Lu Yuan also looked at Lu Xiaojun. Today wasn't a school holiday, so why did he suddenly come back from school?
When Lu Xiaojun saw Lu Yuan and Lu Yuanchao, he immediately put on a smiling face.
"Big brother, brother who aided Korea!"
He greeted her first, then replied casually, "Nothing much, just got back from school and I'm a little hungry. I'll go inside and find something to eat."
Lu Yuan glanced at him and saw that he was clearly not telling the truth, but he didn't say anything.
Lu Yuanchao said with a grin, "Want to come and have a drink with us?"
Lu Xiaojun quickly waved his hand, "No, I don't drink."
My older brother once said that I should try not to drink alcohol before I am an adult.
He's still a year away from adulthood.
Lu Yuanchao didn't insist and waved him into the house.
After he entered the room, Lu Yuanchao winked and said, "This kid has grown up. He seems to have his own secrets now. Is he heartbroken over some girl?"
Lu Yuan, however, did not think so. If it were really for the girl, this boy should not be worried, but shy.
"It's okay, let's drink first, I'll go talk to him later."
Lu Yuanchao popped a peanut into his mouth and chewed it.
"Xiao Jun is really lucky to have you as his older brother. His father is a scoundrel, but I never thought that he and his sister would be able to enjoy a good life with you."
Lu Yuan said calmly, "It's not exactly enjoying a life of luxury; they all rely on themselves. But it's definitely better than following his wicked father."
Lu hadn't initially intended to take care of the siblings, but they changed on their own, and his wife had just given birth to triplets and needed help taking care of the house and children, so he let the two of them live with him.
Unexpectedly, a brother-sister relationship actually developed later on.
Neither of them drank too much. After discussing most of the matters, they drank and cleared the table.
After Lu Yuanchao left, Lu Yuan found Lu Xiaojun.
After the kid came back, he carried a hoe to the back plot of land, but didn't cook anything, which shows that what he said before was just an excuse.
Lu Yuan went to his private plot, and quite a while passed, but Lu Xiaojun was just absentmindedly weeding in the field and didn't notice him at all.
Lu Yuan frowned slightly and took the hoe from his hand.
"Big brother?"
Lu Yuan looked at the boy, who was almost as tall as him, and smiled. "Xiao Jun, let's talk."
Before the age of ten, this kid was completely naive and even a bit arrogant. After he turned ten, his mother was arrested and his father ran away. No one spoiled him anymore, and he experienced the coldness of human relationships at a young age. He grew up overnight.
From then on, she never complained about the hardships and toil. Although neither Lu Yuan nor Wen Moxue were harsh people, they were ultimately living under someone else's roof, and their personalities became more and more obedient and gentle.
They didn't go through a rebellious phase like other children, and they didn't show their emotions much.
His obvious distress suggested something had happened, and as his guardian, Lu Yuan felt obligated to show concern.
Lu Xiaojun nodded in agreement, and the two sat down on the ground.
Lu Yuan cut to the chase, "Tell me, what happened to you? You seemed troubled when you came back."
Lu Xiaojun's eyes instantly reddened, and his lips trembled twice before closing tightly again.
Lu Yuan didn't urge him, and waited quietly for him to speak.
After a long pause, Lu Xiaojun managed to force a smile.
"Brother, it's nothing serious, just some trivial things at school, let's not talk about it."
Lu Yuan stared at him intently. "Tell the truth."
The smile on Lu Xiaojun's face slowly faded, and he turned to look into the distance, his eyes gradually welling up with tears.
"It's really nothing serious. I'm about to graduate, and the school is going to recommend a few outstanding students to work in a big factory. I was supposed to be one of the spots, but I don't know who leaked my information. They said my mom was a slut who was sent to a labor camp, my dad was a fugitive, and that I should be arrested too."
"Later I told them that my sister and I had severed ties with our parents, and with the help of some teachers at school, I wasn't arrested. However, my recommendation spot was canceled as a result."
As he finished speaking, his voice began to choke up, tinged with grievance.
He is graduating from high school this year, with only about a month left until graduation. The school has not arranged any courses, and most of the students are inquiring about or registering for recruitment exams at various factories.
A few students who perform exceptionally well in school are directly recommended to work in certain factories.
The fact that Lu Xiaojun was selected for recommendation shows that his performance at school must be outstanding.
Unexpectedly, it would be affected by his parents.
This is clearly because he was directly recommended to the factory, which aroused jealousy or blocked someone's way, so someone deliberately used this incident to make him lose his spot.
The other party succeeded.
This was indeed a distressing and aggrieved situation for Lu Xiaojun.
Lu Yuan never expected that someone at school would target him. This kind of attack from family members is the most hurtful, killing people invisibly.
Although Lu Yuan hadn't treated him like a younger brother all these years, he was still family, just like he was with Old Man Li.
It's natural to feel upset when a family member is bullied, and you want to seek justice for them.
He patted Lu Xiaojun on the shoulder and comforted him, "Don't worry, with me here, the spot that's meant to be yours will be yours, unless we don't want it."
Lu Xiaojun suddenly turned his head and stared blankly at him, "Big brother, what's wrong...?"
Lu Yuan said, "We don't cause trouble or bully others, but since someone has deliberately come looking for trouble and bullied us, we can't just be afraid and let them bully us for nothing."
"Brother, let's forget it. Actually, I didn't really want to stay and work in the county, so let's not make things so complicated."
He was genuinely afraid of causing trouble for Lu Yuan.
Furthermore, he really didn't want to stay and work in the county town anymore. His parents' affair was the talk of the town at school, and even several factories knew about it. If he really stayed and worked in the county town in the future, he didn't know how many people would criticize him.
Lu Yuan continued, "It's right that you don't want to stay and work in the county. If you want to find a job in the county, it's just a matter of me saying the word. You can choose any brick factory, machinery factory, or furniture factory you want. But I don't plan to let you stay and work in the county."
It's been 77 years, and the college entrance examination is about to be reinstated. It's already May, and the news will be released in less than five months.
There are only six months left until the college entrance examination.
Lu Yuan planned to let Lu Xiaojun take the college entrance examination and go to university. He had good grades and had just graduated, so he had a great advantage in the college entrance examination.
If you cram for the next few months, getting into a good university won't be difficult.
It was because of this idea that Lu Yuan talked to him about finding a job; otherwise, he wouldn't have asked him to value the school's recommendation.
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