sbdcsierra Chapter 1372 The Li Family’s Children Are Talented
Chapter 1372 The Li Family’s Children Are Talented
Chapter 1372 The Li Family’s Children Are Talented
When Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu got home, it was almost four o'clock.
With dogs barking on both sides of the aisle to welcome us, the motorcycle drove into the yard and stopped in front of the Zhao family's house.
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu got off the car and trotted into the house. They were freezing cold after such a fast ride.
As soon as Zhao Jun entered the house, he saw Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan and Xie Sun chopping stuffing.
Some of them chopped meat, some chopped onions, and some chopped radishes. Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei chopped the meat filling, Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan cut the peeled red radishes, and Xie Sun chopped the onions by herself.
In the stuffing, chopped green onions are the least amount used, but once the green onions are chopped, they will sting your eyes and if you are not careful you will start to cry and have snot.
Asking Xie Sun to chop green onions was not because Wang Meilan and the other three were excluding her, but because Xie Sun had her own strength: she was not afraid of choking when chopping green onions.
"Mom, what kind of meat is this?" Zhao Jun asked curiously.
In general, for every pound of meat cut to make dumplings, four radishes or four sauerkrauts are put in.
But the Zhao family is not an ordinary family. They have their own way of eating dumplings. You don't need to put vegetables in the meat filling, just put onions and ginger. But if you want to put vegetables, you can't put them randomly.
Only carrots can be added to mutton fillings, and only large diced radishes are added to beef fillings.
Seeing Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan cutting radishes, Zhao Jun concluded that Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei were chopping beef, but he wondered where the beef came from.
"Beef." As expected, Wang Meilan's answer confirmed Zhao Jun's guess, but Zhao Jun subconsciously asked, "Who beat him?"
Zhao Jun’s first reaction was, my dad is hitting the old cow again!
"Who beat it?" Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Jun and said, "Your second sister-in-law bought it at the market today."
Zhao Jun looked at Xu Chunyan when he heard this. Xu Chunyan smiled and said, "It wasn't a sick cow that died. They said the cow's leg was broken when the sled ran downhill."
While Zhao Jun and the others were talking, Li Baoyu walked to the door of the west room.
"Hey, Baoyu." When Li Baoyu was about to push the door open, the old lady who was kneading dough called out to him, "Don't go into that room. That girl is leading those children to study there."
"Ah?" Li Baoyu was stunned. He was also wondering why the adults were working in the outer room but the children were not watching TV in the east room as usual.
Moreover, in the east room at this time, only Zhao Chun, who was feeding Zhou Tao milk powder, Zhao Hong, and Li Xiaoqiao were not there, so Li Baoyu wanted to go into the west room to take a look.
After hearing what the old lady said, Li Baoyu subconsciously looked at Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun grinned and walked towards Li Baoyu with some curiosity.
These days, I don’t know about parents in the city, but parents in the forest area have somewhat contradictory attitudes towards their children’s studies.
They don't care about their children's studies. One reason is that there is too much work to do at home and too many children to manage them; the other reason is that they have little education and don't understand how to manage them even if they want to.
The most important thing is that there is no learning atmosphere.
In the past twenty years, only two high school students have graduated from the entire Yongan Forest District. In the eyes of the people in the forest district, those two high school students are the pride of heaven, and they feel that such people are not comparable to their own children.
Most of the children in the forest area just run around and play all day, and then help with housework.
When boys grow up, the better ones like Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu can be given jobs by their families, while the worse ones have to farm, hike in the mountains, collect and do hard labor.
Girls are treated the same way, working in their parents' home and waiting to get married.
But all parents still attach great importance to their children's studies. Just like Ma Dafu and Wang Cuihua, when they heard that Ma Yang did not do well in the exam, the couple became very angry.
But there was no way. Neither the couple nor Ma Ling could tutor Ma Yang.
The children of the major shareholders of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce were also raised freely before. Xiao Lingdang was good at studying, but she was young, so Zhao Hong and Zhao Na would not listen to her.
Now there is someone who can take care of the children, and he is a ruthless person at that. Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu are very curious about how Li Tongyun can manage those children.
"Don't go in, you two." Seeing Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu acting slyly, Wang Qiang, who was standing at the door of the east room holding a newspaper, called out to them, saying, "They are learning very well, don't disturb them."
"No, uncle." Zhao Jun wanted to watch the fun, so he made up an excuse: "I'll hang my gun, bag, and other things on the wall."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun tentatively pushed open the door.
As soon as he opened the door, the little lynx and the little black bear who had been waiting at the door for a long time reacted.
The little lynx held up its short tail and cried twice, while the little black bear jumped up and hugged Zhao Jun's calves.
Zhao Jun looked down at the two little guys, then quickly looked up and smiled at Li Tongyun who was sitting cross-legged on the kang, and said, "Sister, I'll hang up my gun."
"Brother..." Zhao Hong shouted eagerly when she saw Zhao Jun.
"Pah!" Li Tongyun's stick fell on the table, and he shouted at Zhao Hong, "We are studying, stop calling me brother."
Zhao Hong curled her lips and her eyes turned slightly red.
Zhao Jun took a quick look, then turned around, took the gun from his shoulder and hung it on the wall.
Although he didn't expect his sister to succeed in school, it was a good thing that someone was willing to help Zhao Hong with her studies.
"Brother Zhao Jun!" At this time, Li Tongyun called Zhao Jun and said, "Come here."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun knew that the teacher was going to complain, so he put the gun on the table against the wall.
Li Baoyu went over before Zhao Jun and saw two kang tables on the kang. On the table on the east side, Zhao Na and Wang Tian were in a group. They were writing pinyin on the notebooks according to the textbook.
Wang Xue and Lin Xiaobao were in a group. The two kindergarten students drew a little lynx and a little black bear.
Sitting around the kang table on the west side were Zhao Hong and Li Xiaoqiao, both looking worried.
Li Tongyun sat cross-legged between the two tables on the kang, pointing to both sides and introducing them to Li Baoyu: "These two are in the senior class, those two who are painting are in the junior class, and the last two are in the middle class."
"Oh." Li Baoyu smiled and said, "My sister looks really good."
"Pah!" Li Baoyu had just finished speaking when the stick in Li Tongyun's hand hit the kang mat next to Li Xiaoqiao. Then Li Tongyun stretched out his hand and twisted Li Xiaoqiao's arm, saying, "I've told you so many times, is this how you write?"
Li Xiaoqiao thought she had someone to back her up, and immediately stiffened her neck, but then she heard Li Baoyu say, "Yes, sister, if our sister doesn't write well, you can punish her."
Li Xiaoqiao's face fell and she continued writing with her head down.
Seeing Zhao Jun coming over, Li Tongyun said to him, "Brother Zhao Jun, look at what our Xiaohong wrote on this homework."
As he spoke, Li Tongyun reached out to grab Zhao Hong's homework book, but Zhao Hong tried to cover it with both hands but failed.
When Zhao Jun saw that there was something fishy going on, he leaned over.
Li Tongyun took the notebook and turned the pages. Logically speaking, since Zhao Hong was writing on the current page, the rest should be blank.
But on the next piece of paper, there are twelve lines from top to bottom, but only three and a half lines have words written on them.
Turning the page again, he found one page half written; the next page, two lines written... and so on for more than ten pages, all half written.
Zhao Jun frowned slightly and asked, "How is this written?"
Li Tongyun stopped and pointed to a page with three lines and two words written on it, saying, "This is the homework her teacher gave her last Friday."
"Ah? Ah..." Zhao Jun was stunned, and then he understood. In other words, his second sister had not completed her homework for the past half month.
When Zhao Jun was as old as Zhao Hong, he would skip school every day to hunt birds, and then go to Nandadi to steal pheasant medicinal beans from other people.
He didn't study hard when he was in school, but when he saw Zhao Hong like this, Zhao Jun quit on the spot.
"Hong!" Zhao Jun frowned and stared at Zhao Hong, saying, "How can you do this?"
"What's going on?" At this time, Wang Meilan came over after hearing the noise, but she definitely did not come to stand up for her daughter.
"Mom, look at my sister's homework." Zhao Jun handed Zhao Hong's homework book to Wang Meilan. Wang Meilan glanced at it, threw the homework book away, pulled Zhao Hong over and slapped her twice on the back.
"Ah..." Zhao Hong started to cry. Wang Meilan slapped her again and said, "Hold it back!"
These days, the three words "hold it back" are very effective for children.
Zhao Hong curled her lips and stopped crying instantly, but the little girl's eyes were full of tears.
If Zhao Hong was beaten for other reasons, and Zhao Jun didn't protect her, the people in the outer room would have to stop her.
It was obvious that Zhao Hong didn't do her homework properly, but no one stopped her.
"My daughter." Wang Meilan looked at Li Tongyun and said, "You are educated, so you can help us manage these children. If they don't study hard, you can take care of them."
"Yes, Aunt Zhao." Li Tongyun smiled and said, "I will teach them well. Don't worry about the four little ones. I will try to make Xiaohong and Xiaoqiao be among the top three in the class next year."
Li Tongyun was not idle. It was mainly because Wang Meilan and the others cooked, and she could not do anything, and she did not want to do anything. But since everyone else was working, it was not good for her to just sit there, so she extended her "claws" to these children.
"Oh my!" After hearing the big promise Li Tongyun made, Wang Meilan's eyes lit up instantly and she said in surprise, "Girl, that's great."
At this time, Jin Xiaomei also appeared at the door. She said to Li Tongyun, "Oh my god, child. If you can teach your sister to be among the top three in the class, I will be very happy."
As she spoke, Jin Xiaomei pointed at Li Baoyu and said, "They are both not that good at studying."
"Mom!" Li Baoyu interrupted Jin Xiaomei, and then saw Li Tongyun said in surprise: "That's not right, Auntie, didn't Ruhai say that he always got first place in the exams when he was in school?"
"Fuck you!" Jin Xiaomei was so angry that she blurted out all kinds of dirty words. It was only when Wang Meilan, who was next to her, slapped her that Jin Xiaomei came to her senses.
Jin Xiaomei curled her lips and didn't comment much on Li Ruhai's academic performance. Instead, she said to Li Tongyun, "Child, just help me take care of Xiaoqiao. If she can really get into the top three, your Li family's ancestral graves will be filled with smoke."
"Auntie, what are you talking about?" Li Tongyun asked Jin Xiaomei, "Before I went to school, I always got first place in the exams."
What Li Tongyun didn't expect was that Zhao Jun and the others looked a little strange when they heard her say that. When they first heard her words, they all thought that her first place was the same as Li Ruhai's first place.
"Girl!" Xie Sun, who had just finished chopping green onions, suddenly appeared at the door. She asked Li Tongyun, "You are such a good student, why haven't you finished your studies yet?"
At this time, Xie Sun still hadn't given up on this seemingly excellent daughter-in-law.
Li Tongyun was startled by Xie Sun's question, and then explained: "That's not... because my father is always transferred to work, and he is getting farther and farther away from home..."
This excuse is totally untenable. Students in technical secondary schools can live on campus. I have never heard of anyone dropping out of school because they live far away from home.
Zhao Jun guessed the reason why the girl dropped out of school. Seeing that Jie Sun wanted to ask more questions, Zhao Jun hurriedly changed the subject and asked Wang Meilan, "Mom, Xiaochen and Ruhai haven't come back yet?"
"Yes!" After hearing Zhao Jun's question, Wang Meilan looked up at the wall clock and said, "It's already this late, he should be back."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, they heard the sound of dogs barking outside the house. Zhao Jun looked out the window.
It was gradually getting dark outside and there were no lanterns yet, but Zhao Jun vaguely saw a Liberation truck parked outside the yard.
Xie Chen trotted into the room, went to the east room, opened the drawer, took two candles and ran out.
After he ran out of the house, Li Ruhai walked into the house with his hands behind his back.
"Auntie!" Li Ruhai took out a folded paper from the pocket of his Zhongshan suit, handed it to Wang Meilan and said, "Ruhai has fulfilled his mission."
Wang Meilan glanced at him, opened the paper and immediately her eyes lit up. She said, "Ruhai, how many places do you go every few days? What's this?"
"Three villages and two hamlets." Li Ruhai pointed to the paper and said with a smile, "Now we can decide on about a thousand yellow leaves, about four hundred gray skins, and more than sixty large skins."
Li Ruhai's words shocked everyone. The business that Li Ruhai brought in during this afternoon was enough to consume more than half of the funds of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce.
After these skins were shipped to Hebei, the profit would be almost 10,000 yuan.
Just as everyone was surprised, Li Ruhai looked at Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu and asked, "Brother, big brother, how are you today?"
Zhao Jun was stunned by the question. To this day, he had not done any business with leather. That day, Xing San took him to two shacks. Not only did he not discuss business with Kong Fanrong, but he also sent the old man away for free.
Deng Zhaoshan's place had been settled, but when I went there today, he was gone.
Seeing that Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were silent, Li Ruhai calmly raised his left hand and waved, saying, "Alright, brother, you don't have to say anything. As long as I, Li Ruhai, have food to eat, you won't starve."
"You kid..." Li Baoyu was about to speak but was stopped by Zhao Jun. The business was negotiated by others, why should they flatter you?
"Ruhai." Wang Meilan returned the paper to Li Ruhai and praised him, "It has to be you."
Li Ruhai still knew the difference between the big and small Wangs. After hearing what Wang Meilan said, he smiled and said, "Auntie, this is all my credit. If you hadn't backed me up, wouldn't I still be fighting small battles?"
"Haha." Wang Meilan smiled when she heard that and said, "Ruhai, can we start this business now?"
"Oh!" Li Ruhai waved his hand and said, "Auntie, no matter where I go, men, women, old and young will tell everyone!"
Just as Li Ruhai was boasting, the big lantern outside the courtyard gate lit up.
When Xie Chen came in, Wang Meilan suddenly remembered something and asked him and Li Ruhai, "Xiao Chen, Ruhai, you didn't have lunch, did you?"
"I've eaten, ma'am." Li Ruhai said with a smile, "Ten dishes."
"Ah?" Jin Xiaomei was stunned and said, "Whose family is as rich as ours and would treat you with ten dishes?"
"Haha..." Li Ruhai smiled, and then heard Jie Chen say, "Go to the village called Fuqiang, there is a family holding a funeral."
Everyone: "..."
I owed a thousand words yesterday, so I will get up early tomorrow and write 4,000 words to make up for it. I originally planned to make up for it today, but it’s not possible.
I have been coughing these past few days. Today, every time I cough, my lower abdomen starts to cramp. It’s really painful.
(End of this chapter)