Xiao Huzi smiled bitterly: "Then I...I can just take the train."
"Train tickets are harder to buy."
Cheng Tianyuan said quietly: "I asked you to stay on the train for two days and two nights. Do you think you can bear it?"
This kid has never suffered, and he kept yelling even if he was asked to fly for an hour or two, let alone a drive of dozens of hours.
The little tiger murmured, with a depressed look on his face.
Cheng Tianyuan showed no mercy and said in a deep voice: "Hand over your bank card and your father's ID card."
Seeing that he was serious about it, Xiao Huzi did not dare to resist, so he reluctantly took out his wallet from the inner pocket of his coat, took out three bank cards and handed them to Cheng Tianyuan.
Cheng Tianyuan frowned and took it, asking: "Are there any more?"
"……Gone."
Xiao Huzi whispered.
Cheng Tianyuan didn't believe it at all and said: "ID card."
Little Huzi had no choice but to take out his father's ID card.
Cheng Tianyuan glanced at it and put it all into his inner pocket.
"Go wash up and get dressed. My car is parked downstairs."
Xiao Huzi curled his lips, knowing that Cheng Tianyuan was always serious and not someone he could act coquettishly, so he could only endure it and wash up for the time being.
Half an hour later, Cheng Tianyuan took him downstairs to check out.
The sun was rising high in the sky outside. Cheng Tianyuan glanced at it and said, "It's almost noon, let's go have lunch."
Xiao Huzi couldn't help but whisper: "I haven't had breakfast yet!"
"Do you think you still need breakfast?"
Cheng Tianyuan mocked: "You can't even make it in time for lunch!"
Xiao Huzi: "..." After getting in the car, Cheng Tianyuan drove straight to Oriental Garden.
On the way, he received a call from Cheng Huanran.
——Dad, now that you have found Xiao Huzi, let’s go find a program ourselves.
Grandpa and Uncle Zhilan went out to meet old friends. Grandma ate the rest of the morning meal and let us all eat outside.
Cheng Tianyuan couldn't help but ask: "What do you want to eat?"
——My younger brothers and sisters want to go to our school to play, and we are all on the bus now.
There are a lot of restaurants near the school and the prices are cheap.
I will take them to eat whatever they want for a while.
Cheng Tianyuanhu asked: "Isn't it already on vacation?
Is there anyone else at the school?"
——There are so many people! Many senior students and graduate students have not returned. Those who are engaged in scientific research projects and occasionally the laboratory cannot do without people for several years, and there is no way to take a vacation.
The faculty and staff in the school, those who work overnight during the winter vacation, these people also need to eat and drink every day.
Except for the Chinese New Year, the shops outside the school are almost the same as usual at other times.
The school library is also open. In the afternoon, I took my younger brothers and sisters to read books and surf the Internet.
Cheng Tianyuan smiled: "Okay, then you guys can go play."
After saying that, he hung up the call and put the phone down.
The little tiger on the side glanced at him angrily, with a depressed look on his face.
"Uncle Ayuan, why are you so partial?
Your own children can play, but I can’t! It’s so unfair to favor one over the other!”
Cheng Tianyuan twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "They are going to the library of the Medical University for a few afternoons to read and surf the Internet.
Do you want to read a book?
Um?"
Forehead?
! The little tiger gets dizzy when he hears the word "book", let alone reading.
Cheng Tianyuan said while driving: "You are a student now, and a student's main task is to study.
Do you know?
Your mother is well-known in the southern writers' circle, and is also a member of the Chinese Writers Association."
"I know!"
Xiao Huzi muttered: "There is a group photo hanging in her study!"
Cheng Tianyuan smiled and said: "Study hard and learn like your parents!"
"ha!"
Xiao Huzi sneered: "My mother's style is not suitable for me! My father didn't study at all when he was young. I just want to imitate my father! Although my father didn't study much, he earned several hundred dollars as much as my mother, who is a scholar.
Ten thousand times! My mother writes and writes, publishing a book every two or three years, and each time she gets several thousand in royalties.
If we relied on her, we would have starved to death.
Uncle, I don’t think there’s anything good about studying and studying! Isn’t it also about money to study and find a job to make money?
I might as well go into business and make enough money!"
Cheng Tianyuan calmly walked around the steering wheel and asked: "Have you ever made money?
Do you know that making money requires hard work?”
Xiao Huzi rolled his eyes, disapproving.
Cheng Tianyuan said quietly: "Don't talk about big things, since we are talking about your dad, let's talk about your dad directly.
Your father lost his father when he was a child, and it was your grandma who worked hard to raise him up alone.
I heard my aunt say that he didn’t like studying when he was a child, but she refused and forced him to go to school.
In order to earn tuition fees, your grandma gets up to work at around four o'clock every day and takes a break on the first day of the first lunar month throughout the year.
Your father felt sorry for your mother's hard work, and finally studied hard and successfully completed her studies.
At that time, few people could afford to read and even fewer people read.
The best treatment is to work in a factory or unit and have a stable income.
Your grandma asked many people for help, and finally found a position for your dad in the traffic brigade, with a salary of twenty yuan a month."
"Twenty dollars?
!”
Little Huzi couldn't hold back his laughter.
Cheng Tianyuan continued: "With this salary and your dad helping out at home morning and night, the family finally got through the most difficult time.
Unexpectedly, a few years later, the aunt became seriously ill and almost died.
The doctor said that he could only go to the provincial capital for surgery, but the cost would be several hundred yuan.
In order to treat your old mother, your father sold his brand new bicycle and sold half of the land in the family, so he finally raised enough money to perform the surgery on her."
"A few hundred dollars?"
Xiao Huzihu asked: "You have to sell bicycles and land for a few hundred yuan?
How do you know it?"
"Of course I know."
Cheng Tianyuan replied: "My wife bought them all.
It was hard to make money, and it was even harder to make so much money at once. In order to save my old mother, I had to sell real estate and the most valuable bicycle in the family.
At that time, your dad took the money and his eyes were filled with tears.
You now have to spend more than a thousand a night to sleep in a luxury suite, but do you know?
Your dad was so helpless that he cried bitterly for a few hundred dollars."
Xiao Huzi fell silent and his eyes dimmed.
Cheng Tianyuan continued: "Later we opened a small shopping mall, and your dad's life became better and better day by day.
My daughter-in-law wholesales clothes from the imperial capital and sells them in the county town. Your father earns a dime and finally saves a lot of money.
Unexpectedly, he met a bad woman who cheated her into getting married and took away all of your father's money and house.
Your father traveled around for more than a month looking for her, and finally fell ill in bed.
Your grandma was sad and worried, and suddenly fell ill.
My wife and I took the money to the hospital, and after a few days we finally rescued him.
When you make money, you earn a few cents. How much can you save in a few years?
But it was lost in an instant! The relationship was gone, the money was gone, and the person was almost gone."
Xiao Huzi ducked his eyes a few times and whispered: "We don't know these... we don't know."
Cheng Tianyuan sighed softly, "Maybe your dad doesn't want to let you know.
Later, your dad and Lingling cooperated to open a wholesale clothing store in the provincial capital, and your dad stayed there for several years.
Carrying one or two hundred kilograms of cargo boxes, dealing with all kinds of difficult customers, picking up and taking off a piece of clothing, and occasionally getting it for less than a dime.
He gets up at around four o'clock every morning and closes the store in the evening. For a long time, he looks after the store alone without anyone else to help him.
After several years, he finally earned some financial foundation."
Xiao Huzi frowned and seemed a little embarrassed.
"It turns out that it was not easy for dad to make money before..."
Cheng Tianyuan chuckled: "At that time, the market economy had just begun, there were not many opportunities to make money, and making money was much harder than it is now.
Have you ever made money?
It’s probably ten or twenty times harder than it is now.”