"Is this Teacher Zhuang? Your home is over here." Qin Hao pointed to the door next door.
Zhuang Chaoying was about to say thank you when Song Ying heard the commotion and came out. She said enthusiastically: "Teacher Zhuang is back from marking papers."
"Oh, you're back. You must be Song Ying. We will be neighbors from now on. Please take care of me."
"Looking after each other, that's what we should do."
After exchanging a few words, Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting hurriedly ran out when they heard their father's voice and helped him carry his luggage.
After returning to the house, Zhuang Chaoying asked curiously: "Who is getting married in the alley?"
"Wu Jianguo in the second workshop, the union saw that it was not easy for him to support two children by himself, so they introduced him to a female street worker and brought a girl with him, so they could live together as a partner."
Zhuang Chaoying nodded and asked again: "Is that child just now a child of Song Ying's family?"
"No, Song Ying's son is named Lin Dongzhe, and the one who greeted you just now is named Qin Hao. He was originally the son of Qin Jianguo in the steel factory. Later, in a production accident, Qin Jianguo died in order to save the country's assets. His wife Huijuan also passed away within half a year.
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The next child was left alone. As a result, Qin Jianguo's younger brother and sister-in-law took over their duties, and abused the child with his back legs. He was bruised and bruised. Song Ying saw how pitiful he was and became his guardian." Huang
Ling said in a low voice.
Zhuang Chaoying was surprised when he heard this and said: "So although Song Ying is a thorn in the side, she is still quite kind-hearted."
"Yes, there are many children in the family. Even if they have a place to live and subsidies, they still have to put in the effort. Look how well Qin Hao has raised them at Song Ying's house for more than a month. You haven't seen it before.
, so thin that he was skinny and bones."
Zhuang Xiaoting suddenly interjected: "Brother Qin Hao is so smart. He has only been in school for more than a month and already ranked first in his grade. The teachers asked us to use him as a role model."
"Oh, it's so awesome. It's worth learning." Zhuang Chaoying didn't pay much attention to it. In the first grade of elementary school, there isn't much content. You won't be able to see the difference until at least junior high school.
Zhuang Chaoying suddenly remembered: "By the way, how come Song Ying knew that I had gone to grade papers? Did you tell her?"
Before Huang Ling could speak, Zhuang Xiaoting explained: "It was the principal who said it through the loudspeaker. He said it was the glory of the school for dad to grade papers."
In the evening, many people came to the small courtyard. They all heard that Zhuang Chaoying had returned from marking papers and asked him about the college entrance examination.
Just after dinner, Zhuang Chaoying's house was full of people, which was more lively than an outdoor movie.
Song Ying also took her family to eat melon next door, and Qin Hao was no exception.
Although Zhuang Chaoying was a high school teacher before, due to the interruption of the college entrance examination for ten years, high school students had no upward path and were not as popular as technical secondary schools and vocational schools. Now that the college entrance examination has been resumed, Zhuang Chaoying, a high school teacher, can be considered proud.
Zhuang Chaoying, who is usually not very good at words, seemed to be back in high school class at this moment. She was so energetic and eloquent that she really made a splash in the limelight.
When the group broke up and returned home, Song Ying said enviously to Lin Wufeng: "This teacher is different. He speaks very well."
Qin Hao shook his head and said: "There is always a price to pay for being in the limelight."
Lin Wufeng and Song Ying were both stunned.
"Aunt Song, Uncle Lin, you might as well think about it. The college entrance examination, which has been suspended for ten years, suddenly resumes. How many people want to take the college entrance examination? Why don't they come to Uncle Zhuang to make up for their classes? Uncle Zhuang will not be home by then.
It must fit in."
Hearing what Qin Hao said, Song Ying immediately stopped envying Zhuang Chaoying for being in the limelight.
The next few days also confirmed Qin Hao's prediction. More and more students came to Zhuang Chaoying to make up lessons. At first, they were just children from cotton spinning mills in the alley. Later, many educated youths from society also came to take lessons, making Zhuang Chaoying and his family confused.
Too much trouble.
Huang Ling could only let Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting go to Song Ying's house to do their homework so that they could avoid being disturbed.
As the New Year is approaching, every household is busy buying new year's goods, but the Qin family is in a state of misery. Although Qin Jianjun and his wife are dual-employed, they both joined the job midway, and their professional skills are not very good. They can only get basic wages, plus
There are two elderly people in the family, and the two children below are also growing up. Their salary can only cover daily expenses at most, and there is no surplus at all.
Early that morning, Qin Hao was blocked by Qin Jianjun as soon as he got up.
"Haozi, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. After all, you are also a member of the Qin family. Even if you break your bones and connect your tendons, you will still come back for the Chinese New Year."
Qin Hao's lips curled up into a sneer: "Oh, are you inviting me to your house for New Year's Eve dinner? Is there such a good thing in the world?"
Qin Jianjun said angrily: "I'm sure there's no problem with eating, but I can't even open the pot at home. See if you can get that subsidy back..."
"Let me tell you, it turned out to be this idea." Qin Hao was so angry: "Don't even think about it."
Qin Jianjun's nose was so angry that his wife pointed at Qin Hao's nose and yelled: "You white-eyed wolf, you have been eating and drinking for us for so long. The subsidy should belong to our family. Why don't you use your elbow to give it to outsiders?"
Don’t give it to us…”
Before she could finish her words, Qin Hao interrupted impatiently.
"Yes, Aunt Song Ying and I are indeed not related by blood, but I know how she treated me. You are related by blood, but how you treated me, you know in your heart, so don't take anything from me in the future.
You are not worthy of having blood relations speak out in front of me!"
Qin Jianjun and his wife were furious when they heard this, and stopped in front of Qin Hao to prevent him from leaving. Qin Hao said coldly: "How dare you touch me?"
In an instant, Qin Jianjun and his wife gave up and obediently gave way.
The old couple of the Qin family remained silent from beginning to end. They must have known that Qin Jianjun and his wife wanted to get back Qin Hao's subsidy. With an extra twenty yuan a month, their quality of life would be much higher. But when they saw
When Qin Hao's attitude was resolute, they knew that this matter would definitely not happen, so they pretended not to know, or said that people become better with age.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But after Qin Hao left, the Qin family became a mess. Who doesn’t want to have a good meal when the Chinese New Year is coming, especially the two brothers Qin Yu and Qin Hong, shouting:
I want to eat meat.
Naturally, he was used as a punching bag by Qin Jianjun and his wife and was beaten severely. The neighbors were not surprised by the couple beating their children.
When Qin Hao arrived at the courtyard of Song Ying's house, he happened to see Huang Ling happily cutting the ribs, a huge piece of pork ribs.
"Good morning, Aunt Huang."
"Good morning Hao Zi."
Although Huang Ling had a good impression of Qin Hao, she only had so much meat at home and she had to eat it with her two children first, so she had no intention of inviting Qin Hao.
As a result, Huang Ling's good mood lasted less than half an hour when she heard the bad news. Her parents-in-law heard that she had bought meat and were coming over for dinner.
After Zhuang Chaoying entered the house, Huang Ling cursed at his back: "You bastard, your family is all bastards."
Then, Huang Ling changed the recipe and changed the stewed meat into stir-fried shredded pork with carrots.
That night, Qin Hao heard a fierce argument coming from next door. Although both parties deliberately suppressed their voices, it could be heard that the fighting was fierce.
Zhuang Chaoying accused Huang Ling of being cold-hearted to her family. She originally agreed to eat meat, but ended up eating vegetarian food instead, and slapped him hard in the face.
Huang Ling was also furious and angrily accused Zhuang Chaoying of only caring about her parents and brothers and never caring whether she and her two children had enough to eat.
After a fierce argument, Huang Ling angrily took her two children and returned to her parents' home in Changzhou in advance to celebrate the New Year, carrying the pork ribs she had just bought.
Now Zhuang Chaoying was in a miserable situation and could only eat rice dumplings at home alone.
It happened that Lin Wufeng and Song Ying came back from get off work to cook, so they invited Zhuang Chaoying to eat together.
At the dinner table, Zhuang Chaoying complained to Lin Wufeng: "My brother wanted to send his two children to my house for the winter vacation, but Huang Ling couldn't think of it and took the children back to her parents' house."
Song Ying heard this and said in confusion: "What about your nephew? Sister Ling took Tunan and Xiaoting back to her parents' house, but your nephew didn't come either."
Zhuang Chaoying was at a loss for words and hesitated for a long time: "They went to the public toilet that day, but they said it was too far and it was too cold to go to the toilet in winter, so they refused to come."
Qin Hao listened with joy.
Lin Wufeng gave Qin Hao a look, indicating that he wanted to save some face for Zhuang Chaoying.
Qin Hao directly exposed it: "The real reason is that Aunt Huang Ling is not at home. Teacher Zhuang, you can't take care of yourself, let alone two children, right?"
In an instant, Zhuang Chaoying's old face turned red from holding back.
Lin Wufeng was about to say something, but Qin Hao motioned for him to listen to what he had to say first.
"Teacher Zhuang, in fact, our family's situation is similar to yours. My father always subsidized my second uncle and my aunt's family in this way. But as you can see, as soon as my parents left, my second uncle and aunt began to abuse me.
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Seeing that Zhuang Chaoying wanted to refute, Qin Hao spoke first.
"Are you trying to say that your second brother won't be like my second uncle? People are all selfish. Compared with a biological son or a nephew, which one is more important? You just don't have a clue in your mind. Others know it very well.
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"In this world, the people who hurt you the most and the most are often the people closest to you, because they are the people who know you best in the world."
Song Ying held Qin Hao into her arms distressedly, her eyes were red. If such words were spoken by a person who is nearly 70 years old, no one would be surprised. But Qin Hao is only eight years old, and he has only just passed the Chinese New Year.
Less than nine years old, such a child could only say such words based on his personal experience. One can imagine how hurt this child was.
Zhuang Chaoying opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but he had to admit that Qin Hao was right. The old couple in the banker family favored his younger brother. Didn't he know? He was not stupid, he just didn't want to admit it.
The old couple from the banker's family have constantly instilled in him the idea that he is the eldest son of the banker and should respect the elderly and take care of his younger brothers and sisters. In his heart, his parents and brothers are more important than his wife.
So he watched his wife Huang Ling being wronged time and time again. Not only did he not support his wife, but he felt that it was all natural and justified. Once his wife resisted, he would think that her was rebellious.
After a long pause, Zhuang Chaoying said softly: "We grew up in a poor family, but our parents still insisted on letting us study. Before school started, my mother would go door to door to ask relatives to lend us rice to bring to school. A Ling's family conditions have been very poor since she was a child.
Well, she doesn’t understand the bond between us brothers and sisters who grew up together through hardships.”
Song Ying was dumbfounded, but she didn't know how to refute.
Qin Hao listened with amusement: "Uncle Zhuang, you said how difficult it is for your family, then did it become so difficult for your family after Aunt Huang Ling married you?"
Zhuang Chaoying blinked and fell silent.
Qin Hao was not used to his bad habits: "The Zhuang family's difficulties are not caused by Aunt Huang Ling, why should she sacrifice for the Zhuang family's difficulties? Uncle Zhuang, you keep saying that it is not easy for your parents, then why don't you learn from it?"
Cooking and doing housework to serve them. Why do I always see Aunt Huang Ling busying herself with other things while you and your family sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor? In the end, Aunt Huang Ling often doesn’t even have a place to sit, so she can only squat in the kitchen with Zhuang Xiaoting.
Want to eat here?”
Seeing Zhuang Chaoying's face getting more and more ugly, Lin Wufeng quickly whispered to Qin Hao: "It's almost done."
For Lin Wufeng's sake, Qin Hao didn't bother to be "cheerful" to Zhuang Chaoying anymore, and said: "I'm full, Aunt Song, Uncle Lin, I'm going to do my winter vacation homework."
"Teacher Zhuang, don't mind if the kid is ignorant."
Zhuang Chaoying returned to the house without saying a word, leaving only Song Ying and her family looking at each other.
While clearing away the dishes, Lin Wufeng whispered to Song Ying: "Why do I feel that Hao Zi's personality is similar to yours?"
Song Ying glared at him, ready to fight: "Lin Wufeng, what do you mean?"
"What's the meaning!"
"You're just kidding, I just think that the way Hao Zi confronts Teacher Zhuang is very like yours." Lin Wufeng quickly begged for mercy.
Song Ying snorted softly: "Don't compliment me. What Haozi said just now is well-founded and clear. I can't say it."
"Oh, this kid is good at everything, but he is a little too mature. Sometimes when I talk to him, I feel like I am a junior." Lin Wufeng sighed.
"Yes, if Huijuan was still here, he wouldn't have suffered so many crimes, and he wouldn't have understood so many truths. You see, Lin Dongzhe is heartless and does nothing but eat and play all day long." Song Ying looked at her.
My stupid son is more likely to die than others.
Before the Chinese New Year, Zhuang Chaoying went to Changzhou to bring Huang Ling and her two children back. Finally, no one spent the Chinese New Year alone.
From the first day to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, they are all days for visiting relatives and friends. Song Ying is no exception. She takes her family everywhere to pay New Year greetings, including Qin Hao. However, life is not easy for every household these days. Lin Dongzhe receives a New Year greeting
The red paper bag that Qin Hao received contained change and treasury bills, but what Qin Hao received was basically an empty bag.
Although Qin Hao didn't care, Song Ying gave Qin Hao a big red envelope worth 20 yuan, which was a big red envelope worth two yuan.
At first Qin Hao said he wanted nothing, but Song Ying said it was money he had not spent on the subsidy.
"Brother Hao, just accept it. We can buy plum blossom cakes later."
Song Ying glared at Lin Dongzhe angrily: "Eat, eat, know how to eat. If you can achieve half the results of your brother Qin Hao, I will buy you plum blossom cakes every day."
"Really? If Brother Hao takes 100 and I take 50, can I eat plum blossom cakes every day?"
"Fifty exams are worth eating fried pork with bamboo shoots!"
The crowd burst into laughter, and amidst the bursts of firecrackers, 1977 also moved towards history, and the new year 1978 was approaching.