Chapter 989 Substitute
The partner Lan Lan chose to date was Fang Xiao, her classmate when she was in the School of Printing.
Like Ning Weimin, Fang Xiao’s parents are typical working people at the bottom.
My father is a porter in a grain depot, and my mother is a female worker in a carton factory.
In addition, he also has a younger brother Fang Yong who is five years younger than him.
Even like Ning Weimin, Fang Xiao lost a close relative early in his childhood.
However, unlike Ning Weimin, Fang Xiao lost not his father but his mother.
And his mother did not die because of a car accident. In fact, she died of excessive blood loss due to dystocia when giving birth to her second child.
So the burden of life for the Fang family has since fallen entirely on the shoulders of Fang Xiao's father, Lao Fang.
The harsh reality of life made this taciturn father use great perseverance to get rid of his sorrow.
Just like countless strong men, he supported this shaky home with his tenacity and hard-working character and his meager monthly salary.
Although this father only has a little bit of poor literacy from the literacy movement in the early days of liberation.
But deep down in his heart, he always believed that in a country like ours, poverty should never be the final destination of every family.
Although his own life is hopeless, he hopes that his two sons can get ahead and get rid of poverty completely.
So just like what most poor Chinese families say to their children - study! Get a higher education! That's the only way to get ahead!
Just like Wu Xun, Lao Fang deeply imprinted this consciousness on the most primitive outlook on life of his two sons.
In Lao Fang’s opinion, it’s okay for him to be miserable and tired. He can stop smoking, drinking, and not walking around with others.
The only thing we cannot bear is that we cannot afford to provide for our children to study, so that they lose the hope of progress and the opportunity to choose their own life.
For more than ten years, it is this strong belief that has dominated this father, who has worked hard to raise his children.
At the same time, major changes have also taken place in China.
The continuous deepening of reform and opening up has caused some qualitative changes in society.
It is certainly a good thing for intellectuals to regain respect from society, but living standards continue to rise. For Lao Fang, who sells his physical strength every day and only earns a fixed basic salary, life pressure becomes increasingly Bigger.
So, a diligent temporary worker was added to a laundry and dyeing shop...
There was an old note in the cries of newspaper sellers on the street...
Beside the garbage truck in the back kitchen of the restaurant, there is a figure rummaging through old bottles and cans...
Fortunately, the efforts were not in vain and finally paid off.
After years of perseverance, Lao Fang was pleased to see that his two sons were gradually fulfilling the old saying, "From a poor family comes a noble son", just as he had hoped.
My eldest son Fang Xiao not only successfully graduated from the College of Printing and joined the workforce.
The younger son Fang Yong was also promoted to the High School Affiliated to Normal University, a key high school in Xuanwu District, with excellent results.
As expected, it is certain that this younger son will be admitted to college, and his future may be brighter than that of his elder brother.
It can be said that Lao Fang’s long-cherished wish in his life is almost tangible and will be fully realized.
If he still has an extravagant hope, it is that after his eldest son works, the father and son can quickly pay off the debt of more than 2,000 yuan they have owed for many years, and it is time to prepare for their two sons to start a family. .
It was at this time that Lan Lan decided to accept Fang Xiao's pursuit, started a relationship with him, and took the initiative to bring him to his parents and family.
For the Fang family, this is a great joy.
Whatever you think comes to you. What else can a girl like Lan Lan find faulty about?
Regardless of family background, appearance, character, talents and learning, nothing was mentioned.
Especially Fang Xiao himself, at the beginning, he was simply stunned by this beautiful blessing.
He never imagined that his classmate Lan Lan, who had been chased by countless people in school for three years, had never had a crush on any boy.
One year after graduation, I actually fell in love with a poor boy like him.
He was truly ecstatic and cherished this rare happiness.
And I am extremely lucky that I have always been persistent in this relationship and persisted.
Unlike many people who give up halfway, they can't help but try and find a new love. Only then can the clouds clear and the moon shine.
He believes that this is what the ancients said, "where sincerity reaches, gold and stone will open."
For this reason, whenever he had time, he rummaged through boxes and cabinets to collect trendy poetry anthologies, and then sweated like rain to piece together pieces of words from literary giants to create beautiful love letters one after another.
He is like a crazy lover, using all his talents to declare his passionate emotions to the goddess in his heart, thanks to Lan Lan's discerning eye.
However, it is very regrettable that Fang Xiao does not understand the real situation at all.
In fact, the reason why he was chosen by the goddess was not because he impressed Lan Lan with his sincerity, as he thought.
He is not that outstanding, but he is similar to a certain person in some aspects.
He has the drive to be unwilling to be mediocre despite being born in a poor family, and the pride hidden in his bones to despise the powerful.
In Lan Lan's eyes, he looks very much like Ning Weimin, so he can win the beauty's heart.
However, compared to other opposite-sex peers Lan Lan knew, Fang Xiao was the closest substitute to Ning Weimin.
But what is fake is not real after all, and the shadow can never be compared with the real master.
Fang Xiao not only lacks Ning Weimin's humor, but also lacks Ning Weimin's thoughtfulness and insight.
The key is that Fang Xiao does not have a time-travel plug-in, so it is impossible for him to have the peaceful, confident, positive and brave attitude towards life like Ning Weimin. It is even less possible to be as calm as Ning Weimin, facing the class gap with neither humility nor arrogance, and completing the class leap effortlessly and effortlessly.
So when the two people got along for a long time, Fang Xiao began to feel overwhelmed by the huge pressure caused by the disparity in their family levels.
He finally began to realize that no matter how noble love is, it cannot be completely separated from the world.
Not to mention, in the eyes of others, he suddenly became a person who followed the crowd, had ulterior motives, and wanted to climb high.
The feeling of having ideals but being short of money becomes extremely embarrassing in the process of falling in love.
But what pained him even more was the gap in thought and knowledge.
Although Lan Lan is not a philistine girl, she has no signs of looking down on poor children.
But many things cannot be equalized by reading well from textbooks or getting high scores on exams.
Just like when the two of them watch a movie together, Fang Xiao is often surprised by advanced things in foreign countries, but Lan Lan is familiar with them and reacts only mediocrely.
When the two of them discuss it afterwards, Fang Xiao often only listens.
While the two of them were shopping together, almost everything Lan Lan was interested in was of high value.
Even though Fang Xiao always wanted to give her a gift.
But the family's unpaid debts and the father's cheerful face in his mind. Still, every time he came up with this idea, he felt a huge sense of guilt and had to give up without sighing.
So as time went by, Fang Xiao felt that it was really uncomfortable for a poor boy to fall in love with a noble lady.
The sense of inferiority that emerged all the time tortured him like maggots on the tarsus, and a strong sense of humiliation emerged from the depths of his soul.
In the past, even in public, he found that his pants had a hole in the back of his buttocks, and he had to take off his shirt and tie it around his waist before he could go home to mend his pants. He had never felt so mentally inferior. .
"Poverty" seemed to have branded his soul as an inferior person. In getting along with Lan Lan, it easily took away the courage and confidence he had gained from entering a higher education institution through ten years of hard study. .
So, not everyone has a strong heart and can face this congenital status inequality calmly and calmly.
Fang Xiao actually resisted from the bottom of his heart, meeting her parents with Lan Lan so soon.
What he really hopes is that after he has achieved certain results or achievements at work, he can then meet Lan Lan's family and talk about the two of them.
Although he also knew that this might be a distant fantasy, he still begged Lan Lan like this.
"Can you wait until I can raise my head and be a human being before I go to see your parents?"
Unfortunately, objective reality does not allow it, because Lan Lan told him, "If you don't dare to go, then I My parents will definitely arrange a blind date for me according to their own standards. Do you want that?"
Needless to say, no man would be willing to tolerate such a thing.
So, swimming upstream, knowing that it is impossible, becomes the only option.
After thinking about it, Fang Xiao could only grit his teeth and say to Lan Lan, "Okay, I'll go."
When you go to visit your girlfriend's parents, of course you have to prepare gifts.
Fang Xiao didn't even dare to mention this matter to his father. On the appointed day, he came out of home early in the morning and braved the wind and snow to go straight to the blood station.
The needle pierced Fang Xiao's vein, and he got sixty yuan by selling himself.
Then he grabbed these currencies and rushed to the store non-stop, converting these banknotes into four-color gifts of cigarettes, wine, sugar, and tea.
In the evening of the same day, Fang Xiao braved the heavy snow again and came to Lan's house at the address as promised.
He walked into the door with the gifts he had obtained by selling his blood and greeted him politely.
The next thing Lan Lan had to face was the almost rude look from her parents.
"Are you...?"
"I am Lan Lan's classmate. I am also an editor at the School of Printing."
"What do you call me?"
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"My name is Fang Xiao."
"Thank you for your help to Lan Lan."
"Nothing...should...should..."
Fang Xiao tried his best He wanted to raise his head, but almost instinctively felt a condescending, depressed and cold look in the eyes of Lan Lan's parents.
Just listen to Lan Lan's mother saying straightforwardly, "Let's be honest, we must be responsible for our daughter, so I have the responsibility to understand you. What is your current job? Do you have any plans to improve your career in the future? What are the family conditions like? Can your unit provide a house? Can you tell us in detail? ”
"I..." Just as a disabled person is taboo about talking about his disabled body, Fang Xiao felt that all Lan Lan's parents asked about was the disabled part of his life.
He was silent for a long time, unable to come up with an appropriate answer.
I can only bite the bullet and say, "Auntie, I have only been working for a year, and there are still many things to learn. But our unit is the largest state-owned printing factory in Beijing, and I am working for the "Beijing Evening News" The printing workshop is one of the more important ones in our factory. It’s really not easy for our factory to be allocated a room, and I’m afraid we have to wait a long time, but our factory’s benefits are good, especially the bonuses for our factory are higher than those of other workshops. Although I have only been working for a year, I can already earn nearly 110 yuan with salary and bonus. And now there is news that the bonus will be longer next year..."
But it's a pity, like a small person. Being concerned about happiness is extremely objectionable to a family like Lan Lan.
There were many mistakes and many mistakes. The more Lan Lan’s mother listened, the more impatient she became, and she couldn’t help but interrupt Fang Xiao.
"Is this your plan for your future? Are you satisfied with a bonus adjustment of only a dozen yuan? Is your purpose in studying just to get a bigger bonus than others?"
Fang Xiao was immediately blocked and blushed. , I felt so ashamed that I forgot all the nice things I had just thought of.
"Mom..."
Fortunately, Lan Lan, who was listening in the audience, also felt aggrieved and begged, which allowed the professor's wife to restrain herself from a series of merciless cross-examinations.
But the problem is that people like Fang Xiao who have been busy studying and have just entered the society and are engaged in technical work do not know much about the world.
He is proud of himself, but what he is least good at is communicating with others and easing situations.
Next, he made another fatal mistake.
In order to cover up his carelessness just now, he stupidly handed over the gift he had brought.
"Uncle, aunt, these...are...for you..."
However, such actions are tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.
Lan Lan's mother, who had just calmed down her dissatisfaction, felt her anger rising again.
I came to a conclusion in my mind and concluded that Fang Xiao was just a tacky young man.
So he refused unceremoniously, "You'd better take them back, young man, you are just Lan Lan's classmate now, there is no need to do this. We can't accept these gifts."
And Professor Lan, who has been silent, has similar views to his wife.
At this time, he spoke for the first time, speaking in a calm and somewhat tactful tone.
"Young man, you have just joined the workforce, but you should pay attention to the bad habits in society..."
Originally, these words were entirely for Professor Lan to enlighten young people.
It was said casually, although it didn't sound good, but it was somewhat polite and concerned about each other's dignity.
Under normal circumstances, even though they are unhappy when this soft nail is touched, most people can still bear it.
But the key point is that all the things Fang Xiao brought over the past few days were all obtained with his own blood. In addition, his physical condition was uncomfortable because of the blood. His already sensitive self-esteem was greatly affected. The damage sustained.
He seemed to feel that his blood was being poured on the ground like sewage, and countless pairs of noble feet wrapped in kind leather shoes were trampling on his blood.
Even those who trampled on him covered their noses and groaned in disgust, "Dirty!" "Smelly!" "Tacky!" "Disgusting!"
Fang Xiao felt for a moment His vision was dark and his mouth was dry. He couldn't bear it anymore and screamed as if he had lost his mind.
"Respect is mutual, why do you insult others! I was born poor! But my blood is also hot and red! Friendship and love are created together, and never one gives to the other. Don’t you just think I’m poor? Huh, I swear, I will never let you look down upon me!”
When this was said, not only Professor Lan and his wife were stunned, but also Lan Lan. Extremely shocked.
"Fang Xiao! You..."
Fang Xiao turned around and left without saying a word, with a fierce look in his eyes!
(End of this chapter)