During the Spring Festival of 1971, the family of three returned to their hometown to celebrate the New Year. Yanyan was already ten months old, chubby like a meat dumpling, and pink. Shuangxi loved her so much when he saw her that he held her in his arms and wouldn't let go.
"Yan Yan, I'm your aunt, call me aunt."
Shuangxi teased the child and asked her to call for help, and pinched her little hands from time to time.
Xiang Nuan smiled and said, "She can't speak yet. She should be able to speak in two months."
Shuangxi said regretfully, "That will take a long time. I even left some candy for her but she couldn't eat it."
"Give it to her when she grows up. What did you learn in school this year? Tell me."
Shuangxi started first grade last fall and has completed one semester now.
"How can we not bring this up during the New Year?"
Shuangxi now gets a headache whenever he hears any topic related to study.
Xiang Nuan didn't intend to let her go, and said with a smile, "Then recite a poem for me, and I won't ask any more questions. And by the way, set an example for your little niece."
Hearing about setting an example for her little niece, Shuangxi became interested. It's just a matter of reciting a poem. She knows several.
"good!"
She nodded and began to recite it with her head shaking, "Geese, geese, geese, singing with their necks bent toward the sky. Their white feathers float on the green water, and their red feet paddling the clear waves!"
After reciting it, she looked at Xiang Nuan with great pride, "How was it? Awesome, right?"
Xiang Nuan nodded and applauded her, "That's amazing!"
“Hehe~”
Wu Xiaoying heard what her sister-in-law said from outside and smiled: "Xi, recite two more poems for your sister-in-law. She is a college student and knows a lot. You should learn from her. When you grow up, you may be able to become a college student!"
The college students she was talking about are the current workers, peasants and soldiers college students. The college entrance examination has been suspended for three years. The workers, peasants and soldiers college students have the highest academic qualifications at present. It would be a great achievement if they graduated.
“I don’t want to go to college!”
Shuangxi was unmoved. She didn’t even want to go to elementary school, let alone college. She hated going to school!
Wu Xiaoying was so angry that she threw the vegetable basket on the chopping board, "You kid, you don't know what's good for you!"
Shuangxi made a face at her, "A little~"
Xiang Nuan asked Shuang Xi, "What do you want to do if you don't want to go to school?"
"Play! I love playing the most!"
Although she could play while in school, it was not as fun as when she was not in school. After all, she had been wild since she was a child, and when she was suddenly restrained, she felt as if her whole body was covered with thorns and she felt uncomfortable everywhere.
"You can't play around forever, right? Have you ever thought about what you'll do when you grow up?"
Shuangxi blinked in confusion and began to think.
After a long while, he said, "I want lots of delicious food and beautiful clothes!"
Xiang Nuan nodded and said, "You have a good idea, but these things require money. You can't buy them without money."
Shuangxi chuckled, "Then I will make a lot of money when I grow up!"
In her subconscious, she still thinks that she will be able to make money when she grows up, and she has no idea how difficult it is to make money.
Xiang Nuan said, "You need to have the ability to make money. Anyway, none of the rich people I know are illiterate or uneducated."
Shuangxi was a little discouraged when he heard this, "What if I don't have any education?"
Xiang Nuan smiled and said, "Then go and learn culture. You have already started now, right? Study culture well. When you grow up, you will understand more culture, and then you will have a good job. Look at how well the workers in the city live. They get paid every month. If you become a worker, you will also get paid every month. Then you can buy whatever you want to eat and wear. Think about it, isn't that a beautiful life?"
You cannot expect a seven or eight-year-old child to look at things in the same way as adults. If you want her to move forward, you have to find something she likes and hang it in front of her.
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