Green Apricot

Xiaosu and Xiaoping were taken to her home by the second mother, who said to the two children: "Don't talk to your mother, he wants to abandon your father and go alone."When I got home, I was extremely annoyed. I thought that the future affairs of my family might not be resolved in a day or two.I don't know what will happen by then.Seeing that these people here bully a weak person mercilessly, maybe my parents will be gossiped about in the future.The more I think about it, the more annoying I get.

At this time, I heard my father coming home and talking to my mother in the fire room, he said: "Xiaohua is in big trouble this time".

My mother said, "What's wrong?"

"Corruption was discovered, and now he is locked up at the police station. I feel sorry for his father, and he worries every day."

"Corruption? Will I be sentenced?"

"This time the investigation was so strict that even the people in the province have come down."

"Even the people from the province have come down? Then it's going to be hard to handle."

"Look, now his father is asking for help everywhere. It's best if he can come out. If he can't come out, let him go."

Xiaohua is of the same generation as me, the grandson of my second grandfather, although he is not the same grandfather as me, the relationship can be considered a little close.His father was a doctor in the village and was very popular, so he got Xiaohua a job in the township government. Although he didn't know what he was doing, he always appeared in our village wearing a police uniform.

He is short and fat, and he has a hippie smile when he sees everyone.

In my father's eyes, his corruption and bribery were as simple as making a small mistake accidentally.A few days later, he reappeared in our village, but not in police uniform.I asked my dad, "He was released?".

"kindness".

"Then he must have lost his job"

"No, I'm still going to work."

"Huh? You can still go to work!"

"You don't know how much money his father stuffed for others"

"How much money is stuffed, and it can still be guaranteed if it goes in. If you ask me, who really can cover the sky with one hand"

"He originally wanted to buy a small car, but now it's good, he can't buy it"

"Then you go and tell him that if you don't have money, you will be greedy? What a scum"

"If he hadn't made a mistake this time, he would have bought it a long time ago, and he is not, so don't say that about him."

"Yeah, who is the family? The people in the family, the men, have become ancestors, and the foreign daughters-in-law have become slaves, and they can be pinched as they want."

My parents usually saw that I was used to being sarcastic, so they didn't say anything.in their conception.All men are raised as ancestors.

I thought in my heart that if Xiaohua came to me, I would have to satirize him.And it just so happened that this opportunity happened as planned.That day was the wedding of the youngest son of my third uncle’s family in the village.And Xiaohua also came, and I helped cook by the fire.He came and sat down next to me somehow.He asked me if I was admitted to university and I said I did.He told him to study hard, and in the future he will work in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai like Xiaokai (a cousin who is a cousin of Xiaohua).

"Xiao Kai, where is he?"

"He's in Beijing. He sells cars. He sells Mercedes-Benz. Now he's a manager."

"Huh? The manager of Mercedes-Benz? Wow, it's amazing. Let alone raising his father and mother, even if we support our entire family, we can buy a house in Silicon Valley. Mercedes-Benz is so powerful, then we don't want to buy a house." Work, let him flatten our place, build an airport, and our family will guard this airport for hundreds of generations. Well, it’s really amazing that the family has such a hero. I admire it Gotta get down on the ground."

I kept on exaggerating, leaving him with no room for retaliation.He saw that there was some sarcasm in my words.After I finished speaking, the wooden stick in Dad's hand was broken and thrown into the fire pit.With his face turned away from him, he can do whatever he likes.

I thought he was going to answer me with a bad word or two, but he didn't, got up and walked away.Xiaokai's father came to my side for this matter.Before sitting down, he asked me: "Qingxing should pass the exam this year."As soon as I heard this, I became angry, what does it mean that I should pass the exam.I suppressed the fire in my heart, "Well, I passed the exam."

"Where did you get admitted?"

"Oh, from Taiyuan, Shanxi, a junior college." I deliberately made the word junior college very clear.

"College, oops, I heard that you can't find a job for a specialist"

"Oh, is that so? I've heard of it too, but you go and ask these people, does your family's admission to some bullshit university have anything to do with us? Is there anyone who is full and has nothing to do to find out?" What kind of Oxbridge university did your family get into! Go ask, who knows? How many people know?."

"You are jealous"

"Joke, the one in your family, if you didn't want to take this opportunity to show off in front of me, I don't even know where the one in your family is herding sheep now, I'm still jealous, I eat too much, go to be jealous with me Irrelevant people?".

"You are just jealous, you can't pass the exam, and you can't see others well"

"You can say whatever you want, but I'm going to ugline it first, don't show off in front of others, no one likes to listen to your words, even if they don't say it on the surface, they will be the same in their hearts, you show off once, people Just to bother you once. If you don’t believe me, go on, go on and tell them, what kind of Cambridge, what kind of Oxford is your family, you go and see, see how they react, don’t think you are so superior Feeling like eating three meals a day like others, what’s there to show off.”

"Ah, by the way, what kind of university did your family graduate from?" Xiaokai's father didn't answer when he saw the sting in my words.And a lot of people were in front of the fire pit, he was a little embarrassed, and it would not be good for him to talk about it.He got up and said: "It's time to eat now, let's leave after eating."

At this time, Baishi sat down beside me and said quietly to me, "Why didn't you give him any face just now?"

"You, people ride on your neck to pee, you still bear it."

"I met him before when I went home. He said, those of you who are repeating the exam, stop studying. If you pass the exam and can't find a job, you will either go to a key university or have money at home. (in local dialect, bribery), I wanted to give you a few big words at the time, but there were many people present, and I was afraid of losing face for him."

"You are not like me at all. When there are few people, if you give him a few big words, he really thinks you are jealous of him. It doesn't hurt or itch to him. What's the use? He has to choose when there are many people."