After Yao Xiujuan finished speaking, Chu Tiancai spoke again, "Xinxin, when entering a new environment, observation is very important. You don't have to rush to fit in with the group, nor do you have to compromise yourself just to fit in with a small circle!"
"Also, if you're bullied, don't hide it. Tell your aunt and uncle-in-law that even if your parents aren't around, you still have elders around you. Remember?"
Xinxin nodded obediently, "Dad, I remember. I'm not stupid. You told me that different family backgrounds, upbringings, and personalities are bound to divide students into different circles. This is a very normal thing. I won't force myself to squeeze into a circle just because it's different. That would make things difficult for others and put myself at a disadvantage..."
"good."
Chu Tian smiled with relief. Xinxin was really well-behaved and smart. She remembered everything he said very clearly and had her own understanding of it.
Before getting off the bus, Chu Tian leaned closer to Xinxin and said, "By the way, don't save the money Dad gave you. Dad will send you extra money every month. Buy whatever you want. Don't be fooled by those malicious college students because of a little temptation."
Nowadays, most parents will send money to their children when they go to college. Although the school still subsidizes living expenses, it is enough if they just eat and drink at school.
However, it is 1983 now, not four years ago. There are many kinds of food and entertainment outside. Many college students will make plans to watch movies or go shopping during their breaks, and all of these things cost money. Therefore, relying solely on subsidies is not enough to live.
Of course, this is not absolute. Many children born in poor families will not ask their families for extra money. Not only do they not ask their families for money, they will also give money to their families, because they can now apply for additional subsidies for poor students. For students from families with financial difficulties, the country has policies to provide these students with monthly living subsidies, which are divided into three levels, 10, 12, and 15 yuan respectively.
Of course, you can't receive it just by saying you are a poor student. The school has to identify poor families, and only those from local production brigades or communes can enjoy this subsidy. And most of them are college students who have graduated from rural areas.
Xinxin pouted, "Dad, I'm not a fool. I won't be deceived by a little temptation!"
Chu Tian chuckled, "Xinxin, Dad won't object to you dating, but you have to wait at least two years, until you turn eighteen!"
"Besides, we have to tell our family members after we talk about it!"
Yes, because Xinxin started school early, and there is no sixth grade and third grade in school now, so Xinxin took the college entrance examination at the age of sixteen.
Xinxin's face flushed red. She looked back at the others and saw that no one heard her. She stamped her feet and pushed Chu Tian and Yao Xiujuan unhappily, "I know, Dad and Mom, you guys should get off quickly! The train will leave soon..."
Chu Tian looked at Xinxin's blushing face and thought to himself that my daughter has really grown up. When I mentioned boyfriends to her before, I never saw her blush or get shy.
Yao Xiujuan was still worried and held Xinxin's hand, saying, "Xinxin, you must listen to your father. If there is anything, you must tell your family. If you are embarrassed to say it, you don't have to tell your mother, but you must tell your father..."
Xinxin nodded seriously, "Mom, don't worry, I went to Peking University to study, I will never do anything wrong..."
Watching the train go farther and farther away, Yao Xiujuan was still reluctant to leave. She grabbed Chu Tian's sleeve with one hand and asked worriedly, "Is Xinxin really okay? She has never left us... I'm really worried about her..."
Chu Tian shook Yao Xiujuan's hand and said, "I just asked Xiangyang for help. He's steady, three years older than Xinxin, and a sophomore at Peking University. With him looking after Xinxin at the university, we can all feel more at ease..."
Yao Xiujuan nodded, paused, and then asked doubtfully, "Why don't you ask Qi Xinghe for help? Isn't he also a sophomore at Peking University?"
Chu Tian smiled and said, "That kid is a study freak. He's busy following the professor every day. I don't want to delay his journey in the ocean of learning."
“·····”
Yao Xiujuan really wanted to ask, if you feel embarrassed to delay Qi Xinghe, are you embarrassed to delay He Xiangyang???
However, none of this matters. The main thing is that she feels relieved that someone is helping to take care of Xinxin. After all, Li Jianmin and Yao Xiuli have already graduated from university. Otherwise, she wouldn't be so anxious...
After walking out of the train station, Chu Jie unlocked his bicycle, then looked at Chu Tian and asked with a smile, "Xiao Shi, are you busy? If not, can we chat for a while?"
Chu Tian glanced at Yao Xiujuan and Ping Ping who were unlocking their bicycles, and nodded, "Okay."
Upon hearing this, Yao Xiujuan and Pingping immediately said that they would go back first.
Sitting in a newly opened Sichuan restaurant near the train station, Chu Tian looked at the glass of white wine that Chu Jie poured for him.
"Brother Jie, are you in a bad mood?"
Chu Jie picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth, chewing it and saying, "What's good or bad? Aizhu got into university, and it's a university in Beijing. I'm in a good mood..."
Chu Tian picked up the wine glass and chuckled, "If you were in a good mood, you wouldn't ask me to drink in broad daylight."
Originally, Chu Tian wanted to take Chu Jie back to the office to chat, but he said it was inconvenient and forcibly dragged him to the small restaurant.
Chu Jie paused in his action of picking up peanuts, but still picked up a peanut and put it into his mouth. He raised his wine glass and clinked it with Chu Tian's, drank it in one gulp, and then smiled bitterly.
"Xiao Shi, do you think I was wrong?"
Chu Tian was puzzled, "What's wrong?"
"Aizhu has changed so much now. She has changed since her mother and I divorced. I initially thought she had grown sensible, but..."
"But in the past two years, I've felt more and more that something is wrong. That child has become particularly, particularly vain..."
Even when facing Chu Tian and saying something bad about his child, Chu Jie felt it was difficult to bring himself to speak.
Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, "No? I saw her come to see Xinxin several times and she was fine."
Chu Jie sighed, "She...she has really changed. She likes to compare herself with others. Just to go to school in Beijing, she asked my parents for more than 100 yuan to buy new clothes. At first, my parents refused to give her any money, so she cried. My parents felt sorry for her and gave her the money..."
Chu Tian frowned and said with great disapproval, "If it's just to buy clothes, then you're saying Aizhu is vain, I don't think it's necessary, right?"
"After all, she's a girl. It's normal for her to like to look pretty when she gets older. Brother Jie, look at my Xinxin. The new clothes she buys from the store every quarter must cost at least two or three hundred yuan, right?"
"That doesn't even include the gifts her second aunt, younger aunt, and younger aunt-in-law give her. Plus the vanishing cream, all sorts of pretty hairpins and hair ornaments. If you count all that, Xinxin spends at least eight hundred dollars every season just on her looks..."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
