Li Jianbo drank a lot of wine that night and slept until noon the next day. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, he went to his grandmother's house. Because of Li Xia's matter, Bai Li ignored Liu Chunzhi. He complained that if Liu Chunzhi had told Bai Li about Li Xia's character earlier, he would not have been in such an awkward situation.
Liu Guangsheng, on the other hand, treated his sister and her family as usual. After listening to Li Minghua's calculations, he said after a while: "Your shop is a bit small, and it's not enough for a small business. How about changing to a bigger shop this year."
Li Minghua said: "We can't find a suitable shop at the moment, and money is still tight. Jianbo will go to college in the second half of the year, which is another expense. We will have more money in two years."
Liu Guangsheng was silent for a while when he heard that, and then said again: "I hope you can find a bigger place and help Liu Liang. He is also naughty at home. He is almost 20 years old. He is like a child. He eats There are more than pigs."
Liu Guangsheng is the first person to compare his son to a pig. Li Minghua had a headache when he heard about Liu Liang. He didn't want to help the Liu family discipline their son, but because of his uncle's face, he couldn't tell clearly, so he had to hesitate and said: "Let's talk about it later. Brother is also aware of the situation there.”
After returning from my grandfather's house, there were no other relatives to leave, so the family packed up and prepared to go back to the city. After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, it was time to prepare to open for business, and the family got busy again.
However, the shop had only been open for two days when news came that Liu Guangsheng had injured his leg. Something happened to his eldest brother, and Liu Chunzhi was also confused. He couldn't let go of the things at the shop, so Li Minghua said, "Weiwei and the others haven't started school yet, so let Weiwei and Jianbo go back. If nothing happens, we'll be back in two days." , If anything happens, we will go back."
Liu Chunzhi thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. She called her children and gave them instructions, and then gave them a hundred yuan to give to their uncle.
Li Jianbo took his sister back to Yongning by car again.
It turns out that on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Guangsheng was helping someone carry a stone and was accidentally hit on his foot by a stone. He went to the hospital and was told that he had broken a bone and needed to rest for a few months. I really don’t know if he would be left with some disability or something in the future. Easy to say.
Li Jianbo took out the 100 yuan that his parents asked him to bring, and Bai Li accepted it for Liu Guangsheng with peace of mind. Liu Guangsheng thought to himself that both his nephews were studying and Jianbo had to prepare for the college entrance examination, so it would not be a good idea to delay them, so he asked them to go back to the city the next day.
The two returned home, and Jianbo told his mother about his uncle's situation. After hearing this, Liu Chunzhi felt distressed and said, "It's such a bad year to encounter something like this before the New Year is over."
What Li Minghua and Li Jianping were worried about at the moment was that the pillar of the Liu family suddenly fell, and they were afraid that Liu Liang would be pushed over again.
After getting over this matter, school is about to start. It was already six o'clock in the evening, and the shop was still busy. The other three people in the family didn't come back. Only Li Wei and Jian Bo were at home.
Li Wei was memorizing words in her room, and Li Jianbo walked into her room with his guitar.
"Second brother, help me read the book and ask questions. Memorizing it by yourself always feels inefficient."
However, Jianbo didn't seem to have any intention of helping his sister memorize the words at the moment. He sat down where Li Wei usually sat and said to Li Wei, "Let me talk to you."
When Li Wei heard about it, he put down his English book and said, "What does the second brother want to tell me?" He glanced at the guitar in his hand again and wondered where he would go to talk to someone with a guitar on his back.
"Tell you a story, would you like to hear it?"
"Story? Okay, okay." Li Wei likes to listen to stories, so he quickly got into the mood.
"The protagonist of the story is a middle-aged uncle who is nearly fifty years old. This uncle is useless. He is almost fifty years old and still a scoundrel. Weiwei, do you know what a scoundrel is?"
Li Wei said: "Probably he is not doing his job properly and is just idle."
Li Jianbo nodded and said: "Yes, that's it. He's almost fifty years old, and he doesn't have a decent job. He also worked with a loan shark company to collect debts. In order to get money, he did many unconscionable things. One day , he followed his colleagues down to collect debts, but something happened. During the fight, the uncle was stabbed in the heart with a sharp knife, and he bled a lot. Three days. He recalled his whole life in three days. Before he died, he thought about how he got to this point in his life. When he was a child, he was a smart and studious student. How could he be so bad? Woolen cloth?"
"His grades were pretty good until he entered high school. In the winter of his first year in high school, his life slowly changed. His only little sister fell into the river and drowned. My mother felt that her sister's death was related to her. He was depressed. The next year, his only brother had an accident again and had a dispute with someone. The man was sent to the hospital. The family had connections and sent his brother to the police station. He was eventually charged with intentional injury. After staying in prison for three years, my mother finally fell ill because of the successive blows. This time she fell and never got up again. This happened to the middle-aged uncle in his life. Dawn. When he was eighteen years old, he received a letter from his biological mother, asking him to go abroad. But he could not give up his poor old father, and his biological mother had not raised him, and he refused this choice. Due to changes in his family, his grades plummeted. In the end, he went out into the society without even finishing his senior year of high school. How could he find a good job? The released eldest brother has a hard time regaining his footing because of his criminal record. The old father is only addicted to alcohol. But the middle-aged uncle is still hanging around and wasting his time. He was already past his forties when he woke up."
"Wei Wei, do you think this kind of life is bitter and desolate?"
Li Wei listened quietly. At this time, she still didn't understand why her second brother suddenly told her such a story. This story was not pleasant at all. After a long time, she said: "Poor people must be hateful. No matter how regretful the uncle is, This result was achieved by himself.”
Li Jianbo smiled leisurely when he heard this: "Yes, you are right." Then he added: "They say there are no ifs in life, but when life really faces a difficult choice again, what do you think the uncle will do? "
"Choice, what choice?"
"Whether life goes to the left or to the right, we have to face this choice many times. The future depends on our thoughts."
Li Wei looked at Li Jianbo blankly. She felt that her second brother was a little weird today.
(End of chapter)