Ling Shuang glared at Lin Yi reluctantly, meaning: You'd better express your opinion quickly.
Lin Yi slowly tapped the big pipe beside him. Seeing Ling Shuang's eyes rolling up, he said calmly, "My son got into the city's key high school, which made me very proud. Why doesn't he study? He should! He must study!"
After he finished speaking, he glanced at his daughter, Yongfang, who was still agitated. "Last year, our family was in financial difficulty, so Xiaofang dropped out of school. Luckily, the school offered a one-year suspension. When school starts on September 1st, Xiaofang will go to high school with Yongqiang!"
Lin Yi's final decision really shocked the three children. Tears rolled down Zhao Yongqiang's eyes, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
Zhao Yongfang couldn't help but tremble. What had she just heard? Dad said that she and Yongqiang would go to high school together on September 1st? Was Dad serious?
Only Zhao Yongliang had a gloomy look in his eyes and looked unhappy.
Zhao Yongfang was the quickest to react. She stood up, walked around the table, and approached her eldest brother: "Did you hear that? Dad said Yongqiang can go to school. Hurry and get his admission letter!"
"I won't take it. I'll burn it, tear it up, throw it away, dig a hole and bury it. What can you do to me?" Zhao Yongliang jumped up and down and shouted at his sister Yongfang in frustration: "Without the admission letter, I don't think you can go to school."
Yongfang and Yongqiang were so angry that they almost cried after hearing him call them such a bastard. "How could you do this?"
"My parents said that you two were born to serve me. You two have to stay at home and take care of me for the rest of your lives. If I say you can't study, you can't study!" Zhao Yongliang said excitedly. But he was slapped on the back of his head by Lin Yi.
Lin Yi: "Look at what you can do. You don't have much ability, but you have a lot of arrogance! You don't do anything serious. Even if you burn the notice to ashes, your brother can still go to school."
"You hit me?" Zhao Yongliang touched the back of his head and tilted his head to look at his father with a look of shock on his face.
He was both angry and aggrieved, and a sense of unprecedented panic welled up in his heart: "You're not my father, you're not my father!" He looked at his mother, Cai Genxiang, with hope. But he could never have imagined that not only was his father no longer his father, but his mother was no longer his mother either...
Not only did Ling Shuang not stand up for him, she also slapped him on the head and echoed Lin Yi, saying, "This brat just needs discipline."
Zhao Yongliang touched the back of his head, looked at his father to the left and his mother to the right in disbelief, and almost burst into tears. He dragged his disabled leg and limped out.
Watching his shuffling figure walking away, the four members of the Zhao family who remained in the main room were silent for a moment. Ling Shuang slammed a rag on the table and said, "Hurry up and do what you need to do. If you want to leave too, then don't waste time and get out of here."
As soon as the words fell, Zhao Yongqiang and Zhao Yongfang immediately set to work, clearing away the dishes and chairs. Only Lin Yi remained undisturbed, still twirling his pipe, the sound of it clacking against the soles of his shoes.
Ling Shuang couldn't bear to watch this, and after enduring it again and again, she couldn't help but said, "Don't be idle either, hurry up and clean up. There are still two boxes of rat poison in the room that haven't been sold yet."
Lin Yi paused. Yes, their new team was penniless. All their previous points were frozen and they couldn't even redeem them for a portable space system mall. This impoverished family would have to be rebuilt by themselves.
As for rat poison, forget it. Whoever wants to sell it can sell it. He won’t sell it anyway.
"Dad, we are on summer vacation now. Let me go with you to sell rat poison tomorrow," Zhao Yongqiang rubbed his hands to express his desire to share the household expenses with his father.
Lin Yi:.......
"Dad just thought about it. Your mom and I usually sell rat poison and only make about 20 yuan a month. This money is barely enough for our family to eat, and we can't save any extra. You and your sister are about to go to high school. You two will need at least a few hundred yuan in three years of high school, so..."
While Lin Yi was pondering for a moment, Zhao Yongfang, holding the bowl and chopsticks in his hands, said, "Dad, let Xiaoqiang study. I... I don't like studying."
Ling Shuang felt a little distressed when she saw her adopted daughter, who was so sensible. Before she could offer any words of comfort, Zhao Yongqiang said, "No, no, no, sister. If, if our family could only afford to send one person to school, you would go first. You've already wasted a year. We can't... put it off any longer."
After hearing what her brother said, Zhao Yongfang's slight resentment faded. "Xiao Qiang, listen to me. Study hard and don't worry about anything else. Go to university and get a doctorate. I'll go out to work and even if I never get married, I'll still support you."
"Sister" Zhao Yongqiang's eyes were filled with tears. He turned his head and looked at his father Zhao Xianshui: "Dad——".
Lin Yi's mouth twitched slightly. These two brats were acting so much, and he didn't seem to say anything, did he? What were they imagining? It also indirectly showed that these two children were indeed quite insecure. He had just told them to go to school as soon as September 1st, ten minutes ago. It was all because the original father was such a failure, with such low credibility that he couldn't even maintain it for ten minutes.
"Don't worry, Dad said that both of you can go to school, and he will definitely let both of you go to school." Lin Yi expressed his opinion again.
Zhao Yongqiang said, "Dad, I know our family doesn't have much money, so let my sister go to school first. I will take a year off and should be able to earn enough for high school tuition. Then I can support myself in my studies."
He had always been ignored at home and was used to it. His father had never made a comment about his continuing his studies and had never told him clearly whether he agreed to let him go to high school until the admission letter arrived today.
The notice was placed on the table, and this issue could no longer be avoided. Before Zhao Yongqiang could open his mouth, the notice was snatched away by his eldest brother. He didn't dare to fight with his eldest brother for it, so he could only hope that his parents would make the decision.
At the dinner table, the eldest brother was very aggressive, telling him in various ways to stay at home and farm or go out to work.
Zhao Xianshui and Cai Genxiang remained silent, not daring to make eye contact with their youngest son. Zhao Yongqiang's voice became smaller and smaller, and the light in his eyes dimmed little by little.
Until Lin Yi and Ling Shuang came over.
Habits are not formed overnight, and trust cannot be built overnight.
Lin Yi searched through his original body's memories of his previous life and learned that his youngest son did go to school in the end. During his three years of high school, not only did he not ask his family to pay a penny for tuition, he also paid a lot of money to his family as prize money from participating in various competitions.
Later, he was admitted to a key university, but faced the situation of dropping out of school again. Thanks to the fact that there was no tuition fee and some living allowance for going to university in the late 1980s, and his brother-in-law's private subsidies to his nephew, this poor kid was able to finish college.
Think about what the parents said at the time: What’s the point of studying so much? It’s better to go out and work early to earn money to support the family.
Supporting a family, what family to support, whose family to support, a teenager who can support himself, earns bonuses while going to school to supplement his family, eats the worst meals in school, wears the cheapest tattered clothes and shoes, yet can still be so positive and sunny and work hard. The Zhao family has such a child, it is already a blessing for their ancestors!
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