Chapter 152 Reason
After Lin Qiu returned home, he did not go to find Lin Huan immediately.
Instead, she acted as if nothing had happened and told Lin Ting and Wang Shan to pretend they knew nothing.
As usual, she picked up food for Lin Huan at the dinner table and occasionally asked a question or two about family matters.
Lin Ting and Wang Shan were exposed and could only concentrate on eating.
Lin Huan didn't notice anything and just thought that his grandfather and cousin were very hungry today.
After dinner, the family sat on the sofa, fanned and watched TV.
"Huanhuan, do you want to go to the newsstand with your aunt tomorrow?" Lin Qiu suddenly asked.
Newsstand?
Lin Huan knew that her aunt ran a newsstand, which didn’t exist in her hometown, and she had always wanted to go and see it.
In fact, she had seen some newsstands on the road during this period, but she only glanced at them quickly and had no time to take a closer look.
Now that her aunt had taken the initiative to ask, she quickly agreed: "Yes, yes, yes."
Lin Qiu looked at her impatient look and smiled, "Then you have to get up early tomorrow! I have to go there at six o'clock."
"I will definitely get up, don't worry!" Lin Huan raised his hand to assure.
That night, Lin Huan washed up early and went to bed.
Lin Qiu looked at his worried father and walked over to comfort him: "Dad, don't worry, I will take care of it."
"Oh, how can I feel at ease?" Lin Ting sighed.
"But Mom and Huanhuan will notice if you act like this."
Lin Ting could only restrain the expression on his face and pretend nothing had happened, but his brows still furrowed involuntarily.
Wang Shan looked at her sleeping cousin with a nervous heart. She didn't know if it was right to tell her grandfather and mother what her cousin said.
Early the next morning, Lin Qiucai opened the door, and Lin Huan also tiptoed to open the door.
"Aunt!"
Lin Huan called out softly and then carefully closed the door.
"Come and brush your teeth and wash your face!" Lin Qiu pulled her into the bathroom.
After washing up, the aunt and nephew changed their shoes, closed the door, and took the elevator downstairs.
Summer mornings are somewhat refreshing, and the morning breeze blows past, lifting their hair.
"Aunt, there are so few people in Pengcheng in the morning!" Lin Huan sighed as he sat on the back seat of a bicycle and looked at the empty streets.
"There will be more people in an hour." Lin Qiu explained.
"Yeah." Lin Huan nodded.
"Huanhuan, do you think home is better or Pengcheng is better?" Lin Qiu asked while pedaling his bicycle vigorously.
"Hello, Pengcheng!"
Hearing Lin Huan's answer without hesitation, Lin Qiu smiled knowingly, "Why do you think this place is good?"
Lin Huan counted on his fingers, "This place is big, this place is prosperous, this place has tall buildings, and this place has many cars..."
"I think everything here is good, even the streets are cleaner than at home!"
Lin Qiu smiled and shook his head, he is still a child!
"Huanhuan, do you know why the streets here are clean?"
Lin Huan knew this, "Because there are sanitation workers!"
Lin Qiu pointed to the sanitation workers who were loading garbage into the sanitation truck not far away and said, "Do you know what time they have to get up?"
Lin Huan shook his head, "I don't know!"
"Three o'clock in the morning!"
"So early?" Lin Huan exclaimed.
"Yeah! They have to clean the streets of this city before everyone wakes up."
“That’s so hard!”
"What's not hard to do?" Lin Qiu said this deliberately, "I work hard every day too."
So, Lin Huan witnessed the hard work of his aunt.
Lin Qiu was busy answering newspapers, organizing shelves, and selling goods all morning. He was sweating profusely. Even for breakfast, he just bit into a bun and drank some cold water.
Just when Lin Huan thought that her aunt could take a rest, Lin Qiu closed the door of the newsstand, pushed his bicycle and called Lin Huan to go out with him.
She greeted Zhang Guixiang in advance and went to the popsicle factory in person to pick up the goods today.
On the way back, Lin Qiu pushed the bike hard in the front, and Lin Huan helped push it hard from behind.
Looking at her aunt's sunburned face, her sweat-soaked clothes, and the blue veins on her arms bulging from exertion, Lin Huan realized that her aunt's good life was the result of hard work.
That night, Lin Qiu asked her again: "Huanhuan, do you want your uncle to take you to the construction site? Maybe you can see your father."
Wang Xiuren originally wanted to say that the construction site was all dusty and there was nothing good to see there, but his wife glared at him and he remained silent.
When Lin Huan heard that he could see his father, he was immediately excited.
She only saw her father on the first day she came. He didn't have time to come at other times because he had to work hard.
The next day, Lin Huan saw the simple, noisy and dusty construction site.
When she saw her father, covered in cement dust and sand, bent over laying floor tiles all day, she could not help but turn her head away and cry.
It turns out that this is how I earn the money I send back home every month.
On the third day, Lin Qiu did not make any arrangements for Lin Huan.
Lin Huan looked at his cousin doing homework and ran to the convenience store out of boredom, where he happened to run into a wholesaler delivering goods.
The goods were piled up in front of the convenience store so that there was no room to step, and Lin Ping carried the boxes in one by one.
Lin Huan hurried over to help, but found that he was too weak to move a box of goods, so he could only help his sister-in-law lift it.
After all the goods were moved in, my sister-in-law's hands were covered with red marks, but she still had to continue taking out the goods one by one and putting them on the shelves.
That night, Lin Huan was unusually silent, which made Zhou Qing think that she had heatstroke.
Two days later, Lin Qiu brought a way to earn some pocket money and asked Lin Huan if he was willing.
Lin Huan, who had been depressed for two days, agreed excitedly.
Then for the next week, she followed Aunt Zhang Guixiang to cut threads in the garment factory.
She originally thought it would be easy, but she found that as clothes were delivered in batches, she could never cut all the loose threads.
After a week, Lin Huan earned the first money in her life, a total of twenty-nine yuan and eighty-four cents.
A day later, Lin Qiu took her to send her cousin to Pengcheng University to study painting and pay the tuition at the same time.
When she learned that the grandfather with a amiable smile charged three hundred yuan for a painting lesson, her worldview collapsed.
I could earn three hundred yuan just by watching my cousin draw and giving her some guidance.
My eldest aunt, father, younger aunt and the aunties in the garment factory work so hard, but they only make a little over a thousand yuan a month.
She felt that the world was different from what she knew.
After returning home, Lin Qiu took her into the bedroom.
"Do you feel that this world is unfair? Some people can easily earn high salaries, while others work so hard but only earn so little?"
Lin Huan nodded honestly.
"Then do you know why the gap between people is so big?" Lin Qiu looked at her and asked.
Lin Huan pondered for a long time and did not answer.
"It's because of knowledge!" Lin Qiu said in a loud voice.
"Because we have no knowledge, your father and I can only do manual labor. Even though it is very hard, we have no choice but to make a living."
"so"
Lin Qiu held Lin Huan's hand, stared into her eyes, and said solemnly, "Huanhuan, we hope that children of your and Shanshan's generation can read more books and learn more knowledge, so that they can have more choices and choose meaningful and time-consuming jobs instead of being forced to make a living like us."
Lin Qiu's words enlightened Lin Huan. She thought about her experiences during this period and realized that her aunt did it on purpose.
For the first time, she understood the importance of reading.
She also firmly remembered a truth: reading is to have more choices.
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