C40 His Family's First Blind Date Failed

Su Jianguo went back to his dorm in a daze, laid on his bed, closed his eyes, lost his spirit, and tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.

Recalling the past few days, Su Jianguo had originally wanted to return to his hometown to pack up some clothes. However, he had never thought that his father had come back alive.

Looking at his father, who was in a sorry state, Su Jianguo ran to his father's side. "Father. This is. . . "

"This little bastard and Little Tiger are going to school. My newspaper company's salary is not much, so I took a few days off to take care of my work. After all, I'm about to pay the school fees. " The words of Su Jianguo's father caused Su Jianguo's eyes to widen.

"Dad. . . You. . . During these three years, Su Jianguo had thought that by working hard and studying, he would be able to reduce the pressure on his father. Unexpectedly, it had worked.

"I will return in a few days. These few days, when you have time, help your mother rummage the ground, right?" Su Jianguo's father said.

Su Jianguo nodded blankly. On the day he followed his mother down, his mother looked at his young and strong daughter-in-law and said enviously, "It would be great if our family had such a strong daughter-in-law. There's also a companion who can take care of him with me. Oh my god. "

"Mother. . . " Su Jianguo looked at his mother blankly. "What are you talking about?"

"No. Boss, I am merely sighing with emotion. Let's quickly transplant the rice seedlings. It'll be easier to catch up to the next year's Ruixue. " Su Jianguo's mother smiled.

However, when Su Jianguo looked at his mother, who had experienced so much, tears started flowing out of his eyes. After three years of studying, he had not changed anything in his family. Instead. . . He had become like this? Su Jianguo felt as though his heart had collapsed.

At this moment, Su Jianguo vaguely remembered when he left the factory. His sister, Su Jianying, handed him a stack of money. "Brother, don't let mom and dad carry on with their work. It's cold. In this market, even if you sell vegetables, you won't be able to sell them for much. Seeing that my brother and sister are about to go to school, I can still pay a portion of the money. "

Su Jianguo looked at his sister's sensible look and was stunned. At this moment, tears finally appeared on Su Jianying's face. "Big brother. You have been studying in school all these years, but your parents have turned a lot of white hair for my tuition fees. I can earn money. Our family doesn't lack a student like me, so let's leave the opportunity to our younger brothers and sisters. After all. . . I'm not afraid of learning mathematics and science and traveling the world. I'm just an academic student. I don't have much prospects. I don't want my parents to worry about me anymore. "

Tears trickled down Su Jianying's face. At this moment, Su Jianguo finally understood that his sister didn't work because she didn't want to study. She didn't work because she was talented. It was because her family couldn't afford the tuition fees of so many children!

As for him, as his hometown, he had never done anything for his family.

"Sister. . . I. . . Su Jianguo wanted to say something but was interrupted by Su Jianying. "I. . . Might be able to help you. . .

"Big brother, I might not be a good student. . . However, I am also the eldest daughter of my family, the responsibility that I should shoulder. I can't escape. And I am unwilling to escape, so I will do my best to help this family. But if I go back, brother. . . Father and mother will fall back to the state of exhaustion. Do you know. . . Our parents go up the mountain to pick herbs and randomly take medicine to treat their illnesses? We can't even afford cold medicine. " Su Jianying smiled with tears in his eyes.

"I. . . " Su Jianguo lowered his head.

"Brother, the Humble Class has a filial son. But who would know that the poor have tears? The suffering did not allow me to learn to be sensible. Instead, it was my responsibility to force me to give up on my own ideals in advance. Big brother. . . It's not that I don't like reading, but rather I feel that I'm studying something. It's out of place with my family, but I feel that the things I read. . . I can't change this family's financial situation! Brother. . . If studying can't change our family's poverty, then what's the use of studying? " Su Jianying asked Su Jianguo.

Su Jianguo was dumbfounded by his sister's question. Yeah, if studying can't change the poor, then what's the use of studying?

"Brother, you have been studying railway technology. I also know about the future development of the country's railway. But Brother, whose child are you? What qualifications do you have to become the cornerstone of that trend? What talent do you have to become a figure in that trend? You and I are both Humble Class. We don't even understand English. We are even unfamiliar with the things that the people in the city are used to! People like us. . . We're just illiterate, not blind. "

Su Jianguo's heart was shaken by Su Jianying's blind eye and the Humble Class's theory.

Su Jianying looked at Su Jianguo with anticipation and continued, "Brother, if you really want to bring a better life to your parents and change our family, you should stay in school and earn some money to support your family. Then, you can marry a capable sister-in-law and support our family. Su Jianying looked at Su Jianguo and continued, Brother, if you really want to bring a better life to your parents and change our family, you should stay in school and earn some money to support your family. Then, you can marry a capable sister-in-law and support our family. Our mother doesn't have much energy left to do farm work. " Su Jianying turned around and left.

Su Jianguo looked at his sister. Tears slowly appeared in his eyes. Stay at school?

It was not easy for him to have the opportunity to go to Shanghai's railway station, yet he chose to stay at school?

For the sake of the salary in front of him, would he give up his future? To help his parents lighten up and destroy his future?

No, he didn't want to, but as he looked at his sister's back, how could he not sway?

His sister said, if studying doesn't change the state of poverty, then what's the use of studying? His sister said that we, the Humble Class, are lowly people. We don't have the chance to become the mainstay, so why should we worry about ourselves?

Su Jianguo shook his head and did not want to remember his sister's anger. However, when his parents persuaded him to go on a blind date, he was greatly provoked.

This was a family in his village with the surname Wei. This girl was the eighth child of the Wei family. Seven older sisters and one younger brother.

When Su Jianguo went to see Wei Fang, Wei Fang was washing her hair in the courtyard. The water flowed down her long hair. To be honest, it made him very moved. It also made him have the yearning of a young man and a young woman.

However, when Wei Fang tied her hair up and looked up at Su Jianguo, Su Jianguo did not feel moved. Instead, it was as if he had been seen through.

Sitting side by side with Wei Fang on the stone mill in the Wei family's courtyard, Wei Fang tilted her head and looked at Su Jianguo. The first thing she said when she looked at Su Jianguo was, "Where do you work?"

Su Jianguo originally thought that it was just an ordinary matchmaking session, so he said, "Students from the railway school. "

"Will you be staying at the school?" The corner of Wei Fang's mouth twitched, but she did not smile.

"Maybe. " Su Jianguo did not know how to continue.

"I heard that your sister likes sewing, so you didn't buy her a sewing machine?" When Wei Fang asked about sewing machines, Su Jianguo didn't understand.

"Mhm. " Su Jianguo was silent. He had only thought that it was a normal question. Unexpectedly, Wei Fang had actually said those words.

"Then your family doesn't have a bicycle or radio, right?" Wei Fang's question made Su Jianguo raise his head in surprise and look at her.

"Don't tell me there is only one flashlight and water bottle?" Wei Fang asked Su Jianguo.

"What do you want to say?" Su Jianguo had a bad feeling.

"My mother said that it doesn't matter if the family is poor or not. As long as one is diligent, it is fine. It's just that the stool isn't a sofa but a begging and broken chair. That television isn't a television. It was an empty box that people played. I'm really worried, I don't have a good look in my eyes. . . Kicking your only bottle of warm water to explode, do you hate me?" Wei Fang approached Su Jianguo and sneered.

Su Jianguo suddenly stood up and glared at Wei Fang. "What do you mean by that?"

"Literally. " Wei Fang combed her slightly wet hair.

"What literally means?" Su Jianguo was somewhat furious.

"It's just three media companies and six recruitment ceremonies. It's only seventy-two betrothal gifts. " Wei Fang crossed her arms before her chest as she looked at Su Jianguo. "What? My wife was not prepared for this and came for a blind date?"

"In your opinion, a blind date is a betrothal gift?" Su Jianguo looked at this woman in disbelief.

"Don't tell me that I'm going to listen to you sing the Northern Wasteland?" Wei Fang's words could be said to be sharp.

"If you look down on me, we can stop talking about it!" Su Jianguo wanted to leave, but he heard Wei Fang ridicule him from behind.

"If you don't have money, then pretend to be poor. Why are you pretending to be a wolf with a big tail?" Wei Fang's words made Su Jianguo run home angrily.

However, the moment he went home, he saw his parents' hopeful expressions and fell silent.

However, his younger brother, who felt that it was not a big deal, said all the things that he had overheard in the past. At this moment, Su Jianguo saw his father's aggrieved tears and his mother's silent crying.

To Su Jianguo, that was a form of humiliation.

For some reason, Su Jianguo seemed to have exerted all his strength to get his mother to bring him a few more girls for a blind date!

But every time, it was because of the betrothal gifts that the conversation ended.

Although Su Jianguo knew that some girls did not ask for too much, for a moment, he was indeed unable to take out the betrothal gifts because he was unable to. Thus, he also felt the pressure of life.

At this moment, between bread and roses, who was more important was lingering in his heart.

Su Jianguo sat on the roof of the house, surrounded by dried melons.

Here, Su Jianguo looked up at the starry sky. He understood why he had failed.

It was merely a few thousand betrothal gifts. It was just a radio, sewing machine, and a bicycle. These were the things that every girl had in 1991.

Why couldn't he take it out from his home, why couldn't he, a man, take it out?

Was it because his salary wasn't enough? No, as long as he was willing to stay at school, he would have enough time for more than a year.

However, he had the opportunity to go to Shanghai's railway station. Although the salary there was not as high as the school's salary, he had come into contact with all of the advanced railway talents in East China! That was the place where he grew up, and also the place where he became talented!

There might be some national level projects there that could open his eyes, and even give him the opportunity to come into contact with and grow up.

There might be a teacher like Zhao Cheng there who would bring him to interact with the 300-series simulation train, and even to the research and development base to visit and learn!

These were things that couldn't be bought with money!

This was knowledge, not something that could be measured with money!

However, his family needed young and vigorous labor, even if it was a woman's vigorous labor!

However, if he did not choose to stay at school, he would not have the money to maintain his family's expenses.

He would either be an unfilial son, just for his own sake. Or he would have to be a man who could bring out a betrothal gift. He would have to give his family more money to work around to maintain his life.

At the fork in his life, Su Jianguo was confused. He was confused by Su Jianying's question. If learning was useful, why was his family so poor? If learning is useless. . . What did he learn?