"Remember, you must try to curry favor with your classmate Xu Li. Our family's wealth and prosperity all depends on you alone!"
Seeing Ouyang Ming standing there in silence, Ou Jianren could not help but feel unhappy. He wanted to slap his good-for-nothing son right away, "Did you hear me?! I provide you with food and clothes, so don't do such a trivial thing for me!"
"If you don't do this right now, you'll have to pay for college yourself in the future! Don't even think about your family giving you a penny!"
If outsiders heard what Ou Jianren said, they might think that Ou Jianren was just joking, or that Ou Yangming had done something wrong and Ou Jianren was just scaring the child, but Ou Yangming didn't think so.
Because a normal father will not tell his son directly that in America, children will leave home after they become adults and live and earn money on their own, so I will only support you until you are 18 years old, and you have to earn your own tuition and living expenses for college.
If you don't make enough money and need to ask your family for money, you can write an IOU and pay the bank's interest rate. Once you start working, you have to pay it back with interest.
According to Ou Jianren, I started working after I finished high school, and I was able to earn money for your grandparents at that time. Why can't you do that now? You can't do that?
If you can't do it, then you don't deserve to be my, Ou Jianren's son!
Not only that, seeing Ouyang Ming getting older day by day and his own health getting worse year by year, Ou Jianren began to instill in Ouyang Ming some ideas like 'When dad gets old, you have to take care of him for the rest of his life, because this has always been our Chinese tradition.'
Ouyang Ming now wanted to laugh at what he said. This guy is a hypocrite! If Ou Jianren wasn't his father, Ouyang Ming would have to slap him twice to wake him up.
Damn it, when I was about to go to college and spend your money on tuition and living expenses, you compared it to Europe and the United States, saying how great Europe and the United States are. How come when it comes to retirement, you start talking about respecting Chinese traditions?!
That is to say, Ouyang Ming was young and ignorant at the beginning, but after growing up, Ouyang Ming gradually understood these things and was too lazy to argue with Ou Jianren about these things, because Ouyang Ming also understood the meaning of the word "dormant".
You want me to earn my own tuition and living expenses?
Okay, okay, I’ll earn it myself.
You said that I should take care of you when you are old?
Yes, yes, yes. I will definitely raise it.
I don’t know when it started, but Ouyang Ming always acted like a good boy in front of Ou Jianren. As long as it didn’t involve his bottom line, Ouyang Ming would always agree without thinking.
As for whether to do it or not...
It depends on Ouyang Ming's mood. He would do things perfunctorily if he could, and would just do a few simple strokes if he couldn't.
If it comes to bottom line issues...
Ouyang Ming said yes, but he was determined not to do it. The main point is, don't ask me, if you ask me, I'm doing it. As for when I can finish it...
I can’t go there!
My plan failed, it is fate!
Dad, I'm stupid and I didn't inherit your brain. You can't blame me for this!
And this time, what Ou Jianren mentioned about currying favor with Xu Li, and then taking the opportunity to get close to Xu Li's father and get Xu Li's family money, in Ouyang Ming's opinion, was already a matter that touched on the bottom line.
Ouyang Ming's idea was very simple. Xu Li treated me as a good friend, and it was obvious that Xu Li was a simple idiot. If Ou Jianren really fulfilled his wish and brought Xu Li home and had contact with Ou Jianren, then Xu Li might be cheated by Ou Jianren.
So, for this kind of thing, just agree to it verbally and perfunctorily to Ou Jianren and that would be it, but should Ou Yangming really be asked to do it?
Ouyang Ming said: What the hell are you thinking about?!
Obviously, although Ouyang Ming agreed to his father Ou Jianren's instructions verbally, Ouyang Ming knew his father Ou Jianren's character very well. Therefore, psychologically, Ouyang Ming was undoubtedly extremely perfunctory about his father's request.
The reason is that although Ou Jianren's values are extremely distorted, the manure pit does not only contain maggots, but can also provide nutrients and grow beautiful flowers and plants.
Although it is still unclear whether Ouyang Ming is the white lotus that emerges from the mud without being stained, there is no doubt that compared with his father Ouyang Ming, he is undoubtedly a normal person.
However, although Ouyang Ming disdained his father Ou Jianren's behavior, after spending so much time with him and hearing his father's words, Ouyang Ming couldn't help but feel moved and a little annoyed.
The annoying thing is not that Ouyang Ming is struggling to fulfill his father Ou Jianren's request, but that he is annoyed by this place called home. He simply can't stand staying there for even a day!
Seeing Ouyang Ming nodded in agreement, Ou Jianren rarely smiled and waved his hand, telling Ouyang Ming to go back to his room and stop standing in front of him and preventing him from watching TV.
Seeing that there was nothing left for him to do here, Ouyang Ming quickly returned to his room with his schoolbag.
The first thing Ouyang Ming did when he returned to the room was not to turn on the light, but to subconsciously close and lock the door.
But after the door was locked, this little world that belonged to Ouyang Ming alone at this moment was not as quiet as he had imagined. The noisy sound of the TV outside the living room, accompanied by Ou Jianren's critical voice, kept coming through the crack in the door and towards Ouyang Ming.
"Tsk, this... unit is garbage. People like this are just here to eat for nothing, right?! If you don't want to work, then don't work. The last thing China lacks is people! If it were me, I would definitely..."
Ouyang Ming pursed his lips and said nothing. He did not turn on the switch of the chandelier at hand, but groped his way to the desk in the dark according to his fixed memory and turned on the small desk lamp on the desk.
With the light of the small desk lamp, you can roughly see the layout of this room which is less than 10 square meters.
The layout of the small room was extremely simple. There was a small bed, a desk, and a large wardrobe. Apart from that, there was nothing else. Even the posters that most teenagers would decorate their rooms with were not seen in Ouyang Ming's room.
It's not that Ouyang Ming didn't want to buy it, but he didn't know when he started to have a sense of crisis and began to save money subconsciously. He would try to save half of every penny and try to do things within his ability. For example, when he was in junior high school, he helped people write homework for a mere 5 yuan.
This also led to Ouyang Ming, who once had good grades, failing to be admitted to Ruxu's top high schools, Ruxu Middle School and Ruxu No. 1 Middle School, in the high school entrance examination, and could only attend Ruxu No. 2 Middle School, a second-rate middle school.
It stands to reason that with Ouyang Ming's high school entrance examination results, it would not be impossible for him to pay the school selection fee and use some favors to study in Ruxu Middle School or Ruxu No. 1 Middle School. However, Ouyang Ming never mentioned it, and just quietly came to Ruxu No. 2 Middle School to study.
After arriving at Ruxu No. 2 Middle School, Ouyang Ming no longer tried to earn extra money. Instead, he began to focus all his attention on books, determined to get into a good university.
Because Ouyang Ming knew that only after entering university could he escape from this cage-like place, and after entering university, even if his family did not give him money, he could apply for student loans, get scholarships, and even work-study programs, so Ouyang Ming felt that there was no need for him to be so impatient.
This is also the reason why when Ouyang Ming first came into contact with Xu Li, he felt that Xu Li, a rich second-generation, was a little eye-catching and subconsciously disliked Xu Li as a person.
Why were you born in Rome, while I was born to be a beast of burden?
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After closing the door, Ouyang Ming did not return to his room and immediately sit down at his desk to take out books and test papers from his bag to concentrate on reviewing as usual. Instead, he looked out the window at the dark sky for the first time and began to stare blankly.
In this small world, no one knew what Ouyang Ming did, and no one knew what he was thinking about now, except himself, of course.
Ouyang Ming just sat there staring out the window. After a long time, Ouyang Ming gradually came back to his senses. There was less confusion in his eyes, as if he had made some kind of decision.
Ouyang Ming made up his mind, opened his schoolbag, took out his books and began to review seriously. This review took him several hours to finish.
It was not until two o'clock in the morning that the desk lamp in this small room, which was emitting a dim light, was completely extinguished.
Thus, this area fell into darkness and silence again, until the sky gradually brightened and the sun rose from the east, and then the quiet old and dilapidated house regained its lively atmosphere.
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The next day, when Ouyang Ming woke up again, it was already six o'clock in the morning.
Ouyang Ming got up, put on his clothes, quietly opened the door, and went to the bathroom.
At this time, the whole room was still dark. It was obvious that Ouyang Ming's parents were still in a deep sleep and had no intention of getting up early to make breakfast for their son who was about to go to school.
Ouyang Ming didn't care much about it. He just tiptoed to the bathroom and washed up in less than three minutes.
Ouyang Ming returned to the bedroom, went to the desk, picked up his schoolbag and prepared to leave home for school. Just as he was about to reach the door of the room, he suddenly stopped, as if thinking about something.
After a pause, Ouyang Ming hesitated for less than two seconds before returning to his desk, opening one of the textbooks in the drawer, and pulling out a five-dollar bill from a certain page.
In order to prevent his parents from discovering that he was hiding his private money, he hid all the money he saved in books in this way.
Up to now, Ouyang Ming has secretly saved more than two thousand yuan.
However, this is still far from enough to cover his college expenses.
If he wants to finish college peacefully, he can only study hard and learn from his seniors last year, get into a 985 university, and then get a considerable bonus.
If he didn't do this, Ouyang Ming could only follow his planned alternative plan and apply for a student loan after going to university.
But Ouyang Ming is now very confident about his first plan, and this confidence was given to him by Zhou Yu, whom Ou Jianren despised.
In the early morning of October, even though the sun has risen from the east and the sunlight has begun to shine on the earth, people living on this land will still feel a little cool when they are running around outdoors.
Even though Ouyang Ming had foresightedly put on a coat, by the time he rode to the No. 2 Middle School campus, his exposed hands and face were still freezing cold.
Carefully pushing the bicycle into the shed and locking it, Ouyang Ming gritted his teeth, rubbed his stiff hands while standing there, and when he felt a little more comfortable, he quickly walked out of the shed.
Time is running out, I have to hurry up and go to class to review.
Ouyang Ming did not plan to go to the cafeteria to have breakfast first. He planned to wait until later because if he went to the cafeteria at the last minute, the price of the overnight buns in the cafeteria would be much cheaper.
Originally Ouyang Ming thought he would be the first to arrive in the classroom, and just as he expected, he was indeed the first to arrive in the classroom, but Ouyang Ming did not feel any sense of accomplishment at all.
Because in the classroom next to his, there was someone who arrived earlier than him.
What was this person’s name... Never mind, I can’t remember.
Ouyang Ming wondered if he was being too lazy. Three students in the science class next door had already started reviewing. This was simply unacceptable to Ouyang Ming.
I have to go earlier tomorrow!
At this time, Li Lei and two other classmates who were sitting in Class 26 of Senior Grade 3 also noticed Ouyang Ming walking past the window, but they did not pay too much attention to him. When they saw the face of the person passing by clearly, they turned their attention back to the comprehensive science test papers in their hands.
Time waits for no one, time waits for no one!
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Not long after Ouyang Ming started reviewing, people began to arrive in the class one after another.
It’s just that everyone tacitly agreed not to disturb other students’ review, and after entering the classroom, everyone tried to be as quiet as possible and not make any noise.
Ouyang Ming felt very comfortable with this atmosphere. Except that the space was bigger and there were more people in the classroom, the atmosphere was no different from that of his little room. This gave him the illusion that he was sitting in his own private space.
Even when his desk mate, the former repeater and now good friend Niu Dehua, and his direct competitor for first place and good friend Ji Nianping came, they just smiled and nodded tacitly as a greeting, and then started doing their own things.
However, this atmosphere did not last long. With the arrival of a person, this quiet atmosphere was broken.
"Oh shit, Brother Niu, Brother Ji, and Brother Ming, you guys are here so early again?!"
Hearing this voice, the three people who were studying hard couldn't help but smile bitterly. They all raised their heads and looked at Xu Li who was walking towards them excitedly.
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