Chapter 4 Wei Fei
Of course, with a child like Yang He who is hard-working and simple, and who has taken charge of his own affairs early, there must be a completely opposite reaction.
"I just said that the ball was not kicked to the head. This time An Yi kicked it with a knife..." Behind Yang He, another little head wearing thick glasses appeared. His little eyes smiled sincerely. When he saw his mother,
Staring: "Oh, hello, aunt!"
This is the "reactionary" who is completely opposite to Yang He's classmates, Zhou Zhi's best friend since junior high school, Wei Fei.
Wei Fei's father was a teacher at a rural primary school in Anle Mountain, and his mother was an educated youth. Later, they got married and both stayed at the foot of Anle Mountain.
After Anleshan Primary School moved from the mountains to the suburbs of the city, Wei Fei's family also moved to the suburbs and lived in a small bungalow assigned by the school. However, they could no longer take care of the house and land in their hometown.
Wei Fei's mother was not in good health, and the family basically relied on Wei's father's salary as a teacher. Her mother occasionally went to the city to sell eggs, fruits, etc. to supplement the family income.
Wei Fei also has an older sister, Wei Yi, who is very beautiful and was the school beauty of their generation.
Wei Fei's characteristic is laziness, very laziness, lazy to the core of his being.
He was the youngest child in the family, and even though his family background was not good, his parents still pampered him, to the extent that he could only open his mouth when his clothes were on his hand.
The hard-working attributes of rural children are zero in this child.
Zhou Zhi saw it with his own eyes at Wei Fei's house. The broom beside the door fell to the ground for some unknown reason, blocking the door.
The child acted as if he hadn't seen it. He stepped directly from the broom into the door without even thinking about picking up the broom and putting it away!
But God is so unfair. Yang He studied hard day and night, and his grades in the class were only average. Wei Fei was not very interested in learning, but he was a fool in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Once when I was playing at Zhou Zhi's house, I saw a Rubik's Cube that Zhou Zhi's third wife gave to Zhou Zhi. After playing with it for half an hour, the boy figured out how to turn it into six sides and taught Zhou Zhi the method.
At that time, there were no online tutorials or manuals. Wei Fei came up with it entirely by relying on his own cleverness, which shocked Zhou Zhi.
Wei Fei's sister is also amazing. Not only is she beautiful, she is also very good at studies. Last year, she was admitted to the English Department of Sichuan Foreign Languages College with high scores.
Perhaps stimulated by his sister's admission to college, Wei Fei began to study seriously this year, and made rapid progress in the three subjects of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Now, his individual scores in these three subjects are basically among the top three in his grade, and he has already booked a bachelor's degree.
In the words of my grandmother, this is the powerful Feng Shui of the ancestral tombs in Anle Mountain of the Wei family.
In my mother's words, this is what happens when a boy works hard.
Zhou Zhi rolled his eyes at his mother's words. Aren't Yang and him working hard? Aren't they cruel enough to themselves? What's the result?
As a result, my mother sighed when she talked about Yang He, and Wei Fei, a guy who was too lazy to burn snakes, became "someone else's child" in my mother's words!
However, Wei Fei was very partial to subjects and struggled with Chinese and foreign languages. Miss Wei Yi came back and used her vacation to tutor him and Zhou Zhi in English. Perhaps because the languages were similar, Zhou Zhi's effect was obvious, but Wei Fei was not good at English.
Like an elm head.
Wei Yi was so angry that he chased Wei Fei in circles on the Anleshan Township playground with a colander from home. Even the idiots among the foreigners spoke English, which proved that even idiots can learn English. Why can't you?! Why can't you?
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Look how considerate they are!
Zhou Zhi was very pleased to see the two siblings flying around the place. At least we were treated as "other people's children" by the beautiful sister!
"Monk! Plane!" The arrival of the two best friends made Zhou Zhi very happy: "I just said that the monk is so honest, how dare you come to the hospital and ask for the ward number? It must be your idea."
Then he gave his best wishes to Wei Fei: "You turtle, stop talking. Sooner or later, this day will come."
"Nonsense!" Mom said quickly: "You guys come to see Zhou Zhi? Come in quickly, I'll wash the fruits for you!"
After his mother left, Yang Hecai looked at the infusion bottle hanging by Zhou Zhi and said, "Fortunately, I'm on vacation soon, so I can't delay my studies, and I can comfortably avoid the final exam."
Zhou Zhi had a slight smile on his face and silently thought to himself, is this also called comfort?
Sometimes he wanted to persuade Yang He, but after thinking about it again, he couldn't.
Because once Yang He loses his support, the learning situation may be even worse than it is now.
I had no choice but to agree: "My mother may not let me go to your house to play during this holiday."
Yang He said: "It doesn't matter, let's do it next time."
The conditions at Yang He's family were really poor. Every time Zhou Zhi thought about going to someone's house for the first time, Yang and his parents would take down the last piece of cured pork ribs that had been hanging on the kitchen beam for ten months to entertain themselves, and then thank Zhou Zhi for visiting him in the city.
Yang He's care made me feel very ashamed.
In another time and space, Yang He finally returned to his hometown, but he did not do anything to help his good friend.
Because of one person and one thing, Zhou Zhi ended up living in self-imposed exile, completely cutting off contact with his former friends and classmates. By the time they got back in touch ten years later, their relationship had inevitably faded.
One of the things Zhou Zhi regretted most in his previous life was not maintaining the relationship between good friends. In this life, Zhou Zhi decided to cherish it.
Wei Fei said from the side: "Why don't you come to my house."
"You are very generous." Zhou Zhi rolled his eyes at Wei Fei and said, "I'm afraid that the monk has gone to work every day, which will affect your laziness."
Wei Fei couldn't figure it out: "Didn't I happen to be lazy when he was working? How could it affect him? Your logical relationship doesn't hold true."
"Because there is no harm without comparison." Zhou Zhi said: "When your parents compare you two, they will definitely beat you and force you to be like a monk."
"Oh my god!" Only then did Wei Fei, a rational person, realize that he had also been to Yang He's house with Zhou Zhi. The energy with which this boy worked was truly terrifying.
We must strictly guard against stubbornness and never let our parents know that there are such breeds as monks in the world!
He turned to Yang He and said, "What the hell... Monk, you'd better not go..."
"It's better to go to my house." Zhou Zhi decided: "You can stay at my house. At most, I can go back with you to spend a few days with your uncle and aunt."
"You are like this now..." Yang He was a little embarrassed.
"This is just a minor surgery, and I will go home in a few days."
Yang He thought for a moment: "Then I'll cross the river and talk to my parents in the afternoon."
Yang He's family is in Baimi Township, across the Yangtze River from Chengguan Town, and now he has to take a ferry.
Mom came back with fruit and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"
The two of them shook their heads.
Mom took out five dollars and said, "Then go eat quickly."
Zhou Zhi was immediately dissatisfied: "You only have rice with bean curd and rice alone. Mom, you have never been so generous to me!"
"If you want you to be as sensible as a monk and as good at studying as an airplane, Mom will give you so much!" My mother said: "Bean curd rice has no meat, so why don't you call it two ballast cages?"
Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded, then...then just...don't care about the difference between the two guys?
My mother thought for a while, but finally did not hand over the money: "I also have to go to work, and just in time, I will take you to dinner."
Zhou Zhi snickered when he saw Wei Fei's disappointed expression. This guy must have been trying to save money before, but now he failed.
I don’t have the ability to take the leftovers from my mother, but you?!
Thinking of what we had discussed before, she quickly said: "Mom, I want Yang He to live in our house during the winter vacation and study with me."
"Yeah, okay, but my parents need to agree."
Yang He said: "Auntie, I plan to go back in the afternoon, come in a few days, and go back before the Spring Festival."
"The monk is the most sensible." My mother likes to make direct conclusions, but the sentence she adds later is not very good: "Not as thoughtful as my family. Let's go and bring some fruit."
"Mom, bring me some books tonight! There are also notebooks and pens!"
"knew!"
Zhou Zhi's family was not wealthy, but they only had a lot of books.
My father is the most picky in the family. Apart from long tomes, he only reads "People's Literature" and "October".
My mother can't touch "People's Literature" and "October", and prefers "Reader's Digest" and "Yilin".
Zhou Zhi is the least picky, basically anything with words will do. When his family didn't have the resources, he started reading "Water Margin" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at the age of ten, in the traditional vertical version, and he started reading "Collected Works of Lu Xun" at the age of eleven.
There are also some Soviet literature from my father.
There is also a set of books that are easier to read than the above, and were still kept by every family at that time - "Selected Books by Mao Zedong".
When I go to a classmate's house in the countryside, I can read Zhou Zhi and even the almanac and Buddhist scriptures.
"People's Literature" and "October" were the highest-status literary journals in the country at that time, and their prices were not cheap.
The monthly subscription of periodicals and magazines and the purchase of books for Zhou Zhi’s family are a large expense.
My father is also a book lover. The year before last, Xinhua Bookstore went to Hong Kong to participate in a book exhibition. The godfather of the cultural center director made a long-distance call and asked the county officials if they wanted the banned book by Xiaoxiaosheng.
This book was a traditional vertical photocopy of the book published by Hong Kong Commercial Publishing House. It was very beautiful and cost more than 400 yuan per set at that time. Zhou Yuanjiang’s salary was less than 100 yuan a month.
Secretary Hua Yuliang counted the number of buyers among the cadres, and had to sign for the book and register it. It was a very serious process. If the book was leaked, the collector must be punished.
In the end, not many people wanted to buy this book, but my father registered to buy a set.
The complete and unabridged set of Xiao Xiaosheng's works was hidden by my father in the bedroom. It was well hidden, but it was still studied secretly by Zhou Zhi.
When his father found out, he was going to punish him.
Zhou Zhi quickly claimed that he was just studying ancient folk customs.
Of course, this excuse will not escape punishment, but the Zhou family has always been open-minded. Dad said that if you kid can convince me by telling me the content of your research, then I will not deal with you.
This approach is also the Zhou family's practice.
For example, when Zhou Zhi reached the third grade of elementary school, he no longer wanted to take a nap and wanted to go out to play at noon. His father threw Zhou Zhi a copy of "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and said, "You kid, if you don't want to sleep, recite poems to me. You can only go after you can memorize one poem."
Play.
Zhou Zhi opened the book and threw it back to his father within two minutes: "Dad, I'm leaving."
Dad was furious, but Zhou Zhi said that I have completed today's task - the mica screen has deep candle shadows, the long river is gradually setting and the morning stars are sinking. Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, and the blue sea and blue sky are in my heart every night.
Chapter completed!