Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

The morning mist on the northern Anhui plain has not yet dissipated.

The Jialing motorcycle was already running on the bumpy aisle.

Li Chaodong hugged his elder brother Li Xiangnan's waist tightly and noticed for the first time that the sunburned skin on the back of his neck looked like the mottled world map in a high school textbook.

"Brother," his words whistled in the wind, "how long did it take you to ride back to Hongshan County from Yanjing that day?"

Li Xiangnan's voice came from the front: "20 hours!"

Another sigh of relief came from the front: "The car didn't fall apart that day, but I almost fell apart! Damn, luckily it was a new car!"

"Brother, do you feel sorry for him?" Li Chaodong put his face against his elder brother's sweaty back, and his nose suddenly felt sore.

He remembered what his parents often said.

The eldest brother Li Xiangnan runs a large hospital in Yanjing and also manages several companies, all of which are just starting out.

He saved up the money for the motorcycle for more than a year before he bought it generously!

But the eldest brother did not hesitate to rush back from Yanjing after hearing that he was in trouble, without any regret for this newly registered car!

"Why are you so upset? Aren't cars bought for people to ride? I'm testing our industrial standards for the country!"

The laughter in front was very relaxed.

Li Chaodong felt warm in his heart, "Then is it qualified?"

"It has to be qualified!" Li Xiangnan shook his flowing hair, "I can go for maintenance when I get home, haha!"

Li Chaodong deeply admires his elder brother's open-mindedness.

During a lunch break, Li Chaodong rushed to refuel his motorcycle and stopped his eldest brother, saying, "Dad said I should pay for this!"

"Okay, okay!" Li Xiangnan didn't refuse, "You have to pay me some 'food expenses'!"

After filling up the gas, Li Chaodong pushed the car with difficulty to the shade outside the gas station, and took out a cigarette from his bag and handed it over.

"Brother, my dad said, I'll give it to you on the way! To wake you up!"

Li Xiangnan was stunned, took the cigarette, and said helplessly: "Uncle, you are so thoughtful!"

This Hongmei cigarette doesn’t cost much, but it reflects the family’s care.

It is easy to feel sleepy when driving long distances.

When riding a motorcycle, people are exposed to the whirring noise of the wind for a long time, and they have a strange feeling of being tired and even hypnotized.

Li Xiangnan is very content as he can feel his family's care in every little detail.

Li Chaodong saw his elder brother smoking to relieve fatigue while rubbing his lower back. His knees were covered with white dust, as if his pants had two holes in them.

He remembered that when he was in elementary school, he was not even as tall as his older brother's waist, and his older brother had such white patches on his knees.

"We Chaodong will definitely be able to get into our ideal university!"

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

"Brother, I will definitely..."

"You must study hard!" Li Xiangnan smiled and threw the army green water bottle over. "You've said this eight hundred times along the way!"

"This time it's for real!" Li Chaodong clenched his fists. "I want to get into Yanjing and go to the best university! Just like you! I've already made it a promise with Zhang Yang, the aid worker from Dingxi!"

Li Xiangnan looked at him without comment.

When the motorcycle started again, Li Chaodong buried his face in his elder brother's back.

Through his coarse work jacket, he could hear his brother's steady heartbeat.

This heartbeat made him feel at ease and calm.

Just like the two nights he hid in the tree house, when he thought of the fact that he had an older brother named Li Xiangnan, he always felt an inexplicable sense of security deep in his heart.

That feeling is called confidence in life.

In the evening, the two arrived at the Dongshan area and found a place by the river to eat the preserved vegetable braised pork with big feet made by Aunt San.

In the distance, wheat waves are rolling and villagers are rushing to harvest summer crops.

"Brother," Li Chaodong bit his big foot hesitantly, "Master Wang secretly gave me two hundred yuan. He said it was all his savings and insisted that I accept it. He said that his life was completely worthless compared to money. Without me, he wouldn't be able to use the money... I saved him, so the money should be mine! I don't know whether I should accept it or not..."

Li Xiangnan looked at him.

Li Chaodong lowered his head.

"Uncle Hong said he would arrange a job for me, but I don't know whether I should accept it!"

Li Xiangnan chewed his big foot and pointed at the farmers harvesting crops in the distance.

"You see, people's status varies, and their relationships vary! But to truly stand firm and take root deeply, you have to rely on your own hands!"

At this moment, the setting sun stretched the brothers' shadows very long.

Li Chaodong seemed to be thinking about something.

After he had collected some water from the river and quenched his thirst for the rest of his life, he pondered, "Just like you, who could have worked as an emergency doctor in a machine repair shop for the rest of your life, but chose to start a business while studying?"

"That's right!" Li Xiangnan laughed. "What others give is just borrowed money. What you earn yourself is the real talent!"

Li Chaodong's whole body trembled, and flashes appeared in his eyes.

"Chaodong!" Li Xiangnan waved his hand and pulled him out of the river. "You are eighteen years old now. You should know the Li family's ancestral motto, which tells us not to seek help from outsiders!"

"Don't seek outside help?"

Li Chaodong chewed over these words over and over again, his mind emerging with the words and deeds of his father Li Fuqiang from childhood to adulthood, and recalling the life experience of his grandfather Li Dequan leading the family in hard struggle, and he had a vague realization.

These are the things his elder brother never told him when he was a child.

In the past, he only knew how to use his narrow worldview to judge the right and wrong of things and to understand his own world.

Now that he has grown up, he gradually understands the bloodiness in the bones of the Li family.

That is a gene engraved in our bones!

It turns out that it means don’t seek outside!

"Brother, I didn't ask for Master Wang's money, nor did I agree to Uncle Hong's promise! I saved people, just like I did at that time, I didn't think about anything!"

Li Chaodong hugged his elder brother's waist and said proudly: "Just like me later, I didn't want anything!"

"Well done!" Li Xiangnan raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

It was already one o'clock in the morning when I rushed back to Yanjing.

As soon as the motorcycle turned into the deep alley of Nanluoguxiang, I saw my mother Zhu Qiuju holding a kerosene lamp and looking out the gate of the courtyard under the dim street lights.

\"Mom! Why are you so late...\"

\"You're finally back!\"

Zhu Qiuju slapped her thigh anxiously. "Wanchun next door is in labor. They called the emergency number and rushed Nianwei to the hospital! Ruobai went back to her parents' home. She called me at noon and said that if you come back, you must go to the hospital immediately!"

"When did sister-in-law Wanchun give birth?"

Li Xiangnan's face tightened.

"It's a little after four in the night!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangnan's mind suddenly changed.

The baby hasn't been born yet between 4 o'clock and noon! I'm afraid it's a difficult birth!

He turned around and started the motorcycle: "Chaodong, go home with Second Aunt, I'm going to the hospital!"

"Wait!" Zhu Qiuju suddenly stuffed a net bag with something. "The brown sugar and eggs are ready. Wanchun's pregnancy was not easy..."

"Okay!" Li Xiangnan untied the things in the back seat and threw them to Chaodong.

The motorcycle roared out of the alley again.

Li Chaodong watched his elder brother disappear into the night, and suddenly understood the true meaning of "don't seek outside".

It is easy not to ask for help, but difficult to help others.

True strength lies in both the character of not asking for help from others and the ability to help others.