Chapter 4 Wei Fei
Of course, with a child like Yang He who is hard-working and simple, and who knows how to take charge of the family early, there must be a reaction that is completely opposite to it.
"I just said that the ball was not kicked to the head. This time An Yi kicked it out with a knife..." Another little head wearing thick glasses appeared behind Yang He. His little eyes smiled sincerely. When I saw my 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 is not in good health, and the family basically relies on Wei's father's salary as a teacher. Her mother occasionally goes to the city to sell eggs and fruits 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 is the youngest child in the family. Even if his family background is not good, his parents still pamper him.
The hard-working attributes of rural children are completely absent from 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 kid 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 cheat in the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Once when I was playing at Zhou Zhi’s house, I saw the 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. .
There were no online tutorials or manuals at that time, so Wei Fei relied entirely on his own clever research, which astonished Zhou Zhi.
Wei Fei's sister is also very good. 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 single subject scores in these three subjects are basically among the top three in his grade, and he has a bachelor's degree. Already booked.
In my grandmother’s words, this is the powerful Feng Shui of the Wei family’s Anleshan ancestral tomb.
In my mother's words, this is what happens when a boy gets excited.
Zhou Zhi rolled his eyes at his mother's words. Aren't Yang and him excited? Aren't you hard enough on yourself? The result?
The result is that my mother sighs when she talks about Yang He, and Wei Fei, a guy who is too lazy to burn snakes, turns out to be "someone else's child" in my mother's words!
But Wei Fei is very partial to subjects, and has trouble 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 are similar, Zhou Zhi’s effect was obvious. But Wei Fei's English is like a wooden head.
Wei Yi was so angry that he chased Wei Fei with the colander at home and played in circles on the small playground of Anleshan Township. The fools among the foreigners also spoke English, which proves that even fools can learn English. Why can't you? ? ! Why not? !
Look at how thoughtful they are!
Zhou Zhi was very pleased to see the two siblings flying all over the place. At least with the beautiful sister, we were treated as "other people's children"!
"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."
< br>Then he gave his blessing to Wei Fei: "You turtle, stop talking, sooner or later this day will come."
"Nonsense!" Mom said quickly: "Are you guys here to see Zhou Zhi? Come in quickly and I'll wash the fruits for you!"
When Mom left, Yang Hecai looked at Zhou Zhi's hanging infusion Ping 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: "This holiday, my mother may not let me go to your house to play."
Yang He said: "It doesn't matter, 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 them 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 help his good friend.
Because of one person and one thing, Zhou Zhi later lived a life of self-exile, completely cutting off contact with his former friends and classmates. When they reconnected ten years later, their relationship had inevitably faded.
One of the things Zhou Zhi regretted the 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: "How about you go 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 understand: "Isn't it just that I am lazy when he is working? How could it be affected? Your logical relationship does not hold true."
"Because there is no comparison. It's harmful." Zhou Zhi said, "When your parents compare you two, they will definitely beat you up and force you to be like a monk." "Oh my God!" Wei Fei is such a rational dog. Only then did he 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!
Turning to Yang He, he said: "What... Monk, why don't you go..."
"It's better to go to my house." Zhou Zhi made the decision: "You can stay at my house, find some time at most, You and I will go back to stay with your uncle and aunt for a few days."
"You are like this now..." Yang He was a little embarrassed. "This is just a minor surgery. I will go home in a few days."
Yang He thought for a while: "Then I will cross the river and tell my parents in the afternoon."
Yang He's home is in Baimi Township, across the Yangtze River from Chengguan Town, and now he has to take a ferry.
My mother came back with fruit and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"
The two of them shook their heads.
My mother took out five yuan and said, "Then go and eat quickly."
Zhou Zhi was immediately dissatisfied: "The bean curd rice is only one yuan per person, 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, my mother will give you so much!" My mother said: "The rice with bean curd and rice has no meat, why can't it be called two ballast cages?"
Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded. Then...then just...don't care about the differences between the two?
My mother thought for a while, but finally did not hand over the money: "I also have to go to work, just in time, I will take you to dinner."
Seeing Wei Fei's disappointed expression, Zhou Zhi secretly Laugh, this guy must have been trying to save money before, but now he has failed.
I don’t have the ability to take the rest from my mother, are you the only one? !
Thinking of what we had discussed before, he quickly said: "Mom, I want Yang He to live in our house during the winter vacation and study with me."
"Okay, but my parents must agree."
Yang He said: "Auntie, I plan to go back in the afternoon. I will come in a few days. I will come back before the Spring Festival. "Go."
"Mom, bring me some books tonight! And a notebook and a pen!"
"Got it!"
Zhou Zhi's family is not rich, but has many books.
My father is the most picky in the family. Apart from long tomes, he only reads "People's Literature" and "October".
My mother will never touch "People's Literature" or "October", and prefers "Reader's Digest" and "Yilin".
Zhou Zhi is the least picky, basically anything with words will do. In the past, when my family had no means, he started reading "Water Margin" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at the age of ten, which were traditional vertical versions, and he started reading "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at the age of eleven. "Collected Works of Lu Xun".
There are also some Soviet literature from my father.
There is also a set of books that are easier to read than the above. Every family still kept them at that time - "Selected Works of Mao Zedong".
When I go to my classmates’ houses in the countryside, I can read Zhou Zhi and even almanac and Buddhist scriptures.
"People's Literature" and "October" were the highest-status literary journals in the country at that time, and the 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.
Dad 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 is a traditional Chinese vertical photocopy version of the Hong Kong Commercial Publishing House. It is very beautiful. At that time, it cost more than 400 yuan per set, and 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 to receive 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 Xiaoxiaosheng's works was hidden by his father in the bedroom. It was well hidden, but it was still studied secretly by Zhou Zhi.
When his father finds out, he will punish him.
Zhou Zhi quickly claimed that he was just studying ancient folk customs.
Of course this excuse cannot 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 practice of the Zhou family.
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 the poem to me." You can only go to play after a meeting.
Two minutes after Zhou Zhi opened the book, he threw it back to his father: "Dad, I'm leaving."
Dad was furious, but Zhou Zhi said that I had completed today's task - the mica screen had a deep candle shadow, The long river is gradually setting and the stars are sinking. Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, and her heart will be filled with blue sea and blue sky every night.
Then in my father’s shocked eyes, he walked away.
(End of this chapter)