my dream space

Chapter 71 It Will Get Better Slowly

It's not time for dinner yet, Xia Kun is watching TV at home while peeling oranges to eat, Xia Ke is pillowed in Xia Kun's arms, crossing Erlang's legs, playing with the new mobile phone bought by her brother, whispering from time to time asking for oranges, Xia Kun Put a piece of the peeled orange into my sister's mouth.

Not long after such a pleasant time, I heard the sound of branches pushing open the big iron gate in the front yard.

"Is Ah Kun back?"

A middle-aged male voice with vicissitudes came from the yard.

"I'm back, watching TV with A Ke in the living room."

Xia Kun's father Xia Xingliang entered the living room.

He has a mustache, dark complexion and deep forehead lines, but he looks quite energetic.

"Kun, you're back."

"Well, Dad."

Xia Kun called out, but Xia Ke was still lying on Xia Kun's body playing with her mobile phone. Xia Xingliang suddenly frowned when she saw her daughter.

"Ke, what do you mean when a girl sleeps like this? Hurry up and get up from brother!"

"Tsk..."

Xia Ke reluctantly got up from Xia Kun. Xia Xingliang saw Xia Ke was holding a new mobile phone in his hand, and asked about the situation of the mobile phone. Xia Kun made up nonsense about the scholarship, and Xia Xingliang became unhappy again.

"With that spare money, how can I spend it to buy more teaching materials? Do you think that the living expenses sent to you by your family are all floating? It's useless for you to have good grades now. You need to pass the college entrance examination so high."

"Brother is now the second in the class, what do you want from him?" Xia Ke loves to contradict her father, she is not like her elder brother, she doesn't refute anything.

"You don't have a place to talk here, go study in the room! Let me tell you clearly, if you don't do well in the high school entrance examination, the family has no money to buy you a high school."

"I don't care about it..." Xia Ke muttered, "I'm in a technical secondary school, so I'm going to go to the head office of the health school! I didn't plan to go to a secondary school."

Health schools are health schools, a type of technical secondary school. Girls who do not do well in junior high school will go there to study, and they will work as nurses.

"What's the point of studying in a medical school? Go to high school for me anyway. You're just too playful. It's a matter of attitude! You don't want to see how serious your brother is in studying? Huh?"

Xia Ke had a quarrel with her father, Xia Kun couldn't persuade him, and no one would let anyone else go. Finally, Xia Ke slammed the door and hid in her room.

After Xia Xingliang and his daughter had finished arguing, he looked at Xia Kun who was showing embarrassment on the side, "You are too, as a brother, teach your sister to study well, why buy her a mobile phone?"

Xia Kun used to argue with his father often, but now that he has learned to be good, he listens quietly to his lectures, and when he wants to speak, he hums, purely in the left ear and out in the right ear, so that his father will soon lose his temper , and the mood gradually calmed down.

"By the way, Akun, you are not too young now, I have to tell you about the situation at home."

Xia Kun's father, Xia Xingliang, wrote excellent brush calligraphy. When he was young, he was a well-known young man in ten miles and eight townships.

However, being good-looking and talented does not mean that he is capable. He drifted outside for two or three years, and finally returned home with the money he earned from part-time jobs to start a business. He contracted several acres of fish ponds in Zhulin Township.

At the beginning, the fish pond business was pretty good, and Xia Kun's family moved into a two-storey small western-style building early, with a courtyard.

However, due to the subsequent market downturn and poor management, the fish pond began to suffer losses year after year.

Xia Xingliang refused to give up his property, firmly believed that he could turn losses into profits, and borrowed money everywhere to expand the property in order to make money.

This led to deeper and deeper troubles. The family owed a lot of debts. At the end of the year, someone would always come to the house to collect the debts. look.

But Xia Xingliang still refused to give up the fishpond, probably because he had been discouraged by working part-time in his early years. He always refused to be subservient to work for others, and seemed to enjoy the life of being called "Boss Xia".

"The survival rate of fish fry this year is very low. In addition, a highway has been built in Dachi Township. As a result, there are fewer people collecting fish here and the conditions are more difficult. I know Akun that you study hard and are very sensible. I promised you before If you can get into one, selling money will help you raise the money to go to college; but even if you can raise the money to go to college, I can't afford four years of city living expenses."

Xia Xingliang took a sip of tea and continued, "I went to your uncle's house today to celebrate the festival. I heard from your cousin that there is a kind of normal school in the university that specializes in training teachers. There are free schools in which tuition is exempted and subsidies are given. Normal students, look... fill in your application when the time comes, or choose a normal university."

Dad's meaning is very clear, the family can't afford Qinghua and Dida that Xia Kun wants to miss.

But Xia Kun shook his head this time, "I can take care of the living expenses by myself when I go to college, and the matter of volunteering for the college entrance examination...let's talk about it at that time."

Xia Xingliang was silent for a while, and then slowly said, "I'm just giving you a vaccination. To be honest, I don't understand this thing about college. But the previous agreement will still be maintained. If you can't pass the exam, , you have to follow me to the fishpond to raise fish.”

"En." Xia Kun responded lightly.

Although his father Xia Xingliang has always suffered from ignorance, stubbornness, machismo and other unbearable problems, he pays great attention to keeping his promises, which is his rare shining point.

After the conversation with her father, it was almost time to eat. However, her sister Xia Ke did not come to the table to eat because she was angry. Her mother Fan Meirong was about to greet her daughter for dinner when she was stopped by Xia Xingliang.

"If she doesn't want to eat, don't eat. If she is hungry, she will come to eat by herself. She really thinks of herself as the lady of a rich family. What's the matter?" Xia Xingliang raised his voice deliberately, and kicked the younger sister who was hiding in the room. A few feet to the door to protest.

"It's not all about you! Why are you always scolding A Ke for nothing, she is not your punching bag!" Fan Meirong also often quarreled with her husband, but they rarely fought.

"What's the matter? She doesn't study hard, so I don't know where she has the cheek to be smiling all the time." Xia Xingliang put down his chopsticks before taking a few bites, "It's all because of your spoiling, so don't give her food in the future."

"Blame me for being used to it? Feel your conscience and tell me, when did you take care of your daughter? You can do nothing but vent your anger! Now which child in the college entrance examination is not accompanied by his parents to study, and which child in the high school entrance examination is not given by his parents to send meals, you have no Forget about what you can, do you have to let the two children be wronged together?"

As soon as Xia Kun came home, his parents were arguing at the dinner table.He couldn't persuade him.

In this family, although he is the most promising, he still has little right to speak.

The only thing he could do was to take advantage of the quarrel between his parents to fill the bowl he hadn't touched much with vegetables, put it in his arms and prepare to run away.

"stop!"

Xia Xingliang yelled at Xia Kun, "Where are you going?"

Xia Kun turned around and explained, "You guys are too noisy...I'm going to eat outside."

Of course, he didn't really ignore it and ran to the courtyard to eat.

He spared a corner, knocked on the window of Xia Ke's room, and saw his sister Xia Ke, who was crying with pear blossoms in spring and raining.

"Eat, I've got you chicken legs."

"Uh-huh!"

My sister took over the rice bowl. She was so hungry that her eyes were dizzy.

Xia Ke choked up while eating and said, "Brother is the best."

"Ah."

Xia Kun quietly watched her sister eat.

"Are they still quarreling?"

"Yes."

Xia Ke pursed her lips and wiped the rice grains from the corner of her mouth, "I really want to escape from this house, the farther the better."

"Family is such an existence, and there is no question of whether to escape or not." Xia Kun comforted his sister, "You think our family is not good, and other people's families may not be better than ours."

"for example?"

"There are fathers who were in a coma in a car accident and have never been able to wake up; there are mothers who died early and have always lived with their grandmother; there are also those who have never felt a mother's love since childhood, and were discriminated against because of their father." Xia Kun said warmly. , "If you think about it this way, do you think our family is a little better?"

"Let's just play it like that on TV, not everyone is like this..."

Through the window, Xia Kun gently patted his sister on the head.

"In the future... our family will gradually get better."

"Ah."

For Xia Ke, as long as her brother is there, there is nothing she can't get through.

　This chapter is a bit of a family ethic, but I do like the rather real family routine.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)