banquet to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the eldest uncle.
There were two tables for the feast, one for adults and one for children.
It stands to reason that women don't go to the table and can only mix with children, but Zhu Wan went to the main table! The reason is that Qin Zhaoan is not in good health, and this time he came to the magic capital mainly to see a doctor, so he naturally counted on Zhu Wan to help.
Qin Di was sitting in a position that happened to be facing his aunt, and he could see that the other party's eyes were on fire.
Sure enough, half of the banquet was eaten, Hu Ying heard that the people over there kept praising Zhu Wan for being smart and capable, and her heart became more and more angry, and then she saw that Qin Di's eating speed was fast, as if the wind was whirlwind, and the six-year-old child ate two big bowls in a while, and the dishes on the table were swept away, and she suddenly added fuel to the fire!
Hu Ying couldn't suppress his anger, stared at Qin Di with his eyes, and said, "Ah Di, although you are young, you also have to follow the rules." We are a big family, eat elegantly, don't be like a starving ghost!"
Qin Di just let out a soft "um", and his movements were faster.
"Well, this old turtle is good, although it doesn't have any meat, but it's a big supplement! Auntie, you should lose weight! I'll drink this soup for you, okay?"
The three cousins, plus the cousin and the cousin, all stared at each other with big eyes.
Eight-year-old Qin Ling was a little scared, and gently pulled Qin Di's sleeve: "Brother, don't eat, let's go home and eat." ”
Qin Di said: "This is our home, where are we going back?"
Hu Ying was so angry that she was panting, she couldn't help it, so she simply threw away the chopsticks and didn't eat them.
Qin Di ate three bowls of rice at a very fast speed, and then walked away.
Back in his room, he could still hear the sound of Hu Ying gritting his teeth and the words of Qin Zhaoan, the eldest uncle at the main table.
Qin Zhaoan said that there will be too much rain this year and the harvest will not be good, and I am afraid that there will be a grain shortage next year.
Qin Di understands the history of the Republic of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and knows that since 1906, there have been natural disasters in the following years, coupled with the oppression of the people by the Qing court, and the water conservancy facilities cannot keep up, resulting in an increasingly serious food shortage. The famine culminated in 1910, followed by the Xinhai Revolution. Of course, this was only the first wave of the Great Famine, followed by the second and third waves. It can be said that China, which is suffering deeply, is about to begin a tragic day.
If he had enough funds and was older, Qin Di would like to set up a grain store to import grain from abroad and sell it in the mainland. However, reselling grain is not a huge profit, and it costs a lot of manpower and material resources, and it may even be robbed by the victims when it catches up with the riots.
When the banquet was over, the parents returned.
Qin Di asked Qin Hancheng: "Grandpa said that there was a famine, why didn't our family set up a grain store? ”
Qin Hancheng explained with a smile: "No! Your lord just wants to expand the operation of the yarn factory." As the saying goes, there is a specialization in the art industry, and we can only do one line. ”
Mother Zhu Wan explained: "If we don't get your father's support, our family doesn't have enough funds! Even if we sell it, we can only make up seven or eight thousand oceans." Do you calculate, rice costs four yuan a stone, eight thousand oceans, how many stones can be sold?"
Qin Di said: "Two thousand stones! One stone is equal to one hundred catties, and two thousand stones are equal to one hundred tons." ”
Qin Han admitted: "Grain transportation is very troublesome, the scale is not enough, and you can't make money. ”
Qin Di thought about it, because 100 tons of grain was not enough to load a ship, and if he wanted to go to the ocean, he would have to have to have to be thousands of tons. In these years, the relatively large ships have reached tens of thousands of tons.
The days passed, and two years passed in a blink of an eye, Qin Di was eight years old, because he often took medicine, coupled with breathing and breathing, absorbing the faint purple qi in the sun, his body became stronger and stronger.
During this period, Qin Hancheng wanted to send him to the school, but Qin Di never refused.
Qin Hancheng had no choice but to beat him or scold, so he could only babble: "How can a child of a rich family not go to school? If you don't study, you are illiterate, and you won't be able to do great things in the future...... You know that when you are idle in the sun, you don't know how much time you have...... I want your father and me to get up and sleep in the middle of the night and study hard...... When I went to the UK, I had to work hard to learn English......"
Qin Di was tired of listening to it, and threw over a copy of "Euclidean Geometry": "You always have a problem, if you can stump me, I will go to read." ”
Qin Hancheng studied economics, and the mathematics was just so-so, he racked his brains to come up with a problem, but his son solved it in three or two!
In this way, he had nothing to say, so he could only let Qin Di stay at home.
Mother Zhu Wan would not force her son to enroll, because she learned from her father that Qin Di had even completed her high school courses by herself, and she didn't need to enroll at all, and when she was older in the future, she could just take the exam directly.
The old man Qin Zhaoji has worked hard all his life and has been doing business honestly, but he only believes that "only by suffering hardship can he become a superior person", and does not believe in the nonsense that "he is born to know"! He feels that Qin Di is not doing his job properly, and he spends his time in vain, and if he continues to develop like this, he will inevitably be a bastard thing walking around the streets with cages and birds in the future.