Landlady who likes to hoard land
Chapter 142 Unusual Interests
Wang Chenggong started renovating his old house in March.
In their hometown, when relatives build a new house, relatives and friends are expected to give gifts.
The three Wang sisters, Wang Chengyu, Wang Chenggong, and Wang Chenggong, all earn quite a bit of money now. After discussing it, they each gave Wang Chenggong 10,000 yuan.
Wang Chenggong couldn't refuse, so he had no choice but to accept it.
After having dinner at her parents' house, Xu Wen suddenly suggested going to the Zhonghua Bookstore.
"Okay, what kind of books do you want to buy?" Wang Chengyu asked curiously.
She has a dedicated reading room at home, filled with books she has carefully selected, covering a wide variety of genres, enough for both brothers to read.
"Mom, I want to learn Japanese. I'd like to buy some books and try to learn it on my own first. If I can learn it on my own, I will. If it's too difficult, can you help me enroll in an after-school tutoring class?"
Xu Wen looked grave, his handsome eyebrows furrowed tightly.
"Okay, if you like it, go ahead and learn it, but don't let it interfere with your school studies."
"But why did you suddenly want to learn Japanese?"
Wang Chengyu was puzzled. Could it be that he had watched too many anti-Japanese war dramas and suffered some kind of shock? It was so sudden!
"Mom, those Japanese devils are so mean! If I learn Japanese, I won't worry about them cursing at me anymore. I can't understand them. Didn't my teacher say, 'Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will never be defeated'? Only by understanding the enemy can you defeat them."
If I want to understand them, I must first learn their culture; to learn their culture, I must first learn their written language.
Xu Wen's theory left Wang Chengyu completely bewildered. Had it really escalated to the level of national and personal vendettas? What kind of TV dramas has he been watching to develop such a grand perspective?
She doesn't object to anything, as long as it doesn't interfere with her studies. She encourages her child to try different things so that she can find what she truly enjoys.
Wang Chengyu took Xu Wen and Xu Yao to the bookstore and helped Xu Wen pick out several basic Japanese books and several Korean books.
Xu Wen saw Korean books displayed alongside Japanese books, flipped through them for a while, and decided to buy them as well.
Xu Yao then chose a book on traditional Chinese medicine and a comic book.
After the children went to sleep at night, Wang Chengyu couldn't wait to enter the space to practice boxing, soak in the hot spring, and clear his meridians.
Her Du meridian is now two-thirds open; with a little more effort, success is just around the corner.
Before leaving the space, I bought Xu Wen all the Japanese and Korean learning courses.
Surprisingly, these two types of languages are actually classified as hobbies. Indeed, for a country as small as this, including its languages in the hobby category is an overstatement.
Time flies like an arrow, and before we know it, the children are on summer vacation.
The children's final exam results were better than their midterm results. Jiang Yang's geography and biology scores also came out, with both subjects scoring a perfect 50. He maintained his first place in his class and was among the top ten in his grade.
Xu Wen remains the top student in his class, the top student in his grade, and the top student in his district.
Jiang Duomi is in the top three of her class and in the top fifty of her grade.
Wang Ziming improved to 30th in the class.
The elementary school students didn't get their grades, but without exception, they all got A's.
The siblings were all very happy; in this day and age, nothing makes parents happier than their children getting good grades.
The group planned to get together, but after searching around, Wang Chengyu found that apart from having a meal together, there were no places suitable for teenagers to play.
The tragedy of small cities is that nothing is developed; there are very few places for children to play.
The amusement park was mostly filled with children; there were very few children in junior high school or above. They could all be described with one word: bored.
Nowadays, middle school students don't like to go out to play. As long as they have a mobile phone or tablet, they can stay at home for an entire summer vacation without any problem.
You take them shopping, they complain it's too noisy; they go to amusement parks, they find them childish and boring; they go hiking in the surrounding mountains, they say it's tiring and boring.
Another reason is that parents are also afraid to let their children go out to play alone.
Several rivers run through L City, and every year a considerable number of teenagers drown.
Every year before holidays, the school organizes special meetings for students to learn about drowning prevention, sign drowning prevention agreements (students and parents sign, teachers hold online meetings, and also organize offline learning sessions).
Students and parents also need to take photos of their signed agreements, upload them, and then share them in the group chat.
Despite such serious attention to drowning incidents, students still drown every summer vacation.
Children in rural junior high schools, in particular, cannot afford summer camps or summer tutoring classes.
Even if you attend summer tutoring classes, those classes usually only last one month, leaving you with a month of free time. Your parents still have to work, so it's unrealistic to expect them to stay home and supervise you all day.
Teenagers are very individualistic and cannot be kept locked at home. They will have all sorts of reasons and excuses to make you allow them to go out.
Even if parents repeatedly warn them not to go to the river, there will still be groups of bold and rebellious children who go swimming in the river.
For rural children, the best place to go during summer vacation is swimming in the river.
In the past, the riverbed was shallow and the water was clear, so very few people drowned while playing in the river.
Wang Chengyu remembers that she and her three siblings spent a lot of their summer vacations playing in the river without any problems.
In recent years, the dredging has created many hidden currents in the river, and you never know where there might be a deep pit. Countless sinister black holes are hidden beneath the seemingly smooth river surface.
Parents worry that their children will go swimming in the river on their own, so they simply give them mobile phones or tablets. Although these devices are addictive and can damage the eyes, it's better than risking their lives playing in the river.
Nowadays, about three-quarters of the children in a junior high school class need to wear glasses. This is largely due to children's prolonged exposure to electronic products.
Not only at home, but also in school, classes are all on electronic screens, with almost no outdoor activities. During winter and summer vacations, they are inseparable from their tablets and mobile phones. How can they not become nearsighted?
A serious lack of outdoor activities among teenagers has led to myopia and poor physical condition, which is now commonplace.
They desperately need an outdoor space that can capture their interest.
The family's gathering for dinner eventually turned into an outdoor barbecue by the river.
Wang Chenggong was familiar with this area, so he chose a safe and flat spot.
Three sturdy poplar trees provided them with an excellent spot for a barbecue, so they didn't even need to use a parasol.
Not far behind are cornfields planted by villagers. Not far from the riverbank is a patch of green reeds. Taking a deep breath, your nostrils are filled with the scent of green. The golden riverbank and the shallow river create an atmosphere of tranquility and peace.
The children ran and jumped around happily, while Tian Jing and Wang's parents took care of them.
The four siblings were busy working together under the tree.
Wang Chenggong bought mutton and pork belly, Wang Chengyu provided various seafood, Wang Chengqing brought drinks that the children liked, and Wang Chenghua bought fruit.
The biggest challenge in outdoor barbecues is skewering meat. Wang Chengyu hates skewering meat because she can't control the pressure well, and the meat is too slippery, so she often ends up skewering it crookedly.
Fortunately, many hands make light work, and the three sisters managed to get dressed together.
Smoke rose slowly, and the aroma of roasted meat spread with the wind.
"Uncle, is it ready?"
"Uncle, it smells so good!"
"Uncle, I want to eat chicken wings."
The aroma of the barbecue attracted the little ones, who excitedly surrounded the dog, Wang Chenggong, asking him a series of questions.
"It's not ready yet, it'll taste better when it's oozing oil!"
"Stay away, or you'll get splashed and cry!"
"I'll grill chicken wings for you right away."
Wang Chenggong skillfully flipped the skewers, occasionally answering them with a word or two.
At first, the skewers were clearly in short supply, and after half an hour, fewer and fewer children were gathered around Wang Chenggong.
There were also leftover skewers on the plate on the table.
The children, having already eaten their fill, went back to the riverbank to build their castles, while the older children, having lost their initial excitement, sat under a big tree playing on their phones.
The person doing the barbecue has changed to Wang Chengqing's husband, Jiang Hu.
The adults then began to leisurely chat and eat their skewers.
Watching Jiang Yang and Xu Wen playing on their phones under the tree, Wang Chengyu pondered while eating barbecue skewers what kind of outdoor sports they were interested in.
"Xu Wen, what games are you and your brother playing?"
"Eat chicken," Xu Wen answered without looking up.
"Playing PUBG?"
Wang Chengyu doesn't play games and didn't know what a "battle royale" game was. She opened her phone and searched for it; oh, it turned out to be a shooting game.
Scroll down to watch the video, is this a real-life version of PUBG?
Transforming game scenes into reality? Wouldn't that be even more exciting than the game itself?
She immediately searched online and found that there was no such place in their city; only big cities had them, and the tickets seemed quite expensive.
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