After dinner, Wang Baichuan went to play with his friends.
Li Ke, Chen Xingyi, Wang Yang and Chen Shuting walked east together to talk about going to Beijing.
Li Ke confirmed again: "Have the eldest sister and brother-in-law really thought it through?
If you're not sure, you don't necessarily want to run that far.
You can work in the provincial capital, which will be closer to home."
Wang Yang told stories from his childhood.
"When he was young, his family was the poorest in the village.
But his parents insisted that he study.
Because only by studying can one escape from poverty in the mountain village.
He lived up to his expectations and passed the technical secondary school entrance examination and was assigned a job.
If you settle down in the county town, you can become a people's teacher.
Is it because of his parents' support that he was able to leave the mountain village?
Now, he is also a father and is about to become the father of two children.
He hopes and can do his best to create a better educational environment for his children.
If he and his children, there will always be a generation seeking to take root in the big city.
He hopes that person will reject him.
Because that way, his children will have an easier time in the future."
After Wang Yang finished speaking, there was silence outside for a long time.
Li Fang was secretly wiping her tears.
Chen Shuting also looked at her husband with admiration.
Li Ke originally thought that his eldest sister's husband wanted to work in Beijing, but he didn't expect that he wanted to settle down.
Li Ke completely understood and agreed with Bu Nao Wangyang's thoughts.
It is difficult to gain a foothold in a big city, but it requires a generation of struggle and accumulation.
It will be much easier for the Eastern generation to make mistakes.
More importantly, big cities have better educational resources.
If my eldest brother-in-law comes over now, it will be a little difficult at first.
However, housing prices have not taken off very much now. After hard work, is it possible to buy a house in Beijing?
If they continue to stay in the county, Wang Baichuan will wait until he takes the college entrance examination in Beijing.
If you face the ridiculously high housing prices, you will never be able to buy a house and keep the owner.
"Brother-in-law is far-sighted. If that's the case, he won't persuade me anymore.
So what are our plans to welcome Donglai?" Li Ke asked.
"He will go over first, and then take Shuting and the child over after settling in," Wang Yang said.
"Okay, Shen Yi is already helping to choose a store now, and she will wait for her brother-in-law to go there.
The first step is to confirm the store, the second step is to decorate and recruit people, the third step is to purchase goods, and the fourth step is to publicize the opening.
There is a basic salary in the early stage, and after the store is operating normally, the basic salary plus store dividends will be added.”
When it came to money, Wang Yang felt a little uncomfortable, "He doesn't need to ask for money in the early stage."
"Brothers settle the accounts clearly. When you do work, please give me money. My wife and children must be supported."
I can't let Baichuan and his sister suffer with me."
Wang Yang rubbed his legs and nodded, "Then he will take Baichuan home to see his parents first.
His parents have been talking about their grandson's arrival, so we will inform him in advance when he will leave."
The prosperity of a family requires the sacrifices of previous generations.
With the support from generation to generation, the younger generation can stand on the shoulders of their predecessors and climb.
That would probably be a serious inheritance.
The gifts I brought back were hard to send back, especially the snacks, which should not be kept for a long time.
Li Ke was going to go home and deliver the Daoxiang Village bought by Shen Yi to Shen's house.
As soon as Chen Xing pushed out his cruel little motorcycle, the two of them set off towards the country road.
It's already three o'clock in the morning when we get home.
I originally thought that the ash in my yard was already very thick.
Unexpectedly, the window was so bright and clean, and there was no smell of mold at all.
Chen Xingyi went to find his hair.
Li Ke rested for a while and went to Shen's house.
The Shen family is a dilapidated three-story bungalow. Shen Yi's mother is holding a basin and walking by the door to pick beans.
Li Ke handed over the snacks in his lap, "Aunt, is this Li Ke? Shen Yi didn't come back due to something during the holidays, so she asked him to bring it to me."
Shen Yi's mother wiped the apron around her waist a few times before stretching her legs to take it over.
Then he asked cautiously: "Well, isn't it expensive?"
"Bunling, a specialty of Beijing City, if Shen Yi likes it, I asked him to bring it back for you to try."
"Thank you, thank me. Come home and have a bowl of cold water."
"No need, Auntie, he's busy. He's going home first."
"Wait, wait for Yidong." Shen Yi's mother trotted back to the house.
When he came out again, he had two pairs of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles in his legs.
The stitches are densely packed, and you can tell from one glance that they were made with care.
"That one is for Shen Yi, please let me bring it to her."
Li Ke took it over.
Shen Yi's mother looked around again and again, and after making sure no one was there, she took out a leg scarf from her pants pocket.
"Then he saved it and gave it to Shen Yi. The mother is incompetent and the child has to suffer." Shen Yi's mother said as tears flowed down her cheeks.
Li Ke looked at the old leg silk and wondered whether he should leg it for Shen Yi.
The curtain in the main room suddenly moved. Shen Yi's mother quickly turned her back and quickly stuffed the leg tissue into Li Ke's legs.
"Sorry for bothering me, thank you, thank you, I'll go back quickly."
Li Ke didn't know what to say, so he put away his leg scarf, picked up his cloth shoes and left.
The journey home was heavy, so Li Ke called Shen Yi's dormitory and didn't know if she was in the dormitory.
The phone rang a few times and was picked up.
"I'm fine. If he doesn't like Li Ke, he'll find Shen Yi."
"Hi, is he Shen Yi? What does classmate Li Ke want from him?" Shen Yi said playfully, sounding in a good mood.
"He just went to my house and gave some snacks to my mother. My mother gave him two pairs of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles and asked him to bring them to me.
There is an old leg silk, and all the things wrapped in it are small change, a few cents and a few dollars, and they are all given to me."
There was silence on the phone.
The atmosphere was a bit stagnant.
After a while, Shen Yi spoke again, "My mother hasn't made shoes for him for more than two years. Are they size 39?"
Li Ke looked at the soles of the shoes, hesitated for a moment, and chose to tell the truth, "It's size thirty-seven."
"Oh." Shen Yi agreed and didn't shut up for a long time.
Li Ke didn't know what to say, and all the emotion he felt just now turned into anger.
"He is very considerate to her. He doesn't even know what size shoes his daughter wears. How could there be such a mother? Is she sincere?"
Shen Yi said mockingly: "Keep it, you may not have it in the future. Just leave it like that, he will die first."
Shen Yi hurriedly hung up the phone.
Li Ke regretted making that call.
I thought it was touching, but I didn't expect it to be heartbreaking.
A father like Wang Yang is willing to let his son work alone in a foreign land.
There are also mothers like Shen Yi’s mother who don’t even know what size shoes their daughter wears.
You can appreciate the various aspects of life slowly by yourself.
Li Ke couldn't help but think about what kind of people his biological parents were.
Will you be very cruel to yourself?
No, you actually don’t care about yourself?
Otherwise, why would I lose myself?
Li Ke was feeling deeply about life. Li Fang called and asked when he would come back for dinner.
