"Dad, you're back!" Hearing the voices at the door of the courtyard, Zhan Feiyu ran over with his short legs and said in a clear voice, "Dad, I can recite the "Three Character Classic" the most and most fluently.
It’s almost time to finish memorizing it!”
Not caring about the mud on Boss Zhan's body, Zhan Feiyu hugged Boss Zhan's legs, tilted his head and grinned, his big black eyes full of coquettishness begging for praise.
Boss Zhan's cold expression softened and he even laughed. He touched Zhan Feiyu's little head with his rough hands and said, "Well done, little fish!"
Zhan Feiyu smiled so hard that his eyes were closed, but he glanced over from the corner of his eye and saw his second uncle unloading the bullock cart without even looking at him.
"Hey, Xiaoyu is so smart, Erlang, your little sister has outdone you!" Zhan Laosan, who washed his face with well water in the yard, laughed, patted his son on the shoulder, and then picked up Zhan Feiyu.
Gao Gao said, "When Xiaoyu goes to private school, maybe she can bring back a female scholar for our Lao Zhan family!"
After being lifted up by his uncle, Zhan Feiyu looked at his second uncle again, and his expression darkened for a moment.
In the past few days, the Zhan family has been paying attention to the progress of their three children's endorsement. Sanlang was wild-tempered and impatient. He carried the back and forgot the front. The second aunt was so angry that she beat Sanlang several times. Although the second uncle didn't say
What, but his face was always ugly. Zhan Feiyu had a hunch that the second uncle and second aunt must have some tricks up their sleeves.
At night, after taking a bath and sitting on the bed, Zhan Feiyu recited the "Three Character Classic" he had learned during the day. Then he looked at Li who was wiping his mat and said, "I recite the most, mother, do you think I can do it?"
Going to private school?"
With her back to her daughter, Mrs. Li froze in her movements of wiping the mat. She wiped it quickly a few times and looked back at her daughter who was sitting on the stool with her short legs dangling.
Under the dim light of the candle, Zhan Feiyu's hair was disheveled, and his small face was white and tender. He looked at her with bright eyes, so cute and cute that Li felt her heart soften.
Mrs. Li threw the cloth in her hand into the wooden basin and glanced at Zhan Dalang's study room in the yard through the window paper. Her always kind expression was a bit colder, "Xiaoyu, even if you win, your second uncle
My second aunt and I won’t let you go to private school either.”
Ms. Li has a gentle personality and doesn't care about or argue with others, but she is not stupid. The second brother and his wife are both selfish and calculating. They say nice things one after another, but the benefits are kept in her own room, that is, her own man.
I value this second brother so much that I can't see his true face.
It's not like Li didn't have some gossips over the years, but Zhan is a fierce person and defends his second brother from the bottom of his heart. Besides, it's all trivial matters on weekdays, and Zhan is a talker. No matter what Li says,
Most of them use bamboo baskets to fetch water.
Hearing his mother's words, Zhan Feiyu's heart sank. He lowered his head and looked at his chubby hands, muttering unwillingly, "Mom, everyone in the village is talking about the competition. Grandpa has such a good face, is he going to do it?"
Don't you mean what you say? Erniu said they would all come to watch during the competition."
Zhan Feiyu "deliberately" publicized the competition to his friends before, just to use public opinion to seek a fair and just result. Grandpa was good at face, and so was his second uncle.
"Silly girl, people in the village only talk behind their backs. No one will gossip in front of your father." Mrs. Li touched Zhan Feiyu's head distressedly. She also felt suffocated and uncomfortable, but she still remained patient and gentle.
Sound explanation.
"It costs ten taels of silver to study in a private school a year. This does not include the three festivals a year and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Your second aunt will not let you go even if she goes out to break her face. Your second uncle is smart. , when the time comes, you will use one set of rhetoric after another, and your grandparents will definitely be convinced in the end."
As a mother, Mrs. Li knows how smart Xiaoyu is than anyone else, but it’s a pity that she is from a girl’s family.
What Li didn't say was that her husband was soft-spoken and had no independent opinions, but her second wife was full of bad ideas and lies. In the end, it was her second wife who benefited, but I'm afraid it was her own man who was the villain.
Zhan Feiyu clenched her chubby hands fiercely. Even if her mother didn't say it, she knew her second uncle's selfish character, but she didn't want to miss the opportunity to go to private school. If she missed this time, she was afraid she wouldn't have another chance in the future.
Zhan Feiyu lowered his head and bit his lip as he thought about it. His father pampered him, but he would definitely turn to his second uncle and listen to his opinion on big things. After all, he was only seven years old, and no elder would care about what a yellow-haired girl said.
As for his mother, Zhan Feiyu raised his eyes and looked at Li's slightly tense face. He couldn't help but feel sad. He held Li's rough hands with his small hands and said with a clogged throat: "Mom, don't feel bad. Wait until I grow up." It’s better if it’s bigger.”
Li Shi forced herself to laugh, not wanting to disappoint her daughter, and promised with a smile: "Mom will buy you paper and pen when the time comes. Our little fish is smart and can learn to write at home."
"Well, mother, I must be better than the big man and the third son!" Zhan Feiyu rushed over and hugged Mr. Li. He felt uncomfortable. Mother has been aggrieved for these years and it will only make her feel even more uncomfortable. However, my father always thinks that my second uncle is good. So my mother could only complain to herself.
Although these are trivial matters between parents, if they happen too often, it will be like cutting flesh with a blunt knife. Zhan Feiyu knows that the second wife has always taken advantage of him, and his mother is very transparent and shrewd. For her father and herself, she can only turn a blind eye. Just close one eye and act like you don’t know.
When he thought that all the money his parents had earned through hard work was used for Da Lang's education, if Da Lang was diligent and studious, Zhan Feiyu also recognized it. However, Da Lang's study was just a waste of money, and there might be another Saburo in the future. Zhan Feiyu closed his eyes to hide the unwillingness and helplessness in his eyes.
On the other side, little Yao gave his naughty son a severe lesson, forced him to follow Da Lang and endorsed it, and returned to the house with unabated anger.
"Second brother, what if Xiaoyu wins?" Xiao Yao asked anxiously after closing the door. He wished he could beat Zhan Feiyu to death with a hammer, so that no one could take Sanlang away from school. Opportunity.
Zhan Laoer had just taken a shower and was lying on the bed with half-closed eyes to rest. Hearing these words, he couldn't help laughing mockingly. His shrewd face was full of indifference, "Why are you in a hurry? This is Saburo's opportunity. Who can You can’t take it away either!”
Zhan Laoer opened his eyes casually, his eyes showing disdain and contempt for Da Fang.
No matter how much people respect Mr. Zhan in front of him, he really doesn't like his honest and old-fashioned eldest brother. Although the sister-in-law is smart, it is not the woman's turn to be in charge of the house. The eldest brother is still the one who calls the shots.
As for Zhan Feiyu, the niece, Zhan Laoer's eyes were a little more disgusted. Fortunately, she was just a girl. She would be kicked out of her husband's family in a few years, and she could still earn a betrothal gift. As for the eldest brother, who has no son, he would never be able to live with her for the rest of his life. I can only give him a second wife to be a cow and a horse!