all the way

Liu Xia received a letter from Liu Chuan in the third week after school started. He smiled happily for a while, and then said to the other people in the dormitory who looked at him like idiots: "My third brother has become a father, hehe, twins! , I have two more little nephews."

Su Xiaohui gave birth to a pair of twin boys, and the mother and child are safe.

The day the two little guys were born happened to be the second day of February in the lunar calendar, and they landed at 05:30 in the morning. Two or three hours before that, there was thunder in the sky. This year is the year of the dragon in the lunar calendar, so the names of the two little guys They are Liuyun and Liulei respectively, taking the meaning of the folklore that the dragon walks in the clouds, the dragon raises its head and the wind and thunder move.

Liu Xia sat on the bed and struggled for half an hour, and finally started to write a reply to Liu Chuan, some of his plans had to be slightly changed.

Central Plains Province has a large population density, and the family planning policy is strictly implemented here. For dual-earner families in counties and districts around Yuancheng, including Rongze, unless the first child is disabled, there is almost no possibility of applying for a second child. .

Liu Chuan gave birth to two sons at once. Such a big happy event is impossible without a full moon wine in the work unit, but he certainly doesn't have much money.

Su Xiaohui gave birth in the county hospital. Although most of the public medical expenses are reimbursed, she still has to spend some money.

Liu Chuan felt very guilty because his family didn't want his money for half a year. During the Spring Festival, he added new clothes to his parents, second uncle, elder brother, sister-in-law, and three children, and bought a lot of new year's goods, including snacks and a hundred catties for the third grandfather. White flour, he can't save much money.

Liu Xia wrote: "Third brother, you can't return the money to me, I don't need it at all, I have always received the most grants and scholarships.

I heard from our counselor that our scholarship will increase next semester, and the first prize will increase to 200 yuan, so third brother, I have money and eat very well, otherwise I wouldn’t grow up so fast..."

Liu Xia sent Liu Chuan a total of 100 yuan from the 13 yuan scholarship he received after the start of school and the full stipend for one month of winter vacation, plus the 150 yuan he sold to Heideqing vegetable tickets.

Liu Xia sent money back from the post office, Yun Jian was waiting to take him to the small auditorium to practice dance together, Zhan Wei stopped them: "Let me tell Qi'er something first, it is very important, very important, it can fundamentally change Qi'er's current economic and living situation is a major event."

Several people in the dormitory raised their ears and waited, and Liu Xia also looked at Zhan Wei expectantly.

Now there are work-study programs in the school, but the number of places is very small, and it is generally more suitable for girls to do it, such as serving as a waiter temporarily during the dance party on weekends, serving tea and water, and cleaning afterward.

Liu Xia has always hoped to get a work-study opportunity, and Zhan Wei belongs to the student union, so he can speak for himself in this regard. .

Zhan Wei said: "I mentioned my aunt's son Che Jie to you before, remember? He is three years younger than me and is now a sophomore in high school. His grades used to be good, but now he is getting worse. My aunt and uncle found him several times. A teacher who makes up lessons is him."

Liu Xia wondered, "What does he have to do with me?"

Zhan Wei said: "There will be soon, and the teachers my aunt and uncle found for him are not willing to teach him anymore, saying that he refuses to learn by himself, and there is nothing they can do about it.

During the winter vacation, my mother forced me to make up lessons for him. I used to have a good time with him, but since I was admitted to our school, my aunt compares me with him every day. Now he sees me like an enemy. I said He rolled his eyes at everything, and I have nothing to do, Qi'er, I think you can teach him, why..."

Yun Jian interrupted Zhan Wei: "Wait, you mean to let Qi'er be a tutor for Che Jie?"

Before Liu Xia could recall Zhan Wei's words, when he heard the word tutor, several names and movie characters immediately appeared in his mind: Jane Eyre, Rochester; Julien, Madame Delina; Schiver (Johan Christopher's father), a haughty woman with a complicated European nineteenth-century girlish hairstyle, sitting at the piano in a living room with a beautiful spiral staircase...

He immediately waved his hand: "No, I can't do such a foreign style job, so what, do we have private tutors in China?"

He Deqing said: "Our country doesn't have this title, but there used to be this profession, called Mr. Private School."

Zhang Fusheng looked at Liu Xia worriedly, and said to Zhan Wei: "Look at Qi'er, are you sure he can handle your cousin who is a sophomore in high school?"

Zhan Wei failed to understand what Zhang Fusheng meant, looked at Liu Xia with great satisfaction and said, "Yes, he is so patient with his cat. Che Jie is a high school student anyway, so he must be easier to manage than the cat."

Liu Xia jumped up: "Shit, our cats are so obedient, smart and obedient. Your cousin is a sophomore in high school and doesn't know how to study hard. How can he compare with our cats?"

Zhan Wei said: "Che Jie was very obedient when he was young."

Liu Xia refused to accept: "Impossible, being obedient and obedient can become like this now? It is impossible for my cat to become his virtue at any time."

Zhan Wei also wanted to defend his cousin.

Sha Yonghe stretched out his hand: "Stop, brothers, digressing, what we are talking about now is whether Qi'er is suitable to be Che Jie's tutor, not discussing which of your children is cuter."

Liu Xia said: "There is no need to discuss this at all, of course my cat is cute."

Yun Jian and Sha Yonghe rolled their eyes at the ceiling; Liu Xia rolled their eyes at them.

Mao Jianyong sat up from the quilt: "Zhan Wei, should we talk about remuneration before talking about work? There are tutors in Hong Kong, and they are all billed by the hour. How do you plan to bill Qi'er?"

Zhan Wei thought for a while: "My uncle used to find some well-known high school teachers for Che Jie, each time for two hours, three yuan, sometimes three times a week, sometimes four times; our Qi'er is not a teacher , without much experience, I think..."

"Stop brother," Mao Jianyong interrupted Zhan Wei in imitation of Sha Yonghe's tone: "If what you think is that Qi'er is not a high school teacher, so the money should be less than those teachers before, don't say it, your logical thinking is problematic .”

Zhan Wei asked: "What's the problem?"

Mao Jianyong said: "Your aunt and the others hired teachers to make up lessons for Che Jie so that he could learn his homework, improve his grades, and get admitted to university, right? Those teachers obviously didn't do it.

Now you want Qi'er to teach Che Jie, the process and purpose have not changed, why should the reward be changed?

What you want is to improve Che Jie's grades. If this goal is achieved, why do you need to discipline who?You just need to pay what you thought was a reasonable amount to pay when you hoped to achieve this achievement. "

Even Liu Xia was a little taken aback, because with a few of them, Liu Xia felt that even everyone he knew and knew would feel that Zhan Wei should not be treated the same as a high school teacher when he heard Zhan Wei's words.

But what Mao Jianyong said is obviously right.

Yun Jian said to Mao Jianyong: "I found that as long as it has something to do with money, your reaction is very sensitive, and you can hit the nail on the head. You are a fucking profiteer!"

Mao Jianyong lay down and shrank back into the bed: "Qi'er, if you don't work for less than two hours and three yuan, lowering your social status may not win opportunities. Self-deprecating social status will only make people think that we are low-level and not worth so much money.

Even after a period of time, it turns out that you are good at teaching, and you are already familiar with them at that time, you must be embarrassed to ask for more money.

Therefore, ugly words have to be said first. "

Liu Xia's thoughts were completely opposite to those of Mao Jianyong, even if it was fifty cents an hour, he wanted to try it.

In this way, if he teaches Che Jie for eight hours a week, he will earn four yuan, and he can earn at least 16 yuan a month. After a year, it will be almost 200 yuan. How many things can be done at home with [-] yuan? ah!

But when it comes to matters related to money, Liu Xia, like the others in the dormitory, felt that listening to Mao Jianyong would definitely not hurt him, so he kept silent.

Zhan Wei went home at night, and when he came the next morning, he said to Liu Xia, "Two hours and three yuan, my uncle agreed. The trial period is one month. If Che Jie makes progress, he said there will be a bonus." , if it is not suitable after one month, he will give you the same amount of this month's money."

Liu Xia felt as if he had fifteen little rabbits in his heart, jumping up and down, scratching his heart with all kinds of claws. He felt that he didn't have any music in his heart. He was afraid that he couldn't teach it well, but he really wanted to try it quickly. He has a fixed income to supplement the family, and the eldest brother, third brother, fourth brother, and fifth brother are all at ease.

What made him anxious was another reason that he couldn't articulate: he hadn't been to people's homes in big cities, and he was afraid that his behavior would be inappropriate and make people laugh at them.

Facts have proved that Liu Xia thinks too much.

Although Che Jie's father was an engineer in a large machinery factory, their family was not grand at all.

The Persian carpet and floor-length velvet curtains that Liu Xia imagined did not appear, nor did the spiral staircase and piano even appear. Che Jie's mother neither wore a cheongsam nor pearl earrings. Pants are the most common dress for middle-aged women on Jiangcheng Street.

Except for the somewhat conspicuous gold-rimmed glasses, Father Che's temperament is much worse than that of Wang Junyu and Zeng Guangtong. He is a very ordinary and kind person.

Liu Xia felt at ease.

When Che Jie's parents saw Liu Xia, they became uneasy. When Zhan Wei sent Liu Xia to Che Jie's room and came out again, Che's mother immediately said to Zhan Wei worriedly: "Why did you find a kid? It's tall enough, but the face is still tender at first glance, isn't it as big as Jiejie?"

Zhan Wei said: "Four months younger than Xiaojie, but don't worry, he is very patient with children." After he finished speaking, he felt that his words seemed a bit wrong. If he had to talk about children, it would probably be Liu Xia is a child to Che Jie, right?

The Che family's parents were not at ease at all, but they had no choice but to sit in the living room and wait, thinking about how to clean up the mess if their son started to make trouble again.

Che Jie hadn't moved since Liu Xia entered the room. He was lazily leaning on the bed, not looking at Liu Xia. When Zhan Wei introduced Liu Xia to him, he didn't even lift his eyelids.

Liu Xia didn't know what to do. He opened the math book on the table bravely and asked, "Should I talk next to each other, or should you tell me what you don't understand first, and I will focus on the key points?"

Che Jie said without opening his eyes: "#@￥%......"

Liu Xia looked at Che Jie helplessly, but he didn't understand a word.

Zhan Wei is from Jiangcheng, but Zhan Wei usually speaks Mandarin as much as possible when talking to them. Although it is not very standard, most people can understand it. However, Che Jie speaks Jiangcheng dialect quickly on purpose, and Liu Xia can't help it. up.

But he knew that Che Jie could understand his own words: "Do you dislike your parents finding you a tutor, or do you simply dislike me being your tutor? If it's the former, you should tell your parents in advance , if it's the latter, I'll go tell them now."

Che Jie opened his eyes and jumped up when he saw Liu Xia: "What does Zhan Wei mean? You, you..."

Although he didn't say it, Liu Xia knew that he must have wanted to ask "how old are you", so Liu Xia deliberately didn't say that.

Although Che Jie is relatively thin and small, he can tell from his face that he is older than him. He doesn't want to get entangled with Che Jie's age. He insists on his own problem: "I only come for two hours at a time. I don't want to waste time. Now, it's me. Let me tell you one by one from the beginning, or you ask questions and I will tell you the key points?"

Che Jie looked at Liu Xia with unfriendly eyes, and said in Mandarin similar to Zhan Wei: "Aren't you the teacher my parents paid for? You don't know how to teach, and you still have to ask me?"

Liu Xia knew it was useless to say anything to him, so he decided to follow his words.

Liu Xia picked up the book, turned to the first page, and put it in front of Che Jie: "From here to - here, read it to me word for word, except for punctuation marks and the page number of the book. Can't be wrong."

Che Jie resumed his laziness and sat back on the edge of the bed, watching Liu Xia remain motionless.

Liu Xia looked directly at him and didn't speak.

After about 3 minutes, Che Jie picked up the book and began to read it weakly; after reading it once, look at Liu Xia.

Liu Xia said, "Read it again."

Che Jie read it again.

Liu Xia said, "Continue."

Che Jie threw the book on the table at once, and said in the tone of an adult teaching a child: "What do you mean, you little brat? Didn't you teach me? Even if you read it, you should read it to me, right?"

Liu Xia said: "I am the teacher hired by your parents. You should know who is in charge of the teacher or the students during the teaching, right?"

Che Jie pulled his hair and was so angry that he wanted to hit the wall, but looking at Liu Xia who was obviously younger than him, he didn't know how to react.

Liu Xia said: "I read, but you don't listen, your mind is thinking about other messy things, I can't help you;

You read it yourself, no matter how unwilling you are, you have to read those words with your eyes. No matter how serious you are, you can still remember what you saw after reading it ten or eight times.

You tell it, I will tell it, you listen carefully, or you read it over and over again until you memorize these things. "

Zhan Wei told Liu Xia in advance that Che Jie used to be good at studying, but he didn't know what happened in the first semester of high school. He suddenly started playing truant and absenteeism, and his grades plummeted. , he said nothing.

After his parents talked with the teacher, they took a lot of effort to transfer him to another school. After arriving at the new school, he didn't miss classes anymore, but he was listless all day long and his studies didn't improve. The three teachers he found before, They are all experienced old teachers who have just retired, but they all proposed not to teach in less than a month.

If Che Jie doesn't learn by himself, the gods can't do anything about him.

Liu Xia didn't know the term rebellious period at that time, neither he nor his elder brothers knew the term, nor had such a thing happened, so he didn't know what to do.

What he was thinking of was the stupidest way, to ask Che Jie to read the sample questions in the book several times. It's easy to say anything.

He is trying to find a way to keep this opportunity to make money.

Seeing that Liu Xia had no intention of giving in at all, Che Jie picked up the book impatiently, and started to read lazily. Liu Xia just sat there and watched him read.

Liu Xia's first experience as a tutor was passed when the students read the sample questions over and over again.

Liu Xia didn't complain to Zhan Wei after returning. If it wasn't for the students with problems, who would spend so much money on private tutors if they were full?

Zhan Wei just happened to meet his aunt who wanted to find a tutor for Che Jie, and Liu Xia's family conditions were poor and he needed to earn money, so he kindly introduced this job to himself. He couldn't let Zhan Wei get into trouble because of his kindness.

Che Jie's parents didn't know what was going on between Che Jie and Liu Xia, the teachers and students. They were very relieved that Che Jie persisted for two hours without making a fuss, so they didn't say whether Liu Xia was a good fit. It is equal to the default.

For the next half a month, Liu Xia's life at school remained the same, except that his time to go to the library on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights was shortened, and he had to come out at eight o'clock and run for half an hour to Che Jie's house.

For this reason, he officially told Yun Jian that he would not go to practice break dancing after dinner in the future, and he had to squeeze out the reading time that was delayed for the past three days.

Che Jie’s home is not far from the school. He can return home before 08:30 after evening self-study. As soon as he gets home, the two of them start that special teaching. Liu Xia leaves at 10:30, and he returns to the dormitory every time. After turning off the lights, he took a shower in the dark, and then went to bed.

Every time Liu Xia went, Che Jie always looked so lazy, which even affected Liu Xia's mood. If it wasn't for the high salary of one yuan and fifty cents an hour, Liu Xia really didn't want to teach this student who was older than himself .

Liu Chuan replied to Liu Xia, but did not return the money to him, but Liu Chuan said: If you do this again, the third brother will be angry, Yaoer, you are growing up now, don't wrong yourself.

Both your third sister-in-law and I have a good unit, not only salary, but also bonuses. Our life is better than most people in Rongze. Under such circumstances, you and our family are still worried about my life and want to It made me very uncomfortable to try to get money to supplement me.

Liu Xia wrote back and said: It won't happen in the future. Isn't this because you gave birth to two sons at once? How can the special period be the same as usual?If you would rather borrow other people's money than ours, my uncle, my eldest brother and I will feel very uncomfortable.

Che Jie's negative emotional impact on Liu Xia was healed instantly when he received letters from his elder brother and Mao'er.

The eldest brother said that the weather at home has been good this year, and the crops have been good so far; also, the cow in Guanjiayao gave birth a few days ago, and now the cat drinks milk every day.

Maoer said in the letter that he had grown taller again, and the proof was that the little chubby pig pants that Liu Xia bought for him for his birthday last year didn't even need to be rolled up at the bottom.

In order to grow faster and catch up with his uncle, Maoer said that he has been eating a bowl full of steamed Artemisia argyi every day, and his grandfather even gave him several hare livers.

The cat said: "I eat so many good things every day, and I will definitely be much taller than Uncle Liu. At that time, when we pass the Yaopo, I will be able to carry you on my back. Are you happy? Uncle?"

Liu Xia covered the letter on his face vigorously, and couldn't help shaking it to read it again, his mouth almost grinning behind his ears with joy: "Little stinky cat!"