Lin Shuchao passed the preliminary exam smoothly as expected, and Lin Shugan successfully passed his third preliminary exam.
Another person who passed the preliminary exam was Qi Ni, who is the same age as Lin Shuchao and is also a senior high school student this year.
One happily enjoyed his summer vacation in advance, one carefully prepared for the college entrance examination for the first time, and the other prepared for the third college entrance examination.
"So you're planning on staying home?" Lin Guoqing glared at his worthless son. "You know how people who graduate from high school have to start making money if they can't get into college?"
Lin Shuchao nodded, "I know."
"So what are you going to do?"
Lin Shuchao grinned and approached Lin Guoqing, smiling flatteringly,
"Dad, I want to start a business! Become a self-employed person! Have you seen the news? They say a lot of people go to Guangzhou to wholesale clothes and sell them back and make a fortune! It's close to Hong Kong and there are a lot of good things there. Can you and Mom go first..."
It’s the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Lin Guoqing will be 40 years old in half a year, but he is still as skilled as ever when it comes to beating his son.
Chen Chunhua passed by with a basket of washed peaches, praising them in a chilling tone.
"Well done."
"You are too partial!" Lin Shuchao, a 16-year-old boy at the peak of his rebelliousness, threw himself into a rattan chair with his tone full of accusations.
"My eldest sister hadn't even graduated last year yet, and yet Mom bought her a house in Shanghai! Over two hundred thousand dollars! You two didn't even blink! She lives all by herself in such a huge apartment!"
"You guys give my little sister everything she wants! She says she wants a color TV, so you buy her one! She says she wants a skirt, so she has a whole closet full of skirts! Many of them are brand new and haven't even been unpacked!"
"And my second brother! Even though he never asked for anything except books, you guys would take the initiative to buy him a bunch of things! Watches! Bicycles! Wallets! Are these things a high school student should have? Why don't I have any of them?"
"I didn't say I had to have all this! I just wanted some money to start a business! Everyone is doing business! How come it's wrong for me? I'm your son too! How did I become a weed?"
As the third brother spoke, his eyes turned red. His pride as a man would not allow him to cry in public, but perhaps he had been holding it in for too long. He finally pulled his legs together, hugged his legs, buried his head, and huddled up in the chair. His face could not be seen, but his body could be seen twitching.
When Liang Shengdi came in with a basket, she saw this scene and turned to look at the TV.
"What's wrong? Why is the third brother crying? Was Shi Zhongyu beaten to death? Impossible! He's the protagonist!"
Chen Chunhua sighed and stuffed a peach into Liang Shengdi's mouth. "Mom, eat it first. These peaches were just delivered today. They are so precious."
Then he turned around and squatted in front of Lin Shuchao.
"You say you're a weed, so what have we become? Chaochao, honestly, how have we ever stopped loving you?"
It is already difficult to treat four children in the family equally. Even if inflation is taken into account, it is impossible to treat them exactly the same.
But Chen Chunhua thought they had consciously tried their best to be fair.
For example, as for the eldest daughter, Lin Shuying, she is the oldest and will of course be the first to enjoy what is available, including a house in Shanghai.
Shuying has graduated and can live in her own house, which is definitely better than living in a dormitory, and the sooner she buys a place, the better.
In fact, Chen Chunhua bought two sets, and she plans to buy two more when she saves up some money. She has four children! If she can afford one set for each, then of course she has to buy one.
But she and Lin Guoqing chose not to tell the story for now, planning to wait until their children graduated from college before giving them the money. Even if they didn't live in Shanghai, they could still collect rent to subsidize the young people's lives.
Unexpectedly, because the matter was not explained clearly, the third brother became unbalanced.
There was also the second child's bicycle. After he finished his first college entrance examination that year, Lin Guoqing excitedly bought him the bicycle. He also bought Lin Shuying's standard college items, such as watches and tape recorders.
He said that since we had a truck at home, we would take our second son to school wherever he went! Unexpectedly, he failed the exam twice, and since the truck couldn't be returned, he had to use it for the time being.
As for Lin Shumei, it was because she seemed to have better grades than Shuying, and she was known to act cute and bargain with her parents. She often took her perfect test papers to Chen Chunhua to exchange for things she wanted. Since skirts were not expensive, Chen Chunhua readily agreed.
As for the color TV, they had wanted to change it for a long time, and Shumei's suggestion was just a reminder.
Who would have thought that these things that they usually thought were insignificant were all remembered by the third brother.
"Mom knows that studying is a little difficult for you, and I didn't force you to go to college. I originally thought that you would graduate from high school this year. Whether it's a bicycle or a watch, I won't leave you behind!
It’s just that your brother is still preparing for the exam, so I want to give it to you after he finishes the exam!”
"We're not against you doing business, but we're against you doing business now. Lin Shuchao, let me ask you, do you know how to do business?"
When Shen Chunhua explained everything to him, Lin Shuchao had stopped crying, but he was still sobbing. When Shen Chunhua asked him, he hesitated for a while before whispering,
"It's just...buying and selling."
"Then how much is the right price to buy and sell? Have you ever understood it? Where should you buy? Where should you sell? And who should you sell to? Do you understand all of this?"
“You see all the self-employed people out there looking glamorous and bright, but how do you know whether they sleep on a bed or on the floor at night?
Let's not talk about anything else, just the ones nearby. Your third and fourth cousins, one who knows English and Japanese, and the other who knows textile fabrics, had been thinking about starting a business together before your sister entered university, but neither of them dared to do it right away. They either worked as a laborer for two years in one company or as an apprentice for two years in another.
It was not until last year that I dared to rent a store in the county market. When business was good, I had no time to eat or sleep every day. When business was bad, I couldn’t eat or sleep. Do you really know all this?
Your eldest sister is also a businesswoman. She even studied how to run this business seriously for four years. After graduation, she didn't say that she wanted to go it alone, right?
Aren't you still going to the unit you're assigned to and getting that pitiful salary of less than a hundred yuan a month?
Why can’t you learn to watch first?”
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