In August, the admission notices for students who took the college entrance examination this year came one after another. The first one to arrive was the admission notice for Huahua's mother Liu Yue. He was admitted to the Chinese Department of a normal school in the south. Although he did not get into his first choice, Li Qinghua was very happy.

"Finally, there is a college student in our family!"

"My son is a college student!"

Her husband Liu Kai snorted: "Am I not a college student?"

"You took the college entrance examination? Do you have as many points as your son?" Her husband Liu Kai went to college while in the army, but her own son actually took the college entrance examination and got into college!

"Look at them, many of them have taken the exam for five or six years and still haven't passed, but our son got in on the first try. He must have inherited his mother's cleverness." Li Qinghua boasted.

Liu Kai: "..."

He thought to himself that you are clever, but you should not use your cleverness in the right way.

In this era, no matter what university you are admitted to, it is a thing worth celebrating.

Zhang Chengbei came to congratulate them: "Brother Tiaotiao was admitted to university?"

"Yes!"

"Congratulations!"

Qin Rou, Xiao Dasaozi and many other family members came to the Liu family to congratulate. Xiao Dasaozi said: "Your Liu Yue has changed a lot in these years."

"Isn't it." Li Qinghua sighed to herself: "It is said that girls change a lot when they grow up, and our boys change a lot when they grow up. Our Liu Yue used to be a little black monkey, but now - his skin is like a peeled egg." He

used to be a red-faced Guan Gong, but now he has become a pale-faced scholar.

Mrs. Xiao looked at Liu Yue. This young man was tall and thin like his father, but his facial features were more delicate like Li Qinghua's. He was very naughty, dark and thin when he was a child, but now he is white and thin, with a more quiet and reserved temperament.

"Isn't it? Huh——" Zhang Chengbei felt the same way. He thought about his own Zhang Yichao, who was a fair and clean young man who loved reading with glasses when he was a child, but he grew up to be as dark and strong as a bull.

Li Qinghua smiled and said, "Your child has changed a lot, too."

Zhang Chengbei: "...I hope your Tiaotiao won't change when she grows up.

She's just fine now, lively and energetic." "She's naughty, even more naughty than her brother was when he was a child. She's still like this when she grows up. Let her in-laws worry about her in the future."

Li Qinghua and Liu Kai and his wife used to worry about their daughter, but later, thinking that there are parents like Zhang Chengbei and his wife in the world who like lively and naughty girls, Li Qinghua felt relieved.

Li Qinghua turned to her son Liu Yue and said, "Liu Yue, call your Uncle Zhang twice, and he will take pictures for you."

"Mom, I don't want to take pictures!" Liu Yue held the admission letter in his hand. The freshness and excitement had not yet worn off. Looking at the things his mother had prepared, he wanted to run away.

But they were surrounded by a bunch of uncles and aunts who were watching the fun.

Zhang Yichao came back from summer vacation and followed his father to watch the fun. He whistled and winked: "Liu Yue, hurry up and take pictures." "

Happy event, a big happy event!"

Li Qinghua took a big red flower and put it on Liu Yue. A horse was rented outside the family compound. Under the crowd's shove, Liu Yue with the big red flower was pushed out for a parade.

The soldiers guarding the gate also watched the fun with a smile.

"Hurry up, get on the horse, your mother will find a way to borrow a horse from someone." Li Qinghua believed that people nowadays who were admitted to university were just like people in ancient times who passed the imperial examination. They had to be paraded!

This is a big event in life!

Qin Rou took the four children to watch the fun, thinking that Huahua's mother had a big imagination.

The child of the Liu family may not be the best student in school, but he must be the most ostentatious.

Of course, because there are too few people who get into college now, it is not uncommon for the whole village to set up a banquet to celebrate if someone gets into college.

"Hurry up, Liu Yue, get on the horse! I, your brother Zhang, will record the whole process for you."

"I'll make it into a videotape later."

Li Qinghua was surprised: "Oh, you can make a videotape!"

"Of course, you can watch the video for decades to come."

"That's great, Liu Yue, get on the horse, this is a great thing for you!"

Liu Yue was about to shout for help, but it was useless. Liu Yue, wearing a big red flower, rode a horse, and the horse slapped its tail and trotted in place, and then there was a clicking sound.

"Liu Yue, raise your head higher. You are the top scholar now. Don't be so timid and unable to raise your head!"

"That's right, Liu Yue, raise your head quickly!"

Liu Yue pulled the reins: "You people! I will remember all of you. When the children in the compound are admitted to university in the future, I will let them all ride horses and parade in the streets!"

Liu Tiaotiao said: "Brother, don't be ungrateful for what you have. This is a grand ceremony that our mother prepared especially for you!"

"Mom, I Tiaotiao don't want this kind of ceremony. When I am admitted to university in the future, I will ask Uncle Cheng to borrow two macaques to play gongs and drums for me." There are people who raise macaques on the island, and the little cuties can even play gongs and drums.

Li Qinghua nodded and said, "That's a good idea."

Liu Yue: "???!!!!"

Zhang Yichao sighed, "My parents are honest. They didn't celebrate when I got into college."

Zhang Chengbei said, "If you want to celebrate, Liu Yue will come down and you will go up. I will take some photos of you."

Zhang Yichao waved his hands, "Forget it. Times have changed. What's the point of making up for it?"

"Let's just watch Liu Yue parade in the streets!"

"Speaking of monkeys beating gongs and drums, let's go borrow some from someone." Mrs. Xiao had good relationships with people, and she actually borrowed some from someone on the street. Liu Tiaotiao took it over and happily led the way. "Bang!" The gong was struck, and Zhang Dundun was playing the drums beside her: "Dong Dong Dong!"

Liu Tiaotiao shouted, "Here comes the number one scholar!"

The two children happily led the way in front, and Liu Yue, who was standing on the horse, wanted to lower his head and cover his face, "..."

He had grown up, and he had to save face!

A parade team went away in a lively manner, with the sound of firecrackers in front, crackling mixed with the sound of beating gongs and drums, and the red firecrackers shattered and scattered, and the children ran out laughing from the white smoke.

"It's time to ride a horse!"

"Let's go riding!"

...

Qin Rou put one of her sons on the shoulder and said with a smile: "When you get into college, what kind of ceremony do you want?"

Lu Weizhou and Lu Weize: "..."

Thinking of Liu Yue's look of despair just now, the two brothers felt suffocated.

Lu Weize said: "Mom, just like you did, my brother and I will do the same. We will learn from you."

Qin Rou didn't celebrate when she got into college.

Qin Rou raised an eyebrow: "Really?"

Lu Weize came over and whispered: "Mom, my brother might be able to get the provincial top scorer. Then let him ride a tall horse and parade through the streets."

"Ask our sister to dance with the sword in the front. There will definitely be a crowd of people watching."

Qin Rou thought to herself, you little dumpling is really good at giving ideas.

Lu Weizhou said calmly: "Brother, we look the same, you should take the spotlight on your brother's behalf."

"Brother, you should come, you should come..."

Qin Rou smiled and said: "Your mother will think of a special way to celebrate for you."

"Mom, help me, please spare us."

"Wait!"

Chen Jingyi received the admission letter from the Department of Architecture of Huaqing University. His sister Qin Mian was very excited. Qin Rou took a few children to watch the excitement. Chen Jingyi's side had a lot of fanfare, because it was Huaqing University!

People from the whole village came to congratulate, not to mention Chen Mian's students. Although Chen Jingyi did not have the pomp of wearing a big red flower and riding a tall horse, it was not bad.

Qiongzhou Island TV also sent people to interview, and when they knew that Chen Jingyi was Qin Rou's nephew, they were even more surprised: "They are all acquaintances, acquaintances!"

The leaders of the Education Bureau were also shocked. In addition, the recent fiscal change has improved, and Dajiao Village has also built a Pearl Primary School, so they planned to take this opportunity to promote it well: "I heard that someone rode a horse and wore a red flower in a parade on Lucheng Street. How about a parade too?"

The people from Qiongzhou Island TV were more fashionable and suggested: "Riding a horse is too outdated. In this day and age, we should wear a red flower and ride a Santana!"

So the students who did well in the exam wore red flowers and rode in government cars to parade.

There were also people from the TV station who recorded and filmed the whole process, which was to be broadcast on local TV stations.

"Mom! Mom! Look, cousin Jingyi is out!"

"Cousin is on TV!"

Lu Weize said, "Look for him quickly, we are also on the roadside, where is our mom?"

"I haven't seen her yet, she should be there soon!"

Qin Rou and her family saw Chen Jingyi parading in the street with a wooden face and a big red peanut on TV.

Chen Jingyi is now a handsome young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a shirt and trousers. His hair is different from the popular curly ponytail hair, but neat and tidy black hair that fits neatly beside his ears. His eyes are very dark, which is particularly conspicuous among several students.

Of course, he was not the most eye-catching one. There are always some social heroes in this world. There was a student with a shaved head who was very happy. It was said that he was going to a hair salon to get his hair permed in preparation for the parade, but he accidentally got his hair permed. He simply asked the barber to shave his head and put on a hat.

He was very happy sitting in the car, and stretched out his head and hands to greet people along the street.

"Hello everyone! Hello everyone!!"

"Comrades, you have worked hard!"

...

There was a bit of the jubilation of Xiaoyanzi during the parade.

Lu Weize said, "Brother, in the future...you should take a closer look, you will also be treated the same way in the future."

Lu Weize: "I'll give you this treatment, will you, Xiao Dumpling, get it?"

"I'd rather forget it."

"Mom, how do you think they can do all these fancy things?"

Qin Rou spread her hands, thinking who knows.

It was because she didn't encounter this kind of parade when she took the college entrance examination.

"Jing Yi? This kid has been locked in his room since he came back from the parade, and he doesn't see anyone. Haha, don't make fun of him." Qin Mian thought of her son's look of despair, and felt both "brilliant to the family" and funny.

"His brother Jinghua and brother Juanjuan both called back, and they all lamented that they didn't have this treatment back then."

"They can ride in a Santana!"

"They didn't even ride on this motorcycle."

Qin Rou smiled and said, "There's even someone riding a horse in our family compound."

Now that everyone's economic ability is getting better and better, they naturally start to think of all kinds of strange ways to celebrate.

"A horse rider?!" Qin Mian was surprised, "We should let the TV station take a picture."

Qin Rou and the Qin Mian sisters chatted for a few words, and the phone rang over there. The sisters now have phones installed in their homes.

I answered the phone. It was Lu Xuan calling. Xia Mingxi's voice came out: "I saw Jing Yi on TV!!! Hahaha, so handsome!!! I'm so jealous of him!"

"Aunt, you are here too. You must tell Jing Yi that his brother Xiao Ming is so jealous of him!"

"I was admitted to the Medical University. If the TV station here doesn't come to film me..."

...

Qin Rou thought to herself, perhaps only a social elite like Xia Mingxi would like this opportunity to be on TV.

"Not only that, you know Liu Yue, his acceptance letter has arrived, and he is riding a horse in a parade with a big red flower on."

"Wow!!!" Xia Mingxi exclaimed: "This is great!"

"I will also give my younger brother Honghong this scene when he takes the college entrance examination in the future!"

...

After hanging up the phone, Qin Mian smiled gently, but with a little reluctance. She said to Qin Rou: "Now the last child is leaving his parents to go to college. In the future, there will only be Principal Chen and I left at home..."

Grandpa Chen is gone. The eldest daughter and son went to college earlier, and now the youngest son has also been admitted to college. In the future, there will only be the two of them left at home.

"When the children are around, they complain about their noise. When they are gone, they complain about the quietness."

Qin Rou nodded: "When children grow up, they will eventually leave their parents and fly in their own blue sky."

"It's too early, sister. Doudou and Rongrong are only seven years old. There will be plenty of time to accompany you in the future."

"Young couples grow old together. In the end, it is the old partner who stays with you."

"Sister, how old are you? You are so sentimental?" Qin Rou smiled: "Have you forgotten that Principal Chen has so many children waiting for you in your school?"

"Yes, yes, the children in this school are like leeks that can never be harvested. They grow, are harvested, and another crop comes. After sending off one batch of graduates, another batch of graduates comes."

Chen Jingyi, Xia Mingxi and Liu Yue went to study in other places. The Lu Weizhuo brothers are in junior high school and will not wait for a few years to take the college entrance examination. Lu Siyao and Lu Sining are in elementary school.

Lu Siyao followed a teacher to learn violin, while Lu Sining was spotted by the Cantonese Opera Troupe and practiced basic skills with them every day. She liked sword dancing and practiced at home when she had nothing to do.

Throwing swords, cloud swords, and sword flowers... a set of movements flowed like water, really like a martial arts master. Of course, the premise is that she didn't make mistakes. If she made mistakes, the scene would be quite funny.

Qin Rou found it fun and asked her little Rongrong to teach her how to throw a sword: "How do you throw it?"

Qin Rou thought the action of throwing a sword was very cool, so she threw the sword in her hand upwards and then caught it. Qin Rou tried to throw it, but she subconsciously dodged it.

"Mom, don't hide, just throw it up like this, you can catch it with your eyes closed!"

In order to show off, Lu Si Ning threw the sword in front of his mother, but... he didn't catch it.

He pretended to be

awesome but failed. Qin Rou: "Our heroine Rong Rong should practice more."

Lu Si Ning was so angry that she stepped on the wooden sword on the ground several times.

Qin Rou smiled: "If you break it, mom will buy you a new one."

"Mom, I want to act in a martial arts TV series in the future, and I want to be a martial arts master."

"Then you should practice basic skills as soon as possible."

Nowadays, whether it is filming a movie or a TV series, the requirements for fighting scenes are very high. The actors all have martial arts skills, and many actors are opera actors and have the skills of opera fighting scenes.

"Don't open your voice at home, go outside and practice like your sister."

Their two daughters, Doudou and Rongrong, one learns violin and the other learns Cantonese opera. They are different from others who learn dancing, and both of them can produce a lot of noise.

When Lu Yan returned home, he told Li Youtie of the submarine detachment: "My two daughters will probably apply to art schools in the future."

Li Youtie wanted to listen to Zhou Zhou Dumpling brothers singing, thinking that the brothers were going to study art. Who knew that these two brothers... did not have the slightest musical cell in their bodies, which was very different from their mother who came from the art troupe.

Li Youtie laughed at Lu Yan several times behind his back, but he didn't expect that a pair of pretty and lovely girls with good voices would come to him in the blink of an eye. They were both excellent and could sing and dance.

"You must teach them well. Your daughter is so beautiful. Maybe she can act in movies in the future." Li Youtie's tone was quite sour. This old Lu was really the most envied man in the family compound. His wife was beautiful, and he had a son and a daughter, all in pairs.

"You, Old Lu, can watch your daughter on TV."

Lu Yan raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What? Are you jealous?"

"Huh." Li Youtie snorted lightly, "It's not like I don't have a daughter, why should I envy you?"

"Is Old Zhang next door to yours quite jealous of you, Old Lu?" The two of them had already walked to the door of Lu Yan's house. While talking, Li Youtie glanced into the yard of the neighboring house.

As expected, Zhang Chengbei heard their conversation: "How can I envy him, Old Lu? I have three sons, and Liu Tiaotiao is my goddaughter!"

Li Youtie laughed: "When your goddaughter marries your son in the future, it will be a double blessing for you, Old Zhang. Good thing! Good thing!"

"Family members should enter their own home."

Zhang Chengbei was furious: "Don't ruin Tiaotiao's reputation. How can you make such a joke?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's my fault, I'm wrong." After Li Youtie finished speaking, he left with a smile.

Lu Yan looked at Zhang Chengbei and smiled slightly: "Old Zhang, isn't this a good thing? Why are you so angry?"

"Won't you be angry when you marry your daughter off in the future?"

Lu Yan "tsk tsk" twice: "You can go and talk more with Old Wang."

"Everyone is worried about marrying off their daughter."

Lu Yan shook his head and walked back to his yard. Qin Rou was just going out with a basket at this time, and stopped Lu Yan. The couple picked tomatoes and cucumbers together.

Lu Yan hugged her waist from behind and put his chin on her shoulder. The couple whispered: "When the children leave, it will be just the two of us..."

"Why? You can't bear to leave?"

Lu Yan laughed: "I mean - it will be just

the two of us who will be happy." "You are such a cruel father. You can't wait to kick those bastards out of the house, right?" They are almost forty years old, and they still want to live in a world of two people.

To be honest, Qin Rou also wants to live like this.

"You've just got married and you've got two kids. We haven't even had a few days to spend time together. Send Zhou Zhou Dumpling away, and then send Dou Dou Rongrong away, and then it'll be just the two of us left. Then, your brother Lu will be able to go home and be with you every day. When he retires, he'll be with you every day."

Qin Rou turned her head and held his face, chuckling, "Just staring at each other like this every day, from never getting tired of each other to getting tired of each other? And then disliking each other?"

"Your brother Lu will definitely not dislike you."

Lu Yan smiled and kissed her on the face, then put his snow-white hat on her head.

"It must be annoying to see you like this every day. Sometimes we have to be apart for a while."

Lu Yan rubbed her face and looked at her tenderly: "I can't bear to say goodbye to you."

"You talk much more now than when you were younger." She used to be unable to utter a single love word for a long time, but now she can say sweet words fluently.

"It's the same old saying, 'When you've been away for three days, you should look at each other with new eyes, Comrade Xiao Qin.'"

Time passed quickly and it was October. Qin Rou and several people from the pearl farm went to Zhongying Street in Shenzhen. They walked around the street. In addition to selling various imported goods, there were more gold shops. Even the people on the street were saying, "More and more people are coming to buy gold jewelry."

At this time, gold jewelry was about 45 to 70 grams per gram. Gold bracelets were large items. Compared with gold necklaces, gold earrings, gold rings and the like, gold bracelets that weighed at least more than ten grams were extremely expensive.

Ordinary gold rings and gold earrings are much cheaper. A gold ring of three or four grams looks very beautiful on the hand.

Many people may think that gold jewelry is vulgar in color, but gold is really beautiful and has a good luster that cannot be compared with other metals.

People with fair skin look very good in gold jewelry.

"Look, look over there, two more gold shops are going to open."

Qin Rou looked into the corner and saw that two more gold shops were going to open.

Since last year, the gold business in Zhongying Street has become more and more popular. Because of the domestic policy, private individuals cannot buy and sell gold freely, and the gold here is of good quality and low price, it has become the first choice for domestic people to buy gold.

Qin Rou wanted to cooperate with several gold shops to sell pearls. She took Xiao Yang, another person in charge of the farm, to ask several gold shops with hot sales. Who knew that the gold shops said: "We can't put all the gold in our store, so where can we sell pearls?"

"People come here to buy gold."

Compared with selling other things, selling gold is obviously more profitable.

The gold here is not a problem to sell. It will be sold out in a few days. There is no need to discuss any cooperation with others. People come to the gold shop to buy gold jewelry, right?

Finally, Qin Rou asked around and finally found a suitable partner. It was a newly opened gold shop. It used to be a grocery store and was recently changed into a gold shop.

The name of the gold shop is Longxingji Gold Jewelry Shop. The owner of the gold shop is Huang Xingqiang. He has just changed his career and decided to run a gold shop business. He has also recruited several goldsmiths.

"Your pearls are really beautiful." Huang Xingqiang saw the seawater pearls they brought and liked them more and more. His wife said, "I think it will be very beautiful to make jewelry with gold."

Qin Rou nodded and said, "When we came here, we designed several sets of jewelry with gold and pearls. Do you want to come and see them?" Qin

Rou came this time and also wanted to make a few sets of gold and pearl jewelry to display in the Pearl Craft Park on Qiongzhou Island. They are not for sale.

Huang Xingqiang and his wife looked at the design drawings one by one, and his wife's eyes lit up: "This combination looks good."

His wife was referring to the gold feather and pearl necklace. Just looking at the appearance on the drawing, she could already imagine how beautiful it would be when it was made.

"Can I buy a string of pearl necklaces from you? I think it looks really good with my red dress."

"I have seen pearls before, but I have never seen such beautiful ones."

"Your pearl earrings are really beautiful."

Qin Rou took out a pair of pearl ear hooks for Huang Xingqiang's wife. The pearl ear hooks were made of seawater pearls about nine to ten millimeters in size. The color was bright and the halo was extremely soft. When worn on people's ears, they showed a gentle temperament.

Huang Xingqiang's wife liked it as soon as she put it on.

"Once I put on this pearl, I become gentle."

His wife was admiring herself in front of the mirror, and Huang Xingqiang said, "That's right, once I put on this pearl, even a female demon becomes gentle."

"What are you talking about?"

After negotiating cooperation with the Huang couple, they left one person and a small batch of pearls here. Qin Rou also booked the gold jewelry she wanted to make and took a boat back to Qiongzhou Island. As soon as she

returned to the island, someone from the TV station came to contact her in person, saying that they planned to hold a beauty pageant on Qiongzhou Island next year

. Director Wu invited Qin Rou to be a judge.