Zhou Rui’s house is on the other side, so he has to walk back for a while.

After passing Pingping Fruit and Vegetable Store, Sichuan Style Stir Fry, Video Store, and Barber Shop again, Zhou Rui turned into a dark alley.

In 2009, Zhou Rui's home was in a separate residential building along this alley.

This is not a community, there is no name, only the house number.

This is the house that my grandfather was assigned by his work unit. It has only four floors and is quite old. However, he is not familiar with the neighbors here because he and his mother moved here after his parents divorced.

The stairs in the old house are very long, semi-open, and go back and forth from left to right, passing through the windows of almost every household. Residents cook and exhaust smoke directly into the corridor, so from the wall to the handrail

, almost all stained with thick oil stains.

The only advantage is that you can easily tell who cooks delicious food and who is cooking traditional Chinese medicine.

Taking out the medicine key and opening the door, Zhou Rui put his schoolbag on the shoe cabinet, and his mother's familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from inside.

"Xiao Rui is back? It's a bit late today?"

Yao Peili, Zhou Rui’s mother.

At this time, she was watching TV on the sofa. There were a few cold dishes on the dining table. When her mother heard the commotion, she began to prepare to help Zhou Rui heat the meal.

She came home late in her senior year of high school, but Yao Peili never let Zhou Rui hesitate when eating. Whenever she had time, she would cook it by herself, thinking that the food outside was unhygienic.

Zhou Rui looked at his mother's back, which was much taller and healthier than it would have been a dozen years later, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He comes from a single-parent family, and his parents divorced when he was in elementary school and entering junior high school.

My mother works in the Qinghe County Culture and Tourism Bureau, with a low but stable position. My father is in his own business and was once rich, but it has become worse and worse in recent years.

Zhou Rui was still young when they got divorced, and adults wouldn't tell him many things in detail. It wasn't until later in life when his uncle drank too much that he told Zhou Rui the truth.

At that time, my father came out of a state-owned enterprise and set up his own factory to do business. He didn't make much money, but his temper became wild. He had all kinds of extravagant social activities, which made my mother, who came from an ordinary family and had a conservative upbringing, very unhappy. She often went to karaoke bars and dance halls to make money.

People quarrel every day.

In the end, I don’t know which quarrel led to the conflict escalating, and the two divorced out of anger.

Because his father's behavior was indeed inappropriate, his mother had a stable job to support Zhou Rui, and his uncle worked in the Qinghe County Court...

So Zhou Rui was sentenced to live with his mother.

His father, Zhou Weigang, has never remarried and has no other children. He has been in business for a few years and has made profits and losses. He is no longer as dissolute as he was when he was young. He often appears in the lives of mother and son every now and then in the name of visiting Zhou Rui.

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At that time, Zhou Rui didn't understand and couldn't tell the difference.

But after rebirth, I recalled that my mother didn't seem to be too resistant to my father's appearance. Although she didn't say anything nice, she wasn't disgusted either...

In fact, the two of them have some signs of getting back together.

It's just that we didn't really get to this point in the previous life... because Zhou Weigang's factory would soon close down... and owe a lot of debt.

Zhou Rui took a deep breath, thinking that the problems must be solved one by one.

After rebirth, everything is possible, and all regrets can be made up for.

This may be the meaning of his return to the past.

Yao Peili: "Why are you staring at me? Go wash your hands and heat them up immediately."

Zhou Rui smiled and said: "Okay, what are you going to eat today?"

"Steamed fish and fried kale."

Zhou Rui moved his index finger, washed his hands quickly and sat at the dining table waiting to be fed.

"How was school today?" Yao Peili placed the meal in front of Zhou Rui: "Eat quickly, go eat and do your homework."

Zhou Rui said while eating: "It's just those things, do the questions and papers every day."

Yao Peili smiled and said: "You did well in the last monthly exam. The teacher praised you. You ranked 12th in the class. Let's keep up the good work. It's the last two months. Don't be distracted by other things and study hard."

Zhou Rui lowered his head with a guilty conscience...If your son takes the exam now, I'm afraid his score will be the last in the grade.

When Zhou Rui was in his freshman and sophomore years of high school, he was not focused on studying. He was running around on the court and in Internet cafes every day. In his senior year of high school, he suddenly changed his ways and climbed to his current position step by step.

In the eyes of Yao Peili and other teachers, Zhou Rui is a typical prodigal son who returns. He won't have a big problem getting into college in the future. If he works hard, he might be able to get into a key position.

For a county-level high school, this is already a very good result. You can’t expect everyone to be Li Wenqian.

Many people, including Yao Peili, are curious about why Zhou Rui repented. In fact, only Zhou Rui himself knows the real reason.

Zhou Rui skipped the evening self-study one day after school, went to the Internet cafe and played for several hours, yelling with a group of friends, and then returned home with the smell of cigarette smoke all over his body. He was going to lie that he came back late because he was late during the evening self-study.

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But that day, my mother came back from working overtime until very late. She was tired and tired, but she still insisted on cooking for Zhou Rui, and she kept blaming herself while doing it.

He said that he would leave all the things in life to his mother. You are in your senior year of high school and you are under a lot of pressure to study. Eat something good.

Zhou Rui wanted to slap himself.

After that, I locked myself in the room and felt that I was really nothing.

It’s a small thing, but it’s the starting point for Zhou Rui to catch up.

But looking at it now, the results of high school student Zhou Rui's hard work in the past year... seem to be ruined by him, a reborn...

I won’t say any more. I’ll go check out the entries as soon as I finish eating. Time is running out!

"By the way, has your dad contacted you recently?"

After Zhou Rui got up, his mother seemed to have mentioned it accidentally.

Zhou Rui shook his head. He couldn't remember clearly and could only say that he didn't.

"This guy has been missing for half a month, forget it, go back to your room and do your homework, I will take care of it."

Zhou Rui was thoughtful... There was a problem in his father's factory, and it might have started from now on, but he didn't notice it back then.

Suddenly, Zhou Rui saw a business card on the table. He looked at it and saw that it was a real estate agency!

An extremely important memory emerged in Zhou Rui's mind.

"Mom...where did this card...come from?"

Yao Peili picked up the business card and put it in the remote control box aside. She hesitated and said:

"I didn't want to distract you by telling you, but it doesn't matter when I find out. This house was left by your grandfather. It has been built for decades. The structure is not good and it is old. I am going to wait for you to go to college.

, just sell this one, add some more money, and buy an elevator room in a new community."

Zhou Rui thought: This is indeed the case!

Yao Peili said while clearing the dishes:

"Now, not only in big cities, but also in Qinghe County, houses are priced one day at a time. Our family can still afford to change the house now, but it won't be possible if we wait two years. I will just have to deal with it again in this life. When I get old,

After all, there is an elevator, right?"

Although Zhou Rui is only a high school student, there are only two mother and son in the family. Yao Peili is willing to discuss such a big matter with her son. She didn't say it before because she was afraid that Zhou Rui would be distracted.

In her opinion, this is a good thing. After all, Zhou Rui often complained about the old building's poor sound insulation and poor location.

If it weren't for the college entrance examination approaching, she would even want to quickly change the house. After all, house prices are rising every day, and within a few months, her little savings may not be enough.

However, Zhou Rui knew that selling this old house would cause his mother to lose a very important opportunity.
Chapter completed!