Chapter 109 This is the ancestor of the drama queen
Gu Siqing returned home carrying her lunch box. As soon as she entered the house, she saw Si Tianlei leaning against the wall of her house, cracking sunflower seeds, crunching leisurely. When he saw her, he held out his hand, which contained a small pile of sunflower seeds, and said, "Do you want to eat it?"
Si Tianlei and Han Zhengping played together, so they were quite familiar with each other. Gu Siqing pinched a few melon seeds from his palm and asked, "What's going on?"
Si Tianlei didn't say anything, but glanced inside. Gu Siqing followed his gaze and saw a small table at the door of her kitchen, with tea, melon seeds, and fruit on it. Then, her mother, Comrade Wang Yueju, and Si Tianlei's mother, Comrade Xu Fang, were chatting while eating melon seeds.
Xu Fang: "It's so hard to find work in the factory. Not to mention the uneducated, even the educated have to wait in line."
Wang Yueju: "That's right, going to school is more important."
Xu Fang: "You can imagine how difficult it is for us as parents. We raised our children with great difficulty, and when they can finally take care of themselves, we still have to worry about their studies and their future.
I thought to myself, these two brothers should study hard and get into university if they do well. If not, they should go to a technical secondary school so that I can find them jobs when they come back. But now they don’t want to go to school anymore. Even if their father is the factory director, there’s no way he can find a job after graduating from elementary school. There are so many people watching them.”
Wang Yueju: "That's exactly the truth."
Xu Fang: "I have no choice. Even if he doesn't go to school, he should at least have a way to support himself. If you don't study hard, you will have to do this kind of physical labor."
Gu Siqing got the general idea, but who were these two mothers talking to? Si Tianlei didn't look like it!
At this moment, a gray figure came over from the main room with his head lowered. He was covered in a layer of gray, and it was impossible to tell the color of his clothes. Even his face was covered in a thick layer of gray. If Gu Siqing hadn't been familiar with him, she would never have recognized that this was Si Tianyi.
At this time, Comrade Xu Fang's voice became louder. "I feel bad for letting him do manual labor, but what can I do? He has to eat, and he has to get married and raise children. Even if it hurts me to death, I have to let him learn a skill."
As she spoke, she wiped the corners of her eyes.
Gu Siqing: He’s also a dramatic actor!
"Why did you come out? Keep working!" Xu Fang took a sip of water and said with a distressed look on her face, "Learning a trade requires hardship. You think painting walls is easy, but you still have to learn from scratch. Although painting walls is a bit dirtier and more tiring than studying at school, who told you not to go to school?"
"I'm going to school." Si Tianyi walked over and stood in front of the two mothers and said.
Xu Fang sighed, "Tianyi, it's not that I don't love you, I'm also thinking about your future. You have to have a skill to support yourself. The hardship now is so that you can have enough food in the future."
"I want to go to school." Si Tianyi said again.
"But you only get 20 or 30 points on the test. That's not enough. You definitely won't be able to get into junior high school with your grades, and you'll still have to do this kind of work. It's better to drop out of school and learn a skill. The early bird catches the worm, don't you understand?"
Xu Fang covered her heart with her hands, her tone mournful, "Seeing you like this, my heart aches. But son, even if my heart is broken, you have to bear it. Otherwise, how will you live in the future?"
Gu Siqing looked at Si Tianlei and asked quietly, "Is your mother usually like this?"
This is the ancestor of drama queens!
Si Tianlei said nothing and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle.
Over there, Si Tianyi began to cry, "I want to go to school, I will study hard."
He really couldn't stand it anymore. Today, his mother found out that her final exam paper had been graded, so she started to scold him bitterly. He said he would not go to school in anger, so his mother took him to Gu Siqing's house and told him to learn how to paint the walls from the master painter.
He could study, since his parents were both regular factory workers, and his father was the factory manager. He could skip school and just hang out for a few years, so when his parents retired, he could take over. However, his mother said she still had another twenty years before retirement, and that she wouldn't care about him during that time; he had to support himself.
To support himself, he followed the painter. He realized how tiring it was. The walls had been painted before, and repainting required scraping off the previous putty and paint. He followed suit, and soon he was so exhausted he couldn't lift his hands, and his entire body was covered in dust.
How can this be easy to learn?
"You want to study hard, right?" Comrade Xu Fang's tone became serious. "Then you set your own standards."
Si Tianyi wiped away his tears and said, "I'll be at least tenth from the bottom in the next exam."
Xu Fang took a deep breath. Being tenth from the bottom was better than being last. "What about next?"
Si Tianyi: "I promise to get into junior high school."
"Okay." Xu Fang stood up and said goodbye to Wang Yueju, then led her two sons away.
Gu Siqing approached her mother and asked, "When did you become so familiar with Aunt Xu?"
Wang Yueju was tidying up the things on the table, saying, "We often run into each other when buying groceries, and you know the two boys from her family, so you've become familiar with each other."
After taking the things back to the house, she added, "We are new residents, so we need to build good relationships with the neighbors. A close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. In the future, we can help each other with any big or small problems."
Gu Siqing gave her mother a thumbs-up. "Comrade Wang Yueju is very adaptable and quickly found her way in life. Their family is doing very well, with everyone doing their part."
"His name is Ye Chi, right?" Wang Yueju asked Gu Siqing, "What's going on between him and your elder sister?"
Gu Siqing recounted the story between Gu Yimin and Ye Chi. Wang Yueju frowned, then sighed, "He looks good, but his family background is a bit high."
Their family is not short of money now, so there is no need to let their daughter go to other people's homes to please others.
Gu Siqing also sighed. Marriage isn't just about two people; it's about two families. Just like many city dwellers look down on rural residents, some politicians look down on businesspeople. No matter how big their family's business is or how rich they are, in the eyes of some people, they're just businesspeople.
This is family background!
Of course, the Ye family might not be that powerful, and there was nothing between the eldest sister and Ye Chi. When they were chatting, they put the two of them together because they thought Ye Chi was really good and it would be a pity to miss him.
Things haven't even started yet, so let's wait and see.
"Mom, how much money does our family have now?" Gu Siqing asked in a low voice.
"What do you want to do?"
Gu Siqing chuckled, "Nothing, just asking."
Wang Yueju pulled her into the house and whispered, "Don't tell anyone outside how much money our family has, and don't talk about our business, okay?"
They don't show off their wealth. Their business is good, so they are afraid of being targeted.
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