"Let's go home. It's so cold, we should stay at home." Nanqiao pulled his clothes tighter while speaking. The winter in Shanghai is so cold that you will feel cold to the bones if you stay outside for a while.
"Let's go back and warm up." Sheng Yanchuan hugged Nanqiao and rubbed his palms on her arms. The family of four strolled back home.
The days of rest at home during the New Year passed quickly. Except for visiting the husband's family on the first day of the New Year and the parents' family on Tuesday, Nanqiao and Sheng Yanchuan basically stayed at home to eat and drink. As for visiting relatives and friends for the New Year, most of them were from the Nan family. Nanqiao and his friends were considered the younger generation, so they did not have to accompany them. As for the more important business partners, Nanqiao and Sheng Yanchuan had already visited them before the New Year. As for the other less important ones, Nanqiao and Sheng Yanchuan kept them away with the excuse that they were going out for fun recently. Otherwise, with their current popularity, they would not be able to have a peaceful New Year.
On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, the Nanqiao family of four and the Nanzhou and Nanbo families boarded a plane to Hai City. Nan's father and mother were unable to go together because they had a large social circle and many favors to fulfill at work and with relatives.
Taohua didn't go out with them because the people who went there were all from the Nan family, and she had to go to school in a few days.
But Taohua felt very sorry about this. After all, in this era when it was extremely rare for every household to have a car, taking a plane was something that they could not even think of.
"Taohua, why didn't you go with your sister-in-law this time? I heard they were going by plane," Huiping said with envy. She had heard that Nanqiao's family was going out to play a long time ago. In fact, she also wanted to go, especially when she knew they were going to take a plane. At that time, Huiping thought that Taohua must go. Even if she couldn't go, she could come back and ask Taohua what it felt like to take a plane. But who knew that Taohua didn't go either. She felt very regretful for a moment.
"I'm not going. My sister-in-law and her family are going to be gone for half a month. I'm going to start school in a few days, so I can't take that long of a leave." Taohua casually flipped through the book in her hand and said lightly.
"What's the big deal about taking leave? Didn't Xiaoran and Xiaoche also take leave? Aren't they worried about falling behind in their studies?" At this point, Huiping also thought of this and asked Taohua
"It's okay for them. Their grades have always been good. Plus, my sister-in-law has been teaching them foreign languages since they were young, so there's no problem with that. I heard from my sister-in-law that they could have skipped a grade, but she thought they were still young and should take it easy, so they're just following the routine."
"They can all skip a grade!" Hui Ping was surprised. She looked at her own children...their grades...were not bad but definitely not great either. In addition, they had just arrived in Shanghai and were not able to keep up with their studies. They were always hovering around the average level.
Yaya and Xiaoguo, who were doing their homework over there, received their mother's gaze and silently buried their heads deeper, fearing that the artillery fire would hit them.
Seeing them cowering, Huiping became even more angry. It was bad enough that they had poor grades, but they were so old and still so ignorant. She sighed slightly, glared at them and ignored them.
"Well, I guess I'll finish elementary school step by step, and if my grades in middle and high school are good, I'll skip a grade."
"Then he can get into university early, and when he grows up, he can take over Nanqiao and Yanchuan's class." Huiping calculated that if he really skipped a grade, it would only take a few years for him to graduate from university. Children grow up very fast.
"You know what, that's exactly what my second brother and his family are planning. They'll just wait for the two kids to grow up and take over, and then they can go out and have fun."
Taohua started laughing as she spoke. When she lived in Nanqiao before, she often heard them chattering about wanting to go here and there. They had already packed their schedules with things that hadn't even come to fruition.
"You haven't done this job properly for a few years, but you're already thinking about going out to play. How old are the kids to take over? The young people nowadays are really different from the past. Look at us, the older generation. We work in the fields all our lives just to make a living. There are many people in their sixties and seventies working in the fields. How can we take a rest at such a young age?" Xiumei, who was sitting on the side, didn't pay much attention to what they were talking about, but when she heard that the two children would take over so that they could go out to play, she couldn't help but laugh.
"Mom, you've said that we lived for a few mouths to feed ourselves during those years. Now that everyone's life is better, my brother and sister-in-law have everything they need, and Xiaoran and Xiaoche have been trained. Why can't we let them take over and go out and play?" Taohua's good mood disappeared immediately when she heard her mother start saying these unpleasant things again. She closed the book in her hand and hesitated about how to tell her mother
"How can you have too much money? Besides, if they do well now, can it guarantee that they will be good in the future? Things are unpredictable, who can predict the future?" Aunt Xiumei didn't dislike them, but she felt that the two children were too obsessed with enjoyment, just like the capitalists of the past, and subconsciously wanted to refute
"Don't worry about this. Even if my second brother and his wife stop working now, their lives will be fine."
"Look at what you are saying, girl. I am their mother, how can I hope that they will be bad? I just think that they are too greedy for pleasure and feel unsteady... Only the working people are glorious and great, and the behavior of these capitalists is not acceptable."
"Mom, you're going too far. The country doesn't even mention this, but you're still here, calling them capitalists and intellectuals. Besides, how can you talk about your family like that? What era is it now? My brother and sister-in-law are just giving me a good life within their means, and they're not wasting money. How can you say you're seeking pleasure? Do you have to eat coarse food when you have the conditions to live a good life?"
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