Return to 2001 to pursue dreams

Outside the courtyard wall, Zhao Zhiqiang whipped the tree trunk hard, while Gao Hongda squatted next to him and screamed in coordination. Until the belt broke into two pieces, Zhao Zhiqiang hissed in distress: "Oh, my Montagnard!" Then he shook the belt and looked at it, and said mysteriously: "Boy, tell the truth, please help me. How about it?"

Gao Hongda nodded repeatedly: "Okay! Uncle is the best to me!"

Zhao Zhiqiang pointed at his Lincoln and said, "Lend me the car to drive for two days, and I'll go out and pretend to be a bear!"

Gao Hongda made a gesture of twisting money with his fingers and said, "That's not okay. This is my master's car. He won't let me lend it to others?"

Zhao Zhiqiang rolled his eyes at him and said, "Am I an outsider? If you don't want to borrow it, I won't. Look at how stingy you are, give me your watch back!"

Gao Hongda quickly covered the watch on his wrist, took two steps back and said, "Add five more boxes of fireworks!"

Zhao Zhiqiang made an OK gesture: "Deal!"

In the yard, Gao Liqiu had done some ideological work for his brother and sister-in-law. The two of them were much more emotionally stable. When they saw Gao Hongda limping in with his buttocks covered, the anger in his heart was almost gone.

In order to completely appease his parents, Gao Hongda solemnly stated: "We will renovate the house after the spring, but it must be built according to the drawings I provided. Don't make it too old-fashioned, so as not to make friends later and make people laugh. I I propose that we merge our homestead with my uncle’s and build a larger villa!”

Gao Liqiu said very cooperatively: "My old house is of no use anyway. It will have to be demolished sooner or later, so I will do as you say!"

Gao Hongda continued to talk about his plan: "The layout of the yard must also be made according to my requirements. There must be rockeries, small ponds, pavilions, and fish in the ponds!"

Dad Gao Lichun was very dissatisfied and said: "We from rural families, what are we doing with that Western view?"

Without waiting for Gao Hongda to explain, Zhao Zhiqiang said seriously: "Brother-in-law, you don't understand, this is called Feng Shui. As the saying goes, one luck, two lives, three Feng Shui, the quality of Feng Shui directly affects a person's wealth!"

Gao Hongda's mother smacked her tongue and asked, "How much does it cost?"

Gao Hongda slapped his chest and said: "Don't mention money in front of me in the future! Money is not a problem for me! The problem is that I can't spend all the money!"

A broomstick flew towards him, but Gao Hongda nimbly dodged it. His father yelled again: "I'm asking you to brag again! Do you think any other family in our village dares to raise cattle?"

Gao Hongda ran into the house, took out another 10 yuan from the box, placed it at his father's feet, and said mischievously: "It's okay, we can raise cattle at home and brag about it! It's not like we don't have the conditions!"

The mother on the side quickly held the money in her arms and carefully looked outside the wall. Then she ran back into the house and locked the money in the iron box. After coming out, she asked Gao Hongda: "Good son, to be honest, you How much money do you have left? Give it to mom and I’ll keep it for you! If you don’t have enough to eat, you don’t have to spend too much money. If you don’t calculate, you’ll be poor all your life!”

Gao Hongda said proudly: "The RMB in the box can only be used as waste paper! Only when it is allowed to operate by itself can it be called money! You said you have been counting for decades, but have you saved a penny?" "

Now his parents had nothing to say. They had worked hard for 20 years after starting a family. In order to send their children to school, they had to save as much as they could on food and clothing. Even though they tried to save as much as they could, in the end they still had no money left.

But his father was still unwilling to lose his dignity as a father, and still complained: "Your own money didn't come from the strong wind? Why should you use it to build roads in the village? Kill people and set fire to gold belts, pave roads and build bridges without corpses, good intentions There are too many bad things done!”

This time it was his uncle's turn to rescue him. Zhao Liqiu patiently explained to his brother: "Boss, you don't understand. What we are spending money to buy is a reputation. We need to leave a deep impression on the county leaders. You two can farm at home for the rest of your life, but Xiaoda can't. He has to go further than we think, and his tolerance and mind are also different from ordinary people! Not only you, but I can't keep up with his thinking. Do you think he can listen to what you say?"

Gao Lichun sighed deeply and gave up completely. He had to admit that his thinking had long been out of date. Although he didn't understand many things, he had to accept the fact! My mother also stopped talking and silently walked into the living room to put away the cups and dishes.

Zhao Zhiqiang took the car keys from Gao Hongda, got into the car excitedly, and ran away. I vowed to take advantage of the good time of the New Year gatherings in the past two days to try my best to stabilize my tall image. Not long after he left, someone drove a tricycle and delivered ten boxes of fireworks.

The little brothers were very excited to set off fireworks in the yard. With the sound of ping-pong-pong explosions, the night sky of the small village burst into flames. The men, women, old and children in the village ran out to watch and secretly discussed that the Gao family was bleeding this time in order to welcome Gao Laoer.

Let them get it right. It was the first time for the twin brothers Gao Hongxing and Gao Hongguang to set off fireworks at such a close distance. The excitement was naturally indescribable. Even the usually elegant uncle and the particularly quiet aunt also followed suit happily. scream. But Mr. Gao and his wife were bleeding because every firework exploding was filled with money. Zhao Zhiqiang and Gao Hongda are a pair of prodigal sons. If you have money to buy fireworks, even if you eat or drink, at least it will fall into your stomach. The ping pong will fly into the sky all of a sudden, and it will be shown to the whole village, which is a complete waste.

They were so angry that they couldn't sleep all night. He cursed over and over again that the living beast he had given birth to was not a toy, and the bigger it got, the harder it was to control. I completely don’t understand how hard it is for farmers to make two bucks. They work so hard all year round and have very little money left. The money that my son threw out this afternoon is something that many families will never earn in their lifetime. There are also these fireworks, which cost 100 yuan a box, and they disappear in two or three minutes. Even if you go out to move bricks for two days, you can't make 100 yuan.

After lying in bed for two hours, I woke up from peeing. When I came back from going to the bathroom, I saw that the lights in my parents' house were still on. I looked through the crack in the window and saw that the couple was secretly counting money. It looked like they were counting money. They had done it more than once, and you could guess by looking at their expressions that the couple was obviously in a much better mood.

Gao Hongda could completely understand his parents' mood when they lost their temper in the afternoon. The couple was used to living a life of poverty and frugality, and they had no way of understanding his behavior. In the memory of the previous life, because the two brothers had never been successful, the old couple never stopped doing heavy manual labor. They farmed during the busy farming season and went to work at the construction site when they had a little leisure time. When Gao Hongda was 40 years old, his parents were already sick. . Just thinking about it makes my heart sour. Now that he has the conditions, he must change the trajectory of their lives.

But it is simply impossible to change their minds all of a sudden and let their parents live a luxurious and luxurious life. At the same time, it is not a good thing. The ending of the nouveau riche is not particularly happy. The parents' anger comes from concern for their son. If that's the case, then give them some slack.