"Chai Fei Chai Fei is not good!" Zhang Lixin hastily pushed open the door, the door hit the wall under his huge thrust and bounced back, hitting Zhang Lixin's forehead with a "boom".

Chai Fei: ...

He held back his smile and stabilized his wrist. He wrote the last word carefully before putting down the pen and asking, "I'm in a hurry, what's the matter?"

Zhang Lixin rubbed his forehead and kicked the door a few times in anger.

Chai Fei: ...

"Don't bully my family, but I can't stand your troubles. You couldn't say it just now, what's going on?"

Zhang Lixin remembered his purpose of coming here, and slammed the door hard, "My mother said, someone rented the room next door to my house, and was going to specialize in restaurants and suppers, and today they came to our chess and card room to promote it, so what about our speculation?" What about the snails?"

"Yeah." Chai Fei put away his pen and started tidying up the copybooks, "It's normal, I also plan to finish it tonight and quit."

"Why?" Zhang Lixin was puzzled. Although touching snails every day was very tiring, it still felt very different to get the money he earned himself.

"Now after a week, we have earned everything we can. What's more, we have limited energy and can do too little. After all, fried snails are just a new thing to eat, not to mention that people are already following suit. Our advantage is not big."

Zhang Lixin scratched his head, not quite understanding what Chai Fei meant, "I was also thinking that my cousin just came back from the army and came to town to look for a job, so we can do it together."

"Thank you, Zhang Lixin." Chai Fei looked at him seriously, "I have earned Liu Liu's tuition now, if it weren't for you, I still don't know what to do."

Their fried snail business lasted for about a week. After deducting some costs, they made a total net profit of a little over 1000 yuan, and Chai Fei got more than 500 yuan.

"We are friends, why are you so polite." He waved his hand, "If we don't do it, there is still more than a month left in the summer vacation, what should we do?"

"What are you doing, come here?" Grandpa Chai called Chai Fei in the yard, and he responded with a smile, turned his head and blinked, "Okay, you can take a bucket of snails to your house first, I will Go there later. Grandpa just said that he has something to do with me, so I'll go and have a look now."

"it is good."

For some reason, Zhang Lixin always felt that Chai Fei was a little weird.Ever since he told himself that he didn't want to study that day, when he saw Chai Fei again, he couldn't quite understand him.As for what felt strange, he couldn't think of it.

Maybe I think too much.

Grandpa Chai didn’t chop bamboo in the yard today. He was sitting in the main room thinking about something, smoking a pipe and frowning. When he saw him coming, he patted the bamboo stool beside him, “Come, come and sit.”

Grandpa Chai likes to smoke dry tobacco, and he smokes to relieve fatigue when he is tired from work.The shredded tobacco is bought from the countryside, and the tobacco rods are made by myself. Over the years, my grandfather has a smell of bamboo and smoke.Not unpleasant, very special and reassuring smell.

Chai Fei conveniently took away the dry tobacco in his hand and put it aside, "Grandpa, smoking is not good for your health, so smoke less in the future."

"Chai Fei, tell grandpa honestly. You've been selling snails at Boy Zhang's house lately, don't you really want to study?" Grandpa Chai frowned even more when he thought of some gossips from the neighbors recently, "Listen Grandpa said, you can sell snails for a lifetime? If you don’t study, you really have no future, just look at grandpa. If you insist on it, you really don’t want to study after finishing junior high school. Grandpa will send you to vocational high school, okay? ?”

Chai Fei lowered his head and kept blinking to force back the tears in his eyes.

In his previous life, he didn't listen to his grandfather's words. He managed to finish junior high school and was unwilling to continue going to school. He had to go out to work desperately.In the end, Grandpa had no choice but to agree.

Later, he grew up in the society through bumps and bumps, and realized that for a person like him who has no background, no special skills and inactive thinking, reading is the only way out.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I will listen to you and study hard." Chai Fei patted the back of his grandfather's wrinkled hand like an old tree root, and looked at him seriously, "I told Zhang Lixin, the last sale today Not for sale. Really."

"Hey..." Grandpa Chai sighed, just thinking that Chai Fei was perfunctory, "It's good to be obedient, it's good to be obedient. Grandpa is getting old, and he just wants to take advantage of the few years he can still work to earn more money for you to save." , An Anxin can watch you grow up and see that you are promising... Both your father and your aunt are not promising, so don't be like them. "

"Grandpa, I..." Chai Fei hesitated to ask about his parents, but the words were on the tip of his tongue but he couldn't ask.

He had never met his parents in his previous life, and his grandparents rarely mentioned them, and they didn't even attend his grandma's funeral.

"Grandpa, can we take Cousin Liuliu over to take care of her?" After all, Chai Fei simply mentioned another matter because he couldn't say it. "You also know that if you don't study, you won't be successful, especially a girl like Liuliu. My aunt doesn't take good care of her, so let's take her over, shall I? I have earned nearly 500 yuan these days, which is enough for her tuition gone."

Grandpa Chai stared at him with wide eyes, and asked in a trembling voice, "You sell snails at Boy Zhang's house... to earn Niu Niu's tuition?"

"Yeah." Chai Fei lowered his head in embarrassment, "That day...after you hit me, I was also very angry and felt that you didn't love me. Later, I had a dream in which you promised me not to hurt me. I studied, so I went out to work. Because I didn’t study much, all I found were jobs that were hard work and not much money. The dream was so real. After waking up, I seriously thought about the dream again, and then I realized that reading is really important. .Grandpa, you believe me, I will really study hard. Then my aunt came...Seeing that my aunt treats Liu Liu so badly, I have the idea of ​​making money..."

"Good boy, good boy, you've grown up, good boy." Grandpa Chai patted Chai Fei's shoulder vigorously, "Don't worry, your grandma and I will pick up Niuniu after dinner. Your aunt is too shameful." It's all my fault back then... hey!" He sighed heavily, "Grandpa won't ask for your money, you save it for yourself to buy things. Go, go eat."

After frying the last pot of snails, Chai Fei wiped the sweat from his face, heaved a sigh of relief, and prepared to go to the entrance of the chess and card room to enjoy the shade with Zhang Lixin, but was stopped by some neighbors who had nothing to do to watch cards and chat in the chess and card room at night.

"Chai Fei, how much money do you make selling this every day?"

"Tomorrow I want my son to follow you to touch the snails. You can just take him and make some money."

"Do you really stop studying and sell snails here every day? Let me tell you, selling snails is also pretty good. Isn't the son of the old Zhang family going to the lake to raise fish and earn tens of thousands of dollars a year?" .”

Chai Fei knew that these people had no malicious intentions and just liked to read jokes. If it was him before, he would have been very impatient to answer, so he just walked away.But now, he had to answer patiently.

"Getting up early every day to touch the snails is also very hard. Fortunately, Zhang Lixin helped me, and I would like to thank Zhang Yaoyao for lending a place to sell these things. I didn't make much money, it's just my aunt..." Chai Fei stopped talking immediately when he said this , smiled unnaturally, "I just want to earn some money to let Liuliu continue to study. What if girls don't go to school. I won't do it tomorrow, I'm too tired."

The people who watch the cards and chat in the chess and card room are all neighbors from the street, and they like to get together and whisper some gossip.A few days ago, the news that Chai Fei's aunt Chai Xiu was forcing her nephew to stop studying and give up the tuition to her daughter had spread around, and everyone secretly laughed at Chai Xiu many times.

People who often play cards and watch cards here know that it is common for Chai Xiu and her man to win one or two hundred if they are lucky.

In the end, it was Chai Xiu and her men who preferred sons to daughters. Seeing that their son was wearing new clothes every day, but they were reluctant to spend the hundreds of dollars to send their daughter to school, so they made their idea to Chai Fei.

Chai Fei's words aroused sympathy for him and contempt for Chai Xiu and her husband in the hearts of the people present.

The aunt calculates her nephew's tuition, but the nephew doesn't care about it, and works hard to make money to support her cousin's education.This gossip is enough for them to talk for a while.

Seeing the neighbors chatting on their own, Chai Fei lowered his head and smiled silently.

——Good aunt, how much dirty water you have poured on me, now the dirty water will be doubled back on you.

"Hey, I feel very relaxed when I think that tomorrow I don't have to be dragged up early in the morning to touch the snails." Zhang Lixin didn't know what Chai Fei said to the group of neighbors, and watched him finally escape from the group of neighbors , comfortably crossing Erlang's legs and finishing the last snail bounced to the side. "Chai Fei, do you want to go to an Internet cafe to play cs tomorrow if you have money?"

"No, it's been a bit hard recently, so take a good rest at home for a few days." Chai Fei saw an ordinary-looking man in his 20s with a crew cut standing next to him, and saw Zhang Lixin throwing snail shells all over the ground, and went to the side. I took a broom and cleaned it up.

Chai Fei noticed that when he walked, his spine was straight and he looked straight ahead with an indescribable spirit.His left leg is a little lame, but he walks very slowly, trying his best to keep his steps neat and coordinated.

Chai Fei asked softly, "Is this your cousin?"

Zhang Lixin nodded, "My cousin Zhou Zhenyun just left the army last month and came back with some injuries. My aunt asked him to come to my mother. My mother knows a lot of people and asked my mother to help him find a job in the town. .”

Chai Fei looked at Zhou Zhenyun's tall and straight figure, thought of what he planned to do next, and fell into deep thought.

Every man always has a special affection and unexplainable trust towards soldiers.

Chai Fei: "Is your cousin reliable?"

Zhang Lixin glared at him, "Of course! I told you not to tell others. I overheard my aunt and my mother say that my cousin was injured during a mission. The situation was extremely urgent. If it wasn't for him A comrade-in-arms of mine helped him at a critical moment, and my cousin was not only injured. Unfortunately, the comrade-in-arms who pulled my cousin died, and my cousin..." Zhang Lixin glanced at Zhou Zhenyun secretly, "He retired from the army Finally, I gave all my money to the parents of my comrade-in-arms. My cousin told my aunt that his comrade-in-arms is an only child, and his family is also his family, and he will always support his parents instead of his comrade-in-arms.”

A man who is affectionate, righteous and responsible will be a good partner for cooperation.

Chai Fei imitated Zhou Zhenyun and straightened his back, called "Cousin Zhou", and then asked, "Can you drive?"

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