Grandpa is not a man who favors boys over girls. On the contrary, he prefers girls.
As for mother-in-law, the eldest’s two children love her, and the third’s two children also love her, but the second’s three children cannot love her enough.
As the saying goes, the emperor loves the eldest son, and the people love the youngest. Lin Xiaoguang has older brothers and sisters, and younger brothers and sisters, and twins. The two old people love each other, so he was forgotten in Java.
It was only when he took the college entrance examination that the old man paid attention to him.
But even so, Lin Xiaoguang's position in his mind was still very low. No, at the dinner table, before the food was served, he asked irritably: "It's been a few days since the exam, take it easy, Lanlan,
Tell Grandpa, how did you feel in the exam?"
See, he was asking about his cousin Yang Lan.
Yang Lan, who is the same age as Lin Xiaoguang, is very quiet. She is a top student in school and has always been generous. At this time, she put down her chopsticks and said, "Grandpa, I'm pretty good."
When the old man heard this, he laughed loudly: "I just said, Lanlan will not let me down."
In the old Lin family, for some reason, the boys are not good at studying, such as cousin Lin Xiaodong, and Lin Xiaoguang himself, but the girls are excellent in both character and academics, such as cousin Lin Xiaoyun and cousin Yang Lan. Lin Xiaodong is more noisy, so the old man sent him to the army.
Come on, I didn’t expect that after joining the army, I would have the opportunity to attend a military academy.
As for Lin Xiaoguang, he had no chance of going to college, and he had no chance of resuming the college entrance examination. How could he have expected that he was a reborn person?
"Lanlan has been smart since she was a child. Follow me. I didn't have this opportunity back then, but Lanlan did. What does this mean? It means that socialism is good and that the national policy is good. You must keep it in mind and be loyal to the country and the people." The old man endured.
I can't help but take political classes.
"Don't go to class at the dinner table. I want you and your old comrades to come up." His mother-in-law glared at him.
The old man just shut up and glanced at Lin Xiaoguang next to him. He remembered that someone had been teasing him recently about whether he knew the inside information about the resumption of the college entrance examination, so he got angry and asked in a low voice: "Xiaoguang, how about you? How did you do in the exam?
How about that? If it’s not good, get out of here and go to the countryside as soon as possible!”
"It's pretty good, I'm confident."
The old man didn't know what kind of gunpowder he had eaten. He was so smiling just now, but then he turned around and cursed others. Lin Xiaoguang stopped talking nonsense to avoid being scolded again.
"Confidence is a good thing, but don't be overconfident. People still need to know how much they weigh, so as not to swear a lot before going to the battlefield and pee their pants again on the battlefield. You are not arrogant or impetuous now. This is good.
Even if you fail this time, it doesn't matter. You won't become fat in one breath. If you fail, you can fight again next year. You are only fifteen years old and still young." The old man said while smoking a dry cigarette.
It's okay for Lin Xiaoguang to be criticized by his parents at home. He was almost sixty years old before he was reborn, and he will still be a grandson here in the end. However, he was quite happy to see the old man again.
You know, in a few years, the old man will go away. He will be in college at that time, and he will not be seen for the last time.
He nodded in response: "Yes, I know."
Seeing this, the old man was very satisfied. Originally, if Lin Xiaoguang defended himself a few more words, the old man would also scold him a few more words. Now he agreed directly. The words that had been brewing in the old man's mouth for a long time were blocked by him, and he stopped them in his throat.
It was a moment of depression.
At that moment, he had nothing to say, so he asked again: "Do you know about your sister?"
"I know. My sister wrote me a letter. She also did well in the exam and is very confident. Going to Tsinghua University will not be a problem."
After hearing this, the old man became even more depressed. He was illiterate and Lin Xiaoyun didn't write to him. He only wrote to her parents and Lin Xiaoguang. The parents didn't do it, so they just said that Lin Xiaoguang, what qualifications does he have?
The old man was unhappy and stopped talking at the dinner table.
My aunt Yang Wenjing is a smart person. Her eldest son is a college student in a military academy and is studying in Chang'an. Her younger daughter is about to go to college and will go to Tsinghua University. She is so happy that she has gone from being a concubine's concubine to where she is today. Both her children and her family are prosperous.
, but it is very rare.
"Oh, Dad, Mom, seeing that the results of the college entrance examination are about to be released, let's have a drink and wish Xiaoguang, Xiaolan and Xiaoyun the best!" She raised her wine glass.
The mother-in-law pushed the old man, but the old man could no longer keep a straight face and picked up the wine glass: "Yes, I wish them to be named on the gold list."
Lin Xiaoguang was also bored.
After returning from his grandfather's house, Lin Xiaoguang waited for his younger siblings to go to bed, but he put on his clothes, sat at the desk, lit the lamp, and began to write furiously.
I was writing something when I suddenly felt the urge to urinate. I went out to the toilet to pee. When I came back, I heard my parents talking in the bedroom.
"Dad is just biased. Xiaoguang wasn't decent before, so it's okay if he didn't praise him. But this time he did just fine in the exam, but he still criticized him. I haven't seen him say a single kind word."
"Wenshu, dad is very strict with Xiaoguang, don't think too much about it."
"I don't think much about it. It's clear that when the results come out and Xiaoguang really passes the exam, I'll see what he says then!"
"Hey, as the saying goes, beating means kissing and scolding means loving. He clearly hates iron and cannot become steel. He is already an old man. Tomorrow, Xiaoguang will be admitted to Peking University. If he wants to criticize again, I will be anxious with him!"
"Humph, you are the only one who can speak. Why can't I see you standing up for my son today?"
"Isn't it because the results haven't come out yet?"
After that, there was a rustling sound, and Lin Xiaoguang felt embarrassed. Living with his parents was fine, but there was one thing that was really inconvenient. He was fifteen years old, and he was not young anymore. He should grow up.
My hair has grown all over, and it’s time to go to college next year.
He carefully returned to the room without making a sound, sat down at the table, held the heater to warm his cold palms, and then continued writing furiously.
A few days later, Lin Xiaoguang went out again and came to the post office.
"Hello, Auntie, I would like to ask if you can send a letter to Hong Kong?"
He Jie was a little surprised.
It is not strange for a teenage child to write a letter, but it is surprising for a teenage child to write a letter to Hong Kong. Where is Hong Kong? The territory of the British, compared to the mainland, is already considered within the territory.
Even though it is still the territory of the motherland, it has not returned yet.
For a moment, He Jie even thought of enemy agents.
She looked kindly and asked with a smile: "Oh, you are so polite. Isn't this the child of Mr. Lin? What's your name?"
"Auntie, my name is Lin Xiaoguang."
"Your name is Xiaoguang, right? Tell me, why do you want to send a letter to Hong Kong? What's the matter with you? It's not impossible to send a letter, but the postage is very expensive, and I remember that you have no relatives in Hong Kong? Are you sending it to
Who? Who asked you to come?"
"Auntie, it's not me, it's someone else. He wrote a script and wanted to send it to Great Wall Pictures in Hong Kong."
"Great Wall Pictures?" He Jiezhen was a little surprised, and he still wrote a script?
"Great Wall Pictures is a left-wing film company in Hong Kong. It is one of the few state-owned film companies with Chinese films outside the country. Xia Meng is one of the three princesses of the Great Wall." Lin Xiaoguang had to explain.
"Oh!" He Jie nodded, indicating that he understood.
Immediately, she refused directly: "Kid, this matter is quite important. You are still young and can't make the decision. Moreover, you have sent a lot of things and the expenses are quite high. How can you, a child, have so much money? What is your name?"
The person who wrote the script, or your parents come over, I tell them, and they pay when it's done."
"Ah?" Lin Xiaoguang was dumbfounded.
As a result, his dream of submitting articles to Ming Pao was shattered.