Good Dad System [Arc 1] Chapter 11.1: Father, He Is A Great Man (21)
When entertaining guests in the village, it has always been a habit to put the best things on the table. The village chief specially invited a few close families to accompany the guests and divided them into two tables, one for women and children, and one for men . This is not discrimination, it’s only based on whether you drink alcohol or not.
The table is already full of dishes, including steamed scallops with garlic, steamed nine-section shrimp, taro duck soup… It’s not like the exquisite tableware used in hotels, just simple white basins and white plates, probably arranged neatly, but the taste is good. And it is not inferior in any way, it makes people move their index fingers.
“Is Pei Naochun your father?” Maozi, who had just been taught a lesson, now had no tears on his face. He sat next to Pei Chuqing and asked quietly.
“Call uncle.” The village chief’s wife, who was helping in the kitchen, heard this and gave Pei Congming a hard slap.
“Is Uncle Pei Naochun your father?” Pei Congming glanced at the main table with small eyes, and when he saw his father staring at him, he immediately asked obediently.
Pei Chuqing nodded, reluctantly stopped her chopsticks, and listened.
“Is he going too far at home?” Pei Congming asked in a low voice like an underground party connection, “Does he like to give you a lot of papers? Make you do a lot of questions?” He looked a little sympathetic, “You are pitiful.”
Faced with this look, Pei Chuqing had to admit that she always felt that if Pei Chongming knew that her father took her out to play, he would probably burst into tears immediately.
“It’s okay, I will protect you from now on.” Pei Chongming said confidently, “If he asks questions, I will spray him with my weapon!” He remembered that the person he was talking about was Pei Chuqing’s father, and immediately changed his words, “Don’t hit him , I will reason with him.”
Pei Chuqing was amused and laughed twice, hearing voices coming from the main table.
The village chief drank quickly, and his face was already red: “Naochun, you are the only promising person in our village! The rest are ten or eight illiterate people. I didn’t have money to go to school back then. When I got to Ahua, he himself was not motivated.” He slapped his son hard, and when he was drunk, he couldn’t remember that this man was already over forty.
“You are not only a teacher, but you have also started publishing books. I have heard a lot about you in the village.” The village chief shook his head and gave a thumbs up, “Our family Xiaosheng is smart and strong, but the brains are not bad! I want to ask you for help, and let him go to the county junior high school when the time comes.”
Pei Hua also echoed: “Naochun, don’t worry. You are smart, if you teach him more. He will never embarrass you when the time comes. He has good grades now, and he is probably able to pass the exam on his own, but my dad and I are a little unsure.”
“Okay, village chief, Brother Hua, don’t worry, I’ll arrange this for you. When it’s time for Xiaosheng’s junior high school exam, let me know in advance, but if his grades in junior high school are too bad, he may not be able to hold his own promotion.” The school reserves more than a dozen special places for teachers every year, and Pei Naochun applied for it.
Pei Hua was very domineering and waved his hand: “If he doesn’t have the ability, he won’t have to rely on others but himself!” His expression was a bit dangerous.
Pei Chongming, who has sharp ears, trembled subconsciously when he heard his father’s words. He immersed himself in eating carefully, as if he wanted to count every grain of rice.
“Don’t you like studying?” Pei Chuqing leaned over, a little curious. The other person’s resistance to the teaching aids just now made her almost think that the other person was going to jump up and quarrel with Uncle Ahua and the others, and he would lose his temper and not go to the county junior high school.
Pei Chongming looked her up and down and nodded: “You must not be very smart.”
“Huh?” Pei Chuqing was stunned when she was suddenly accused of not being smart.
Pei Chongming ate the noodles and said vaguely: “Who likes to study? Playing is much more fun than studying, but what can you do if you don’t study? Go out to work on the construction site with your parents? Become an apprentice? It’s better to go home early. Get married and have children?” What he said is what actually happened in the village.
It was obviously a lesson he only heard from his grandfather two days ago, but now he talks about it as if he has learned it himself, showing off: “You don’t understand this, do you? If you don’t study, go learn how to repair air conditioners and read some books. Yes, go learn how to make air conditioners. If you can read books, he can open an air conditioning company!” In fact, he somewhat forgot his grandfather’s original words, but he poured it out anyway.
“Not many people in the village can go to school.” He finished eating the noodles and started to drink soup. “My grandfather said that if I don’t want to go to school, I can go home, but I don’t have to play. I have to go out to work, work and go to school. I choose to go to school.”
Pei Chuqing didn’t say a word. She picked up the vegetables and put them into her mouth. She took one bite after another, unconsciously letting her mind wander. Now she felt that Pei Chongming was right and it was better to study.
The drinking at the main table has reached fever pitch. Pei Hua is also a little drunk and his eyes are red: “Naochun, you are lucky. My family had money for me to go to school, but I refused to go to school… But it should be like this, you are more mature than me and can read.”
Pei Hua insisted that studying was useless, so he went to work in big cities early, and sent money home after saving. He came back a few years ago, and opened a decoration company in the county with his father – he could also be said to be a contractor, responsible for contracting. Make money from small renovation projects.
He made a lot of money, but he was always hesitant. This society was changing rapidly. His lack of study at the time and later his lack of study gradually became a shortcoming. Others had begun to engage in 3D modeling and online publicity, but he still relys on word-of-mouth and getting projects done, he was always worried that if he continued like this, he would be eliminated by the times sooner or later.
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