Chapter 140140
Jiang Xi just smiled when she heard that. There are indeed places to live. There are plenty of rooms. There are rooms upstairs that can be used as living rooms. There is no room for her! ^_^
She cared about it in her previous life. She cared a lot.
But who can not care? She doesn't need you to stay for too long, but there is no need to be so anxious and just pretend to kick her out, right?
So, no matter how many rooms there are, what does it have to do with her?
Jiang's father had no idea of Jiang Xi's thoughts. At this time, he just wanted to share his joy of building a big house with his daughter. He happily said to Jiang Xi: "Build your eldest brother's first, then your second brother's!"
Jiang Xi just listened with a smile.
A long time had passed in the previous life, and there was no second brother's house.
After talking about his future ideas for building a house, Jiang's father urged Jiang Xi to go home again. "Your admission to Beijing University is such a big deal. You have to report it to your ancestors. By the way, tell the village chief to open a temple and write your name in the family tree!"
According to the rules of Jiangjia Village, boys will be recorded in the family tree after they are born, but girls will not.
But Jiang Xi's admission to Beijing University is such a big deal. Jiang's father insisted that the village chief record Jiang Xi's name. This is the honor of the entire Jiangjia Village.
Jiang Xi smiled and said, "Things aren't settled yet, why are you in such a hurry?"
Jiang's father glared at him, "Don't think I don't understand. If something is unstable, why would your school publicize it so loudly? It must have been decided at Peking University!"
Jiang Xi didn't want to go back, and smiled and said, "I really can't go back. I may have to go to training or the International Olympic Games at any time. Have you seen the banner on the gate of our school?"
"Oh my god, it's the International Olympic Games!" Although Jiang's father didn't know about winter camp, he still knew about the Olympic Games.
When Jiang Xi was little, he found that she was very smart, so he wanted to train her in this direction. He bought a lot of elementary school Olympic math problems for her to do, and helped her with math problems every day, but in the end he gave up because he couldn't teach her.
Unexpectedly, she actually walked into the track of the International Olympic Competition, which was something Jiang's father dared not even think about.
In his previous life, after Jiang Song brought his two children back, the enthusiastic father Jiang wanted to teach his two grandchildren math and classical Chinese. When Jiang Song heard this, he immediately thought of the miserable state of Jiang Xi when Jiang's father tutored him in math when he was a child, and then thought of Jiang Xi's grades without Jiang's father's tutoring, so he hurriedly said: "Dad, you should take a break, otherwise Haohao and Yueyue will not be able to solve the problems they can solve."
Jiang's father was very angry . He couldn't say a word, but his passion for teaching his grandchildren was unquenchable, especially after Jiang Song threw his sons and daughters back to his hometown to be raised by Jiang's father and mother, and ran away himself. Jiang's father began to repeat the situation when he taught Jiang Xi. No matter how he taught, he couldn't teach them. But he never admitted that there was something wrong with his teaching method. He just lamented that when he was young, he could do the questions at a glance, but why couldn't they learn them!
Jiang's father kept persuading Jiang Xi to go back, even if it was the next day, "I will send you to Wucheng early tomorrow morning. I will send you here personally and guarantee that you will not delay your training. You won't have training tomorrow, right?"
Jiang Xi just smiled and looked at him.
Gradually, Jiang's father also tasted something, and for a while, he was actually a little silent.
Because he had other things to do at home, after making sure they were all right, Jiang's father hurried back to Jiangjia Village.
In the town, he went to a fireworks and firecracker shop and bought a super-large sky-shaking blaster, several small sixteen-bang blasters, and several strings of super-long firecrackers. He also went to a candy and pastry shop and bought a lot of candies, sugar balls, and small packages of sesame cakes. Before he even reached the village, but only at the entrance of the brigade, Jiang's father lit up the biggest sky-shaking blaster first, and then the super-long firecrackers. He walked and dragged the long firecrackers forward. After running for a while, he saw that the firecrackers in his hand were almost finished, so he took out a small sixteen-bang blaster from a plastic bag, lit the fuse, and ran forward again. About every fifty or sixty meters, he would set off a sixteen-bang blaster and then set off the firecrackers.
The fireworks were set off at the door of his house, and the sixteen explosions continued to rush into the sky and explode in the sky.
Such a movement caused many people who were originally sitting at the door of their houses to sunbathe and chat to come out to watch the excitement. Many people thought it was a marriage.
But when they came out, they saw that it was the big guy setting off fireworks and firecrackers. They all walked to the fence of their own high platform and asked Jiang's father: "Big guy, is it your son Songzi who brought his wife back?"
"He looks so happy, maybe he brought his grandchildren back!"
Jiang's father saw that they all ran to the edge of the high platform to watch the excitement, and hurriedly grabbed a handful of candy from the big red bag and threw it on their high platform.
When passing by Jiang Gangqin's house, he saw Jiang Gangqin coming out to watch the excitement curiously. Thinking that Jiang Gui's best friend in the village was Jiang Gangqin, he grabbed a handful of candy and stuffed it into Jiang Gangqin's hands, then sprinkled candy on the platform as he walked.
Uncle Jiang and his friends heard the noise and turned around from the high platform. After seeing Father Jiang setting off firecrackers, they hurriedly called Mother Jiang, who was chatting with Aunt Jiang and her friends at Uncle Jiang's house: "Ailian, Ailian, look, is it your Songzi who has come back? Guoping is distributing wedding candies. It must be your Songzi who has come back with his wife!"
Mother Jiang was so surprised that she stood up from the fire barrel all of a sudden, having been weak for the whole New Year. She almost overturned the bamboo basket filled with roasted peanuts and melon seeds that they were eating on their laps. She did not bother to pick up the scattered peanuts and melon seeds, and lifted the quilt covering her body, and quickly jumped out of the fire barrel and went down to the high platform. She ran straight ahead, all the way past the lotus pond and to the door of Jiang Gangqin's house, but she didn't see Jiang Song yet, so she hurriedly shouted to Jiang's father who was still setting off firecrackers: "Guoping! Guoping! Where's Songzi? Why can't I see Songzi? Is he still behind? Did I tell you to come back first? How many people did he come back with? It's so cold, he couldn't have brought the child back? Has he arrived at the ferry? Forget it, I'd better go to the ferry to pick him up! The weather is clear now, and the road was thawed in the morning and it's hard to walk. He has to bring the child back, and don't let my eldest grandson fall!"
In Jiang's mother's view, the only thing that was worthy of Jiang's father's excitement and fanfare was that Jiang Song came back with his daughter-in-law and child.
Who knew that Jiang's father smiled and said loudly: "It's not Songzi, it's Xingxing! Xingxing won the gold medal in the national competition and was admitted to Beijing University in advance!"
The sound of firecrackers was too loud, and the sixteen explosions that kept rushing into the sky were even more noisy. No one could hear clearly, and instead asked loudly: "What? Songzi is back?"
"I knew it was Songzi who came back. If it wasn't Songzi who came back, why would he be so happy?"
But Jiang's mother, who was closest to Jiang's father, heard what Jiang's father said, and her cheerful expression just now disappeared in an instant, as if she was an outsider independent of this bustling world, with silence in her ears.
She couldn't help but scold, "Why are you making such a big fuss if Songzi isn't back?"
Jiang's father was happy, and he didn't bother with Jiang's mother. At this time, Jiang's uncle, Jiang's aunt, Jiang Hongjun, Jiang Hongbing and others all ran to the Jiang family. Even Jiang Guoliang, who lived in the second room, heard the commotion here and thought that Jiang Song had brought his wife back, so he hurried down to see the excitement.
He has now found a date, and the date is a teacher in their elementary school. However, she is from the city and is not willing to live in the countryside, so Jiang Guoliang did not take her back to his hometown to meet his family.
Jiang Guoliang, who is unmarried, is still a young man, and he runs faster than anyone else to see the excitement.
The long-lasting sixteen-bang and firecrackers made many people who heard the noise come out of their houses and run to the high platform in front of the Jiang family to watch the excitement.
The high platform in front of the Jiang family is only 20 to 30 square meters, which can't accommodate so many people. There are also many people standing on the road below, eating melon seeds and peanuts while watching the excitement.
It is the first time that so many people have gathered at the door of the Jiang family's small house, and they all come to ask what is going on.
Father Jiang was very excited. He threw candy to everyone who came to watch the fun. He didn't finish the candy in the red bag until he had given it all away. Then he smiled and said, "Didn't Xingxing come back for the New Year this year? She went to participate in the National Olympic Games, won a gold medal, and was admitted to Beijing University in advance! She will continue training tomorrow and will continue to compete with foreigners for our country and participate in the International Olympic Games!"
"What Olympic Games?"
"Can Xingxing still participate in the Olympic Games?"
"What kind of lucky competition did you win a gold medal?"
Jiang's father corrected him with a smile, "It's not the Olympic Games, it's the Olympic Games, but it's similar to the Olympics. The Olympics is the Olympic Games, and the Olympic Games test your brain. One is a competition of sports, the other is a competition of brains!"
After Jiang's father explained this, the villagers understood: "Wow, Ling Ling is so successful? He actually won that Olympic Games. The gold medal of Olympic poker!"
Jiang's father didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and corrected him again: "It's Olympic!"
He was speaking in dialect, and the pronunciation was indeed similar to Olympic poker. Uncle Jiang said impatiently: "Isn't it just Olympic poker? It's like no one understands it." He asked Jiang's father, "Are you talking about Xing Xing playing poker at the Olympics? I've never seen her play poker before?"
"I know! I've seen 'God of Gamblers'! It was still showing in the cinema two days ago. There's also the 'King of Poker'!" Every Chinese New Year, there are two open-air movie shows in the village. They are usually old movies, such as 'Invincibles of the East', 'God of Gamblers', 'The Magic Crane's Needle' and so on. New movies have to be shown in cinemas and they have to charge money. Someone asked, "Since Qing won the gold medal, does that mean he is the King of Poker?"
"They said it's called the Olympic Poker Tournament, so it must be the 'God of Gamblers'!"
They also heard these words from movies and believed them without a doubt.
Jiang Guoliang couldn't stand it any longer, so he stepped out from the crowd and said, "Isn't the point that Xing Xing was admitted to Beijing University in advance?"
Even if the villagers were ignorant, they knew that Beijing University was one of the two most famous universities in the country. After all, when all the children first started school, they made bold statements that they would be admitted to Tsinghua University or Beijing University
in the future! This was originally just a child's dream, but Jiang Xing actually made it come true.
"Your daughter Xingxing just went to high school last year, right? I remember your daughter Ailian chased her for two miles and beat her because Xingxing wanted to go to high school!"
Jiang's mother heard this and said angrily, "When did I chase her for two miles and beat her for her going to school? I chased her because she instigated her father to use the farmland to raise crayfish. And how did I beat her?"
"Why didn't I beat her? We all saw it when you chased and beat her with a broomstick as thick as your wrist!"
"That's right, you didn't let her go to school last year. Who would have thought that she would be the god of literature and get admitted to Peking University! Wow!" At this time, no one in the village said that Jiang's father should not let girls go to school.
"Oh my goodness, what's the matter with the big guy's ancestral tomb? Four college students have come out at once, and now there is one who is studying at a university in Beijing. He will become an official in the future, right?"
For rural people, there is nothing more powerful than being an official.
"Your grandfather's ancestral tomb must be good!"
"I said his grandfather's tomb is good. Our mountain is full of dragons and tigers. His grandfather's tomb is right on the front paw of the tiger! Isn't it following the tiger's step by step promotion!"
"That's not right. Daguo is also his grandfather's grandson. It doesn't make sense to only bless Guoan, Guoliang and Guoping, but not Daguo's three!"
"Didn't Daguo not allow Hongjun and his brothers to continue their studies? Hongjun even went to junior high school, while Hongbing and Jiangjun became apprentices with their father after graduating from elementary school. If they don't study, their grandfather can't bless them even if he wants to!"
Jiang Daguo, who was originally embarrassed, looked at his three eldest sons after hearing this, and was really upset.
The more he thought about it, the more it made sense.
He and Guoping had limited conditions when they were young. Born in that era, their uncle was a college student at Nankai University, so what? Wasn't he sent to their farm for labor reform? After ten years of tossing around, he still looked like a human being? In the end, didn't he marry their aunt? Jiang Daguo has always believed that studying is useless and it is better to learn a craft.
So when he was young, he studied in the blind class, and after learning a few words, he decided to be a blind man and not go to school. His younger brother was willing to study, but what was the point? The more he studied, the poorer he became, and in the end he was worse than him.
This deep-rooted concept of his also applies to his three sons. After they learned a few words, he let them drop out of school and follow him to become bricklayers. Now think about it, the two sons of my uncle's family have become college students, and the three children of my younger brother's family have all been admitted to college. Jiang Song is not unable to be admitted, but he is unwilling to go to a bad school, and he is unwilling to repeat his studies if he failed to get into a good school. If he is willing to go, he will definitely be admitted.
Does that mean that if his three sons take the exam, the ancestors will bless them and let them get into college?
He looked at his three sons, and the more he looked at them, the more they seemed to be good candidates for becoming officials. No matter how high an official they become, if they pass the college entrance examination, they can become a brigade secretary, or a town chief like the fourth son.
As the father of the town chief, why would he have to go through wind and rain like this, facing the earth and back to the sky?
Uncle Jiang regretted deeply, and he couldn't help but cast his eyes on his only grandchild, his little granddaughter.
As a girl, Jiang Xi's ancestors blessed her to get into such a good university and become an official in the future. It doesn't make sense that the ancestors only bless Guo An and Guo Liang from his uncle's family and Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi from his brother's family, and not bless his grandchildren?
I haven't seen my grandson yet, but won't my granddaughter be ready?
Uncle Jiang, who always said that it was useless to send a girl to school, now has the idea of sending his granddaughter to school and for her to go to college and become an official in the future.
Although the granddaughter will still be someone else's after she gets married, people will look at you differently if you have a daughter who is an official. If Jiang Song and Jiang Bai have any problems in the future, they can ask their sister for help. Will Jiang Xi not help?
Thinking of this, Uncle Jiang, who had never held his granddaughter before, quickly took his own baby granddaughter out of Aunt Jiang's arms, held her above his head and admired her for a while. But that was not enough, he also poked the baby's face with his stubble, making the baby giggle.
Uncle Jiang teased and said, "Our little Tangyuan should study hard and go to college to become a high-ranking official in the future." He suddenly wanted Jiang Xiao to hug his granddaughter, so that she could get a taste of Jiang Xiao's elegance and joy so that she could go to college in the future. He asked Jiang's father, "Where's Xiao Xiao? Come on, let Xiao Xiao hug her niece!"
Jiang's father smiled and said, "She has to participate in the Olympic International Competition for the country. How can she have time to come back? She is training with the training team! Otherwise, how can she survive?" Didn't you come back for the New Year? You were locked up in the training team for training, just like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with special coaches teaching them how to make connections. What about winter camp? This is the first time I heard about winter camps. If you hadn't won the gold medal in the national competition, how would I know there is such a thing as a winter camp? "
Everyone nodded and said, "If you hadn't passed the exam, you wouldn't know. The big guy, who is still a high school student, wouldn't know, let alone us."
"No wonder your children haven't come back."
Someone else asked, "Why hasn't your Jiang Bai come back either?"
Jiang's father sighed, "Well, it's because my family owed too much debt a few years ago. The children saw it and remembered it. In the past, they were in high school and couldn't help us share the burden. Now they have been admitted to university, haven't they? Their studies are not as busy as they were in high school. Baizi bought a batch of clothes from the city and sold them in the town. This kid is really good. A piece of clothing is worth a lot of money. "For a while, everyone felt sympathetic after hearing this. They were all very envious of Jiang's father and
mother for giving birth to these three good sons and daughters. Each of them either entered college or was thinking about making money for the family. Now, they no longer laughed at Jiang's father and mother for not having their children around during the New Year. One of them went to
win glory for the country, and the other went to make money for the family and to share the burden with the parents. Such sensible children are hard to find even with a lantern!
It was not until all the excitement faded away and the Jiang family returned to its quiet state, with only him and Jiang's mother left at home, that he sat at the table, resting his arms on the table, and lowered his head in silence.