Chapter 170 I Want to Go to Technical Secondary School
Unlike the Zhuang family’s Xiaonian, which is full of intrigue, the Huang family’s Xiaonian is warm and happy.
When the car arrived at the Huang family's door, the neighbors gathered around and started to tut:
"Old Huang's family is about to have a good harvest again."
"Yes! I've seen him, my son-in-law, come back several times this year. Sometimes, A-Ling doesn't even come back, and he's the only one who comes to see her."
"Yes, filial piety!"
Huang's father called several cousins from the Huang family to come over to celebrate the New Year's Eve, and now they are helping to move things.
The neighbors were shocked to see them unloading the meat from the car.
"I asked my aunt to go buy meat with me yesterday, but she said it wasn't necessary! It turns out my son-in-law had already asked her in the morning and would bring it, so there was no need to buy it."
Huang Ling handed a paper bag to Xiaoting.
Xiaoting obediently ran to her neighbors and took out fruit candies from a paper bag and gave them to them.
When she didn't know some people well, she would just call them by their age, and she never made a mistake.
The neighbors loved it very much.
"A Ling was so lovable when she was little!"
Everyone came in.
Zhou Huailan first hugged Huang's mother, calling her "Auntie" repeatedly.
Huang's mother held her hand and said, "My son, why don't you come with your brother? I miss you so much."
"That's right, he didn't even bring me with him. I missed you so much, and I haven't even been to Changzhou!"
"Then stay for two more days. I'll take you out to play every day."
"Um!"
The two of them were as affectionate as real mother and daughter.
While eating, Huang Ling smiled and said, "I'm full today! I see Mom didn't make any steamed buns."
Zhou Huaiyi said bluntly, "I've been home more often than you have in the past year, and I still don't have enough to eat! Besides, Mom knows I don't like flower rolls, so she must have made beef buns today."
"Yes, Huaiyi guessed right. I'll leave a small stove with water at night. If you're hungry, you can use the steamer to steam buns." Huang's mother continued.
After the whole family had dinner, Huang's mother agreed to go shopping together the next day.
When Zhou Huaiyi was filling a hot water bottle before going to bed at night, he saw Huang Ling rummaging through her bag.
"What are you looking for?" he asked.
Huang Ling turned around with a wad of money in her hand.
"I know I have to stay for several days, so I brought enough money." Zhou Huaiyi smiled and shook his head.
"I know you have it, and I have it too!" Huang Ling took out Zhou Huaiyi's wallet from under the pillow without saying a word, and stuffed the wad of money in her hand into Zhou Huaiyi's wallet.
He is responsible for all the household expenses. When Huang Ling wants to pay, he says that your money will be of great use.
He never asked how much money Huang Ling earned or how much money she had.
However, he would tell Huang Ling how much he earned. Even if he received a five-dollar bonus, he would tell Huang Ling the first thing he did when he got home.
Zhou Huaiyi didn't refuse again. He stuffed the hot water bottle into the inner quilt and said with a smile, "Then you will be responsible for choosing tomorrow, and I will be responsible for checking out."
The next day, everyone went shopping. Zhou Huaiyi went shopping with a bulging wallet and came back with a bulging wallet as well.
Huang's father didn't allow him to pay at all.
After returning home, Zhou Huaiyi said to Huang Ling dejectedly, "I feel like I haven't completed the task you assigned to me!"
Huang Ling smiled and said, "Then your trip wasn't in vain. At least you did some labor."
New Year’s Eve.
Zhou Huaiyi bought a lot of fireworks.
Huang Ling was surprised and said, "I grew up in Changzhou and I don't know where to buy these things. How did you find them?"
"As long as you want to do it, there is always a way. Xiaoting said she wanted to see the fireworks like those on National Day, so I must make it happen." Zhou Huaiyi smiled.
"Really? Is it that kind, Uncle Zhou?" Xiaoting was extremely happy.
"Maybe it's not that big. Let's take a look later." Zhou Huaiyi replied.
"Well! It doesn't have to be that big!"
"Here, sparklers. You and your friends can play with them first. We'll enlarge them when it gets dark." Zhou Huaiyi took out a handful of sparklers and handed them to Xiaoting.
Xiaoting happily accepted it.
Huang's father was afraid that the match would burn his hands, so he lit a stick of incense for Xiaoting and asked her to use it to light the sparklers.
After dark, Zhou Huaiyi set off fireworks in the yard.
After lighting the fuse, Zhou Huaiyi ran back to the eaves and hugged Huang Ling tightly.
The fireworks shot up into the sky with a loud bang, leaving behind a brilliant circle in the sky.
The big fireworks attracted the surrounding neighbors to come and watch, and they were full of praise.
Huang Ling looked at her smiling parents, at Xiaoting and Huailan who were huddled together, and at Zhou Huaiyi who was holding her against his chest and covering her ears.
At this moment, happiness becomes concrete.
After they returned home on the third day of junior high school, Huang's father and mother took apart the quilt to wash it and found that the two had left a stack of money for them under the pillow.
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A few days after the Little New Year, the families of Zhuang Chaoying and Zhuang Hualin went shopping and visited the park together.
Although making money is not easy, Zhuang Hualin still generously bought things for all three children.
Seeing some mobile private vendors in the streets, Zhuang Hualin was surprised and said: "Are people in Suzhou so bold now? Selling things on the street?"
Tunan told her, "Auntie, there are rag collectors everywhere! Toothpaste tubes and old books and newspapers can all be exchanged for money."
"Oh, so that's it! We still don't dare to do that in our town!" Zhuang Hualin once again lamented the changes in Suzhou.
On the afternoon of the 29th, Zhuang Chaoying and Zhu Xiuyu took Tunan and Hongbin to buy food for the New Year's Eve dinner, while Zhuang Hualin, Xiangdong and Pengfei sat in the yard to bask in the sun.
Zhuang Hualin could only say three sentences before he began to tell Pengfei to study hard and get a decent job in Suzhou in the future, so that their sins would not be in vain.
Pengfei lowered his head and said nothing.
After a while, he said, "Mom, I'm far behind Brother Tunan and Xiaoting. I think it's a bit difficult to go to university. I wonder if I can go to a technical secondary school..."
Zhuang Hualin exploded. She shouted angrily, "No! Absolutely not!"
"Mom...but I'm really not that good. No matter what my uncle teaches or what Aunt Huang teaches, Xiaoting and Dongzhe can understand it after just one try, but I can't understand it even after two or three times..." Pengfei explained in a low voice.
"Are you afraid that your aunt and her family will drive you away once they have a house? That's why you want to go to a technical secondary school because technical secondary schools have dormitories, right?" Zhuang Hualin asked.
"Mom, no..."
"Pengfei's mom, don't be anxious!" Xiangdong interrupted.
"Don't talk!" Zhuang Hualin stopped her husband.
She grabbed Pengfei's hand again and said:
"Pengfei, don't even think about backing out! You have no way out! Going to university, or even a junior college, is completely different from going to a technical secondary school! If you're worried about having no place to live, then go back to your grandma's house. She wants you to go back. Anyway, you can't stop working hard to get into high school just because you have no place to live!"
Two days ago, Zhuang Hualin went back to see his father and bought some nutritional supplements.
She was the only one who went back; Pengfei and Xiangdong did not go.
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