The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 16

After the competition, Li Xiaohong continued to live her small life step by step.

Her family's small store has opened, because it is the first one in the village, and no one wants to go to the town for a few miles to buy things. Usually, they are bought at her house, so the business is not bad.This can be seen from the food at her home.There are more varieties of dishes, and my mother is more in the mood to cook some delicious food for them.

For the sake of her own taste, Li Xiaohong told her mother some of her cooking experience.Zhang Meiying didn't have the time and mood to do it before, and she is not stupid. Now that she has learned it, she is slowly doing it with gusto.

On the contrary, Zhang Jialin was obviously restless these days. After school this day, he walked up to Li Xiaohong: "Why are you acting like a normal person?"

"what happened?"

He stretched out his foot and kicked a small stone into the distance, and said sullenly: "It's about the competition. I don't know how our results are. Will we win a prize?"

"Did you study hard before the competition?"

"Of course."

"Then did you accidentally write the wrong question?"

"How is it possible? I checked everything."

Zhang Jialin glanced at her, with an obvious expression that he couldn't be so stupid.

"It's over. All we can do is try our best, and we can't make major mistakes. As for what to do, it's not up to us to decide. Anyway, we just need to try our best. In this way, no matter what the result is, we will not regret."

"If only I were older, I should be able to do better in the exam."

"That's right. But you've already performed very well, so you went to participate in the competition at such a young age."

He gave her another look: "Talking as if you are not younger than me." There is only a few days difference in age between the two, but he has always regarded himself as a cousin.

Li Xiaohong thought to herself, isn't it true that I am really older than you.

But this can only be thought about, so she just smiled slightly.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Jialin seemed to be in a much calmer mood, so they went home separately.

As soon as I arrived at the school in the afternoon, some classmates I knew rushed up and called her: "Xiaohong! Xiaohong! The principal tells you to go to his office."

"Okay, thank you!"

Li Xiaohong walked into the principal's office in a familiar way. Apart from the principal and Teacher Wang, Zhang Jialin was already there. They all had happy faces and talked loudly, but they didn't see her coming.

Li Xiaohong knocked on the open door, and Principal Zhang hurriedly said: "Xiaohong, you are here, sit down quickly, you and Jialin are the great heroes of our school this time!"

"Are the competition results out?"

"That's right, there are three first prizes for composition this time, you won No.1 and the second prize for mathematics, and Jialin won the third prize. Our school has shown its face this time!" Principal Zhang smiled with a red face speak loudly.

The same is true for Mr. Wang, rubbing his hands together, and said in one voice: "Yeah, you two are great, you two are great."

"This is because the teachers taught well." Li Xiaohong also said with a smile.

Everyone talked together for a long time, and Principal Zhang said: "Because of your good grades this time, I applied to the town, and the town officials were very happy, and decided to reward you with some money. Including the rewards from the county, Xiaohong has a total of 30 Yuan, Jialin 10 Yuan. Here, take it.”

As he said that, he took out two red envelopes and handed them to Li Xiaohong and Zhang Jialin one by one.

"30 yuan, it's almost enough for my father to earn for a month. This time in the town is really good." The two thanked happily, and came out after saying goodbye.

"Hey, this is the first money I've earned. How much money do you think we can keep?" Walking out of the school gate, Zhang Jialin asked.

"This is also the first money I have earned for studying. I want to buy a gift for everyone."

"Okay then, I'll buy one too, but I have to tell my mother that the rest of the gift money must go to me."

"I guess your mother will agree. Then let's go to town and have a look."

There are no gatherings, and there are not many sellers in the town now, but there are some things in the supply and marketing cooperative, but there are not many commodities.

Li Xiaohong bought a floral blouse for her mother, a new chess set for her father, and weighed half a catty of fruit candy for her sister.After thinking about it, I often went to my grandma's house for dinner, and picked up two pairs of knitting needles and a hairnet, and prepared to give them to my sister-in-law and grandma respectively.

Then he helped Zhang Jialin choose a gift for others, which were two pairs of gloves.They are all very practical things, lest you spend money and be criticized by your family when you go back.

Afterwards, Zhang Jialin lay in front of the counter and looked at it for a long time, and finally bought the two comic books that he had admired for a long time.

When paying, seeing the two children buying so many things, the salesperson said kindly: "Little classmate, do your adults know that you are here to buy things?"

"This is myself..."

Li Xiaohong stopped Zhang Jialin from speaking. According to Zhang Jialin's method, the two of them probably had to explain for a long time.Although it is earned by themselves, which child can earn such a large amount of money by himself at such a young age?
She gave Zhang Jialin a wink, and said to the salesperson: "Of course, Auntie, our adults are not free, so we let the two of us go shopping for them together."

Fortunately, after the two of them have been together for such a period of time, Zhang Jialin and her have a better understanding, and after seeing her wink, they stopped talking.

The reasons were reasonable, and the things they bought were very practical. The salesperson fulfilled his responsibility and settled the bill for them readily.

At this time, the purchasing power of money is really good. After buying so many things, the money of both of them has not been spent yet.

Zhang Jialin looked at his remaining 2 yuan, thought for a while, gritted his teeth and bought a hard-covered diary for [-] cents, and handed it to Li Xiaohong: "Here, here you are!"

Li Xiaohong's eyes widened, looking at Zhang Jialin's heartbroken look, it was a bit surprising that he even wanted to give him something.

"Well, everyone bought something, whoever asked me to be your brother, I will give you one too." Seeing his awkward look, Li Xiaohong couldn't help but patted his head, Zhang Jialin was so fun when he was a child.

The little guy blushed immediately, turned around and almost fell down, "Touch my head again, I will lose my face!"

Li Xiaohong quickly followed her hair: "Okay, don't touch it anymore, I slipped my hand just now."

Swipe your hands, can you rub your hands on other people's heads?Zhang Jialin sighed, not as good as his cousin, and not as tall as his cousin, this is really a sad thing.

Mom said that boys just grow slower than girls, but generally boys end up being taller.Hmph, one day I will surpass you, and then I will touch you all back.

It was almost noon when the two returned to the village.The big loudspeaker in the village is broadcasting their award.

People in the village joked when they saw it: "Jialin is back, go home quickly, your grandma's mouth, you won't be able to close your smile any more!"

The two trotted all the way, and when they met people they knew, they just smiled and passed by.

Pushing open the fence door, Zhang Jialin's tense little face outside could no longer be tense.Shouted loudly: "Grandma, Mom, I won the prize!"

"Okay, my good grandson is really amazing!"

Grandmother and concubine are talking to some neighbors in the yard.Seeing her grandson, her face was smiling like a flower.

"Grandma, then I'm not very good?"

"It's amazing, it's amazing, it's as good as my good granddaughter! It's much better than when your uncle was young!"

The neighbors said in unison: "It seems that not only is the smoke rising from the grave of your old Zhang family's ancestors, but also from the grave of their old Li family's ancestors."

"Yeah, why do you think your kids are so competitive? They learn well one by one. If my dog ​​is half the size of your kids, I will burn incense to God every year and festival to thank you!"

"Children, it's okay this time, I don't know what will happen in the future." Li Xiaohong saw that although Jinzi was blindly humble, she couldn't hide her smile.

"Grandmother, concubine, we even bought gifts for you with bonuses." While everyone was here, Li Xiaohong quickly pulled Zhang Jialin down and presented gifts together.

It is more appropriate to save face for adults in front of others.Didn't Liu Bang go back to his hometown to show off after he became rich, and he also left behind the words of Weijia Haineixi returning to his hometown.

"Yeah, grandma, mom, can you come and try the things we bought? We told the seller that if the number doesn't fit, you can take it back and exchange it."

"Okay, okay, as long as it's bought by my good grandson or granddaughter, it's fine." Grandma said happily.

"Looking at you, old woman, you're going to be dizzy with joy. You don't have to try it." A neighbor next to you said with a smile.

"Haha!" A group of people laughed.

Laughter flew across the courtyard and spread far away.

Seeing all this, Li Xiaohong felt a little excited.The so-called happiness, isn't that what it is, if you make your loved ones feel happy, and the more material you have, the more prosperous your life will be.

Declining the invitation of the three members of her grandmother's family to have lunch at their house, Li Xiaohong hurried home.

Back home, there was another round of crowd watching, but this time Li Xiaohong faced all this calmly.

She changed the trajectory of her destiny, and there will be more changes in her life in the future.In comparison, a competition for elementary school students in the county is nothing.

Looking at the eldest daughter's gift, Zhang Meiying was so happy that she was incoherent.

She grew up in a poor family, and her mother could not afford to provide for her. She had no choice but to drop out of school after only two or three years of schooling.

She also yearns for life in the city, and she doesn't want to work endlessly in the fields year after year.I'm afraid that one day there will be an accident, I don't even have any living money in my hand, and I don't even want to go to the hospital.She didn't want to be like the people around her, swearing and cursing for trivial things, and she didn't want to live without hope day after day.

So she had made up her mind that no matter whether she had sons or daughters, she would provide them with education, even if she sold blood, she would not interrupt their studies and give them a different future.It's all right now, my daughter is so upbeat, and the days are getting better and better, her wish is about to come true.

Perhaps because she was too excited, Zhang Meiying waved her hand and asked Li Xiaohong to keep all the bonuses she got.

Amidst the booing of the people around, she put on the floral blouse bought by her daughter.

"Mother Hong, you look so handsome in this dress!"

"Of course it looks good. This dress is not cheap. I went to the supply and marketing agency in the town to look at it several times, but I was not willing to buy it."

"You are really enjoying the blessing of your daughter now. I think Xiaohong is studying so well, and your good days are still to come in the future."

"It's just a piece of clothing." Li Li went wherever there was excitement.Seeing that everyone was praising Zhang Meiying, she couldn't help but speak sourly.

"It's just a piece of clothing? This is a piece of clothing bought by Xiaohong's bonus. If you have the ability to let your child earn money to buy it for you at such a young age!"

"No matter how good the daughter is, she will belong to someone else's family as soon as she gets married in the future. Our son will add more people to the family in the future."

"As long as a daughter is capable, the old man can spend a bit of leakage between her fingers, and a son who is not capable has to rely on his parents to work for him."

Li Li has always been unpopular, and she left with a pale face after being told.Li Xiaohong is also surprised, why is she like Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death, stepping forward again and again to seek abuse?

(End of this chapter)