At the end of the lunar calendar and the first month of next year in the Gregorian calendar, Sun Shaoping will graduate from high school. The students who go to high schools in the city are all from working-class families, and their family conditions are not bad. It was in high school that they developed the custom of taking photos and sending each other photos and parting gifts.
Dozens of classmates, dozens of photos, dozens of gifts, totaling dozens of dollars.
Sun Shaoping has a low self-esteem and high self-esteem. This is a nice way of saying it, but a bad way of saying it is hypocrisy. Sun Jiagan just borrowed a "huge debt" of 200 yuan because of Sun Shaoan's marriage.
He really couldn't afford to pay Sun Shaoping this amount of money. Digging medicinal materials alone was not enough. Sun Shaoping could only drag Lan Xiang along with him this time to dig up medicinal materials all over the mountains to make money for his own vanity.
As for taking Lan Xiang, neither of them can go out to work in the mountains to earn cents. How much centimeters are missing from the family and how much food is missing are out of the scope of Sun Shaoping's consideration.
Although Wang Manyin was dissatisfied, the Sun family was spoiled by Sun Shaoping, so Wang Manyin would not say anything.
When I arrived at the house, I first greeted my grandma. She was still the same, half-slumped on the kang, sometimes awake and sometimes confused.
Wang Manyin also greeted politely. Apart from her two sons, Grandma Lanhua could only remember the four children of Sun Yuhou's family and Runye.
Although Lanhua's mother doesn't need to work in the mountains, she doesn't have any free time. She takes care of her semi-paralyzed grandma, provides three meals a day for a family of six or seven, and also makes pig food, feeds chickens, sheep, and pigs.
Sewing, mending, clothing and shoes, and busy work inside and outside the house are more strenuous than working in the mountains.
The whole family could see it, except Sun Shaoping who couldn't see the hard work of his parents.
"Man Yin, Lan Hua, why are you here today? What happened at home?"
Wang Manyin's family came quite unexpectedly. It was not the right time of the year, it was not cloudy and it was not raining. Lanhua's mother did not care about her granddaughter and grandson first, because she was afraid that something would happen to Wang Manyin's family.
"Mom, nothing happened at home. It's just that Lanhua is suffering from severe morning sickness. I took her to Shigejie Hospital for a checkup. There's nothing wrong with her. It's just a normal pregnancy reaction. Thinking that Lanhua is feeling so uncomfortable, she came here to relax."
Wang Manyin spoke before Lanhua, so that Lanhua would not worry the Sun family about opening up. Wang Manyin thought it would be good to let Lanhua talk to Lanhua's mother.
Although Lan Hua's mother has no education, she still has rich life experience. As the saying goes, she has eaten more salt than young people.
Orchid's mother taught Orchid all kinds of parenting tips, experiences she heard from everywhere, local recipes, and secret recipes.
The mother and daughter were having a lively conversation while picking up the soles of their shoes, which temporarily made Lanhua forget about her morning sickness.
When Lan Xiang came into the room to drink water, Wang Manyin spoke and stopped Lan Xiang, who was about to accompany Sun Shaoping out again.
"Lan Xiang, why did I hear that you are not going to school?"
"Brother-in-law, how did you know about this idea I just had? Where did you hear it?" Lan Xiang looked at Wang Manyin in surprise.
This is a bit embarrassing. Wang Manyin also heard from the children in the village that junior high school graduation will be postponed for half a year, and the school will switch to autumn enrollment. This group of students will have to study for an extra half year. Who knows that Lan Xiang has just made up his mind.
"How do I know? You look so obvious and no one can tell. Even the children in our village can see that you want to drop out of school!"
As long as he didn't admit it, who would have thought that Wang Manyin had opened his "eyes in the sky" and could predict things. What he said he could see was what he saw.
Hearing the two people talking, Lanhua and Lanhua's mother couldn't care less about the two people chatting.
"Lan Xiang, how can you think of dropping out of school!"
"Lan Xiang, your sister is as old as I am and she still learns to read with your brother-in-law. You finally have the opportunity to go to school, but you can't drop out."
"Mom, it's not a small thing to study for an extra half year. It will cost the family a lot of money during this half year. I don't want to be unable to help the family and increase the burden on the family."
"Sister, life in our family will become more and more difficult in the future. My grandma is half-slumped on the kang, my parents have aged a year, and my eldest brother will not only borrow debts when he gets married, but if he gives birth to a child and adds his sister-in-law, the family will become even more difficult."
How many more people need to be added? Even if the second brother comes back from high school to add a labor force, he will also marry a wife in a few years, and then he will have to borrow debts. How can there be so many wives who don't need gifts? "
It seems that Lan Xiang has thought about this a long time ago, otherwise Lan Xiang would not have appeared in such a big cluster when her family asked.
The more Wang Manyin listened to Lan Xiang's words, the angrier he became at Sun Shaoping. How could there be such a big gap between people from the same mother and father?
She spent an extra half year in junior high school and didn't have to live on campus during the Shige Festival. Lanxiang still ate at home every day, so she only had a few extra dollars to spend on tuition and miscellaneous fees for half a year.
In order to save these few dollars, Lan Xiang loves studying so much that she wants to drop out of school. Let alone high school, she has been in junior high school for a year and a half and is not even ready to get a junior high school diploma.
How did Sun Shaoping do it? He dragged Lan Xiang all over the mountains to find medicinal materials, just for his own face and his own vanity. He had to spend dozens of dollars. Not to mention that Lan Xiang had to go to junior high school for half a year, plus the tuition for high school.
enough.
I will never think about the Sun family or other people in the Sun family.
"Lan Xiang, don't think about dropping out of school. If you study so well, just go to school. My brother-in-law's family has been doing well in the past two years. It's not a problem for you to go to school alone. I don't think you want to drop out of school.
If we don’t agree with your sister, it’s not just us, I believe even dad and Shaoan can’t agree.”
Several people were talking in the room. Wang Manyin didn't know if Sun Shaoping, who was drying medicinal materials outside, heard it. Sun Shaoping didn't react at all. Let's pretend that Sun Shaoping didn't hear it.
Sun Shaoping definitely cannot give up exchanging photos and gifts after graduation. For people like Sun Shaoping, to be pretentious, this kind of dignity matter is more important than life.
"Yes, Lan Xiang, if your brother-in-law doesn't go out to hang out now, my sister's family is really doing well. It's no problem for you to study, but you can't give up."
"Mom doesn't agree either. You wait until your dad and eldest brother come back from the mountain and tell them."
The real masters of the Sun family are Sun Yuhou and Sun Shaoan. Wang Manyin and Lanhua must really want to help, but it is hard to judge whether the Sun family will accept Wang Manyin. If it is about other Sun families, they will definitely not accept it. Regarding Lan Xiang's future,
You also need to put a question mark first.
"Sister, you are about to give birth to a child now, and there is another person in the family. Mao Dan will also go to school in two years. The only labor force in the family is brother-in-law. It will not be easy for you."
"Child, just study hard. You don't have to worry about what to do with so much worry. It won't cost much more than what you said. The Gugan Village production team has raised more than 100 sheep this year than in previous years.
With the extra money at the end of the year, it will be no problem for both of you to go to school!"