Back to the 80s Machinery Factory

Chapter 120 I Want to Be a Grandpa

"Okay, Auntie, just be content."

Junjun sighed with a mature look on his face.

"If you can't memorize the text, the worst that can happen is that your uncle will complain to you."

"If I can't memorize it, I'll get beaten!"

Junjun sighed as he opened the grid paper and started doing his homework.

Chen Lingling asked confidently, "Writing an essay?"

Junjun nodded: "I don't know what to write for the homework the teacher gave me today."

Chen Lingling: "Go find your uncle! Your uncle is so good at speaking colloquial language. I used to ask him to write my essays for me."

Junjun shook his head.

"No, I have to write this myself. My uncle can't help me."

Chen Lingling became curious.

"What kind of composition is this? Why can't I help you?"

Junjun: "The composition asked us to write about 'the person I most want to be',"

"If my uncle wrote this, wouldn't that make me the person he most wants to be?"

Chen Lingling: "That makes sense! Then let's write it ourselves!"

This night,
Chen Luyang stayed with his mother for most of the night before they finally finished cooking all the chili sauce.

When Chen Luyang lay down on the bed, it seemed that each chicken in the chicken coop had laid an egg.

Originally, Chen Luyang was a person who fell asleep easily.

But he spent the whole night peeling peppers, and his hands were almost soaked in pepper juice.

Not long after he fell asleep, he was awakened by the burning sensation of his palm.

At first he wanted to endure it, but later it became too spicy, so he had to get up and go to the yard to rinse with cold water.

As soon as I walked into the yard, I saw my brother-in-law standing in front of the water pipe.

The two grown men stared at each other.

It was my brother-in-law who spoke first.

"You can't sleep because of your hot hands, right?"

Chen Luyang nodded.

Sun Zhigang took out a bottle of vinegar and handed it over.

"Wipe it, it will make you feel better."

Chen Luyang took it and applied it on his hands, don’t say anything!

It’s really comfortable.

"Brother-in-law, why are you so sharp? You know everything."

Chen Luyang's eyes were full of admiration.

Sun Zhigang sighed: "This is all accumulated from rich experience in struggle."

……

The next morning, Junjun went to school happily with his written composition.

When Chen Luyang returned home in the evening,
Junjun, who was still jumping around early in the morning, was holding a piece of composition paper in his hand and was pitifully accepting Chen Lihong's fierce criticism.

Seeing Junjun being scolded again today,

Chen Luyang quickly pulled Junjun over to stand in front of him and asked:
"What are you doing, sister? What's the matter that makes you so angry?"

"Angry? I haven't beaten him yet!"

Chen Lihong angrily pointed at the composition paper in Junjun's hand.

"Look for yourself what he wrote in his composition!"

"Sister, you're the same. How can you get so angry about an essay?"

Chen Luyang turned around and took the composition paper from Junjun's hand.

"Show my uncle what's written."

Chen Luyang unfolded the composition paper, looked at the title, and read aloud: "What I most want to be when I grow up."

“This is a good topic!”

"Junjun, let your uncle see whether you want to be a scientist or a pilot."

As he watched, the smile on Chen Luyang's face disappeared.

"Junjun, why do you want to be a grandfather?!"

There was only one line of crooked pencil writing on the composition paper:
"When I grow up, the person I want to be most is a grandfather."

Chen Luyang pondered for a long time. "It's not impossible to be a grandfather!"

"Your grandfather is an eighth-level worker. Not only has he made outstanding contributions to our factory, but he also raised three wonderful children. He's a great role model."

Chen Lihong said angrily, "Read on and see what he wrote!"

Chen Luyang looked down, and his face became darker the more he looked.

"What do you mean no one in your family dares to beat you up after you become a grandfather?"

"Being a grandfather, I can eat whatever I want and no one will bother me when I go out to play at night?"

"How could you forget when your grandpa was so busy that he didn't even have porridge to drink in the morning?"

"Don't even mention being a grandfather. Even if you're a great-grandfather, your mother will still beat you up."

After seeing the reason written on the composition paper, Chen Luyang no longer felt sorry for the brat.

"I really don't blame your mother for scolding you this time. She deserved it, and that was too mild!"

Junjun stiffened his neck and protested: "Why are you scolding me?"

"Our teacher said that when writing an essay, you should express your true feelings and write about the person you most want to be."

"That's what I thought, and that's what I wrote. I'm not wrong!"

"So if I thought that, but I didn't write it, wouldn't that be a lie?!"

"You're still reasonable!"

Seeing that Junjun was being stubborn, Chen Lihong pulled him over and spanked him hard on the butt a few times.

Junjun is in a bad mood right now.
She didn't cry even after being beaten, but just bit her lips and kept silent, staring at Chen Lihong with her red eyes.

"You're not going to cry, are you? I told you not to cry!"

Chen Lihong was so angry that she hit him harder, and Chen Luyang quickly protected Junjun.

"Alright, sister, Junjun knows he's wrong, stop hitting me."

Junjun choked up stubbornly: "I'm not wrong, the teacher told me to write it like this!"

Chen Lihong was so angry that she wanted to raise her hand again, but Chen Luyang quickly said:

"Sister, beating the child is not the goal, we have to educate him!"

Chen Lihong was furious: "Then how do you tell me how to educate her?"

Chen Luyang stretched out his hand to push Chen Lihong away, pulled Junjun to sit on the stool, and spoke as if he were treating a peer:

"Junjun, there's nothing wrong with wanting to be a grandfather."

"When I was little, the person I wanted to be the most was my dad, your grandpa."

"It would be great to be a father. No one would control me, no one would beat me, and I could do whatever I wanted freely."

Hearing this, Junjun seemed to have found his organization and nodded desperately.

"Second brother, if you come here to cause trouble, stay away."

Chen Lihong listened to Chen Luyang's increasingly mean words and thought he was here to cause trouble, so her face darkened immediately.

Chen Luyang glanced helplessly at his elder sister, motioning her to be quiet, and then said to Junjun:

"But you only see that when the grandfather doesn't get beaten."

"When you're sleeping soundly in bed after a full meal at night, have you ever seen your grandfather working in the workshop, burning the midnight oil, his hands so tired that he can't even hold the pliers?"

Junjun shook his head.

"When you and your friends were eating popsicles and running around the factory in the middle of summer, did you see your grandfather wearing soaked work clothes, working in the workshop under the scorching heat?"

Junjun shook his head.

"In the winter, you sleep warmly on the kang under a quilt, sleeping through the night. Have you ever seen your grandfather, braving the wind and snow, burning coal and chopping wood to keep the kang warm for you?"

Junjun shook his head.

"Then are you still willing to be a grandfather?"

Junjun hesitated for a moment, and when he thought about getting out of the warm bed and going out to burn coal on a cold winter night, he shook his head frantically.

"now it's right."

Chen Luyang touched Junjun’s little head and returned the composition paper to him.

"Go back and tell me what you want to be, then write an essay, and your mother won't be angry anymore."

Junjun nodded, not quite understanding.

He wanted to do his homework again, but was afraid that Chen Lihong would not let him, so he just raised his eyelids and looked at her timidly.

"Go, listen to your uncle and write a new one."

Chen Lihong spoke with a stern face.

(End of this chapter)