Chapter 17: Apprenticeship
During the Chinese New Year, Chen Dayong fulfilled his promise to his son, not counting pork knuckles, and went to the county seat to bring his son a very authentic Xinjiang roast whole sheep, in addition to exaggerating the reward of 1,000 yuan for his huge New Year's money, but this huge amount of money Chen Feng was not hot, and his mother confiscated 955 in the name of safekeeping.
The family had a very fruitful year, with a New Year's money of fifty yuan, because of his generous hand, coupled with his style of pleasing everywhere and not taking the initiative to provoke people, he soon won the enthusiastic support of the children in the village, and has replaced the title of child king of his cousin Chen Ping. And Chen Ping, under his cousin's small roll of firecrackers and a bribe of five yuan, had no objection to this, and the two brothers became closer. In the past, Chen Feng followed his buttocks, but now he is upside down, and it has become Chen Ping following Chen Feng's buttocks all day long, and he is the only one who looks forward.
The eldest uncle, Chen Dazhi, also saw the gratifying changes in his younger brother this year, and the two members of his younger brother's construction team, Tokusan and Lao Liu, also made a lot of money this year, which made people a little blushing. In the past, although his family was not good, but it was a little stronger than his younger brother, but now seeing that his younger brother is doing well, he can't help but move his mind, and after summing up with his wife, he decided to follow his younger brother to work in the construction team.
For his brother's willingness to do it with him, of course Chen Dayong raised his hands in favor, as the so-called "war brothers", the construction team has his own brothers involved, and one more person who presses the formation makes him feel at ease. In fact, he had such thoughts for a long time, but he was afraid that his brother would not be able to pull him down, and it would be difficult for him to speak as a younger brother. Now, as soon as Chen Dazhi proposed, the two hit it off.
As the saying goes, "no one asks about the poor in the downtown area, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains", Chen Dayong's family has just finished the Spring Festival, and they haven't had much contact with the eldest sister who married far away from other counties for many years, and a family of five came to pay New Year's greetings.
It turned out that Chen Feng's eldest son was eighteen this year, but he had never found any work to do, and he was idle at home all day.
After all, she is her own sister, although Chen Dayong is not very satisfied with this nephew who is a little hanger, but he also promised to let him join his own construction team and eat and live in his own house.
In addition, my aunt, who had not taken the initiative to come to the door for many years, also brought her uncle, her daughter, and son with her. Since the last time I borrowed 2,000 yuan from their family, and within two months, I even paid them back with interest, and this snobbish aunt has completely changed her view of their family. After all, it is her own son, and she is the only one, although Zhao Xiaolan used to have some complaints about this snobbish * son, but now that she takes the initiative to apologize and flatter, she will reconcile regardless of her previous suspicions.
The relatives and relatives were all together, and the good guys couldn't sit at a big round table, so they had to let the children of each family sit at another table. In the past, when their family celebrated the New Year, a small table was not satisfied.
At the beginning of the new year, Chen Feng's family had a really lively life, especially when Township Chief Zhang personally took his nephew Zhang Chongxi to come to the door to pay New Year's greetings to Chen Dayong's family.
After the Chinese New Year, Chen Feng will be eight years old, because he is used to saying that he will not go to kindergarten because he is used to being at home, and there is not much spare money at home before, Chen Dayong and his wife did not insist on pre-school education for him. But now it's different, the family made a lot of money last year, the parents will pay special attention to the education of their children as soon as they have money, Chen Dayong and Zhao Xiaolan are no exception, although the second half of the year is the age of their son's compulsory education, but they still decided to let their son go to kindergarten, not in the township, but the best kindergarten in the county, the kind of full care, of course, if you want to go in, "sponsorship" is indispensable.
Chen Feng couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the news, and asked him to stay with a group of little children every day, and then read one plus one and so on, how can he not be crazy? In the end, Chen Feng used the most intense hunger strike** to make his parents temporarily dispel the idea of hoping for their son Jackie Chan.
Chen Feng, who didn't go to kindergarten as he wished, became the king of children comfortably in his own village, leading a group of children under the age of ten to run around every day, playing games that all rural children loved to play at that time, and reliving the childhood that did not leave too many memories in his previous life. What's more, once under the leadership of Chen Feng, their group of little children had a "battle of honor" with their peers in the neighboring village who had a grudge, and five people wrestled with each of the rapeseed fields at the junction of the two villages. Although Chen Feng felt that he was a little "bullying the small", there was no doubt that this incident greatly increased the prestige of his village and further consolidated his leadership position among his peers. Later, because he was one against three, the prestige of "Chen Dali" spread far and wide, and it was widely spread among the children in several nearby villages.
In addition, Chen Feng also did something he had always wanted to do, that is, he worshipped the "old Xiucai" in the village as he wished to be his godfather. In his previous life, when he was a child, he especially admired this versatile old man in the village, thinking that when he grew up, he would also play and sing like him, and he was proficient in all kinds of calligraphy and Chinese painting, and was respected and appreciated by others. In his previous life, of course, his wish was not realized, to his college, his brush writing was only at the elementary school level, not to mention painting, he only learned two things, that is, bragging and singing, he has always been very good at bragging, since junior high school has been a famous "braggart king" in the class, that is, singing is out of tune, which he himself admits, often regrets. In this life, of course, he wants to make up for these shortcomings of his own, so that he can also become a versatile person. When he was in college, because of his lack of literature and art, he lost the opportunity to turn a department flower into his third girlfriend. In this life, he lived again, so that he who had some "straw bales" in his previous life could have more selling points and highlights, so in the future, he would certainly be more sure of picking up girls, and he would be invincible. Therefore, for his own future happiness, of course, he must also work hard to learn the necessary literary and artistic skills of pickling girls since he was a child, and he can only be happy when he grows up.
In addition, Lao Xiucai is lonely, and in his memory, he will go to the west in two or three years, out of sympathy, Chen Feng also wants to give him a little family affection in the last few years of his life, so that he can die with less regret.
Of course, his idea was good, but at the beginning, it was not so smooth, because this old Xiucai actually hated a little kid of his age. Because it is said that a child in the village came to his house to be naughty and mischievous, making a mess of his house, and lost a lot of pen, ink, paper, inkstone and some of his beloved books. It's good that the adults came with them, like Chen Feng who came to the door alone at the beginning, of course he didn't have a good face to show him.
After Chen Feng ate his closed-door soup and reprimanded him several times, he wanted to give up, but when he thought that he would become the prince charming of thousands of girls in the future, it was indispensable to recuperate in this country, but this level in front of him was indispensable.
Therefore, he simply proposed to his parents the idea of learning to read and write with Lao Xiucai. Before, Chen Dayong and his wife were still regretting that their son would not go to the county to go to kindergarten, but now that they heard that their son took the initiative to study, how could they not be overjoyed? Although they felt that Lao Xiucai, an old sourman, could not keep up with the times in his knowledge, it was more than enough to be their son's enlightenment teacher and teach his son to read and write and arithmetic.
So, a family of three came to the door with a generous apprenticeship ceremony.
Lao Xiucai also prevaricated at the beginning on the pretext that he was not in good health for fear of misleading people's children, and finally Chen Feng took the initiative to say that he only needed to study here for two hours a day, and in addition, Chen Dayong promised a salary of one hundred and fifteen per month, so he had to nod and agree.
Since then, Chen Feng has gone to Lao Xiucai to study every day after dinner. Since Lao Xiucai should inherit this matter, he is still quite attentive to Chen Feng's teaching, according to the traditional education he received when he was a child, what he taught at the beginning was the three-character scripture, and there was also the practice of calligraphy.
And Chen Feng is also angry, and he can complete the homework assigned by Lao Xiucai very well, so that after a long time, Lao Xiucai's original prejudice against naughty children has gradually disappeared, and the more he looks at Chen Feng, the more pleasing he becomes, the more he likes it.
Chen Feng's ability to observe words and expressions is good, and when he saw that Lao Xiucai's impression of himself had changed, he changed the original title of "grandfather" to "grandpa". learned from his parents that Lao Xiucai's name is Chen Yusheng, and he is also a member of the Chen clan in Chenjia Village, and his generation is just the same generation as Chen Dayong, and Chen Feng calls him "grandpa", which is reasonable.
The new year is coming, after worshipping Lao Xiucai's "grandfather", Chen Feng simply proposed to his parents the idea of worshipping him as a godfather.
Chen Dayong and his wife are still very satisfied with the educational achievements of Lao Xiucai during this time. Can you not be satisfied, in just a few months, Chen Feng can now speak Mandarin, and he can read newspapers, not to mention addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and can memorize several ancient poems, according to Zhao Xiaolan, his son's current education level has surpassed that of their parents. Of course, Chen Dayong and his wife attributed this qiē to Lao Xiucai, and did not object to their son's suggestion of worshipping him as a godfather, but supported it very much. Their idea is very simple, Lao Xiu is a famous teacher, and he has no relatives, his son has become his grandson, and if the relationship goes further with him, he can use the ability to press the bottom of the box and teach his son well.
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